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Deputy tackles man who brandished handgun and cried, ‘Shoot me, shoot me’ in Forest Ave. traffic Preserving the Yiddish language

Police describe tense incident — See page 3 Medical marijuana dispensary opens — See page 7

See Karen Vachon, page 4

Empires, then and now See Paul Craig Roberts, page 5

Portland woman dies in Gray crash See page 13

Becky DeKeuster, executive director of Wellness Connection of Maine, speaks with a prospective patient at Portland’s newly opened nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary Wednesday. Staffing plans call for up to eight staff members working at the Portland facility in the first six months of operation, DeKeuster reported. Already, there’s a two-week waiting list. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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Captain restrained after crisis on ﬂight HOUSTON (NY Times) — The captain of a JetBlue flight from New York to Las Vegas suffered a bizarre midair breakdown on Tuesday morning, forcing passengers to restrain him as the plane made an emergency landing in Amarillo, Tex., where he was removed from the aircraft and hospitalized. Passengers said the captain of Flight 191 was acting erratically outside the cockpit and could be heard shouting about Al Qaeda and bombs being aboard. Gabriel Schonzeit, a passenger seated in the third row, told The Amarillo Globe-News that about two hours outside Las Vegas, the captain left the cockpit. “It seemed that something was off with him,” Schonzeit said in a video clip posted on the newspaper’s Web site, adding, “Within a short period of time, he started screaming about Al Qaeda and possibly a bomb on the plane and Iraq and Iran and how we’re all going down.” Schonzeit said a former corrections officer “choked him and took him down, and about six of us went and sat on top of him.” A JetBlue spokeswoman said the company would not release the captain’s name or condition out of respect for crew members’ privacy.

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Justices: Is health law viable without mandate? WASHINGTON (NY Times) — On the third and final day of Supreme Court arguments over President Obama’s health care overhaul law, several justices on Wednesday indicated a reluctance to pick and choose among the law’s other provisions should the requirement that most Americans have health insurance be struck down. The questions from the justices indicated that at least some of them were considering either striking down just the requirement, often called the individual mandate, or the entire law. Paul D. Clement, representing 26 states challenging the law, urged the court to overturn the entire law. Edwin S. Kneedler, a deputy solicitor

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2 Israeli leaders make the Iran issue their own JERUSALEM (NY Times) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have turned into the odd couple of Israeli politics in whose hands sits the prospect of an attack on Iran. For Netanyahu, an Iranian nuclear weapon would be the 21st-century equivalent of the Nazi war machine and the Spanish Inquisition — the latest attempt to destroy the Jews. Preventing that is the mission of his life. For Barak, who spurns talk of a second Holocaust and fear for Israel’s existence, it is a challenge about strategy: “zones of immunity” and “red lines,” the operational details of an assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities. “All leaders have kitchen cabinets, but Netanyahu and Barak have established a kitchenette of two,” remarked Nahum Barnea, a columnist for the Yediot Aharonot newspaper, in an interview. “They haven’t discussed Iran with the rest of the government in weeks and have convinced themselves there is only one way to deal with Iran — their way.”

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‘Heroic’ — Deputy tackles man who brandished handgun, cried, ‘Shoot me, shoot me’ to officers BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

In a dramatic Tuesday morning incident, an offduty Cumberland County sheriff's deputy was driving home after work when he happened upon a man waving a handgun at passing motorists in the area of 880 Forest Ave. The deputy managed to stop and approach the man, eventually tackling him as Portland police became quickly involved. The man, described as a white male, 64, from Portland, was disarmed without anyone getting hurt, police said. He was taken to Maine Medical Center for a psychological evaluation. His name has been withheld by police. "At this point we have no criminal charges, we are in discussions with the district attorney's office to determine ultimately if charges will be filed," said Portland Police Chief Michael Sauschuck, who held a press conference with Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce yesterday to discuss the incident and highlight the interagency cooperation. Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Kimball said he was driving home during rush hour morning traffic on Forest Avenue after working his shift at the Cumberland County Jail. It was just after 7 a.m. "I went home a way that I normally never go home. I just finished a shift at the jail. ... For some reason that morning I decided to take Forest Avenue," he said. At first, Kimball said he assumed someone was crossing the street in front of the vehicle that had halted ahead of him. Then, he realized an armed man was standing in the street in the 880 block of Forest Avenue, in the area of Baxter Woods, apparently trying to flag down a car. "I took a big gulp and said, 'I have to deal with this,' and rolled my window down and started to talk to him," Kimball recalled. A school bus was approaching several vehicles back, so Kimball convinced the man to move to the sidewalk where they continued to talk. Kimball

drew his weapon at that point, but the man later put his gun in his coat pocket. Portland Police had received multiple calls about the man. Officer Dan Rose arrived to find Kimball talking to the individual. "I actually thought the gentleman had succeeded in stopping a vehiSauschuck cle," Rose recalled. "I saw an open door and someone standing in the (car) door." That person, as it turned out, was Kimball, who was in uniform but driving his personal car. He had remained about 8 or 9 feet away from the man, talking to him from the other side of his vehicle. Rose initially feared the worst. The suspect seemed awfully close to this motorist. "I was very afraid that he actually was trying to carjack a vehicle or jump in with someone else," Rose said. "I pulled around a cab that was parked on the side, and I saw the uniform, and I saw a man on the sidewalk with a weapon in his hand." Sorting out the situation, and recognizing that Kimball was a deputy, Rose joined Kimball in trying to defuse the tense standoff. The man, however, grew frantic, and he brandished the handgun, holding his arms aloft, as though presenting himself as a target. "He was saying, I think, 'Shoot me, shoot me,' and his arms were up over his head, but he still had the firearm, and I could see it was a loaded firearm," Rose said. Then, the man appeared to get scared and dropped the gun. When the man then reached to pick it up Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Kimball (from left), Portland Police officer Dan Rose and Portland Police Chief Michael Sauschuck lead a press conference Wednesday about a Tuesday morning standoff with an armed man on Forest Avenue. The incident was defused with no injury to those involved. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

again, the officers acted. Kimball said, "I saw when the gun fell from his hands that I was the closest at that point, I knew I had an opportunity to get around to him before he would have a chance to get his weapon." Kimball rushed around the front of his car and tackled the man. Rose was on the scene immediately to help subdue the suspect. "When I see this scenario, and I read that report and look at that video, it truly is heroic action," Sauschuck said. Police later found that the man had taken a taxi cab from St. John's Street in the Washburn Street area, near Hadlock Field, to Forest Avenue. "At that point he had told the taxi cab driver that he wanted to kill himself, he wanted to die that day," Sauschuck said. The man went inside a building to retrieve money to pay the cab driver. He told a neighbor that "he wanted to kill himself" and displayed a silver handgun, Sauschuck reported. The cab driver saw the armed man approaching with the weapon displayed, and the taxi cab driver drove off, he said. "Now we have this gentleman on the side of the road in rush hour traffic on Forest Avenue armed with a handgun trying to flag down vehicles," he said. Sauschuck said elements of the incident cannot be discussed because it's an open investigation, but he didn't see indications that the man was legally armed. "He was not licensed that I'm aware of," he said.

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Elephants Down Under Christchurch, New Zealand — I’ve learned three things visiting New Zealand and Australia: There is a place in the world where rugby is front-page news. There is a place in the world — the Auckland airport — where the restrooms have digital clocks in the entryway telling you hourly when they were last cleaned and when they will be cleaned again. And there is a place in the world where moderate Republicans still exist — unfortunately, you have to take a 13-hour flight from Los Angeles to get there. Indeed, to go from America — amid the G.O.P. primaries — to Down Under is to experi––––– ence both jet lag and a politiThe New York cal shock. In New Zealand and Times Australia, you could almost fit their entire political spectrum — from conservatives to liberals — inside the U.S. Democratic Party. Or as Paul Quinn, a parliamentarian from New Zealand’s conservative National Party, once told a group of visiting American Fulbright scholars: “I

Thomas L. Friedman

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Yiddish translator preserves important piece of culture Yiddish is the ancestral language of Ashkenazic Jews from Eastern Europe. It reflects their migration from their native homeland, with elements of Hebrew, Aramaic, Romance and Slavic languages fused with Germanic grammatical forms. Yiddish became a distinct language, spoken by Jews in Russo-Poland for more than a thousand years. Written in the Hebrew alphabet, Yiddish is still spoken and written in many Orthodox Jewish communities around the world, though not by most of those in Portland. Stephen Simons, has launched a new enterprise helping those who don’t know Yiddish. He has begun a translation business to help Jews learn more about their Jewish family heritage. Prior to World War II an estimated 16 million Jews lived throughout the world. One third of all Jews, for the most part Ashkenazic Jews, were murdered in the Holocaust. Consequently, the Holocaust and the repression of Soviet Jews under Stalin put an end to the development of the Yiddish language in Europe. After the war, those who

