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6. Tony winner Neuwirth
10. Serbian city
13. Booker T.’s backup
16. Rio Grande port
17. Sailor’s “Stop!”
18. Daughter of Oedipus
21. Occasion for a single snake?
23. TV
24. Calculus calculation (abbr.)
25. Mideast dweller
26. Echo chamber?
28. Ellipse portion
29. Got an A-plus on
31. Nirvana seeker
32. Field goal score
33. Height (prefi x)
34. 2009 “Survivor” setting
36. Halloween snake?
40. Round
42. Ginormous
43. Vitality
44. Increased by 200%
46. NBA’s __ Man Award
47. Church songbook
51. Peak
52. Thrust
53. Actress born Jill
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55. Waste no time
56. Bus. overseer
57. Cohen persona
59. “Buy It Now” site
60. Early bird?
61. Factor in 103 Across
62. Snake that shows the way?
65. Actress Pounder
66. Bubbleheaded
67. City on “das Rhein”
68. “__ Kat”
69. Production number?
71. Peripheral connector
72. Less sensible
75. Very, in Veracruz
76. Talk fast
77. 31 Across’s energy points
79. Sherpas’ home
81. Horatian works
82. Irish Sea tourist center
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83. Yeltsin successor
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85. Beach Boys’ snake song?
90. Derbies et al.
93. Till fi ll
94. “A Passage to India” woman
95. Breathing (abbr.)
97. Slender
98. Painter Gerard __ Borch
99. Half a Beatles title
101. Didn’t dance
103. Obesity stat.
104. Cloth
106. Why the snakes’ ball game
was called off?
109. Polish
110. Roadster maker
111. Quick lights
112. Packed, for short
113. H.S. dropout’s option
114. Differently
115. “...rosebuds while __”
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2. Snake’s autobiography?
3. “Culpa” preceder
4. Tacks on
5. 1850s “Lady’s Book”
publisher
6. Page in a pin-up calendar?
7. Nobelist Wiesel
8. Emeril’s outcry
9. They have letters for you to
read
10. Ingenuousness
11. Seriously committed
12. Hubbub
13. Labor rival, at times (abbr.)
14. Return
15. Edda author Sturluson
16. Falana and Albright
17. Not 66 Across
19. Plasma bit
20. Parolee
22. Hammed it up
27. Correctly
30. “Prob’ly not”
32. “Time __” (TV sci-fi oldie)
33. Refrig., for one
35. Microsoft co-founder
37. Cat cartoonist B.
38. Football Hall-of- Famer Gene
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45. Dr. Seuss swimmer
46. Gilbert of “The Talk”
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48. Snakes’ nightclub?
49. Shoe size
50. Rule, for short
52. Actress Pfl ug
54. “Being There” writer
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57. Gauchos’ gear
58. Electronics mfg. co.
62. Comet competitor
63. Big name in high fashion
64. Fidel’s brother
65. Block-shaped
66. Nantes noble
67. Bolshoi rival
69. Smallest OPEC member
70. Bostonians’ elisions
73. Toughened
74. Exact vengeance
76. Fla. airport
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80. Hummus holder
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83. Went by bike
84. __ customer
85. “I dunno”
86. “Paper Moon” costars
87. Discus champ Al
88. Alhambra, e.g.
89. Godly mouthpiece
91. Hatred
92. Team in a pickup game,
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99. 60 “minuti”
100. Bob’s longtime pal
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ARTS NOTEBOOK
Music
Mal Blum headlines concert
for Marlboro College
Women’s Resource Center:
Rising indie singer/songwriter Mal
Blum headlines a benefit concert
for the Marlboro College Women’s
Resource Center on Thursday, April
21, at 7:30 p.m., in the college’s
Campus Center.
Blum has opened for national artists
including Amanda Palmer, Kimya
Dawson, and Melissa Ferrick. Her music
earned top 10 status on the 2009
Click List, a feature of the LGBT
television and web network, LOGO.
Deborah Singer of Hear/Say magazine
calls Blum, “A talented artist that
makes songs where you don’t want to
miss a word.”
Admission is by suggested donation
of $10 ($3 for Marlboro College
students with ID). Also performing
during the benefit concert are Shea
Witzo and Turning into Softy. Witzo
is a current Marlboro student and activist
whose performances blend jazz
vocals with ukulele and oftentimes a
megaphone. Turning Into Softy plays
acoustic pop and is led by Marlboro
students Christina Schneider and
Michael Schneeweis.
