The Portland Daily Sun, Saturday, March 26, 2011

When does LePage symbolism hurt the bottom line?

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Labor mural offered to City Hall Council will consider LePage plan to ‘loan’ disputed art not,” Marshall continued. “It’s more of an idea at this

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN point than a decision.”

Mayor Nick Mavodones says he doesn’t want PortThe now-controversial mural at the state land to be seen as “enabling” the removal of the mural Department of Labor that Gov. Paul LePage from state offices, and like Marshall, he thinks it ordered removed this week might be “loaned” should stay right where it is. to Portland City Hall under a tentative deal But, Mavodones says he’s open to installing it in announced yesterday.

Portland. “There is a lot of history in that mural, and Advocates of that plan say moving the 36-foot, I think it’s best if it stays there,” he said. “But if it’s 11-panel mural depicting images of Maine’s going to be moved, I think we have the space.” labor history to Portland ensures it won’t be Tremont resident Judy Taylor created the mural sold, locked away in a closet, or donated to a several years ago after winning a $60,000 federal private museum. But some city councilors say grant. The piece features memorable events in Maine’s it’s too soon to start measuring the hallways at LePage labor history, including “Rosie the Riveter” at Bath City Hall.

Iron Works, child laborers, and a 1986 labor strike at “It’s not (coming to Portland) unless the city a paper mill. council votes for it to come to town,” Councilor Dave Marshall said yesterday, adding that no public hearing on the see MURAL page 8 artwork has been scheduled.

“We certainly would have the room for it, but we would RIGHT: A child labor panel is shown on a mural at the Maine Department have to figure out if there is support on the council for it or of Labor. (COURTESY PHOTO)

Film festival season rolls Jewish, Lewiston/Auburn festivals bring local, international screenings

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Maine’s dramatic rocky shore and hard-living coastal villages may have provided the setting for many feature films, but once the A-Listers are back on the plane to Hollywood, the state is often reduced to little more than a brief mention somewhere towards the bottom of the credits.

But by embracing the finished product, the state may be finding a growing national niche.

What amounts to Maine’s film festival season kicks off Saturday evening as the Maine Jewish Film Festival returns to Portland for its 14th year. Running through next Thursday, the MJFF brings nearly 20 films to screen at the Nickelodeon Cinema, Maine Historical Society and Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.

Next weekend, The Lewiston/ Auburn Film Festival makes its 100-movie debut up in the twin cities, with the Maine International Film Festival and Camden International Film Festival to follow in July and September, respectively.

Ranging from documentaries and comedies to a Marx Brothers movie and an Israeli sitcom, this week’s MJFF offers a range of work trying to pin down the Jewish experience through film in a number of genres.

But don’t worry, Gentiles, organizers say there is something here for everyone.

“We’re definitely aware that there aren’t that many Jewish people here, so we have to be responsive to a diverse audience. This is an American film festival catering to a diaspora audience, so we have see FILMS page 9

The Maine Jewish Film Festival returns to Portland for its 14th year. (COURTESY IMAGE)

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Traveling heavy: Weight guidelines change (NY Times) — The federal government, which has had to tweak its safety rules and weight guidelines to reflect the fattening of the nation.

The average flier is estimated by the Federal Aviation Administration to weigh 195 pounds in winter clothing and 190 pounds in summer clothing.

The average boat passenger is estimated to weigh a little less: 185 pounds.

The Coast Guard recently raised its estimate of average passenger weight after the National Transportation Safety Board warned that outdated estimates that passengers weighed only 140 pounds, on average, were factors in two deadly accidents in which overweight boats capsized.

The award for sveltest traveler, at least in the world of federal regulations, goes to the average bus passenger. Bus riders are currently estimated to weigh a mere 150 pounds when federal regulators test new buses.

But that is about to change, if the Federal Transit Administration gets its way: the agency issued a proposal this month to increase the assumed average weight of bus passengers to 175 pounds so that its tests will “better reflect the actual loads that buses are already carrying in service today.”

Exactly why the estimated weight of travelers should differ slightly depending on whether they go by land, sea or air — calling to mind those scales in planetariums which show that Earthlings weigh less on Mercury, but more on Jupiter — is one of those mysteries that are sometimes puzzled over by close readers of The Federal Register. But the trend line here is as clear as the nation’s widening waistlines: Americans are getting heavier, and federal safety regulators must take that into account.

Federal officials said that they believe the current 150-pound standard for bus passengers comes from a national health survey dating to the “Mad Men” era.

How much Americans actually weigh, on average, is not exactly a mystery. The National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently calculated the mean average weight is now 194.7 pounds for men and 164.7 pounds for women, no matter what means of transportation they use.

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BY MICHAEL SLACKMAN THE NEW YORK TIMES

CAIRO — Military troops opened fire on protesters in the southern part of Syria on Friday, according to news reports quoting witnesses, hurtling the strategically important nation along the same trajectory that has altered the landscape of power across the Arab world.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators in the southern city of Dara’a, on the border with Jordan, and in some other cities and towns around the nation took to the streets in protest, defying a state that has once again demonstrated its willingness to use lethal force. It was the most serious challenge to 40 years of repressive rule by the Assad family since 1982, when the president at the time, Hafez al-Assad, massacred at least 10,000 protesters in the northern Syrian city of Hama.

Human rights groups said that since protests began seven days ago in the south, 38 people had been killed by government forces — and it appeared that many more were killed on Friday. Precise details were difficult to obtain Friday because the government sealed off the area to reporters and denied access to the country to foreign news media.

“Syria’s security forces are showing the same cruel disregard for protesters’ lives as their counterparts in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Bahrain,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.

The new round of protests and bloodshed came one day after the Syrian government tried to appease an increasingly angry popular revolt with talk of improved political freedoms and promises of restraint.

Syrians shout slogans in support of protesters in the city of Deraa, during a protest in Mouadamieh, near Damascus on Friday. (Reuters/New York Times)

Instead, it unleashed its forces, firing on peaceful demonstrators trying to march into Dara’a, according to The Associated Press and videos posted on YouTube. There were reports of security forces firing on civilians in cities around the country, as well.

In Sanamayn, a city of 27,000 people about 40 miles north of Dara’a, a video posted on YouTube showed at least seven bodies lying on stretchers, bloodied, at least three clearly with gunshot wounds.

Residents speaking to The Associated Press said as many as 20 people had been

killed, figures that could not be independently confirmed.

In the capital, Damascus, several hundred opposition protesters tried to rally, too, but were quickly dispersed by security forces as pro-government supporters took to the streets honking car horns and waving photographs of the president, Bashar al-Assad. It did not appear that the growing wave of anger and protest had yet taken hold in the capital as it had in the south and east, though there were reports of troops opening fire on demonstrators in the suburbs of Damascus.

Many U.S. blacks moving to South, reversing trend

BY SABRINA TAVERNISE ROBERT GEBELOFF

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WASHINGTON — The percentage of the nation’s black population living in the South has hit its highest point in half a century, according to census data released Thursday, as younger and more educated black residents move out of declining cities in the Northeast and Midwest in search of better opportunities.

The share of black population growth that has occurred in the South over the past decade — the highest since 1910, before the Great Migration of blacks to the North — has upended some long-held assumptions.

Both Michigan and Illinois, whose cities have rich black cultural traditions, showed an overall loss of blacks for the first time, said William Frey, the chief demographer at the Brookings Institution.

And Atlanta, for the first time, has replaced Chicago as the metro area with the largest number of African-Americans after New York. About 17 percent of blacks

“The black urban experience has essentially lost its appeal with blacks in America.” — Clement Price, a professor of history at Rutgers-Newark who moved to the South in the past decade left New York State, far more than from any other state, the census data show.

At the same time, blacks have begun leaving cities for more affluent suburbs in large numbers, much like generations of whites before them.

“The notion of the North and its cities as the promised land has been a powerful part of African-American life, culture and history, and now it all seems to be passing by,” said Clement Price, a professor of history at Rutgers-Newark. “The black urban experience has essentially lost its appeal with blacks in America.”

During the turbulent 1960s, black population growth ground to a halt in the South,

and Southern states claimed less than 10 percent of the national increase then. The South has increasingly claimed a greater share of black population growth since — about half the country’s total in the 1970s, two-thirds in the 1990s and three-quarters in the decade that just ended.

The percentage of black Americans living in the South is still far lower than before the Great Migration in the earlier part of the last century, when 90 percent did. Today it is 57 percent, the highest since 1960.

“This is the decade of black flight,” said Mr. Frey. “It’s a new age for African-Americans. It’s long overdue, but it seems to be happening.”

The five counties with the largest black populations in 2000 — Cook in Illinois, Los Angeles, Wayne in Michigan, Kings in New York and Philadelphia — all lost black population in the last decade. Among the 25 counties with the biggest increase in black population, three-quarters are in the South.

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Saturday, March 26, 2011— Page 3

As Mexicans fill pews, NYC church leaders are slow to welcome them

BY KIRK SEMPLE THE NEW YORK TIMES

Two years ago, St. Joseph’s Church in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, seemed to be headed for extinction. Attendance at Sunday Masses had fallen below 100. The 159-year-old parish’s buildings were crumbling and its coffers were empty.

Today, the scaffolding outside bustles with workers. Sundays draw more than 300 worshipers, many of them families with small children. And where the prevailing language in the pews was once English, it is now overwhelmingly Spanish, with a Mexican accent.

As the Roman Catholic Church in the United States struggles with an exodus of American-born faithful, its ranks have been replenished by recent Latino immigrants — most of them Mexicans, who have brought an intense faith and a youthful energy.

That buoying effect is especially evident in New York City, where the Mexican population has grown more than 25-fold since 1980. In parishes where they have settled, they have flocked to church, replacing worshipers who have died, moved away, defected to evangelical congregations or abandoned religion altogether.

“If we lost all our Mexicans,” said the Rev. Francis Skelly, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in the Bronx, “we’d be in big trouble.”

Yet while no one expects anything that drastic, some clergy members, parishioners and even bishops say that decades after Mexicans began streaming into New York, the city’s two dioceses still have not done nearly enough to attract and hold on to Mexican Catholics, particularly younger immigrants and their children.

Timothy Matovina, a professor at Notre Dame and a specialist in United States Catholic and Latino theology, said that just as other groups strayed

from the church as they became more assimilated, Mexicans, too, are leaving the church in growing numbers — though apparently at lower rates than other Latino immigrant groups.

Religious experts familiar with the challenge say that archdioceses in Los Angeles, San Antonio and Chicago have focused more attention on Mexicans, providing comprehensive social services and referrals, and advocating for political causes like immigration rights. Some dioceses have worked to recruit seminarians from among Mexican immigrants.

The Archdiocese of New York made a promising start: In the 1990s, under Cardinal John J. O’Connor, it began developing a strategy to cater to these new arrivals, including bringing priests and nuns from Mexico. But those efforts faded after several years.

“They are still in the process of formulating a more effective way of reaching out,” said Mario J. Paredes, a native of Chile who is the founder and former president of the Northeast Hispanic Catholic Center. This weekend, the archdiocese is collaborating on a conference at Fordham University and Lehman College to examine the role of Catholicism in the lives of Mexican New Yorkers.

Parishes, meanwhile, are adapting on their own. Many have added Spanishlanguage Masses and Spanish-speaking clergy. They have redrawn worship schedules, adding Mexican celebrations and Masses at unusual times — like weekday evenings — to accommodate many Mexicans who work long hours.

Father Jorge Ortiz-Garay is the only Mexican-born priest in the 192 Brooklyn and Queens parishes that make up the diocese. The Archdiocese of New York — with 370 parishes in Manhattan, Staten Island, the Bronx and seven upstate counties — has five priests from Mexico.

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Governor turning his back on labor Editor, This level of disrespect for workers, I'm stunned, really. Did Gov. LePage forget us? Is that all we are, some kind of road block to greater profit? We have earned and deserve better treatment from our governor and our business leaders, who seem intent on blaming us for everything. Not all bosses are like this. I'm a business owner now, and I like profit, but don't see sacrificing everything else for it.

