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Summer festivals scale down, heat up Local events on the rise after larger festival falters

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Last summer’s inaugural Nateva Music & Camping Festival brought a host of world class acts to Oxford, Maine, offering a line-up catering to both tie-dyehards and the Wayfaring indie music crowd.

But lacking venue permits and citing slower than predicted ticket sales along with a crowded summer festival schedule, organizers announced last month that the first Nateva would also be the last, leaving some music fans with a gaping hole in their summer concert plans.

While Maine’s newest and largest music festival might have not lasted past it’s first year, local music fans won’t need to go far to soak up sun and tunes, with a host of smaller festivals stepping up to make the most of the small window we call summer in Maine.

The Flaming Lips headlined last summer’s debut Nateva Music & Camping Festival along with a host of national touring acts, see FESTIVAL page 9

but slow ticket sales and permit woes forced the cancellation of a second year. With a hole in their summer music schedule, many are turning to smaller regional festivals, like Saturday’s Belfast Free Range Music Festival. (MATT DODGE PHOTO)

Youngster aims for national free throw title City’s projected tax increase dips

BY JEFF PETERSON THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

For 9-year-old Isabel Dawson, being a great free throw shooter has given her the opporunity of a lifetime. She is a finalist in The Elks National Hoop Shot Free Throw Contest.

Today at 10 a.m. at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., she will be going up against 11 other girls for the national championship in free throw shooting.

To get to this competition, Isabel had to win four other rounds and beat out hundreds of thousands of other 8- and 9-year-olds. It all started back in January when she made 21 out of 25 shots to win the local title at Mcauley High School in Portland. A couple of weeks later she made 21 shots again to win districts in Rockland. Just when she thought she couldn’t do any better, she went 22 for 25 to win the state championship in Brunswick.

“At that competition not only did she win

her age group, but she was the high female of the day beating out all of the other girls there,” exclaimed her father Eric Dawson. “That included girls as old as 13. This was a big deal because last year, Isabel lost in the districts by taking second place makinig 15 shots.

Then it was off to the New England Dawson Championships at University of Southern Maine in Gorham. Isabel and her family wasn’t sure how she would perform because she didn’t feel well. Isabel proved that a even

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Royal wedding finally happens LONDON — In the end, Friday’s wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton may not have ushered in a new dawn for the frayed royal family or brought a renewed era of optimism to a country beset by financial woes, as some predicted in the overheated countdown to the big day. But it proved that the British still know how to combine pageantry, solemnity, romance (and wild hats) better than anyone else in the world.

It was an impeccably choreographed occasion of high pomp and heartfelt emotion, of ancient customs tweaked by modern developments (Elton John brought his husband).

Viewing estimates for the ceremony, at 11 a.m. British time on the dot, hovered in the three billion range, give or take 500 million. Australians held bouquet-throwing competitions; people in Hong Kong wore Kate and William masks; New Yorkers rose by dawn to watch the entrance of guests like Victoria Beckham, teetering pregnantly in sky-high Christian Louboutin heels.

In London, the Metropolitan Police said, a million people lined the route of the royal procession, and half a million gathered in front of Buckingham Palace to watch the bride and groom, now known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, kiss (twice) on the palace balcony.

People paid attention almost despite themselves.

“I never really think too seriously about them,” said Kathy Gunn, 54, speaking of the royal family. Yet she had somehow been inexorably sucked into the spirit of the occasion, watching it unfold with a crowd on a huge screen at a cafe in central London. “It gives you a great sense of community and spirit,” she said. “I am a royalist for the day.”

In a world of scattered attention and splintered interests, the occasion had the effect of providing a single international conversation about a subject with universal appeal: the details of a wedding, particularly one so rich with opportunities for gawking at people with uniquely rarefied lives. It was like a party scene in “Dallas,” only with Prince Philip instead of J. R. Ewing.

Grizzled political correspondents, hauled in to television studios to serve as wedding anchors, found themselves talking in all seriousness about the passementerie of the motherof-the-bride’s dress and the provenance of Miss Middleton’s tiara.

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BY CAMPBELL ROBERTSON AND KIM SEVERSON THE NEW YORK TIMES

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — As President Obama visited Alabama on Friday, which was at the epicenter of a region that endured storms that killed hundreds across the South, people from Texas to Virginia searched through the rubble of their homes, schools and businesses for survivors.

“I’ve never seen devastation like this,” Mr. Obama said during a tour of this college town, according to The Associated Press. “We’re going to make sure you’re not forgotten.”

Nearly 300 people across six states died in the storms, with the vast majority — 213 people — in Alabama. Tuscaloosa, the home of the University of Alabama, has in some places been shorn to the slab, and accounts for at least 36 of those deaths.

Thousands have been injured, and untold more have been left homeless, hauling their belongings in garbage bags or rooting through disgorged piles of wood and siding to find anything salvageable.

By Friday morning, gasoline and other supplies were getting difficult to find in parts of Alabama. County emergency directors cautioned people to not

show up to help.

While Alabama was hit the hardest, the storm spared few states across the South.

Thirty-three people were reported dead in Tennessee, 32 in Mississippi, 15 in Georgia, 5 in Virginia and one in Kentucky, according to The Associated Press. With search and rescue crews still climbing through debris and making their way down tree-strewn President Obama, along with local officials, toured the wreckage yesterday from a strong storm that country roads, the tore through the South (Doug Mills/The New York Times). toll is expected to 1,680 people spent Wednesday Gov. Robert Bentley toured rise. in Red Cross shelters, said Attie the state by helicopter on “History tells me estimatPoirier, a spokeswoman with Thursday along with federal ing deaths is a bad business,” the organization. The last time officials, tracking a vast scar said W. Craig Fugate, the Fedthe Red Cross had set up such that stretched from Birmingeral Emergency Management an elaborate system of shelters ham to his hometown, TuscaAgency administrator, in a conwas after Hurricane Katrina, a loosa. He declared Alabama “a ference call with reporters on comparison made by even some major, major disaster.”

Thursday. of those who had known the “As we flew down from BirmAn Cries could be heard into the experience firsthand. enormous response operanight here in Tuscaloosa on “It reminds me of home so tion was under way across the Wednesday, but on Thursday much,” said Eric Hamilton, 40, South, with emergency officials hope had dwindled. Mayor Walt a former Louisianan, who was working alongside churches, Maddox said that the search sitting on the sidewalk outsororities and other volunteer and rescue operation would go side the Belk Activity Center, groups. In Alabama, more than for 24 to 48 more hours, before which was being used as a Red 2,000 National Guard troops the response pivoted its focus to Cross shelter in south Tuscahave been deployed. recovery. loosa.

Across nine states, more than

German Police Say Arrests of 3 Thwarted Attack by Al Qaeda

BY MICHAEL SLACKMAN AND STEFAN PAULY THE NEW YORK TIMES

BERLIN — The German police arrested three men suspected of being members of Al Qaeda on Friday, saying they represented “a concrete and imminent danger” to the nation and had been planning an attack using explosives.

The German authorities presented the bare outlines of a terrorism plot that they said involved at least one person trained at a militant camp in Afghanistan or Pakistan and a cache of material for producing explosives. The men had been under surveillance for seven months, but the authorities said they decided to move fast when the three began preparations for testing an explosive device.

“We succeeded in preventing a concrete and imminent danger,” said the interior minister, HansPeter Friedrich, in a statement that acknowledged assistance

from foreign investigators. “This proves that Germany continues to be in the cross hairs of international terrorists, and we need to remain vigilant.”

The authorities said more information would be released Saturday at the federal prosecutor’s headquarters in Karlsruhe, when the men would be brought before a judge. But some details emerged from law enforcement officials and the German news media, which said at least two of the men were Moroccan, one with German citizenship and the other living in Germany illegally. The third was said to be a German of Iranian descent, though some reports said he was of Moroccan descent.

It was not at clear if there was any connection between the arrests and the terrorist attack in Morocco on Thursday, when at least 16 people were killed after a bomb detonated in a packed cafe in the tourist center of Marrakesh at lunchtime. But

experts said it was likely that Moroccan and German intelligence services had recently cooperated.

The German news media reported that the three suspects had been taken into custody in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia and that the authorities had confiscated materials for making explosives, including acetone, a volatile substance popular with terrorists. Officials identified the suspects only as Abdeladim K., Jamil S. and Ahmed Sh. German authorities do not typically release the names of crime suspects According to the newspaper Bild, one suspect was from Düsseldorf and the other two were from nearby cities, Essen and Bochum. All three were arrested at 6:30 a.m. in raids on Friday at locations in Düsseldorf and Bochum.

The target was uncertain.

Bild, Germany’s most widely

read and generally reliable newspaper, reported that the terrorist cell might have planned to hit the popular Eurovision Song Contest on May 14, though that event’s organizers said they had not been alerted to any such threat.

The newspaper Die Welt quoted an anonymous investigator as saying that the suspects were planning to attack a public transportation in a large German city. An American official who was briefed on the operation said the plot was aimed at buses or bus depots in a major German city.

The news of arrests and allegations that combined homegrown terrorist elements with the lawless AfghanistanPakistan border region shook Germany’s sense of calm. The country was put on edge last year as well after a terrorism alert involving what the authorities said was concrete information of a planned attack.

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Fire destroys Fryeburg house, owner found alive

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

FRYEBURG — Authorities have located the owner of a Fryeburg home destroyed by fire early Friday after a search of the area that included local police, state Fire Marshals and a Maine Warden Service plane.

In a brief interview, Maine state police spokesman Steve McCausland said homeowner Dana Hatch, 58, was found alive shortly before 3 p.m. Friday in woods not far from his home. Hatch was unaccounted for since Thursday evening.

McCausland said the cause of the fire is still unknown, and that investigators were planning to interview Hatch.

“We don’t have an answer to how it started yet, and of course Fire Marshals want to talk to him about what he knows about the fire and why he ended up where he did,” McCausland said.

“What (Hatch) was doing in the woods, at this point, we don’t have an explanation,” he added.

Hatch’s home was burned to the ground in the fire, which occurred before dawn on Friday morning at 254 Highland Park Road.

Authorities searching the rubble could not locate Hatch for much of the day Friday, and press releases went out asking the public’s help finding him. The release said family members had not heard from Hatch since the fire was reported, and that his pickup truck was parked in the driveway.

McCausland said Hatch appeared to have suffered

“minor” injuries, although it’s not clear how they were sustained.

They were “basically scratches and cuts that he may have gotten in the woods, depending on how long he has actually been in the woods,” McCausland said.

It wasn’t immediately clear if Hatch was transported to a hospital, although paramedics were called to the scene.

As of April 11, Hatch’s home was listed for sale on several real estate websites, including Pinkham Real Estate, in North Conway. The three-bedroom, twobath home was described as having “Unsurpassed Panaramic Mountain & Pond Views set on 9 acres,” according to the online listing.

The asking price was $229,000.

A White House in New Hampshire Lures G.O.P. hopefuls

BY ABBY GOODNOUGH THE NEW YORK TIMES

MANCHESTER, N.H. — The décor is plain, the food forgettable and the drink menu limited to coffee, bottled water and wine. But the parties taking place every few weeks in the rambling white house on Young Street here are of the can’t-miss variety, especially for Republican presidential hopefuls seeking credibility in this crucial primary state.

The host is Ovide Lamontagne, an affable conservative lawyer and activist whom potential candidates are hustling to befriend this spring as their visits to New Hampshire multiply. Mr. Lamontagne and his wife, Bettie, are obliging by throwing house parties for any serious candidate who asks.

While house parties are hardly a new concept in New Hampshire — dozens will be held between now and next year’s primary, tentatively scheduled for Feb. 14 — it is rare for one host to stand out as a potential kingmaker. But every Republican weighing a run seems eager to meet and greet in Mr. Lamontagne’s childhood home here, both to schmooze with him and to build the grass-roots support that primary candidates cannot survive without.

“This whole program of house parties that he’s doing is unique,” said Harold Turner, a local businessman who has attended all three of Mr. Lamontagne’s parties so far. “Ovide has said publicly that he fully intends at the end of the process to endorse a candidate, and that will be a pretty significant thing to get.”

So far, former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, and Herman Cain, the former chief executive of Godfather’s Pizza, have trekked to the Lamontagne home here, with a wide porch, an American flag and a lone

birch tree out front. Rudolph W. Giuliani and Newt Gingrich are next in line, with parties scheduled for May (Mr. Giuliani requested one when he met the Lamontagnes on a visit here last month, Mr. Lamontagne said).

On Friday, Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts were scheduled to join Mr. Pawlenty, Mr. Santorum and Mr. Cain at a dinner here honoring Mr. Lamontagne as “conservative of the year.”

Unlike house parties in fancier homes, people do not venture to Mr. Lamontagne’s, on Manchester’s modest east side, out of nosiness, said Fergus Cullen, a former chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party. The house sits amid triple-deckers and other sturdy New England stock. During the party for Mr. Cain, one neighbor hosed down a fish tank in her driveway; others lounged on their porch in shorts.

“This isn’t the big house up on Lake Winnipesaukee that everyone’s always wanted to get inside,” Mr. Cullen said.

