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Cannabis expo hits town this weekend

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Despite all his hard work and participation from a high-profile national leader, the fledgling exhibition Charlie Wynott is hosting this weekend is bound to go to pot.

Well, technically speaking, medical-grade cannabis.

The first-ever Maine Medical Marijuana Expo 2011, or “Expo Cannabis,” organized by Wynott’s Maine Medical Marijuana Resource Center kicks off this Saturday at the Fireside Inn & Suites, featuring vendors, panel discussions with caregivers

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and doctors and a visit from U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.

The Expo organizers say that it seeks to be inclusive to all those interested in learning more about cannabis, including those who are looking into becoming registered caregivers, but don’t expect to see smoke billowing out from the conference room of the Fireside Inn. “I don’t want people to think it’s a pot party by any means,” said

Wynott. “Basically it’s an educational, informational event for the patients and for anyone else involved in medical marijuana — however, people who are not directly involved might still be interested,” he said.

Wynott, an AIDS patient of 23 years, started the nonprofit, all-volunteer MMRC to advocate for medicinal marijuana and improve patient access to the drug.

All proceeds from the expo will go towards a patients’ ID program and helping low-income patients afford their prescriptions, according to Wynott. see EXPO page 3

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The statue of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow keeps him company, although there’s a downside for Tom Schmaling.

Pigeons.

“I almost got hit a couple of times, so I don’t stand too close to this statue,” said Schmaling, a crossing guide at Longfellow Square, about the pigeon droppings that fall from the sky.

It’s all in a day’s work for Schmaling, who’s in his second year as one of the city’s see CROSSING page 9 RIGHT: Crossing guide Tom Schmaling, 68, works Longfellow Square, ushering people across busy State and Congress streets. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

It turns out that Space is, indeed, expanding

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Resolving a quandary that has puzzled astrophysicists for years, Nat May confirmed Tuesday that Space is, in fact, expanding.

Of course, that’s “Space” with a big “S,” more the nonprofit Congress Street home of touring indie

music acts and art house films than celestial bodies and giant, swirling balls of gas.

The venue will annex a neighboring space, taking over the former home of Mainely Frames at 534 Congress and is scheduled to be renovated as an auxiliary to the main facility at 538 Congress by this summer.

“We’re not changing how we work — we’re just increasing our capacity to do more,” said May, executive director of Space Gallery. “We’ve needed additional space for some time, the fact that it is in same building makes it a really good, obvious choice for us,” he said. see SPACE page 6

The mystery of ‘Two Drop’

‘Sticks and stones’ has to go; bullies do real harm

A chef has a bone to pick with his locals

See Bob Higgins on page 4

See Maggie Knowles’ column on page 5

See Natalie Ladd’s column on page 8

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Risky trip to stardom, sanctuary (NY Times) — A Honduran teenager gained fame as the star of a documentary film that showed the dangers faced by children who ride across Mexico atop freight trains to cross illegally to the United States. But the boy, Kevin Casasola, rode the trains again, and now he has been granted asylum in the United States, his lawyer said on Monday.

The documentary, “Which Way Home,” directed by Rebecca Cammisa, won an Emmy award for HBO last year and was nominated for an Oscar. Ms. Cammisa took her cameras onto the lurching trains, filming a cohort of children riding north as they dodged tunnels, trees and criminal predators, fighting loneliness and hunger. It tells of several children who died or disappeared along the way.

Kevin, who was 14 in the film, was its most appealing protagonist, with his daring clowning on freight car roofs and his determination to make it to the United States to find work so he could send money back to his mother. During the filming he was detained by American border agents and deported to Honduras.

The documentary showed the desolation and need that drove him to leave his home village in the first place.

The documentary drew an outpouring of concern for the children to its Facebook page. Some Americans offered to adopt Kevin, although his mother figured prominently in the film and in his motives for riding the trains.

In Mexico, the impact was even greater, and Kevin became something of a legend. Ms. Cammisa sent the film to rural villages as a warning to restless teenagers that they should not attempt a similar trip.

The country’s first lady, Margarita Zavala, helped distribute it, and during a state visit to Washington last May, she said that Mexican babies were being named Kevin as a result of its popularity.

Ms. Cammisa said she tried to persuade Kevin to stay in Honduras, using donations raised by the film to pay for him to take a course in mobile phone repair.

But last July, she said in an interview, Kevin called her from a detention center in California. After a twomonth journey on the trains, he had crossed the border and was doing farm work near El Centro. He had been arrested by the local police, who suspected he was an illegal immigrant.

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Chaos grows in Libya; Qaddafi defiant

BY KAREEM FAHIM AND DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK THE NEW YORK TIMES

TOBRUK, Libya — Libya appeared to slip further into chaos on Tuesday, as Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi vowed to “fight until the last drop of my blood” and clashes intensified between rebels and his loyalists in the capital, Tripoli.

Opposition forces claimed to have consolidated their hold over a string of cities across nearly half of Libya’s 1,000 mile Mediterranean coast, leaving Colonel Qaddafi in control of just parts of the capital and some of southern and central Libya, including his hometown.

Witnesses described the streets of Tripoli as a war zone. Several residents said they believed that massacres had taken place overnight as forces loyal to Colonel Qaddafi drove through the streets opening fire at will from the backs of pickup trucks.

“They would drive around, and they would start shooting, shooting, shooting,” said one resident reached by telephone.

“Then they would drive like bandits, and they would repeat that every hour or so. It was absolute terror until dawn.”

Human Rights Watch said it had confirmed at least 62 deaths in the violence in Tripoli so far, in addition to more than 200 people killed in clashes elsewhere, mostly in the eastern city of Benghazi, where the uprising began last week. Opposition groups estimated that at least 500 people had been killed.

For a second time, Colonel Qaddafi appeared on state television. Dressed in brown robes with a matching turban, he

Antigovernment protesters in the main square of Tobruk, Libya. (Asmaa Waguih/Reuters/New York Times)

sometimes shouted and seemed to tremble with anger as he delivered a harangue that lasted some 73 minutes. His lectern was planted in the middle of the old wreckage of his two-story house in the Aziziyah barracks in Tripoli, a house American warplanes had destroyed in a 1986 air raid and which he has left as a monument to American perfidy.

In the rambling, sometimes incoherent address, he said those challenging his government “deserved to die.” He blamed the unrest on “foreign hands,” a small group of people distributing pills, brainwashing, and the naïve desire of young people to

imitate the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.

Without acknowledging the gravity of the crisis in the streets of the capital, he described himself in sweeping, megalomaniacal terms. “Muammar Qaddafi is history, resistance, liberty, glory, revolution,” he declared.

Earlier, the state television broadcast images of a cleaned up Green Square in central Tripoli, the scene of a violent crackdown Monday night. It showed a few hundred Qaddafi supporters waving flags and kissing photographs of him for the cameras.

hostages — whether accidentally during a firefight or possibly out of revenge for the Somali pirates killed by American sharpshooters in a hostage situation in 2009.

Maritime analysts who monitor pirate activity said the killings were unusual and may have stemmed from a highly-combustible mix of around 20 pirates and four hostages squeezed together on a sailboat with limited food, water and space. In the past, when pirates have hijacked smaller vessels, they usually transfer the hostages to a much bigger boat, a so-called mother ship, which functions as a floating base in the middle of the ocean.

President Obama was tracking the event closely, said the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, and had authorized “the use of force in the case of an imminent threat to those hostages.”

Somalia’s piracy problem is an outgrowth of the rampant violence and lawlessness spiraling out from a desperately poor, heavily-armed and war-ravaged country that has languished without a central government for more than 20 years.

Piracy is one of the biggest businesses now in Somalia, with tens of millions of dollars earned by ransoming hostages. In recent months, though, the pirates have become more militant — some building land-based armies, others teaming up with Islamist insurgents who chop off hands and detonate suicide bombs in an attempt to terrorize the Somali public.

It was almost unheard of, just a few years ago, for Somali pirates to harm their captives, but recently the pirates have also become more vicious, maritime officials said, torturing some hostages and forcing some at gunpoint to go with them on raids.

Some piracy analysts say the increase in violence may be a reflection of the intense pressure from the world’s most powerful navies. Dozens of warships from China, Russia, the United States, Britain and others prowl Somalia’s coastline, trying to protect the tens of thousands of vessels that traverse these waters. Still, the pirates seem to be winning.

Just about every week another ship gets hijacked.

Four Americans held on hijacked yacht are killed

BY JEFFREY GETTLEMAN THE NEW YORK TIMES

NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates on Tuesday killed four American hostages who had been sailing on a yacht through Somalia’s pirate infested seas, one of the deadliest episodes since the modern-day piracy epidemic began several years ago, American officials said.

American naval forces had been shadowing the hijacked yacht, called the Quest, for several days and were in the process of negotiating with the pirates, military officials said. As soon as they saw a burst of gunfire on board, the officials said, Navy Seals rushed to the yacht in assault craft, shooting one of the pirates and stabbing another.

But American officials said the pirates had already shot all four hostages, including a retired couple from California that had been sailing around the world — New Zealand, Tahiti, Galápagos, Hawaii, China, India and beyond — for more than six years, blogging all the way.

It is not clear why the pirates killed the

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Wednesday, February 23, 2011— Page 3

Expo on; Patients Choice Cannabis Awards postponed EXPO from page one

Saturday at the Expo begins with a panel discussion with local doctors who support the use of medical marijuana and who will answer questions for patients or prospective patients.

The event will feature 20 to 30 vendors, including dispensary operators, caregivers and care-giving collectives, grow suppliers and others vital to Maine’s newest medical industry.

