The Portland Daily Sun, Thursday, April 14, 2011

Generic politics similar to generic beer

The perils of power production in verse

Portland Pirates goalie may be key to team’s success in playoffs

See Bob Higgins on page 4

See Curtis Robinson’s column on page 5

See the story in Sports, page 8

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Peaks secession bid sinks in committee

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A legislative committee Wednesday put a halt to the latest Peaks Island secession bid, sparking frustration from advocates who support separation from municipal Portland.

In a unanimous vote, the State and Local Government Committee Wednesday voted “ought not to pass” on legislation for Peaks Island to secede from Portland, effectively sending secession advocates back to the starting line.

“The council took a position in opposition to the bill,” said Nicole Clegg, city spokesperson, after the vote. “And we are gratified and incredibly appreciative to the committee for recognizing that the

“... we are left in governance purgatory, and those opposed will never know when the next secession movement will rise.”

— Lynne Richard, former Peaks Island Council member process as outlined in Maine law is important, and necessary to be followed.”

The city had argued that the process for secession years ago ended when the bill was voted down

in committee. Advocates for Peaks secession argue that the state had directed them to try and work things out with the city, so they should “get credit” for previous efforts including an island-wide election that supported the secession process.

The sponsor of the legislation, Windol C. Weaver, R-York, said he would help Peaks Islanders if they decided to pursue secession again.

“I can run one more time, and if I decide to run, I’ll sure help them to do that,” he said Wednesday after the 9-0 committee vote.

“I feel bad for the Peaks Island people who did all the work,” Weaver said, but he added that he understood objections by legislators who felt see PEAKS page 9

Reny's opens today on Congress Street Retailer replaces L.L. Bean, Olympia Sports in downtown

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

John Reny is ready to introduce Portland to a 62-year-old retail institution. Today at 9 a.m., a new Reny's department store at 540 Congress St. will open, hosting a ribbon-cutting followed by raffles and in-store promotions.

"I'm excited. Portland is a new market for us, a lot of people here have never been in a Reny's store before, and it's going to be a unique experience for them; I think they're going to like what they see," said Reny, owner and president of the Reny's retail chain, based in Damariscotta.

The retailer fills side-by-side vacancies left late last year by

L.L. Bean and Olympia Sports.

Local officials were concerned when the two major retailers announced their impending closures and elated when Reny's reported it would fill the hole in the heart of Portland's downtown.

Started by John Reny's father, Robert H. Reny, in 1949, the discount retailer generally operates in rural communities — Damariscotta, Bridgton, Gardiner, Farmington, Dexter, Madison, Pittsfield, Bath, Camden, Saco, Belfast, Ellsworth and Wells. The 15th store is the chain's first in a strikingly urban setting — Portland will be the largest venue for the store to date. see RENY’S page 3

John Reny, owner of Reny’s discount store, stands next to a picture of his late father, store founder R.H. Reny, Wednesday in the new Portland location. In 1949, Robert H. Reny (better known as “R.H.”) opened his first store in Damariscotta.

Today, with a grand opening at 9 a.m., Portland becomes the 15th location for a Reny’s. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Maine-bred Record Store Day enters fourth year Saturday

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The rise of online file sharing and digital music stores gave many music fans a convenient excuse to never set foot in a real record store again, robbing a whole generation of a chance to smell their first incense, marvel at cover art, and have their musical taste judged by a hip cashier with a glue-based coiffure.

Record Store Day aims to change all that — at least for one day a year.

“We’re dealing with real, live, physical, indie record stores — not online retailers or corporate behemoths.” — Bull Moose Music on Saturday’s Record Store Day Conceived in 2007 by Bull Moose Music marketing director Chris Brown, the event was conceived as a celebration of the unique culture surrounding

the country’s over 700 independently owned record stores.

This Saturday marks Record Store Day 2011, as 15 independent Maine record shops prepare for a day of live in-store performances, rare releases, freebies and a celebration of all things strummed, drummed and hummed.

Shops participating in Record Store Day must primarily operate a physical store location and feature a product line consisting of at least 50 percent see RECORD STORES page 3

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At the same time, it has given death-penalty opponents fresh arguments for suing to block executions.

Until recently, states that use the drug, the barbiturate sodium thiopental, got it from a domestic supplier, Hospira Inc. But that company stopped manufacturing the drug in 2009 because of manufacturing problems, and announced earlier this year that it would stop selling the drug altogether. International pressure on suppliers by groups opposed to the death penalty has further restricted access to the drug.

States had to find a new source, but importation of sodium thiopental is highly restricted under federal law.

Recently released documents emerging from lawsuits in many states reveal the intense communication among prison systems to help each other obtain sodium thiopental, and what amounts to a legally questionable swap club among prisons to ensure that each has the drug when it is needed for an execution.

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Egyptian prosecutors order 15-day detention of Mubarak CAIRO (NY Times) — The Egyptian police have detained former President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons for questioning about corruption and abuse of power during Mr. Mubarak’s three-decade rule, authorities said Wednesday.

The detention amounts to a breathtaking reversal for Mubarak, the strongman whose grip on Egypt seemed so unshakable just three months ago that some thought he could hand over power directly to his son Gamal.

On Wednesday, Gamal — said to be in “total disbelief” — and his brother Alaa were jailed here in

the Tora Prison, where many of their closest allies have been imprisoned as well, and state television reported that Mr. Mubarak, 82, was in police custody at a Sharm el Sheik hospital after a heart attack.

His detention is also the latest twist in the unfinished story of a revolution that became the touchstone for the broader Arab Spring.

The military officers who seized power after Mr. Mubarak stepped down, pledging a transition to democracy, have faced escalating street protests calling for his prosecution and, increasingly, criticism for the slow pace of political reforms.

Obama urges cuts and taxes on the rich

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WASHINGTON (NY Times) — President Obama called for cutting the nation’s combined budget deficit by $4 trillion over the next 12 years on Wednesday, countering Republican budget plans with what he said was a more balanced approach that relies in part on tax increases for the wealthy as well as on spending cuts.

Mr. Obama spoke in strikingly partisan tones in parts of the 43-minute speech, offering a blistering critique of the Republican approach to reducing the deficit and laying down political markers that are sure to please even his most skeptical Democratic allies. The president vowed not to extend tax cuts for the wealthy or to dismantle the government-run health care systems for the elderly and poor. And

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he said there was “nothing serious or courageous” about the proposals Republicans offered this month.

Still, as he laid out the administration’s opening bid in negotiations over the nation’s fiscal future, Mr. Obama conceded a need to cut spending, rein in the growth of entitlement programs and close tax loopholes. At the same time, he insisted that the government must maintain what he called investment in programs that are necessary to compete globally. And he made clear that, despite his compromise with Congressional leaders in December, he would fight Republicans to end lowered tax rates for wealthy Americans that have been in place since President George W. Bush championed them in the last decade.

Delegates meet in support of Libya rebels DOHA, Qatar (NY Times)— NATO, Arab and African ministers met with Libya’s rebels here on Wednesday in a show of support for insurgents who are seeking to overthrow Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi against a backdrop of division over the pace of coalition air attacks on pro-Qaddafi forces.

With the United States limiting itself to a supporting role in the conflict, Britain, a key member of the alliance, said on Wednesday that it was impossible to forecast when the operation would achieve clear results The meeting here was part of intensifying but diffuse diplomatic maneuvers as the combatants seem locked in a pattern of skirmishes that rarely change the lines for long.

Earlier this week, the African Union secured Colonel Qaddafi’s support for a “road map” toward a political settlement, but the rebels rejected it because they said it would allow the Libyan leader to remain in power.

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Day celebrates independent, local record stores RECORD STORES from page one

music retail. The companies must not be publicly traded and their ownership must be at least 70 percent located in the state of operation.

“In other words, we’re dealing with real, live, physical, indie record stores — not online retailers or corporate behemoths,” reads a press release from Bull Moose.

Other local record shops participating in Record Store Day include Music Plus in Biddeford, Bill O’Neil’s House of Rock ‘n Roll in Saco, Sounds Absurd LPs & 45s in Portland and Bull Moose Music shops in Portland, Scarborough and Windham.

Record Store Day festivities often include live performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet and greets with artists, parades and DJs, according to Bull Moose.

Smaller record shops are getting in on the action too. At Sounds Absurd LPs & 45s (55 Oak St.), owner Shawn Lawrence will offer almost half his vinyl inventory at three for a dollar.

“It’s a good way to promote. I’ve been buying records for 30 years, so I would be celebrating the day in some way if I didn’t own the store,” said Lawrence. “This is just my way of giving something back.”

A vintage record shop, Sounds Absurd will not offer freebies, rare releases or live performances like Bull Moose, “we’re really small here. I don’t know if I could get away with it.” But Lawrence said he could hardly ignore the halo effect the promotional day had over his sales this time last year.

“Last year was a smash, one of my best days.

People know that it’s that day and they just hit up everyone,” he said. “There was a lot of traffic, especially in the middle of spring when it’s kind of quiet around here.”

Local bands play live in-store performances for Record Store Day, Saturday Bull Moose Music Bangor 2 p.m. The Lucid Brunswick 2 p.m. Marie Stella 3 p.m. Yellow Roman Candles Lewiston 2 p.m. Uncle Jack Portland 1 p.m. Sophomore Beat 4 p.m. Kenya Hall Band

Sanford 6 p.m. Cam Groves and Spose Scarborough 3 p.m. Zach Jones (As Fast As, Rocktopus) Waterville 2 p.m. Educated Advocates 6 p.m. Bass Box North Windham 3 p.m. In The Audience Portsmouth, N.H. 3 p.m. Skyler

This year, Record Store Day features a special Maine-bred treat for indie music fans everywhere as Billboard chart-topping act The Decemberists prepare their Live at Bull Moose EP as part of the festivities.

Recorded during a live in-store show at the Bull Moose Warehouse in Scarborough in late January, the Live at Bull Moose EP features seven tracks from the Portland, Oregon-based indie rock act.

The album includes live takes on tracks from the band’s most recent album, Billboard No. 1 album The King Is Dead, as well as a cover of the Louvin Brothers’ country jam “If I Could Only Win Your Love.”

“When I first proposed this, I just knew it was a longshot but knew it would make so many people happy. I know they’ve got a lot of really devoted fans here,” said Chris Brown, head of marketing for Bull Moose Music and creator of Record Store Day. “The Decemberists always include something cool for independent stores on Record Store Day,

Salem, N.H. 1 p.m. The Gay Blades

Newbury Comics South Portland 11:20 a.m. Live music all day, including Smoke & Mirrors Circus, Grand Hotel (acoustic), Foam Castles (duo), and Kurt Baker (acoustic).

— Matt Dodge

and I knew they liked the kind of thing we do with in-store performances, so I just asked,” said Brown.

The late-January show was not the first time Bull Moose has had a Billboard No. 1 band doing an in-store promotion, but it was the first live performance from such an act.

“It’s just one of those things where it all fit together, and I think they were intrigued by the Portland-to-Portland thing,” said Brown, who enlisted the Satronen Sound to ensure a highquality recording of the show.

Brown said the 30-minute Live at Bull Moose CD will likely remind listeners of the most recent album, given the band’s habit of recreating the studio sound during their live performances. “It was not a stripped down thing,” he said.

