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Another day for the gorilla suit See Bob Higgins’ column on page 4

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If opening a space for what has becoming “co-working” in Portland might seem a little redundant given the city’s wealth of coffeeshops and cozy home offices, then you’ve never tried to take a phone call over the whir of an espresso machine or edit photos with a cat “A lot of people traipsing across say they just your keyboard. “One of the main want to get out of the house advantages of coworking is having and have a a quite place to more profesmake phone calls,” said Elizabeth sional place Trice, standing to meet with outside Arabica clients.” — Coffee for a phone interview on a Elizabeth Trice, freezing Tuesday consultant afternoon. “The idea is to for real estate provide an office developer Peter space to people Bass, who who work from plans to open home or remotely and not just a the city’s ﬁrst space, but the work purpose-built community that a lot of people don’t co-working have,” said Trice, a space consultant for real estate developer Peter Bass, who plans to open the city’s first purposebuilt co-working space by Bramhall Square by mid-February. Welcome to the world of the coworker, home to more than 1,000 Portland workers who use the spaces as an upgrade from home offices or working at home. For example, Peloton Labs will be a modern office space built on the foundation of the former Binga’s Wingas location destroyed in a 2008 fire. The “lab” will feature enough space to accommodate up to 40 workers, with work spaces from cubicles and desks to private offices and conference rooms and memberships ranging from $40 to $400 a month. “A lot of people say they just want to get out of the house and have a more professional place to meet with clients,” she said. The social and networking opportunities offered by such an arrangement are a perk of the space as well. “You have other people around who know see CO-WORKING page 9

A pedestrian passes the old Binga’s restaurant space, now Peloton Labs, a soon-to-open office space built on the co-working concept. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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Mom, you’re one tough art critic (NY Times) — After careful consideration, Jessica Hanff has found the ideal spot for the art that her 4-year-old daughter, Elisabeth, brings home from preschool: the trash can. “We’re getting two to four pieces of crayon drawing a day,” said Ms. Hanff, a 36-year-old operations manager for an academic research institute. On a recent Tuesday, Ms. Hanff began sorting through a few dozen of Elisabeth’s drawings, stacked in the mudroom of the family’s Washington home. “These are printouts off the computer, colored in,” she said. “C is for Cat! And she’s scribbled some things on it. This is Dora the Explorer.” Ms. Hanff stopped to observe the purplish rings that Elisabeth had marked around Dora’s eyes. “It looks like someone slapped her in the face. She’s got these big shiners.” Ms. Hanff is always on the lookout for “exceptional” drawings. But this entire batch would soon be archived in the rubbish bin. “I’m not sentimental about those at all,” she said. “It’s my job to avoid raising a hoarder, and I’m leading by example.” But Elisabeth has been known to fish her drawings out of the trash and present them to her mother. “I’ll say, ‘Oh, thank you,’ ” Ms. Hanff said. “We’ll have a discussion. I’m not callous. But once she turns away, often I’ll toss it out again.”

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Mubarak orders ministers to resign but Ireland will backs armed response to Egypt protests dissolve CAIRO (NY Times) — President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt appeared on television early Saturday morning and ordered his government to resign, but backed his security forces’ attempts to contain the surging unrest around the country that has shaken his three-decadelong authoritarian rule. He did not offer to step down himself and spent much of his speech explaining the need for stability, saying that while he

was “on the side of freedom,” his job was to protect the nation from chaos. In Washington, President Obama held a news conference and said he had spoken to Mr. Mubarak immediately after his televised comments, and pressed the Egyptian president to live up to his promise to guard both security and freedom for the Egyptian people. “He has a responsibility to give meaning to those words,” Mr.

Obama said, adding that his administration has stressed that Mr. Mubarak must enact political reforms. In a short, but strongly worded speech, Mr. Obama also called on Egypt to cease blocking access to the Internet, and called on protesters to remain nonviolent. Earlier in the day, his spokesman said Egypt’s $1.5 billion aid package would be reviewed if the protesters were dealt with harshly.

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Top U.S., intl. athletes set for World Cup Biathlon BY RYAN MCLAUGHLIN BANGOR DAILY NEWS

Aroostook County will be at the center of the biathlon world over the next two weekends, as venues in Presque Isle and Fort Kent host the World Cup of Biathlon. The Cup will descend on the Nordic Heritage Center in Presque Isle Feb. 4-6 then head up the road to the 10th Mountain Ski Center in Fort Kent Feb. 10-13. The Olympic sport of biathlon combines cross-country skiing with smallcaliber rifle target shooting. More than 400 athletes from 22 countries are expected to compete at the two venues, including one of the best athletes in the sport’s history, Ole Bjoerndalen of Norway. The competition in Presque Isle kicks off Friday with the men’s and women’s sprint at 9:30 a.m., followed by a mixed relay on Feb. 5 at 2:30 p.m., and a pursuit event Feb. 6 at 10 a.m. The distances for a sprint race are 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) for men and 7.5K (4.6 miles) for women while the pursuit consists of a 12.5K (men, 7.8 miles) and 10K (women). Should a competitor happen to miss a target during a race, penalty time is added to their total time. Action in Fort Kent gets under way with the men’s sprint on Feb. 10, followed by the women’s sprint Feb. 11 and the men’s and women’s pursuit Feb. 12, while a mass start Feb. 13 (15K, or 9.3 miles, for men; 12.5K for women) will wrap up the competition. “One of the most famous athletes that will be coming is Ole Bjoerndalen. They call him the King of Biathlon, really,” said Jane Towle, who is heading up the Presque Isle competition. Bjoerndalen owns more world championship and Olympic medals than any other biathlete in history, with 11 Olympic medals, including six golds, and 34 World Championship medals (14 golds). Headlining Team USA is Tim Burke of Paul Smiths, N.Y. “Tim Burke is our top U.S. athlete, so we’re hoping he’s going to do very well when he comes to his homeland,” said Towle. “He has trained up here in

“The first person across the finish line is always the winner, whereas with the sprint races, you’re starting at 30-second intervals,” he said. “You have 30 athletes come into the range all at once (in the mass start).” In a mass start race, competitors are competing against each other, but in other events, they will be skiing and shooting against the clock. The courses in Presque Isle and Fort Kent are both challenging, with Presque Isle’s trails featuring a “corkscrew” hill, which is classified as a steep More than 400 athletes from 22 countries are expected to compete in downhill with multiple the World Cup of Biathlon. (COURTESY PHOTO) turns. Fort Kent’s course, northern Maine.” which Dubis believes is more difficult The 28-year-old Burke is a former than that of Presque Isle’s, showcases Olympian who finished 14th overall a steep climb about a quarter-mile in the Cup standings over the 2009-10 after the start. season. “We put that in about three seaAll nine U.S. athletes scheduled to sons ago,” he said. “In the past theirs compete — five men and four women was more difficult than ours. In other — have trained in Aroostook County. regards the courses are pretty much Rounding out the remainder of the the same, they’re both really good U.S. men’s squad are Lowell Bailey courses.” of Lake Placid, N.Y., Jay Hakkinen While Fort Kent’s facility has hosted of Kasilof, Alaska, Leif Nordgren of Marine-on-St. Croix, Minn., and Jeremy Teeler of Heber City, Utah. The women’s squad is made up of Annelies Cook of Saranac Lake, N.Y., Haley Johnson of Lake Placid, Laura Specter of Lennox, Mass., and Sara Studebaker of Boise, Idaho. Bailey and Specter are both former Olympians, along with Cook, Nordgren and Studebaker. Family Ice With a cast like that, it’s no surprise offers... that ticket sales are strong, according Public Skating to organizers. Indoor & Outdoor “Ticket sales have been great, and Pickup Hockey we’re expecting a big crowd,” said Private Ice Rentals Towle. Learn To Skate The mass start race is arguably the Classes most exciting of the races, according Birthday Parties to Jeff Dubis, who is managing the & More competition in Fort Kent.

