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My van is an illegal alien See Bob Higgins’ column on page 4

This winter of content leads to political summer See Curtis Robinson’s column on page 5

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Water district reports spurt in leaks over January 2010 BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Pull out the space heaters and stock up on heat tape. Subzero temperatures are back in the forecast, meaning another bout with frozen pipes. Sunday night, the National Weather Service is calling for a low around 2 below, followed by 3 below on Monday. It’s been a rugged January so far, with 16 leaks in pipes so far in the Portland Water District, according to spokesperson Michelle Clements. Last January, there were 12 leaks for the whole month, she said. “Since Friday, during this cold weekend, we had 10 calls about frozen meters or no water. We had to respond to those. In one of the cases, they left their garage open and it froze their meter,” Clements said. Some of the leaks have even challenged some of the city’s established merchants. Trader Joe’s at 87 Marginal Way had a waterline break on Monday that forced a temporary closure, according to store personnel. The store has since reopened. On Tuesday, the Fetch pet store at 195 Commercial St. reported extensive damage after a pipe burst in a vacant space overhead. “Seems a pipe burst in the vacant space above Fetch,” the store reported in an email message. “We’re open, but our machines (credit card, computers, ID tag engraver) are toast. We’re open, and here to supply you with what you need, but unfortunately until probably mid-afternoon tomorrow, cash and check only! Thank you for your patience! No need for life preservers or canned food, we’ve got plenty!” see LEAKS page 3

Jim Gleason stands at the base of scaffolding at the Akers Building at 384 Fore St. Wednesday during a masonry restoration job by Knowles ISC of Gorham. “That building survived the Great Fire, and it stands all alone in a magniﬁcent photograph of the destruction of Portland. ... It looks like Dresden after the bombing, just heaps of brick,” said historian Herb Adams, referring to the July 4, 1866 ﬁre that destroyed most of Portland. The restoration of this survivor involves repointing mortar joints, paint removal and brownstone repairs, the contractors reported. The job will take about three months, they estimated. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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Dead of Winter 5 — The Death of Dead of Winter BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Winter in Portland can be a frozen, blustery landscape of desolation. That’s right, perfect conditions for the city’s creative community to get things done. The idea is that the city’s musicians often

use the season’s short days and icy streets to hole up, creating new material. But while it’s productive, it can also get sort of lonesome. That’s how the annual “Dead of Winter” idea was born, and this year’s event ends a five-year series with performances ranging

from unusual duets to a mayoral readings from archived accounts of winters past – no kidding. It began a half-decade ago in, fittingly, the dead of winter. “Josh Loring and I were roommates see SHOW page 16

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Grapes have a lack of sex (NY Times) — For the last 8,000 years, the wine grape has had very little sex. This unnatural abstinence threatens to sap the grape’s genetic health and the future pleasure of millions of oenophiles. The lack of sex has been discovered by Sean Myles, a geneticist at Cornell University. He developed a gene chip that tests for the genetic variation commonly found in grapes. He then scanned the genomes of the thousand or so grape varieties in the Department of Agriculture’s extensive collection. Much to his surprise he found that 75 percent of the varieties were as closely related as parent and child or brother and sister. “Previously people thought there were several different families of grape,” Dr. Myles said. “Now we’ve found that all those families are interconnected and in essence there’s just one large family.” Thus merlot is intimately related to cabernet franc, which is a parent of cabernet sauvignon, whose other parent is sauvignon blanc, the daughter of traminer, which is also a progenitor of pinot noir, a parent of chardonnay. This web of interrelatedness is evidence that the grape has undergone very little breeding since it was first domesticated, Dr. Myles and his co-authors report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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unnamed Egyptian security officials, reported that 860 protesters had been arrested since major protests began Tuesday morning, roughly two-thirds of them in Cairo. Many others were in Alexandria. Nadeem Mansour, a human rights advocate at the Hisham Mubarak Law Center in Cairo, said the bulk of the arrests took place overnight. In contrast to the thousands

who marched through Cairo on Tuesday and occupied a central square for hours, the Wednesday gatherings were relatively small. In front of Cairo’s press and lawyer’s syndicate buildings, more than 100 people shouted slogans, outnumbered by a force of security officers. “You’re protecting thieves,” they chanted. Police officers began striking the protesters with bamboo sticks.

Ofﬁcials: Loughner studied assassins before attack TUCSON (NY Times) — Jared L. Loughner, the man accused of opening fire outside a Tucson supermarket on Jan. 8 in what the authorities consider an attempted political assassination, researched famous assassins, the death penalty and solitary confinement on the Internet before the shooting, an official close to the investigation said Wednesday. Mr. Loughner, 22, pleaded not guilty on Monday to three counts of attempted murder in connection with the shooting, which left six people dead and 13 injured. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat of Arizona, was shot in the head but survived. Additional charges, including murder, are expected. Mr. Loughner checked himself into a Motel 6

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BBC to trim world service LONDON (NY Times) — Facing a 16 percent reduction in its budget, the BBC World Service said on Wednesday that it would close five of its 32 language services and reduce its workforce by about a quarter, cutting around 650 jobs over the next three years. The service, which began broadcasting in 1932, is one of Britain’s most visible exports and is known for bringing uncensored news to places where there is no free press. It currently has a budget of $432 million a year, a staff of 2,400 and a listening and viewing audience of 180 million a week, and 241 million across television, radio and the Internet. The BBC is facing deep cuts in spending over the next several years, and earlier this week announced that it would cut 25 percent, or $54 million, from its online budget. But it hastened to point out that it was the government, which is responsible for financing the World Service through the Foreign Office, that made the decision to cut the budget so sharply. “I want to stress that these are cuts that we would not have chosen to make without the funding reduction by the government,” Peter Horrocks, the BBC’s global news director, told reporters.

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“We’re still just cleaning up,” said Heidi Powell, manager at Fetch, on Wednesday. The store continued doing cash and check sales. “We’re trying to get up and running again. That’s the main focus. We’re drying everything out,” Powell said. “The computers were completely ruined.” No information was lost, but the dousing of the computers put old-school skills to the test. “You remember how to do remedial math,” Powell said. A low of 13 below on Monday moderated on Tuesday, when the low was 2 above, but lows dipped to 2 below zero on Wednesday morning, according to the weather service. A midweek storm was due to be followed by another cold snap. Residents in the Portland Water District, which serves 11 communities reaching from Raymond in the north to Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough in the south, should call if they see evidence of burst pipes, Clements said. “If they see water or notice a drastic reduction in their water pressure, they should give us a call. If there is water out on the street, we’ll test it to see if it is our water,” she said. At 6 p.m. last Saturday, a water main broke on Alfred Street in South Portland, affecting 12 customers. On Tuesday at 4 a.m., a pipe burst at 45 Casco St. in Portland, prompting a full lane closure. The district has 100 water main breaks a year, but most, understandably, occur in the winter, when the pressure from frost buildup and retraction can break pipes.

Keep the water ﬂowing Tips for preventing frozen pipes include: • Have your furnace regularly serviced. • Know where your water shut-off valve is located. • Keep the name and emergency telephone number of your plumber handy. • Turn off outside faucets. Disconnect the hose. • Patch cracks and insulate holes near doors, windows, and walls by pipes and meters. • Inspect your plumbing. • Insulate water meters, pipes, and faucets in unheated areas. • Never completely shut off the heat when you are away. If you are planning to leave your home for an extended period of time, drain your pipes. If you don’t drain your pipes, lower the thermostat, but never shut it off. The lack of heat can freeze pipes, causing ﬂooding and damage when they eventually thaw. • If you should experience frozen pipes, never use a torch to thaw. The easiest and safest way to thaw a frozen pipe is to heat the room or wave a hair dryer on low heat along the pipe. Remember, the pipe may already be broken and, when the water is thawed, it will leak. (SOURCE: Portland Water District)

Mat Newhall clears snow Wednesday at an apartment complex near the intersection of Mellen Street and Congress Street. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Beach to Beacon registration opens March 14 BY RYAN MCLAUGHLIN THE BANGOR DAILY NEWS

(McClatchy) Recent winter weather suggests that summer may seem like a lifetime away, but runners can start thinking about warm, sunny days by looking ahead to the 2011 TD Bank Beach to Beacon 10K. That’s because registration for the popular race, set for Aug. 6 in Cape Elizabeth, gets under way on March 14 at 7 a.m. The registration process will be similar to the one used last year, with online registration for Cape residents taking place on March 14, while registration for the general public will start a day later, also at 7. A limit of 4,000 bib numbers will be available to the general public, while the remaining 1,750 spots will be distributed via lottery, with provisions for couples and families being made in the process.