The Women’s Resource Center
was founded in the spring of 2010
by several concerned female students
who felt the community would benefit
from more education around issues of
sexism, gender and women’s health as
well as advocacy for female students.
Since its foundation, the WRC has
brought in speakers and consultants,
encouraged discussion of racism, sexism,
and sexual assault, and worked as
an institutional advocate for women
at Marlboro.
Strawberry Hill Fiddlers
at Hooker-Dunham: Twilight
Music presents a benefit concert for
Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery,
139 Main St., Brattleboro, featuring
The Strawberry Hill Fiddlers, a
teenage ensemble of 10 fiddlers, two
cellists, a bassist and a guitarist from
the Hudson Valley in New York, on
Thursday, April 21 at 7 p.m.
The Strawberry Hill Fiddlers perform
a spirited program of traditional
music of many genres. Directed by
Emily and Carole Schaad, the fiddlers
include singing, improvisation
and Appalachian clogging with their
fiddle tunes. The band members, who
also study classical music and play in
orchestras, meet weekly to learn, arrange
and perform traditional tunes
from many cultures. They are part
of a fiddle program administered by
Stringendo, Inc., a community music
school that also directs a Saturday
orchestra program during the school
year and a summer day camp for young
string players.
The “Strawberries” have released
two CDs, performed on PBS Radio’s
“Dancing on the Air,” shared the stage
with Natalie MacMaster, Jay Ungar
and Molly Mason, Alasdair Fraser and
Barrage, and toured the U.K. Tickets
for the show are $10 general admission,
$8 students and seniors, and free
for kids 6 and under. For ticket reservations
and information, call 802-254-
9276 or visit www.hookedunham.org.
A “Gather-ring at the
River”: The Vermont Spring Ring,
a handbell concert involving 30 choirs,
will be held Saturday, April 30, at 4
p.m., at the Bellows Falls Union High
School gym in Westminster.
Local choirs participating include
the West B Bells from the First
Congregational Church in West
Brattleboro, the St. James Episcopal
Church Choir in Keene, N.H., the
Ringers on the Square from the United
Church of Christ in Keene, and the
Saxton River Ringers from Christ’s
Church in Saxtons River.
The more than 270 ringers from
across Vermont and southern New
Hampshire attending this event will
spend the day working with nationally-known
handbell director Monica
McGowan, who has an extensive
background in handbells and hand
chimes. The concert will feature the
full group of ringers presenting four
pieces especially composed for handbells:
Renewed Spirit by Michael
Mazzatenta, Animato by Arnold
Sherman, For the Beauty of the Earth
by J.D. Frizzell and Immortal Invisible
by Douglas Smith. In addition, 12
choirs — including the Ringers on the
Square, the Bellisimo Ringers and the
Saxtons River Ringers — will perform
solo pieces.
The Vermont Spring Ring is sponsored
by Area I of the American Guild
of English Handbell Ringers. It originated
30 years ago to allow bell ringers
from across Vermont and southern
New Hampshire to gather and share
their love of this musical medium while
enhancing their ringing skills.
Performing arts
Kali Quinn at Sandglass
Theater: Acting on Impulse and
GUTWorks present Overture to a
Thursday Morning , featuring virtuosic
performer Kali Quinn, at Sandglass
Theater in Putney on April 28-May 1.
Quinn’s newest solo performance
is a suspenseful and inspiring journey
that questions the will to go on and
who to take with you. The play tours to
Vermont after a successful run in New
York City and Rochester, N.Y. Quinn
plays Lila, a character who smokes, listens
to Talking Heads and wants to be
a violin rock star, but unwanted discoveries
push her toward the secret truth
about her own birth. A clash of 1950s
nostalgia, visual poetry, and contemporary
angst are all explored through
real-time musical composition, physical
tragic comedy, and common household
objects.
Performance are April 28, 29, and
30 at 8 p.m. On Sunday, May 1, at 2
p.m., a matinee will benefit for Making
the Most of I, a local organization offering
women support, education and
resources for making healthy changes
in their lives. Tickets are $15 and may
be purchased at brownpaperickets.
com, by calling 800-838-3006, or at
the door 45 minutes before each performance.
The performance runs one
hour, and all performances will include
an optional talkback.
Visual arts
Theater curtains at
Main Street Arts: Before movies,
Vermonters glimpsed far-off worlds
through immense, hand-painted
theater curtains. These painted
back-drops set the stage for dances,
concerts, and vaudeville shows.
