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[Re “Got Milk?” May 6]: The story on breastfeeding “pods” is an index of dysfunction in our culture, which forces working women to pump breast milk because the requirements and cultures of workplaces are designed for and by men — to keep women out. Though a pod is better than a bathroom for pumping milk, the problem is that pumping is not breastfeeding. It’s the manarchy’s way of forcing women and babies to conform to its structure. We’re making man-clones of women and children. Pods are like stalls in dairy barns. Park here, squeeze, get back to work. Back in the day, working part time, I breastfed my children all around town, at many of the restaurants, the library, park benches, the airport, the boathouse, the beaches — even at the Statehouse in
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I believe it would benefit everyone if persons who love tall buildings would move out of Burlington [Off Message: “New High: Burlington Town Center Plan Includes 14-Story Towers,” May 6]. New York City, Chicago, Detroit and many large cities offer these buildings. Having them here radically changes the energy of the area. Burlington used to have fewer people, beautiful views of the lake and less traffic. One of the reasons people loved it so much was because it was not overrun by people, cars, trucks and tall buildings.
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my weavings, but it’s made from assorted fabrics I’ve dyed and layered together. The color removal area referred to is actually at the top of the piece, where the colors fade to lighter shades, not in the “scattering of pale spots.” Those spots were created from cutting through the top layer of silk organza to reveal the vintage kimono fabric behind it. Again, I know these techniques just aren’t as familiar to people as, say, an oil painting, so thank you for the opportunity to expand a little more about it here. While I love the process of weaving, I would never want to limit myself to working only with those fabrics. There are so many wonderful textiles to combine together. Textile/fiber/mixed-media arts offer so much richness, depth and complexity to the viewer, and I really appreciate that galleries choose to highlight artists working in these mediums. I feel fortunate to have my work hanging with so many talented artists in these two exhibits. Karen Henderson
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Editor’s note: The piece reviewer Kevin J. Kelley described is labeled “Squall” in the gallery. Our apologies for any misunderstanding.
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Thank you for the coverage of my artwork in two recent reviews. With work in textile, fiber and mixed media, the techniques are perhaps not as recognizable to viewers as more traditional painting, so there were a couple things about my process I’d like to clarify. In the review of the “Back to Nature” exhibit at Vermont Metro Gallery [April 22], only three of my pieces in that show are weavings. The rest are created either from other fabrics or are more mixed-media in nature. The description of “Squall,” a weaving, is actually referring to a piece entitled “Miracle” — a piece created from linen and silk fabrics that aren’t my hand wovens. In the review of the “Interpreting the Surface” exhibit at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery [April 29], the piece “Pause” is noted as being one of
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passing applicable tests. We have not had the debate that should, in a democracy, have preceded a fundamental switch in an important document. We all heard about the driving privilege for Vermont farmworkers. That debate was transparent. This consequence for Vermont citizens was never brought forward. The other thing that concerns me greatly is the stealthy way this became law. I understand this fundamental switch was contained in the FY 2015 Transportation Bill on one of the last pages of a huge document that most legislators did not read from cover to cover. They just vote yea or nay. Most may have no idea they voted for this huge change. Let us have an open, honest and above-board discussion and debate about whether Vermonters want to fall into line and be forced into a national identity system. Many states are saying absolutely not to the REAL ID license. Vermonters deserve a chance to just say no as well. COURTESY OF D. JAMES DEE
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Sitting Senator Faces Sordid Sex Charges
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‘Super’ Man? Following the Next Leader of Burlington’s Schools BY MOLLY WALSH
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Book Review: And Kings Shall Be Thy Nursing Fathers by Marc Estrin BY JIM SCHLEY
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Food: One of nature’s first greens is gold: dandelions BY HANNAH PALMER EGAN
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If ever a film title sent a message, Death Makes Life Possible surely does. Mark Krigbaum’s awardwinning documentary follows cultural anthropologist Marilyn Schlitz on an international quest to better understand different perspectives on life and death. Along the way, Schlitz interviews leading thinkers and individuals facing their own mortality, each of whom offers insights on how to live.
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A professor of economics who doubles as photographer? For Stephanie Seguino, this unlikely combination is a natural fit. When she’s not teaching at the University of Vermont, the artist is taking photographs like those featured in “Radical Empathy.” On view at the Flynndog gallery, intimate portraits of black men in Vermont invite viewers to transcend stereotypes and make connections based on our shared humanity.
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s it over yet? That’s the question most Vermonters are surely asking about the state’s dismal 2015 legislative session. What began with farce — the secondplace finisher in the 2014 election asking the legislature to name him governor — is ending in tragedy: sex-crime allegations against a longtime legislator that led to his arrest at the Statehouse last week. ESSEXOUTLETS.COM In between those bizarre bookends was plenty of sound and fury, but it’s unclear 21 ESSEX WAY, ESSEX, VT 05452 whether any of it signifies very much. As the legislature creaks toward its much-anticipated adjournment this 12v-essexshoppes042915.indd 1 4/27/15 3:26 PM weekend, Gov. PETER SHUMLIN, House Speaker SHAP SMITH (D-Morristown) and Senate President Pro Tem JOHN CAMPBELL (D-Windsor) are preparing to declare victory. All their major priorities, they hope to say, will be signed into law: education, health care, water quality, energy and child protection bills. But they shouldn’t expect a ticker-tape parade. All three made some awfully big promises during last fall’s campaign season and again when the session commenced in January. Who knows? Maybe Vermonters will remember some of them. Maybe they’ll ask: Did the governor and the legislature make the state more “affordable”? Did they slow the growth of propCHARACTER FOR LIFE AND HOME erty taxes while protecting local schools? GIFTS • DECOR • ACCESSORIES Did they stop the toxic algae blooms pol5224 shelburne rd., shelburne • commondeervt.com luting Lake Champlain? Did they make health insurance any less expensive — and any more available — for low- and middleincome Vermonters? Shit, will Vermont Health Connect ever work as advertised? Perhaps it’s unfair to hold politicians to the standards they set for themselves. After all, they’ve spent much of the session grappling with a $113 million budget deficit for which nobody’s willing to take responsibility. Maybe Vermonters will be distracted by the carnival-like atmosphere that has descended upon the Statehouse in the legislature’s closing days. On Monday night, roughly 300 people crowded into the House chamber to debate the sleeper issue of the session: whether to prevent families from opting out of vaccinating their children for purely philosophical reasons. Social Clubbers like to go out, shop, It’s a battle few elected officials wanted meet new people and win things — doesn’t everyone? Sign up to get to fight, given the fiercely emotional reacinsider updates about local events, tions it engenders. But despite Shumlin’s deals and contests from Seven Days. efforts, the issue wouldn’t go away. On Tuesday, Smith and his leadership team let it come up on the House floor, where it inspired more than four hours of debate. facebook.com/sevendays.socialclub After a compromise amendment failed by 12 FAIR GAME
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just two votes, the House voted 85 to 57 to end the so-called philosophical exemption in 2016. Consuming even more oxygen has been a series of recent allegations made against current and former elected officials. Last Friday, Shumlin appointed former representative TOM LITTLE to investigate whether Democratic Attorney General BILL SORRELL violated campaign finance laws or engaged in pay-to-play politics. Sorrell has denied the allegations, most of which stem from reporting over the past six weeks by Seven Days. That very same day, former Democratic representative BOB SOUTH, a Vermont State Employees’ Association union rep, pleaded not guilty in a St. Johnsbury courthouse to a domestic assault charge. Seventy-five miles west, in a St. Albans courthouse, Sen. NORM MCALLISTER (R-Franklin) pleaded not guilty to three felony counts of sexual assault and three misdemeanor counts of prohibited acts.
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It’s like an episode of “Law & Order: Statehouse Unit.” The allegations against McAllister, a five-term House member and secondterm senator, sent shock waves through Montpelier the moment plainclothes Vermont State Police troopers approached him last Thursday outside the Statehouse. The charges themselves were jarring enough: The cops say the Franklin farmer repeatedly sexually assaulted two women, attempted to prostitute one of them to others and attempted to coerce a third into trading sex for her son’s rent. But the story hit even closer to home for Montpelier-ites when Seven Days reported Sunday night that one of the alleged victims worked for McAllister at the Statehouse just months ago. The woman, who is now 20, told the paper she was 16, or possibly 15, when he first allegedly assaulted her in his barn. (See story, page 14 ). Until those allegations came to light, lawmakers had largely avoided publicly condemning McAllister, arguing that he should have his day in court. But on Monday morning, a series of elected officials, including Shumlin, Smith, Campbell and Lt. Gov. PHIL SCOTT — the
highest-ranking Republican in the state — called for the senator’s resignation. Whether he would heed their advice remained unclear throughout the day. On Monday morning, Scott told reporters that McAllister’s “official representative” had told him the senator would resign within 24 hours, though the LG declined to identify the go-between. That afternoon, McAllister himself told Seven Days, “That’s not the case.” “I haven’t even talked about this with my lawyer yet. I’m going to talk with him tomorrow,” McAllister said in a brief phone interview. “I’ve not made up my mind in any which way.” Later, Scott identified the go-between as Sen. PEG FLORY (R-Rutland), who said she had spoken to McAllister “numerous times over the last couple of days” and was assured he would tender his resignation. Meanwhile, 179 other lawmakers were wondering whether they should have known. In on-the-record conversations, many insisted that they never heard or saw anything unusual. But speaking on the condition of anonymity, several told Seven Days they had either overheard a sexist comment, witnessed an uncomfortable event or were aware McAllister was involved with a much younger woman. One former lawmaker took her story public. Soon after McAllister’s arrest last week, former Burlington House member RACHEL WESTON called the senator a “pervert” in a Facebook post and alleged he had directed a lewd comment at her years earlier. On her first day in office, she recalled, McAllister said, “It’s nice to meet you, but it would be better to meet you with your clothes off.” “I’ll never forget it,” Weston said. “It was completely inappropriate.” McAllister declined to address any of the allegations in Monday’s phone interview. His attorney, BROOKS MCARTHUR, urged the public “not to rush to judgment” last Friday, but hasn’t responded to requests for comment since. Two of the 63-year-old senator’s Montpelier roommates said they were aware that McAllister’s Statehouse assistant routinely stayed in their Terrace Street apartment when she was working in the capital city. “They shared the same room,” said Rep. TIMOTHY CORCORAN (D-Bennington), who is 42. “I can’t say if she slept on the floor or what.” Corcoran said the woman “never showed any outward signs that something was amiss.” But, he added, “Morally, her sleeping in the same room as an older gentleman, I think that’s wrong. I wouldn’t do that.”
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In his politically weakened state, Shumlin may see some percentage in vilifying legislators and blaming them for the state’s tax hikes and service cuts. Perhaps he sees vetoing their tax bill as a Hail Mary pass that could lead the way to political redemption. Desperate men, after all, do desperate things. Meanwhile legislators, who smell the blood in the water, may see this as an opportunity to grow a spine and tell Shumlin he can take their plan or leave it. But surely both sides realize that, outside Montpelier, few Vermonters distinguish between the Democratic legislature and the Democratic governor. A veto session would only further highlight the one brutal fact that has been apparent all year: Vermonters are going to pay more taxes next year. Might be time for everyone to go home.
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One of the finest reporters at Seven Days is moving on at the end of the week. Shoreham-based staff writer KatHryn Flagg, who joined the news team in January 2012, has taken a job at Press Forward, a Ripton-based public relations company. There, she’ll head up communications for Shacksbury Cider, a company her husband, Colin davis, cofounded, and work in the food, sustainability and wellness sectors. Flagg, whose long-form stories often focused on agriculture and the environment, said she hopes to continue working as a freelance journalist “when the right stories come along.” “This was a really hard decision, because it’s an amazing place to be a journalist,” she said of Seven Days. “I can’t imagine a better place to do this work in Vermont, so I’m definitely going to miss it.” Seven Days publisher and coeditor Paula routly praised Flagg’s “ambitious” stories. “The more complex and demanding the subject, the better for Katie, who is a dogged reporter and skilled storyteller,” Routly said. “She’s gone to great lengths — literally, driving hundreds of miles — to make sure her stories are thorough, accurate and fair.” Routly said she plans on filling Flagg’s position. We’ll miss you, Katie. m
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A third roommate, Sen. Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), said the woman “did stay over at the house a few times,” but he assumed she slept in an extra bed in the basement. Mullin, who is 56, described the victim as “a little girl” who “looked like she was about 13” but “claims she was 20.” According to Flory, the victim “looked like she was 12.” It remains unclear why nobody thought it was a bad idea for three middle-aged men to share an apartment with a 20-yearold woman who they say looked like a preteen. Nor is it clear whether any of those who suspected a sexual relationship — consensual or not — asked her whether she was OK. At a press conference Monday afternoon, House Republicans urged reporters to refocus their attention from the McAllister scandal to the Senate’s version of an education governance bill. Their point was fair: In the coming days, four months’ worth of legislative debate will come to a head as lawmakers work feverishly behind closed doors to reach agreement on several major bills. Then again, it’s hard to focus on water quality when Vermont State Police detectives are pulling legislators out of the Statehouse to interview them, as they were rumored to be doing Monday. Perhaps the only thing that might move the spotlight back to legislative matters is a final standoff between Shumlin and the legislature over the budget and tax bills — and a possible veto. Ever since his fellow Democrats refused to seriously consider imposing a new $90.4 million payroll tax to address the so-called Medicaid cost-shift, the gov has been spoiling for a fight. For the past few weeks, he’s been calling on the legislature to find another $10 million in undefined savings and referring to the tax plans from both chambers as “foolish.” The governor appears to particularly detest proposals to extend the sales tax to candy, soda and bottled water and to limit some income tax deductions — even though he proposed eliminating a different deduction. Shumlin rarely issues explicit veto threats — and he hasn’t this year — but some top legislators wonder whether he’s trying to take a page out of former governor Howard dean’s playbook. Before he became a hero to the national left, Ho-Ho loved nothing more than to goad the Democratic legislature and always wanted to veto one of its budgets.
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ast Wednesday night, Sen. Norm McAllister (R-Franklin) played a game of pickup basketball with a group of legislative colleagues. “He seemed to be his regular self,” Sen. Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland) said of the big-bellied back-bencher. “So if he knew this was coming, he certainly held it pretty well.” Two days later, during a break between evening debates over education and health care, plainclothes Vermont State Police officers followed McAllister outside the Statehouse and arrested him. In Franklin Superior Court last Friday, authorities outlined a devastating case against McAllister, a 63-yearold goat farmer who spent a decade in the Vermont House before winning two terms in the Senate. They said he sexually assaulted two women for years and attempted to coerce a third into trading sex for her son’s rent. In lurid affidavits, police said the senator assaulted the women dozens of times and at one point tried to prostitute one of them to local farmworkers. That woman said she felt compelled to have sex with McAllister because she relied on him for housing. McAllister pleaded not guilty to three felony counts of sexual assault and three misdemeanor counts of prohibited acts. The felony charges carry maximum penalties of life in prison. Chased by reporters as he left the courthouse, McAllister declined to comment. His attorney, Brooks McArthur, urged the public not to jump to conclusions. “We have a much different version of events,” McArthur said. “We urge people not to rush to judgment.” Despite calls for his resignation Monday by Gov. Peter Shumlin, Lt. Gov. Phil Scott, and leaders of the Senate and House, McAllister remained in office as Seven Days went to press late Tuesday. In interviews Friday and Saturday, one of the victims shared further details of her story with Seven Days on the condition that her name be withheld. As a general practice, Seven Days does not identify alleged victims of sex crimes. The woman, now 20, said McAllister first assaulted her when she took a job on his farm at 15 or 16 years old. He forced her to have sexual intercourse with him “a little less than 20” times over the years, she said, as she worked as his house cleaner, on his reelection campaign and as his assistant at the Statehouse earlier this year.
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While in Montpelier, she said, McAllister raped her in the Terrace Street apartment he shared with Mullin and Rep. Timothy Corcoran (D-Bennington). Both men acknowledged that she occasionally stayed at the apartment, but they said they had no reason to suspect she may have been victimized there. “I’m flabbergasted by it,” Mullin said Friday in the Statehouse cafeteria. “Let’s hope it’s not true.” Some details of the woman’s allegations are outlined in a three-page affidavit signed Thursday by Vermont State Police Detective Drew Cota. After another alleged victim identified her to police, she agreed to speak to Cota and Detective Sergeant Maurice Lamothe last Thursday in a 25-minute recorded interview in a cruiser outside her home. According to the affidavit, the woman said McAllister first assaulted her after she “graduated” — presumably from high school — in 2013 and went to work on his farm. Given her date of birth, she would have been 18 years old at the time. The affidavit describes an incident in which she allegedly “was forced to perform oral sex on McAllister in a barn on his property” shortly after taking the job. But speaking with Seven Days, the woman said the incident may have
occurred as early as spring 2010, when she was in ninth grade, or possibly the following year. “I really want to say 16. I’m not sure if I was 15 or not,” she said, referring to her age at the time. “I think I just turned 16 when I started working for him.” She said McAllister, 63, was aware of her age. The statutory age of consent in Vermont is 16. The woman told Seven Days she was definitely not 18 and had not yet graduated from high school. She said she told the police the same information but that they may have misunderstood her. Vermont State Police spokesman Scott Waterman said the agency could not comment on the discrepancy. “The investigation continues. We’re continuing to talk to people and seeing where that takes us,” he said Tuesday. “At this point, there is no word of any more charges or folks of interest or anything that I know of.” Waterman declined to confirm rumors that troopers were at the Statehouse Monday interviewing some of the senator’s colleagues. According to the affidavit, the woman said she “milked the goats and cleaned his residence for McAllister” and “was later hired to go to Montpelier to work for him there.” The woman told Seven Days that she also spent three or four weeks last
summer working to reelect him to the Senate and to elect his fellow Franklin County Republican, Dustin Degree. “I helped them campaign in the summer when they were campaigning door-to-door with the little things to hang up on the doorknob,” she said. Degree, a former House member who was elected to his first Senate term last November, confirmed that the woman “was an intern” for McAllister and “helped out with Norm’s campaign.” Degree added, “I didn’t hire her. I didn’t pay. I didn’t do anything like that. I don’t know. I didn’t have the agreement with her.” According to the woman, McAllister approached her over the winter and asked if she would join him at the Statehouse. “He said there was an opening in Montpelier, and he wanted to know if I wanted to try it out and work for him,” she told Seven Days. “That’s how I started working for him up there.” Rank-and-file state legislators such as McAllister don’t receive funding for staff or interns, according to Senate Secretary John Bloomer. There is no formal internship program. Though the practice is relatively rare, some legislators independently arrange for paid assistance and finance it themselves. The woman told Seven Days that McAllister paid her $200 a week in cash for her work in Montpelier. “I went and got his mail,” she said. “I checked his email for him, wrote down anything he needed. I was kind of his assistant.” The woman agreed to go back to work for McAllister even though he had previously assaulted her, she said, “because I didn’t have a job and I needed the money.” “I figured that he was done trying to get a hold of me, so I figured I’d try to work back again,” she said. Several state legislators said they had met the woman. Sen. Peg Flory (R-Rutland) said she “introduced herself as an intern for Norm” and attended meetings of the Republican caucus and the Senate Committee on Institutions. Flory said the woman also attended social gatherings at the Capitol Plaza Hotel & Conference Center with other legislators “once or twice, maybe.” “I do remember asking, ‘How old are you?’ Because she looked like she was
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12,â€? Flory said. “I never suspected that it was — she seemed to get along well with [McAllister]. I never got a feeling of her being afraid of him or intimidated. I just didn’t.â€? But the alleged victim said that soon after she joined McAllister in Montpelier, it became clear that he intended to resume assaulting her. “At first I thought he just wanted me to work at the Statehouse,â€? she said. “But when I started working for him again and he started making moves on me, I thought he was trying to take advantage of me in a way.â€? The woman said McAllister raped her “every time I went down there ‌ just about.â€?
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“Whenever we got done working [at the Statehouse], we went back to the house,� she said, referring to the Terrace Street apartment. “That was when he would try.� The police affidavit describes several violent, nonconsensual sexual encounters, the last of which took place approximately five weeks ago “in his apartment in Montpelier.� “I was screaming no at him, and he still, yes, he still went for it,� she told the troopers. McAllister shared the three-bedroom apartment with Mullin and Corcoran from January through the end of April, when they let the lease expire because the legislative session was drawing to a close. Legislators often room together in Montpelier and are reimbursed $110 for every night they stay in the capital. The woman said the assaults took place in McAllister’s bedroom at the Terrace Street home. She said she otherwise slept on a couch in the living room. According to Mullin, “She did stay over at the house a few times,� as did a young man who interned for Degree. Asked where she slept, Mullin said, “In the basement, besides Tim’s room, there was a bed down there, and I assume that’s where she slept.� Corcoran described the sleeping arrangement differently.
“They shared the same room,� he said Monday. “I can’t say if she slept on the floor or what.� Though Corcoran did not suspect wrongdoing, he said, “Morally, her sleeping in the same room as an older gentleman, I think that’s wrong. I wouldn’t do that.� Mullin said he never saw or heard anything that would lead him to believe McAllister assaulted the woman. “No,� he said. “Unless it happened on a weekend.� The woman said McAllister would pick her up Sunday nights and drive her to Montpelier. They would work together for three days and then he would drive her home Wednesday nights, she said. The legislature typically meets from Tuesday through Friday. Mullin said he usually arrived in Montpelier Tuesday mornings, while Corcoran came on Monday evenings. Mullin described the woman as “a little girl� who “looked like she was about 13.� “She claims she was 20, though,� Mullin said. The woman said she was not assaulted by anybody else in Montpelier. Asked if she thought Mullin or Corcoran was aware of the alleged incidents, she said, “I’m not sure. I don’t know, to be honest with you.� The woman said she worked for McAllister in Montpelier “for several months� this winter, but quit showing up approximately a month ago, “because I didn’t really want to be around him.� After a brief illness kept her out of work, she said, she “kept making up excuses� so that she did not have to return to Montpelier. “I didn’t really tell him I quit,� she said. “I just stopped going up there because I didn’t want to face it.� Mullin confirmed that the woman stopped coming around “a month or two ago.� “He told me that she was not feeling good,� Mullin said, referring to McAllister. “And then he said that she got another job.� The woman described McAllister as “nice� when he was around other people, but “aggressive� when they were alone. “To me, he was always, like, pushing on to things,� she said. “I don’t really know how to describe him. I always felt uncomfortable around him. But I don’t really have too many words for him.� m
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fire wheezed and radiated heat shimmers the morning of May 5 near the Robert Frost Interpretative Trail in Ripton. One group of U.S. Forest Service firefighters sprayed water at the edge of the angry orange flames while another, wielding a long-nose drip torch dispensing a mix of gas and diesel, deliberately spread the blaze. Yes, deliberately. The Forest Service team, outfitted in green and yellow flame-retardant clothing, hard hats and thick-soled boots, was conducting a so-called prescribed burn on four acres of overgrown wild blueberry bush off Vermont 125 near the Middlebury Gap. The fire knocked back woody brush and charred the blueberry plants, which will make them more productive next year. More importantly, the blaze was meant to preserve early successional habitat — meadows and clearings that are important to woodcock, ruffed grouse, deer, bear and other creatures seeking food that doesn’t flourish under the shady, dense canopy of trees that dominate the Green Mountain National Forest. As the fire popped and plumes of light gray smoke wafted into the air, Kevin Boness, “burn boss” for the operation, communicated by walkietalkie with team members spread out across the horseshoe-shaped burn area. The fire moved slowly east, crackling and hissing through brush and exploding several small evergreen trees — a reminder of the dry, tricky conditions that prevailed last week across Vermont. Boness wanted to make sure the fire did not ladder up a stately pine in the burn zone and spew embers from its top branches, which could potentially spread the blaze beyond the reach of the crew. So he and the team dripped less fuel and watered closer to the desired perimeter of the fire. A pump chugged as it drew water out of the South Branch of the Middlebury River through hoses the crew dragged no more than five feet from the flames. As the “holding crew” raked and watered, the “firing crew” carefully applied fuel in small strips designed to allow a deep, leisurely burn.
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environment “We’re going nice and slow,” Boness said. “We don’t want to create more fire in here than we can manage.” It was dicey to be burning at all. The previous morning, the 15-member crew had assembled only to discover the National Weather Service had just issued a “red flag” advisory warning of high wildfire risk. The combination of 80-degree weather, clear skies, gusting winds, low humidity and still-bare branches made for a significant threat of wildfire. “It’s kind of like tempting the devil to burn on a red-flag day,’’ said Boness, who is fire management officer for the Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests.
Holding off turned out to be the right decision: There were at least 20 brushfires and larger fires across Vermont on May 4. One fire consumed nearly 50 acres in West Brattleboro, and another came close to torching a house. The fires melted power lines, scorched a chicken coop and damaged the Old Lantern Inn & Barn in Charlotte. On May 5, the weather was cooler in Ripton. At midday, temperatures had dropped to 68 degrees and the humidity hovered around 28 percent, up from 6 percent the day before. Winds were light. So Boness gave the go-ahead to burn shortly before 11 a.m., and the reassembled team went for it. Had the group
waited just a few hours, the operation would have been shut down again. Around 3 p.m., the Weather Service issued a two-week burn ban, citing the dry conditions and rash of fires. Most of the Vermont land torched annually — up to 400 acres — is set afire after the snow melts and before the trees leaf out. Once that happens and the ground cover pushes farther up, there’s generally too much moisture in the forest to pull it off. Robert Frost, whose writing cabin is just a short walk from the trail, captured the fleeting moment in the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” He noted: “Nature’s first green is gold / her hardest hue to hold.” The location of last week’s burn is beautiful. Away from the smoke, warblers sang and swallows flew in graceful arcs. The spotted foliage of trout lilies pushed up from the ground, and delicate white pin cherry blossoms put on a show. On the steep, twisty ride up Vermont 125 to Ripton, a few patches of ice clung to north-facing rock outcroppings, and frost heaves in the road reminded of the recent severe winter. Vermont’s prescribed burns are tame compared to western wildfires that take out hundreds of thousands of acres. Boness and many of the foresters on his crew have fought some of those, either on previous full-time assignments with the Forest Service or when Vermontbased employees were called to do two- or three-week firefighting shifts in Idaho, Arizona, California, Colorado and Wyoming. The Vermont burns are good training for employees who might not have extensive experience. “They get to witness the fire behavior, to understand what it takes to control that,” Boness said. All of the assembled foresters, both men and women, were rated for “arduous” fire duty, meaning they had passed the same test requiring them to walk three miles in 45 minutes carrying a 45-pound pack. Although big forest fires are rare in the Northeast, they do occur. Many Burlington residents remember the thick smoke that wafted south in June 2010 as a result of a series of raging wildfires in Québec.
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because the resulting high moisture level makes it so much less flammable than the coniferous forests out West. Still, Boness and his crew know firsthand that fire can be unpredictable. Boness has had to sleep on sandbars in streams to escape wildfires in the West, and the 57-year-old has lost more than one firefighting acquaintance to blazes that traveled faster than anyone expected. “Fire can do what it wants if you’re not mindful of how you apply it to the land,” he said. “It can turn on you in a heartbeat.” m
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A century before that, Vermont had its share of out-of-control blazes. In the 1800s and early 1900s, about half of the state’s forestland was cleared to make potash, an ingredient for soap and other products, and for agricultural uses, such as sheep farming. Incomplete clearing often left “slag,” chopped trees that could ignite easily in dry conditions. Vermonters at the time chronicled other ill effects of deforestation. Much of that cleared land has since reverted to woods, and Vermont is now 75 percent forested. Full of deciduous beech, maple and birch, it’s sometimes referred to as the “asbestos forest”
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a geographical area that includes at least one small town. As a result, the Senate favored an education bill that takes a slower path to school-district consolidation than the House version. The House voted to phase out special grants that go to small schools; the Senate restored them. The House directed communities to form school districts of at least 1,100 students; the Senate set the number at 900, plus allowed a longer time frame and fewer consequences for failing. The House capped school spending; the Senate rejected a cap. Virtually all the differences have to do with the Senate’s fear of harming small schools. “If you put on caps, if you hit budget limits, you hit those small schools because they’re in trouble if the bathroom plumbing breaks,” Senate Education Committee chair Ann Cummings (D-Washington) told colleagues. Her House counterpart, Rep. David Sharpe (D-Bristol), sees things differently. The state can no longer afford to artificially support small schools that are losing students and offering fewer programs, he said. “I think that it’s more and more broadly recognized that we need to bring our schools into the 21st century,” Sharpe said.
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eadsboro is a tiny town on the Massachusetts border, about as far from the Statehouse as you can get and still be in Vermont. Yet its residents are making their voices heard in Montpelier. Fearful that an advancing education bill would rip the heart out of their community, townspeople mobilized at the Readsboro Central School on a Saturday in mid-April. Some 50 or so citizens pleaded for help from their two Bennington County state senators, both of whom attended. They talked about how the school, where 58 students attend pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, is the center of the community; the importance of the individual attention students receive from teachers; and the fact that parents stop by daily. “I was really proud to be part of our community that day,” said Susan Edgerton, a Readsboro school board member who was there. “We really rallied.” The next week, when Sens. Brian Campion and Dick Sears — both Democrats — returned to the Statehouse, they had newfound resolve: H.361, the education bill that seeks to consolidate Vermont’s 272 school districts, could not be allowed to crush small schools. “It was a good reminder of the value of small schools. We should be working to make sure they can thrive,” Campion said. “I’m going to try to make what I consider a bad bill better,” Sears vowed. By the time the Senate voted last week on the education bill, Readsboro had been cited numerous times during debates as an example of a school imperiled by the House measure. Senators responded by altering the House’s version, softening the push for school-district consolidation. Campion, an eager-to-please freshman senator who serves on the Education Committee, and Sears, a brash veteran with a seat on the powerful Appropriations Committee, pushed for some of the changes. “The problem I have with the bill is, it starts with the premise that larger schools are better, and I don’t think that’s always true,” said Sears. He succeeded in persuading senators to restore small-school grants that the House wanted to phase out. But that still wasn’t enough to win him over; Sears voted against the bill. Campion said yea, but not happily. “This was not, in the end, an easy vote for me.” The two Democrats weren’t alone in worrying that the House bill would be particularly tough on small schools. Unlike House members, every senator represents
“It requires some tough decisions, but they need to be done.” Gov. Peter Shumlin and his education secretary, Rebecca Holcombe, lean toward supporting the Senate version because, instead of forcing all districts to come up with a consolidation plan, it focuses first on offering accelerated financial incentives to a few that already share a union high school. Twelve unions in the state would be eligible. “I think it makes more sense,” Holcombe said, noting that those consolidations could be used as models for others. The Senate version may be easier for Readsboro and other small towns to swallow, but some wonder whether the Senate stripped the bill of meaningful reform. Critics wonder: Where’s the leverage to push communities to work together? Where is the immediate property tax relief that voters demanded in the last election? “That concerns me,” said Sharpe, the studious House Education chair who is staking his legislative session on this bill. “I heard pretty clearly, and think a lot of House members did, that property taxpayers are hurting.” This week, as the bill heads to a conference committee, Sharpe and his Senate counterparts have the tough task of sorting
through the two versions to come up with one that can please fans of both small and large schools. Monday, House Republicans urged the conference committee to control costs. “It will be very difficult for many of us to support any bill that does not deliver serious, significant cost containment,” said Rep. Kurt Wright (R-Burlington), a member of the House Education Committee. “If we don’t deliver that, I believe we have failed the taxpayers of Vermont.” Much is at stake. Legislative leaders and Shumlin identified education finance reform as a cornerstone issue for the year. “Our constituents would be disappointed if we didn’t pass this bill,” said House Speaker Shap Smith (D-Morristown), who reorganized the House Education Committee this year with the bill in mind. But those watching from small schools tucked away in places like Readsboro are constituents with strong feelings, too. When Chris Smith interviewed for the principal’s job at Readsboro Central School last year, he found teachers still working at 6 p.m., students staying after school to do their homework and a community that loves its school. Smith was sold. He moved from Arizona, took his 12-year-old
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son out of private school and enrolled him at Readsboro. He hasn’t regretted the decision. “Everybody’s just on board as a team,” Smith said. “When we put on the holiday concert, the place is packed. We’ve got every kid in the school, practically, playing an instrument.” “We feel the school is doing a good job,” said Edgerton, who joined the Readsboro school board this year and is an education professor at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in nearby North Adams, Mass. She noted that the school is Readsboro’s largest employer, one of the only places in town with reliable, high-speed internet and home of the town’s public library. Readsboro defies arguments that small schools cost more, even after figuring in small-school financial supports. The town spends $10,291 annually on each student — one of the lowest per-pupil spending totals in the state. But with just 58 students, Readsboro also serves as a poster child for too-small schools. The town has just two kids in the fourth grade. The second grade has four students. Sen. Jeanette White (D-Windham) last week noted Readsboro’s two-student class as an example of the problem lawmakers
are trying to solve. “There’s a difference between a small school and a mini school,” White said during the Senate debate, inventing her own term for a school that is too small to stay open. “I think that mini schools are harmful. Small schools are different from mini schools, and I don’t know where we draw the line.”
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Edgerton conceded that having just two kids in a class is not ideal, but she said, “The alternative seems worse.” Smith said his school deals with the small classes by pairing two grades together. The two fourth-graders join five third-graders in a classroom. Readsboro also makes extensive use of online learning, he said. From third grade on, each student has a computer. The school uses Rosetta Stone software to teach
Spanish. Smith is taking courses himself to learn more about technology so the school can expand its options. Legislators could make all that harder for Readsboro, Smith said. The House bill would phase out the school’s $90,000 small-school grant and the 18 “phantom students” for whom Readsboro gets state money — to ease the financial pain of declining enrollment. It would also force the town to work with neighboring burgs, some of them separated by mountains, to form an 1,100-student district. “That would include every school within a four-hour drive,” the principal said. “The House bill is a nightmare.” The Senate version would allow Readsboro to keep its small-school grant and have more time to form a 900-student district. It’s more palatable, Smith said, though still worrisome. Readsboro has few options to partner with neighboring communities. With high school choice, most students travel to North Adams, Mass., but that’s not viable for younger children, Smith noted. As the crow flies, neighboring Stamford, which has a 76-student elementary school, looks like a good choice. But as the school bus drives, the hourlong ride would be tough on kindergartners, Smith said.
Parents wouldn’t be able to walk to school to meet their kids. Students, many of whom lack internet access at home, wouldn’t be able to stay after school to do their work. Smith keeps coming back to the notion that all that disruption is unnecessary. “I don’t feel like we’re on a sinking ship,” he said. Holcombe and legislators in both the House and Senate who are steering the education bill disagree. With declining enrollment, many Vermont schools are in a serious bind no matter what the state does, they say. “If we do nothing, small schools are going to close,” said Holcombe, citing recent decisions to shut schools in Concord and Bridgewater. “This bill is not about closing small schools, but it is about trying to help out systems to try to achieve scale that might in some places maximize the opportunity students have,” Holcombe said. The important thing, Holcombe said, is that Readsboro has started talking about the issue and paying attention to its options. “I appreciate that they’re having the conversation now before they’re up against the wire,” Holcombe said. “If you’re in crisis, no one wants to partner with you.” m Contact: terri@sevendaysvt.com, 999-9994, or @terrivt
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In his dealings with top national lobbyists, Attorney General Bill Sorrell has shifted fluidly from the professional to the political to the personal, according to documents obtained through public records requests. Until last week, the most prominent of them worked for the Washington, D.C., law firm Dickstein Shapiro, which has directly lobbied Sorrell on behalf of AT&T, 5-Hour Energy, Uber and casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. As they sought to influence the AG, those lobbyists gave generously to Sorrell’s reelection campaigns, forged close relationships with him, arranged publicity opportunities and paid for his travel. Last Tuesday, the Philadelphia law firm Cozen O’Connor hired away 10 members of Dickstein’s state attorneys general practice, including those who have lobbied Sorrell the hardest: Lori Kalani, Bernie Nash, JB Kelly, Milton Marquis and Chris Tampio. Though the attorneys have frequently lobbied Sorrell and his office, none of them have registered as lobbyists in the state of Vermont. In correspondence obtained by Seven Days, it’s often difficult to distinguish between the various roles they were playing with Sorrell. When Kalani emailed the AG in April 2012, she was hoping to set up a meeting between Sorrell and Facebook’s new state lobbyist “to discuss fostering better communications between the office and Facebook.” But Sorrell appeared distracted by politics. “I am very busy, trying to juggle getting a campaign up and running and doing my job. I have one serious primary opponent right now with another likely to jump in soon,” Sorrell wrote Kalani from his state email account. “Speaking of that, I sent a thank you note to you at the address given me by [the Democratic Attorneys General Association] ... but it came back as undeliverable. Is there a better address?” The email does not explain why he was sending her a thank-you note, but Kalani was a frequent contributor to his campaigns. In response, Kalani wrote that she had “been following the news” and was “thinking about how I can help.” One way, she suggested, would be for Sorrell to host an event with her client, Facebook, highlighting safe internet practices for children. “My correct address is below,” she concluded. “No need to resend the card if you’d like to save a stamp.” Two weeks later, Kalani wrote Sorrell to request his personal email address, saying she “would like to talk to you about a non work topic.” Over the years, Kalani and her peers have frequently interacted with Sorrell at far-flung conferences held by DAGA and similar organizations, where Dickstein typically hosts a dinner for state attorneys general. At an Orlando event in January 2014, Kalani and her Dickstein colleagues donated $2,000 to Sorrell’s campaign. Five days later, Sorrell informed Kalani that he’d signed a letter supporting online gambling regulations favored by her client, Adelson, who owns Las Vegas Sands Corp. “Great seeing you and chatting a bit in FL,” Sorrell wrote. “See you soon in NYC.” A week later, as Seven Days reported last month, Dickstein flew Sorrell to New York City for a panel discussion it arranged, put him up at a hotel and took him out to dinner. While planning the event, Nash arranged a publicity opportunity for the AG: cover boy for the January issue of InsideCounsel magazine. “Please let me know and they will arrange a time for a photo shoot at your convenience,” Nash wrote. Sorrell responded: “But Bernie, Might that hurt readership #s?? I’m happy to do this.” Soon after the New York City panel, Kalani and Sorrell traded emails about future endeavors — personal and political. “I really have to get you and Betsy out to Colorado for some great skiing,” Kalani wrote. “Jay is a tremendous skier — you two would have a great time.” “Colorado skiing would be fun!” Sorrell replied. “I will be in DC Monday afternoon-Tuesday early evening, if there’s a
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convenient time I might meet your union friend. Otherwise, another time. NYC was enjoyable. My life stories are nowhere near as interesting as yours!” “I will check with my building trades contact tonight and see if he is available next week,” Kalani wrote, referring to her union friend. “I had fun in NY, as well. It is [n]ice to get to know you on a more personal level.” A former lobbyist for DISH Network, Kalani has worked for several top firms that specialize in influencing attorneys general: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, another Sorrell donor; Dickstein; and now Cozen O’Connor. She was featured prominently in a Pulitzer Prize-winning series by the New York Times’ Eric Lipton for her work lobbying Sorrell’s peers. In a document obtained by the Times, Dickstein pitched a potential client by highlighting its “knowledge of and relationships with the AG community” and pledged to “become ... advocates at AG gatherings.” The firm is one of the most generous corporate sponsors of DAGA, which spent close to $200,000 on a super PAC created to run pro-Sorrell advertisements during his 2012 campaign against T.J. Donovan. In a March interview with Seven Days, Sorrell said about Dickstein, “Look, there are some members of that firm who I consider to be personal friends, who come out of the AG ranks.” After the Times homed in on Kalani’s particularly close relationship with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, a citizen filed a complaint with the state ethics commission asking why Dickstein’s lawyers did not register as lobbyists in the state. (Dickstein also set up an InsideCounsel cover shoot for Bondi.) Like Florida, Vermont does not require attorneys representing clients in contested cases to register as lobbyists,
according to the Vermont Secretary of State’s lobbying guide. So Dickstein’s work representing 5-Hour Energy after Vermont sued the company in July 2014 over allegedly deceptive promotional claims would presumably be exempt from disclosure. But those who contact state officers, such as Sorrell, in order to “influence the substance of law(s) that may be passed or the content of administrative rules or policies that may be adopted, or the manner in which policy may be carried out” must comply with Vermont’s lobbying regulations. Kalani’s successful efforts to convince Sorrell to sign the letter supporting gambling restrictions could qualify as such. Registered lobbyists must regularly disclose how much they spend seeking to influence state officials and must list all gifts they provide them, such as airfare, dinners and hotel stays. Officials are barred from soliciting such gifts and cannot request political donations from lobbyists until after the legislative biennium ends. As Seven Days has previously reported, Sorrell has explicitly solicited airfare and meal reimbursements from Dickstein and Orrick. He has regularly held fundraisers featuring those and other national, unregistered lobbyists prior to adjournment. It’s unclear whether those who lobby the attorney general to file suit must register as lobbyists. If so, former New Mexico attorney general Patricia Madrid and her husband, Mike Messina, would qualify. The pair met repeatedly with Sorrell on behalf of their client, Texas law firm Baron & Budd, to convince Sorrell to sue oil and gas companies. After Messina and those associated with the Texas firm donated $10,000 to Sorrell’s reelection campaign in December 2013, the AG agreed to file suit. He hired Baron & Budd and two other firms to represent the state, guaranteeing them and Messina’s firm 25 percent of any money recovered in the case. Vermont state law bars lobbyists and their firms from being paid “compensation that is dependent on a contingency.” Charged with investigating any violations of the state’s lobbying rules is the office of the attorney general. Sorrell, Kalani, Messina and Madrid did not respond to requests for comment.
