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Dignity to a vet — 150 years later A headstone in Eastern Cemetery will mark black veteran’s gravesite BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Former state lawmaker and local historian Herb Adams can envision it now — headstones lined up “like a line of infantry” in the Eastern Cemetery, a belated tribute to largely forgotten African-American veterans. It’s a crusade of sorts for Adams, who won a recent victory when the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs agreed to provide a headstone for Richard Hill, a veteran who fought in the War of 1812 but became infamous when he was killed by his son. see HEADSTONE page 8 RIGHT: Historian and researcher Herb Adams reads a commemoration to Richard HIll, a black veteran who — thanks to Adams’ efforts — will receive a headstone in Eastern Cemetery this year, 150 years after his death in 1861. During his service in the War of 1812, Hill may have witnessed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor — the ﬁght for which Francis Scott Key wrote “The StarSpangled Banner.” (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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Lamenting a lack of celebration, excitement for new music BY MARK CURDO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

No fanfare? The new Radiohead album, “The King of Limbs,” was released last Friday. (COURTESY IMAGE)

A couple weeks back, a friend of mine asked me what I thought of the new record by ... And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead. My immediate reaction was a quick snap of disappointment. I didn’t know they had a new record out. I’m a big fan of this indie rock band too so I was slightly embarrassed to not even know about the record, given my closeness to music on a 24/7 basis between work and my other work and my personal life. I easily get about 50-plus new records

a week at the radio station where I work, and with daily conversation amongst my music friends I’m usually up to snuff on a lot of music most of the time. This one was a speed ball right by me. Had no clue at all. That’s sad too. Why is it – or how is it I should say — that bands who have some kind of name going for them have fans like me who don’t know about their records? Jared didn’t even know. He saw it walking through the record store by chance. Add that new Radiohead release just passing us, and it seems more and more bands are trying to sneak ‘em out there.

That Radiohead record was publicly announced — what? — less than a week from its release. Why is that? Is it the cool thing now? Act like you sorta don’t care? No fanfare. Just drop it like it’s hot? I’m not saying you have to sit down with Regis and chat it up, but a little heads up? I guarantee if Radiohead didn’t have a couple bucks in the bank they wouldn’t be giving away records for free on the Internet or releasing them without any promotion at all. I know, I know... most of you are like, “dude, take it easy! Who cares! As long see CURDO page 4

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See the Events Calendar, page 13

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No snow for San Fran SAN FRANCISCO (NY Times) — It is not snowing in San Francisco. To repeat: not snowing. Amid the type of wideeyed anticipation usually reserved for the arrival of a pope, a president or a particularly good pinot, residents of San Francisco were giddy and girding for the possibility of a dusting of snow on Friday, as a powerful Pacific storm coincided with a blast of cold Canadian air. The resulting mix had left city dwellers looking skyward for the first significant snowfall here since February 1976, when an inch fell, according to the National Weather Service. “I can’t wait. It’ll be crazy,” said Marisa Belaski-Farias, 23, a graphic design student who grew up in Hawaii and has never seen snow in person. “I have a cardboard box at home. Hopefully there will be enough snow to sled.” That outing might have to wait. By early Friday morning, the storm had delivered only soaking rain and howling gales, as the Canadian cold front lingered to the north of the city. But minute-by-minute reports on television promised that snow was coming by late afternoon, with live team coverage and ominous outlooks. The very possibility that San Francisco could see snowfall has led to a flurry of activity by online wiseacres. The Web site Isitsnowinginsfyet.com was set up to answer whether it was snowing in the city, and mock terror bounced around the Twittersphere.

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U.S. plans sanctions on Libya WASHINGTON (NY Times) — The United States moved to increase diplomatic pressure on the embattled Libyan government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi on Friday, suspending relations and preparing to impose unilateral sanctions because of the deadly violence the Libyan government has directed at protesters in the country. Jay Carney, the White House press

secretary, told reporters that the sanctions would be announced soon, but gave no specifics. Mr. Carney said the American embassy in Tripoli “has been shuttered” and that diplomatic and military-to-military relations were suspended. Much of the remaining embassy staff was evacuated along with other Americans on a ferry that left Tripoli for Malta on Friday after days of delay

Hundreds of thousands protest across Mideast CAIRO (NY Times) — Hundreds of thousands of protesters turned out in cities across the Middle East on Friday to protest the unaccountability of their leaders and express solidarity with the uprising in Libya that Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi is trying to suppress with force. The worst violence of the day appeared to be in Libya, where security forces shot at protesters as they left Friday prayers to try to launch the first major anti-government demonstration in the capital. Dem-

caused by bad weather. American allies and the United Nations also moved to isolate Libya diplomatically on Friday. A senior U.N. official said the world should intervene to stop the killings and bloodshed in Libya, and France and Britain called on the international organization to approve an arms embargo and sanctions. NATO said it was ready to help to evacuate refugees.

Rising oil prices pose new threat to U.S. economy (NY Times) — The American economy just can’t catch a break. Last year, as things started looking up, the European debt crisis flustered the fragile recovery. Now, under similar economic circumstances, comes the turmoil in the Middle East. Energy prices have surged in recent days, as a result of the political violence in Libya that has disrupted oil production there. Prices are climbing because of fears the unrest may continue to spread to other oil-producing countries. If the recent rise in oil prices sticks, it will likely slow a growth rate that is already too sluggish to produce many jobs in this country. Some economists are predicting that oil prices, just above $97 a barrel on Thursday, could be sustained well above $100 a barrel, a benchmark. Even if energy costs don’t rise higher, lingering uncertainty over the stability of the Middle East could drag down growth, not just in the United States but around the world.

onstrations in recent days have been in other cities, and several of those have fallen to armed rebels determined to oust Colonel Qaddafi. Protests in Iraq also took a violent turn, with security forces firing on crowds in Baghdad, Mosul, Ramadi and in Salahuddin Province, killing at least ten people. Unlike in other Middle Eastern countries, the protesters in Iraq are not seeking to topple their leaders, but are demanding better government services after years of war and deprivation.

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Driver critically injured in Maine Turnpike crash Dozens of vehicles slide off roads in snowstorm DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT A North Waterboro man was critically injured Friday morning when his pickup truck overturned on the Maine Turnpike in York, the most serious in a rash of accidents attributed to Friday’s snowstorm. Maine State Troopers said 47-year-old Charles Waddell Jr. is being treated at Portsmouth Regional Hospital in New Hampshire. Waddell lost control of his truck in the southbound lane about 6:30 a.m. and the truck vaulted the guard rail in the median, overturned at least twice, and came to rest in the northbound lane on its wheels, Maine State

Trooper Gavin Hager said. Waddell, who was not wearing his seat belt, suffered serious head injuries, state police reported. As of 3 p.m. Friday, the crash was the most serious that troopers had covered during the snowstorm. There were dozens of vehicles that had slid off the roads during the day, mostly along the turnpike and Interstate 295. A Maine State Police cruiser was struck in another crash — this one on the turnpike in Portland. The trooper was out of the car at the time investigating a crash when a car slid into the rear of his cruiser, state police reported. No one was injured.

