The Portland Daily Sun, Tuesday, April 19, 2011 by Daily Sun

A political ﬁrst date, gone horribly wrong

Even hindsight hazy on oil spill anniversary

Business woman takes the cake, by making her own ice cream

See Bob Higgins on page 4

See Curtis Robinson’s column on page 5

See the story in Locavore, page 6

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Graffiti clash brings both sides to forum BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Tonight, both supporters and opponents of “unsanctioned public art” will continue their debate as Portland considers an ordinance which would penalize both “writers” and property owners who fail to promptly remove graffiti. Presented by Space Gallery and

“I would never buy any artwork from any gallery that sold any art inspired by grafﬁti work.” — Jay York, Portland property owner The Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance (PACA), the event was spurred by an impromptu conversation between local photographer and property owner Jay York and city

arts group president Andy Graham, also a local businessman. “We were at [an] event at Bayside Bowl when the topic came up and became very passionate. PACA was

starting to outline our new season of Creative Conversations so this seemed like a relevant issue,” said Jess Lauren Lipton of city arts group Creative Portland and an artist with the Sylvia Kania Gallery. There has been no shortage of input from the community on the issue, with a municipal graffiti task see GRAFFITI page 9

Marijuana advocate tries full-court press As Portland legislator campaigns to legalize pot, activist tests courts BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Michael J. Dee of Windham, shown here in Portland on Friday, continues battling marijuana laws, ﬁghting in the courtrooms. While taking on the issue from a judicial standpoint, he supports legislation in Maine to legalize marijuana, which is sponsored by Rep. Diane Russell, D-Portland. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

On Wednesday, when Rep. Diane Russell kicks off her campaign to legalize marijuana in Maine, Michael J. Dee of Windham will keep an eye on the legislation, but don’t expect him to lay down his protest signs. The courtroom, not the state house, is where it’s at, Dee believes. An activist who has toted signs to the United Nations and has filed legal briefs in courthouses across Maine, Dee has become a thorn in the side of the Maine judiciary. see POT page 3

For Deering lacrosse, it’s like father, like son BY JEFF PETERSON SPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree for Bob and Adam Rothbart. Bob Rothbart is entering his sixth season as the head coach of the Deering High School boys lacrosse team. During the offseason, he started looking for a new assistant coach. The search ended with Rothbart hiring someone he had a lot in common with. Not only did his new hire know a lot about lacrosse, but for about 18 years, they shared the same address. “At first I was a little nervous about my son being my assistant coach,” admitted the elder Rothbart. “I didn’t want him taking advantage of me just because

“We always have something to talk about and we’re really a lot closer. Plus, I think we respect each other a lot more and I don’t think I am the idiot dad anymore.” — Bob Rothbart, head coach of Deering High boys’ lacrosse, on his son, Adam I was his dad.” Adam was a little nervous as well. “I really wanted to coach with him,” said the younger Rothbart, “But I didn’t want us to argue like we did my whole life.”

According to Bob and Adam Rothbart, they had about as close as you could get to a normal father/ son relationship from birth to college, but what has happened since then, neither of them could have predicted. Not only do they spend two hours a day, six days a week together at Deering practices, but several more hours planning and preparing their team for the season. “It’s been good for our relationship,” said the head coach. “We always have something to talk about and we’re really a lot closer. Plus, I think we respect each other a lot more and I don’t think I am the idiot dad anymore.” see COACHES page 16

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Vinyl gets second life NEW YORK (NY Times) — In an industrial and uninviting stretch of Brooklyn, near several strip clubs and a factory that makes electrical tubing, Thomas Bernich’s small plant recycles vinyl and preserves a fading piece of history. Recycled vinyl before it is turned into a record at Brooklynphono, in Sunset Park. In fact, Mr. Bernich’s workplace in Sunset Park is one of the few of its kind in New York City and in the country. Inside the one-story, red-brick factory on 42nd Street, boxes of discarded albums from used-record stores are piled high on wooden pallets, awaiting their end and a new beginning. The records are tossed into a large shredder to start the process of putting music on them again. The used vinyl is eventually fed into a press that creates new albums. “Taking rotten milk and breathing new life into it is not an easy thing,” Mr. Bernich said. Mr. Bernich and the five employees at his company, Brooklynphono, have preserved the craft of applying music to vinyl. Mr. Bernich stumbled into the record business after he realized that his talent for sculpture, which he studied at the Pratt Institute, could probably not support a career. But while at Pratt, Mr. Bernich, 40, started collecting records, inspired by a friend’s passion for vinyl. “You have these moments when you are playing a record when you get caught in a location and time,” said Mr. Bernich, who lives in Brooklyn Heights. “There is a magic with vinyl and the memories that are connected to it.” When he finally had the chance to buy two used vinyl-pressing machines from a plant that was closing, Mr. Bernich pounced, turning his hobby into a job and opening a small business. While vinyl records are clearly a relic, Mr. Bernich has found a niche. When it first opened in 2003, Brooklynphono was making about 2,000 records a month. Now, Brooklynphono has five pressing machines, making more than 10,000 records a month. It caters mostly to indie-rock record labels based in Brooklyn, but also to several European dance record labels. One skill that has proved useful is the comfort with tools and machines Mr. Bernich gained while studying sculpture.