Mr. Lamontagne (his full name is pronounced OH-vid Luh-MAHN-tane) emerged as a power player after narrowly losing last year’s Republican Senate primary to Kelly Ayotte, the establishment candidate who went on to win in November. His surprisingly close finish energized conservatives, and his immediate offering of support for Ms. Ayotte after his defeat burnished his image as a principled party leader.

Now Mr. Lamontagne enlists relatives and volunteers from his Senate campaign to help move furniture to the basement before each party; at the one for Mr. Cain, all that remained were two sofas, a piano and a grandfather clock. A velvet rope deterred potential snoopers from climbing the stairs to the second floor.

Bettie Lamontagne, her strappy sandals and

black shirt a chic contrast to the sensible shoes and patriotic ties of some guests, had set out cheese and crackers, cocktail franks and garlic hummus that she cheerfully admitted were not homemade.

“A membership at B. J.’s is the key,” she said, referring to the wholesale club.

Mike Castaldo, a Republican activist from Dover, said snacking was “something of a liability” at Mr. Lamontagne’s parties because with a mouthful of cheddar, guests might miss the chance to chat with a presidential aspirant.

Mr. Pawlenty, who needed a microphone to address the 200 guests crammed into Mr. Lamontagne’s living, dining and family rooms one night last month, said Mr. Lamontagne was “offering grass-roots engagement at its best.”

Mr. Lamontagne, 53, may run for governor next year, but for now he has formed a political action committee, partly to finance the house parties, which are free.

“I just think it’s important to get involved in this process,” he said recently. “We’ve got to get a new president elected, and I’ve got to do what I can as a citizen to get the most conservative candidate elected.”

Mr. Cain, who drew about 70 people to the house on Wednesday, spoke for about 20 minutes and lingered until the last guests departed.

“You saw this crowd,” he said afterward, resting on Mr. Lamontagne’s leather couch. “I mean, I was thrilled! Maybe they leave remembering a few of my catchphrases.”

Mr. Santorum joked in an interview that it was both an honor and a curse to have been the speaker at Mr. Lamontagne’s first house party, on a snowy night in January. More than 150 people braved bad weather to attend, he said, but the crowd was so unexpectedly large that many could not hear his speech.

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Noted historian to make case for Maine Woods national park The idea of a Maine Woods National Park is likely to get a boost next week as one of its more high-profile champions makes the keynote commencement speech at the University of Maine at Fort Kent.

And anyone even slightly dismissive of what that means has neglected their due diligence on Dr. Douglas Brinkley.

I first met Doug in Hunter S. Thompson’s kitchen/office in the mid-90s. He was shuttling between Colorado and Georgia where he was working with President Jimmy Carter on a book. At Hunter’s Owl Farm, he was editing the first of what became a series of letters books.

Anybody who can toggle between those worlds of buttermilk and bourbon is not to be ––––– taken lightly.

Usually Doug is a professor of history Reserved at Rice University and comes to Maine’s “new national park” debate as the author of 2009’s “The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America,” a New York Times bestseller and won the National Outdoor Book Award.

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The Intimidated Fed Given this dismal picture, you might have expected unemployment, and what to do about it, to have been a major focus of Wednesday’s press conference with Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve. And it should have been. But it wasn’t.

After the conference, Reuters put together a “word cloud” of Mr. Bernanke’s remarks, a visual representation of the frequency with which he used various words. The cloud is dominated by the word “inflation.” “Unemployment,” in much smaller type, is tucked in the background.

This misplaced emphasis wasn’t entirely Mr. Bernanke’s fault, since he was responding to questions — and those questions focused much more on inflation than on unemployment. But that focus was, in itself, a symptom of the extent to which Washington has lost interest in the plight of the unemployed. And the Bernanke Fed, which should be taking a firm stand against these skewed priorities, is instead letting itself be bullied into following the herd.

Some background: The Fed normally takes primary responsibility for short-term economic management, using its influence over interest rates to cool the economy when it’s running too hot, which raises the threat of inflation, and

Paul Krugman ––––– The New York Times to heat it up when it’s running too cold, leading to high unemployment. And the Fed has more or less explicitly indicated what it considers a Goldilocks outcome, neither too hot nor too cold: inflation at 2 percent or a bit lower, unemployment at 5 percent or a bit higher.

But Goldilocks has left the building, and shows no sign of returning soon. The Fed’s latest forecasts, unveiled at that press conference, show low inflation and high unemployment for the foreseeable future.

True, the Fed expects inflation this year to run a bit above target, but Mr. Bernanke declared (and I agree) that we’re looking at a temporary bulge from higher raw material prices; measures of underlying inflation remain well below target, and the forecast sees inflation falling sharply next year and remaining low at least through 2013.

Meanwhile, as I’ve already pointed out, unemployment — although down from its 2009 peak — remains devastatingly high.

And the Fed expects only slow improvement, with unemployment at the end of 2013 expected to still be around 7 percent.

It all adds up to a clear case for more action. Yet Mr. Bernanke indicated that he has done all he’s likely to do. Why? He could have argued that he lacks the ability to do more, that he and his colleagues no longer have much traction over the economy.

But he didn’t. On the contrary, he argued that the Fed’s recent policy of buying long-term bonds, generally referred to as “quantitative easing,” has been effective. So why not do more?

Mr. Bernanke’s answer was deeply disheartening. He declared that further expansion might lead to higher inflation.

What you need to bear in mind here is that the Fed’s own forecasts say that inflation will be below target over the next few years, so that some rise in inflation would actually be a good thing, not a reason to avoid tackling unemployment. Those forecasts could, of course, be wrong, but they could be too high as well as too low.

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When It Would Take You Years of Tanning to Come Up to Flesh Tone Do you feel like you never really go on vacation, even if you pack your bags and family, get on a plane, and land in a resort destination? That’s how Gretchen Reingren, a 44-year-old, divorced, criminal defense attorney and heroine of the Sun’s serial novel, The Port City Chronicle, felt recently on spring break with her 17-year-old daughter Grace.

As you will see, despite her best efforts to escape the stresses of everyday life in a cottage on a beach in a tropical paradise, Gretchen’s problems GPS’ed right down on the very spot on the beach where she was walking with Grace under a Caribbean sky.

The Port City Chronicle is the continuing story of a woman and her family seeking love and happiness in Portland in the midst of the Great Recession.

You can buy Season 1 in book form, “Getting Off the Earth,” from GettingOfftheEarth.com And now for this week’s episode of Season 2: Megan says she just more or less slept with some guy she met at a party,” Grace said, reading a text message from one of her friends, as we walked along the beach in St. Croix on our Spring vacation.

“More or less?” I asked, picking up a conch shell with a hermit crab hiding inside it.

“Right, what does that even mean?” she said, texting furiously back.

“I don’t know,” I said. “But it does not sound appealing.”

I figured it was our last spring vacation together, since Spring Break would take on a completely different meaning for Grace during her senior year and beyond.

Not that we were exactly getting a break from anything on this trip.

“Janice had sex last night too,” Grace said, scrolling through her texts. “Number 17.”

“Wow,” I said. “She should get help, she’s obviously a nymphomaniac.”

Grace shook her head.

“I think she just needs to drink less.”

“That too,” I said, “but she must have other problems as well.”

Grace looked up from her phone.

“But what makes a person a nymphomaniac?”

I thought a moment.

“If they think about guys all the time and constantly want their attention.”

Grace shrugged.

“Then we’re all nymphos. We just don’t act on it.”

So I realized I could probably learn a lot more if I let Grace do the talking.

––––– But she had already moved on.

Daily Sun “Plus Megan just got another Novelist text from Mark even though they’re supposed to be split up,” she said. “Who incidentally has also been texting me.”

He was in fact one of the reasons we’d come to an island for our vacation, since it was the closest thing I could think of to a tower surrounded by a high wall.

Except that Rapunzel kept letting her hair down for text messages.

But I tried to play it cool.

“At least he still stays in touch with her. That’s nice of him.”

She laughed.

“He just wants to keep his tab open at the bar, so the bartender doesn’t forget him and he can get free drinks whenever he wants.”

It was a harsh view of the world but maybe the world deserved it.

Though I was feeling pretty good about things at the moment, standing on a gorgeous beach with blue water lapping at my feet while a magnificent sunset spread across the sky.

“Want to take the kayaks out?” I asked her.

She shook her head.

“I’m scared to go kayaking.”

“What are you scared of?” I asked. It seemed to me there was a lot more to be afraid of standing on the shore texting than floating out among waves as gentle as icing on a cake.

“Sea monsters,” she said.

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So that was a tough one, because I figured sea monsters are code for all the scary things that lurk beneath shiny surfaces, whether they’re the blue waters of a bay or text messages from the ex-boyfriend of one of your friends.

“Anyway, nobody’s out there now except those buff Danish scuba divers that got here yesterday. If we go out there and a shark comes by, it’s going to say, ‘Hey, pass the ketchup, I’ve got an American.’”

“Maybe sharks prefer Danish,” I said. “You have to remember it’s breakfast time for them now since they’re nocturnal.”

But Grace doesn’t like puns so she ignored me.

“Plus somebody got bit by a huge eel out there in the reef.”

Which made me a little nervous myself, but I tried to hide it.

“That’s very unusual because eels don’t normally bite people.”

I had no idea if that was true, but I was positive that even if eels do bite people, people bite eels a lot more, especially when they’re smoked.

But those nuances were wasted on Grace.

“If I got bit by an eel I’d never go in the water again.

In fact I’d move to the top of a mountain.”

So I figured she was going to be too scared to go snorkeling on the reef, same as the kayaking. It looked like we were going to have a beach vacation in the literal sense.

But you could do a lot worse. Aside from the amazing views, there were the herons strutting in the shallows and the pelicans diving along the surface of the water. It was sure a huge improvement over sitting in an office.

Not that I could take it for granted that I would even be hanging out on the beach. It turned out that for certain more nuanced communications, such as those with the ex-boyfriend of a close friend, Facebook is a better method of delivery than texting, and we had to leave the beach to do it. Of course, I voted for a quick tweet or even silence, but I was voted down.

“Do we get internet in our hut?” Grace asked, looking up the hill from the beach at our resort. see SERIAL page 6

Sen. Snowe one of several with “concerns” about Maine Woods national park PARK from page 4

But you’d likely recognize him from one of his many TV appearances, and during the early days of the BP oil spill he virtually co-hosted the Anderson Cooper 360 show on CNN. Now he’s using access to the national spotlight to advance the idea of a Great North Woods of Maine – he has championed the concept on a variety of programs, including the CBS Face The Nation and others.

Spoiler alert for USM Fort Kent commencement goers: Doug tells me he’s going to lay out the arguments during his speech.

Granted, it’s not up there with getting Hunter to focus on decades-old letters during football season, but the new national park faces a bit of a struggle.

The Portland Press Herald has come out in favor of the concept, and I’m all for it, but despite that impressive media consensus it seems the congressional delegation clings to its own opinion.

Last week, tagging along with U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe during her campaign tour in South Portland (she’s backing a SoPo candidate in that May 10 special state senate election), I asked about the park idea.

“I have grave concerns,” she tells me, looking at the ground the way she sometimes does. Yikes. Not good. She said her worries are about Maine residents and traditional uses and such. A rough translation from senatespeak to daily English: No way in hell.

Another challenge, oddly, may come from another park champion.

A recent Associated Press report illustrates how closely Roxanne Quimby is associated with the project (and how clearly the congressional delegation is

something less than on board).

Says the AP: “Judging by the reaction of Maine’s congressional delegation, a wealthy conservationist has some convincing to do if she’s to sell her idea of another national park in Maine.

“While no one rejected Roxanne Quimby’s idea outright, all four members of Maine’s delegation expressed some level of concern about the proposal by the founder of Burt’s Bees personal care products to turn over more than 70,000 remote acres to the National Park Service.

“The Park Service finds the idea intriguing, especially since it thinks people in the Northeast have fewer parks than other areas of the country. The park’s acreage would be roughly double the size of Maine’s Acadia National Park, which draws more 2 million visitors a year … but it’s Congress that would have the final say. And the project wouldn’t even make it out of the starting gate without support of the home-state delegation.”

To the AP, Quimby may be known as a “wealthy conservationist,” but in many Portland circles she’s more likely to be known as the city-bashing owner of a Congress Street eyesore that earned coverage in the Bollard magazine’s “That’s My Dump” series.

Nobody’s going to take her on in public, but the city’s preservation community has not enjoyed being blamed for the failure of her plans for the abandoned building. The Bollard reported that “... according to Quimby, the sticking point was the plate-glass showroom windows she wanted for the first-floor gallery.

The existing bay windows were refurbished in the early 1900s; there’s nothing Queen Anne about them. But Quimby said the board deemed their

preservation necessary because they originated during an “era of significance.’”

“She needs to talk to us,” said a neighbor. “We would like to figure something out with her. It’s killing business, and it’s awful.”

That blemish in the state’s liberal stronghold aside, Quimby is putting her sizable fortune behind the effort. She has accumulated large areas of land east of Baxter State Park, and her vision reportedly includes a visitor center dedicated to Henry David Thoreau.