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Books, Etc. to close Falmouth store Monday

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FALMOUTH — Books, Etc., which closed its Old Port store in 2009, has announced that it will close its Falmouth location on Monday, according to the Portland Press Herald. Store owner Allan Schmid told the Portland Press Herald that business at the store, located at 240 U.S. Route 1, had fallen in recent years amid competition from Internet retailers like Amazon as well as electronic book readers like the Kindle and iPad. Books will be sold for 40 percent off until close of business Monday at 6 p.m., the paper says.

AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage, who has made national headlines this week for quipping that the chemical bisphenol A may cause women to grow “little beards,” has proposed splitting Maine’s Health and Human Services Department. According to the Associated Press, LePage is considering the move in an effort to improve efficiency. Currently, the department has a $3.4 billion annual budget and 3,600 employees. Under the proposal, one department would focus on health care and the other on welfare, AP says. A spokesman for the Republican governor says the idea is in the early stages and that the governor wants to make sure the change is a good idea, AP is reporting.

Oakhurst executive dies after battle with cancer Stanley T. Bennett, the Oakhurst Dairy executive who fought back against agribusiness behemoth Monsanto over Oakhurst’s milk labels, died Wednesday after a months-long battle with pancreatic cancer, according to published reports. Bennett, the chairman and CEO of the Portlandbased dairy for nearly 30 years, was 64. The Portland Press Herald reports that Bennett succeeded his father as president in 1983. In that role, Bennett expanded the company’s facility on Forest Avenue and added dozens of solar panels to the building’s roof, the paper said. In the dairy industry, Bennett may be best known for fighting back against a Monsanto lawsuit requiring it to stop labeling its milk as hormone free. The Press Herald says Monsanto sued the Portland dairy, but that Oakhurst held its ground and kept the labels. Other dairies have since adopted similar labels, the paper said. Over the years, Bennett was involved in several environmental and social causes in the Maine, including Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine and Friends of Casco Bay, according to the Press Herald.

Institute: ‘Responsibly harvested seafood’ tagged The Gulf of Maine Research Institute on Friday announced a new program that makes it easy for seafood shoppers to identify “responsibly harvested seafood from the Gulf of Maine region.” Seafood suppliers earn the ability to use the Gulf of Maine Responsibly Harvested seal on products based on criteria that support the long-term health of the region’s fisheries and fishing communities. “Our customers care about where their seafood is coming from, and they want assurances that it was harvested responsibly,” said Jerry Knecht, CEO of North Atlantic, Inc. “GMRI has created a tool that provides those assurances.” The seal will initially appear on cod, haddock, lobster and northern shrimp products from the Gulf of Maine, at Hannaford and other retail stores, the institute reported. GMRI is in the process of assessing additional fisheries, with the goal of adding more seafood products to the program later this year. North Atlantic, Inc., Bristol Seafood, Slade Gorton, Cozy Harbor Seafood, and New Meadows Lobster will be among the first companies to use the seal.

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Release Day is a celebration day, right? their mitts on tunes CURDO from page one It was like Star Wars and we’re dodging God’s of your favorite band before you do. as you get it, what’s the storm troopers all over the place. That’s kinda lame. worry?” I absolutely welBack then, there come your comments to was ONE place to that effect, but I think I up Trader Joe’s for some get it, the local record store. It was have an answer for you; I special peanut butter or an even playing field. No one gets it like release days. I like the go for a walk with their before 9 a.m. on Release Day morning. day an album comes out. pug on the east prom. Since most releases come out during I get excited. It’s a bright Music to many doesn’t the week, it’s tough for someone still mark on my calendar. It’s deserve so much time or in school to get their mitts on it a musical holiday without consideration, especially quick enough. Waiting until 2 p.m. or the time off. If you’re a fan in the fetching process. whenever school got out was too late. you like this day too and To us music fans though, Having it before you came back into there was a time when ––––– the fetch is fun. Always school the next day, that was flexing The Circle Push has been for me. people showed they cared. your guns so to speak! Nowadays, everything’s I was a big Van Halen So when Van Halen set to release all about “right now.” fan growing up. I think OU812, a few friends and I got pretty Easy. Simple. Got it, then gone. There I’ve mentioned that here in this bada--. We planned to leave school is a major lack of celebration and column plenty of times. Well, when to get the tape as soon as the stores excitement for new music. No wonder OU812 came out, I was in high opened that morning. Wow. James the music world is in a poor place school and at that time cassettes Dean, look out! these days. People aren’t fired up that were the thing. In those days when Going to an all-boys Catholic high much. Fans, once die-hard supporters you heard your favorite band had a school, well, you know the security of their favorite artists are now more new record coming, you had plenty details there. Tough dealings. We casual about it and less likely to join enough heads-up time. Enough time crafted a plan, though. Couple of the the parade. to talk about how awesome you hope guys had the time to spare due to gym Music and technology these days it would be. Enough time to talk about or a class with a substitute and others assists that way of thinking I believe. the hype surrounding it. Enough time like me, well, we had to come up with Music is a simple click and you got to digest a first single. Enough time to other creative angles. it happening now. People don’t have plan your attack to get it. For me, I would tell my teacher that to spend time with the process. They Back then, everyone wanted to get my mom just dropped me off cause I don’t have to wear their team colors it first. These days, who even knows didn’t get to leave for school on time so to speak. I understand most people who gets it first? With the digital with my usual ride. Didn’t know if it are fine with that. They want the new world, some dude in a basement in would work, didn’t care. It was locked Radiohead record delivered to them in East Lansing Michigan might have and loaded and I wasn’t worried. I was ten minutes through their laptops so us all beat. Who knows! People who about to sneak out of school to buy they can rush out and do Pilates or hit aren’t even fans of a band can get

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the new Van Halen record. That’s rock n’ roll my friends. (even if it was Van Halen with Sammy Hagar.) The day came and we all met in the back stairway at a certain time. My friends, the Haverty brothers, they were twins, had the car and the four of us all made a mad dash to the parking lot. Now friends lets keep in mind here, this is a Catholic school in the late ‘80s. We aren’t able to go where we wanted to and act all casual. No lunches down the street at the local pizza joint. Or hanging out on the basketball court between classes. We were in there all day, every day and I’m not even sure we had air to breathe. I don’t remember windows really. Doing this this was like Escape from Alcatraz ... in daylight! People in robes and habits all around with sharp eyes and a keen sense of ... well, everything, really. It was like Star Wars and we’re dodging God’s storm troopers all over the place. We made it to Bob’s car, or it might have been Don’s actually. Whatever, they were twins. We drove to that Strawberries like meteors were falling from the sky. Blowing off lights and stop signs all over the place. It was a rock locomotive not to be stopped by anything holy or municipal or law-abiding. We got to the store and all four of us grabbed copies of the tape and see RELEASES page 15

