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Health care advocates say Dirigo ‘open for business’ Critic: It’s ‘irresponsible’ to promote program targeted in gov’s budget

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Maine’s publicly funded health insurance plan, DirigoChoice, is open for enrollment despite phased cuts to its funding in Gov. Paul LePage’s $6.1 billion budget, a group of universal health care advocates said Thursday.

The group said discussion of state budget cuts, including the governor’s high-profile see DIRIGO page 3 D..J. Carr, a houseman at the Eastland Park Hotel, walks through the foyer Thursday. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Eastland hotel to join chain?

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Unlike new hotels in Portland that carry a Hilton or Marriott or Hampton Inn brand, the Eastland Park on High Street is not part of any chain. But new owners of the 84-year-old hotel say that could change.

RockBridge Capital, which bought the Eastland this week, is focusing its immediate efforts on a “compre-

hensive” renovation, said Adam Valente, a senior vice president. But he said the company is also mulling an affiliation for the 258-room hotel.

“Can an independent property work there, as far as keeping the Eastland Hotel unaffiliated? Possibly, and that’s on the table,” Valente said yesterday in a telephone interview. “But can a brand affiliation be contemplated see HOTEL page 7

Art Walk debutantes focus on fun

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Tonight Sarahann Coleman makes her Art Walk debut, but she knows you can’t just pop the cork on a good bottle of wine and expect the patrons to come flocking in.

“I think networking on things like

Facebook where people are always accessing that is [important],” said Coleman.

“Flyers and things like that seem to be less important now because people are really caught up in checking their Facebook statuses and things like that multiple times a day,” she said.

Of course, the draw of free alcohol should never be underestimated.

“People definitely come out for art but like to have a glass or wine here or there while they’re enjoying it, it’s definitely an incentive,” she said. see ART WALK page 8

Mitchell Stein, policy director at Consumers for Affordable Health Care, an advocacy group for affordable health care, chats after a press conference promoting Maine’s Dirigo Health Agency, the state’s publicly funded insurance provider. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Irish are part of our hyphen-nation

How law works in a political nation

High school hoops hit the airwaves

See Curtis Robinson’s column on page 4

See Susan Estrich on page 5

See the story in Sports, page 14

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Teachers wonder, why the scorn?

(NY Times) — The jabs Erin Parker has heard about her job have stunned her.

“Oh you pathetic teachers,” read the online comments and placards of counterdemonstrators. “You are glorified baby sitters who leave work at 3 p.m. You deserve minimum wage.”

“You feel punched in the stomach,” said Ms. Parker, a high school science teacher in Madison, Wis. Ms. Parker, a secondyear teacher making $36,000, fears that under the proposed legislation class sizes would rise and higher contributions to her benefits would knock her out of the middle class.

“I love teaching, but I have $26,000 of student debt,” she said. “I’m 30 years old, and I can’t save up enough for a down payment” for a house.

Around the country, many teachers see demands to cut their income, benefits and say in how schools are run through collective bargaining as attacks not just on their livelihoods, but on their value to society.

Even in a country that is of two minds about teachers — Americans glowingly recall the ones who changed their lives, but think the job with its summers off is cushy — education experts say teachers have rarely been the targets of such scorn from politicians and voters.

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While rebel fighters in the country’s east celebrated their defeat of an incursion on Wednesday by hundreds of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s loyalists in the strategic oil

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Federal judge issues stay on Politics seen to limit EPA in ruling against health care regulation of natural gas PENSACOLA, Fla. (NY Times) — A federal judge in Florida on Thursday issued a stay of his own ruling against the Obama health care act, allowing the law to remain fully in effect while being appealed, eventually to the Supreme Court.

The Florida case is one of two in which judges have found a central provision of the law unconstitutional. But it is the only case in which a judge struck down the entire law, and suggested that implementation should halt

during an appellate process that could stretch for two years.

Judge Roger Vinson of Federal District Court in Pensacola, who ruled on Jan. 31 that the entire law was invalid, issued the stay without a specific request from the Obama administration. The Justice Department, which represents the administration, had asked Judge Vinson to clarify his January ruling, which the judge had characterized as the “functional equivalent” of an injunction to suspend the law.

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THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Friday, March 4, 2011— Page 3

‘We simply couldn’t handle a 32 percent increase’ Care stated in a and small businesses with DIRIGO from page one press release. up to 100 employees could proposals to cut Dirigo, have A conservative purchase qualified coverage created confusion. think tank director through them.

“We already have received called this message “The assessment is in calls on (a help) line by “irresponsible.” place until the federal health people who are confused “There’s not new exchanges come on board Jan. about what’s going on,” money for new 1, 2014, so I think there’s an said Mitchell Stein, policy people to enroll in appropriate stepdown of the director at Consumers for the program, there’s assessment,” Bragdon said.

Affordable Health Care, an just enough money Stein emphasized that the advocacy group for affordto take care of people governor’s assessment cuts able health care. “The conthat are already are only proposals, but conMullett fusion does stem from the there,” said Tarren ceded, “As the assessment is Bragdon budget proposals. Gov. LePR. Bragdon, chief executive lowered, there will be less funding age’s budget contains proviofficer of the Maine Heritage for both the subsidies and to run the sion to phase out the Dirigo Policy Center. agency as a whole to administer the assessment, the assessment “I think that the governor’s product.” on claims paid in the state budget transitions Dirigo in Still, Stein said Dirigo Health that funds the agency and a responsible way by taking Agency remains an important source subsidies for health covercare of people who are curof coverage. age.” rently on the program but “Importantly, when we’re seeing The 2.14 percent assessby eliminating the Dirigo double-digit rate increases from other ment levied on state insurtax that’s driving up costs carriers, DirigoChoice is holding its ance carriers would fall to on every Maine family,” said rates steady,” he said. zero by 2014, based on the Bragdon, who worked for five In Portland, 45 businesses and budget proposal now under years as the Heritage Policy groups provide insurance through the review by legislators.