Unionized or not, the people who wake at 5 a.m. and are on the job working at 7 a.m., state workers, private sector workers, working at all hours in all weather, doing whatever job they are told, who have a short break in the morning, fire up and get it done until noon and at 12:30 are back at it for as long as they're told because they are all about getting it done. These people, these laborers, deserve everyone's respect, yet our governor, the governor of the state of Maine, a truly working class state, takes another shot at us by removing from the dept of labor a mural honoring labor ... why would he do this? Is he just a bully spitting down on us from his bully pulpit? Can't we recall him or censure him or something? We need to be more careful who we vote for.

The labor that built this state, this country, the world, who so often give but rarely reap, they will labor on, even in the face of this BS, will go to work today and tomorrow and the next day while our idiot gov and his cronies flail away at an imagined foe, us. Thank god for us. If all we had were entrepreneurs and bankers, nothing would get done.

Paul DiBiase Portland

Gov should damn the torpedoes Dear Governor LePage, Well, it has been a while since I had the occasion to write you. You are no doubt aware as Governor, how things you do in your official capacity can be sometimes misinterpreted, as they were this past January, when you declined an invitation to address the local NAACP by suggesting they kiss your backside. You probably remember how that kind of blew up in your face. Then again, perhaps not. Could it be that in your gung ho zeal for the job in Augusta shaping Maine’s future you have somehow forgotten our proud past? see below

Daily Sun Columnist Bob Higgins is taking the day off. See his column back here in the Sun.

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When does LePage's symbolism become bad for the bottom line?

This time, he’s really gone and done it.

It was one thing when the Gov. LePage dust-up of the week was either largely symbolic (like signing anti-immigration law as a first-thing priority) or largely policy wonkish (like using details in the state budget to wage war on programs he doesn’t like).

But with the current “labor mural” flap pushing Maine into an international spotlight, the governor has managed to perfectly merge symbolism with significance and the results will very likely be felt for years.

You already know the story: Gov. LePage ordered the removal of a three-year-old, $60,000 labor mural with 11 panels showing various milestones for Maine workers, like lumberjacks, some colonial-era shoe makers, even a “Rosie the Riveter” in a shipyard – and that landmark 1986 paper mill strike. Now, the mural is being evacuated from Augusta to seek protective custody in Portland City Hall.

A spokeswoman for Gov. LePage was quoted in The New York Times saying that “... the Department of Labor is a state agency that works very closely with both employees and employers, and we need to have a decor that represents neutrality.”

By the way, the artist, Judy Taylor, who won a 2007 competition overseen by the Maine Arts Commission to earn the right to create the mural, disagrees on the one-sided thing, arguing that “... it’s based on historical fact. I’m not sure how you can say history is one-sided.”

(Michael Tomasky, a writer for The Guardian in London addressed the “balance” argument thus: “...yes, balance. I bet there's

Curtis Robinson ––––– Usually Reserved a Martin Luther King statue or avenue or something somewhere in Maine. Shouldn't there be a nearby Bull Connor Boulevard? In fact they should intersect. Think of p.r. and tourism possibilities, governor!”)

The mural flap may be largely symbolic, but it comes in a realworld context. The New York Times noted that the governor “... has repeatedly clashed with labor unions since his inauguration in January. He is pushing for a higher retirement age for public employees and for “right-to-work” legislation that would allow union members to stop paying dues or fees.”

The nation’s paper of record also noted that “... Mr. LePage has also ordered that the Labor Department’s seven conference rooms be renamed. One is named after Cesar Chavez, the farmworkers’ leader; one after Rose Schneiderman, a leader of the New York Women’s Trade Union League a century ago; and one after Frances Perkins, who became the nation’s first female labor secretary and is buried in Maine.”

With all this talk of business and labor, it’s easy to forget that one of Gov. LePage’s campaign points was to improve the state’s business climate. For some, that no doubt means exactly the sort of hardball political action he’s taking – or trying to take, we’ll see how far the legislature will actually go when the folks back home start screaming.

But here in Portland — the state’s largest city and a bit of an economic engine — we have embraced what most call the “creative economy.” We have city committees focusing on creative endeavor, we have created arts districts and special tax districts and spent tens of thousands of dollars to improve our creative economy – there’s even a website devoted to bringing creative business to the area.

Richard Florida, one of the gurus of the creative economy, notes that bringing those good jobs to your community requires the “Three T’s.” That would be “talent, technology and tolerance.” It’s widely held that many southern communities have trouble luring “creatives” because they lack the last of those qualities.

So when people start saying that Gov. LePage is “moving Maine south” or “wedging us between the Carolina’s,” they’re not just being unfair to a region (hey, anyone been to the Research Triangle lately? It’s doing fine) they are labeling us. You have a governor who tells the NAACP to kiss his butt, then orders murals removed for “balance,” and pretty soon you have a perception problem.

Hey, we all know the “two Maines” cultural aspect of the state, and it's clear Gov. LePage has little interest in merging the duality. But if the governor can’t or won’t lay off these highprofile symbolic gaffes for social reasons, maybe somebody should point out that he’s started to betray his core principal — he’s become, at least for the creative economy, bad for business.

(Curtis Robinson is editor of The Portland Daily Sun. Contact him at curtis@portlanddailysun.me.)

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Letter from anonymous constituent prompted governor’s decision from above

Take for instance your recent order to remove a large mural from Maine’s Labor Dept. building, a painting which celebrates the contribution and history of labor in Maine. Hey in all fairness, you were only responding to a letter you received from an anonymous constituent that suggested this mural might be offensive to outside investors who could see it and think they had taken a detour to No. Korea by mistake. Now, that would be a pity, especially after all you have already accomplished on your ambitious plan to pave the way for progress by reducing any regulations that could act as roadblocks to business. And in case anyone missed it, you have even erected a sign on the turnpike proclaiming “Maine

Open For Business.” We sure don’t need no reminders of our history acting as speed bumps on this new superhighway to progress. Why muck things up?

Okay, get history out of the way and move on. Just leave everything out like the Indian wars, slavery, strikes, and the Depression; They’re depressing and bad for business, period. So why not erase them altogether.? That’s old history. We got to make way for progress. ... So damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead, Guv. And why you’re at it, don’t forget to “Remember the Maine”!

Sincerely yours, David Wade Portland

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The Port City Chronicle

The grass looked greener on my side of the bed Last week Gretchen Reingren — our 44-year-old, divorced, criminal defense attorney — tried to get her friend Tim to live in the real world instead of his fantasy life.

“I feel like I’m dying a little every day at this job,” he said, while they were having lunch during the court break.

Charles had put him to work part time in the office in exchange for room and board.

But Gretchen wasn’t that sympathetic.

“You are dying a little every day. So you might as well be doing it at this job.”

Then she softened a little.

“What is it you really want to do?’

“I’ve always wanted to be a meteorologist,” he said.

“Why don’t you take a class in meteorology and see what you think?” she asked.

He shrugged.

“Why do anything today you could put off until tomorrow? Granted you lose hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars, the esteem of your peers, and the possibility of a mate, but think of what you gain.”

Now this week Gretchen has to deal with her boyfriend Adam’s fantasies of a different kind.

The Port City Chronicle is the continuing story of a woman and her family seeking love and happiness in Portland the midst of the Great Recession.

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When Your Eyes Are Only 93% Closed So There’s Still a 7% Slit of Possibility “I woke you up so you’d know I’m still sleeping,” Adam said, turning towards me in bed in the middle of the night.

I would have been more annoyed if I hadn’t been having a tough time with my subconscious anyway.

“I just dreamt I was running an undercover operation and all my guys got burned,” I said. “I basically had your nightmare.”

I didn’t mention the fact that I was rooting for the bad guys and that one of them looked a lot like John, because why worry him about all the unresolved issues in my heart and soul?

If I’d learned anything from dating a prosecutor it was never rat yourself out.

“I’ll roll over so my head’s farther away from you,” he said.

I wasn’t sure that would solve the problem, but I closed my eyes and tried to go back to sleep.

“Now I’m going to dream about lambs and bunnies,” I murmured, picturing a grassy pasture with flowers and sunshine.

But Adam was still wide awake.

“Okay, how many?” he asked, in the voice I hear him using on the phone with witnesses. Apparently the lambs and bunnies had to appear under

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threat of arrest.

“More bunnies than lambs,” I whispered, “since I like bunnies better.”

But I worried I was inadvertently setting a trap for them. There are a lot of lambs and bunnies in my life, along with the mutton, and I wouldn’t want to get any of them in trouble.

He rolled back over to face me.

“How about five bunnies and one lamb?”

This is how prosecutors get in the middle of the night when they’re on trial.

I shut my eyes tighter and focused on the grassy field.

“The bunnies are hoping around . . .”

He propped himself up on one elbow.

“They’re hopping around and then the lamb comes in and the bunnies all go over to him.”

“And what? Knock him down?” I asked groggily.

As it turned out, that wasn’t at all what the lamb had in mind to reduce his stress level but it showed how spending a lot of time with bad guys had affected how I see the world.

Anyway, I wasn’t in the mood for playing games in the pasture at that hour of the night. I pulled the covers up tighter and tried to hide in the pillow.

But it didn’t work. Apparently the grass looked greener on my side of the bed.

“Are you still awake?” he asked, snuggling up to me.

“No,” I said, “can’t you see my eyes are closed?”

He got in closer for a better view.

“They’re not entirely closed,” he said. “They’re only 93% closed so there’s still a 7% slit of possibility.”

I shut them tighter, but it didn’t help because by that time I realized I was too thirsty to go back to sleep.

“I’m going to get some water,” I said, starting to get up unsteadily.

But the prosecutor had already rushed to the kitchen for a couple glasses of water to get the party started.

“You want another?” he asked, when I tried to shut my eyes again. He was still sitting on the couch with no obvious plans to lie back down.

I shook my head.

“Did you know you can drown from drinking too much water?” he asked.

I hid my ignorance behind closed eyes.

“If I drown, it will be hard to explain since we’re not exactly near any water.”

So he was basically threatening me with prosecution for sleeping while he needed to talk.

I propped myself up on the pillow,

Since I generally return movies unwatched anyway, for lack of opportunity to sit still for hours in front of a talking box, I haven’t paid much attention to the fact that Netflix hasn’t kept up-to-date with my love life, including the replacement of the man of descriptive narrative with the man of action. hoping to get our chat over with quickly and go back to sleep. I figured maybe I could fake it and he wouldn’t notice.

“How’s the trial going?” I asked.

We hadn’t talked about the details because being on opposite sides of the fence, I’m leery of helping him too much.

“Who are you putting in jail, anyway?” I continued. “Probably a kid or an old lady.”

“Old ladies?” he exclaimed. “Are you kidding? An old lady doesn’t go to jail for a day if she kills all of us.”

“That’s comforting,” I said.

“And what qualifies as a kid?” he asked.

I thought a moment and for some reason both Grace and Ethan came to mind.

“Someone not entirely insane who isn’t responsible for their own actions?” I suggested.

“That could be anybody,” he said.

“Even me.”

I shook my head. After all, he wasn’t exactly one of the lambs or bunnies of the world, even if sometimes he tried to play one in bed.

“Look,” he said, “I’ll be the fourth to admit I’m not always an innocent lamb but you shouldn’t assume I’m automatically guilty just because I’m a prosecutor.”

He had a point but I wasn’t willing to concede it. First I wanted to see his proof.

But he hadn’t gotten to the facts yet.

“I don’t take it personally,” he said.

“Except on the deepest possible level.”

Apparently I’d hit a nerve, but I still wasn’t backing off. It was probably the exhaustion speaking.

“Maybe we’re just too different,” I said, thinking about the old ladies and the kids. “We’ve always known that could be a problem.”

“You think you have more in common with somebody just because they’re on the same side as you?” he asked. “What about my buddy William? You have nothing in common with that guy, even if he is a public defender.”

I came to William’s defense. Just because he didn’t participate in human social behavior was no reason to reject him.

“What’s wrong with him? Maybe you should introduce us.”

“Sure,” he said. “That’s right up there on my to-do list: help girlfriend find a better boyfriend. It’s just after discredit Kant based on my many readings.’”

So we had our first big fight and it looked like that might be the end of it for us.

But he wasn’t willing to let go.

