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You can’t squelch the squash

Honoring the fallen from a past U.S. war

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Poles apart See Curtis Robinson, page 6

Iraqi native back home at PMA See page 12

Brigadier General James Campbell, Maine National Guard, speaks at Eastern Cemetery Thursday as part of the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 naval battle of the Boxer v. the Enterprise. The Maine Historical Society and Maine Military Historical Society hosted the graveside service with military honors at the cemetery for Captain William Burrows, late commander of the United States Brig Enterprise; Captain Samuel Blyth, late commander of His Britannic Majesty’s Brig Boxer; and Lieutenant Kervin Waters, a midshipman on board the U.S. Enterprise. Spirits Alive, the group that preserves and cares for the cemetery, reported, “During the War of 1812, a battle between the USS Enterprise and the HMS Boxer ensued off the coast near Monhegan Island. Although the British ship was defeated, both young captains perished in the fight; William Burrows and Samuel Blyth were interred next to each other in the Eastern Cemetery on Sept. 9, 1813. One of the American sailors injured in the fight, Lieutenant Kervin Waters, was buried next to them two years later.” Thursday’s ceremony memorialized the fallen and provided military honors. The Italian Heritage Center Concert Band and the Maine Army National Guard performed, and descendants of the captains laid wreaths on the tombs. Guests included Maine First Lady Ann LePage; Susie Kitchens, British Consulate General, Boston; local historian Herb Adams; and Portland Mayor Michael Brennan. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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The evidence is from a novel experiment involving mice and humans that is part of a growing fascination with gut bacteria and their role in health and diseases like irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn’s disease. In this case, the focus was on obesity. Researchers found pairs of human twins in which one was obese and the other lean.

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The mice with bacteria from fat twins grew fat; those that got bacteria from lean twins stayed lean.The study, published online Thursday by the journal Science, is “pretty striking,” said Dr. Jeffrey S. Flier, an obesity researcher and the dean of the Harvard Medical School, who was not involved with the study. “It’s a very powerful set of experiments.”

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Syria crisis reveals new paradigm Across a border, Iraqis fears BERLIN (NY Times) — In the early 19th century, the German military theorist Carl von Clausewitz concluded that war is an act of politics pursued by other means.

Two centuries on, a student of modern conflict might be forced to recast the doctrine for the globalized, 24-hour-news-cycle era: War is a political act pursued to the extent that politics itself permits.

In recent days, as Western leaders wrestled with claims of chemical weapons use on the outskirts of Damascus on Aug. 21, the balance between politics at home and the ability to project military power abroad seems to have shifted into a new and more circumspect era, as voters tire of fruitless wars overseas and of their leaders’ rationales for fighting

them. When the contenders for the German leadership in elections this month faced off in a televised debate the other day, for instance, the gathering showdown over Syria seemed almost a postscript. Only when the 90-minute discussion between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democratic challenger, Peer Steinbrück, was in its final stages did it turn to the question of whether Germany should participate in any military intervention in Syria.

The encounter came just three days after the British Parliament rebuffed Prime Minister David Cameron’s quest for a mandate to join in the punishment of President Bashar al-Assad for what the United States says was the forbidden use of sarin gas.

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BAGHDAD (NY Times) — Abu Mohaned spent Tuesday night washing the bodies of victims of that evening’s car bombs, preparing them for burial. When a couple of roadside bombs went off the next day, he did the same thing.

When he is not here, tending to the dead, he says, he is in Syria fighting to defend the government of President Bashar al-Assad. Both duties, he says, are in many respects part of the same fight — burying Shiites killed in sectarian fighting in Iraq, and blocking radical Sunnis from taking control of Syria.

Now that the United States is considering missile strikes on Syria, Iraqi Shiites like Abu Mohaned say they see history repeating itself — even if across a border — and they are prepared to once again take on a familiar adversary. If the United States strikes Syria, Iraqi Shiites will see it as their fight, too, and pour across the border to assist Assad, many people here said.

“No honorable man will accept what the Americans want to do in Syria,” Abu Mohaned said, reflecting the view of Iraq’s Shiite majority who see any threat to Assad as an intervention on the side of a Sunni-led, Al Qaeda-aligned rebellion.

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Zaftig zucchini, anyone?

In the Midwest, there’s a saying about summer squash. If you don’t have some in your kitchen, then you must not have any friends, either. That’s because almost everyone out there has a garden that churns out veggies in oppressive heat — especially squash and its green cousin, zucchini.

There’s something to what the folks in the Heartland are talking about. When I lived in Kansas, gardens abounded in my neighborhood. There was one point in the summer when you knew the crops had exploded. BasFrom the kets full of giveaways started appearing at work, in lobStacks bies, and at your front door.

In fact, as someone who didn’t have a garden (back then), but apparently possessed innumerable friends, squash seemed to be ubiquitous. So much so that when I gave away a particularly handsome specimen (it had been given to me earlier) with a very distinctive shape and inch-long diagonal slice, it ended up back on my front porch four days later — having made its way across town and back to the ‘hood.

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Poles apart

They say it takes hundreds of years for one of those geomagnetic reversals to take place — that’s where the earth’s magnetic field reverses itself.

Politics moves much faster.

Clearly, the combined pressures of rampant partisanship and geopolitics have flipped our political polarities. When it comes to Syrian military strikes, we have previously hawkish Republicans suddenly cooing about limits to American intervention while some Democrats make the case about facing known unknowns before it’s too late.

Even the Monument Square anti-war protestors have been reduced from previously specific signage – “no blood for oil,” “U.S. Out of Iraq!” – to the more generic “no war!”

They have to, because signage for “no war except maybe moderate intervention in the wake of some serious international messed-up-ness if a really great guy from my party is president” would require passing motorists facing honk-no-honk decisions to loop the block 22 times.

Besides, who can keep up?

Libya. Egypt. Syria. And those are just the tricky military situations where we’ve not had a war over the last 10 years. And it seems every few days brings another African nation to our headlines, another brutal extremist group with those inevitable possible ties to Al Qaeda.

How much have the poles shifted? We’re about to back those guys who were on the front page of Thursday’s New York Times executing those prisoners? We are really ready to shrug off the idea that

the Syrian rebels may have those Al Qaeda ties?

For the politically observant, all this can feel like a Bizarro world reflecting the not-so-distant past.

This time around, the administration official grasping at the latest pro-attack talking point was a Democrat, the Secretary of State John Kerry, arguing to a House committee this week that blasting Syrian government targets somehow weakens “extremist groups” fighting that government.

Wait... I blast your enemy and that makes you weaker?

This isn’t the Middle East. It’s East Bizarro.

Personally, I don’t believe any “proof” involving weapons of mass destruction unless Colin Powell presents it to the United Nations in person using only white erase boards and sock puppets.

Granted, so far we’re not heard the administration making wild claims on the path to doing whatever it wants to do. “They stepped over the red line” is not quite up there with the “they’re pulling babies out of incubators!” yarn of the first Bush war (a classic) or the “weapons of mass destruction” of Iraq, but then they’re just warming up.

At least we’re being assured that there will be no “boots on the ground” for Syria. That seems to be the real American Doctrine, especially in a world where the president seeks high-profile congressional approval for long-distance attacks against Syria but conducts routine up-close drone attacks in virtual secret.

Well, “in virtual secret” here in the U.S. I’m sure

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Even as I was without a garden, squash seemed to be ubiquitous HALKIAS from page 6

That summer, I was fortunate to have Mom around. A year after my father had passed away, her visits began to last longer. So I seized the opportunity to recycle some of those donations into culinary delights: Zucchini bread, summer squash pie, banana-zucchini bread, and squashfeta pie, to name a few. Also, not one meal was prepared or salad cut without both of those offerings sliced up and thrown in for good measure.

If that didn’t seem amazing enough, the Midwest might not have a corner on all such gastronomic excitement. This spring, my in-laws contributed a bunch of seeds to help revive our New England garden. For some reason, far too many of them made it into the ground, and that’s when the fun started.

Anyone who has tended a garden knows that the first rule of squash and zucchini growing is that you’ve got to get out there every day to pick new items or you will end up with football sized vegetables, or larger.

There are several problems with these ogres.

First and foremost, they just don’t taste as good as their smaller partners, due to excessive seeds. Next, they are susceptible to mealiness when cooked; all that moist pulp isn’t drying up anytime soon, just getting mushy. Finally — and there’s no polite way to say this, but — well, some of them just look obscene.

The scatological comments I’ve heard from both genders on the subject (mostly when each thinks the other isn’t tuned in) is enough to make anyone blush.

Unfortunately, this summer I’ve been very lax. The result has been more squash than I can possibly give away, and zaftig zucchinis that evoke yelps and head shakes from my friends and neighbors — all while I’m giving them a sales pitch for how many delicious loaves of bread they can bake with just one gimongous appendage.

Maybe my old Midwestern buddies

were on to something. They passed around the squash, as well as some of the baked goods made from these monsters, so one wonders when they consumed anything.

Years later, I empathize with their methodology: Keep handing off the football until it has to end up in someone’s equipment locker, a.k.a. the compost heap. And that’s not even counting what’s happening now: after a very wet and humid summer, a bumper crop of tomatoes is rearing its head.

Given the volume of green globes on those vines, I’m praying for cool September nights to slow them down. Either that or I might have to open a pizza joint featuring zukes as the main topping, and invite over all those friends that haven’t gone into hiding.

(Telly Halkias is an award-winning freelance journalist from Portland’s West End. You may contact him at tchalkias@aol.com or follow him on Twitter at @TellyHalkias.)

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This isn’t the Middle East. It’s East Bizarro ROBINSON from page 6

those on the receiving end are well aware of the program.

As for an “Obama Doctrine,” the political lesson here marks a turn for the president. When conservatives reminded him that presidents sometimes ask Congress for “approval” for military action, it actually reminded him that those requests bring on-therecord votes that can be used later.

So for the Syrian decision, the president is giving his critics exactly what they asked for. In a few weeks, when spending debates threaten to shut down the federal government, Republicans should remember that.

In the meantime, this political reverse-polarity is proving difficult for Maine’s progressives. It was easy to support President Obama’s approach to wars he inherited, and then anyone can overlook that whole surveillance state problem, but here we go again with Libya light. A good old-fashioned GOP spending rant will feel like comfort food on a rainy Sunday.