Center’s director of health Dirigo Health Agency, according to If the governor’s budget reform initiatives and most Consumers for Affordable Health Care.

Kniseley proposals pass, that “does recently served on the goverSharon Mullett, benefits administranot mean that DirigoChoice nor’s transition team. tor for People’s Regional Opportunity goes away anytime soon,” Stein said, At issue is that 2.14 percent tax on Program, a social services organizabut it would require the Dirigo Health health care costs that funds Dirigo. tion in Portland, promoted a part-time Agency, the plan’s overseer, to make Bragdon said that fee is passed along worker voucher program, offered by changes. Stein tried to ease public to consumers who have private health DirigoChoice through a federal grant. “confusion” over the fate of Dirigoinsurance.

The program helps eligible uninsured, Choice, speaking along with support“DirigoChoice only looks affordable part-time and seasonal workers particers of the insurance program at a because the taxpayers are subsidizing ipate in their employer’s health insurpress conference in Portland. it so much,” he said. ance plan.

The Dirigo Health Agency “is open In the governor’s budget, the for business,” Stein said, noting that assessment would be phased out by the organization enjoyed one of its 2014, when the federal health care busiest months in January and had reform law, the Affordable Care Act, over 580 businesses and nearly 15,000 kicks in with state-based American Mainers enrolled as of January.

Health Benefit Exchanges and Small “The Dirigo Health Agency remains Business Health Options Program a viable option for insurance coverExchanges. These exchanges, accordage, despite proposed budget cuts to ing to the law, would be administered the agency by Governor Paul LePage,” by a government agency or nonConsumers for Affordable Health profit organization; and individuals

“Because of PROP’s mission, it is only natural for PROP to offer the voucher program to our seasonal and part-time employees until 2014 when the Affordable Health Care Act starts,” she said during Thursday’s press conference.

The benefit of the program greatly outweighs the financial obligation, Mullett said.

Don Kniseley, executive director of Tedford Housing, a Brunswick-based provider of housing services to at-risk families, said Dirigo Health Agency was a godsend to the $1.2 million, 22-employee nonprofit.

“Last November, we faced a 32 percent increase in our premium having been insured with one of the very few insurers in the state for three years,” Kniseley said. “We simply couldn’t handle a 32 percent increase, so we looked around, we approached Dirigo and found that we were able to attain essentially a comparable level of insurance, a few changes in deductibles and so forth, but not major. We were able to provide essentially the same coverage at no increase from what we had been paying. This was huge for us, it meant a $15,000 chunk of money for us.”

Single parents making $11 an hour, some doing “front-line work” in an emergency shelter, were among those who benefited, Kniseley said.

“What moving to Dirigo meant is some of our entry-level employees were able to attain significant discounts both in their premium and their deductible in Dirigo,” he said.

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Why not publish other editorial cartoons in Sun? Editor, As I've written before, I appreciate and enjoy your paper. I don't pick it up every day, but when I do it invariably has a Glenn McCoy political cartoon on your Opinions page [and if it's not his stuff then it's Lisa Benson's, who's maybe even farther to the right]. He's good, and he's usually funny, but a steady diet of him is tough to take unless one is a fellow Obama- and union-hater, as he [and she] seems to be.

Since you also regularly carry his brother Gary's non-political cartoons, which are almost always funny, I get the impression they're giving you some kind of package deal. In any event, I wish there were less of and more Tom Toles, or Pat Oliphant, or some other cartoonists who gives it to the what Republicans around the country are trying to do to women, to unions, to the environment, you name it.

Other than the right-wing cartoonists, you're paper is a valuable source of news, especially now that you can carry New York Times pieces; I was happy to see the great Bob Herbert's piece in today's paper.

James Douglas Cowie Portland Editor's note: The Portland Daily Sun runs editorial cartoons by conservative Glenn McCoy and by liberal Carlson, alternating them when possible, as well as local cartoons. An effort is made to provide balance.

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Irish are part of our hyphen-nation Welcome to March, the month when virtually anyone with a trace of Irish blood gets to assert membership in what’s become a hyphen-nation.

The culturally “hyphened” American used to be relatively rare. Anglo-Americans worried if African-American was still in vogue and other ethnic groups mostly self-identified with dashing style only when it was politically important. And assimilation was a coveted goal.

Maine has many families that stopped speaking French as part of their United States experience.

And there are folks, like Gov. Paul LePage, who recall that FrancoAmericans were targeted for ethnic hatred on a regular basis.

Only recently, the ItalianAmerican community was rocked by assimilation over-achievement: nobody now living in New York City’s Little Italy area was born in Italy. It’s an example of our shifting society: only 60 years ago, half the population of Little Italy self-identified as American citizens of Italian descent and about one in five of the area’s

Curtis Robinson ––––– Usually Reserved 10,000 residents had actually been born in Italy.

Now, only 5 percent of the area’s nearly 9,000 residents even call themselves Italian-American.

In Portland, where St. Patrick’s Day is always a well-celebrated event, we’ve seen large Irish populations move on. The Irish Heritage Center, the former Catholic Church at the corner of Gray and State streets, became a cultural monument in large part because of the out-migration of Irish families.

But assimilation seems to have lost a bit of its allure. Some of that is clearly geographic — many immigrants from Mexico expect to return home often, which was not the case for Italians in Little Italy a half-century ago.

But some of the anti-assimi-

lation is cultural. It seems that, amid our celebration of diversity, it’s become more attractive to identify with the homelands. Portland is considering letting noncitizens vote in local elections, a clear sign that non-assimilation is just not the issue it was when French-speaking families dropped the native language.

As a bit of an Irish-American myself, and not just for the month, it’s worth noting that assimilation wasn’t a self-identity issue growing up — I’m sure nobody would have had any idea what the heck it was.