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S&P lowers outlook for U.S. Stocks tumble; deﬁcit pushed out of political arena and into ﬁnancial one BY CHRISTINE HAUSER THE NEW YORK TIMES

Washington’s deficit reduction debate came to Wall Street on Monday, after the Standard & Poor’s rating firm lowered the outlook for the United States to negative, saying there was a risk that lawmakers might not reach agreement on how to address the country’s fiscal issues. Indexes fell sharply as the Standard & Poor’s revision pushed the federal deficit problems out of the political arena and into the financial one. By noon, Wall Street indexes were down at least 1.6 percent in afternoon trading as bond prices rose and yields declined. Many analysts were surprised by the market response to the revision, which cut the long-term United States debt rating to negative from stable. The S.&P. also affirmed the government’s AAA rating. “The idea that the U.S. public finances

are on an unsustainable trajectory is hardly new news,” economists from Capital Economics said in a research note. “Indeed, we warned that the U.S. might be downgraded, or at least put on negative watch, as far back as nearly two years ago.” Analysts said the upside of the announcement was that it could spur the administration and lawmakers to find a way to reduced the nearly $1.5 trillion budget deficit. Steven Blitz, a senior economist for ITG Investment Research, said that the “S.&P. and all the rating agencies are still under a lot of pressure to reform and this action could help them by helping the White House scare the Republicans to engage in responsible political negotiation to reach some reasonable deal on deficit reduction and raise the debt ceiling rather than have the talks take on the aura of a hostage negotiation.”

Mr. Blitz said the revision involved a ratings change that could occur several years from now, but the timing of the release had political aspect, much like the heightened terror alerts during President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign.. Stanley Nabi, chief strategist at Silvercrest Asset Management Group, said the policy makers and lawmakers should “realize there is a very serious problem, and you are going to see more consideration on how to rein in expenditures.” For their part, administration officials played down the revision while reiterating Washington’s determination to act. Treasury officials “believe S.&P.’s negative outlook underestimates the ability of America’s leaders to come together to address the difficult fiscal challenges facing the nation,” an assistant secretary for financial markets, Mary J. Miller, said in a statement.

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Agency: Fish catch limits due to increase May 1 Federal officials are increasing limits on two out of 20 groundfish stocks when the new season begins May 1 after shifting to a new system for regulating New England fisheries last year, a federal regulator announced. Higher catch limits will be a relief for fishermen who saw across-the-board restrictions last year, when fishermen were first allowed to join “sectors” with specific allotments. This year, about half of fishermen will use that system, while the remainder will face restrictions on the number of days at sea. Marjorie Mooney-Seus from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Service says bigger catch limits for 11 stocks including Georges Bank cod and Gulf of Maine cod are due to successful efforts to rebuild stocks. Higher limits on the 12th, Georges Bank yellowtail flounder, were negotiated with Canada.

Brunswick three-alarm ﬁre leaves 17 homeless A three-alarm fire early Sunday morning destroyed a landmark building at the corner of Maine and Mason streets in Brunswick and left 17 people homeless, destroying three businesses. Firefighters from 10 departments spent hours battling the flames that consumed the three-story building at the corner of 45-47 Maine St. and 1 Mason St.

All escaped injury, although a blast of flames from the building’s windows at about 3 a.m. led Brunswick Fire Chief Ken Brillant to clear firefighters from the building. After the blaze had been doused, a vehicle ran over the foot of a firefighter from Brunswick Naval Air Station as he was picking up a hose on Federal Street, Brillant said. “This was actually a really bad fire,” Deputy Fire Chief Jeff Emerson told the Times-Record, who said that at one point approximately 100 firefighters worked to bring the blaze under control.

Demeritt resigns from LePage communications post Dan Demeritt, director of communications for the Office of the Governor announced Saturday his resignation from the staff of Gov. Paul LePage. The resignation took effect immediately. “I have several unresolved business issues that need my immediate and direct attention. I am resigning from Governor LePage’s staff to attend to these matters. I wish the Governor and his staff complete success,” said Demeritt in the statement. “Governor LePage and his staff wish Mr. Demeritt the best with his future endeavors,” a statement from Press Secretary Adrienne A. Bennett read.

Legislature off this week due to School Vacation Week The Maine House, Senate and all committees were off for Patriot’s Day Monday, a

shutdown day today, and school vacation the rest of the week. When lawmakers return April 25, the Health and Human Services Committee will take up a pair of bills requiring drug testing for people receiving Medicaid. Another would require the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a program that requires Medicaid recipients with prescriptions for scheduled drugs to be tested periodically to ensure they are taking the prescribed scheduled drugs. The other bill says that anyone who tests positive for use of illegal drugs may not receive benefits under the Medicaid program until that person tests negative. MaineCare is the state’s Medicaid program.

Utility disconnect protection rules end, Maine PUC says The Maine Public Utilities Commission is reminding utility customers that winter disconnection protection rules come to an end this week. Electric and gas utilities are not allowed to disconnect utility service from customers who have overdue bills between Nov. 15 and April 19 without permission from the commission’s consumer assistance division. That means the so-called “winter rules” for disconnections end on Tuesday. That’s when the “summer rules” for disconnections become effective, allowing utility companies to disconnect customers without permission from the commission. The commission says customers who are unable to pay overdue bills should contact their utilities and make payment arrangements.