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Goodbye, campaign spending and contribution limits! The campaign finance reform law enacted after Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign and the Watergate scandal was straightforward. Presidential candidates who complied with limits on campaign contributions and expenditures would receive public matching funds for their primary campaigns. Each general-election presidential nominee of the two major parties would receive a lump-sum grant to run his campaign as long as he agreed to limit spending to the amount of the grant and not to accept any private contributions. ––––– Its intention was to create “a level playing field” where an Creators underfinanced underdog canSyndicate didate could have a fighting chance against the front-runner with the deepest pockets and biggest financial backing. Because the reform law was on the books, an out-of-office former governor could challenge a sitting president in the primaries and come within a switch of only 54 delegate votes at the national convention of winning the nomination. That was 1976, and the challenger to President Gerald Ford, of course, was Ronald Reagan, who under the Watergate reform law ran three presidential campaigns in which he abided by the contribution and spending limits, and twice as the winning Republican nominee ran campaigns financed entirely by taxpayer funds. (I have yet to hear any conservatives accuse the Gipper when he cashed those Treasury checks to finance his campaign of accepting “political food stamps.” George H.W. Bush ran twice for president and twice for vice president in campaigns that willingly accepted the law’s contribution and expenditure limits and public matching funds. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter in four presidential campaigns between them did the same. George W. Bush accepted public funds for his general election campaigns even after he had raised and spent only private money in the pre-convention period and not abided by the statutory primary spending limits.

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Another day for the gorilla suit Though February may be the cruelest month, it’s short 28 days usually leads to mischief. This year, before the month will even begin, I calculated that now is the right time to get things off to a good start. “National Gorilla Suit Day” is Monday, Jan. 31. The holiday was started as a joke in one of the books of cartoons put out by MAD MAGAZINE cartoonist Don Martin. Since his death, his widow has begged the Internet community to let it go, but every year it pops back up again, and for good reason. You may have noticed that winters in Maine are long, cold and can be exceptionally boring. Other than putting a lawn-chair on the porch and waiting for folks to slip on that one patch of unsalted ice in front of your house, there are few reasons to go outside. Certain athletic types manage it, to go skiing and such, but the sedentary life of the indoor dwelling fatman leads to cabin fever. It manifested itself this week, right after the brutal cold snap. I bought one of those remote controlled “indoor helicopters” whose sole purpose seems to have been invented to chase the cat around

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist the house. Ancient elderly cat is not amused, but the kitten that belongs to The Roommate has completely lost his furry little mind over it. That choice beat icefishing, which is just an excuse to sit outside and drink beer. Working for the Halloween store back in the fall, I managed to score a slightly used gorilla suit this past year. The store sold a ton of them, something like a hundred over an eight-week period. They are likely still out there, hanging in closets or boxed away for the one day a year they might get used. But Halloween only comes once a year, and for the considerable investment a good gorilla suit represents, there MUST be other occasions to use it. In research for this column, I even found a 5K fundraiser, in which hundreds of participants run a race every year in Texas, all dressed in gorilla suits. Not being a jogger unless

Don those gorilla suits Monday. (FILE PHOTO)

somebody mentions the prospect of free beer, Texas was a little far to travel. There is always donning the suit to scare the roommate into a change of underwear. Not that the roomie would think an actual ape was in the kitchen, but that Your see HIGGINS page 5

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Revolutionary Arab geeks LONDON — Ill-timed books are an interesting subculture. “Dow 36,000” comes to mind. It was written by James Glassman and Kevin Hassett and published in 1999, just as the tech bubble peaked. Now we have Evgeny Morozov’s “The Net Delusion” — sub-title “The Dark Side of Internet Freedom” — hitting stores just as the Facebook-armed youth of Tunisia and Egypt rise to demonstrate the liberating power of social media. Ooops. Morozov — born in Belarus, educated in Bulgaria, living in California — is a rumpled, bespectacled 26-yearold (“I am embarrassingly young,” he told me) with no driver’s license and an outsized brain. He’s funny and talks very fast, as if the words issuing from him are trying, in vain, to catch up with the thoughts zipping through his head like electrons around an atom. These thoughts, as gathered in his exhaustive book, go like this: Cyberutopians, not least Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have spawned a dangerous illusion by suggesting the world can blog, tweet, Facebook, YouTube and Google its way to democracy and freedom. In an age where “The best and the brightest are now also the geekiest” — Morozov can turn a sound-byte — the so-called “Google Doctrine” has, in the author’s view, become a seductive trap. The reality, he argues, is that too often the Internet “empowers the strong and disempowers the weak.” Far from favoring the oppressed,

Roger Cohen ––––– The New York Times Web 2.0 gives new tools to the oppressor in cracking down on some opponents — “One stolen password now opens data doors that used not to exist” — and lulling others into passivity — “All they want to connect to is potential lovers, pornography and celebrity gossip.” Kremlin ideologues, he notes, have become very adept, sometimes with sexy shows, in forging “digital captives” distracted from politics. The fact that social media is dominated by U.S. corporations allows repressive governments from Belarus to Beijing to hatch persuasive conspiracy theories conflating, say, Twitter with American government plots, especially when, as with the Iranian uprising of 2009, there are publicized contacts between U.S. State Department officials and the company. A big Clinton speech on Internet freedom, like the one she made in January, 2010, may only expose dissident bloggers to added danger by making them appear as the long arm of American subversion — or so Morozov contends. A 69-page bibliography attests to his reading in unearthing arguments against cyber-delusions. I think Morozov is brilliant and his

book is a useful provocation. I also think he’s dead wrong. Sure, the first decade of the 21st century has seen anti-Western authoritarianism hold its ground, and there’s no question the people running repressive systems are quick studies who’ve learned to exploit, or suppress, a revolutionary technology that challenges them. Still, they’re swimming against the tide. The freedom to connect is a tool of liberation — and it’s powerful. I am writing this on my return from Tunisia, where Facebook gave young protesters the connective muscle to oust an Arab dictator, and as I watch on YouTube images of brave young Egyptians confronting the clubs and water-cannons of President Hosni Mubarak’s goons. “All they have, all they have,” says one bloodied protester of the brute force he’s encountered. Yes, when all you have is a big hammer — and that’s what’s left in the arsenal of decaying, nepotistic Arab regimes — everything looks like a nail. The truth is these men — add the 23-year rule of the ousted Tunisian dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali to the reigns of Mubarak and Muammar elQaddafi of Libya and you have almost a century of despotism — are relics to whom a wired world has given the lie. Organization, networking, exposure to suppressed ideas and information, the habits of debate and self-empowerment in a culture of humiliation and conspiracy: These are some of the gifts social media is bestowing on over-