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Burlington looks very different from where Obeng is now. The enormous Halton School District, in which Obeng is one of six superintendents, has 61,000 students and 116 schools and covers five municipalities — including, coincidentally, Burlington, Ontario. Obeng is in charge of 27 schools. As he zipped around in his Lexus with a reporter on board, there were countless signs of rapid growth.
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“I understand the level of comfort,” he said, and that it might provide “a little bit of hope and encouragement that yeah, it’s possible.” People who know and admire Obeng in Canada predict that he will be well equipped for the new challenge. Among other qualities, he has a stomach for political turbulence, said Donna Danielli, a Halton District school trustee who has watched Obeng in action since 2006. She remembers one disastrous public meeting that attracted a couple hundred unhappy parents. Rapid population growth had prompted the board to propose redistricting that would have moved their children to new schools. “I didn’t think we were going to get out of it alive,” Danielli recalled. Obeng helped lead the community forward by prioritizing the interests of students and understanding political sensitivities without playing politics, Danielli said. People need the opportunity to be heard, especially in a conflict, said Obeng. “We know we can’t make people happy all the time, but one of the things we can do is listen,” he said.
Bulldozers were plowing up farm fields for new townhouse developments. The highway to nearby Pearson International Airport bloats to 16 lanes and still can’t accommodate rush-hour traffic that slows to stop-and-go. Some spaces remain open, including the distinctive shelf of land known as the Niagara Escarpment, and Lake Ontario forms a vast sheet of uncluttered blue along one side of the district. But land is at a premium in the sprawling greater Toronto area, which is home to more than 6 million people — 10 times the population of Vermont. Obeng’s district sprouts about two new schools a year and still can’t keep up with the influx of children: Portable classrooms sit next to the playground at brand-new schools. School boundary lines have changed so often due to crowding that some students currently in fifth grade have attended five different schools, Obeng said. By comparison, Burlington has 4,000 students and nine schools, not counting alternative programs, and school enrollment has been flat. In the rest of Vermont, the number of school-age children has been steadily declining. The Halton system has a lower poverty rate than Burlington, where almost half of students qualify for free and reduced lunch, but it has some similar complexities. There are pockets of subsidized housing and generational poverty, along with students who live in 5,000-square-foot mansions overlooking Lake Ontario. That’s not so different from Burlington, where children who live in homeless shelters sit in classrooms alongside peers who live in $600,000 Victorians. Both systems have a significant population of immigrant students, although Halton tends to attract many secondwave immigrants who have lived in Canada for some time. Burlington, meanwhile, is a hub for the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program and as such is often the first stop for families arriving directly from Nepal, Somalia, Sudan and other countries. So how did little Burlington attract a big metro school administrator? Obeng said he and his wife had checked out the city on vacation a few years ago and liked what they saw. He was ready for change and threw his résumé into the pile accumulated by a search firm that brought him to interview in Burlington. According to Kyle Dodson, a Burlington school board member and parent, Obeng aced that interview — and other tests. There was nothing put-on or contrived in Obeng’s rapport with students, and he also did very well with faculty, Dodson said: “People just seemed to feel an authenticity while also a gravitas.” In fact, Obeng fit the bill so well, the school board offered him the superintendent job with an annual salary of $153,000 — $23,000 more than Collins took home. His three-year contract includes a provision for a bonus “based on exemplary performance” as determined by the school board and allows $6,000 for moving expenses and permission to collect outside fees for speeches and other appearances. Another deal sweetener: A city ordinance that requires department heads to be legal Burlington voters has been waived — until 2018 — for Obeng. Even acting superintendent Smith is accommodating his permanent replacement. Although his contract expires at the end of
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hortly before 9 a.m. on a Tuesday, Burlington’s incoming superintendent of schools was chatting amiably with a sleepy-looking teenager in Milton — not the Chittenden County town, but the fastgrowing suburb of Toronto, Canada. In a crisp charcoal suit with a lavender shirt and matching silk tie, Yaw Obeng flashed an oversize smile as the T-shirted teen explained his post-graduation plans. The young man told 45-year-old Obeng that he planned to attend a local college, and maybe train to be a plumbing and heating systems installer. As Obeng explained later, it marked a major turnaround for the student, who had previously been in trouble with the law. “Take care, eh?” Obeng said, sounding thoroughly Canadian as he walked out of the alternative Gary Allan High School, through the parking lot and into the driver’s seat of his sparkling white Lexus. Obeng said he makes a point of visiting schools as often as he can, even though his teaching days are behind him. Teacher salaries are a thing of the past, too. As a superintendent of the Halton School District, Obeng earns $170,000 a year in Canada; in Burlington he’ll make $153,000, which, with the exchange rate, works out to be a sizable raise — and more than any other Queen City superintendent has ever received. Obeng was supposed to start work in Vermont on July 1, but his visa might not be in hand by then, according to interim superintendent Howard Smith. The law requires that the school district petition for the visa on Obeng’s behalf. So far the district has spent around $8,000 on lawyers and fees to pursue two different kinds of visas, in hopes that one of them comes through: a temporary worker visa good for up to three years; or a “specialty worker” visa that would allow Obeng to work in the U.S. for up to six years and seek permanent residency to stay longer. If it’s the latter, Obeng could not start work until October 1. In Burlington, Obeng will have his work cut out for him. The district is striving to erase chronic budget deficits, close student achievement gaps, and better serve immigrant and refugee students who have grown to represent about 13 percent of enrollment. Former school superintendent Jeanne Collins was essentially ousted last year with a $225,000 contract buyout. Several other central office administrators, including the business manager, decamped around the same time, contributing to a sense of instability at the top. In 12 years as superintendent, Collins led the district through an ambitious building renovation campaign, launched two magnet schools, and beefed up foreign language and music programming in response to parent campaigns. She was pressured to resign when controversy mounted over fiscal problems and other challenges, including a failure to meet district goals to hire more diverse faculty and administrators. Obeng will be Burlington’s first black superintendent, a significant development in a district that has had few leaders of color. He said he understands from growing up in Toronto schools with few black teachers and principals what it might mean for Burlington students of color to have a superintendent who looks like them.
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Obeng calls himself “a citizen of the world” with “a close connection to Toronto.” Although both of his parents hail from Ghana, he was born in Erlangen, Germany, where his father, a chemist, had gone to further his studies. The family returned to Ghana when Obeng was a baby and lived in the capital of Accra until he was 6 or 7. He spoke Twi at home and also learned English, which is the official language of Ghana, a former British colony. Seeking opportunity, his family moved to the United States, living in New York and Maryland before moving to Toronto when Obeng was about 10 years old. Adapting to life in North America was challenging at times, and as an immigrant child, Obeng said, he felt a “tremendous cultural clash.” He added, “People were not always accepting of differences.” Obeng believes his background helps him relate to immigrant and refugee families who are unfamiliar with the ways of a new country and new school system, and might arrive with distrust for institutions. “Someone like myself who has a similar background, you get a certain level of trust so that you can open dialogue and find out what the needs are,” he said. Obeng’s parents were educated, but they struggled in their adopted country, and money was tight. Despite growing up in lower-income Toronto neighborhoods, Obeng said he never felt deprived but “just knew I had to work hard to give myself opportunities for the possibilities out there.” As a boy, Obeng was one of those children who walked eagerly through the school doors every morning. “I always liked school when I was a student, and being around school,” he said. Science was a favorite subject, and initially Obeng thought of following in his father’s footsteps to pursue a career in chemistry. A conversation shortly before graduation changed everything. “I remember one day sitting in the gym with my coach, who also was my mentor, and he was like, ‘What are you going to do?’” The coach asked Obeng if he’d thought about being a teacher. By the end of the talk, Obeng had decided to pursue a career in education. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of New Brunswick and along the way met his wife, Nancy
Obeng. She grew up in Canada and has family from different parts of the country, which Obeng said has contributed to his cultural education. “It’s been fabulous, eye-opening,” he said. “My family itself is quite diverse.” Nancy Obeng is white, and the couple has three boys — now ages 18, 15 and 14. The oldest boy is heading to college in North Dakota on a football scholarship in the fall, while the two younger brothers will follow their parents to Vermont and start at a new high school. Obeng told Seven Days that he and his wife are looking for a home in Chittenden County, and Burlington is their first choice. In raising his own family, Obeng said he has acquired a deeper understanding of the nuances around race and ethnicity. “It’s been eye-opening in terms of helping me in my work,” Obeng said, adding that it’s helped him “support students like my children who come from multiple backgrounds.” After graduation, Obeng entered a tight job market and was lucky enough to land a temporary teaching job at Elmbank Junior Middle Academy, one of the schools he had attended growing up in Toronto. When the teacher for whom Obeng was filling in decided not to come back, Obeng’s colleagues wrote a joint letter of recommendation to the school board asking that Obeng get the job. The board agreed. “I still have that letter,” Obeng said. As a young teacher, he was determined to live up to the expectations of the Elmbank faculty who supported him. “It was a challenging school,” Obeng said. “It was a tough area, but you got back what you gave.” By age 30, he had worked his way up to the principal’s office at a different city school and earned a master’s degree from the University of Toronto. In 2006, he moved to the Halton district, where he helped set up a new welcome center for immigrant students and designed programming to eliminate bias in school — be it around race, gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation. Irma Coulson Public School in Milton, a new school that opened on Obeng’s watch about 18 months ago, specifically stresses equity and cultural sensitivity. Obeng has given the staff permission to try innovative approaches, said principal Merrill Mathews. “Yaw’s fingerprints are on this place,” Mathews said. Pending approval from immigration, Obeng is poised to make his mark on the next one. m
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1924-2015, WILLISTON Rodolphe R. Corbiere, 91, died May 3, 2015, at the Vermont Respite House in Williston after a long battle with congestive heart failure. Rodolphe was known lovingly as “Dove” to his family and “Rudy” to his friends. He was born on March 10, 1924, the son of Ovila and Virginia (LaBelle) Corbiere. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the United States
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Air Corps. He was married in Burlington on September 15, 1945, to his beloved wife of 63 years, Grace (Langlois) Corbiere, who predeceased him in 2009. Together they enjoyed raising their family, and upon retirement they enjoyed “the good life,” wintering in Florida. Also in retirement, he enjoyed doing stained glass. He made many beautiful pieces which he freely shared with family and friends who will enjoy them in their homes for many years. Dove worked most of his life at the University of Vermont in the maintenance department and as a roofer. The gold dome of Ira Allen Chapel was one of his accomplishments. He was a very resourceful man as well as being an accomplished woodworker, making many pieces of furniture for his home. He enjoyed golfing and spending time with his family. Dove is survived by his two daughters and their husbands: Debra, his constant companion and
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1928-2015, ESSEX JUNCTION Jeannine “Minky” Sullivan passed away peacefully on May 8, 2015, after a long and beautiful life. She was born November 2, 1928, in St. Chrysostome, Canada. Jeannine married the love of her life, Thomas John Sullivan, on September 13, 1952, in Potsdam, N.Y. After raising eight children, Jeannine worked at JCPenney and made many wonderful friends. She was predeceased by her son Michael in 2003, her husband, Thomas, in 2007
and her daughter Denise in 2008. She is survived by her children Donna McDonald (husband Geoff), Monica Sullivan, Marie Sullivan, Mark Sullivan (wife Leila), David Sullivan, Diane Sullivan (husband Matt Thorsen), her daughter-inlaw “Pamula” Sullivan, and her grandchildren Stephen Bevilacqua, Sarah, Hannah and Rachel Cronin, Caitlin Sullivan, Alex McDonald, and Mike and Tommy Sullivan. Jeannine loved her family, trips to Hawaii to visit her “little sweethearts,” calling her daughters to discuss the most recent episodes of “House” and “Law and Order,” gallivanting, crocheting and other crafts, Saint Andre,
square dancing, all cookies (except for Lorna Doones), Lawrence Welk, watching her soaps, and most of all the Annual Sully Open Golf Tournament honoring the life of her son Michael. The family would like to thank the kind and caring staff at the Green Mountain Nursing Home and a slew of other relatives, friends, pets and neighbors whose lives she touched by being the kind and generous woman that she was. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, 2015, at LaVigne Funeral Home and Cremation Service, 132 Main St., Winooski. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10 a.m. on Friday, May 15, at St. Anthony Catholic Church, Burlington. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the American Cancer Society. Condolences may be shared with the family online at lavignefuneral home.com.
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f you’ve ever been to Burlington’s FlynnSpace, you’ve probably encountered Brian Johnson. The manager of the subterranean venue is often behind the bar, serving up drinks and snacks. He cuts a memorable figure: tall with shoulder-length graying hair and eyebrows that have a life of their own. But Johnson offsets his physical stature with a wry sense of humor, one that seems to teeter between amusement and forbearance. This is a man who’s in on the Great Cosmic Joke. In a couple of months, Johnson will pour his last glass — make that nonbreakable plastic cup — behind that bar. No more will he suggest you unwrap your candy/nuts/pretzels before the show so you don’t make that rude crinkly sound during a performance. Johnson, who gives his age as 62 and a half, is retiring after 15 years managing the FlynnSpace and 21 years working for the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts. He’s going out not with a whimper but a bang. And crashing cymbals. And booming timpani. Johnson is not just that guy behind the bar (or sometimes behind the sound and light board); he’s also a master percussionist. Trained at the Hartt School, he’s played with
the Vermont Symphony Orchestra for more than 20 years. He’s freelanced with classical and contemporary ensembles, toured internationally, and written and performed numerous solo compositions. So his parting gesture is a concert this Friday at — where else? — FlynnSpace. Johnson calls his show “The Percussion Section: Non-Traditional Music for Traditional Instruments.” Don’t let the bland title fool you. Johnson’s hero in sound making is minimalist John Cage, a preference reflected in the second piece — of 10 — on the program, Cage’s “Composed Improvisation for Snare Drum.” But Johnson, along with guest percussionists Tom Goldstein of Baltimore and Jeff Salisbury of Vermont, will give Cage’s work a twist: Each will simultaneously play “individually prepared realizations of the score.” “The snare drum is the rhythmic chatterbox of the orchestra,” Johnson states. This would be a good time to make your crinkly noises, because no one will hear you. The Cage piece has never been presented this way before, making Johnson’s performance a de facto world
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Quick Lit: Professor TV Pop quiz: Why was the ending of “The Sopranos” controversial? Who said, “I am the one who knocks”? Which show made its fans obsessed with a briefly glimpsed map painted on a blast door? If your answer to all of the above is “No idea” or “I don’t even own a TV,” then you’re not the ideal audience for the new book from Jason Mittell, a professor of film and media culture and American studies at Middlebury College. But if the questions made you nod in recognition, and your “TV set” is just as likely to be a laptop or tablet, then you’ll find worthwhile insights and provocations in Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling. So what exactly is “complex TV”? Mittell emphasizes that it’s not a synonym for “quality television,” the term some critics have used to defend the fancier offerings of the so-called boob tube. Rather, complex TV brings the mechanics of storytelling to the fore in a way that forces viewers to think — and
sometimes obsess — about them. In the traditional episodic model of TV storytelling, the fictional world “reset[s] back to a steady-state equilibrium at the end of every episode” — think of Maggie Simpson never leaving babyhood. Starting in the ’90s, popular prime time shows increasingly embraced a second model: serialization. Fans of “The X-Files” tuned in not just for the monster of the week but for an overarching mystery. While the serial format started with daytime dramas, Mittell demonstrates how complex TV diverged from its soapy forebears. Some of these shows are structured around intricate mysteries, such as “Lost” and “Twin Peaks”; others experiment with unusual narrative devices, such as the real-time gimmick of “24.” Almost all of them play with expectations to intrigue and disorient the viewer, and most of them rely on the assumption that viewers will watch every episode and engage in online discussion.
In other words, fans of complex TV bear scant resemblance to the archetypal couch potatoes who watch whatever’s on. Anyone who’s ever flipped to a random episode of “Breaking Bad” or “Game of Thrones” will know why — these shows don’t make much sense out of order.
For decades, Mittell writes, scholars have used “the language of literature or film” to analyze TV narratives, based on “the assumption that television storytelling is simplistic.” But complex TV demands its own vocabulary, and Mittell provides it, exploring concepts such as “forensic fandom,” “drillability” and “authorship by management.” Mittell’s book is designed for students and scholars of contemporary American media, and it’s not the easiest browse for the lay reader. Terms such as “readeroriented poetics,” “reflexive storytelling strategies” and “parasocial engagement” fly thick and fast. But Mittell is also a complex TV fan — he served as a site administrator of the popular “Lost” fan wiki Lostpedia — and his own engagement is evident on every page. Unlike many academic critics, he admits to having favorites (for the record, they’re currently “The Wire” and “Breaking Bad”). Mittell’s chapter on “Evaluation” explores how viewers arrive at those likes and dislikes, elaborating on his own
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bigger picture when it comes to the small screen. And perhaps the big one. Why are the Marvel movies increasingly overwhelming for a casual moviegoer? Building on Mittell’s thesis, I’d argue that their makers are trying to cram the narrative strategies of a complex TV show into a cinematic spectacle. These days, every piece of popular entertainment seems to belong to a series or a “saga” sprawling across different media. How did young fans develop the attention spans they need to grasp these vast story worlds? This book suggests we give some credit to the much-maligned, soon-to-beobsolete TV set.
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distaste for “Mad Men” as an example. Even Don Draper’s admirers will admit Mittell makes fair points — and, more importantly, doesn’t fall into the common academic trap of treating the opposing viewpoint as a political or aesthetic regression. These days, the web is full of amateur “TV scholars.” Fans of all ages can quote readily from TV Tropes, an exhaustive — and addictive — wiki of every cliché or narrative device ever used on the small screen. (Did you know that “The Wire” contains several examples of the Dying Moment of Awesome trope?) Despite his academic bona fides, Mittell has no interest in pulling rank on those analysis-obsessed fans. Instead, he lets their insights enrich his effort to establish complex TV as a legitimate subject of academic study. That legitimation project may not matter to anyone outside the ivory tower. But Mittell’s compelling arguments about topics such as antiheroes and melodrama help us see the
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premiere. So is Johnson’s own composition “For Concert Bass Drum and Large Crash Cymbals.” Also on the bill are multimedia pieces such as “Timps in E” by minimalist composer Phill Niblock, which will be accompanied by film from Niblock’s The Movement of People Working series and recorded audio tracks by avant-garde percussionist Jan Williams. After an intermission to clear the ears, the second half of the show will combine percussion and spoken word, with “my poems and Lawrence Ferlinghetti,” Johnson explains. Saxophonist BRIAN MCCARTHY will perform on the final piece, which shares the title of the Ferlinghetti poem “Junkman’s Obbligato.” Originally published in 1958 in a collection titled A Coney Island of the Mind, the “Obbligato” is one of seven poems that were intended to be “oral messages” with jazz accompaniment, Johnson says. Because the music is different each time, the poems “are still in a state of change,” he writes in his program. The poem’s performance in this concert has symbolic value for Johnson. “It talks about ‘we’re going, we’re splitting
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n a YouTube video, seven chamber orchestra players sit on a stage adorned with white columns and red velvet drapes, looking as if they’re about to play Bach. But what they do play is surprisingly far from Western classical music: a rhythmically thrilling work characterized by sinuous, Persian-sounding quarter-tones, unusually wide vibrato in the solo violin parts, and intermittent volleys of stomping, clapping and shouting. The piece is called “Dances of the Yogurt Maker,” written by the 25-yearold Turkish composer Erberk Eryılmaz, who is currently an artist diploma candidate at Carnegie Mellon School of Music in Pittsburgh. This Saturday, May 16, Vermont audiences will have a chance to hear “Dances” live. That’s because it won the inaugural Collegiate Composition Prize from the Vermont contemporary chamber ensemble TURNmusic. The
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The project, called Startup Grind is just the latest chapter of a global startup community funded by Google for Entrepreneurs and designed to “educate, inspire and connect entrepreneurs” in collaborative, noncompetitive settings. Started in 2010 as a Silicon Valley tech meet-up, Startup Grind has since opened chapters in 150 cities in 65 countries. Despite being funded and supported by the global tech behemoth, Startup Grind Burlington will be largely organized and run locally, with the primary goal of tapping the experience and wisdom of Vermonters who’ve launched successful enterprises. Virtually all money raised by its events will be reinvested locally. Leading the effort is chapter director George Schildge. The Plattsburgh, N.Y., native is the founder and CEO of Matrix Marketing Group of Denver, Colo. Schildge spent 26 years in Colorado as a “serial entrepreneur” helping small startups get off the ground. A few months ago, he relocated to Vermont and opened an office in the Karma Bird House at 47 Maple Street.
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In some ways, Eryılmaz, who is from used social media and composer contest the northern coastal town of Samsun, is sites to advertise the competition around attempting to do for Turkish folk music the Northeast, requesting PDF and MP3 what composer Béla Bartók did for files of each work. Then she and seven core TURN players Hungarian folk music. met to compare their But his approach is much more direct. rankings. Everyone, it “I try to eliminate turned out, had ranked “Dances” first. all traces of Western TURNmusic clarimusic from my comnetist DAn LiptAk already positions,” Eryılmaz says. “Dances” is based knew Eryılmaz: The on actual folk dances two were classmates and songs celebrating at Hartt and played AnnE DECkER yogurt makers, which clarinet and piano in a are performed annually trio that toured Turkey by residents of Silifke, a town on the for five weeks in the summers following country’s southern coast that is famous their junior and senior years. for its yogurt. Liptak and Eryılmaz will perform again Eryılmaz’s composition was one during the composer’s visit to Vermont of 13 submitted for the Collegiate for a fundraising concert for TURN, Composition Prize, says TURNmusic’s TuRkiSH COmpOSER » p.29 founding conductor, Anne Decker. She
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is particularly challenging to musicians. “It’s a very boisterous piece — the rhythmic drive, the colors — it’s so energetic.” The stomping and shouting in unison give it “a raw feeling. It’s a very human piece,” she adds. “You have to be really brave [to perform it]. You’re so exposed.” Those very un-Western classical performance demands wrought a change in the 10-member ensemble as it rehearsed the work, Decker adds: “It’s just making our group stronger, and our relationships stronger.” m
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which will be held at a private residence in Richmond the day after the ArtsRiot concert. That second program consists exclusively of compositions by Eryılmaz for piano and clarinet. As Eryılmaz points out, clarinet — the equivalent of the sipsi and other folk wind instruments — figures centrally in Turkish music. TURNmusic, barely a year old, offers only a travel stipend with the prize. While Decker hopes eventually to make a larger award, her main intention is to engage young, emerging composers. “I wanted to connect with that generation because of my own [student] experience,” explains the Waterbury Center resident. As a music-education major at Western Michigan University, Decker befriended a number of composers and started her own contemporary music ensemble. She took the ensemble with her to graduate school at Illinois State University, where she studied orchestral conducting. While Decker describes the whole program for Saturday night as “outrageous,” she says Eryılmaz’s composition
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The trend in computers is to store all your files “in the cloud.” That doesn’t mean they’re up in the sky; they’re in a big hard drive somewhere. But that got me wondering: How secure is the cloud? Are we one good case of sunspots or an electromagnetic pulse away from losing it all? Richard Aldrich, Napa, Calif.
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percentage of time the cloud is accessible. The higher the availability, the better. But it comes at a cost. About that machinery. I once toured a data center, commonly known as a server farm. It was cool but spooky: a vast array of dimly lit server racks. No people, no activity except blinking LEDs, no sound but a faint whir. The place was as impregnable as human ingenuity could make it — fingerprint scanners to gain entry, on-site generators to provide instant backup in the event of blackout. Still, somebody could nuke the place. The real security of the cloud is there are many server farms, and they can’t all go offline, can they? Here we get back to availability. All some business types know about cloud computing is they should demand “five nines” availability — i.e., access to data, applications, etc. 99.999 percent of the time. This works out to downtime of about five minutes per year. It’s possible to achieve this, or anyway get close. Amazon
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go offline for four hours. That same year, Rackspace had to issue customers around $3 million in service credits after a power outage took down its Dallas data center. In June 2012 a storm disrupted an Amazon data center in Virginia, knocking out Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest and other sites for hours. In these cases data wasn’t destroyed, just rendered temporarily inaccessible. But if all the data instances are in the same region, which is what many Amazon cloud customers wind up buying, they’re theoretically vulnerable to largescale natural disasters and, yes, even sunspots and electromagnetic pulse. Other perils lurk. Since cloud computing is multi-tenant, there’s a nonzero chance somebody pulling down her data could get yours accidentally. You’ve got non-cloudspecific hazards such as hacking and internet slowdowns. Or, commonly, an IT jamoke misconfigures something and … oops. Am I warning you off the cloud? No, just trying to demystify it. Whatever the risk, the cloud is the only practical
Web Services, currently the leading provider of cloud computing, offers a service level agreement (SLA) essentially guaranteeing that your data will survive any catastrophe short of the end of the world. That means installing redundant instances of said data and related services on server farms around the globe, with 24-7 monitoring to spin up a new stack and copy everything over automatically if an old server starts to wobble. But five nines is expensive, and, for most businesses, unnecessary. A cheaper option is 99.9 percent availability, in which redundant virtual servers are implemented on (say) three data centers scattered around Virginia. This is riskier. In June 2009, lightning caused Amazon’s cloud computing service to
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Getting to the Point This statement was intriguing, but I had to clear up the ambiguity. “Do you mean this particular woman, or any woman?” “The latter,” he replied. “It’s been a long five years.” “I guess maybe,” I said, chuckling. “That is one California-worthy drought. What’s been the problem? You seem like an attractive enough guy.” In lieu of responding immediately, the man took an audible breath, giving himself a moment to calibrate, I imagined, just how revealing he wanted to get with this random taxi driver. Decision made, he plunged ahead. Traveling 35 miles an hour down Shelburne Road at midnight is, after all, the perfect setting for reviewing your life with a friendly stranger. “Everything for me has changed 180 degrees over the last few years,” he began. “In 2007, I sold my software company, which left me with a ton of money but no clear direction in life. A few drifty years went by before I was recruited by a national media organization to run their online advertising.” He then mentioned the prestigious newspaper at the core of this company, which impressed me mightily. “Wow, that sounds like a major undertaking. Did you have any background in journalism?” “Nope, strictly the nerdy digital world. And that’s the thing — I don’t think I really fathomed the forces that were rocking the newspaper world at that time. In the two years I spent there, I never faced such a relentless level of stress. I started having a physical reaction, severe stomach pains and the like. I spent way too much time at the doctor’s
getting tests, and here’s what he told me: ‘Either you quit this job or you’re gonna die.’ Maybe it wasn’t exactly that, but that was the gist.” “That’s got to be a sobering message to hear from your doctor,” I said. “So you heeded his warning?” “I did. I quit, sold my condo and chose Vermont as the place to recover my life.”
Traveling 35 miles an hour down shelburne road aT midnighT is the perfect setting for reviewing your life with a friendly stranger. “Amen, brother,” I said in empathy. “I’ve been recovering my life here for 35 years. So what are you doing? I mean for work, or — I don’t know — hobby?” “Absolutely nothing,” he replied. “I’m a bum.” “I see,” I said, chuckling at the selfmocking sentiment. Yup, I thought, a bum living on Shelburne Point, surely one of the most exclusive real estate zones in the entire state. I’m sure he spends quality time around the campfire with his fellow hobos, trading tales of the road. Maybe right at the shipyard in the wee hours, when the rest of the neighbors are asleep in their beds. We passed the Automaster, which got me thinking about the Harbor Hideaway, that weird, spooky old restaurant and bar that was razed a few years ago to make
room for the dealership’s expansion. The place had already closed when I moved here in the late ’70s, yet somehow it stood empty for decades afterward. I miss it, a throwback to the town’s roughand-tumble bygone days, before things became prettified and, worse, homogenized courtesy of your Olive Gardens and Gaps. Man, I thought, I’ll never be a Zen monk with that bad attitude. I’m far too clingy and attached. Oh, well — I never really had the aspiration, anyway. We took the sloping right onto Bay Road and, reaching the T at Shelburne Farms, took another right out toward the Point. I could understand why this man chose to relocate to this beautiful and lonely peninsula. Sure, it’s tony, but if you have the means, why not? After a couple of miles, my customer directed me on a few turns, and quickly we came on his lakefront property, as gorgeous as you would imagine. “You know what I like about it up here?” he asked. “The stillness. I need it — crave it, to tell the truth.” The fare was twenty-some dollars, and he peeled off three twenties and passed them over the seat. We nodded at each other, and I gave him one of my business cards. I have no problem with the 1 percenters, so long as they’re willing to share. m All these stories are true, though names and locations may be altered to protect privacy.
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ablo Picasso’s 1907 painting “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” is considered one of the most revolutionary artworks of the 20th century. So radical was it that some critics accused the Spanish artist of having gone crazy or staged “an audacious hoax.” For Picasso himself, the work that ushered in cubism was also a fierce rebuke to the past: He described it as his “first exorcism painting.” Now the University of Vermont’s Fleming Museum of Art is showing an original exhibit about that piece called “Staring Back: The Creation and Legacy of Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon.” And it could be called Janie Cohen’s first exorcism exhibit. With “Staring Back,” the Fleming’s longtime director and internationally acclaimed Picasso scholar appears to have worked out a few demons of her own. The show, which Cohen curated, explores some of the more exploitative and racist influences on Picasso’s proto-cubist masterpiece. Though “Demoiselles” may be Picasso’s most analyzed and documented work, Cohen still manages to break new scholarly ground. Notably, she reveals how the highly stylized configuration of the five prostitutes portrayed in the painting has its roots in late 19th- and early 20th-century colonial photography from Africa. Such “anthropometric” photographs, Cohen explains, were ostensibly created for “scientific purposes” to compare the physiological characteristics of native Africans, but they eventually became a form of “ethnopornography.” Cohen contends that Picasso couldn’t help but have seen such images, which were widely circulated throughout Europe at the time, and that he incorporated them into “Demoiselles.” She explores this and other aspects of Picasso’s painting in a fittingly groundbreaking manner. Using innovative technologies — soundscapes, video projections, augmented reality and other interactive components — Cohen brings gallery visitors right into the artist’s world in a way never previously attempted at the Fleming. “I really saw this as an opportunity to just go for it,” she says of the show’s hightech elements. “It was a little bit of a risk, but the response has been really good.”
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show, renowned rock musician Lou Reed performed at UVM’s Ira Allen Chapel. “Janie can take her depth of knowledge and put it in a modern context like few people can,” says Jager. “She brings art down to earth.” Some of Cohen’s biggest efforts are unknown to the public. She has long held leadership roles in regional and national museum associations and will soon take over as president of the New England Museum Association. “She’s one of those people who, when she says something at a board meeting, people pay really close attention,” says Susan Funk, current president of NEMA and executive vice president of Connecticut’s Mystic Seaport Museum. “It’s always thoughtful and insightful and thinking much more broadly than any single genre of museum. She’s really committed to the field as a whole.”
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he Fleming, like any universitybased art museum, must serve dual and at times contradictory roles. On the one hand, it must be encyclopedic in its scope to provide the necessary teaching tools for the academic departments that access its collection. The museum’s holdings number about 25,000 objects —
The Fleming’s small staff of 10 accomplishes a lot in a relatively compact space. “I’ve always admired what the Fleming has been able to do with its collection,” says Richard Saunders, director of the Middlebury College Museum of Art. “Janie has a richer quiver of arrows from which to draw, and I think she’s been very nimble at that.” Phelan Fretz agrees. As executive director of Burlington’s ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Fretz appreciates the challenges that Cohen faces running an academic institution that’s also a community art museum. “Janie has been very successful at walking that fine line between public fanfare for an exhibit and the scholarship,” Fretz says. “She always seems to be able to find that rich space where the press goes, ‘Hmm, this is interesting!’ For me, that’s a real skill in a director.” Cohen’s “Staring Back” exhibition deftly navigates that fine line. Its visitors are “introduced” to Picasso by an audio soundscape created by Jenn Karson, a local sound artist and lecturer in UVM’s College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. A 1907 phonograph horn reproduces ambient street sounds of Paris’
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ranging from a sixth-century BC Egyptian mummy to paintings, sculptures and photographs created in the past few years — only 3 to 5 percent of which are on display at any given time. At the same time, the Fleming must also have a broader community appeal — in part, Cohen acknowledges, to keep attracting the 20,000 visitors who walk through its doors each year and who contribute to the museum’s $1.5 million budget. Though the university supplies part of that sum, Cohen spends about a third of her time fundraising, she says. The Fleming stands out in that, unlike many other university museums, it charges a modest admission.