Speakers throughout the day include Neil Franklin, executive director of L.E.A.P (Law Enforcement against Prohibition), District 120 Rep. Diane Russell, former Cumberland County Sheriff Mark Dion and Wendy Chapkis, University of Southern Maine

professor and author of “Dying to Get High,” a book chronicling one patients group’s fight to obtain cannabis.

Congressman Frank, a longtime medical marijuana advocate, will deliver the expo’s keynote address.

“Barney has been an advocate for marijuana in general for a number of years — mostly on medical marijuana issues — and has proposed a couple bills on the federal level for medical marijuana,” said Wynott.

“We wanted to recognize him for his work and asking for continuing support with this [issue],” he said.

Wynott has initially planned to host the Patients

Choice Cannabis Awards on Sunday as part of the Expo, but circumstances outside of his control made the strain-versus-strain competition impossible for the time being.

“It didn’t turn out the way I wanted it,” he said. “I wanted it to be prestigious, very involved, with lot of different entries, but I just didn’t have enough time to get into it.”

Wynott hopes to give the contest another shot sometime this summer, likely in conjunction with one of the pro-marijuana festivals that take place through the warmer months on Harry Brown’s Farm in Starks.

For more information on the Maine Medical Marijuana Expo 2011, visit asamaine.org.

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Maine guardsman who died had flu, mom says LEWISTON — A 19-year-old Maine native who died last weekend during military basic training had been suffering from the flu, according to published reports.

Jordan Chase, a Lewiston native, was enrolled in boot camp at Fort Jackson, S.C. He was hospitalized on Feb. 12 but died Sunday. His mom, Rhonda Tilley, also of Lewiston, says her son was suffering from pneumonia and the H1N1 “swine” flu before he died, the Associated Press is reporting.

Family members say they don’t believe they have all the answers in the incident, but don’t blame anyone for their son’s death, the AP says.

City weighs old approach to snow removal problem A Portland city councilor wants to review snow removal policies this summer, including a measure allowing city crews to dump snow into Portland Harbor, the Forecaster is reporting.

Portland long used its adjacent natural waterways to dump snow piles after large winter storms, but in 2005 the practice came under fire from people who worried about putting salt and other contaminants into Casco Bay, the paper said. Currently, the city hauls snow to lots on Outer Congress Street and Somerset Street.

The city would need a state permit to begin dumping snow into the harbor, the Forecaster, a weekly paper based in Falmouth, is reporting.

“I think we should explore if it can be done in a safe way,” Suslovic is quoted as saying. “Running diesel trucks 40 minutes round trip out to Congress Street has an environmental impact, too.”

Changes to sidewalks shoveling ordinance nixed The Transportation Committee last week rejected a proposal to amend the city’s ordinance governing sidewalk snow removal, the Forecaster is reporting. Under current rules, property owners must shovel sidewalks in front of homes and businesses after storms or face fines.

Some residents living on major thoroughfares sought the revisions because city plow trucks created massive snow piles, making it difficult to clear their sidewalks. But opponents of the change said city officials can and do exercise discretion when it comes to fining residents for not clearing sidewalks, the Forecaster is reporting.

The measure, sponsored by Councilor Ed Suslovic, failed 2-1, the Forecaster said.

Universities get $500,000 grant to aid manufacturing University of Southern Maine and University of Maine at Orono have been awarded a grant worth almost $500,000 to provide technological assistance to private sector manufacturing projects.

Maine Technology Institute awarded the three-year grant as part of the agency’s “Cluster Initiative,” to help precision manufacturers in Maine expand and increase hiring, the USM officials said in a news release.

The Cluster Initiative Program awards up to $500,000 annually to programs that support Maine’s technology sectors and businesses, the news release said.

The funds will be used to hire personnel and equipment to expand services currently provided over the next three years.

Copper thieves strike Maine beach community OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Thieves are stealing copper from seasonal homes in the beachfront community of Ocean Park, and local police are stepping up their patrols, the Portland Press Herald is reporting.

Thieves don’t have to break in to the homes to get access to the valuable copper components. The paper says people have been known to “scurry” underneith the raised properties to remove any exposed copper pipes or wiring.

Copper was stolen from at least six homes last month, the paper said, and police still can’t reach some of the property owners to tell them.

Police have begun checking homes in Ocean Park, and are asking residents to keep an eye out, the paper says.

Officials: Paper mill will close if sale falls through EAST MILLINOCKET — The owners of a paper mill here say they’ll close the facility if a tentative deal to sell this plant and another one in Millinocket to a private equity firm falls apart, the Bangor Daily News is reporting.

Meriturn Partners, a San Franciscobased investment firm, has signed a letter of intent to buy the Katahdin Paper Co. mill in East Millinocket, as well as shuttered paper mill one town over, the paper said. But Brookfield Asset Management, the mills’ current owners, have given the legallymandated 60-day notice with the U.S. Department of Labor that it will close the mill if a buyer isn’t found.

Bangor Daily News said the East Millinocket mill has not made money in several years. Meriturn Partners, which has pledged to modernize the facilities, has until April 29 to finalize the sale, the paper said.

East Millinocket mill employs about 450 people, while the closed mill in Millinocket had about 175 workers when it closed, the paper said.

U.S. Cellular names sales manager in South Portland U.S. Cellular recently named Kyla Khuu to sales manager for the U.S. Cellular retail store at the Maine Mall in South Portland, the company reported.

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customer service in the industry, which is backed by a customer survey from Consumer Reports that ranked the company as the best wireless carrier,” the company stated in a press release. In her new role, Khuu ensures Khuu that her teams of associates are helping customers and potential customers learn about the company’s high-speed nationwide network and The Belief Project, an array of innovative initiatives that recognize customer loyalty with bundled national plans that offer customers the freedom to enjoy benefits without signing continuous contracts.

With “no contract after the first,” new customers who complete a twoyear contract will never have to sign another one and will continue to get guaranteed upgrades to the newest phones at promotional prices every 18 months, U.S. Cellular reported.

“Customers get valuable rewards just for being customers and can get even faster upgrades in as little as 10 months when they use their rewards,” the press release stated.

“At U.S. Cellular, we believe that each customer deserves the best wireless experience and Kyla helps us delight them with all of the unique benefits of being a U.S. Cellular customer,” said Eric Conlon, director of sales for U.S. Cellular in New England.

Prior to her current role, Khuu was sales manager of U.S. Cellular’s store in Bangor.

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Federal policies skew house values everywhere Not Seattle! Home prices in the “Queen City” of the Northwest were not supposed to go south. This isn’t Miami, Phoenix or Las Vegas, where suntanned speculators built big, borrowed big and went bust with a bang.

Yet just as the bubble markets seem to be settling (though on a still sandy bottom), property owners in formerly confident places like Seattle, Minneapolis and Atlanta are seeing their own late-in-the-downturn downturn.

––––– Seattle home prices have Creators fallen 31 percent from their Syndicate 2007 high, according to economists at Zillow, the real estate website. Zillow thinks Seattle residential property has another 10 percent to go.

If sharp price drops can happen in Seattle, Minneapolis and Atlanta, then real estate is an even riskier investment than previously imagined. But

Froma Harrop

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‘TWO DROP’ mystery solved Over the weekend, the big digital glowing idol we know as the “time and temperature” clock changed the message, and some Portlanders were stumped as to what the new message was all about.

Never fear, reader, I’m on it.

Monday being a holiday, I had to wait for folks to return to their offices and check voicemails, but my initial suspicions about the message were confirmed.

First off, some background.

For many months, the clock has shown the time and temperature, and the message “CALL JOE,” referring people to call the law offices of Joe Bornstein.

Folks who were injured or had some legal business to pursue have been advised through this unique outdoor ad. Suddenly on Sunday, the message changed to “TWO DROP.” I walked on the sidewalk next to the building with unease.

Did the sign mean that someone was planning to drop two of something from the upper floors on my unsuspecting head? What was to be dropped? Pianos, eggs and bricks all came to mind, along with irritated feral cats.

Turns out, this is a donation.

I called around, and eventually ended up talking with THE Joe Bornstein, and he cleared the

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John Marr over at MEMIC. There are still pockets of polio around the world, and the Bill see HIGGINS page 5

Daily Sun Columnist matter up in short order.

Every year, Rotary International has an awareness campaign to spread the word about ending polio in the world. They must be doing a bang-up job, because in 1988 there were 340,000 cases of polio worldwide. In 2009 there were 1,604, a drop of over 99 percent. And, to do the work of Captain Obvious and make the point Rotary might make: That’s still about 1,604 too many.

All thanks to donors, research, and two little drops of oral polio vaccine.

Bornstein was happy do donate the time on the clock.

“It took a little convincing, the landlord is down in New York, and was a bit hesitant to change it for just a week. When we told him what we were up to, he eventually came around.”

But why Portland? Bornstein, in his connections with various local Rotarians, responded. “I was asked to do it by my friend

Portland’s Time and Temperature building usually flashes a “Call Joe” ad for Joe Bornstein, but this week the message is different. (FILE PHOTO)

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‘Sticks and stones’ has to go; bullies do real harm When I was in sixth grade, there was this girl “JK” that didn’t like me.

It started with eye-rolls and sneers when she passed me in the hall.

Then she got braver and would tell me I had a big nose and would make fun of my hair. Then she got her friends to join in. They would get in my face and ask me why I “looked so retarded” or why I wore such ugly clothes. Then JK stole my new pair of basketball shoes that I had saved up to buy (that was a lot of babysitting at $3 an hour).

Rather than confront her about it (even when she had them on her feet) or tell my parents, I quit the team. I was humiliated. Ashamed. Scared to go into the bathroom alone.