Come to Main Street Arts in
Saxton’s River on Wednesday, April
27, at 7 p.m., for Suspended Worlds:
Vermont’s Painted Theater Curtains .
This is an up-close and personal look
at these amazing pieces with Christine
Hadsel. This program is especially exciting
as Main Street Arts happens to
house Vermont’s largest single collection
of these theater curtains, so attendees
will be able to see the actual
curtains “in person.”
Between the 1880 and the 1940s,
traveling actors would visit Vermont
towns, painting curtain back-drops
and putting on shows. They would
leave the curtains for the buildings’
permanent use. Due to the generosity
and enthusiasm of these itinerant artists,
a culture of local variety shows,
school performances and theatrical
productions flourished in Vermont
— also attracting touring troupes of
performers, opera companies, vaudeville
singers, and itinerant musicians.
Hadsel is the director of Curtains
Without Borders, Inc., of the Vermont
Painted Theater Curtain Project.
Starting in 1996, the project has restored
160 out of the state’s 185 curtains,
most of which are now installed
for use, or are on public view. Vermont
is the first state to pay attention to
the restoration and conservation of
these curtains. She will talk about the
project, show slides and tell stories of
Vermont’s many curtains and their artists,
along with a viewing tour of Main
Street Arts’ collection.
This program is hosted by the
Rockingham Free Public Library in
Bellows Falls and sponsored by the
Vermont Humanities Council. It is
free and open to the public. For more
information, call Rockingham Public
Library 802-463-4270 or Main Street
Arts at 802-869-2960.
Paintings by Terry Carter
at the Blue Moose: “Fall into
Spring” an exhibit of painting by local
artist Terry Carter will be shown for
the month of May at The Blue Moose
Café, 29 High St., Brattleboro.
Working with materials that span
these two seasons, Carter has gone
beyond traditional painting on canvas
to try out her skills on gourds. In
keeping with the time honored genre
of landscape and still life, her painting
on more conventional surfaces such
as canvas, highlights the lush colors
of the summer.
During the fall harvest season,
Carter collects gourds for her work,
choosing them for their unusual shapes
and curves. Each unique find suggests
to her a particular composition and
design. After the gourd is dried, she
works with numerous coats of varnish
and primer, layered with paint. When
completed, the finished pieces have an
organic look and feel to them and will
last indefinitely.
Painting landscapes and common
wildflowers found in Southern
Vermont, Carter’s direct experience
and intimacy with nature is reflected
in her work. Her visual memories of
growing up in rural New Hampshire
inspired her to work with subject matter
close to home. The exhibit will be
on display during the café’s regular
hours, Monday through Saturday from
8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Film
Headline Vermont shown
in Wilmington: Vermont
Independent Media, publisher of The
Commons , Windham County’s awardwinning
weekly newspaper, will present
Headline Vermont , a Vermont
Public Television documentary film
about the history of journalism in
Vermont.
Produced by Daniel Lyons of
Brattleboro, Headline Vermont combines
archival images, interviews with
historians and journalists, and reenactments
to tell colorful stories of
newspapering from the frontier era
into the 21st century. The film recently
received a nomination in the 2011
Boston/New England Emmy Awards
in the Historical/Cultural Program/
Special category.
Segments of the film feature the
staff of The Commons in action. Jeff
Potter, editor of the paper, will be
on hand for a discussion period after
the film.
The film will be shown at the Pettee
Memorial Library, 16 South Main St.,
Wilmington, on Wednesday, April
27, at 3 p.m.
Books
Best selling mystery author
returns to Brattleboro:
Mystery on Main Street, New
England’s only bookstore devoted
exclusively to tales of mystery and suspense,
will host an author signing with
Edgar-nominated author Ken Wishnia,
Saturday, April 23, at 3 p.m. Wishnia
will discuss The Fifth Servant , now
available in paperback.
The Fifth Servant follows a young
Talmudic scholar’s attempt to save
his Jewish community in 16th-century
Prague during the Inquisition. He has
only three days to discover who killed
a Christian girl found in the store of
a Jewish shopkeeper, against whom
the authorities have brought a bloodlibel
charge.
Space, as always, is limited; reserve
a spot to avoid disappointment. All
events are free and open to the public.
If you cannot make an event but would
like an autographed copy of The Fifth
Servant, contact Mystery on Main
Street. For information, reservations
or to reserve books, call 802-258-2211
or email to: info@mysteryonmain.com.