The Louvin Brothers track was an unexpected addition to the set spurred by the death of one of the original Louvin Brothers the day before the Bull Moose performance. “That’s totally unique to the album,” Brown said.

State police: Outstanding warrants yield 112 arrests DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT

Reny’s department store opens today at 9 a.m. at 540 Congress St. in Portland. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Discount store opens its 15th location RENY’S from page one

"I think people down here are very excited about this, we're excited about it, I think we're going to be a great fit for this community," Reny said. "We're going to fill a niche that other great merchants down here don't fit. It's going to be good for everybody."

Yesterday, amid a persistent

rainfall outside and a steady pace of activity inside, Reny was on hand at the Portland store to oversee final preparations.

"I've been in and out but we've had a crew here for the last probably three weeks merchandising the store," he said.

Scaffolding on the store's Congress Street facade has been removed, and the Reny's name

has gone up.

"We're ready to go," Reny said.

The ribbon-cutting at 9 a.m. will include local dignitaries, and customers can expect promotions.

"We've got a lot of stuff we're going to raffle off during the weekend, we've got a lot of free gifts for customers, and we've got a lot of stuff on sale," Reny said.

State Police, Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. Marshals Service arrested 112 people in southern Maine during the month of March on outstanding warrants.

In all, 183 charges were lodged against those arrested, including 44 felonies, the Maine Department of Public Safety reported. The arrests took place in Oxford, Androscoggin, Cumberland and York counties on warrants generated from Maine and U.S. District courts.

State Police assigned four troopers to the effort to locate the fugitives and additional troopers were utilized to make the arrests, according to a release from the Maine State Police.

A number of those arrested had outstanding warrants for drug possession , firearms possession , and probation and bail violations. Troopers also recovered a stolen automobile and found a marijuana growing operation during the monthlong effort. Many of the fugitives were arrested for failing to pay fines or failing to appear in court. They told troopers that they either did not have the money to pay fines, or had no way to get to court on their scheduled dates, resulting in warrants of arrest being issued.

“Communication with the court is critical when issues arise, and most times, alternative arrangements can be made,” said Lt. Louis Nyitray, commanding officer in the Maine State Police.

“This type of arrest operation is about holding law violators accountable for their actions. The U.S. Marshal Service and State Police take the responsibility seriously of bringing those scofflaws to justice to ensure the integrity of the judicial system,” said Noel March, the U.S. Marshal for Maine.

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Giving doctors orders When my brother went into the hospital with pneumonia, he quickly contracted four other infections in the intensive care unit.

Anguished, I asked a young doctor why this was happening. Wearing a white lab coat and blue tie, he did a show-and-tell. He leaned over Michael and let his tie brush my sedated brother’s hospital gown.

“It could be anything,” he said. “It could be my tie spreading germs.”

I was dumbfounded. “Then why do you wear a tie?” I asked.

He shrugged and left for rounds.

Michael died in that I.C.U. A couple years later, I read reports about how neckties and lab coats worn by doctors and clinical workers were suspected as carriers of deadly germs.

Infections kill 100,000 patients in hospitals and other clinics in ––––– the U.S. every year.

The New York A 2004 study of New York City doctors and clinicians disTimes covered that their ties were contagious with at least one type of infectious microbe.

Four years ago, the British National health system initiated a “bare below the elbow” dress code barring ties, lab coats, jewelry on the hands and wrists, and long fingernails.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that health care workers, even doctors and nurses, have a “poor” record of obeying hand-washing rules.

A report in the April issue of Health Affairs indicated that one out of every three people suffer a mistake during a hospital stay.

I saw infractions of the rules in the I.C.U. where Michael died, but I never called out anyone. I was too busy trying to ingratiate myself with the doctors, nurses and orderlies, irrationally hoping that they’d treat my brother better if they liked us.

Commenting on the new report on hospital errors, CNN’s senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, instructed viewers to “ask doctors and nurses to wash their hands” if they haven’t.

“They sometimes will actually give you a hard time, believe it or not,” she said, “and they say, ‘My

Maureen Dowd

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Generic politics similar to generic beer This Saturday, you might see a change in Maine politics. Then again, you might not.

Over the last several months, a group called “No Labels” has been organizing nationally and even started a chapter here in Maine.

The group is holding an organizing meeting at the University of New England on Stevens Avenue at 2 p.m.

So what?

One might think that this meeting would be packed to the rafters, given the current political climate. It is not hard to see the fact that partisanship in politics forces folks into what comedian Sam Kinison called “irrevocable moral corners.” Only after you have painted yourself into that corner do you realize that painting yourself into it was pretty dumb.

On the national level, what the group is trying to accomplish is simple. Stop the incessant bickering between the left and the right. Agree to sit down and talk things over, and solve the problems of the day based on civility and bipartisanship.

I can also assume that unicorns are not extinct, just rare because they were so tasty.

Even with three parties on the books in Maine, there is always

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist a good amount of the stink-eye being directed as those who don’t sit with you. Could centrists from all three parties actually sit down and hash things out? Sure, but you have to realize that hash is unappetizing looking ground meat and potatoes. It might be tasty, but it isn’t very pretty.

Some of the people involved with the group, at least in earlier meetings, might lead you make some assumptions. Elliot Cutler, Rosa Scarcelli, and Former Governor Angus King all met at Rosa’s house earlier in the year in an invitation-only “public” forum.

The meeting this weekend is one that mimics the early days of the “tea party” movement. I realize that might sound a bit harsh, but the entire point of the meeting is to gather people together to “organize.”

I think, given the current political climate, that shock collars, Tasers, and huge butterfly nets might be the order of the day.

Such a meeting can only resemble the herding of cats.

I generally agree that we all need to sit down and talk it out, to tone down the rhetoric that over my lifetime has turned both parties into the sorts of folks that will never give a millimeter, and eat their own battlefield dead.

But the reality is, everyone has a single issue that is the central core of their beliefs. Getting them to agree to give ground on it is asking for the wisdom of Solomon, but disagreeing with his decision to divide the baby with an axe.

According to a statement of “core beliefs” the national organization released last year, “No Labels is not a centrist, conservative, or liberal movement. In fact, No Labels is not about ideology; it is about an attitude and new approach. We do not ask any political leader to ever give up their label - merely put it aside -- in order to work together and find practical solutions to our nation’s problems.”

The ultimate irony of this involves the messengers, and their hole-ridden carcasses. I must have had a dozen people send me the link to the meeting. It sounded like something I might check out, so they passed it along. But those see HIGGINS page 5

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The perils of power production in verse These days, you have to wonder what it would be like if Dorothy Parker were around to convert some of her more famous poetry into commentary on our spate of energy-production disasters.

Petroleum pains you; Burning coal is crap; Acid rain stains you; And now nukes seem daft.

Drillers aren’t lawful; But regulators just give; Gas-fracking is awful; We’ll be lucky to live.

And while some of this seems like a movie we’ve seen before — another oil spill? — others seem like the early stages of a new Stephen King novel, the part just before somebody wanders into the forest to find angry earth-spirits prepping for payback time.

Hey, it was one thing to have that nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union go meltdown. We figured they were running low on duct tape right about then, so this sort of thing was bound to happen. It’s quite another to see the calmly efficient and wealthy Japanese without a clue.

Granted, they got hit with the kind of earthquake-tsunami combo usually reserved for worst-case scenario planning ... but isn’t that WHY we use stuff like that for worst-case planning?

That, of course, came on the heels

Curtis Robinson ––––– Usually Reserved of the BP oil spill in the Gulf, but it takes three to make a trend.

Suddenly, even natural gas is suspect. That’s a shame, because for a while there natural gas looked like a “get out of global warming free” card, burning much cleaner and suddenly not only plentiful but local. Fate may have placed our oil underneath some hostile terrain, but the gas is right there in Appalachia, Texas and Colorado — not exactly your tree-hugging hotbeds.

So gas was golden. There’s a reason that recent environmental legislation was headlined to “get Maine off oil” and not “fossil fuels.” But beware fallen heroes.

First we learned via a New York Times series and a low-budget documentary that something called hydrofracking is blamed for contaminating water across much of the country, complete with dumping unregulated radioactive wastewater into streams.

Now a Cornell University study indicates the carbon footprint for obtaining natural gas via “fracking” leaves a

bigger carbon footprint than burning coal.

The state of New York is considering extending its moratorium on fracking while hundreds of communities are responding with local bans and protests. In Canada, where the practice is not apparently widespread, there’s talk of a pre-emptive ban. This is not good news for the gas supply.

The natural gas revelations are particularly troubling for Maine, where “clean burning” gas is often seen as helping ease our dependence on heating oil. We used to say that heating our homes cost an arm and a leg, but with advances in prosthesis and recent crude prices, that’s likely not enough these days.

Maine is at least looking the right way, setting an aggressive agenda to embrace renewable energy sources – me, I’m a big fan of tidal energy.

Others think wind will do the trick, but that has hit many unexpected (by me anyway) bumps along the way. But suddenly, you have to wonder about increasing our use of natural gas.

The gas company in the Portland area will be working on one of the largest upgrades in New England history over the next few years while in central Maine about a dozen or so communities are pondering a $70 million plan for a new natural gas pipeline.

Unitil’s Portland-area upgrade is good for Maine, says state Rep. Jon

Hinck, D-Portland, adding that “... with natural gas prices moderating as a result of major domestic gas finds and new recovery techniques, Maine is well served by keeping the pipeline infrastructure in good shape.”

The infrastructure is also the issue up in the Kennebec Valley, where the gas company wants to build a pipeline backed by tax increment financing. It would serve Kennebec and Somerset counties. That would serve places like Augusta, Oakland, Richmond and Waterville with a 56-mile line along the western side of the Kennebec river.

The gas would come from the Maritimes and Northeast pipeline and backers of the proposal illustrate why natural gas is gaining ground: They estimate that using gas will result in a 25 to 40 percent in utility savings for customers currently relying on heating oil.

It’s enough to leave energy-aware fans of Ms. Parker thumbing through her poem “Frustration,” but in a nod to those of us banking on tidal power why not take these words more to heart: Here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun/Whose quiet ripples meet obediently/A marked and measured line, one after one.”

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

Why stop at doctors? How about those careless cabbies?

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gloves are on. I’m clean.’ ‘Well, I didn’t see you put those gloves on. What if you put those on with dirty hands?’ ” I called Cohen, the author of “The Empowered Patient,” to ask her the best way to confront those taking care of you or family members. She said that you have to get over the “waiter spitting in your soup scenario,” that the medical professionals will somehow avenge themselves, by giving less attention, if you insult them.

“There are all sorts of reasons we default to being quiet,” she said. “It is general etiquette not to correct another adult, especially when this is their profession. But when the consequences are so grave, you have to summon up your courage.” You could say that you are a germaphobe, she suggested, and ask if they could please just indulge you?

Dr. Peter Pronovost of Johns Hopkins has been able to prove in a national program that you can curb infections and reduce mortality rates in I.C.U.’s

by adhering to checklists, creating accountability and fostering a culture where patients, their families and even nurses and residents feel freer to challenge doctors.

“There’s no doubt that it’s really difficult to question physicians,” Dr. Pronovost says. “It’s hard even for me when my wife or my kids are ill. Many clinicians aren’t the most welcoming. They give verbal or nonverbal clues to say, ‘Hey, I have the answer.’ We just need to change the culture. The patient really is the North Star.”