“Look, why don’t we stop fighting

and I’ll read you something instead,” he said.

I pulled a copy of Return of the Native out of the bookshelf over the bed and handed it to him.

“Except I don’t like labored, descriptive narrative,” he said. “I consider myself a man of action.”

Another area in which we lacked commonality since I consider myself a person of labored narrative, if not necessarily descriptive, at least judging from these weekly columns.

“Maybe we should just watch a movie,” he suggested.

But all I had was “Beaches of Agnes,” “Last Year in Marienbad,” and “Amaricord.” This is what happens when you let Netflix make your movie selections based on who you went out with three years ago. Since I generally return movies unwatched anyway, for lack of opportunity to sit still for hours in front of a talking box, I haven’t paid much attention to the fact that Netflix hasn’t kept up-to-date with my love life, including the replacement of the man of descriptive narrative with the man of action.

At any rate, “Beaches” washed out after about ten minutes and Adam tried “Last Year.”

“This one’s better already,” he said.

“There appear to be actors and a setting.”

But he gave up after half an hour.

“The only way I could enjoy this movie is to watch it for two minutes each day for the next month,” he said.

“Which seems impractical.”

But “Amaricord” didn’t fare much better.

“This one will be so ridiculously artsy it’ll make those others look like documentaries of WWII,” he said, seeing it was directed by Fellini.

So we abandoned that one too and went back to our original plan.

“How about I read you something in bed?” he asked, pulling The Sun Also Rises off the shelf.

But we only got through a couple paragraphs before he was distracted by other activities of a more vigorous nature.

“What are we going to read next?”

I asked afterward, as we lay together on my side of the bed.

“Now you have to go back to sleep,” he said. “And have sweet dreams.”

I smiled.

“You’re ordering me not to have another nightmare?”

“Right,” he said. “As the man of action, I can’t protect you from all the bad things in life but I can at least protect you from the imagined ones.”

(Heidi Wendel is a former editor of the Columbia Law Review and has written for The New York Times, among others.)

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‘Mark Curdo just checked in from Portland, Maine’ The "information age" instantly became the "too much information age."

Breakthroughs in technology, as helpful as most of them have been, always seem to come with a loss of privacy and innocence to some extent. Sure it's great to have a digital camera on your cell phone, but now if someone tapes me in a parking lot with the crack of my backside in public view while I bend over to ––––– pick up my car keys that I The Circle Push dropped - almost anyone is fair game for that viewing thanks to a USB cord.

Awesome to have that camera if you witness a crime or a miracle, not really beneficial for showing my bad side; or my better side depending who you ask. Hey now!

Recently I've seen Facebook become a playground for my actions and to others who haven't chosen to publish their moves. Just 'cause someone needs to stay overly active on their FB page, and they feel the need to be a local Neighborhood Watch of everything going on, that means I can't have a private life? It's really starting to, uh, erk me ever so heavily. Here's an example of what I'm talking about...

I go to see a lot of bands play in clubs due to my professional careers and as personal choice. Mostly personal, but whatever. I usually get hit up by a lot of friends and musicians to check out their bands. It's pretty steady every week.

That's cool though. With a local scene like ours and with live music seven nights a week, it just don't stop around here for music lovers. We're lucky no doubt.

Through Facebook or text or the phone I get asked a lot to check out local bands' shows. Sometimes I can, sometimes I can't. Trust me when I can't, I feel bad 'cause I'm a bit of softy when it comes to people's feel-

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Let people be unless you’re sending them one of their 875 birthday wishes or a personal message.

Don’t tell people’s business unless they pose for the picture. ings especially with music. I don't like to disappoint friends in music. Musicians are fighting battles every single day to make their music known. It's a toughenough road when everything goes right for them.

A couple months ago, I was asked by some friends to check out their show. It was a band that I've seen before a few times so this wasn't a first-time thing for me. Around that same time another band, a newer one I hadn't seen yet, asked me to check out their show.

The shows were both happening on, you guessed it, the same night.

I've done the Peter Brady thing enough over the years; racing from one place to the next, but those days are over. I'm not saying I can't hit up two or three spots in the same night, but ... I'm way old now. I more enjoy taking in one line-up a night and then going home to watch a movie with Paul Newman or Gene Hackman in it or something.

So with the band dilemma I thought it would be best to check out the new band ‘cause I hadn't seen them yet. I responded to the first band and said I wasn't sure I'd be able to make it out. I didn't say my uncle died or I had to wash the dog or anything. No lies. I just said that I didn't think I could make it. It was the truth. I like to sleep well at night.

I got back to the other band, the newer one and said I should be able to see them and I'd try to make it out.

Day of the two shows arrive and I barely made it out at all due to a busy day at work.

That plus a sexy lure of some cool '60s comedies on AMC almost had me going home, but I mounted up and ran out to see the “newer” band.

I'm usually a wallflower at shows. I like to take it all in and watch the crowd from a slight distance. Feel the vibe. Lock onto the band from my own corner. So, I

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slide into the room and try to bury myself in an unpopular section of the room. Ok, I thought to myself; I'm here and good to go. I'll check these guys out and the other bands playing before them and then I'll motor on home and no one will be the wiser.

I'm thinking the other band, the first one, won't miss me and heck, they won't even know that I left my house tonight... because my movements won't be published!!

Wrong! Thanks Zuckerberg!

Luckily for me, some smarty pants bored college kid in Cambridge, Massachusetts a few years back had to create another privacy stealer. As I'm at the show, someone who listens to me on the radio came up and chatted with me for a minute. Cool person. Cool listener who was also there to see the “new” band.

Luckily as the band started this person left me to my own space. I hate talking to people during shows. I'm kinda focused you know? I know it sounds lame, but I'm there to see this performance. I can drink after. We can talk after. We can play shuffleboard after, whatever. For now, I like to be into the show.

So this person walked away and I think nothing of it. I see the band play their set – they were pretty good too. I then head out and 45 minutes later I'm kneedeep in Parmesan Goldfish crackers and laughing non-stop at, “Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”.

After the movie wraps up and they all find “the big dub-ya” (for those who've seen the movie), I hop into the kitchen for a bottle of water and... ok, I'll jump on Facebook for a second to see if there's any messages.

Let's face it, FB has become a new answering machine in terms of incoming communication.

So I scroll around quick and see my life out in the open. I feel defenseless and then a quick flash of embarrassment mixed with anger comes over me. The person I bumped into at the club decided to announce to their FB world that they bumped into Mark Curdo at the _____ show at the _______ club. They had one of those silly, “John Doe has checked in at ______” Facebook locator things going on too.

All my concerns, my James Bond-ish moves, my privacy – out the window because someone had to grab the on-line megaphone. That post stating my whereabouts, who did that benefit? No one. Let's face it, who cares where you're at and out of respect why should anyone know what I'm doing unless I announce it, which I never do cause I'm not like that on FB. So now, I feel bad that this band might have seen that I kinda "stepped out on them." Oh and everyone knows my business cause someone else had to feed the dumb machine.

The thing with Facebook is it's gone beyond yourself.

It did instantly. It's not about just YOU. It's about your world and all that goes on or doesn't go on in it. That being said, the players in your world now get world news report coverage because you can't leave the computer or iPhone alone.

People need to think a bit more about FB posts maybe is all I'm saying. That urge to release, the need to make statements, the digital courage doesn't always work for the best. Especially when it's not even about yourself. Let people be unless you're sending them one of their 875 birthday wishes or a personal message. Don't tell people's business unless they pose for the picture.

Of course, playing the Mark Zuckerberg/devil's advocate, he could say to me, “Mark, rather than blaming my historical invention maybe realize that you can't please everyone. You go to see a lot of bands. You can't see everyone, every night. Sometimes you have to say no.” Maybe he's right. Maybe I need to adopt that a bit more in my life all around beyond music.

Maybe this is just me being too nice to everyone and taking it out on a great on-line outlet people cherish everyday. Maybe (the imaginary) Zuckerberg is right.

Nah. He's worth $13 billion, he doesn't care about me. It's tough to think even someone's imaginary intentions are good when their legendary invention was essentially created to scam on college girls.

(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.)

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Saturday, March 26, 2011— Page 7

Unitil's $64 million gas-line job to be unveiled Monday

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A $64 million, 14-year project by Unitil to replace or upgrade more than 100 miles of natural gas pipeline throughout Portland and Westbrook will be unveiled Monday morning at Portland City Hall, but the effect on customer rates isn't clear and will be taken up later this summer, officials reported.

Unitil will embark on one of the largest, most aggressive capital improvement projects in company history, the natural gas provider reported in a press release. The replacement of 113 miles of natural gas pipeline throughout Portland and Westbrook will modernize the gas system Unitil inherited from Northern Utilities and allow the system to meet the growing demand, the company reported.

On Monday at 10 a.m. in the State of Maine Room at City Hall, Unitil officials will discuss the construction project, one of the largest of its kind ever undertaken in the Northeast, the company reported. Much of the project will involve replacing cast iron pipes — some more than 100 years old — with state-of-the-art plastic pipe, Unitil reported. New England Utility Constructors will be the contractor for the first phase of this work, which is scheduled to begin next month.

Unitil serves 25,000 customers in Greater Portland, Lewiston/Auburn and Kittery, according to the Maine Public Utilities Commission.

Monday's briefing aims to familiarize the public with the project and to notify businesses, said Alec O'Meara, spokesman for Unitil.

"We're going to directly have neighborhood meetings," he noted.

Unitil has been operating the system since 2008, when the company bought Northern Utilities, O'Meara said.

"There will be a rate case that will be brought up later on this summer that will be in association with this cast iron project," but not exclusive to it, O'Meara said.

"The impact it will have on folks' bills will come out during the rate case," he said.

The Maine Public Utilities Commission stipulated curbs on rates as part of its approval, according to the utility regulator during its review of

the project last summer. "The agreement specifies that a rate mechanism that caps rate effects be developed for commission consideration in the company’s base rate proceeding," the PUC wrote.

"Various projections by the company, intervenors and the staff indicate that this program could result in an increase of 4-5 percent in total residential bills," the Maine Public Utilities Commission reported last summer after it approved the project.

O'Meara said this summer's rate filing would be the system's first rate case in 28 years.

According to the PUC, Unitil inherited approximately 65 miles of cast iron and 10 miles of bare steel natural gas pipes in Portland and Westbrook when the company took over Northern in December 2008. "The original gas pipe systems were installed from the late 1800s to the early 1900s to carry manufactured coal gas; most of the remaining cast iron pipes are over 70 years old. The removal of the cast iron and bare steel materials and replacement with polyethelene plastic or protected steel pipe have been a focus of regulatory efforts to improve public safety since the late '90s," the Maine PUC wrote.

On its website, Unitil indicated that the existing cast-iron pipelines don't pose a public safety hazard. In a Q&A section, the company wrote in response to the question: "Are you doing this replacement because the current cast-iron pipeline is unsafe?, "No. We are doing this project to modernize the system and allow it to grow so it can continue to meet demand in the area. An added benefit to this project, however, is we will be able to replace some of the older portions of the distribution system before they have the potential to become a serious safety concern."

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“I don’t agree that it’s one-sided,” Ms. Taylor told the New York Times this week. “It’s based on historical fact. I’m not sure how you can say history is one-sided.”

LePage apparently disagreed. The governor made international headlines this week when he ordered the mural removed, saying some business owners complained it was overtly pro-labor. But according to published reports, the only complaint about the mural came from a single, anonymous fax.

Democrats and labor groups largely opposed the decision, which some described as “mean spirited,” and an attack on unions. The spat was covered by the New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and dozens of other media outlets. While much of the coverage seemed to question LePage’s motives, the Lewiston Sun Journal sided with LePage in an editorial.

“All the administration is saying is that we want a Department of Labor that is welcoming to both sides of the equation, and right now it’s just representative of one,” LePage spokeswoman Adrienne Bennett said yesterday in a phone interview.

State Rep. Ben Chipman, I-Portland, helped broker the compromise that could send the mural to Portland. He too would rather the piece stay where it is, but says installing it at Portland City Hall is

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Bennett agreed the mural was not a major “tourist attraction” at the labor department’s offices.