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Marijuana legalization focus of legislation POT from page one

LD 1453, “An Act to Legalize and Tax Marijuana,” is

sponsored by Rep. Diane Russell (right), D-Portland. The In 2007, Cumberland County Superior Court Justice Robert E. Crowley state representative for Munjoy Hill and the Old Port areas enjoined Dee from litigating against of Portland plans a marijuana-legalization campaign the state’s marijuana laws. On June 25, 2007, in Michael J. Dee kickoff at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Maine State Room at v. State of Maine, Justice Crowley Portland City Hall. wrote that “the state has satisfied its burden to show a pattern of frivolous and vexation suits. Over a span of twelve years, Dee has repeatedly and The state representative for Munjoy provide aid to a state weatherization unsuccessfully attempted to litigate Hill and the Old Port areas of Portprogram and support higher educathis issue in state and federal courts. land plans a campaign kickoff at 10 tion, the legislation reads. The bill ... At every turn, courts have informed a.m. Wednesday in the Maine State also allows anyone 21 years of age or him that his claims have no legal Room at Portland City Hall. older “to possess, purchase and use merit and that the legislature, not Last Thursday, LD 1453 was marijuana within certain limits and the judiciary, is the proper forum for referred to the Committee on Crimito cultivate a limited amount of mariaddressing this issue. Thus, the Court nal Justice and Public Safety, where juana for personal use.” enjoins him from filing further lawit awaits further action. Russell said Dee said he’s not taking a break suits in Maine courts to challenge the she’s taking the legislation seriously. from his activism, despite Russell’s constitutionality of the State’s civil “It is time we stop turning otherlegislation. and criminal marijuana laws withwise law-abiding people into crimi“She said it would be no problem for out prior approval nals, begin taxing me to grow my own,” Dee said of the from the court.” it for commercial legislation, but Dee noted he remains Don’t tell Dee “At every turn, courts have informed sale, and refocircumspect. The government may his days in court him that his claims have no legal cus our criminal “legalize it and then tell you that you are over. merit and that the legislature, not justice resources can’t grow your own, it’s not right,” he “May 4, I go to toward issues that said, predicting continued legal barrithe judiciary, is the proper forum for court,” Dee said are truly devastaters to growing pot. Friday, noting he addressing this issue. Thus, the Court ing communities,” “I have not sought legalization of has been sumRussell wrote in a marijuana by legislative means,” Dee enjoins him from ﬁ ling further lawmonsed for growFacebook message acknowledged. “I have sought constiing marijuana. He suits in Maine courts to challenge the about Wednesday’s tutional protection from the judicial plans to plead “not branch of government to acquire and constitutionality of the State’s civil event. guilty.” Cosponsored by possess this property, beginning in the and criminal marijuana laws without “These are my Rep. Richard Cebra 1980s.” prior approval from the court.” — (R-Naples), rights, it goes back LD Justice Crowley cited some of Dee’s to when I was a Cumberland County Superior Court 1453 “reforms state activism. parent,” Dee said. marijuana laws “In 2000, Dee received a summons “I’m a grandpar- Justice Robert E. Crowley, enjoining by establishing a following his demonstration for legalent now. They take Michael Dee from litigating against special tax rate for ization of marijuana at the State away your kids if marijuana, legalHouse, during which he was carrying the state’s marijuana laws you grow pot and izing the personal a marijuana plant that police seized,” smoke pot. They use and cultivaaccording to Michael J. Dee v. State of say you’re setting tion of marijuana, Maine. a bad example, but if you sit there and legalizing and licensing certain com“Dee has been found guilty of civil get drunk and beat up your wife or mercial marijuana-related activities, possession several times in the 1990s spouse, whatever. But you can’t smoke while providing provisions to protect and in 2000. He filed a complaint for pot.” minors, employers and schools, and Dee said he has traveled to New removing the registry system from York City and other venues to protest the Maine Medical Use of Marijuana the nation’s anti-marijuana laws. He’s Act,” according to its legislative sumpicking his fight with judges. mary. “They’ve corrupted our right to due Part A of the bill establishes a tax process to law,” he said of the courts. rate of 7 percent, beginning Jan. 1, Dee said he’s aware of Russell’s leg2012, for marijuana that is sold for islation, LD 1453, “An Act to Legalize “commercial or medical purposes.” and Tax Marijuana.” Russell is spendThe revenue generated by the tax ing part of School Vacation Week, would be distributed among specific when the Maine Legislature is on programs that benefit farmers, prebreak, drawing attention to the bill. serve land, assist law enforcement,

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declaratory judgment in this Court in December 2006, contending that he has a fundamental right to possess marijuana and that Maine’s laws violate his constitutional rights, particularly his due process rights and his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures,” Justice Crowley wrote. “All of his arguments, as noted above, have been rejected by Maine’s state and federal courts, along with a vast majority of courts in other jurisdictions. This Court cannot change the marijuana laws, and explicitly finds that there currently is no basis for invalidating them because the legislature had a rational basis for enacting them, and they do not encroach upon any fundamental right,” Crowley concluded. Marijuana legalization advocates hope that the times are changing. Maine and 14 other states and the District of Columbia now have legalized marijuana use for ill patients who have a doctor’s recommendation. “Maine has allowed prescribing, and limited possession, of medical marijuana since 1999, and on Nov. 3, 2009, Maine voters approved Question 5, which enacted the citizen-initiated bill, “An act to establish the Maine Medical Marijuana Act.” A task force report and agency rulemaking process later, the state is beginning to establish dispensaries. Dee is unimpressed. Maine’s medical marijuana law, he said, doesn’t advance his constitutional rights to grow and smoke pot. “That’s just another drug cartel, they’re setting it up,” he said. As for his ongoing quest to overturn marijuana laws in the courts, Dee said he will stay at it. “I have a sign that says, ‘Fourth Amendment privilege,’ it’s back in the car right now,” Dee said.