Let’s remember that they call our times of geomagnetic polarity shifts “chrons.” The problem with geopolitical polarity shifts, for voters on both sides, is they feel too much like cons.

(Curtis Robinson is the founding editor of The Portland Daily Sun.)

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Not home for the holidays

Note: Due to the nature of this week’s column content, an official expert will not be weighing in. Next week, with the assistance of “The Lunch Lady,” The Wheels on the Bus will take a hardcore look at navigating the love/hate relationship between parents, kids and school lunches.

There isn’t an expert on earth who can offer tips that would console me as I spend my first holiday at home without my children. The holiday is the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah and is typically

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celebrated as we celebrate all of our holidays — by eating too much and reinforcing complicated family dynamics that started long before I was born.

Of course, there’s also some aspect of prayer, introspection and Natalie Ladd deep gratitude.

––––– It’s a good holiday.

The Wheels on the Bus The year (5,776) has come to an end on the 13 lunar-month Hebrew calendar. Two days are spent ushering in the new year (5,777) and the holiday comes with meaningful symbolism associated with one year’s closure, and the start of a new year to come. The typically oval-braided challah bread is baked into a round shape, representing one year has come full-circle and another is beginning. Apples, also round, represent the seasonal harvest and are dipped in honey to kick off a “sweet new year.”

When my children were little, Rosh Hashanah was spent in an age-appropriate, formal synagogue setting where they could communally absorb their rich heritage and culture. It’s no secret that Jews in Portland are a minority and, regardless of the life choices my girls make down the pike, I was instinctively pulled to teach them about the beautiful, ancient thing they were born into. It was also important for them to come to terms that in a few short months they would be in the good company of others (Adam Sandler included) who wouldn’t be having a Christmas tree. Even now in my adult life, this is one of the hardest things for our non-Jewish friends to wrap their heads around, and sadly for some to accept.

As the girls got older, my mixed emotions about formal, institutionalized religion seeped into their value and belief systems. We started celebrating the holiday in non-traditional ways that were exclusively meaningful for us. One year, instead of going to services we went to Borders, got comfy in the lounge and spent the entire day reading books. The caveat was the books had to be historical in nature or about the holiday itself. Another year we did volunteer work.

And yet another, the three of us hung out at home and watched Charlton Heston epically receive the Ten Commandments. Granted, the movie depicted the wrong holiday, but no matter. The girls were teens that year and our time together before inhaling the festive holiday meal felt like a religious experience.

This year everything has changed.

On Sunday, I took my youngest to college to begin her freshman year. The CRV was packed to the max and, channeling her inner-Martha Stewart, she set up a dorm room that looked as if it were staged by professionals. Two days later, I took her older sister to begin her junior year of college. Producing three black garbage bags, two overflowing boxes and a Doctor Who poster, her packing was complete.

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Enjoying apples, honey and a round challah, Ethan (11) and Melissa Goodman (13), celebrate Rosh Hashanah with Natalie Ladd in her newly empty nest. Melissa holds up her wine glass indicating that according to tradition, she is an “adult.” (NATALIE LADD PHOTO)

anything else), I was going to be home alone for the holiday. How ironic that the holiday of new beginnings so closely coincided with their first days of college and my first days without them.

In the defense of my sister and a few Jewish friends, I had options. But the thought of going someplace else for the holiday, without either of the girls made me feel even sadder. The reality that neither of them live at home anymore landed like a lead balloon. It hit especially hard not just because it’s a new truth, but because our house has always been the place other people come to celebrate. Be it a Jewish holiday, a mainstream holiday or a holiday I made up as an excuse, the three of us have long embraced the fact that our house is entertainment central, so much so that I’m unwilling to give up this part of my selfidentity. It’s one defining reason I am resisting the pressure to downsize my empty nest.

As far as Rosh Hashanah, something had to happen and it had to happen at my house. But it also had to be with people who would understand that I might break down in tears sometime between the matzo ball soup (which according to my attorney, “Was not at all salty and had a lovely, light chicken flavor.”) and the roasted vegetables. So, I asked my BFF to come over with her husband (my attorney) and the two children they still have at home. She said it was ridiculous for me to prepare a big meal for the four of them and just me, but she knew I desperately needed to do so to maintain some kind of balance and normalcy in these early days of living solo.

We did what my people, and in fact all people, do on holidays: We drank wine; overate; talked about our respective extended family dysfunctions; sent texts to our daughters (My BFF and attorney have two away from home as well); and agreed that even as the bus moves along, it’s going to be a sweet new year with lots of firsts for all of us.

In comparison to past years, they left fairly early and cleaning up was simple. I didn’t feel sad, lonely or empty, and went to bed wondering if my daughters had the chance to dip an apple in honey. Hopefully they did and enjoyed it as much as Bad Dog savored the Big Sky challah wrapper, proving that not everything has changed.

(Natalie Ladd is a staff columnist for The Portland Daily Sun who has spent the last two decades becoming empty nested. Although blindsided by the ordeal until her youngest graduated from high school, she is pleased to address all-and-any empty nested considerations, no matter how random they may be. She can be reached at natalie@portlanddailysun.me.)

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some Charlies here. Earlier in the season they tend to be camp counselors who come together in rickity green buses from Casco or Naples.

I’ll bet they flip coins or something to see who will be the designated driver. After Labor Day, though, the crowd tends more to be made up largely of visiting scholars from Bowdoin, Bates, and even far-away Colby. Quite a comment on the quality of the night life to be found elsewhere in the state. Evidently there’s nothing between here and there worth stopping for except gas.

Pearl Ultra is the name of one of the clubs on Fore Street. Classy name, with décor to match. The place was jammed ... it’s one dancin’ jivin’ place and if you’re not into it, you’re not into it, and you should just move on. At least that’s the way I read the doorman’s scowl when I stuck my head in.

I’m pretty easy to read, I guess.

Another club is Mark’s Place. Now, anyone who knows the area knows that the name is cut-down from the Mark’s Show Place that used to be over on Riverside Street. And we know what was “shown” there. It’s not at this place. I ascertained that by another poking of my head inside the door, only this time really quickly.

Further down on the street is Fore Play. The person who came up with the name is an absolute genius and is wasting their time in the nightclub business. With a name as good as that, it doesn’t really even matter what goes on inside, but I will note that there are, according to a count I took through the large front window, seventeen wide-screen TV’s on the walls. They all seemed to be on different stations, and no one was

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watching any one of them. Everyand better manners, but a drunk’s a one was preoccupied with, well, the drunk, and you have to be ready for name of the place is what? anything.

Then there’s Wharf Street. I just As I turned to continue on my way had to find out what was going on home that night I spotted a little there. You can hear the bands from sign on the window of City BeverFore Street. Clubs bursting at the age, a “variety” store right there on seams all up and down the street. the corner, that still has me baffled: Got into some reggae myself, stand“Dear Hipsters, Gutter Punks, Fringing on the cobblestones down in front ers, Douchebag Bros & the Alcoholic of Amigo’s. The band’s right there Homeless: WE DON’T SELL 40’S. behind the fence and you feel like We’ve got local beer, snobbish ales, you’re part of the scene. Reggae’s like stouts and porters, BUT NO COLT that. Draws you in. Could’ve stayed 45’S. Grow up.” there all night, actually, but a little Who knows what that’s all about, eccentricity can drift into weirdness but, by way of providing some if you’re not careful. insight, I will tell you that City BevWhen the clubs were emptyerage is owned by Joe Soley. ing after last call one night I stood on a corner and watched the PPD (Cliff Gallant of Portland is a reguat work. There were at least two lar columnist for The Portland Daily dozen of them, all in a line, tense Sun. Email him at gallant.cliff555@ and watching very closely. Anything yahoo.com.) started to develop, they were right on it, paddy wagons at the ready.

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San Francisco has Haight-Ashbury, Chicago has Old Towne, Boston has Fanuel Hall, and we have the Old Port. Interesting that as a country we seem to be simultaneously preoccupied with the moment and nostalgic about the past. In fact, when we visit a city, we are often more interested in its past than we are in its present. Why that is, who knows exactly, but maybe it has something to do with a longing for a simpler time, a time when things were more straight-forward and understandable, when life was lived on a more human scale.

Yeah, well, that might be true, but not for everyone. It’s largely a function of age and marital status. I seriously doubt that the hordes of young people cruising Fore and Wharf streets in the late night hours are giving a lot of thought to the history of the area. The only history they’re interested in is what they experienced last weekend at this or that lounge, and what the prospects are for the present evening relative to that. Will he or she be there again?

So it is, so it has ever been.

What a scene on a late Friday or Saturday night the Old Port is. I happen to walk through on my way home from choir practice now and again. Lurching bodies, shrieks, ... no, I’m kidding. Actually it’s a pretty well-controlled mob, considering. We’re talking pent-up twentysomethings off on a tear with a little booze thrown in. Doesn’t take much.

But, as I said, I haven’t seen anything that was all that bad.

They all know I’m just walking through, of course. I’m pretty much invisible to them, but they’re immediately polite if I happen to accidentally bump shoulders with one of them or something. Right away I get the well-intentioned but piercing “Excuse me, sir.” The only thing worse would be to be female and be called “ma’am.” That must hurt.

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Sampling shows rather than theaters Labor Day is tucked behind us and a new, exciting theater season is about to bloom in the greater Portland area. I will not go into all the schedules; the smart phones, iPads, and work time web searches can help you plan which shows (I didn’t use the word theater on purpose) would best suit you and your family. I hope the mentality of following only one company, ––––– like a football team, is receding.

The quality of the productions Theater and talent I witnessed last Critic season proves that Portland is a city where a theater lover can stay busy and be exposed to high quality, thought provoking drama.

I urge you to move away from your comfort zones and experience the plethora of offerings this great theater community has to offer. I’m never impressed with someone wanting to speak with me about theater, only to tell me how great the show out of state was, yet never attending a show here. The Professional Equity companies of Portland Stage, Good Theater, The Originals, Snowlion Rep, AIRE, and Dramatic Rep along with Mad Horse and the smaller professional groups are producing quality product a trip to Boston or New York used to be good for.