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Canadian roadtrip comes with relationship ghosts Last week in the second episode of Season 2 of the Sun’s serial novel, The Port City Chronicle, our hero Gretchen Reingren, a 44-year-old, divorced, criminal defense attorney, dealt with a cantankerous client who blamed the system, among other people, for his problems. “Sure you can’t assault a bus driver,” he said, reading the sign over the driver’s seat as they got on the bus. “Because that’s a felony. But if anyone assaults me, that’s nothing.” Considering his size and aggressiveness, in reality the punishment for assaulting him was probably the death penalty, but Gretchen wasn’t about to disagree with him. For one thing, she could see how it’s not the same when you have to mete out the punishment yourself without any assistance from the state. It’s like having to self-publish a book because you can’t get a real publisher interested. Now this week, Gretchen escapes everyday life on a trip with her boyfriend, Adam, but finds that more is moving under her feet than just the ground. The Port City Chronicle is the continuing story of a woman and her family finding love and happiness in Portland in the midst of the Great Recession. You can buy Season 1 in book form, “Getting Off the Earth,” with many neverbefore-seen episodes from GettingOfftheEarth.com or from Longfellow Books on Monument Square. And now for this week’s episode of Season 2:

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“I love trains,” my boyfriend Adam said. “I love feeling like you’re going someplace.” We were on the train heading to Montreal, one of Adam’s old stomping grounds, for our first real vacation together. “But we really are going someplace,” I said. “That’s what I’m saying. It’s not just in your mind.” Which made me wonder if Adam was often mentally on travel even if we were just hanging out somewhere in Portland. It would explain why we sometimes seemed to be in different places at the same time. But since I had a similar

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problem with most of the men in my life, I figured it probably said more about me than it did about them. “I’m looking forward to being in a different context politically, visually, and, let’s face it, sexually,” he said. “Because of course we’ll be doing the same thing but between different bedposts.” So I worried that after ten months he was getting bored of the bedposts. “Not that we have any bedposts,” he added. But when we reached Montreal the visual and political pulled ahead of the sexual. “This is my favorite neighborhood,” he said, as we walked around Plateau Montreal. “There’s no place else in the galaxy that even approaches it.” I guessed it had a lot to do with the fact that he’d lived in Plateau Montreal with his exwife when his son was young. “I might even buy a place in Montreal to come up to now and then, if it’s still reasonable,” he said. “Maybe my old house on rue Waverly.” Since there was nothing reasonable about Adam coming up to Montreal now and then from Portland, I wondered what he was really looking for. But luckily his old house wasn’t for sale and the place two doors down was too expensive. “How can they charge so much extra for a balcony?” he said, after arguing with the realtor in French. “I’d rather pay $40,000 less and sit on the windowsill.” Since I’m satisfied with buying a few postcards as souvenirs rather than real estate, with or without balconies, I didn’t comment. Plus I wasn’t too clear on the exchange rate. “How much is $40,000 anyway?” I asked, looking at a sheaf of bills. “I love the way it feels like you’re using play money in a foreign country.” He nodded. “Whereas in the U.S. it’s obscenely real.” So apparently he was feeling a little down about the United States fiscally as well as geographically.

Sweet as it was to imagine living with him, I had no intention of abandoning my family to do it. The fact was, in Adam’s shoes I never would have left my son behind in Montreal no matter how unfriendly the Quebecois might have been. He was still looking for something he’d already lost and no change in geography could restore it to him.

“Why’d you leave Montreal anyway?” I asked him, still hoping for enlightenment on why the city meant so much to him. He shrugged. “After my wife and I split up and she got custody I didn’t have anything to stay for.” “But what about your friends?” He chuckled. “This is not Mexico where you can be friends for life with someone after three and a half minutes. The Quebecois aren’t that friendly toward outsiders.” “And you didn’t meet anyone else here after your divorce?” I figured some Quebecois women might have felt more friendly than usual in light of Adam’s glossy black hair and deep blue eyes. “I dated a woman with a little girl for a while.” “Did you bond with her?” I asked. “Did you consider becoming her father?” “Well, she hated me,” he said. So apparently that wasn’t the source of his tie to Montreal. “But my son used to love coming here for breakfast,” he said, as we went into Beauty’s on rue Mont Royal. “Are these the bagels that are supposed to be the best in the world?” I asked, trying to find the place in the guidebook that talked about Beauty’s. “Yes, in the known world,” he said. He skimmed the front page of the paper as we sat down. “Did you see that article last week about a planet they found that’s around the same size as the Earth and the same distance from its sun?” “And do they have better bagels?” I asked. But regardless, I wished we’d gone there for our vacation instead of Montreal so we could have been somewhere a little less familiar to Adam on our first trip together. Not only did Montreal have the best bagels, but according to Adam it also had the best beer, the best coffee, and the

best restaurants. “Look,” he insisted repeatedly as we walked around Parc Mont Royal, the Village and the Botanical Gardens. “Are you occulating on it?” “What do you think I’m doing?” I asked finally, as we stood in the shade plants exhibit in the snow. I wasn’t even sure why we had to go to a shade plants exhibit since we get plenty of shade of our own in Portland. In fact, The Portland Daily Sun is just wishful thinking. At any rate, I hadn’t blinked in ten minutes for fear of looking disinterested. “I’m looking at it as hard as I can,” I said. Then as I was getting a headache from staring so hard at Montreal, Adam started listing the provinces of Canada from east to west, their capitols, and the population of each capitol. “I’m giving you a very personalized history of the city, the country and the continent,” he said sarcastically. But it was a lot more personal than he realized. Even my napkin at Au Pied de Cochon felt used, considering how much the restaurant seemed to remind him of his ex-wife. “Today’s special is confit de canard, which is de duck cooked in his own fat,” the waiter said to me condescendingly after discussing the menu with Adam in French. So I planned to avoid the duck altogether, but apparently Montreal wasn’t the place to worry about anybody’s fat. In Chez Schwartz, the next day I was forced to eat a “fat” sandwich when the waiter asked me how I wanted my smoked meat. When I tried to order lean, Adam protested. “Walk it off after, Madame,” the waiter said, slamming down the fat on two slices of rye bread. But I would have had to walk back to Portland to work off that sandwich. Not that I found that especially unappealing, so long as I could walk there by myself.

For Adam’s part, he had forgotten all about Portland. “What are the eleven places we would most want to live?” he asked. I thought it might be a trick question. “Why eleven? Why not ten?” “Ten is too arbitrary.” He took a pen and a scrap of paper out of his backpack. “Let’s start with number 1.” “Portland?” I asked hopefully. “Hm,” he said. “I’m not sure.” I shrugged. “You can put it down as number 8 or 9 but you have to keep it on the list in case we spend our whole lives there.” Sweet as it was to imagine living with him, I had no intention of abandoning my family to do it. The fact was, in Adam’s shoes I never would have left my son behind in Montreal no matter how unfriendly the Quebecois might have been. He was still looking for something he’d already lost and no change in geography could restore it to him. “We’ve known each other 312 days,” he said solemnly, seemingly about to launch into a discussion about where our relationship was going. But it wasn’t the time or the place. “You’re not going to kill me are you?” I asked. “No it’s not time yet,” he said. So we escaped having a serious conversation at an inopportune moment and possibly ruining something good, at least when it was in Portland. And Adam finally seemed to understand the trip had been disappointing in certain respects. “What time is it anyway?” he asked. I checked my watch. “9:42.” “I was going to guess 9:41, which shows you how far behind I am,” he said, suddenly grabbing my hand and practically running back to the hotel. Then he made up for the time we’d lost over the last two days of our vacation. “I’m 4 to 2 ahead of you,” he said, when we were resting later in bed with my head on his chest. “You won’t be able to catch up now.” “Plus you might score some more goals before we leave,” I said happily. He ran his hand over my hair. see WENDEL page 15

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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.