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Let’s not be civil Last week, President Obama offered a spirited defense of his party’s values — in effect, of the legacy of the New Deal and the Great Society. Immediately thereafter, as always happens when Democrats take a stand, the civility police came out in force. The president, we were told, was being too partisan; he needs to treat his opponents with respect; he should have lunch with them, and work out a consensus. That’s a bad idea. Equally important, it’s an undemocratic idea. Let’s review the story so far. Two weeks ago, House Republicans released their big budget proposal, selling it to credulous pundits as a statement of necessity, not ideology — a document telling America What Must Be Done. But it was, in fact, a deeply partisan document, which you might have guessed from ––––– the opening sentence: “Where the president has failed, The New York House Republicans will lead.” Times It hyped the danger of deficits, yet even on its own (not at all credible) accounting, spending cuts were used mainly to pay for tax cuts rather than deficit reduction. The transparent and obvious goal was to use deficit fears to impose a vision of small government and low taxes, especially on the wealthy. So the House budget proposal revealed a yawning gap between the two parties’ priorities. And it revealed a deep difference in views about how the world works. When the proposal was released, it was praised as a “wonk-approved” plan that had been run by the experts. But the “experts” in question, it turned out, were at the Heritage Foundation, and few people outside the hard right found their conclusions credible. In the words of the consulting firm Macroeconomic Advisers — which makes its living telling businesses what they need to know, not telling politicians what they want to hear — the Heritage analysis was “both flawed and contrived.” Basically, Heritage went all in on the much-refuted claim that cutting taxes on the wealthy produces miraculous economic results, including a surge in revenue that actually reduces the deficit. By the way, Heritage is always like this. Whenever there’s something the G.O.P. doesn’t like —

Paul Krugman

see KRUGMAN page 5

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A political first date, gone horribly wrong Over the weekend, as promised, your reporter attended the “No Labels” event at UNE campus in Portland. One of the speakers leading the meeting, I forget who, compared the opening meeting of the group to a “first date.” In the next sentence, I think he is going to regret the analogy. Because if this was a first date, it was like a blind date gone horribly wrong in a restaurant that does not serve alcohol – there were a lot of vague promises about the stuff we were going to do in the future, certainly no no happy ending, and three hours of your life that you will never get back. I recognized a few faces in the crowd, but hung back doing the whole observe and report thing. Sometimes, you just have to shut it and let people yap themselves out. Following were a few of the impressions I got at the first date. The entire discussion of checking your labels at the door somehow reminded me of the Quincy Jones “USA for Africa” post-Grammy event. You can get everyone to agree and cooperate towards a goal, but they have to

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist have won something first, or at least have gotten all liquored up. The “No Labels” organization made several claims, like that they were planning to only endorse candidates in primary elections, and ones that have proven their ability to work across the aisle. So where does that leave the political newcomer, the person who is just entering the world of politics seeking elective office? You get nothing, bozo. Back of the line. Go run for dog-catcher somewhere, and prove your bipartisan spirit there by hauling all shapes and sizes of dogs off to the happy hunting grounds. No soup for you! There were torturous video commentary bites from folks like John McCain, who seemed to be experiencing some new form of

political torture (and, yes, I realize Sen. McCain is someone familiar with the term) when trying not to use the Nixonian term “silent majority.” You could see it there, perched on his lips, yet he couldn’t bring himself to say it. The group also brought out the mantra of “everything on the table, everyone at the table.” That better be one damned big table, and like early pro wrestling matches, somebody better look underneath it for hidden chairs, hockey sticks, and other tools of mayhem. I couldn’t quite put my finger on what gave me the impression, but somehow I got the feeling I was watching Monty Hall on “Let’s Make A Deal,” but a fixed version of the show where the contestants already know what is behind the curtain. At the very least, I felt this group wants to reserve the right to take a sneak-peek. The group organizers said that they were planning to rate candidates based on their ability to “work across the aisle” on the important legislation of the day. Except, they haven’t figured out see HIGGINS page 5

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Even hindsight hazy on oil spill anniversary It’s the one-year anniversary week for the BP oil spill, so get ready for your favorite South Park character, Captain Hindsight, to save the day! The character is part of a truly inappropriate superhero satire where the SP guys become “Coon and Friends” to battle crime. The Captain Hindsight character shows up at disasters and his super-power is to tell people what they did wrong. We’re guessing Sergeant SecondGuess lacked that certain ring. It’s a joke of the sort usually reserved for frat-house film festivals, but the fact is that in the Gulf of Mexico, we could use the good captain. Because even our hindsight is foggy. Congress so far has not made significant reforms, not even changing the basic oil spill laws that apparently initially limited BP liability to $75 million. The Gulf Coast Claims Center, set up to pay out $20 billion in quick order, has instead been slow and well under 20 percent of the money has been awarded. Local doctors say people are getting sick, but we’re told there’s no sure tie to the BP spill. Dolphins and turtles are dying in record numbers, but we’re told there’s no sure tie to the BP spill. The coastal plants are dying and washing away ... well, you know the rest. Everyone has their list, but when I talk to my friends from New Orleans (I made a documentary there once —

In this image taken from video provided by BP PLC at 16:37 CDT, oil ﬂows from the well as the new containment cap is lowered toward the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Monday, July 12, 2010. One year after the BP oil spill that killed 11 people and resulted in the worst offshore oil spill in American history, BP reported a net loss of $3.7 billion in 2010, but the company’s shares have since rebounded, trading around $45. (AP Photo/BP PLC)

Curtis Robinson ––––– Usually Reserved it’s a bonding process), the one thing they stress is that you can’t trust government. You see their point — first FEMA after Katrina and now NOAA (the letters, we’re told, are for No Oil Around Anywhere) would leave anyone unimpressed. Here’s the problem: In all the disaster drills and training and prep work, nobody says “this is the part where somebody calls from Washington and says I can’t show you the results anymore.” Or, “this is the part where your local governments have to sue because the administration bought off on a payment czar who actually works for the Big Oil company but only pays non-governmental claims, if anyone gets paid.” One of the best Maine-based efforts to answer the big questions is slated for tomorrow (Wednesday) when the state’s chapter of the Oceana group holds a press conference featuring “... scientists, environmental experts and political leaders &hellip; to discuss the ongoing risks of offshore drilling and the need to transition to a clean energy future.”