We did flirt for a while with the hyphenation of “AppalachianAmerican” when some areas started awarding money for “traditionally under-served minorities” and we mountain folk felt quite under-served at the time.

And we did lay claim to Jack Dempsey, the famous boxer. He was my father’s cousin (I’m told) and stared out from grainy blackand-white family reunion photos.

Thus I was likely the only eighth grader to know that Jack Dempsey see ROBINSON page 5

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Friday, March 4, 2011— Page 5

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How law works in a political nation My guess is that there was not a single member of the United States Supreme Court who was not personally appalled that the Westboro Baptist Church would target the funeral of a soldier who died in battle so they could get publicity for their anti-gay views. It is hard to think of any good reason why the Snyder family, having lost their beloved (and, if it matters, not gay) son while serving his country in Iraq, should be exposed to such abuse. And it’s easy to understand why they would sue and seek the kind of damages that would ensure Westboro could not continue to abuse others.

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court held in an 8-1 decision that the Snyders could not recover for the emotional distress intentionally inflicted on them, even though no one doubts that it was or that it was done so intentionally. With only Justice Samuel Alito dissenting, the Court’s four liberals, all Democratic appointees, joined the remaining four conservatives, all Republican appointees, to hold that the First Amendment protected the church from being called to answer for the pain it had caused.

“Speech is powerful,” Chief Justice John Roberts declared, writing for the majority. Here, two reasons demand its protection, the Court held. First, however inarticulately and crudely, the signs and taunts of the Westboro Church members went directly to issues of public importance, which “occupies the highest rung of the hierarchy of First Amendment values.”

Second, the church members complied with all other laws applicable to the time, place and manner of public assembly. The church members “had the right to be where they were” — 1,000 feet from the site of the funeral.

The distress, then, “turned on the content and viewpoint of the message conveyed,” which is precisely what the First Amendment protects.

Of course, the First Amendment says

Susan Estrich ––––– Creators Syndicate

If it were all “politics,” Westboro would have lost and the soldier’s family would have won.

nothing about content restrictions being the worst kind of regulation of speech.

Nor does it say anything about speech on public policy issues occupying the “highest rung.” It doesn’t say anything about time, place and manner restrictions, or how far protestors can be kept away, so long as the rules apply to everyone. All it says is that “freedom of speech,” along with a free press and the right to assemble and petition for grievances, shall be protected.

That’s it.

The rest has come from judges, especially Supreme Court justices, mostly in the last hundred years, who have gone way beyond divining the intent of the Founders to develop a whole body of law as to what the First Amendment does and does not protect. The law has obviously changed over time, often (albeit not explicitly) to reflect the various wars (the Red Scare, for instance) we have faced and the fear they engender.

But here’s the part that gets lost in the assumption — reinforced by the confirmation processes of the past two decades and by close majorities in some big cases — that it’s all just politics: If it were all “politics,” Westboro would have lost and the soldier’s family would have won.

There is still such a thing as “law,” even if a new conservative Court could theoretically jettison it all. Yes, there are close cases. But there are many more that are not close because, as here, two centuries have yielded a “right” answer, even if it is judgemade.

(To find out more about Susan Estrich and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.)

Folks flirted with hyphenation of ‘Appalachian-American’ ROBINSON from page 4

was in the first event witnessed by more than a million human beings — a triumph for both early television and the extended Dempsey clan.

So it’s been an odd trip to re-discover my hyphen. I’ve named a son “Finnegan” who would tell you he’s Irish, something I would not have considered at his age. The truth is that, like many American families, we can pick from an ancestral buffet that

includes equal parts English, Scottish and some French on my mom’s side.

We like the Irish part, Finn and me.

And now fast approaches March 17, my second-favorite Irish milestone (Bloomsday is the first), and I’ll be gettin’ my hyphen on early and often.

But along with the good fun, it’s also a celebration of our hyphen-nation.

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

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there? Yes, and it should be.”

He added, “Whether it’s a brand or independent, we believe in brighter days ahead” for the Eastland, which operated under the Radisson flag until the late 1990s.

RockBridge Capital on Monday bought the Eastland from a subsidiary of Magna Hospitality Group, which listed the hotel for sale last fall. Magna bought the hotel in 2000 for $1.95 million, according to city records.

Terms of this latest sale were not disclosed. However, one industry insider who was familiar with the sale price but didn’t want to be identified by name, said it sold for “a pretty sizable amount.”

“I was kind of surprised. I sure hope they did their due-diligence,” this person said, referring to RockBridge Capital.

RockBridge Capital, which is based in Columbus, Ohio, has invested more than $3 billion in hotels and other hospitality properties across the U.S., according to its website. The firms investors are mostly “endowments and institutional partners who want hospitality exposure,” Valente said, rather than individuals.

Existing RockBridge properties have affiliations with Marriott, Hilton, and other international brands. Affiliations with these and other brands can help boost business at a given hotel because many travelers are enrolled in loyalty, or “points” programs.

The Eastland will be operated day-to-day by New Castle Hotels & Resorts, which runs 30 properties nationwide, including the Hilton Garden Inn at the Portland Jetport and the Four Points Sheraton in Bangor.

New Castle Hotels did not return a phone call yesterday seeking comment. A receptionist at the

“Our approach, and our partners’ approach, is really on re-investing in properties that are in attractive markets,” and with hotels that have “long-term staying power,” said Adam Valente, a senior vice president with RockBridge Capital, buyer of the Eastland Park Hotel in Portland. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Shelton, Conn.-based hotel operator said company officials had to speak with an unnamed “partner” before talking to the media.

The pending sale of the Eastland was first reported in the weekly Forecaster newspaper.

RockBridge was attracted both to the Eastland property itself and to the Portland market as a whole, with its “food culture, arts culture and tourism,” Valente said.

“Our approach, and our partners’ approach, is really on re-investing in properties that are in attractive markets,” and with hotels that have “longterm staying power,” he said.