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

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Max Creek at Port City Music Hall 8 p.m. Celebrating over 30 years together, Max Creek brings to the stage a wide variety of musical experience, from the blues to ballads to hard-edged rock n’ roll and San Francisco-era improv. This ﬁve man band has a unique style, and their blend of original songs and classic covers has gained

Thursday, March 3 Juanito Pascual will appear in concert tonight at 8 p.m. at One Longfellow Square. First, Pascual will host a Flamenco guitar workshop from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Call the Box Office at 761-1757 for details. (COURTESY PHOTO) them remarkable respect and a large following which continues to grow. Blues ballads blend into jazzy barroom piano and a jumping, frenetic energy fueled by the audience. An hour later, there’s a full fledged jam at work, combining contemporary and jazz idioms and soaring into free-form flight. Even later, a reggae-tinged stunner will blend right into a folksy blues intro. $15 advance, $18 day-of show, $28 VIP, 21 plus.

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

Ivan Neville’s DUMPSTAPHUNK at Port City 8 p.m. Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk is a group of musicologists that transcend age and styles in a free-flowing approach to their art. The band features an unusual line-up that includes two bassists. Dumpstaphunk weaves a vocal and musical tapestry from key members of Dave Matthews & Friends, Trey Anastasio, Jewel and the Neville Brothers’ musical families. The band’s music incorporates drops of Sly and the Family Stone and Meters-esque jams as well as other diverse influences into a spicy musical gumbo. Ivan first joined his father (Aaron Neville) and uncles in the legendary New Orleans band, the Neville Brothers, in his mid-teens, then moved on to become a pivotal member of Keith Richards & The X-Pensive Winos, The Spin Doctors, and Bonnie Raitt’s band. His extensive credits include recording and/ or performing with The Rolling Stones, Robbie Robertson, Angie Stone, Jack Cassady, and Gov’t Mule. He has also recently performed with Soulive, Widespread Panic, Trey Anastasio, Galactic, North Mississippi Allstars, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Bob Weir’s Ratdog, Funky Meters, Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer. $12 advance, $15 day of show, $25 VIP, 21 plus

Astronautilus with Sims, Sandbag at SPACE 8:30 p.m. Once described as what Tom Waits joining the MC battle circuit would sound like, Astronautalis is back to sweat, shout and freestyle all over our stage, all the while seducing the crowd with his unique brand of southern-indieartsy-electro-historical-ﬁction-folk-crunk. Doomtree emcee Sims returns with his signature set of alienated prophecy, empowered hope and badass beats. Sandbag focuses on originally produced hip hop beats & lyrics that address indepth social commentary to keep Portland’s independent hip hop movement alive. SPACE Gallery. $10, 18 plus. http://www. space538.org/events.php

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Baseball gives $25 million lifeline to Mets BY MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT AND DAVID WALDSTEIN THE NEW YORK TIMES

Major League Baseball provided $25 million to the owners of the Mets as they struggled to deal with a cash shortfall last fall and a looming lawsuit seeking hundreds of millions of dollars for victims of Bernard L. Madoff’s vast Ponzi scheme. The direct intervention of Commissioner Bud Selig to help sustain the operations of the franchise is perhaps the most striking evidence yet of the financial distress that for many months has plagued the team’s owners, Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz. The trustee for victims of Madoff’s fraud has accused Wilpon and Katz of having turned a blind eye to warnings about the suspect nature of Madoff’s multibillion-dollar investment operation while using the profits they reaped from their own investments with him to enrich themselves and fuel their business empire. The trustee, Irving H. Picard, is seeking roughly $1 billion from the team’s owners and their various business partners. The Mets have exhausted baseball’s standard bank line of credit — at least $75 million Selig and the sport’s owners make available to teams for a variety of reasons in the course of any year. They also have more than $400 million in debt on the team. Thus, the additional money provided by Selig — done in secret last November — may well have been crucial in keeping the club functioning. Three weeks ago, after months spent denying that they were in any significant financial trouble, Wilpon and Katz announced that they were willing to sell 25 percent of the club, a franchise valued by Forbes magazine at $858 million. In recent days, the men indicated they were willing to sell even a larger share of the team, but they have insisted they do not want to give up majority ownership. Selig’s decision to give what amounts to extraordinary assistance to one of the sport’s most prominent and highly valued teams — one owned by Wilpon, a man Selig has long regarded as a close personal friend — could anger other team owners, who might well wonder why their money is being used to rescue a team with a $140 million payroll. Wilpon, in Florida for spring training, said on Friday that he would not talk about the team’s finances. Asked directly whether baseball had been assisting him, Wilpon walked away, saying he did not want to discuss the team’s finances with a reporter. Later Friday, after being informed The Times was preparing a story on baseball’s financial assistance, the Mets issued a statement. “We said in October that we expected to have a short-term liquidity issue. To address this, we did receive a loan from Major League Baseball in November. Beyond that, we will not discuss the matter any further.” The lawsuit filed by Picard in federal bankruptcy court in Manhattan in December portrays the Mets as something of a financial weak sister

“The fact that the loan is coming from baseball would be a jarring event because, as with the Texas Rangers, the league is effectively a lender of last resort.” — Marc Ganis, a sports industry consultant to Wilpon and Katz’s profitable real estate and television properties — regularly needing cash infusions from the other businesses to compete in the National League East. Selig, who has been baseball commissioner for nearly two decades, has broad powers to either help prop up ailing franchises or to effectively take financial control of them, if, for instance, he fears they could go bankrupt. Last year, with the owner of the Texas Rangers having defaulted on more than a half-billion dollars in loans, Selig provided a total of some $40 million to the club. “The fact that the loan is coming from baseball would be a jarring event because, as with the Texas Rangers, the league is effectively a lender of last resort,” said Marc Ganis, a sports industry consultant. “It would indicate the team cannot get loans from normal commercial sources, which could be taken as a sign of very significant problems.” Selig, in making these kinds of extraordinary loans, can use cash from his discretionary fund, or from baseball’s central pool of revenue from national television contracts, licensing, merchandising and the Internet. The decision by Selig to assist the Rangers last year angered the owners of some rival teams. The Rangers eventually used some of the money to obtain the pitcher Cliff Lee, who then led the club to its first ever World Series appearance. Baseball, in involving itself with struggling franchises, enjoys a powerful status. In the event of a bankruptcy, it gets its loans repaid first — ahead of banks, and perhaps even Picard, the Madoff trustee. The banks holding hundreds of millions in loans to Wilpon and Katz, then, might be distressed to learn of Selig’s intervention. According to one person briefed on baseball’s involvement with the troubles of the Mets, the club has faced occasional cash shortfall issues dating back at least a year. If the Mets are in such financial straits, it raises real questions about their ability to sign talented players or endure another season of poor performance and disappointing ticket sales. They spent very little money this offseason, despite a dreadful showing on the field last year. The efforts by Wilpon and Katz to sell a portion of the club have generated modest levels of interest. Fewer than 12 potential buyers have applied to Major League Baseball for the right to examine the finances of the Mets, a necessary first step before bidding for the team.