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Montmartre neighborhood, where Picasso had a studio at that time. Another soundscape recreates Picasso’s studio-residence at Le Bateau-Lavoir, where he first unveiled the controversial “Demoiselles” — and then kept it under wraps for years. Visitors can gaze at Picasso’s painting — or, more accurately, at a to-scale projection of it created by Champlain College assistant professor Coberlin Brownell, alongside a time-lapse video of the room where it was painted. Gallerygoers can also hear the reactions of Picasso’s friends and contemporaries, conveyed via recorded readings by local performers. Those reactions indicate just how much “Les Demoiselles” rocked the art world. Various critics called the painting “frightful,” “grotesque,” “hideous,” “an outrage” and “like drinking kerosene in order to spit fire.” “Staring Back” also incorporates augmented reality in the form of iPads displaying all 800 studies, or preparatory sketches, that Picasso created over a sixmonth period before he finally painted “Demoiselles.” Because those studies are all in storage at Musée Picasso in Paris and
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they don’t like working for her but because they get hired away by major museums that can pay them more. Among those Fleming veterans is Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, now curator of collections and exhibitions at Ohio’s Dayton Art Institute, who worked at the museum from 2008 until 2012. She describes Cohen as “a supportive supervisor and charismatic director.” “Her mind is constantly working to connect things and form ideas around art in all its guises,” DeGalan writes via email. “It really served as a driver for me to expand my thinking, and I am forever grateful for that experience.” Fleming board president J. Brooks Buxton, an avid art collector who lives in Jericho, says he continues to be impressed by Cohen’s choice of exhibits, especially those of world-renowned masters. “Under Janie’s leadership, she has returned the focus of the museum to its role as a teaching museum as well as a fine-art museum,” Buxton says. “Whether I’m in major galleries or museums, the Fleming is now known. Janie has definitely raised its profile with her very intellectual and demanding ‘New York’ standards.” Cohen has chosen diverse and eclectic exhibits over the years, ranging from shows on Rembrandt, Picasso and Goya to more au courant installations — such as last year’s “Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art.” But the exhibits are never designed to appeal exclusively to art students, academics or art-world elites. “Very easily the Fleming could be a fairly conservative university museum. Janie makes it anything but that,” suggests Burlington designer Michael Jager, formerly of Jager Di Paola Kemp Design and now a principal of Solidarity of Unbridled Labour. In 2003, Jager worked closely with Cohen on an exhibit of works by pop artist Andy Warhol titled “Andy Warhol Work & Play.” In conjunction with the
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hose in the art and museum world who know the Fleming, and its director, are not at all surprised by the exhibit’s approach or its academic rigor. “Staring Back” is based in part on a scholarly article that Cohen has been writing on and off for five years, after having ruminated on the topic for nearly two decades. The result was finally published in March in the academic journal Photography and Culture. “I don’t know if everybody could sit down and study one painting for five years. That’s a little obsessive,” Cohen admits with a laugh. But her obsessions are paying off. The veteran museum director and art historian has earned a reputation for bringing UVM creative and exciting exhibits that are at once popular, scholarly and relevant to diverse audiences. Their topics have ranged widely — from eugenics in Vermont to Andy Warhol to contemporary Tibetan art. Cohen, 58, is thin and birdlike, with dark, deep-set eyes like an owl’s. Unlike that nocturnal creature, she is warm and gregarious, and seems to relish educating museum visitors about art history without coming across as pedantic or bookish. By now, Cohen’s reputation could have landed her jobs at much higher-level art institutions. She has chosen to stay at the Fleming far longer than universitybased museum leaders typically do, and the UVM and Burlington community has reaped the benefits. Cohen’s 23-year tenure — first as chief curator beginning in 1991, then as director since 2002 — has brought the Fleming national acclaim, not just among its academic peers but among larger and better-known institutions. One marker of that reputation is the number of artists, curators and art historians who’ve worked and studied at the Fleming and then moved on to more prestigious positions. In fact, Cohen has struggled to keep curators, not because
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curator and museum director. As a child, she would find items on the ground, gather them and store them in a drawer in her bedroom. Later, she would arrange them in displays according to their size, color and theme. “It was the heart of curating,” she says, “which has been with me for a long time.” Cohen’s family home was filled with artworks, some of which her parents acquired through a club that sent them new prints each year. “I still remember them. They’re seared into my brain,” she says. Years later, after she’d studied art history in
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ohen’s long gaze into “Demoiselles” began at least 18 years ago when she saw a historical photograph of six halfnaked Eritrean prostitutes, taken in 1885 by an Italian photographer. While the photo had no apparent connection to Picasso, its artificial and seemingly forced poses instantly tripped Cohen’s radar as something she recognized from his art. The sepia-toned image would haunt her thoughts for years. “I see patterns in things. It’s both a blessing and a curse,” she explains. “Picasso himself worked that way. It was such an important part of his creative process.” And Cohen’s. She grew up in Madison, the daughter of Jewish academics at the University of Wisconsin. There, her mother worked as an academic adviser; her father taught political science and later became the school’s acting chancellor. Many of the family’s friends were artists. Cohen recalls an activity from her youth that foreshadowed her career as a
depth, Cohen remembers walking through her parents’ house with her acquired professional perspective on the art. “I just remember thinking, This is really fabulous work.” The first artwork that moved Cohen to study it closely was Henri Rousseau’s “The Sleeping Gypsy” (1897), which she wrote about for a high school French class. Coincidentally, Rousseau’s painting hangs in MoMA near Picasso’s “Demoiselles.” Cohen attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, then earned her master’s degree at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, not far from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her passion for museums had already
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ne of Cohen’s earliest shows at the Fleming is seared into the minds of many Vermonters — and, for her, eerily linked to the “Staring Back” exhibit. In 1994, Cohen saw a show in the gallery of UVM’s Living/Learning Center titled “Robert MacKintosh: The Responsibilities of Disappearance.” As its creator, Michael Oatman, explains in a recent email, the exhibit presented itself as a retrospective of the career of a former professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, an artist who had predicted every major movement of the 20th century. “What most viewers didn’t know was that MacKintosh was a fictional figure and that producing his artwork was an excuse for me to paint like many artists I admired,” reveals Oatman, now an assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. Cohen saw his Living/ Learning show and got the gag. She invited Oatman, who was then newly out of graduate school and teaching in UVM’s art department, to curate a show about Henry Perkins at the Fleming Museum. Perkins had been a UVM professor of zoology, curator of the Fleming from 1931 to 1945, and director of the Eugenics Survey of Vermont. In the mid-1990s, Vermont’s role in the national eugenics movement of the early 20th century was still largely forgotten, unexplored by state historians aside from an article by Kevin Dann in the journal Vermont History. Oatman remembers Cohen giving him free rein. Day and night, he pored over the museum’s permanent collection looking for artifacts to re-create Perkins’ sitting room, study and laboratory. He discovered test tubes, slides from anthropology classes and materials created by the eugenics survey, which Perkins had presented at a national eugenics conference in 1934. “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” The exhibit, titled “Long by Pablo Picasso Shadows: Henry Perkins and the Eugenics Survey of Vermont,” opened in the fall of 1995 to considfound herself yearning for a community erable press coverage. It had a profound and a permanent collection from which to impact on many who saw it. The exhibit draw. Not surprisingly, she was drawn to a proved especially poignant and powerful university setting and the “brain trust” it to members of the Abenaki community, many of whom had waited decades for provided. Though Cohen had never previously someone to shine a light on this dark and considered living in Vermont, when the disturbing chapter of Vermont’s history. Jeff Benay, current director of Indian curator’s job opened up at the Fleming in 1991, she jumped at the opportunity. She Education Program for Franklin County moved to Vermont with her then-husband and the former longtime chair of the and immediately fell in love with the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs, vividly recalls walking through landscape. “I had no idea that the physical beauty the exhibit for the first time. In particular, of a place would become so important to he remembers seeing the blackboard in me,” Cohen says. “Obviously, I’m visually Perkins’ laboratory that listed the criteria oriented. Vermont is exquisite on a very the professor used to select candidates human scale and in a very comforting way.” for sexual sterilization. Perkins had
been born in Chicago — not, as one might assume, at the city’s Art Institute but at the Museum of Science and Industry, where her parents brought her as a child. Cohen’s interest only intensified after she landed internships at the Brooklyn Museum in New York and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. She directed the traveling exhibitions program of the New England Foundation for the Arts — then, in the late 1980s, became a freelance curator. Though Cohen looks back on her freelance work as an exciting phase — “You fly in, do a show, then fly out,” she says — she
determined they’d come from “degenerate images, most of which are believed to have families” with “bad heredity.” been taken by European men under coBenay also recalls seeing letters that ercive or exploitative circumstances. She Perkins had received and saved, includ- spent hours at the Met examining them. ing one from Vermont’s poet laureate at The historical record, Cohen discovered, the time, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and offers virtually no information about the another from Margaret Sanger, founder of subjects — nearly all of them women — or Planned Parenthood. how they were chosen or directed by the “The last, of course, was from Adolf photographers. Hitler,” Benay says. “The Fleming While Cohen acknowledges the risk inMuseum took a real chance doing this [ex- volved in trying to read emotions into hishibit]. It was certainly controversial and torical photographs, after viewing dozens risky, but brilliantly done.” of these, she noticed the same expressions “The comments in the guest book were over and over again: embarrassment, disincredibly gratifying,” Cohen remembers. comfort, defiance and anger. “One I will never forget “Looking at them was by a member of the was very disturbing,” she Abenaki community says. “I felt, in a way, that that essentially said, ‘We writing about them from changed our names, we an academic perspective went underground and couldn’t help but perpetuwaited for this day, for ate the objectification of this history to be put in those very photographs … the record.’” [that] I’m not doing any“Long Shadows” thing but reusing them in did much to spark a ways that they’ve always resurgence of historibeen used.” cal study of Vermont’s In 2012, Cohen spent eugenics movement. the annual Artists Week Nancy L. Gallagher’s at the Vermont Studio definitive work on the Center in Johnson. By subject, Breeding Better then, she says, she needed Vermonters: The Eugenics to stop looking at the Project in the Green images and begin engagMountain State, came out ing with her feelings about four years later. them. She checked into Oatman has gone on her room and started writto have a successful art ing almost immediately. career. He remembers During that stay, Cohen the Perkins exhibit as his produced two works of fic“most important early tion, which she included show,” and calls Cohen in the “Staring Back” cata“one of my art-world log. One piece imagines heroes.” what Picasso might have “As an artist, one wants experienced the first time to find a broad audience he saw the anthropometmIchAEl JAgEr for the work, but if you’re ric photos. The second, really lucky, you find a few and arguably more powercolleagues that you return to over and over ful, story is written from the perspective of again,” Oatman says. “I can’t wait for the one of the Eritrean prostitutes. next opportunity to work with my friend “I’m aware that as a white, Jewish Janie Cohen, because she totally rocks.” Vermonter, it’s a somewhat presumptuThough two decades separate the ous thing to write from the first-person “Long Shadows” and “Staring Back” perspective of a 19th-century Eritrean exhibits, Cohen sees parallels between woman,” Cohen admits. “But I’m willing the two. Both take long, hard looks at to take that risk. racist and exploitative practices against She adds, “I will never look at a historiindigenous peoples, and both those prac- cal photograph the same way again.” tices were perpetrated under the guise of Nor, it’s fair to say, will anyone who science. sees “Staring Back” ever look at Picasso’s In a sense, Cohen has come full circle “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” the same with the current exhibit. She’s finally put way again. m to rest the troubling image that stuck with her for so many years — one that, as she Contact: ken@sevendaysvt.com points out, helped change the course of modern art forever. How did Cohen exor- INFo: cise those demons? By giving them a voice. “Staring Back: The Creation and Legacy of Three years ago, Cohen returned to the Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon,” through 19th-century photo of the Eritrean pros- June 21 at the Fleming Museum of Art, UVM, titutes and other anthropometric nude in Burlington. uvm.edu/~fleming
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yotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky lived from 1840 to 1893 and died in circumstances still murky with controversy and the taint of scandal. Burlington musician and writer Marc Estrin’s new book ventures to evoke the consciousness of Tchaikovsky’s corpse — yes, his corpse. Lying in state, it receives visits from a procession of admirers whom the deceased man’s mind describes and comments on: friends and relations, dignitaries, and quite a number of actual or would-be lovers. The most revered Russian composer of his epoch, Tchaikovsky produced orchestral and chamber music, operas, and ballets that were tremendously popular in his own country and internationally. His audience spanned a range from ordinary people to the upper echelons of the ruling class, including Czar Alexander III, who granted the composer a lifetime pension. Tchaikovsky was even beloved by the church, having created a choral setting of the Russian Orthodox liturgy. And yet, during his life and since, the composer’s integrity has been disparaged by never-ending assertions that he lived a secret life of debauchery and deceit. Tchaikovsky’s music is, of course, still widely known and among the best loved of the classical canon. As a musician himself, as well as author of 10 previous novels, Estrin was no doubt captivated
by the challenge of embodying a great composer’s sensibility. Moreover, as he explains in the accompanying Notes (which take up more than a quarter of this book’s pages), Estrin was fascinated by the drama of a contentious death story. Theories about Tchaikovsky’s death have proliferated for more than a century. Some say he died from cholera, infected accidentally by drinking unboiled water during an epidemic; others believe that he drank that tainted water on purpose to commit suicide; or that he committed suicide (or was murdered) by arsenic poisoning, which has similar symptoms to cholera. Proponents of the suicide story argue that Tchaikovsky acted from despair
over his conflicted, lustful feelings for his nephew, “Bob”; or that his suicide (or murder) was demanded by a tribunal or “court of honor” determined to halt disreputable homosexual adventuring by such an esteemed figure. Some suicide-murder advocates claim that the composer died by direct order of the czar. Finally, the most controversial — and maybe also most likely — theory contends that Tchaikovsky died from cholera via fecal-oral infection owing to unsafe sexual practices. As Estrin asks in his authorial Notes, “So — cholera, with or without a fatal glass of water? Or suicide, ordered or self-imposed as a way out of emotional/ social impossibilities?” He continues:
From And Kings Shall Be Thy Nursing Fathers How valuable music is, how essential for checking our mad impulses. It’s God’s way of beating in on man, mysterium tremendum unfathomable. Unfathomably obvious. See deeply enough and what you see is music. What most people love is hardly music, only a kind of sleepy reverie relieved now and then by nervous thrills. It’s so hard to make anyone see and feel in music what I do. Music is not just sound — it’s feeling. The value of daylight may be great, but daylight truths have no depth, no perspective. No deaths needed in order to reach them. The hold music has on us is completely mysterious, disrupted by light. Light darkens music. The sign I love a piece of music, that it addresses itself to me, is the need I have when I hear it to get rid of light, turn down the gas, blow out the candles, even if it’s night. And if it’s day, I want to listen as if in a tomb. But the mystery music shows us is not of death, it’s more of the inexplicability of life, of freedom, of love. The mystery is not “what cannot be spoken of,” the untellable, but rather the ineffable. Death is untellable because it’s impenetrable, because an unbreachable wall bars us from its mystery.
“Because I am interested in false ‘official stories’ — from JFK and 9/11 to Tchaikovsky — I decided to solve the problem. What chutzpah! I — from the sticks of Burlington VT, with only English, French, German and a little Russian — would write a medical mystery, have the detective solve the problem, and voilà, case solved. Next.” Undoubtedly, Tchaikovsky’s demise offers an interesting situation, rich with storytelling potential. What has Estrin made of the opportunity? A decidedly odd contraption. Although (perhaps a little defensively) the author refers to his book as a “poem,” readers are unlikely to experience the narrative that way. Instead, let’s call And Kings Shall Be Thy Nursing Fathers a novella. Akin in some respects to Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground, Estrin’s text is a circling oration, obsessive and claustrophobic, mostly in present tense, with periodic slides into recollection. Swatches of musical scores are reproduced on the page, presumably legible and significant to a musically literate reader, but just graphic decorations to others, including this reviewer. And Kings… functions less like a fully fleshed literary fiction than like a script; quite possibly the piece would be more effective if we could hear it spoken aloud by an actor instead of perusing it on the page. Likewise, the limitations of the
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Books Mozart excepted) sounds more petty than revealing. Perhaps most repellent of all (because positioned as the writer’s most “daring” enactment) are the deceased composer’s reveries about his long habit of “cruising the docks.” These often-squalid misadventures with male lovers aren’t moving and illuminating, but melodramatic — sentimentalized depravity: It’s almost as if from my bright civilized world a portal leads to another world where everything is seething, passionate, sweaty, naked. And between people with lives in well-lit spaces and the others, the derelicts, the debauched and filthy, there is always some bridge. Not only that, the frontiers between those lives can be crossed at any moment, and things can become bizarre and queer.
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ere’s an interesting factoid about the Pixies. The band reunited in 2004, following an 11-year hiatus, and has been active ever since. That means that the Pixies, who formed in Boston in
1986 and broke up in 1993, have now been back together longer than they were initially a band. What does that mean? We’re not sure, exactly. But given that the band didn’t release any new material until
2013’s EP1, it might speak to the Pixies’ incalculable influence that they were able to tour for so long solely on their iconic back catalog. The band’s aggressive fusion of hard rock, psychedelia and surf was groundbreaking in its time and influenced bands from Nirvana to Weezer to Radiohead. They remain a cornerstone of modern alt and indie rock. Last year, the Pixies released Indie Cindy, their first full-length recording since 1991’s Trompe le Monde. It was a collection of the band’s 2012-2014 extended play releases, EP1, EP2 and EP3. Indie Cindy was also the first Pixies album without original bassist Kim Deal, who left the band in 2013. In advance of the band’s show at the Flynn MainStage in Burlington on Thursday, May 21, Seven Days spoke with Pixies drummer David Lovering. We asked him about the latest record, the band’s legacy, Deal’s departure and his own interesting side gig. (Spoiler: magic!) SEVEN DAYS: I obviously want to ask you about the Pixies. But first things first: How did you become a professional magician? DAVID LOVERING: If you had told me years ago before I became one that I’d be a magician, I would have rolled on the floor laughing. But, years ago, when the Pixies broke up and I had a lot of free time, my friend Grant-Lee Phillips, who is a fellow musician and also a magician, brought me to a magic conference in Los Angeles. I didn’t think much of it going in, but I saw a magic trick that just blew me away, and I was hooked. I couldn’t explain it. So I bought every book and video. I joined the magic council, took classes. I slept on a deck of cards. Then I started doing shows at parties and developed a stage show. SD: Which is more challenging, magic or music? DL: You’ve heard the phrase “the starving musician,” which is true. Well, I can write the phrase, “the dying magician.” It’s hard to make a good living at it. SD: But you did, at least to a degree. How did you develop your magical persona, the Scientific Phenomenalist? DL: I just did what is me, basically. I’m kind of a science geek. So it’s all physics experiments and science experiments and blurring the line between science and magic. And I did that for a number of years. I opened up for the Pixies
and the Breeders. I toured with it, opening for other bands, and brought it to Europe. But with the Pixies back together, and we’ve been so busy, and I’m also a dad of a 6- and a 3-year-old, I think the Pixies pay more of the bills. So that’s more of the priority now. But I’ll still do some tricks, close-up magic, maybe after the show backstage or at the bar. And that’s my favorite, because it’s much smarter and more personal. SD: When you’re drumming with the Pixies, you’re kind of buried back there behind the kit. But with magic, you’re the star of the show. So is the performing rush different? DL: It’s interesting. The first show we ever played as the Pixies, back in Cambridge, Mass., probably in 1985 or ’86, I was nervous. I think everyone was. It was just us and, like, 10 people, who were all our friends. But since then, after however many shows and in front of however many people, it doesn’t matter and I don’t get nervous. But when I did my first magic show, it was in front of 10 people, and I never sweated so much in my entire life. And the more I’ve done it, it’s given me a confidence. SD: The Pixies released Indie Cindy as three EPs. What was the thinking there? DL: 2011 was the seven-year mark of the Pixies reunion, which started in 2004. And we were shocked, because that was a longer run than we were a band originally. It was also a kick in the pants that we should do something new. So we started discussing an EP, maybe four songs, which we tried to record secretly. But after a year we had a whole album. So we thought, Let’s try to surprise people and just release a few songs here and there. So we released EP1, which doesn’t suggest anything. Then EP2 comes, then EP3. It was funny, because I just figured Indie Cindy would be EP4. SD: Was it surreal to be in the studio together after so long? DL: It was like nothing had changed. The only difference was the medium, going from analog to digital. The work itself was different, more convenient and faster. Other than that, it was four of us in a studio again, like nothing had changed. SD: You were the one who suggested the band could go on without Kim Deal. Was that a difficult decision to make? DL: We had recorded about five songs when Kim left the band. And all we
could really do was go into a state of shock and wish her well. There was nothing else to say. It was a tough day or day and a half where we just didn’t know what to do. We just were going to call it quits. But we agreed to continue on and finish it, and we did. SD: You write a lot of the set lists for Pixies shows. Are you conscious of finding a balance between playing the new stuff and still giving fans the older stuff you know they want to hear? DL: We have about a 70-song master list that we can play live. We can’t play all of them great live, but we’ve got a mess of songs. [Laughs.] You obviously know what songs the fans want to hear. And I also know you can’t just jam the new stuff down their throats. So the idea is to create a flow between new songs and older songs where no one feels shortchanged.
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SD: So I went through your Wikipedia page and found a couple of things that struck me as kind of funny and/ or maybe not true. The first was that “make Believe,” the “Velouria” B-side on which you sang lead vocals, was about your obsession with Debbie Gibson. true or false? DL: True! I actually got a note from Debbie Gibson about it fairly recently, in fact. SD: Well played, Wikipedia. The other one was that you turned down an invitation to join the Foo Fighters. true or false? DL: That one’s a little mixed up. I think I was in the running, but I don’t think we actually met or talked. I think Dave [Grohl] was interested, but that’s all I can really remember about it. SD: Last question: Why does the Pixies material have such staying power? DL: The only explanation I can give is that I just think the songs are good. It’s hard for me to judge if they stand up, playing them night and day and having known them since they were born. But they seem to, and I never get tired of playing them night after night. So I guess they’re just good songs. m
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SD: charles [Black Francis] has written some pretty crazy tunes over the years. Has he ever brought anything to the band that even you guys thought was too out there? DL: Not really. Even this record, Indie Cindy, there was a lot of trepidation because a lot of people were going to judge it. It was the first record we’ve done in a long time, so we knew we had to set the songs ourselves and be
SD: Indie Cindy was the first Pixies album released in the internet era, when feedback is immediate and not always pleasant. Did some of your trepidation stem from how shitty a place the internet can be? DL: A little bit, I think. But we were able to do the record ourselves, which was entirely because of the internet. I think we’re learning to use the internet as a tool ourselves, like everyone else.
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tephanie Seguino’s exhibition of large-scale color photographs, on view at the Flynndog in Burlington, would be visually powerful even if it weren’t so painfully relevant. For “Radical Empathy,” she has used her camera like a pickax: to chip away at white Americans’ stereotypes of black men. And she has undertaken that task at a time when hostile and fear-laden preconceptions have repeatedly proved lethal — most recently in Baltimore, Md., and before that in Cleveland, Ohio; Ferguson, Mo.; Staten Island, N.Y.; and North Charleston, S.C. Seguino’s show was inspired, she explains, by the racial discrimination that her dark-skinned son, Dante, experienced growing up in Burlington. She says she felt an increasingly urgent need to address that theme through her medium following the 2012 shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida — one of a series of high-profile killings of unarmed African American males, most of them by police. Dante, now a 22-year-old hip-hop musician, is presented in the show as a sweet-faced young teen with the first few wisps of hair visible above his upper lip. Some of Seguino’s other subjects appear equally soulful and gentle. Khalil, for instance, looks out at us almost mournfully, his eyes seeming to ask for the very empathy Seguino calls for in her show’s title. Nearby is her portrait of Ali, who looks Vermont-y in his autumnalcolored sweater — and thoughtful, with a thumb and forefinger cradling his chin. Onlookers who see Khalil and Ali as types rather than as individuals may well have sharply different impressions of these black men. Seguino emphasizes that divergence by contrasting the frontal shots with ones taken from behind. In one of the latter, Ali sits slouched to the side in a shiny jacket, one eye peering back at the camera. All we see of Khalil in his faceless portrait is a crimson “Coke” baseball cap worn in reverse and a chain dangling down his back. Many viewers will form preconceptions of these two — until, farther along the Flynndog’s wall, they encounter Khalil and Ali head-on. “People who succumb to stereotyping have very little experience of black men,” observes Seguino, who is white.
“It’s a manifestation of an unequal system that has pathologized perceptions of black men.” The contrast between summary judgments and actual character forms the core of “Radical Empathy.” The title is meant as an appeal for understanding of black men’s lives, Seguino says. Achieving such awareness amounts to a radical act, she adds, in that “empathy toward black men is the exception, not the norm.” The photographer’s tactic is effective, but her point would register more sharply if each man’s facial image were paired with the respective rear view. As it is, the portraits of about a dozen
local African Americans — with roughly equal numbers of frontal and rear shots — aren’t grouped sequentially. Not every subject is represented by corresponding shots of his face and his back. Visitors have to track back and forth along the gallery’s hallway to figure out who’s who. Although each photo is labeled with only a first name, some viewers will be able to identify well-known figures. “Kyle,” for example, is Kyle Dodson, a Burlington school board member and director of Champlain College’s Center for Service & Civic Engagement. “Reuben” is Reuben Jackson, host of the Friday-night jazz program on Vermont
from the University of Maine at age 27. By then she had become involved in photography — so much so, Seguino relates in an interview at Flynndog, that she waited until the last minute to decide whether to apply for a master’s program in economics or in fine arts. “I’ve always had this thing about operating from both sides of my brain,” she says. Seguino chose economics and eventually acquired a PhD from American University in Washington, D.C., in part because “photography alone didn’t satisfy the intellectual side of me,” she explains. Settling on a discipline didn’t mean settling down, however. Seguino has
Public Radio. A few of the other men will be familiar to students and staff at the University of Vermont, where they teach or study. Seguino herself has been a member of UVM’s economics faculty for 20 years. Her work in that capacity focuses on issues of inequality and poverty. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Maine, Seguino came relatively late to her academic career. She was a college dropout who lived in Italy for several years before earning a bachelor’s degree
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INAUGURAL VERMONT BEER WEEK COMING IN SEPTEMBER
A few months ago, BETHANY BAKER and ERIC LUSSIER were flipping through an index of beer events at a bottle-share get-together. “I didn’t really realize what that index was for,” Baker says. “But I noticed that Vermont was
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NORTH END STUDIOS HOSTS BENEFIT DINNER FOR NEPALI EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS
Burlington is home to more than its fair share of Himalayan food. In the past few months, YANGSER DORJEE’S
for people in the disaster zone. Founded by NURBU SHERPA and several members of his family in October 2014, Sherpa Foods has been quietly turning out momos (Nepali dumplings), stews and other prepared snacks for area retail stores including CITY MARKET/ONION RIVER
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have joined SHERPA KITCHEN in bringing high-altitude Asian flavor to Burlington. Every one of those businesses owners felt the impact of the earthquake that hit Nepal in late April. And this weekend, another local business, SHERPA FOODS in the Old North End, is hosting a benefit dinner to raise money
panied by information on the region and a brief video on the earthquake — nothing graphic, Sherpa promises. “We have a lot of cousins, uncles and relatives in Kathmandu and in the Khumbu region,” Sherpa says. “The first couple of days were really tough. There were no phone lines,
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not listed.” The flyer was a list of local beer weeks — weeklong or 10-day series of beer-centric events, as distinct from festivals. At that moment, it occurred to them that Vermont — which boasts the nation’s largest number of breweries per capita — had nothing of the sort. “Around the country, there are more than 70 local beer weeks,” Baker says. “Realizing that Vermont doesn’t have one yet was kind of a crazy thing.” Baker and Lussier are leading the charge at MEASURED METHODS, a new Burlington-based marketing and branding agency specializing in craft-beer promotion and events. This fall, Measured Methods will team up with the local brewing community and the Vermont Department of Tourism & Marketing to present the first annual VERMONT BEER WEEK. The nineday celebration will take
place September 18 to 27 in various locations statewide. “This is not just breweries,” Baker says. “This’ll be hotels, bars, restaurants, events.” Though Baker and Lussier are heading up the large-scale organizing and marketing of the week, they’re allowing participating establishments to choose their own format — the more creative the better, Baker says. The organizers hesitate to mention specific events, but say they envision meet-the-brewer gettogethers, behind-thescenes brewery tours, talks and plenty of tasting events. They also hope the week will inspire special brews and collaborations, but the format is “very open for interpretation,” Baker says. Lussier says he’d “like to provide a unique opportunity for people to try some unique beers that they’ll never be able to have again.” “But that’s really up to [the brewers],” Baker adds. By happy coincidence, EAT BY NORTHEAST’s second annual Brewhaha, the inaugural Oktoberfest Vermont and SIPtemberfest are all scheduled to take place during the same time frame. “September is looking like it’ll have a lot of big mainstream events [already],” Baker says. Measured Methods has 10 to 15 of Vermont’s 43 (and counting) breweries on board, she adds. Among them are Shelburne’s FIDDLEHEAD BREWING, Burlington’s SWITCHBACK BREWING and VERMONT PUB & BREWERY, and Hinesburg’s FROST BEER WORKS. Organizers are planning events at MULE BAR in Winooski and FARMHOUSE TAP & GRILL in Burlington. “Much of our outreach has been social,” Lussier says, “but everyone we
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Dandelion Wine Ingredients:
1 1/2 gallons dandelion flowers 4 cups honey 4 cups sugar Juice of 2 lemons 1 pound golden raisins 2 gallons water 1/2 cup berries (if using natural yeast) or 1 packet white wine yeast Preparation:
Once you’ve gathered the flowers, separate the yellow petals from the base of the blossoms. Place the petals in a sterile bucket with the honey, sugar, lemon juice and raisins. Pour two gallons of boiling water over all, stirring to dissolve the sugar and honey, to form a kind of sweet dandelion tea. Cover and let cool to room temperature.
Dandelion Greens Sauté Serves 4-6
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1 tablespoon coconut oil 2 cloves garlic, sliced into spears 1 big bunch greens, picked through, washed and cut into four-inch pieces 2 tablespoons tamari 1 tablespoon sweet vinegar Preparation:
Add the berries or, if using commercial yeast, remove one cup of the cooled tea and pour the yeast into it. Once it starts to bubble vigorously, add it to the tea mixture. Cover, stirring occasionally, for three to four days. Strain the liquid through a fine-mesh sieve or cheesecloth, wringing as much liquid as you can from the petals and fruits into a carboy or sterile bucket or jug. Seal with an airlock (available at homebrew supply shops), and ferment for about three months, until fermentation slows. Siphon into a clean vessel and ferment another six months more before bottling. When the wine is still and completely finished fermenting, transfer it into bottles. Age at least three months to mellow; the longer, the better. m Contact: hannah@sevendaysvt.com
In a large skillet, melt oil over medium heat until it shimmers. Add the garlic and sauté until fragrant. Add the washed, cut greens. Douse with tamari and sweet vinegar (plum vinegar is a nice option and widely available in the Asian section of most supermarkets), and sauté, stirring often, until the greens are wilted and begin to soften, about five minutes.
Eating Green For those who enjoy bitter greens — kale, collards, frisée, mustard, chicory — the dandelion represents a frugal substitute. Use its leaves in salads, stir-fries or pesto, anything calling for something coarse and green. But these babies are definitely best when unceremoniously sautéed as a simple side dish. The unopened buds — plucked prior to bloom — are tender, sweet and mildly floral. They are wonderful alone or served over noodles in a light consommé. Same goes for the greens, but these pack a forceful, bitter bite. If you want to try dandelions but don’t love bitter, add a shot of sweetness to temper them. You can also mix them with more agreeable leaves, such as chard, kale or spinach, or add a splash of dairy for something resembling a cranky creamed spinach. (If using dairy, cut the vinegar by half and don’t use lemon.) Likewise, zealous fans of gratin can use the greens as a base for a creamy casserole, substituting the dandies for spinach or chard and topping with bread crumbs. For beginners, here’s a basic recipe, with suggestions for a few easy, low-maintenance additions.
Variations and additions:
At the garlic stage, try adding: 1/2 teaspoon fresh ginger, grated, or 1/2 cup onion, shallot or ramps, diced When adding greens to the pan, throw in: a handful of chard, beet or radish greens, kale, collards, cabbage, arugula, or spinach. (If using a tender green such as arugula or spinach, sauté dandelions alone for two or three minutes, then add the others, as they’ll cook much faster.) With the tamari and vinegar, add: 2 tablespoons lemon juice, apple juice or cider, or 1/2 teaspoon toasted sesame oil At the very end, toss with: 1/4 cup fresh marigold petals, or 1/2 teaspoon chile flakes, or 1/4 cup heavy cream, kefir or buttermilk
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ndrew Burke starts whipping up a batch of ice cream the old-fashioned way — with dozens of egg yolks, gallons of milk and a kilo of sugar to make a sweet base. From there, he diverges. Cocoa is roasted with a blowtorch into charred chocolate bitterness. Citrusy lime melds with peanut butter in a Thai-inspired frozen yogurt. Bunches of parsley bring a white chocolate tinged with tart raspberry down to earth. Burke — who opened Scout & Co. coffee and ice cream shop on North Avenue in Burlington’s Old North End in April 2014 and its sister shop in Winooski earlier this year — builds each batch of ice cream from scratch. Most of his organic, natural ingredients come from nearby. One might call Burke a local heir to the legacy of Ben & Jerry’s, which arguably invented the strange-flavor phenomenon with its now-ubiquitous Phish Food and Chubby Hubby. But Burke’s form of ice cream innovation is thoroughly modern, embracing the tenets of fine dining while applying them to lighter fare. “Ice cream is something I care a lot about,” Burke says. “It’s a fun way of working with flavors.” Applied to savory cooking, he suggests, the same approach “becomes entirely too serious and pretentious.” The flavors in Scout’s freezer case — ranging from Apple, Miso & Seeds to Smoked Maple & Sea Salt — aren’t just indulgences for an unconventional imagination, Burke says: “It’s not weird for the sake of weird.” A nd re w A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in upstate New York and holder of a bachelor’s degree in hotel administration from Cornell University, Burke considers himself as much an ice cream craftsman as a chef, akin to the state’s beer brewers and cheesemakers. He says he and partner Thomas Green, who focuses on the coffee side of the shop, aim for a culinary cohesion characteristic of
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Vermont, one that rewards customers willing to take a risk. The owners hope those eaters will experience not just a stand-alone cone but a revelation of flavor. “It’s more an act of faith than anything else,” Burke says. At the same time, Scout belongs to a national second wave of the experimental ice cream trend. Shops from Salt Bu rk e & Straw in Portland, Ore., to Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream in Brooklyn, N.Y., have gone before it in incorporating ingredients such as dandelion, blue cheese, Ceylon tea and black rice. Ben & Jerry’s, too, has toyed with spicy chocolate flavors and recently jumped on the Speculoos Cookie Butter phenomenon. But the company, owned by consumer products giant Unilever,
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must generally wait for consumer tastes to evolve, says Peter Lind, one of its chief “flavor gurus.” “I worked on some jalapeño-lime sorbet years ago that tasted great but that went straight to the graveyard,” Lind says, referring to the company’s collection of failed or played-out creations. “I’m kind of envious of these small producers, because they get to play. Sure, not everything is a hit, but when it is, it’s a lot of fun.”
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tephen Sclafani stops at Scout regularly for coffee, but today he’s sampling ice cream. He, his wife, Alexa, and their 3-year old son start with the Smoked Maple and move on to Parsley White Chocolate & Raspberry, which has an unusual, soft green hue. A grapefruit fan, Sclafani is also tempted by the GrapefruitCandied Pretzel frozen yogurt and the Beet
Marmalade & Candied Black Walnut, which has a beautiful deep-pink color swirled with white. “These flavors are so much more cerebral, if you will,” he says. The family ends up going home with two take-out cups. “That’s how good they are,” Sclafani says. Burke, 31, draws flavor inspiration from various sources, from his impressive stash of cookbooks to the host of sticky notes on his computer. When he read about a chef’s recipe for oak ice cream in the New York Times, he thought the preparation sounded well suited to vanilla. The result was Scout’s Vanilla Oak flavor, for which Burke steeps the milk in dark French oak chips. way beyond vanilla
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Offers very bright spaces with views of Hinesburg Village. 2 beds, 2 baths & fun outdoor spaces. Directions: Rte 116 to Hinesburg, left on Commerce St at the Mobile station, straight to Thistle Hill development on Thornbush Rd, left to Thistle Hill Dr. Left to Barberry Ln. #32 on right. $275,000
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This 2 bedroom townhouse boasts a wood burning fireplace and double living room sliders! Fresh paint throughout most of Condo. Private setting conveniently located off 2A between Colchester Village & Essex Jct. Small association with only 4 units. Onecar detached garage. $176,000
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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0254-5 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On April 24, 2015, CPA Partnership, P.O. Box 2184, South Burlington, VT 05407 filed application #4C0254-5 for a project generally described as the construction of 24 market rate apartments in three new buildings, including additional parking and site infrastructure. The Project is located at 635 Hinesburg Road in South Burlington, Vermont. The District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications. Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the South Burlington City Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission Office, and the office listed below. The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www.nrb.state.vt.us/ lup) by clicking on “Act 250
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May 26, 2015 at 9:00 AM at the Essex Junction District 5/11/154283-main.indd 1:36 PM 1 Office of the Agency of Natural Resources, 111 West No hearing will be held and Street, Essex Junction, a permit may be issued Vermont. If a hearing is unless, on or before May held, a site visit will occur at 22, 2015, a person notifies 8:30 AM at 635 Hinesburg the Commission of an issue Road, South Burlington, VT. or issues requiring the Should a hearing be held on presentation of evidence this Project and you have a at a hearing or the Comdisability for which you are mission sets the matter for going to need accommodahearing on its own motion. tion, please notify us by Any hearing request May 22, 2015. must be in writing to the address below, must state Parties entitled to particithe criteria or subcriteria pate are the Municipality, at issue, why a hearing the Municipal Planning is required and what adCommission, the Regional ditional evidence will be Planning Commission, presented at the hearing. affected state agencies, Any hearing request by an and adjoining property adjoining property owner owners and other persons or other interested person to the extent they have must include a petition a particularized interest for party status. Prior to that may be affected by submitting a request for a the proposed project under hearing, please contact the the 10 criteria. Non-party district coordinator at the participants may also be telephone number listed below for more information. allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5). Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 30th day of issues requiring a hearing April, 2015. have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of By: /s/Stephanie H. Law will not be prepared Monaghan unless the Commission Stephanie H. Monaghan holds a public hearing. District #4 Coordinator Natural Resources Board If you feel that any of the 111 West Street District Commission memEssex Jct., VT 05452 bers listed on the attached 802-879-5662 Certificate of Service under stephanie.monaghan@ “For Your Information” may state.vt.us have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should ACT 250 NOTICE be disqualified from sitting MINOR APPLICATION on this case, please contact #4C0388A-29 the district coordinator as 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 soon as possible, no later On May 4, 2015, DEW Blair than prior to the response Park Investments, LLC, date listed above. c/o Michael Francis, 277 Should a hearing be held on Blair Park Road, Suite 130, Williston, VT 05495 filed this Project and you have a application #4C0388A-29 disability for which you are for a project generally going to need accommodadescribed as allowing comtion, please notify us by mercial use of Lot #5; add May 22, 2015. an outdoor storage area to serve the professional If a hearing is requested, offices on Lot #4; new and is granted by the Comlandscaping on Lot #5; and mission, it will be held on construct pedestrian and Database” and entering the project number “4C0254-5”.
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vehicular access between for review at the Williston tering the project number hearing on its own motion. the two lots. The Project is Town Office, Chittenden “4C0388A-29”. Any hearing request 2:15 PM 286-whitney.indd 1 located on Blair Park Road 5/11/15 County Regional Planning must be in writing5/11/15 to the 2:09 PM in Williston, Vermont. Commission Office, and the No hearing will be held and address below, must state office listed below. The apa permit may be issued the criteria or subcriteria The District #4 Environplication and a draft permit unless, on or before May at issue, why a hearing mental Commission is may also be viewed on the 26, 2015, a person notifies is required and what adreviewing this application Natural Resources Board’s the Commission of an issue ditional evidence will be under Act 250 Rule 51 — web site (www.nrb.state. or issues requiring the presented at the hearing. Minor Applications. Copies vt.us/lup) by clicking on presentation of evidence Any hearing by an UB_StayLocal-Commercial_7Days_4.75x5.56_OUTPUT2.pdf 1 2/25/15 11:38request AM of the application and pro“Act 250 Database” and enat a hearing or the Comadjoining property owner posed permit are available mission sets the matter for or other interested person
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in Contois Auditorium, City Hall. No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued Dated at Essex Junction, 1. 15-0938SD; 380 Colunless, on or before May Vermont this 6th day of chester Ave (RL, Ward 1E) 29, 2015, a person notifies attention realtors: list your properties here for only $35(include 40 May, 2015. Nathaniel Hayward the Commission of an issue words + photo). submit to: ashley@sevendaysvt.com by Mondays at noon. Combined preliminary/ or issues requiring the By: /s/ Peter E. Keibel final plat review of 3 lot presentation of evidence Peter E. Keibel subdivision and conversion at a hearing or the ComDistrict #4 Coordinator and duplex to triplex and mission sets the matter for North Ferrisburgh | 7056 rt. 7 Natural Resources Board related site improvements. hearing on its own motion. 111 West Street Any hearing request Essex Jct., VT 05452 2. 15-0955CA; 27 Fletcher must be in writing to the 802-879-5658 Ave (I, Ward 1) Edward Von address below, must state Peter.Keibel@state.vt.us Turkovich the criteria or subcriteria Appeal of zoning permit at issue, why a hearing to change use from single is required and what adACT 250 NOTICE If you feel that any of the family residential to duplex ditional evidence will be MINOR APPLICATION District Commission memand modify two existing presented at the hearing. #4C0677-5E bers listed on the attached windows. Any hearing request by an 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 Certificate of Service under adjoining property owner On May 5, 2015, K.H., LLC, “For Your Information” may Plans may be viewed in or other interested person P.O. Box 41, Shelburne, have a conflict of interest, the Planning and Zoning must include a petition VT 05482 filed applicaor if there is any other Office, (City Hall, 149 for party status. Prior to tion #4C0677-5E for a reason a member should Church Street, Burlington), submitting a request for a project generally described be disqualified from sitting between the hours of 8:00 hearing, please contact the as the construction of on this case, please contact a.m. and 4:30 p.m. district coordinator at the 18 residential units on the district coordinator as telephone number listed previously-approved Lot soon as possible, no later Participation in the DRB below for more information. D.H. Cameron For lease, 7056 Rt. 7, 9,800 total 9-3. The Project is located than prior to the response proceeding is a prerequisite Prior to convening a hearProperties LLC sq.ft. Divisiblefloor plan. Open for on Northside Drive in Shelto the right to take any date listed above. ing, the Commission must burne, Vermont. 802-777-8836 medical, retail, recreational, subsequent appeal. Please determine that substantive Should a hearing be held on note that ANYTHING subjcameronvt@gmail.com issues requiring a hearing hospital and office uses. The District #4 Environthis Project and you have a mitted to the Planning and have been raised. Findings mental Commission is disability for which you are Zoning office is considered of Fact and Conclusions of reviewing this application going to need accommodapublic and cannot be kept Law will not be prepared 111 West Street a particularized interest under Act 250 Rule 51 — tion, please notify us by confidential. unless the Commission Essex Jct., VT 05452 Should a hearing be held on that may be affected by Minor Applications. Copies May 26, 2015. holds a public hearing. CW-Cameron-051315.indd 1 5/11/15 4:46 PM 802-879-5662 this Project and you have a the proposed project under of the application and proThis may not be the final stephanie.monaghan@ disability for which you are the 10 criteria. Non-party posed permit are available Parties entitled to particiorder in which items will If you feel that any of the state.vt.us going to need accommodaparticipants may also be for review at the Shelburne pate are the Municipality, be heard. Please view final District Commission memtion, please notify us by Secallowed under 10 V.S.A. Town Office, Chittenden Agenda, at www.burlingthe Municipal Planning bers listed on the attached May 29, 2015. tion 6085(c)(5). County Regional Planning tonvt.gov/pz/drb/agendas Commission, the Regional Certificate of Service under BURLINGTON Commission Office, and or the office notice board, Planning Commission, “For Your Information” may DEVELOPMENT REVIEW Parties entitled to particiDated at Essex Junction, the office listed below. The one week before the hearaffected state agencies, have a conflict of interest, BOARDTuesday, June pate are the Municipality, Vermont this 7th day of application and a draft and adjoining property ing for the order in which or if there is any other 2, 2015 the Municipal Planning May, 2015. permit may also be viewed items will be heard. owners and other persons reason a member should PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Commission, the Regional on the Natural Resources to the extent they have be disqualified from sitting DevelopThe Burlington Planning Commission, By: /s/Stephanie H. Board’s web site (www.nrb. a particularized interest on this case, please contact ment Review Board will affected state agencies, Monaghan Notice of Legal Sale state.vt.us/lup) by clicking that may be affected by the district coordinator as hold a meeting on Tuesday and adjoining property Stephanie H. Monaghan View date: 5/28/2015 on “Act 250 Database” the proposed project under soon as possible, no later June 2, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. owners and other persons District #4 Coordinator entering the project Sale date: 5/29/2015 the 10 criteria. Non-party than prior to the response Using the enclosedand math operations as a guide, fill to the extent they have Natural Resources Board by using the Complete the following puzzle number “4C0677-5E”. participants may also be date listed above. AJ & Alex Germek the grid using the numbers 1 - 6 only once in each numbers 1-9 only once in each row, column Unit #427
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NOTICE OF TAX SALE The resident and nonresident owners, lienholders and mortgagees of Lands in the City of Burlington, in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, are hereby notified that the real estate taxes assessed by such City for fiscal/tax year(s) 2009 remain either in whole or in part, unpaid and delinquent on the following described lands and premises in the City of Burlington, to wit: Owner(s) of Record: Susan R. Shepherd Property Address: 22 Nottingham Lane, Burlington VT. Tax Account/Map Lot Number: # 026-4-025-000 Deed recorded at: Volume 738 at Page 320. Reference may be had to said deed for a more particular description of said lands and premises, as the same appears in the Land Records of the City of Burlington;
Robert Rusten Chief Administrative Officer/ Treasurer/Collector of Delinquent Taxes Burlington, Vermont NOTICE OF TAX SALE The resident and nonresident owners, lienholders and mortgagees of Lands in the City of Burlington, in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, are hereby notified that the real estate taxes assessed by such City for fiscal/tax year(s) 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 remain either in whole or in part, unpaid and delinquent on the following described lands and premises in the City of Burlington, to wit: Owner(s) of Record: Kirstin Minton Property Address: 22 Valade Street, Unit 22, Burlington VT. Tax Account/Map Lot Number: # 024-1-078-022 Deed recorded at: Volume 1044 at Page 353. Reference may be had to said deed for Recording Purposes for a more particular description of said lands and premises, as the same appears in the Land Records of the City of Burlington; and so much of the lands will be sold at public auction Conference Room 12, City Hall, 149 Church St., Burlington, Vermont 05401 on June 16, 2015 at 9:00 o’clock in the forenoon, as shall be requisite to discharge said taxes together with costs and other fees allowed by law, unless the same be previously paid or otherwise resolved. Dated at the City of Burlington in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont this 1st day of May, 2015. Robert Rusten Chief Administrative Officer/ Treasurer/Collector of Delinquent Taxes Burlington, Vermont NOTICE OF TAX SALE The resident and nonresident owners, lienholders and mortgagees of Lands
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Owner(s) of Record: Thomas Hetrick Property Address: 106 Rose Street, Unit 6, Burlington VT. Tax Account/Map Lot Number: # 039-2-019-006 Deed recorded at: Volume 981 at Page 781. Reference
may be had to said deed for a more particular description of said lands and premises, as the same appears in the Land Records of the City of Burlington; and so much of the lands will be sold at public auction Conference Room 12, City Hall, 149 Church St., Burlington, Vermont 05401 on June 16, 2015 at 12:30 o’clock in the forenoon, as shall be requisite to discharge said taxes together with costs and other fees allowed by law, unless the same be previously paid or otherwise resolved. Dated at the City of Burlington in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont this 1st day of May, 2015. Robert Rusten Chief Administrative Officer/ Treasurer/Collector of Delinquent Taxes Burlington, Vermont
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STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF CHITTENDEN, SS. PROBATE COURT DOCKET NO. 451-4-15CNPR In re the Estate of ALFRED BARTLAU Late of Burlington, VERMONT
To the creditors of the estate Alfred Bartlau, late of Burlington, Vermont.