I decided to work up my courage to give orders to unmindful doctors by starting with another group that has you at their mercy: cabdrivers.

They, too, can put our lives at risk by being heedless. Their constant yammering on cellphones can be just as dangerous as drunken driving, whether the calls are on hand-held or hands-free devices.

As Jane E. Brody noted in The Times, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the Orthopaedic Trauma Association has started a

campaign against distracted driving. “Orthopedists would do very well, thank you,” she wrote, “without the business generated by the 307,369 crashes that have occurred so far this year.”

The other day, I finally asked a driver who was absorbed in animated conversation to hang up. But on my next cab ride when the same thing happened, I lost my nerve. I had read that Alec Baldwin was, not surprisingly, a master at demanding that cabdrivers get off their phones. I called and asked for some pointers.

“I tell them to shut off the radio, get off the phone and post their license, because very often the man driving the cab is not the guy on the license,” he said.

“If you get in a cab you don’t feel comfortable in, get out of that cab.”

I told Baldwin that I would start giving orders, when necessary, to cabdrivers and clinicians, even though I feared their wrath.

“Of course,” mused the actor who so memorably played an evil doctor in “Malice,” “cabdrivers don’t put you under anesthesia.”

Country’s flirtation with bipartisanship often ended badly HIGGINS from page 4

same folks regularly use terminology like “fascist” and “LePuke” to describe the current leadership in Augusta.

You get a point for passing on the message, but get a “FAIL” and that point yanked back for lack of civility and unsportsmanlike contact.

Looking at this country and its historical dalliance with bipartisanship, it’s really hard to see a lot of good stuff. The tax code is mostly bipartisan, and everyone hates that. We got warrant-less wiretaps

and the PATRIOT act from bipartisanship.

This week, we are recognizing the first shots fired during the Civil War, fired by a journalist who was given that honor. According to a piece played this week on NPR, “General Beauregard is on hand, ready to lower his sword and commence the firing.

And by the way, with all due respect to the press, General Beauregard has given the honor of firing the symbolic first shot to a newspaper editor, Edmund Ruffin — which is sort of fitting because you can say that newspapers really helped fire up the agitation up to this moment, so why not pull the switch?“

Then there was the bipartisanship of that whole Missouri Compromise thing, an act that admitted this state to the union as a free state, so long as Missouri could join to be a “slave” state.

I’ll go with an open mind, and see what these folks want to accomplish, but agreeing with someone just for the sake of reaching agreement is the first step on that well paved road to a hot and brimstoneladen southern destination, well intentioned or not.

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

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In Japan, aftershocks also felt from within

BY ANDREW POLLACK AND KEITH BRADSHER THE NEW YORK TIMES

TOKYO — Aguri Suzuki, a 44-year-old real estate agent, says she sometimes thinks the ground is shaking even when it is not. When she sees a tree branch swaying in the wind, she worries there has been an earthquake.

Doctors here say they are seeing more people who are experiencing such phantom quakes, as well as other symptoms of “earthquake sickness” like dizziness and anxiety.

And it is no wonder. As if the threat of radiation from a crippled nuclear power plant were not enough, Tokyo and the region to its northeast have been under a constant barrage of aftershocks since the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that set off a devastating tsunami on March 11. Two earthquakes were felt in Tokyo on Wednesday morning, three on Tuesday, a large one on Monday and a very large one of magnitude 7.1 last Thursday.

Over all, there have been 400 aftershocks of magnitude 5.0 or greater in northeastern Japan since March 11. That is as many sizable quakes in one month as Japan typically experiences in two and a half years, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

The quakes are complicating efforts to control the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. For instance, the quake on Monday knocked out cooling at the Fukushima plant for nearly an hour.

Every time a sizable quake occurs, the first question on many people’s minds is whether the nuclear plant has been further damaged and whether a new cloud of radiation is on the way. A spokesman for the Tokyo Electric Power Company, the plant’s owner, is then hustled onto television to reassure viewers.

Government officials are becoming concerned that in the rush to cool the reactors and prevent hydrogen explosions, the plant’s vulnerability to another tsunami has been overlooked.

“A week ago we thought the major risk was a hydrogen explosion,” a senior official in the office of

the prime minister said Tuesday. “I think the major risk at the moment is an aftershock and tsunami.”

Hidehiko Nishiyama, the deputy director general of Japan’s nuclear regulator, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, said at a news conference on Wednesday evening that three measures are being considered that would allow electricity and cooling at the plant to remain intact even after a tsunami measuring 15 meters, or 49 feet. Right now the site can withstand a tsunami of only about 18 feet, he said. One measure is to interconnect the external power lines that have been built to the power plant, so that if one power line is broken, the others can still carry electricity to the various reactors.

A second measure is to position a generator on top of a small hill inside the plant site, and the third is to place a fire pumper engine on the hill that could send water into the reactors and spent fuel pools even if electricity was interrupted.

Japan, which sits atop four colliding tectonic plates, has a long history of earthquakes and some sophisticated technology to deal with them.

A detection system transmits warnings of some pending quakes a few seconds in advance to television broadcasters and to many cellphones. In recent weeks it has not been unusual to see nearly all the people in a restaurant or a train suddenly look at their cellphones at the same time.

Yurekuru, a free app for the iPhone that delivers such warnings (its name might be translated as “the shaking is coming”), now has 1.5 million users, compared with only 100,000 before the March 11 quake, according to RC Solution, the app’s developer.

Geologists say the frequency of the aftershocks has declined since March 11 and will continue to decline, but will still remain higher than normal for a long time. “There is an increased frequency and it will last for at least five or ten years,” said Ross S. Stein, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., who has studied the situation in Japan.

The March 11 quake was so strong that a Japan

Coast Guard monitoring instrument on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near the epicenter moved 24 meters, or about 79 feet, eastward. The city of Sendai, whose airport was inundated by the tsunami, moved about 13 feet, according to Shinji Toda, a professor at Kyoto University.

Such large movements have shifted stresses in the earth, increasing the likelihood of quakes on some fault lines while reducing the likelihood on others, including the one involved in the 1923 Tokyo earthquake.

But over all, Dr. Stein said, the risks have increased. “There’s this very broad turn-on of seismicity that extends 300 miles from the rupture zone,” he said.

Satoko Oki, an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo’s earthquake research institute, said that an aftershock of the March 11 quake could reach magnitude 8.0.

There is some precedent. The 2004 quake of magnitude 9.1 near Sumatra, Indonesia, which spawned a tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people, was followed three months later by one measuring 8.6 and later by four more huge ones.

But the earthquake in Chile in early 2010, with a magnitude of 8.8, has not yet produced an aftershock larger than 7.1, Dr. Stein said.

To be sure, the spate of earthquakes has not caused the same panic and mass exodus as the fears of radiation in the first week after the nuclear crisis began. Still, with levels of radiation in the Tokyo air having sharply fallen since then, some people interviewed on the street said they worried about the aftershocks more than radiation.

Some doctors say that feeling the ground shaking when it is not is similar to the continued feeling of swaying when one first gets off a boat onto solid ground.

“People are getting too sensitive,” said Dr. Kazuhiro Soeda, an ear, nose and throat specialist in Utsunomiya, outside Tokyo, who treats several patients having trouble dealing with the aftershocks. “This is something we’ve never experienced before.”

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The ride has four distance options — five, 15, 25 and 50 miles. All have beautiful views of the coast,

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Registration costs $35 (members) and $45 (public rate, including a six-month trial membership in the Bicycle Coalition of Maine), with a $10 discount for girls 12 to 17 years old and seniors (over 65). Girls 11 and under ride free. All proceeds benefit the coalition’s work to improve bicycling in Maine.

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Rock ’n’ Bowl with NYC’s The Gay Blades Featured Show Marie Stella / The Gay Blades / if and it 8 p.m. Friday, April 15 Bayside Bowl (58 Alder St.) $5, all ages

BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Every now and again local musician and music blogger Bryan Bruchman takes a sojourn to the dank clubs, sweaty festivals and musty basements of the country and, like a kindly father on a business trip, inevitably brings back goodies for us in Portland to enjoy.

It was on one such journey to the 2009 KahBang Festival in Bangor that Bruchman encountered New York City based rock act The Gay Blades, launching into a pitch that culminates tomorrow as the bands come to town to join Bruchman’s own band and other local indie rockers for a performance at Bayside Bowl.

“The Gay Blades have been on my short list of New York bands I've been harassing to play Portland since I moved here,” said Bruchman, guitarist for Marie Stella and the man behind local music blog Hillytown.com.

The band, which recently added a keyboardist to become a three-piece act, played the KahBang festival twice, where Bruchman was able to witness their impact on the crowd firsthand.

“They played the smaller stage and got an incredible response,” he said.

“Now they finally got around to looking for a Portland show, so I put something together and they wanted to play with Marie Stella, so that was easy,” Bruchman said.

The venue was an equally well-researched decision, said Bruchman. “What I love about Bayside Bowl is that it's ok to come and watch the show, then go bowl a game, then sit at the bar, then come back to the show.”

The Gay Blades are celebrating the release of their

second record “Savages”, an unapologetic pop record adorned with a mosaic of luscious string arrangements, boisterous horns, harmonies and surprising synths and programming.

“The Gay Blades are a disparate act on their own — musically they're all over the place, in a good, adaptive way that they somehow make look natural,” said Bruchman.

“Luckily, we don't fit into any one scene or genre, so our fans aren't small-minded about our sound,” he says. “One of my idols, Beck, puts out records that couldn't be more disparate from one another, but because he consistently puts out good-sounding records, people love them all,” said lead singer/guitarist James Dean Wells.

“Truthfully, though, the only thing he and I have in common is that we both look really good in a suit and can dance like a white James Brown,” he said.

A live performance from if and it has somehow eluded Bruchman so far in Portland, so he simply booked them for his own show. “I actually haven't seen them live — they're currently that band whose shows I keep going to and arriving just after they finish — there's always one band like that, but I figured if I put them on a show, I wouldn't miss them,” said Bruchman.

Bruchman said the night is a carefully crafted roster of bands that might share a few fans before the night is over.

“It's all rock bands, for sure, just with slightly different leanings,” he said. “But is the musicians in bands with very different sounds are fans of each other — legitimately, not just friends or in the same social scene — but they love the music and connect with it, then I'm sure an audience can find a connection between the bands that they'll appreciate too.,” he said.

“I’d rather book three bands together who have never met or spoken to each, but that have listen to the music and been really impressed or excited by it than three bands who have played a hundred shows together.”

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Investigators say dog attack may have led to child’s death State Police are investigating the death of a seven month old baby who may have died as a result of an attack by the family dog in the Waldo County on Tuesday afternoon.

An autopsy on the body of Annabelle Mitchell will take place today at the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Augusta. The little girl was found dead in the living room of her home on the Town Hill Road in Frankfort after the child’s mother called 911 saying the dog had attacked her daughter, according to a release from the Maine State Police.

The child was home with her mother, Katrina Mitchell and a 2 1/2 year old brother at the time of her death. The family’s Rottweiler was also inside the house at the time.

The dog was later shot to death by a Waldo County Deputy, at the request of the child’s father, John Mitchell, and the local animal control officer who had responded to the scene.