Fred Wilpon (left), watching the Mets at spring training on Friday, refused to talk about the team’s ﬁnances. (Brad Barr for The New York Times)

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Adams hopes to commemorate the deeds of Hill, arguing that this black veteran’s tragic death “can’t and shouldn’t” overshadow a life of heroism and hardship that might have even included serving in the naval battle that inspired the National Anthem. In the final days of Black History Month, Adams spent some of last Thursday afternoon striding through Portland’s Eastern Cemetery, searching out the spot for Hill’s headstone — 150 years after his death. Hill died in 1861 at age 70, shot twice by his son, according to an obituary in the Eastern Argus. The elder Hill was laid to rest in the Eastern Cemetery’s so-called “colored ground,” a segregated plot separate from the whites in the section where Congress Street meets Mountfort Street. His gravesite was soon lost, Adams notes. Hill’s service to his country was forgotten, and he never had a headstone — until now. Adams successfully petitioned the Department of

Veterans Affairs to provide a headstone for Hill, a marker that will be placed later this year. “Yes, he was one of many forgotten men in a mosty forgotten war, but his sacrifices were real enough,” Adams reflects. “He served his country and he bore life’s burdens, and he deserves to be remembered, like we all must hope some day.” Hill’s headstone will accompany memorial markers for other black veterans from Maine. There’s one for Lewis Shepard, a Revolutionary War veteran whose gravesite bears a rare original headstone. Near Shepard’s headstone lie the graves of three other black Revolutionary War veterans who settled in Portland — white headstones of James Bowes, Plato McLellan and Cato Shattuck, all of which were placed there in the 1980s. “These other stones are African-American vets of the American Revolution whose exact gravesites have long been lost in this ground, we have no idea where they rest,” Adams says, “and it’s in this vicinity that we’ll put the stone of Richard Hill because see next page

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he would be with fellow soldiers and sailors. You can line them like a line of infantry. We have no idea if it’s in this part of the ‘colored ground’ or another part of the ‘colored ground’ toward the fenceline that he may be resting, but this is where they would have laid him to rest.” Alonzo Stinson, the first soldier from Portland killed in the Civil War — he was 19 when he died at the Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861 — is commemorated by a nearby monument. Oddly, this monument was placed on top of graves of “AfricanAmericans for whose freedom in a sense he fought,” Adams notes. The placement likely was inadvertent, he says. “In 1908, when they put the monument up, I think they just thought it was open space.” With his headstone project for Richard Hill, Adams wants to create more than a visual reminder of what Hill did. Adams, a University of Southern Maine lecturer and local historian, said Hill’s story paints a picture of “the tough, hard-luck life many Portlanders must have lived back then, backbreaking labor to barely make ends meet.” The story of Hill’s service is compelling — but Hill himself, in a May 7, 1855 application for a bounty land warrant, modestly called himself an “ordinary seaman on board Gun Boat No. 47, stationed in New York Harbor & under command of Capt. Jones — War of 1812.” But was Hill a witness to the events that inspired the National Anthem? Adams says it’s possible. “Richard Hill lived and died a common laborer in old Portland, Maine, part of the small AfricanAmerican community of 400 or so who lived by the waterfront and on the slopes of Munjoy Hill. But at about 20 years old he went to serve his county ... and served almost the entire war,” Adams notes. “What’s fascinating is that he may be the same ‘Richard Hill’ whose gunboat, records say, also served in Chesa-

AND FOR ANOTHER CEMETERY STORY On Saturday, March 5 at 10 a.m., Tom Desjardin, chief historian of the state of Maine, will speak on “Civil War Heroes and Heroines Buried in Evergreen Cemetery” at the Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St. For details, visit www.spiritsalive.org.

peake Bay, which means he may well have been at the British bombardment of Ft. McHenry in Baltimore Harbor — the fight for which Francis Scott Key wrote ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’ “Both Francis Scott Key and Richard Hill may have witnessed America standing up to the most powerful navy in the world one night, and enduring.” Whether Hill witnessed “the rocket’s red glare” needs more research, Adams admits, “but the dates and names match up, and it’s a fascinating possibility.” The archives of Z.K. Harmon at the Maine Historical Society shed light on Hill’s life. Harmon, Adams notes, was a Portland lawyer and bounty land agent, an official who traveled town to town to visit elderly veterans and widows — most of them likely illiterate — recording their service records and filing forms for them to claim 160 acres of surplus government land, which the government granted them as veterans. “Probably Hill’s 160-acre grant was somewhere in the wilderness west of Ohio, and probably Harmon then bought it from Hill for a fraction of its face value, and sold it later for full value to land brokers,” Adams notes. “Such speculation was a sad, shady business. But it was likely the last cash the old folks

ever saw for their military service.” “Hill lived in various rear-floor tenements in the vicinity of the Observatory on Munjoy Hill,” Adams continues. “His son, Richard L. Hill, also a ‘common laborer,’ lived with him, and apparently there was no end of trouble between them. Young Hill murdered his father in an infamous double-gun attack that filled newspaper columns in 1861. Records show young Hill lived a troubled life from the start. As a teenager he robbed a shoe store in 1841, and was sentenced to two years hard labor in the state prison. Important Portland dignitaries petitioned the Maine governor to pardon him — as ‘a minor, a poor colored boy ... brought up thus far in ignorance ... such boys now in the morning of life may hope to be made useful citizens, and reclaimed from want ... ‘ they wrote, but to no avail.” “He must have come home a hardened character,” said Adams. “Twenty years later he murdered his father in cold blood, and spent the rest of his life back in prison.” The elder Hill passed into oblivion, lost until now. Adams says his research effort and petition sought to give recognition where it was due “so a little of his story may be remembered at last, and a veteran’s gravestone will mark his passing and bear his name. In the end, those few feet of ground are all that’s left to him of 160 acres of bounty land and 70 years of life. He deserved better, like we all do. It is something to reflect upon.”