Owner(s) of Record: Peter J. Brault Property Address: 82 Home Avenue, Burlington VT. Tax Account/Map Lot Number: # 057-2-107-000 Deed recorded at: Volume 552 at Page 666. Reference may be had to said deed for a more particular description of said lands and premises, as the same appears in the Land Records of the City of Burlington;
STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 467-4-15CNPR In re estate of Jared Gardner Hall.
and so much of the lands will be sold at public auction Conference Room 12, City Hall, 149 Church St., Burlington, Vermont 05401 on June 16, 2015 at 10:30 o’clock in the forenoon, as shall be requisite to discharge said taxes together with costs and other fees allowed by law, unless the same be previously paid or otherwise resolved.
I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.
Robert Rusten Chief Administrative Officer/ Treasurer/Collector of Delinquent Taxes
Name of publication Seven Days Publication Date: 5/13/2015 Address of Court: Chittenden Probate Court 175 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
I have been appointed as Executor of the above named estate. All creditors having claims against the estate must present their claims in writing within four months of the date of first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the charge said taxes together 3/9/15 10:31 AM address listed below with a with costs and other fees copy filed with the register allowed by law, unless the of the Probate Court. The same be previously paid or claim will be forever barred otherwise resolved. if it is not presented as described above within the Dated at the City of four month deadline. Burlington in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont this 1st day of Dated: May 11 , 2015 May, 2015. Signed: Werner Bartlau, Executor Robert Rusten Chief Administrative OfAddress: c/o Michael J. ficer/Treasurer/ Harris, Esq. Collector of Delinquent Counsel for Executor Taxes Collins, McMahon & Harris Burlington, Vermont PLLC 308 Main Street Burlington VT 05402 NOTICE OF TAX SALE The resident and nonresiName of Publication: Seven dent owners, lienholders Days and mortgagees of Lands Publication Date: May 13, in the City of Burlington, in 2015 the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, are Address of Probate Court: hereby notified that the real estate taxes assessed Vermont Superior Court by such City for fiscal/tax Probate Court year(s) 2012, 2013 and 2014 Chittenden Unit, Probate remain either in whole or in part, unpaid and delinquent Division P.O. Box 511 on the following described Burlington VT 05402-0511 lands and premises in the City of Burlington, to wit:
Dated at the City of Burlington in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont this 1st day of May, 2015.
Starksboro, VT 05487 802-453-2044 rbh@gmavt.net
NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Jared Gardner Hall late of South Burlington, VT.
Date: 5/11/2015 /s/ Robert B. Hall Signature of Fiduciary Robert B. Hall Executor/Administrator: 5325 VT. Rte. 17
THE VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF FORESTS, PARKS AND RECREATION AND THE VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS AND GENERAL SERVICES ARE REQUESTING BID PROPOSALS FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE SO-CALLED 30 ACRE LAFRENIERE SALE, PROPERTY AT CAMEL’ S HUMP STATE PARK IN BOLTON, VT. The former Lafreniere property is located in Camel’s Hump State Park on the Southwest corner of Duxbury and Honey Brook Hollow Roads in the Town of Bolton, Vermont. The property includes approximately 25 acres of woodlands, several acres of open meadow, and an early 19th century farmhouse. The property will be sold subject to restrictions that would prevent further subdivision and development of the property and protect the open space and historic character of the property. The property will be open for inspection by potential bidders on Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from 10:00 A.M. until Noon. BIDDERS INTENDING TO ATTEND THE SITE INSPECTION ARE REQUESTED TO NOTIFY THE STATE OF SUCH INTENT BY MAY 20, 2015. Bidders are not required to attend the open house/ site inspection in order to submit a bid proposal, but are STRONGLY encouraged to do so. The deadline for submittal of proposals to the Vermont Department of Buildings and General Services is 4:00 P.M. on June 10, 2015. Please note: Bid Proposals must be received by the department by that date-not simply postmarked by that date. Proposals, as well as requests for additional information and questions should be addressed to; Allen Palmer Division of Property Management VT Department of Buildings and General Services 4 Governor Aiken Avenue Montpelier, VT 05633-7001 allen.palmer@state.vt.us
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POSITIONS AVAILABLE NOW INFANT/TODDLER EARLY CARE ADVOCATE (College Street Children’s Center Middlebury): Provide or support center-based care of infants and toddlers so as to enhance their physical, social, emotional and cognitive development; provide social service visits for families to support parents in the care, nurturing and coordination of health services for their infants and toddlers; and help parents address family needs and goals. Requirements: bachelor’s degree in early childhood education or related education field, with demonstrable experience and training in the provision of services for infants and toddlers. Twenty hours per week, full-year. Starting wage upon completion of 60-working-day period: $16.30-18.36 per hour, depending upon qualifications. Health plan and excellent benefits.
Lori M. Batchelder, Business Manager Sullivan Powers and Co., P.C. P.O. Box 947 Montpelier, VT 05601
lbatchelder@sullivanpowers.com INFANT/TODDLER HOME VISITOR (Lund Family Center – Burlington): Provide services in Lund Family Center Residential Facility and home-based settings to program participants to support prenatal education and services to promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women, provide or support the care of infants and toddlers so as to enhance their physical, social, emotional, and cognitive 4t-SullivanPowersCo051315.indd 1 development, support parents in the care and nurturing of their infants and toddlers, and help parents move toward self-sufficiency and independent living. Requirements: bachelor’s degree in early childhood education or related education field, with demonstrable experience and training in the provision of services for infants and toddlers. Forty hours per week, full-year. Starting wage upon completion of 60 working-day period: $16.30-18.36 per hour. Health plan and excellent benefits.
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POSITIONS AVAILABLE AUGUST 2015 PRESCHOOL TEACHERS (positions in St. Albans Town Educational Center and Richford Elementary School): Provide developmentally appropriate environment and experiences for preschool children in a Head Start classroom, and home visits for families. Assist families in accessing medical and dental care for preschool children, and help parents address family needs and goals. Requirements: bachelor’s degree in early childhood education or related education field, Vermont educator’s license with early childhood education endorsement, classroom experience, and experience in curriculum planning and implementation, child outcome assessment, and working with children with special needs. Ability to demonstrate excellent teacher-child interactions as reflected in CLASS scores (to be conducted). Forty hours per week, approximately 42 weeks per year (summer layoff). Starting wage upon completion of 60 working-day period: $18.36 per hour. Health plan and excellent benefits.
Basin Harbor Club, recognized as one of the best places to work in Vermont in 2014 and 2015, is currently accepting applications for multiple Front Desk Agents. Front Desk Agents accommodate resort guests by registering and assigning guests to rooms, greeting and checking in guests upon arrival, and assisting our guests during their stay by answering questions, resolving issues and dispatching other departments for maintenance or housekeeping requests.
SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS FOR ALL POSITIONS: Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, skills in documentation and record-keeping, proficiency in Microsoft Word, email and internet, exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail. Must be energetic, positive, mature, professional, diplomatic and motivated, and have a can-do, extra-mile attitude. A commitment to social justice and to working with families with limited financial resources is necessary. Clean driving record and access to reliable transportation required. Must demonstrate physical ability to carry out required tasks. Please specify position and location and submit resume and cover letter with three work references via email to pirish@cvoeo.org. No phone calls, please.
Seasonal employee benefits include employee meals during work in the cafeteria for $3 (includes hot buffet, salad bar, sandwich bar, dessert, fruit and drinks), free uniforms, and employee discounts on lodging, food, spa and property activities. On-property housing may be available for some candidates.
CVOEO IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.
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These are full-time, seasonal positions available immediately to work through October. Shifts are five eight-hour days during the seven-day week, primary shifts 7 a.m.-3:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.-11 p.m., with some shifts being scheduled 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. based on business levels. Weekend and holiday hours are required.
Must be willing and able to pass a background check prior to employment.
Apply online at basinharbor.com/jobs.
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ExEcutivE DirEctor VBSR is seeking a dynamic, self-motivated, inspired and experienced manager to join our team as Executive Director. Candidates should be actively interested in creating positive social change and be a motivating representative of VBSR to members and the public. We are looking for demonstrated leadership and exceptional organizational, financial management and communication skills. VBSR is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Do you want to be part of shaping the next 25 years? To apply, please send letter of interest and resume by June 15 to search@vbsr.org. No phone calls, please! More information at vbsr.org/member_job_listings/detail/executive_director9. 2h-VtDepHRcolor051315.pdf 1 5/8/15 12:34 PM 5h-AllEarthRenewables051315.indd 1
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Part-Time Office Administration and Bookkeeping Optimal Energy Inc., a small energy consulting firm located in Hinesburg, is looking for a part-time administrative assistant for administrative tasks and simple accounting functions. Office tasks include booking travel, ordering supplies, maintain meeting schedules, etc. Accounting functions include accounts payable and cash receipts data entry, client invoice processing and check processing. Prior accounting data entry experience and/or IT/web skills a plus. Must be very organized and detail orientated. Position includes some flexibility in schedule and on-the-job training. To apply, send cover letter and resume to info@optenergy.com.
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Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital Career opportunities available www.careers.vermont.gov
Join the Health Services Team at Mansfield Place! Mansfield Place is located in the heart of Essex Junction. The Health Services Team is currently recruiting talented LPNs and RAs to join in supporting a diverse group of elders in their community. Our LPN will provide high-quality health care services to the residents of the community including: • Oversight and supervision of the RAs
Mental HealtH and SubStance abuSe ServiceS
• Managing the day-to-day health needs of our residents
Clinician – Substance Abuse – Chittenden Clinic
• Working closely with the staff to identify and provide education to staff, residents and families Our RAs are responsible for providing high-quality and safe delivery of personal care services to our residents, including:
Candidate will provide individual, group and family counseling and health home services to patients who are dependent on opioids in the context of an outpatient opioid treatment program. #2529
Residential Counselor – Next Door
• Obtaining vital signs
Establish and maintain a therapeutic and stable residential environment for adults with severe mental illness and/or substance use issues in an awake overnight residential program staffed by two Residential Counselors at all times, 24-7. This position is on second shift (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, with a two-hour staff meeting on Wednesday and primarily works with residents on cleaning, cooking and meal prep. #2581
• Administering medications and treatments
Residential Counselor – Branches Limited
• Assisting with personal care and light household tasks
The ideal LPN and RA candidates will have a passion for working with the geriatric population in varying states of health, be an effective communicator, have experience working with residents who have dementia, and support the philosophy of aging in place. Per diem and part-time positions are available. and pay is commensurate with experience. Email your resume to Barbara Liberty, Health Services Director, at bliberty@mansfieldplacevt.com or stop in at 18 Carmichael Street, Essex Junction and fill out an application.
802-871-5808
Individual needed to provide a staff presence in the house to deal with crisis situations as they may arise. Must establish and maintain a therapeutic milieu for six adults with mental illness and substance use issues. This is a limited part-time position consisting of 17 hours starting at 5 p.m. Friday and ending at 10 a.m. Saturday. #2522
Residential Counselor – Lakeview Seeking a compassionate and energetic person to work in a residential setting for individuals with mental health challenges. Great benefits and generous time-off package. Part-time but almost full-time position working four and off three days. #2557
For more information, please visit howardcentercareers.org.
Applicants needing assistance or an accommodation in completing the online application should feel free to contact Human Resources at 488-6950 or hrhelpdesk@howardcenter.org.
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JOBS JOBS JOBS Many production shifts available. $12.50-$13.50/hour. Variety of schedules available. Several locations. To find the right one for you, call 802-658-9900. EOE
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Seeking Superior Deli Supervisor
The Kountry Kart Deli is seeking an EXPERIENCED food service supervisor with flexible availability to work at our locally owned and loved deli.
We are a fast-paced, high-volume deli. Ideal deli supervisor will provide excellent customer service, lead by example, have a keen eye for detail and take pride in their work. The ability to communicate well with others and be a team player/leader is paramount to this position. If you are hardworking, reliable and trustworthy, please apply at 155 Main Street, Burlington. We offer competitive pay structure, tip share, meal benefits and nightshift pay differential. Pay based on kitchen ability, customer service experience and 35 to 40 hours week.
Local Deli Hiring Customer Service and Grill Master Positions
The Kountry Kart Deli is hiring dedicated customer service team players and experienced grill staff to work at our fast-paced, highvolume deli. We are seeking honest, friendly, hardworking individuals who take pride in their work and can multitask while providing excellent customer service. We offer competitive pay structure, employee meals, employee discounts and scheduling to suit individual needs for both day and evening positions.
If you think you are a good fit, apply at 155 Main Street, Burlington. Full- and part-time positions are available.
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LegaL BiLLing assistant Primmer, a regional law firm with offices in New England and Washington, D.C., seeks an experienced billing representative to work in our Burlington office. Duties include assisting attorneys and legal staff with time and billing functions, generating invoices for attorney review, processing cash receipts, responding to internal and external inquiries, electronic billing set-up and processing, verifying the accuracy of time entered by others, and entering time. This position requires at least one year of similar work experience in a professional services firm. Legal billing experience desired but not required. We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits. Please submit letter of interest and resume to careers@primmer.com.
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DRIVERS AND HELPERS Booska Movers is looking for Drivers and Helpers to work in our local division and come join our team! Great starting pay, paid holidays, sick and vacation time. Health benefits, retirement (simple IRA). Apply in person at Booska Movers, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington, or send resume to abooska@ booskaworldwide.com.
Coder and Database Wrangler
(Part-time, 20 hours per week) Subatomic Digital seeks in-house coder for multiple projects including internal web database applications, partner data exchange, process automation and more. Many small projects will help you develop and diversify your coding skills while enjoying the satisfaction of seeing a finished project in action. We are looking for a dedicated and intelligent candidate willing and able to adapt, expand and finish an 80 percent complete existing in-house order management/productionautomation system. Experience with SQL databases and .NET, knowledge of PHP, Adobe Automation through JavaScript, and SVG and web technologies, including Canvas, a bonus. Recent grads welcome to apply. Send resume to jobs@subatomicdigital.com.
Economic Development Position The Lake Champlain Islands Economic Development Corporation seeks Executive Director to lead in igniting economic growth in the Islands. Ideal candidate is a self-starter with experience in nonprofit management, budgets, real estate and working with diverse people and organizations. Relevant college and/or experience and proven communication and social media skills required. Connection to the Islands community desirable. Position will begin mid to late summer 2015. Thirty hours per week. Salary based on experience. Please email cover letter and resume to info@champlainislands.com.
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Licensed doctoral/ master’s-level in mental health and extensive experience in leadership of mental health programs required. Full-time position overseeing all functions of the adult mental health and substance abuse departments, including budget and finance and program development.
Wide-Format Print oPerator
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Second-shift position for Wide-Format Operator. Operator will be responsible for printing large-format jobs, performing quality control, operating our digital router and adding finishing options such as welding, hemming or grommets as required.
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St. Johnsbury
We are looking for licensed professionals (LADC, LCMHC, LCSW) to fill full-time positions in St. Johnsbury. Experience working with both mental health and substance abuse populations required. Competitive benefits package. To learn more, please visit our website, nkhs.org. Apply online or send resume and letter of interest to jobs@nkhs. net or Bianca Brenk, NKHS, P.O. Box 724, Newport, VT 05855. NKHS is a not-for-profit community mental health center serving residents of Caledonia, Essex and Orleans counties.
• Machine maintenance • Large-format printing • Finishing large-format jobs Skill requirements:
Full-Time Activity Director Full-Time Evening Charge Nurse Per Diem Charge Nurse, All Shifts Full-Time Day and Evening LPN
• Wide-format and router experience a plus, but will train the right candidate • Experience with pre-press file work (Adobe Creative Suite) a plus, but not required • Lift more than 35 pounds • Excellent attention to detail • Stand for full eight-plus-hour shift • Communicate effectively • Organizational skills • Basic computer skills • General safety awareness • Problem-solving and decision-making skills • Must be flexible and willing to work at various work stations throughout shop
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Customer Service/ Mail Order Representative An international mail order company located in Central Vermont is seeking a Customer Service/Mail Order Representative who is a quick learner. Skills required for the position include but are not limited to a strong work ethic, ability to multitask, good communication skills on the phone and in the workplace, computer literacy, the ability to lift 25 to 50 pounds, if necessary, and strong attention to detail. A good sense of humor, positive attitude and tolerance of diversity is also necessary. This is a full-time position, Monday through Friday. Please email your resume as a pdf attachment with a cover letter stating your salary requirements and what you are seeking in a job and for your future to heavenandearth@earthlink.net. No phone calls, please.
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OrthOpedic phYSicAL therApiSt Long Trail Physical Therapy is seeking a dynamic, outgoing Orthopedic Physical Therapist for our Middlebury location. Our facility is located within Vermont Sun and Fitness Gym. We have a strong referral relationship with local orthopedic and family physicians. We offer on-site aquatic therapy. This is an opportunity to be of a team that includes a full-time PTA. LTPT is a locally owned private practice with four locations. We offer a competitive salary and full benefit package that includes 401(k), health insurance, dental insurance and continuing education! New grads are encouraged to apply. Send resumes to keith.karpinskipt@comcast.net. 789 Pine St. Burlington, VT 05401
Full-Time Evening Shift
1.0 FTE Social Studies Teacher South Burlington High School
Qualified candidates will have high school social studies teacher endorsements and demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
Licensed Nursing Assistant
Junior Varsity Dance Coach South Burlington High School
Full-Time Day and Evening Shifts
Qualified candidates will have experience with dance, enjoy mentoring high school students and have demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
School Nurse Fred Tuttle Middle School
Qualified candidates will have middle school nurse endorsements and demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team environment. These positions will remain open until filled. Candidates may forward their resume and three current references to:
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Program Director, School-Based Services School-Based Clinician Pediatric Social Worker ACCESS Case Manager
A successful candidate will have a minimum of two years of clinical oversight experience in a long-term-care or related setting. This person oversees the delivery and coordination of care during the evening shift. S/he will manage care plans and related documentation, reinforce best practices, act as primary liaison with families and other care providers, coordinate staffing resources for the shift, and provide primary nursing care when needed.
Qualified candidates will have high school math teacher endorsements and demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
Diane Kinnon, Human Resource Department, South Burlington School District 500 Dorset Street, South Burlington, VT 05403 or apply at sbschools.net.
Senior Director, Human Resources
Nurse Shift Supervisor (LPN or RN)
.2 FTE Math Teacher South Burlington High School
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Qualified candidates will have high school math teacher endorsements and demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
The Green Mountain Club is seeking an detail-oriented, self-directed and experienced team player to serve as its Constituent Database Manager. The Database Manager is responsible for managing GMC’s fundraising and membership database and supporting the membership and development team. Please submit your letter of interest and resume electronically by May 22, 2015. Position open until filled. Send resumes to greenMountainClubjobs @gMail.CoM.
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Wake Robin seeks LNAs licensed in Vermont to participate as a key member of the health care team implementing care delivery systems in a manner that maintains a nurturing environment that supports the health and independence of the residents. We continue to offer generous shift differential for evenings, nights and weekends! Wake Robin offers an excellent compensation and benefits package and an opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting. Interested candidates, please email hr@wakerobin.com or fax your resume with cover letter to HR, 264-5146.
We offer one of the most competitive benefits packages in the Northeast Kingdom. Our benefits include lowcost medical and dental coverages, short/longterm disability coverages, retirement/403(b) plan, life insurance, AFLAC, employee assistance program, 12 holidays per year plus 24 sick and vacation days, long-term care plan, and additional optional benefits. To learn more about current job opportunities, please visit our website, nkhs.org. Apply through our website or send resume and letter of interest to jobs@nkhs.net or Bianca Brenk, NKHS, POB 724, Newport, VT 05855. Join our team today! NKHS is a not-for-profit community mental health center serving residents of Caledonia, Essex and Orleans counties.
Wake Robin is an equal opportunity employer.
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LANDSCAPING/ MAINTENANCE Seeking team players for a year-round landscaping/property maintenance business operating out of Colchester. Job requirements as follows: a valid driver's license; commercial mowing/ plowing experience; reliable transportation to and from the shop; 24/7 phone availability; a willingness to work hard; and teamwork skills. Contact (802) 338-9058 or Noel.Property@comcast.net
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Open interviews being held Friday, May 22, 10 a.m.–3 p.m., 1080 Shelburne Road, South Burlington.
Apply online or bring in your resume. We offer flexible schedules, competitive wages and an awesome employee discount! Apply online at goodwillnne.org/jobs. jobs@goodwillnne.org | www.goodwillnne.org
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VENDING ROUTE DRIVERS Brandon
We are looking for motivated, responsible individuals. Must be able to work independently, possess a positive attitude, be capable of lifting up to 50 pounds and have a clean driving record. We offer a competitive wage along with benefits. Apply in person or online at Farrell Vending Services 405 Pine Street Burlington, VT 05401 farrellvending.com.
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Preferred qualifications: must have a valid driver’s license and be able to drive a box truck on a regular basis, experience or education in recycling, zero waste or environmental sustainability, an ability to lift objects weighing up to 50 pounds, and must be able to pass a criminal background check. Fieldwork takes place outdoors in all kinds of weather. The Program Assistants must be able to work a Tuesday through Saturday schedule. Travel in the 18 member towns of the Central Vermont Solid Waste Management will be required on a regular basis. Compensation: $11.54 per hour, plus paid benefits including sick and vacation time. Full-time permanent employees receive employersponsored health, dental and vision insurance. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until May 22 or the position is filled.
Part-Time Temporary Route Driver Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District seeks a part-time route driver for various solid waste and diversion programs including food scraps, recyclables and municipal solid waste hauling. Qualifications include skilled technical and manual operator of heavy vehicles and equipment, including trucks with a GVW of approximately 60,000 pounds; driver will assist with maintenance of trucks, specialized compost collection containers, and other equipment. Up to 20 hours per week. May include working occasional shifts at CVSWMD Special Collections and weekend work. Qualifications: minimum of a CDL-B and a clean driving record. Must be able to pass a criminal background check. Compensation: $19.9224.73 per hour, plus benefits. Applications will be accepted through September 16, 2014. To apply, send a cover letter and resume to Hiring Manager, CVSWMD, 137 Barre Street, Montpelier, VT 05602 or email administration@cvswmd.org.
The wonderful schools of Chittenden East Supervisory Union are looking for a Technology Support Specialist to join its dynamic team that is responsible for the maintenance and repair of information technology hardware and associated software; provides professional technology customer service to staff and students in schools and on a help desk; coordinates school technology purchasing and budgeting. The team serves schools in the towns of Bolton, Huntington, Jericho, Richmond and Underhill. Please visit schoolspring.com/job.cfm?jid=1520842 for an online job application link and job details. If you have questions, contact Steve at steve.jarrett@cesuvt.org or 858-1729. EOE
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CVSWMD seeks a full-time permanent and a part-time seasonal Program Assistant responsible for working with the Program Manager and Program Coordinator to help in the operations of collection and recycling programs, including but not limited to the Business Organics Program, the Residential Organics Program, the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Program, the Additional Recyclables Collection Center and Special Collections.
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Dynapower Company in South Burlington is a leading manufacturer of large custom power supplies and energy conversion systems. Our staff is dedicated to providing quality workmanship and the highest level of customer service. We offer an extensive benefits package and a pleasant working environment, as well as an opportunity for personal and professional growth. We are currently accepting resumes and applications for the following positions:
Final Assemblers Panel Wirer Assembler Switch Mode Power Supply Assembler Entry to Senior Level Electrical Engineers
Knowledge of power electronics, transformer design, SCRs and phase-controlled rectifiers desirable. Use of computer-assisted engineering design software and equipment to perform assignments, AutoCAD experience a plus. Applies principles and techniques of electrical engineering to accomplish goals. Requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering and up to eight years of experience in the field or in a related area. For complete job descriptions and qualifications, go to dynapower.com and click on “employment”. Please apply online or mail to: Dynapower Company 85 Meadowland Dr. South Burlington, VT 05403 Or email resume to resumes@dynapower.com. EOE/minorities/females/vet/disability. The law requires an employer to post notices describing the federal laws prohibiting job discrimination based on race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, equal pay, disability and genetic information. Poster is available in English, Arabic, Chinese and Spanish at eeoc.gov/employers/poster.cfm.,
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ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN - COMMUNICATIONS Burlington Electric Department is seeking to fill a full-time position that is responsible for designing, installing and maintaining sophisticated and highly complex electric and electronic supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems as well as other control and protective systems in the areas of radio communications, electric generation, substation breakers and relays, and electric distribution flow devices. The ideal candidate will possess an associate’s degree in electrical engineering or certification of completion of a two-year electrical engineering technical program and two years’ experience in electronic supervisory control systems, radio communications and network administration. Working knowledge of Windows PC operating system and desktop applications including spreadsheets, word processing, databases and computer-aided design (CAD) programs is also required.
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Community Inclusion Facilitators Enjoy each workday while providing one-on-one inclusion supports to individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities. This is a great opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life while working in a supportive, person-centered environment. We are currently hiring for a variety of benefitted positions as well as per diem shifts. If you are interested in joining our team, please submit your letter of interest and application to Karen Ciechanowicz at staff@ccs-vt.org. Champlain Community Services 512 Troy Avenue Colchester, VT 05446 ccs-vt.org EOE
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Washington County Mental Health Services is a not-for-profit Community Mental Health Center. We provide a wide variety of support and treatment opportunities for children, adolescents, families and adults living with the challenges of mental illness, emotional and behavioral issues, and developmental disabilities. These services are both office- and community-based through outreach. The range of services offered includes prevention and wellness, assessment and stabilization, and 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week emergency response.
Our current openings include: • Maintenance Generalist
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• Electronic Medical Records Help Desk/ Data Assurance
• Coordinator of Supported Employment and Community Integration
• Per Diem Cleaner
We are proud to offer our employees a comprehensive package of benefits including generous paid sick, vacation and holiday leave, medical, dental and vision insurance, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, and a 403(b) retirement account. Most positions require a valid driver’s license, good driving record and access to a safe, insured vehicle.
To learn more about current job opportunities or read our complete job descriptions, please visit our website, wcmhs.org. Apply through our website or send your resume to personnel@wcmhs.org or Personnel, PO Box 647, Montpelier, VT 05601.
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Medical Assistant Join a great team that is dedicated to providing patients with an excellent experience! Full-time position, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., available in busy orthopædic surgery practice. We are looking for someone who has two to three years of experience in a medical office setting with multiple providers who enjoys multitasking and the challenge of providing support to patients, providers, the local community and their teammates. This position involves providing direct patient care: taking vitals, recording medications/allergies, Chief Complaint, HPI, etc. in our EHR, coordinating imaging studies and assisting with joint injections. Ideal candidate would be a certified medical assistant, but that is not necessarily required. Experience with fitting DME, ordering clinical supplies or casting a plus. Being comfortable on the phone gathering information and rescheduling appointments, supporting patients and their family members, and having a keen eye for detail are critical to this position. We offer a competitive salary, health/dental/longterm disability/retirement benefits, paid holiday and vacation. If you want to make a difference in helping people receive their health care, please submit your resume and salary requirements to: Practice Manager Associates in Orthopædic Surgery, PC 6 San Remo Drive South Burlington, VT 05403 Email submission: office@aosvt.com
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Second- and ThirdShift Production Openings Willing to Train! Harbour Industries, a leading manufacturer of high-performance wire and cable is seeking full time second- and third-shift machine operators to work in our team environment. Candidates must be at least 18 years of age, pass a drug test, a basic math test, and have a high school diploma or equivalent. Starting wage is $12.73 per hour to $13.53 per hour, plus shift differential of up to $1.25 per hour. Experienced? We pay prevailing wage for specific wire and cable skills. We are willing to train!
Unique opportunity to serve on a three-person administrative team that supports a statewide network of runaway and homeless youth programs. Ideal candidate will be highly organized, possess strong writing skills and attention to detail, be familiar with positive youth development and strength-based approaches to working with youth, and have a strong desire to help build support for runaway and homeless youth programs in Vermont through outreach activities that include social media. This is full-time position (37.5 hours per week) that works closely and collaboratively with the Coalition Director to support coalition agencies and ensure that coalition programs meet outcome goals of various funding sources. Most of the work is office-based; however, some instate travel is required (seldom overnight). The coalition office is located at the Washington County Youth Service Bureau Boys & Girls Club in Montpelier. The team works together closely and is employed by the Washington County Youth Service Bureau Boys & Girls Club. All bureau employees attend a morning staff meeting once a month. The atmosphere at the bureau is casual yet professional. $37,000–43,000. People can email a cover letter, resume and three references to Christine Hartman, WCYSB Office Manager, chartman@wcysb.org. Background check required. EOE
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Harbour Industries offers an excellent benefit package that includes medical, dental, 401(k) and more. Please stop by for an application at Harbour Industries LLC, 4744 Shelburne Road, Shelburne, VT 05482, or send resume to eheath@harbourind.com. Harbour Industries is a Marmon Wire and Cable/Berkshire Hathaway Company.
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Executive Assistant for Development Capstone’s mission is to help people achieve economic sufficiency with dignity. We seek a creative and committed person with top-notch organizational and communications skills to join our development team. This 40-hour-per-week position is responsible for providing support to the development department and the agency’s executive team. This position supports communications and donor stewardship activities, our social media presence, maintains our Salesforce donor database, and helps organize fundraising activities and events. Ability to work both independently and collaboratively on multiple deadlines while maintaining a sense of humor is important. Capstone offers competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits and a friendly, informal work environment. Please send your resume, a letter telling us why working at Capstone interests you and three references postmarked no later than May 22, 2015, to:
Capstone Community Action, Inc. Human Resources 20 Gable Place Barre, VT 05641 Or email to jobs@capstonevt.org. Capstone Community Action is an equal opportunity employer and provider. Applications from women, individuals with disabilities, veterans and people from diverse cultural backgrounds are encouraged.
Wellness Department Manager Hunger Mountain Cooperative in Montpelier is seeking an experienced leader to manage our Wellness Department and provide great service to our members, staff and the community. This position oversees the smooth functioning of the Wellness Department in support of the coop's mission. A successful candidate will have the ability to lead, coach and develop department staff to provide excellent customer service and deliver quality products in line with the coop's values. Please see our Careers page at hungermountain.coop/aboutus/coopcareers for the full job description. Responsibilities: • Achieve department goals per the annual business plan and budget • Adhere to customer service protocols • Manage staff development and safety performance Qualifications: • Prior management and leadership experience • Experience with and knowledge of health and beauty and vitamin/supplement products • Prior experience as a buyer • Well-organized excellent attention to details • Familiarity with MS Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook • Demonstrated ability to follow through on commitments • Demonstrated ability to handle multiple demands • Ability to listen and communicate clearly and appropriately in person and in writing • Ability to provide excellent customer service to our customers, member-owners and staff Please submit cover letter, resume and application (download at hungermountain.coop/aboutus/coopcareers) to Phoebe Townsend, HR Manager, at phoebem@hungermountain.coop. Hunger Mountain Coop is an equal opportunity employer. HungERMOunTAin.COOP
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Panel Manager Busy family practice, a certified medical home, is seeking a Panel Manager. This position requires managing patient panels, running reports, scheduling necessary appointments, conducting outreach and obtaining necessary pre-certification or prior authorization from insurance companies, among other duties. Must have experience using an electronic health record and knowledge of medical terminology. Competitive wages and an excellent benefits package. Please email resume to cheryl.mccaffrey@tchconline.com.
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Adult Outpatient Emergency Team Clinician: Provide phone and face-to-face assessment, crisis intervention and stabilization counseling. Primarily office-based. Weekday and overnight hours. Master’s degree, excellent engagement and assessment skills, and the ability to think on your feet required. Must have reliable transportation and live within 30 minutes of Middlebury.
Community Rehabilitation & Treatment Residential & Community Support Staff: Assist at group residences as well as provide home-based supports for people coping with life impacting mental health conditions. Opportunities for training and professional growth. Requires excellent communication skills, patience, insight, compassion, and the ability to work well in a team environment. Contracted and full time positions available. Residential Site Manager: Seeking a compassionate individual with excellent communication skills to manage residential home. Experience with residential services, understanding of psychiatric conditions and recovery principles, good supervisory skills, and a master’s degree in a mental health field preferred. This is a full-time opportunity.
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Substance Abuse/Mental Health Clinician: Provide substance abuse assessment and treatment to adult clients individually and in group. Master’s degree in a mental health field, one year of experience and duel substance abuse/mental health licensure preferred.
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Youth & Family After-school Behavior Interventionist: Implement direct intervention and training plans according to established protocols in order to foster the development of communication, social skills, adaptive behavior and daily living skills to children diagnosed with ASD. Bachelor’s degree in education or human services field and experience with children required. Must have clean driving record and own transportation. This is a part time opportunity.
Join Housing Vermont’s asset management team in Burlington and help oversee a growing portfolio of more than 4,900 residential rental apartments. The full-time Asset Manager position requires three years’ experience in real estate management and is responsible for the operational health of Housing Vermont’s portfolio of projects. Work with ownership team on strategies to maintain operational health, provide technical support, assure best practices, review financial performance and report to investors, and assure compliance with IRS Section 42. This position requires extensive knowledge of low-income housing tax credits, HUD, RD, commercial leases, property insurance and proficiency in Microsoft Office. A valid driver’s license is required. Bachelor’s degree in related field and LIHTC certification preferred. For a full position description, please email jobs@hvt.org.
Behavior Interventionist: Seeking enthusiastic, team oriented individuals interested in the field of applied behavior analysis. Provide one-to-one support and training in behavioral, social, and communicative skills to children in home and school settings. Extensive training in ABA, trauma-informed supports and ASD intervention provided. Bachelor’s degree required. Full and part time position available. Children’s Respite Provider: Positions are available to individuals who want to make a difference in a child’s life. If you are a compassionate individual who finds satisfaction in helping children, this may be the position for you! Work 1:1 with children for as little as 3 hours per week in the community, home, and agency settings. Hours are typically after school, evenings, weekends, or summer, with some morning and early afternoon hours available.
Please send resume and cover letter with salary requirements by May 22 to: Housing Vermont 123 St. Paul Street Burlington, VT 05401 Attn: Eric Schmitt
Therapeutic Support Worker: Provide positive community support for transition aged youth after school. This is a community-based position that requires flexibility with hours and the ability to work effectively in a positive manner with a variety of individuals within and outside the agency. Bachelor’s degree required. This is a part time position.
Email: jobs@hvt.org
To learn more about available positions, please visit csac-vt.org or contact Rachael at 388-0302, ext. 415.
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CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES Child and Family Services provides assessment, referral, individual and group treatment, medication management, crisis intervention, and substance abuse services to children ages birth to 18 years old. These services are provided in a variety of settings including clinic-based services, home-based services, community-based interventions and school-based services.
SCHOOL BASED CLINICIAN Full time (37.5 hours), master’s degree required. School based clinician that is comfortable and skilled with a diverse range of school-aged children. Family-centered, strength-based clinical practice with strong crisis intervention and assessment skills needed. Position requires active participation on an interdisciplinary treatment team. We are looking for an organized, team-focused practitioner. License preferred. Position available for the 2015-2016 school year.
Full time, hardworking. Previous experience desirable. Transportation required. Contact Marc at Outdoor Works Landscaping at mktorelli@aol.com.
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CSWD Business Outreach Specialist The Chittenden Solid Waste District is seeking an articulate, adaptable, well-organized individual who is as eager to peer into a dumpster as they are to translate seemingly complicated materials management requirements into simple, approachable terms that anyone can understand and support. Position is field-based, with the majority of time spent traveling to survey and educate Chittenden County businesses. This position is 20 hours per week at $18 per hour, and is funded for one year (July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2016). Job description and application requirements available at cswd.net/about-cswd/job-openings.
SCHOOL BASED SUPERVISOR/CLINICIAN Full time (37.5hrs), master’s degree required. Master’s level clinician needed to provide clinical supervision to an interdisciplinary team while maintaining a small caseload. Knowledge and experience with family-centered, wraparound and strengthsbased clinical practice needed. Supervisory experience and experience working with children ages six through 18 required. Licensure required. At CCN, our mission is to enhance the well-being of our communities, individuals and families through responsive, innovative and collaborative human services. Submit cover letter, resume and application to HR at rmhsccn.org.