But it never occurred to me that I was being bullied. She never touched me and that’s what I associated with the term. But living in that terrified state of the unknown was awful. I would have rather been smacked around.

That is nothing compared to what kids have to deal with today.

Back then, bullying was pretty much contained to the playground or halls. Some punk pushing another for his lunch money or some witch girl stealing shoes.

Today’s kids have it coming at them

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Use Your Outdoor Voice from all angles: texts, sexts, blocked calls, Facebook, emails, webcams, Tweets and IM’s, as well as old fashioned gossip and rumor spreading.

That ancient sticks and stones crap has to go. I have been (accidently) punched and I can’t recall what that feels like. But damn if I don’t remember every insult that has been hurled my way. Most people are that way.

The psychological effect far outlasts any bruises. Victims can suffer from depression, loneliness, sleeplessness and low self-esteem. Researchers say they are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol and partake in reckless sexual behavior. And worse. Just look at the stories of teens committing suicide over hateful words.

Bullying is an epidemic in schools.

I spoke with several teachers about the bullying policy in their respective schools, public and private alike.

“Conflict resolution” seems to be the buzzword. Yet, the very nature of a

conflict is to be in a struggle, controversy or quarrel with an idea, activity, person etc. As in, “My dry cleaner and I are in a conflict over red wine stains on my wedding dress that were not there when I dropped it off.”

In a bullying situation, a victim is being scared, threatened and hurt by someone else — actions that need no mutuality of misunderstanding.

Therefore, having an aggressor and victim sit and try to “work through their problems” is ridiculous when the problem is that half of that situation is a jackass.

A 2010 study released by the Josephson Institute of Ethics in Los Angeles showed that more than 50 percent of high schoolers have been bullied or have been the bully. Of the 43,300 teens surveyed, 24 percent think school is unsafe and an unhappy place to be. Sickeningly, 28 percent of students feel violence is OK in school; 10 percent have brought a weapon to school.

Yet, bullying still isn’t something taken seriously by adults. It is easy to wipe it away with the “stick up for yourself, it builds character” cloth.

Think about it from a kid’s point of view. Coming to a parent and saying “Will calls me names/laughs at me/ shoves me …” is mortifying. Our

number one job as parents is to keep our children safe. But how can we protect them from something that can be as invisible as radon?

We can empower our kiddos from a young age. The best way to do this is enroll them in martial arts. Most martial arts are actually non-violent sports, advocating discipline and self-respect. Bullies are cowards who pray on the (perceived) weak. They aren’t going to push around a kid who exudes a high level of confidence. And if a situation does arise where physical contact exists, your child has the tools to protect themselves — and hopefully others. It is heartbreaking to hear stories of a kid getting bullied while a group stands by and watches in silence. What more fuel does a bully need? If your confident child sat next to a victim at lunch or volunteered to be their partner in math, anything to dissuade an attack, (it doesn’t have to be a physical interference) the bully would soon lose interest.

We need to advocate for our own kids so they become empowered to advocate for others. Childhood to too short and precious to be lived in fear.

(Maggie Knowles is a columnist for The Portland Daily Sun. Her column appears Wednesdays.)

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac perpetrated a scam HARROP from page 4

while this development is not good for sellers, it offers a valuable lesson to us all.

Government policies have helped whip up home prices in both bubbly and seemingly frothfree markets. If Washington, D.C., really wants to help people buy homes — and I don’t see why that should be a public goal — it should let house prices fall as they may.

I’m not normally a government-is-the-problem type, but in this fiasco, it was. Ironically, the government program that many on the right blame for the disaster, the anti-redlining Community Reinvestment Act, was not at fault. Most of the bad subprime loans issued at the height of the frenzy were made by institutions outside CRA rules.

Where conservatives and smart liberals rightly point fingers is at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. These privately owned companies had quite a scam going. They would buy and repackage risky loans that the taxpayers, in effect, guaranteed. Their executives spared no expense in lobbying Congress to preserve the deal and in

paying themselves.

The time has come to wind down the twins, though not too quickly. They and the Federal Housing Administration now back 90 percent of all new mortgages. The housing market would totally collapse were this government support to be suddenly withdrawn. We must act with care.

Another government subsidy that needs to go: the tax deduction for mortgage interest. Many homeowners regard this deduction as something a white-bearded man brought down from Mount Sinai. But it does several unwanted things. It favors homebuyers over renters. It encourages people to borrow more money simply to get a tax advantage. It deprives the Treasury of needed revenues — an estimated $500 billion from 2010 through 2013.

President Obama’s deficit reduction commission recommended capping the mortgage interest deduction for home loans exceeding $500,000 (the limit is now $1 million). It would bar such deductions for second-home mortgages and home equity loans. Let’s stop it altogether.

Would that be the end of home-owning as we know it? Hardly. Canada doesn’t allow any deduc-

tions for mortgage interest, and its housing market is far healthier than ours. Indeed, that could be a reason.

Shellshocked private lenders are now demanding that borrowers put more skin in the game.

They’re requiring about 20 percent of the sales price upfront. Obama recently called for raising the down payment on conventional mortgages guaranteed by Fannie or Freddie to 10 percent.

Buyers who can’t come up with the dough are stampeding the FHA, whose mortgages require a down payment of only 3.5 percent. Small wonder that half the home loans issued last year were FHA-backed. Taxpayers should worry about being on the hook for them.

Government housing programs may yearn to help people buy homes. In practice, they make homes more expensive and therefore less affordable. They are also why a housing bust that started in Vegas, didn’t stay in Vegas.

(To find out more about Froma Harrop, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com.)

Bornstein was happy to donate time on the clock for a good cause HIGGINS from page 4

and Melinda Gates Foundation is working at chipping away at those. As part of what Rotarians do in raising awareness, I was proud to donate time on Maine’s only outdoor billboard.”

The sign will run all week, and then be switched back to the old “CALL JOE.” This isn’t the only sign in Portland, though.

Over the week, while passing home at night, I’ve noticed a white Rotary symbol and “END POLIO NOW” projected onto the front of the Portland Museum of Art.

According to information posted on the World Health Organization (WHO) website, “Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus.

It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. The virus enters the body through the mouth and multiplies in the intestine. Initial symptoms are fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, stiffness in the neck and pain in the limbs. One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis (usually in the legs). Among those paralysed, 5% to 10% die when their breathing muscles become immobilized.”

The last major outbreak of polio in the U.S. was in 1952, where there were over 58,000 cases. Aside from a few very sporadic rural cases among the Pennsylvania Amish community, it has all but been eradicated in the U.S. When you look up at the sign this week, think about that for a second. A crippling disease, brought to a halt by an oral vaccine. And nice call, Joe. “TWO DROP” indeed.

(Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun.)

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Arts venue expanding SPACE from page one

The new space will be used primarily for large-scale art installations, workshops and residency programs which the existing space, doubling as a live music venue, cannot host. “We look forward to having this new gallery for those ambitious projects that don’t fit well in a performance space that requires a lot of room,” said May. Since opening in 2002, the nonprofit alternative arts venue has hosted a number of large-scale art installations in its gallery space, but May said wariness about blocking sight lines or minimizing capacity for live music or film events has prevented the gallery from executing some installations to their liking.

“Right now when we have any kind of a project, art installation or event it typically needs to coexist or be limited by other events that are happening,” said May, citing the “Distance Don’t Matter” installation in Fall 2009 by New York graffiti artist Swoon.

“They could have done so much more if we didn’t make them stay clear of middle of room so you had sight lines for shows. If we did a similar project in the new gallery it wouldn’t affect the rest of our programming,” said May. While May said Space has been

SPACE Gallery, an alternative arts and music venue at 538 Congress, announced plans Tuesday to expand into a adjacent space at 534 Congress by this summer.

The new space will host the types of art installations, workshops and residency programs that were limited by the original location’s use as a live music venue.

In this file photo from last summer, two artists install wallpaper for Kimberly Convery and Kreh Mellick’s show “Some. Things.

Curious.” which saw SPACE transformed into a living room with wallpaper, family portraits, vignettes and texture. (MATT DODGE FILE PHOTO)

“We’ve grown at a really exciting rate in the last five years, and I think it speaks to Greater Portland’s readiness for the kind of programming we’re doing.” — Nat May of Space Gallery very successful in its eight years on the scene, doubling its annual budget since 2005 and attracting a steady flow of culturally relevant artists and musicians, the new Space will not be used in exactly the same way, although live music hasn’t been ruled out.

“We’re not trying to duplicate the gallery we already have. We’re really fond of our current performance space, but there are times when we have music shows, conversations or smaller performances where the current space feels a little bit too big,” said May May credits a supportive artistic community with Space’s expansion, saying that “... it’s donations that allow us to take a leap like this.

We’ve grown at a really exciting rate in the last five years, and I think it speaks to Greater Portland’s readiness for the kind of programming we’re doing.”

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Apple, describing it as a “core violation” of worker safety, said that it had ordered the contractor to stop using the chemical and to improve safety conditions at the plant. Apple also said that it would monitor the medical conditions of those workers.

But in interviews last weekend, nearly a dozen employees who say they were harmed by the chemical said they had never heard from anyone at Apple.

Instead, they said the contractor — a Taiwaneseowned company called Wintek — had pressed them and many other affected workers to resign and accept cash settlements that would absolve the factory of future liability, charges the company denied.

“We hope Apple will heed to its corporate social responsibility,” said Jia Jingchuan, 27. He said exposure at the Wintek plant to the chemical, known as n-hexane, had left him with nerve damage and made him so hypersensitive to cold that he now must wear down-insulated clothing even indoors. “Usually someone my age doesn’t wear this type of pants,” he said raising his voice. “Only 50- or 60-year-old men wear something like this.”