Karen Vachon ––––– Better with Age survived emigrated to Israel, Canada, Argentina, Australia, and the United States. While Yiddish was their mother tongue, Jews in this era were desperate to integrate into their surroundings; consequently abandoning their mother tongue for the English language in their new homes. This was not the case for Simons, who has spoken Yiddish his entire life. Growing up in Philadelphia, he was surrounded by family and relatives who spoke Yiddish. He sang songs with aunts and uncles who were involved in Yiddish cultural societies. He learned to read Yiddish as a child. As a teenager, he attended Sabbath afternoon study sessions conducted in Hungarian Yiddish. At the conclusion of each session, he spent Sabbath afternoons speaking Polish Yid-

dish with children of survivors and their parents. As a Masters student at Brandeis University, he studied Hebrew and Yiddish language and literature. Professor Ben Ravid asked him to translate chapters from the late great philosopher, Shimon Rawidowics’s Yiddish volume which were then included in the book, Israel: The Ever-dying people. He’s written short stories in Yiddish, has interviewed native Yiddish speakers, translated and prepared Yiddish sub-titles for restored Yiddish movies, including “the Cantor’s Son,” “Our Children” and “His Wife’s Lover.” He’s spoken on Yiddish radio programs in Boston, under the name Shimen Simons. Simons knows that when a language becomes extinct, the culture of its people dies. Yiddish is listed on the endangered list. He chose to move to Portland two years ago. “I began to feel that I would like to bring my various specialties, including directing an elementary school, to an underserved community.” see VACHON page 6

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Empires, then and now Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded, because the value of the resources and wealth extracted from conquered lands exceeded the value of conquest and governance. The reason Rome did not extend its empire east into Germany was not the military prowess of Germanic tribes but Rome’s calculation that the cost of conquest exceeded the value of extractable resources. The Roman empire failed, because Romans exhausted manpower and resources in civil wars fighting amongst themselves for power. The British empire failed, because the British exhausted themselves fighting Germany in two world wars. In his book, “The Rule of Empires” (2010), Timothy H. Parsons replaces the myth of the civilizing empire with the truth of the extractive empire. He describes the successes of the Romans, the Umayyad Caliphate, the Spanish in Peru, Napoleon in Italy, and the British in India and Kenya in extracting

resources. To lower the cost of governing Kenya, the British instigated tribal consciousness and invented tribal customs ––––– that worked to British Guest advantage. Columnist Parsons does not examine the American empire, but in his introduction to the book he wonders whether America’s empire is really an empire as the Americans don’t seem to get any extractive benefits from it. After eight years of war and attempted occupation of Iraq, all Washington has for its efforts is several trillion dollars of additional debt and no Iraqi oil. After ten years of trillion dollar struggle against the Taliban in Afghanistan, Washington has nothing to show for it except possibly some part of the drug trade that can be used to fund covert CIA operations. America’s wars are very expensive. Bush and Obama have doubled the national debt, and the

Paul Craig Roberts

The New Empire is different. It happens without achieving conquest. The American military did not conquer Iraq and has been forced out politically by the puppet government that Washington established. There is no victory in Afghanistan, and after a decade the American military does not control the country. American people have no benefits from it. No riches, no bread and circuses flow to Americans from Washington’s wars. So what is it all about? The answer is that Washington’s empire extracts resources from the American people for the benefit of the few powerful interest groups that rule America. The military-security complex, Wall Street, agribusiness and the Israel Lobby use the government to extract resources from Americans to serve their see ROBERTS page 6

Special interest money is out of control, and U.S. lacks a credible Third Party FRIEDMAN from page 4

will explain to you how our system works compared to yours: You have Democrats and Republicans. My Labor opponents would be Democrats. I am a member of the National Party, and we would be ... Democrats” as well. For instance, there is much debate here over climate policy — Australia has a carbon tax, New Zealand has cap and trade — but there is no serious debate about climate science. Whereas in today’s G.O.P. it is political suicide to take climate change seriously, in Australia and New Zealand it is political suicide for conservatives not to. In Australia and New Zealand, “there are plenty of climate skeptics in politics, but they know it’s a political loser to say so,” explained the Australian environmentalist Paul Gilding. “This became the case after Australia suffered its worst-ever drought, lasting more than a decade.” Now, “there is strong public acceptance of the basic scientific conclusion that the climate is changing and humans are a significant contributor.” Tony Abbott, the current leader of Australia’s main conservative party, once crudely dismissed climate change, but after he became the party boss, even he embraced the need to bring down emissions. Instead of cap and trade, though, he argued for industry friendly taxpayer-funded incentives to cut carbon. Malcolm Turnbull, Abbott’s predecessor, supported cap and trade, as did his predecessor. “On climate,” Turnbull told me, “there has been an assault on the science, and it has had an impact, but not to the point of the center-right parties adopting a ‘climate-change-science-is-bunk’ platform the way the G.O.P. appears to have done.” Conservatives in Australia and New Zealand have also long accepted single-payer national health care systems. The Labor Party ruled New Zealand from 1999 to 2008, when it was replaced by the conservative National Party. During Labor’s tenure, it passed legislation legalizing civil unions, giving prostitutes the same health and safety protections as other workers, and extending income subsidies for families with children, noted Jon Johansson, a political scientist at Victoria University of Wellington. While these moves were resisted by conservatives when in opposition, he said, they have “not tried to repeal any of them” now that they are in power. There are many reasons for the narrowness of the political spectrum here, Johansson added. Neither New Zealand nor Australia are strong churchgoing countries, so social issues don’t resonate as much. Both being isolated, sparsely populated, pioneering

communities — New Zealand has only 4.5 million people — they have strong egalitarian traditions and believe the state has a role to play in making sure everyone gets a fair shake. “We also have compulsory voting,” said Turnbull. You get fined if you don’t vote. “In a voluntary voting system like yours, there is always the temptation to run hard on hot-button issues that will fire up the base and get them out to vote. In a compulsory voting system, your base has to vote — as does everyone else — and so the goal is to target the middle ground.” To be sure, conservatives out here have all the low-tax, free-market, free-trade, less-government instincts of their American colleagues, but it is tempered by the fact that campaign donations and lobbying are much more restricted. Looking at America from here, makes me feel as

though we have the worst of all worlds right now. The days when there were liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats, who nudged the two parties together, appear over. We don’t have compulsory voting. Special interest money is out of control, and we lack any credible Third Party that could capture enough of the center to force both Democrats and Republicans to compete for votes there. So we’ve lost our ability to do big, hard things together. Yet everything we have to do — tax reform, fiscal reform, health care reform, energy policy — is big and hard and can only be done together. “A lot of us who love your country,” said Johansson, “do not see where change can come from” in America these days. “We see all the barriers you have now to structural and fundamental change. It feels like you’ve lost your amazing ability to adapt politically.”

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In New Empire, success at war no longer matters ROBERTS from page 5

profits and power. The U.S. Constitution has been extracted in the interests of the Security State, and Americans’ incomes have been redirected to the pockets of the 1 percent. That is how the American Empire functions. The New Empire is different. It happens without achieving conquest. The American military did not conquer Iraq and has been forced out politically by the puppet government that Washington established. There is no victory in Afghanistan, and after a decade the American military does not control the country. In the New Empire, success at war no longer matters. The extraction takes place by being at war. Huge sums of American taxpayers’ money have

flowed into the American armaments industries and huge amounts of power into Homeland Security. The American empire works by stripping Americans of wealth and liberty. This is why the wars cannot end, or if one does end another starts. Remember when Obama came into office and was asked what the U.S. mission was in Afghanistan? He replied that he did not know what the mission was and that the mission needed to be defined. Obama never defined the mission. He renewed the Afghan war without telling us its purpose. Obama cannot tell Americans that the purpose of the war is to build the power and profit of the military/security complex at the expense of American citizens. This truth doesn’t mean that the objects of Ameri-

can military aggression have escaped without cost. Large numbers of Muslims have been bombed and murdered and their economies and infrastructure ruined, but not in order to extract resources from them. It is ironic that under the New Empire the citizens of the empire are extracted of their wealth and liberty in order to extract lives from the targeted foreign populations. Just like the bombed and murdered Muslims, the American people are victims of the American empire (Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. Contact him by emailing paulcraigroberts@yahoo.com.)