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Tourism & Marketing: Director of Communications Vermont Department of Health, Children with Special Health Needs Job Description: Experienced professional sought to lead the Vermont Department of Tourism EOE Job Description: The Children with Special Health Needs (CSHN) program seeks a full-time nurse
Marketing’s public to and trade relations efforts. This mission-critical position provide professional and management of the Pediatric Palliative Care Experienced& professional sought to lead theoversight Vermont Department of Tourism is designed to generate positive tourism-related coverage of Vermont inCoordination the Program (PPCP), as well as clinical support for other CSHN programs. & Marketing’s public and trade relations efforts. This mission-critical position national and international marketplace. The Director of Communications is of the program includes networking with palliative care professionals statewide, is designed responsible to generateforpositive tourism-related coverage of Vermont in the the development a program proactive business supporting home and healthimplementation agencies in delivery ofofthe services, educating plan consistent with the goals and mission of the Department national andoutreach international marketplace. The Director of Communications isof community members, and outreach to pediatric primary care providers, specialty care Tourism and Marketing as well as maintaining consistent communications providers, the wide range of multidisciplinary community-based organizations responsible for the development andand implementation of a proactive business via social networking tools. This position is responsible for all tourism media that support the health and welfare of Vermont children and families. CSHN is a outreach plan consistent with the goals and mission of the Department of in-state andpublic out-of-state; press development; pitching targeted health program whichrelease supports children and youth with special health needs TEAM LEADER Tourism andrelations Marketing as well as maintaining consistent communications by ensuring comprehensive, community-based and family-centered services. Minimum tourism story ideas to regional and national media; development of press The Community Rehabilitation and Treatment team (CRT) is seeking via social networking tools. position ismanagement responsible for all contact tourism media requirements include MSN or BSN or RN non-nursing bachelor’s degree tripsThis and itineraries; of with media lists; and with two a strong clinician who is highly organizedfamiliarization and energetic. The CRT relations in-state and out-of-state; press release development; pitching targeted years’ experience in a community health setting, hospital, clinic, school or physicians’ program serves individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. support for Vermont’s international public relations initiatives. The Director This person will work closely with the CRT Program Manager and the office which has included a significant component of obstetric, infant or pediatric tourism story to regionalwith and national media; development of press willideas also collaborate the Agency of Commerce executive team in the CRT Leadership team to provide safe and clinically sound services specialty practice. This position requires possession of, or eligibility for, licensure as development of a proactivemanagement travel trade andofbusiness recruitment plan. This familiarization trips itineraries; media contact lists; and for individuals enrolled in the program. Must work in a and supportive RN in Vermont. Applications only be accepted online through the Department of positionadministrative will international report toathe Commissioner of will Tourism & Marketing. role to the Program Manager to assure responsible support for Vermont’s publicwebsite relations initiatives. The Director Human Resources through May 26, 2015. oversight of the CRT program, provide both administrative and also collaborate Agency ofstrong Commerce executive team in athe clinical supervisionwill to direct line staff, andCandidates coordinate withwith state andthe must: demonstrate oral andiswritten skills; have BA inwho can The Vermont Department of Health especially interested in candidates community resources. Strong supervisory experience is essential. development of a proactive travel trade and business recruitment plan. Thiswork Public Relations or related field; a minimum ve years of relevant contribute to thehave department’s diversity of andficommitment to foster an environment Knowledge of evidence-based practices is a plus. Master’s degree position will orreport to the Commissioner Tourism & Marketing. demonstrate knowledge of Vermont and Vermont’s tourism industry. of mutual respect,of acceptance and equal opportunity. Applicants are encouraged to in mental health counseling, social work experience; other human services
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field, licensed or license eligible, and minimum of two years’ relevant experience are required. Resume, writing
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samples and aoral minimum of three skills; references should Candidates must: demonstrate strong and written have a BAbe in For further information, contact Monica Ogelby at 865-1329 or monica.ogelby@state.vt.us. NCSS offers excellent benefits! Our clinic issubmitted located close to Interstate to Kitty Sweet, Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Public Relations or related field; have a minimum of five years of relevant work 89 and is a short commute from Burlington and surrounding areas.One National Life Drive, Montpelier, VT 05620-0501. In- and out-ofDevelopment, Please visit of humanresources.vermont.gov (Job ID 616748) for full details. experience; demonstrate knowledge Vermont and Vermont’s tourism industry. Please send resume, cover letter and references to hr@ncssinc.org state travel will be required. Salary range: $45,000 - $50,000. or visit our website at ncssinc.org/careers.
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New England’s premier special event company is seeking hardworking, enthusiastic individuals to join our team. We are currently accepting applications for the following seasonal positions (available May 1 through November 1):
Installers/Delivery TentTent Installers/Delivery nd Warehouse TruckLabor Loading 2 Shift nd 2 Shift Truck Loading Linen Division Assistant Linen Division Assistant Event Crewmember Stop by our office to fill out an application or email resume to jobs@vttent.com. EOE. Vermont Tent Company — We’re Much More Than Tents! 14 Berard Drive, South Burlington, VT 05403
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is seeking a Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Coordinator/Trainer to provide training to early care and education providers, parents, and case managers. Bachelor’s in education or human services field required; master’s preferred. This is a Montpelier-based full-time position. Reliable transportation required. June 1 start. No calls, please. Send cover letter, resume and three references to PCAV Search, P.O. Box 829, Montpelier, VT 05601-0829 or pcavt@pcavt.org.
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Are you looking for a job that will provide you with a feeling of daily accomplishment & the satisfaction of helping others? The Residence at Shelburne Bay, a beautiful premier Level III hospitality-oriented senior living community in Shelburne, is currently accepting applications for:
Day Shift Nurse Caregivers Waitstaff Kitchen Support Part-time
The Residence is an equal opportunity employer offering competitive rates and benefits and a comfortable and peaceful working environment where residents are nurtured and allowed to age with grace and dignity.
Send your resume to employment@residencesheburnebay.com or stop by and fill out an application. The Residence at Shelburne Bay 185 Pine Haven Shores Road Shelburne, VT 05482
It is what we do at Twincraft Skincare every day. We are the industry’s premier manufacturer of top-quality skin care for the world’s leading personal-care brands. We produce visually unique products with superior formulations. We are seeking innovative, forward-thinking individuals to join our 5v-ShelburneBay050615.indd team of dedicated professionals. Do you want to work at a company where your input is truly valued?
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Vermont Cooperative for Practice Improvement (VCPI) is hiring an Administrative Coordinator!
Looking for a smart, highly motivated professional with a heaD for business and a heart for peopLe to join our rapidly growing business. if you would like to be a contributing member of an innovative, expanding private label skincare manufacturing business, we want to talk to you!
The Vermont Cooperative for Practice Improvement and Innovation (VCPI) is a new organization focused on sustainable practice improvement and workforce development in the Vermont Mental Health system of care. VCPI is currently seeking a part-time Administrative Coordinator. The Administrative Coordinator will be responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of office and administrative functions on a daily basis, as well as providing administrative support to the Executive Director. The Administrative Coordinator will also assist in project and event management and marketing and communications coordination.
From a foundation of understanding how to effectively establish suppliers and logistics, this position drives a sense of service for customers and optimal financial performance through enriching the capacities of individuals, superior project/improvement management, and cocreating significant value for all. this position will lead the purchasing, planning and warehousing teams.
The position is located in Colchester and is a grant-funded position of 25-30 hours per week, with the possibility of becoming a permanent position. This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing, mission-driven nonprofit organization. Please submit a cover letter and reference to s.squirrell@snhu.edu and complete the full job application at snhu.peopleadmin.com/postings/14135.
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Seeking experienced Carpenter and Entry-Level Carpenter for full-time employment. Red House is an employeeowned building company serving the greater Champlain Valley. We offer excellent benefits, competitive wages and a great work atmosphere. Please send inquiries via email. No phone calls, please. Provide resume and references. employment@ redhousebuilding.com Learn more about us at redhousebuilding.com.
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The Vermont Arts Council is looking for a dynamic, collaborative individual to push forward the Council’s Arts Education agenda. The ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAM MANAGER ensures that Vermont students have the opportunity to learn in, about and through the arts. The position is responsible for developing and coordinating all aspects of the council’s arts education policy and advocacy efforts, as well as administering its education-related grants and services. Partnership development with key organizations, keeping current with issues facing the field and finding creative ways to address them are vital to the effectiveness of this position. Requires relevant bachelor’s degree and at least five years of administrative or consultative experience with organizations that serve artists and arts education. Full job description and requirements available at vermontartscouncil.org/about-us/ employment. Apply with letter of interest, resume, three writing samples and list of three professional references by May 22 to Vermont Arts Council, 136 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05633-6001 or to tgibson@vermontartscouncil.org.
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Are you a creative problemsolver, well-organized, efficient, and able to manage competing priorities? If so, the Vermont Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit headquartered in Montpelier, wants to talk to you. We are seeking an energetic, fulltime Program Assistant to administer the day-to-day operations of the council’s community programs. We are looking for someone with excellent writing and overall communications skills, and proficiency in Word, Excel, QuickBooks, desktop publishing and databases. We require a love of learning and ideas and offer in return a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package.
Saint Michael’s College is looking for a construction/ architecture/engineering-proficient technician to fill the role of Construction & Planning Technician. This position will support the director of facilities in planning, managing and overseeing construction projects. A qualified candidate should be a confident team player ready to join the facilities team in a busy year-round operation. Applicants should have an associate’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience with at least one to three years of relevant experience and knowledge of construction. AutoCAD experience strongly preferred. An offer of employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check and a pre-employment physical screening. Benefits include health, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k), generous paid time off, employee and dependent tuition benefits, and discounted gym membership. For full job description and to apply online, go to smcvt.interviewexchange.com.
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Therapeutic Recreation Assistant Full-Time Nights Our Therapeutic Recreation Assistant plans and implements individual and group-based therapeutic recreation programs for our residents. We seek candidates with prior experience designing and initiating activities that focus on age-appropriate sensory, auditory and physical activities programming for seniors. Candidates with a bachelor’s degree in therapeutic recreation services, psychology or human services, or prior experience with providing recreational programming for senior populations are highly preferred. Wake Robin offers an excellent compensation and benefits package and an opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting.
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St. Mary’s School in Middlebury, a Catholic elementary school (K-6), seeks a visionary Principal, able to plan and implement a long-range strategy for the school and articulate the school’s vision and case for support to engage a higher level of alumnae, parent and community involvement. Founded in 1940 by the Sisters of Mercy, St. Mary’s School offers an excellent academic program, addressing all areas of the student’s growth — spiritual, intellectual and emotional. Applicants must be practicing members of the Roman Catholic faith and continue the strong Catholic identity of the school, demonstrate successful elementary school experience and make evident a commitment to Catholic elementary education. An advance degree and experience in a diverse school community are strongly desired. The successful applicant will have proven success in strategic and operational planning and management, institutional advancement and financial management. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. Interested and qualified candidates are asked to submit electronically for the position to schoolspring.com. Deadline is May 21, 2015.
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Salvation Farms of Morrisville seeks an upbeat, organized and experienced individual to join our team. This director position will oversee all development and administrative responsibilities related to our work reducing food waste on farms. More at salvationfarms.org/ get-involved.
Seeking a recovery-oriented clinician to provide case management to adults participating in community mental health services. This is a fast-paced outreach position that includes supportive counseling, service coordination, skills teaching, benefits support and advocacy, and requires someone who is compassionate, creative, well organized, honest, dependable and strength-based. Prefer person with master’s degree in related field and a minimum of one year related experience. Will consider applicants with a bachelor’s degree in a related field with more extensive experience. Supervision toward mental health licensure provided. 2v-SalvationFarm050615.indd
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Department – Social Work Open until 5/29/15 uvmjobs.com/postings/15422 The University of Vermont Child Welfare Training Partnership is seeking a Training Coordinator to join our training team. This person will assist in the coordination and training of a comprehensive training program in partnership with the Vermont Department for Children and Families (DCF). Skills needed include assessment, development and implementation of curriculum in a variety of media on topics related to child welfare and youth justice; collection of training data and evaluation from DCF personnel and the community used to improve training outcomes. This position requires delivery of training in various locations around Vermont, in addition to consultation, coaching and mentoring to DCF social work staff and community partners in DCF district offices. This person will represent CWTP and UVM at community, regional, state and national meetings and forums. The university is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the institution. Applicants are required to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal.
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Stone Environmental is growing! As we help more clients solve complex environmental problems across the country and around the world, we need to expand our team, too. We are proud to employ some of the best scientists, engineers, modelers and project managers in our field, and we want to talk to you! We are looking for an experienced accountant to join our team. This position will have responsibility for activities related to purchasing, accounts payable, vendor and subconsultant systems and transactions, credit card activities and payroll. Candidates must have strong accounting and Excel skills. Experience with project management systems and project accounting for professional services is a plus. For a full list of job descriptions and requirements and how to apply, please visit our company website at www.stone-env.com.
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First UU Society of Burlington is searching for a welcoming and skilled office assistant to work 16 hours per week. This person will welcome visitors, perform general office duties and prepare the weekly order of worship program. We seek a detail-oriented person who is welcoming and can balance multiple tasks under time-sensitive deadlines. Please go to our website for a complete job description: uusociety.org/employment opportunities_1. If you would like to join our staff team, please email your letter of interest and resume to xina@uusociety.org.
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The Chittenden Solid Waste District is seeking a highly motivated person to be part of a team to collect and process hazardous waste at the Environmental Depot & Rover. The job is physically demanding, involves working with the public, and requires the ability to understand chemical principles and regulations. A bachelor’s degree in chemistry, environmental studies or related field, or high school degree with two years of related experience, is preferred.
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Come work for a fun, fast-paced, everchanging environment! The Vermont Teddy Bear Co., located in Shelburne, is in search of dynamic candidates to join our Bear Crew:
Director of Design Services
Be a leader to our in-house Design Services team to develop compelling marketing materials in support of sales objectives. Create visual presentation of all Vermont Teddy Bear brands in all media: Vermont Teddy Bear, Pajamagram, Pajamajeans and Calyx. Demonstrated ability to seek creative solutions in response to business plans and evolving business trends. Experience as a designer and seasoned manager with the ability to inspire creativity in others. Ideal candidate to have a bachelor’s degree in graphic design with eight years of experience, as well as experience in fashion.
Marketing Analyst
Be part of our Marketing Analytics team to conduct analysis and reporting for all of our products. This is a data-driven position, and the qualified person will create and maintain daily, weekly and monthly reporting as well as different databases. Must be proficient in Excel and Access, highly analytical and able to handle large datasets. Bachelor’s degree and experience in marketing analysis and direct response preferred.
Website Content Coordinator
Coordinate product content on the company’s four websites. Be a project lead for the eCommerce team to ensure all projects and tasks are completed on time, on budget and according to scope. Assist with website development projects as needed. Prior experience working with eCommerce platform software (preferably Magento), a working knowledge of HTML and familiarity with various SAAS marketing tools (SEO, testing and optimization, project management) are preferred. Stop by vermontteddybear.com/employment to see the full descriptions and apply.
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Join our sales team at the historic Middlebury Inn. Help 1-AldrichPublicLib051315.indd 1 5/11/151t-LeapsBounds-111214.indd 2:23 PM contribute to the success of this 1 11/10/14 unique property in the vibrant college town of Middlebury. Now hiring all positions Line Cook, Richmond, full- or Best Western Windjammer You’ll be supporting the Senior Inn & Conference Center part-time. Professional attitude, apply in person, also Sales Manager and responsible Attn: Human Resources experienced and responsible. for selling 71 guest rooms, accepting resumes 1076 Williston Road Creative, laid-back kitchen. Morgan’s Tavern, weddings, South Burlington, VT 05403 for Assistant Manager. conferences, banquets and Toscano Bistro/Café. Fax: 802-651-0640 retailrecruitervt great Vermont history. This Call Chef Jon at 434-3148. EOE @gmail.com is a full-time position for the right candidate. Please forward resume for consideration to 1-Toscano042215.indd 1 4/20/151-WillistonLiquidation051315.indd 8:50 AM 1 5/8/152v-Windjammer051315.indd 2:01 PM 1 5/8/15 1:25 PM geoff@middleburyinn.com.
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Northern Toyotalift has openings for experienced mechanics to work as a forklift Service Technician. Ability to perform detailed and preventative maintenance, repairs and service on forklifts and advanced cleaning equipment. This is a great change for an auto technician in a growing industry. Must have a valid driving license. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, no weekends. Great pay, uniforms provided, paid vacations and holidays. Send resumes to david@ northerntoyotalift.com.
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EnErgy ProjEct ManagEr Burlington Join Housing Vermont’s asset management team in Burlington as the full-time Energy Project Manager. This position is responsible for ensuring best practices in the design and management of building systems related to utility costs and consumption as well as life cycle analysis and planning throughout the portfolio. The position works closely with the development and project management team and requires five years’ experience with energy and facilities management, mechanical systems design, construction and/or maintenance, and HVAC and energy systems. A valid driver’s license is required and proficiency in Microsoft Office. Bachelor’s degree in related field, CEM, CFM and OSHA 10 preferred. For a full position description, please email jobs@ hvt.org. Please send resume and cover letter with salary requirements by May 22 to: Housing Vermont 123 St. Paul Street Burlington, VT 05401 Attn: Eric Schmitt Email: jobs@hvt.org Housing Vermont is an equal opportunity employer. 9v-GardnersSupply051315.indd 1
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Opening at Charlotte Village Winery for persons to conduct wine tastings and general tasting room responsibilities. Starting Memorial Day weekend though December 31, 2015. Must be 18 years of age. We will train. Reply to wpelkey@gmavt.net.
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Looking for a position where you can live at home and work outside? 18 to 24-year-old Burlington Community Crew Members Wanted! The Vermont Youth Conservation Corps (VYCC) is now enrolling AmeriCorps Crew Members for six-month service terms. We are seeking highly motivated individuals who are currently out of school and out of work. Corps Members will work on projects in the Burlington area and will learn to use a variety of tools, including some heavy equipment. Stipend: $366 weekly and $2,822 AmeriCorps Education Award upon successful completion, Wilderness First Responder course, and career-building training. Seasonal positions run from June 14 to November 20. Residential training included. Visit our website, vycc.org, to apply to the Conservation Corps Member application today. For more information, call us at 434-3969, ext. 130.
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Downtown Burlington law firm seeks a fulltime Receptionist/Administrative Assistant. The ideal candidate will be energetic, motivated and polished, with strong telephone, computer and organizational skills. Please send resume to Deborah J. Sabourin, Business Manager, Murphy Sullivan Kronk, 275 College Street, Burlington, VT 05401 or via email to dsabourin@mskvt.com.
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Washington County Mental Health Services is currently seeking the following clinician positions in our Center for Counseling and Psychology Services: Outpatient Clinician: Mental Health Clinician needed to provide clinical services to adults in a physician’s office. This position is colocated in central Vermont primary care offices and employed through Washington County Mental Health Services. A master’s degree, license eligible, a collaborative approach and at least one year experience providing psychotherapy required for this full-time-salaried position. Experience and interest in behavioral psychology desired. Clinical Case Manager for Trauma Programs: Providing assessment, case management and supportive therapy to adults and families whose lives have been impacted by trauma. Service delivery is team-oriented and both office- and community-based. Collaborations and consultations with treatment team will involve WCMHS and community programs, focusing on the effects of trauma, trauma treatment, and coordinating community supports and resources for clients. Master’s level clinician with knowledge of the effects of trauma and experience working with populations impacted by trauma. Experience working in home-based settings preferred. Must have safe vehicle and clean driving record. This is a regular, full-time position with benefits. Must be willing to work some evening hours.
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From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for the next eight weeks, Steeves and Winters will sling made-to-order seasonal juices, including strawberry-rhubarb-apple and the local favorite kale-pear-apple-lemonginger cocktail, dubbed Immunity. Though the two juice at five markets per week during the summer, Winters says adding the City Market afternoons was a no-brainer: “It was a natural connection with the Intervale and with City Market.” m
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“My cooking style tends to be slightly feminine, awkward and vaguely Scandinavian,” he says with only a hint of humor. Burke, who spent a year in the Misery Loves Co. kitchen in Winooski, hears constant flavor suggestions from customers and friends. To date, he’s adopted only one: Beet Chocolate, which was “routinely suggested by my mother.” One of his first ice cream concoctions for Scout blended sweet corn, blueberry and lemon verbena. For Burke, it evokes summertime visits to Sam Mazza’s farm market in Colchester. “That’s one of those childhood memories — going up there to get corn and then boiling it in the backyard with my grandfather,” he says. “So blueberry-corn ice cream makes a lot of sense.” Not every flavor comes together as harmoniously. “We had a tomato-rose one for a while,” Scout server Paige Radney says. “I never really got much good feedback on that one.” Burke’s experience with his very first taster didn’t go so well, either. He began making ice cream at home seven or eight years ago, hoping to use up an excess of raw milk and employing a standard kitchen mixer and freezerbowl attachment. One night his girlfriend arrived home in the wee hours from her bartending job to sample what she thought was a sweet, fruity sorbet. She was angry to find it was actually a watermelon-radish concoction, Burke recalls. Managing customers’ expectations is key to succeeding with funky flavors,
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Green says. Education is as important as service, and Scout employees must master descriptions and offer guidance. “It’s a challenge for us to get people to try new things and experience something they really like,” he concedes. Customers unfamiliar with Scout’s offerings may need time to adjust, Radney suggests, particularly with a twist on a classic, such as Beet Chocolate. “People have kind of a strange first reaction to that and say, ‘Beets in ice cream?’ But it’s good.” Just ask Johanna Jones, age 3. On a visit to Scout, she digs into her cup of Beet Chocolate, licks the spoon clean and expresses her approval with a fudge-encrusted grin. At the counter, her dad, Chris, dresses up her selection with colored sprinkles he shakes from a rainbow-horned unicorn dispenser. “We love stuff that’s different,” Chris Jones says. “We thrive in an unconventional world.” It helps that Scout & Co. sits in Burlington, a major Vermont intersection of ice cream lovers and exploratory eaters. “You need that trust with the chef,” says Michelle Buswell, a pastry and dessert chef and instructor at the New England Culinary Institute. “Some chefs are just so talented, so good at combining flavors.” At a restaurant in New York a few years ago, Buswell recalls, she tried a mustard ice cream. “I was like, ‘Uchh, mustard.’ But it was amazing.” Scout’s ice cream starts with milk and cream from Kimball Brook Farm in North Ferrisburgh. “I think we’re the only people in the state using grass-fed, organic heavy cream,” Burke says.
Keeping With Tradition Poet Sherwin Bitsui’s biography reads like poetry: He is Diné (Navajo) of the Todich’ìi’nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tl’ízílání (Many Goats Clan). Deeply connected to his culture, the bard graduated from the creative writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, then went on to write Flood Song and Shapeshift. Bitsui’s exploration of the differences between native and nonnative cultures resonated with readers, earning him a 2010 PEN Open Book Award, among other literary laurels. The introspective wordsmith heads to the Vermont Studio Center, where he excerpts selected verse as part of the center’s visiting writer series.
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SOUTH END POP-UP PERFORMANCE PROJECT: Placed-based pieces take art admirers on a multimedia journey into music, visual art, oral history and more. 4 Howard Street, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, jb4pax@yahoo.com.
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HOME SHARE NOW INFORMATION SESSION: Locals get up-to-date details on home-sharing opportunities in central Vermont. Worcester Town Hall, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 479-8544.
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COUPON CLIPPERS CLUB: Savvy savers swap circular clippings. Main Reading Room, Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.
VALLEY NIGHT FEATURING PETER BURTON: Locals gather for this weekly bash of craft ales, movies and live music. Big Picture Theater and Café, Waitsfield, 7-9:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation; $2 drafts. Info, 496-8994.
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AFROLATIN PARTY: Dancers ages 18 and up get down to the kizomba, kuduro and kompa with DsantosVT. Zen Lounge, Burlington, lesson, 7:158:15 p.m.; party, 8:15-10 p.m. $6-12; free for party. Info, 227-2572. DROP-IN HIP-HOP DANCE: Beginners are welcome at a groove session inspired by infectious beats. Swan Dojo, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $13. Info, 540-8300.
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TOASTMASTERS OF GREATER BURLINGTON: Those looking to strengthen their speaking and leadership skills gain new tools. Holiday Inn, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 989-3250.
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COFFEE TASTING: Sips of Counter Culture Coffee prompt side-by-side comparisons of different regional blends. Maglianero Café, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 617-331-1276, corey@maglianero.com. A MOSAIC OF FLAVOR: IRAQI KUBBA & FOLDED EGGPLANT: Ahlam Al Attar demonstrates how to prepare traditional dishes from her native country. Edmunds Middle School, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9701. RUTLAND COUNTY FARMERS MARKET: Downtown strollers find high-quality produce, fresh-cut flowers and artisan crafts within arms' reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 2-6 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4813 or 753-7269.
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SUN TO CHEESE TOUR: Fromage lovers go behind the scenes and follow award-winning farmhouse cheddar from raw milk to finished product. Shelburne Farms, 1:45-3:45 p.m. $15 includes a block of cheese. Info, 985-8686.
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DUNGEONS & DRAGONS NIGHT: Quick thinkers ages 14 and up rely on invented personas to face challenges and defeat enemies. Colchester Meeting House, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.
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ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE WORKSHOP: Katie Back teaches ways to move correctly so as to prevent injury and better perform daily activities. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:307:30 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. WED.13
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TECH HELP WITH CLIF: Folks develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and more. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.
MEN'S GROUP: A supportive environment encourages socializing and involvement in senior center activities. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-2518.
VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY SPRING CONFERENCE: Ben & Jerry's CEO Jostein Solheim keynotes a day of exhibits and workshops inspired by "Twenty-five Years of Change Making in Action." Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. $35-200. Info, 862-8347.
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TECH TUTOR PROGRAM: Teens answer questions about computers and devices during one-onone sessions. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 878-4918.
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Kick Off Kristine Lilly has likely earned every accolade there is in professional women’s soccer. During her 23-year tenure with the U.S. Women’s National Team, the top athlete won two Olympic gold medals and two World Cup Championships, among other noteworthy achievements. Lilly hung up her cleats in 2011 and was inaugurated into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame the following year. Off the field, the sportswoman is an in-demand public speaker. Lilly heads to Rutland, where she traces the trajectory of her career from a youth player to collegiate competition to the life of a pro athlete.
KRISTINE LILLY Monday, May 18, 7 p.m., at Paramount Theatre in Rutland. Free. Info, 775-0903. kristinelilly13.com
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The Sicilian Defense is a popular chess strategy among top players. It’s also the name of trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson’s backing band, which should tell you a thing or two about his musical methodology. The rising jazz star studied under famed composer Steve Coleman, developing into a performer whose “music manages a collision of complexity and almost pop-like pleasure,” says PopMatters. Finlayson unleashes a brass attack with the help of pianist David Virelles, guitarist Miles Okazaki, bassist Keith Witty and drummer Damion Reid. Together, these all-star musicians offer audience members a glimpse into the future of modern jazz.
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english as a second language class: Beginners better their vocabulary. pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
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Fiddle Jam: Acoustic musicians congregate for a bow-and-string session. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-1182. song circle: communiTy sing-along: Rich and Laura Atkinson lead an evening of vocal expression. Jaquith public Library, Marshfield, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.
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FirsT-Time home Buyer seminar: Mortgage lenders Mark and Kathy Erickson crunch numbers in "Home Financing 101: Understanding Your Mortgage Options and Deciding What Is Right for You." Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6 p.m. Foreclosure prevenTion workshop: An informative session covers homeowners' rights and timelines and outlines different options. NeighborWorks of Western Vermont, West Rutland, 5-9 p.m. $25 refundable deposit; preregister. Info, 438-2303, ext. 210.
open discussion: 'have you had a spiriTual experience?': Members of Vermont Eckankar host an open forum for those interested in sharing moments of strong intuitions, déjà vu and more. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.
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vermonT young playwrighTs FesTival: Vermont Stage Company members collaborate with student playwrights to bring original theatrical works to life. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 2 p.m. $10. Info, 863-5966.
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spoTlighT: greaT plays discussion series: Theater devotees analyze John patrick Shanley's Doubt, A Parable. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 5:15-6:15 p.m. Free. Info, jogreenvermont@gmail.com.
FiTness BooT camp: participants improve strength, agility, endurance and cardiovascular fitness with interval training. Cornwall Town Hall, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160. Forza: The samurai sword workouT: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when using wooden replicas of the weapon. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243. local Food as local medicine: Herbalist Kate Westdijk outlines the therapeutic benefits of popular fruits and veggies. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9701. vinyasa Flow: An open-level community class stretches the body, mind and spirit. Yoga Roots, Shelburne, 4-5:15 p.m. Donations. Info, 985-0090.
Flowers & Fairy houses: Little ones ages 3 through 5 and their adult companions embark on a whimsical adventure into a miniature world of spring blooms and sprites. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 9-10:30 a.m. $8-10 per adult/child pair; $4 per additional child; preregister. Info, 434-3068.
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vermonT consulTanTs neTwork meeTing: Emily piper of Burlington Young professionals discusses how referrals and networking help an organization connect with current and potential clients. Network performance, South Burlington, 8-9:15 a.m. $15; free for newcomers. Info, 355-5557.
communiTy mindFulness: Folks relieve stress and tension with a 20-minute guided practice led by Andrea O'Connor. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161.
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Jim koehneke: Drawing on decades of experience, the life coach and author presents "Is Life Calling You to Greater Meaning and purpose?: How to Get Ready to Hear Your Call." Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 857-5641.
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Beginner Tai chi For healTh & Balance: A weekly yang short-form series winds down with a seated breathing meditation. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:15-8:45 p.m. $25 per series; preregister. Info, 978-424-7968.
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Bacon Thursday Five-year anniversary parTy: Music lovers get their fill of live tunes and complimentary cured meat at this raucous birthday bash. Nutty Steph's, Middlesex, 6-11 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 595-2253.
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'girlhood': A high school dropout flees her abusive family and seeks solace in the wrong places before taking matters into her own hands in Céline Sciamma's 2014 drama. A discussion follows. In French with English subtitles. Film House, Main Street Landing performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 660–2600.
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winooski cockTail walk: Imbibers mingle with makers of local spirits and bitters over Vermontinspired libations and light fare. Meet at oak45. Various Winooski locations, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $45 includes food and three drinks; preregister. Info, 922-7346.
plainField preschool sTory Time: Children ages 2 through 5 discover the magic of literature. Cutler Memorial Library, plainfield, 10:3011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 454-8504. preschool music: Kiddos have fun with song and dance. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. preschool sTory Time: Captivating narratives pave the way for crafts and activities for youngsters ages 3 through 6. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. spanish musical kids: Amigos ages 1 to 5 learn Latin American songs and games with Constancia Gómez, a native Argentinian. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. yoga wiTh danielle: Toddlers and preschoolers strike a pose, then share stories and songs. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.
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mandarin chinese class: Linguistics lovers practice the dialect spoken throughout northern and southwestern China. Agape Community Church, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 503-2037.
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alan menken: The iconic composer honors the legacy of Ukrainian actress, playwright and theater director Dora Wasserman in an intimate show. Segal Centre for performing Arts, Montréal, 8 p.m. $50. Info, 514-739-7944. 'geT around me': Gillian English tackles the hard truths of her professional rugby career in Melbourne, Australia, during which she was sexually assaulted. MainLine Theatre, Montréal, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 514-849-3378.
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Benefit ConCert: All-star musicians combine talents in a fundraiser for the people of Nepal affected by the earthquake. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7:30-11 p.m. $10. Info, 646-725-3956. ShelBurne Vineyard SeCond thurSdayS ConCert: Singer-songwriter Carol Ann Jones belts out acoustic tunes. Partial proceeds benefit the Vermont Family Network. Shelburne Vineyard, 6 p.m. Free; cost of food and drink. Info, 985-8222.
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dragonS WorkShop: Ivan McBeth of the Green Mountain Druid Order leads an exploration of the mythical serpentines. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-8; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202. Smart inVeSting WorkShop: In "Forget the Fluff: Finances for Real Life," Steve Morneau of Heritage Family Credit Union brings a wealth of knowledge to money-management tips. Castleton Downtown Gallery, Rutland, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 797-8604.
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BuddhiSm panel diSCuSSion: Buddhist perspectives inform an introspective dialogue based on "Embracing Impermanence." Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 6:30-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 224-1001. m.a.g.i.C.: maSCulinity and gender identity ConVerSation: Open sharing encourages attendees to find common ground. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218. roBin Barone: The Vermont Law School professor lends her expertise to "Vermont Landlord-Tenant Law: Your Rights and Responsibilities." Bradford Public Library, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536. Woof! dog CommuniCation in the human World: Is a wagging tail always a friendly invitation? A multimedia presentation demystifies canine behaviors. For humans only; four-legged friends must stay at home. Williston Old Brick Church, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, deb@goldstardog.com.
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'eurydiCe': Aerial silks, shadow puppetry and live music put a modern twist on the classic myth "Orpheus and Eurydice." Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7-9 p.m. $10-60. Info, 229-0492.
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BookS & BiteS: Bibliophiles nosh on light fare while conversing about Jason Mott's The Returned. Bayside Activity Center, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, jmuse@colchestervt.gov.
poetry night out: William Stratton shares stanzas from the recently released Under the Water Was Stone. A Q&A and discussion follow. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. poetry Slam: Pizza fuels poets for a stanza extravaganza. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 324-9538.
fiVe-toWn BixBy Ball: Live tunes from the Grift get revelers on the dance floor. Abundant hors d'oeuvres and a silent auction round out this benefit for the Bixby Library. The Main Dining Room at the Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, 7-11 p.m. $65. Info, 877-2211. home Share noW information SeSSion: See WED.13, Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 479-8544. homeShare Vermont information SeSSion: See WED.13, St. Albans Free Library, noon-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 877-348-1496. plainfield Clothing drop & SWap: Gently used threads find new homes. Drop, Friday; swap, Saturday. Plainfield Fire & Rescue Department, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Free. Info, 454-1460.
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Ballroom & latin danCing: Cha-Cha: Samir Elabd leads choreographed steps for singles and couples. No partner or experience required. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-10 p.m. $6-14. Info, 862-2269.
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Contemporary danCe and fitneSS Studio end-of-year ShoWCaSe: Dancers ages 4 through 60 span styles from ballet to break dance to modern to musical theater. Barre Opera House, 7 p.m. $12-15. Info, 229-4676. engliSh Country danCe: Carol Compton, McKinley James, Sarah Babbitt Spaeth and Rylee Wrenner provide live tunes for newcomers and experienced movers alike. All dances are called and taught. ElleyLong Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, introductory workshop, 7-7:30 p.m.; dance, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10; bring a snack to share. Info, 899-2378.
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military appreCiation night: Local members of the armed services and their families hit the lanes to topple pins and make lasting memories. Call for details. Spare Time Family Fun Center, Colchester, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-2720. turnon Burlington: Communication games encourage attendees to push past comfort zones and experience deep connections. OneTaste Burlington, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 410-474-9250, cj@onetasteburlington.us.
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'unCorking Spring': Patrons of the arts connect over music, refreshments and door prizes at a fundraiser for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. Spates the Florist, Newport, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $30; preregister; limited space. Info, 988-4786.
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drinking aBout Vermont hiStory: Local brewers join Adam Krakowski, author of Vermont Beer: History of a Brewing Revolution, to host an evening dedicated to the state's beer culture past and present. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, 5:30-8 p.m. $40-50; preregister; limited space. Info, 828-2180.
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introduCtion to kundalini yoga: Following a brief lecture, Laura Manfred leads warm-up exercises, postures and a meditation. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. $5-8; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.
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laughter yoga: Breathe, clap, chant and giggle! Participants reduce stress with this playful practice. Bring personal water. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373. FRI.15
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SherWin BitSui: The award-winning poet lends his voice to the Vermont Studio Center Visiting Writers Program. See calendar spotlight. Red Mill Dining Hall. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, 8-9 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2727.
feaSt together or feaSt to go: Senior citizens and their guests chat over a shared meal. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 262-6288.
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nonfiCtion Book CluB: Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel inspires conversation among readers. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.
dinner 4 nepal: Locals support relief efforts for the earthquake in Nepal at a potluck hosted by the Vermont Nepali Youth Forum. Burlington High School, 4:30-7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 864-8411.
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BrIan JohnSon: The eclectic performer lives up to his reputation when incorporating film and poetry into "The percussion Section: Nontraditional Music for Traditional Instruments." FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 863-5966. catamount coffeehouSe: Susan Trump demonstrates her award-winning artistry on the mountain dulcimer, guitar and banjo in "An Evening of Americana." Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 748-2600. 'the next generatIon': Young musicians showcase their classical instrumental and vocal training. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 728-6464. pattI caSey & colIn mccaffrey: The local singer-songwriters serenade picnickers with folk tunes as part of the vineyard's Wine Down Friday music series. Lincoln peak Vineyard, New Haven, 6-8 p.m. Free; price of food and drink. Starry mountaIn SIngerS: Intricate vocal harmonies propel an evening of traditional tunes. College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 7:30-10 p.m. $10-15 suggested donation. Info, 233-5293.
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BIrD Walk: Avian enthusiasts check out feathered fliers on a pastoral stroll. Oakledge park, Burlington, 8 a.m. Free. Info, 658-1414. SprIng mIgratIon BIrD Walk: Birders head to habitat hot spots to search for signs of warblers, waterfowl and other species. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7-8:30 a.m. $10; free for NBNC members. Info, 229-6206.
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rIcharD phIllIpS: The Underhill resident whose harrowing story of survival at sea inspired the film Captain Phillips presents "Captured by pirates." Camel's Hump Middle School, Richmond, 7 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, janevossler@gmail.com.
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'love, Sex anD the I.r.S.': Two out-of-work musicians must face the music when the Internal Revenue Service discovers their fraudulent tax returns in this St. Johnsbury players production. Auditorium, St. Johnsbury School, 7:30 p.m. $7-10. Info, 748-2600. 'the play'S the thIng': A writer attempts to pass off an overheard bedroom conversation as original dialogue in p.G. Wodehouse's comedy, staged by the Lamoille County players. Hyde park Opera House, 7-9:30 p.m. $10-18. Info, 888-4507.
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'Savvy SenIorS': Lyric Theatre Company teams up with the Community of Vermont Elders in an eye-opening performance about identity theft. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1:30-2 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
SpIelpalaSt caBaret: A raucous house orchestra enlivens an evening of ever-evolving theatrics, complete with burlesque beauties and naughty numbers. Main Street Landing performing Arts Center, Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $30-35. Info, 863-5966. 'the tempeSt': The Essex Community players stage Shakespeare's tale of revenge and love. Essex Memorial Hall, 7-9:30 p.m. $12-16. Info, 879-9109. 'treaSure ISlanD': Murder and mayhem on the high seas anchor Lost Nation Theater's adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of buccaneers and buried gold. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 8 p.m. $10-60. Info, 229-0492.
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BroWn Bag Book cluB: Readers voice opinions about Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:301:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. WorD!craft: experImental art rhymeS: Wordsmiths sound off to DJed beats at this mashup of hip-hop and original verse inspired by the theme "Growing." The Art House Gallery, Studio & School, Craftsbury Common, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 755-6336.
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groWIng roSeS In vermont: An in-depth program outlines which flower varieties flourish and thrive in Vermont's challenging climate. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. perennIal plant SWap: Horticulturalists label and trade plants for the garden. No orange daylilies/ditch lilies, please. Courtyard, Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.
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rummage Sale: Bargain hunters browse gently used items. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of plattsburgh, N.Y., 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 518-563-2848.
comedy
kamIkaze comeDy: The improv troupe celebrates 20 years of off-the-cuff madness. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-17.50. Info, 863-5966.
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plaInfIelD clothIng Drop & SWap: See FRI.15, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sock hop gala: Do the twist! Tunes from the Bel Airs transport folks to the 1950s at this benefit for the athenaeum. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-11 p.m. $35; cash bar. Info, 748-8291. Walk mS 2015: participants make strides to raise funds for those living with multiple sclerosis. Montpelier High School; Rutland High School; Hartford High School, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. $25 minimum in funds raised. Info, 871-5691, ext. 2.
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contemporary Dance anD fItneSS StuDIo enD-of-year ShoWcaSe: See FRI.15. meDItatIve InternatIonal cIrcle DancIng: Uplifting music brightens ancient and modern international choreographies. personal water required. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 978-424-7968. uSa Dance vt communIty Ballroom Dance SocIal: Twinkle-toed movers celebrate the art of dance from the foxtrot to the Argentine tango. ElleyLong Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7-11 p.m. $10-15. Info, usadancevt@gmail.com.
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feStIval of fIDoS: Canines take center stage at a family-friendly benefit for Lacey's Fund, which serves retired police dogs. Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. $4-8; free for kids under 5. Info, 800-622-4000.
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Bridge Street Art FAir: Crafts, live music, kid activities and an art show make for family-friendly fun. Bridge Street, Waitsfield, noon-6 p.m. Free. Info, nmcdonough@wwsu.org. MedievAl FAir: Costumed nobles, madrigal singing, stilt walking and themed eats channel the 1500s. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Jericho, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3932.
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'CirCuS dreAMS': Signe Taylor's award-winning documentary chronicles a year in the life of Circus Smirkus. Proceeds benefit local nonprofits. Fairfield Community Center, East Fairfield, 7-9 p.m. $5. Info, 827-3130. 'Son oF CriMeA: Struggle oF A PeoPle': Neşe Sarısoy Karatay's documentary follows the journey of Mustafa Jemilev, a human activist and member of the Crimean Tatars ethic group exiled from the former Soviet Union in 1944. A panel discussion follows. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
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BArre FArMerS MArket: Crafters, bakers and farmers share their goods. Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 505-8437. BrAttleBoro BrewerS FeStivAl: Hops lovers sip their way through a wide array of tasty samples. Vermont Agricultural Business Education Center, Brattleboro, 12:30-4:30 p.m. $30-35; for ages 21 and up. Info, 254-4577. Burlington FArMerS MArket: More than 90 stands overflow with seasonal produce, flowers, artisan wares and prepared foods. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172.