On Monday, however, a Wintek spokesman denied that the company was pressing workers to resign or sign papers absolving the company of future liability.

The company said it was working with medical professionals to assess the health of workers. Jay Huang, the spokesman, even suggested that Wintek would pay for medical care should the symptoms persist after workers resign.

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The Portland law firm Murray, Plumb & Murray will be hosting a free seminar: “Commercial Real Estate Basics for New Investors” on Tuesday, March 1, from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the firm’s office at 75 Pearl St. in Portland.

Drew Anderson and Timothy Boulette, directors at Murray, Plumb & Murray, will present the “Commercial Real Estate Basics” seminar. They will lead a general discussion on the basic elements of investing in commercial real estate, including choosing a broker, valuation, choice of entity, negotiation and purchase process, financing and property management options, according to a company press release.

This discussion will be of interest to people who are or may be first-time commercial property purchasers, either as investment vehicles or as homes for their businesses.

Reservations are required. To reserve a seat, contact Kathy Willette at 523-8243 or at kwillette@ mpmlaw.com. Refreshments will be provided.

Wood heat for homes subject of study at College of the Atlantic College of the Atlantic is involved in a study about the use of wood for heating, using a federal grant administered by the University of Maine, the Bar Harbor-based college reported.

COA students, faculty and staff are looking into the “viability of wood as a renewable, efficient, local and less polluting heating resource” for Hancock County, according to a college press release. The Hancock County Firewood Project will be presenting some of its preliminary findings at a forum at 7 p.m. in the second floor auditorium of the Ellsworth City Hall on Thursday, Feb. 24 titled “Local Heat: The Hancock County Firewood Project.”

The funds for the project come from EPSCoR, the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, a program of the National Science Foundation offering funding to states that have historically received only minimal amounts of research and design grants from the national government. COA has received $75,000 this year to fund research into the potential uses of the Hancock County woodshed. The project is titled “Developing Our Energy Future.”

About 20 students along with faculty and staff are looking into issues such as who in Hancock County is using firewood-and the reasons for and against using it — as well as the health of the county’s forests, its suitability for firewood, the impact wood burning has on the air and water, and other emissions concerns. Other associated projects-much of it spearheaded by students-range from working with elementary school students to teach them how to conduct surveys to exploring whether softwoods can be transformed into butanol to fuel automobiles.

The members of the Firewood Project are hoping for feedback and ideas. For more information on the “Local Heat: The Hancock County Firewood Project” forum, or to provide feedback about the project, contact Gray Cox at gray@coa.edu, or call 801-5712 or 288-5015.

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Zach Broda said Spun Arts & Apparel at 543 Congress St. is a clothing and art store that focuses on the underground clothing and music cultures. “Aimed at electronic music, hip-hop, and jam festival followers, we try to carry brands that can’t be found many other places in our area. The name SPUN came about because it was a word used for both clothing and music. Records are spun, and cloth is spun to make clothing,” he wrote. Broda added a dictionary definition: “SPUN: Verb: The Past tense and past participle of SPIN. Ex. To spin records. Adjective: Formed or manufactured by spinning.”

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Geographically speaking, restaurants in Maine tend to coincide with much of the rest of the political practices and philosophies that we embody in the Pine Tree state.

Southeastern Maine and the seasonal coastal regions are filled with a multitude of edgy bar menus, bodegas, and bistros offering items that take innovative liberties with recipes and price points.

Move northwest and inland, and with the exception of a few hot spots on the map (Thistles in Bangor, comes to mind and successfully boasts, "Classical International Cuisine — Fine Dining with a Latin Flair") things turn far more conservative and predictable, with economic demographics dictating how far from mid-right a restaurant can venture and thrive.

The political metaphor is fun to think about, but for the foodies among us not so much fun to be stuck in the middle of. Jeff Graham, owner of the brunch and lunch house, Stone Dog Cafe on Route 302 in Windham, met with me over an antipasto special at Norm's last week for some Q&A about the business.

What's going on with the restaurant scene in Windham these days?

Jeff Graham: "Ask 10 different people and you'll get 10 different answers. We’ve had five dinner paces close in North Windham in November and December, only to have two

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People are more budget conscious crazy and a family of four is going to Little Caesar's for $5 pizza. They're hitting the chains instead of keeping the money local. And it's nuts... who do I cater to? If I tried to serve this antipasto platter for $12.99 for lunch at my place, someone would ask where the fries are.

Being the 'Lakes Region' the Windham area has a split personality.

Windham is like a bedroom community of Portland, right? My building has been many restaurants and when I opened in 2003 it was great.

The summer was rocking and I had a line out the door for brunch every day.

It's still that way in the summer, but it's almost impossible to get through the rest of the year. Being a breakfast and brunch place, I didn't expect that much of a seasonal drop and we go from 12 full-time servers to four when summer ends. Look, I'm a local guy from Gorham. I started washing

dishes at 12 and have worked with some of the biggest names in Portland. Roger Bintliff and David Turin were key influences in my 20-something year long career, but the locals have officially pissed me off."

Give me a solid example of the local behavior that has you so frustrated.

JG: When the word got out that Charlie Beigg's was closing their doors forever people came out in droves and Beigg's did huge summer numbers their last two weekends. Beigg's has been around forever and it was like a famous painter or something. In Windham, you're celebrated when you're dead. It's 'death versus food.'

And people are finicky for the same old stuff. It's boring. I want to serve a really good meal of value instead of a just a cheap meal. It's demoralizing but it would be a little less painful to put out the same stuff all the time if it paid the bills."

How much of this do you have to own? What can you do to turn things around?

JG: "Oh, I'll turn it around... I'm not giving up. Don't get me wrong, I like these people and want to make good, interesting food. I read the comment book every day, but I just want them to get it. To get that they are the locals that are putting other locals out of business.

"My prices are pretty reasonable, even by Windham standards. I guess

I have to maximize hours and seats over the summer month and that may mean expansion. My staff knows everybody. I use the best, freshest stuff I can get, but my costs are higher than the guy in town who can run to the dock, and I don't want to compromise. I'm also willing to advertise and try new marketing ideas, but I don't want to give the place away with freebies and discounts that leave people feeling ripped off when they have to pay full price. There are some guys out there that are too arrogant to advertise. I'm arrogant about other stuff because I know I'm right in this."

What's the story behind the name?

JG: "Stone was my first dog. A rottweiler and just a sweetheart. If you look around the cafe, you'll see actual paw prints in the plaster on the walls and most of the art is dog themed."

Ah ... like Binga's Wingas. Most people don't know that Binga is coowner Alec Altman's dog ... So, what's Nirvana for Stone Dog Cafe?

JG: "I’m thinking about closing after New Year’s Day next year and maybe just doing weekends through March. I’d like to have the ability to actually create during breakfast, lunch and dinner. I have these great things in my head, and would like to have people respond positively and come back again and again. I’d like to have unlimited resources for better see LADD page 9

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Wednesday, February 23, 2011— Page 9

Crossing guide sees it all at busy square “The thing is you’ve got to wear lots of clothes, layers of clothes and move around a lot.” — Tom Schmaling, on the key to working as a crossing guide in the winter CROSSING from page one

34 crossing guides.

“Me and my buddy here, we stand out in the cold and rain, it’s like I’m a mailman ... except I haven’t got a chair,” Schmaling quipped, gesturing to the statue.

Paid through the city’s parking division, crossing guides work approximately 10 hours a week during the school year and have all school vacations and the summer break off, according to the city’s website.

The city has a total of 28 school crossing locations, which will soon be 29 with the opening of the Ocean Avenue School, covered by 34 crossing guides, city spokesperson Nicole Clegg reported.

Crossing guides work approximately two hours per day. Starting pay is $9.25 per hour and $10.25 per hour for “floaters.”

Schmaling said he figures the taxpayer is getting a good bank for a buck. ABOVE: Crossing guide Tom Schmaling pauses for a break at Longfellow Square last week. BOTTOM LEFT: Schmaling monitors a busy intersection where “I get a half a dozen kids a day... you Congress and State streets converge. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS) divide that into 10 bucks (an hour), that’s not too bad for the city,” he said. came in,” Schmaling said with a smile.

It’s been a tough winter for the reflector-jacketed Last week, Schmaling dressed down as tempera“We have such a variety of people here, it’s incredfigures who occupy key corners in the city. On Jan. tures climbed toward 50 degrees, but the norm for ible, I’ve seen all kinds of people here. It’s like the 24, it was 13 below zero — “it’s amazing that I even winter apparel is something a bit warmer. center of the universe.” — Tom Schmaling on “The thing is you’ve got to wear lots of clothes, Longfellow Square layers of clothes and move around a lot,” he said.

Schmaling said his son ible, I’ve seen all kinds of people here. It’s like the also works for the parking center of the universe,” he said. division, “but he hands Schmaling himself could be counted as one of out tickets.” Schmaling’s those characters — he tackles his job with humor job is less stressful than and personality to spare. that of a parking enforce“I was thinking of doing standup, usually when I ment officer, although he get a captive audience I go to town on them. I always doesn’t take lightly the think of something funny to say,” he confessed. responsibility of ushering Schmaling knows that there are warmer days people across busy interahead — and not just here in Maine. sections.

“What I’m doing is basically working out here in Still, Schmaling tries the cold and the rain and everything so I can stand to maintain a sense of on the deck of a cruise ship in August and go to humor, marveling at the Bermuda. What I make here in a year pays for my assortment of characters cruise tickets. I can’t complain about that,” he said. who pass through LongThe city of Portland is accepting resumes and fellow Square. applications through Friday, March 4 for 2010-2011 “We have such a variety school year crossing guides. For details, visit www. of people here, it’s incredci.portland.me.us/jobs.asp.