Registration for the lottery will take place March 15-22, with the drawing being held on March 23. Race organizers are charging a $5 fee to enter the lottery. Prospective runners are urged to register quickly, as the allotment of Cape runners filled in 21 minutes last winter, while online registration for the general public lasted a mere 32 minutes before all the slots were filled. All registration will take place at www.beach2beacon.org, with fees being set at $40. “We made a significant change in the registration process last year and feel overall it went well, so we are staying the course,” race president Dave Weatherbie said in a press release. “Also, we are pleased to be able to expand the number of lottery slots this year to accommodate more runners.” After bib numbers have been distributed amongst

Cape residents, the general public and the lottery, the remaining numbers will be set aside for runners who have run in every Beach to Beacon, along with sponsors, elite runners and charities. Race organizers will accept 7,200 registrations this year, again targeting a race-day field of 6,000. A record 5,672 runners finished the race last year. Maine Games, USATF team up The Maine Games and the state’s association of USA Track and Field will join forces this summer to create a showcase track and field meet, which will be held at the University of Maine in Orono on June 25. The partnership marks the return of the sport to the Maine Games. “The Maine Games is very excited to have an organization such as USA Track and Field, through our state chapter, as a supporting partner this year,” Maine Games executive director Jeff Scully said.

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Elected mayor will be a gloriﬁed city council member with a salary Editor, When Jed Rathband states it’s disingenuous that someone who opposed the Portland elected mayor referendum would consider running for that position he should take a closer look at the appearance of his announcement of intent to be a mayoral candidate. Jed managed the campaign that hoodwinked almost 13,000 Portland voters into thinking they were voting for a mayor when in actuality all they’ll get is a four year termed, at large, city councilor with a $68,000-plus salary. With the ballot’s record-setting page-and-a-half explanation of the City Charter Amendment for a Popularly Elected Mayor he guaranteed that most people would not fully understand what they were voting for. That after the well-funded campaign had the possibly unethical support of the Portland Press Herald in spreading their dubious description of the purposed elected mayor’s duties and responsibilities. What the people of Portland deserve is a new charter commission to establish a clearly worded referendum that would allow the people to understand and determine what kind of a mayor they want. Do they want the same old city councilor type mayor or a CEO type of mayor like many progressive cities in America have. A mayor with a long term vision who is not just reactionary. A mayor who is responsible for hiring and firing city department heads. A major who has veto power over City Council decisions. A mayor who would head the search and the hiring of a new city manager. Unlike what is happening right now in Portland with the City Council rushing through the hiring of a replacement for Joe Gray before the mayoral election. We need a mayor who would pledge to the citizens of Portland that he/she would work to see that their true intent in voting for a popularly elected mayor is reflected in the wording of the City Charter. Jay York Portland

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My van is an illegal alien On Tuesday, I finally broke down and sold the big blue van. Today, it is embroiled in a “birther” controversy. My boss gave me Big Blue last year, but being perpetually broke I kept putting off getting it registered and back on the road. The van had some issues that needed to be attended to before getting a sticker, so I just kept kicking the can down the road, which was the only thing going down any roads. It was parked in South Portland, but when the snow started piling up recently, my boss was kind of hinting around that he wanted me to register it and move it. It was parked in the only good Call it a “title bout.” This GMC VanDura lacks its papers and could be considered “undocumented,” according to erstwhile owner Bob Higgins. (COURTESY PHOTO)

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist place left in the lot to pile snow. After a short consideration and pocket inventory consisting mostly of lint and pennies, I decided to put the van up for sale on Craigslist. Within the hour, I started getting calls. After a few no-shows, I was contacted by “Paul,” who was interested. A couple of hundred bucks later, it

was a done deal. But on Wednesday, “Paul” called me a little upset. He had taken the bill of sale and the registration to DMV to get the paperwork done, but in their infinite wisdom, the knuckleheads at the DMV put up a paperwork roadblock. My Boss couldn’t find the title to the van. They insisted on having an “original” copy of the title. The dude who bought it can’t even junk it without a title. “No junkyard or scrapyard in the state will take it without a valid title.” It turns out that the title is kind of like the van’s “birth certificate.” Even though my van has “paid taxes” in the form of annual re-registration since 1995, and “voted” by way of paying tolls on Maine’s many highways, the state just can’t seem to find enough folks working at the DMV with enough common sense to dump water out of a wet boot. Go back in your files, oh DMV worker, and find that digital image of the title. you know it’s there, and so do I. What the state insists on, however, is that the new owner file paperwork to get a copy of the old title, then track me down, have my boss sign it, pass it back, and THEN he has the privilege of paying the state another see HIGGINS page 5

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This winter of content leads to political summer “Think spring” said the message board outside a Congress Street shop last week, but I prefer to ponder the massive heat wave that is going to be Portland’s political summer. We already have three candidates for that new popularly elected mayor’s position, and the over-under remains at 15 total candidates. It could be 25. Seriously. And with ranked-choice voting making its debut, the scenarios will escalate like cruise ship traffic in August. This will come in one of those perfect-storm contexts. The school committee has begun what promises to be a fairly brutal budgeting process, and surely part of that will involve the highly regarded Peaks Island Elementary School. Let’s pull on that string to see what unravels: Despite all the talk about property tax, the most passionate folks on Peaks are the school fans. And that group extends well beyond parents to those who just feel the school is a part of the community identity. The school supporters are already steaming over the cutback that left

Curtis Robinson ––––– Usually Reserved them without a principal – they have a lead teacher instead – and a blowup over a teacher cutback last year. So any whiff of a cutback on the island is going to fan the flames of secession. If you think the anti-tax crowd is a bit heavy on the tar-and-feathers rhetoric, just wait until the school parents add pitchforks and torches to the mix. Part of that will be dusting off some ideas from the recent past – one of my favorites was to focus the Peaks School as a magnet school for ocean and environmental studies, the way other schools are magnets for music or sports – albeit informally in some cases. My prediction is that Peaks makes it to an island-wide vote on secession from municipal Portland this year. That seems difficult, but the fact is

If you think the anti-tax crowd is a bit heavy on the tarand-feathers rhetoric, just wait until the school parents add pitchforks and torches to the mix. that an Attorney General’s opinion last week allows the island’s “Independence Committee” to build on previous work, and that is instant momentum. And the blockage last time was along party lines. This time, Republicans have the votes to allow the vote. So we face a Kentucky Derby sized field in the mayoral race, a hot Peaks Island debate, schools issues and, yesterday, we were even hearing that non-citizen voting was “not dead.” The news on that front is that a newly formed working group is going to climb aboard that particular deadlooking horse and prove it was merely napping. You may recall the issue: The idea is to allow legal residents who are not U.S. citizens to vote in local elections. The debate, in basic terms, has those in favor arguing that the non-citizen

legal residents are paying taxes and raising families and should have a say in local elections. The “no” argument often agrees with that, saying those folks have a path to that status. It’s called “citizenship” and if that’s not working, amend the system, don’t bypass it. What’s most interesting is that these issues will play out without distracting state and national campaigns, but against the backdrop of a potentially wombat-crazy legislative session that promises the decorum usually reserved for midnight summer strolls in Old Port. So “think summer,” because, by comparison, this is our winter of content. (Curtis Robinson is editor of The Portland Daily Sun. Contact him at curtis@portlanddailysun.me.)

With State of the Union, Obama changes the narrative Complaints about President Obama’s State of the Union address on both sides of the political divide (which was obscured but not obliterated by the evening’s novel seating arrangements) seemed to miss its point and purpose. Like every successful speech of its kind, Obama’s message resonated on more than one level. So while he conceded little ground to the right, the president nevertheless sought to draw his adversaries — and even more so the independent voters who temporarily sided with them — into the American story he told. The meaning of that narrative could scarcely have been clearer. Obama articulated a vision of the nation’s future shaped by an idealistic view of our past, in which government encourages growth, opportunity and the pursuit of happiness by an inventive and industrious people. If that isn’t the whole history of America, it is certainly an appealing theme — and one that contrasts powerfully with the partisan negativity and apocalyptic pessimism voiced by the Republicans. Gently but persuasively, the presi-

Joe Conason ––––– Creators Syndicate dent suggested that the electoral turn toward the Republicans last November was a mistake, and began to explain why. The problems that we confront as a developed nation in an era of new and rising powers, he said, extend well beyond deficits and debt. While those fiscal issues certainly pose a real threat to our future prosperity, so do the deficits in our educational system, our physical infrastructure, our scientific research and our broadband capacity. If we focus solely on the fiscal deficit — and insist on reducing it by mindless, ruinous budgetary policies — then America will be set firmly on the path of national decline. Therefore, said Obama, we must find ways to finance the essential investments that will equip Americans to participate successfully in the

global economy, from high-speed rail to renewable energy to decently compensated teachers. Much of his plea for modernization fell on deaf ears among the Republican congressional majority, of course, whose leading intellects don’t necessarily accept the scientific consensus on climate change and nurture grudging doubts about evolution. The president cannot expect the Republicans to move his agenda forward during the next two years, but he can start to demonstrate why their own agenda is empty and stagnant. In that task, he was amply assisted by the (two!) sourly partisan and negative rejoinders to his speech from the other side. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., the Tea Party diva, repeated the same stale talking points that always issue from her mouth when she isn’t inventing fables about our history. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the new House budget chairman, failed again to indicate how his party will restore fiscal balance — let alone how it means to address the central questions of

education, science, technology and infrastructure. With grace and openness, Obama invited the Republicans to engage those issues, as well as the more immediate debates over health care, taxes and the budget. He reminded them and the public that Democrats stand for fiscal equity. He urged the nation’s millionaires to give up their obscene tax breaks and set forth a deal to close loopholes and lower rates if every corporation pays its share of taxes. He explicitly rejected cutbacks that would fall most heavily on the most vulnerable and offered a spending freeze far less destructive than that proposed by the Republicans. If the true state of the Union is more perilous than Obama dared to admit, he certainly began to describe the real challenges before us — and by implication, the obstacles that can only be removed at the next election. (Joe Conason writes for the New York Observer (www.observer.com). To find out more about Conason, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www. creators.com.)