Yiddish a living language among many Hareidi communities VACHON from page 4

Simons had spent 30 years as the Director of Education at a prominent Conservative synagogue in Boston. “It was a wonderful Congregation” he said of his career, but it was time to branch out. Though he was offered several jobs in wealthy communities, he remained steadfast to find an underserved community that would be accessible by car for his family in Philadelphia. While conducting his job search Stephen spent many weekends visiting Maine’s seaside resort towns. “As is the case with many people, a vacation away leads one to consider what it would be like to live in a new place.” He had envisioned the idea of living near a working port, a walkable urban downtown, and the historical Jewish presence of Portland. When a position opened up in Maine, Simons took it. The educational position that brought him here turned out not to be a fit. But that didn’t matter. By now, Simons had been serving as a volunteer “Friendly Visitor” to a Yiddish and Russian speaking immigrant from the former Soviet Union under auspices of the Jewish Family Services of Portland and was embraced by the community. When invited by Rabbi Akiva Herzfeld of Shaarey Tephiloh to teach a course in Yiddish language and culture for older citizens in Portland, Simons was surprised to learn that only two participants had grown up speaking Yiddish in immigrant homes. “There are relatively few people in Portland and elsewhere in the United States who are fluent in Yiddish language and culture,”

explained Simons. “For the most part, East European Jewish immigrants who came to the States as adults during the mass immigration of 1880-1921 are no longer alive, and their living children are now in their ’80s. Yiddish speaking survivors of the Holocaust who came as teens after World War II are in their late 70s or 80s.” Adult survivors still living are in their 90s. Today, Yiddish is the living language among many Hareidi, or ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities; these communities are, for the most part, cloistered from the majority of American Jewish communities. Simons has carved out a unique niche as a Yiddish translator. He assists ordinary citizens of East European Jewish descent with their family genealogical studies. They bring him postcards, letters, documents and books that have been passed down in their family from grand-parents and great grandparents. Now younger generation families who don’t know Yiddish are learning about their families’ struggles and successes in the old country, and in their beloved America. Among letters that he has translated, was one alleging a lovers’ triangle, accusations of betrayal, sibling rivalry and reconciliation. Others dealt with the hardships of immigration. He’s applied his linguistic skills translating for projects for the Maine Historical Society and the Etz Chaim Maine Jewish Museum’s “Documenting Jewish Maine” Project. Though Yiddish is considered an endangered language, it has had a rebirth due to the strength of the Hassidic movement. Hassidic Jews have a high birthrate, and many con-

tinue to use the language in their everyday life. When asked if he’s considered teaching Yiddish in Portland, Simons has no immediate plans. For now, he’s happy to be here in Maine, accomplishing what he set out to do: serve an underserved community

that is coming to know their family history through letters and memoirs. (Karen Vachon is a resident of Scarborough. She is a licensed insurance agent, and an active volunteer in her community.)

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Medical marijuana dispensary opens in Portland BY CURTIS ROBINSON THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

After waiting months for the Portland medical marijuana dispensary to open, one of its first patients spent part of a gray Wednesday afternoon realizing she was not leaving with her medication after all. Karen, a Brunswick resident who wanted to just use her first name for security reasons, had an outdated state card authorizing medical marijuana use. “It’s not like I’m here to get high,” she said, sinking into a new leather waiting room chair while outlining a remedial course: she would need a new doctor’s appointment, to make sure the physician’s office has special tamper-proof state-required paper and maybe she could just go there and resolve the issue in a day. Becky DeKeuster, executive director of the new facility, offered some hope. “They’ll probably have it (the special paper),” she said. “The state’s been really good about getting it out there.” It was another example of first-day challenges as Maine’s largest city got its first medical marijuana dispensary. Located at 685 Congress St., just down the alley between Local 188 and Gorham Bike & Ski, the 6,500-squarefoot Wellness Connection of Maine facility has been under renovation since November. Its key-coded locked doors open to a small patient intake area and another set of doors that open to a spacious patient area. A single counter holds the medicine in small glass bowls while gleaming hardwood floors and sitting areas seem less like a medical office than the community center organizers hope the room becomes. “We want to support total wellness,” said DeKeuster during one of several opening day media tours. She added that free offerings are expected to include services not always covered by insurance, like acupuncture and even personal counseling. “Illness is very isolating,” she said, “and we hope this becomes a place of community, where somebody can get

Diane Schinella, manager of the Portland medical marijuana dispensary run by Wellness Connection of Maine, said she expects to serve over 100 patients in the first months of operation. “We’ve created a warm, inviting space where supporting each patient’s total well-being is the main focus,” she said. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

“Illness is very isolating, and we hope this becomes a place of community, where somebody can get you some tea if you can’t get up and get it yourself.” — Becky DeKeuster, executive director at Wellness Connection of Maine you some tea if you can’t get up and get it yourself.” The WCM was organized after the passage of Maine’s medical marijuana law in 2009 and operates dispensing facilities in Hallowell and Thomaston,

and, now, Portland. A fourth WCM facility is planned in the Bangor/ Brewer area. In addition to the usual opening day adjustments of any business, the dispensary faced the challenges of security and growing its own marijuana plants. Under Maine law, dispensers must grow their own marijuana. By mid-afternoon Wednesday, the MCM managers were reporting a twoweek backlog and offering reminders that new patients should make an appointment, in part because first visits include a 45-minute intake conversation about how medications are impacting the patient and general information about the facility.

As for Karen, her companion and driver agreed to risk the displeasure of his business partner and take her directly to the doctor’s office, hoping to jump a few steps like getting a new diagnosis — she figured it’s been 10 years with the one doctor, so maybe he’s been confident in approving the medial marijuana. “Hey, I’m sure there are some doctors giddy to give out prescriptions,” she said, “but he’s not one of them.” But even with the glitch, Karen was welcoming the dispensary. “Access (to medical marijuana) has been a big issue,” she said. “This stuff’s expensive; this has been a long time coming.”

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BURBANK, Calif. — Whatever happened to Ron Paul? He came in second in the New Hampshire primary. He has raised more money than any Republican candidate except for Mitt Romney. His campaign rallies still draw thousands of fervent supporters, far more than any of his rivals’. College students give him rock-star treatment, and he is planning rallies at 30 campuses over two months. But turn those strengths into a candidacy with a real shot at the Republican presidential nomination? It never happened. His strategists are searching for answers, and one may be that many who turned up for his rallies were less

eager to take part in Republican primaries or argue Mr. Paul’s case at Republican caucuses. Even Mr. Paul cannot entirely explain why the passion he generated, especially among young people and those his campaign identified as motivated supporters, did not translate into more votes. “I don’t have a full answer for that,” says Mr. Paul, who says he believes ballot irregularities have chipped into his numbers in some places. He adds, “I think there’s some problem with always making sure this energy is translated into getting to the polls.” Though the campaign says it still has some tricks up its sleeve, it now faces a hurdle just to place Mr. Paul’s name in contention for the nomination: a Republi-

can convention rule requiring a candidate to have the greatest number of delegates from each of at least five states. Mr. Paul said in an interview last week that he was “real satisfied” with the campaign. “You could always argue you wish you could do better, but we could have done worse, too.” He is already far ahead of his 2008 performance, including second-place finishes in seven states this year. But he remains in fourth place over all, with one-eleventh the delegates of the front-runner, Mitt Romney, according to an estimate by The Associated Press. What Mr. Paul may have by the end of the nominating race is a valuable collection of delegates. So see PAUL page 13

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Thursday, March 29 Excision at the State 8 p.m. Excision with Liquid Stranger, Lucky Date at the State Theatre. Taking influence from DnB, Metal, and Hip Hop, Excision is a Dubstep artist who must be heard to fully believe. Combining the morphing bass lines of Drum and Bass, the aggressive energy of Metal, and the laid back vibes of hip hop, Excision’s style is incomparable. At only 22, this young Canadian’s passion for music has already driven him to become one of the biggest Dubstep acts of North America. Doors: 7 p.m./show: 8 p.m. State Theatre. www.statetheatreportland.com

Friday, March 30 Snoop Dogg at the State 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. The State Theatre presents Snoop Dogg. Two shows. Tha Doggfather is continuing to enhance his connection with his fans through his music. Not only is Snoop utilizing his unrivaled digital presence to offer his fans inside access to the creative process behind the Doggumentary, but the album itself acts a memoir of sorts — both chronicling his journey in the game thus far and plotting where his path will lead him in the future. The latest collection reflects everything that the world has come to embrace about the man born Calvin Broadus. While delivering several of the bombastic street raps that initially propelled Snoop to stardom, his new album, Doggumentary, also boasts the sort of unpredictable collaborations that have made him a pop culture phenomenon. Portland. $40 advance/$45 day of show. www.statetheatreportland.com

Movie, Johnny Cremains and Dementia Five live 8:30 p.m. Geno’s Rock Club brings a feature-length movie of musical performances by By Blood Alone, Johnny Cremains, BirdOrgan, Hessian, Sunrunner and Dementia Five, along with Smoke and Mirror Circus, filmed on location at Geno’s on Sept. 2, 2011, will be shown at 8:30 p.m., then followed by live sets by Johnny Cremains and Dementia Five, starting at 10. Cover charge is $8 for the whole night, $6 after 10. All shows at Geno’s are 21 plus, proper ID is required. Come early to make sure you get a good seat! There will be popcorn! Venue: Geno’s Rock Club, 627 Congress St.