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, Feb. 26, the 57th day of 2011. There are 308 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 26, 1861, Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., received its initial funding from its namesake, businessman Matthew Vassar, who presented the newly formed Board of Trustees with more than $400,000 in securities. (Although created exclusively for women, Vassar went co-educational in 1969.) On this date: In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the Island of Elba. In 1870, an experimental air-driven subway, the Beach Pneumatic Transit, opened in New York City for public demonstrations. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson signed a measure establishing Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. In 1929, President Calvin Coolidge signed a measure establishing Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. In 1940, the United States Air Defense Command was created. In 1945, a midnight curfew on night clubs, bars and other places of entertainment was set to go into effect across the nation. In 1952, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed its own atomic bomb. In 1970, National Public Radio was incorporated. In 1987, the Tower Commission, which probed the Iran-Contra affair, issued its report, which rebuked President Ronald Reagan for failing to control his national security staff. In 1993, a bomb built by Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of New York’s World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others. One year ago: New York Gov. David Paterson announced he wouldn’t seek re-election amid a criminal investigation over his handling of a domestic violence complaint against a top aide. (Investigators found no evidence of witness tampering.) Today’s Birthdays: Singer Fats Domino is 83. Country-rock musician Paul Cotton (Poco) is 68. Actor-director Bill Duke is 68. Singer Mitch Ryder is 66. Rock musician Jonathan Cain (Journey) is 61. Singer Michael Bolton is 58. Actor Greg Germann is 53. Democratic National Chairman Tim Kaine is 53. Bandleader John McDaniel is 50. Actress Jennifer Grant is 45. Rock musician Tim Commerford (Audioslave) is 43. Singer Erykah (EHR’-ih-kah) Badu is 40. Rhythmand-blues singer Rico Wade (Society of Soul) is 39. Olympic gold medal swimmer Jenny Thompson is 38. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kyle Norman (Jagged Edge) is 36. Rock musician Chris Culos (O.A.R.) is 32. Rhythm-and-blues singer Corinne Bailey Rae is 32. Actress Taylor Dooley is 18.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I am a school coach in a small town. Last week, I walked into our local gas station to pay for my purchase and spotted a woman sitting on the ﬂoor. She was inserting money into the instant lottery machine, selecting a lottery card, scratching it off and repeating. I watched her for a few minutes before realizing she was the mother of one of my students. She looked up at me and said “hello.” Yesterday, I was back at this gas station, and there she was again with her hands full of money, feeding this machine. We exchanged “hellos” again. It is apparent that she is addicted to this machine. Do I suggest getting some help, or should I keep my mouth shut? -Concerned Dear Concerned: Her addiction is more likely to gambling and not to a particular machine, although she may feel that one brings her luck. If you see her there again, or if you notice related problems, you could gently suggest that she look into Gamblers Anonymous (gamblersanonymous.org). Dear Annie: This is in response to “Slowly Drowning in Culver City,” whose daughter and son-in-law live in their duplex and refuse to pay rent or help out. He and his wife need to act now before they are too sick to work and bring in an income. Their daughter and her husband have shown they don’t care about the parents’ welfare. If the father dies, does he think his daughter and her husband will take care of his wife? I believe Mom will end up homeless. Just because she is their daughter doesn’t mean they owe her anything more than the good home and education they already provided. I can understand his concern, but get her out now. -- Seen This Before Dear Seen: Most readers agree with you. Read on:

From Kingston, Ontario: I suggest the parents sell their duplex and move into an apartment -- and don’t give out the keys. This will force the freeloaders to do something for themselves, and it may protect the parents from their own overly kind hearts. In the long run, they are not helping their daughter to become independent. No City: I had a similar situation several years ago. We let my son, his wife and their kids move into our second home until they got on their feet. That never happened. After five years of footing the bill, we told them they had to pay the utilities. After another year, I told them they had six months to get out. In the meantime, they stopped paying the utility bills, and the water and electricity were shut off. I changed the locks, and it cost me $2,000 to have everything turned back on, but it was worth it. “Drowning” needs to get these bums out of there before they do more harm. Texas: Freeloading children will never change. They manipulate until you kick them out. Offer to help them find work? Ridiculous. That will only make the drowning go a bit slower. Chicago: I purchased a home for my son, who is handy and felt he could pay the minimal house payment and fix up the place so we could sell it for a profit. However, he let his girlfriend and her brother move in, and no one paid rent. Finally, after talking and begging, I evicted them. We now have a good relationship. He has a job, owns a home and is the master of his own life. West Virginia: There is no way to salvage what is left of the family. If those kids cared, they would not have put their parents in such a position. They need to be given a 30-day notice by registered mail to move out.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to: anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.

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Saturday, Feb. 26

Auditions for Who’s ‘Tommy’ 2 p.m. Auditions for the Who’s “Tommy” produced by Studio Theatre of Bath, will be held Feb. 26 and 27 at the Chocolate Church Arts Center. Auditions will begin at 2 p.m. (Due to the snowstorm, Studio Theatre of Bath rescheduled Friday night’s auditions for the upcoming production.) Actors are welcome to prepare a song from the show, or bring sheet music for a song of your choice. Nonsinging 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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow birthday 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, Belgium. Bass-baritone Tyler Putnam — the son of a Maine lobsterman and a Chebeague Island municipal librarian — sings his hometown debut. The First Parish in Portland, 425 Congress St. 232-8920 or www.longfellowchorus.com

‘Animal Farm’ play performed at College of the Atlantic

Racin’ Preview 2011

2 p.m. and 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 through Sunday, Feb. 27. Performances will be Saturday at 2 p.m. 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.

9 a.m. to 9 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. Saturday show hours are 9 a.m. to 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.

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.

‘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

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

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. Herb Adams, historian and former state representative, will be doing a special 150th anniversary reading of Paul Revere’s Ride. Nicki Fazio, childrens book illustrator, will be drawings scenes from Longfellow’s poems. www. mainehistory.org

Family Finances Seminar 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 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

“Sword Swallower” by Martin Mazorra; 4-foot x 8-foot Woodcut on Heavyweight Canvas Banner. Mazorra and Mike Houston will premiere their new supersized woodcuts with Cannonball Press Friday, March 4 at SPACE Gallery. (COURTESY IMAGE)

High School Basketball Tournament at Civic Center 2 p.m. Western Maine Class “A” and “B” Girls’ and Boys’ High School Basketball Tournament at the Civic Center ends Saturday, Feb. 26. Class “B” Girls’ and Boys’ Regional Finals — 2 p.m., Girls’ Final, Leavitt vs. York; 3:45 p.m., Boys’ Final, Yarmouth vs. Cape Elizabeth. Tickets: Adult GA, $7; student GA, $4; Class “A” Girls’ Regional Semi-ﬁnals — 7 p.m., Sanford vs. Deering; 8:30 p.m., Gorham vs. McAuley. Tickets: Adult GA — $7 Student GA — $4. www.theciviccenter.com/events

‘Made in Dagenham’ at the PMA 2 p.m. Portland Museum of Art Movies at the Museum series features “Made in Dagenham” on 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 Cambridgeeducated 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.” www.portlandmuseum.org

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

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 see next page

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‘Moonlight & Magnolias’ 7:30 p.m. “Moonlight & Magnolias,” a comedy by Ron Hutchinson about “Gone With the Wind.” (Maine Premiere!) Feb. 3-27. In Residence: The St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. Portland. Tickets & Info at 885-5883. “It is 1939 and Hollywood is abuzz. Legendary producer David O. Selznick has shut down production on his new epic, Gone With the Wind. He has locked Victor Fleming the director and Ben Hecht the screenwriter in his ofﬁce. Together they have ﬁve days to complete a new shooting script. The problem is that Hecht hasn’t read the novel, so Selznick and Fleming must enact the entire story!” Thu/Fri/Sat 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. The St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. www. stlawrencearts.org/event_lists.php

House Un-American Activities Committee remembered

sored 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’ 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

‘2011 Civil Rights Movie Nights’ 4 p.m. The Maine Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers Guild student chapter of the University of Maine 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.