Organizers say that “... speakers will emphasize how rising and costly U.S. oil consumption accelerates climate change, weakens our economy and harms oceans and marine life which millions depend upon for their food and livelihoods.” And the group is clearly united in limiting offshore drilling, and also clearly supports wind power, with a press release saying that the U.S. will “... need real solutions in the form of increased energy efficiency and renewable energy sources like offshore wind power that will protect our oceans, save Mainers money and could bring billions of dollars of new investment to the state, creating thousands of jobs.” Fair enough, although the fact that a group of environmental leaders are still selling windmills is a clear sign of

how difficult this energy thing is. Slated to attend the noon event at the Ocean Gateway Building, 1 Commercial St, are Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Dr. Habib Dagher, Dir. of the AEWC Advanced Structures & Composites Center, Dr. John Wise, Professor of Toxicology & Molecular Epidemiology, USM, Casco Bay Keeper Joe Payne, State Representative Diane Russell, Ted Koffman, Executive Director, Maine Audubon, Benjamin Hayman, Maine Climate & Energy Campaign for Oceana. No word yet if any of these mildmannered folk have a super-hero hindsight costume. If they do, it’s time to break it out. (Curtis Robinson is editor of The Portland Daily Sun. Contact him at curtis@portlanddailysun.me.)

Polls suggest that public’s priorities don’t mirror GOP’s KRUGMAN from page 4

say, environmental protection — Heritage can be counted on to produce a report, based on no economic model anyone else recognizes, claiming that this policy would cause huge job losses. Correspondingly, whenever there’s something Republicans want, like tax cuts for the wealthy or for corporations, Heritage can be counted on to claim that this policy would yield immense economic benefits. The point is that the two parties don’t just live in different moral universes, they also live in different intellectual universes, with Republicans in particular having a stable of supposed experts who reliably endorse whatever they propose. So when pundits call on the parties to sit down together and talk, the obvious question is, what are they supposed to talk about? Where’s the common ground? Eventually, of course, America must choose

between these differing visions. And we have a way of doing that. It’s called democracy. Now, Republicans claim that last year’s midterms gave them a mandate for the vision embodied in their budget. But last year the G.O.P. ran against what it called the “massive Medicare cuts” contained in the health reform law. How, then, can the election have provided a mandate for a plan that not only would preserve all of those cuts, but would go on, over time, to dismantle Medicare completely? For what it’s worth, polls suggest that the public’s priorities are nothing like those embodied in the Republican budget. Large majorities support higher, not lower, taxes on the wealthy. Large majorities — including a majority of Republicans — also oppose major changes to Medicare. Of course, the poll that matters is the one on Election Day. But that’s all the more reason to make the 2012 election a clear choice between visions.

Which brings me to those calls for a bipartisan solution. Sorry to be cynical, but right now “bipartisan” is usually code for assembling some conservative Democrats and ultraconservative Republicans — all of them with close ties to the wealthy, and many who are wealthy themselves — and having them proclaim that low taxes on high incomes and drastic cuts in social insurance are the only possible solution. This would be a corrupt, undemocratic way to make decisions about the shape of our society even if those involved really were wise men with a deep grasp of the issues. It’s much worse when many of those at the table are the sort of people who solicit and believe the kind of policy analyses that the Heritage Foundation supplies. So let’s not be civil. Instead, let’s have a frank discussion of our differences. In particular, if Democrats believe that Republicans are talking cruel nonsense, they should say so — and take their case to the voters.

Finding a solitary position in the back of the room proved difﬁcult HIGGINS from page 4

the “metric” for doing that yet. If you want anyone to take you seriously, it seems to me, that is the first thing you should have done. A few of the things that made this date go sour for me were even more simple. In being one of those folks that despise crowds, my natural tendency to seek the back of the room was flummoxed. Seeking the chair farthest in the back of a lecture hall is generally a sign that you don’t want to be trifled with, but these folks apparently missed the memo. With the laptop open and notepad out, I went about

the task of organizing my thoughts. Unfortunately, there were a few members of the organizing group that were a little, shall we say “overzealous?” I’m sure they weren’t leaning over my shoulder checking out my notes, but it sure felt that way, especially the third time around. Additionally, at public meetings, don’t touch me. Just don’t. I have that Howie Mandel thing about people touching me. I realize your zeal to check out the acoustics in every corner of the room led you to gently put your hand on my shoulder twice to get around my corpulent frame. Don’t do that. You’ve been warned. Do it again, and lose your hand-shak-

ing hand. At the end of the “date” I felt that I had spent a pointless three hours with a money-lenders plaything, a “K Street” strumpet who was just telling me the things she thought I wanted to hear. (For those not in the know, “K” street is the location in D.C. where most lobbyists have their offices.) Good luck on your next date, for I don’t think we’ll be meeting again any time soon. If you see me when you’re out, let’s pretend we never met. (Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun.)