“It’s a place where obviously a lot of people go in and out of that lobby all day long; but I don’t think it’s a destination, per se, for anyone,” she said.

Bennett added that nobody in the administration expected the issue would reach an “international level.”

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“I got really worried about what was going to happen to it, and I wanted to make sure it was available and accessible to the public,” he said yesterday, adding that he feared the governor might sell the art to “raise money for the budget.”

Chipman, whose district includes City Hall, says he favors that site because it sits on the original site of the Maine State House, which was erected when Portland was the capital. That building was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1866, according to a news release, though the capital was moved to Augusta in 1832.

The state’s labor department is located several miles from the Capitol, in a nondescript office build-

The Woman’s Literary Union held its annual Youth Council Creative Writing Contest Awards Luncheon on March 18 at the Woodford’s Church. The writing prompt this year was “To thine own self be true.” The following students won cash prizes: First place, Brittany Biggs, South Portland High School; second place, Lena Champlin, Greely High School; third place, Megan Loiselle, Scarborough High School; Honorable Mention: Katie Longo and Julia Maine, Greely High School; Sarah Doughty, Gorham High School; Marion Fearing, South Portland High School; Hawa Shir, Waynflete High School. Pictured are (from left) Brittany Biggs, Lena Champlin and Megan Loiselle. (COURTESY PHOTO)

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Film festival season kicks off today across Maine On the zanier end of the film specFILMS from page one trum comes “Diamonds of Metro Valley,” a film from California filmfilms from all over the world,” said maker Mary McIlwain in the tradiAudrey Farber, festival assistant. tion of the sci-fi “B Movie,” as evident The MJFF saw a 15 percent in the description: increase in attendance last year, Crime boss Jonas Caine needs to with a nine percent increase in new steal some very special diamonds, attendees according to Kari Wagnerwhich requires a violent, size-changPeck, executive and artistic director ing lizard robot. Dr. Thadeous Price of the festival, who said the figures has one: a Remote-Operated, Nocwere drawn from a post-festival turnally Aggressive, Lizard Device survey that was very useful in pro(R.O.N.A.L.D.). Dr. Price is a brilliant gramming for this year’s event. scientist with a bad drug habit, giving “They liked that there were less Caine all the leverage he needs to use documentaries last year, and they the R.O.N.A.L.D.’s unstoppable skills wanted more features and more to steal the diamonds. humor — they missed the shorts pro“This film is primarily shot with gram from 2008, so we brought back green screen, it’s wild and completely shortish films,” said Wagner-Peck. different than anything else we have Tuesday’s MISHMOSH, the MJFF’s in this festival,” said McGill.

Shortish Film Program, will feature Local horror film showcase Damnasix short films from Israel, Ireland tionland will also show as part of the and the U.S. L/A festival, featuring a number of Also making its triumphant return to the festival, the critically- Breanna Wing, a senior film production/production design major at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., seen Maine-based indie film groups. acclaimed Israeli television sitcom here working on the set of film, will show her directorial debut next weekend at the first Lewiston/Auburn Film But the fledgling film festival holds “Arab Labor.” Three episodes will be Festival. Wing, an Auburn native, said she left Maine for school, but credits the state with her two passions — particular meaning for one debut director. screened Monday night at the Nick- film and wildlife conservancy. (PHOTO COURTESY OF SARAH LEE) elodeon Cinema.

“It’s like Norman Leer meets Dave their lobby area into a cozy viewing room complete Chappelle except funnier, and I know that’s hard to with couches, a projector and a special popcorn do,” said Wagner-Peck. blend.

Growing up in Auburn, film production/producThe series – its title in colloquial Hebrew carries “All the [restaurant] venues are doing special filmtion design major Breanna Wing said she boycotted the connotation of second-rate work – focuses on the themed menus,” said McGill. her local movie theaters in protest of their various family and work life of a Palestinian journalist and Films at the festival run the gamut from the fealeaks and smells, not to mention the same old boring, Israeli citizen. Much of the series levity stems from ture length documentaries to experimental shorts. mainstream Hollywood fare. the character’s love-hate relationship with his Arab Festival Headliner “Pal Hop Days” tells the story of “I remember having to go to Portland or Saco to identity and his ambition to integrate comfortably a weekly Friday night music event that swept LA in watch Oscar-nominated films. I wished that they into Israeli society. Created with both sides of the 1964 known as the PAL HOP. would welcome more independent, thought-provokvolatile political situation in mind, the show is writFor more than three years, PAL HOP was the ing film into town,” said Wing, a high school friend ten by a Palestinian and produced by an Israeli. nucleus of one of the largest garage bands scenes of this writer.

“It’s edgy and irreverent, it’s taking this powder in America, and the film from local filmmaker Bill “I don’t think people understand how brilliant of a keg situation and looking at the whole thing in much Maroldo follows six of the original groups as they

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reunited for one final concert in the summer of 2010.

‘It’s happening here’ Located just a short jaunt down I-95, Lewiston/ Auburn might be Maine’s second largest metropolitan area after Portland, but it has seldom been described as a cultural Mecca.

While Bates College and a few local theatre companies strive to keep things interesting with dance, theatre and music performances, the twin cities often find themselves battling against decades of negative press and a stigma as “old mill towns.”

The debut Lewiston/Auburn Film Festival wants to change all that, bringing over 100 feature length, short, documentary and experimental films to 12 venues.

“We’re not this recovering mill town anymore, we’re actually getting our feet on the ground,” said Molly McGill, communications director for the festival.

“We wanted to bring something exciting to L/A, something the community can look forward to and we wanted to promote arts in some way. Film was just obvious choice because it hadn’t been done here and L/A as a community hasn’t been exposed much to indie film, ” said McGill.

While accepting international films into the festival, McGill said organizers “had a strong focus on Maine — and part of the judging process was weighted toward L/A.” The festival will bestow awards on films in each of the four categories, plus awards for Best in Show and Best of Maine. McGill said films will be shown in genre-grouped blocks to allow attendees sample plenty of films before casting their vote.

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culture film is around world. The twin cities just don’t bring that type of film in,” she said.

The festival is a turning-point for the area, she said, a “great step forward to bring different interesting films to town.”

A senior at Chapman University in Orange, California, Wing’s love for Maine wasn’t enough to keep her in the state over a school that is just a 45 minute drive from Hollywood, but it has informed a lot of her work.

“I’m in love with wildlife because I’m from Maine, because we grew up with it, the land, and our parents telling us to go play in the woods,” said Wing. “It has a direct correlation to why I love the earth and nature so much.

Wing’s directorial debut is a student film from Chapman, funded as part of the school’s International Documentary Scholarship Program, where a small group of students break into teams and create films on NGOs in a foreign country. The short documentaries are then given to the NGO to be used as promotional material for their cause.

After the four teams narrowed down their focus to Africa, Wing proposed a film chronicling the Bushmeat Project, a Cameroonian group trying to stop the killing of protected and endangered species. Each group was proposing a film in a different African nation, with the “winning” idea deciding the location and the others forced to refocus on NGOs in that nation.

Though her project was the only proposed film dealing with an NGO serving animals, not humans, Wing’s idea won out and the teams spent two weeks of summer break in the jungles of Cameroon.

Along with a semester of pre-and-post production on each side, Wing’s documentary short “Eye to Eye” premiered in 2010, and has since made the rounds to about a film festivals around the country.

For Wing, “Eye to Eye” came full circle from one of her earliest forays into film, a middle school service-learning documentary about her local Humane Society – and she’s learned that her two biggest passion in life can work together very well.

“My biggest question with wildlife conservation was always, how do you get people to care? I’ve found that film-making is one of the best ways you can do that,” said Wing.

Wing also credits Maine’s laptop computer program and her middle school’s unique serving-learning curriculum for her interest in film.

“They just put these laptops in our hands, and that was my first experience with iMovie and playing around with editing,” she said.

“I always loved film, but if I didn’t grow up in Auburn I don’t know if i would have honed in on that passion as early as I did,” she said.

“I’m so grateful to everyone that trusted me as 13 year-old to try this crazy thing called film-making,” she said.

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Your compliments are genuine and unselfish. Though you have no ulterior motive, some who are not used to such niceties may be skeptical. In time, they will understand what a treat it is to know you.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It’s a basic human need to be listened to and understood. You focus intently on your loved ones as they express themselves freely. The level of attention you give is a gift to be treasured.

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 26).

This year you’ll feel like you’re starring in your own movie, and the other characters are playing their roles much to your satisfaction. The personal gain that befalls you this month is well deserved.

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Regardless of the misunderstandings you may have had in the past, you’ll sync up once again today and start fresh.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You matter in your community, and you’ll have a real sense of your importance to others now. It may even seem that the outside world appreciates you more than your inner circle does.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, March 26, the 85th day of 2011. There are 280 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 26, 1911, American playwright Tennessee Williams (“The Glass Menagerie,” ‘’A Streetcar Named Desire,” ‘’Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”) was born in Columbus, Miss.

On this date: In 1804, the Louisiana Purchase was divided into the Territory of Orleans and the District of Louisiana.

In 1827, composer Ludwig van Beethoven died in Vienna.

In 1874, poet Robert Frost was born in San Francisco.

In 1892, poet Walt Whitman died in Camden, N.J. In 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans became the first U.S. team to win the Stanley Cup as they defeated the Montreal Canadiens.

In 1979, a peace treaty was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (men-AH’-kem BAY’-gihn) and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and witnessed

by President Jimmy Carter at the White House.

In 1982, groundbreaking ceremonies took place in Washington, D.C., for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

In 1997, the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate techno-religious cult who’d committed suicide were found inside a rented mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.

One year ago: The U.S. and Russia sealed the first major nuclear weapons treaty in nearly two decades, agreeing to slash the former Cold War rivals’ warhead arsenals by nearly one-third.

Today’s Birthdays: Conductor-composer Pierre Boulez is 86. Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is 81.

Actor-director Leonard Nimoy is 80. Actor Alan Arkin is 77. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (puh-LOH’-see) is 71. Actor James Caan is 71. Author Erica Jong is 69.

Journalist Bob Woodward is 68. Singer Diana Ross is 67. Actor Johnny Crawford is 65.

Rock singer Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) is 63.

Singer and TV personality Vicki Lawrence is 62. Actor Ernest Thomas is 62. Comedian Martin Short is 61. Country singer Ronnie McDowell is 61. Movie composer Alan Silvestri is 61. Rock musician Monte Yoho is 59. Radio talk show host Curtis Sliwa is 57.

Country singer Dean Dillon is 56. Country singer Charly McClain is 55. TV personality Leeza Gibbons is 54. Actress Ellia English is 52. Actress Jennifer Grey is 51. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Marcus Allen is 51. Actor Eric Allan Kramer is 49. Basketball Hall of Famer John Stockton is 49.

Actor Michael Imperioli is 45. Rock musician James Iha (EE’-hah) is 43. Country singer Kenny Chesney is 43. Actor T.R. Knight is 38. Rapper Juvenile is 36. Actress Amy Smart is 35. Actress Keira Knightley is 26.

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Dear Annie: I was married for almost 20 years to a great family guy. But when we had conflicts, they were always my fault, and I had to apologize or “stop being so sensitive.” Eventually, I cheated on him. I know I was wrong. He divorced me and quickly remarried someone who is barely older than our daughter. Our older child left with him and has had nothing to do with me since. I miss a relationship with my daughter.

I have tried to initiate contact, but there is no reply. Our son stayed with me and seems to have adjusted. He still sees his father, and I encourage that relationship. He also speaks to his adult sister often.Do I let my daughter go or just wait? It’s been two years. My ex says he will not get in the middle to help me. I know nothing of her life. -- Sad in the South Dear Sad: Please do not give up on your daughter. Two years may seem like an eternity, but there is a good possibility she will want a relationship in the future. She first needs to grow up a little and be able to forgive you. Keep writing, e-mailing, whatever. Don’t be intrusive or demanding, but be sure to say you love her and are thinking of her always. We hope you don’t have to wait too long.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Loving Auntie,” whose 10-year-old nephew has begun correcting the grammar of the adults around him. When I was 8 years old, we lived with my grandparents. Grandma often corrected Grandpa’s grammar and pronunciation in front of other people. I felt so embarrassed for him, although he quietly accepted the corrections from his beloved wife. His family moved here from Denmark, and he had to drop out of school in third grade to help support his family after his father died. He went on to become a very successful businessman and pillar of the small community in which we lived. I’d just like to remind people that it is also bad manners for a spouse to correct her partner in front of others. -- Loving Granddaughter

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I’m looking for an essay that appeared in an old Ann Landers column. It was about an elderly man who was celebrating a birthday. He spent the whole day waiting, but no one came. I visited my mother today in a home.