Saturday, March 31 Reunion Weekend!: Strangefolk at the State 8 p.m. The State Theatre in Portland and Higher Ground in Burlington, Vt. announce a reunion weekend with Strangefolk, including original members Jon Trafton, Reid Genauer, Erik Glockler and Luke Smith. This special event marks the first time the band has played together formally onstage since their farewell Garden of Eden concert in New Haven, Vt. in September 2000. www.statetheatreportland. com/event/88381

Jonny Corndawg at Empire 9:30 p.m. Jonny Corndawg, Shovels and Rope, Robert Ellis at Empire Dine and Dance. Jonny Corndawg is a country singer, not a singer-songwriter. Born in Montana, raised in rural Virginia, Corndawg has been touring on his motorcycle since he dropped out of school in 2001. He’s played shows in every U.S. state, Canada and eleven European countries, Australia, Argentina and India. But you won’t find him on CMT. His music is more in the vein of that obscure ‘70s gay country that housewives would discover on a Bear Family reissue in twenty years. In addition to pursuing the lost art of the Real Deal, Corndawg is an airbrushing, leather-working, marathon-running, truck-driving American. Born and Bred.

Wednesday, April 4 Omara ‘Bombino’ Moctar 7:30 p.m. Portland Ovations brings the young North African guitarist and songwriter Omara “Bombino” Moctar and his four-piece band to Hannaford Hall, University of Southern Maine in Portland for an evening concert. “Omara ‘Bombino’ Moctar is from the Tuareg region of North Africa and during his nomadic lifestyle of avoiding the politically charged rebellion in Niger, Bombino taught himself how to play guitar by watching videos of Jimi Hendrix, Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits and others in an effort to master their playing styles. He has recorded a desert blues version of the Rolling Stones classic ‘Hey Negrita’ alongside Keith Richards and Charlie Watts and has served as Angelina Jolie’s guide to the Niger desert region. His electrifying jams capture the spirit of the Sahara with enduring notes of nostalgia, resilience and peace.”

Mastodon at the State 7:30 p.m. Mastodon will be kicking off their Spring 2012 coheadlining tour in Portland on April 4 at the State Theatre. The

Excision is the Dubstep demon hailing from Canada. See this melding of metal and hip hop at the State Theatre tonight. (COURTESY PHOTO) tour features a dream bill with Swedish metal band Opeth as co-headliners and Ghost providing support on all dates. Mastodon have just returned to the states after extensive touring throughout Europe and Australia over the past few months in support of their latest album, The Hunter. Released in Sept 2011, The Hunter entered the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart in the Top 10 and it’s first single, “Curl of the Burl” was nominated for a 2012 Grammy Award for “Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance.” www.statetheatreportland.com

Friday, April 6 Jeff Beam & Friends 9 p.m. Jeff Beam, a musician in Portland, bassist for The Milkman’s Union, will be releasing a new album and holding a record release party on April 6 at Empire Dine & Dance, 575 Congress St. Jeff Beam & Friends (record release show) w/ Tan Vampires & Phantom Buffalo. $6, 21 plus. http://jeffbeam.bandcamp.com/album/now-single-ep

Saturday, April 7 Ben Vida and Artie Appleseed 8 p.m. A synthesized Saturday to welcome spring. Composer, improviser and sound artist Ben Vida (one half of Soft Circle) has a impressive slew of collaborations and releases under a host of names. Currently he is exploring automatic self-generating compositions utilizing a modular hybrid analog/digital synthesizer. Tea First Records’ and Selbyville member Artie Appleseed makes blissful forays into the ambient electronic.SPACE Gallery. $5 suggested donation, all ages. www.space538.org/events.php

Tuesday, April 10 Lost In The Trees with Poor Moon 8 p.m. “A Church That Fits Our Needs,” the second album by North Carolina chamber-pop group Lost In The Trees, is a work of vaulting ambition, a cathedral built on loss and transformation. Writer, composer and architect of the band Ari Picker began work on the album after his mother took her own life in 2009. Classically-trained, but drawing on the lushness of Phil Spector and old film scores as well, Picker creates a musical journey that winds its way through devastation, joy and wonder. Seattle’s Poor Moon, a new project from Christian Wargo (Fleet Foxes), recently signed to Sub Pop. Their breezy, straightforward approach to songwriting will win you over with its gently catchy hooks. Buy tickets at SPACE or at all Bull Moose locations. SPACE Gallery. $10, 18 plus. www.space538. org/events.php

Thursday, April 12 PSO Kinderkonzert: The Story of Abbie Burgess 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. This composition for narrator and the PSO String Quintet tells the true story of Abbie Burgess, painting an exciting musical portrait of a raging storm and the brave young woman who kept the lighthouse burning

against all odds. East End Community School, 195 North Road, Portland. www.portlandsymphony.org

Sunday, April 15 Portland String Quartet, Laura Kargul 2 p.m. Pianist Laura Kargul joins the Portland String Quartet in concert at Immanuel-Williston Church, 156 High St., Portland. The PSQ and Laura Kargul will open this final concert in the 2012-13 Concert Series with Mozart’s Piano Quartet in E Flat Major. This will be followed by Jacques de la Presle’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, performed by PSQ Violinist Ron Lantz. Closing the program is Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quartet in A Major. LARK Society for Chamber Music, 761-1522, lark@larksociety.org, www.larksociety.org.

Bruckner, Beethoven and More 2:30 p.m. The Portland Symphony Orchestra presents Bruckner, Beethoven and More at Merrill Auditorium in downtown Portland. Music Director Robert Moody will conduct the afternoon program, which includes pieces by renowned composers Anton Bruckner, Osvaldo Golijov, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ludwig Van Beethoven. A Concert Conversation with Robert Moody will precede the concert at 1:15 p.m., and a PostConcert Q&A with the artists follows at the end on the stage. For program notes and an interview with Robert Moody about this concert, visit portlandsymphony.org.

Monday, April 16 WCLZ presents: Needtobreathe, Ben Rector 7 p.m. The State Theatre. WhenNeedtobreathe’s Bear and Bo Rinehart set out to write the songs that appear on the band’s new album, “The Reckoning,” they felt something bigger awaited them. It wasn’t just commercial success either. The band’s last album “The Outsiders” hit No. 9 on Billboard’s Rock Albums chart, went Top 20 on the Top 200, saw the band sell out venues such as Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and Chicago’s House of Blues, and score an impressive number of placements in blockbuster films and numerous prime time television-shows. Bear explains “There was always this creeping reminder that we needed to show what the last ten years on the road had taught us. If we couldn’t do that, everything we had worked for was meaningless.” Rock/Pop/Southern Rock. Ben Rector cut his musical teeth while a student at the University of Arkansas and used them over the next four years to devour the music scene in Fayetteville and floss with the surrounding states.

Thursday, April 19 USM School of Music Jazz Ensemble 7:30 p.m. From classic big band to modern jazz, the University of Southern Maine School of Music Jazz Ensemble will get you grooving at their spring concert, in Corthell Concert Hall, College Avenue, USM Gorham. The Jazz Ensemble, directed by School of Music faculty member Chris Oberholtzer, will perform jazz favorites.