Money should NEVER be an obstacle to attending live theater and this community has worked very hard to be inclusive. Most of the theaters have pay-what-you-can nights, student rush tickets, discounts for seniors and students and I don’t know of any arts organizations that couldn’t use another volunteer. Ushers are always needed, as are good painters, seamstresses, or the ability to sell an ad for the program. The community theaters couldn’t exist without volunteers and is a wonderful place to get your feet wet with behind the scenes experiences.

I also believe those who have been blessed in life should think about supporting, yes, with $$$, the arts. One way is to purchase season tickets. The sale of season tickets helps to reduce the cost of advertising and creates more stable projections when budgeting. Large donations are also welcomed of course. Underwrite a show or pay for a new lighting board. A growing theater presence helps to maintain an active night life and sends patrons to local restaurants, pubs, parking garages and baby sitters get paid on the back end. The Arts district in Portland is a strong economic pillar. The Arts consistently prove to be strong anchors for economic growth and a draw for tourist, suburbanites and those attending on foot alike. Portland needs a performance center to accommodate this thriving community of thespians.

When I lived in Boston the same dilemma was creating space constraints throughout the city. A developer wanted to build a condo tower in the South End and with tax breaks and strong negotiations with city hall, a deal came to fruition which created the Boston Center for the Arts. The bottom three floors became office, performance, and rehearsal space for The Huntington and other small theaters. Portland is on the verge of a building boom and with a (I

Harold Withee

know I ask too much) enlightened local government, business leadership, and ground support from the theater community, the same approach could and should happen here.

The city of Portland has a world class theater scene working with an inadequate amount of facilities. I will say my prayers hoping that a deep pocketed, theater lover developer will read this and open her/ his checkbook. I believe in the American Dream and have no problem with those who become wealthy. With that said, I also believe the old saying that states” money is like manure, it has no value unless you spread it around.” It is time Portland has a performance center within the Arts District to complement the Portland Stage complex and help nurture the growing list of young companies calling Portland home.

Next, I wish to inform you of the Portland Stage screenings of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle being broadcast live from The Greene Space in New York. August Wilson is a giant among 20th century American playwrights. Both screenings will be at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9 and Wednesday, Sept.11 in the Mainstage theater. No advanced reservations required and all seats are pay-what-you-can. Portland Stage is a regional partner in the collaboration and will be presenting the simulcasts in connection with its upcoming production of Wilson’s MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM. Mr. Wilson was a genius at exploring the American family dynamic and added an intelligent voice for a segment of our population not being heard on the stage.

One last bit I’d like to discuss before the Fall theater begins in earnest. We get to applaud the souls beneath the lights, but an army is supporting them.

When I’m on stage I never forget I’m just part of a well oiled machine and the puppet master is the stage manager.

In professional theater only one person is at the center of the storm, all knowing. Most do not realize that the director is gone and never seen again after the opening night gala. The stage manager is the real power center and a poor one will destroy a show. I’ve been very lucky to have worked under many excellent people and will never forget the first Equity stage manager to groom me many years ago.

The year was 1981 and I was an intern at Lakewood Theater during the summer of my upcoming junior year in high school. I don’t remember her name, but no trouble picturing her. A mop of greying hair, dressed always in jeans and T-shirt (black) and many roles of tape dangling off her tool belt.

Stage managers tend to be A types but mothering as well. Years later when I was a member of the Freeport Shakespeare Festival I had the pleasure to work with one of the best. Ever here the joke “ how many stage managers does it take to change a ........... never mind, done.”? Well, that describes Mr. Myles Hatch who is also with Portland Stage. They never get mentioned but every aspect of a live performance is controlled by their keen observation. I don’t mention these saints on a weekly basis, but we must never forget their contributions.

I hope live theater is part of your social plans and if not, well, try it, you’ll like it. I promise.

(Harold Withee is a member of Actors’ Equity and SAG/AFTRA.)

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‘Glom’ gives live-art spin to Friday walk

By Timothy Gillis

ing display board.”

Barter is glomming in different way.

The Art Walk keeps getting weirder.

Starting with thick plywood and rough This Friday’s installment promises to sketch he uses a jigsaw to cut free form bring out cruise boat tourists in full images out of the rough board. Then force, and with a Congress Square he builds outward with more plywood, park debate in the middle of it, the Art the way a boat-builder might build a Walk gathering of artists and aficiohalf model or a mold. Then he finishes nados promises tropical fish of every with reclaimed plaster lathing, copper, flavor. old drop clothes, wire cloth, paint and A new installation at Think Tank on whatever happens to be lying about.

Congress Street may be one of the best The effect is, in essence, a figurative examples of the current variety on dishalf model. play in the arts district.

This is a diversion for Barter who A show called “Glom,” with Matt has spent the last few years painting Barter and Jobie Cole, is a post-conand documenting the hard-working temporary look at consumers and fishermen of Maine. And though their advertising. (Cole goes by the name work will be shown at Think Tank, a Super Farm.) The artists plan to create shared-office workspace on Congress live art during the show.

Street, the two don’t expect to be For last month’s Art Walk, Barter indoors for long. and Super Farm were painting furi“I’m playing with the idea of not ously on the canvased backs of four showing in galleries,” Barter said, callfriends reading newspapers in front ing them stifling. “Street art is more of Maine College of Art. Every so lively and fresh. A gallery is like a often, the human canfuneral where art goes vases would rotate to die.” He prefers the inside their small sidewalk scene, on a circle while the two “street with performartists switched caners and musicians. vases and layered over People bring everyPublic space advocate Holly each other’s work. thing they have out, Seeliger will add her voice to This month, they eat, and celebrate the the First Friday Art Walk with move their innovative evening. That’s why a push to save Congress Square Park, as one of those art show indoors. we’ve been doing the opposing a proposed sale of “We decided upon art walks; we’re really part of the plaza by the city Glom because this excited for them.” to a hotel developer. Seeliis what we are, in Barter was born and ger, who has been organizessence, doing,” said raised in Sullivan, ing events in the park for two Barter. “We make Maine. He studied with years, will stage a free burpanels and then build his dad, a full-time lesque show at this month’s multilayers on them. artist named Philip First Friday Art Walk. On Super Farm is startBarter. He has traveled Monday at 7 p.m., the Porting with panels and around the world with land City Council is scheduled to hear from the public about glomming on paint, wife, Rebekah, and the sale proposal before collage and found they lived in Portland, acting on the plan. Visit http:// object. The effect is Ore., for a while. www.portlandmaine.gov/ a mass media effect When he returned to councilpacket.htm for details. similar to an advertisMaine in 2006, Barter SPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Congress Square at First Friday

Matt Barter (right) paints on a human canvas at August’s First Friday Art Walk. (TIMOTHY GILLIS PHOTO)

started working on a lobster boat.

“It was a huge change for me. An amazing world opened up to me of what it is to be from Maine,” he said.

“I started doing landscapes of fishing life, the ins and outs of a fisherman’s daily lifestyle, experiencing the life struggles not as someone watching it from the shore.”

Cole was born and raised in Farmington, left for Utah, Colorado, and the Bronx. He came back to Maine, he said, “because it feels like home, lots of trees, beauty and quiet. Maine is cool because it had that whole ‘do-it-yourself’ thing going on everywhere before anyone else. Maine’s being doing this for a long time, but now it’s more popular than ever, so I feel like I’m part of that.”

Cole lives in Bucksport now, and creates pop art works. He compared an art walk to seeing a band perform in person.

“A concert is live art. With an art show, you create it and people come to see it. We’re trying to use art as a communicating device, by creating art during the show,” Cole said. “Art can still communicate centuries after it’s made, but other forms of communication (e.g. a phone) will be dead before long.”

Of the September First Friday Art Walk, Cole said, “Anything could happen. I’m certain Matt will bring all sorts of madness — experimental, to a certain extent.”

The two artists plan to create live art and then come together, somehow.

“There’s a lot of energy on the sidewalk scene. The gallery structure doesn’t seem to be able to match up with that energy,” Cole said.

So they plan to bring the street party inside.

For more information and to check out their work, visit www.mattbarter. blogspot.com.

Maine Irish Heritage Center to host First Friday event Daily Sun Staff Report The Maine Irish Heritage Center will host a First Friday Art Walk event today that celebrates the intersection of art and activism at St. Dominic’s Church on the corner of State and Gray streets in Portland. The event will run from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. with music provided by Nine to Nine and a panel discussion related to the activism surrounding the Maine Labor Mural at 6:30 p.m., organizers announced.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature art inspired by the labor movement and other workers’ issues. Among works of art being displayed will be: lifesize silk banner recreations of the

Today is a panel discussion related to the activism surrounding the Maine Labor Mural. (FILE PHOTO)

Maine Labor Mural panels reproduced by MECA MFA graduate Nancy Nesvet; photographs by Guy Saldnaha, Maine based documentary photogra-

pher and owner of Harbor Works Gallery; original art created by labor activist and artist Gail Watell; and a series of banners recently produced by the Union of Maine Visual Artists, ARRT! (Artists Rapid Response Team) that deal with the issues of healthcare as a human right.

At 6:30 p.m., there will be a panel discussion featuring Bernard Fishman, director of the Maine State Museum which now displays the Maine Labor Mural; Jeffrey Young, lead attorney in the mural lawsuit; local Maine artist Robert Shetterly who was one of the plaintiffs in the mural lawsuit, Gail Watell, labor activist and artist; and Peter Kellman, healthcare as a human right. For more information, go to the website at www.maineirish.com.

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Iraqi native returns to Portland for PMA show ‘Ahmed Alsoudani: Redacted’ exhibition marks first time a MECA grad has been shown at the Portland Museum of Art

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Ahmed Alsoudani says he is coming home.

On Saturday, Sept. 7, the Portland Museum of Art will present “Ahmed Alsoudani: Redacted,” the first major museum exhibition of the work of the American-Iraqi artist and Maine College of Art graduate.

The exhibit will feature nearly 20 of Alsoudani’s tumultuous and innovative paintings, which reflect on the horrors of war with a unique artistic voice.

Alsoudani was born in Baghdad in 1975 and grew up under the regime of Saddam Hussein. He left Iraq as a teenager and lived in Syria before immigrating to the United States in the late 1990s. He studied in Maine at the Maine College of Art, graduating with a BFA in 2005.