Have renegade Canadians streamed across border, seeking ofﬁce? HIGGINS from page 4

whopper of a check to certify he is the new owner. Forget that possession is nine-tenths of the law, or that there is a valid bill of sale. Forget that vehicles in this condition usually end up on the streets of the city abandoned until the city decides to haul them away at taxpayer expense. Forget that there are valuable parts inside, and that scrapping and recycling is all the rage these days. My van is an illegal alien. Undocumented. It does not have all its “papers in order” for any knuckle-

headed pencil pusher who questions its status. At this point, even if the old title was found, given the current climate, I suspect that the DMV would consider it a forgery. Making Maine more famous by the day, Richard Cebra, a Maine House representative from Naples, has introduced LD 34, an act requiring all seeking office in this state to provide proof of citizenship. I’m beginning to wonder if Cebra believes that renegade Canadians have been crossing the border to run for local office in Podunk, Maine. This silliness will never end. My van didn’t climb

into the back of some other van to be spirited across the Mexico/Texas border in the dead of night to become a van living illegally in Maine. It didn’t toil over many years in the heat and brave the Maine winter to have its right to be here in Maine questioned by xenophobic legislators. My van is not taking American jobs. It’s a good American van. It deserves better than this. (Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun.)

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Too moderate or too modest? BY DAVID BROOKS AND GAIL COLLINS

President Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Columnists David Brooks and Gail Collins discuss the tenor and content of the speech and the Republican response. (Doug Mills/ The New York Times)

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(In The Conversation, David Brooks and Gail Collins talk between columns every Wednesday in The New York Times. This column appeared yesterday.) Gail Collins: David, every year we get all worked up about the State of the Union speech. When it finally happens I’m always disappointed, bored, underwhelmed. Then the pollsters announce that the public loved it. So obviously it’s me. We both like Barack Obama, but from different perspectives. I think the guy at the front of the House on Tuesday was your version, not mine. Never have I Brooks beheld so much reasonable moderation. Such moderate reasonableness. David Brooks: I guess I’d say the speech was modest more than moderate. The three things the president emphasized were all worthy, important policies that have significant bipartisan support: spending for basic research, Collins education reform and infrastructure spending. The really big tasks got mentioned but they were not emphasized: comprehensive tax reform, immigration reform, serious entitlement reform. Clearly the administration decided these were too ambitious for a divided Congress. I can see the reasoning here. Let’s have a productive session where the two parties find some things to work on together. Then assuming Obama is reelected, they can get to work on the big stuff. I just hope we have time to wait. Why have all recent presidents only accomplished a political agenda that belonged to the other side?

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WATERVILLE (McClatchy) — A rogue state agency that’s attacking businesses with unethical investigations and taxes. A dysfunctional system that allows tenants and workers to bilk their landlords and employers. And cumbersome state reviews that can make property development an expensive and lengthy endeavor. Those were among the frustrations aired Tuesday morning during the latest of Gov. Paul LePage’s Red Tape Audit forums, held in the Ayotte Auditorium at Thomas College. The frustration of many speaking seemed to be summed up by Frank Sterner, president of Lohmann Animal Health, a poultry-vaccine producer in Winslow. “The systems aren’t meant to be fair; they’re on the side of the employees,” Sterner said. The Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce hosted the gathering in Waterville, where LePage lived and served as mayor before becoming governor. Although LePage had been scheduled to attend, the administration was instead represented by Mark Ouellette, director of the state’s Office of Business Development. Ouellette was also joined on stage by Rep. Henry Beck, a Democrat representing District 76 in Waterville and Oakland, and Rosemary Winslow, a Waterville city councilor and representative from the office of U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud, a Democrat. Kimberly Lindlof, president and CEO of the Mid-Maine Chamber, told a crowd of about 60 people the forums are intended to provide the governor’s team with information and ideas “to make Maine a more business-friendly state without compromising the environment.” During the election, Lindlof took a leave of absence from the chamber to serve as finance director of LePage’s campaign. Ouellette told the audience the purpose of the forum was to hear from the business community to

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AMC opens new lodge for backcountry skiing BY MARTY BASCH SPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Lodge-to-lodge skiing in the Moosehead Lakes area is growing with the addition of a former Maine sporting camp opening today by the Appalachian Mountain Club. Originally built in the 1800s, Gorman Chairback Lodge and Cabins on the shores of Long Pond in the 100-Mile Wilderness is one of four lodges operated by the Boston-based hiking organization that allows backcountry freeheel skiers, snowshoers, and winter hikers access to some 70 miles of hiking and skiing routes. Situated outside Greenville in some 66,000 acres of conservation land, there are remote full-service lodges open to the public: Medawisla, West Branch Pond Camps, Little Lyford and Gorman Chairback. The newest addition is solar powered and off the Gorman Chairback Lodge and Cabins is the newest Appalachian Mountain Club lodge to open in the Maine Woods. (Photo courtesy of Jim Harrison/AMC photo)

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To add appeal, Olympics borrow from X Games BY MATT HIGGINS THE NEW YORK TIMES

For 15 years, the Winter X Games have acted as an incubator for hip, new Olympic sports that tend to lure larger and younger television audiences. Although officials at the International Olympic Committee do not credit the X Games directly with influencing what winds up in their program, many recent additions — and the athletes who star in them — earned their start at the Winter X Games, which begin Thursday on Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colo. It began with halfpipe snowboarding. Next came snowboard cross, and ski cross. Now three more events — ski halfpipe and snowboard and ski slopestyle — appear set to become the latest, in time for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. “The chances are extremely high for ski slopestyle, ski halfpipe and snowboard slopestyle to be part of the Olympic program in 2014,” Christophe Dubi, the I.O.C. sports director, said in an e-mail. Competitors in ski halfpipe use the same 22-foot-tall halfpipe as snowboarders, and they perform similar soaring, spinning aerial maneuvers. Ski and snowboard slopestyle share a downhill course familiar to anyone who has seen a mountain resort ter-

rain park filled with features like picnic tables, handrails and massive jumps, from which competitors perform a series of tricks for a judged score. All three events are already part of the 2012 Youth Olympic Games. Adding them to the Winter Games would continue a trend. After the success of ski cross and snowboarding halfpipe in Vancouver, the International Ski Federation, known as F.I.S. — the sanctioning body for skiing and snowboarding at the Olympics — has fast-tracked Winter X Games mainstays ski halfpipe and snowboard and ski slopestyle. In October the I.O.C.’s executive board empowered Jacques Rogge, the committee’s president, to make a final decision about which new sports to add. Rogge is expected to announce their inclusion by the end of April. “We’re all expecting it and training right now, basing the next few years on it being in,” said Sarah Burke, who will compete in the women’s ski superpipe final at the X Games on Thursday. Burke, a Canadian, won gold medals in superpipe from 2007 to 2009. “It’s kind of a no-brainer in my eyes,” Simon Dumont said about the Olympics adopting halfpipe. On Friday see OLYMPICS page 9

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grid. It is registered as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) project, with certification anticipated this year. The lodge and cabins are named in honor of Leon and Lisa Gorman, longtime AMC supporters and outdoor lovers. There is a reading area, dining room and wood-fired sauna in the lodge. The log cabins have queen beds, gas lamps and wood stoves. “Visitors can ski lodge to lodge, and stay at a different one each night or Gorman Chairback makes a great multi-night destination in itself, and there are stacked loop trails to ski and snowshoe on,” said AMC spokesman Rob Burbank. He said the authentic camp was originally built as a private camp in 1867. It was later operated as a commercial sporting camp before again becoming a private camp. “With the opening of Gorman Chairback, AMC is reopening this historic Maine sporting camp to the public,” he said. “We feel that is significant, since we’re helping to keep the Maine sporting camp tradition alive and protecting public access to a wonderful piece of the Maine Woods.” Outside Gorman Chairback, winter enthusiasts will use a mixture of trails. Some are existing roads that were once used for logging. There are new trails too. Skier wanting to navigate the rolling terrain among the four lodges will have a ski that is between 37 and 43 miles long depending on the chosen route. For those who don’t want to carry their gear, one option is to have gear shuttled from lodge-to-lodge. The AMC can also arrange trips by dog sleds. Mushers are common in the land of moose and loons. The 100-Mile Wilderness Sled Dog Race is scheduled for Feb. 5. “You really get a sense that you are in the Maine Woods,” said Burbank. “There is some backcountry

skiing to be had that I would say is easy intermediate to intermediate.” Burbank said the trails are groomed but not tracked like you would find at a cross-country ski touring center. “There are a number of wonderful vistas from a number of locations,” he said. Reservations can be made through www.outdoors. org or by calling 603-466-2727. ••• Maine’s Seth Wescott’s missing something and perhaps he’ll find it at Winter X Games 15 in Aspen today through Sunday. A gold medal. It’s not that he can’t find it, it’s the proverbial monkey on his back. The man is an incredible snowboardcross racer. He’s won impressive backto-back Olympic gold medals in a sport where if the guy next to you messes up and takes you out,