She brought up this same column in our conversation, and I promised to try to track it down. Can you help? -- Loving Daughter Dear Daughter: Happy to. Here it is: It Was Grandfather’s Birthday

by Rudy Joe Mano (reprinted with permission) It was Grandfather’s birthday. He was 79. He got up early, shaved, showered, combed his hair and put on his Sunday best so he would look nice when they came.

He skipped his daily walk to the town cafe where he had coffee with his cronies. He wanted to be home when they came.

He put his porch chair on the sidewalk so he could get a better view of the street when they drove up to help celebrate his birthday.

At noon, he got tired but decided to forgo his nap so he could be there when they came.

Most of the rest of the afternoon he spent near the telephone so he could answer it when they called.

He has five married children, 13 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. One son and a daughter live within 10 miles of his place. They hadn’t visited him for a long time.

But today was his birthday and they were sure to come.

At suppertime, he left the cake untouched so they could cut it and have dessert with him. After supper, he sat on the porch waiting.

At 8:30, he went to his room to prepare for bed. Before retiring, he left a note on the door that read: “Be sure to wake me when you come.”

It was Grandfather’s Birthday. He was 79.

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Titus Andronicus with Brenda at Space Gallery

Nikolai Lugansky on piano 3 p.m. “Hailed as the next in the line of great Russian pianists, Nikolai Lugansky has been a prizewinner at the Tchaikovsky International Competition, the International Bach Competition, and the All-Union Rachmaninoff Competition, among others. With a glittering career that spans the globe, Lugansky frequently performs with esteemed ensembles such as the Tokyo and the Los Angeles Philharmonics; the London, Cincinnati and San Francisco symphony orchestras; and the Royal Concertgebouw. Possessing a soulful stage presence, the young pianist has over 30 major concertos in his repertoire, ranging from Bach to Rachmaninoff.” Merrill Auditorium, Portland.

Bad Seeds: Dead Man’s Clothes, Panda Bandits, and the Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue 7:30 p.m. The Oak and the Ax, Biddeford. For this show, the Panda Bandits will be releasing their debut cassette EP, titled REVOLVER. The seductive and subversive Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue offer an inspired feast. And Dead Man’s Clothes return home from their SXSW tour. Has there ever been a better reason to venture down the back alleys of Biddeford? Email your mailing address to theottersden@gmail.com to request a hand printed show invitation designed Kris Johnsen’s Emblem Studios. $10 if you are a Good Seed. $6 if you are Bad Seed. Good Seeds will receive a flower at the door. All advance ticket holders will receive $1 off the purchase of the Panda Bandit’s REVOLVER EP. Get your tickets. Bad Seeds: $6 / Good Seeds $10.

Kevin Burke and Cal Scott 8 p.m. “Legendary Irish fiddler Kevin Burke of Bothy Band and Patrick Street fame teams up with versatile American guitarist Cal Scott in celebration of their critically acclaimed release Across the Black River. Since the early 1970s Kevin has been a well-known figure in the Irish music world. His 30 years of recordings and performances have made him a highly influential figure both as a soloist and as a member of such esteemed groups as the Bothy Band, Patrick Street and The Celtic Fiddle Festival. In 2002 Kevin was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship in acknowledgement of his valued contribution to traditional music. Cal Scott is a native Oregonian who has played in folk, rock and jazz ensembles for three decades. He has recorded and produced over

Lugansky twenty CDs including nine with The Trail Band, an eightpiece American Roots folk group. Cal is also a composer for film having scored over thirty documentaries for PBS.” One Longfellow Square.

Monday, March 28 Decompression Chamber Music Season 6 p.m.“Concert No. 3 ‘USA’ music by our own violist, Mark Berger, and Schubert. 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.” ($10 adv/$12 door, 6 p.m.) One Longfellow Square.

Tuesday, March 29 Gordon Lightfoot at Merrill 8 p.m. Larry Shaeffer Presents, Gordon Lightfoot at Merrill Auditorium. “The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down…” are lyrics from one of his most famous ballads, but they just as easily could be used to describe the phenomenal career of iconic singer-songwriter, Gordon Lightfoot.

Fellow Canadian, Robbie Robertson calls him a national treasure, while millions of fans the world over continue to be touched by Gordon Lightfoot’s remarkable contributions to music history. Lightfoot, who celebrates his 72nd birthday later this year, shows no signs of slowing down.”

8:30 p.m. With critics falling over themselves to cite Titus Andronicus’ epic second album “The Monitor” as one of 2010’s top releases, the New Jersey band is poised for further ascension in 2011. They effortlessly glide through ambient drones, blazing saxophone, pianos homages to “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” complete marching drumlines, Thunder Tube solos, fourteen-minute Billy Bragg knockoffs, backwards liturgical pieces, bombastic country duets, garbage cans hit with tambourines, choirs of angels with bromantic faces, probably too many spoken word interludes lifted from cassette tapes, and, of course, the hissyfit punk songs and off-key warbling that suggest Conor Oberst in a vat of acid. In summary, this band rules. Portland’s own indie rock darlings, Brenda, start out the night right. $10, 18 plus.

Wednesday, March 30 William Fitzsimmons at One Longfellow 8 p.m. “William Fitzsimmons is one of the oddest people you will ever meet. Born the youngest child of two blind parents, William was raised in the outskirts of the steel city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Due to the family’s inability to communicate through normal visual means, William’s childhood home was filled with a myriad of sounds to replace what eyes could not see. The house was suffused with pianos, guitars, trombones, talking birds, classical records, family sing-a-longs, bedtime stories, and the bellowing of a pipe organ, which his father built into the house with his own hands. When his father’s orchestral records were Fitzsimmons not resonating through the walls, his mother would educate him on the folk stylings of James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, and Simon & Garfunkel. By the completion of his youth and schooling, Fitzsimmons had become well-versed at a variety of instruments, at the minor expense of social standing, interactional skills, and a knowledge of proper shaving technique.” www.williamfitzsimmons.com

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many say due to the influence of the Harry Potter series.” 288-5015.

Fairy Tale Players

3 p.m. In March, Acorn Productions presents the second production of the season by the “Fairy Tale Players,” an ensemble of kids, teens and adults who have studied at the Acorn Acting Academy.

The troupe’s new production is JoJo Dubois Meets His Match, an adaptation by local writer DeLo‘Gettysburg Bodies rme Taylor of Seven at One Blow, and Other Stories’ the Grimm Brothers story featured 10 a.m. “Dead Men’s Pockets: in the Disney cartoon The Brave Gettysburg Bodies and Other Little Tailor. Acorn’s Producing Stories,” Margaret Creighton, Director Michael Levine directs Professor at Bates College, the story of a tailor who uses his Maine Historical Society, 489 wit to parlay a relatively minor feat Congress St. Spirits Alive, the into a kingdom, though Acorn’s advocacy group for Portland’s “fractured fairy tale” version is set Eastern Cemetery will offer in 1940s Louisiana, where the king a three-lecture series of prebecomes a mafia don, and his sentations around the theme, enemies corrupt government offi“Death and Survival in the cials. Against this backdrop, JoJo Civil War.” Supported in part Dubois Meets His Match tells the with funding from the Maine story of a professor with a knack Humanities Council, admisfor knots who finds his heart tied sion is free, but donations up over a gang boss’ daughter. The are suggested. The theme of The Muellers, a nationally touring bluegrass band based in New England, perform as a true family act — six children plus Mom production runs from March 11 to the lecture series was chosen and Dad. They will headline at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 1 at a University of Maine at Farmington benefit for Japanese earthquake 27 in the Acorn Studio Theater in in support of the 150th Anni- victims. (COURTESY PHOTO) Westbrook, with tickets $7 for adults versary of the American Civil and $5 for kids 12 and under. Unlike The Big Draw with Artist Kimberly War (2011-2015). “These lecprevious productions by the fledging group, “JoJo” will features will offer insight into this Convery at the Portland Museum of Art ture several teenage actors and is best suited for audiences country’s greatest national 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. “The Big Draw with Artist 8 and up due to the piece’s more mature themes. Saturday, crisis in relation to death and Kimberly Convery: A Celebration of EuroMarch 26 at 3 p.m. (note change in time); Sunday, March 27 dying. It is estimated that up pean Drawings from the Portland Museum at 2 p.m. Acorn Studio Theater, Dana Warp Mill, 90 Bridge to 700,000 people, or 2 perof Art.” All children must be accompanied by St., Westbrook. Cost is $7 adults; $5 kids 12 and under. cent of the population died in an adult. “Follow the lead of Portland artist FMI: www.acorn-productions.org or 854-0065. the War Between the States.

Kimberly Convery as you, in the words of Paul Freeport Lioness-Lions Club variety show One of the first Maine regiKlee, ‘go for a walk with a line,’ throughout the 7 p.m. The Freeport Lioness-Lions Club will present their ments to be mustered in, The museum. First, you are invited to her drawing 25th Anniversary Variety Show “Still Crazy After All These Forest City Regiment included table to experiment with all sorts of drawing Years” at the Freeport Performing Arts Center, FHS, Hol1,046 men from southern tools from the soft and chunky to the smooth brook Street. Come join the fun as we take a look back and central Maine, and left and delicate. Then, families will fill all corners over the last 25 years through song, dance and skits feaPortland in July 1861. After 3 of the Museum as they become (as the artist turing Jeff Chipman on piano. Show starts at 7 p.m. and years, this fighting regiment describes herself) “fine art drawers.” Your tickets are sold at the door $10 adults/$3 children 12 and mustered out only 193 — the many small drawings will combine into one as under. FMI call Cindi @ 865-3555 or Martha @865-6188. rest were killed in action, died you help the artist create an oversized masContra Dance with Big Moose Contra from disease, were wounded, terpiece.” www.portlandmuseum.org 7:30 p.m. Contra Dance with Big Moose Contra. Dance deserted, or transferred to Kids Open Studio: Sketchbook Project Band in College of the Atlantic’s Gates Center, 105 Eden other regiments.” www.fifthnoon to 4 p.m. $50/$3 members, all ages, St., Bar Harbor. Lessons at 7:30 p.m., Dance begins at 8 mainemuseum.org.