“I feel rooted,” he said of New York City, where he now lives and paints. “But I also feel like you do when you go home. Portland will always be my hometown.”

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He did not want to chime in on the current crisis in Syria and what the American government’s response to it should be.

“I’m an artist. I don’t address political issues in a statement,” Alsoudani said. “I do work, and my work will explain a situation. I don’t think Syria is a good subject for my art. I spent three or four years in Syria, so I have friends there. And I’m against war in general. I think any artist is.”

Over time, he did expect Syria and several other current topics to find their way into the work. He described his artistic process.

“This is the way I paint. In New York City, I see people around me. I collect material for the next painting.

I may be reading about Syria, or an issue in Europe. There is always a fragmentation of ideas. I try to bring these fragmentations of ideas to my paintings,” said Alsoudani, emphasizing the “torn parts” of his “collages.”

Asked to compare his unique works “Untitled,” 2010, acrylic and charcoal on canvas to a genre of music, he said he does

by Ahmed Alsoudani. (Photo Courtesy of Haunch of like jazz and classical.

Venison, New York) “Sometimes artists have an interesting element. In my work, I have School of Painting & a strong line of quality in choosing Sculpture (2006), and color. With musicians, if they repeat a beautiful song graduated with a MFA over and over, it will lose its beauty,” he said. “My in painting from the Yale paintings have an unstable situation. Like (RichSchool of Art (2008). ard) Wagner, in music he builds a certain rhythm He has not been back that goes on and on, and then there’s a break. That’s to Iraq since he left, what I do. I take an element, say part of a camera or and says his art, while a musical instrument. When I put it in the painting, still evoking memories it looks different from when I saw them at first.” from that early period The exhibit at PMA will represent the first time a in his life, now combines MECA grad has been shown there.

American elements that “Challenging the viewer with nuanced art hishave come to him while torical arguments and blatantly difficult, abject, and in Maine and New York. grotesque imagery, Alsoudani does what few artists “The main sources for can do: he successfully translates the complexity of my work are not just my contemporary politics into meaningful painting,” life in Iraq, but also life said PMA Director Mark H.C. Bessire. in the United States,” he Through his personal experience as a child and said. “All of my training adolescent in war-torn Iraq, Alsoudani developed a and tools were gained keen sensitivity to the effects of war, violence, terror, here.” and political unrest on a global scale. His paintThe subject matter of ings reflect his experiences as well as the mediated his work over the last nature of war in our time. “I’m not just commenting two years has moved on Iraq but on an experience that becomes univeraway from war, and is sal,” Alsoudani said, referring to “Untitled, 2007,” a more about “the chaos loose, nearly abstract rendering of the moment the and corruption of politiinfamous statue of Saddam Hussein fell in Baghdad cians going back to the in 2002. reasons of the war,” he see ARTIST page 14

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USM’s SMART program announces afterschool tutoring program Daily Sun Staff Report The Southern Maine Area Resource Team, also known as SMART, for schools at the University of Southern Maine has announced a new afterschool tutoring program in Gorham. Through a three-year grant from the Reading Matters to Maine Fund of the Maine

Community Foundation, the program will provide free and low-cost reading tutoring for children in kindergarten through grade 5, USM reported.

The program, called the SMART Learning Lab, will be housed at 62 School St. on the USM Gorham campus.

Tutoring will be provided by graduate students from the USM School of Edu-

cation and Human Development two days per week for students with reading difficulties. The cost is $30 per week or free for students who qualify for free or reduced lunch at school.

“The tutoring will use evidence-based reading instruction methods found effective in numerous research studies over time. In addition, the students will

complete weekly progress measures to keep track of their reading progress,” a press release noted.

For more information, contact Alexis Kiburis, director of the SMART Learning Lab, at alexis.kiburis@maine.edu.

Additional information can be found at: http://www.usm.maine.edu/smart/ smart-schools-learning-lab.

Native Iraqi artist Alsoudani: ‘Portland will always be my hometown’ ARTIST from page 12

His splintered compositions, and the overwhelming and sometimes harrowing scenes represented in a bright, near-primary palette, address the uneasy balance in our culture between scenes of disaster and objects of beauty. Alsoudani cites historical figures Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, and George Grosz, as well as more contemporary painters Philip Guston and Francis Bacon as major influences. Like his predecessors, he seeks to create works that depart from the glorification of violence and the heroism of warfare. Instead, his large-scale paintings offer graphic, often disturb-

ing imagery that includes disembodied hands or all-seeing bulging eyes juxtaposed with random mechanical parts and other recognizable but misplaced imagery.

In 2011, his work was featured in the Iraq Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, in the exhibition The World Belongs to You, and at The Francois Pinault Foundation at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice. His other major international exhibitions include: La Route de la Soie at Tri Postal in Lille, France (2010); Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East at the Saatchi Gallery in London (2009); as well as shows at the National Gallery of Saskatchewan, Canora, Canada (2007) and the Gwangju Museum of Art, Korea (2007). He lives and works in New York.

Alsoudani is a basketball fan. Asked if he supported the New York Knicks or the Brooklyn Nets, he said he liked them both.

“When you live in the city, you start to like everything about it,” he said.

Event Details “Ahmed Alsoudani: Redacted” will be on view through Dec. 8, in the Portland Museum of Art’s Third Floor Gallery for Contemporary Art. The exhibition is co-organized and co-curated by Mark H.C. Bessire, director of the Portland Museum of Art and Dr. Sara Cochran, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Phoenix Art Museum.

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You might lose, but you’ll have more fun losing at something new than succeeding at something old.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Beware: An effort you make to manage your time and daily activities more efficiently will actually take just about the amount of time and energy that it saves. In this light, maybe you’d rather just take a nap.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). As waiters worldwide know, hungry people generally are not happy people. Sometimes they can be downright mean. Today the effects of hunger are exaggerated, so make things easy on yourself: Bring snacks.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Sept. 6). This year’s realization: You don’t want more; you want less. Having less deepens your appreciation of what you have. The time you once spent organizing and maintaining things will be channeled into enjoyable and relaxing ventures. You’ll profit from a sale this month. Your talents lead to new relationships in November.

Pisces and Gemini people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 39, 2, 18 and 5.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Knowing what someone wants will give you a degree of power, especially if you are in a position to offer it. Gather information, and don’t immediately react to it. Play your cards close to the vest.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Telling yourself you can’t have something is the way to wanting it more. Instead, tell yourself you can have whatever you want and believe in your higher instincts. You’ll choose what is healthful.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The way you phrase things and your small utterances will matter greatly. Don’t apologize if you didn’t do anything wrong. That will weaken your position, especially if all you are trying to do is the decent thing.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You will go up against someone who has a great amount of skill (in an area where you have none that you know of) and best this person with your performance. It’s because you have nothing to lose.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You are willing to repeat complex activities over and over because you know that eventually this will create the neurological wiring that allows you to produce the behavior automatically and effortlessly.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Put crazy ideas on the table -- they may be the only ideas worth entertaining. It’s the strategies you find silly that just might work the best. At the very least, they will be the most fun to discuss.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). How much mental energy should you invest in a task?

If you over-think, you’ll be paralyzed with options, and if you under-think, you’ll take action that will prove ineffective. Somewhere in the middle, you’ll find success.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Feeling afraid to give input or share ideas may be a good sign that you have something valuable and unique to contribute, something that warrants a bit of nervous excitement. Don’t let the butterflies stop you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). What you’ve been trained to do may not be the best reaction to the problem that is presented today. Before you act, assess the situation carefully, noting what you’ve seen before and

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Friday, Sept. 6, the 249th day of 2013.

There are 116 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz (CHAWL’-gawsh) at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. (McKinley died eight days later; Czolgosz was executed on October 29.)

On this date: In 1861, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant occupied Paducah, Ky., during the Civil War. In 1888, diplomat and financier Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. was born in Boston.

In 1916, the first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in Memphis, Tenn., by Clarence Saunders.

In 1939, the Union of South Africa declared war on Germany.

In 1943, 79 people were killed when a New York-bound Pennsylvania Railroad train derailed and crashed in Philadelphia.

In 1952, Canadian television broadcasting began in Montreal.

In 1966, South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (fehr-FOORT’) was stabbed to death by an apparently deranged page during a parliamentary session in Cape Town.

In 1970, Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three U.S.-bound jetliners. (Two were later blown up on the ground in Jordan, along with a Londonbound plane hijacked on September 9; the fourth plane was destroyed on the ground in Egypt. No hostages were harmed.)

In 1985, all 31 people aboard a Midwest Express Airlines DC-9 were killed when the Atlanta-bound jetliner crashed just after takeoff from Milwaukee’s Mitchell Field.

In 1991, the Soviet Union recognized the independence of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Russian lawmakers upheld a decision by residents of Leningrad to restore the city’s pre-revolutionary name, St. Petersburg.

In 1997, a public funeral was held for Princess Diana at Westminster Abbey in London, six days after her death in a car crash in Paris.

In 2002, meeting outside Washington, D.C. for only the second time since 1800, Congress convened in New York to pay homage to the victims and heroes of September 11.

Ten years ago: Mahmoud Abbas resigned as Palestinian prime minister. In the U.S. Open, Justine Henin-Hardenne won the all-Belgian women’s singles final, beating fellow countrywoman Kim Clijsters, 7-5, 6-1.

Five years ago: In the wake of Russia’s military standoff with Georgia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that now was not the right time for the U.S. to move forward on a once-celebrated deal for civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia.

One year ago: President Barack Obama conceded only halting progress toward solving the nation’s economic woes, but vowed in a Democratic National Convention finale, “Our problems can be solved, our challenges can be met.” Drew Peterson, the former Illinois police officer who’d gained notoriety after his much-younger wife, Stacy, vanished in 2007, was convicted of murdering a previous wife, Kathleen Savio. (Peterson was later sentenced to 38 years in prison.)

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I was seething. Had she asked, we would have said yes, but I resent the disregard for our efforts in cooking and preparing.

To my astonishment, all of the other guests thought I was overreacting and the woman hadn’t done anything wrong.