Then-Gov. John Baldacci (left) recently joined a record crowd to welcome two-time Olympic gold medal winner Seth Wescott (right) back to Maine and back to his home mountain at Sugarloaf. (Photo courtesy of Karen Cummings)

Snowboarding presents cautionary tale OLYMPICS from page 8

Dumont, 24, will ride in the men’s superpipe final, where he has won six medals, including two golds (2004 and 2005). If selected, ski halfpipe and slopestyle would be the first freeskiing events in the Olympics. Freeskiing is a new-school movement and has a sensibility similar to snowboarding. “Ski slopestyle and ski halfpipe are the type of events that the younger generation practices every weekend in snow parks,” Dubi said. “Observing what happens on the ground is the best way for the I.O.C. to remain relevant in its choice of Olympic program content.” The Olympics, in turn, have made mainstream stars of competitors like Shaun White and the Australian Torah Bright, who each won gold medals in snowboard halfpipe at the Vancouver Games and will compete in superpipe and slopestyle at the Winter X Games this week. Still, the marriage between the Olympics and snowboarding provides a cautionary tale for freeskiers. In the early 1990s, before the principals in snowboarding were well organized, F.I.S. recognized the sport. In turn the I.O.C. deemed F.I.S. the governing body for Olympic snowboarding. A rancorous relationship between the ski federation and snowboarding worsened, and several of the world’s best riders, including Terje Haakonsen of Norway, boycotted the debut

of snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. Ever since, snowboarders have criticized F.I.S. judging criteria, contest formats and Olympic qualifying requirements, all of which they say stifle the sport. Although many of these concerns have been addressed, some snowboarders still prefer not to compete at F.I.S. events. Last week, as F.I.S. held the world snowboard championships in La Molina, Spain, several of the world’s top competitors were in Killington, Vt., at a Winter Dew Tour event. “Snowboarding has its own tours, which are far more competitive than the actual F.I.S. tour, which is how you qualify for the Olympics,” Bright said. “I would very much like the I.O.C. to work with us to make it easier for us to participate in the Olympics.” Last week, Haakonsen, who has gone on to help create Ticket to Ride, known as T.T.R., a rival tour to F.I.S., criticized the skiing body in an open letter published by several news media outlets. Freeskiers have taken note. Dumont and Chris Schuster, ski sport organizer at the Winter X Games, helped create the Association of Freeskiing Professionals, an international rating system for competitions meant to ensure progressive courses and consistent judging. “We wanted to make something that wouldn’t repeat the problems with snowboarding,” Schuster said.

it ruins your day. He’s been competing in the X Games for nearly as long as they have been in existence and although he’s got six X Game medals, he doesn’t have gold. It’s fellow U.S. Snowboard Team member Nate Holland who has gotten in Wescott’s way at X. Holland has won the gold an amazing five times (plus an ultracross gold) and is going for six while Wescott wants just one. Sunday River is inviting students from middle schools and high schools throughout the country to compete in its Get Schooled Giveaway. This competition will allow 50 winning students to take over an entire wing of the River’s ski dorm for two days March 25-27. To enter, students must submit the reason they, and 49 of their closest friends, deserve a field trip to Sunday River Ski Resort, by 5 p.m. on Monday, February 28 (www.sundayriver.com). New England Telemark’s Tele-Daze lands at Shawnee Peak Saturday for a day of free telemark demos and tips for those who want to learn the freeheel discipline. Make that Triple A membership work for you during Sunday’s AAA Member Appreciation Day with discounted lift tickets ($38 adults, $40 junior) to card-showing members. Some 500 athletes from about 80 towns across the state will descend upon Sugarloaf Monday through Wednesday for the 42nd Annual Special Olympics Maine Winter Games. Sports include Alpine and Nordic skiing, skating and snowshoeing. Black Mountain of Maine in Rumford has $10 Friday lift tickets from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. It gets better. Tomorrow night is free skiing and tubing from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Look for more free ski nights later too. The next $29 Maine Day is Feb. 6 at Saddleback. Prove you live here and pay that price. (Marty Basch can be reached through www.onetankway.com.)

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Thursday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2011. There are 338 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 27, 1981, President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran at the White House. On this date: In 1756, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria. In 1880, Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp. In 1901, opera composer Giuseppe Verdi died in Milan, Italy, at age 87. In 1943, some 50 bombers struck Wilhelmshaven in the first all-American air raid against Germany during World War II. In 1944, the Soviet Union announced the complete end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years. In 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland. In 1951, an era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flat. In 1967, astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft. More than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons. In 1973, the Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris. In 1977, the Vatican issued a declaration reaffirming the Roman Catholic Church’s ban on female priests. One year ago: Acknowledging that “change has not come fast enough,” President Barack Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to get jobless millions back to work while fighting for ambitious overhauls of health care, energy and education. Today’s Birthdays: Singer Bobby “Blue” Bland is 81. Actor James Cromwell is 71. Actor John Witherspoon is 69. Rock musician Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) is 66. Rhythm-andblues singer Nedra Talley (The Ronettes) is 65. Ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov is 63. Chief U.S. Justice John Roberts is 56. Country singer Cheryl White is 56. Country singermusician Richard Young (The Kentucky Headhunters) is 56. Actress Mimi Rogers is 55. Rock musician Janick Gers (Iron Maiden) is 54. Commentator Keith Olbermann is 52. Rock singer Margo Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) is 50. Rock musician Gillian Gilbert is 50. Actress Bridget Fonda is 47. Actor Alan Cumming is 46. Country singer Tracy Lawrence is 43. Rock singer Mike Patton is 43. Rapper Tricky is 43. Rock musician Michael Kulas (James) is 42. Actor-comedian Patton Oswalt is 42. Actor Josh Randall is 39. Country singer Kevin Denney is 35. Tennis player Marat Safin is 31.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I have been divorced from “Bill” for more than a year and separated for almost two. I am currently expecting his baby. Obviously, we were still sleeping together, but this pregnancy was a total accident. I’ve always wanted a second child, and this should be a happy time for me, but I am miserable. I’ve tried many times to get back together with Bill, and until recently, we actually “dated” off and on. The divorce was his idea, and he’s the one who initiated the possibility of getting back together. I always went along because I thought I loved him and would never get over him. The problem is, now that we are bringing another child into the mix, I’ve realized after much soul searching that I don’t love him anymore. Bill still treats me with the same amount of disrespect and hostility he always has. I put up with it out of low self-esteem and a fear of being alone. We tried counseling with no success because he hated it and refused to go. Should I end things between us and raise the children on my own? I don’t want to sacriﬁce my happiness just so I can have a second income and (minimal) help with the new baby. I don’t want to fall into a depression again and become a shell of the person I used to be. I want to be a positive role model for my children, and I don’t like the person I am when I’m with Bill. Please give me your thoughts. -- Pregnant and Feeling Alone Dear Pregnant: Pregnancy seems to have given you a much-needed backbone and a clearer perspective on what behavior to model for your children. If Bill treats you terribly and getting back together depresses you, please don’t do it. He is legally obligated to provide ﬁnancial support for the baby whether you reconcile or not. If you have family mem-

bers close by, enlist their help. Dear Annie: I come from a very large family. When we plan a family event, the crowd is big and the spaces are small. The problem is my oldest sister’s husband. “Allen” is a total jerk and ruins all of these parties by bringing along several of his family members without asking the hostess for permission. These uninvited guests have no manners. They make a game out of passing gas. None of the other spouses feel the need to invite their parents or siblings, because they understand our limited resources. It does no good to make an announcement that it’s “Smith” family only. We’ve tried that. My sister has admitted how much she hates that Allen does this, but she won’t do a thing to stop it. What can we do, short of never having another family party? -- Anywhere USA Dear Anywhere: If your sister can’t get Allen to stop dragging his relatives to your parties, she should at least convince him to call the hostess in advance and warn her. The hostess should then tell Allen that space precludes them from inviting additional people. If he brings them anyway, we think your sister should host the next family gathering. In fact, we’d insist on it. Dear Annie: I read with interest the letter from “New York,” who is being verbally abused by his wife. He fears what she will say to people in their small town if he leaves. I lived in a small town with a wife who was vindictive and verbally abusive. When I left, she said I had no friends and would not survive on my own. But I was amazed at the outpouring of support and the social invitations I received. I learned that people were much more observant than I realized. They knew what she was. Tell “New York” to go for it. It could change his life. -- Been There

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“When his world was stolen, Mark Hogancamp made a world of his own.” So reads a tagline for “Marwencol,” a ﬁlm playing tonight at SPACE Gallery. (COURTESY PHOTO)

Thursday, Jan. 27 Maine’s commercial real estate industry leaders at MEREDA Forecast Conference, Member Showcase 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Maine’s commercial real estate industry leaders, including 550 developers, brokers, architects, bankers, attorneys, engineers, accountants and other professionals will participate in the annual MEREDA Forecast Conference and Member Showcase at the Holiday Inn by the Bay, 88 Spring St. “MEREDA’s annual Forecast Conference continues to enjoy record attendance as industry members gather to take stock of the economy and hear forecasts for the coming year in various regions and market sectors. The election of a more pro-development governor and legislature should also be a major topic of discussion.” Welcome Address by State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin at 10:15 a.m.; So. Maine Residential Forecast, Brit Vitalius, Vitalius Real Estate, and Mike LePage, RE/Max Heritage, at 2:40 p.m.; So. Maine Ofﬁce Forecast, Drew Sigfridson, CBRE/The Boulos Co. at 3:20 p.m. MEREDA’s seventh annual Member Showcase, which runs concurrently with the Forecast Conference and features exhibits by MEREDA members, is sold out again this year. The showcase will be open at 9 a.m., noon and 4 p.m. 874-0801

A talk on Developing an International Nonprofit at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor 11:10 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. Florence Reed, president and founder of Sustainable Harvest International talks about Developing an International Nonprofit to Jay Friedlander’s Launching a New Venture class. SHI is a nonprofit dedicated to working with rural Central American communities to implement sustainable land-use practices. Straus Seminar Room in Turrets. College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor. jfriedlander@coa.edu or 801-5716. Free.