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Gogi delivers with speed, but hold the tortillas (Editor's Note: Spring is new restaurant season in Portland, so with this installment we begin a Locavore series profiling newcomers to our foodie town scene. If you have a suggestion for covering a new eatery, or yourself are opening the Next Big Thing, then email us some details at news@portlanddailysun.me.) There is a business axiom that goes: “Fast, cheap and good. Pick any two.” There is also a rule of thumb among restaurant reviewers that you wait at least a month after a restaurant opens before reviewing it. Gogi, the new Korean barbecue place on Longfellow Square, has been open just a week, but I’m going to flout convention. I popped in for a quick lunch on Thursday and was pleased enough to return for a more leisurely dinner on Sunday. There are just some things that a business shouldn’t dawdle with if they want repeat customers: morning caffeine and the midweek lunch. Slow Food principles are often left in the breakdown lane when it comes to food and drink on a workday. Midday fast food is the guilty plea-

Margo Mallar ––––– Daily Sun Columnist sure of many an evening food snob. Barava, the restaurant that preceded Gogi at 653 Congress, served Somali and Middle Eastern dishes — they were flavorful, the portions were generous and the prices were low. But the service could really define slow food. I waited 40 minutes for a lunch to go, when I was the only person in the place. At that point, my appreciation for the meal plummeted — I was late for work. And in similar fashion, GRO, the raw organic place just off Monument Square, never got the quickness thing together either. The concept was good but the service was too trippy-dippy to risk returning if you had time constraints. No surprise that was replaced by Mike’s Rock and Roll Sandwiches.

Look at the other side of that coin: Po Boys and Pickles, Anthony’s, Market Street Eats, Amato’s, Whaddapita and Whole Foods may vary widely in their offerings but are popular lunch spots because you can get in and out quickly. The Gogi kitchen is quick. I ordered takeout and had bag in hand within 5 minutes. Dinner was on the table in 10. The Gogi menu is an homage to the Asian-Hispanic fusion of big cities like Los Angeles. The kimchi vegetables are crisp and flavorful. In wise deference to the general Maine public, the kimchi heat is mild. Sriracha and Tabasco are table condiments for those who like to ratchet up the scovilles. The Kimchi Fried Rice is a nice variation on traditional Chinese American fried rice, less salty and crunchier. As a bonus, the cabbage holds the moisture so that leftovers don’t dry into the crusty little beads that spill out of the box the following day. Both the BBQ pulled pork and the Marinated Shiitake Mushroom tacos were nicely seasoned, and meaty each in their own way. Tacos are dressed with tomato, red onions, a

lettuce/cabbage mix, pickled cucumber and pickled bean sprouts. Good innards but the tortillas were lackluster. It might be their supplier or a reluctance to put those little disks on a griddle. Tortillas are a constant lament of mine; have yet to find a Maine restaurant that does them exactly right. Gogi offers tacos in lettuce or seaweed wraps; options that might be preferable to the waxy texture of out-of-thebag corn tortillas. Prices are reasonable. A lunch of two tacos and kimchi fried rice cost $8. Dinner of a quesadilla, shrimp dumplings, cucumber salad and fried rice set me back $19, two bottles of Japanese beer brought it to $27. The folks at Gogi apparently looked at the fast-cheap-good trinity and refused to choose. As a consequence, they defy the business pundits in a pretty way: they’re pretty fast, pretty cheap and pretty good. So my early review is this: Gogi kicks axiom. (Margo Mallar chops, stirs, bakes and writes in the East End. Her Locavore column appears each Tuesday in the Portland Daily Sun.)

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my product and bought it — yeah, they liked it, but ice cream cake on a rainy day? They were just trying to support me and even gave me advice on how to have an attractive table at the farmer’s market.” Adams then knew she needed to have a formal business strategy and marketing plan. So when Adams needed help with her business strategy, she applied and was accepted to “Women Standing Together,” a Maine Women’s Fund program to support women entrepreneurs. Through this program she received advice from a group of leading Maine business women and received one-on-one mentoring from Jodie Lapchick, a causebranding consultant in Portland. “Emily was a joy to mentor,” said Lapchick in the press release. “Her enthusiasm and professional business sense got me to take her under my wing and help her get her business off the ground.” In January, Adams launched an updated website and began

selling her products online and is already being sold by a few highprofile retail locations including The Good Life Market in Raymond and The Prep Kitchen in Freeport. Today, Adams uses a mobile freezer in the back of her car and a couple of ice cream makers to generate her ingredients. “I was getting myself trapped in the flavors that they wanted to make vs. the flavors I wanted to make,” she explained last week in an interview. “So I thought, ‘Well, let me try my hand at making the brands I want to make.’” Adams is featuring raspberry lemon for April — think of a vanilla-based ice cream with raspberry lemon swirl. And as for that blueberry pomegranate? “It’s an interesting combination but it’s so good,” Adams said. “The blueberries are sweet and the pomegranate gives it that tang.” For more information about Dirt on a Cake go to www.DirtOnACake.com.

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force made up of local business owners and public forums organized to gather comment on the proposed ordinance, “Graffiti has been accused of diminishing property values and adding to urban decay, while street art can engage a community and provide an unexpected delight in the cityscape,” said Lipton. “There are some people who will always see unsanctioned public art as graffiti; but others may see the changing images on the sides of buildings as the communal authorship of a thriving creative community,” she said. By inviting artists, property owners, the city’s neighborhood prosecutor and representatives from the creative economy, organizers hope to create melting pot of viewpoints that will hopefully elevate the conversation. “We tried to get a panel of the creators of street art, those charged with enforcing city policy, and members of the creative community who are also land owners,” said Lipton. The panel is made up of Trish McAllister, the city’s neighborhood prosecutor, York, a photographer and property owner vehemently against graffiti, Kyle Bryant, an artist, and Andy Graham, owner of Portland Color, President of Creative Portland, and a land owner who generally supports street art. The event aims to distinguish between two common words for works of illegal public art, positing the illegal blight of the term “graffiti” against the socially-redemptive and aesthetically valuable medium labeled “street art.” “Street art can add color and flavor to an urban area. Graffiti can dimin-