Acknowledging sportsmen’s complaints about restrictions on the land, she would offer another 30,000 acres to be managed as a state park, with hunting and snowmobiling allowed.

That’s a better deal than you might think. The traditional uses that Sen. Snowe mentions would certainly be part of a National Park discussion, but we should understand that the days of the North Woods being managed as a “working forest” and remaining a virtual wilderness are very likely ending.

Oddly, the preservation argument will really be an economic argument. With Maine’s economy shifting, visitors will become increasingly important to the North Woods residents and a new national park would be a huge boost.

Doug says he’ll have the number and lay out the play next Saturday (May 7).

Knowing Doug, my guess is that the speech will be nothing less than a call to action and a milestone on the way to a new national park.

(Curtis Robinson is an owner and founding editor of The Portland Daily Sun. His column appears here on Saturdays.)

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‘Inflationistas’ bullying Bernanke KRUGMAN from page 4

about undershooting — even though doing too little means condemning millions of Americans to the nightmare of long-term unemployment.

What’s going on here? My interpretation is that Mr. Bernanke is allowing himself to be bullied by the inflationistas: the people who keep seeing runaway inflation just around the corner and are undeterred by the fact that they keep on being wrong.

Lately the inflationistas have seized on rising oil prices as evidence in their favor, even though — as Mr. Bernanke

SERIAL from page 5

So much for making a big impression on her with the expensive private accommodations I got for our vacation.

“It’s actually referred to as ‘a cottage,’” I said.

But she ignored me again and nervously started up the hill.

“I should have gone on Facebook at the airport when we arrived.”

I patted her arm.

“I’m sure you can get on Facebook anywhere here,” I said. “It’s not as though we’re in the wilderness with the drums of cannibal tribes around us.”

But we might as well have been, because it turned out our cottage lacked internet service. All it had was a lovely porch with two rocking chairs and a view of the bay, bougainvillea dangling from the railings, and hummingbirds hovering among the flowers.

Grace finally found an Internet café in the back of a dirty sandwich shop in the midst of the nearby town, where I sat drinking coffee and looking out at the rundown buildings for

himself pointed out — these prices have nothing to do with Fed policy. The way oil prices are coloring the discussion led the economist Tim Duy to suggest, sarcastically, that basic Fed policy is now to do nothing about unemployment “because some people in the Middle East are seeking democracy.”

But I’d put it differently. I’d say that the Fed’s policy is to do nothing about unemployment because Ron Paul is now the chairman of the House subcommittee on monetary policy.

So much for the Fed’s independence.

And so much for the future of America’s increasingly desperate jobless.

two hours instead of sunning myself on the beach.

“I was really hoping to work on my tan today,” I said, hoping to guilt her into leaving.

She laughed.

“Are you kidding? It would take you 10 years to come up to flesh tone.”

Not that she didn’t feel guilty about using up part of our vacation in an internet café. She just worried if she was out of touch for too long, she’d be forgotten and left out of everything.

One more thing to be afraid of, along with friends, guys, sea monsters, sharks, and eels.

But the next morning I got a little perspective as we walked along the beach watching the hermit crabs draw into their shells.

“How did they even know we were coming?” Grace asked, picking one up.

I shrugged.

“Maybe they felt the ground shake.”

“They must be scared all the time,” she said.

I put an arm through hers.

“I know, just like people.”

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Greetings shoppers: We’ve got a request from someone in produce products; you have to focus on these I kinda of enjoy grocery shopping. I cause there’s so many. A lot of things mean, I don’t get all dressed up and you may not realize that you really cancel my other plans, but I do find do need. I usually need that stuff do some quiet retreat and piece of mind too. when I hit the supermarket.

Oh no, here comes some “Sunset Shuffling up and down the food Grill” though by Don Henley, then alleys, I find a chance to simultanesome Bread tune that ously focus on my needs sounds like every other whilst clearing my head.

Bread tune and then a Yes, it is possible to do total blank out song for both at the same time. me, “Time Passages” by Al Its a mental juggle, but Stewart. I love that song!

I’ve got it working right I cold have walked to Falfor me. mouth and not realized it Recently, I’ve found by the time that jam had myself in a weird spot finished. when I shop. For years, Toiletries, another one the mindless background you need to focus on. I soundtrack to our food escaped with some floss shopping was some type and tissues. Of course of “muzak”. You know, when I got home I realthose cheesy instrumen––––– ized shaving blades were tal takes on popular lite The Circle Push totally needed and some rock and easy listening One a Days. I can’t favorites. Day after day, remember who did me we walk down the aisles in on that row. I think it like zombies pushing might have been The Spinners. I love Heinz, Hershey and Honey of a Ham the Spinners! Totally love The Spininto our carts as this faceless/souless ners! (Another column I’d be happy music lures to write and just might some day) us to big sales and dazzling end As I motored through soda, dairy caps. I think it did the job didn’t it? and bread in a stone gaze to these You blanked out, at least your brain great 70’s AM gold and lite rock did a bit and you zoned in on the treats, I realized I really dropped goods. Well recently, I’ve been thinkthe ball on this shopping excursion. ing too much and focusing more on I missed so much stuff I needed the music than my grocery list. thanks to these songs that I love and I just noticed in recent times, formostly own already at home. It came give me if its been longer, but I’ve to mind that even though we think it been hearing the actual versions of might be better to hear the real stuff, our favorite easy listening tunes in we’re not getting our business done the supermarkets I go to. I’m sure with the real songs. Well, I’m not and its the same for most, but I noticed that’s a problem. in my two favorite stores that the The muzak versions were meant to music being played are the original let you hum AND focus on your shoprecordings by the original artists! ping needs. Hear I am waiting for the So recently, instead of me zoning sax part in, “Just The Way You Are” out before I make it through the deli

by Billy Joel like my life depended on area, I’m focused in sharply on the it and now I’m without pita bread for Robbie Dupree classic, my tuna fish sandwiches this week. “(why don’t we) Steal Away”. Its a It just isn’t right I’m telling you folks. real cheesy gem..and I love it.

The original tunes will make you So I noticed that because of focusdrive off the path when you’re shoping in on the song and singing along ping. I won’t even tell you about the a bit to the lyrics I skipped right past time I brought my iPod and thought a killer deal on Turkey Breast, $3.99 I’d rock some tunes of my choosing. I a pound. Did Dupree do this to me? walked by friends, ignored someone The mind erasing hits kept coming who needed me to move my cart; bad as I flew through the first three scene. Fishbone and The Melvins aisles way too fast. I zoomed by conwere just not meant to be listened to diments, baking goods and canned in a grocery store. goods like they never existed cause It makes most sense to enjoy Air I’m all caught up in “Ventura HighSupply, no I didn’t say that - make way” by America, “Hearts” by Marty that Mike & the Mechanics when Balin and “Captain of Her Heart” by you’re out of stores on your own. We Double. By this time, I think I barely can then give those artists the conhad three items at all in my cart. centration and vocal assistance they Definately not getting my stuff done so rightfully deserve then. Lets tell here. our grocery stores that we just want I slighty get some focus back as to continue the way it was.

I reach the cereal lane. I like the We want the blah, cheesiness of cereal lane. Even though I usually muzak pumping back into their have three boxes at home, I still aisles. snag cereal when theres a deal cause Otherwise, I’m not gonna have a catching a price break on cereal damn thing in the house to eat. is a gift from the gods! Cereal was WAY too damn expensive, but thats Mark Curdo is a DJ at WCYY and another topic for another colum. a music columnist for the Portland (One I would be glad to write too) I Daily Sun. His columns appear hear kinda made it through that lane, but on Saturdays. the next few were a blur. Housing

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THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Saturday, April 30, 2011— Page 7

Syrian forces fire on protesters trying to break siege; 40 dead

BY ANTHONY SHADID THE NEW YORK TIMES

BEIRUT — Soldiers fired on protesters carrying olive branches and seeking to break the military’s siege of a rebellious town in Syria on Friday, killing at least 16 people, as thousands took to the streets in what organizers proclaimed a “Friday of Rage” against the government’s crackdown on a six-week uprising, witnesses and activists said.

The bloodletting in the besieged town, Dara’a, was the worst episode on another violent Friday that left at least 40 dead in five locales across the country and repeated a cycle that has become a fixture of the most serious challenge to four decades of the Assad family’s dictatorial rule. After noon prayers, demonstrators have poured into the streets, only to face the determination of the government to disperse them, often with live ammunition.

But the cries of grief in Dara’a and angry chants in dozens of towns and cities across Syria seemed to signal a new dynamic in the uprising. As much as calls for freedom and an end to President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, it appeared Friday to be feeding off its own symbols and legitimacy, as protesters’ anger grows over the suffering inflicted on Dara’a and the deaths of more than 500 protesters -- by activists’ count — since March.

“Stop the siege of Dara’a!” demonstrators shouted in Homs, near the Lebanese border.

“We cannot challenge the government,” said an opposition figure in Damascus, who asked not to be named.

“They’re armed and we’re unarmed. If

they want to kill us, they can kill us. If they want to arrest us, they can arrest us. But no matter how much blood gets spilled and how violent it gets, this is our country and we’re not giving it up.”

Friday was viewed as a test of sorts for both sides — whether the government might ease its crackdown after killing 112 protesters a week earlier and whether demonstrators would defy blunt warnings and the threat of more force by returning to the streets. In the end, neither budged, and organizers seemed buoyed by the turnout.

“I’m amazed,” Wissam Tarif, executive director of Insan, a Syrian human rights group, said earlier in the day. “People are in the streets. I can’t believe it.”

“The government is going to have to reconsider their strategy,” he added.

So far, there are few signs of it doing so, despite international condemnations and American moves to place sanctions on Mr. Assad’s brother and other Syrian officials and a European effort to impose an arms embargo.

In the uprising’s early weeks, the government tried to stanch the unrest with a mix of mostly hollow concessions and force. Since last week, it has emphasized the latter, an indication underscored by the shootings Friday.

Some cracks have emerged in its façade, with reports this week of desertions from the military in Dara’a and even infighting among troops, along with the resignations of nearly 300 low-level members of the Baath Party, which has ruled in some fashion since 1963.

Fighting erupts on two fronts in besieged Libyan city of Misurata

BY C.J. SHIVERS AND SCOTT SAYARE THE NEW YORK TIMES

MISURATA, Libya — The fighting in Libya briefly spilled into neighboring Tunisia on Friday when troops loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi forced rebels from a border crossing in the southwest and pursued them into a nearby Tunisian town, according two people who witnessed the events.

Regime forces attacked a convoy of rebel fighters and supply trucks at the checkpoint at Wazen in mid-morning, said Tarek Bodrani, the fighter, who was reached by telephone. Mr. Bodrani said a Qaddafi force with about 30 vehicles struck from the north and south, and seven pickups carrying antiaircraft machine guns followed rebels toward the Tunisian town, Dhiba, roughly three miles away.

One regime pickup crashed and the others were stopped and the Qaddafi soldiers detained after being confronted by a roadblock manned by the Tunisian military and local residents.

Outraged Tunisian officials summoned a Libyan envoy to complain about the incursion, the official Tunisian news agency reported. Libyan ordinance reportedly fell in Tunisian territory on Thursday as well, when fighting for control of the Wazen post began, wounding some civilians

and potentially further imperiling a regime already fighting on multiple fronts and facing a NATO air campaign.

The rebels had captured the post with hopes of opening a supply route for opposition fighters battling Qaddafi troops in Libya’s western mountains. The fate of that ambition is now unclear, as was the status of the captured Libyan soldiers.

In Misurata, fighting erupted across a broad front along the city’s south and west, as rebels fighters pressed toward the city’s airport and faced a fresh ground attack on their western flank.

The fighting in Misurata began early and raged throughout the day.

The city’s edge became a cacophony of machine-gun and mortar fire, punctuated by the rolling explosions of ground-to-ground rocket strikes in neighborhoods behind the front lines.

As the two sides fought, Misurata’s troubles appeared to deepen further as NATO said that pro-Qaddafi forces had been caught Friday mining the waters around the harbor, an apparent attempt to harass traffic from the sea, which has been the sole lifeline for a city otherwise cut off by loyalist ground troops.

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At that rate, the owner of a home valued at $200,000 would owe about $70 more next year.

The city council is expected to endorse the $89,462,035 million school budget for FY2012 at its meeting Monday night. If that occurs as planned, a citywide referendum on the school budget will be held May 10.

The proposed school budget is almost $500,000 less than this year, and includes 90 fewer positions funded by local taxpayers. The district plans to achieve those cuts through a combination of layoffs for teachers, education technicians and support staff, and a retirement incentive that drew more than 40 employees.

Meanwhile, the city’s Finance Committee on Thursday finished its review of interim city manager Pat Finnigan’s $202 million budget proposal. That plan, which included relatively few new programs, also had no layoffs for the first time in three years.

The Finance Committee on April 28 whittled down the proposed tax increase through a combination of targeted cuts and rosier revenue projections. The latest municipal budget includes reductions in certain expenditures by $112,000 and revenue projections that are $61,000 higher.