whelmingly young populations across the Arab world. Above all, the Internet’s impact has been to expose the great delusion that has led Western governments to buttress Arab autocrats: that the only alternative to them was Islamic jihadists. No, the Tunisian revolution was middle-class, un-Islamic and proWestern. The people in the streets of Cairo are young, connected, non-ideological and pragmatic: They want a promise that Mubarak won’t stand in the presidential election this year or hand power to his son, Gamal, who, by the way, has a nice pad on London’s chic Eaton Square. As the Egyptian Nobel Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei told my colleagues David Kirkpatrick and Michael Slackman, “I am pretty sure that any freely and fairly elected government in Egypt will be a moderate one, but America is really pushing Egypt and pushing the whole Arab world into radicalization with this inept policy of supporting repression.” Enough already! If Clinton was serious in announcing that a U.S. priority is now to “harness the power of connection technologies and apply them to our diplomatic goals,” and if she truly sees the Arab world’s foundations “sinking into the sand,” the moment is now to back change in Cairo. And I can’t think of better atonement for Morozov’s errors than for him to apply his brilliance and Web savvy to the cause of Egyptian and Tunisian democracy.

Republicans traditionally outraise Democrats — but not in 2008 SIMON rom page 4

Republicans, as the anti-regulation, pro-business party, have historically been more successful at raising campaign money than Democrats. In fact, in the first four national elections of this decade, the GOP outraised the Democratic Party, according to the respected Center for Responsive Politics, by a mere $678 million. But then came 2008. The country was tired, after eight years of the Bush administration, of Republicans. The Democratic nominee was a young, cerebral, eloquent, appealing African-American with the golden touch when it came to raising money. Barack Obama became the first major-party presidential nominee since Richard M. Nixon to finance his gen-

eral election campaign exclusively by private money. Like Nixon in 1972, Obama in 2008 outraised his opponent by more than two to one — actually by $745 million to John McCain’s $368 million. By rejecting the campaign finance law in 2008, Obama won a short-term political advantage while losing for himself and his party the moral high ground on the question of political money reform. Aided by Supreme Court decisions that for the first time in over a century permit corporations to directly — as well as anonymously — bankroll commercials that attack or endorse a candidate, Republicans in 2010 enjoyed a 20-to-one spending advantage over Democrats from outside groups not required to disclose their donors. Now that they have proof of how well they can

do in elections without contribution and spending limits, House Republicans almost unanimously voted this past week to end public funding of presidential campaigns. As an incumbent, President Obama may well be able to privately raise a billion dollars, but with no spending or contribution limits, in the long run Republicans — and sevenfigure, secret donors — will have the upper hand in American politics. The era — between Nixon and Obama — may be remembered as the Golden Era of Campaign Finance Reform. (To find out more about Mark Shields and read his past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com. )

With guerrillas of the other type running rampant, let’s go ape HIGGINS from page 4

Roomie gone insane. And yet, hopes of that this year were dashed when I discovered one of my new roommates had a gorilla suit of his own. With precious else to do, and far too much time on my hands to get it accomplished, I’ve decided to hold a gathering of the gorilla tribes. If you are one of the lucky ones who own a suit, show up in Monument Square at 4:30 on Monday. What I have planned is simple. With guerrillas of the other kind rioting in the streets across the globe, Portland might be a cool spot for a mid-winter anti-protest. Show up with signs like “Damned Dirty Humans” or whatever else pops into your head. Meet for a snowball fight. The huge snowball fight

If you are one of the lucky ones who own a gorilla suit, show up in Monument Square at 4:30 on Monday. Mayhem will ensue. held in Deering Oaks a few weeks ago was cool, but it hit Portlanders by surprise. This way, with a few days warning, you can pack up all the ammo you need for a good fight. Bonus points for anyone who manages to climb to the top of “Our Lady Of Victory” statue in Monument Square. Think “flash mob,” but with plenty of advance notice. Perhaps a full-fledged sit-in at the radio stations located in One City Center, who when asked about this event in advance, denied this writer and co-conspirators the chance to occupy the “roof” of the building, so better to mock and taunt passersby.

It is winter, cold harsh and boring. A few weeks back, I noticed that someone had “gift-wrapped” a car in Parkside, getting a large roll of plastic shrinkwrap and going around the vehicle at least fifty times. These are the stunts that get us through the long dark months. Monday, get your gorilla on. Bring ideas for mischief. And bail money. (Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun.)

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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 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. One Longfellow Square.

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 bad-ass,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. www.space538.org/

The Pubcrawlers offer a “throw-your-ﬁst-in-the-air-and-sing-along mix of traditional Celtic drinking tunes and melodic punk rock.” They will perform in a special show at Geno’s tonight. Below, come early to toast a special friend. (COURTESY IMAGES) 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. $12, all ages. One Longfellow Square.

The Pubcrawlers at Geno’s 9 p.m. The Pubcrawlers return to Geno’s RockClub for a special night Saturday Night! Friends of Jessica-Lin Sorrentos Gibson, who died unexpectedly last week, are urged to meet at the club at 7 p.m. Stop in for a brief toast, tell a happy Jess story, then stay for the show by her favorite band, the Pubcralwers. It is going to be a great show, with The (Legendary) Outsiders, and The Snipes from Boston. Now with 100 percent more Ron Pubcrawler! www.facebook.com/ genosrockclub#!/genosrockclub?sk=wall

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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

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. 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

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8 p.m. The February deep freeze is approaching fast and this also means a warm night of people packed in at SPACE Gallery 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 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 Taylor-meets-Simon & Garfunkel sound. What’s new is the mood. ”In June 2007, Real Simple named Aztec TwoStep 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. www. onelongfellowsquare.com/Details.asp?ProdID=955