7:30 p.m. A staged reading of artist testimony in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee between the years 1938 to the mid1950s. The evening is a benefit the help support the work of the Lucid Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawStage, 29 Baxter Boulevard, and yers argue the case for and against a science will feature local actors reading from teacher accused of the crime of teaching evoluthe testimony of Hollywood actors, tion, in the 1960 classic, “Inherit the Wind.” The writers and directors. Among the Maine Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawnotable Hollywood celebrities who yers Guild student chapter of the University of appeared before the HUAC as Maine School of Law present “2011 Civil Rights friendly witnesses were Ronald Movie Nights,” a monthly series of films examinReagan, Gary Cooper, Adolphe ing legal controversies regarding civil liberties Menjou, Louis B. Mayer and Jack and civil rights. The series launches this Sunday Warner. Among the unfriendly wit- with this film. (COURTESY IMAGE) Secret Lives of Comedians nesses was a group of Holly wood 7:30 p.m. Tickets $10, available screen writers known as the “Hollywood Ten.” Ayn Rand, online at www.LucidStage.com or through Lucid Stage’s Hallie Flannigan and African-American actor Paul RobeBox Office at 899-3993, 29 Baxter Boulevard. “Produced son also appeared before the committee. The HUAC by Cloud Morris and Brian Brinegar, this monthly series feawas first established in 1938 as a special congressional tures stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, ‘surprised guests,’ investigating committee chaired by Texas Democratic and other disturbing delights! Special guests are Nicholas Congressman Martin Dies Jr. Hallie Flannigan, who was LaVallee, Sarah Frazier, Bill Gray and Cliff Gallant.” head of the Federal Theater project, was subpoenaed to appear before the commiittee and was asked if Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe was a member of the Communist Party. The blacklisting of hundreds of actors were one result of these hearings. Tickets $12 adults; $10 seniors and students.

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 offseason 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-spon-

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 Sheriff’s Office and Jail, Maine Pretrial Services, the District II Police Chiefs, Bangor Theological Seminary, and the 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 837-2400. For more information on the project see www.cumberlandcounty.org.

Tuesday, March 1 ‘Egypt Now’ at USM noon to 3 p.m. The University of Southern Maine is hosting “Egypt Now,” a symposium about the revolution in Egypt and its effect on the Middle East. “Egypt Now” will be held in the USM Woodbury Campus Center Amphitheater, Portland. USM President Selma Botman will be the featured speaker, with a noontime talk on “Emerging Citizenship in Egypt and the Middle East.” Botman is a scholar of modern Egyptian history who has written three books on the subject. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Reza Jalali, coordinator of the USM Ofﬁce of Multicultural Affairs, at 780-5798. A panel of experts will be on hand to discuss such topics as the modern history of Egypt, Egypt’s economy, Egyptian society, Egyptian women and U.S. foreign policy as it pertains to Egypt. Panelists include USM Associate Professor of History Eileen Eagan, USM Professor of Criminology Dusan Bjelic, Bowdoin College Professor of Religious Studies Robert Morrisson, Kathleen Sutherland from USM’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and Danny Muller, of the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA). The symposium is organized by the University of Southern Maine’s Ofﬁce of Multicultural Affairs and Women and Gender Studies program.

Bayside Neighborhood Association meeting 6 p.m. Bayside Neighborhood Association Monthly Meeting at Unity Village. http://www.facebook.com/BaysideNeighborhood Association

Portland Schools budget proposal 7 p.m. Portland Superintendent James C. Morse, Sr. will present his proposed budget on March 1 at 7 p.m. in Room 250 of Casco Bay High School, 196 Allen Ave., according to a notice from Portland Public Schools. A public hearing on the budget will take place on March 15. The School Board’s Finance Committee will review the budget and present its version to the full board on March 22. The School Board is expected to vote on the budget on March 29. After review by the Portland City Council’s Finance Committee, it will come before the full City Council on May 2. A referendum on the budget will take place on May 10. The district faces a loss of more than $6 million in federal funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The loss is offset somewhat by $1.8 million from the 2010 federal jobs bill. Anticipating the reduction in ARRA aid, the district set aside funding from the jobs bill for the FY2012 budget.

Boston poet Derek J.G. Williams 7 p.m. Port Veritas Spoken Word open mic featuring Boston poet Derek J.G. Williams at open reading begins at 7:30 followed by the evenings feature at 8:30 p.m. Open reading begins at 7:30 p.m. Derek JG Williams is a Boston based writer and performer. He has featured at numerous venues throughout New England and New York, and is a regular at the world famous Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge. In the spring of 2009 he released a full length album of poetry and music titled “A Chorus of Cities.” He is currently at work on his ﬁrst book of poems.

Maine High School Ultimate (Frisbee) League 7 p.m. The Maine High School Ultimate (Frisbee) League will be conducting an informational meeting to announce plans for the upcoming season. All interested Coaches, Athletic Directors, Captains and/or adult volunteers are encouraged to attend. The meeting will be held in the Russel Room at the Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth. The Maine High School Ultimate League (MEHUL) was formed in 2009 for the purpose of promoting the sport of Ultimate, rated by the Sporting Goods Manufacturer Association (SGMA) in 2009 and 2010 as the fastest growing team sport in America. The League offers high schools in Maine a full season of regularly scheduled, weekly games, athletic ﬁelds, insurance, and guidance in team development. 781-2351.

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Saudi student to be arraigned in bomb plot LUBBOCK, Texas (New York Times) — A 20-yearold Saudi college student appeared in federal court in Texas on Friday morning, accused of plotting to carry out terrorist attacks inside the United States. The student, Khalid Aldawsari, who law enforcement officials said wrote in his journal that he sought a student visa three years ago so he could carry out terrorist attacks, was charged with the attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. Mr. Aldawsari, wearing a blue, jail-issued jumpsuit and shackled at the wrists and ankles, wore a bemused expression during his brief court appearance in Federal District Court in Lubbock. After each of three questions posed by United States Magistrate Judge Nancy Koenig, Mr. Aldawsari nodded and responded “Yes” — that he understood the charge against him, that he was aware that he had the right to counsel, and that he understood that any statements he made might be

used against him. He did not enter a plea. But after the appearance, Rod Hobson, Mr. Aldawsari’s lawyer, said he would plead not guilty once the federal government hands down an indictment. Mr. Hobson told reporters he thought the news coverage of Mr. Aldawsari had been unfair and onesided and said it may not be possible for him to have a fair trial in Lubbock, a city in north Texas. “This is not ‘Alice in Wonderland’ where the queen said, ‘First the punishment and then the trial,’” he said. After the appearance, Mr. Aldawsari was sent back to Lubbock County Jail. His next court date was scheduled for March 11. By the time Mr. Aldawsari, a community college student in Lubbock, came to the attention of the authorities this month, he had obtained two of the three chemicals needed for a bomb and was researching potential targets — including the Dallas

residence of former President George W. Bush, the homes of three former military guards at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and dams in Colorado and California, an F.B.I. affidavit said. Mr. Aldawsari’s journal, which says “it is time for jihad,” and his e-mail account also contained at least two semicryptic references to New York — a plan to spend a week there as part of a to-do list that culminated in leaving car bombs in unidentified places during rush hour and a link to a Web site of feeds from the city’s traffic cameras, the F.B.I. complaint said. The New York City police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, said the department had been following the case from the beginning, adding that the plan “sure gives us cause for concern, but we are not surprised — New York is at the top of the terrorist target list.” A law enforcement official said Mr. Aldawsari had visited the city, but gave no details.