Stone Dog Cafe owner reflects on restaurant business in Windham LADD from page 8

curb appeal and updates, but I do think we do a good job overall. I just want to take it to the next level."

Wow, Dinner. What’s the vision?

JG: "Yep, dinner. One of my mentors taught me to hit right back while being hit, and I’d like to open the Sun Room at Stone Dog Cafe; for summer evenings, and hopefully beyond. As far as the vision from the kitchen, I like to do minimalistic cooking and keep techniques and ingredients simple. I believe in buying the best. The highest quality. I don’t believe in a huge spice rack or over complicating anything.

Just give me kosher salt, raw garlic, some fresh rosemary and a piece of swordfish. Oh, and linen and a simple yet varied wine list."

And how would your staff describe you?

JG: "Arrogant, condescending, and mean, but creative, funny and intelligent. You were talking about the politics and restrictions of Maine restaurant locations, but you know, like most Chefs I run a fascist regime. It’s not a democracy at Stone Dog Cafe, but even I have an ego swallowing point when someone has a good idea. And you mentioned the word vision before; it has to come from the top."

My Take: Mud season is on the way and the drive

from town takes about 15 minutes. Prices range form $5 to $13 and Jeff is going to have to figure out a way to put his killer corned beef hash on the dinner menu. The Lobster Florentine served Benedict style isn’t just for summer folks either. Hollandaise is replaced by a delightful caramelized onion, bacon and heavy cream reduction over chunks of lobster meat and fresh baby spinach, all assembled on an English muffin.

(Natalie Ladd and her “What’s It Like” column take a weekly look at the culinary business in and around Portland.)

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You thrive with a regimen, but today it benefits you to fly off a bit and give in to a few of your impulses. Your spontaneity makes life wondrous, not just for you but for everyone around you.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Wednesday, Feb. 23, the 54th day of 2011. There are 311 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 23, 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take office, following word of a possible assassination plot in Baltimore.

On this date: In 1685, composer George Frideric Handel was born in Germany.

In 1836, the siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas.

In 1848, the sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams, died in Washington, D.C., at age 80.

In 1870, Mississippi was readmitted to the Union.

In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill creating the Federal Radio Commission, forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission.

In 1942, the first shelling of the U.S. mainland during World War II occurred as a Japanese submarine fired on an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, Calif., causing little damage.

In 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi.

In 1954, the first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh.

In 1970, Guyana became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.

In 1981, an attempted coup began in Spain as 200 members of the Civil Guard invaded the Parliament, taking lawmakers hostage. (However, the attempt collapsed 18 hours later.)

One year ago: The House Energy and Commerce Committee, looking into cases of sudden, unintended acceleration of Toyota automobiles, heard tearful testimony from Rhonda Smith, of Sevierville, Tenn., who said her Lexus raced out of control to speeds up to 100 miles an hour. Dutch skater Sven Kramer lost the Olympic gold medal to Lee Seung-hoon of South Korea when coach Gerard Kemkers sent him the wrong way on a changeover during the 10,000-meter speedskating race at Vancouver.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Peter Fonda is 71. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Fred Biletnikoff is 68. Author John Sandford is 67. Singer-musician Johnny Winter is 67.

Country-rock musician Rusty Young is 65.

Actress Patricia Richardson is 60. Rock musician Brad Whitford (Aerosmith) is 59.

Singer Howard Jones is 56. Rock musician Michael Wilton is 49. Country singer Dusty Drake is 47. Actress Kristin Davis is 46.

Tennis player Helena Sukova is 46. Actor Marc Price is 43. Actress Niecy Nash is 41. Rock musician Jeff Beres is 40. Country singer Steve Holy is 39. Rock musician Lasse Johansson is 38. Actress Emily Blunt is 28. Actress Dakota Fanning is 17.

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Wednesday, Feb. 23 Winter Family Fun Day

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fort McClary State Historic Site, Kittery; outdoor games, snowshoeing, ice skating, maple sugaring, nature walks, tree identification, fort history, winter survival demonstration, animal tracking, bon fire; hot lunch provided; adults, 12-64, $1.50; all others free; for more information, call 384-5160.

High School Basketball Tournament starts at Civic Center

6 p.m. Western Maine Class “A” and “B” Girls’ and Boys’ High School Basketball Tournament at the Civic Center.

Runs through Saturday, Feb. 26. Feb. 23 — Class “A” Boys’ Semi-finals - one ticket valid for both games: 6 p.m. game #1; 7:30 p.m. game #2. Feb. 24 — Class “B” Girls’ Semifinals: 3 p.m. game #1; 4:30 p.m. game #2; Feb. 24 — Class “B” Boys’ Semi-finals: 7:30 p.m. game #1; 9 p.m. game #2; Feb. 25 — Class “A” Girls’ Semi-finals: 6: p.m. game #1; 7:30 p.m. game #2; Feb. 26 — Class “B” Girls’ and Boys’ Regional Finals: 2 p.m. Girls’ Final; 3:45 p.m. Boys’ Final; Feb. 26 — Class “A” Girls’ and Boys’ Regional Finals: 7 p.m. Girls’ Final; 9 p.m. Boys’ Final.

James Voorhies at MECA

6 p.m. Visiting curator lecture by James Voorhies at the Maine College of Art. Voorhies is the director of the Bureau For Open Culture in Columbus, Ohio and North Adams, Mass. “The organization works intentionally to re-imagine the art exhibition as a discursive form of education that creates a kind of new public sphere or new institution. Previously, he was deputy director at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. His exhibitions often manifests themselves within sculptures/installations that other, more traditional institutions would find a difficult time exhibiting. This ranges from a parade to a garden to a hot air balloon taking off from a Walmart parking lot.” Voorhies said, “We work intentionally to re-imagine the art exhibition as a discursive form of education that creates a kind of new public sphere or new institution. Exhibitions take shape as installations, screenings, informal talks and performances and occur in parking lots, storefronts, libraries, industrial sites, country roads, gardens and galleries.” www.bureauforopenculture.org

Family Finances Seminar

6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The Institute for Financial Literacy has launched a new interactive personal finance seminar series. “Taught by certified educators and open to the general public, the seminars are designed to improve financial literacy in Maine. In this session, you will learn how to manage your family finances like a business and teach your children important financial literacy skills.” All seminars are being held at the Institute’s new campus conveniently located near the Maine Mall at 260 Western Ave. in South Portland. Cost is $50 per adult/$75 couple. Attendance is

limited and advance registration is required. To register, please call 221-3601 or email help@financiallit.org. www. financiallit.org

Peace Rally for Darfur

7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center of Maine) will hold a Peace Rally for Darfur at The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St., Portland. Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center of Maine) presents a rally for peace. This event is free and open to the public; however, donations will be accepted for Fur Cultural Revival. Speakers will include ElFadel Arbab, as well as local activists and members of the Sudanese refugee communities. There will be a showing of the short documentary film, “Tents of Hope.” Sudanese snacks and refreshments will be served.

Thursday, Feb. 24 Overeaters Anonymous

10 a.m. Scarborough, W. Scarborough Methodist Church, Route 1 and Church St., oa.org for more info.

Wisdom At Work Series

noon to 1 p.m. Portland Public Library is hosting 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 last presentation in the series is titled “Your Job Doesn’t Have To Be Perfect For Life To Be Good” presented by Creighton Taylor of Thrive! Life Coaching.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.

Portland police forum with the Maine Center on Deafness

6 p.m. The Portland Police Department with assistance from the Maine Center on Deafness will host a forum with the city’s deaf population to discuss safety concerns and ways the department can improve its relationship with the community. The forum will provide an opportunity for members of the deaf community and those connected to them, including family members, employers and neighbors, to share their thoughts openly and hear from the department about efforts to ensure that Portland is an inclusive and safe community for all. “I am committed to ensuring that all members of our community have a safe space to share their safety concerns, which is why I am so appreciative to members of the deaf community for reaching out to the department,” stated Portland Police Chief James Craig.

“This forum will help facilitate a better understanding of their unique issues and through this open communication, I am confident we will build a stronger relationship.” ASL interpreters will be available at the forum. Deering Masonic Lodge, 102 Bishop St. For more information about the forum, call 874-8927 or email jrob@portlandmaine.gov.

‘The Hancock County Firewood Project’

7 p.m. “Local Heat: The Hancock County Firewood Project” a discussion on wood heat and the potential uses of the Hancock County woodshed, College of the Atlantic. Ellsworth City Hall at 7 p.m. in the second floor auditorium.

Free. For more, contact Gray Cox at gray@coa.edu, 8015712 or 288-5015.

2011 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation

7:30 p.m. Shorts International presents the 2011 OscarNominated Animated Short Films. SPACE Gallery. ANIMATED – 65 min (estimated TRT with titles, etc – 85 min.); Day & Night – USA, 6 min.; Let’s Pollute – USA, 6 min.; The Lost Thing – Australia/UK, 15 min.; Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) – France, 11 min.; The Gruffalo – UK/Germany, 27 min.; Plus Highly-Commended Animated films: The Cow Who Wanted To Be A Hamburger – USA, 6 min.; Urs – Germany, 10 min. www. space538.org

Dan Bern and Common Rotation

Leslie Trentalange stars in “Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love,” playing its final weekend Friday through Sunday at Old Port Playhouse.