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By Holiday Mathis SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Social inﬂuences are strong, but they cannot trump your sense of morality, poetry and innate justice. Don’t concentrate so intently on your vision that you lose sight. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). The past got you where you are now. That doesn’t mean you have to be in love with what happened, but you can at least come to terms with it. Doing so paves the way. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Someone who is younger than you will be telling stories about you in the decades to come. This makes for some interesting choices on your end. What do you want to be known for? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Usually, you wouldn’t think twice about what the neighbors, or anyone else, think of you. But lately you’ve started to notice how your reputation affects your options, and you’ll curb your behavior accordingly. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). There’s nothing about love that will make sense to you today, and it absolutely shouldn’t make sense. If it did, you wouldn’t be moved to express yourself in such a creative manner. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 29). For the next 10 weeks, you’ll focus on intellectual growth. In June, you’ll put your time and sweat into achieving states of personal beauty and relationship harmony. Learning and applying your knowledge to improve your ﬁnances will be a favorite concentration. A family celebration in July will bring a lucky connection. Libra and Scorpio people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 2, 20, 14 and 8.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ll get to choose your leader, which puts you among a small minority of humans in the history of humanity. You’ll be drawn toward those with the ability to unite people in a sense of profound purpose. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll cotton to what’s important. This skill alone will put you in a category above the crowd. You don’t even have to tell anyone what you’re doing, because who you are is apparent. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There’s a dreamy quality to the day, but even when you wish things were different, you realize the power you have. When you decide to put your hands on the controls of life, the drive begins. CANCER (June 22-July 22). You are trying to do too much on your own. Additionally, you hardly know where you’re going. Is it so difﬁcult to ask for a map or a road sign, cosmically speaking? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). No explanation or excuse will be necessary, so don’t offer one. You’re a fun-loving person, which boils down to precisely this: The “why” question is almost always followed by a “why not?” VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Moving along life’s path, you will stub your toe. It’s inevitable. When it happens (maybe today, maybe tomorrow), just praise yourself for moving as opposed to trying to stand still. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The windows and doors of knowledge are wide open, inviting you to learn all you can. Try new things. Repeat your experiment until you feel you’ve learned something of value.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Thursday, March 29, the 89th day of 2012. There are 277 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 29, 1912, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, his expedition stranded in an Antarctic blizzard after failing to be the first to reach the South Pole, wrote in his journal, “We shall stick it out to the end but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity but I do not think I can write more.” Scott concluded with: “Last entry. For Gods sake look after our people.” (Scott is presumed to have died shortly thereafter; his four companions also perished.) On this date: In 1638, Swedish colonists settled in presentday Delaware. In 1790, the tenth president of the United States, John Tyler, was born in Charles City County, Va. In 1812, the first White House wedding took place as Lucy Payne Washington, the sister of First Lady Dolley Madison, married Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd. In 1882, the Knights of Columbus was chartered in Connecticut. In 1943, World War II rationing of meat, fats and cheese began. In 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. (They were executed in June 1953.) The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The King and I” opened on Broadway. In 1962, Jack Paar hosted NBC’s “Tonight” show for the final time, although the network aired a repeat the following night. In 1971, A jury in Los Angeles recommended the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers for the 1969 Tate-La Bianca murders. (The sentences were later commuted.) In 1973, the last United States combat troops left South Vietnam, ending America’s direct military involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1992, Democratic presidential front-runner Bill Clinton acknowledged experimenting with marijuana “a time or two” while attending Oxford University, adding, “I didn’t inhale and I didn’t try it again.” More than a month after winning the Olympic gold medal in ladies figure skating, Kristi Yamaguchi of the United States won the world championship title in Oakland, Calif. One year ago: Gunmen held an Iraqi government center in Tikrit hostage in a grisly siege that ended with the deaths of at least 56 people, including three councilmen, plus the attackers, who blew themselves up. Today’s Birthdays: Political commentator John McLaughlin is 85. Author Judith Guest is 76. Comedian Eric Idle is 69. Composer Vangelis is 69. Basketball Hall of Famer Walt Frazier is 67. Singer Bobby Kimball is 65. Actor Brendan Gleeson is 57. Actor Christopher Lawford is 57. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Earl Campbell is 57. International Gymnastics Hall of Famer Kurt Thomas is 56. Actor Christopher Lambert is 55. Rock singer Perry Farrell is 53. Comedian-actress Amy Sedaris is 51. Model Elle Macpherson is 49. Movie director Michel Hazanavicius is 45. Rock singer-musician John Popper is 45. Actress Lucy Lawless is 44. Country singer Regina Leigh is 44. Country singer Brady Seals is 43. Tennis player Jennifer Capriati is 36.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I’m in my mid-20s, and my sister is a junior in high school. “Tina” has always looked up to me as the “cool brother,” and we’ve become buddies. I tell her my issues at work and my troubles with women, and she tells me far more than she does the rest of our family. We’ve grown to trust each other. Last week when the mail arrived, my mother noticed that Tina had received an envelope from the county prison. Inside was a six-page soft-porn letter from a convicted felon who used to date one of Tina’s friends. Mom also discovered that Tina had been accepting long-distance charges on her cell phone from the prison. My parents contacted the authorities, and the man won’t write or call her again. They’ve also grounded Tina for a month. I’m not that hurt by her lies of omission. She’s just a kid, and I did some fairly stupid things at her age. But now I don’t feel like telling her anything. I’m still nice to her, and we get along like we used to, but I’ve not told her about a few things that have happened in my life recently. Is this an OK way to handle it? -- Need Help in Wisconsin Dear Wisconsin: Tina’s behavior was terribly reckless. And we think you are more than a little upset that she didn’t conﬁde any of this to you and give her big brother the chance to protect her. You don’t have to tell Tina everything. There are things she may be too young to appreciate. But please try to cultivate the closeness you had before, and let her know you wish she had told you about her correspondence with the inmate. You are in an excellent position to be a positive inﬂuence in her life. Dear Annie: My stepson, “Joe,” and his wife have cut off all communication with my husband and me, and we have no idea why. They have two small children of whom we are very fond. We have not seen them in more than a year.

It’s possible Joe is punishing his father for some imagined slight, but we have no clue what it could be. We have always been kind, loving and generous to them and continue to send them cards on special occasions. My husband says to let it go. Should we stop trying? There is no one to act as a go-between. They live about five hours away and continue to visit Joe’s mother and her parents. We miss them very much. -- Brokenhearted Dear Brokenhearted: You do have a go-between: Joe’s exwife and her parents. Could you call them and find out what’s going on? Explain how much you miss Joe and his family, and ask what you can do to fix this. It would be a shame to give up without trying every avenue available to you. Dear Annie: “Upstate N.Y. Dad” said that the babysitter took his children on an unauthorized drive to the ice cream store. I agree that she was extremely irresponsible, but your response that the girl “showed terrible judgment, but that is not unusual for a 17-year-old” was a slap in the face for teenagers like me. Many teenagers do wonderful, responsible things in their community. I organize a program in which musicians from my school go to various retirement centers and play for the elderly. I tutor every Wednesday. I bring home straight A’s and do not drink, party or smoke. That girl wasn’t irresponsible because she was 17. She’s irresponsible because she was raised by a parent who has no dignity or honesty. -- A Disappointed 15-Year-Old Girl Dear Disappointed: Brava. We did not mean to give the impression that all teenagers are irresponsible -- only that the maturity to properly judge a situation takes time to develop. Obviously, you are already there. Thanks for sticking up for your peers.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to: anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Elizabeth Polletto, 26, of Portland was pronounced dead following an early Wednesday morning twovehicle crash on Portland Road in Gray, law enforcement officials reported. A 2007 Toyota Tundra pickup driven by John Hanley, 57, of Raymond was traveling south on Portland Road around 6:47 a.m. Wednesday, and Polletto was coming in the opposite direction, traveling north. Polletto, a band teacher at Gray-New Gloucester Middle School, lost control of a 1999 Silver Ford Escort. The Escort slid on the slushy roads, spinning into the path of the Toyota Tundra, and they crashed, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office reported. Polletto was transported to Maine Medical Center, where she was later pronounced dead. Hanley was also taken to Maine Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. Both drivers were wearing seatbelts, the sheriff's office reported. The Tundra's airbag deployed as well. The cause of the accident remains under investigation by the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Deputies, Accident Reconstruction Team and Detective Division.

Paul could play key role at Republican convention PAUL from page 7

he could still play an important role at the August convention in Tampa, Fla. — especially if Mr. Romney fails to obtain 1,144 delegates to secure nomination on the first ballot, which is the hope, albeit perhaps fading, of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. Mr. Paul has so far earned 50 delegates, according to the A.P. tally, and the campaign hopes efforts to obtain more delegates at state party conventions will mean he will have 150 to 350 delegates bound to him for the convention. Aides also believe he will ultimately win enough delegates to satisfy the five-state nominating threshold, as supporters pack state party gatherings in coming months and battle to select national delegates loyal to Mr. Paul in proportions greater than the percentage of votes he received. “There is a lot of stuff in motion,” he says. “This is what people don’t know about yet.” Whether he will use those delegates to help Mr. Romney is an open question. Mr. Paul demurs when pressed on whether he would help Mr. Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, should he fail to clinch the nomination on the first try, saying, “I haven’t thought much about that.” While he has a personal affinity for Mr. Romney (though he can be scathing about his friend’s politics), Mr. Paul has tart words for Mr. Santorum and Mr. Gingrich, even scoffing at the idea the two men could ever agree to cooperate to try to defeat Mr. Romney. “I think their egos are too big,” Mr. Paul said. “They’ll fight over who’s going to be top dog.” He has, however, taken comfort in their movement toward his point of view on the war in Afghanistan. Mr. Gingrich has recently suggested pulling out of Afghanistan, and Mr. Santorum has said one option would be withdrawing faster than the Obama administration’s 2014 timeline. “They know what the politics of it is,” Mr. Paul says. “That’s what disgusts me. Why don’t they take a stand and save some lives?” The huge gap between Mr. Paul’s noninterventionist foreign policy and the hawkishness of other Republicans is one reason, in Mr. Paul’s estimate, that “probably half” of his backers are not comfortable within the Republican Party. That seems particularly true of many college students, the driving force behind his largest rallies.