‘Fracturing the Burning Glass’ 5 p.m. Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art features “Fracturing the Burning Glass: Between Mirror and Meaning,” Jan. 26-April 10. Opening reception: Jan. 27. Gwenäel Bélanger, Susan Leopold, Daniel Rozin, Alyson Shotz. “Navigating the disparity between the actual and the understood, the artists in this exhibition break the plane of the mirror, suggesting that illumination comes not always from what is reﬂected, but from what light slips through the cracks.” Artist Talk by Daniel Rozin on Feb. 10 at 3:30 p.m. in Osher Hall. http://www.meca.edu

‘Storytellers’ public reception at USM 5:30 p.m. University of Southern Maine’s Kate Chaney Chappell ’83 Center for Book Arts exhibit, “Storytellers,” will be on exhibit from Monday, Jan. 24 through Saturday, March 12, in the Unum Great Reading Room on the seventh ﬂoor of USM’s Glickman Family Library, 314 Forest Ave., Portland. There will be a free public reception and panel discussion to celebrate the opening of the exhibit at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 27 in Library’s University Events Room. The exhibit is free and open to the public during library hours: 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday; 7:45 a.m.-11 p.m., Monday-Thursday; 7:45 a.m. -8 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday. Closed holidays. Guest Curator Henry Wolyniec was invited to curate this group show, which includes eight Maine artists who make it their business to ask questions by using their visual skills to tell stories that inquire, provoke and analyze. Greta Bank, Patrick Corrigan, Carl Haase,

Adriane Herman, Charlie Hewitt, Lisa Pixley, Alex Rheault, and David Wolfe will have work included in the show. Exhibitors Greta Bank, Adriane Herman and Carl Haase will participate in the January 27 panel discussion. For information about library hours and access, call 780-4270.

Police to hear from gay community 6 p.m. Later this month, the City of Portland Police Department will host a forum with the city’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population to discuss safety concerns and ways the department can improve its relationship with the gay community. The forum will provide an opportunity for members of the GLBT community to share their thoughts openly and hear from the department about efforts to ensure that Portland is an inclusive and safe community for all. “Easy access and open communication are basic tenants for how the police department operates in Portland,” stated Portland Police Chief James Craig. “This forum provides members of the city’s gay community an opportunity to voice their concerns and be heard.” University of Southern Maine, Abromson Community Education Center, Room 213, 88 Bedford St. For more information about the forum, call 874-8601 or email lindaw@portlandmaine.gov.

End Community School, Portland, and at 1 p.m. at Reiche Community School, Portland; Monday, Feb. 7 at 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. at Saco Museum, Saco; Friday, Feb. 11 at 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. at Fryeburg Academy Performing Arts Center, Fryeburg; Thursday, Feb. 17 at 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. at Windham High School, Windham; Friday, Feb. 18 at 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. at Crooker Theater, Brunswick High School, Brunswick; and Tuesday, March 1 at 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. at Margaret Chase Smith School, Sanford, and at 1 p.m. at Carl Lamb School, Sanford. KinderKonzert tickets are $4 per person. For reservations or additional information, email education@portlandsymphony.org or call 773-6128.

Octopus’s Garden exhibit opening at COA 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Octopus’s Garden by Melita Westerlund at the Ethel H. Blum Gallery of College of the Atlantic. Gallery hours, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sculpture and two-dimensional work dedicated to coral, reﬂecting the artist’s fascination with and concern over the state of coral, which has deteriorated badly from pollution. College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor. Jan. 28 through Feb. 17 cclinger@coa.edu, 288-5105 or 801-5733. Free.

Film: ‘Marwencol’ at SPACE

Comedians of Chelsea Lately

7:30 p.m. “Marwencol” is a documentary about the fantasy world of Mark Hogancamp. “After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by ﬁve men outside a bar, Mark builds a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. Mark populates the town he dubs ‘Marwencol’ with dolls representing his friends and family and creates life-like photographs detailing the town’s many relationships and dramas. Playing in the town and photographing the action helps Mark to recover his hand-eye coordination and deal with the psychic wounds of the attack. When Mark and his photographs are discovered, a prestigious New York gallery sets up an art show. Suddenly Mark’s homemade therapy is deemed ‘art,’ forcing him to choose between the safety of his fantasy life in Marwencol and the real world that he’s avoided since the attack. $7/$5 for SPACE members, all ages. http://www.facebook.com/Marwencol

7 p.m. Join Chelsea Lately regulars Loni Love, Natasha Leggero, Chuy and Josh Wolf live at the State Theatre in what is sure to be a side-splitting comedy show. The State Theatre is a historic venue located in Portland, Maine. Originally opened in 1929 as a movie house, the theatre has experienced a lively history as a music venue and a porn house until it shuttered its doors in 2006. This year, New York City based promoters The Bowery Presents and regional promoter Alex Crothers have taken the reins to return the State Theatre to its original glory by modernizing the venue including refurbishing the stage, new seating and upgrades to the infrastructure, such as new sound and lighting, offering both artists and music lovers alike the best concert experience. Please note: Most material will be of an adult nature). For more information or to purchase tickets log on to http://www.statetheatreportland.com/ or call the State Theatre at 956-6000.

Friday, Jan. 28 ‘The Nature of Woodwinds’ 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. The Portland Symphony Orchestra presents “The Nature of Woodwinds, ” an exploration of the musical sounds of nature, beginning in Lewiston on Jan. 28. Olin Arts Center, Bates College, Lewiston. The PSO Woodwind Quintet will compare elements of music: tempo, rhythm, and melody, with elements in nature: the seasons, weather, and wildlife. “The Nature of Woodwinds” will visit seven towns in Maine, performing for thousands of young children in 20 performances. Sponsored by Time Warner Cable, KinderKonzerts are entertaining, interactive programs with Portland Symphony musicians and designed for kids ages 3–7. Attendees are encouraged to sing, dance, wiggle, clap, and have fun listening and learning about music and instruments. School systems can coordinate the KinderKonzert visit with Science and English Language Arts instruction in addition to Visual and Performing Arts. Specially prepared worksheets designed to support Maine’s Learning Results are available online or by contacting the PSO. Other KinderKonzerts will take place Thursday, Feb. 3 at 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. at East

‘Little Shop of Horrors’ 7 p.m. Enjoy a bit of musical theater and help support a local high school! Come see the Casco Bay High School production of “Little Shop of Horrors” Jan. 28 and 29 on the Portland High School Stage at 7 p.m. Our diligent students have worked tirelessly to bring you this stellar show! Tickets are available at the door for just $5, so take some time to sample the arts without damaging your wallet. For more information, call 874-8160 and ask for Mr. Hale.

‘Guys and Dolls’ finale 7 p.m. More than 50 Portland’s Moore Middle School students will appear in “Guys and Dolls,” under the direction of Hannah Friedman. The final performance will be held at Moore Middle School, located at 171 Auburn St. The cost is $10 per ticket for adults. All students (college age or younger) and children will be admitted free. A Jan. 23 benefit production of “Guys and Dolls” by students at Portland’s Moore Middle School raised $820 for the Center for Grieving Children. Moore students worked with children at the center to create giant dice that were used as props in the production. see next page

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‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Old Port Playhouse ‘Paul Bunyan’ tour 7:30 p.m. Audiences in Portland, Westbrook, Peaks Island and Freeport will soon be treated to some wild and wooly chronicles of Maine’s own Paul Bunyan, Mighty Woodsman, Inventor of Logging, and Hero-Leader of the best band of jim-crackin’ rip-snortin’ rogues that ever tramped the Maine woods, by The Figures of Speech Student Ensemble (FOSSE), an after-school program for students from Freeport High School, currently in its fourth year. The “Paul Bunyan” tour will open on Friday, Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mast Landing School in Freeport. The run continues on Sunday, Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Lucid Stage in Portland; on Friday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Warren Library in Westbrook, and on Sunday, Feb. 6 at 1 p.m. at the Peaks Island School. Funding for the development of “Paul Bunyan” comes from a grant from the Maine Arts Commission’s SMART program, as well as support from the Freeport Performing Arts Boosters. For more detailed information on locations, tickets, etc., go to www.ﬁgures.org/projects/ FOSSE or call Figures of Speech Theatre, 865-6355.

‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Old Port Playhouse 7:30 p.m. “The Wizard of Oz,” the sell-out hit musical returns to Old Port Playhouse with Gina Pardi returning as “Dorothy Gale.” “Full of special effects, colorful costumes and all your favorite characters, this show sold out before it opened last season. Because of the intimate space within this 70 seat theater, kids of all ages not only see OZ, they experience it! Due to the demand for tickets, OZ will play for four weeks beginning Jan. 14. And to make it affordable for everyone, the Playhouse has priced all tickets at only $15.” Fridays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. To make a reservation or for more information, call 773-0333 or go to oldportplayhouse.com.

Saturday, Jan. 29 Evergreen Cemetery walk 8:45 a.m. to 10 a.m. Portland Trails is excited to announce a 2011 Winter Walk series. This free series, made possible by a grant from Healthy Portland, is for adults and families with children who are making an effort to get more exercise, but are stymied when it comes to winter recreation. Participants are reminded to wear warm clothing, hats and gloves and bring snowshoes if there is adequate snow on the ground. Portland Trails has snow shoes available (free for members, $5/non-members) which can be reserved ahead of time. Please register for any walk by emailing info@trails. org or calling 775-2411. For more information or to check cancellations due to the weather go to www.trails.org. Caitlyn Horose will lead folks along the vast trail network at the Evergreen Cemetery. If there is enough snow people are encouraged to bring snow shoes or reserve some ahead of time from Portland Trails. Meet at Good Eats Boutique, 463 Stevens Ave.

‘Death and Survival in the Civil War’ 10 a.m. Spirits Alive, the advocacy group for Portland’s Eastern Cemetery will offer a three-lecture series of presentations around the theme, “Death and Survival in the Civil War.” Supported in part with funding from the Maine Humanities Council, admission is free, but donations are suggested. The theme of the lecture series was chosen in support of the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War (2011-2015). “These lectures will offer insight into this country’s greatest national crisis in relation to death and dying. It is estimated that up to 700,000 people, or 2 percent of the population died in the War Between the States.” On Jan. 29 is “The Forest City Regiment: Death, Mourning and Loss” by Kim MacIsaac, director/curator of the Fifth Maine Regiment Museum on Peaks Island. Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St. Free, donations suggested. One of the first Maine regiments to be mustered in, The Forest City Regiment included 1,046 men from southern and central Maine, and left Portland in July 1861. After three years, this fighting regiment mustered out only 193-the rest were killed in action, died from disease, were wounded, deserted, or transferred to other regiments. Visit the Fifth Maine Regiment’s website at www.fifthmainemuseum.org.

Flu vaccination clinic 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. With the arrival of flu in Maine, the City of Portland, HHSD’s Public Health Division has decided to offer two additional seasonal flu vaccination clinics next week as getting vaccinated is the best way to reduce the chances of getting the flu and reduces the risk spreading it to others. To date, city staff has vaccinated more than twelve hundred adults. The seasonal flu vaccine will be available for $10, or at no cost for individuals with a Medicare Part B card. All types of insurance including MaineCare will be accepted. Pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine will also be available for $45 or free for people with MaineCare. The clinics are open to children and adults. The Maine Centers for Disease

2 p.m. “The Wizard of Oz,” the sell-out hit musical returns to Old Port Playhouse with Gina Pardi returning as “Dorothy Gale.” “Full of special effects, colorful costumes and all your favorite characters, this show sold out before it opened last season. Because of the intimate space within this 70 seat theater, kids of all ages not only see OZ, they experience it! Due to the demand for tickets, OZ will play for four weeks beginning Jan. 14. And to make it affordable for everyone, the Playhouse has priced all tickets at only $15.” Fridays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. To make a reservation or for more information, call 773-0333 or go to oldportplayhouse.com.

Kirtan with Shubalananda 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Join returning kirtan leaders Shubalananda and Ashley Flagg for magical evening of chanting. By donation. Sadhana, the Meditation Center, 100 Brickhill Ave., South Portland. FMI: www.SadhanaMe.com. Starting on Saturday, Jan. 29, Spirits Alive, the advocacy group for Portland’s Eastern Cemetery will offer a three-lecture series of presentations around the theme, “Death and Survival in the Civil War.” (COURTESY PHOTO)

‘The Juke Box Boys’

Control is recommending vaccination against influenza for all Mainers age six months and older. This year’s vaccine provides protection against H1N1 influenza and two other influenza viruses. Clinic I: Wednesday, Jan. 26, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Portland Community Health Center, 180 Park Ave.; Clinic II: Saturday, Jan. 29, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., First Lutheran Church, 132 Auburn St, Portland. For more information, contact the City of Portland’s Flu Hotline at 874-8946 or visit the Immunization Program website, http://www.portlandmaine.gov/hhs/health.asp.

‘Little Shop of Horrors’

Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream Symposium 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church will be hosting an Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream Symposium. The symposium is created by the Pachamama Alliance, a world wide group of environmental activists working with indigenous cultures to change the ‘Western Dream’ by promoting environmental sustainability, spiritual fulﬁllment and social justice. Their website www.AwakeningtheDreamer.org is an inspirational link to this world wide effort. Two trained facilitators will offer an experiential and motivational program that encourages and supports individuals in their involvement with environmental and social issues. The program is designed to help forge the link between individual action and world wide interaction. Attendees are required to register in advance. A donation of $10 is suggested. A lunch will be provided. Individual registration at: www.A2U2.org/contact.aspx?e=72 or by contacting the coordinator, John Burdick. He can be reached at John@YourKitchenImagined.com or by cell: (978) 771-6535.

Giant Children’s Book Sale 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Giant Children’s Book Sale at the Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth. Thousands of gently used children’s books at great prices to beneﬁt the Falmouth Library. Bring your own bags and stock up! 7812351.

‘Watch Your Language!’ 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. WMPG, Greater Portland’s community radio station at the University of Southern Maine, presents its homegrown radio word game show, “Watch Your Language!” in front of a live audience at Portland Public Library’s Rines Auditorium, 5 Monument Square, Portland. WMPG will record two half-hour episodes of “Watch Your Language!” for later rebroadcast. “Watch Your Language!” is a game show celebrating the complexity, beauty and downright weirdness of the English language, written and played by local wordsmiths, wits and raconteurs. The show is hosted by Suzanne Murphy of WMPG’s public affairs program, Big Talk, written by Kate O’Halloran and Joanne Fedorocko, and played by Margaret Cleveland, MaryBeth Davidson, Alan Brewer, Caroline Teschke and Marcia Goldenberg. The show is open to the public with a suggested donation of $5, with all proceeds to benefit WMPG’s Power Up! signal improvement campaign. Through a transmitter move and power increase, Power Up! will bring a strong WMPG signal to five times as many Southern Maine listeners as receive it now. The station still needs to raise the final $50,000 of the $225,000 total amount required to fund the upgrade. The new transmitter is expected to begin broadcasting WMPG by mid-September, 2011. ‘Watch Your Language!” is Greater Portland’s only locally written and produced radio word game show. It follows in the tradition of public radio’s “My Word” and “Says You.” WMPG is the volunteer-driven broadcast voice of southern Maine, committed to nurturing and presenting local voices of all kinds. “Watch Your Language!” is a uniquely entertaining and stimulating program, created and performed completely by local talent. More information about WMPG Community

7 p.m. “The Juke Box Boys,” Tribute to Do-Wop; $39.95 p/p ﬁve-course dinner, beer and wine available. Free parking. January 15, 22 and 29 at Anthony’s Dinner Theater, 151 Middle St., Portland. Call for reservations. 221-2267. 7 p.m. Enjoy a bit of musical theater and help support a local high school! Come see the Casco Bay High School production of “Little Shop of Horrors” Jan. 28 and 29 on the Portland High School Stage at 7 p.m. Our diligent students have worked tirelessly to bring you this stellar show! Tickets are available at the door for just $5, so take some time to sample the arts without damaging your wallet. For more information, call 874-8160 and ask for Mr. Hale.