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Big birthdays in the music world, key encounters band, Mr. Bungle. New This past week there York is like another home were two cool birthdays to him, so he usually tries in my music world; Eddie to do more musically Van Halen and Mike while he’s in town. Apart Patton of lead singer from his known bands, of Faith No More, Mr. he is hugely involved in Bungle, Fantomas, Tomaexperimental, art music hawk, Peeping Tom and projects. He’s done per19 other bands. formances with rappers, As a kid growing up, DJ’s, guitarists, horn Van Halen was my band. I players and other odd bought the magazines, the pairings. His jazz side t-shirts and talked about comes out in these opporthem daily with other tunities. It did this night. friends. On Eddie’s birth––––– The Circle Push He was doing a solo set day this past Wednesday, sometime after midnight I ended up trading stories at Tonic, a club co-owned with my daily job/radio by his friend and a collaborator, avant boss, Herb Ivy of WCYY and WBLM. garde jazz master John Zorn. I never met Eddie myself, but I did The surprise never lasts with Patton have a run-in with his brother, Alex. fans, especially in New York. I’m waitIt was quick and simple. I met him ing outside around midnight to see outside of his hotel after a show and Patton do some off-the-cuff weird stuff handed him a copy of a live bootleg most people could care less about and I had from one of their early days there’s about 150 people in line with before signing a record deal. It had me now. This was before MySpace and three songs on it they never released. Facebook. So networking was mostly He was so psyched ‘cause he hadn’t done on email. Still, a crowd like that heard those songs in years. Made me for this mysterious show, crazy. No feel good that I could get more of an Faith No More, No Bungle. This was honest conversation out of him than, going to be a performance of no known “Hi, nice to meet you. Can I sign that songs or fan favorites. Purely, noise. for you? Thanks for coming to the Whatever he makes for sounds. So I show, goodbye.” I gave HIM somewait in line and finally at about 12:30 thing. Kinda cool. walk into this smaller sized, hipster Herb’s story was funny. He met like venue. both Van Halen brothers, awkwardly. As the show happens, Patton is up Unfortunately, it was a bad day for front with nothing but a couple microEddie. He had taken a big dose of phones and some distortion pedals. The grumpy pills that day and was a performance is him just having fun bore to interview. Things changed with his voice. Noises, screams, cartoonwhen Alex stormed into the room and ish voices and a display of mouth made accused Eddie of stealing some film sound effects. Nutty right? In the dark from his camera. The two brothers hours of the night in the middle of NYC, broke out in a shouting match, you I’m here for this. Amazing to me. Hell to know, brother to brother style. This others. Like the person who went with meeting then became very memorable me for instance. for Herb. As the show lets up, people file their On Thursday this week as Mike way out. This is about quarter past two Patton’s birthday rolled around, in the morning now. As I do the cattle someone asked me if I ever met Mike Patton ‘cause I was such IF IT’S N O T H E RE TO DAY,W E ’LL H AV E IT TO M O RRO W ! a massive fan of him and all his bands. After Van 570 Brighton A ve. The Portland,M E Halen started becoming, 615-6295 C •772-9156 H forgettable I’ll say in the W ed – Sat 11am -4pm Shoppe late ‘80s, I turned into a lice A Faith No More fanatic. This was around 1990. Anyways, I did get the chance to meet Mike Patton once in New York 12 STEP RECOVERY ITEMS, LAMPS City at about 2:30 a.m. in the morning. I was living outside of NYC at the time working for a record label. I had a lot of friends in the business so we talked A FRESH TASTE OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST and shared scoops on cool secret shows hapBlue Burrito Old Town pening in the city. One Mondays Tuesdays friend knew I was a Mike Buy a Burrito or Any Combo Plate Patton fan and said that Quesadilla & get the choice only $10 he was going to be doing 2nd for 1/2 Price Mondays Specials a surprise solo thing that night. It wasn’t listed $3.00 Draft Beers valid on Tuesdays anywhere. Just a special All Nite Book your event with us anytime. out of nowhere thing. Happy Hour Menu $2.00 Plate Charge on Splitting. Patton was in town for a show the night before with his other main

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A chance meeting can leave a lasting impression conversation and talked to me for ten minutes about all kinds of things. He was a sweetheart, to be honest. We talked about music, his daughter, the Beatles, etc. I wasn’t expecting it, but he just hit it off with me and what a bonus it turned out to be. Now with him passed away, I cherish that meeting even more. I was wondering if some local friends had any cool stories about meeting musicians they like for the first time. Here’s a few good ones!

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So, to loosen the vibe even more with Patton, I went into a joking, friend insult mode. I told him his set was great, but it was extremely painful to my friend who’s mostly into Dylan and Woody Guthrie. Patton laughed heavy. Ed seemed slightly embarrassed, but he was a lifesaving ice breaker for me to speak with this amazing person in my music life. We chatted a bit more and then I backed off as to not smother him after his show and let him continue to hang with Zorn and friends. Hey, what else do I want from this guy? Golf tips? A ride home? We walked out onto some Patton New York village sounding street name that I don’t recall and then the tongue lashings came from Ed. Eh, what did I care. I just met my favorite person in music (next to McCartney) and I made him laugh and actually act cool with me. I could have been shot in the foot by one of those NYC muggers and not felt it. It was a cool meet. Nice buzz. I’ve been lucky enough to meet and have experiences with a lot of great people in music over the years. People I’m a huge fan of like; Dio, Steve Cropper, Dave Grohl, Joan Jett, DMC, Chris Cornell, Isaac Hayes and Erykah Badu to name a few. I never was nervous with anyone of them. I always just acted like they were normal people, but people I heavily respected and the meetings always remained cool. I think if you don’t expect much that’s the best way to go into it. Brad Delp of Boston had a cool side project he sang for called, Beetlejuice. They were a Beatle cover band as you may have guessed and they were pretty good, too. I saw them once at a smaller event and I thought you know what, I don’t do autographs much, but I’m gonna have Brad sign my Boston album. That would be a cool thing. When you think of rock “albums,” Boston comes to mind pretty quick. So, after the show I planned to get my record signed, say “hi” and leave. He ended up instigating

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KEVIN KENNIE (singer, Headstart) Dicky Barrett of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones was a HUGE influence on me, but never had the chance to meet him. After my old band Shufflin’ Tremble built up a little steam we got the chance to open for them in Gorham, our hometown of all places! As the day goes on and sound checks happen we realize that nobody has told us when we need to hit the stage. We’re all lingering when finally the sound guy signals us to get on. As we’re all walking up the ramp, I’m grabbed from behind and suddenly someone is pushing me and pointing a finger in my face. It’s the promoter yelling at me that we’ve messed up the whole show and we should have been on earlier, blah blah. So I get past him, we rock our set, and as we’re walking back down the ramp we notice that a LOT of people have come to side stage. Well, it’s because Dicky was standing there watching our set! He walks over, gives a big handshake, and says some very nice things about the set. He then asks what happened to me on the ramp because he saw the whole thing. I explain, just as the promoter is walking near us. Dicky grabs him and asks, “did you really push this kid, as he was about to get on his stage, in his home town?” The guy starts down the “they weren’t on in time” road. Dicky stops the guy and asks him the same thing, adding that no one told us when to be on and no one even knew the set times. He tells the guy to shake my hand and apologize. By now theres TONS of people over near us watching and my band is there as well. The guy half heartedly shakes my hand and just turns to walk off when Dicky grabs him, turns him, and tells him to shake my hand like he means it and apologize. The guy gives it another go, and the crowd erupts. Dicky gives me a nod and starts interacting with all the people who have come over to see him. That elevated Dicky from idol status to God in my book and is still one of the coolest moments of my rock life. He also broke down a tune in their set to give us a huge shout out!