The committee also opted to reduce the capital expenditure budget from $1.8 million to $985,000, and pay for those projects by diverting funds initially earmarked for fund balance into the general fund, instead of relying on short-term borrowing.

Fund balance is a term for any unspent money at the end of each fiscal

year. It goes into a separate account for emergencies and other uses that also helps determine the city’s bond rating, which in turn affects the city’s lending costs. The city is trying to boost its fund balance by about 2 percent over the next several years, city spokesperson Nicole Clegg said.

As proposed, reductions in capital spending means the city would buy two sidewalk tractors instead of three, spend $35,000 on new cruisers instead of $245,000, and buy three new mowers instead of five. The reductions also mean that fewer public works vehicles such as plows, vans and pickup trucks will be replaced. In all, 10 items in the initial capital plan were deferred until next year.

Councilor John Anton, who chairs the committee, said this week that the city assessor also projects that Portland’s overall valuation should grow by about $20 million next year, which would yield higher-than-expected property tax revenues.

In all, the projected tax increase from just the municipal budget was trimmed from 2.2 percent top 2 percent with those changes.

“The Finance Committee recommendation honors the key goal of the (city) Manager’s budget which is to promote stability by avoiding layoffs,” Anton said in an email. “In addition, the changes we have proposed ensure that the budget will adhere to our existing financial policies as well as lower the property tax increase from the original proposal.”

Also on Monday, the full city council is due to begin reviewing the municipal budget, which will include revisions made by the finance committee.

The city council meets at 7 p.m. at City Hall, according to the city’s website.

Westbrook Main St. condo development hearkens to 1960s

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Has Westbrook stumbled upon the solution to downtown malaise?

The answer to downtown flight which afflicts many cities may be found at 917 Main Street, Westbrook’s newest work-live residence concept. The three units have living space on the second and third floor, and the bottom floor has a garage and commercial space.

“This development could help breathe life into the downtown, particularly after hours, when typically business owners may close their shops and leave,” said Dick Begin, development and marketing specialist with Westbrook Housing, the city’s housing authority.

Great Falls Construction of Gorham built this new project for the Westbrook Housing Authority, a three-unit commercial/residential condominium building. The three-story building is a part of the city’s first live/work urban commu-

nity concept, an idea that allows merchants to live where they work.

A U.S. Housing and Urban Development fund, the neighborhood stabilization program, helped pay for acquisition of an abandoned warehouse that had been condemned, Westbrook Housing reported.

Based on a code enforcement officer recommendation, Westbrook Development Corporation tore down the warehouse and built a residential and business development.

“We just finished building it back in January of this year and we started to market it. ... However, we’re trying to find buyers who are going to have at-home businesses that they can operate on the bottom floor as well as living there,” Begin said. “Prior to Urban Renewal in the 1960s, in communities’ downtowns, the owners used to live on top of their stores, and they might have had a renter above that. So we’re trying to work with the city see CONDO page 10

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Free Range organizer: ‘We really want festival-goers to come because they want to find something new’ FESTIVAL from page one

With the second annual Belfast Free Range Music Festival, organizers hope to bring exciting, emerging acts to the mid-coast town. Free Range kicks off the Maine summer festival circuit today in Belfast. (COURTESY IMAGE)

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In booking small, growing acts, Free Range keeps the overhead low and gives attendees a chance to get in on the ground floor of some exciting new music. “We like the idea of focusing on emerging artists. We want to focus on the discovery aspect of a festival and not worry about bringing in huge name [acts] to drive tickets sales,” she said.

“We really want festival-goers to come because they want to find something new,” said Fournier.

Aside from being the home turf for the Fourniers, Belfast also has a strong history of supporting artists and musicians, according to the organizer. “It’s a beautiful location on the coast and the groundwork has been laid. It’s a cool town where people like to hear live music,” she said.

The Free Range Festival is just the first of many music festival scheduled for this summer.

Aside from a growing slate of shows in Portland this summer at the Maine State Pier and Ocean Gateway Terminal, there are several far-flung festivals work the trek into the greener corners of the state.

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The event started at the behest of a Belfast councilman hoping to make the picturesque Penobscot Bay town into a small-scale summer festival destination.

Organizational duties soon fell to Meg and Bub Fournier, proprietors of now-closed Belfast arts venue Roots & Tendrils.

“We wanted to push to get a mix of mini-genres as well as local, regional musicians and a few touring acts,” said Meg Fournier.

“The idea is to get people out listening to all types of music.”

The de-centralized festival will be held at seven venues across Belfast, including a church, movie theater, art gallery and even an American Legion hall. “It’s just another example of the community effort that goes behind this,” she said.

The Free Range lineup is nothing if not diverse, representing every genre from reggae to acapella, indie rock and Irish music to bluegrass, folk and electronic music. “We try to pull something from everywhere,” said Fournier.

Folk troubadour Michael Hurley is headlining the festival this year. “He’s been recording for decades and has been covered

by Cat Power and Yo La Tengo,” Fournier said of the Portland, Oregon-based musician who plays Saturday evening at the Colonial Theatre.

Mid-coast and regional acts round out the line-up, but the Free Range roster has a decidedly local indie flavor, with Portland acts Brenda, Sunset Hearts, Jacob Augustine and Dead Man’s Clothes making the trek up the coast.

While Fournier wouldn’t speculate why a festival like Nateva couldn’t find its footing, she emphasizes the small-scale, do-ityourself approach of Free Range as a part of it’s fledgling success.

“We went with what we knew — relying on volunteer power and what money we could get together

one drive five hours north and still be in Maine?

“We are huge fans of Arootsakoostik, we definitely have that on our calendar and can’t wait to trek up to northern Maine for that,” said Fournier. The festival has much the same tone as The Free Range festival, with an emphasis on local, up-and-coming indie acts and regional touring bands.

“The organizer does an amazing job of getting musicians to take the hike up,” Fournier said.

The festival fun continues in August, when KahBang, Bangor’s art, music and film festival celebrates its third year. Offering more mainstream fare than either Free Range or Arootsakoostik, this year’s KahBang welcomes headliners My Morning Jacket, Grace Potter, Chromeo and Surfer Blood, along with local indie sweeetheart Lady Lamb the Beekeeper.

“I think KahBang is doing a great job of starting small and working their way up,” said Fournier.

August also sees the Portland Music & Arts Festival return to 128 Free Street on August 20, featuring music from local acts and students of the Maine Academy of Modern Music.

August 27 is a big day across the state, with the American Folk Festival returning to the Bangor Waterfront and Portland’s own craft and music fair Picnic in Lincoln Park.

“Maine is beautiful area and has been known to pull off really amazing shows,” said Fournier.

“We’ve always fostered creativity in the arts and it seems like there is a lot of activity over last few years. I hope that across the state it continues on, I know great things are happening from Portland to New Sweden,” she said.

Saturday’s Belfast Free Range Music Festival begins at noon and runs through 9:30 p.m. with an after party hosted by Portland music blog HillyTown at 10 p.m. featuring music from Mango Floss and Vistas. Tickets for Free Range are $20 for adults and $9 for kids under 12.

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Broader redevelopment is proposed, based on new federal funding, a city official reported.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’re an excellent communicator and will provide conversational highlights and laughs for your friends. You’ll reflect favorably on your family and on others who are in direct association with you.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, April 30, the 120th day of 2011. There are 245 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On April 30, 1911, a fire broke out in Bangor, Maine, destroying much of the downtown area before it was brought under control the next morning. Two deaths were blamed on the blaze.

On this date: In A.D. 311, shortly before his death, Roman Emperor Galerius issued his Edict of Toleration ending persecution of Christians.

In 1789, George Washington took office in New York as the first president of the United States.

In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for 60 million francs, the equivalent of about $15 million.

In 1812, Louisiana became the 18th state of the Union.

In 1900, engineer John Luther “Casey” Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad died in a train wreck near Vaughan, Miss., after staying at the controls in a successful effort to save the passengers.

In 1939, the New York World’s Fair officially opened with a ceremony that included an address by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In 1945, as Russian troops approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.

In 1968, New York City police forcibly removed student demonstrators occupying five buildings at Columbia University.

In 1973, President Richard M. Nixon announced the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, along with Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean.

One year ago: Heavy winds and high tides complicated efforts to hold back oil from a blown-out BP-operated rig that threatened to coat bird and marine life in the Gulf of Mexico.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Cloris Leachman is 85. Singer Willie Nelson is 78. Actor Gary Collins is 73. Actor Burt Young is 71.

Singer Bobby Vee is 68. Actor Perry King is 63. Singer Merrill Osmond is 58. Movie director Jane Campion is 57. Actor Paul Gross is 52. Actor Adrian Pasdar is 46. Rock musician Clark Vogeler is 42. Rhythm-and-blues singer Chris “Choc” Dalyrimple (Soul For Real) is 40. Rock musician Chris Henderson (3 Doors Down) is 40. Country singer Carolyn Dawn Johnson is 40. Actress Lisa Dean Ryan is 39. Rhythm-and-blues singer Akon is 38. Actor Johnny Galecki is 36. Singermusician Cole Deggs (Cole Deggs and the Lonesome) is 35. Actor Kunal Nayyar is 30.

Rapper Lloyd Banks is 29. Actress Kirsten Dunst is 29. Country singer Tyler Wilkinson (The Wilkinsons) is 27. Actress Dianna Agron is 25.

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Saturday, April 30 Feathers over Freeport 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feathers over Freeport: A Birdwatching Weekend, 7 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, April 30-May 1, Bradbury Mountain State Park, Pownal, Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park, Freeport; park admission: $3, adults; $1.50, children, ages 5-11; all others free. “Feathers over Freeport: A Birdwatching Weekend” will highlight special birding opportunities in the greater Freeport area, featuring top Maine experts, plus hikes, workshops and other activities for people of all abilities and interests at two locations — Bradbury Mountain State Park in Pownal and Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park in Freeport, according to event organizers. Sponsored by the Maine Department of Conservation’s Bureau of Parks and Lands (BPL) and the Freeport Wild Bird Supply, organizers hope it will become an annual event showcasing the special natural resources of the area, including the annual Bradbury Mountain Hawkwatch and the annual return of nesting osprey at Wolfe’s Neck Woods.

Marc Mailhot will perform in the Lewiston Cabaret tonight at the Franco-American Heritage Center. He will join other talented Meeting of the Friends of Baxter performers. Listen for the theme from “Romeo & Juliet.’” (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

State Park 7:30 a.m. The 11th annual meeting of the Friends of Baxter State Park will be held at the Viles Arboretum, 153 Hospital Street in Augusta. Prior to the meeting, there will be a birdwalk led by expert birders Jay Adams and Ted Allen at 7:30 a.m. At 8:30 a.m., coffee and muffins will be available and books and art pertaining to Baxter State Park and Katahdin will be on display. The meeting will run from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The keynote speaker is Earle G. Shuttleworth Jr., Maine State Historian, who will talk about his personal recollections of former Governor Percival P. Baxter. The meeting also includes a report on the “State of the Park” by Park Director Jensen Bissell, the election of new directors to the Friends of Baxter State Park board, and a musical performance by Rosalea Kimball of the rare “Katahdin Waltz,” composed in 1855. After lunch, participants may choose to go on a guided hike at the Bond Brook Recreation Area in Augusta or on a Woods Walk at Wilson Pond in Wayne.

For more information, contact Barbara Bentley, 763-3014, barbarabentley@tidewater.net.

Drug Take-Back program at ecomaine 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Regional waste manager ecomaine will be a host site for the U..S Drug Enforcement Administration’s free Drug Take-Back program. DEA’s Maine Resident Agent in Charge Michael Wardrop said the program is offered, “so that everyone can rid their medicine cabinets and care facilities of those potentially harmful medications which impact our public safety, personal well being and clean environment.” The ecomaine site is in Portland at 64 Blueberry Road, just on the other side of the Maine Turnpike from UNUM. Troop G of the Maine State Police will be at ecomaine as individuals drive up to drop them off any quantity of unwanted drugs. Large quantities from institutional use are welcome, as well as small quantities from individuals. Last year’s Drug Take-Back Day in Maine netted 7,820 pounds of prescription drugs. Also at the Public Works Recycling Center at 271 Hill St., Biddeford; Community Center on Franklin Street in Saco; new police station at 16 E. Emerson Cummings Blvd., Old Orchard; Goodwin Mills Fire Station, Lyman; Kennebunk High School; Kennebunkport Police Station on Route 9; and the Rite-Aid and Hannaford in Buxton. www.ecomaine.org or www.deadiversion. usdoj.gov/drug_disposal/takeback/index.html

Drug take-back day in Portland 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Drug Enforcement Administration and Portland Police Department’s Drug Take Back Initiative will occur this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The three Portland PD sites will be at 290 Congress St., 713 Congress St., and University of New England’s College of Pharmacy on Steven’s Ave. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Portland-Maine-Police-Department/121900037821056?