Big truCk dAy & Children'S FeStivAl: Vroom, vroom! Kiddos climb aboard service vehicles at this automobile adventure. Crafts, live music and a barbecue the benefit for the school. Hinesburg Nursery School, 9:45 a.m.-2 p.m. $5; free for adults. Info, 482-3827. MAngA CluB Meeting: Fans of Japanese comics in grades 6 and up bond over their common interest. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. MiddleBury SAturdAy Story tiMe: Captivating narratives arrest the attention of young ’uns. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:3011 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. SAturdAy droP-in Story tiMe: A weekly selection of music and books engages kids of all ages. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5664. SAturdAy Story tiMe: Little ones and their caregivers listen to entertaining tales. Phoenix Books, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. SPAniSh MuSiCAl PlAygrouP: Tykes up to age 5 join Constancia Gómez for stories, rhymes and songs en español. Crafts and snacks with Natasha round out the fun. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
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Em YO CAPitAl City FArMerS MArket: IlY m U R E | C O U R T ES Meats and cheeses join farm-fresh produce, music baked goods, and locally made arts and crafts BellA voCe: In "Tapestry of Song," the all-female throughout the growing season. 60 State Street, vocal ensemble interweaves poetry with composiMontpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958. tions by Brahms, Mendelssohn and others. First ChoColAte tASting: Chocoholics sample confecBaptist Church of Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $15-18. Info, tions and discover the steps involved in evaluat999-8881. ing flavor profiles. Lake Champlain Chocolates Burlington ChAMBer orCheStrA: Guest conFactory Store & Café, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, ductor Yutaka Kono leads local musicians in selec864-1807. tions from Mozart, Fauré and Beethoven. McCarthy MiddleBury FArMerS MArket: Crafts, cheeses, Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7:30 breads, veggies and more vie for spots in shoppers' p.m. $10-25. Info, 863-5966. totes. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-12:30 CAPitAl City ConCertS: Guest violinist Laurie p.m. Free. Info, 377-2980. Smukler leads a performance of works by Brahms newPort FArMerS MArket: Pickles, meats, and Shostakovich in "Five's the Charm." Unitarian eggs, fruits, veggies, herbs and baked goods are a Church of Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $5-25. Info, info@ small sampling of the fresh fare supplied by area capitalcityconcerts.org. growers and producers. Causeway, Newport, 9 eMily Mure: Modern folk music gets a classia.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 274-8206. cal twist in the hands of the singer-songwriter. norwiCh FArMerS MArket: Farmers and Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $15; $35 includes dinner; artisans offer meats, maple syrup and produce preregister. Info, 247-4295. alongside homemade baked goods and handcraftheAvyFeSt: Swale, Gowanus, Soule Monde, ed items. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Rough Francis and Kat Wright & the Indomitable Info, 384-7447. Soul Band entertain revelers at this benefit for rutlAnd County FArMerS MArket: See Big Heavy World. Brewery tours, local eats and WED.13, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. live graffiti art round out the affair. See calendar spotlight. Magic Hat Artifactory, South Burlington, health & fitness 1-6 p.m. $5. Info, 658-2739. FitneSS Boot CAMP: See WED.13, Middlebury MiChele FAy BAnd: Led by the accomplished vocalMunicipal Gym, 7:30-8:30 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160. ist, the local group performs originals and Americana
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'Treasure island': See FRI.15, 2 p.m. VermonT VaudeVille: The Northeast Kingdom troupe brings a unique combination of comedy, circus arts and music to the stage. Spruce peak performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $20-32. Info, 760-4634.
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Jeremy HolT: The Middlebury-based comic book writer behind “Southern Dog” chats with fans of the genre over sips of Shacksbury Cider. Flying pig Books, Shelburne, 3-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 985-3999.
inTernaTional migraTory Bird day & oPen House: "Restore Habitat, Restore Birds" inspires a day dedicated to feathered fliers that takes folks from trails to waterways to a luncheon. Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge, Swanton, 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 868-4781. sPring Trail work: Nature lovers ready the Long Trail for the hiking season. Contact trip leader for details. Richmond park and Ride, 8:30 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 879-1457 or 862-3941.
VCam orienTaTion: Video-production hounds learn basic concepts and nomenclature at an overview of VCAM facilities, policies and procedures. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.
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FriendCHiPs 5k raCe For menToring: Runners pound the pavement, then unwind with prizes and food at this fundraiser for the FriendCHIpS Mentoring program. Albert D. Lawton Intermediate School, Essex Junction, 9:30 a.m. $25; preregister. Info, 878-6982. HearTs For Hunger 5k & Fun run/walk: Athletes break a sweat for the Vermont Foodbank's Backpack program. Champlain Valley Union High School, Hinesburg, registration, 7 a.m.; event, 7:30 a.m-noon . $8-14. Info, heartsforhunger5k@gmail. com. Peak ulTra Trail running raCe: A 15-mile course through the Green Mountain National Forest test runners' stamina. proceeds support the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation. Riverside Farm, pittsfield, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. $60; preregister. Info, 282-3558.
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'all sHook uP VarieTy sHow': Singersongwriter Francesca Blanchard headlines a showcase of local talent hosted by comedian Maryanne Gatos. proceeds benefit the Joe Shook Scholarship Fund. Williston Central School, 7 p.m. $10-25. Info, 425-2638.
The heart and science of medicine.
'THe TemPesT': See FRI.15, 1-2:30 & 7-9:30 p.m.
inTernaTional migraTory Bird day: Birders of all ages keep an eye out for avian activity. Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge, Swanton, 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 868-4781.
genealogy seminar: Ancestry fans journey to the land of kilts and bagpipes in an overview of online Scottish records. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $5. Info, 310-9285.
Allow us to introduce the happy families (from the left): Amanda Thompson and her partner Philip Barber who welcomed their tiny, sweet son Hayden Scott Barber on Sunday afternoon, May 3. Dr. Roger Knowlton delivered Hayden, who weighed 5lb/4oz.
sPielPalasT CaBareT: See FRI.15.
giVing BeTTer FeedBaCk: peter Biello helps writers craft constructive responses to the work of their peers. 22 Church St., Burlington, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.
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'THe Play's THe THing': See FRI.15.
ForesT Bird walk: Birders age 10 and up seek out the scarlet tanager and the elusive Canada warbler, among other migratory species. Various Waterbury locations, 7:30-9 a.m. Donations; preregister; limited space. Info, 233-0332.
sPring Trail work day: Cycling enthusiasts prep the trails for the riding season, then kick back at a barbecue. Rain date: May 17. phoenix Table and Bar, Stowe, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@stowemountainbike.com.
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'loVe, sex and THe i.r.s.': See FRI.15, 2 & 7:30 p.m.
'eurydiCe': See THU.14, 8-10 p.m. 'graPes oF wraTH': See THU.14, 2 p.m.
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Beginning israeli danCing: participants exercise their bodies and minds when learning the basic steps of more than 10 dances set to Israeli music. Social Hall, Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, beginner session, 7:30-8:30; advanced practice, 8:30-9:30 p.m. $2. Info, 730-2174. ConTemPorary danCe and FiTness sTudio end-oF-year sHowCase: See FRI.15, 1 p.m. danCe, sing & JumP around: Kenric Kite and friends dole out live tunes while Liz Benjamin calls the steps at an intergenerational shindig. A potluck picnic follows at the plainfield Recreation Field. plainfield Town Hall, 3-4:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation; free for kids. Info, 223-1509. swing & salsa Class: Taryn Noelle helps teens and adults break down steps into danceable bits. Green Mountain performing Arts, Waterbury, 4:305:45 p.m. $20. Info, 244-8600.
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oPera ComPany oF middleBury: meeT THe singers: The stars of Turandot sing their favorite arias, then mingle with attendees over drinks and hors d'oeuvres. Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, Middlebury, 5-6:30 p.m. $35. Info, 382-9222. wild amBassadors: liVe raPTors: Fans of feathered fliers stretch their wings and experience the birds of prey firsthand. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 11 a.m.-noon. $6.50-10. Info, 434-2167.
food & drink
inTernaTional dinner series: A celebration of Nepalese culture serves up traditional fare alongside a slide show and discussion. proceeds benefit earthquake relief for Nepal. North End Studio A, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 863-6713.
health & fitness
nia wiTH linda: Drawing from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, sensory-based movements inspire participants to explore their potential. South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691. sunday sangHa: CommuniTy asHTanga yoga: Students of all ages and skill levels hit the mat to breathe through a series of poses. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 5:40-7 p.m. $1-20 suggested donation. Info, 224-6183.
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Childlight Yoga for Kids: Little ones ages 3 through 6 hit the mat and learn a sequence of stretches. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-1:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Kids Yoga: Strength and balance exercises encourage focus and relaxation in yogis ages 3 through 7. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 4:15-5:15 p.m. $12. Info, 224-6183. russian PlaYtime With natasha: Youngsters up to age 8 learn new words via rhymes, games, music, dance and a puppet show. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.
language
dimanChes frenCh Conversation: Parlezvous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual drop-in chat. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.
music
Bella voCe: See SAT.16, South Hero Congregational Church, 3-5 p.m. $15-18. Info, 999-8881. hanita Blair & Jason Bergman: A spirited show travels from Anglo-Celtic and Appalachian ballads to Jewish folk tunes and Renaissance music. Riverside School Barn, Lyndonville, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 748-5683. Jonathan finlaYson & siCilian defense: The celebrated trumpeter takes jazz in a new direction. See calendar spotlight. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. $20. Info, 863-5966. onion river Chorus: See SAT.16, Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 7 p.m. $10-15; $30 per family. Info, 476-4300. oriana singers: William Metcalfe conducts an all-Bach program, complete with accompaniment from a period-instrument orchestra. The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, 4 p.m. $25. Info, 864-0471.
'the PlaY's the thing': See FRI.15, 2-4:30 p.m. 'the temPest': See FRI.15, 1-2:30 p.m. 'treasure island': See FRI.15, 2 p.m.
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don PaPson: The author of Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad reads his work as part of the museum's opening day celebration. Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, 3 p.m. Free with admission, $8-10. Info, 877-3406. harveY amani Whitfield: Shedding new light on the state's constitution, the UVM historian excerpts The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont 1777-1810. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-4556. radio PlaY WorKshoP: Wordsmiths explore the art of writing narrative to be broadcast over the airwaves. 22 Church St., Burlington, noon-2 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.
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milton route 7 transPortation studY meeting: Area residents identify ways to improve walking, biking, traffic and overall safety along the major roadway. Milton Municipal Building, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-1794.
dance
starrY mountain singers: See FRI.15, Hanover Friends Meeting, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-15 suggested donation. Info, 233-5293.
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liBrarY liBations: Bibliophiles sip themed cocktails at a literary mixer to kick off the Vermont Library Conference. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $5. Info, 863-3403.
earlY Birders morning WalK: Adults and older children don binoculars and keep an eye out for feathered fliers. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 7-9 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 434-2167.
games
elise guYette & gail rosenBerg: The developers of a popular culinary tour of the Queen City present “Edible History: Burlington’s Early Immigrants and Their Foodways.” Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 985-3063. Jeff hamelman: The seasoned beekeeper creates a buzz with an in-depth examination of the history of beekeeping in Vermont. Woodstock History Center, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 457-1822.
trivia night: Teams of quick thinkers gather for a meeting of the minds. Lobby, Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 651-5012.
health & fitness
Beginner tai Chi for health & BalanCe: See THU.14, 5:15-6:45 p.m. BodY reBoot CamP for neW moms: Using timed intervals, body weight and other tools, an innovative class helps mothers get fit. Middlebury Municipal Gym, 10-11 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160. dYnamiC Qigong: Graceful movements align with breath and awareness to enhance health and wellbeing. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 7-8:15 p.m. $14. Info, 238-2637. r.i.P.P.e.d.: See WED.13.
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SASH (Support And Services at Home) is a state-wide program that offers a coordinator & wellness nurse to support you where you live. These two folks work to understand you and your unique health & wellness needs, to connect you to lots of resources, and to help you stay safe, happy and healthy in your home. We PARTNER together with YOU, your doctors, visiting nurses, Council on Aging, mental health agency, and housing agency to make things smoother and simpler for you.
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Bird WalK: A one-mile loop highlights one of the state's prime birding spots. Contact trip leader for details. Woodside Natural Area, Essex Junction, 9 a.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 899-4327.
sports
SASH in Central Vermont has openings right now to enroll & support community-living elders.
theater
salsa mondaYs: Dancers learn the techniques and patterns of salsa, merengue, bachata and the cha-cha. North End Studio A, Burlington, fundamentals, 7 p.m.; intermediate, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 227-2572.
naturalists field daY: Michael Sabourin and Brett Engstrom lead their peers in a day of camaraderie and field observations. Stranahan Town Forest, Marshfield, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 426-2133.
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mud talK: sharKs!: Local filmmaker Erin Davis focuses her lens on progressive play-based learning in a Welsh adventure playground in her documentary short The Land. A discussion follows. Middlebury Town Hall Theater, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $6-12. Info, 388-4277.
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Green Mountain Book Award Reader's Club: Lit lovers ages 14 and up chat about Emily Murdoch's If You Find Me. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. Green Mountain Youth Symphony Auditions: Musicians of varying skill levels vie for spots in the organization. Contact organizer for details. Monteverdi Music School, Montpelier. Free. Info, 888-4470, info@gmys-vt.org. Kids Yoga: A fun-filled class for yogis ages 8 through 12 encourages focus, creativity and teamwork. Grateful Yoga, Montpelier, 4:15-5:15 p.m. $12. Info, 224-6183. Preschool Music: See THU.14, 11 a.m. Preschool Story Time: See THU.14. 'Star Wars' Club: May the force be with you! Fans of George Lucas' intergalactic epic bond over common interests. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Stories With Megan: See FRI.15, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
lgbtq
Community Cinema: 'Limited Partnership': Richard Adams and Tony Sullivan's decades-long legal battle against the federal government illuminates the ongoing struggle for same-sex marriage rights in the U.S. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
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Downtown Herb Walk: Herbalist Guido Masé identifies common medicinal plants that populate Burlington's sidewalks, parks and lawns. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 867-9701.
seminars
Embodying Leadership: Sarah Lipton helps participants manifest a creative, empowered vision. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7 p.m. $8-10; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.
talks
Kristine Lilly: The Olympic gold medalist and World Cup champion shares lessons learned on and off the soccer field. See calendar spotlight. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 775-0903. Laura Mann Integrative Health Care Lecture Series: Tracy Williams Gaudet presents "Integrative and Patient-Centered Care: Health Care Improvement or True Transformation?" Davis Auditorium, Medical Education Center Pavilion, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, 8-9 a.m. Free. Info, cara.feldman-hunt@uvm.edu.
TUE.19 business
Innovation Engineering Express: Entrepreneur Doug Hall lends his expertise to an in-depth examination of new platforms in engineering. Burton Snowboards, Burlington, 8 a.m.-noon & 1-5 p.m. $50. Info, 728-1432.
community
Feast Together or Feast to Go: See FRI.15. Mentoring Discussion Group: King Street Youth Center volunteers catch up over breakfast. King Street Center, Burlington, 8:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, gabriella@kingstreetcenter.org. Tuesday Volunteer Nights: Helping hands pitch in around the shop by organizing parts, moving bikes and tackling other projects. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.
Fairfax Story Hour: 'Gardens': Good listeners up to age 6 are rewarded with tales, crafts, activities and face painting. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. Music With Mr. Chris: Singer, storyteller and puppeteer Chris Dorman entertains wee ones and their parents. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. 'Skippyjon Jones': The beloved Siamese cat from Judy Schachner's children's book series travels from the page to the stage in this TheaterworksUSA production. Barre Opera House, 10 a.m. $7; preregister. Info, 476-8188. Tech Tuesdays: Tinkerers tackle e-crafts, circuits and programming. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665. Youth Education Series: 'Dog Loves Books': Louise Yates' best-selling children's book comes to life in ArtsPower's musical about a canine's fondness for the written word. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 10 a.m. Free. Info, 603-448-0400. Youth Media Lab: Aspiring Spielbergs learn about moviemaking with television experts. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.
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conferences
Vermont Library Conference: Librarian Scott Bonner of Ferguson, Miss., keynotes an annual assembly of his peers. Champlain College, Burlington, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. $15-85. Info, 655-6424.
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Shared Moments Open Mic: Recille Hamrell hosts an evening of off-the-cuff true tales about pivotal events. First Unitarian Universalist Society, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 863-1754.
Creative Tuesdays: Artists exercise their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
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Sambatucada! Open Rehearsal: New faces are invited to pitch in as Burlington's samba streetpercussion band sharpens its tunes. Experience and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.
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Screenwriting Workshop: Aspiring dramatic writers practice the art of the three-act structure. Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 877-2211, ext. 208.
Active Senior Boot Camp: Participants break a sweat while improving strength, flexibility and cardiovascular health. Middlebury Municipal Gym, 10-11 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160.
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health & fitness
Adult Writing Group: Wordsmiths hone their skills at a monthly meet-up. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.
'La Causerie' French Conversation: Native speakers are welcome to pipe up at an unstructured conversational practice for students. El Gato Cantina, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.
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film
'Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies': A screening of the PBS series follows cancer patients and researchers who have made great strides against the disease. A panel discussion follows. Carpenter Auditorium, Given Medical Building, UVM, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2176.
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Sally Pinkas: The Hopkins Center pianist-inresidence premieres Dan Román's SyncopaXiones alongside works by Shostakovich, Schubert and Beethoven. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-27. Info, 603-646-2422.
seminars
Going Solar Without Going Broke: Taylor Ralph of Suncommon presents budget-friendly options for harnessing the sun's energy. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:306:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.
'Paths of Glory': Fred Astaire stars in George Stevens' 1936 drama about a performer who moves to New York City to finance his wedding, only to fall for a dancer. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free; first come, first served. Info, 540-3018.
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food & drink
Vermont Foodbank Presentation: An overview of hunger in the state outlines ways to address the issue on a local level. Fairfax Community Library, 6-7 p.m. Donations of nonperishable food items accepted. Info, 849-2420.
Benefit Bake: Pizza lovers dine on slices in support of Camp Kaleidoscope. Partial proceeds from each flatbread sold are donated. American Flatbread, Burlington Hearth, 5-11 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 453-2592.
games
Gaming for Teens & Adults: Tabletop games entertain players of all skill levels. Kids 13 and under require a legal guardian or parental permission to attend. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
Senior Success Series: Meg Burmesier of the Central Vermont Council on Aging covers assisted living, long-term care Medicaid programs and other health care topics. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2518.
theater
'Agnes of God' Audition: The St. Johnsbury Players hold tryouts for a production of John Pielmeier’s compelling drama about a psychiatrist who must assess the sanity of a nun accused of murder. St. Johnsbury School, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 751-1175.
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Barry Estabrook: The author sheds light on swines and the pork industry in Pig Tales. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774.
WED.20 business
Kelley Marketing Meeting: Marketing, advertising, communications, social media and design professionals brainstorm ideas for local nonprofits over breakfast. Room 217, Ireland Building, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:45-9 a.m. Free. Info, 865-6495.
comedy
Green Mountain Comedy Festival: More than 100 standup, improv and sketch performers deliver five days of gut-busting laughs. See greenmountaincomedy.com for details. Various Barre & Burlington locations, 8-10 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 373-4703. Tig Notaro: The quick-witted comic known for her deadpan delivery elicits big laughs in a gut-busting show. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $22.50-25. Info, 603-646-2422.
community
Peer Support Circle: See WED.13. Spring Move Out Project (SMOP): Trash becomes treasure when neighbors swap unwanted household wares, furniture, books and nonperishable food items. Buell & Loomis streets, Burlington, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 656-9405.
conferences
Vermont Architecture & Construction Expo: Industry professionals examine ideas, trends and products related to "Resiliency: Is It the New Sustainability?" See aiavt.org for details. Hilton Hotel, Burlington, 12:30-7 p.m. $80-225. Info, 425-6162. Vermont Chamber Business & Industry Expo: Business leaders network at seminars, special events and a trade show featuring nearly 200 local companies. See vtchamber.com for details. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 865-5202.
crafts
Knitters & Needleworkers: See WED.13, Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.
dance
AfroLatin Party: See WED.13. Drop-in Hip-Hop Dance: See WED.13.
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film
'Death Makes Life Possible': Mark Krigbaum's award-winning 2014 documentary aims to shift the collective consciousness surrounding death into an inspiration for living. Partial proceeds benefit the Wake Up to Dying Project. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 2 & 7 p.m. $15-20. Info, 318-6901. 'Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie: Part 5': "Ceres' Children" examines the state's history of farming and independence — including grassroots democracy and the protection of natural resources. Bradford Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536.
food & drink
Barre Farmers Market: See SAT.16, 3-7 p.m. Coffee Tasting: See WED.13.
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Rutland County FaRmeRs maRket: See WED.13.
health & fitness
BeComing toBaCCo FRee: See WED.13. eleCtRomagnetiC Radiation & youR HealtH: Ray Pealer presents ways to reduce the effects of EMR on physical and emotional health, including creating a sleep sanctuary. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-3338. Fitness Boot Camp: See WED.13.
kids
'all in tHe Family' Film seRies: Themed movies provide age-appropriate entertainment. Call for details. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. meet RoCkin' Ron tHe FRiendly piRate: See WED.13. musiC makeRs: Song-based activities help increase children's vocabulary and phonological awareness. Richmond Free Library, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3036.
tangoFlow!: See WED.13.
pajama stoRy time: Tykes cuddle up in PJs for captivating tales, cookies and milk. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.
weigHt loss FoR Foodies: Holistic health coach Krissy Ruddy details ways to shed pounds without sacrificing satisfaction. City Market/Onion River Coop, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9701.
Read to a dog: Lit lovers take advantage of quality time with a friendly, fuzzy therapy pooch. Fairfax Community Library, 3:15-4:15 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 849-2420.
insigHt meditation: See WED.13. R.i.p.p.e.d.: See WED.13.
pRogRams FoR pResCHooleRs: See WED.13.
stoRy time & playgRoup: See WED.13.
language
englisH as a seCond language Class: See WED.13. geRman-englisH ConveRsation gRoup: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. inteRmediate/advanCed englisH as a seCond language Class: See WED.13.
music
song CiRCle: Music lovers convene for an acoustic session of popular folk tunes. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 775-1182.
sports
women's piCkup BasketBall: See WED.13.
talks
CuRRent events ConveRsation: An informal open discussion delves into newsworthy subjects. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. deB CHisHolm: The educator offers strategies for addressing bullying and difficult relationships on personal and professional levels. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
theater
'agnes oF god' audition: See TUE.19.
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stoRytelling CiRCle: Recille Hamrell facilitates an afternoon of story sharing by local senior citizens. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. unFilteRed: wine & poetRy: Locally made vino pairs perfectly with verse from Vermont poets. Shelburne Vineyard, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 985-8222. m
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art EASY AS CAKE OIL PAINTING: Always wanted to try oil paints? Together, we will play around with oils in order to get a feel for what this medium can do. Explore oil paints while creating a painting in the style of Wayne Thiebaud. Quickly learn that oil painting can be easy as cake! Supplies provided. Sun., May 17, 3-5:30 p.m. Cost: $40/person; $35 for members or $60 for 2. Location: ONE Arts Center, 72 N. Champlain St., Burlington. Info: Becca McHale, 338-0028, oneartscollective@gmail.com, oneartscenter.com.
ASH BARK BASKETMAKING WORKSHOP: This is your chance to make a backpack from an ash tree! We will walk into the woods, harvest an ash tree, peel the bark, and craft it into baskets. This daylong workshop includes a nourishing lunch. Sat., May 30, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $175/ daylong workshop; incl. all materials, lunch & snacks. Location: Harmonized Earth Education School, 450 Sparrow Farm Rd., Montpelier. Info: Harmonized Cookery, Lisa Mase, 598-9206, lisa@harmonizedcookery.com, healthyeatingprogram.info.
LEARN TO SEW AT NIDO: Take our Learn to Sew I class on Mon., May 18, and learn basic sewing techniques. Follow up with our Learn to Sew II class on Mon., May 25, and continue to build your sewing repertoire. Attendants leave with finished projects and tons of inspiration. Kids Learn to Sew class is Sun., May 17. Register today! Cost: $48/3-hour class; materials incl. Location: Nido Fabric and Yarn, 209 College St., suite 2E, Burlington. Info: 881-0068, info@ nidovt.com, nidovt.com.
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BEGINNER CLAY: Instructor: Rik Rolla. A great course for beginners looking to learn the fundamentals of basic wheel-throwing techniques. You will learn how to center, throw,
FAMILY WHEEL AGE 10+: Instructor: Rik Rolla. Adult and child age 10 and up learn, share and discover the craft of wheelthrown pottery together. Learn the essentials of working on the potter’s wheel, from centering to forming, pulling, and trimming cylinders and bowls. Leave the class with functional art made together. Your work will be fired in our electric kiln. Weekly on Wed., Jul. 1-29, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $170/person; member
FAMILY WORKSHOP: CLAY: Instructor: Mikayla Johnson. Share the experience of exploring clay through slab work alongside a member or members of your family. The instructor will introduce different methods for working with slabs and then shape, slip and score the clay to create something for your home. Build a replica of your home together; collaborate to make a piece of ceramic art that can hang on the wall or, work independently and create cups or textured tiles. Enliven your creations with color by painting the surface with vibrant mason stains. Sun., Jul. 19, 10 a.m.noon. Cost: $25/person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648. HULA HOOP MAKING: Instructor: Mikayla Johnson. The only place to buy a dancer’s hula hoop is online. Instead, get creative and make one yourself! Join this workshop and construct a hula hoop that fits you and your personality perfectly.
With the guidance of the instructor, you will join precut tubing into the shape of a hoop. After that, explore the joy of decorating your hoop with colorful tape, different fabrics and other fun materials. Spend the rest of the afternoon playing and dancing with your creation, but watch out: onlookers will be unable to look away! Ages 8 and up. Sat., Jul. 25, 1-3 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648. INDEPENDENT WHEEL: Instructor: Rik Rolla. This is a great class to polish up skills, refine your craft and spend time in the studio. Rik can help you with your wheel throwing skills, glazing techniques and surface texturing. You set the pace; Rik is available for demos and handson assistance. The gas reduction kiln and electric oxidation kiln are for your use, as well as an option to explore all other available firing methods. Weekly on Wed., 1-3 p.m., Jul. 1-Aug. 26. Cost: $306/person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648.
INK DRAWING: Instructor: Wylie Garcia. In this class, students will explore different methods and techniques for drawing with ink and graphite on paper. Each class will begin with a meditative process where students explore a medium such as Chinese Sumi Ink, graphite, charcoal and micro pens. Then the class will be broken down into a series of short exercises that explore the technique practiced that day. Techniques will include layering, balance of light to dark and weton-wet and will be applied to still life, abstract and plein air drawing. Weekly on Thu., Jun. 25-Jul. 30, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $174/ person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648. SHAKER HALL TABLE: Instructor: Ryan Cocina. A comprehensive introduction to woodworking, this course explores the basic principles of lumber selection, hand-tool and machinery usage, milling, joinery, and finishing. Students will build their own Shaker-style hall table, taking the project from blueprint through completion, CRAFT
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INTRODUCTION TO SOLIDWORKS: This class focuses on design for manufacturing: designing sheetmetal, machined components, injection moldings and castings â?? skills companies look for in their potential employees. You will learn to solve real-world problems encountered in product design and leave able to design products
COMPOSITION: Instructor: Kalin Thomas. In this course, students will learn the essential vocabulary of expression, which can be applied to any style and in any medium. Each class will work with specific compositional issues in small sketches in pencil and in paint. Working mostly with abstract and semi-representational forms, students will compose a picture in their own style. This class is open to artists in all mediums and of all skill levels. Weekly on Wed., Jul. 1-Aug. 5, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $174/ person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648.
discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648.
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CLAY HAND AND WHEEL: Instructor: Dasha Kalisz. This class is designed for the intermediate and advanced student with an interest in altering wheel-thrown objects and in expanding the possibilities of surface design. Students will be encouraged to think about their style and how shape, line, repetition, pattern and imagery are serving the individual work to promote their vision. Each class will include a demonstration and time to practice newly learned techniques; the instructor will provide individual assistance. Prerequisite: Beginning Wheel. Weekly on Sat., Jul. 11-Aug. 29, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $277/ person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648.
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WINE & WATERCOLOR: Curious about painting? Love wine? This class will bring them both together in a fun, artful workshop with a “From the Garden” theme. Learn the basics of watercolors in a relaxed environment with wine and good company. Open to all levels. Materials provided. Taught by Jacquelyn Heloise. Includes two drinks. Thu., May 14, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $40/person in advance; $45 at the door; $35 for members; $70 for 2; 3-hour class incl. 2 supplies & 2 drinks. Location: ONE Arts Center, 72 N. Champlain St., Burlington. Info: Becca McHale, 338-0028, oneartscollective@gmail.com, oneartscenter.com.
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BLACKSMITHING: Instructor: Robert Wetzel. Using a forge, you will learn basic blacksmith techniques from building and maintaining fire to hammer control. Students will create hooks, pokers and small leaves during this two-day workshop. Sat. & Sun., Jun. 27 & 28, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $204/person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648.
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PRINTMAKING: CARD WORKSHOP: Create your own series of cards to send to friends and family. We will explore a variety of printing techniques with a number of found objects and blocks. You can also collage creatively with mixed media, quotes, letter stamps and more! Two drinks included! Bring a friend for discounted tickets! Fri., May 15, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $40/ person in advance; $45 at the door; $35 for members; $70 for 2; incl. 2 drinks per person. Location: ONE Arts Center, 72 N. Champlain St., Burlington. Info: Becca McHale, 338-0028, oneartscollective@gmail.com, oneartscenter.com.
and communicate design intent through drawings. May 18-21. Cost: $1,095/4-day class. Location: Vermont Woodworking School, 148 Main St., Fairfax. Info: 849-2013, info@vermont woodworkingschool.com, vermontwoodworkingschool. com.
trim and glaze. After you craft your pottery on the wheel, Rik will guide you to create finished pieces for the electric oxidation kiln. You will leave with several functional pieces. Weekly on Tue., Jun. 16-Jul. 21, 5-7 p.m. Cost: $209/person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648.
classes THE FOLLOWING CLASS LISTINGS ARE PAID ADVERTISEMENTS. ANNOUNCE YOUR CLASS FOR AS LITTLE AS $13.75/WEEK (INCLUDES SIX PHOTOS AND UNLIMITED DESCRIPTION ONLINE). SUBMIT YOUR CLASS AD AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTCLASS.
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learning to both organize and conceptualize a furniture project and gain familiarity with the woodshop environment. Weekly on Mon., Jun. 29-Aug. 31, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $450/person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648. STONE SETTING: Instructor: Matthew Taylor. In this class you will learn how to handmake a bezel for cabochon gemstones. You may bring or purchase your
stone here. Come up with your own design for a beautiful piece and choose from different types of stone for the centerpiece. Learn the process from start to finish, including cutting, filing, sanding, soldering, texture, polishing and more. Weekly on Tue., Jul. 7-Aug. 18 (no class Aug. 11), 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $219/ person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648. WORKSHOP: LUMINARIES: Instructor: Lisa Ferreira Jones. In this 3-day intensive, students will create beautiful handmade
papers and then use them to construct a luminary structure. We will cover the complete process of paper making, from beating the pulp and adding pigment to adding inclusions and pulling sheets. We will use abaca pulp and natural elements such as dried plant life and fibers that add texture, color and design. Apply these one-of-a-kind papers to a lantern structure and/or a journal. Aug. 14-16, Fri., Sat. & Sun., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $530/person; member discount avail. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648. WHEEL PRIMITIVE FIRING: Instructor: Rik Rolla. Explore clay in a creative and supportive environment. The class will discuss and explore the variety of form function, color and glazes. This mixed-level class will offer you hands-on experience by firing pots in the primitive pit, along with a 15th-century Raku kiln. The gas reduction
kiln and electric kiln with be also available for your work. Basic wheel throwing skills are encouraged but not required. Weekly on Mon., Jun. 29-Aug. 24, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: $306/ person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648.
dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@ salsalina.com. DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hour class. Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com.
Jun. 22. $144/3 weeks. Kids and Parents Class on Mon. & Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m. 3-week session starts Jun. 22. $60/child or $90/ parent-child duo. A five-person minimum required to run most classes; invite friends! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 9994255, classes@burlingtontaiko. org, burlingtontaiko.org.
the opportunity to connect to the web of comfort, teaching and support created by generations of healers and available to all people of good heart. Preregistration required. Jun. 4, Thu., 6:30-9 p.m. By donation. Location: JourneyWorks, 1205 North Ave., 3rd floor, Burlington. Info: 860-6203, journeyworksvt. com.
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WORKING WITH MANDALAS: A contemplative, hands-on workshop designed to introduce participants to the powerful spiritual effect that results in the process of crafting a mandala. All tools and media will be provided. Class size limited to 12. Led by Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author. May 16 & 30, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $60/person. Location: Masonic Lodge, St. Albans. Info: 244-7909. WORKING WITH THE POWER OF SYMBOLS: Learn how to work with and interpret symbols in this hands-on course, supplemented with a special workshop on the power of glyphs. Led by Sue Mehrtens and Carol Van Tuinen. May 14, 21 & 28 & Jun. 4, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60/person. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover La., Waterbury. Info: 244-7909.
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design/build TINY-HOUSE WORKSHOP: A crew of beginners will help instructor Peter King frame and sheath a 16- x 24-foot tiny house in Grand Isle, May 23-24. Plenty of hands-on experience for absolute beginners. Tools provided; safety glasses required. On-site camping avail. Cost: $250/workshop. Location: Grand Isle. Info: Peter King, 933-6103.
drumming DJEMBE IN BURLINGTON!: Learn drum technique and rhythms on West African drums! Wednesday Burlington Beginners Djembe Class starts Wed., May 13, 7-8:20 p.m., $54/3 weeks; & Jun. 24, 5:30-6:20 p.m., $36/3 weeks. Djembes provided! Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 9994255, classes@burlingtontaiko. org, burlingtontaiko.org. TAIKO DRUMMING IN BURLINGTON!: Come study with Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko! Beginner/Recreational Class on Tue., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Session starts Jun. 23. $72/6 weeks. Accelerated Taiko Program for Beginners on Mon. & Wed., 6:30-8:30 p.m. Session starts
CONTEMPORARY DANCE: LOOKING DEEPER: This intensive is designed to support and strengthen the skills and community of practicing contemporary dancers and dance-makers in our region. Each intensive will focus on different aspects of the skills at the core of strong and compelling performers and performances. Using improvisational structures, the aim will be to strengthen our capacity to be fully awake, aware and able to respond to our constantly changing “world,” be it the studio, the stage, a specific site, or our community. Instructor: Elena Demyanenko. Adults & teens 16+. Sun., May 24, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $30/person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.
healing arts THE HEALERS’ REFUGE: Being sensitive to suffering can be challenging, especially in difficult times. In this brief workshop participants will have
RUSTIC LOG FURNITURE CLASS: MUDROOM BENCH & COAT RACK: This course will cover sustainable harvesting, stock selection, design, layout, joinery and finishing. Students will take home their finished projects. Materials included. Sat., May 16 or Wed., May 20, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $175/member; $200/ member. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday. com, helenday.com.
herbs VERMONT SCHOOL OF HERBAL STUDIES: offers a beginners individualized 16-hour weekend. The basic skills of medicine making.. from harvest through preparation to medicine chest. We will formulate medicines that are the foundations of self care for common ailments. One-on-one with Herbalist. Herb walks, two vegetarian meals, certificate. Call for available dates. Cost: $425/person. Location: Vermont School of Herbal Studies, Greensboro. Info: 533-2344.
language LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Connect with a new world. We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers’ lesson package. Our ninth year. Personal instruction from a native speaker. Small classes, private lessons and online instruction. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com. ALLIANCE FRANCAISE: SUMMER SESSION: Six-week French classes for adults at our Colchester and Montpelier locations. June 8-July 16. One morning session available in Colchester. Our summer session includes conversation classes for all levels as well as classes that will combine language instructions and culture. We also offer private tutoring.
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Snake-Style Tai Chi Chuan: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org.
Honest Yoga, The only dedicated Hot Yoga Flow Center: Honest Yoga offers practice for all levels. Brand new beginners’ courses include two specialty classes per week for four weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily classes in Essentials, Flow and Core Flow with alignment constancy. We hold teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels. Daily classes & workshops. $25/new student 1st week unlimited; $15/class or $130/10-class card; $12/ class for student or senior or $100/10-class punch card. Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@gmail.com, honestyogacenter.com.
well-being Intro To Orgasmic Meditation: Orgasmic Meditation (OM) is a wellness practice that is designed for singles and couples to experience more connection, vitality, pleasure and meaning in every aspect of their lives. This course will give you all you need to learn the practice, including a live demonstration. Sat., May 30, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $199/fullday class. Location: OneTaste Burlington, 215 College St., 3rd floor, Burlington. Info: Cara Joy, 410-474-9250, cj@onetaste burlington.us, onetaste burlington.us.
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Prenatal Method Studio: Prenatal and postnatal yoga and barre classes. Yoga for Fertility Class Series. Childbirth Education Series and weekend intensives. Yoga Alliance Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training Program. Empathy circles, infant massage and new mothers groups. Supporting women and their partners in the management and journey of pregnancy and childbirth. Every day: lunchtimes, evenings & weekends. Cost: $15/1-hour prenatal or postnatal yoga class. Location: Prenatal Method Studio, 1 Mill St., suite 236, at the Chace Mill, Burlington. Info: 829-0211, beth@ prenatalmethod.com, prenatalmethod.com.
Lighting the Path/ Untangling the Obstacles: In the midst of our busy lives, we don’t often find time to nourish our spiritual life or practice. Using the methods of psychodrama and Playback Theatre, we will examine ways to increase motivation and reduce obstacles to creating a larger space for the spiritual in our life. Jun. 13-14, Sat. & Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $150/person; lunch provided. Location: JourneyWorks, 1205 North Ave., 3rd floor, Burlington. Info: 860-6203, journeyworksvt.com.
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Learn to Meditate: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Café (meditation and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro
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Getting Off the Wheel of Suffering: A Video Stream with Pema Chodron: Worldrenowned Buddhist teacher Pema Chodron teaches us how our habits keep us spinning and how we can stop this process at any moment by connecting with the vast, open space that is inherent in our mind. The weekend program will include a video stream of Pema’s talks, meditation and discussion. Sat., May 30, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. & Sun., May 31, 9 a.m.-noon. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Patti Lanich, 658-6795, pattilanich@gmail. com, burlington.shambhala.org/ program-details/?id=223364.
to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Friday of each month, 7-9 p.m. Instruction: Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt. Sessions: Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m., & Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org.
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VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 660-4072, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.
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Yoga Roots: Yoga Roots provides a daily schedule of yoga classes for all ages and abilities. We aim to clarify your mind, strengthen your body and ignite your joyful spirit through classes such as Prenatal Yoga, Gentle Yoga, Anusura-inspired all levels, Therapeutic
Burlington Hot Yoga: Try something different!: Really different, hot yoga with far infrared heating panels. We offer creative, vinyasa-style yoga classes featuring Prana Flow Hot Yoga in a 93-degree studio with balanced humidity, accompanied by eclectic music in our newly remodeled studio. Come try this unique heat which has many healing benefits. Classes daily. Ahh, to be warm on a cold day, a flowing practice, a cool stone meditation and a chilled orange scented towel to complete your spa yoga experience. Get hot: 2-for-1 offer. $15. Go to hotyogaburlingtonvt.com. Location: North End Studio B, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 999-9963.
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Location: Alliance Francaise, Colchester & Montpelier. Info: Micheline Tremblay, 881-8826, aflcr.org.