Sunday, Jan. 30 Bach’s St. John Passion 2:30 p.m. The Portland Symphony Orchestra at Merrill Auditorium. “One of the most vivid and important works of the Baroque era. Extravagant, with an expressive immediacy, this Passion is as dramatic as the most dynamic operas of the period.” www.portlandsymphony.org

Tuesday, Feb. 1 ‘Personnel Problems: A Primer’ 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Barbara Goodwin, attorney and partner of Murray, Plumb & Murray, will host a free seminar, “Personnel Problems: A Primer” at the firm’s office at 75 Pearl St. in Portland. This seminar will lead attendees through some of the most common issues that employers face in the workplace, and lay out practical solutions for addressing them. Among the topics considered will be: employee discipline; performance evaluations; cell phones, the internet and appropriate use policies; and confidentiality concerns. This presentation will provide attendees with down to earth guidance for the daily operation of their businesses. The seminar is free but registration is required. To reserve a seat, contact Kathy Willette at 523-8243 or at kwillette@ mpmlaw.com. Refreshments will be provided. This seminar is part of a series of four presented by Murray, Plumb & Murray. The other upcoming seminars are: “Streamlining Collections and Chasing Delinquent Customers” on Feb. 15; “Succession Planning for Businesses and Family Real Estate” on Feb. 22; and “Commercial Real Estate Basics for

Casco Bay High School Flatbread Fundraiser 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Casco Bay High School is teaming up with Maine Huts & Trails on a beneﬁt night at Flatbread Pizza Company, 72 Commercial St., Portland. Flatbread will donate $3.50 for every pizza sold that night to fund a twonight trip for 20 Casco Bay students to one of the Maine Huts. Casco Bay High School staff and Maine Huts & Trails staff and board members will be at Flatbread throughout the evening to provide updates about their work. Everyone in attendance at the beneﬁt night will be entered to win a free night for four at Maine Huts & Trails. The drawing will be held at the restaurant that night. For more information, please call 874-8160.

‘The Play About the Baby’ 7:30 p.m. Mad Horse Theatre’s Dark Night Series presents “The Play About the Baby” Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, Jan. 24 through Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m. While Mad Horse Theatre Company’s production of Edward Albee’s “The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?” is being performed on the Main Stage, the Company’s Dark Night Series returns with the perfect companion piece, Albee’s The Play About the Baby. Performances of the Dark Night Series run Monday through Wednesday nights, when the theatre would otherwise be dark, giving theatre enthusiasts yet another chance to experience the work of this living icon of the American theatre.

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Thursday, Jan. 27 Acoustic Mixtape Review at One Longfellow 8 p.m. The Brew, Audrey Ryan and Will Dailey take the stage at One Longfellow for an all-acoustic night of music. The Brew are an aptly named quartet from Amesbury, a town in northeastern Massachusetts, cooking up a musical melting pot on their brand-new, self-released album, Back to the Woods, that combines their roots in classic rock, adding ingredients of prog, jazz, reggae, world beat, indie, funk and orchestral pop, sometimes in the course of a single song. Will Dailey, the award-winning Boston singer/songwriter plays music may be rooted in classic rock. Audrey Ryan is an intriguing new singer. She grew up in Bar Harbor, Maine; studied at the Sydney Music Conservatory in Australia; and now lives in Boston. She is a jazz-pop artist whose inﬂuences would appear to range from Joni Mitchell to Edie Brickell. $15, all ages.

Friday, Jan. 28 Dead of Winter 5 - Death of D.O.W. 8:30 p.m. Five years ago, soon-to-be SPACE Programmer Ian Paige and not-quite-yet Brenda frontman Joshua Loring had a good idea: Create an event that helps Portland musicians and audiences get through these darkest days of winter with hot toddies, cozy candlelight, and intimate performances from a cross-section of our city’s finest musicians. All good things must come to an end, however, and Josh and Ian are going to see this wildly successful series out with a bang. They’ll be joined by a boatload of Portland celebrities visiting the stage as your hosts sit by the fake fire in their armchairs, snifters in hand, guiding you through performances by Tyler Jackson (Foam Castles), Samuel James, Aleric Nez, Dave Noyes and Kelly Nesbitt, Sean Morin, Leif Sherman-Curtis (AOK Suicide Forest), JD Walker and Sontiago, Emily Dix Thomas, and more! 14-yearold wunderkind Leander Johnson dj’s the night with the sound of snowflakes falling and expect a ton of surprises from the likes of Joe Ricchio (Portland Food Coma), Crank Sturgeon, Mayor Nick Mavodones, TJ Metcalfe (Dead Man’s Clothes) and Sean Wilkinson on one of our favorite nights of the year! $6, 18 plus.

Sore Eros/ Doomstar! / MIndwheel / Endless Caverns at the Apohadion 8 p.m. Sore Eros is anindie band signed to, SHDWPLY Records, originally as the solo project of Robert Robinson based in Enﬁeld Connecticut and branded as lo-ﬁ, pop music with psychedelic elements. Cambridge’s Doomstar brings garage-psych-punk to town. Local zone purveyors Endless Caverns bring the heady sounds of the L’animaux Tryst label to the D.I.Y. arts space. $5

JimmyJo and the Jumbol’Ayuhs 8 p.m. JimmyJo and the Jumbol’Ayuhs is a Cajun dance band that hails from the bayous of mid-coast Maine. They play the traditional “dance hall” style music from the bayous and prairies of southwest Louisiana. The Jumbol’Ayuhs are: Jim Joseph on Cajun accordion and ﬁddle; Pam Weeks on ﬁddle; Bill Olson on guitar; Elna Joseph on electric bass; and Kit Garovoy on drums, Cajun triangle (ti’-fer), and Zydeco rubboard. The band has studied with many of the Cajun “masters” in Louisiana and bring to the audience an authentic Cajun sound. Come dance to waltzes, 2-steps, swing and Cajun blues numbers most of which are sung in Cajun French. What could be better than imagining you are in a hot crowded dance hall in Louisiana on a cold winter’s day in Maine!!! Sink into that mesmerizing Cajun rhythm and dance the night away! No need to bring a partner or even experience in Cajun dancing, there will be a Cajun dance workshop at 7 p.m. One Longfellow Square: $10.

Eric Bettencourt / Amanda Gervasi / The Ross Livermore Band at The Big Easy 8 p.m. An all-local lineup at Ther Big Easy with Eric Bettencourt, Amanda Gervasi and The Ross Livermore Band. $5, 21 plus.

Saturday, Jan. 29 Monster Energy Music as a Weapon V at the Cumberland County Civic Center 7 p.m. Monster Energy Music as a Weapon V, featuring Disturbed and Korn at the Cumberland County Civic Center. Tickets: $39.75 general admission. Multi-platinum Chicago quartet Disturbed’s new album, “Asylum,” will be released Aug. 31. Over the course of eight full-length releases, Korn have sold in excess of 30 million albums, played countless sold-out shows worldwide and won two Grammys. www.theciviccenter.com

Jonathon Edwards at One Longfellow 8 p.m. Born in Minnesota and detoured into blues and rock before realizing he was hooked on folk music, Jonathon Edwards 36-year careerhas seen 15 albums, performed throughout North America and in Holland, and collaborated

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with artists such as Emmylou Harris, Jimmy Buffett, Maura O’Connell, Christine Lavin and Cheryl Wheeler. His 1987 children’s album, Little Hands, was selected by the National Library Association as a “Notable Children’s Recording.” $35, all ages.

Gem Club / South China / Jakob Battick and Friends at The Oak & The Ax 8 p.m. “Somerville’s Gem Club are Christopher Barnes and Kristen Drymala, and they devoted themselves to wonderfully intimate and slow ballads, with a sad voice supported only by a piano, gentle strings and occasionally some subtle noises in the distance — that’s all, but that’s more than enough to create magic that leaves us bafﬂed and spellbound,” writes music blog No Fear of Pop. Local indie acts South China and the haunted house jams of Jakob Battick and Friends join. $8, all ages. Oak & the Ax, Biddeford.

Waranimal’s Winter Beach Ball 9 p.m. SPACE Gallery is going to crank the heat and dance up a sweat so wear your shorts and hawaiian shirt under your snowsuit when you come to Waranimal’s Winter Beach Ball! Everyone gets lei-ed at the door! Grab a lawn chair and an adult sno-cone with your sunglasses on as you enjoy the ceremonial headbanging and beer tornados of local boys done badass,Waranimal (featuring Dethbot). Boston’s Razormaze holds down the long hair, pointy guitars and ripping solos and Corpse Pose, the new supergroup featuring members of Conifer, Cult Maze and LANTVRN, makes their SPACE debut. Think Weekend at Bernie’s meets Bauhaus. Dj Kurt Baker spins vinyl all through the night so you don’t have to put your coat on till last call! $7, 18 plus.

Monday, Jan. 31 Decompression Chamber Music at One Longfellow 6 p.m. This “rush hour” concert series is designed for you! Stop in for an entertaining hour on your way home from work. Bring a date! Have glass of wine, listen to beautiful music, become a connoisseur. Tonight’s is “Argentina!” with music by Argentine composers Ginastera and Piazzolla. World Affairs Council speaker, Julie Fisher, will talk to us about Argentina while we enjoy Argentine wine and food. Goup Bio, Piotr Buczek, Colin Davis, Mark Berger, and Decompression Chamber Music creator Priscilla Hayes Taylor combine their expertise, humor, and artistic talents to bring you ﬁve compelling new concerts of sumptuous music. $10 adv/ $12 door.