Valente would not disclose how much the company intends to spend on the renovation, or specify what parts of the hotel would be improved. But he said

company’s “vision” for an updated Eastland includes a comprehensive renovation in which “no area visible to the guest would not be addressed.”

Jan Beitzer, executive director of Portland Downtown District, described the sale as “very exciting ... there’s been some renovations done over the years, but this will be a top-to-bottom renovation that will really help the Arts District.”

She noted that the Eastland has the second largest conference facilities in town, which help bring business to nearby shops, museums and restaurants.

The hotel sale was not without controversy.

RockBridge plans to convert up to 50 apartments in the Eastland back into hotel rooms. Some city councilors were upset to learn RockBridge skirted $2.5 million in potential fees from those conversions, the Forecaster reported.

The city’s housing replacement ordinance, which was amended last year, requires that developers replace any housing units that are lost during new construction or pay the city $50,000 per unit that’s not replaced. The ordinance is intended to protect the city’s housing stock.

Despite recent amendments to the ordinance, councilors Kevin Donoghue and John Anton told the Forecaster they believed those fees still applied to the Eastland’s hotel room conversions.

But in a Feb. 25 letter from planning director Penny St. Louis to RockBridge, St. Louis explained the company is exempt from the housing replacement ordinance because the ordinance does not apply to “consolation or elimination of dwelling units within an existing structure.”

Valente would not comment on the question of converting apartments into hotel rooms.

It’s not clear if Valente was already counting those apartments as guest rooms when he said the Eastland has 258 rooms. On its website, New Castle Hotels says the Eastland has 202 rooms.

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“They open up building a little later to encourage people to come in, and a lot of other artists in the building open their studios as well, Stone Coast [Properties] are very good about advertising for us,” she said. “They will have a little write-up in the entryways and elevators and kind of a map to let people know whose studios are open and what they are exhibiting.”

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Moving to Portland two years ago after leaving a photo advertising job in Minneapolis to concentrate more on her own photography, Coleman has worked out of the third-floor studio space at suite No. 310 for a while, but was always too busy around the first of the month to mount a show for Art Walk.

Typically, Coleman’s does portraiture, “kind of the dynamics of relationships with people,” she explains. “I did a series on siblings and concentrated on how each group of siblings was different in their intimacy and their relationships,” she said.

Having studied photography at Columbia College in Chicago, Coleman said she plans to stick with portraiture, but likes to use forums like the Art Walk to exhibit some different types of work.

Tonight at suite No. 310, Coleman will exhibit her series “Ladies and Gentlemen.” Featuring 12 images mounted on woodblocks, half the 6 x 6 inch prints feature satin flowers in hushed tones, the other half, graphic, bold subjects with the sprockets of the films showing along the top and bottom of the print.

“It has to do with my observations of viewing other’s reactions to art. I saw patterns in what females and males where drawn to,” she said, explaining see next page

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Ladies and Gentlemen art experiments from preceding page

females were typically attracted to pieces with “a softer focus, muted colors,” and men going for things which were “a little more graphic, with bolder colors, symmetrical.”

Coleman will asks those who pop into the studio to examine the images before reading her statement, to see if her theory about aesthetic attraction by gender really holds up.

“It’s just interesting for me to see which ones they would be drawn to initially,” she said.

“Each set of images is unique in its execution.

The Ladies being captured digitally, and then manipulated in post production. The Gentlemen was an experiment with a medium format toy camera exposing a smaller format film (hence the exposed sprockets),” writes Coleman in her artist’s statement.

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“I think that’s something artists tend to shy away from because

they’re always trying to do something so different to prove this point and it can be a little bit pretentious. I have a lot of family and friends who don’t understand art at all, so I think it’s important to draw those people in,” she said.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Friday, March 4, the 63rd day of 2011. There are 302 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlights in History: On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States. The U.S. Government Printing Office began operation. The Confederate States of America adopted as its flag the original version of the Stars and Bars (not to be confused with the more familiar Confederate Battle Flag).

On this date: In 1789, the Constitution of the United States went into effect as the first Federal Congress met in New York. (The lawmakers then adjourned for lack of a quorum.)

In 1791, Vermont became the 14th state.

In 1811, the first Bank of the United States ceased operations as its charter expired.

In 1858, Sen. James Henry Hammond of South Carolina declared “Cotton is king” in a speech to the U.S. Senate.

In 1908, a fire at Lake View School in Collinwood, Ohio, claimed the lives of 172 children and three adults.

In 1930, Coolidge Dam in Arizona was dedicated by its namesake, former President Calvin Coolidge.

In 1940, Kings Canyon National Park in California was established.

In 1960, an explosives-laden French freighter, La Coubre, exploded in Havana’s harbor, killing at least 75 people.

In 1977, some 1,500 people were killed in an earthquake that shook southern and eastern Europe.

In 1981, a jury in Salt Lake City convicted Joseph Paul Franklin, an avowed racist, of violating the civil rights of two black men who’d been shot to death.

One year ago: A Hollister, Calif., man with a history of severe psychiatric problems opened fire at a Pentagon security checkpoint; John Patrick Bedell, 36, wounded two police officers before being killed by police.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Paula Prentiss is 73. Movie director Adrian Lyne is 70.

Singer Bobby Womack is 67. Rock musician Chris Squire (Yes) is 63. Singer Shakin’ Stevens is 63. Author James Ellroy is 63.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is 61. Singer Chris Rea is 60. Actor Ronn Moss is 59. Actress Kay Lenz is 58. Musician Emilio Estefan is 58. Movie director Scott Hicks is 58. Actress Catherine O’Hara is 57. Actor Mykelti (MY’kul-tee) Williamson is 54. Actress Patricia Heaton is 53. Actor Steven Weber is 50.