ish property values. But how does one determine which is which? This is a heated issue in our own community and cities around the world.” reads a description of the event on Space’s website. “This discussion isn’t so much about the ‘blight of graffiti’ as much as it exploring the gray areas of graffiti and street art in the city,” Lipton said. For some, however, the two terms are synonymous. “Street art is done on property, public or private, without permission. It’s no different then graffiti and it’s illegal,” said York. “The bottom line is that they are both criminal.” York said that McAllister shares many of his views on the issue, and was invited onto the panel at his request. “We are both approaching it from a very, very pro-property rights perspective. She feels as strongly about this as I do,” said York. McAllister could not be reach for comment on Monday. York said he often photographs graffiti during his daily walks around town, and sends the resulting photos to McAllister to be used in future criminal cases against those accused of vandalism. “I give her copies so she can maintain a database so if someone is arrested they can find all these other ‘tags’ people did and charge them with maybe 50, 60 or 100,” said York. York said the seemingly pro-graffiti focus of a recent Portland Museum of Art fundraiser led him to end his involvement with the PMA’s Contemporaries group, a boosters organization for the museum. “I stopped my membership based on last winter’s bash. It was based on a street art theme and I, in writing, com-

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plained that I felt it glorified these vandals that cause hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage to public and private property,” said York. “I would never buy any artwork from any gallery that sold any art inspired by graffiti work,” he said. Representing the artist’s perspective on the issue street art versus graffiti, Kyle Bryan’s stance might be a disappointment to any anti-graffiti activists looking for a fight. “I don’t necessarily support or endorse tagging, I think that a lot of the people I respect as graffiti writers aren’t out there tagging anything their tax dollars don’t go towards,”

said the art school graduate. “But I’m not trying to say ‘don’t go out tagging.’” While he says he is not any sort of major figure in the local graffiti community, Bryant also said he wants to lend some insider perspective to a discussion taking place with the participation of everyone but the artist. “I figured I could at least try to draw some attention to the positive aspects of street art. It has a lot of potential to build community and if nothing else enrich the environment we live in,” he said. Tonight’s event is free, open to the public and doors open at 6:30 p.m., with the program starting at 7 p.m.

David Ginsberg with LearningWorks preps a wall on Park Street for grafﬁti removal with the help of Youth Building Alternative students Mike Kimball (left) and Josh Link. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

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Tuesday, April 19 Fairy House Building at MECA 9 a.m. to noon. FOREST will transform the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA into a hive of activity from April 19 to 22. Visual and performing artists, students and friends will develop hands-on programs and activities to engage students and the public in unconventional and imaginative ways. Workshop: Fairy House Building, 9 a.m. to noon. Drop-in. All ages. Learn how to build small natural habitats from natural materials to attract fairies and their animal friends. Families will be provided with natural materials on site. Other workshops and events during the week. Maine College of Art, 522 Congress St. http://www.meca.edu, facebook.com/MaineCollegeofArt

Kora Temple Shrine Circus 9:30 a.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 reserved seats), 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Wed., April 20, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets: $12 Reserved Seats, $10 Adult General Admission and $8 Children General Admission.

U.S. Cellular, Boys & Girls Club clean-up 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. In celebration of Earth Day, hundreds of U.S. Cellular associates nationwide are participating in volunteer projects with nonproﬁt organizations and schools to help make their communities a little “greener.” Locally, U.S. Cellular associates will partner with the Boys & Girls Club of Southern Maine to lead a cleanup of the organization’s grounds by picking up trash, raking, and planting a vegetable garden. Boys & Girls Club Riverton Clubhouse, 55 Riverton Drive, Portland.

Free St.), at kitetails.org or by calling 828-1234, ext. 231. Advance reservations are encouraged.

Community Garden Collective in SoPo 7 p.m. The South Portland City Council will vote whether to accept a lease agreement between the newly created nonproﬁt, the Community Garden Collective and the city of South Portland for the development of a new community garden on the former Hamlin School property, the collective announced. The vote is to be held during the Wednesday, April 20 City Council meeting which begins at 7 p.m. at the South Portland City Hall.

‘The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry’ 7:30 p.m. SPACE Gallery presents, “The Upsetter: The Life & Music of Lee Scratch Perry,” a feature length documentary “about one of the most fascinating and inﬂuential artists of our times.” $7/$5 for SPACE members, all ages. “Equally a documentation of a musical culture and a fascinating character study of genius and madness, The Upsetter is a sight and sound clash of visual and aural styles, utilizing ancient stock footage, photographs, concert video, audio clips, music video clips both old and new, and an exclusive, candid interview with the mastermind himself at his home in Switzerland. Filmed in Jamaica, London, Switzerland, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Colorado, the Upsetter charts Perry’s inﬂuence on all reaches of the globe.” http://www.space538.org/events.php