A team of State Police detectives spent the night inside the house gathering evidence and conducting interviews. Further examination will also be conducted on the dog.

South Portland pharmacy robbery South Portland police are looking for a man who robbed a CVS pharmacy Tuesday evening.

At approximately 8:20 PM, a white male entered the CVS store on Market Street in South Portland and approached the pharmacy counter.

The male demanded particular prescription medications and left the store without incident after obtaining some. No weapons were threatened or used.

The male was described as being slightly taller than 6 feet with a slim build. Police say he was wearing black sweatpants, a black and gray pullover sweatshirt, and a black ball cap with some sort of emblem on it, and appeared to be in his twenties.

South Portland Police note that while detectives were investigating this robbery, a similar robbery occurred at the CVS on Forest Avenue in Portland, and said it appeared to be the same subject.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the South Portland Police Department at 799-5511.

Rally on Saturday in Portland to educate about LGBT youth On Saturday, April 16 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Monument Square, Southern Maine’s Jump-Start Team is organizing the first public “Breaking the Silence Rally” in honor of GLSEN’s (Gay Lesbian Straight Educators Network) National Day of Silence.

“This is an important avenue for the GSTA to inform the public of the conditions for LGBT youth in schools and the need for action to make our schools safe,” organizers wrote in a press release. “Attendees are encouraged to bring friends and signs!”

The rally will be led by Adrienne Bowie of Biddeford High School GSTA. Organizers are the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network and GSTA (Gay Straight Alliance). For details, visit www.equalitymaine.org or email info@ equalitymaine.org.

The Gay Blades are made of magic and they are almost always on the road sending magic to new friends everywhere. Local indie rockers Marie Stella and if and it round out this night at Bayside Bowl. $5, all ages, Friday, April 15. (COURTESY PHOTO)

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BY JEFF PETERSON SPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

"Mission: 16W." That is the motto of the Portland Pirates as they prepare to open up the Calder Cup playoffs. Sixteen being the amount of wins needed in the playoffs to take home the title in the American Hockey League.

"We feel we have the players to make a nice run," said head coach Kevin Dineen. "They have good character and skill and we are ready to see how far we can go."

The Pirates hope they will have a whale of a tale when it comes to the opening round of the playoffs. They open up their quest for a Calder Cup tonight against the Connecticut Whale at 7 p.m. at the Cumberland County Civic Center. It was a great matchup during the regular season.

The Pirates won two and lost five with three of those losses coming in overtime against their Atlantic Division rivals.

"We had a lot of one goal games against them," said Dineen. "It should be very competitive. We match up very well with them because of our talent and our special teams."

Some of that talent is between the pipes. Goalie David Leggio has been about as close as you can get to lights out against the Whale. His record against Connecticut was 3-1 during the regular season and he gave up an

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"He has had a solid year," said Dineen. "He took over for Jhonas Enroth and has really had a pretty good season. I am really excited for him as the playoffs start."

The Pirates enter the playoffs after finishing one of the toughest Aprils in recent memory. They played 7 games in 9 days. That schedule also included 5 road games in a week. The Pirate struggled towards the end but still ended up winning the Atlantic Division title edging out the Manchester Monarchs on the final weekend of the season.

"It was quite a challenge," noted Dineen. "Not only was it a tough

schedule, but we also had some players banged up, several call ups and some new faces in the line up as well.

We struggled, but we played hard and ended up getting home ice."

That hard play has the Pirates with home ice advantage against the Whale in the Atlantic Division semifinals. They will host game one tonight, and game two on Saturday night. Then if necessary, games five and seven would be at the Cumberland County Civic Center as well. To say the Pirates had success at home during the regular season would be an understatement. They had one of the best home records in the A.H.L. at 25-8-6-1.

"We played hard all season long to get home ice," said Dineen. "We have a great home record with great fans.

We are hoping to take full advantage of it."

That's something the Pirates couldn't during the Calder Cup playoffs last season. They lost both home games in their one and only series and ended up getting swept by the Manchester Monarchs. "We are hoping to make it different this time," said Dineen. "We not only need the home ice advantage, but we need our character guys to be at the top of their game and we need our good player to be good."

After playing seven games in nine

Portland Pirates goalie David Leggio has been about as close as you can get to lights out against the Connecticut Whale. (COURTESY PHOTO)

days, Dineen hopes his players are not only at the top of their game, but rested as well. They had what the coach describes as "easy" practices Tuesday and Wednesday. After a team meeting Thursday morning, then it will be time to drop the puck and get that playoff intensity again, intensity that fans hope will help their favorite team achieve their mission of sixteen wins and their first Calder Cup title since 1994.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds, the former outfielder who hit more career home runs than anyone else in baseball history, was convicted Wednesday of a single count of obstruction of justice, but a federal jury here could not reach a verdict on the question of whether Bonds had lied about never knowingly using steroids during his career.

The conviction, rendered by a jury that listened to nearly three weeks of often graphic testimony about Bonds’s alleged steroid use, amounted to an extremely limited victory for federal prosecutors who had spent years pressing their case against Bonds, 46, in an effort to establish that he had used performance-enhancing drugs during his historic career, and then lied about it under oath.

Still, the conviction on the obstruction of justice charge — the jury agreed that Bonds

Barry Bonds after the jury found him guilty of an obstruction of justice charge. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)

had misled or impeded a 2003 grand jury hearing evidence about steroid use by elite athletes — makes Bonds the most prominent publicly tried culprit in what has become known as baseball’s steroid era.

The verdict is certain to diminish the legacy of a player who seemed, even early in his career, to be destined for the sport’s Hall of Fame.

Bonds faces a possible sentence of 10 years in federal prison, although he is not expected to receive anywhere near that length of prison time, if any.

Bonds, a seven-time most valuable player

in the National League, last played for the San Francisco Giants in 2007, the year he broke Hank Aaron’s career home run record.

The week after the Giants, just two miles away, raised their 2010 World Series championship flag at their home opener at AT&T Park on Friday, Bonds found himself at the end of a long road at the courthouse. He had provided his grand jury testimony more than seven years ago and was first formally charged four years later. But the case stretched on for years with pretrial legal wrangling.

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Legislator says he will sponsor another secession bill PEAKS from page one

that secession advocates should start the process over rather than pick up where a prior effort left off.

“The committee used the principle of procedure, the process of how the Peaks Island group decided to use the previous signatures they had to go forward,” he said.

“I just wanted them to get a vote,” Weaver said, noting that he hoped island residents could “... we are gratified “get it over with” and end the “animosity” that has and incredibly apprefestered over whether ciative to the committhe island should become its own governing entity. tee for recognizing that Lynne Richard, a the process as outlined former Peaks Island Council member, wrote in Maine law is imporin an email message, tant, and necessary to “The Committee, with be followed.” — City the help of some of my spokesperson Nicole neighbors, killed my voice today. I hope that Clegg some of those so concerned with process will now step up to help islanders with energy assistance, tax assistance, transportation relief, and any number of Peaks’ unmet needs. My new motto is Stop Enabling Portland.”

“The Committee had one thing right — there are no winners today. There might have been winners had the island been allowed to come out one way or another with a vote, where the real will of residents could have been documented. Instead, we are left in governance purgatory, and those opposed will never know when the next secession movement will rise.”

“I’m disappointed that they’ve again denied us the chance to have a meaningful vote on this issue. They get to move on to new business, but we on the island have another year or 18 months of this argument to look forward to.”

— Peaks Islander Rusty Foster ers, as if that’s how democracy works. Which of them was elected by the happy unanimous agreement of their constituents? I’m disappointed that they’ve again denied us the chance to have a meaningful vote on this issue. They get to move on to new business, but we on the island have another year or 18 months of this argument to look forward to. At the end of that time, we’ll be back where we were this morning, with no new information and no closer to a decision. It’s discouraging.”

“I suggested to them that they start the procedure all over again,” Weaver said.

He called the procedural concerns “a legitimate question.” Whether the secession movement will return remains unclear.

“I just don’t know if they have the will to do that again,” Weaver said.

A crowd disembarks from a Casco Bay Lines ferry at the Peaks Island ferry. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

Rusty Foster, a current Peaks Island Councilor, wrote, “I assume someone will lead yet another turn around the secession statute merry-go-round. The legislators seem to want unanimity among island-

Unseen Portland

Back to nature by maine hermit The Daily Sun introduces the first in a series of weekly photos from UnseenPortland.com. Created by photographer Andrew Kessler and inspired by a similar website out of Denver, Colo., Unseen Portland is a crowd-sourced photo site featuring everything from cell phone shots of graffiti to long-exposure landscapes. “I created Unseen Portland to showcase how the locals view Portland, Maine,” writes Kessler on the site. “In many ways I wish all cities had easily accessible sites like this, because the pulse of a city can’t be felt through polished pictures or flashy guidebooks.” Above is “Back to nature.” (Photo by maine hermit/Unseen Portland.com)

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

It will seem as though the world is just waiting for your interaction. People will extend a hand to help you before you ask and will answer your phone calls on the first ring.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ll be lucky twice today. The first time will be an accident, but it’s an accident you can re-create. Remember the steps you took that brought good fortune to you the first time, and take them again.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You are reticent to ask for guidance because you’re afraid it will obligate you. But don’t worry -- you don’t have to follow the advice you get. The only obligation you’ll have is to say thank you.

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You see substantial change this year, and you quickly realize how to make the current state of things work in your favor. The next four weeks reinforce to you that you are a valued member of your team. June provides new motivation for a goal. August features a role reversal. You’ll do work that’s on the cutting edge. Cancer and Sagittarius people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 23, 14, 39, 2 and 30.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20). People depend on you. You will enjoy this as long as you are satisfied that you can deliver what they need. If you can’t, you can avoid stress by quickly delegating the responsibility.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Your company will be requested. You’re a treat to be around, as you act on your whims and follow through on your impulses. Your spontaneity will not soon be forgotten.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). What a loved one wants from you feels more like a dare than a request. And though you’re not certain you can pull it off, you’ll enjoy trying. Success depends on a combination of preparation and chutzpah.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Beware of a person who apparently knows everything. No one knows everything. A truly knowledgeable person will share judiciously and admit when he or she doesn’t know.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Where someone else sees a problem, you’ll see dollar signs. As you stretch your imagination in a financial direction, you’ll come up with hypothetical solutions with the potential to make you rich.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Like a cheerful animated version of yourself, you will whistle as you work. It will seem as though you are in harmony with all of nature, including birds, butterflies and

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Thursday, April 14, the 104th day of 2011. There are 261 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater in Washington; the president died nine hours later.

On this date: In 1775, the first American society for the abolition of slavery was formed in Philadelphia.

In 1828, the first edition of Noah Webster’s “American Dictionary of the English Language” was published.

In 1910, President William Howard Taft became the first U.S. chief executive to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game as the Washington Senators beat the Philadelphia Athletics 3-0.

In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and began sinking.

In 1949, at the conclusion of the so-called “Wilhelmstrasse Trial,” 19 former Nazi Foreign Office officials were sentenced by an American tribunal in Nuremberg to prison terms ranging from four to 25 years.

In 1956, Ampex Corp. demonstrated the first successful videotape recorder at the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters Convention in Chicago.