Blessing of Illness Retreat: Join psychotherapist Molly Bernardi Smith and culinary medicine educator Lisa Mase for this daylong retreat. We will witness our relationship to illness and explore pathways to wellness through meditation, gentle movement, conversation and art. Open to all and inspired by our personal journeys with illness. Sat., May 25, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $195/person; incl. all materials, lunch & snacks. Location: Harmonized Earth Education School, 450 Sparrow Farm Rd., Montpelier. Info: Harmonized Cookery, Lisa Mase, 598-9206, lisa@harmonizedcookery.com, healthyeatingprogram.info.
Evolution Yoga: Evolution Yoga and Physical Therapy offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: Beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and pre-natal, community classes and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Therapeutics and Alignment classes. Become part of our yoga community. You are welcome here. Cost: $15/ class; $130/10-class card; $5-10/ community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com.
Restorative and Heated Vinyasa Flow! New on our spring schedule: Kripalu Yoga w/ Pam, Sun.,12:30-1:30 p.m. Upcoming: Transformational Chakra Intensive w/ Heidi Bock & Laura Lomas, Sat., May 16, noon-5 p.m.; Intro to Energy Medicine Yoga w/ Lauren Walker, Thu. May 21, 6-8 p.m.; The Yoga of Journaling w/ Joanna Tebbs Young, Thu. Jun. 4, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Preregistration required. Location: Yoga Roots, 120 Graham Way, Shelburne Green Business Park behind Folino’s. Info: 985-0090, yogarootsvt.com.
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Left to right: Davor Amrain, Justin Campbell, Noah Crowther (back), Justin Crowther, Andre Bolduc, Chad Hammaker
Burlington music vet Justin Crowther goes into the vinyl business
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ver the past few years, new businesses have popped up in Burlington’s South End neighborhood like morel mushrooms in early May. Several entrepreneurs are seizing Vermont’s gastronomic moment with gusto, such as the folks behind Citizen Cider, South End Kitchen and the soon-to-open Zero Gravity Craft Brewery. But a new operation harkens back to the days when manufacturing was common along the Pine Street corridor. A few doors down in the same renovated warehouse that houses Feldman’s Bagels, a small black mailbox is next to a nondescript door. On the mailbox, in the kind of small, cheap lettering available at any hardware store, are the words “Burlington Record Plant.” Inside, at the end of an L-shaped, high-ceilinged and still-under-construction industrial space, stand Justin Crowther and his older brother, Noah Crowther. They listen intently to Davor Amrain, 50, a man with salt-and-pepper hair sitting in a chair and adjusting a futuristic-looking control panel. This is next to a stout metal contraption that
looks like it weighs a few tons and was manufactured before anyone in the room was born. Justin, 33, turns around and points to the burly antique. “This is the first record press I bought,” he says with a wide smile. “It’s from the 1950s. And Devor found a new set of controls that improves a lot over the old ones, which didn’t work anyway. How great is that?” The Crowther brothers are probably best known in the Burlington area as the rhythm section in Waylon Speed. Now they’re partners on one of only two new vinyl record pressing plants to open in the United States this year. Yes, you read that correctly: a vinyl record pressing plant. Before any misguided thoughts about hipsters waft through your mind, read on: According to Nielsen SoundScan, vinyl LP sales increased 517 percent between 2007 and 2013, to 6.1 million units. In 2014, sales were up another 52 percent. Currently, there are just 16 record pressing plants in the U.S. And all, according to Justin, are “months behind” in production due to consumer demand.
That means there’s money in pressing LPs in 2015. The idea to go into this business was the closest Justin has ever had to a revelation, he says. One morning after a 2014 Waylon Speed show in Dover, N.H., the brothers were looking through a friend’s vinyl collection, reminiscing about listening to records on Saturday morning when they were kids. “Yup. Saturday morning, Zappa on the turntable,” says Justin. “And, sitting in our buddy’s basement, it came to me. New England doesn’t have any options for pressing vinyl. There’s nothing in Vermont. And our town could use something like that. I knew right then I wouldn’t stop until we made it happen.” “The hair on his arms actually stood up on end,” remembers Noah, 38. “He said, ‘I have an idea.’ It was a real moment.” For years, Justin Crowther had made his living doing maintenance, working for Seven Days as a delivery driver and occasional freelance writer, and playing in bands. He craved a calling that would pay the bills and give him the chance to tour when he needed to. After his
revelation in New Hampshire, he began researching record manufacturing. He also added an international plan to his phone and began calling people all over the world. As Justin searched the web and made phone calls, he found a tight-knit community of hardworking enthusiasts who kept information close to their vests — at least until they realized he was serious. Justin worked with the Vermont Small Business Development Center for a year, crafting a business plan. Once he found his first press and some other equipment in Europe, he even waited for the value of the Euro to drop a bit so he could get a better price. “I was waiting, and then the guy who owned the press, who used to oversee vinyl production for Warner Brothers in Europe, said, ‘What you don’t understand is, this is potentially some of the last equipment on the planet,’” Justin recalls. “So I pulled the trigger.” Here’s the reason for the global search: No one has manufactured record presses for decades. With the PRESSING MATTERS
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As noted in last week’s column, we have entered festival season in Vermont. And with apologies to Christmas, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. That’s obviously in large part due to the wealth of bigger fests throughout the summer, such as the upcoming Green Mountain Comedy Festival, the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, the Frendly Gathering, the Lake Champlain Maritime Festival, Grand Point North and … well, you get the idea. But just as instrumental in filling up our warmish-weather days and nights with rock and roll — and jazz and comedy — goodness are the smaller, more homespun fests that populate our collective calendar. And there’s a good one on tap this Saturday, May 16: HeavyFest. For the uninitiated, HeavyFest is an annual collaboration of Magic Hat Brewing and local do-gooders Big Heavy World, hosted by the former at their brewery to benefit the latter in their wallet. If you’re unfamiliar with BHW, it’s a nonprofit organization that provides all manner of resources for musicians in Vermont, from online databases and community forums to unflattering fish-eye photo portraits to 15-passenger vans so your nineperson ska band can get to that gig in Bennington on time. If you’re unfamiliar with Magic Hat, it provides beer. (In the interest of full disclosure: I used to work for Magic Hat. Also, I’m an
unabashed cheerleader when it comes to all things BHW. I heart them, a lot. Also, this paper is a sponsor of the fest. Also, I have personal or professional connections to a couple of the bands about to be mentioned. Also, I like beer.) Anyhoo, Saturday’s fête marks the fifth annual HeavyFest. And, having been to most of the previous four, I can tell you it’s a lot of fun. There’s good beer and food, cool art, and, as is the focus of this column, great local music. This year’s lineup features KAt wriGht & thE iNDomitAblE Soul bAND; organ-funk outfit SoulE moNDE; our very own sons of DEAth, rouGh FrANciS; and art rockers SwAlE. Most years there’s also an out-oftown guest or two on the bill. Obliging that role this year are Brooklyn-based experimental rock quartet GowANuS. Not bad, eh? On the beer side of things, MH will unveil a BHW-inspired brew called Big Heavy Wheat, and proceeds from its sale will also benefit the nonprofit. Several food vendors will be on hand, too, including the Taco Truck All Stars, Dolce VT and Queen City Pops. Local artists JASoN tooth and briAN cApES will be there to spray-paint rain barrels in support of the Connecting the Drops program founded by Let It Rain. That organization aims to improve
Before we move on, please turn to page 69 and read my review of Libation, the beautiful new record from SiErrA lEoNE’S rEFuGEE All StArS. Then maybe take a listen to a track or two on the group’s Bandcamp page. I’ll wait… Now that we’re all up to speed, I’ll continue. The astute among you likely clicked on, say, “Rich But Poor” and thought, Oh, what a nifty little reggae groove! Then, the really astute among you perhaps thought, But didn’t Dan Bolles just tell us that it’s something called baskeda and not reggae? Sure sounds like reggae to me. What’s the deal, Bolles? You’re right. It does sound like reggae. But technically speaking, it ain’t — which certain SLRAS members have made clear in various writings and interviews. I was a little mystified by that distinction myself. So I contacted JAcob EDGAr, the founder of Cumbancha — the Charlotte-based label that released the record — and asked him about it. Given the word count constraints in the SLRAS review, I didn’t have space to elaborate there. But I found Edgar’s answers fascinating, so here’s what he said. “Baskeda and reggae are musical cousins, so it’s more of a feel thing than anything specifically musical,” he writes. “Many of the slaves that ended up in Jamaica were originally from the part of Africa that ended up becoming Sierra Leone. After the British abolished slavery, many Jamaicans returned to their ancestral homeland. So there has long been musical back-and-forth between Sierra Leone and Jamaica.” Pretty cool, right? But wait, there’s more! “The real catalyst, though, was bob mArlEY and the whole reggae movement.
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introduction of the compact disc in the mid-1980s, vinyl pressing went into a slow decline. By the late ’90s, many presses were sitting unused in closed factories. There was no demand for new machines. So when vinyl sales began to heat up again in the past decade, American pressing plants began expanding for the first time in years. More presses had to come online to keep up with demand, which meant a run on dormant machines and parts — not just in the U.S. but all over the globe. Recently, an eBay auction listed an abandoned vinyl pressing plant in Zimbabwe. The asking price? A cool £160,000 — or close to $250,000 U.S. It sold. It’s been a long year for Justin Crowther, buying more equipment — including two more presses — and finding local talent like Amrain to help him understand how to refurbish and operate the machines. He also visited several pressing plants in the U.S. while on tour with Waylon Speed, and spoke with labels about contract work. Reps from Merge Records, known to music fans and industry folk as an iconic indie label that’s released albums by Arcade Fire, the Magnetic Fields, Spoon and Neutral Milk Hotel, even came to Vermont to see the Crowthers’ space and talk shop. Justin says he’s “about 60 days away” from his official opening. He and Noah are excited about testing the presses — and they have just the right record for the task: Waylon Speed’s latest longplayer, Kin. “We knew we wanted to press Kin when we released it last year,” says Noah. “But we couldn’t at the time. 3v-magichat051315.indd 1
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Currently, there are just 16 reCord pressing plants in the u.s. ThaT means There’s money in pressing Lps in 2015. We’re so excited to use it as our first experiment.” Justin Crowther appears to have covered all the bases as he gets ready to open shop later this summer, though he admits there’s still work to do. He lauds the mentors he’s found in the business who have been “unbelievably generous,” he says. And he’s proud to be creating a local product and representing Vermont. “I can see doing contract work for a few labels and then doing work for local bands,” he says. He explains that the “Vermont package” will include records pressed at Burlington Record Plant with a mix of virgin vinyl and reclaimed vinyl from ReSTORE, sleeves printed by Torrey Valyou of New Duds in Winooski, and album art by Bobby Hackney Jr. of Rough Francis. (Hackney is also a Seven Days employee.) Justin Crowther pauses for a moment, a wide smile on his face. Then he says, “Man, I can’t wait to get started.” m
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While we’re on a multicultural kick, Young Tradition Vermont is hosting a big show at the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington this Saturday, May 16, featuring Montréal’s LE VENT DU NORD. LVDN are perhaps the highest-profile group in the modern Québécois folk scene. I say “perhaps” because their main website is in French and the English site is currently down, so I can’t quite verify that. (Apologies to my sixth-grade French teacher, Madame Day. Je no longer parle français.) The band, which is celebrating the release of its latest record, Têtu, presents a whirling array of traditional and neotraditional sounds. Or, y’know, reggae. Kidding. It’s not reggae at all — and not in the way that SLRAS music is not reggae. Rather, as the Boston Herald put it, the band is “a leading force in [Québec’s] progressive folk movement, and they leaven their hard-driving, soulful music (a close cousin to Celtic
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imprint has been responsible for unleashing some of the most influential and provocative American house music — including that of Martin’s Dirtybird partner, Claude VonStroke. But the next chapter of the label belongs to Martin himself and his forthcoming record Hello Clouds. His 2013 debut, Ghettos & Gardens, found crossover appeal with support from unlikely sources such as NPR Music and SPIN. Entertaining, engaging and, most of all, irresistibly danceable, Martin’s new record should push him even farther into the spotlight. Martin plays Club Metronome in Burlington this Thursday, May 14, with San Francisco’s Ardalan and locals Haitian, Dave Parks and Fatty Shay. Check out the Seven Days arts blog, Live Culture, for
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JUNIPER: The DuPont Brothers (indie folk), 9 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Matteo Palmer (fingerstyle guitar), 8 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Dirty Boost (rock), 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. Grippo Funk Band, DJ Rekkon, 9 p.m., $7. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids music), 11 a.m., free. Blueprints of the Heart (folk duo), 7 p.m., free. Brian Gatch (Americana), 8:30 p.m., free. Colorway (rock), 10 p.m., free. And the Kids (glitter pop), 11:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Erin Harpe and the Delta Swingers (blues, swing), 7 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Con Yay (EDM), 9 p.m., $5. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Supersounds DJ (top 40), 10 p.m., free. RUBEN JAMES: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. SIGNAL KITCHEN: Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars (world music), 9:30 p.m., $16/20. AA.
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up lyrics. Lead vocalist Jack Schroeder demands, “People in my face they try to occupy my place / taking food up off my plate / please give me just a little space.” Schroeder’s powerful vocals are unusual and gravelly but also earnest and searching. Chris Heres and Pierre Dillon tackle guitar and bass, respectively. Some of their best work is found in sections of “No Resolve.” “Memories Won’t Last” is also easy on the ears. With breezy moments of shimmering keys and low, descending guitar solos, it’s a comfortable summertime song. Unfortunately, the album takes a dive on track three, “Early Morning.” Relying on college-life lyrics about “this bag of grass I’m-a slowly burn,” it’s a lazy tune that nods to the jam-band stereotype. It’s also Schroeder’s weakest vocal performance, as he affects a reggae accent a touch too much. “The Shag” is similarly
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I first pop on Libation, the latest record from Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars. Bills are piling up. My car needs work. There’s a sink full of dishes. The Sox lost. Again. It’s raining. (Again.) Traffic sucked. In other words: wah. But ’long about the record’s fifth track, “Rich But Poor,” as I make my way through a pile of plates I’m pretty sure I didn’t dirty, something strange happens. Without my knowledge, my feet begin to shuffle, my dishpan hands begin tapping along to the song’s bright, roots-reggae beat. Suddenly I feel … good? From a strictly musical standpoint, it’s hard to listen to SLRAS and not feel at least a little better about things. That’s long been true of the African ensemble’s reggae-ish brand of upbeat world music. (It’s actually rooted in West African baskeda, which sounds very similar to but is not technically reggae.)
And it’s especially true on Libation. The band’s fourth full-length in their 10-year history — and third for Charlotte-based label Cumbancha — is a return to roots, specifically the acoustic “around the campfire” vibe of their earliest recordings. As the title suggests, the record is both intoxicating and refreshing. The band’s easy grooves and radiant melodies wind their way into your subconscious, from the pinwheeling guitar-and-horn interplay of opener “Chaimra” to the staggering acoustic lilt and tipsy trombone of closer “No Feel Bad O.” Libation is uplifting, but subtly so. This is most certainly music with a message, but, rather than clobber listeners with patronizing calls to action or sunny philosophical aphorisms, SLRAS make their multilingual affirmations finely, celebrating the brilliance of life through quieter details such as love, family and maybe a cool drink.
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lackluster, speaking of being educated yet still “sedated” by the daily grind. The band recovers with “Jack’s Delayed Flight,” a languid reflection on waiting at the airport while really waiting for something yet unknown. Without the lyrical embellishment of previous tracks, the message comes across serenely and A Haven for Hunters, organically, against restrained and skuzzy Pickers & Art Lovers! instrumentals. Next up is “Zeb’s Cove.” Here, the band lays off the heady riffs VintageInspired.net and slows down. The payoff is a stirring six-minute number, with graceful electric Rhodes piano from Gyasi Garcia. 180 Flynn Avenue Tympanum offers plenty of aural Burlington • 488.5766 pleasure in the form of decent guitar work and hip-swaying grooves. While Tar Iguana aren’t exactly reinventing the funk 5/12/15 10:35 AM — or reggae — wheel, they do pass the 12v-vintageinspired051315.indd 1 jam-band test with finesse … and a curious fixation on lizards. If you frequently get down to local acts like Gang of Thieves, Smooth Antics and Funkwagon, Tympanum will sound like home. ILLADELPH, GOLDSTEIN, EVO, DELTA 9, Tar Iguana’s debut album, Tympanum, AND LOCAL ARTISTS is available at tariguana.bandcamp.com. Tar Iguana play at the Rusty Nail in Stowe on Friday, May 15.
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could likely name a bazillion different genres of rock. Stick the word to the end of a noun or adjective and you’re in the ballgame: hard rock, punk rock, surf rock, psychedelic rock, glam rock, two-skinnybros-in-their-mom’s-basement rock, etc. Here’s one to add to the list: reptilian rock. That’s what five-piece Burlington band Tar Iguana claim to serve up. It also explains the peculiar title of their debut album, Tympanum. A tympanum is an external hearing gland found in certain amphibians and reptiles, such as frogs, toads and — you guessed it — iguanas. Having emerged from the University of Vermont basement party scene, Tar Iguana trade in a tried-and-true blend of funk, reggae, rock and jam. While their story and sound are not necessarily unique, Tympanum does justice to the Vermont jam tradition. The record opens with a prog-rock cut, “Space in the Place.” Josh West’s edgy, tight drumming sets the tone for fed-
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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Arc Iris (indie folk), 8 p.m., NA. ZEN LOUNGE: Jah Red (Latin), 8 p.m., $5. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.
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BACKSTAGE PUB: Acoustic Happy Hour, 5 p.m., free. Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Meg Myers Night Riots, Wlld Party (pop), 8:30 p.m., $0.99. AA. Sold out. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Sonny Laker & the Knights, Brickdrop (soul), 8:30 p.m., $12/15. AA. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Mike Trombly & Co. (rock), 7:30 p.m., free. THE MONKEY HOUSE: About Time (jazz), 5:30 p.m., free. Astrocat, Gorcrow, Colin & the Clarys (rock), 9 p.m., $3. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Mitch & Friends (acoustic rock), 5 p.m., free. A House on Fire (rock), 9 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Dave Loughran (acoustic rock), 6 p.m., free. CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Abby Jenne (rock), 7 p.m., free. Coquette (rock), 10 p.m., free. NUTTY STEPH'S: The Tomasas Rumbath Latin Rocksteady Band, 7 p.m., free.
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Merry Old Soul Singer
Sonny Knight
is in many ways a throwback to the golden age of soul and R&B. But the 65-year-old’s latest
record, I’m Still Here, though rooted in classic, backbone-slipping grooves and melodies, is more than a trip down memory lane. Like the best of the new soul revivalists, Knight reveres the past while maintaining a swiftly tapping foot in the present with timeless tunes. Catch Sonny Knight & the
Lakers at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington this Friday, May 15, with Brickdrop.
TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 6 p.m., $3. DJ Eric Hass (dance music), 10 p.m., free.
JUNIPER: DJ Dakota (hip-hop), 9 p.m., free.
Le Vent du Nord (Québécois folk), 8:30 p.m., $20/25. AA.
Hospital with the Sugardaddies (rock), 8 p.m., donation.
THE OLDE NORTHENDER PUB: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.
LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Julian Chobot Jazz Trio, 8 p.m., free.
HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: World Party, Gabriel Kelly (rock), 8:30 p.m., $20/22. AA.
mad river valley/ waterbury
RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Folk Brunch with Britt Kusserow, 11 a.m., free. Pete Sutherland & Tim Stickle's Old Time Session, 1 p.m., free. Aaron Bachelder (rock), 7:30 p.m., free. Eddy Marshall (folk blues), 9 p.m., free. Soulpax & Cherry Mellow (R&B, soul), 10:30 p.m., free.
SWEET MELISSA'S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5 p.m., free. Dave Keller & Johnny Rawls (blues), 9 p.m., $5.
northeast kingdom
MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Donna Thunders and the Storm (country), 9 p.m., free.
WHAMMY BAR: Golden Novak Duo (Americana), 7:30 p.m., free.
outside vermont
NECTAR'S: Golden Novak Duo (Americana), 7 p.m., free. Heavyfest Afterparty with Soule Monde (funk), 9 p.m., $6.
stowe/smuggs area
THE BEE'S KNEES: Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: Abby Sherman (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., free. Cookie's Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 9 p.m., free. RIMROCK'S MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Rekkon #FridayNightFrequencies (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL: Tar Iguana, Doctor Rick (jam), 9 p.m., free.
mad river valley/ waterbury
THE CIDER HOUSE BARBECUE AND PUB: Tim Kane (piano), 6 p.m., free. PHANTOM: Suzie Brown & Scot Sax (Americana), 6:30 p.m., $50.
middlebury area
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CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with Top Hat Entertainment (Top 40), 9:30 p.m., free.
THE STAGE: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.
MONOPOLE: Capital Zen (rock), 10 p.m., free. MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.
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burlington
ARTSRIOT: TURNmusic (contemporary chamber music), 8 p.m., $15. AA. BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Max Bronstein (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: Retronome with DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5. DRINK: Cooie DeFrancesco (folk), 9:30 p.m., free. FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Josh Glass (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free. DJs Phatrix & Goldetron (house), 10 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Karaoke with Megan, 10 p.m., free.
RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Acoustic Brunch, noon, free. John Dodson (folk), 7 p.m., free. Antara & John Holiday (folk rock), 8:30 p.m., free. Leopardism, the Annoying (prog pop, art rock), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Lovewhip (funk), 7 p.m., $5. Mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul, 6 p.m., $5. DJ Reign One (EDM), 11 p.m., $5. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: Beantown Project (rock), 10 p.m., free. RUBEN JAMES: Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Stone Blossom (rock), 8 p.m., NA.
THE MONKEY HOUSE: Soulpax, Cherry Mellow (R&B, soul), 9 p.m., $3. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Two Count (acoustic rock), 5 p.m., free. Last Kid Picked (rock), 9 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation. Isaiah Mayhew (roots reggae), 6 p.m., free. CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Kathleen Kanz Comedy Hour (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. Live Music, 10 p.m., free. POSITIVE PIE (MONTPELIER): House Shuffle Dance Party, 10 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA'S: Andy Pitt (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. TallGrass GetDown (bluegrass), 9 p.m., $5. WHAMMY BAR: Bruce Jones (folk), 7:30 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs area
ZEN LOUNGE: Open Mic with Steve Hartmann, 7 p.m., $5. Old School Revival (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $5. DJ Atak & Guests (EDM, top 40), 10 p.m., $5.
THE BEE'S KNEES: McBride & Lussen (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation.
chittenden county
MOOG'S PLACE: Stone Cold Roosters (western swing), 9 p.m., free.
GOOD TIMES CAFÉ: Aaron Flinn (rock, folk), 8:30 p.m., $12. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM:
MATTERHORN: The Shady Trees (rock), 9 p.m., free.
RUSTY NAIL: Benefit for Copley
THE CIDER HOUSE BARBECUE AND PUB: Dan Boomhower (piano), 6 p.m., free.
middlebury area
51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Hot Box Honey (jazz, funk, Latin), 8 p.m., free. CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: KGenius, Apple Balm Sound (reggae, hip-hop), 6 p.m., $3. Joe Moore Band (blues), 9 p.m., $3.
outside vermont
MONOPOLE: Soul Kitchen (soul, funk), 10 p.m., free.
SUN.17
burlington
FRANNY O'S: Kyle Stevens' Happiest Hour of Music (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Vermont's Next Star, 8 p.m., free. HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Building Blox (EDM), 10 p.m., free.
RED SQUARE: Storm Cats (rock), 7 p.m., free. DJ Dave Villa (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch Scramble, noon, $5-10 donation. Spark Open Improv Jam & Standup Comedy, 7 p.m., $5-10 donation. ZEN LOUNGE: UVM Commencement Afterparty, 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.
chittenden county BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke/ Open Mic, 8 p.m., free.
HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Annie: Taken to the Streets (dance recital), 2 & 5 p.m., $15/17. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Hayden (indie rock), 8:30 p.m., $15/17. AA. PENALTY BOX: Trivia With a Twist, 4 p.m., free.
NECTAR'S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Demus, 9:30 p.m., $3. sun.17
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NECTAR'S: VT Comedy Club Presents: What a Joke! Comedy Open Mic (standup comedy), 7 p.m., free. Causewell Apollo, Dan Tedesco, Deb Brisson & the Hay Brothers (folk, eclectropop), 9:30 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Kelly Ravin (honky tonk), 9 p.m., free. Back Porch Society (Americana), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: And What Army (rock), 7 p.m., free. DJ Dave Villa (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Josh Panda's Acoustic Soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. ZEN LOUNGE: Kizomba with Dsantos VT, 7 p.m., free. ZensDay (top 40), 10 p.m., free/$5. 18+. Hawaiian Luau Party, 10 p.m., $5. 18+.
chittenden county HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Silverstein, Rarity (post-hardcore), 7:30 p.m., $18/20. AA.
THE MONKEY HOUSE: Seth Adam (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., $3. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Blues Jam with the Collin Craig Trio, 7 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Papa GreyBeard (blues), 6 p.m., donation. Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.
tue.19 // The New Mastersounds [jazz fusion, funk]
Master Blasters England’s the
New Mastersounds got their start as the house band at a dance club in Leeds in 1999. Since then,
they’ve brought the dance party to clubs and festivals the world over, trading in an explosive, quirky blend of instrumental jazz fusion and funk. As a testament to the quartet’s genre-crossing appeal, NM have collaborated with everyone from R&B siren Corinne Bailey Rae to funk heavyweight Karl Denson to James Taylor. Yup, that James Taylor. The New Mastersounds play ArtsRiot in Burlington on Tuesday, May 19, with Eufórquestra.
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barre/montpelier BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Bleacher & MacDougal (folk), 11 a.m., free. SWEET MELISSA'S: Django (acoustic), 1 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Howard Ring Guitar Brunch, 11 a.m., donation. Jason Lee (folk), 7:30 p.m., donation.
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THE STAGE: Open Mic, 5 p.m., free.
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FRANNY O'S: Standup Comedy Cage Match, 8 p.m., free.
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HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Family Night (rock), 10:30 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Dance Video Request Night with Melody, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Caravan,. Saint Lou (soul, funk), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Dan Mason (acoustic jam), 7 p.m., free. The Nancy Druids (indie psych pop), 8:30 p.m., free. Latin Sessions with Mal Maiz (cumbia), 10 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: Mashtodon (hip-hop), 8 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Kidz Music with Raphael, 11:30 a.m., $3 donation.
chittenden county
HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Kill Paris (electronic), 8:30 p.m., $12. AA. THE MONKEY HOUSE: KOJI, NYIKO, Sleeping In (indie), 8:30 p.m., $10/13. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Open Mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., free.
barre/montpelier
SWEET MELISSA'S: Kelly Ravin (alt-country), 8 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs area MOOG'S PLACE: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.
outside vermont
OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Karaoke with DJ Dana Barry, 9 p.m., free.
Honky Tonk Tuesday with Brett Hughes & Friends, 10 p.m., $3.
chittenden county
WED.20
PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
CLUB METRONOME: GMCF: Improv Extravaganza (improv comedy), 8:30 p.m., $10. 18+.
middlebury area
ARTSRIOT: The New Mastersounds, Euforquestra (jazz fusion, funk), 7:30 p.m., $15. AA.
THE MONKEY HOUSE: Jeremy Gilchrist (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.
HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: DJ Tricky Pat & Guests (D&B), 10 p.m., free. DJ Rife (pop hop), 10 p.m., free. JP'S PUB: Open Mic with Kyle, 9 p.m., free. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Zack DuPont (indie folk), 9 p.m., free. NECTAR'S: Les Racquet, Mr. Fly (jazz, country, rock), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN COFFEEHOUSE: Lokum (music of the Near East), 6:30 p.m., free. Grup Anwar (classical Arabic), 8:30 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs area
THE BEE'S KNEES: Heady Topper Happy Hour with David Langevin (piano), 5 p.m., free.
ZEN LOUNGE: Killed It! Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.
CLUB METRONOME: Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., free/$5.
SWEET MELISSA'S: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Open Blues Jam hosted by Jason Jack, 8 p.m., free.
TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Karaoke with Roots Entertainment, 9 p.m., free.
RED SQUARE: The Tenderbellies (bluegrass), 7 p.m., free. Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.
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middlebury area
THE SKINNY PANCAKE (MONTPELIER): Cajun Jam with Jay Ekis, Lee Blackwell, Alec Ellsworth & Katie Trautz, 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.
barre/montpelier
burlington
THE DAILY PLANET: Peter Krag (jazz), 8 p.m., free.
BAGITOS BAGEL & BURRITO CAFÉ: Old Time Music Session, 6 p.m., free.
HALFLOUNGE SPEAKEASY: Aquatic Underground DJs (house), 10 p.m., free.
CHARLIE-O'S WORLD FAMOUS: Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.
JP'S PUB: Pub Quiz with Dave, 7 p.m., free. Karaoke with Melody, 10 p.m., free.
SOUTH SIDE TAVERN: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA'S: Bruce Jones (folk), 5 p.m., free.
stowe/smuggs area THE BEE'S KNEES: Children's Sing-Along with Allen Church, 10:30 a.m., free. Spider Roulette (gypsy jazz), 7:30 p.m., donation. MOOG'S PLACE: Jason Wedlock (rock), 7:30 p.m., free.
JUNIPER: Amber deLaurentis (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Queen City Hot Club (gypsy jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Dwight Ritcher (blues), 8:30 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.
MOOG'S PLACE: Jeanne Miller & Friends (rock), 8 p.m., free.
RUSTY NAIL: Open Mic, 9:30 p.m., free.
51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: Blues Jam, 8 p.m., free. CITY LIMITS: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.
northeast kingdom PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. THE STAGE: Open Mic, 6 p.m., free.
outside vermont
MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 10 p.m., free. OLIVE RIDLEY'S: So You Want to Be a DJ?, 10 p.m., free. m
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t’s a rare guy who wants to celebrate his coworkers and the work they do — and suggests he paint their portraits for an exhibition doing just that. That guy is Doug Barry, aka DJ Barry. And he’s giving the artwork away: His coworkers get to keep their own portraits when the show closes. Barry says he loves his job as network telecommunications analyst at University of Vermont Health Network / Central Vermont Medical Center (UVMHNCVMC), where he’s responsible for more than 2,000 numbers. Or, as he puts it, “In English, that’s the phone guy.” His second job? Barry spends DJ most of his evenings and weekends making art. The 29-year-old Middlesex native describes himself as self-taught. An accomplished musician before coming to the visual arts, Barry has steeped himself in art history, beginning with Leonardo da Vinci. But he credits his wife, Cindy Barry, with inspiring him to launch an art career. Pop-culture references abound in Barry’s work, along with dynamic colors. Both are evident in, for
example, his image of Pee-wee Herman, erstwhile star of “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” which hangs at Butch + Babe’s restaurant in Burlington. Barry initially painted with acrylics but now employs a unique method involving photographs, photo-editing software, stencils and spray paint. Though he’s enamored of stenciling right now, he says he’s likely to continue exploring various mediums. Last year Barry began creating stenciled, spray-painted portraits of selected hospital employees, based on photos taken by Hjonis Hanson. He aims to exhibit 13 of BARRY the finished works in the hospital’s lobby-cum-art-gallery next winter. The largest painting (24 by 36 inches) is of physician Matthew Greenberg; most of the works are a little smaller. For now, six completed portraits hang in locations around the hospital, accompanied by quotes from their subjects. Judy Tartaglia, president and CEO of UVMHNCVMC, writes in a press statement, “Showcasing this small group of folks will tell our story to everyone
I WANTED TO DO SOMETHING FOR MY COWORKERS, TO RECOGNIZE THEM.
who walks down our hallways. I think you will find the individual quotes hanging near the portraits a real glimpse into how folks feel about their work at UVMHN-CVMC.” Barry says each artwork takes 20 to 30 hours to complete. Given that and a full-time day job, his portrait project won’t be complete until December. And in August, Barry will become even busier: He and his wife are expecting their first child. How did you come up with the idea for this project? I’ve never had a job where I interacted with everybody before. You get to know these amazing personalities working for one goal: to take care of the community. There are so many people working behind the scenes. I wanted to do something for my coworkers, to recognize them. We have a “going above and beyond” program. I wanted more people being featured. So you decided to paint your coworkers’ pictures. Was it easy to get the hospital to agree to exhibit them? I had to pitch the idea. I knew it would be important to show them what the portraits would look like; they’re
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not typical portraits. The hospital relies on clinical applications, and my mom [works] on them, so she was a perfect candidate. I approached the CEO and the vice president of community relations and brought the painting [of my mother] in a bag so nobody [else] saw it. They liked the concept, but they weren’t sure. What could go wrong? One concern was, what if the person being featured doesn’t like the way they’re painted? They get to take their painting home. If they’re going to keep it, they should like it. [Photographer] Hjonis tries to make them feel as comfortable as possible. If they like the photograph, we’ll go ahead. So far, everybody has liked the designs and loved the paintings.
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f ‘Open Close’: Iskra Print Collective Group Show featuring 11 local artists who shut out the distractions of the digital age in favor of ink, paper and emulsion. Reception: Thursday, May 14, 6-9 p.m. May 14-June 18. Info, 861-3155. Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington. Frank C. Gaylord: Sculptures in bronze, resin and stone, as well as recent drawings, by the Barre artist best known for sculpting the Korean War Veterans Memorial on the National Mall. May 20June 3. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.
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Senior Independent Studio Art Exhibition.: An exhibit of works in various media showcasing the work of advanced students in ART 700 Studio Art. May 13-22. Info, 443-3168. Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College.
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f 2015 Annual Members’ Exhibition: A exhibition featuring a mix of styles, techniques and media by member artists of all levels. Reception: Saturday, May 16, 5-7 p.m. May 16-June 24. Info, 438-2097. The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center in West Rutland.
art events ‘PaintNite’: All levels welcome to come and create a 16-by-20-inch painting in acrylic, led by artist Diane Kingston. Materials provided. Rí Rá Irish Pub & Whiskey Room, Burlington, Wednesday, May 13, 7 p.m. $45. Info, info@paintnite.com. Joan Morris Talk: The artist discusses the works in her exhibition “Imprint of Absence.” AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon N.H., Thursday, May 14, 5:30 p.m. Info, 603-448-3117.
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‘Edward Hopper: Wagon Wheels Farm’: Bonnie Tocher Clause, author of Edward Hopper in Vermont, gives a presentation in conjunction with the exhibition “Wagon Wheels Farm.” Royalton Memorial Library, South Royalton, Wenesday, May 15, 5-7 p.m. Info, 763-7094. ‘¡Viva Cuba!’ Panel Discussion on U.S.-Cuba Relations: William Craig, author of Yankee Come Home: On the Road From San Juan Hill to Guantanamo, gives an audio-visual history presentation, and then moderates a discussion about present and future developments in relations between the countries. In conjunction with a BigTown Gallery exhibition. Rochester High School, Saturday, May 16, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 767-9670. Edward L. Rubin Book Signing and Talk: The longtime frequent contributor to gallery exhibitions introduces and signs copies of his new photo book, Vermont: An Outsider’s Inside View. Copies available for purchase. Part of the reception for “Semblance,” the gallery’s current show. Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, Sunday, May 17, 6-6:30 p.m. Info, 777-3686. “Playful Painting” Reception: A reception for Richmond artist Emily Mitchell’s newest work. Living Room: Center of Positivity, Essex Junction, Sunday, May 17, 4-7 p.m. Info, 324-2240.
Artist Talk: Kim Jones: The May visiting artist talks about his work, which incorporates performance, sculpture, drawing and painting. He became known early on for his performance persona, “Mudman.” Lowe Lecture Hall, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Tuesday, May 19, 8-9 p.m. Info, 635-2727. ‘Playful Painting’: A class with artist Emily Mitchell explores acrylic painting techniques. Go home with your own finished art. All materials included in fee; light refreshments provided. Wear painting clothing. Living Room: Center of Positivity, Essex Junction, Tuesday, May 19, 5:30-8 p.m. $30. Info, 324-2240. Evie Lovett Talk: The photographer talks about the black-and-white images in her exhibition “Backstage at the Rainbow Cattle Co.: The Drag Queens of Dummerston, Vermont.” Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Wednesday, May 20, 7 p.m. Info, 257-0124. Jonathan Sa’adah Talk: The artist discusses the work in his exhibition “Seeds of Change: Upper Valley 1968-1975.” AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon N.H., Wednesday, May 20, 5:30 p.m. Info, 603-448-3117.
Artist Talk: Emily Cheng: The May visiting artist talks about her work. Lowe Lecture Hall, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Monday, May 18, 8-9 p.m. Info, 635-2727. ongoing shows
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Julia Jensen: “Scenes Remembered,” oil and encaustic paintings that celebrate light and the natural landscape. May 15-August 11. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.
f Jack Goodman: “Mostly Vermont: Photographic Images,” works by the prolific Middlebury photographer. Reception: Friday, May 22, 5-7 p.m. May 15-June 27. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater in Middlebury.
Do you see yourself as that kind of positive, optimistic person? I usually tell people I’m living the dream. I definitely try to bring that when I’m around people. I think you can sometimes help turn a day around by cracking a joke. m
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‘Heavy Futures’: Multimedia artist and musician Al Larsen presents new work incorporating video, photography, shadows and sound, exploring near-future scenarios of economic and aesthetic collapse. Sat. May 16, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 865-5467. Ethan Allen Center in Burlington.
Who picks the people, and how do you choose out of a staff of 2,000? Judy Tartaglia believed I should pick them, so I came up with a process. You always have those people you work around who radiate an aura, an energy. They make you forget you’re having a bad day. And it was important that they [had worked at the hospital] for a while. I don’t know everybody, so I’ve reached out to some people. The nurses are a critical part of health care, and I haven’t really worked with them. People [in various departments] typically pick the same person, saying, “She’s taught us everything. She’s so good. She’s been here forever.” There are people who are just amazing.
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‘Back to Nature’: Textiles, paintings and mixed media by Karen Henderson, Jill Madden, Joe Salerno and Gowri Savoor that celebrate the beauty of the Vermont landscape and reinterpret our connection with place through time. Through June 20. Info, 865-7166. Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center in Burlington. Bruce Conklin: “New Paintings,” Vermont landscapes by the local artist. Through August 15. Info, 862-2470. UVM Medical Center in Burlington. ‘Burlington Then and Now: 150 Years a City’: An exhibit of historic black-and-white photographs of Burlington from University of Vermont Special Collections dating back to the 1860s, along with contemporary photos by Paul Reynolds taken from the same viewpoints. Through May 31. Info, 865-7211. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington. Cara Lai FitzGibbon: “Home,” an exhibition of paintings inspired by Vermont architecture. On view as part of the HeART and Home series in support of Fair Housing Month. Through May 26. Info, 735-2542. New City Galerie in Burlington. Chance McNiff: “Geometrically cosmic,” acrylic and oil paintings lined with ink. Curated by SEABA. Through May 31. Info, 859-9222. Speeder & Earl’s: Pine Street in Burlington.
‘Civil War Objects From the UVM Collections’: Heirloom items donated to the museum from America’s Civil War period include correspondence and ephemera, quilts, medical items, fine and decorative art, and more. Wilbur Room. Through May 17. ‘Staring Back: The Creation and Legacy of Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon’: The exhibit explores the origins and influence of the seminal cubist painting through a selection of American, African and European contemporary art, as well as new technologies. Through June 21. ‘Travelers in Postwar Europe’: Black-and-white photographs of Germany, Paris, London and Venice by Burlington doctor H.A. Durfee Jr. between 1951 and 1953. Through June 28. Info, 656-8582. Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. ‘Finished’: The third annual exhibition of works by Vermont Woodworking School graduating students. Through May 31. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center in Burlington. Georgia Smith: Photographs of Europe capturing the spontaneous, mysterious moments that keep life interesting. Through May 31. Info, 540-0107. Speaking Volumes in Burlington. ‘GRACE: Grass Roots Art & Community Effort’: An exhibit showcasing 28 pieces of work from artists living in Chittenden County. Lower level of the mall, at the southwest entrance. Through May 31. Info, 472-6857. Vermont Artisans Craft Gallery, Burlington Town Center.