SPACE Gallery. “In anticipation of the arrival of p.m. $6. Children free. www.coa.edu o Join Kimberly Convery at the family festiFamily Finances Seminar the 2011 Sketchbook Project starting on March ‘The Late Henry Moss’ at Lucid Stage 10 a.m. to noon. “The Insti- val, The Big Draw, today from 11 a.m. to 1 30, we will explore the idea of keeping a sketch8 p.m. Mad Horse Theatre Company presents “The tute for Financial Literacy has p.m. at the Portland Museum of Art. (COUR- book. Providing kids with mock moleskins, art TESY PHOTO) Late Henry Moss,” by Sam Shepard, March 10-27. Perforlaunched a new interactive persupplies, and lots of inspiration, we will talk mances Thursday through Saturday evenings. Sunday matsonal finance seminar series. about what it means to keep a sketchbook, how inees. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard, Portland. Playing Taught by certified educators and open to the general to maintain it and then begin working on them. Kids can times are Thursday: 7:30 p.m.; Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday 8 public, the seminars are designed to improve financial literbring their sketchbooks home to fill up, but make sure to p.m.; and Sunday 2 p.m. For ticket information, visit www. acy in Maine. In this session, you will learn how to manage come back through to check out the show and celebrate lucidstage.com or call 899-3993 your family finances like a business, teach your children the art of sketching! Drop in any time from noon to 4 p.m.” important financial literacy skills and gain valuable insight Maine Jewish Film Festival Maine authors at Scarborough Bull Moose into important family decisions involving credit, debt, insur6 p.m. When the Maine Jewish Film Festival opens, it will 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Three Maine women, all authors of popular ance and retirement planning. All seminars are being held mark its 14th year of bringing internationally and locally juvenile and teen fantasy fiction, will be present for a book at the Institute’s new campus conveniently located near the made independent films to Maine film-lovers. This year’s signing and reading at the Scarborough Bull Moose store, Maine Mall at 260 Western Ave. in South Portland.” Cost festival features films from Mexico, Argentina, Belgium, 456 Payne Road. “Maurissa Guibord (‘Warped’), Ellen is $50 per adult/$75 couple. Attendance is limited and France, Israel, Ireland, Romania, and others. Two locallyBooraem (‘Small Persons with Wings’), and Carrie Jones advance registration is required. 221-3601 or email help@ made short films will also be featured in the festival. Over(‘Entice,’ the third in the Need series) celebrate the release financiallit.org. www.financiallit.org. all, the MJFF will screen twelve features, selected episodes of their newest — and for Guibord, debut — novels with from one television series, and eight short films during its Childrens’ Puppet Workshop at Mayo Street Arts local fans. Guibord’s debut novel, ‘Warped,’ was released six day run from March 26-31. Visiting artists, panel discus11 a.m. and 2 p.m. “A Magic Carpet Ride with Pierre in the on Jan. 11. ‘Warped’ is the story of a girl who doesn’t believe sions, and receptions are also an integral part of the festival Air” featured, two shows: 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.; $3 kids/$6 in magic until she is pulled into a web of intrigue emanating schedule. The highly-lauded and award-winning film selecadults. Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland; 615from a mysterious tapestry. She has also published short tions include documentaries, musicals, comedies, psycho3609, www.mayostreetarts.org. “The Childrens’ Puppet mystery fiction in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, and drama, and animation. This diverse selection shares a skillful Workshop presents ‘A Magic Carpet Ride with Pierre in was nominated for the Agatha Award. The Agatha Award, exposition of the global Jewish experience, through many the Air’ at Mayo Street Arts (MSA) in Portland. The puppet named for mystery author Agatha Christie, is awarded cultural lenses and interpretations. Though all films are nomishow for all ages will be performed by neighborhood yearly to honor ‘traditional mystery’ in American writnally Jewish, they are selected for their broad appeal and are youths who participated in the first season of the Chiling. Booraem’s new novel, ‘Small Persons with Wings,’ exemplary for their era, their genre, and their provenance. drens’ Puppet Workshop held at Mayo Street Arts. The draws inspiration from her own childhood in MassachuAll films featured in the 2011 Maine Jewish Film Festival are youths perform with the puppets they made in the tensetts where her front wall had fairies living in it. The novel Maine premieres. The Festival opens on Saturday, March week workshop. The show includes a variety of puppet is the story of a young girl with a big imagination, and 26 with its annual kick-off party at Greenhut Galleries at 6 skits, songs, and dance. Following the performances, the how it almost ruins her life. It was released in January. p.m. in Portland, followed by the Opening Night film prepuppets go on display throughout the month of April in a A life-long writer and word-lover, she formerly wrote for miere, an 8 p.m. screening of award-winning Mexican film gallery exhibit at Mayo Street Arts titled ‘Puppet Show.’ and edited newspapers. This is her second novel. Jones, “Nora’s Will.” “Nora’s Will” won five of the Mexican Academy The exhibit features the youths’ puppets and original author of the New York Times best-selling ‘Need’ and of Film’s Oscar equivalents, the Ariel Awards: Best Picture scripts, and also includes a variety of puppets made by ‘Captivate,’ published the third in the series, ‘Entice,’ of the Year, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Origiprofessional puppeteers from Portland and beyond. The in December. The series is about high-schooler Zara nal Screenplay, and Best First Film. The film will screen at opening is April 1 from 5-7 p.m. and is free and open and her involvement with less-than-friendly pixies. The the Nickelodeon Cinemas in downtown Portland. For more to the public. The exhibit, performance, and workshop series was inspired by a strange man the author saw at about the festival, visit www.mjff.org/films. are sponsored in part by the Maine Community FoundaMOFGA’s annual Common Ground Fair, and a fourth book tion, the Maine Arts Commission, the Maine Humanities is expected to be released in 2012. Young Adult fantasy ficsee next page Council, and the Portland Police Department.” tion as a genre has grown in popularity since the mid 1990s, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Biddeford Winter Farmer’s Market is held every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. At the former West Pepperril Mill on Main Street in Biddeford. Roy Guzman, 210-0123

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Egypt change everyday life for the 80 million people who call Egypt their home? Cairo has been a priceless strategic asset to the United States during former President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year reign as the considerable diplomatic weight on Arab-Israeli affairs and a counterweight to Iran’s regional ambitions. Did the world just witness the watershed event that has opened a completely new era in US presence in the Middle East? Will the new Egypt continue to play its familiar role as the interlocutor in Israeli-Palestinian talks as the dialogue progresses? For insight to these questions, please join a panel of Middle East experts in a scintillating conversation about the turbulent developments that have engulfed an entire region.” Moot Court Room, University of Maine School of Law, 246 Deering St., Portland.

Admission: Free, donations gratefully accepted. Sponsors: The World Affairs Council of Maine and the International Law Society of the University of Maine School of Law.

Sunday, March 27 Maine Maple Sunday 9 a.m. Join Maine’s maple producers to celebrate Maine Maple Sunday on March 27. It’s the day when sugar makers around the state open the doors of their sugarhouses for the public to join them in their rites of spring-making maple syrup. Area participants include: Jo’s Sugarhouse, Gorham: 443 Sebago Lake Road; Intersection of Rt. 35 and Rt. 237 (southern tip of Sebago Lake) go up Rt. 237 and 7/10 of a mile on the left. Hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Contact: www. hartwellfarm.com; farmerjo@maine.rr.com; 671-2189; Merrifield Farm, Gorham: Easily accessible from Rt. 35, Rt. 237 and River Road. Physical address is 195 N. Gorham Road.

Hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Contact: 892-5061; Merfarm@aol. com; Nash Valley Farm, Windham: 79 Nash Road; From the rotary of Rts. 202 and 302, take Rt. 302 towards Portland for one mile. Turn left onto Nash Road, we are one mile on the right. Hours: 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. on Maine Maple Sunday.

Contact: 892-7019; nashvalleyfarm@myfairpoint.net; Coopers Maple Products, Windham: From River Road turn on to Chute road, we are 1 mile on right. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Contact: 892-7276; www.coopersrhf.com; gmcooper81@aol.com; Parsons Maple Products, Gorham: 322 Buck St. Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Contact: 831-4844; robert65mac@maineroadrunner.com

Tuesday, March 29 The DownEast Pride Alliance ‘Business After Hours’ 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. “Delicious appetizers, cash bar & media table will be provided. Havana South features a great atmosphere, extensive wine list, knowledgeable staff and a sophisticated Latin-inspired menu. See you at Havana South for cocktails and conversation! FMI: www.depabusiness.com. The DownEast Pride Alliance (DEPA) is a GLBTQ business networking group in Southern Maine meeting monthly at local establishments for ‘Business After Hours’ events that provide a safe forum for, and help strengthen, the local gay and gay-friendly business community. Bring business cards to share on our Media Table. No fees or RSVP to attend. All in the community are welcome to come for ‘cocktails & conversation.’”

‘The Late Henry Moss’ at Lucid Stage 2 p.m. Mad Horse Theatre Company presents “The Late Henry Moss,” by Sam Shepard, March 10-27. Performances Thursday through Saturday evenings. Sunday matinees. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard, Portland. Playing times are Thursday: 7:30 p.m.; Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday 8 p.m.; and Sunday 2 p.m. For ticket information, visit www. lucidstage.com or call 899-3993

Walk to remember Darien Richardson 2 p.m. There will be a walk to remember Darien Richardson around Baxter Boulevard. “Darien was shot during a home invasion last year and later died from her injuries. The case is still open and the investigation continues. We strongly encourage anyone with information to call 207-874-8584.

You can also text information to CRIMES (274637) keyword GOTCHA or leave a tip at www.portland-police.com.” See the Portland Police Department Facebook page.

Young at Heart Is Alive & Well 2:30 p.m. Merrill Auditorium. Presented By Northeast Hearing & Speech and Volunteers of America. Tickets $52/$42/$32 (includes $5 service fee). “This is the first trip to Maine for the Young at Heart Chorus, which has travelled the world. With performers ranging in age from 73 to 89, and a repertoire that includes rock classics as varied as Radiohead and Talking Heads, Young @ Heart bridges the gap between modern and genuinely old school. The documentary, Young at Heart, has won many awards and been shown several times on MPBN. This concert is co-hosted

by Northeast Hearing and Speech and Volunteers of America and proceeds will benefit local people served by these two non-profit organizations.”

Palestinian Christian speaking at USM 7 p.m. Leading Palestinian Christian voice, Mazin Qumsiyeh, will speak in Room 102 Wishcamper (Muskie Institute), Bedford Street, USM Portland campus. His topic is Connections: The Palestinian Question, Arab Popular Resistance, and the U.S. A professor at Bethlehem, Birzeit, and Yale, Qumsiyeh is author of “Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” (2004) and “Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment” (2011) and over a thousand articles and interviews. He is on a book-signing tour. Qumsiyeh has long argued that Muslims, Christians, and Jews should share Palestine together and, as the American Jewish author of “Witness in Palestine,” Anna Baltzer, observes, his accounts of “both the everyday and the most extraordinary acts of Palestinian indigenous resistance to colonialism expose the misguided claims that Palestions have never tried nonviolence; in fact, they are among the experts, whose courage, creativity, and resilience are an inspiration to people of conscience everywhere.” Sponsors include the Political Science Department, Pax Christi Maine, Middle East Children’s Alliance, and the Episcopal Peace Fellowship. FMI l 773-6562 (Bill Slavick). william.slavick@maine.edu

Monday, March 28 KinderKonzerts (Brass) 9:45 a.m. The last week of March will be filled with the sounds of brass buzzing thanks to Portland Symphony Orchestra’s “KinderKonzerts (Brass): Brought to You By the Letter “B”.” Concerts will take place in Brunswick, Saco, Lewiston, Portland, Oxford and Poland. “In the

On Wednesday, the Portland Public Library will screen the movie, “Billy Jack.” The Teens through Time movie series will continue next month. Films include “The Warriors,” April 6 in Rines Auditorium; “Cooley High,” April 13, in Meeting Room 3; “The Breakfast Club,” April 20, in Rines Auditorium; and “Breakin’,” April 27, in Rines Auditorium. (COURTESY IMAGE) KinderKonzert Brass program, the PSO Brass Ensemble plays their instruments by buzzing and blowing, and blends these sounds to make beautiful, brilliant music.” Concertgoers will bop to the beat of Bach and Beethoven, and will leave shouting “Bravo!” This year’s PSO Brass Ensemble is made up of Betty Rines and Dana Oakes (trumpet), John Boden and Nina Miller (french horn), Tom Otto (trombone) and Don Rankin (tuba). Designed for children ages 3-7, KinderKonzerts are an entertaining, interactive musical experience. Attendees are encouraged to sing, dance, wiggle, clap and have fun listening and learning about music and instruments. KinderKonzert tickets are $4 per person. Monday, March 28, 2011 at 9:45 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., Oxford Elementary School, Oxford; Tuesday, March 29, East End Community School, Portland at 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.; Reiche School, Portland at 1 p.m.; Thursday, March 31, at 9 a.m., 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., Olin Arts Center, Bates College, Lewiston; Wednesday, April 13, at 9:15 and 10:15 a.m. at Poland Regional High School, Poland. For reservations or additional information, email education@portlandsymphony.org or call 773-6128. KinderKonzerts have been a regular event at the Portland Symphony Orchestra since 1976.

KinderKonzerts are sponsored by Time Warner Cable with additional support from Acadia Insurance, Target and Macy’s. The PSO’s 2010-2011 season is sponsored by IDEXX Laboratories and Wright Express. www.portlandsymphony.org.

Cumberland County Commission meeting 5:30 p.m. Cumberland County Commission meeting, Cumberland County Courthouse, Peter J. Feeney Conference Room First Floor Annex.