Rock musician Jason Newsted is 48. Actress Stacy Edwards is 46. Rapper Grand Puba is 45. Rock musician Patrick Hannan (The Sundays) is 45. Rock singer Evan Dando (Lemonheads) is 44. Actress Patsy Kensit is 43. Gay rights activist Chaz Bono is 42.

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The problem is, I married Sam for his stability and now everything else about him is really getting on my nerves. With an almost-empty nest, I want to get back to the real me -- the one who enjoys dinners out, concerts, dancing, travel, the great outdoors, intellectual stimulation, etc. Sam is a couch potato who’s overweight, diabetic and impotent. I can’t stop myself from imagining a better Mr. Right, which makes me open to the possibility of meeting someone else, and that jeopardizes my marriage. So, Annie, if this Mr. Right comes along, should I go? -- Lucky but Not Happy Dear Lucky: After 17 years and a teenage son, don’t you think you owe it to Stable Sam to tell him you are unhappy and would like to see some changes made? You are assuming he is unable or unwilling, but saving the marriage could motivate him. Get some counseling, preferably with your husband, and see what can be fixed.

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I am at my wits’ end. She is over 30 and still acts like a defiant teenager. I have already told her I will never again lend her a dime. In the process of trying to help her, I may have lost my daughter. What can I do now? -- Trying Too Hard in New York Dear Trying: This is not about you. It’s about the money.

Your daughter either doesn’t have the means to pay you back, or she doesn’t want to. When she thinks of you, all that comes to mind is her guilt. By pushing you away, she also won’t have to part with that settlement money (if she ever gets it). Either chalk this up to a bad loan and let her know she’s off the hook, or insist on repayment and run the risk of an estrangement -- whichever result is easier for you to live with.

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There are different types of alcoholics: those who drink daily and become physically dependent, and those who go on binges and can have long periods of time when they don’t drink.

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Friday, March 4 The Incredible Breakfast Cook-off 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Twelve of Maine’s “Champions of Breakfast” are invited to the Sea Dog Brew Pub to compete. They line up side-by-side and serve small plates. Guests of the event choose whose breakfast reigns supreme. Last year Good Table restaurant from Cape Elizabeth won top honors — their Creme Brulee French Toast lived up to its “Bring you to your knees delicious” description. They’ll be back to defend their title and so will a large group of competitors, each vying for the top prize. As a special treat for guest of the event Captain & Celeste — the WBLM morning show —will broadcast live from the Sea Dog Brew Pub. This Maine Restaurant Week event benefits Preble Street Resource Center. General admission is $15 per person or $27 per pair. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/153215

Riverton Community enrichment celebration

Casco Bay Lines Inter-Island Cruise 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Departs Portland at 6 p.m. and returns to Portland at 10 p.m. Heavy appetizers provided by the Inn on Peaks Island; music provided by 43N -70W. Cash bar on board. Tickets $25 per person, available at the CBL ticket window. For more information call Caity at 774-7871, x105.

Irish Night with the Maine Red Claws 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Portland Expo. Second annual Irish Night and help support the Maine Irish Heritage Center. “Wear green to show your Irish Pride as we celebrate Maine’s Irish community. A portion of the special fundraising tickets will go to support the Irish American Club of Maine and the Maine Irish Heritage Center. Festivities include: Halftime performance by the Stillson School of Irish Dance. Pre-Game Parade of Flags from Ireland and Bagpipes from Claddagh Mhor Pipe Band. Special fundraiser tickets will be $10 and $15. Please help support the MIHC!” For more information contact Kay Martin at 878-3724 or Pat McBride at irishhc@maine.rr.com

‘Exhibit This’ at Deering High 1:40 p.m. to 2:40 p.m. Riverton Elementary 7 p.m. Deering High School Drama presents School families and community members “Exhibit This,” a one-act comedy by Luigi are invited to a sharing of learning from the school’s recent, six-week series of enrich- Abraham Bogdanove photographed painting Manana Island from Monhegan Island. The Maine Histori- Jannuzzi about the Metropolitan Museum ment workshops. The event will be held on cal Society features this image in its Arts, Artists, and Personalities in 1930s Maine exhibit. (COURTESY of Art, on March 4 and 5 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 in advance or $7 at the door. Call March 4 from in the media center and caf- IMAGE) 874-8260 during school hours for reservaeteria of the school, located at 1600 Forest on glass, where you must look through one painting to see tions. Visit www.deeringdrama.org.

Avenue, Portland. All Riverton staff and students particithe rest of the painting. I am also going to have an unanpated in the workshops. During the celebration, cluster ‘The Cleansed: Season One’ nounced hidden treasure hunt in the gallery. That is all I will groups will present dances, drama and other performances.

7 p.m. to 9 p.m. As part of First Friday Art Walk, Coffee by be saying about the treasure until someone finds it, or the Students, teachers, parents and guests will go on a “gallery Design will be hosting Audio Producer Fred Greenhalgh art show ends (at the end of March).” http://www.blogger. walk” to see posters highlighting each cluster’s learning. at their India Street Cofeehouse, 67 India St., Portland. com/profile/12091165616820244881 Greenhalgh, who was the recipient of a 2010 CBD Rebel First Friday Art Walk: Cannonball Press Freeze Out Hunger 2011 Blend arts grant, will be sharing audio samples and talk5 p.m. Cannonball Press presents Burn the Lot: Splinter 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Freeze Out Hunger 2011 at the ing about his new work, “The Cleansed: Season One.” Heads, Nut Mobs & Ballyhoo, featuring a huge new pile of Ocean Gateway Terminal Building. “Enjoy bidding on live The pilot of “The Cleansed,” which aired on Halloween, limited-edition $20 prints by the likes of Dusty Herbig, Angela and silent auction Items; enjoy delicious appetizers pre2010 on both WKIT in Bangor and WMPG in Portland, Earley, Drew Iwaniw, Sarah Nicholls, Tyler Krasowski, and pared by Kitchen Chicks of Kennebunk; cash bar with follows the stories of a group of civilians and soldiers Donna Diamond. Also, Martin Mazorra and Mike Houston spirits donated by Whiterock Distilleries, Inc. and Gritty’s; who are caught in the middle of civil upheaval caused by will premiere their new supersized woodcuts depicting the meet the Portland Pirates as they join the fight to Freeze a disastrous shortage of fossil fuels. The show has been capitalist wasteland, as seen through the lens of a carnival Out Hunger; dance the night away with the nine piece called a “huge achievement” by BBC Radio 4 producer for the ages. Mega carny prints on canvas; free, all ages. band Retrospecticus. Tickets are $45 until March 3.