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your business and your work goals so you have those relationships and support if you want it,” said Trice. First put into practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, the co-working concept seeks to make the life of the freelancer or self-employed less lonesome and is potentially lucrative idea in a city where some 1,200 people work at home according to the U.S. Census Bureau. While open to anyone, co-working does tend to attract a certain sector of professionals who one coworking host dubs “digital creatives” and includes graphic designers, web designers and developer, project managers, videographers, photographers and bloggers. “It’s an interesting concept that’s happening in a lot of places, in a lot of big cities, and it takes the idea that you can work anywhere,” said Bass in June. “These co-working places really foster a community of workers who feed off each other,” he said. Peloton is Bass’ first commercial real estate project, a change necessitated by a slumping residential market. “It’s tough to build residential right now, the money isn’t there for it,” he said. Rates at Peloton range from eight hours per month, daytime hours only for $40, night hours (7 p.m. to 7 a.m.) for $100 to 24/7 access and a large reserved space for $400. Rates for private office space are negotiated directly with the company. But Trice said that Peloton will be more than just a desk and a quiet place to work, encouraging participants to collaborate and programming events to that end. “One thing we hope to do is host groups that want to have regular meetings and speakers who can give [lectures] that might be useful to members,” she said. “There might be programming like, say, Monday morning at 9 a.m. you bring something you’ve been procrastinating on and use the group meeting to do something that would be hard to do on your own or you need feedback on,” said Trice. While Peloton’s Bramhall Square location is the first purpose-built co-working space in the city, the concept is hardly new to Portland. Rob Landry shares the office space of web development firm Pemaquid Communication with the WYCWAH (“When You Can’t Work at Home”). John Gold runs a self-described Newbury Street “collective,” in the old Shaaray Tphiloh synagogue building alongside his business, Custom Communications, Inc. Landry’s WYCWAH has been running for almost two years. In June 2009 the program was recognized with an entreverge award from the Portland Regional Chamber’s PROPEL program for pioneering the concept of co-working in Portland. “It was just a way for us to surround ourselves with other people with complementary skills,” said Landry. “For example, I’m more of a front end designer and we have a guy who is more of a system administrator, so we can often bounce ideas back and forth and ask ‘how is it you did that thing?’” “Everyone gets better, faster, by sharing their expertise,” said Landry, who has six people outside of his own staff who work out of the space “more or less everyday of the week.” Landry first discovered the concept in 2007 through Twitter, where he follows a San Franciscobased web designer named Chris Messina. “I knew he was involved with pioneering the concept in the Bay Area, so I called [him] to see how it went for them, what worked well, what didn’t work well.” For Landry the co-working concept was not only an intriguing way to broaden his own skill set through collaboration with other digital creatives, but a great way to subsidize the cost of a new office. “I wanted to move into but couldn’t really afford to swing the entire rent. It turned out there was a great deal of interest,” he said. Landry has worked out of his home, an office space at Pineland Farm in New Gloucester and then again

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2011. There are 336 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 29, 1861, Kansas became the 34th state of the Union. On this date: In 1820, Britain’s King George III died at Windsor Castle. In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was first published in the New York Evening Mirror. In 1856, Britain’s Queen Victoria introduced the Victoria Cross to reward military acts of valor during the Crimean War. In 1919, the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which launched Prohibition, was certified by Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk. In 1929, The Seeing Eye, a New Jerseybased school which trains guide dogs to assist the blind, was incorporated by Dorothy Harrison Eustis and Morris Frank. In 1963, the first members of pro football’s Hall of Fame were named in Canton, Ohio. Poet Robert Frost died in Boston at age 88. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, following the establishment of diplomatic relations. In 1998, a bomb rocked an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing security guard Robert Sanderson and critically injuring nurse Emily Lyons. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.) One year ago: In a remarkably sharp face-to-face confrontation in Baltimore, President Barack Obama chastised Republican lawmakers for opposing him on taxes, health care and the economic stimulus, while they accused him in turn of brushing off their ideas and driving up the national debt. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Noel Harrison is 77. Author Germaine Greer is 72. Actress Katharine Ross is 71. Actor Tom Selleck is 66. Rhythm-and-blues singer Bettye LaVette is 65. Actor Marc Singer is 63. Actress Ann Jillian is 61. Rock musician Tommy Ramone (Ramones) is 59. Rock musician Louie Perez (Los Lobos) is 58. Rhythm-and-blues/funk singer Charlie Wilson is 58. Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is 57. Country singer Irlene Mandrell is 55. Actress Diane Delano is 54. Actress Judy Norton Taylor (“The Waltons”) is 53. Rock musician Johnny Spampinato (NRBQ) is 52. Olympic gold-medal diver Greg Louganis is 51. Rock musician David Baynton-Power (James) is 50. Rock musician Eddie Jackson (Queensryche) is 50. Actor Nicholas Turturro is 49. Rock singermusician Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera) is 47. Actor-director Edward Burns is 43. Actress Heather Graham is 41. Actor Sharif Atkins is 36. Actress Sara Gilbert is 36. Actor Sam Jaeger (TV: “Parenthood”) is 34. Actor Andrew Keegan is 32. Actor Jason James Richter is 31.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: My husband died suddenly at the age of 46. For the ﬁrst few months, you’re in shock and have lots of lifealtering decisions to make. Simple tasks become overwhelming. I expected friends to be there to help, but I found out through talking with many widows that this is not the case. I have always tried to be there for my friends, listening to their problems over a long period of time, helping with packing and moving, home repair projects, gardening, hobbies, etc. So why is it so hard for them to ﬁgure out what I might need help with? I know some of my friends simply don’t know what to say to me, but it hurts that all communication stopped. How hard can it be to send an e-mail asking how I am doing or to drop by with a casserole? Grief takes time to work through. Just because it’s been two months doesn’t mean things are all right. Everyone is there for the funeral, but not after. Could you offer your readers some suggestions of ways they could help a grieving person? -- Wisconsin Dear Wisconsin: This is a question we get every so often. Many people are afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing, but support and contact are appreciated. It’s perfectly OK to say, “I don’t know what to say.” It is important to listen without judging or telling the bereaved person how they should be feeling. Everyone handles grief differently. Often, the bereaved person is reluctant to ask for help. Friends can make this easier by offering. Call and say, “I’m going to the grocery store. What do you need?” or “I made a roast for dinner and I have extra. When should I bring it over?” Here are some suggestions from the American Hospice Association: Shop for groceries or run errands; drop off a casserole or other type of food; stay in their home to take phone

calls and receive guests; help with insurance forms or bills; take care of housework, such as cleaning or laundry; watch their children or pick them up from school; drive them wherever they need to go; look after their pets; go with them to a support group meeting; accompany them on a walk; take them to lunch or a movie; share an enjoyable activity (game, puzzle, art project). Dear Annie: My wife and I have been married for eight years. We each have teenage children from previous relationships. Both sets of grandparents are alive and well. When gift-giving time comes, my wife’s parents give equally to all the grandchildren. My parents, however, give more to their biological grandchildren, even in front of the other kids. Our children haven’t made an issue of it, but they clearly notice. I have spoken to my parents, but they are ﬁrm in their conviction that only one is a grandchild and the other is a stepgrandchild. It’s putting a strain on our relationship with my parents. It’s not about the gifts, only the equality. Am I crazy? -- Upset Dad Dear Dad: Of course not. Your parents are sowing discontent, but you cannot make them less biased. Your choices are: Explain to your children that this is simply how they are, sorry; return all gifts until they get the message; even it out in some other way yourself. We think the kids are old enough to understand the grandparents. Dear Annie: Like “Confused,” I, too, live with a husband who is verbally abusive and dislikes being touched. We have both been retired for almost 40 years, and it is a lot like being in prison, especially now that he is 87 and requires care. Fortunately, I have family nearby, but I’d deﬁnitely advise anyone in my position to seriously consider whether they want to spend the rest of their life like this. -- Cold in Maine

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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 3 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.