Tuesday, Feb. 1 Two: Marie Stella and Brenda at Port City 8 p.m. Port City Music Hall’s best excuse to see local music on a Tuesday returns with local indie acts Marie Stella and Brenda taking the stage. $2, 21 plus. Also, name your price for a download of Marie Stella’s new single “En Fluxx” at their bandcamp site http://mariestella.bandcamp.com

Wednesday, Feb. 2 Lemmy tribute featuring Hessian 10 p.m. Following the screening of a ﬁlm on Lemmy Kilmeister, SPACE hosts two of Portland’s most viciously awesome bands for a night of their favorite Motorhead tunes (with a Hawkwind song or two thrown in for good measure). Relentless torch-bearers of authentic heavy metal, Hessian, join forces with heavy riff revivalists Pigboat for a thrashing good time. $5, 18 plus, SPACE Gallery.

Thursday, Feb. 3 Woods, Ducktails and Herbcraft 9 p.m. Over the past few years New York’s Woods have established themselves as an anomaly in a world of freaks. They were an odd proposition even in the outré company of vocalist/guitarist/label owner Jeremy Earl’s Woodsist roster, perpetually out of time, committed to songsmanship in an age of noise, drone and improvisation, to extended soloing, oblique instrumentals and the usurping use of tapes and F/X in an age of dead-end singer-songwriters. Ducktails is Matthew Mondanile, a New Jerseyian whose pop is drenched in a warm drone. There is a pretty amazingly realized aesthetic running through this stuff, with all its plastic nostalgias -- like Ninja Turtles pizza, fake palm trees, sugary cereal -- and the lo-fi tape fuzz that also permeates his other projects, Predator Vision, Real Estate, and Dreams In Mirror Field. It’s home recording with one of the comfiest feels you’ll find. Herbcraft, the Portland Maine deep-psych songwriting project of Matt Lajoie opens the night in anticipation of their new release, “Ashram to the Stars”, on Woodsist vinyl-only imprint, Hello Sunshine. $5-$10 suggested donation, all ages. The Apohadion

The Toughcats at One Longfellow 8 p.m. Toughcat shows are as exhausting for the audience as they are for the beat-red drummer and the blister-ﬁngered string players. The intensity can induce a stoic crowd to dance, and a wild crowd to stop and take a look. They pull out a little something for everyone, the young folks, the old folks, the hippies and the hipsters, the yuppies and the rural unemployed. If you don’t fall head-over-heels in love with one of the band members, you are either a super villain, or an igneous rock (all other rocks have been noted to contain trace amounts of love for Jake Greenlaw.) The Toughcats tour regularly, promoting their ﬁrst album Piñata, which was so well liked as a rough cut that it was then mastered by Kramer (renown producer and former Butthole Surfer.) $12, all ages.

48 Music Fest record release party 8 p.m. The February deep freeze is approaching fast and this also means a warm night of people packed in at Space Gallery Feb. 19 for the third annual 48 Hour Music Festival. In celebration of last year’s successful event organizers are releasing the studio recordings from ﬁve of 2010’s bands. The newly released albums from last year’s fest (as well as 2009’s fest) can be downloaded for free at 48hourmusicfestival.bandcamp.com. Flask Lounge, 21 plus.

Friday, Feb. 4 Space versus Speed and The Lucid 8 p.m. Port City Music Hall presents Space versus Speed and The Lucid, who will “brave the turgid waters where art and commerce meet with the help of Boston’s Foxtrot in this special First Friday Art Walk event. This is a dual CD release event. http://portcitymusichall.frontgatetickets.com/choose. php?a=1&lid=50441&eid=58082 and at Bull Moose.

Aztec Two Step 40th Anniversary Show 8 p.m. Of their 2005 release, Days of Horses, the Boston Globe said “fans of the duo’s harmony-driven tunes and easygoing acoustic guitar riffs will recognize their James Taylormeets-Simon & Garfunkel sound. What’s new is the mood. ”In June 2007, Real Simple named Aztec Two-Step one of the top ﬁve classic folk albums joining work by Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Tom Rush and Phil Ochs. The article cites the duo as “surpass[ing] Simon and Garfunkel for exquisite harmonies, musicianship and emotion.” Aztec Two-Step continues to impress audiences with intelligent songwriting, dazzling acoustic lead guitar, and inspiring harmonies. They are one of acoustic music’s most popular and enduring acts.$25 advance, $8 day of show.

Saturday, Feb. 5 Girls Rock! at SPACE 6 p.m. Girls Rock! is a showcase of female talent from the Maine Academy of Modern Music and copresented by the Portland Music Foundation. Host to Portland’s original “Rock Camps,” MAMM instructs student ensembles year round, and this is when you get to hear their talent! The bands include The OxyMorons, Longstory, and Lady and the Gents plus local guest stars The Veayo Twins, The Curious Girl, and Amanda Gervasi. Come check out a great night of local girls and guys that rock, while beneﬁtting the music and mission of the Maine Academy of Modern Music. $5 students, $8 others. SPACE Gallery.

Thursday, Feb. 10 Christina Chute, cellist, at First Parish 12:15 p.m. Christina Chute, cellist, is featured in a noonday concert at the First Parish. Free Noonday Concerts feature faculty members from the Portland Conservatory of Music, organists from the area and guest artists. There are soloists, chamber ensembles, choral groups and jazz musicians included in the Noonday concert series. “As we begin our 15th year of presenting free, quality concerts in the heart of Portland’s business district, we that you for being a spirited and responsive audience.” FMI: First Parish773.5747 or www.ﬁrstparishportland.org.

Jazz singer Gretchen Parlato visits Bates 7:30 p.m. A fast-rising star called by one critic “the most original jazz singer in a generation,” Gretchen Parlato visits Bates College to perform in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Admission is $12 for the general public and $6 for seniors, children and students. Tickets are available at www.batestickets.com. Reviewing her performance at the 2010 Newport Jazz Festival, The Boston Globe’s Steve Greenlee wrote: “Working in a style that drew from bop, bossa nova and strains of world jazz, Parlato delivered her vocals in a breathy manner, nearly whispering her lyrics. . . . The evidence is piling up that young 786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.

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house-sitting for this couple on a particularly soul-crushing winter five years ago,” said Ian Paige, events programmer at Space Gallery. “I had just started working at Space on the events

staff and proposed putting together a songwriter showcase that was curated by Josh and myself, so we picked people we thought would help lighten our spirits who you otherwise might not see until spring,” he said. This year’s Dead of Winter

Noise/performance artist/man-ﬁsh Crank Sturgeon performs ... something, during last June’s Summer Solstice boat party in Casco Bay. Sturgeon, a host of local musicians and other performers will take the stage this Friday at Space Gallery for Dead of Winter 5 — Death of Dead of Winter as the ﬁve-year annual winter series comes to an end. (MATT DODGE PHOTO)

show is tomorrow (Friday), and after years of lightening spirits and luring musicians from their warm burrows, it will die. “Dead of Winter 5 - The Death of Dead of Winter” will close out the series five-year run with a blowout event featuring local musicians taking the stage as solo acts and duets. “Part of idea is to highlight people you usually just saw in bands. It’s informal; they can play a cover they might not play with their band and you get this cross-pollination of people doing duets,” said Paige. The decision to end the series is actually a positive reflection on the state of local music, its venues and performers. Paige said that “... in a way, i think the music scene has definitely changed over the last five years, people are staying busier and there are more places to play shows.” “We decided to call this the last one because it’s just been so successful, so there’s an element of quitting while you’re ahead. Five years is a good run for a series and I’m sure something similar will pop up in its place,” said Paige. The Dead of Winter victory lap includes performances

by Tyler Jackson (Foam Castles), Samuel James, Aleric Nez, Kelly Nesbitt, Jay Lobley (Metal Feathers), Sean Morin, Leif ShermanCurtis (AOK Suicide Forest), JD Walker and Sontiago and Emily Dix Thomas. “I’m really excited for JD Walker to return to the stage,” said Paige, “He was big in the hip-hop world here a while back and he and Sontiago are married and are going to do a duet.” Sean Morin will defy the stripped-down pretense of the night and involve a string quartet while Leif ShermanCurtis will present some new material. Paige and Loring will see their series off right, taking the stage and playing host. “We’re adding a little level of theater to this one. Josh and I wanted to really properly host where normally we would just pick people playing and let them get up one after another,” he said. The show will also feature performances by the indescribable (read: weird) Crank Sturgeon, 14 year-old wunderkind Leander Johnson, a video from musician TJ Metcalf and a reading of archival municipal material from Portland Mayor Nick Mavo-

dones. “We have a couple of novelties to make this one a little different,” he said. Midcoast noise artist and man-fish hybrid Crank Sturgeon “has something up his sleeves,” according to Paige (at last summer’s Summer Solstice boat party, it was a extendable penis with a happy face, to give some frame of reference). “I have the bad habit of saying ‘do whatever you want’,” said Paige. Musician/filmmaker/artist/ photographer and all-around worldly 14-year old Leander Johnson will DJ the night and fire up his Nintendo DSbased synthesizer for a live performance. The Waynefleet student, with whom Paige has recorded an album under the name Soldat “rocks a Nintendo DS like no one else,” said Paige. Mayor Mavodones will take the stage to read material found in the library archives, offering a literary portrait of Portland winters throughout history. “Josh and Sean Wilkinson are combing the library archives for nostalgic things about winter in Portland from decades past, like travel journals talking about Portland’s ‘sturdy but comely’ women,” said Paige.