Moore Middle School anti-bullying photo exhibit 6 p.m. Lyman Moore Middle School in Portland will hold an opening reception for a student photography exhibit with antibullying images at the school, located at 171 Auburn St. Students will display their work from an eight-week mini-course in photography. Some of the images address ways to stop bullying. For more information, please contact Sue Ellen Hayman at haymas@portlandschools.org or 874-8150.

‘Egypt in Transition’ 5:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. In conjunction with the University of Maine School of Law’s International Law Society, the World Affairs Council of Maine is pleased to present “Egypt in Transition: What does it mean for the Arab World and for US Policy?” “The 18 days that began with a protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square ended as the landmark event that will forever alter the political landscape in the Middle East. It may portend the tumultuous days and weeks ahead in the region as several other governments sit atop comparable political volcanoes wondering if they will be the next ousted ruler in the region. How will the new government in post-Mubarak

‘Spirit in Matter’ art exhibit at COA 4 p.m. Shoshana Wish, a senior at College of the Atlantic, has spent the past nine months exploring ceramics as an apprentice to Bar Harbor potter Rocky Mann. The results of her work, “Spirit in Matter: Clay as a Medium for Chinese Calligraphy,” will be exhibited at the college’s Ethel H. Blum Gallery from March 28 through April 2. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Opening reception on March 29 from 4 to 6 p.m. 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor. For information contact nwish@coa.edu, cclinger@ coa.edu, 288-5105 or 801-5733. Free.

‘Invisible Children’ screening at COA 8 p.m. “Invisible Children” presents stories of the child soldiers of Africa with a video and speakers. “Tony” is the story of an energetic boy from Uganda who each night had to leave his parents’ home, joining thousands of other children to sleep in shelters in the city, so as not to be abducted by the members of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA. After the screening, another northern Ugandan, Robert Anywar, will talk about his life in Uganda, his work as a teacher in the region, and the Legacy Scholarship Program that Invisible Children has created. Gates Community Center, College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor. afuillard@coa.edu, tkittelson@coa.edu or 288-5015. Free; donations requested.

Wednesday, March 30 The Current State of the Economy in Portland noon to 1:15 p.m. Greg Mitchell of the City of Portland presents: The Current State of the Economy in Portland.

Mitchell will be kicking off the Portland Regional Chamber’s spring lunch series on March 30. “He will discuss the current state of the economy in Portland. More specifically he will talk about the details of the Portland Economic Development Plan. The plan focuses on Portland’s strengths and economic diversity which include the creative economy, waterfront, industrial, commercial and retail sectors. The goal of this single plan is to enable the private and public sectors of Portland to be on the same page regarding how best to support Portland ’s economic growth.” $5 for PROPEL and Chamber Members, $10 for nonmembers. www.portlandregion.com

Rooftop Energy course 12:30 p.m. to 2:10 p.m. University of Southern Maine’s Department of Environmental Science will be offering a new Rooftop Energy course. Students will learn about rooftop solar and wind energy systems and how sites are evaluated for potential installation. Using solar and wind measurement tools, students will work in teams to estimate solar and wind resource data on USM rooftops. The course will meet once per week for six weeks (Wednesdays, 12:30 p.m. to 2:10 p.m., March 30 through May 4) at the Gorham Campus.

The course will be part a new Certificate in Applied Energy.

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USM Graduate Studies open house 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. University of Southern Maine Graduate Studies will be hosting an open house for prospective graduate students in Room 102, Wishcamper Center, Portland.

Attendees will get a chance to meet the faculty and staff who teach and work in USM’s graduate programs. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please call 780-4386 or email at graduatestudies@usm. maine.edu. USM currently offers over 50 graduate degree programs, certificates of advanced study and certificates of graduate study. Graduate Studies will be introducing new certificates of graduate study this coming fall. To see the full list of USM’s graduate degree programs, please visit: http:// www.usm.maine.edu/grad/degreeprograms/.

Ballet dancer Jacques d’Amboise at Bates 4:15 p.m. Acclaimed ballet dancer Jacques d’Amboise visit Bates College in Lewiston to discuss his work. A renowned dancer for the New York City Ballet, a choreographer and the founder of the National Dance Institute, d’Amboise reads from his new book, “I Was a Dancer,” and discusses his career in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 56 Campus Ave. The d’Amboise appearance is sponsored by the Bates dance program, the college’s humanities division and the Lewiston Public Library. Open to the public free of charge.

For more information, please call 786-8294.

‘Billy Jack’ screening 4:30 p.m. The Portland Public Library and Videoport are joining forces to present a six-month long film series titled “Teens Through Time.” This program will consist of a monthlong exploration of movies made through the decades that possess a positively “teencentric” view. This installment, “Billy Jack,” at the Portland Public Libary, Rines Auditorium.

Rosemont Neighborhood issues meeting 5:30 p.m. City Councilor Ed Suslovic and members of the Portland Police Department and Department of Public Services will host a meeting to discuss the Rosemont Neighborhood Watch program as well as the proposed removal of the Woodfords Street traffic island. Earlier this year, the neighborhood met to establish a crime watch and this meeting will follow-up on the neighborhood’s efforts to make their community a safer place to live. Following the crime watch discussion, community members will have the opportunity to discuss city plans to remove the Woodfords Street traffic island located between Stevens Avenue and Brighton Avenue. 5:30 p.m. – Crime Watch; 6:30 p.m. – Woodford Traffic Island. At the Deering High School cafeteria, 370 Stevens Ave. www.portlandmaine.gov

Stations of the Cross at OOB church 6 p.m. St. Augustine of Canterbury Church will hold traditional Stations of the Cross during the Lenten Season, each Wednesday at 6 p.m. “Also known as the Way of the Cross, the prayers and readings recall the final journey of Christ to His crucifixion. St. Augustine’s is a Sarum Rite Catholic Community and part of the worldwide Traditional Anglican Communion, with members in 44 countries. The Church seeks to uphold the Catholic Faith, Apostolic Order, Orthodox Worship and Evangelical Witness of the Anglican tradition within the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ. The Communion holds Holy Scripture and the ancient Creeds of the Undivided Church as authentic and authoritative, and worships according to the traditional Liturgies of the Church.” St. Augustine of Canterbury Church worships at 4 p.m. on Sunday at Cathedral Pines Chapel at 156 Saco Ave. in Old Orchard Beach. Father Jeffrey W. Monroe is Vicar. For additional information, contact 799-5141.

The Institute for Financial Literacy 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 everything you always wanted to know about successful money management and more including budgeting, net worth, financial planning and goal setting. 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

Caitlin Shetterly at Longfellow Books 7 p.m. Caitlin Shetterly will read from her debut memoir, “Made for You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home” at Longfellow Books. A writer and actor, Shetterly began blogging in 2009 during her and her husband’s return to Maine after the recession took the last of the young couple’s savings they’d put away for their California dreams.

“A year after heading West, going broke and a surprising and difficult pregnancy, they were driving back East, with a new baby in tow, to move in with Caitlin’s mother. Caitlin

The Young at Heart Chorus — the hippest seniors to ever hit the stage and the big screen — now bring their live show, “Young at Heart Alive and Well,” to Maine for the first time! The performance will take place at Merrill Auditorium on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. This is a Gregory Stone painting of the group. (COURTESY IMAGE) quickly found her way into hearts across America turning her blog into an audio diary for NPR’s Weekend Edition. The response from listeners was immediate and astounding to Caitlin and her husband, Dan, as virtual strangers offered help, opening their hearts and their homes. Through the challenge of moving back into her mother’s small house in rural Maine, Caitlin learned to expand her vision of “the American dream,” to embrace the role of family in that vision and live in the present as much as the future.”

Activist, educator William Ayers to speak at University of Maine at Farmington 7 p.m. University of Maine at Farmington will host a presentation by educator, author and activist William Ayers titled: “Lesson One: I Would Sing. (Re)Framing Education for Democracy and Liberation.” This event is sponsored by two UMF student organizations: UMF’s Student Education Association of Maine (SEAM) and Peace Activists in Training (PAinT). It is free and open-to-the-public and will be held at 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 30, in Lincoln Auditorium, in UMF Roberts Learning Center. According to Wikipedia, “William Charles “Bill” Ayers (born December 26, 1944) is an American elementary education theorist and a former leader in the movement that opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1969 he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings during the 1960s and 1970s, in response to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He is a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, formerly holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar.

During the 2008 US presidential campaign, a controversy arose over his contacts with candidate Barack Obama. He is married to Bernardine Dohrn, who was also a leader in the Weather organization.” UMF reports, “Ayers is a proponent of social justice, democracy and education, and the political and cultural aspects of schooling. In his presentation, he will talk about creating schools where democracy is lived and not merely talked about, practiced rather than ritualized. He will discuss creating schools and classrooms that assist in the formation of public citizens; where students and teachers alike can find socially meaningful work to do; and where children can read critically, speak openly, think freely and where everyone can find ways to make a difference. Ayers is currently the vice-president of the curriculum division of the American Educational Research Association. He is formerly a distinguished professor of education and senior university scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society.”

Thursday, March 31 Cesar Chavez remembered 9 a.m. Maine League of United Latin American Citizens will honor Cesar Chavez (March 31, 1931-April 23, 1993) in an event at historic First Parish in Portland, 425 Congress St. For more information, contact Dr. Ralph Carmona at rccarmona@mainelulac.org.

Falmouth Historical Society’s Card Party noon to 4 p.m. “Do you play cards? Join us at the Falmouth Historical Society’s Biannual Fundraising Card Party and enjoy a light luncheon as you try to beat your table.

With door prizes and a 50-50 opportunity, you increase your chances of going home happy. All proceeds help us continue the mission of the Falmouth Historical Society including providing genealogical services and maintaining the Falmouth Heritage Museum.” Holy Martyrs Church, 266 Foreside Road (Route 88), Falmouth. Reservations: Mary Honan 781-2705 or Beverley Knudsen 781-4988.

VentiCordi at First Parish 12:15 p.m. First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 425 Congress St., Portland. Concerts are free and open to the public. For information call the Portland Conservatory of Music at 775-3356. VentiCordi (Winds and Strings) is a musical collaboration between oboist Kathleen McNerney and violinist Dean Stein, combining their love of chamber music with innovative programming that blends wind and string instruments. “Both Ms. McNerney and Mr. Stein performed nationally and internationally as members of professional chamber ensembles. Ms. McNerney played oboe with two woodwind quintets in Los Angeles; Imbroglio and Calico Winds, and Mr. Stein was a violinist with the DaPonte String Quartet. Their respective musical journeys prepared them to explore creative frontiers beyond the usual constraints of either format. This summer will mark their third season of summer concerts in Kennebunk and they are planning to add concerts in Harpswell. ... Kathleen and Dean are delighted to have the wonderful bassoonist Wren Saunders joining them for this program.” www.venticordi.com

Portland Public Schools Student Art Show 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The Portland Public Schools Student Art Show will be held from March 31 through April 14 at Portland City Hall. An opening reception with cookies and punch will take place on March 31 from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The show features work by students from kindergarten through 12th grade. All of the Portland Public Schools are represented. The exhibit includes more than 400 drawings, paintings, sculptures and other pieces. The exhibit will be open during City Hall’s regular business hours. Admission is free. see next page

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assist others in removing life’s clutter that stands in the way of moving forward.”

Casco Bay High School naturalization ceremony 3:15 p.m. Students at Casco Bay High School in Portland will host a naturalization ceremony for about 40 new citizens in Room 250 of the high school, located at 196 Allen Ave. Students in three classes and an after-school program have helped plan the event. Two juniors, Alice Lala and Hellen Otto, will read original poems about what it means to be an American. Hido Abdulleh, a Casco Bay sophomore, will be one of the featured speakers; her mother will be naturalized in the ceremony. Students in the Spanish 3 and French 3 classes are completing an expedition about citizenship.

Each student interviewed someone who had gone through naturalization. A gallery of their interviews and photos will line the hall leading into the ceremony. Casco Bay High School Principal Derek Pierce will greet guests. Kurt Pelletier, an immigration officer with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will officiate. Sydney Kucine, a Casco Bay sophomore, will sing the National Anthem. Several students will participate in a choral reading of the Walt Whitman poem, “I Sing America.” They will translate the poem into Somali, Acholi, Spanish, French, Arabic and Swahili.