Where has common courtesy gone? To me, her failure to ask for our OK was blatantly rude. My friends say I should apologize. -- Why Ask When You Can Just Take Dear Why: Your friends are incorrect. No one should bring uninvited guests. It is considerate to ask beforehand whether it is convenient. You can explain this more thoroughly to your guests, saying they cannot bring anyone without asking you first. Or you can choose to consider it a compliment that your friends treat your home as their own, whether you like it or not.

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Nevaeh rolls out ‘Wizard of Oz,’ Pink Floyd and heavenly dance

By Timothy Gillis

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Nevaeh Dance Company plans to combine “The Wizard of Oz,” some Pink Floyd, dance arts and an invitation to medical marijuana users, all in a Saturday event sure to stimulate the senses.

Nevaeh, from “heaven” spelled backwards, is the creation of homeschooled sisters, Nettie and Hannah Gentempo. They founded the group while in high school, back in 2005, after recognizing how few dance opportuThe show, which nity were available to starts at 7:30 p.m., is them at the time.

Today, Nevaeh Dance called “The Dark Side Company is an innovaof Somewhere,” and tive group of movement employs the music artists from western Maine. Their modern from the Pink Floyd form of dance theater album of a similar incorporates a variety of styles including break name.“Somewhere is dance, belly dance, Bolly- a fictional world we’re wood, ballet, tap, lyrical, creating with characro-yoga, hula looping acters, dance, stories and more.

Hannah, who special- — almost like ‘Prairie izes in theatrical moveHome Companion,’” ment, and Nettie, who excels at hoop dance, said Nettie Gentempo. form a unique bond of sisterhood and dance collaboration.

They are offering a free performance this Saturday, Sept. 7, at the Open Sky Farm in Sumner.

The show, which starts at 7:30 p.m., is called “The Dark Side of Somewhere,” and employs the music from the Pink Floyd album of a similar name.

“Somewhere is a fictional world we’re creating with characters, dance, stories — almost like ‘Prairie Home Companion,’” Nettie said. Dance pieces are set to the Dark Side of the Moon album, and they will be projecting “The Wizard of Oz,” a film that has been long connected to the Floyd album, in the background.

The dance performance will be outdoors in the dance garden, five minutes from the Oddfellow Theater, in Buckfield, which closed a few years ago.

“In the show, we will have a juggler and a trapeze

Nevaeh, a dance company whose name is “heaven” spelled backwards, wows the crowd in Monument Square at July’s First Friday Art Walk. (TIMOTHY GILLIS PHOTO)

artist,” Nettie said. Renowned dancer Debi Irons will be dancing to the song “Us and Them.”

The dance company includes Macky Page (tap, contemporary and acro-yoga), Tegan Bullard (belly dance), Ericka Lindstrom (modern movement), and Greta Giasson (body isolations).

“The Dark Side of Somewhere” performance will include LED hooping, trapeze, dance, juggling, magic, stunning visuals and guest performers.

“People familiar with Open Sky Farm know it’s marijuana friendly,” Nettie said, “So medical marijuana patients are welcome to take their medicine during the show if they want to or need to.”

Over the last seven years, the Nevaeh Dance Company has developed a growing following and

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They try to make it to every First Friday Art Walk and dance on Monument Square. They recently performed their annual “Mayhem” event at the Ballroom in Harrison.

Over the years, Nevaeh Dance Company has collaborated with artists such as Johnny Crashed and the Rednecks, Fred Garbo, Arborea, Post Provost, Paranoid Social Club, Adam Ezra Group and many more of Western Maine’s musicians and performers.

For more information about the dance performance and Nevaeh Dance Company, visit www. nevaehdancecompany.com or check out their Facebook page (NevaehDanceGroup).

Famed photographer, prints by Japanese artists featured at Bates Daily Sun Staff Report

Images of Maine by famed 20th-century photographer Berenice Abbott and prints by Japanese artists known for pushing the boundaries of printmaking media will be exhibited this fall at the Bates College Museum of Art in Lewiston, the museum reported.

Opening Friday, Sept. 13 and showing through Dec. 14 are the exhibitions “Redefining The Multiple: 13 Japanese Printmakers” and “Selections from Berenice Abbott’s ‘Portrait of Maine.’ “ Hideki Kimura, whose work is represented in the print show and who co-curated it with Sam Yates, director of the University of Tennessee’s Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, where the show originated, discusses the exhibition at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, in the museum. A reception follows.

The Abbott images were published in her 1968 book “A Portrait of Maine,” and the original photographs in “Selections” were acquired for the Bates museum’s permanent collection from 2005 to 2007.

The exhibitions mark the reopening of the Bates College Museum of Art following a summer spent installing a new, state-of-the-art LED lighting system designed to both reduce the museum’s environmental footprint and improve the museum viewing experience for visitors, the museum reported.

The museum is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and until 7 p.m. Wednesdays during the academic year. For details, call 786-6158.

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–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– EVENTS CALENDAR––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– from the crowd as well as from new-fashioned ‘flash-media’ and good old-fashioned hand-bills. Guerrilla Downtown is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.”

Friday, Sept. 6 Anastasia S. Weigle at the MCMA

5 p.m. The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association September artist in the library, opening on Sept. 6 for the First Friday Downtown Art Walk, will be assemblage artist Anastasia S. Weigle, “The Dark Carnival Papers.” Tass was the July artist in 2012, exhibiting-”Down the Rabbit Hole.” For more info on Anastasia S. Weigle, visit http://www.anastasiaweigle.com or http://www.inabindstudio.com or http:// www.mainecharitablemechanicassociation.com

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6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. “End your First Friday Art Walk with coffee, music, and laughter! Portland Comedy Co-op presents: Comedy by Design, a monthly showcase featuring veteran and up and coming comedians from all over Maine and New England. This month features comedians Sam Ike and Tim Hofmann as well as members of the Portland Comedy Co-op. In addition to the jokes, the show kicks off at 6:30 with a musical guest! Free admission. Hosted by the Portland Comedy Co-op at Coffee by Design, 67 India St., Portland.”

First Friday at the Irish heritage center

5 p.m. Maine Irish Heritage Center, corner of Gray and State streets. “Stop by the Maine Irish Heritage Center (corner of State Street & Gray Street) during First Friday Art Walk! Come join labor leaders, artists and activists as we celebrate the victorious campaign to have the Maine Labor Mural, created by Maine artist Judy Taylor, liberated from captivity and triumphantly displayed at the Maine State Museum. MIHC will usher in our first Friday Art Walk with a bang! We’ll display: life-size silk banner recreations of the Maine Labor Mural panels reproduced by MECA MFA graduate Nancy Nesvet; photographs by Guy Saldnaha, Maine based documentary photographer and owner of Harbor Works Gallery; original art created by labor activist and artist Gail Wartell (who will be on hand to discuss her art and politics); and a series of banners recently produced by the Union of Maine Visual Artists, ARRT! (Artists Rapid Response Team) that deal with the issue of Healthcare as a Human Right. A distinguished panel, including Jeff Young, lead attorney in the mural lawsuit, and local Maine artist Rob Shetterly will be on hand to discuss the intersection of art and activism. http://www.maineirish.com.” Open at 5 p.m., event at 6 p.m.

Thundered Over the Tide at MHS

5 p.m. to 7 p.m. First Friday, Thundered Over the Tide Exhibit Grand Opening. MHS hosts an exhibit of documents and objects related to the naval battle and joint funeral procession. Free during First Friday. Location: Maine Historical Society. www.mainehistory.org

Sam Jones/Liz Mortati/Alicia Ines Etheridge

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. First Friday Art Show, Mayo Street Arts.

Sam Jones, flickr.com/samjonesart; Liz Mortati, www.lizmortati.com; http://www.etsy.com/shop/yarrowandbirch; Alicia Ines Etheridge. http://mayostreetarts.org/calendar

‘Maurice Sendak: 50 Years, Works, Reasons’

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Portland Public Library, Lewis Gallery. Sept.

6 to Oct. 25, 5 Monument Square, Portland. First Friday Art Walk opening reception, Lewis Gallery hours: Sunday, closed; Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. “A retrospective or original paintings and illustrations

by Maurice Sendak honoring the 50th anniversary of when ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ was originally published. Presidents, educators, renowned illustrators, friends and celebrities share thoughts about Maurice Sendak; how he inspired them, influenced their careers and touched their lives. The quotes are presented together with artwork, offering visitors food for thought, as well as a feast for their eyes. Presented

by Portland Public Library and MECA.”

SPACE Gallery First Friday Art Walk

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. SPACE Gallery First Friday Art Walk. “Join us for the opening of three new exhibits. An ambitious project in our annex by Greta Bank, NSFW, weaves an epic narrative about the confused agency of women; come see her perform as Gustav Menet. In our main gallery, we welcome five sign painters: Jimmy ‘Spike’ Birmingham, Pat Corrigan, Josh Luke, Kenji Nakayama and Will Sears, who have installed work that blurs the lines between commercial signage and art object in Steady Work. In the window, Rollin Leonard has created life-sized photographs of bodies that are face-mounted to over 3,000 1-inch by 1-inch plexiglass squares in his piece titled Pig Pile.”

Starry Nights Exhibit with the MAC

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. “When Van Gogh painted “Starry Nights”, he was interpreting the world as he saw and felt it. Members of Maine Artists Collective (MAC) are doing the same thing, presenting their interpretations of the world around us in the Starry Nights Exhibit which opens Aug. 30 and continues to Sept. 23 at Constellation Gallery, 511 Congress St. in Portland. A reception is planned for First Friday, Sept. 6 from 5 p.m. to 8 pm. The gallery is open seven days a week from noon to 4 p.m. MAC will be showing paintings, prints, photography, assemblage and digital works that blur the divide between painting and photography. The mission of the Maine Artist Collective is to connect the public with Maine artists and support development by providing exhibition and studio space, education, and professional workshops.”

‘So Emotional’ at Green Hand

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. First Friday Art Walk opening of “So

‘Dinosaurs at Dusk’ at Southworth Planetarium

7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. “This September: Full Dome Dinosaurs attack the Southworth Planetarium! ‘Dinosaurs at Dusk’ — a whirlwind time travel adventure back to the epoch of the dinosaurs! Starts in September at the Southworth Planetarium. First showings: Friday, Sept. 6, 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.” For full September schedule and admission, call 780-4249 or e-mail egleason@usm.maine.edu for more information or to reserve a space. (Considering this is a full dome dinosaur show, making reservations is advisable.)