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Thursday, March 29 Falmouth Memorial Library fundraiser ends 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Falmouth Memorial Library’s monthlong silent auction and annual fundraiser, “Beauty and the Books,” will end on Thursday, March 29. Dozens of art and craft items are available for bidding. On Thursday, March 29, a Grand Finale Reception will be held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the library’s Russell Room. Refreshments from local vendors will be served. FMI call 781-2351.

‘Ulysses’ for the fun of it 6 p.m. The Maine Irish Heritage Center is offering literature lovers a unique opportunity to experience “Ulysses” by James Joyce by listening to it being performed by Irish actors, Jim Norton and Marcella Riordan. Hosted by Ellen Murphy, this event is every Thursday at 6 p.m. through June. Audiobooks version of the novel. Library at the Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St., Portland. 899-0505.

WHS Girls Basketball Boosters meeting 6:30 p.m. Jm Richards, Westbrook High School Girls Basketball Booster president, announced that the WHS Girls Basketball Boosters will be holding an annual “Election of Officers” meeting in March. All residents of Westbrook are welcome to attend and participate, at the WHS Cafe. A partial agenda includes year in review; finances; upcoming fundraisers, elections.

PATHS Fashion Show benefit 6:30 p.m. The fashion marketing program at Portland Arts and Technology High School (PATHS) presents “Collection 2012,” a fashion show featuring original student garments, at 6:30 p.m. in the Portland Public Library’s Rines Auditorium. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students. They will be sold at the door. A portion of ticket proceeds will benefit Scarborough-based Partners for World Health, a nonprofit group that sends health care volunteers and unused medical equipment to third world countries. The fashion marketing program received a $450 grant from Painting for a Purpose to help promote the nonprofit group.

‘Little Me’ at St. Lawrence 7 p.m. “Little Me,” the musical comedy by Neil Simon (book), Cy Coleman (music), and Carolyn Leigh (lyrics) will be presented by Good Theater March 7 to April 1 at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. on Munjoy Hill in Portland. “Little Me” is directed by Brian P. Allen with musical direction by Victoria Stubbs, leading the threepiece band, and choreography by Tyler Sperry. Performances for Little Me are as follows: Wednesdays 7 p.m. ($20), Thursdays 7 p.m. ($20), Fridays 7:30 p.m. ($25), Saturday 7:30 p.m. ($30), Sundays 2 p.m. ($30) with a special added matinee on Saturday March 24, 3 p.m. ($25). Call 885-5883 for reservations and information. www.goodtheater.com

Maine Festival of the Book 7 p.m. This year’s Maine Festival of the Book, to be held in Portland from March 29 to April 1, once again boasts a full schedule not just for adults, but for younger ages, too. Children and youth programming will be featured on Saturday, March 31 from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Abromson Center, University of Southern Maine, Portland. Programming includes readings and book-related, hands-on activities with children’s authors and illustrators Brenda Reeves Sturgis, Lynn Plourde, Rebekah Raye, Jeannie Brett, Barbara Walsh, Anne Sibley O’Brien, Reza Jalali, Maria Testa, and Nathan Walker, along with programs featuring young adult authors Amalie Howard, Elizabeth Miles, and Sarah L. Thomson, graphic novelist Ben Bishop, and the professional writers of The Telling Room. Program topics include family pets, multicultural stories, and mountain adventures, along with vampires, turkeys, cows, squirrels, and other creatures, too. Additional children and youth authors will be at the festival selling books and signing them from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday. Thursday, March 29, 7 p.m. — An Evening with John Cole, Glickman Family Library, University of Southern Maine, Free. A lecture by John Cole, founding director of the Center for the Book, Library of Congress (presented in conjunction with Maine Humanities Council and the Katech Cheney Chappell ’83 Center for Book Arts at USM.) Friday, March 30, 7:30 p.m. — Opening Night: Tony Horwitz, Abromson Center, University of Southern Maine. Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Horwitz, author of the historical narratives Midnight Rising and Confederates in the Attic gives an illustrated talk. (Tickets to benefit Maine Reads at www.mainereads.org starting in February.). For a complete festival schedule go to www.mainereads.org.

Portland Children’s Film Festival 7 p.m. East End Community School is sponsoring the first Portland Children’s Film Festival on Thursday, March 29 through Sunday, April 1 at several locations throughout the city. The festival will feature local, national and international children’s films and workshops, the school district reported. Local films will include a premiere of short

“Daughters,” a film set in rural China, will be shown at the first Portland Children’s Film Festival, starting today in Portland. (COURTESY IMAGE) films produced by Portland children ages four to 11. Elementary schoolchildren in Portland submitted films as part of the festival’s Young Filmmakers Contest. The winning films will be shown at the Red Carpet Premiere at the Nickelodeon Cinemas on Thursday, March 29 at 7 p.m. and at the Portland Public Library on Saturday, March 31 at 12:45 p.m. The festival will take place at Nickelodeon Cinemas, St. Lawrence Arts and Cultural Center, Zero Station, East End Community School, the University of Southern Maine’s Masterton Hall at 71 Bedford Street, the Portland Public Library and the Portland Museum of Art. See a complete schedule of events at www.portlandchildrensfilmfestival.com.

‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill’ premieres at Freeport Factory Stage 7:30 p.m. The Freeport Factory Stage will premiere the “soulful and shattering production” of “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill,” on Thursday, March 29. “This production features the incomparable jazz singer, Mardra Thomas as Billie Holiday, with local musician Flash Allen at the piano. Directed by Julie George-Carlson, ‘Lady Day’ is a fictional account of the final appearance by Billie Holiday at a seedy night club in Philadelphia, only four months before her death at the age of 44. The play, written by Lainie Robertson, was originally produced in 1989 and has enjoyed great success in regional theaters for the past 20 years.” ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill’ runs from March 29-April 14, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. All Thursday performances are “Pay-WhatYou-Can” — ticket prices for all other performances are $19 general admission and $15 seniors and students with ID. Group discounts and subscription tickets are available. For reservations call the box office at 865-5505 or visit the website, www.freeportfactory.com.

‘Ghosts’ at SPACE 7:30 p.m. “What happens when we cannot bring ourselves to leave? Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen staged the answer in 1881 with Ghosts, portraying a world of sexual repression, religious hypocrisy, and the inescapable influence of our parents’ choices. Local theater company Lorem Ipsum (The Threepenny Opera, Blood Wedding, Ubu Roi) revisits this piece of classical theater with the help of Last House Productions and Budget Fabulous Films, giving an immersive theater experience to Ibsen’s timeless examination of duty and deceit.” $10, all ages. Also Friday through Sunday, SPACE Gallery. www.space538.org/events.php

‘The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds’ at Lucid Stage 8 p.m. Mad Horse Theatre Company presents the American classic with the tongue twisting title, “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds,” by Paul Zindel. The play opens March 15, and runs Thursday to Sunday through April 1, at Lucid Stage in Portland. “Zindel’s masterpiece, which won an Obie Award, a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and the coveted Pulitzer Prize for Drama, tells the story of single mother Beatrice Hunsdorfer, and her teenage daughters, Ruth and Matilda. Abandoned by her husband

and saddled with two children, Beatrice hates the world. She thinks she just needs the right opportunity, and everything will get better. Older sister Ruth knows the reputation her mother has around town, but she seems sadly fated to repeat her mother’s mistakes in her own life. Shy Matilda, or Tillie, is the joke of her school and her family, until a teacher opens her eyes to the wonders of science. When Tilllie’s project on the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigold seeds is chosen for the school science fair, the dysfunctional family dynamic comes to a head.” www.lucidstage.com

Friday, March 30 Victoria’s Wonderama 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This spring, Victoria Mansion will host an exhibit titled, Victoria’s Wonderama, a collection of artwork inspired by the Steampunk Movement. “A combination of science fiction and the post-industrial era, the Steampunk Movement envisions an alternate world in which steam is widely used to power technology. Followers of the movement examine both contemporary technology as well as Victorian-era innovations within the context of steam power. The end result? Artwork that is both retro and futuristic with a distinctly Victorian tinge. The exhibit will open March 30 and run through April 21. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday-Saturday. All admissions are only $10. Free croquet on the lawn Saturdays April 7, 14 and 21, weather and turf conditions permitting. The Carriage House Museum Shop is closed during this exhibit. Regular season tours of the Mansion will resume May 1. www.victoriamansion.org/events_rentals/events.aspx

Falmouth Historical Society table games 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. At Holy Martyrs Church, 266 Foreside Road, Falmouth. “Did you register for The Falmouth Historical Society’s biannual fundraiser table games on March 30 from 11:30 am to 3:30 pm. Call your friends who play bridge or other table games. Put a foursome together and enjoy a light lunch and beverages. $12/person and all proceeds benefit The Falmouth Historical Society. For reservations call Mary Honan at 781-2705 or The Society at 781-4727.”