The Innovation Center Show: Group exhibits of local artists on all three floors. First floor: Ashley Veselis, Casey Blanchard, James Vogler, Jamie Townsend, Liz Cleary, Lori Arner, Robert Green and Scott Nelson; second floor: Elizabeth Nelson, Emily Mitchell, Lyna Lou Nordstorm, Michael Pitts and Tom Merwin; third floor: Jessica Drury, Lynn Cummings, Haley Bishop, Janet Bonneau, Krista Cheney and Wendy James. Curated by SEABA. Through May 31. Info, 859-9222. The Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington. James Vogler: Vibrant abstract paintings by the Charlotte artist. Through June 30. Info, 425-2152. Feldman’s Bagels in Burlington. A Trunk Show: Levity 7 Design Collective: Spring-themed arts and products by seven local designer/artisans. Jane Brooks: Watercolor paintings by the Vermont artist. Through May 31. Info, 488-5766. Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace in Burlington. Jason Boyd, Jordan Douglas & Matt Gang: Wood and mixed-media assemblages by Boyd; photographs on infrared and black-and-white film capturing recent travels by Douglas; and works in cork and wood by Gang. Curated by SEABA. Through May 31. Info, 859-9222. VCAM Studio in Burlington. Kathryn Jarvis: Floral landscape pastel and watercolor paintings. Through June 26. Info, 862-9647. The Daily Planet in Burlington. Leslie Fry: “Twist & Shout,” an exhibit of monoprints and sculpture by the Winooski artist. Through June 29. Info, 864-2088. The Men’s Room in Burlington.
Lisa Lillibridge: “Freak Show,” an installation of carved relief paintings created from found objects and textiles, influenced by vintage carnival signs, games and relationships. Through June 16. Info, 448-3657. Revolution Kitchen in Burlington. Livvy Arau-McSweeney: Paintings and photography by a Burlington High School senior. Through May 31. Info, 863-3403. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Lynn Cummings: “Life Forms & Color Studies,” a solo exhibition of abstract paintings based on symbols, shapes and patterns reminiscent of sea creatures or microbes. Through June 30. Info, 660-9005. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington. Mark Gonyea: “Name That Game,” posters inspired by popular board games. Through June 30. Info, 660-9005. Dostie Bros. Frame Shop in Burlington. ‘May Day: The Workers Are Revolting’: Annual employee art show. Through May 31. Info, 318-2438. Red Square in Burlington. Michael Buckley: “The Buck Stopped Here,” a retrospective to honor the artist and support Drawing Inspiration, a virtual community connecting cancer patients with art. Through May 29. Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington. Phil Laughlin: “Water Works,” an exhibition of paintings with a watery theme. Through May 31. Info, 863-6713. North End Studios in Burlington. Rebecca Levi: “Queering the Lines,” artworks in fabric and thread in which traditional needlework collides with untraditional “LGBTQ identity and gender performativity.” Through May 22. Info, 603-667-3119. Center for Cultural Pluralism, UVM, in Burlington. Sarah Bunker: “An Exploration in Abstract,” paintings in oil, acrylic and mixed media on canvas and paper. Through May 29. Info, 425-2700. Davis Studio Gallery, SEABA Center, in Burlington. Stephanie Seguino: “Radical Empathy,” an exhibition exploring issues of race through photography by the artist, economist and professor. Through June 30. Info, 999-0657. Flynndog in Burlington. Steve Hadeka: “Riffing on the Modern Birdhouse 2,” an exhibit of wood birdhouses in mid-century styles. Through May 31. Info, 651-8834. Penny Cluse Café in Burlington.
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Sue Mowrer Adamson: An exhibit of multimedia block prints made from children’s artwork and found objects. Through June 30. Info, 658-6400. American Red Cross Blood Donor Center in Burlington.
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Sumru Tekin: “One Day,” a multimedia installation by the Barbara Smail Award winner, with audio elements meant to orchestrate an encounter between the visitor and the gallery space. Thomas Brennan: “Darkness From Light,” photogenic or camera-less photographic drawings by the associate professor of art at the University of Vermont that explore mortality and document nature. Through June 20. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington. Third Mind Group Exhibit Opening + Journal Launch: A pop-up exhibit celebrating a limitededition journal. Art, literature and objects by more than 20 collaborators. Refreshments will be served. Through May 13. Info, 303-968-0349. Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington.
‘Semblance’ By definition, “semblance” means outward appearance. For a photography exhibit at Darkroom Gallery in
Essex Junction, that specifically refers to people, but these aren’t typical portraits. The call to artists asked for “the whole of a person caught within a single frame; portraits can be reactive, didactic, contemplative and illusive.” And these are. Juror David J. Carol selected portraits that are not only interesting but have a clear point of view that reflects the subject or the photographer. A closing 76 ART
reception is on Sunday, May 17, 5-7 p.m., at Darkroom Gallery. In addition, TV/film designer and photographer Edward L. Rubin, a frequent exhibitor at the gallery, will give a 6 p.m. talk and sign copies of his new book, Vermont: An Outsider’s Inside View. Limited copies are available on-site. Pictured: Untitled from “You Who Never Arrived” by Jennifer McClure.
Toni Lee Sangastiano: “Misguided Adorations,” a photographic series of vacant Italian street shrine alcoves repurposed as slyly subversive altars to consumer culture, created during the artist’s sabbatical in Florence, Italy. Through June 29. Info, 860-2733. Freeman Hall 300, Champlain College in Burlington. ‘The Waskowmium: Where the Art Stops’: A selection of works by 45 regional artists represent Barre collector Mark Waskow’s acquisitions since 1998. Through May 30. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center in Burlington.
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choreographer Erika Lawlor Schmidt, the universe is “an interconnected web of physical and mental relations whose parts are defined through the connections to the whole and are utterly interdependent,” as she explained in an email. Her exhibition of prints, collages and assemblages titled “Blame It on My Youth,” on view until June 6 at Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland, relates to her exploration of the similarities
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drawing, with music by her husband, Gary Schmidt. “Thematically,” Schmidt writes, “the performance is an extension of my practice as an artist.” Pictured: “Strange Weather.”
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‘Birds of A fiBer’: A community art show. Through october 31. info, 434-2167. birds of Vermont museum in huntington. CAsey BlAnChArd: “Key west bound,” a colorful, ethereal monoprint series by the shelburne artist. Through June 30. info, 238-7767. Yoga Roots in shelburne.
KAtie loesel: “piles and passageways,” drawings and prints by the Vermont artist, who explores ideas of pilings, webs and balance. Through June 1. info, 985-8222. shelburne Vineyard.
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Vermont WAterColor soCiety: A juried spring show by 35 watercolor artists. Through may 31. info, 899-3211. emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. ‘the Wonders of Wood’: An exhibition of handmade objects by woodshop manager Chris Ramos, woodworkers-in-residence, members of the woodshop’s community renters’ program and students. Through may 29. info, 985-3648. shelburne Craft school.
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‘1865, out of the Ashes: AssAssinAtion, reConstruCtion & heAling the nAtion’: historical artifacts that commemorate the Civil war’s 150th anniversary. Through July 31. info, 485-2886. sullivan museum & history Center, norwich University in northfield. ‘Art of CreAtiVe Aging’: The sixth annual juried exhibit by the Central Vermont Council on Aging, featuring recent work by senior artists living in or near washington, lamoille and orange counties. The exhibit highlights the important role of creativity and underscores the role of seniors in Vermont’s culture and society. Through may 31. info, 223-3338. Kellogg-hubbard library in montpelier. bARRe/monTpelieR shows
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‘WAlter WiCK: gAmes, gizmos And toys in the AttiC’: An exhibition of large-scale photographs, models and a video of model building from the photographic illustrator and cocreator of i spY and creator of the Can You See What I See? children’s books. Through July 5. nAthAn Benn: “Kodachrome memory: American pictures
f ‘semBlAnCe’: An juried group exhibition of unconventional studio portraits containing the “whole of a person caught within a single frame.” Reception: sunday, may 17, 5-7 p.m. Through may 17. info, 777-3686. Darkroom Gallery in essex Junction.
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‘trAVel With ogden pleissner’: A selection of the artist’s lesser-known American and european landscapes, along with other American paintings from the museum’s permanent collection. Judy B. dAles: “Ahead of the Curve,” an exhibit of contemporary quilts from the last 18 years of the artist’s flowing, abstract style. Through october 31. info, 985-3346. shelburne museum.
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‘interpreting the surfACe’: Textiles by eight Vermont members of the surface Design Association, featuring styles from traditional quilting to the abstract. Through may 26. info, 9853848. Furchgott sourdiffe Gallery in shelburne.
1972-1990,” featuring evocative color images by the acclaimed national Geographic photographer. Through may 25. info, 985-3346. pizzagalli Center for Art and education, shelburne museum.
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AdAm Vindigni: A founder of powe. snowboards exhibits graphic art, ink drawings and photography inspired by life in Vermont. Through may 31. info, 658-2739. magic hat Artifactory in south burlington.
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Billy Brauer and Students: Members of Warren artist Billy Brauer’s long-running painting and life-drawing class exhibit their work in the gallery’s new space. Through June 19. Info, 262-6035. T. W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. Bridget & Natalie Wheeler: “Brainscapes,” an exhibition of mixed-media artworks. Through May 31. Info, 479-0896. Espresso Bueno in Barre. The f/7 Photography Group: Images from Lost Nation Theater’s productions of Eurydice and Treasure Island by the local photography club. Through May 31. Info, 223-9504. Montpelier City Hall. ‘Gone Fishing’: A group exhibition of multiple media and installations depicting water, fish, watery organisms and fly fishing flies, Main Floor Gallery. Michael Heffernan: “Sweet Images,” an exhibition of surrealist abstract paintings, Third Floor Gallery. Silent Auction Exhibit: Original artwork and other items will be auctioned to benefit Studio Place Arts programs, Second Floor Gallery. Final bids on May 8. Through May 15. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre. ‘A Legacy of Caring: Kurn Hattin Homes for Children’: A historical exhibit of Kurn Hattin Homes for Children, founded in 1894 in Westminster to offer a safe home and quality education for disadvantaged children in a nurturing, rural environment. Through September 30. Info, 828-2291. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. Loretta Languet: Ceramic pottery depicting abstract floral imagery by the Mad River Valley artisan. Through May 31. Info, 223-1981. The Cheshire Cat in Montpelier. Mary Admasian: “Boundaries, Balance and Confinement,” sculptures and assemblages that address societal constraints and use found materials including fencing, willow switches, logs, butterflies and rooster feathers. Through July 7. Info, 828-0749. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier. Nancy Calicchio: “Landscape Trilogy,” an exhibition of plein-air oil paintings that explore the balance between earth and sky. Through June 30. Info, 828-5657. Governor’s Gallery in Montpelier.
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‘Inside Out’: An exhibition of 85 paintings of still life and interiors in a variety of media by member artists. Through June 28. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. “Subtle, Not Subtle: Evocative Nuance”: Delicate and complex paintings by Marc Civitarese, Janis Pozzi-Johnson and Helen Shulman; and sculptures by Jonathan Prince. Through June 3. Kathleen Kolb: “Houses,” paintings influenced by American luminism, a 19th-century landscape style emphasizing light, in which the artist illustrates how Vermonters live. Through June 22. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park, in Stowe. ‘River Works’: Photography, paintings and multimedia inspired by Vermont rivers and water meditation by Arista Alanis, Kevin Fahey, Janet Fredericks, John Miller, John Sargent, Rett Sturman and Kathryn Lipke. Through July 30. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville. ‘Slope Style’: Thirty-five fully accessorized vintage ski outfits, with a special section of the exhibit dedicated to Vermont ski brands. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.
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Student Art Show: Artworks in a variety of media and subject matter by Stowe-area students. Through May 31. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. ‘Vermont – A Personal Viewpoint’: Eighteen works depicting life in Vermont by six artists in styles from abstract to representational. Through June 3. Info, 472-6857. Grace Gallery at the Old Firehouse in Hardwick.
‘¡Viva Cuba!’ The new exhibit at BigTown Gallery in Rochester features historical and contemporary photographs of Cuba in
a range of styles by nine featured artists. The earliest images are the photographs of the late Raúl Corrales, who documented Cuba’s political revolution in the 1950s, followed by images from Cuban photojournalist José A. Figueroa. Contemporary photographer Susan S. Bank captures the daily life of farming communities. Virginia Beahan, a senior lecturer in photography at Dartmouth College, contributes contemporary landscapes that capture the political geography of Cuba’s complicated relationship with the United States. BigTown hosts a panel discussion on that topic on Saturday, May 16, 3 p.m., at the Rochester High School Auditorium. A reception follows at the gallery at 5:30 p.m. The exhibit is on view through July 12. Pictured: “Sol and Cuba, Old Havana, looking north from Alberto Rojas’ 1951 Plymouth” by Alex Harris.
Wendy Soliday: “Here and Where?” a collection of pastel paintings that juxtapose the artist’s traditional Vermont landscapes with scenes from her travels abroad. Through June 30. Info, 2531818. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe.
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Axel Stohlberg: Paintings, drawings and assemblages that play on the theme of shelter, both physical and emotional. Through June 13. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frameshop in Waterbury. Cathy Stevens Pratt: “Vessels,” a colorful exhibition of work that incorporates recognizable figures with exaggerated or abstracted details. Through May 17. Info, 244-8581. Waterbury Congregational Church. ‘The Gathering’: Thirty-three members of the Valley Arts Foundation exhibit works in a variety of media and styles. Through June 26. Info, 496-6682. Festival Gallery in Waitsfield.
f ‘¡Viva Cuba!’: Historic and contemporary images by nine photographers. Reception: Saturday, May 16, 5:30 p.m. Through July 12. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.
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Patricia LeBon Herb: Paintings on multiple themes including starry nights, Paris, flowers, still life, birds and spring. Through July 31. Info, 877-6316. Starry Night Café in Ferrisburgh.
f Erika Lawlor Schmidt: An exhibition of collages, prints and sculpture influenced by the ever-changing light of New England and Indian mysticism. Reception: Friday, May 15, 6 p.m. Through June 6. Info, 468-6052. Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland.
‘Emerging: Celebrations of Spring’: Artwork celebrating spring by local artists working in a variety of media. Through May 24. Info, 877-3850. Creative Space Gallery in Vergennes.
Peter Fried: “Addison: Land Meets Sky,” an exhibit of Addison County landscapes in the artist’s new gallery. Through October 8. Info, 355-1447. Peter Fried Art in Vergennes. Steven Jupiter: “Hubbardton Creek,” a limited-edition series of 10 color 24-by-36-inch photographs of a Vermont waterway. Through July 26. Info, 917-686-1292. Steven Jupiter Gallery in Middlebury. Woody Jackson: “Wholly Cow,” a retrospective of works by the artist best known for his Ben & Jerry’s ice cream cows. Through May 31. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury.
Castleton Alumni Art Exhibtion: Artworks by 16 graduates from 1982 through 2014. Through August 28. Info, 468-6052. Rutland City Hall.
Jackee Foley: “The Past and the Present,” a retrospective of work, including new paintings featuring the architecture of Brandon, by the thirdgeneration resident and Guild member. Through June 2. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild. ‘Love of Imagination’: The 2015 student art exhibit features work from all eligible Vermont K-12 students in public, private or home schools. The theme celebrates the youthful spirit of creativity and imagination. Through May 30. Info, 775-0062. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.
Art ShowS muffy KashKin Grollier: “Felted Flora, Fauna and Fantasy,” mixed media, paint with wool felt. Through May 31. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.
champlain islands/northwest student art exhbitiion: Artworks by students K-12 from seven schools in the Enosberg Falls area. Through May 29. Info, 933-6403. Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls.
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Keith sonnier: A survey of early neon works, 1968-1989, by the American artist. Peter saul: In a retrospective exhibit that spans his career 1959 to 2012, the American artist presents colorful paintings that incorporate humor, pop-culture imagery, irreverence and occasionally politically incorrect subject matter. Open weekends and Wednesdays by appointment. Through November 29. Info, info@hallartfoundation.org. Hall Art Foundation in Reading. laurel vail tobiason & Patricia Warren: Landscapes and portraits in watercolor and oil. Through May 24. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library in Tunbridge Village. ‘Print Garden’: Botanical Prints by studio members. Through May 31. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. tom schulten: Vivid works by the renowned Dutch painter of consensusism. Through December 31. Info, 457-7199. Artemis Global Art in Woodstock. ‘WaGon Wheels farm’: An exhibition of documents from the farm, including Depression-era photographs and a copy of the farm’s guestbook, signed by Edward Hopper. Also, reproductions of Hopper’s watercolor paintings of the White River and Josephine Hopper’s sketches of barns along Vermont Route 110. Through June 13. Info, 7637094. Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton. William raymond darlinG & Prima cristofalo: Intaglio prints and designer fashions, respectively. Through June 30. Info, 457-1298. Collective — the Art of Craft in Woodstock.
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ann younG: Oil paintings with a twist of social realism. Through June 14. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. ‘Get out of this one: broKen snoW removal devices of the neK’: A “brief celebration of futility” in the form of an exhibit about the rigors of snow removal in Vermont winters. Through May 31. Info, claredol@sover.net. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. maGGie neale: Landscape and abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through June 1. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. ‘recycle into sPrinG!’: An exhibit of art and masks created with recyclables, plastics, paper and trash by local students. Through June 12. Info, 3341966. MAC Center for the Arts Gallery in Newport.
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24th annual reGional hiGh school art exhibition: A juried exhibit of 100 works of student art. the GeorGe stePhanoPoulos collection: More than 120 photographs in a range of styles, including works by Henri Cartier-Bresson, among many others. Through May 31. Info, 518-792-1761. The Hyde Museum in Glens Falls, N.Y. ernest monteneGro: “Flatmansquared: The Tyranny of Ism,” stainless steel and bronze sculptures by the New Hampshire artist, E.N. Wennberg Gallery. helen shulman: “Happy Medium,” abstract, earth-toned landscapes in oil by the Quechee panter, Clifford B. West Gallery. joan morris: “Imprint of Absence,” featuring metal-printed textiles that investigate the space between objects and surfaces; and “Mill + Cross
‘War & Peace’ call for submissions: Calling for photography that that documents the dynamic power struggles in our world and, conversely, the moments of calm. All selected entries will be exhibited in the gallery and in a catalogue. Juror: Nissan N. Perez. Send entries to darkroomgallery.com/ex71. Deadline: June 10. Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction. $24/first 4 images, $5/ each additional image. Info, 777-3686. 25th annual art in the round barn: Artists are invited to submit applications to the show, held this year September 21 to October 12 in the historic Joslyn Round Barn at the Inn at the Round Barn
Farm in Waitsfield. Deadline: May 27. For Info and application form, contact Kim Hopper at kimhopper@gmavt.net. Joslyn Round Barn, Waitsfield. Info, 583-2558. 6th annual Wall to canvas: Sponsored by Magic Hat and the Shelburne Craft School, the Wall to Canvas event is August 1. We are seeking 12 street-style artists who use wheat pasting, stencils, collage, spray-painting, markers and the like to create unique pieces of art for the live art competition. A $500 prize will be awarded to the winner; a live art auction and artist merch tent present sales opportunities for all participating artists. Must be at least 21 to apply. Deadline: June 30. More info at magichat.net/ walltocanvas, or contact Sage Tucker-Ketcham at sage@
1, 2 and 3,” plant-dyed materials with sewn lines across the surface, Elizabeth Rowland Mayor Gallery. jonathan sa’adah: “Seeds of Change: Upper Valley 1968-1975,” photographs from the artist’s book How Many Roads?, Johnson Sisters Library. stePhanie suter: “Invisible,” silverpoint drawings that explore ideas of time, memory and impermanence by the Brownsville artist, Rebecca Lawrence Gallery Entry. Through May 20. Info, 603-448-3117. AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. ‘from GainsborouGh to moore: 200 years of british draWinGs’: An exhibit of 40 drawings and pastels, mid-18th to late 20th century, from the museum’s UK collection. Through August 16. marion WaGschal: “Portraits, Memories, Fables,” the first solo museum exhibition of the Montréal artist, featuring close to 30 paintings produced between 1971 and 2014. These include portraiture and allegorical representations painted when abstraction was in style. Through August 9. Info, 515-285-1600 ext. 205. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.
theshelburnecraftschool.org. Magic Hat Artifactory, South Burlington. $20 application fee. Info, 985-3648. the silo Project: Cambridge Arts Council (CAC) is looking for an artist to beautify two concrete silos in Jeffersonville. With approval from the Jeffersonville Board of Trustees and a grant from the Vermont Arts Council, CAC aims for these silos to be an artistic asset to the community. Three finalists will be chosen from the submissions, who will then be required to submit a visual conceptualization of their idea. Deadline: June 1. More info at cambridgeartsvt. org/category/the-silo-project. Cambridge Arts Council. Info, 644-1960.
senior bfa exhibition: A showcase of works by the art department’s graduating class. Through May 16. Info, 518-564-2474. Myers Fine Arts Building, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y.
f ‘uKara: ritual cloth of the eKPe secret society’: An exhibition examining the signature textile of the Ekpe secret society and exploring the cultural practice the cloth represents, as well as the artistic process involved in its creation. In conjunction with “Auto-Graphics: Works by Victor Ekpuk.” Reception: Friday, May 15, 4:30-7 p.m. Through August 2. ‘Water Ways: tension and floW’: Landscape and portraiture photography from the permanent collection that explores “water’s impact on human life and humanity’s impact on water.” Through August 23. victor eKPuK: “Auto-Graphics,” mixed-media works in graphite and pastel on paper, influenced by the artist’s Nigerian roots. Through August 2. Info, 603-646-2095. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. ‘variations on landscaPe’: Paintings, sculpture and photographs on the theme of nature, maps and roads. Through June 14. Info, 819-843-9992. Le Studio de Georgeville, Québec. m
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‘children of the oasis’: Ten tapestries by students of Egypt’s Ramses Wissa Wassef Centre, shown in conjunction with a contemporary fiber-art exhibit. f ‘hand toWel Project’: Trained art weavers Elizabeth Billings and Andrea Wasserman collaborated on an installation of branches and handwoven hand towels that create a faux canopy. Art talk: Thursday, May 14,
at 7 p.m. alisa dWorsKy: “Motion-Line-Form,” is a 70-foot-long textile installation made from polyester ribbon and installed via dance. It will be connected to façade of the museum. The performance is a collaboration of the artist and choreographers Candice Salyers and Dahlia Nayar. donald saaf: “Contemporary Folk Tales,” a solo exhibition of figurative paintings by the local artist and musician. evie lovett: The Westminster West photographer’s images and audio of drag queens in the final leg of the touring exhibit by the Vermont Folklife Center. GreGory miGuel Gómez: “Point at Infinity,” an exhibition of sculptures referencing mathematics and symbology. Through June 21. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.
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ere’s how moronic, lazily conceived and thoroughly Razzieready this comedy is. For the title, its creators came up with a juvenile double entendre that might at least have made sense had the film presented the women being pursued as, you know, “hot.” But the movie doesn’t even get its own joke. One of its running gags is that the character played by Reese Witherspoon is a masculine runt with a mustache. Supposedly, the only thing hot about her is the fire she started by mistakenly tasing a college student, sending his shirt up in flames. Hot Pursuit singlehandedly sets the cause of gender equity in Hollywood back by at least a decade. Directed by Anne Fletcher (27 Dresses) and produced by Witherspoon and costar Sofia Vergara, the movie has a single achievement: It makes 87 minutes feel longer than Ken Burns’ entire “The Civil War.” With bonus features. Witherspoon plays a by-the-book cop known only as Cooper (I’d like to think that’s because she’s mini beside Vergara, but that’s too clever for this clunker.) On probation owing to the taser incident, Cooper jumps at the chance to team up with a federal marshal and escort a drug-case witness from San Antonio to her grand jury appointment
in Dallas. That witness would, of course, be Vergara. The actress approaches the film as if it were an episode of “Modern Family” shot during a writers’ strike. Her character, Daniella Riva, is indistinguishable from TV’s Gloria Delgado-Pritchett — all mascara, lipstick and English as a second language. This is how braindead Hot Pursuit is: One minute the audience is informed the drug lord is so powerful that he’s having witnesses whacked from behind bars. The next, Riva’s escorts arrive at her estate to pick her up, and it’s completely unguarded. What a surprise when assassins waltz in and murder Riva’s husband and the marshal, forcing Cooper to commandeer Riva’s Cadillac and flee the killers. I know what you’re thinking. Uptight female cop, mismatched female buddy, drug lords, sight gags involving a female law enforcer’s underwear — this is kind of like The Heat, right? Wrong. Screenwriters David Feeney and John Quaintance attempt to commit literary larceny, but they bungle the job. These actresses have proved they can be funny — Vergara on the small screen and the big one (Chef, The Three Stooges); and Witherspoon in a long line of laughfests stretch-
LEGALLY BLAND Vergara and Witherspoon are paired in a comedy that has all the key elements of The Heat except for, you know, the comedy.
ing from Election and Legally Blonde to Four Christmases and last year’s Wild. (Well, I thought that last one was hysterical, anyway.) But, like any entertainers, Vergara and Witherspoon require material, and they’re given nothing to work with here. Jokes about women drivers? Vergara making her getaway in high heels? The women eluding authorities in a deer costume? And these aren’t the picture’s low points. This is the stuff Warner Bros. cherry-picked for its ads and trailers. Comedies simply don’t get more laugh-poor. Interviewed by the Wrap on May 7, director Fletcher said something funnier than
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reunion, Dan imagines, maybe he’ll finally be cool. So Dan concocts a ridiculous plan (and, as the script later acknowledges, a needless one) that permits him to go to LA “on business.” There he meets up with Oliver, who struggles to remember Dan from high school but cottons to his toadying flattery. The viewer sees that Oliver is Hollywood small fry with a movie-star smile; Dan doesn’t. Buoyed by mutual delusion, the two go out on the town and get wasted, leading to a pivotal scene that shifts the balance of power between them.
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The D Train ★★
he D Train, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last January, is a good idea in search of a better movie — specifically, a better script. It falls into the category often called “comedy of discomfort”; fans of HBO’s “Enlightened” won’t be at all surprised to spot Mike White in the cast (he also coproduced). The hallmark of this satirical subgenre is that it produces more cringes than laughs — and at that task, The D Train succeeds admirably. But, unlike “Enlightened,” The D Train doesn’t have a compelling central character or much in the way of scathing insight into the human talent for self-delusion. Firsttime directors Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul (who cowrote the comedy Yes Man) built the film around a bold concept, but after that they seem to have suffered a failure of inspiration. Jack Black plays Dan Landsman, a schlubby Pittsburgh consultant whose life is so empty (in his own mind, anyway) that he’s obsessed with making a grand appearance at his high school’s 20th reunion. Never mind that he has a supportive wife (Kathryn Hahn), a polite, articulate teenage son (Russell Posner) and a new baby. Dan only has eyes for the coolest dude in his graduating class, Oliver Lawless (James Marsden), whose abs he just spotted in a tacky national TV ad campaign. If only he can persuade this Hollywood hot shot to come home for their
anything in her film. “Critics definitely have a job to do,” she conceded. But “I can’t look at reviews because the types of movies I’ve made, the critiques are as if I’ve basically murdered their children in front of them.” What’s comical is that Fletcher blames the bad reviews (her film currently has a 6 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes) on the “types of movies” she makes rather than on how she makes them — i.e., poorly. Believe me, the type of film Hot Pursuit is can’t explain why sitting through it proves to be the moviegoing equivalent of police brutality.
That scene is probably the only reason The D Train will be remembered in a year’s time. Suffice it to say here that what might have been the catalyst for a tense, provocative third act is instead the setup for a long letdown. After Oliver makes his triumphant return to Pittsburgh and bunks down at Dan’s home, the film wobbles through a series of lukewarm jokes — and one incomparably uncomfortable reunion scene — to its conclusion. The D Train touches on ugly truths about the indignities people will suffer to move up a spot in a senseless social hierarchy, be that
Hollywood or high school. Its greatest flaw is that it sees its characters as superficially as they see themselves. Oliver has little depth beyond the initial revelation that he’s fronting, while Dan embodies the sitcom archetype of a would-be class clown deprived of the appreciative audience he craves. Steve Carell’s Michael Scott is the obvious template for this character. But while we felt the depth of Michael’s desperation to be liked, Dan remains opaque, as if Mogel and Paul simply stamped “loser” on his forehead, wound him up and let him go. In Bernie, Black played against type and made an off-putting character oddly likable. Here, closer to his manic wheelhouse, he never succeeds in making us care about Dan’s frenetic quest for status. The film’s best moments belong to Jeffrey Tambor as Dan’s behind-the-times boss, whose gentle bemusement puts the whole thing in perspective. Discomfort comedy highlights human pettiness, but to work as satire, it can’t let us feel too superior to its small-minded characters. The D Train inspires pity for its principals, but not a lot of sympathy or self-reflection in its audience — and even less laughter. Cringe comedy isn’t so bracing when we’re cringing for its makers. MARGO T HARRI S O N
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Police were able to link Christopher Furay, 33, to six bank robberies in Pittsburgh, Pa., by his distinctive red beard. After media coverage of the first four robberies, he wore a fake red beard over his real one for the next two. He was arrested anyway after the sixth robbery when a detective recognized his getaway vehicle as the same one used for previous heists. (Pittsburgh’s WTAE-TV)
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Utah authorities arrested Weston Frank Vetere, 25, after he told them he started a brush fire that burned 40 acres of oldgrowth cottonwood trees and threatened several buildings. The Grand County Sheriff’s Office said Vetere explained that he set the fire to signal for help after his car got stuck. (Reuters)
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The utility company on the Philippines island of Palawan asked residents to turn off refrigerators and other electrical appliances so there’d be enough power to broadcast the boxing match between local favorite Manny Pacquiao and American Floyd Mayweather. (Australia’s News.com.au)
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Hoping to overcome its junk-food image, McDonald’s began testing two breakfast bowls in southern California. One includes kale. The chain is also introducing three salads in Canada that contain kale. The new menu items follow recent ads for the Big Mac that mocked trendy foods like kale, soy, quinoa and Greek yogurt. (Associated Press) A Michigan court sentenced Shaneka Torres, 30, to three to seven years in prison for opening fire at a McDonald’s restaurant that failed to put bacon on her burgers. She complained when the burger she ordered at the drive-through was missing bacon. She was offered a free replacement, but this one also lacked bacon, provoking her to shoot through the restaurant. (Associated Press)
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The Internal Revenue Service announced that it won’t even try collecting from delinquent taxpayers who owe less than $1 million. “Nobody’s ever going to knock on their door,” said Richard Christian, supervisory revenue officer for the Dallas area, who explained that five years of budget cuts by Congress have reduced staffing to where collection efforts are now focused on tax cheats who owe $1 million or more. Christian further noted that traditional collection methods don’t work against the people who owe between $100,000 and $999,000 because they generally don’t have regular jobs and wages that can be garnished. “If you just owe $700,000,” he said, “we’ll hope you get a job sometime so we can levy.” (Washington Post)
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Norway’s Child Protection Service is seizing foreign children and fostering them to Norwegian parents to combat “the highest inbreeding in the world,” according to the Lithuanian talk show “An Hour with Ruta.” The program said that Lithuanian children living in Norway “are a sought-after commodity” to combat the high rate of Down syndrome and other birth defects among Norwegians. Dag Halvorsen, Norway’s ambassador to Lithuania, hired a Lithuanian public relations firm to counteract the misconception that Norwegian authorities are working “to obtain fresh, foreign children, such as Lithuanian ones, to strengthen the genetic material.” (Norway’s Local)
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Québec police issued a $148 ticket to 91-year-old Yvette Vachon for making too much noise with her recliner rocking chair. Two officers responded after her downstairs neighbor complained about being irritated by the sound of her chair and her television and insisted that police take action. Lawyer Charles Cantin took on her case pro bono.
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After the Rubbin’ Buttz BBQ in Milliken, Colo., announced that the restaurant would celebrate White Appreciation Day on June 11 by offering white customers a 10 percent discount, co-owners Edgar Antillon and Miguel Jiminez began receiving threats, including one bomb scare. “It’s been phone calls, it’s been emails, it’s been on social media,” Antillon said. “Some are just, ‘Hey, you’re an idiot,’ and others have been legit threats.” He added, however, that the messages have been “overwhelmingly positive.” Antillon said the idea for White Appreciation Day was to “highlight a double standard,” where African American and Hispanic Americans have monthlong celebrations of their heritage, but he emphasized that the discount would apply to all patrons. All they have to do is ask. (Washington Times)
After he reported the ticket to the media, prosecutors in Saguenay canceled the fine and said the officers should have issued her just a warning. (Canada’s National Post)
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My astrological colleagues discourage me from talking to you bulls about financial matters. “Most tauruses know 10 times more about the mystery of money than you will ever know,” said one. “Their excellent instincts trump any tips you could offer.” Another astrologer concurred, noting, “The financial advice you give tauruses will at best be redundant and at worst simplistic.” A third colleague summed it up: “offering tauruses guidance about money is like counseling scorpios about sex.” so although I’m shy about providing recommendations, I will say this: The next five weeks will be a favorable time to set in motion the plans to Get rICHer QuICKer!
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(June 21-July 22): In mythic terms, you should be headed for the winner’s circle, which is inside the pleasure dome. The parade in your honor should follow the award ceremony, and let’s hope you will be on the lead float wearing a gold crown and holding a real magic wand while being sung to by a choir of people you love and who love you. If for any reason you are not experiencing some version of these metaphors, I urge you to find out why. or better yet, get busy planning a homecoming or graduation party or award ceremony for yourself. from an astrological perspective, you have a mandate to be recognized and appreciated for the gifts you offer the world.
leo (July 23-Aug. 22): british field Marshal Arthur Wellesley was a brilliant military commander. renowned for his ability to beat larger armies, he also had great skill at minimizing loss of life among his own troops. His most famous triumph took place in 1815, when he led the forces that defeated napoleon bonaparte at Waterloo. In the aftermath, the french tyrant lost his power and went into exile. What was the secret of Wellesley’s success? “bonaparte’s plans were made in wire,” he said. “Mine were made in string.” In other words, Wellesley’s strategy was more flexible and adaptable. As circumstances changed, it could be rearranged with greater ease. That’s the approach I recommend for you in the coming days. Virgo (Aug. 23-sept. 22): you may not be
strong enough to take a shot at a daunting
challenge that’s five levels beyond your previous best. but I think you are at least ready to try a tricky challenge that’s one level higher than where you have been operating. And that, in my opinion, is a more practical use of your courage. I think it would be a waste of your energy to get wrapped up in grandiose fantasies about impossible perfections. As long as you don’t overreach, you can accomplish small miracles.
liBra (sept. 23-oct. 22): I suspect you are about to experience some prime contenders for the Most unusual Adventures of 2015. Are you thoroughly prepared? of course not. There’s no way you can be totally ready to adapt to unpredictable wrinkles and change your mind at a moment’s notice. but that’s exactly what will make these experiments so fun. That’s why they will be effective in building up your resilience and willpower. for best results, apply your nighttime thinking to daytime activities, and vice versa. spend minimal time on responsibilities that don’t teach you noble truths about your fellow madmen and madwomen. now here’s my big question: How can you tap into the extra power you will need during your rite of passage? scorPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): Many modern
astronomers are allergic to astrology, but from my perspective there is no inherent conflict between the two fields. four of history’s greatest astronomers were practicing astrologers, after all: Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, tycho brahe and Pierre Gassendi. one of my friends in college, a scorpio woman named Martha Maiden, is a first-rate astrologer who got a degree in astronomy and became a top scientist at nAsA. In the spirit of finding reconciliation between apparent opposites, I’m happy to say that you are now a virtual virtuoso in your ability to reconcile both apparent opposites and actual opposites. I invite you to use this aptitude with flair and daring.
sagittariUs (nov. 22-Dec. 21): sagittarian Matt stutzman competes in the sport of archery. He’s the world’s record holder for longest accurate shot, having hit a target 230 yards away. What makes his accomplishment so extraordinary is the fact that he was
born without any arms. He holds each arrow in his mouth and grasps the bow with his right foot and the help of a chest harness. In the spirit of this armless archer, and in accordance with your current astrological omens, I invite you to initiate an attempt to triumph over one of your so-called disadvantages.
caPricorN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Long before Lou reed recorded the song “Walk on the Wild side,” nelson Algren wrote a novel titled A Walk on the Wild Side. It depicts the luxuriant depravity of new orleans’ french Quarter in the 1930s. one of Algren’s most enduring bits of spiritual advice goes as follows: “never, ever, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.” What do you think of that, Capricorn? even if you don’t regard it as a universal rule that you should unfailingly obey, I suggest you observe it in the coming weeks. for the sake of your mental hygiene, be extra discerning about what influences you absorb — not just in bed, but everywhere. aQUariUs (Jan. 20-feb. 18): The cosmos
has authorized you to be hungrier than usual. you may also feel free to respond to your enhanced hunger with an extra aggressive quest to be fed. Therefore: be voracious! risk being avid, ardent and even agog. fill yourself up with pudding, pleasure, praise, peace, perks and privileges. Anything else you’d like to engorge? If some unenlightened person questions your right to claim the biggest piece and the sweetest taste and the best fuel, inform them that your astrologer says you have ultimate permission.
Pisces (feb. 19-March 20): Is there an in-
teresting ally whose path rarely crosses yours? Do you draw inspiration from a like-minded dynamo who is not fully available? Has fate kept you and a friend from getting as close as you would wish? According to my reading of the astrological omens, relationships like these could become more substantial in the coming weeks. The dream of a more robust connection could ripen into an opportunity to actually collaborate. so be alert for the openings, and be prepared to do what’s necessary to go deeper.
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aries (March 21-April 19): The danger of resisting a temptation too strenuously is that the temptation might depart. I suggest that you prevent that from happening. Without throwing yourself at the mercy of the temptation, see if you can coax it to stick around for a while longer. Why? In my view, it’s playing a useful role in your life. It’s motivating you to change some things that really do need to be changed. on the other hand, I’m not yet sure that it should become anything more than a temptation. It might serve you best that way, not as an object of your satisfied desire.
geMiNi (May 21-June 20): “endings to be useful must be inconclusive,” wrote science fiction novelist samuel r. Delany. I endorse that theory for your use in the coming weeks. Interweave it with this advice from playwright sam shepard: “The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning.” In other words, Gemini, don’t be attached to neat finales and splashy climaxes. Consider the possibility that you can simply slip free of the complicated past and head toward the future without much fanfare.
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I’m a young guy with an older boyfriend, and this may sound funny, but he wants sex more than I do. I like sex — don’t get me wrong — but I just don’t want to do it as much as he does. I usually give in, but then I’m annoyed after and find excuses to leave, or we get into a fight later. When I avoid it, it’s even worse. I love him. I want to stay with him, but I just can’t have sex all the time. What should I do? How can we deal with this problem?
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Here’s a little secret: Age doesn’t always define sexual appetite. Libido does change over time, but just because you’re young doesn’t mean you’re all about sex, all the time. And being older doesn’t mean you’ve lost your sex drive. You guys are a great example of this. So talk to your partner and get on the same page. The best way to solve this problem is head-on. You love him. I’m assuming he loves you, too. So he should be open to talking this out and making some sort of compromise. I am not suggesting that you come up with a sex schedule, but perhaps you can invite him to see that intimacy isn’t always about straight-up sex. Holding hands, being naked in the shower, kissing in a booth at a bar and dancing in the street are all sexy. Even cuddling up on the couch for a game of Scrabble or a Netflix marathon can be intimate. If you feel pressured to “give in” and have sex, that’s just going to push you two away from one another. He should be able to see that. He must feel it already, since you’re starting to fight about this. It’s important for you to reassure him that not having sex all the time doesn’t mean you don’t find him attractive or sexy. Tread carefully; you don’t want to negatively affect his self-esteem or foster distrust in your relationship. So be kind as you explain that there are other things you’re passionate about besides sex, and that you want to share these sides of yourself with him. Make him understand that you’re not avoiding his advances for any reason other than that you have a smaller sexual appetite. Promise to let him know when you are in the mood for sexy time. Try this conversation after spending a great day together. Remind him that you love him. Hopefully he’ll understand and find other ways to be intimate. If he still pesters you after you’ve talked, well, let him see how he feels when you’re not available for sex at all. He’ll probably do what he can to keep you.
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