In 1960, the musical “Bye Bye Birdie” opened on Broadway.

In 1981, the first test flight of America’s first operational space shuttle, the Columbia, ended successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

In 1986, Americans got word of a U.S. air raid on Libya (because of the time difference, it was the early morning of April 15 where the attack occurred.)

One year ago: The Eyjafjallajokul (ayyah-FYAH’-lah-yer-kuhl) volcano in Iceland erupted, sending out an ash plume that led most northern European countries to close their airspace between April 15 and 20, grounding about 10 million travelers worldwide.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Bradford Dillman is 81. Actor Jay Robinson is 81. Country singer Loretta Lynn is 76. Actress Julie Christie is 71. Retired MLB All-Star Pete Rose is 70. Rock musician Ritchie Blackmore is 66.

Actor John Shea is 62. Actor-race car driver Brian Forster is 51. Actor Brad Garrett is 51. Actor Robert Carlyle is 50. Actor Robert Clendenin is 47. Actress Catherine Dent is 46. Actor Lloyd Owen is 45. Retired MLB All-Star Greg Maddux is 45. Rock musician Barrett Martin is 44. Actor Anthony Michael Hall is 43. Actor Adrien Brody is 38. Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar is 34. Actor-producer Rob McElhenney is 34. Actress Vivien Cardone is 18. Actress Abigail Breslin is 15.

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Thursday, April 14 Eggs and Issues: ‘Maine’s Finances at the Crossroads’ 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Eggs and Issues, “Maine’s Finances at the Crossroads, Reform or Bust,” at Holiday Inn By the Bay, 88 Spring St., Portland, by Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce. Networking, breakfast, program at 8 a.m. “State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin will discuss Maine’s debt problems and what Governor LePage is doing to fix it.

Find out what every Maine taxpayer needs to know about reforming the state’s spending and pension liabilities and what it means for jobs and opportunity.”

‘The Great Tax Divide’ noon to 1:30 p.m. The Great Tax Divide: Maine’s Retail Desert vs. New Hampshire’s Retail Oasis” presented byScott Moody, chief economist, The Maine Heritage Policy Center. “Learn about our latest research and indepth analysis of cross-border shopping along the Maine — New Hampshire border which represents one of, if not the, largest tax differentials in the country. Scott Moody has analyzed decades of data and the effects of sales tax on Maine retailers with the goal of building a greater understanding of the Maine versus New Hampshire’s retail sector and what it means for Maine businesses as well as enable The Maine Heritage Policy Center to work with policy makers and business leaders to implement meaningful tax reform.” Portland, DiMillo’s On the Water, 25 Long Wharf, Portland. (Also in Bangor Wednesday, April 13, at Sea Dog Brewing Company Banquet Center.) MHPC Member: $17 per person, inclusive of tax and gratuity. Non-member: $22.

For more information, contact Amanda Clark at 321-2550 or by e-mailing aclark@mainepolicy.org.

The city of Portland in collaboration with Greater Portland Metro Bus, the Portland Downtown District, the Greater Portland Council of Governments and the Portland Area Comprehensive Transit System, will host a public meeting to discuss ways to improve mobility on Congress Street between State Street and Franklin Street including the feasibility of establishing a bus priority corridor from High Street to Elm Street. On Wednesday, April 27, the public can join walking tours of the route at noon and 1 p.m. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

Scarborough Chamber Meet Your Legislators 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The Scarborough Community Chamber and its Public Policy and Legislative Affairs representatives will sponsor a Meet Your Legislators special event at Maine Indoor Karting in Scarborough. “This will be a great opportunity for Scarborough Community Chamber members and guests to meet and talk informally with our legislators, Senator Phil Bartlett and Rep. Amy Fern Volk.” www.portlandregion.com

Deering Players talent show 7 p.m. The Deering Players will host a talent show in the auditorium at Deering High School, 370 Stevens Ave., Portland. Tickets are $5. For more information, please contact Kathleen Harris at 874-8260.

Public hearings on budgets 5:30 p.m. The public will have one of several opportunities to voice their opinion on the Portland Public School system and the City of Portland’s municipal budget. Monday, May 2, the City Council will hold a public hearing for the municipal budget only and will vote on the school budget. The school budget will then be sent to the voters for a citywide vote Tuesday, May 10. The City Council will vote on the municipal budget May 16. Opportunities for Public Comment: Thursday, April 14, 5:30 p.m., Room 209: Finance Committee Public Hearing, public comment taken on both city and school budgets. Monday, April 25, 7:30 p.m., City Council Chambers: City Council Public Hearing for school budget only. Thursday, April 28, 5:30 p.m., Room 209: Finance Committee Public Hearing, public comment taken on city budget. Monday, May 2, 7 p.m., City Council Chambers: City Council Public Hearing for city budget only.

Tuesday, May 10: Citywide vote on school budget. Visit the city’s website for the latest information on the budget process, www.portlandmaine.gov/financialreports.htm#FY12_ Budget_Process.

Youth Ensembles Spring Instrumental Concert 7 p.m. University of Southerm Maine Youth Ensembles Spring Instrumental Concert. Merrill Auditorium, Myrtle Street, Portland. Sponsored by Macy’s, with support from the Sam L. Cohen Foundation.

Portland Pirates in playoffs 7 p.m. The Portland Pirates shootout win over the Albany Devils combined with a Connecticut Whale 4-3 loss to the Bridgeport Sound Tigers Saturday night means the Pirates will face the Whale in the opening round of the 2011 Calder Cup Playoffs beginning with Game 1 to be played Thursday, April 14 at 7 p.m. at the Cumberland County Civic Center.

Game 2 of the best-of-seven series will be played Saturday, April 16 at 7 p.m. at the Civic Center with the series shifting to Connecticut for Games 3 and 4. Tickets for the first round of Portland Pirates Playoff Hockey MISSION: 16W, powered by Time Warner Cable are on sale at the Cumberland County Civic Center Box Office, by calling 775-3458, visiting the Cumberland County Civic Center Box Office or on-line at ticketmaster.com.

FOOD + FARM 2011 7:30 p.m. April 14 to April 17, FOOD + FARM 2011. A food and film festival at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. in

Portland. “This is the fourth year of Food+Farm, SPACE Gallery’s annual look at issues challenging our access to safe, sustainable food. This year’s program features our first foray into farm theater with a reading of the work-in-progress Of Farms and Fables, a visit from the young farmer’s advocacy group The Greenhorns who will be conducting a young farmers’ mixer and screening their new film The Greenhorns, a talk by sustainable food author and educator Anna Lappé on the connections between diet and climate change and hands-on learning opportunities with a work/learn party at Cultivating Community’s Turkey Hill Farm and intensive growing workshops at The Urban Farm Fermentory. Co-presented by SPACE Gallery, MOFGA, Cultivating Community, The Urban Farm Fermentory, and Flatbread Co. In-kind and underwriting support is provided by Local Sprouts, The Portland Phoenix, Aurora Provisions, Caiola’s Restaurant, Maine Root, Rosemont Market and Bakery, Grandy Oats and the WIld Iris Inn.” http://www.space538.org/events.php

Author Rosemary Mahoney at UMF Visiting Writers Series 7:30 p.m. The University of Maine at Farmington’s notable Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program presents award-winning author Rosemary Mahoney as the next reader in its 2010-11 Visiting Writers Series. Mahoney will read from her work in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. This event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a signing by the author. Mahoney is the author of “The Early Arrival of Dreams”; “A Year in China,” a New York Times Notable Book; “Whoredom in Kimmage”; “The World of Irish Women,” a new York Times Notable Book and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; “A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman”; “The Singular Pilgrim”; “Travels on Sacred Ground”; and “Down the Nile; Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff,” chosen as a best book of the year by both Publisher’s Weekly and The Christian Science Monitor.

Friday, April 15 Flaws for a Cause Benefit Sale 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Second annual Flaws for a Cause Benefit Sale, April 15 to April 30, at Maine Potters Market, 376 Fore St., 774-1633. Buy perfectly usable, but less than perfect pots, to benefit Cultivating Community. The Maine Potters Market, 376 Fore Street in Portland’s Old Port, announces its second annual Flaws for a Cause Sale from April 15 to April 30. This is a unique opportunity to buy perfectly usable, but less than perfect pots. Last year’s sale was a big success, raising money for Cultivating Community, a Portland non-profit that grows food for the hungry and uses their work in gardens and farms for community development and empowering youth.

‘Saving the Union’ Civil War remembrance 1 p.m. The Maine State Archives will present “Saving the Union: The Call for Volunteers,” at the Augusta Civic Center to commemorate Maine’s entry into the Civil War. The event

is free and open to the public. “It was on April 15, 1861 that President Abraham Lincoln asked states such as Maine to raise 75,000 volunteer soldiers to defend the Union against southern states that were seceding, primarily over the issue of slavery,” said State Archivist David Cheever.

“Maine answered Lincoln’s call with vigor and this event is representative of Maine’s key role in the Civil War.” Maine’s Secretary of State, Charles E. Summers, Jr., Maine’s Adjutant General John “Bill” Libby, and Maine Governor Paul LePage will speak about how Maine rose to President Lincoln’s challenge to defend the country and the Constitution.

Members of The Maine Legislature will also participate in the ceremony. “Saving the Union” will include readings of Civil War-era letters from Maine citizens; music by the 195th Maine National Guard Band and Civil War re-enactors; choral music by the Bowdoin and Colby College chorus’; and color guards from the Maine National Guard and Civil War re-enactment groups. For more information about this event, contact State Archivist David Cheever, or visit the Maine State Archives website at www.maine.gov/sos/arc/.

‘Bill Cunningham New York’ 6:30 p.m. “Bill Cunningham New York” screens at Movies at the Museum at the Portland Museum of Art. Friday, April 15, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 16, 2 p.m.; Sunday, April 17, 2 p.m. NR “‘We all get dressed for Bill,’ says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. The ‘Bill’ in question is 80 plus New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place, and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny, and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.” http:// www.portlandmuseum.org/events/movies.php

‘The Greenhorns’ screening at COA 7 p.m. America’s young farming community will be celebrated at a showing of “The Greenhorns,” a movie about the current numbers of young people who have taken up farming. The screening will be in the college’s Gates Community Center, Bar Harbor. The film will be introduced by Severine von Tscharner Fleming of the Smithereen Farm in New York. Following the film will be a panel of young farmers including the manager of COA’s Beech Hill Farm, Alisha Strater, von Tscharner Fleming and others. In addition to the screening, there will be a Wild Herbs Walk and Workshop with COA alumna Rachel Randall from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The workshop is limited to 25 people on a first come-first served basis.

To pre-register, or for more information on the 7 p.m. showing of “The Greenhorns,” contact Matthew Doyle Olson at 8015688 or mdoyleolson@coa.edu. www.coa.edu see next page

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Food+Farm: Anna Lappé 7:30 p.m. April 14 to April 17, FOOD + FARM 2011. A food and film festival at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. in Portland. “This is the fourth year of Food+Farm, SPACE Gallery’s annual look at issues challenging our access to safe, sustainable food. ... Anna Lappé is a widely respected author and educator, renowned for her work as a sustainable food advocate. The co-author or author of three books and the contributing author to nine others, Anna’s work has been widely translated internationally and featured in The New York Times, Gourmet, Oprah Magazine, among many other outlets. Named one of Time’s ‘eco’ Who’s-Who, Anna is a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute and the Small Planet Fund and has for more than a decade been a key force in the growing international movement for sustainability and justice in the food chain.” http://www.space538. org/events.php

‘Unaccustomed Earth’ concert at USM 8 p.m. Spotlight Concert Series: “Unaccustomed Earth.”