Peter Bebergal at the Portland Public Library noon to 1 p.m. Peter Bebergal, author of “Too Much to Dream.” The Friday Local Author Series is held from noon to 1 p.m. in the Main Library’s Meeting Room 5. Portland Public Library.

April Fools Weekend events at The Woods 2 p.m. The Woods at Canco, an independent senior living community located at 257 Canco Road in Portland, invites area seniors to its free April Fools Weekend events March 30 through April 1. Events include a women’s Tripoli challenge on March 30 at 2 p.m., a singing performance with Dave on March 31 at 3 p.m., and Name That Tune on April 1 at 3 p.m. To RSVP, or to learn more, please call The Woods at Canco at 772-4777. see next page

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Birdie Googins at Emerald City 6 p.m. Maine Queen of Comedy is releasing a DVD of her stand up comedy show: “Birdie Googins: Accidentally Maine’s Only Supermodel & Possible Future Queen.” “Fabulously popular, superbly glamorous, always making a cutting edge fashion statement that only a super model can make. Ms. Googins will be making her appearance at Emerald City in Portland on Friday, March 30, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. promoting her DVD and signing autographs. DVD’s will be available for purchase, with autograph … priceless!!” 564 Congress St.

The International Moustache Film Festival 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. “The International Moustache Film Festival brought to you by Progressive” will be Saturday, March 31, at the Deering Grange Hall, Portland, with screenings at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. The film festival proceeds are going to benefit the non-profit film archive Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport. Visit www.stachefilmfest.com

Cesar Chavez Observance 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Maine Global Institute presents a Cesar Chavez observance at the First Parish of Portland, 425 Congress St. in observance of Chavez’s birthday and the 50th anniversary of his founding of the United Farm Workers of America. “The growing importance of Chavez going into this century is much more than that of being a union and Latino civil rights leader. Over 65 percent of the New England supported Chavez boycott efforts during the 1970s because he sought to address the basic human needs of America’s poorest working people. Last year, we celebrated the first ever observance ever held at First Parish with presentations on the universality and diversity of Chavez. This March 31 promises to be a discussion on what the values of Chavez mean for this American century.” 518-9177

The Reverend Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou 7 p.m. The Reverend Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou in Portland. “Considered one of the foremost religious leaders of his generation, Reverend Sekou is an author, documentary filmmaker, public intellectual, organizer, pastor and theologian. Reverend Sekou will read from his collection ‘Gods, Gays, and Guns: Essays on Religion and the future of Democracy’ at Longfellow Books at 7 p.m. Longfellow Books events are open to the public and always free to attend.

‘Little Me’ at St. Lawrence 7:30 p.m. “Little Me,” the musical comedy by Neil Simon (book), Cy Coleman (music), and Carolyn Leigh (lyrics) will be presented by Good Theater March 7 to April 1 at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. on Munjoy Hill in Portland. “Little Me” is directed by Brian P. Allen with musical direction by Victoria Stubbs, leading the threepiece band, and choreography by Tyler Sperry. Performances for Little Me are as follows: Wednesdays 7 p.m. ($20), Thursdays 7 p.m. ($20), Fridays 7:30 p.m. ($25), Saturday 7:30 p.m. ($30), Sundays 2 p.m. ($30) with a special added matinee on Saturday March 24, 3 p.m. ($25). Call 885-5883 for reservations and information. www.goodtheater.com

Maine Festival of the Book 7:30 p.m. This year’s Maine Festival of the Book, to be held in Portland from March 29 to April 1, once again boasts a full schedule not just for adults, but for younger ages, too. Children and youth programming will be featured on Saturday, March 31 from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Abromson Center, University of Southern Maine, Portland. Programming includes readings and book-related, hands-on activities with children’s authors and illustrators Brenda Reeves Sturgis, Lynn Plourde, Rebekah Raye, Jeannie Brett, Barbara Walsh, Anne Sibley O’Brien, Reza Jalali, Maria Testa, and Nathan Walker, along with programs featuring young adult authors Amalie Howard, Elizabeth Miles, and Sarah L. Thomson, graphic novelist Ben Bishop, and the professional writers of The Telling Room. Program topics include family pets, multicultural stories, and mountain adventures, along with vampires, turkeys, cows, squirrels, and other creatures, too. Additional children and youth authors will be at the festival selling books and signing them from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday. Friday, March 30, 7:30 p.m. — Opening Night: Tony Horwitz, Abromson Center, University of Southern Maine. Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Horwitz, author of the historical narratives Midnight Rising and Confederates in the Attic gives an illustrated talk. (Tickets to benefit Maine Reads at www.mainereads.org starting in February.). For a complete festival schedule go to www.mainereads.org.

Stache Pag 9:30 p.m. Mustaches will tickle the fancy of Portlanders, with the fifth annual Stache Pag, to be held Friday, March 30, at Port City Music Hall, and “The International Moustache Film Festival brought to you by Progressive” Saturday, March 31, at the Deering Grange Hall, Portland. The Stache Pag is when dozens of moustachioed men from across Maine, and the world, will compete for trophies in four moustache categories: The Uncle Rico, The Magnum PI, The 1899 Maine Legislature and The Thigh Tickler. After several rounds of rigorous judging, crowd applause determines the winner of each category. The March 30 event will be held at Port City Music Hall. 7:30 p.m. — Special Advance World Premiere screening of inaugural Stache Film Fest exclusively for Stache Pag contestants and VIP’s. 9:30 p.m. — Doors open to public. A portion of the proceeds from the event go to benefit MENSK and MyStacheFightsCancer. Visit www. stachepag.com. “The International Moustache Film Festival brought to you by Progressive” will be Saturday, March 31, at the Deering Grange Hall, Portland, with screenings at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. The film festival proceeds are going to benefit the non-profit film archive Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport. Visit www.stachefilmfest.com

Saturday, March 31 Adoptable Dogs in Sanford 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Animal Welfare Society Mobile Adoption Team will visit Tractor Supply, 1170 Main St., Sanford

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Emerald City, 564 Congress St., will host Birdie Googins for a CD release on Friday. Here, Googins joins shop owner Danny Hatt. (COURTESY PHOTO) with adoptable dogs. For more information, call Animal Welfare Society (www.animalwelfaresociety.org) at 985-3244 or Tractor Supply at 490-0034.

Maine Festival of the Book noon. This year’s Maine Festival of the Book, to be held in Portland from March 29 to April 1, once again boasts a full schedule not just for adults, but for younger ages, too. Children and youth programming will be featured on Saturday, March 31 from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Abromson Center, University of Southern Maine, Portland. Programming includes readings and book-related, hands-on activities with children’s authors and illustrators Brenda Reeves Sturgis, Lynn Plourde, Rebekah Raye, Jeannie Brett, Barbara Walsh, Anne Sibley O’Brien, Reza Jalali, Maria Testa, and Nathan Walker, along with programs featuring young adult authors Amalie Howard, Elizabeth Miles, and Sarah L. Thomson, graphic novelist Ben Bishop, and the professional writers of The Telling Room. Program topics include family pets, multicultural stories, and mountain adventures, along with vampires, turkeys, cows, squirrels, and other creatures, too. Additional children and youth authors will be at the festival selling books and signing them from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday. www.mainereads.org.

‘Swan Lake’ 2 p.m. Performances of “Swan Lake” are scheduled for 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 31, and 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 1. Tickets are on sale through Porttix at 842-0800, online at www.porttix.com, or at the Merrill Auditorium box office: noon to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Tickets are priced at $20-$40, and discounts are available for groups, seniors and children. “Maine State Ballet is one of the state’s leading performing arts institutions. Its two major components are the School for the Performing Arts, offering instruction in several dance styles to more than 500 children and adults; and the Maine State Ballet Company, comprised of more than 25 professional dancers who train and perform at many venues throughout the year. Two local foundations, the Sam L. Cohen Foundation and the Davis Family Foundation, each contributed $7,500 to the production. The funds will be used to offset technical costs of the ambitious production, including special lighting.” For more information, call Maine State Ballet at 781-7672, or visit www.mainestateballet.org.