Casco Bay held a week-long, intensive class earlier this year titled “Ceremony Across Cultures.” As part of that class, students planned the naturalization ceremony. They will host a dessert reception after the ceremony. Each new citizen will receive a mug specially designed for the occasion.

Perkins Olson, P.A., Attorneys at Law open house 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Perkins Olson, P.A., Attorneys at Law and Maine Coast Title, Inc. have moved their offices to 30-32 Pleasant Street in Portland. They have just completed a renovation at the “Joseph How House,” which was built in 1818 and is on the National Historic Register. They are celebrating with an Open House; public welcome.

‘Logging in the Maine Woods Today’ photo exhibit 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. University of Southern Maine’s Glickman Family Library in Portland will host a Maine Museum of Photographic Arts exhibition, “Logging in the Maine Woods Today,” from Thursday, March 31 through Sunday, August 21 on the fifth floor of the library. The exhibition features the photographs of award-winning photographer Tonee Harbert. A free reception will be held Thursday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the University Events Room of the library. The exhibit is free and open to the public during library hours: 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday; 7:45 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 7:45 a.m.- 8 p.m. Friday; and 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday.

See http://library.usm.maine.edu/about/hours.php to confirm hours.

‘I Shall Not Hate’ public lecture 6 p.m. Public Lecture, preceded by a reception, with Middle Eastern food and music, and book-signing, and an exhibit of drawings by Gazan children following the Gaza War. “I Shall Not Hate” by Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, author of “I Shall Not Hate” and Gazan doctor who lost three daughters and a niece when an Israeli tank fired two shells into his home during the Gaza War of winter 2008-09. Reception 6 p.m.

Lecture, 7 p.m.. Hannaford Hall/Abromson Center, University of Southern Maine/Portland. Convenient free parking available. Sponsored by Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights. For more info, contact Bob Schaible, 239-8060.

Gym Dandies Children’s Circus 6:30 p.m. The Gym Dandies Children’s Circus will hold its annual Community Performances at the Scarborough High School Gymnasium on Thursday, March 31 and Friday, April 1, beginning at 6:30 p.m. “This is a special occasion, as The Gym Dandies are celebrating their 30th anniversary!

They plan to WOW audiences once again with more than 80 six-foot high ‘giraffe’ unicycle riders, over one hundred smaller unicycle riders, seventeen globe walkers, hundreds of jugglers, yo-yo artists and Chinese stilt walkers plus specialized stunt unicycle demonstrations. The Gym Dandies is the only performing group in the world that features 80 or more Giraffe unicycles in one routine.” 653-3740

‘Life Your Way’ author at Longfellow Books 7 p.m. Maine psychologist, Amy Wood will celebrate the release of her self-help book, “Life Your Way: Refresh Your Approach to Success and Breathe Easier in a FastPaced World,” at Longfellow Books. As someone who has personally picked up and left one home for another, changed a career path and created a new life by following her own intuition, Amy Wood uses her personal experience with transformation to help countless adults develop, and achieve, their own vision of success in today’s modern world. ‘My book is really about slowing down and being more discerning about all that information and knowing yourself well enough so that you know what resonates with you,’ says Amy. ‘You don’t have to do it all. You get to make those decisions and live at a rhythm that you feel is right.’

With a firm conviction that every individual holds the ability to wade through the overwhelm of the information age and discover the path to happiness and success, Amy strives to

Friday, April 1 World Affairs Council of Maine health summit 8 a.m. The World Affairs Council of Maine, in partnership with the University of New England, is pleased to present a Maine Summit on Citizen Diplomacy: Mainers Engaged in Health Care Development Abroad. The event will take place on April 1 at the Holiday Inn By the Bay. The Summit will feature two workshop sessions, a luncheon, and a talk by keynote speaker Mary Jean Eisenhower, president, People to People International. For more information, please visit the Facebook page or contact Amy Holland at aholland@ wacmaine.org and 221.4386. The Summit on Citizen Diplomacy was initiated through a seed grant from the National Council for International Visitors as part of its 50th Anniversary celebration. Registration Fee: $45 WAC members and students; $60 Non-members.

Steven Langerman photo exhibit 5 p.m. “Steven Langerman experiences photography as a relief for the eyes, a release from dissonance and disorganization. With it, he distills the world into just the bits and pieces that thrill, excite or fascinate him. Having photographed for most of his life in both a commercial capasity as well as avocation; a collection of Steven’s work comes together bridging the years of inspiration. Langermans photographs will be on display throughout the month of April here at the St. Lawrence.” The St. Lawrence Arts Center will host an artist reception celebrating this new exhibition. www.stlawrencearts.org

‘Mysterious Waters’ at The Green Hand 5 p.m. First Friday Art Walk opening of “Mysterious Waters,” a series of ink and watercolor drawings by Brandon Kawashima, inspired by themes from Japanese Maritime Folklore and images of environmental pollution. The exhibit will be featured at The Green Hand bookstore, 661 Congress St., Portland (on display through the month of April).

Contact Michelle Souliere at450-6695 or michelle.souliere@ gmail.com. “This suite of drawings, crawling with labyrinthine lines but colored with delicate simplicity, attempts to grapple with the mystery of our relationship with the natural world, which we adore and abuse simultaneously.”

The Edible Book Festival 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The Portland Public Library announces an Edible Book Festival where community members and library patrons are invited to create a piece of edible art referencing a book. “Edible art submissions can look like a book, pun on a title of a book, resemble a character or scene or just have something to do with a book. The only major criteria are that all submissions must be edible and based on a book!”: The Edible Book Festival will be held during the First Friday Art Walk in the Rines Auditorium at the Portland Public Library. People can register for the Edible Book Festival by emailing weyand@portland.lib.me.us or by calling Sandy at 871-1700 ext. 758. Registration is free and participants are asked to drop off their work of art between 3 p.m.-4:45 p.m.

Puppet show at Mayo Street 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Exhibit of puppets built by East Bayside Youths, and professional puppeteers from Portland and beyond. “Join us for the First Friday opening.” Mayo Street Arts. http://mayostreetarts.org

Refugee Women’s Craft Collective 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Refugee Women’s Craft Collective will show their textiles goods at the Meg Perry Center located at 644 Congress St. in Portland. All of their products will be available for purchase at the event. “Imagine arriving in Portland, Maine from a refugee camp in Somalia or Burma and not knowing the language or the customs of America. To a refugee our country is another world. The refugee women are often illiterate and uneducated and find it very difficult to adjust to life in a new land. It is difficult to find employment because they are unable to afford child care for their small children. ... A group of refugee women have come together to form the Refugee Women’s Craft Collective as a way to support their families, eliminating the language barrier that they all face. The women in the group originate from Sudan, Somalia, China, Burma and Iraq.” Contact Aimee Vlachos-Bullard, Volunteer Coordinator, at523-2737 or at abullard@ccmaine.org.

‘Portland In Focus’ 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Portland High School’s Photo Club, will hold “Portland In Focus,” its annual show and sale, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday, April 2, noon to 6 p.m., at 3fishgallery, 377 Cumberland Ave., Portland. Refreshments served. For more information contact Club President Quinn Lavigne qyylavigne@gmail.com

‘Classic Monsters’ art show 6 p.m. Running through May 6 at 6 p.m., Sanctuary Tattoo and Gallery at 31 Forest Ave. presents “Classic Mon-

sters.” “What’s that there in the mist, that strange lurking figure?? SHHHH..... did you hear that?? A low moan from an unearthly throat.....no, it must simply be the wind........

Careful my dears, the Portland Art Horde has called forth the most experienced of all the spine tinglers, Classic Monsters.”http://www.sanctuarytattoo.com

All-Star Hockey Team vs. Bruins Alumni 7 p.m. Maine State High School All-Star Hockey Team vs.

Bruins Alumni at the Cumberland County Civic Center. Benefit for the Portland Firefighter’s Association. Donations at the door. www.theciviccenter.com

Imago Theatre: ZooZoo 7 p.m. Portland Ovations presents Imago Theatre: ZooZoo at Merrill Auditorium at a special family-friendly time of 7 p.m.

“This truly unique spectacle combines Mummenschanz-style puppetry with Cirque-like acrobatics that fill the stage with wit, wonder and mesmerizing Felliniesque mayhem. Imago Theatre is internationally acclaimed for its special brand of vaudeville, comedy, acrobatics, and illusions. ZooZoo is fun for all ages with a cast including introverted frogs, tricky penguins, hungry anteaters, bug eyes, cantankerous polar bears, and more. ZooZoo combines mime, dance, music, and special effects into a wordless production hailed by critics and audiences world-wide.” On April 1 at 6 p.m., immediately preceding the Imago Theatre performance, performance artist/educator Davis Robinson from Bowdoin College presents a lecture discussing the Maine connection to mime, mask, and physical theatre. Portland Ovations is also presenting Imago Theatre: ZooZoo as a School-Time Performance on Friday, April 1 at 10:30 a.m. School groups or Home-Schoolers interested in purchasing tickets to the School-Time Performance should call Portland Ovations at 773-3150.

UMF musical benefit for Japan 7:30 p.m. University of Maine at Farmington is proud to present a concert featuring The Muellers family band to benefit Japanese earthquake relief efforts. Sponsored by the UMF Department of Sound, Performance and Visual Inquiry, the concert will take place in Nordica Auditorium, UMF Merrill Hall. Admission is by donation (suggested donation: $3 students, $10 adults) and is open to the public. “A Maine-based family band, The Muellers bring their high-energy blend of traditional, contemporary and original bluegrass music to audiences across the country.

The group consists of five of the seven Mueller siblings: Tom, 25, on guitar; Laurah, 18, on mandolin; Sarah, 15, on fiddle; John, 12, on fiddle; and George, 9, on fiddle—and parents Curt, on banjo and Karen, on bass. The other Muellers are Annah, 23, and Bob, 20, both former members of the traveling music group. Annah currently studies art at the University of Maine Farmington and produces all of the group’s promotional art as well as maintaining their website at www.MuellerFamilyMusic.com.”

‘The Music Man’ 7:30 p.m. April 1-3 and April 8-10 at Gorham High School.

Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m. “An all-time favorite, ‘The Music Man’ is a musical tale of a con artist who strolls into a small Iowa town expecting easy pickin’s, and, of course, falls in love with the standoffish librarian he woos as a lark.” Director: Bruce Avery; Musical Director: Matt Murray; Choreographer: Deb Lombard. www.gorham.k12.me.us/

The Maine Festival of the Book 7:30 p.m. The Maine Festival of the Book runs April 1-3 at venues in Portland, with a full day of free literary discourse on April 2 at USM’s Abromson Center. With the exception of Opening Night: An Evening with Stewart O’Nan and Julia Glass on Friday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the Abromson Center, events are free and unticketed. Tickets for Opening Night are available at www.mainereads.org or at the door. From the historical to the philosophical, psychological and sociological, to gardening and fly fishing, nonfiction will be well represented the Maine Festival of the Book Free programs will be held on Saturday, April 2 at the Abromson Center at the University of Southern Maine, where all genres of literature will be celebrated. On Saturday evening at 7 pm the Annual Poetry Party will be held at Local Sprouts, 649 Congress Street, presented by Port Veritas. A Book Arts Bazaar will be held from 10 am to 3 pm on Sunday, April 3 at the Wishcamper Center at USM, Portland featuring book artists, bookbinders and all things related to the book. On Sunday evening, April 3 at 7 pm, Portland Stage Company at 25A Forest Ave. will present a dramatic reading of selections from “Everything Matters!,” a new novel by Ron Currie Jr.

‘A Celebration of the Music of Liszt’ 8 p.m. The University of Southern Maine School of Music continues its bicentennial celebration of great composers when USM faculty member Anastasia Antonacos performs “A Celebration of the Music of Liszt 200 Years After His Birth,” part of the Spotlight Concert Series at Corthell Concert Hall, USM Gorham. Tickets cost $15 general public, $10 seniors/USM employees, and $5 students/children. 780-5555.

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