Drug take-back day in South Portland 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “The South Portland Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs. Bring your medications

for disposal to the South Portland Community Center, 21 Nelson Road, or the Community Partnership for Protecting Children (CPPC) HUB trailer, 580 Westbrook Street. The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked. Last September, Americans turned in 242,000 pounds — 121 tons — of prescription drugs at nearly 4,100 sites operated by the DEA and more than 3,000 state and local law enforcement partners. The South Portland Police Department hosted two drug takeback dates in 2010; one in conjunction with the DEA, and a second in concert with the Cape Elizabeth Police Department and the South Portland Community Advocates for Social Action (SPCASA). Those local events netted over 280 pounds of prescription drugs.”

Meet the Artists: The Family Gallery Talk 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. “Enjoy a very special time in the 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial for families with exhibiting artists Alisha Gould, Carly Glovinski, and Alicia Eggert. We love to talk as families and invite artists to join in our conversation. The artists will share tools and experiments and other parts of the art-making process that are usually left behind in the artists’ studio! The art on the wall will ‘speak to you’ with your help! All children must be accompanied by an adult.”

267 Ocean Ave. “We are turning back the clock to the excitement of the Roaring 20’s: jazz, flappers, the Charleston, gangsters and G-men … Rumor has it that Cheverus now has a speakeasy, and that the ‘Holy Moly Club’ will be hopping with our famous live auction! Come and join in the merry mayhem and see for yourself!” 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., The Speakeasy: Silent Auction; 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Club Holy Moly: Dinner and Dessert; 8:30 p.m., Live Auction Mayhem! Tickets are $50 per person and will benefit the Cheverus Scholarship Fund. For more information visit the Cheverus website at www. cheverus.org.

‘Dancing with the Community’

6:30 p.m. South Portland Recreation teamed up with local dance studios to put on a benefit dinner/ dance similar to “Dancing with the Stars.” The benefit dance will feature local celebrities dancing with local area dance instructors for a competition like the popular show, “Dancing with the Stars.”

Participants are Kevin Scott, 2010 gubernatorial candidate, with Ann Smith; Jill Duson, former mayor, with Sergei Slussky; Robert Lynch, a local chiropractor, with Johanna Welch; Barbara Joyce, Italian Heritage Center first lady, with John Davis; and Verne Weisberg with Elizabeth Richards. Special showcase presentations

by Christian Clayton and Polina Kirillova, professional ballroom dancers, and Joe Cupo and Patty Medina, last year’s “Dancing with the Community” winners. Italian Heritage Center, 40 Westland Ave., Portland; doors open at 6 p.m.

No tickets will be sold at the door. Call 767-2650 or go to the South Portland Recreation Department at 21 Nelson Road, South Portland.

Salt River benefits Peace Action Maine 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Salt River will thrill the audience with their folk music and much more.” At the Sacred Heart Catholic Church located at 80 Sherman St. in Portland. Donations benefit Peace Action Maine. Suggested donations at the door $15 [sliding scale]. For more information, call Sally Breen at 892-8391 or e-mail sallybreen@roadrunner.com

Portland Pirates continue in the Atlantic Division Finals

11 a.m. The Woods at Canco retirement community, located at 257 Canco Road in Portland, is hosting its fourth annual Community Dog Show. Prizes will be awarded in a variety of categories such as “Best Dressed,” “Best Trick” and “Mirror Image Award.” Light refreshments will be provided for people and pups. The public is invited to attend and donations will be collected for the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland, in honor of Animal Cruelty Prevention Month. For their current wish list, visit www.arlgp.org. To learn more about the fourth annual Community Dog Show, please call The Woods at Canco at 772-4777.

7:05 p.m. The Portland Pirates are competing in the Atlantic Division Finals against the Binghamton Senators. The slogan is Portland Pirates Playoff Hockey MISSION: 16W, powered by Time Warner Cable. Following is the Pirates Atlantic Division Finals Schedule, Best of Seven Series: Game 1 was Wednesday, April 27; Game 2: Thursday, April 28 at Cumberland County Civic Center, 7 p.m.; Game 3: Saturday, April 30 at Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena, 7:05 p.m.; Game 4: Monday, May 2 at Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena, 7:05 p.m.; Game 5 (if necessary): Tuesday, May 3 at Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena, 7:05 p.m.; Game 6 (if necessary): Friday, May 6 at Cumberland County Civic Center, 7 p.m.; Game 7 (if necessary): Saturday, May 7 at Cumberland County Civic Center, 7 p.m. http://www.portlandpirates.com/splash1.asp

MAMM SLAM Finals

WMPG’s seventh annual Fashion Show Benefit

noon to 6 p.m. After two days worth of high energy performances at Empire Dine & Dance over the April 2 weekend, the Maine Academy of Modern Music and the Portland Music Foundation announced the MAMM SLAM Finalists: The Modest Proposal (Freeport HS); Finding Perfection (Scarborough HS); The Twisted Truth (Portland HS, Casco Bay HS, South Portland HS); Dusty Grooves (Cheverus High School HS); Crossed Out (Gorham HS); Wildcard Band: Midnite Haze (Telstar High School/Bethel HS). Five of the bands were selected to move on to the Final Round by a panel of judges that was comprised of professionals recruited from the local music community by the Portland Music Foundation. A sixth Wildcard Band was selected by an online poll held by MaineToday.com. The Port City Music Hall will play host to the MAMM SLAM Finals on Saturday, April 30, where the six bands will compete for the title of Best High School Band in Maine.

7:30 p.m. WMPG announces the seventh annual Fashion Show Benefit at PULSE on Spring Street in Westbrook.

WMPG’s celebration of local fashion designers, A Night of Fashion, Entertainment and Community Fashion Show Highlights, opens its doors at 7 p.m., with 7:30 p.m. preshow entertainment with Dark Follies; 8 p.m. The 2011 WMPG Fashion Show; music by DJ Corbin; 9 p.m. Meet & Greet Designers and Models; 9:30 p.m. Dance Party — closing. Music by DJ (Stuck in the 80’s) Ron. Tickets available online at www.WMPG.org. VIP reserved seating $20; general admission $10; students with ID $5.

Community Dog Show at The Woods at Canco

Cheverus High School auction 6 p.m. The 25th annual Cheverus High School auction, Guys and Molls, will be held at Cheverus High School,

Lewiston! Cabaret 7:30 p.m. Lewiston! Cabaret illuminates the stage of the Franco-American Heritage Center’s beautiful new Heritage Hall, featuring a wide array of stage performers young and old assembled for one night of great entertainment

by Lewiston’s ever-popular Cabaret host Louis Philippe.

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Contra Dance at COA 7:30 p.m. Contra Dance with Big Moose Contra Dance Band and caller Chrissy Fowler in College of the Atlantic’s Gates Center, 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor. Lessons at 7:30 p.m., Dance begins at 8 p.m. $6. Children free. www.coa. edu or 288-5015.

Spring Music Fling by Relay For Life 8 p.m. Celebrating three decades of music and hits, the Relay For Life of Greater Portland will be hosting a Spring Music Fling in partnership with The Gold Room in Portland, featuring Motor Booty Affair, Time Pilots and Sly-Chi. “Since the theme of this year’s Relay For Life of Greater Portland event is ‘A World With Less Cancer Is A World With More Birthdays’ it seemed appropriate to celebrate as many birthdays as we could in one night,” said event cochair Susan Towle. “We were fortunate to partner with The Gold Room and these three popular bands to feature music from the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s.” In addition to the dance parties that will be breaking out around The Gold Room, Relay For Life of Greater Portland Youth Outreach Chair Andrea Levinsky, a senior at Deering High School, is organizing a silent auction featuring donations from area businesses and Relay For Life of Greater Portland teams. Items to include four floor seats to any Red Claws game in the 2011-2012 season, live theater tickets, local restaurant gift certificates, hand-crafted pottery items and much more. The Spring Music Fling will take place on th at The Gold Room on Warren Avenue in Portland. Gates open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. and will end at 1 a.m. Show is ages 21 plus. Tickets are $20 per person and proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Greater Portland. To purchase tickets please email greaterportlandrelay@gmail.com. www.facebook.com/relayforlifegreaterportland

Sunday, May 1 Maine Green Independent Party convention 9 a.m. The Maine Green Independent Party will be holding its annual statewide convention at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick. All registered Greens in Maine are encouraged to participate. Starting at 9 a.m. the gathering will elect steering committee members and will discuss Party platform and bylaws. After lunch, provided at noon, candidates for Portland’s Mayoral race will speak as will Independent Legislator Ben Chipman and a representative of Maine’s labor community. Interested non-Greens are welcome to attend as non-voting guests. The public is invited to join the gathering at 6 p.m. on the Brunswick Mall for a celebration of Bringing in the May, a tradition that goes back to the 12th century. The convention closes with some drumming and dancing and ancient ritual, from the Library to the Mall to the beat of “The Different Drummers” (a Yarmouth Drumming circle), followed by a May Pole dance to the tunes of Doug Protsik and Friends. The May Pole Dance will be a weaving together of our intentions for building community and sustainability in the year ahead. In case of rain, the drumming will take place in the Morrill Community Room at 6 pm. The May Pole dance can be held only in dry weather. For registration and more information visit www.mainegreens.org

Sacred Living Gatherings 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Unity Center for Sacred Living, an open, interfaith, Oneness oriented Spiritual Community, is “here to evolve consciousness through what we call The New Spirituality. We know that the essence of Spirit is within each and every one of us, and our aim is to create a safe and sacred space for each person to explore their own perception of Spirituality. UCSL offers weekly gatherings that are informative, creative, interactive, and sometimes ceremonial followed by fellowship.” Sacred Living Gatherings on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Williston-West Church, Memorial Hall (2nd fl), 32 Thomas St. Portland. For more information call 221-0727 or email centerforsacredliving@gmail.com.

‘Food is Hope benefit for Wayside Food Programs 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Truly Chillemi, a second grader at Pond Cove Elementary School in Cape Elizabeth, has helped organize a musical event and food drive called “Food is Hope” to benefit Wayside Food Programs of Portland. The event will be held at the Local Buzz, 327 Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth. Scheduled artists include jazz trumpeter Marc Chillemi and the SoPo Trio, singer songwriter Chris James, and traditional Cuban group Primo Cubano.

Donations of non-perishable food will be collected at the event. “After learning about Martin Luther King Jr. at school in January, Truly was inspired to do something to help people in her community. She hopes to use music as a medium for bringing people together and raising awareness about hunger. With the help of her father, jazz musician Marc Chillemi, Truly has organized this event to benefit

Wayside Food Programs. ‘Truly’s idea to use music to teach people about the social condition of hunger is quite remarkable,’ says Susan Violet, Wayside’s Executive Director. ‘We are very grateful to her. I want to thank everyone who is supporting her effort.’” The event will benefit Wayside’s Food Programs and help the many families and individuals who lack adequate access to resources to feed their selves or their families.

The Maine Irish and their Labor Union 2 p.m. Maine Irish Heritage Center presents: The Maine Irish and their Labor Union Granite Cutters International Union of North America. Lecture and movie by Dorothea J. McKenzie at the Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St., Portland. “According to Charles A. Scontras in his 1994 study of Maine Labor Unions, Collective Efforts Among Maine Workers: Beginnings and Foundations, 1820-1880, ‘The Maine granite cutters, through their formation of the Granite Cutters National Union, made a major contribution to the national labor movement, and for many years served as in inspirational model for workers throughout the state.’” http://www.stonecuttersonline.org

Portland Symphony Orchestra finale concerts 2:30 p.m. The Portland Symphony Orchestra will close its 2010-2011 season with music of Wagner and Mozart, and featuring Ravel’s luminously beautiful “Daphnis et Chloé.”

Music Director Robert Moody will conduct two performances on Sunday, May 1, at 2:30 p.m. and Tuesday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m. at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium. The PSO’s season finale concerts are sponsored by KeyBank, with media support from MPBN. Ticket prices range from $17-$70 and are available at porttix.com and by phone at 842-0800 or in person at PortTIX (20 Myrtle St., Portland). Special pricing may be available for students, seniors, and groups of 10 or more.

‘The Thinking Heart’ in Portland 7 p.m. Four performances of “The Thinking Heart: the Life and Loves of Etty Hillesum,” will be presented in the Portland area during April, May and June. Conversation concerning the work will follow performances. First Parish Portland, 425 Congress St., Portland, on Sunday, May 1, at 7 p.m. Contact: 773-5747. Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Ave., Portland, on May 22, at 3 p.m. Contact: Caroline Loupe, cmloupe@maine. rr.com, 926-5983. Admission: Donation requested. Glickman Family Library at the University of Southern Maine, 314 Forest Ave., seventh floor, Portland, on June 2, at 7 p.m. This performance is sponsored by Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. Contact: Joshua Bodwell, Executive Director, director@mainewriters.org, 228-8263.

Monday, May 2 ‘Health as a human right’ 5:30 p.m. A public forum to discuss health as a human right is being hosted by students from the University of New England School of Social Work at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Congress Street in Portland. “This collaborative event will mobilize our communities to action in the pursuit of access to equitable health resources. The evening will include a panel discussion with health professionals and legislators, a conversation with community members and an opportunity to take action.” The event is free and open to the public. Unitarian Universalist Church, Parish Hall, 425 Congress St., Portland.