Two Sides Sounding & South Oxford Six. Corthell Concert Hall, University of Southern Maine, Gorham. A part of Innovation Celebration, a partnership with the Portland Conservatory of Music, and USM’s New Music Weekend.

‘Blood Brothers’ at CLT in Auburn 8 p.m. Mark Brann of Portland, as the “Narrator” in Community Little Theatre’s “Blood Brothers,” tells the story of “Mrs. Johnstone, deserted by her husband and unable to cope with her oversized brood of children.” Played by Stefanie Lynn of Auburn, she reluctantly gives one of her twin boys to the wife of her wealthy employer. The adoptive mother, Mrs. Lyons is played by CLT veteran Cheryl Reynolds, also of Portland. Years later, the brothers meet and become inseparable friends, but their relationship is doomed. Whether it is a child’s inherent nature or the way he is nurtured that determines his fate is at the crux of the storyline. “A total of 12 talented singers and actors make up the cast of this hit musical by Willy Russell, which has accumulated a host of awards and has become one of the longest standing works of musical theater in history. The cast also includes, Adam Morris of Westbrook, Paige Berube of Gray, Andreas Wyder of New Vineyard, and LewistonAuburn residents, Chris L’Hommedieu, Sydney Browne, Guy Pilote, Andrew Leeman, Brandon Chaloux and Mary Turcotte. The show is directed by Celeste Philippon.” Ron Bouffard is the assistant director, Paul G. Caron is musical director, and Eileen Messina is the choreographer. “Blood Brothers” opens at Great Fall Performing Arts Center (Academy Street, Auburn) on April 8 and runs for two full weekends. Performances are at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Sundays and 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 15. Tickets are $16 in advance and can be purchased online at www.LACLT.com , at the Box Office (30 Academy Street, Auburn) or by calling 783-0958.

Saturday, April 16 Dress for Success spring sale 8 a.m. Filene’s Basement may be gone, but great bargains on new or nearly-new women’s clothing may be found at Dress for Success Southern Maine’s annual spring sale!

The sale will take place on Saturday, April 16, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Catherine McAuley H.S., 631 Stevens Ave. in Portland. The event is open to the public and features new and nearly-new women’s clothing in all sizes, shoes, jewelry and accessories — casual, formal, and everything in between.

Proceeds go towards Dress for Success Southern Maine’s annual operating budget. Donations of new or nearly-new (less than 2 years old), clean, ready-to-wear women’s clothing (from casual to dressy) for the Spring sale, are welcome.

The dropoff site and times are: 51 Baxter Boulevard (in the Hannaford Shopping Center parking lot location) on March 19, April 2, and April 9 from 9 a.m. to noon, plus April 15, 5-9:00 p.m. at Catherine McAuley High School. Volunteers of all ages are also always welcome – whether at the sale or at the Congress Street, Portland boutique during regular hours. To volunteer, or for more information, please email southernmaine@dressforsuccess.org or call 780-1686.

Biddeford Winter Farmer’s Market 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Biddeford Winter Farmer’s Market is held every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. At the former West Pepperril Mill on Main Street in Biddeford. Roy Guzman, 210-0123

Art Supplies Yard Sale 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. “Are you looking for that perfect picture frame? Do you want to try something new as an artist?

You will find all sorts of art making materials at the Art Supplies Yard Sale at Barn Gallery and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. Look for frames, paper for drawing and painting, canvas and mat board, easels and drawing tables,

art books and videos and other art supplies. All proceeds go to support Barn Gallery and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art.” Barn Gallery, corner of Shore Road & Bourne Lane, Ogunquit and Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 543 Shore Road, Ogunquit. Contact Roz Fedeli 207351- 3262 or rivercurrentart@myfairpoint.com. Ogunquit Museum of American Art 207-646-4909

Portland Trails 10K ‘Trail to Ale’ registration 9 a.m. Online registration for the Portland Trails 10K “Trail to Ale” will open. “Because of the popularity of this race, registration will be limited to 2000 participants.

Portland Trails will accept online registrations on a first come first serve basis, with spaces reserved for Portland Trails members. Runners register on the Portland Trails website, www.trails.org. Before online registration opens, runners will get a chance to register early at the Shipyard Summer Ale Party, held at Portland Pie Company at their Portland, Scarborough and Westbrook locations on April 14 from 5-8 p.m. For each pint of Shipyard Summer Ale sold that night, Portland Pie Company will donate $1 to Portland Trails. Runners who register for the 10K at the party get their first pint for free and will be guaranteed a spot in the ‘Trail to Ale.’ The Portland Trails 10K ‘Trail to Ale’ will take place on Sunday, Sept. 18 in Portland. The race starts on the Eastern Promenade Trail, loops Back Cove, and finishes at East End Beach. The course is exclusively off-road and offers beautiful views of Portland harbor and Back Cove. The first 400 registrants to the race will receive a complimentary running jersey. Registration for the ‘Trail to Ale’ is $20.”

Earth Day volunteer work party at MOFGA center 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) will host an Earth Day volunteer work party at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center in Unity. Volunteers are needed for the following projects on April 16: Spring garden clean-up; raking and mulching; orchard weeding; and light carpentry projects. The workday will take place rain or shine, so participants are asked to dress appropriately. Volunteers should bring work gloves and favorite garden tools. MOFGA will provide a hearty, organic lunch and volunteer t-shirt for each participant.

“MOFGA has many engaging, year-round volunteer opportunities. For more information or to register for the Earth Day Work Day please contact MOFGA’s Landscape Coordinator Joe Dupere in the MOFGA office by phone at 5684142, or by email at jdupere@mofga.org.”

Healthy Kids Day at the Y 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Cumberland County YMCA invites kids and parents to come play at Healthy Kids Day at its Greater Portland branch and Casco Bay branch in Freeport.

Activities are free and open to all. “At Healthy Kids Day, the nation’s largest health day for kids, families will enjoy family group exercise classes, lacrosse clinics free healthy snacks, a climbing wall, an inflatable obstacle course, outdoor games, basketball, seed planting, fly fishing, a puppet show, and much more. There will also be raffle items and giveaways. Slugger will be at the Portland branch to give away gift bags. As the leading nonprofit for strengthening community, the Y holds Healthy Kids Day to bring families together to engage in fun, active play and learn healthier habits that help them grow and thrive. Kids Day takes place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Greater Portland YMCA and from 10 a.m. to noon in Freeport. Casco Bay YMCA, 4 Old South Freeport Road Freeport, 25 Campus Dr., Ste 100, New Gloucester. For more information on the Portland branch activities, call 874-1111, and for Casco Bay in Freeport 865-9600, or visit cumberlandcountyymca.org

Food+Farm: Wake Up the Farm 9 a.m. Food+Farm: Wake Up the Farm with Cultivating Community. “Come out to Cultivating Community’s Turkey Hill Farm in Cape Elizabeth and help them get ready for the 2011 growing season. You’ll help CC wake up the farm and you’ll get hands-on experience and an opportunity to ask the CC staff about your farming/gardening questions.

Activities for all ages and skill levels and we’ll end the morning with a soup and bread lunch to thank you for your hard work. Cultivating Community’s mission is to strengthen communities by growing food, preparing youth leaders and new farmers, and promoting social and environmental justice. We use our community food work as an engine for high-impact youth and community development programs that reconnect people to the natural and social systems that sustain us all.”

Maine Photography Show opens 10 a.m. An exhibition of over 100 photographs by many of Maine’s best photographers will be open for public viewing April 16 through May 7 in Boothbay Harbor. New this year is the chance to win a framed and signed photograph by the show judge, Jay Stock. There will be a BRAF benefit raffle for the Jay Stock photograph titled “Massai Tribe, Kenya, Africa.” which will also be on view with three other

photographs by Stock throughout the exhibition. Chances will be available until the ticket drawing on the last day of the show Saturday, May 7. The Maine photography Show is produced and presented by the Boothbay Region Art Foundation and is held at their gallery: One Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor in the center of town. The show’s hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. The show is produced and presented by the MPS Committee of the Boothbay Region Art Foundation, a charitable, nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization. Free admission. School groups and buses welcome. Call 6332703 for Maine Photography Show bus parking directions.

The Big Thaw Arts, Crafts and Vintage Sale 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland.

“The Big Thaw is an arts, crafts and vintage sale meant to celebrate the coming Spring and a wide array of talented and innovative vendors. Kick off those winter boots and join us to find about a thousand things to brighten your closet, home, toy chest, kitchen and more in 2011. ... The Big Thaw is the brainchild of Portland artist Audrey Hotchkiss of Little Eye Designs. She has had the valuable support of Malaika Picard of Hand-Me-Down Designs and Shanna Tice of The Makings of Shanna Tice in making this a reality.” Website: http://thebigthawportland.wordpress.com

The Wabanaki Arts Festival 10 a.m. The Wabanaki Arts Festival continues to build the strong relationship between the Midcoast community and the four Native American Tribes in Maine (Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot). The festival brings together artisans, basketmakers, and traditional music as a celebration of Wabanaki culture. The music will be ongoing throughout the day and includes the Alamoosic Lake Singers, flute and storytelling by Hawk Henries, and hand drumming and song by Watie Akins. Thirty artisans and crafters will offer their unique items for sale and will provide demonstrations of their crafts. The Wabanaki Arts Festival is hosted by Bowdoin’s Native American Students Association (NASA), and is partially funded by the Blythe Bickel Edwards Fund. For further information please call the Bowdoin information desk at 725-3375 or contact Leslie Shaw at lshaw@bowdoin.edu. Location: Smith Union, Sills Drive, Brunswick. 725-3815 www.bowdoin.edu

MPBN to air Spindleworks documentary 11:30 a.m. “Everything in Sight”, a 2007 documentary about Spindleworks Art Center in Brunswick, will be broadcast on Maine Public Broadcasting Network on April 16 at 11:30 a.m. and April 21 at 10:30 p.m. Directed by Nikolai Fox, the film explores the history of the center and showcases video art currently produced by Spindleworks artists.

A program of Independence Association, Spindleworks was founded in 1978 by local artist Nan Ross. Ross’ vision was to teach weaving and fiber arts skills to clients of the Independence Association, which they could use to create items to sell for income. Many of the original artists in the program were transitioning from living in Pineland, the state institution for persons with developmental disabilities. Over the years, the program has grown to include a variety of art forms and has represented several well-known artists in the state of Maine, including Betty Pinette and Rita Langlois.

Today, artists working in media arts — video, photography, music, and sound — are also included in the Spindleworks program.

Meet the Artist: 2011 Biennial Talks begin 11 a.m. to noon. Colleen Kinsella, Philip Brou, Robert Monroe and Carly Glovinski at the Portland Museum of Art. This is a series of informal artist talks to learn more about the process and inspiration of these artists and their work on view in the 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial. 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Deborah Wing-Sproul, Marissa Girard and Lauren O’Neal; 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., Ellen Wieske, Alicia Eggert, Tyson Jacques and Andrew Thompson. The Portland Museum of Art Biennial showcases the best in today’s art world by artists associated with Maine, from digital video to painting, installation to photography, sculpture to prints, and more. This exhibition will feature 65 works by 47 artists.