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8 p.m. After collaborating on an indie movie soundtrack “Drones,” Dan Bern and Common Rotation have continued to work on various projects together. Projects include recordings for Jonathan Demme’s Off-Broadway production of Beth Henley’s “Family Week,” an album of new Dan Bern material, Dan Bern Live in LA, and the upcoming release of Dan Bern’s greatest hits recorded live in New York. Dan Bern is best known for his prolific songwriting and electric live persona. He has released a dozen albums while spending well over a decade performing everywhere from local coffee shops to Carnegie Hall. Since releasing his first album in 1997, Dan Bern has amassed a strong underground following built on endless touring and his prodigious output of songs in all forms. Beginning in 2007, Bern focused much energy on motion pictures — he used his talents and sharp wit to compose over a dozen songs for the Jake Kasdan/Judd Apatow music biopic-spoof “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox

Story” and wrote the title song for Jonathan Demme’s documentary, “Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains.” Bern also composed songs the Nick Stoller/Judd Apatow film “Get Him to the Greek,” starring Russell Brand and Jonah Hill, newly released on DVD. With the release of his 1997 self-titled debut, Iowa native Dan Bern became the latest thing, following the likes of John Prine, Elliott Murphy, Steve Forbert, Loudon Wainwright III as a serious songwriter with a penchant for humorous songs. He will appear at One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Suite 201. $15. www.onelongfellowsquare.com or www.danbern.com

Friday, Feb. 25 Range Ponds Kids Ice Fishing Derby.

9 a.m. to noon. Range Ponds State Park, Poland Spring; part of the Sebago Lake Rotary Derbyfest and Statewide Derby; limited to children ages 12 and under. Sponsored

by Kittery Trading Post, registration for this derby is free although there is $1.50 park admission fee for adults ages 12-64, free admission for all others; run in cooperation with the “Hooked on Fishing” program and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. The first 500 children to register for the derby will receive a free ice-fishing rig, compliments of Kittery Trading Post. For more information on the event and registration, go to www.icefishingderby. com/maine/kids-derby

Racin’ Preview 2011

4 p.m. Legendary Maine racers Phil and Bob Libby will be the focus of an extensive Maine Vintage Race Car Association display at Northern New England’s biggest and best wintertime stock car racing showcase, Racin’ Preview 2011, set for Friday and Saturday, Feb. 25-26 at the Portland Exposition Building on Park Street (U.S. Route 1). Both Phil and Bob Libby are members of the Beech Ridge Hall of Fame, the Maine Vintage Race Car Association Hall of Fame and the NEAR New England Hall of Fame. Cars from the Libby stable have been lovingly restored and many will be on display at Racin’ Preview 2011. Doors at the Portland Expo open at 4 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 25, with several autograph opportunities and other activities ongoing through 10 p.m. Saturday show hours are 9 p.m. until 9 p.m. For further information please call (603) 447-4251 or email racinpaper@racinpaper.com. Current associate sponsors of Racin’ Preview 2010 include Racin’ Paper, Mainely Motorsports, LaQuinta, R & D Racing and Fabrication of Limerick, and Wayne Elston’s Speed Shop of Carmel.

‘Made in Dagenham’ at the PMA

6:30 p.m. Portland Museum of Art Movies at the Museum series features “Made in Dagenham” on Friday, Feb. 25, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 26, 2 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 27, 2 p.m. Rated R. “Set against the backdrop of the 1960s, Made in Dagenham is based on a true story about a group of spirited women who joined forces, took a stand for what was right, and in doing so, found their own inner strength.

Although far from the Swinging Sixties of Carnaby Street, life for the women of Dagenham, England is tinged with the sounds and sights of the optimistic era, heard on their radios and seen on their TV sets. Rita O’Grady reflects that upbeat era who, along with her friends and co-workers at the city’s Ford Motor Factory, laugh in the face of their poor conditions. Lisa is a fiercely intelligent Cambridge-educated woman who feels a bit trapped, tending to the home with a husband that suggests she keep her opinions to herself.

She may not live in the same world as the other women, but she shares their views. No one thought the revolution would come to Dagenham, until one day, it did. Rita, who primarily sees herself as a wife and mother, is coerced into attending a meeting with shop steward Connie, sympathetic union representative Albert, and Peter Hopkins, Ford’s Head of Industrial Relations.”

Eat Write: Nourishment for Mouth and Mind

7 p.m. Mayo Street Arts presents Eat Write: Nourishment for Mouth and Mind as part of the ongoing LIT series hosted

by Megan Grumbling. In addition to a reading by Maine Poet Laureate Betsy Sholl and performances by actors Paul Haley, Michael Howard and April Singley, the evening will feature informal dinner, a wine tasting competition, and an axiom-busting puppet show based on the work of Francois Rabelais. “Its cold, its February, there just aren’t a lot of surprises this time of year much less large social gatherings, so we wanted to have an event where people can get together and forget their heating bills for a while” says Grumbling, a poet and host of the LIT series which is in its third year.

Betsy Sholl is the author of several books, including her most recent, Rough Cradle. In addition, Grumbling, who is a theater critic for the Portland Phoenix and who often works with local actors, has enlisted Haley, Howard, and Singley to perform readings, which will range from Falstaff drinking his mead to Bloom frying the famous kidney. www. mayostreetarts.org see next page

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Auditions for ‘Who’s Tommy’

7 p.m. Auditions for “Who’s Tommy” produced by Studio Theatre of Bath, will be held Feb. 25, 26 and 27 at the Chocolate Church Arts Center. Auditions will begin at 7 p.m. on Feb. 25 and at 2 p.m. on Feb. 26 and 27. Actors are welcome to prepare a song from the show, or bring sheet music for a song of your choice. Non-singing and chorus roles are also available. We are looking for actors, singers and dancers age 16 and up. “This wonderful show is directed

by Studio Theatre of Bath president Thomas Watson with musical direction from Courtney Babbidge. Studio Theatre is a financially secure, semi-professional theatre company that provides a technically superior and creative theatre experience.” P.O. Box 710, Bath, ME. http://studiotheatreofbath.com

Winter Family Fun Day

10 a.m.-3 p.m. Aroostook State Park, “Maine’s First State Park,” Presque Isle; cross-country skiing, snowshoeing (instruction provided), ice skating, sledding, snowmobile tote rides, guided nature interpretation walks; dog-sled rides, $2 donation; hot lunch provided; adults, 12-64, $1.50; all others free; for more information, call 768-8341.

Riverlands Winter Greens Snowshoe Hike

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Androscoggin Riverlands State Park, Turner; presented by Mike Auger, Androscoggin Land Trust; participants will learn how to identify trees and shrubs and learn how they provide food and shelter for the animals in the park; a 2.6-mile loop; children’s educational program; includes visit to hike sponsor, Nezincot Farm, a historic organic farm, and store, in Turner; some snowshoes available, please call ahead to reserve; refreshments; for more information or for groups interested in attending, contact Laura Keating at (207) 5570352 or laura.keating@maine.gov

‘Animal Farm’ play performed at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor

7:30 p.m. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” That wryly amusing line captures much of the political awareness of the twentieth century.

The source, George Orwell’s classic cautionary fable “Animal Farm,” has been turned into a play by College of the Atlantic visiting faculty member Andrew Periale. It will be performed Friday through Sunday, Feb. 25 to 27.

Performances will be Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. “In Orwell’s novella, Farmer Jones is chased off the farm by his own animals, who then set about running it in an egalitarian, socialist manner. Before long, though, it becomes clear that most of the animals are working for the benefit of the pigs. By play’s end, one pig controls everything, and the ‘lower animals’ are far more oppressed than they were under Farmer Jones.

It is recommended for adults and children 13 and older.

Admission is free to COA students, faculty and staff. For others it is $3, with profits supporting youth scholarships at a Journey’s End Farm Camp. Gates Community Center, College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor. 288-5015 or aperiale@gmail.com.

Longfellow’s 204th birthday party

10 a.m. Join the Maine Historical Society for Longfellow’s 204th birthday! Special guests will read Longfellow’s poetry, and there will be craft activities, prizes, cake and a birthday card for Henry for everyone to sign.

Fun for all ages! The party is free and open to the public. www.mainehistory.org

Family Finances Seminar

On Saturday, the Longfellow Chorus, Orchestra and featured soloists celebrate the 204th birthday of native son Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (FILE PHOTO)

‘Harriet Tubman Visits A Therapist’

7:30 p.m. “Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist and Other Conversations of Color; A Celebration of African American History” at Lucid Stage, located at 29 Baxter Boulevard. The event will include a concert, a play, and an opening of a visual arts exhibition at Portland’s newest performing arts venue. “It will open with a concert of traditional freedom songs performed and narrated by Mehuman Jonson. Jonson is an award-winning songwriter and performer, who has performed and toured with artists who include Nora Jones, Meshell N’ Degeocello, and Ani Difranco. The concert will be followed by a staged reading of the award-winning, one-act play ‘Harriet Tubman Visits A Therapist’ by Maine playwright Carolyn Gage. The play won the Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and will be performed by actors Shatema Brooks, a Rockland resident currently living in Portland and Maureen Emerson of Portland.

The performers will participate in a panel discussion following the play.

An exhibition of a series of paintings by Rockland artist Jonathan Frost will be shown in the lobby. This series, titled ‘The Death of Jimmie Lee Jackson’ tell the story that inspired the famous Selma-to-Montgomery Marches of 1965. The event is a fund-raiser for Maine Freedom Trails, to support their network of marked sites across the state that acknowledge individual, organizational and community participation in the Underground Railroad and the abolitionist movement. This network includes the Portland Freedom Trail, which winds through the Old Port and Munjoy Hill.” Tickets for the event are $10-$20, sliding scale, and reservations may be made at the Lucid Stage website, www.lucidstage.com, or by calling Lucid Stage’s Box Office at 899-3993. The evening is partially funded by a grant from the People of Color Fund of the Maine Community Foundation.