Blue Man Group will perform at Merrill Auditorium next Friday. (Photo courtesy of Ken Howard/Portland Ovations) 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 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.

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. see next page

A guy as keeper of the national guest list? BY HELENE COOPER THE NEW YORK TIMES

HELP WANTED: Exclusive Pennsylvania Avenue residence seeks highly motivated professional to fill job of social secretary. Qualified candidates must have a genuine commitment to hospitality, a passion for food and wine, an appetite for 22-hour workdays, and a willingness to stand outside in all temperatures with a clipboard. No prima donnas. Please do not inquire about other positions like press secretary (filled) or secretary of defense (he’s not gone yet). *Willing to consider male candidates. Well, why not? Maybe it’s time for the White House to tap a man for the job. Ever since the first White House social secretary, Isabella Hagner James, helped Edith Roosevelt arrange diplomatic receptions a century ago, the keeper of the guest list of the most important address in the country has been a woman. But now, Julianna Smoot, the Democratic fund-raiser who successfully navigated two relatively conflict-free state dinners and countless other holiday parties, diplomatic receptions and even an Easter Egg Roll, is leaving, after just 10 months on the job. Ms. Smoot, readers may recall, replaced the Chicago businesswoman Desirée Rogers, who was run out of Washington last year after a string of Beltway offenses that included letting reality TV wannabes into a state dinner, posing for Vogue and wearing haute couture with $100,000 earrings. (She wore a Comme des Garçons gown at the now-infamous

Indian state dinner where she sat at a table like a guest instead of standing at the gate with a clipboard.) Now that Ms. Smoot has been tapped to help run President Obama’s re-election campaign, the hunt is under way, again, for a social gatekeeper — unleashing a round of parlor game speculation as to whom the White House will choose. Ms. Smoot’s two top deputies — Ebs Burnough and Joe Reinstein — are both men, raising immediate questions around town about whether maybe, just maybe, 2011 might finally be the year of the man when Secretary’s Day rolls around at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. “It’s time for a man,” Letitia Baldrige, who, as social secretary to Jackie Kennedy held the keys to Camelot, said flatly in an interview Tuesday. Mrs. Baldrige recalls that when she got to the White House in 1961, “there was a man named J. B. West who was really the manager of the White House. He did everything that a social secretary should do; he set a style.” But Mr. West, who was the chief usher, never took the title of social secretary. “He never would have wanted it. It sounds too frippery,” Mrs. Baldrige recalled. “What about some of the people resigning from Congress?” suggested Leslie H. Gelb, the president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, who himself has a pretty formidable Rolodex. But those guys are really ... venerable. Chris Dodd certainly knows a lot of dignitaries, both American and foreign, after spending 30 years in the Senate, but can anyone picture him handing out canapés

in the East Room? Ditto former Missouri Representative Ike Skelton, who managed to survive 34 years as a Democrat from a conservative district before last year’s Tea Party wave ushered him out of Washington. But he would need much more than his vaunted ability to get along with Republicans to make it through the pruning that must be done to cull White House invitation lists down to manageable sizes. “How about Steve Clemons?” Mr. Gelb suggested, referring to the Washington foreign policy wonk and social butterfly whose “salon dinners” at Restaurant Nora in Dupont Circle are popular with diplomats, journalists and government types. “I’ve never heard of a meeting where someone didn’t tell me Steve was there,” Mr. Gelb said. Mr. Clemons, the director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, said no one from the White House has called him yet, but if they did, he’d jump at the chance for the job. “When I used to live across the street from Spago in West Hollywood, I’d say, ‘that’s what I want to be one day,’ ” Mr. Clemons said over lobster tails at BLT in Washington. “I wanted to be the D.C. maître d’ at Spago.” If he can’t get it, however, Mr. Clemons proposes Carlos Elizondo — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s social secretary. White House officials have been skittish about talking publicly about whom they’re looking at next for the job, but two senior officials said they didn’t see why a man couldn’t do it. Unfortunately, see GUY page 16

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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 Radio is online at www.wmpg.org

‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Old Port Playhouse 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.

‘The Juke Box Boys’ 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.

‘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.

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

Monday, Jan. 31 Found Footage Festival 7:30 p.m. Film: Found Footage Festival plus Heavy Metal Parking Lot at SPACE Gallery. “Hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher make their fourth visit to SPACE Gallery with a whole new package of found video shenannigans. VHS may be dead, but the format is gloriously resurrected in this

action-packed ﬁfth edition of the Found Footage Festival. Joe and Nick have compiled their most densely-packed lineup of videos to date, complete with bad celebrity career moves, drunk guys mooning Hare Krishnas, and, at long last, cats riding motorcycles. As a special bonus, the FFF will be screening the 15-minute cult video classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot before the program to celebrate it’s 25th anniversary!” Doors at 7 p.m. $9/$7 for SPACE members.

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 New Investors” on March 1.

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. By turns funny, mysterious and disturbing, The Play About the Baby concerns a young couple who have just had a baby, and the strange turn of events that transpire when they are visited by an older man and woman. 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. “The Play About the Baby” is directed by William Steele, Professor of Theatre at the University of Southern Maine. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland. Suggested donation of $10. 899-3993, or order online at www.lucidstage.com

Thursday, Feb. 3 ISACA Professional Certification presentation 8:30 a.m. ISACA New England presents a talk by Terry Chrisman, Global IT Governance Leader at GE Capital, at USM Glickman Library on “Build your Business, Accounting or Information Technology Career with ISACA certifications.” Chrisman will discuss the impact of the ISACA certifications in developing and advancing professional careers in IT audit and governance. University of Southern Maine, Glickman Library, 314 Forest Ave. Event is free, registration is required www.isacane.org/events.

‘The Nature of Woodwinds’ 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m. The Portland Symphony Orchestra presents “The Nature of Woodwinds, ” an exploration of the musical sounds of nature. 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. Local KinderKonzerts will take place Thursday, Feb. 3 at 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. at East End Community School, Portland, and at 1 p.m. at Reiche Community School, Portland. For reservations or additional information, email education@ portlandsymphony.org or call 773-6128.

Wisdom At Work Series noon to 1 p.m. Portland Public Library will host a four-part series on work each Thursday in February in Rines Auditorium. The series is sponsored by Heart At Work Career Counseling and Amy Wood, Success Strategist. The ﬁrst in the series is titled “What Are You Called To Do in Your Second Half of Life?” and presented by Barbara Babkirk of Heart At Work. The public is invited to this free series. Heart At Work Career Counseling, Outplacement Services & Second Half of Life Planning, 25 Middle St. 775-6400.

Rippleffect Gala fundraiser for Maine Youth Leadership Summer Camp 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Rippleffect Gala, by Rippleffect, the nonprofit group that owns and operates 26-acre Cow Island in Casco Bay, located 15 minutes from downtown Portland. Rippleffect offers a customized leadership development curriculum for youth and adults, incorporating experiencebased activities that focus around the three core skills of leadership — conflict resolution, small group problem solving and communication. This Formal Celebration features raffles and a live auction of adventures. “Held at the Portland Ocean Gateway Terminal, this elegant event will bring together friends from the community in the spirit of Velvet as we celebrate kids, the outdoors and our shared spirit of adventure.” Tickets $50. (Register at www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=214120) or email info@rippleffect.net.