As a series, the Biennial exhibitions create a visual record of Maine’s evolving contemporary art scene and testify to the profound influence that the landscape, traditions, and people of Maine continue to have on living artists. http:// portlandmuseum.org/Content/5614.shtml

Lost in Lexicon: A Fantasy Book Event for Families 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Kids ages 8-14 and their families are invited to visit the nine villages of the Land of Lexicon, based on the fantasy adventure by Pendred Noyce. Families will untangle tangrams, anagrams, wordplay, and other puzzles to save the villagers of Lexicon. The event is a fundraiser for Maine’s literacy organization, Raising Readers. Open House, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland. Free with a Suggested Donation. Details, call Curious City, 420-1126. see next page

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Record Store Day at Bull Moose 1 p.m. Originally conceived by Bull Moose staff, Record Store Day is celebrated on the third Saturday in April by more than 1,500 independent music stores worldwide. Prominent indie rockers The Decemberists, while on tour, will be releasing a CD titled “Live at Bull Moose” from their January performance at the Scarborough Bull Moose. All performances are Saturday, April 16. All performances are acoustic, free and open to the public. In Maine, The Lucid will be performing in the Bangor store at 2 p.m. They released a self-titled CD on Feb. 1. 683 Hogan Road, Bangor. At the Brunswick store, Marie Stella will be performing at 2 p.m. They are a Portland-based band, and are contributing a cover of “little lines” to the CD “Sing For Your Meat,” a Guided by Voices tribute album being released nationally for RSD 2011. They are a member of Portland’s Dooryard Collective and perform throughout Maine and New England. Bath band Yellow Roman Candles will be appearing at 3 p.m. 151 Maine St., Brunswick. At home in Central Maine, Uncle Jack will be performing at the Lewiston Bull Moose at 2 p.m. Lewiston Mall, 20 East Ave., Lewiston. The Portland store will host Sophomore Beat at 1 p.m. These Portland rockers are releasing an EP entitled “Party Like A Lobster” this day, which will only be available at Bull Moose. The Kenya Hall Band will be performing at 4 p.m. They are a Portland band with an intriguing, soulful, jazzy R&B sound with powerful female vocals. They released “Learning For Miles Vol. 1” in November 2010. 151 Middle St., Portland. Scarborough 456 Payne Road. Zach Jones will perform at the Scarborough Bull Moose at 3 p.m. on April 16. Of As Fast As and Rocktopus fame, Zach Jones’ quintessential, neo-classic pop is characterized by powerful melodics, catchy lyrics, and foot-tapping rhythms, drawing influence from seminal artists such as Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, and the Beach Boys. He will be joined in Scarborough by other to-be-determined local artists. Educated Advocates will perform at 2 p.m. at the Waterville store. Educated Advocates are an innovative hip-hop trio drawing on the sounds of classic hip-hop through their DIY style, which has been described as “new vintage.” They will be releasing a new CD in May, and are signed to Spose’s Preposterously Dank record label. At 6 p.m., Cabaret Rock/Avant Americana band Bass Box will perform. They released their CD Mother Box this past fall.

80 Elm Plaza, Waterville. Portland- and Toronto-based selfdescribed indie-pop collective In The Audience will be performing at the North Windham store location at 3 p.m. The collective is releasing a new CD in May. They will give a free personalized CD single to customers who attend their performance. Spearheading the music of the born-in-the-90s generation of local music, SPACE gallery has called them “one of Maine’s most promising bands.” 771 Roosevelt Trail, Windham. In New Hampshire, the Portsmouth store, 82-86 Congress, is hosting the young Skyler, a York, Maine native and a favorite among teenage girls both for his looks and his catchy, pop-rock sound. Skyler is onstage at 3 p.m.

82-86 Congress St., Portsmouth, N.H. For updates, visit the Bull Moose site at http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home.

Food+Farm: The Greenhorns’ Young Farmers’ Mixer 3 p.m. April 14 to April 17, FOOD + FARM 2011. A food and film festival at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. in Portland. “This is the fourth year of Food+Farm, SPACE Gallery’s annual look at issues challenging our access to safe, sustainable food. ... This afternoon mixer is an opportunity for young farmers to come and meet their peers and enjoy a little nosh. We’ll be providing good eats and beverages from Local Sprouts, Flatbread Co. and Maine Root in addition to volunteer massage therapists to ease sore farm muscles.

Representatives from The Greenhorns and MOFGA will be on hand to discuss their work with the young farming community. The Greenhorns is an organization focused on recruiting, promoting and supporting young farmers in America — ‘young’ being loosely defined as farmers under the national average age of 57. If you’re a farmer or intern currently working in agriculture, please come down and socialize with us from 3-5 p.m. If you’re interested in supporting or are considering becoming a young farmer, please consider coming to our Greenhorns evening event later with The Greenhorns at 7:30 p.m.” www.space538.org

Miss Maine Scholarship Program gala 5:30 p.m. The Miss Maine Scholarship Program proudly announces the 10 finalists for the third annual Maine’s Got Talent honors. They will compete at the Springtime Gala at the Hilton Garden Inn in Freeport. They are Roy Beck of Topsham (vocalist), Elexa DuBoise of Cherryfield (vocal and guitar), Fusion-dance team from the Biddeford area (dance group), Hannah Graham of Skowhegan (vocalist), Smokey Hicks of Bath (vocalist), Matt Houde and Julia Nadeau of Topsham (vocal duet), Adrianna Leonard of Pittsfield (ballet dancer), Drew Masse of Lewiston (vocalist), Hannah Rowell of South Portland (vocalist), and Nicolette Smith of Lincoln

(vocalist). To obtain tickets to see the competition live, contact Patricia Crooker Mulligan by calling (207) 725-6009 or toll free 1-877-872-4321. Tickets are $40 in advance (April 11) or $50 at the door. Tickets can also be obtained via mail Miss Maine Springtime Gala, 23 Meadow Road, Brunswick, ME 04011. The Gala will feature Miss Maine 2010, Arikka Knights, a native of Chester, Maine and a Mass Communications graduate of Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire. The evening also offers both a silent and a live auction. The delicious buffet style dinner is provided by the Hilton Garden Inn. All proceeds of this event will benefit the Miss Maine Scholarship Program, the official state preliminary to Miss America, the largest source of scholarships for young women in the world. The 2011 Miss Maine Scholarship Pageant will be held at the Crooker Theater, Brunswick High School in Brunswick on Saturday, June 18. For more information about the Miss Maine Scholarship Program visit www.missmaine.org on the web.

Maine Gay Men’s Chorus ensemble 7 p.m. The seven-voice Touring Ensemble of the Maine Gay Men’s Chorus (MGMC) will sing at the First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St. Their show, “As Long As You Love Me,” features a new line-up of songs including an a cappella arrangement of Toto’s “Africa,” the brand-new “My House,” and Mozart’s “Ave Verum” — one of the most beautiful pieces of choral music ever written. New arrangements of several songs make use of guitar, bass, keyboard, violin, and even a bright blue glockenspiel, all played by members of the ensemble. “The Touring Ensemble sings to fulfill the chorus mission of spreading the message of social acceptance and diversity.” Tix are $10 (suggested donation). FMI 783-0461 or www.auburnuu.org.

Cameron Carpenter on the Kotzschmar Organ 7:30 p.m. Cameron Carpenter will draw his concert repertoire from the following sources: jazz etudes for the piano of the Ukrainian classical-jazz genius Nikolai Kapustin; organ premieres of great piano encores by Vladimir Horowitz, Arcadi Volodis, and Cyprien Katsaris. Experience the Pipes of the Kotzschmar Organ in Portland. “The Kotzschmar Organ is the oldest working municipal pipe organ in the United States. ...

Select from a wide variety of concerts including jazz, classical, and pops. Municipal Organist Ray Cornils has served Portland and the Kotzschmar Organ since 1990. Cornils performs several times each year and hosts the popular Kotzschmar Konversation with visiting artists prior to their concerts.”

Sunday, April 17 Food+Farm: Urban Farm Fermentory Workshops 9 a.m. “We’ve asked our friends at the Urban Farm Fermentory to put together a couple of intensive learning workshops for this year’s Food+Farm. Please feel free to bring snacks to share and vessel for hot or cold beverages.

Each session $15. Class size limited to 15 participants. All experience levels welcome. All workshops are at the UFF - 200 Anderson St., Bay 4, Portland. Morning workshop, 9 a.m.-noon. Introduction to Urban Gardening. Afternoon workshop, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Season Extension Techniques and Sheetmulching. $15/each session., All Ages. www. space538.org/events.php

Clothing Swap benefit for St. Lawrence Arts Center 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “Clean out your closets, collect all those old sweaters you haven’t worn in years, load up those Goodwill bags you’ve been meaning to donate and bring them here. We will be accepting men’s, women’s and children’s clothing as well as accessories (no non-wearable items please). Anyone who arrives with items to swap is able to take home whatever they wish. The event does have a suggested donation of $5-10 at door.” To schedule a time for clothing donations prior to the event, call 347-3075.

Sacred Living Gatherings 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Unity Center for Sacred Living, an open, interfaith, Oneness oriented Spiritual Community, is “here to evolve consciousness through what we call The New Spirituality. We know that the essence of Spirit is within each and every one of us, and our aim is to create a safe and sacred space for each person to explore their own perception of Spirituality. UCSL offers weekly gatherings that are informative, creative, interactive, and sometimes ceremonial followed by fellowship.” Sacred Living Gatherings on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Williston-West Church, Memorial Hall (2nd fl), 32 Thomas St. Portland. For more information call 221-0727 or email centerforsacredliving@gmail.com.

Ebune Spring Festival & Parade noon to 3 p.m. Celebrate Ebune Spring Festival & Parade and the procession of the Ram! The Ebune parade in Portland is noon. Meet at MECA, end at Eastern Prom. http:// www.museumafricanculture.org

Visiting monks to construct sand mandala 2 p.m. Sand Mandala for Compassion and Peace, April

11-17. The Mandala will be created by Geshe Gendun Gyatso, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, and Sonam Dhargyal a trained Mandala master. The mandala creation will be ongoing daily 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in The Maine College of Art Library on Congress Street, Portland. Opening Ceremony, April 11 at 2 p.m. Morning prayers at 8:30 a.m. daily. Evening prayers at 4 p.m. daily. Dharma talks, also at Maine College of Art, 7 p.m. evenings. Closing ceremony April 17 at 2 p.m. Sponsored by The Healing Dharma Center, a Tibetan Buddhist Center in Newburyport and South Portland. (www. healingdharma.squarespace.com ). Other sponsors include The Chaplaincy Institute of Maine (an interfaith wisom school), and Maine College of Art. All events are free and open to all.

‘The Thinking Heart’ in Portland 2 p.m. Four performances of “The Thinking Heart: the Life and Loves of Etty Hillesum,” will be presented in the Portland area during April, May and June at Sadhana, the Meditation Center; First Parish Church; the Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church; and at the University of Southern Maine’s Glickman Family Library. Conversation concerning the work will follow performances. Sadhana, The Meditation Center, 100 Brickhill Ave., Suite C, South Portland, on Sunday, April 17, at 2 p.m. Admission: Requested donation, $5 to $15.