POV screening of ‘56 Up’

Portland Public Library’s Lewis Gallery will host an opening reception for “Maurice Sendak: 50 Years, 50 Works, 50 Reasons” from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. today during the First Friday Art Walk. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) Emotional,” prints and drawings by Eric Hou, at the Green Hand Bookshop, 661 Congress St., Portland. Friday, Sept.

6, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. (on display through the end of November 2013). FMI: contact Michelle Souliere at 2536808 or michelle.souliere@gmail.com. “Eric Hou returns to the Green Hand with prints of his latest drawings. Come find out what those darn koalas are up to now! Viewers may remember some of his past exhibits of Koala High characters and other all-too-human creatures from the Salty Kisses animal universe.“

‘45 Years of No’ at Meg Perry Center

5 p.m. to 9 p.m. First Friday Art Walk at Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St. Portland. Show runs through September.

“In Regards to the 45 Year Nestle Water Contract — The Hidden Ladder Collective, Meg Perry Center, Artists and Activists and individuals and families from around the state are standing up against the Nestle/Poland Spring cooperation with an art show called ‘45 Years of No.’ Forty Five Illustrated Letters, some as large as 4 feet, will be on display for September’s First Friday event. In addition to the featured artists, one wall of the Meg Perry Center will start the night empty and blank “NO” letters and art supplies will be available for visitors to illustrate their own letters and be entered in a month long Coloring Contest. A petition, video and and guest speakers will be speaking throughout the night.”

Camp Sokokis children’s artwork

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Artwork made by children at Camp Sokokis in Biddeford will be on display for First Friday Art Walk on Friday, Sept. 6 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Oak Street Lofts in Portland. “The show, titled ‘Camp Sokokis,’ will feature 2-D prints and photographs made by children at the YMCA of Southern Maine camp. The show is curated by Oak Street Lofts resident Michelle Michaud, a childcare assistant for the YMCA. ... Oak Street Lofts features a shared work space for residents, and the property’s 37 efficiency apartments include ample storage for art supplies and equipment. The gallery, located at 72 Oak St., is open to the public every First Friday Art Walk.”

Guerrilla Downtown

5:30 p.m. Local directors and actors will join forces in a series of site-specific, 10-minute performances in the second installment of Guerrilla Downtown on the Sept. 6 First Friday Art Walk. The initial installment during August’s First Friday took place in the hallway of The Artist Studios, with over 200 First Friday participants experiencing the immediacy of site-specific performance. The location of September’s installment will be revealed on Sept 6 by logging into www.facebook/GuerillaDowntown.com or the Creative Portland website at www.FirstFridayArtWalk.com.

Reba Short from the Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine, Nicholas Schroeder from Lorem Ipsum, and local director/actor Linda Shary will each create pieces based on ideas and material selected 48 hours beforehand and rehearsed with two actors at a downtown location TBA the day of the event. ... The First Friday events will take place on the half hour starting at 5:30 p.m., drawing audiences

7:30 p.m. A documentary film by Michael Apted, at Portland Public Library for Summer POV Documentary Films series. “In 1964, a group of British 7-year-olds were interviewed about their lives and dreams in the ground-breaking television documentary ‘Seven Up.’ Since then, renowned director Michael Apted has returned to film the same subjects every seven years, creating one of television’s greatest projects. In ‘56 Up,’ the ‘kids’ have settled into middle age and come to terms with both hope and disappointment.”

For more information visit www.pbs.org/pov.

Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700, www.portlandlibrary.com

Portland Playback: ‘Our Town, or Your Town’

7:30 p.m. “On First Friday, Sept. 6, Portland Playback Theatre will honor ‘Our Town, or Your Town.’ Audience members are invited to tell their stories about the towns and cities we live in and where we grew up and watch our improvisors re-enact the story on the spot. Whether it’s Portland or Wichita, there is a story that makes it special. Every month, Portland Playback uses improvisation to honor true stories from audience members’ lives. Find out more at www.portlandplayback.com.” CTN5 Studio, 516 Congress Street, Portland. $7 suggested donation at the door.

Dark Follies First Friday Show

8 p.m. Monument Square, Portland. Cost: By Donation.

“Come one, Come all to see the Dark Follies in their last First Friday show of the season! Join us for live music, dance, juggling, storytelling and flow performances in Monument Square. Featuring the talents of The Dark Follies Vaudevillians and The Dark Follies Not Just Rhythm Orchestra!

You donations to support the artists who entertain you are greatly appreciated. Born of a love of street theater and a desire to bring together the talent in Portland’s goth community, Dark Follies began bringing its special brand of street vaudeville to life during Portland’s First Friday Art Walks in Autumn of 2008. Over the next four years they have produced multiple stage shows and have performed around the northeast at the Cape Cod Festival of Magic, The Steampunk World’s Fair, The Watch City Festival and the Shelburne Museum. They have won Best Street Performer in the Portland Phoenix Best of Portland Awards two years running (2011 & 2012).” FMI: www.darkfollies.com or darkfollies@gmail.com, 671-4292

Port City Swing Dance

8 p.m. “Live music by The Lay-Z-Gait Band! Lessons 8 p.m.; dance 9 p.m. Woodford’s Club. No partner needed, beginners encouraged! 179 Woodford St., Portland. $10.

FMI — FB: Mainiac Swing Dance Society, portcityswing. com, 563-8632.”

Saturday, Sept. 7 Evergreen Cemetery Trails bird walk

7 a.m. “Guided Bird Walk in the Evergreen Cemetery Trails with Ornithology Enthusiast Noah Gibb. Join us for spectacular bird viewing on the lawns, ponds, trails, and gardens in and around Evergreen Cemetery. Noah has spent the last several years studying bird migration and the birds that can be found in southern Maine throughout the year.

Suggested $5 donation for Portland Trails members, $7 for non-members. Register with Portland Trails.” http://trails. org/programs see next page

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Bonny Eagle Flea Market

8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bonny Eagle Flea Market, rain date Sept.

14, at B.E. Middle School parking lot, corner of Rt. 22 and Rt. 35, Buxton. Tablespaces $15 or 6 for $60. New school clothes $1-$2, School supplies 10/$1. Baked goods, drinks, snacks & lunch available. Call Karen at 692-2989 FMI or to reserve tablespace. (92 tables in 2012) BEHS scholarship fundraiser.

New Gloucester Public Library event

9 a.m. to noon. “The 125th anniversary of the New Gloucester Public Library will be celebrated with a special exhibit at the monthly New Gloucester History Barn Open House, Route 231, on Saturday, Sept. 7 from 9 a.m. to noon. The public is invited. Admisson is free.”

AARP driver safety class in Windham

9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. “An AARP driver safety class will be presented at the Windham Public Library, 217 Windham Center Rd., Windham, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 7. To register, phone John Hammon, volunteer instructor, 655-4943. Advance registration is required as class size is limited. Registration fee is $12 for AARP members, $14 for others.”

Carroll County Stamp Show in N.H.

9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fifth annual Carroll County Stamp Show, Moultonborough Lion’s Club, 139 Old Route 109, Moultonborough, N.H. Free admission and parking. Silent auction from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. White Mountain Stamp Club 40th anniversary exhibit. FM: Barbara Savary, (603) 447-5461; email bmsavary@gmail.com; or Warren Gould at (603) 569-8678.

‘Experiencers Speak’

9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Clarion Hotel, 1230 Congress St. “Starborn Support Presents ‘Experiencers Speak’ on Sept. 7 and 8 Experiencers Speak, UFO and Alien Abduction Conference will be held at the Clarion Hotel, 1230 Congress Street, Portland, Maine. This event is sponsored by Starborn Support and will feature a broad spectrum of topics and speakers focusing on the phenomenon and firsthand accounts of Alien Abduction. This year’s master of ceremonies will be Peter Robbins, a prominent ufologist, author, and researcher. Audrey Starborn, CEO/Founder, recently featured with Whitley Strieber in the pilot episode of ‘Alien Encounters’ on the Biography Channel, will also take part in the question and answer panels. Starborn Support is very pleased to announce that their UFO and abduction lecture series will include a two-hour presentation by Travis Walton, author of ‘Fire in the Sky.’ The book became the basis for the feature film based on his November 5, 1975 abduction.

Travis will be joined by Steve Pierce, a witness to Travis’ abduction.” For more information on this event contact Audrey Starborn at (774) 766-2558 or aah3273@yahoo.com tickets available at www.experiencersspeak.yolasite.com or for check or money orders contact Audrey at 774-7662558 aah3273@yahoo.com.

Sacred Heart/St. Dominic Haiti Yard Sale

9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Yard Sale on the Deering High School lawn, 370 Stevens Avenue, to fund teachers’ salaries and childrens’ noon meal at Christ the King School in Morne Rouge. To donate items, call 773-6562.

Auditions for Nutcracker Burlesque

10 a.m. “Be part of Vivid Motion’s Holiday Tradition. Auditions for Nutcracker Burlesque! Saturday, Sept. 7 at 10 a.m. at Acorn Studios, Dana Warp Mill, 90 Bridge St. in Westbrook. Shows will be Dec. 13-15 and 18-21 at 7:30 p.m. At St. Lawrence Arts in Portland. Rehearsals will be 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays at Acorn Studios. The amount of time you spend at rehearsal depends on the parts you are cast in. Rehearsals start Sept. 14. No rehearsals Columbus Day Weekend and Thanksgiving Weekend.

Tech week will start Dec. 9. Rehearsal every night from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.”

Fall Festival of Arts & Crafts

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The 12th annual Fall Festival of Arts & Crafts at Smiling Hill Farm at 781 County Road, Westbrook, Maine, Route 22. Admission: $2, children under 12 free. Email info@unitedmainecraftsmen.com or visit www. unitedmainecraftsmen.com. “100 of Maine’s talented Artisans will be selling their unquie handcrafted products on the beautiful grounds of Smiling Hill Farm. Plenty of space to browse, have a lunch and enjoy the countryside.” http:// unitedmainecraftsmen.com or http://www.smilinghill.com

‘Maurice Sendak: 50 Years, Works, Reasons’

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Portland Public Library, Lewis Gallery.