Tuesday, May 3 East End Wastewater Treatment Facility Tour 10 a.m. to noon. Portland Water District invites the public to celebrate National Drinking Water Week, May 1-May 7.

“Have you ever wondered what happens after you flush?

What is flushable, anyway? Find out how PWD treats millions of gallons of wastewater every day, helping to keep Casco Bay clean for wildlife and people.” www.pwd.org

Hike Along the Sebago to the Sea Trail 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Join Sebago to the Sea Coalition partners Presumpscot Regional Land Trust and PWD as we take a hike on the newest section of the Sebago to the Sea Trail, designed to link Sebago Lake with Casco Bay. Naturalists will point out features, habitats, and other fun environmental facts along the trail. Hike is approximately 2 miles. Sebago Lake Ecology Center. www.pwd.org

‘Ethnographic research in the Yucatan peninsula’ 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Last winter, three College of the Atlantic students travelled to the state of Quintana Roo on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico to pursue field work into land management, government aid, and politics. The three seniors, Zimmerman Cardona of Belize, Adelina Mkami of Tanzania, and Neil Oculi of St. Lucia, will be showing portions of their senior project in an exhibit called “One State, Three Projects: Ethnographic research in the Yucatan pen-

insula” in the college’s Ethel H. Blum Gallery from May 2 to 6. There will be an opening reception May 3 from 4 to 6 p.m. Ethel H. Blum Gallery of College of the Atlantic. Gallery hours, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor. For information contact cclinger@coa.edu, 288-5105 or 801-5733. Free.

‘The Final Inch — Fighting To Eradicate Polio’ 4 p.m. Polio, contrary to what people might think, has not vanished from our world. Throughout Asia and Africa, this highly contagious disease is still destroying people’s lives.

At 4 p.m. on Tuesday, May 3, College of the Atlantic student Jesse Karppinen will be screening the film, “The Final Inch — Fighting To Eradicate Polio,” followed by a discussion of public health efforts to wipe out the disease. The movie and talk will be in McCormick Lecture Hall as part of COA’s ongoing Human Ecology Forum.

Wednesday, May 4 33rd Annual Living With Cancer Conference 7:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. The American Cancer Society’s 33rd Annual Living With Cancer Conference will take place at the Augusta Civic Center. Volunteers and staff from the American Cancer Society created the first Living With Cancer Conference in 1979. Each year cancer patients and survivors, family members, caregivers, and healthcare professionals come together to attend this event. This year’s theme, “Facing Cancer Together,” is as a day of sharing personal stories and medical information designed to help cancer patients and their families as they continue along their cancer journeys. Attendees at this day-long conference can participate in a variety of informative workshops, visit community resource exhibits, and share similar experiences and stories with others touched by cancer.

Moore Middle School planning session 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Moore Middle School in Portland invites parents and community members to participate in a charrette, or planning workshop, in the school’s library to discuss improvements to the school grounds. The information gathered at the charrette will be used by a landscape architect to create site plans for all stakeholders to view and vote upon. Moore plans to complete one small, high impact project before the end of the school year, with additional projects prioritized and completed as funds become available. Those interested in participating in the charrette are asked to write to one of the following teachers by May 2: Julie Marshall, marshj@portlandschools.org, Margaret Mountcastle, mountm@portlandschools.org, or Carrie Foster, fostec@portlandschools.org. They also may call 874-8150 to leave a message.

Portland Symphony Orchestra preview 5:30 p.m. Portland Symphony Orchestra Music Director Robert Moody will present a preview of the 2011-2012 PSO season at the Merrill Auditorium Rehearsal Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Robert Moody will provide an overview of the upcoming season’s concerts, including highlights of both Classical and Pops series, background on guest artists, and how the season evolved. The preview event will be followed by a Q&A with the audience. The PSO’s 2011-2012 season runs from October 2011 to May 2012 and includes nine Classical and four Pops programs.

Subscriptions to the PSO’s upcoming season are now on sale, with prices ranging from $80 to $390 depending on series and seat location. Details are available through portlandsymphony.org or by calling PortTIX at 842-0800.

Friends of the Eastern Prom preview 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern Prom Preview — The 3 R’s: Relocation, Restoration and Recreation will be highlighted as Friends of the Eastern Promenade outline project priorities recommended within the Master Plan for the Eastern Promenade. “Expect more about our exciting summer event lineup. After all, Maine is Vacationland, and you’ll want to save some of these dates to enjoy the Prom with friends and family from near and far.” East End Community School.

Roof runoff, rain gardens, and rain barrels 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Take a guided tour of the Sebago Lake Ecology Center’s lake-friendly yard to learn about rain gardens, rain barrels, and other easy ways a homeowner can create a beautiful yard that reduces pollution. Sebago Lake Ecology Center. www.pwd.org

Rated Local ongoing film series 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Nickelodeon Cinemas will present the second installment of Rated Local, an ongoing film series showcasing eight new short works from Maine filmmakers.

Organized by Portland’s Eddy Bolz, David Meiklejohn and Allen Baldwin,Rated Local will screen at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the Nickelodeon or online at http://patriotcinemas.com/nickelodeon.html. see next page

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times (contact Arthur Fink at af@ArthurFinkPhoto.com or 615.5722 to confirm that he’s there).

Film: ‘Holy Wars’

‘Queen to Play’ film screened at PMA

7:30 p.m. Film screening. “Touching down in four hotbeds of religious fundamentalism — Pakistan, Lebanon, UK, and heartland America — ‘Holy Wars’ goes behind the scenes of the 1400 year old conflict between Islam and Christianity. By filmmaker Stephen Marshall (Guerrilla News Network, Battleground) the film follows a danger-seeking Christian missionary and a radical Muslim Irish convert, both of whom believe in an apocalyptic battle, after which their religion will ultimately rule the world. Tracking their lives from the onset of the ‘War on Terror’ through the election of Barack Obama, Holy Wars shows that even the most radical of believers can be transformed by our changing world.” SPACE Gallery. $7/$5 for SPACE members, all ages.

6:30 p.m. “Queen to Play” screens at Movies at the Museum at the Portland Museum of Art. Friday, May 6, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 7, 2 p.m.; Sunday, May 8, 2 p.m. NR. “Oscar winner Kevin Kline (‘A Fish Called Wanda’) and the luminous Sandrine Bonnaire (‘Vagabond’) square off in this stylish and sophisticated dramedy of newfound passions and mid-life triumphs, set on the postcard-perfect isle of Corsica. Lovely, repressed, and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène (Bonnaire) discovers she has a knack for chess.

This obsession-much to the chagrin of her husband and teenaged daughter-leads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor (Kline, in his first French-speaking role)-a liaison that radically transforms both of their lackluster lives. In French with English subtitles.”

Thursday, May 5

Couples Connecting: A Friday Night Date

7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Aliveness, Connection, Understanding. An evening workshop with Nancy Hathaway. noon to 1:30 p.m. The Maine Heritage Policy Center Simple Playful Mindfulness Exercises for Couples. presents Made In Maine, A State Report Card On Using Skillful Techniques from many traditions-Zen, Public Higher Education, with special guest speaker, Tibetan Buddhism, Vipassana, Non-violent CommuMichael Poliakoff, policy director for American Council nication. All exercises done in pairs with your partner. of Trustees and Alumni.

Center for Studying Mindfulness, @Living Well, 836 DiMillo’s On the Water, 25 Long Wharf, Portland. Made Main St., Westbrook. To Register: Hathaway.N@gmail.

In Maine: A State Report Card On Public Higher Educom cation takes a close look at the four-year public colleges and universities in Maine, offering a Pass or Fail Global Fight League in Portland grade in four key areas. “At this pivotal time for Maine’s Special features of owls will be demonstrated through displays and live birds at the 7 p.m. “Bellum Combat Association is proud to taxpayers-supported universities, ACTA’s report card Jeff P. Nixon Development Center, 225 Douglass St., Portland, on May 6. (FILE PHOTO) announce a dual partnership with Global Fight League finds that while Maine’s universities are running in a to bring New England’s premier MMA Promotion to generally transparent manner, they have real chalMaine. Global Fight League is excited to bring their spring and the wonder that is shared by all who enjoy the lenges to address in raising academic standards, increasbrand of Mixed Martial Arts to Maine for one of the first garden. Mingle with friends, enjoy refreshments and music, ing graduation rates, and controlling rising tuition costs.’

MMA events ever held in the state. May 6 is the official and visit our ongoing exhibit, Zoom In: New Approaches to Register online or contact Mrs. Amanda Clark at 321-2550 sanctioned date by the Mixed Martial Arts Authority of Maine History which closes at the end of May.” or aclark@mainepolicy.org by Monday, May 2.

Maine to hold the Global Fight League’s 11th installment.

The Telling Room’s annual writing and storytelling Doors at 6 p.m. Fights begin at 7 p.m.” Portland Expo.

Connecting People, Place and Planet project on display at Portland Public Library http://www.bellumca.com/contact.htm 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. “Join Westbrook resident Jan Schrock 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. As part of the First Friday Art Walk, in a series of discussions in an enjoyable, supportive setPortland Playback Theater First Friday three separate shows including highlights from The Tellting to examine personal values and habits, engage in 7:30 p.m. This month’s theme for Portland Playback Theing Room’s annual writing and storytelling project, Dunia stimulating conversation, create meaningful community, ater is “Growing Up.” “Our memories of childhood range Moja/One World: A Peregrine Press and Zanzibar Print and consider ways to take action towards creating a more from the sublime to the ridiculous. When did you realize Exchange, and social justice and memoir comics created sustainable future. Sessions at Walker Memorial Library will you’d turned the corner from childhood to being a ‘grown by local middle school students will all be open to visitors begin on Thursday, May 5 and continue each week through up’? Or what times have challenged you to think if you’d to the Portland Public Library from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. In the June 9. Using a workbook from the Northwest Earth Instigrown up at all? Grow up all over again with Portland PlayLewis Gallery is an exhibition of collaborative prints created tute, we will explore ‘good health,’the connections between back. Every month Portland Playback Theater puts five taljointly by the artists of Portland’s Peregrine Press and the human health and the environment, and how we can sustain ented actors at your disposal to play back the moments artists of Women Networking in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The two both. Each session includes readings from the Northwest of your life, unrehearsed and on the spot. Now in our sixth resulting matched sets of collaborative prints are unique, Earth Institute video clips, short assignments and accomyear, we have brought hundreds of audience stories back showcasing the deep similarities — and mysterious differpanying group discussion questions. The course discusses to life.” First Parish Church, at the intersection of Congress ences — between kindred spirits working “together” across limitations of the current medical model and its approach and Temple (just up from the Nickelodeon). $7 suggested a distance of 6,000 miles. Dunja Moja/One World is open to health, then addresses the places where our personal donation. Find out more at www.portlandplayback.com. through May 28. Next to the Lewis Gallery on the lower health intersects with the environment — from our food and level are highlights from PLAY, The Telling Room’s 2010homes, to our communities and society. Throughout the Saturday, May 7 11 community writing and storytelling project. Culled from course you will find individual actions that promote good work with nearly 2,000 students from Wells to Calais this health and in turn, promote a healthier environment. The year, the stories, poems, photographs, and videos featured workbook includes related articles, about 1 ½ hr to read Brewing For A Cause accompany the release of The Telling Room’s fifth antholprior to our discussion group and costs $21.” To sign up, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sebago Brewing Company is pleased to ogy, “How To Climb Trees: 40 Poems and Stories About see Marian Peterson, MLIS, Adult Services, Walker Memoannounce they will be holding the second annual Brewing Play.” Among the highlights of the show are works by 12 rial Library. Discussion will be led by Westbrook resident For A Cause. This event was conceived to raise funds for immigrant and refugee high school students in the Young Jan West Schrock, retired from Heifer International, and the Trek Across Maine, a three-day, 180-mile bike ride in Writers & Leaders Program and winners of a statewide writnow a resident of Westbrook. Go to: www.nwei.org. support of the mission of the American Lung Association. ing contest. Following the Art Walk, much of this work will This is the third year that Sebago has had an employee be on display on the lower level through the end of June.

Friday, May 6 cycling team participating in the event. Sebago brewers In the Rines Auditorium, social justice and memoir comics and will be brewing “Trekker Pale Ale” and attendees will created by King Middle School students will be on display be able to participate in the brewing process as well as take Owls of Maine as part of the national Memento Nora Project. a case of this special Single Batch Series home! It will be a 10 a.m. to noon. “Owls have unique characteristics that ‘The Town that YES Made’ full day of brewing (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and lunch will be proset them apart from other birds. The Owls of Maine pro5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Lalo Boutique at 142 High Street in Portvided for all attendees. Tickets are $125 and are now availgram introduces the audience to the habits and adaptations land hosts the artists of YES Art Works with “The Town that able to the general public on the Sebago Brewing Company of Maine’s native owls. The special features of these nocturnal YES Made,” “a whimsical collection of buildings and vehiwebsite. This unique fundraiser sold out very quickly last birds will be demonstrated through displays and live owls.” cles designed and created with wood, cardboard, papieryear, so Sebago is encouraging people to purchase tickJeff P. Nixon Development Center, 225 Douglass St., Portland. mâché and paint. The miniature village reflects the creative ets early if they’d like to attend! For more information visit Recent work by Kyle Bryant at Edward T. Pollack perception and joyful interpretation of the world around us sebagobrewing.com, call 207-856-2537, or email jon@ 5 p.m. May 5 through June 25, Edward T. Pollack Fine by a group of artists with disabilities. LaLo will also premiere sebagobrewing.com.