John Dryden. Irish playwright Roger Gregg says the Then they will be $55. Junior League of Maine, “a nonprofit ‘Hardware’ photo display work is at “the forefront of the contemporary American organization of women committed to promoting volunteer[radio drama] scene.” More information and free downat The Green Hand bookstore ism, developing the potential of women, and improving the loads of the pilot episode of “The Cleansed” are available 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. This month the Green Hand is continuing community through the effective action and leadership of at: http://thecleansed.com. The Cleansed is a co-proto showcase photography with a series of black and white trained volunteers.

Its purpose is exclusively educational duction of FinalRune Productions and WMPG, commuphotos by Wayne Frederick. “Hardware” is a collection of and charitable.” www.jlpmaine.org nity radio of from the University of Southern Maine. humorous, serious, and mysterious prints of “guy stuff” that Exhibit and Awards of the National Arts Program includes abstracts, still life, action shots, and plain old pictures.

‘In the Shelter of Each Other:A Social Action Shabbat’ 6:30 p.m. City of Portland, Portland Public Schools and Suitable for viewing by all age groups. First Friday Art Walk 7:30 p.m. The Social Action Committee of Congregation Portland Public Library employees and their families will opening at The Green Hand Bookshop, 661 Congress St. On Bet Ha’am presents “In the Shelter of Each Other,” a speshowcase their artwork on the walls of City Hall as a part display through the month of March. FMI: Contact Michelle cial Social Action Shabbat service focusing on the needs of of the fifth annual Exhibit and Awards of the National Arts Souliere at 450-6695 or michelle.souliere@gmail.com.

Maine families who are struggling financially, on March 4 at Program. Nearly 100 employees and family members are the synagogue, located at 81 Westbrook St., South PortArts, Artists, and Personalities expected to participate. Members of the public are invited land. The service is open to the community. It will include in 1930s Maine at Maine Historical to visit City Hall to view the art on display March 4 through special prayers, songs and a brief talk by Christine Hast5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Maine Historical Society presents a new March 17, Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The edt, co-founder and public policy director of Maine Equal exhibit, Arts, Artists, and Personalities in 1930s Maine.

National Arts Program is designed to give artists at all levels Justice. After the service, representatives from several nonOriginal photographs on display March 4 through May 3. of skill an opportunity to exhibit their work in a professional profit programs serving low-income Mainers will provide The opening reception is free and open to the public and information about how volunteers can get involved. Everymanner and compete for cash prizes, the city reported in will be held on March 4 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Earle one attending the March 4 service is requested to bring a press release. Sponsored by the National Arts Program G. Shettleworth, Jr. Lecture Hall. This exhibit will be open canned goods to donate to a local food pantry. A list of Foundation in support and cooperation with the City of to the public at no charge during the April First Friday Art needed items is posted on the Social Action Committee’s Portland, the exhibit is judged by professional artists and Walk. While stories of hardship and suffering are not hard blog: http://www.bhsocialaction.blogspot.com/ visual art professionals. Winners in the amateur, intermediate, to find in Depression-era Maine, a series of photographs professional and youth categories will be announced Friday, Master Hypnotist at Fryeburg Academy taken to accompany newspaper articles during that era March 4 at the artist’s reception at 6:30 p.m. www.ci.portland.

7:30 p.m. Dan Candell, Master Hypnotist and mind reader offer another view: the strength and vitality of the arts and me.us/ is appearing at Fryeburg Academy’s Laura Hill Eastman artists and of other personalities in 1930s Maine. G. Herbert Performing Arts Center to hypnotize and read the minds ‘Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune’ Whitney, an accomplished amateur photographer, captured of any volunteer brave enough to participate. All tickets are 6:30 p.m.

Film screenings.

Friday, March 4, 6:30 p.m.; these people and scenes while his wife, Emmie Bailey Whit$10 per person. Proceeds will go to the graduating class of Saturday, March 5, 2 p.m.; Sunday, March 6, 2 p.m.

NR. ney, interviewed the personalities for the Lewiston Journal 2013. 935.9232 “There’s no place in this world where I’ll belong, when I’m Saturday Magazine. A number of the dozen people featured gone, And I won’t know the right from the wrong, when ‘The Shadow Box’ in this display are well-known artists or writers. The MHS I’m gone, And you won’t find me singin’ on this song, 8 p.m. “The Shadow Box,” a Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Museum and Lecture Hall gallery are open Monday through when I’m gone.

So I guess I’ll have to do it while I’m here.”

Award-winning play that is a “must experience” event! StarSaturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free for MHS mem— “As our country continues to embroil itself in foreign ring nine of Portland’s finest actors and directed by Vinbers, $8 for adults, $7 for seniors, students, and AAA memwars and once again pins its hopes on a new leader’s cent Knue, this production will have you talking long after bers, and $2 for children, free for children under 6. promise for change, this feature-length documentary is the final bow. Now playing at the Old Port Playhouse, 19 Lambs among Wolves oil paintings a timely tribute to an unlikely American hero. Phil Ochs, Temple St. in Portland. All seats are $15. For reservations 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Meghan Howland: Lambs among Wolves. a folk singing legend, who many called “the emotional and more information call the box office at 773-0333.