Sept. 6 to Oct. 25, 5 Monument Square, Portland. Lewis Gallery hours: Sunday, closed; Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. “A retrospective or original paintings and illustrations by Maurice Sendak honoring the 50th anniversary of when Where the Wild Things Are was originally published. Presidents, educators, renowned illus-

trators, friends and celebrities share thoughts about Maurice Sendak; how he inspired them, influenced their careers and touched their lives. The quotes are presented together with artwork, offering visitors food for thought, as well as a feast for their eyes. Presented by Portland Public Library and MECA.”

‘Ahmed Alsoudani: Redacted’

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. “Ahmed Alsoudani: Redacted,” Portland Museum of Art, Sept. 7 to Dec. 8. “Ahmed Alsoudani: Redacted will showcase recent work by the celebrated New York-based Iraqi artist and will include a number of new paintings that continue to chart the artist’s unique and powerful visual vocabulary of violence, survival, and history.

September 7 to Dec. 8. Alsoudani’s artistic process involves layering charcoal drawing and bright, welcoming shades of paint, unexpected amidst his sullen subject matter. While his work focuses on various aspects of war that he experienced in his past, Alsoudani’s paintings and drawings are not a first-person account of war. Instead, they encompass the universal aspects and atrocities that war entails. Born in Baghdad in 1975, Alsoudani fled Iraq as a teenager. He lived as a refugee in Syria before immigrating to the United States in 1999, and in 2005 received a BFA from the Maine College of Art.” Open Mondays: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (through Columbus Day); Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. http:// www.portlandmuseum.org/visit

Eastern Cemetery Tour

10:30 a.m. Eastern Cemetery Tour. Spirits Alive hosts a guided walking tour of Portland’s historic Eastern Cemetery.

This burial ground is the final resting place of Burrows and Blyth. Admission fees apply. Location: Eastern Cemetery.

“On Sept. 5, 1813, during the War of 1812, the British HMS Boxer and the American USS Enterprise engaged in a naval battle off the coast of Monhegan, near Pemaquid Point. The 200th anniversary of the historic battle will be the subject of a series of programs in Portland from Sept. 3-7 hosted

by Maine Historical Society, in conjunction with the Maine Military Historical Society, Greater Portland Landmarks, Spirits Alive, and the City of Portland.” More information about this and similar programs — can be found at http:// www.mainehistory.org/programs_1812.shtml.

Winslow Homer Studio Tours: Fall Season

10:30 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. Now through Oct. 15. The Portland Museum of Art’s Winslow Homer Studio fall tour season. Tickets are $55 and $30 for PMA members. Tour Days: Saturdays and Sundays; tour times: 10:30 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. Advanced reservations are required and group tours are available. For Studio tour tickets, call 775-6148.

“Visitors will experience the extraordinary opportunity of ‘walking in Homer’s footsteps’ and seeing the same dramatic views of the sea that influenced Homer’s artistic vision. On Sept. 25, 2012, the Portland Museum of Art opened the Winslow Homer Studio to the public for the first time. One of the most significant locations in the history of American art, the Studio, located at Prouts Neck, Maine, is where the great American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) lived and painted many of his masterpieces from 1883 until his death. A National Historic Landmark, the newly renovated Winslow Homer Studio celebrates the artist’s life, encourages scholarship on Homer, and educates audiences to appreciate the artistic heritage of Winslow Homer and Maine.”

‘The Victorian Nutcracker’ auditions

11 a.m. “Audition for Portland Ballet Company’s 2013 production of ‘The Victorian Nutcracker.’ Auditions are Saturday, Sept. 7. Ages 12 and up. Registration: 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Parent Information Meeting: 11:30 a.m. to noon.

Audition: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Ages 7-11. Registration: 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Parent Information Meeting: 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Audition: 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Dancers with 1 plus years of Pointe are encourages to bring their pointe shoes. Each dancer will be asked to fill out an audition form at registration. There is a $10 audition fee.” www. portlandballet.org

Rick Charette at the Maine Wildlife Park

11 a.m. to noon. “On Saturday, Sept. 7, from 11 a.m. to noon, join us at the Maine Wildlife Park in Gray for another return appearance by Maine kids’ favorite singer, Rick Charette. As a singer and songwriter, Rick Charette has been capturing the hearts and spirits of young and old alike with his delightful and inspiring children’s songs. His performances blend original contemporary pop music and lyrics with imaginative activities that generate all kinds of audience participation. Many of the songs he will perform at the wildlife park will be about all kinds of Maine Animals! For the last three years, over 1,000 people have come out to hear Rick and see the show under the tall white pines of the Park picnic area. See www.mainewildlifepark.com for details about these and all our other scheduled 2013 events.”

KAT-Walk & Karo-5K for Brain Aneurysm Awareness

11:30 a.m. “Lace up your walking and running shoes and

join us for the KAT-Walk & Karo-5K for Maine Brain Aneurysm Awareness. This annual event benefits the Brain Aneurysm Foundation in their efforts to support early detection, education, fund research and create awareness about brain aneurysms. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, Sept. 7 along the Back Cove Boulevard in Portland. The event starts at 11:30 a.m. on the pathway across from the Hannaford Plaza and the walk and run will take place at 1pm. The whole family is invited for a leisurely walk or to enter the timed 5K run. This will be a special day to remember and honor loved ones lost to or having survived a brain aneurysm. The KAT-Walk originated in memory of Kimberly Ann Tudor, a Portland native, Deering HS and UNE graduate and athlete, who lost her life to a sudden brain aneurysm in December 2008. The Karo5K is in memory of Karolina A. Kurka, a Scarborough HS and UNH graduate who passed away from an undetected brain aneurysm in July 2011. September is Maine Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month. Join us as we ‘share our tears, remember with love, walk & run to honor’ those families affected by this silent killer and help save lives! More information about the event can be found at: www.MaineBA.org and find us on Facebook at: KatwalkKaro5K.”

Almost Home Rescue at Planet Dog

noon to 2 p.m. “On Sept. 7 we will be at Planet Dog in Portland, ME from 12-2 for an adoption event! Come check out our awesome dogs! 211 Marginal Way, #2, Portland. ...

Almost Home Rescue is an all-breed canine rescue group that is committed to rescuing stray and homeless dogs in danger of euthanasia.” http://almosthomerescue.net/

‘Gardens of Jane Austen’s Time’

1 p.m. “Gardens of Jane Austen’s Time.” Falmouth Memorial Library and the local chapter of the Jane Austen Society of North America present garden historian Terri Nickel to help celebrate the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice.

Saturday, Sept. 7 at 1 p.m., Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth. FMI: Jeannie at 781-2351 or jmadden@falmouth.lib.me.us.”

Sign painting demonstration

1 p.m. Artist Talk, Sign Painting Demonstration. SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. “Josh Luke of Best Dressed Signs (Boston) will be introducing the materials, tools and techniques of the sign painting trade. Take a look at our current gallery exhibit Steady Work, which featueres paintings and murals by five artists who make a living painting signs. Learn techniques of hand lettering for casual and Gothic alphabets, perforating patterns with the Electro Pounce, prepping boards, pouncing patterns onto boards and rolling out backgrounds.” Visit http:// www.space538.org/events/sign-painting-demonstration-josh-luke

‘Dinosaurs at Dusk’ at Southworth Planetarium

3 p.m. “This September: Full Dome Dinosaurs attack the Southworth Planetarium! ‘Dinosaurs at Dusk’ — a whirlwind time travel adventure back to the epoch of the dinosaurs!

Starts in September at the Southworth Planetarium.” For full September schedule and admission, call 780-4249 or e-mail egleason@usm.maine.edu for more information or to reserve a space. (Considering this is a full dome dinosaur show, making reservations is advisable.)

Prides Corner Church baked bean supper

5 p.m. Baked bean supper at Prides Corner Church, 235 Pride St., Westbrook. First Saturday of the month, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. “Come and enjoy the best Bean Supper in town!

All you can eat ham, pea beans, kidney beans, homemade coleslaw and macaroni and cheese with a slice of homemade pie for dessert.Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for children under 12. Seatings at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.” www. pridescornerchurch.org

Mirage 2013 at the St. Lawrence Arts Center

7:30 p.m. “Belly Dance from Naya’s Trance, Authentic Tahitian Dance by Hui Na Kawaiuaili, A Kathak dance from Hannah Sher, Intuitive Belly Dance by Cait Capaldi, American Tribal Style by Sisters of the Sun, Chinese Cultural Dance with Melissa Lin. Irish Step by Rosebeth Eddy, Fusion Belly Dance by Heather Powers and Contemporary Dance by Caitlin Bernard of Maine State Ballet. ... Naya’s Trance Belly Dance has been entertaining and educating audiences since 2001 and is now Southern Maine’s premiere belly dance troupe.

The members of Naya’s Trance are committed to their role as ambassadors of this beautiful dance and work diligently to share it with the local community. The dancers of Naya’s Trance specialize in cabaret (raqs sharqi) and folkloric styles allowing them to offer a wide variety of performance styles appropriate for any venue. Naya’s Trance members also specialize in a wide variety of prop work including fan, veil, cane, sword and fire dance.” Tickets for this performance are now on sale through website,www.stlawrencearts.org.

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Punctured gas line leads to CMP outage, neighborhood evacuation Daily Sun Staff Reports A punctured gas line near Front Street led to emergency crews evacuating 44 housing units and cutting power to the surrounding neighborhood.

The Portland Fire Department was called to Front Street around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday after receiving a report that excavation work led to a gas line being punctured, according to Nicole Clegg, the city’s director of communications.

Forty-four housing units on Front, Johansen and Illsley streets were evacuated, and Central Maine Power cut power to the surrounding neighborhood, Clegg reported.

Unitil responded and isolated and repaired the gas leak, according to Clegg, and residents were allowed to return to their homes once the gas had dissipated and it was safe. The streets affected are in the area of Payson Park.

Friends of Casco Bay to christen new research vessel Friends of Casco Bay based in South Portland will christen a new Baykeeper boat for use in studying the ecology of Casco Bay, with a ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 12.