Arts presents The Things We Carry: Recent Work by Kyle hand-screened t-shirts and aprons as well as showcase a Workshop on solar shower building Bryant. Opening reception, Thursday May 5, 5-8 p.m. There selection of paintings, wall quilts, and hand-woven scarves 9 a.m. On May 7-8, Mike Beaudry, a timber framer, timber will be a gallery talk by the artist in June. Please contact the from YES Artists.” Work will be on display from May 5 to 31 hewer and log builder from Montville, will lead a two-day gallery for further information. Also July 1 through Aug. 31, with an opening reception during Portland’s First Friday Art workshop at Newforest Institute in Brooks. The main projAt The Shore, a celebration of activities performed on or Walk on Friday, May 6 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. ect during this workshop will be the construction of a roof near lakes, ponds and oceans. Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts Not Just Dance — A First Friday Event frame for a solar shower building. Starting with logs, particiRare Books & Fine Prints, 29 Forest Ave. 699-2919, www.

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Arthur Fink is best known in Portland as pants will hew out dimensional timbers, cut joinery, make edpollackfinearts.com. a dance photographer, and that is, indeed, a passion of his. trunnels, and raise and trunnel the frame. Workshop fees Images of the Longfellow Garden But for this First Friday, on May 6, he’s assembling a show are a sliding scale from $90 to $180 depending upon ability 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. First Friday Art Walk with Maine Historiof other work — streetscapes, scenic images, signage, and to pay for two days including lunch and snacks. Attendees cal Society. Opening Reception: Images of the Longfellow portraits from Monhegan, Cape May, Holland, Scandinavia, have the option to register for breakfasts and dinners and Garden. “Join the local art community in celebrating the and other places. Look for an eclectic and colorful mix, overnight accommodations or tenting space for a modest opening of our new exhibit (May 6-June 30) in the Shettleincluding many early works shot with — film!” Fink’s studio fee. For more information and to register, please contact worth Gallery, Images of the Longellow Garden. This exhibit is located at 145 Newbury St. (just off India Street, close Newforest at info@newforestinstitute.org or 722-3625. is a showcase of historical images that document the evoluto Coffee by Design). It will be open from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. see next page tion of the garden through the years. The exhibit celebrates for this event, and is also available for visits at most other

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Falmouth Rotary Club electronics recycling day 9 a.m. The Rotary Club of Falmouth will host an electronics recycling day on Saturday, May 7 from 9-2 at the Falmouth Shopping Center parking lot on U.S. Route 1 in Falmouth.

Items accepted include household electronics such as TV’s, computers, monitors (keyboard, mouse), printers, scanners, DVD players, VCR’s, radios, stereos, microwaves ovens, cell phones, game consoles, cords, circuit boards, and digital picture frames. “This event allows people to drop off their electronics so they can be recycled or disposed of in an environmentally friendly way”, says Anne Payson of the Falmouth Rotary Club. “We simply ask that people make a donation to Rotary at the time they drop their items off. Donations will go primarily to the our Rotary Youth Exchange Program.” Falmouth Rotary is a volunteer service organization that supports a variety of community and international causes, including the Rotary Youth Exchange Program, polio eradication, Safe Passage, the Falmouth Food Pantry, Maine Childrens Cancer Center, and girls literacy in Afghanistan. Items that will be NOT be accepted include appliances and white goods (ovens, washer/dryers, stoves), items with freon such as refrigerators and air conditioners, fluorescent bulbs, and mercury-bearing items (thermo, thermostat).

New Gloucester quilt show 9 a.m. to noon. A quilt show is to be held at the New Gloucester History Barn, Route 231, behind the Town Hall, New Gloucester. Local quilters working in a variety of styles will be featured. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the New Gloucester Historical Society.

Protest of Aegis destroyer at Bath Iron Works 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The Navy will “christen” another Aegis destroyer on Saturday, May 7 at Bath Iron Works.

Peace groups in Maine plan to hold a protest at the event from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Following the protest people are invited to come to the Addams-Melman House (212 Centre St) in Bath for a pot luck lunch at noon. The protest is being sponsored by the Smiling Trees Disarmament Farm, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, Maine Veterans for Peace and CodePink Maine. For more information please contact 763-4062 or 443-9502.

Peace Action Maine 2011 Peace Supper 4 p.m. This year’s Keynote Speaker for the Peace Action Maine Peace Supper will be Medea Benjamin. Supper at 5 p.m. Woodfords Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St., Portland, $20. “Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of both CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global Exchange. She has been a tireless advocate for social justice for more than 20 years. Described as “one of America’s most committed — and most effective — fighters for human rights” by New York Newsday, and called “one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement” by the Los Angeles Times, Medea has distinguished herself as an eloquent and energetic figure in the progressive movement. In June of 2005, she was one of 1,000 exemplary women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize collectively, on behalf of the millions of anonymous women who do the essential work of peace worldwide. Since the September 11, 2001 tragedy, Medea has been working to promote a U.S. foreign policy that would respect human rights and gain us allies instead of contributing to violence and undermining our international reputation. In 2000, she was a Green Party candidate for the California Senate.

During the 1990s, Medea focused her efforts on tackling the problem of unfair trade as promoted by the World Trade Organization. Widely credited as the woman who brought Nike to its knees and helped place the issue of sweatshops on the national agenda, Medea was a key player in the campaign that won a $20 million settlement from 27 US clothing retailers for the use of sweatshop labor in Saipan.

She also pushed Starbucks and other companies to start carrying fair trade coffee. A former economist and nutritionist with the United Nations and World Health Organization, Benjamin is the author/editor of eight books, and she currently lives in Washington, D.C. Her speaking topic at the Peace Action Maine Peace Supper will be ‘From Egypt to Washington D.C.: How to Build a Peoples’ Movement for Peace.’” Call Peace Action Maine 772-0680.

The Mad Hatter Affair by MHS 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. The Mad Hatter Affair at the Woodlands Club in Falmouth. “Consider this an official invitation to the Mad Hatter Affair, MHS’s gala fundraiser. Now in its 15th year, the Mad Hatter is a festive Kentucky Derby party, a spirited way to welcome spring, and great opportunity to support MHS. The Mad Hatter offers a chance for friends of MHS and guests to gather, dress up in derby attire (outlandish hats encouraged!), sip mint juleps, watch the race live from Churchill Downs, and to dine and dance the night away. Activities include a hat parade and contest, and live and silent auctions. For more on this wonderful evening, includ-

ing photos from last year’s event, visit the MHS blog. Tickets: $100/person.” FMI and to buy tickets, contact Elizabeth Nash at 774-1822, ext. 206 or enash@mainehistory.org.

‘Seascapes’ art reception in Cape Elizabeth 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Cape Elizabeth painter Etsuko Leeaphon will present. “Seascapes from Japan, Thailand and Maine” at Thomas Memorial Library May 2-31. An opening reception will be held at the library on Friday, May 6 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The event is open to the public.

Thomas Memorial Library, 6 Scott Dyer Road, Cape Elizabeth. 799-1720.

‘Piano Men: The Music of Elton and Billy’ 7:30 p.m. The Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra will perform the world premiere of “Piano Men: the Music of Elton and Billy,” dedicated to the array of hits created by the two pop music icons Elton John and Billy Joel, on Saturday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland. “Elton John and Billy Joel have sold more than 350 million records combined. This tribute performance mixes a four-piece pop group with a full orchestra in song arrangements rarely heard before. Performers include longtime Billy Joel drummer Liberty DeVitto and Joseph Boucher on piano and vocals. Arrangements by Christopher Eastburn.

For song selections and information on performers, visit www.pianomenmusic.com.” Tickets cost $16.50 and are available through the State Theatre: www.statetheatreportland.com, by phone at 1-800-745-3000, or in person at the Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland.

Asbury Shorts exhibition in Fryeburg 7:30 p.m. Asbury Shorts, New York City’s longest running short film exhibition, will present its acclaimed program known as “The Short Film Concert” at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center. The theater is located at 18 Bradley Street in Fryeburg on the campus of Fryeburg Academy. Tickets cost $10 general admission/ $7 for students. Call 935-9232 for all show information and directions or email: boxoffice@fryeburgacademy.org. The presentation is recommended for ages 16 and above.

Monday, May 9 Maine Audubon bird watching walks 7 a.m. Maine Audubon staff will lead bird watching walks through two popular migratory spots in Portland. Walks will be offered at the city’s Evergreen Cemetery Woods and Capisic Pond, two of the best places in southern Maine to get a close look at migrating songbirds — particularly warblers. Evergreen Cemetery Woods Walks: Monday, May 9-Thursday, May 19 at 7 a.m.; meet in the back of the cemetery by the kiosk at the southeast end of the ponds.

Capisic Pond Trail: May 13 and 20, 7 a.m. Walks will begin at the Macy Street entrance. It’s possible to see more than 20 warbler species in a single morning, including the hard-to-find Cape May, bay-breasted, mourning and Tennessee warblers. Southern “overshoots” (worm-eating, yellow-throated, hooded or cerulean) can also be found at the parks this time of year. The walks are open to the public, all skill levels, and free to members of Maine Audubon. Nonmembers are asked to make a $5 donation to the organization for the guided tour. Participants should bring binoculars and field guides. For more information about Warbler Week, visit http://habitat.maineaudubon.org/articles/Warbler-Weeks-at-Evergreen-Cemetery/998/.

Creative conversations series about memory loss and dementia, at South Portland church 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The conversation continues: Open forum for sharing, First Congregational Church, Meeting House Hill, 301 Cottage Road, South Portland. Facilitated by Lori Axelson, LCSW .

“The Conversation Series is an informal opportunity for caregivers to join together to discuss topics of mutual interest. The program includes an educational topic but allows for plenty of time for participants to discuss concerns and ask questions. There is no fee for this program. There is no charge and pre-registration is not required.”

‘Shameless! The Musical’ opens at Lucid Stage 7:30 p.m. Mad Horse Theatre presents, as part of its 25th anniversary season, the world premiere of “Shameless! The Musical,” opening May 9 and running through May 18. Performances are May 9-11 and 16-18 at 7:30 p.m. at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard in Portland. All shows will be pay-what-you-can. “Shameless!” was written by Portland writer and musician Jason Wilkins, whose last musical (Naked In Portland) enjoyed a successful run at the PSC Studio Theater. “Shameless!” is directed by Mad Horse Theatre Associate Artistic Director Peter Brown. The show features a cast of six, including Cathy Counts (Good Theater), Michael Tobin (Old Port Playhouse), Jonathan Carr (Lyric Theater), Benjamin Row (Legacy Theater), Bartley Mullin (Seacoast Repertory Theater) and Megan Jackson (USM Theater Department). Shane Van Vliet (Portland Stage

Company) is the music director. “‘Shameless!’ is the story of what happens when gay rights and the religious right collide within the confines of a single family. It combines wild comedy, heartbreaking drama, and catchy folky pop tunes; it blends real heart, real family values, and (possibly) a bit of controversy.” Ticketing information can be found on the web at www.lucidstage.com or by calling 899-3993. Press inquiries can be directed to subbobmail@gmail.com or 3325336.

Tuesday, May 10 Police Unity Tour Chapter Two The Police Unity Tour Chapter Two will consist of Law Enforcement Officers bicycling from Hamilton Township, New Jersey to Washington D.C. to honor “Fallen Officers” who have died in the line of duty. The primary goal is to raise funds for the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and the operating cost for the participating officers. Old Orchard Beach’s own Officer “Scott Jarrett” will participate in this year’s tour on May 10 where he will ride the motorcycle escorting the bikers leading the way where they will tour from South Jersey through towns where officers have fallen in the line of duty before departing the State en route to the national’s capital. This is a 50 to 80 mile per day trek from New Jersey to DC. This is a non-profit organization under Section 501©)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. (Tax Identification Number 20-8960869). The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial was founded in 1983 by members of the United States Congress who wanted to recognize the service and sacrifices of all enforcement officers who have ever died in the line of duty.

Portland Public School System’s budget vote 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Portland voters will be asked to approve the Portland Public School System’s budget in a citywide referendum. Maine’s School Administrative Reorganization Law now requires all school districts to hold elections for approval of their budgets. The budget must be approved by a majority of voters. Voters will be asked: 1) Do you favor approving the Portland School Budget for the upcoming school year that was adopted at the latest City Council budget meeting? Detailed information about the Portland school budget may be found on the Portland Public Schools Web site at www.portlandschools.org. All qualified residents of the City of Portland are encouraged to vote. Absentee ballots are available upon request and can be returned to the City Clerk’s office in City Hall from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and must be returned by May 10. Residents can register to vote in person at the City Clerk’s office or on the day of election at their polling place. All local polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. For more detailed information about where or how to vote, contact the City Clerk’s office at 874-8677 or visit their webpage at www. portlandmaine.gov/voter/voter.asp.