Oil paintings. Opening show at Mayo Street Arts. (First heart of his generation,” loved his country and he purGeorge Hamm at the Comedy Connection Friday) http://mayostreetarts.org/ sued its honor, in song and action, with a ferocity that 8:30 p.m. Portland’s own George Hamm with Tony Moshad no regard for consequences. Wielding only a battered William Hessian solo show at the Meg Perry Center chetto. Tickets $16. Portland Comedy Connection, 16 guitar, a clear voice, and a quiver of razor sharp songs, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. For First Friday Art Walk, Minnesota artist Custom House Wharf. Also Saturday. Reservations: he tirelessly fought the ‘good fight’ for peace and justice William Hessian will display his art at the Meg Perry Center, 774-5554. $7.50. Schedule and information: www. throughout his short life. He took his own life in 1976 at 644 Congress St. Free kitty stickers. “Basically I will be putmainecomedy.com. Box office open Thurs.-Sat., noon the age of 35.” Movies at the Museum, Portland Museum ting up over 200 works of art, from miniature works to larger to 10 p.m. of Art. http://portlandmuseum.org paintings,” Hessian wrote on his blog. “New paintings done

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Jeff Schools (right) and Matty Boutwell of Maine Sports Network chat before a game at the Maine High School Basketball Tournament.

All 32 Western Maine Class A and B boys and girls games are on radio on either AM1310 News Talk WLOB, 95.5 WLOB or 96.3 The Big Jab. Today’s Class B State Championship Games are on 95.5FM News Talk WLOB; Saturday’s Class A Championship Games will be aired on 96.3 The Big Jab. Bangor will play Cheverus on Saturday night in Augusta. (Photo courtesy of Jason Gendron)

Matty Boutwell talks with Catherine McAuley High School Coach Amy Vachon on the wireless mic. (Photo courtesy of Jason Gendron)

High school hoops hit the airwaves

BY JEFF PETERSON SPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Talk about wall-to-wall high school basketball: this weekend, gold balls will be handed out in the state tournament championship games and you can listen to the action on local radio for a change.

The Class B title games can be heard live on Friday night from the Cumberland County Civic Center on 95.5 FM WLOB. At 7 p.m., the Leavitt girls will take on Nokomis. Then at 9 p.m. it will be the Cape Elizabeth boys playing Camden Hills.

Still not enough hoops for you? Well, on Saturday you go up your dial a bit and hear the Class A games

Matty Boutwell talks to WCSH 6’s Lee Goldberg at halftime of a game at the Cumberland County Civic Center. (Photo courtesy of Earl Adams)

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL GAMES Friday on 95.5 WLOB Girls Class B Leavitt vs Nokomis 7 p.m.

Boys Class B Cape Elizabeth vs Camden Hills 9 p.m.

Saturday on 96.3 Big Jab Girls Class A McAuley vs Hampden Academy 4 p.m.

Boys Class A Cheverus vs Bangor 7 p.m. from the Augusta Civic Center on 96.3 FM "The Big Jab." At 4 p.m. McAuley will battle Hamden Academy in the girls final. Then at 7 p.m. the undefeated Cheverus boys will play Bangor for the title.

Just in case you haven't been listening, these aren't the only tournament games that have been on the radio.

Over the last two weeks, the Maine Sports Network has basically been putting on a "basketball marathon." They have broadcast 32 high school playoff basketball games. Nobody knows if it's a record, but no doubt it's the most high school basketball that has been on the airwaves in years.

"It has been crazy," said announcer and network creator Jeff Schools. "Early on in the tournament at one point, we were on the air from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. a couple of days. You have to love high school basketball to do that, and we do."

Jeff Schools is not alone on the air.

His business partner Marry Boutwell, Tom Nolette of mbr.com, a local sports writer and a couple of local television sportscasters have been helping out with the games. But it is still a whole lot of producing and a whole lot of talking.

"I have had lots of help," said School. "But I still have had to do most of the games. My voice has been hanging in there. I have been taking plenty of

vitamin C drops and drinking lots of tea with lemon and honey."

It has apparently helped, because going into this weekend's state finals, School still has his voice.

"I sit back and still can't believe what we are doing," said Schools.

The Maine Sports Network wouldn't have been able to pull off this marathon without plenty of help and not just from the extra announcers. Atlantic Radio had to find time on three different frequencies and there had to be sponsors to pay for that time and all of the other expenses.

"Advertising has been a little rough because our network is still new," said School. "But sponsors like Captain Eli's Soda, Mister Sparky and Maine Hoops Basketball Club really came through for us."

Despite the sponsors, Maine Sports Network says it will be lucky to break even during this year's tournament. School has a vision for the future, though, and he thinks down the road, broadcasting all of these games will be a money maker one day.

In the meantime, for everyone involved it has been fun and challenging. Doing 32 tournament games you will always have speed bumps.

A few times, the games have gone off the air for a bit because of a technical glitch and there have been a few blowouts. "Back in the Class B girls quarterfinals we had a game that ended up 55-14," said School. "It was tough to keep it interesting, but we still had fun. That was a bad game, but we still had a great broadcast. We had to be very creative. All of the announcers get along with each other, and we know a lot about high school basketball to keep even a rout interesting."

Schools claims feedback from the public, players and coaches has been very positive. So positive that one day the Maine Sports Network would like to broadcast all the games in the state.

That would be Class C and D and all the games in the East as well.

"We don't just want to do games in the Portland area," said Schools. "We are looking for something big. That's why we called ourselves the Maine Sports Network."

For more information you can log onto mainesportsnetwork.com

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Friday, March 4 Mark O’Connor Quartet: An Evening of Strings 8 p.m. Mark O’Connor Quartet at Merrill Auditorium.

“Fierce fiddler. Virtuosic violinist. Masterful composer.