The event, at Yankee Marina & Boatyard, 142 Lafayette St., Yarmouth, will take place from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., with brief remarks and christening at 6:30 p.m.

Anyone interested in attending is asked to RSVP

by Monday, Sept. 9 by emailing willeveritt@cascobay.org or calling 799-8574.

“We are in the process of retrofitting a Maine-built, Payne lobster-style boat that we will use to patrol the Bay, investigate pollution, and conduct research,” the group reported on its website, http://cascobay.org/events/ baykeeper-boat-commissioning.

“Our new Baykeeper Boat is an AJ28 made by Alan Johnson in Winter Harbor, Maine,” Friends of Casco Bay reported. “The boat has been retrofitted

by Yankee Marina & Boatyard and New England Fiberglass to include special attributes that will enhance our work.”

A campaign to raise money for the vessel and a maintenance fund continues, according to the group.

The new boat is called the Research Vessel Joseph E. Payne, “in honor of our stalwart Casco Baykeeper who has advocated for our coastal waters for over 22 years,” the group noted.

On April 25, 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented Payne with its 2012 Environmental Merit Award for a lifetime of advocacy for

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In June 2012, the group launched its Baykeeper Boats Fund campaign to replace the Baykeeper vessel and build a maintenance fund. Payne referred to the aging vessel he used “as a workhorse that has served him well for nearly 18 years,” but noted that “downtime and maintenance costs” were becoming problems.

N.Y. man sentenced for possessing, conspiracy to sell oxycondone A New York man was sentenced to four years in prison for transporting and planning to sell oxycondone.

Michael Falu, 25, of New York, N.Y., was sentenced to prison on Sept. 3 in U.S. District Court in Portland, on charges of conspiring to distribute and possession with intent to distribute oxycondone. He pleaded guilty to the charges in May, the U.S. Attorney’s office reported.

Falu was arrested in November 2012 on a Concord Trailways bus in Portland, according to prosecutors, when authorities was found to have more than 1,200 pills hidden in his underwear.

Portland man sentenced to two months in jail for welfare fraud A Portland man was sentenced to jail for using false information to obtain Medicaid and food stamp benefits and the theft of federal housing assistance funds, the U.S. Attorney’s office reported.

Dafie Abdullahi Ali, 46, of Portland, will serve two months in jail, with two months of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office, for stealing $46,585 in welfare benefits. Ali pleaded guilty to the charges in May. Prosecutors say Ali obtained MaineCare benefits and food stamps in 2008 and 2009 after claiming his household income amounted to $36,000 with a bank balance of $1, when he was employed as the owner and director of finance for Home Helath Care Solutions and took in more than $100,000 per year and had $48,000 in four bank accounts.

For two years, Ali and his family lived in an unit administered by the Portland Housing Authority, according to prosecutors, and underreported his income to receive more than $22,000 in rent subsidies. Ali was ordered to pay $46,585 in restitution.

Council postpones discussion on polystyrene ban until Sept. 16 While a proposed ban on polysytrene is listed on the Monday night City Council agenda, no action will be taken on the proposed ordinance until Sept.

16, the city reported.

The council is weighing a ban on polystyrene containers that are used to serve and prepare food, according to an announcement, and will be fully

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The proposed ordinance endorsed by the task force would prohibit a retail food vendor from serving or selling prepared food on polystyrene service ware; not allow food packagers who offer products for retail sale to use the material; and keep the city and groups doing work with the city from using polystyrene food containers. The ordinance allows for prepackaged foods in polystyrene containers to be sold.

The ordinance includes exemptions based on undue hardship and in the incident of an emergency situation.

The draft language states that the ban, if enacted, will take effect in July 2015.

More information on the proposed ordinance is available at www.portlandmaine.gov/greenpackagingworkinggroup.htm.

The meeting this Monday will be consumed in large part by public comment and council review of a proposal for the city to sell a portion of Congress Square Park to the developers of the former Eastland Park Hotel.

Central Maine Medical Center program grad appointed to hospital Shayna M. Lemke, D.O., a family doctor, has been appointed to the Bridgton Hospital Medical Staff, the Central Maine Medical Center reported. She is practicing with Bridgton Internal Medicine.

A recent graduate of the Central Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program in Lewiston, she has provided patient care at the CMMC Oscar Treat Turner Family Medicine Center in Lewiston, in the CMMC Emergency Department, and on nursing units at CMMC. She served as chief resident during her final year of training.

She is a graduate of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., and went on to earn a master’s degree in health and human development from Montana State University in Bozeman, Mont. She was awarded her medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Philadelphia.

Lemke is certified by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association. With her athletic training background, she enjoys sports medicine in addition to performing osteopathic manipLemke ulative treatment. She is also very interested in women’s health and worked in a cervical cancer clinic in Cusco, Peru. She will provide full spectrum family medicine in the Bridgton community for all stages of life. She lives in Bridgton with her fiancé, Sergei, who works at Bridgton Hospital. She enjoys spending her free time hiking, camping, kayaking and skiing. Bridgton Internal Medicine is located at 25 Hospital Drive, Suite 2, in Bridgton. The practice can be reached at 647-2311.

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Sabers and Raging Bulls face rematch on Sunday Local semi-pro football action at Saco’s Thornton Academy

The first place Maine Sabers (6-0) host the second place Southern Maine Raging Bulls (5-1) on Sunday at Thornton Academy in Saco at 4 p.m.

Bulls kicker Henri Moser made Field Goals of 26 and 38 yards when the two teams met earlier in the season. The Sabers won that game 28-13. (KEN LEVINSKY PHOTO)

By Ken Levinsky

SPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The first place Maine Sabers (6-0) host the second place Southern Maine Raging Bulls (5-1) on Sunday at Thornton Academy in Saco at 4 pm. The two teams sit atop the four team Northern Division of the New England Football League.

Both the Raging Bulls and Sabers were off on Labor Day weekend, and play each other for the second time this season. In their earlier meeting, during week three of the ten game season, the Sabers defeated the Bulls 28-13 at Deering High.

The Bulls defense has given up just 6 points in their last 3 games, and for the season they have scored 147 points and yielded a league low 54 points.

The explosive Sabers have outscored their opponents 170-90.

Girardi: ‘That baseball is a weapon’; yet Red Sox have edge in beanball wars

By Benjamin Hoffman THE NEW YORK TIMES

Ryan Dempster, a Boston Red Sox starting pitcher, managed to do something last month that few thought possible. By repeatedly throwing at the Yankees’ embattled third baseman, Alex Rodriguez, until he hit him, he left any number of people rushing to Rodriguez’s defense.

While he was at it, Dempster reopened the debate over whether sending a message with a fastball to the back has a place in today’s game. He also, whether he knew it or not, continued a longestablished trend in which the Red Sox plunk the Yankees far more than the other way around, an issue that may come into play over the next four days as the teams meet in a key weekend series in the Bronx.

Dempster hit Rodriguez in a nationally televised game at Fenway Park on Aug. 18. At the time, Rodriguez was playing in his 12th game since coming back from a season-long stay on the disabled list, his return occurring on the same day he was issued a 211-game

drug suspension that he is appealing.

Rodriguez’s decision to keep playing after a dozen other players linked to the same performance-enhancingdrug case accepted their suspensions instantly made him into something of a pariah. To some players, including various members of the Red Sox, it felt as if Rodriguez was cheating by remaining on the field.

One of those who apparently felt that way was Dempster, who threw repeatedly at Rodriguez in his first at-bat of that Aug. 18 game before drilling him with a fastball. The pitch enraged Yankees Manager Joe Girardi and seemed to motivate Rodriguez and his teammates, who rallied to win the game, with Rodriguez hitting an emphatic home run off none other than Dempster himself.

Dempster, who was briefly suspended as a result of his actions, pitched on Wednesday night against Detroit and will thus be a bystander this weekend.

But the Yankees might answer back by hitting one of the Boston hitters, even if it risks a series of brushback pitches

Maine Red Claws release 2013-2014 schedule Daily Sun Staff Report The Maine Red Claws basketball team has announced the schedule for the 2013-2014 season.

The Red Claws will play a 50-game schedule, with 24 games at home, 24 games on the road and two games at the NBA Development League Showcase. The Showcase schedule will be announced at a later date by the NBA Development League.

The Red Claws will open the season with two games at home, facing off against the Springfield Armor on Nov. 22, and the Erie Bayhawks on Nov. 24.

The Red Claws’ first road game will be at Ft. Wayne against the Mad Ants on Nov. 29.

Maine will play 24 home games at the Portland Expo this season, with 19 of those games falling on weekend dates.

Of the 19 weekend contests, seven will

fall on Fridays, five will fall on Saturdays, and seven will fall on Sundays, the sports organization reported. The team will play a total of eight afternoon contests at home, including the traditional 1 p.m. start on New Year’s Eve. Red Claws’ fans will have the opportunity to see the team face off against nine different opponents at the Expo.

Making the trip to Portland will be the Springfield Armor, Ft. Wayne Mad Ants, Idaho Stampede, Sioux Falls Skyforce, Delaware 87ers, Tulsa 66ers, Erie Bayhawks, Canton Charge and Austin Toros.

Fans can view or print the full schedule from the team’s website, www.maineredclaws.com. Pocket schedules will be available soon. To have a pocket schedule mailed, fans should send a self addressed stamped envelope to Maine Red Claws, Attention: Pocket Schedule, P.O. Box 15180, Portland, ME 04112.

and beanballs.

Of course, if Girardi can be taken at his word, the Red Sox have little to fear.

Girardi was openly critical of Dempster in the aftermath of the Aug. 18 game, saying: “That baseball is a weapon. It’s not a tennis ball; it’s not an IncrediBall that’s soft. It’s a weapon, and it can do a lot of damage to someone’s life.”

In general, Girardi’s actions have lived up to those ideals. Since he took

over as manager of the Yankees in 2008, the Red Sox have hit 67 Yankees batters, and the Yankees have hit just 49 Red Sox batters.

In fact, stretching back a decade further, to 1998, the Red Sox lead the hitby-pitch matchup, 162 to 116, having hit more batters in their season series with New York in 13 of those 16 seasons. Twice they hit 18 Yankees batters in a single year.

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