Contact: Monique Bankey, Events Manager, mbankey@icst.com and info@SadhanaMe.com, 772-6898. For directions, please go to http://www.sadhaname.com/index.php/ info/Contact-Us. First Parish Portland, 425 Congress St., Portland, on Sunday, May 1, at 7 p.m. Contact: 773-5747.

Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Ave., Portland, on May 22, at 3 p.m. Contact: Caroline Loupe, cmloupe@maine.rr.com, 926-5983. Admission: Donation requested. Glickman Family Library at the University of Southern Maine, 314 Forest Ave., seventh floor, Portland, on June 2, at 7 p.m. This performance is sponsored by Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. Contact: Joshua Bodwell, director@mainewriters.org, 228-8263.

Portland Ovations presents ‘The Mikado’ 4 p.m. Portland Ovations is proud to present New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players (NYGASP), America’s preeminent professional Gilbert & Sullivan repertory company performing one of the most popular musical pieces written in the English language, “The Mikado” at Merrill Auditorium. NYGASP’s production of this comedic favorite is in the traditional mold, combining a modern playfulness with a respect for the creators’ original intent. Described by the New York Times as, “Colorful and lively...stylish... the production, like so many from this dedicated company, conveys a sense of affection for the work...masterfully updated...witty and clever.” “Ovations Offstage is offering a Pre-Performance Lecture: ‘Creating the Mikado’ with Albert Bergeret, the Artistic Director of the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, on Sunday, April 17 at 3 p.m. in the Merrill Auditorium Rehearsal Hall. Bergeret will offer an overview of Gilbert and Sullivan, their process of creating this work, and the company’s success in keeping ‘The Mikado’ new and fresh.”

St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church Holy Week services at Old Orchard Beach 4 p.m. St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church, located at Cathedral Pines Chapel, 156 Saco Ave., Old Orchard Beach, has announced its Holy Week Schedule. Every Wednesday until April 20, there will be at 6 p.m. Stations of the Cross. On April 17, Palm Sunday at 4 p.m., the parish will have the Blessing and Distribution of Palms and Mass followed by the Service of Tenebrae.

During Holy Week, on April 21, Maundy Thursday at 7 p.m., there will be Holy Communion and Stripping of the Altar. On April 22, Good Friday, from noon until 3 p.m., there is the remembrance of the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross called Tres Ores. It begins at noon with the Stations of the Cross and Meditations on the Last Words of Christ in the Cross. Holy Week wraps up on Sunday April 24, with the Great Celebration of Easter and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ at 4 p.m. The Rev. Jeffrey Monroe MM is Rector.

Monday, April 18 Patriots Day trash schedule The Department of Public Services Solid Waste crews will not collect trash or recycling on Patriots Day. Residents who normally receive collection services on Monday will have their trash and recycling collected the Saturday before, April 16. Residents of Peaks Island, Great Diamond Island, and Cliff Island will have their recycling and trash collection the following day, Tuesday, April 19. All items should be out by 6:30 a.m. to ensure collection. If residents have further questions about their trash/recycling collection, they can contact the Recycling Hotline at 756-8189. The Riverside Recycling Facility will be closed on Patriots Day as well, and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, April 19, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. www.portlandmaine.gov see next page

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Dooryard Benefit: Old Night / Stinky P-Face / Hoboe

Melissa Ferrick at One Longfellow Square

9 p.m. Old Night (Alex Merrill), Stinky P-Face. Hoboe. Additional acts TBA. $3 cover/21+. All proceeds go to the Dooryard Art Collective. Empire Dine & Dance, 575 Congress St.

8 p.m. Melissa Ferrick, a native New Englander, is a powerhouse vocalist/guitarist who has steadily released DIY projects since her prior stints on Atlantic and W.A.R.? Records.

A six-time Boston Music Award and GLAMA Winner, her combination of raw intensity and consummate musicianship first caught the attention if MPress founder Rachael Sage several years ago when Ferrick was appearing at the GLAAD Media Awards in New York City. Her extraordinarily passionate, grassroots fan base began when she opened for Morrissey in 1991, and has grown into one of the most loyal followings in recent indie memory. $20/$25, all ages.

Jesse Colin Young at One Longfellow Square 8 p.m. Jesse Colin Young, critically acclaimed solo artist and lead singer of the legendary classic rock band, The Youngbloods, took the nation by storm when The Youngblood’s single Get Together became a worldwide Top 10 hit and a prominent soundtrack for peace. After seven group releases, Young began the production of more than 15 acclaimed solo albums including Song For Juli, Light Shine, Songbird and a live album with his great touring band titled On The Road. $35/$38, all ages.

Tuesday, April 19 Glass Fingers / Of the Trees / Michael Stoltz at Slainte Wine Bar and Lounge

Friday, April 15 The Gay Blades / Marie Stella / if and it 8 p.m. The Gay Blades are a made of magic and they are almost always on the road sending magic to new friends everywhere. Let’s dance naked together. Local indie rockers Marie Stella and if and it round out this night at Bayside Bowl. $5, all ages.

Jeffery Foucault at One Longfellow Square 8 p.m. Longtime disciple of the rich and strange music that sings behind the American veil, Jeffrey Foucault has spent the last decade mining the darker seams of country and blues, producing a string of spare and elemental albums of rare power while garnering accolades across the United States and overseas for a tersely elegant brand of songwrit-

Indie-maverick (and major label veteran) Melissa Ferrick is an accomplished singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has shared stages with artists as wide-ranging as Bob Dylan, Paul Westerberg, Weezer and Ani DiFranco. She will perform at One Longfellow Square on Saturday. (Photo by Shervin Lainez) ing set apart by its haunting imagery and weather-beaten cool. $15/$18

Tax Day Extravaganza with Jeff Beam / Bass Box / Sea Level / the Vanityites at Empire Dine & Dance 9 p.m. 9:30 – 10:00: The Vanityites, 10:15 – 11:00: Sea Level, 11:15 – 12:00: Jeff Beam Philharmonic, 12:15 – 1:00: Bass Box. $6, 21 plus.

9 p.m. Prepare yourselves for a night of excellent Maine electronic music. You’re sure to be dancing and nodding your head to the sweet sounds of Glass Fingers, Of the Trees, and Michael Stoltz late into this Tuesday night. An exciting new electronic music act from Portland, Glass Fingers (aka Jesse Gertz) was hand picked by Dan Deacon to open for his Portland show at Space Gallery on March 11th.

Electronic music from South Portland, Of the Trees is rich in influences ranging from downtempo/ambient to face-melting dubstep-laden beats. Get lost in the warm, fuzz-drenched, swirling, sprawling sounds of Michael Stoltz. This is Michael’s Portland debut, and will undoubtedly be one of many more appearances to come. Free, all ages. Slainte Wine Bar and Lounge. www.myspace.com/slaintewinebar

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AARP Tax-Aide/Maine noon to 6 p.m. This year, the deadline for 2010 tax returns is April 18, not April 15.

Emancipation Day is observed April 15 in Washington, D.C., so most federal offices there will be closed. By law, the tax filing deadline for the nation is moved to the next business day, Monday, April 18. In Portland, the retail window at both the Portland

Post Office at 125 Forest Avenue and its Downtown Station office at 400 Congress Street will be open until 7 p.m. The Forest Avenue location also will host volunteers from AARP Tax-Aide/Maine from noon to 6 p.m. to assist last-day filers with filling out their returns.

Kora Temple Shrine Circus 2 p.m. April 18 to April 20, Cumberland County Civic Center. Mon., April 18, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Tues., April 19, 9:30 a.m. (no

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Nuclear Weapons, National Security 6 p.m. Discussion on Nuclear Weapons and National Security at University of Southern Maine, Masterton Hall, Room 113, with Col. Richard Klass (USAF, ret.) and Dr. Ira Helfand, M.D. “Nuclear arms experts Col. Richard Klass (USAF, ret.) and Dr. Ira Helfand, MD will be in Maine to discuss why the $50 billion spent annually on nuclear weapons is wasteful and does not make our country more secure from terrorists or rogue nations. Klass and Helfand are key parts of a growing international consensus that nuclear weapons are a liability and not an asset. Colonel Richard Klass, (USAF, ret.), served as a White House Fellow in the Nixon Administration and in the Pentagon in the Carter Administration where he dealt with strategic arms control issues. Dr. Ira Helfand, is a Specialist in Emergency Medicine in Springfield MA and a co-founder of National Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). .... This program is sponsored jointly by the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and Physicians for Social Responsibility.”

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7 p.m. Presented by Artbeat, Inc. at the South Portland Auditorium at SPHS, all tickets $39.50 (includes $5 service fee). “‘In the Mood’ is the 1940s Big Band, Song and Swing Dance Revue that celebrates America’s Greatest Generation though the music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, The Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra, and more with music arrangements, costumes and choreography that are as authentic as it gets! It’s a sentimental, romantic, nostalgic, jazzy and patriotic tribute to America’s Swing Era. Company of 19 on stage: Big Band and six vocalist-dancers including a high energy swing dance couple.” https://tickets.porttix.com/public/show.asp

Tuesday, April 19 ‘Fixing School Food in America’ at COA 4 p.m. What do we want our children to eat while at school, asks Jan Poppendieck,

author of “Free For All: Fixing School Food in America.” She will be coming to College of the Atlantic’s Human Ecology Forum in the McCormick Lecture Hall. The talk will be titled, “The Ultimate School Lunchroom.” www.coa.edu

Music foundation clinic on Facebook 6 p.m. The Portland Music Foundation (PMF) continues its “Music as a Profession” series with a workshop focusing on helping musicians to use the world’s largest web site to promote their careers. “Facebook for Your Future” will be led by PMF president Pat May, who works with dozens of nationally touring artists as a booking agent for Skyline Music. Doors at 5:30 p.m. At the Rines Auditorium in the Portland Public Library. It is open to Portland Music Foundation members. Membership is available on site ($20 for individuals, $40 for bands) and gains admission to the rest of the PMF’s educational seminar series, along with a number of discounts at local businesses. “Despite being almost twice the size of MySpace, Facebook is still not quite as user friendly as that first (and now dying) social networking site to truly cater to bands. It is imperative that artists understand the nuanced functionality of Facebook’s platform in order to maximize the ability to grow their fan base and revenues.

This will be an intensive, hands-on workshop on the ins and outs of using Facebook to its fullest marketing potential. ... There is free wireless access at the Portland Public Library. Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptops.” For more information, visit info@portlandmusicfoundation.org.

‘Street Art vs. Graffiti’ 6:30 p.m. Portland Arts & Cultural Alliance. “PACA presents Creative Conversations: Street Art vs. Graffiti at SPACE, 538 Congress St. “If you are a property owner and have had to deal with acts of graffiti vandalism or you are someone who thinks that street art adds to the urban environment this discussion is for you! This panel will explore many facets of the issue, from defining what is graffiti vs street art, what is acceptable as responsible adult behavior and the social and economic fallout from graffiti. Come lend your voice to this exciting issue. The panelist will be Kyle Bryant, Andy Graham, Trish McAllister, and Jay York.” www.portlandarts.org/