Portland Museum of Art college night 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Portland Museum of Art college night. Free admission with valid student I.D. (or $5 at the door — cash only). Maine college students are invited to the Portland Museum of Art for College Night at the Museum, featuring live music by Phantom Buffalo and Theodore Treehouse, art projects sponsored by Artist & Craftsman Supply, free food and drinks, giveaways, and tons of prizes. Food will be provided by Siano’s Old Port Pizzeria, Wild Burrito, El Rayo Taqueria, and Leonardo’s Pizza, and drinks will be provided by Capt’n Eli’s Soda. The media sponsor is The Portland Phoenix. Live music by Theodore Treehouse, 8:15 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. Theodore Treehouse is a growing, organic contraption comprised of four musicians with very different backgrounds. Mixing together the stylings of New Wave, Motown, Jazz, Classical, Punk, Blues, and good ol’ Rock n’ Roll; they create a symphony of timeless tunes bent on making you dance and smile. Each live show is packed full of up-tempo body-bobbers and thoughtful down-tempo ballads. Theodore Treehouse strives to be fun, unique, and always moving forward! Phantom Buffalo, 9 p.m. to 9:45 p.m., Phantom Buffalo is one of Portland’s longest running, most respected indie-rock groups. Frontman Jonny Balzano-Brookes and Tim Burns drench classic pop hooks in modern psychedelia with whirling effects and arresting song structures to create a sound Portland can call its own. Students will have access to the Museum’s galleries and special exhibitions: Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972–2008, Weston: Leaves of Grass, and The Lay of the Land: A Celebration of Art Acquired by the Friends of the Collection (1983–2010).

Friday, Feb. 4 Glass Jewelry by Avery Pierce 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Love Those Lobes,” Earlobes that is! Opening Reception, Heron Point Gallery, 164 Middle St., Suite No. 4. “Heron Point Gallery is proudly featuring the glass beads and lampwork jewelry of Buxton Artist, Avery Pierce, as she unveils a new line of glass jewelry using bits of luscious leather.” 809-0051.

Opening of Streets of New Orleans 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. First Friday Art Walk opening of Streets of New Orleans, street photography by Teressa MacHugh, at the Green Hand Bookshop, 661 Congress St. On display through the month of February. “A taste of the sultry realm of New Orleans via camera is given to viewers of this new series. The photographs were taken by Teressa MacHugh on Bourbon Street last summer, one stop of many on a warm weather roadtrip she undertook. Shake off the cabin fever blues, come feel a little southern exposure and give your eyes a reminder of Mardi Gras ﬂavor this February!” FMI: contact Michelle Souliere at 450-6695 or michelle. souliere@gmail.com see next page

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New Peace Action Maine Youth Network history night 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The new Peace Action Maine Youth Network will get its progressive groove on as it hosts “A History of Activism in Portland,” a night of live music, live art, food, shenanigans and guest speakers drawn from Portland’s rich tradition of social change movements. Stop by, ask questions, start dialogue, get active. The event will be held at the Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St. Schedule of speakers (subject to change); 5:15 p.m., Wells Staley-Mays-Peace Action Maine; 5:45 p.m., Lisa Savage- CODEPINK Maine; 6:15 p.m., El-Fadel Arbab, Fur Cultural Revival; 6:45 p.m., Jonah Fertig- co-founder of Local Sprounts and friend of Meg Perry; 7:15 p.m., Christina Bechstein, Maine College of Art professor and arts activist; 7:45 p.m., Hillary Lister, community organizer around land/water protection.

‘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.” 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.

Blue Man Group 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 4, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 5, at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb. 6, at 1 p.m. at Merrill Auditorium. Presented by Portland Ovations. “A totally unique form of entertainment, the wildly popular Blue Man Group combines music, comedy and multimedia theatrics. Although it is impossible to describe, people of all ages agree that Blue Man Group’s show is an intensely exciting and outrageous experience that leaves the entire audience in a blissful, euphoric state. With no spoken language, Blue Man Group is perfect for people of all ages, languages, and cultures. This original theatrical experience is guaranteed to be an outing audiences will never forget.”

Saturday, Feb. 5 New Gloucester History Barn open house 9 a.m. to noon. The New Gloucester History Barn of the New Gloucester Historical Society will have its monthly open house. The barn is located on the Intervale Rd. (Route 231) directly behind the Town Hall. The society’s collection of wagons, the town hearse and sleighs will be on display as well as historic photos of the town. The new town history and memorabilia will be for sale.

Thousand Words Project at Bates museum 10 a.m. Paul Janeczko, a proliﬁc Maine author who specializes in teaching poetry to young people, will lead a workshop in a Bates College Museum of Art children’s program that explores poetry in relation to the visual arts. Part of the museum’s Thousand Words Project, an educational outreach program, the two-part series for fourth- through sixth-graders begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 5. Museum staff will offer the two-hour session “An Introduction to Writing Poetry from the Visual Arts through the Thousand Words Project.” Janeczko, of Hebron, leads the second session, “Writing Poems From Art,” which starts at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 12. Both sessions take place at the museum, located at 75 Russell St., Lewiston. A ses-

sion postponed by severe weather will take place at 10 a.m. the following day. The program costs $10; space is limited and preregistration is required. To register, please contact Anne Odom at aodom@bates.edu or786-8212.

Solar for the Homeowner workshop 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. ReVision Energy, a leading solar energy installer in Maine, will host a Solar for the Homeowner workshop at the company’s Portland ofﬁce at 142 Presumpscot St. This Solar for the Homeowner Informational Workshop will be free to the public. The focus will be: • How solar hot water and solar electric energy systems work; • Current solar energy system economics - costs, incentives, and rebates; • Average return on investment of a solar energy system; • The reliability of solar energy systems; • How to determine the success of a solar energy system on a particular home site. ReVision Energy encourages attendees to bring any questions they may have about solar energy to the workshop. Attendees will also be able to view working solar energy systems in the ofﬁce. The public can look for future event updates at www.revisionenergy.com or by calling the Liberty shop at 589-4171 for more information.

Chinese New Year Festival 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Chinese New Year Festival in Portland. To ring in the Year of the Rabbit, the Chinese and American Friendship Association of Maine will host its 21st annual Chinese New Year Festival, featuring Tess Gerritsen, who will speak at 2 p.m. about growing up Chinese-American and her experiences as a Chinese person living in Coastal Maine. She will also do a book signing with books available for purchase. There will be a Chinese dance program performed by students at CAFAM’s Chinese school from 11 a.m. to noon. There will also be a dragon dance, arts and crafts for children, mahjong, lectures and demonstrations for adults, shopping for Chinese craft items and books, Chinese food and more. The event is at McAuley High School, 631 Stevens Ave. The cost is $20 for families, $6 for adults, $4 for children and free for children under 2. Members receive discounts. Call 799-0684 or 797-4033, www. cafammaine.org.

‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Old Port Playhouse 2 p.m. “The Wizard of Oz,” the sell-out hit musical returns to Old Port Playhouse with Gina Pardi returning as “Dorothy Gale.” 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.

Fore River Trail 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/nonmembers) 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. Michelle Boisvert, Portland Trails GIS intern and stellar volunteer, will lead the group on the Fore River Trail (not to be confused with the Fore River Sanctuary). If there is enough snow people are encouraged to bring snow shoes or reserve some ahead of time from Portland Trails. Meet at Tony’s Donut Shop, 9 Bolton St.

African Gospel Rhythm at New Gloucester 7:30 p.m. The Village Coffee House at New

Gloucester Congregational Church presents African Gospel Rhythm. Tickets at the door, adults $10. Directions: 19 Gloucester Hill Road, at the intersection of Church and Gloucester Hill Roads in Lower Village of New Gloucester. For more information, contact Julie Fralich 926-3161 or the church ofﬁce 926-3260. See also www.villagecoffeehouse.org; or www.creativenewgloucester.org

Sunday, Feb. 6 Financial Peace University series 12:30 p.m. Hope.Gate.Way., a United Methodist community in Portland, will offer a new Tuesday evening Financial Peace University series beginning Tuesday, March 1. Preview sessions will be held on Sunday, Feb. 6 (12:30 p.m.), Tuesday, Feb. 8 (6 p.m.), and Tuesday, Feb. 15 (6 p.m.). Those who are interested should plan to attend one preview session. “Do you ever find yourself worrying about finances, wishing you had better skills to manage money, or dreaming about what life would be like if you were free of debt? Financial Peace University is a 13-week life-changing program that empowers and teaches you how to make the right money decisions to achieve your financial goals. Through a combination of video curriculum, taught by financial expert Dave Ramsey, and small-group discussion for support and accountability, the course includes practical lessons on building and managing a budget, eliminating debt, saving for the future, and living generously. Financial Peace University is highly entertaining for everyone, with a unique combination of humor, informative financial advice, and encouraging messages.” Hope.Gate.Way. is located on the ground floor of the Gateway parking garage, adjacent to the Eastland Park Hotel, at 185 High Street, Portland. More information is

available at www.daveramsey.com/fpu and www.hopegateway.com, or by calling 8992435.

The Myth of the Aran Islands 2 p.m. The Maine Irish Heritage Center presents “Dúchas,” an Irish Heritage Lecture, Near Imbolc, The Myth of the Aran Islands. Margaret Feeney LaCombe, MIHC’s very own genealogist, will describe Aran Islands through ﬁlm and discussion. She will also help you seek your own roots from the Aran Islands. No charge, donations accepted. www.maineirish.com

Monday, Feb. 7 ‘Sonnet and Soliloquies’ series by the Acorn Shakespeare Ensemble 8 p.m. The Acorn Shakespeare Ensemble, presenters of the “Naked Shakespeare” series, resumes the company’s 2010/11 season of events with another edition of the troupe’s popular “Sonnet and Soliloquies” series at the Wine Bar on Wharf St. in Portland’s Old Port. The February edition will feature the usual mixture of new pieces and old favorites, includes speeches delivered in an intimate setting in the round, and short scenes that our environmentally staged in the space. The performance is free with an $8 suggested donations. Patrons are encouraged to arrive early and order food and drink to enjoy during the show. The company offers a free series of “Naked Shakespeare” performances at venues throughout Greater Portland not typically used as performance space for live theater, creating the world of the play in the imagination of the audience by minimizing the use of sets, lights and costumes. Call Acorn Productions at 854-0065 or visit www.nakedshakespeare.org for more information about “Sonnets and Soliloquies” or any other programs offered by Acorn Productions.

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Job: Graciously welcoming people to the White House GUY from page 13

attempts to get comment from the executive branch’s leading social men-in-waiting went nowhere. Mr. Burnough and Mr. Reinstein declined to comment, in otherwise very pleasant e-mails. And from Mr. Elizondo, there was the 21st-century equivalent of the Victorian cut direct: “He doesn’t want to talk,” a senior White House official said in an e-mail. Still, Mr. Elizondo is “just really good at protocol,” Mr. Clemons said. “Everything at Biden’s is comfortable, but proper.” Of course, the vice president’s mansion, on the Desirée Rogers, left; Julianna Smoot. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters; Tim Sloan/Agence France-Presse —Getty Images) grounds of the Naval Observatory in residential Northadvance for President Clinton, piping Stewart and Stephen Colbert as well west Washington, is a far cry from in from Hawaii where he was co-proas the Clinton Global Initiative. But, you-know-where. The century-old turducing events around the Pro Bowl, he added: “I don’t think creativity, etireted Queen Anne house is cozy — or “needs to have a sense of what is right quette, protocol, logistics are things as cozy as a 10,000-square-foot beheand what is wrong to take place in the that are only the domain of the female moth complete with third-floor serWhite House. When they let ESPN gender. There are more than enough vants’ quarters can be. There’s a lovely into the Map Room to do ‘Obamatolmen out there who are capable of sprawling wraparound porch perfect ogy’ for the N.C.A.A. brackets, the doing this job.” for sipping mint juleps or a glass of room in which Abraham Lincoln Like Sam Kass perhaps? The ChiDelaware’s own Nassau Valley Charmapped out the Civil War for goodcago chef and favorite of First Lady donnay. Graciously welcoming folks to ness’ sakes, it was appalling.” Michelle Obama fits perfectly into One Observatory Circle seems like it Mr. Wayne, head of Chris Wayne and Mrs. Obama’s healthy living brand, would be easy. Associates, has also been mentioned and, as the White House senior policy Graciously welcoming folks to the as a possibility. He said he’s pretty adviser for healthy food initiatives, Mr. White House is another thing. “The happy running his own company, Kass has even been spotted tromping person,” said Chris Wayne, former which recently produced the Rally to through the White House vegetable deputy director of White House Restore Sanity on the Mall with Jon garden with an armful of sweet pota-

toes. Beyond causing swoons in both the East Wing and West Wing — Mr. Kass is a heartthrob who made an appearance on People magazine’s most beautiful people list — he is also enough of a Renaissance man, graduating from the University of Chicago with a history degree, to be able to tell the difference between King Abdullah (Saudi Arabia) and King Abdullah (Jordan). Or there’s George Stevens Jr. The director and producer (Kennedy Center Honors, “The Thin Red Line”) easily floats from Washington’s diplomatic circles (he helped coordinate a memorial service two weeks ago at the Kennedy Center for the uber diplomat Richard Holbrooke) to Hollywood. But let’s face it. Someone like Mr. Stevens probably doesn’t need the headache of deciding what kind of wedding gift the Obamas should send to Prince William and Kate Middleton. “It’s a fabulous job,” said Mrs. Baldrige, the Kennedy social secretary. “You know every aspect of the house. You know people’s bathroom habits, you know who they’re sneaking out to see in the middle of the night.” But, she said, whoever is appointed to the job will need to have patience and stamina. Any suggestions? “St. Peter,” she said. “But maybe St. Paul could do it.”