Stuart McLean & The Vinyl Cafe

7:30 p.m. Stuart McLean & the Vinyl Cafe, Canada’s answer to Garrison Keillor, returns to Merrill Auditorium for a live version of the popular show that airs on Maine Public Broadcasting. The Vinyl Cafe, which premiered in 1994, airs the trials and tribulations of Dave, the owner of the word’s smallest record store … where the motto is, “we may not be big but we are small.” Presented in association with Maine Public Broadcasting. Tickets $42 (includes service fee). Student and family prices available by calling 842-0800.

2011 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action

7:30 p.m. SPACE Gallery presents Shorts International, the 2011 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films. LIVE ACTION – 101 min. (estimated TRT – 110 min.); The Confession – UK, 26 min.; The Crush – Ireland, 15 min. God of Love – US, 18 min.; Na Wewe – Belgium, 19 min.; Wish 143

10 a.m. to noon. The Institute for Financial Literacy has launched a new interactive personal finance seminar series.

“Taught by certified educators and open to the general public, the seminars are designed to improve financial literacy in Maine. In this session, you will learn how to manage your family finances like a business and teach your children important financial literacy skills.” All seminars are being held at the Institute’s new campus located near the Maine Mall at 260 Western Ave. in South Portland. Cost is $50 per adult/$75 couple. Attendance is limited and advance registration is required. To register, please call 221-3601 or email help@financiallit.org. www.financiallit.org

Maine Medical Marijuana Expo/Awards

Dan Bern is best known for his prolific songwriting and magical stage presence. He has released about a dozen albums since 1997, while performing everywhere from small clubs to Carnegie Hall. Bern will perform at One Longfellow Square on Thursday.

(COURTESY PHOTO) – UK, 24 min. www.space538.org

‘Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love’

8 p.m. “Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love” is an adult comedy about love, sex and relationships at the Old Port Playhouse.

The critics and audiences have given this show excellent reviews and this is the final weekend! With shows on Friday at 8, Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

All seats $15. Box Office 773-0333. Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St. Portland. oldportplayhouse.com

Kerri Louise with Tuck at the Comedy Connection

8:30 p.m. From WE’s Two Funny, Kerri Louise with Tuck.

Tickets $15. Portland Comedy Connection, 16 Custom House Wharf. Also Saturday. Reservations: 774-5554. $7.50. Schedule and information: www.mainecomedy.com.

Box office open Thurs.-Sat., noon to 10 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 26 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2.5K road race, other events

8 a.m. The Longfellow Chorus, Orchestra and featured soloists celebrate the 204th birthday of native son Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — in the poet’s boyhood church-with a 2.5K road race through the heart of downtown Portland, a showing of the Mike Leigh film “Topsy-Turvy,” performances of cantatas by Franz Liszt (“The Bells of Strasbourg Cathedral”) and Arthur Sullivan (“The Golden Legend”) that use the same Longfellow text, and the winning cantatas from The Longfellow Chorus International Composers Competition: “By the Seaside,” by Jonathan Blumhofer, Worcester, Mass., and Piers Maxim, Brussels,

11 a.m. Portland will host Maine’s first ever marijuana expo and patients choice awards at the Fireside Inn & Suites, Portland. Question and answer sessions, Saturday at 11 a.m.; Mark N. Dion, State Representative and former Cumberland County Sheriff, 3 p.m. Saturday; U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. reception, RSVP, donation to the patients fund requested. RSVP 854-1616. Maine Legislative update: Sunday, 11 a.m., Rep. Diane Russell District 120 and Rep. Deborah Sanderson, Dist rict 52, Maine legislative update, proposed legalization bill and amendments to LD 1811; medical marijuana bills for this session of the 2011 125th legislaure. www.asamaine.org

Author Hannah Holmes at Bull Moose

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Portland author Hannah Holmes will be at the Bull Moose Scarborough store at 456 Payne Road for a book signing and to present her new book, “Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality.”

“Holmes traveled to psychology labs around the world to determine ‘what exactly is a personality? What purpose does it serve? How did we each end up with a different one?’ She delves into the recesses of ground-breaking human and animal brain science and emerges with the conclusion that genes, hormones, and neurotransmitters guide our interactions with the world and hence craft our personalities. QUIRK examines the biological basis of important personality traits such as ‘the political party you support, the car you drive, the likelihood that you’ll cheat on your spouse, and even the way you eat M&Ms’; it is neuroscience for the masses.” Holmes is also the author of The Well-Dressed Ape, Suburban Safari, and The Secret Life of Dust. Her writing has been determined to be “amusing and illuminating” (Outside); “full of interesting facts” (The Washington Post Book World); and “juicy and humorous” (Publishers Weekly starred review). Holmes graduated from the University of Southern Maine with a degree in English, proceeded to travel the world as a journalist, and has since settled down back home to write books and observe the planet. For more information, visit www.hannahholmes.net

‘Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love’

2 p.m. and 8 p.m. “Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love” is an adult comedy about love, sex and relationships at the Old Port Playhouse. The critics and audiences have given this show excellent reviews and this is the final weekend! With shows on Friday at 8, Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. All seats $15. Box Office 773-0333. Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St. Portland. oldportplayhouse.com see next page

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Jeremy Bailey at MECA

6 p.m. Maine College of Art presents a one-night lecture/ performance by Jeremy Bailey. It’s a live, collaborative software performance, led by Toronto-based Bailey, a video and performance artist whose work is often confidently self-deprecating in offering hilarious parodies of new media vocabularies. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and festivals internationally including upcoming exhibitions at Tate Liverpool and the New Museum in New York. He has been described by Filmmaker magazine as “a one-man revolution on the way we use video, computers and our bodies to create art.” http://jeremybailey.net/ wordpress/.

Romantic songs at Anthony’s Dinner Theater

7 p.m. Kelly Caufield performs romantic songs at Anthony’s Dinner Theater. Free rose to every lady all month. $39.95 per person. Feb. 12, 19 and 26. Call for Reservations. 2212267. www.anthonysdinnertheater.com

Sunday, Feb. 27 Psychic Sunday at Lucid Stage

11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Participants will include: Joyce Halliburton (psychic), Kate Holly-Clark(Runes), Lisa Nigthfeather (psychic), Antika Nueva (gems and jewelry), Henna By Amy, Oh Baby Cafe, and many more. www.lucidstage.com

Gail Donovan book signing

11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Gail Donovan will sign her latest children’s book, “What’s Buggging Bailey Blecker?”, at the Cathedral Shop at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke. The Cathedral Shop is located at 143 State St.

Meet Your Farmers and Fishermen

1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Attend “Meet Your Farmers and Fishermen: A Celebration of Community Supported Agriculture and Fisheries” in a location near you on Sunday, Feb. 27. “This event is part celebration and part education, as local farmers, fishermen and other food producers come together with members of the community to share information about opportunities to enjoy local foods while supporting these enterprises in a meaningful way. Farms with Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs ask you to commit to purchasing a share of the coming harvest before the season begins. The benefit? You get to provide the farm with much-needed capital in the off-season while getting your locally grown food direct from the farm at a fair price. In addition to farms with CSA shares, local fishermen with Community Supported Fisheries (CSF) shares will also be present in some locations. Portland, Woodfords Church, 202 Woodford St. (note this location will run from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.) Use the Maine CSA Directory on the website of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, www. mofga.net, to find the CSA opportunities in your area.” The event is co-sponsored by the Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association (MOFGA) and local organizations at each site. Admission to this event is free.

‘Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love’

School of Law present “2011 Civil Rights Movie Nights,” a monthly series of films examining legal controversies regarding civil liberties and civil rights. The series launches this Sunday, Feb. 27 with “Inherit the Wind,” the classic 1960 fictionalized depiction of the famous 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial” in which a Tennessee school teacher was prosecuted for teaching the theory of evolution. Future showings: March 27: “The People vs. Larry Flynt”; and April 24: “American Violet.” All showings are at 4 p.m. in the Talbot Lecture Hall, Luther Bonney Hall, and are free and open to the public. A short discussion of the issues raised by the film will follow each showing. For more information, please contact the MCLU at 774-5444 or info@mclu.org.

Secret Lives of Comedians

7:30 p.m. Tickets $10, available online at www.LucidStage. com or through Lucid Stage’s Box Office at 899-3993, 29 Baxter Boulevard. “Produced by Cloud Morris and Brian Brinegar, this monthly series features stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, ‘surprised guests,’ and other disturbing delights! Special guests are Nicholas LaVallee, Sarah Frazier, Bill Gray and Cliff Gallant.”

Monday, Feb. 28 Maine Restaurant Week Signature Event

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Expanding on last year’s legendary cocktail competition, the March 2011 Maine Restaurant Week kick-off Signature Event introduces a two-pronged dessert competition. Taking place on at the Masonic Temple in Portland, the Signature Event celebrates the priceless individuality behind Maine’s cocktail shakers and sugar shacks.

Cookies challenge cakes and cupcakes take on truffles in the “How Sweet It Is” portion of the competition, but only one can win. Guests at The Signature Event have the final say in this people’s choice face-off. Notably, many competitors are exclusively bakers and confectioners, expanding Restaurant Week’s sphere of influence beyond traditional restaurants. Founded in 2009, this is the third year for this statewide event. Participating restaurants offer specially priced menus from March 1-12. For restaurant names, menus and special event information, visit www.mainerestaurantweek.com.