Portland Regional Chamber and SCORE roundtable discussion 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Join the second roundtable discussion between the Portland Regional Chamber and SCORE. “This is an opportunity to learn from your in-business peers established best practices for dealing with some of the business challenges presented by the current environment.

There will be no formal presentations at this meeting. The roundtable is designed as a facilitated peer-to-peer discussion of what works and what doesn’t in selected areas of business management. The topic for discussion will be selected by the participants of the roundtable at the start of the meeting. Both SCORE counselors and Chamber members will serve as facilitators for the roundtable discussion.

The Continental Breakfast and Program are provided at no cost to participants. We ask only that you come prepared to participate in the discussion.” 772-1147

Three events scheduled for Glenna Johnson Smith noon. Glenna Johnson Smith, author of the highly acclaimed “Old Maine Woman, Stories from The Coast to The County,” has scheduled three upcoming appearances in the Portland area. On Tuesday, May 10, Smith will speak and sign copies of her book at noon as part of the LunchBox Friends program at the Falmouth Public Library.

The library is located at 5 Lunt Road. Audience members should bring their own lunch; beverages will be provided.

On Wednesday, May 11, she will speak and sign copies of her book from noon to 1 p.m. at the Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series at the Portland Public Library. The event will be held in the Rines Auditorium at the library, 5 Monument Square. Also, at 7 p.m., she will chat with readers and sign copies of her book at Longfellow Books in Portland. The store is located at One Monument Way. Smith, a Presque Isle resident and longtime columnist for Echoes magazine, writes about the complexities, absurdities and pleasures of everyday modern life, her childhood on the coast in the 1920s and 1930s, and the joys that old age brings. see next page

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Saturday, April 30 Belfast Free Range Music Festival All day. From morning until night, the Free Range Music Festival will once again fill the town of Belfast with a celebration of music – and the enjoyment of each other’s company – after a long winter of being cooped up. LIne-up includes: Michael Hurley, Grass Widow, Jonny Corndawg, Brenda, Audrey Ryan, Time Crisis, Toughcats, Big Blood, Jacob Augustine, Gawler Family Band, Sunset Hearts, Broken Water, Murcielago, Mehuman Trio, The Rattlesnakes, Marie Stella, The Milkman’s Union, CatchaVibe, Ancestral Diet, Dead Man’s Clothes, The 220s, Press Gang, Full Contact Kitty, Tit City, Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards, Asa Irons, Cave Bears, VoXX, In Houses in Trees. $18, $9 under 12 years old. All ages.

Badfish: A tribute to Sublime at the State Theatre 8 p.m. Badfish is a tribute band dedicated to playing the music of Sublime. The group is named after a song appearing on the album 40oz. to Freedom. Formed in 2001 at the University of Rhode Island, the group’s members, who were computer science majors, began playing local Rhode Island clubs and quickly began selling out shows. They continued touring the East Coast and Midwest of the U.S., becoming popular on college campuses among Sublime fans who never were able to see the band due to Bradley Nowell’s 1996 death. Since then the group has done multiple national tours per year. In 2008, the band was nominated for Best Tribute Act in the Boston Music Awards. $18 advance, $20 day of show.

Last Spouse show before hiatus 9 p.m. “Bitter-sweet and awkwardly nostalgic lyrics are delivered with José Ayerve’s token ‘feather smooth/sandpaper rough’ voice. The music on Confidence is purposefully more upbeat than some of the band’s previous offerings.

Still present are the intertwining layers of bass and guitardriven melodies over tight, emphatic drums. “Spouse is taking a break for a while,” writes Ayerve. “Not sure for how long, but that’s why they call it a hiatus. Our last show is April 30 in Portland.” Empire Dine & Dance; Spottiswoode & His Enemies (CD Release show); A Severe Joy (this is the new solo project Ayerve is working on). Doors: 8:30 p.m., show: 9 p.m. $8 adv/$10 door, 21 plus.

Roomful of Blues at One Longfellow 8 p.m. Even though Roomful of Blues’ lineup has changed over the years, the band has always been one of the tightest, most joyful blues ensembles in the world. Currently an eight-piece unit led by guitarist Chris Vachon, the band has never sounded fresher or stronger. In 2010, singer Phil Pemberton took over the vocal duties, bringing his sweet and soulful vocals and adding another bright new dimension to the jazzy, jump-blues musical roots. Their winning combination of jump, swing, blues, R&B and soul remains their calling card, as does their ability to fill the dance floor. Along with new members, bassist John Turner, trumpeter Doug Woolverton and , longer standing members keyboardist Travis Colby, drummer Ephraim Lowell, baritone and tenor saxophonist Mark Earley, tenor and alto saxophonist Rich Lataille , Roomful keeps on rockin’ in 2010. $25, all ages.

Sunday, May 1 Avenged Sevenfold 7 p.m. Avenged Sevenfold with Three Days Grace and Sevendust at the Cumberland County Civic Center. Avenged Sevenfold’s “Welcome To The Family” Tour is on sale today.

“The Nightmare After Christmas” Tour sold out and left many fans wanting more. Tickets: $39.75.

Thursday, May 5 Tommy Emmanuel at Merrill 8 p.m. Outback Concerts Presents: Tommy Emmanuel.

“Two-time Grammy nominee Tommy Emmanuel has a professional career that spans over four decades and continues to intersect with some of the finest musicians throughout the world. A household name in his native Australia, Tommy has garnered hundreds of thousands of loyal fans worldwide.

Tommy’s unique style — he calls it simply ‘finger style’ — is akin to playing guitar the way a pianist plays piano, using all ten fingers.” Merill Auditorium.

Saturday, May 7 De Temps Antan 8 p.m. “De Temps Antan is a high-energy trio featuring three of Quebec’s most talented musicians coming out of the city’s vibrant music scene. Since 2003, Éric Beaudry, André Brunet and Pierre-Luc Dupuis have been exploring and performing time-honored melodies from the stomping grounds of

Michael Hurley is one of the last remaining ramblin’ American folk troubadours. Hobo-ing around the country, making music since the days Bob Dylan first set foot in New York City’s Gaslight club, Hurley recorded his first album for Moses Ash’s legendary Folkways label in 1964 and continued to release albums for both Warner Brothers and Rounder. Hurley will headline the second annual Belfast Free Range Music Festival on Saturday in Belfast. (COURTESY PHOTO) Quebec’s musical past. Using fiddle, accordion, harmonica, guitar, bouzouki and a number of other instruments, these three virtuosos blend boundless energy with the unmistakable joie de vivre found only in traditional Quebec music. All three members previously performed with the celebrated ensemble La Bottine Souriante (Beaufry remains a member of La Bottine). Brunet was featured in the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver British Columbia. Showing the talent runs deep, Brunet’s brother Réjean is a member of another dynamic Quebecois ensemble, Le Vent du Nord.” Hannaford Hall, University of Southern Maine, Portland. http://portlandovations.org

Tuesday, May 10 Goes Cube / Waranimal / Huak at Space Gallery 8 p.m. It would be easy to call Brooklyn’s Goes Cube a metal band. After all, their music is heavy, loud, and often fast. But Goes Cube continually demonstrates that it exists in a universe all its own: outside the trends and styles of New York (where the band formed), and outside of the standard metal tropes - drawing on influences that also include punk, hardcore, noise, and indie rock. Their idea is simple: make the heavy heavier, fast faster, hooky hookier, and pretty prettier. Their new disc - In Tides And Drifts (The End Records) - even calls upon folk singer Jaymay, whose haunting melodies break hearts as the band behind her batters eardrums. Waranimal are a totally excellent party metal band who recently gave us a strong contender for show of the winter season by filling SPACE with a bounce house, silly string, and a whole lot of crowdsurfing dudes in hawaiian shirts. Local punk (post-punk/hardcore/political/art/just-call-it-great) quartet Huak have a new full length coming this summer and open this show. HillyTown Presents works with both national touring acts and Maine musicians to curate unique live music experiences. $8, 18+

Sunday, May 15 Phil Kline’s ‘John the Revelator’ 3 p.m. “Considered one of the most significant works of the past decade, composer Phil Kline’s ‘John the Revelator’ is a gorgeous and powerful Mass for the 21st century. ‘John the Revelator’ finds inspiration in the writings of Samuel Beckett and poet David Shapiro, early American hymns, shape-note singing and the events of 9/11. Acclaimed for their ‘smoothly blended and impeccably balanced sound’ (The New York Times), Lionheart is joined by municipal organist Ray Cornils and Portland String Quartet for this unique presentation.

The concert will feature a new work for organ by Kline, commissioned in part by Portland Ovations and Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ. Merrill Auditorium. Presented in collabo-

ration with Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ and LARK Society for Chamber Music. http://portlandovations.org

Wednesday, May 18 Steve Martin: An Evening of Bluegrass & Banjo 7:30 p.m. “Performing with The Steep Canyon Rangers, An Evening of Bluegrass & Banjo, Merrill Auditorium. The legendary Steve Martin is a true renaissance man. Now the actor, comedian, novelist, playwright, and musician teams up with the accomplished bluegrass quintet Steep Canyon Rangers for an evening of bluegrass and banjo. Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers first played together in 2009, garnering praise from fans and critics alike. The popularity of their joint live performances has resulted in a new album, Rare Bird Alert, due out this spring. This is Martin’s second bluegrass album. His first, The Crow/New Songs For The Five-String Banjo, won a 2010 Grammy for best bluegrass album. The Steep Canyon Rangers are a classic five-man string band comprised of a guitar, fiddle, upright bass, banjo and mandolin. Martin adds a second banjo and additional vocals making for a unique and exciting sound.” Portland Ovations is pleased to announce that Tony Trischka & Territory have been added to the concert featuring Steve Martin with Steep Canyon Rangers. http://portlandovations.org

Saturday, May 21 David Crosby & Graham Nash at the State Theatre 8 p.m. “As a duo, longtime creative partners David Crosby and Graham Nash bring out the best in each other, their distinct yet complementary styles balancing an equation that delivers a seamless and inspiring musical whole. Twothirds and one-half, respectively, of Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, these Rock and Roll Hall of Famers are legendary for their airtight and crystal-clear vocal harmonies, as sublime when delivered by simply these two together as they are from the larger configurations. It is a sound that’s one of the true touchstones of the rock ‘n’ roll era. Having toured as the occasional duo for four decades, Crosby and Nash will be backed by a band consisting of James Raymond playing keyboards, guitarist Dean Parks, bassist Kevin McCormick and Steve DiStanislao on drums.

The plan calls for Crosby and Stills to switch between acoustic and electric instruments as they play their classic tunes as well as a few new songs.” State Theatre.The Mallett Long considered a “songwriter’s songwriter,” John Prine is a rare talent who writes the songs other songwriters would sell their souls for. Evidence of this is the long list of songwriters who have recorded gems from his extent.

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Elks contestant can win nationals in Mass.

HOOPS from page one

when she was sick, she was better than any other 8- or 9-year-old in the region by making 19 out of 25 shots.

“Believe it or not, that was an off day for her,” admitted Dawson. “Knowing she is the best in New England and making it this far is quite an accomplishment.”

Now this weekend Isabel probably can’t afford to have an off day. Her father knows she will probably have to make more than 15 to take home the national title. “There is one girl from California who made 24 out of 25 shots in the regionals,” said Dawson. “Then there are 10 other girls she will have to beat out to win the championship.

Sometiimes I don’t think Isabel knows how good she really is. One time she made 87 out of 100 shots during practice. She was mad because she missed 13 shots. I told her that 87 percent from the line was better than most NBA players.”

Nearly every competition practice and game Iisabel’s parents are right there sitting on the bleachers supporting her not matter how stressful things get. “I am going to be a basket case this weekend,” admitted Isabel’s mother Christine. “I get a lot more nervous than she does and I am not sure that she gets nervous at all. She is 9 and doesn’t stress about it.”

Isabel has been having fun with the journey. She has become very superstitious. At every competition Isabel wears the same clothes. They are a Portland recreation shirt, black shorts

and a red sweatshirt. She also does the same thing before every free throw.

“My secret is just doing my routine,” said Isabel. “I dribble the ball three times. Then I spin the ball and shoot.”

To say basketball is a big part of Isabel’s life would be an understatement. She practices free throw shooting two days a week and she plays organized basketball as well. Isabel plays on two teams with the Portland Blue Wave. There is an AAU team and a travel team. Throw in the fact her sister plays hoops and her father, who is a former college player, also coaches and it is safe to say the Dawsons eat and breathe basketball. “We have never pushed the sport on her,” said her father Eric. “She just loves playing. Taking part in these competitions has really taught her how to handle pressure. Actually I don’t think she even feels pressure. She just focuses on her shots. I don’t even know if she knows what a national championship is. I have not told her that this weekend is big. I just keep telling her is just another competiition and she gets to see the Hall of Fame and she is happy with just that.”

If she wins the national title this weekend and receives a trophy and her name is displayed at the Hall of Fame, maybe Isabel will finally realize how big it really is.

Winners may receive trophies and plaques. The names of the national champions are displayed at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.