Fearless improviser. Generous collaborator. From bluegrass to country to jazz to Americana inflected classical, O’Connor’s playing and compositions defy categorization. O’Connor is known for his work with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, Matt Haimovitz and Rosanne Cash to name a few. His Fanfare for the Volunteer was recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra; he’s been commissioned by Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. The program for the Mark O’Connor Quartet performance at Merrill Auditorium includes O’Connor’s recent String Quartet No. 3 Old-Time, as well as selections from his acclaimed Appalachia Waltz and Appalachian Journey.” http://portlandovations.org

Friday, March 11 Bright Eyes and The Mynabirds at The State Theatre 8 p.m. Since 2006 the once revolving cast of Bright Eyes players has settled around permanent members Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, with additional musicians joining them in the studio and on tour. Fully realized and bursting with charisma, The People’s Key is an assured and accomplished album, artfully arranged and filled with the engaging and mesmeric songwriting for which Oberst is renowned. Recorded in Omaha, Nebraska, at the band’s own ARC Studios, The People’s Key was produced by Mike Mogis and engineered by Mogis and Andy LeMaster. Before Georgie James, Laura Burhenn (half of the former DC duo) had spent her early years crafting music on her own. So when Georgie James split, she went back to what she knew. In the spring of 2009, Laura gathered her favorite books, records, and people around her and wrote what would become the first album from her new band, The Mynabirds. $25, all ages.

Tuesday, March 15 The Saw Doctors with AM Taxi 7 p.m. The Saw Doctors are a folk-rock band from Tuam, County Galway in Ireland. Members of the group include Leo Moran (guitar), Davy Carton (vocals), Derek Murray (keyboards), former Waterboy Anthony Thistlethwaite (saxophone and bass), and Fran Breen (drums). The band’s first big break came when they were asked to play the opening act for The Waterboys UK tour in 1988. Soon after, their second single entitled “I Useta Lover” became the biggest selling single in Irish history, spending nine weeks at the top of that country’s charts and prompting a scolding from the Catholic Church because of a lyric in the song that describes a boy as being more interested in his beloved’s backside than the mass he is attending. The band is often compared to Bruce Springsteen, echoing his frequent use of local atmosphere, haunts and characters and for his electrifying live performances. $22 advance, $25 day-of show, $40 VIP, 21 plus.

Saturday, March 19

7:30 p.m. With Special Guest Uncle Kracker. All tickets for the Kenny Chesney show at the Cumberland County Civic Center have sold-out, the Civic Center board reported. It

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8 p.m. John Prine plays at Merrill Auditorium, presented by the State Theatre. Some four decades since his remarkable debut, John Prine has stayed at the top of his game, both as a performer and songwriter. Recently honored at the Library of Congress by US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, he’s been elevated from the annals of songwriters into the realm of bonafide American treasures. Long considered a “songwriter’s songwriter,” John Prine is a rare talent who writes the songs other songwriters would sell their souls for. Evidence of this is the long list of songwriters who have recorded gems from his extensive catalog, including Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, the Everly Brothers, John Denver, Kris Kristofferson, Carly Simon, Ben Harper, Joan Baez, and many others. Tickets available in person at the PortTix Box Office at Merrill Auditorium, charge by phone at 842-0800 and online at www.porttix.com

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Sunday, May 1 7 p.m. Avenged Sevenfold with Three Days Grace and Sevendust at the Cumberland County Civic Center. Avenged Sevenfold’s “Welcome To The Family” Tour is on sale today.

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Saturday, May 21 David Crosby & Graham Nash at the State 8 p.m. “As a duo, longtime creative partners David Crosby and Graham Nash bring out the best in each other, their distinct yet complementary styles balancing an equation that delivers a seamless and inspiring musical whole. Twothirds and one-half, respectively, of Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, these Rock and Roll Hall of Famers are legendary for their airtight and crystal-clear vocal harmonies, as sublime when delivered by simply these two together as they are from the larger configurations. It is a sound that’s one of the true touchstones of the rock ‘n’ roll era. Having toured as the occasional duo for four decades, Crosby and Nash will be backed by a band consisting of James Raymond playing keyboards, guitarist Dean Parks, bassist Kevin McCormick and Steve DiStanislao on drums.

The plan calls for Crosby and Stills to switch between acoustic and electric instruments as they play their classic tunes as well as a few new songs.” State Theatre.

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Thursday, April 7 Kenny Chesney show sells out

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Friday,April 29 John Prine, presented by the State Theatre, performing at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium

Soulive with Karl Denson at the State 8 p.m. Soulive with special guest Karl Denson at the State Theatre. “Not many bands can say they’ve recorded with Chaka Khan, Dave Matthews, Talib Kweli and John Scofield.

Nor can many bands open for The Rolling Stones on one tour and have Stevie Wonder sit in with them on the next tour. The musical relationships Soulive has developed, from the aforementioned artists to Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Robert Randolph, Joshua Redman, Kenny Garrett, Fred Wesley, The Roots, Ivan Neville and so many others, speak volumes about both how versatile these talented musicians are. Jazz, hip-hop, rock, soul, funk, R & B, Blues – musically, there is not much the band hasn’t done. ... Karl Denson has led a storied career as a multi-faceted recording and performing artist who first came to prominence as a member of Lenny Kravitz’ band debuting on his first release, Let Love Rule, and staying on for the next five years.” http://www.statetheatreportland.com/event/26983/

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Susan Drucker Bees’ Nest, graphite & watercolor on paper, 11” x 13” (unframed), 2009, $1,400

On View Now: Corporeal: Aaron T. Stephan & Katherine Bradford March 4th First Friday Art Walk until 8pm Upcoming: Audition: Katherine Benedict, Kimberly Convery, Veronica Cross, Devin Dobrowolski, Michel Droge, Susan Drucker, Justin Richel & Galen Richmond.

March 16 – April 9, 2011 Opening Reception: March 16, 2011, 5-7pm April 1st First Friday Art Walk until 8pm Regular gallery hours Wednesday - Saturday , Noon to 5pm & by appointment.

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