At last we were utterly alone in our own world ... WENDEL from page 5

“The fact is your goalie sucks. I’ve beaten you two games to one and scored two more goals than you.” “Because all she ever cares about is scoring,” I murmured, fading out. “She’s supposed to be on defense but as soon as she hits the field she leaves the goal and runs around at the far end. Anyway, I’m sending the team back to the locker room to rest and

relax. True, they lost the last game, but they’re not unhappy. In post-game interviews, they said they were very satisfied with their performance. They left it all on the field.” Then we fell asleep lying in each other’s arms and it didn’t matter anymore where we were, whether it was Montreal or Portland or that new planet. At last we were utterly alone in our own world, free of

memories and the past. Because maybe there weren’t any bedposts, but they sure were a refuge from everything out there that could get in the way of just trying to be in love. (Heidi Wendel is a former editor of the Columbia Law Review and has written for The New York Times, among others.)

I love to get music at record stores the day they come out RELEASES from page 4

headed to the counter. That was tough for me. I need a minimum of an hour at any record store at any time. Moving that fast without stopping to check out other music was a real tough thing to chew on. But Bob (or Don) was like, “Mark, we gotta go, come on!” They were right. We were on a mission. Get the VH tape and get back to school to flaunt it in front of less gutsy Van Halen fans and impress the girls from Mount Saint Mary’s after school in the parking lot. We got back to school and I think I remember someone getting stopped as we returned to the grounds. The rest of us walked like nothing was happening. We couldn’t be stopped with that eightdollar piece of plastic magic in our pockets. As we started to walk by students filing out of classes, smirks crossed our faces. We broke into conversations all over the place showing everyone our captures. We let people know what the first side of the tape sounded like cause that’s all we had time to hear before we returned. It was like we were people who escaped from a heavenly place and we were spreading the stories of hope and promise to the weak and broken down people of our homeland who awaited our return. I don’t remember anything else that day. I just stared at that tape all day during school. Their Meet The Beatles mock cover burned into my brain. Practically memorizing lyrics to songs I hadn’t even heard yet. That was the thrill of a release day. That was then and I was a lot younger. I might not be as 100 percent giddy today ‘cause I have bills to pay and appointments to go to, but I do love to get music at record stores the day they come out if I have the time. It’s just cool that I don’t have to ask for anyone’s permission to go to the store. I’ve been able to live with myself for buying it a little later in the day too. I think of that simple joy as a kid and I smile wide. Those were some of the best memories for me as a kid growing up who loved music. I hate to think that many kids today aren’t having experiences anymore. Times are different. The rules are different. Kids are different and that may be the biggest thing. Those adventures back then happened because it had to happen that way. We loved our music and we

had to get to it. So we jumped through some hoops. There’s no hoops today. Point, click, done. I don’t think of it so much as a surrender to technology as I do a lack of celebration of the music/art we long for. When your favorite people create something new or a new day arrives; the gathering to cheer about it and support it is an important thing. If you can’t feel me on this, let me try in different ways: When the new Harry Potter movies or books come out people go Beatlesque for that stuff right? When you have your NFL Fantasy draft; how many people spend half a day doing that at a special location with plenty of fried food? When Verizon put that iPhone out a couple weeks ago, people were at the doors ready and waiting. So I don’t think there’s much difference in our launch day support. Whether you’re into Apple products or Harry Potter or fantasy leagues; we are there for our favorite things early because they are important in our lives and give us a good feeling. Many have an attitude of, “relax, it will be there when I get there.” To them I say: sure, that’s completely true. To each their own. I just know that when I get there, with music, I am happier. So, the sooner the better. Funny thing, one of the classes I missed that day was Brother Robert’s. Ironically, later that year he would give me a cassette bootleg of a live Van Halen concert from their early days in 1978. Ain’t that a bit of terrific?

MARK’S TOP 3 FAVORITE THINGS IN MUSIC THIS WEEK The new self-titled album by Middle Brother The video for “Lotus Flower” by Radiohead Framing a picture I got to take with Robert Smith of the Cure

Every Tue. Night is Benefit Night at Flatbread Join us from 5 - 9

Tuesday, March 1st $3.50 will be donated for every pizza sold.

Benefit: (Mark Curdo is a DJ on 94.3 WCYY and the owner of a record label, Labor Day Records, based in Portland. Mark is not only a board member of the Portland Music Foundation, but he loves the Boston Celtics, Ginger Ale and Jack Lemmon movies. He is a weekly Daily Sun music columnist.)

Real School Haiti Refugee Project 72 Commercial St., Portland, ME Open Sun. thru Thurs 11:30am–9:00pm, Fri. & Sat. 11:30am–10:00pm

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Dance parties, robot ﬁsh, kilt rock abound today BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Mod dance parties to intimate acoustic shows, afro-beat to celtic punk, this Saturday night’s got something for every type of music fan, if only you can get shoveled out in time. The night’s biggest show goes down at The State Theatre as Irish punk via Los Angeles outfit Flogging Molly come to town for a kilt-raising good time. Moneybrother and The Drowning Men join this sold-out show at the State. If you didn’t plan ahead and can’t scrounge up some tickets, just do the next best thing and kick back with some Guinness while blasting the Dropkick Murphy’s and burning peat moss to keep warm. (7:30 p.m. sold out, all ages) The behavioral psychologists over at Space Gallery, in their continuing effort to fight off a regionally-isolated seasonal affective disorder pandemic host yet another dance party reinforcing their strict “there’s noting a big ‘ole stack of vinyl and body heat can’t fix” ethos of this winter. DJ Ian Paige resurrects his MODNIGHT

dance party from its former home at the White Heart, bumping soul, mod, britpop, psych and dub tunes. And because staying on theme is for winners, throw some snow tires on your Vespa, crop that hair and show up looking sharp. (9 p.m. $3, 21+) Congress Street emporium of the

aural oddities Strange Maine hosts Strange Maine Presents ... at the Apohadion. Circuits will be bent, twisted and minds dragged through some inter-dimensional tangents as touring acts Pak, Noise Nomad and Kent are joined by resident glitch-fish Crank Sturgeon. (8 p.m. all ages)

Empire Dine and Dance provides a potent pop antidote to Strange Maine’s night of weirdness with the likes of indiepoppers Empress Hotel (New Orleans), afro-beat/ ska act The Beat Horizon and souled-out poetical vocalist Lady Zen. (9 p.m. 21+) Bayside Bowl gets into the dance part attitude with Group Hug Productions, a full line-up of funk, soul and hip-hop Djs live beats & local MC’s featuring Saiyid Brent, Duke, R-Tex, Roomie Rock & Special Guest with bonus point going to whoever can best sample the sounds of pins crashing. (9 p.m. $5, 21+) Wind it all down or stick close to home by popping into Mama’s Crow Bar where if and it will play a free, acoustic set at Munjoy’s coziest bar. The alt-folk-rockers play to 11 p.m. and will be selling their new album Buffalo Heart. Come for the band, stay for Portland’s best selection of board and party games and a beer tap that seems directly connected to the Allagash factory. (8 p.m. free, 21+)

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