Cold River Bartenders Bash

5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The spirit of healthy competition is alive and well in Maine’s mixology world, according to partners at Maine Distilleries (www.mainedistilleries.com and www. facebook.com/mainedistilleries). Partners have announced their list of 30 Maine bartenders now competing in a twomonth contest for the 15 coveted mixology slots at its upcoming “2nd Annual Cold River Bartenders Bash.” The Bash, to take place at Portland’s Ocean Gateway, will pit 15 well-known Maine bartenders against each other in a friendly “shaker-to-shaker” competition to create “The Ultimate Cold River Cocktail.” For more information, visit www. mainedistilleries.com or call 865-4828.

Violence Intervention Partnership officials to speak before Republican City Committee

7 p.m. Faye E. Luppi, J.D., the project director of the Cumberland County Violence Intervention Partnership, will be the featured speaker at the meeting of the Portland Republican City Committee. The meeting will be held at Foreside Real Estate Management’s office at 76 Elm St., Portland, beginning at 7 p.m. “Since 1998, the Cumberland County Violence Intervention Partnership (VIP) has coordinated our community response to domestic violence. Project partners are the District Attorney’s Office, Family Crisis Services, the ‘2011 Civil Rights Movie Nights’ Sheriff’s Office and Jail, Maine Pretrial Services, the Dis4 p.m. The Maine Civil Liberties Union and the National trict II Police Chiefs, Bangor Theological Seminary, and the Lawyers Guild student chapter of the University of Maine Department of Corrections. Other community partners include Pine Tree Legal, Maine Medical Center, local universities, and Catholic Charities Maine. Their goals are to: 1) keep domestic violence victims safe in the community; 2) hold the offenders accountable; and 3) change how our community thinks about domestic violence. The project has brought more than $3 million in grant funding to the county.”

For more information on the meeting, please call Barbara Harvey at 8372400. For more information on the project The Chebeague and Cumberland Land Trust will host a snowshoe hike at the Rines Forest in Cumberland see www.cumberlandcounty.org. on Sunday, March 6. (COURTESY PHOTO)

2 p.m. “Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love” is an adult comedy about love, sex and relationships at the Old Port Playhouse.

The critics and audiences have given this show excellent reviews and this is the final weekend! With shows on Friday at 8, Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

All seats $15. Box Office 773-0333. Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St. Portland. oldportplayhouse.com

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Thursday, Feb. 24

Friday, Feb. 25

Dan Bern w/ Common Rotation at One Longfellow Square

Buille featuring John Doyle

8 p.m. Buille was formed in 2004 by Armagh born 8 p.m. Dan Bern is best brothers Niall and Caoknown for his prolific songimhín Vallely along with writing and electric live perPaul Meehan and Brian sona. He has released a Morrissey as a vehicle to dozen albums while spending perform a body of new well over a decade performing tunes written in a tradieverywhere from local coffee tional style with contemshops to Carnegie Hall. Since porary arrangements. releasing his first album in The resultant sound was 1997, Dan Bern has amassed picked up on by Donald a strong underground followShaw and Vertical Records ing built on endless touring who immediately offered and his prodigious output of to produce and release songs in all forms. Beginning the groups’ debut album. in 2007, Bern focused much “Buille” was released in energy on motion pictures – 2005 to rave reviews and he used his talents and sharp was described in the Irish wit to compose over a dozen Times: “Buille is as fresh a songs for the Jake Kasdan/ breath that’s blown through Judd Apatow music biopictraditional (and roots) cirspoof “Walk Hard: The Dewey cles in a long, long time.”

Cox Story” and wrote the title John Doyle’s gifts as a song for Jonathan Demme’s guitarist, songwriter, vocaldocumentary, “Jimmy Carter: ist, and producer have Man From Plains.” Bern also played an essential role in composed songs the Nick the ongoing renaissance Stoller/Judd Apatow film of Irish traditional music.

“Get Him to the Greek,” starJohn was playing profesring Russell Brand and Jonah Hill, newly released on DVD. “This is the record I’ve been wanting to make since I was 12,” says sionally by the age of 16, Growing up on the same Nicole Atkins of her album, “Mondo Amore.” “It has so many layers, it’s and soon moved to New block in New York, Common able to do whatever it wants without defining itself as one thing.” It’s York City, where he began Rotation bandmates Adam been a tumultuous three years since the release of Atkins’ acclaimed playing with Eileen Ivers Busch, Eric Kufs, and Jordan 2007 debut, “Neptune City,” but the wait has proved worth it, critics say. and Seamus Egan. He first Katz can’t remember a time “Mondo Amore” is a “courageous, provocative work, fraught with dra- rose to international promiwhen they weren’t making matic tension, sweeping emotions and musical ambition.” Atkins will nence with Solas (Gaelic for “light”), the all-star Irish/ music together. Fifteen years appear at Port City Music Hall on Thursday. (COURTESY PHOTO) American band whose later, this sentiment is still emergence heralded the arrival of a new generation of bold, true—although the venue has changed to Southern Caliinventive traditional musicians. $20, all ages. fornia. Their melodic blend consists of acoustic guitar, trumpet, banjo, harmonica, and dobro. Demanding relevancy from the pop music medium, the very distinct voice of Common Rotation is defining the modern folk song.

Common Rotation continues to self-distribute their brand of modern folk music to a growing audience of dedicated fans while working within the framework of the music industry. $15, all ages.

Jacob Augustine, Nicole Atkins & The Black Sea at Port City Music Hall

8 p.m. Jacob Augustine, Nicole Atkins & The Black Sea at Port City Music Hall. Advance: $10; door: $12; VIP: $20.

With special guests Cotton Jones and Jacob Augustine.

“If Jacob Augustine didn’t exist in Portland, it would be necessary to invent him. Possessing the stage presence and integrity of a firebrand preacher (except without all the answers), Augustine commands urgency and attention. His nine-piece misfit gospel band blends the Western-Baltic flourishes of Beirut with the post-punk immediacy of World/ Inferno, but it’s the unadorned earnestness of the man himself that binds it all together.” Nicole Atkins & The Black Sea is planning to do “a ridiculous amount of touring,” she writes on her website (http://mondoamore.nicoleatkins. com/press-bio). “An inveterate road warrior, Atkins is eager to adapt the finely crafted songs of Mondo Amore for the in-your-face directness of live performance.”

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Saturday, Feb. 26 Flogging Molly at The State Theatre

7:30 p.m. What makes a band truly remarkable? Insightful lyrics? Memorable melodies? Blow-your-mind live performances? Truth is, it takes all of those things - along with boundless enthusiasm, an infectious energy and a supreme devotion to the fans. In the case of Flogging Molly, the band is that rare gem that possesses all of these traits and more, and because of this they have established themselves as one of the most beloved bands performing today. Moneybrother and The Drowning Men join. $30 advance, $32 day of show.

Juanito Pascual at One Longfellow

8 p.m. Juanito has won praise around the globe as a respected new voice in this most Spanish of musical genres.

He is recognized in Spain as a unique and creative voice with mesmerizing virtuosity, warm and evocative playing, and original compositional style. He has been a featured artist in some of the best-known fine arts centers, clubs, and festivals in the United States, including the renowned Tanglewood Jazz Festival, New York’s 92nd St. Y, Blue Note Jazz Club, Boston’s Jordan Hall and Regattabar, and countless colleges and performing arts centers. He has also been

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MODNIGHT dance party

9 p.m. What seems like ages ago, Dj Ian Paige’s MODNIGHT dance party residency at The White Heart (R.I.P.) kept Portlanders moving all year long to the finest in Soul, Mod, Britpop, Psych, and Dub tunes. Given the wildly popular soul parties at SPACE lately, it seems like a good time to bring back a good thing. The rules are simple — look sharp and dance till you drop. SPACE Gallery. $3, 21 plus. http://www.space538.org/events.php

Monday, Feb. 28 Decompression Chamber Music Season Three

6 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents Concert #2, “Germany” Mendelssohn. Bring someone who has never been to a Chamber Music Concert and the newbie gets in free.

“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.” 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 five compelling new concerts of sumptuous music. ($10 adv/$12 door). http:// onelongfellowsquare.com

Tuesday, March 1 Lake Street Dive at One Longfellow

8 p.m. Lake Street Dive is a Pop Music Play-Date. The ensemble derives inexhaustible energy from the joy of invention and creation together. Their exuberant live shows and carefully crafted studio albums share a blissful irreverence for convention and an undying devotion to melody, spontaneity and groove. One Longfellow Square. ($10). http://onelongfellowsquare.com

Wednesday, March 2 Clash now at Port City Music Hall

9 p.m. “One of Portland’s best-loved music series, The Clash of the Titans has a new home for its eighth season at Port City Music Hall. Every Wednesday, hand-picked supergroup’s of Portland’s brightest musicians come together to recreate hits from some of the most influential artists of all time. The audience votes on the mightiest Titan left standing at the end of the night.” $5 cover at the door. Acts include: March 2 — Rolling Stones vs. Thin Lizzyl March 9 — The Ramones vs. The Clash; March 16 — The Zombies vs. The Association; March 23 — Soundgarden vs. Pearl Jam; March 30 — The Cure vs. Joy Division; April 6 — Madonna vs. Lady Gaga; April 13 — Stevie Wonder vs. Ray Charles; April 20 — Combined With Phx Best Of — Fleetwood Mac vs. Tom Petty; April 27 — Steely Dan vs. Hall And Oates; May 4 — Skip Week; May 11 — Eminem vs. Snoop; May 18 — Rocky Horror Picture Show vs. Grease; May 25 — Queen vs. David Bowie. www.portcitymusichall.com