Portland Women’s Rugby Football Club 2:30 p.m. “With the announcement of USA Rugby’s plan to create more women’s teams, the Portland Women’s Rugby Football Club is ready to train hard, play harder, and defend their championship title this spring. This past fall, the Portland Women’s Rugby team won the Northeastern Rugby Union Champions title in New Jersey, earning them the number one seed in the country and a place at the USA Rugby Nationals in Virginia Beach in November. After a loss to the Sacramento Amazons and then two consecutive wins against Memphis and Burlington, the team finished fifth place in the nation for DII Women’s Rugby.” On Saturday, March 31, PWRFC will host their home opener with a 2:30 p.m. kickoff against Norwich University at their

5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The annual Sacred Heart/St. Dominic Church Empty Bowl Supper to support Christ the King School in Morne Rouge, Haiti, will take place in the church hall at the corner of Mellen and Sherman streets (parking on the street and in the PROP LOT at Cumberland and Mellen). All proceeds go to teacher salaries and children’s nutrition for the six-grade school. Guests receive a bowl, soup, and bread. All are welcome. The suggested donation is $10. Haiti crafts will be for sale. Haitian folk music. 773-6562

Democratic primary candidates debate 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The Portland Club will be hosting a debate between the Democratic primary candidates for the U.S. Senate. All four candidates who will be on the Democratic primary ballot have communicated their attention to take part in the debate. The Democratic primary candidates are: Cynthia Dill, current State Senator from Cape Elizabeth; Matt Dunlap, of Old Town, a former State legislator and Secretary of State; Jon Hinck, current State senator from Portland; and Benjamin Pollard, a Portland businessman and educator.

Owl Prowl 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Take part in a unique nighttime adventure — calling in owls during breeding season. $35/$45. www. maineaudubon.org

Country Western Night at Anthony’s 7 p.m. Anthony’s Dinner Theater and Cabaret. March 31. Starring Gloria Jean from Maine Country Music Hall of Fame along with her group Timeless and Paul Andrulli and Jim Cavallaro. Call 221-2267 for reservations. Free Parking, Handicap Accessible, Beer & Wine, www.anthonysdinnertheater.com

‘Little Me’ at St. Lawrence 7:30 p.m. “Little Me,” the musical comedy by Neil Simon (book), Cy Coleman (music), and Carolyn Leigh (lyrics) will be presented by Good Theater March 7 to April 1 at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. on Munjoy Hill in Portland. “Little Me” is directed by Brian P. Allen with musical direction by Victoria Stubbs, leading the threepiece band, and choreography by Tyler Sperry. Performances for Little Me are as follows: Wednesdays 7 p.m. ($20), Thursdays 7 p.m. ($20), Fridays 7:30 p.m. ($25), Saturday 7:30 p.m. ($30), Sundays 2 p.m. ($30). Call 8855883 for reservations and information. www.goodtheater. com

Monday, April 2 ‘The Faces of Legal Aid in Maine’ 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. “The often invisible faces of Mainers in need of legal assistance will be brought to light in a new exhibit by photographer Martha Mickles at the Portland Public Library.” The show, “Justice for All: The Faces of Legal Aid in Maine,” will be held from Monday, April 2 through mid-July in the lower level of the Portland Public Library next to the Rines Auditorium. It is sponsored by the Maine Bar Foundation. “The pictorial series documents the experiences of real Maine people seeking justice within Maine’s legal system. It features the faces of seniors who may lose their homes, young mothers fighting for their children’s education, and immigrants trying to reunite with their families. It promotes the right to legal assistance among people who often go unnoticed by the general public.” see next page

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Illuminating Beauty, Tragedy of Darfur 6 p.m. “In November 2011 students from Falmouth High School participated in an extraordinary event as part of First Friday Art Walk that brought awareness to the genocide in Darfur, Sudan through their magnificent works of art. Once again, you have the opportunity to view these inspiring and breathtaking works of art created by Falmouth student artists representing Darfur’s beauty contrasted with the tragic genocide.” Illuminating The Beauty and Tragedy of Darfur will be the new “beautifully lit” gallery’s first opening in the theater lobby at Falmouth High School. The Pihcintu Multicultural Chorus, directed by Con Fullam, who were recently featured on the Today Show, will be lending their voices to this occasion. “I am touched to the heart each time I hear them sing,” said Reza Jalali, head of Multi-Cultural Affairs at the University of Southern Maine. The Malika Sudanese dancers will be back on the theater stage in Falmouth. Viewing the artwork, mingling, meeting with the artists, and sampling Sudanese food will take

place between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Student musicians will perform light background music. At 7 p.m. there will be a performance by Pihcintu and the Malika dancers. This event is free, but donations at the door will be gratefully accepted for United to End Genocide and the Fur Cultural Revival.

Third Coast Listening Room: Lights Out 7:30 p.m. “Third Coast International Audio Festival directors Johanna Zorn and Julie Shapiro host an evening of stories about metaphorical and literal darkness: blackouts, blindness, lost love, and misadventures in space. Come out for an audio ‘screening’ in the dark, and to learn more about the 2012 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge.” Co-Presented by SPACE and The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. $5 suggested donation, free for SPACE Gallery members, all ages. www.space538. org/events.php

Tuesday, April 3 Free Income Tax Preparation 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Free Income Tax Preparation at the Portland Public Library. The AARP Foundation Tax-Aide program

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On Monday, April 2, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., the public is invited to Falmouth High School’s New Art Gallery in the Theatre Lobby, 74 Woodville Road, for an exhibit, “Illuminating the Beauty and Tragedy of Darfur.” Artwork, CD’s, books, and other merchandise will be available for sale to support United to End Genocide, The Enough Project and The Fur Cultural Revival. (COURTESY IMAGE) is offering free federal and state of Maine income tax preparation and free electronic filing in Portland at the Main Branch of the Public Library at 5 Monument Square. With electronic filing and direct deposit, refunds can be received in as little as eight days. Although walk-ins are accepted, appointments are preferred. To make an appointment, call 776-6316.

families. After a fun ballpark-style dinner, live entertainment and exciting raffle prize drawings, Portland’s home team is introduced in a rally to a full-house of more than 500 people!” www.facebook.com/TheOpportunityAlliance

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7 p.m. Four Portland area clergy will tell how their faith leads them to support marriage licenses for gay and lesbian couples. “A rabbi, a priest and a minister ... How People of Faith Support Marriage Equality” is a panel for public reflection sponsored by The Religious Coalition Against Discrimination (RCAD) and Integrity Maine. It will be hosted at Congregation Bet Ha’am. The public is invited to attend.Panelists include Rabbi Carolyn Braun; the Rev. Dr. Ben Shambaugh, Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Luke and a member of Integrity and the RCAD Board of Directors; and retired United Methodist Pastor and District Superintendent, the Rev. Don Rudalevige. The panel moderator is Rabbi Jared Saks. He will facilitate a question and answer period after the panel presentations. Refreshments and informal conversation will follow. “The Religious Coalition Against Discrimination is a statewide multi-faith network of clergy and other religious leaders whose mission is to educate and publicly advocate for the human and civil rights of all people. Further information about RCAD, is available at RCAD’s website, www.RCADmaine.org.

noon. Part of a public program series at Maine Historical Society that explores the connections between literature, art and history. Perspectives on Maine History: Maine at Work, 1860-1900 with Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., Maine State Historian, and William Bunting, historian and author.

Page to Stage: ‘Heroes’ noon to 1 p.m. Page to Stage takes place Tuesdays from noon to 1 p.m. in the Rines Auditorium at the Main Portland Public Library. “Heroes” by Gerald Sibleyras, adapted by Tom Stoppard. “Weakness, Laughter, and Escaping the Confines of Your Life” — “Three aging WWI veterans in a French retirement home vow to undertake one last adventure together — escape. But what happens if the promise of freedom on the horizon isn’t as easy to grab as the certainty of soup tomorrow? Veering from the poignant to the absurd, Stoppard’s sharp-witted comedy is a heartwarming tale of cantankerous camaraderie amidst the frustrations inherent in growing older.” Portland Stage Company, in collaboration with Portland Public Library, is pleased to present Page to Stage, an opportunity to engage in questions about the plays, playwrights, and ideas presented on Portland Stage’s Mainstage. www.portlandlibrary.com/programs/pagetostage. htm

‘How People of Faith Support Marriage Equality’

Portes: Artists’ reception 4 p.m. SPACE Gallery will host an artists’ reception for Portes, an international exhibition of Maine artists in Greece presented by the Hellenic Society of Maine and Tetra Projects. SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. www.space538.org/events.php

Sea Dogs Welcome Back Dinner 5:30 p.m. The Opportunity Alliance will celebrate the Portland Sea Dogs’ return from spring training with the community favorite Sea Dogs Welcome Back to Benefit The Opportunity Alliance dinner at the Portland Expo on April 3. “All proceeds from this funfilled family evening benefit The Opportunity Alliance’s work with Maine’s children, adults, and families. The Sea Dogs arrive from Florida excited about a new season, thrilled to meet their fans and ready to pitch in for The Opportunity Alliance’s cause! The event kicks off at 5:30 p.m. when the 2012 team arrives to mingle with fans and give autographs, while Sea Dogs mascot Slugger mugs for pictures with children and

On Saturday, April 14, One Longfellow Square will host Dudefest 2012. The Dude abides over One Longfellow Square for a night of mayhem featuring a screening of the Coen Brothers’ “The Big Lebowski.” (COURTESY IMAGE)