Thursday, April 21 Spring Egg-stravaganza in Bar Harbor

3 p.m. to 5 p.m. College of the Atlantic’s George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History is offering a celebration of the egg, a Spring Egg-stravaganza, combining egg decorating and egg learning. Using natural dyes from spinach, grapes, tea, and flow‘Fixing School Food in America’ at COA ers, participants will be dying hard-boiled eggs. For 4 p.m. What do we want our children to eat those longing for a little glitter in their lives, there will while at school, asks Jan Poppendieck, author also be the opportunity to decorate paper eggs with of “Free For All: Fixing School Food in America.” Permanent Marks presents “The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry,” a film by yarn, glitter and markers. The celebration includes She will be coming to College of the Atlantic’s Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough, narrated by Academy Award Winner Benicio Del Toro. A an egg hunt for plastic eggs filled with candy as well Human Ecology Forum in the McCormick Lec- screening is Wednesday at SPACE Gallery. (COURTESY PHOTO) as slips of paper with fun facts about egg-laying aniture Hall. The talk will be titled, “The Ultimate mals: birds, spiders, fish, frogs, and snakes. The EggSchool Lunchroom.” www.coa.edu stravaganza is focused on young children, ages 2 to voice to this exciting issue. The panelist will be Kyle Bryant, about 10. 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor. No pre-registration neces‘The Man from Beijing’ book discussion Andy Graham, Trish McAllister, and Jay York.” www.portsary. 288-5395, 801-5839, or cgraham@coa.edu. 6 p.m. “The Man from Beijing” discussed at Longfellow landarts.org Books. The Monument Square bookstore is celebrating Lobster management on the West Coast Informational meeting on gas-line project spring with the kickoff of our International Mystery Book 4:10 p.m. Continuing College of the Atlantic’s spring Marine 7 p.m. NEUCO, the contractor for Unitil’s SURE project will Group. The inaugural meeting will be at Longfellow Books. Policy Series, Carla Guenther, community coordinator of begin replacement of the gas main under Veranda Street in Participants will be discussing Henning Mankell’s “The the Penobscot East Resource Center in Stonington, offers a Portland from Washington Avenue to Martin’s Point Health Man from Beijing.” As always, book club purchases are 20 talk in the college’s McCormick Lecture Hall. Guenther will Care on or about April 20. Construction is expected to last percent off. “A compelling stand-alone novel ... Mankell be speaking about lobster management on the West Coast. several weeks. This informational meeting for neighborsucceeds in transfixing the reader with a masterly balance She offers a socioecological analysis of fishery response hood residents has been scheduled. 7 p.m., Presumpscot of character sketches and pell-mell storytelling.” — Wall and impacts of Marine Protected Areas in Santa Barbara, Elementary School library, 69 Presumpscot St., Portland. Street Journal Calif. McCormick Lecture Hall, 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor “The SURE project is a 14-year, multi-million dollar project www.coa.edu Portland Music Foundation workshop on Facebook to replace or upgrade more than 100 miles of natural gas 6 p.m. The Portland Music Foundation (PMF) continues its Business After Hours with the chamber pipeline throughout Portland and Westbrook. The project “Music as a Profession” series with a workshop focusing 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Portland Regional Chamber presents Busiwill modernize the area’s gas infrastructure, making it more on helping musicians to use the world’s largest web site ness After Hours at the Fireside Inn & Suites (formerly the reliable and better able to meet the growing demand for to promote their careers. “Facebook for Your Future” will Holiday Inn Portland West) with co-sponsor Spring Meadnatural gas in Maine. More information is available at www. be led by PMF president Pat May, who works with dozens ows Golf Club for networking, great food, cash bar and the ngupgrade.com.” of nationally touring artists as a booking agent for Sky50/50 drawing. http://www.portlandregion.com/ line Music. Doors at 5:30 p.m. At the Rines Auditorium in Matt Gallagher at Longfellow Books Wednesday, April 20 the Portland Public Library. It is open to Portland Music 7 p.m. Matt Gallagher will read from his memoir, “Kaboom,” Foundation members. Membership is available on site ($20 based on his blog written during his time serving in Irag, for individuals, $40 for bands) and gains admission to the An Act to Legalize and Tax Marijuana campaign at Longfellow Books. “Based on Captain Matt Gallagher’s rest of the PMF’s educational seminar series, along with a 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. “Join us as we kick off the campaign to controversial and popular blog, ‘Kaboom’ resonates with number of discounts at local businesses. “Despite being pass LD 1453, ‘An Act to Legalize and Tax Marijuana.’ It ironic detachment from — and intimate yet timeless insight almost twice the size of MySpace, Facebook is still not is time we stop turning otherwise law-abiding people into into — a war Americans are still trying to understand. When quite as user friendly as that first (and now dying) social criminals, begin taxing it for commercial sale, and refocus the blog was shut down in June 2008 by the U.S. Army, networking site to truly cater to bands. It is imperative that our criminal justice resources toward issues that are truly questions were raised in the halls of Congress and even artists understand the nuanced functionality of Facebook’s devastating communities.” Rep. Diane Russell, D-Portland. a few eyebrows were raised at the Pentagon. Matt Galplatform in order to maximize the ability to grow their fan Maine State Room, Portland City Hall. lagher’s extraordinary literary style, graceful narrative and base and revenues. This will be an intensive, hands-on Children’s Museum & Theatre Winnie the Pooh penetrating wit captures the voice of a generation of solworkshop on the ins and outs of using Facebook to its full1 p.m. This spring’s production at the Children’s Museum & diers, the quirkiness of military life, and the soul of a war.” est marketing potential. ... There is free wireless access at Theatre of Maine finds many of A.A. Milne’s beloved char‘A History of the Barns of Maine’ the Portland Public Library. Attendees are encouraged to acters deep in the hundred acre wood. Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore 7 p.m. The New Gloucester Historical Society will hold bring their laptops.” For more information, visit info@portand Rabbit get themselves in and out of scrapes as they its monthly meeting on to hear an illustrated talk by Don landmusicfoundation.org. anticipate the arrival of Kanga, a newcomer rumored to be Perkins, local reporter and noted “barnologist,” titled “Our ‘Street Art vs. Graffiti’ fond of baths, healthy eating, and other unpleasantness. Barns: A History of the Barns of Maine.” The meeting will be 6:30 p.m. Portland Arts & Cultural Alliance. “PACA presents All this unfolds under the watchful eye of a disapproving held at the New Gloucester Meetinghouse, next to the Town Creative Conversations: Street Art vs. Graffiti at SPACE, Owl. The show features 11 young actors, ages 9 to 17, Hall on Rte. 231. The public is invited. Refreshments will be 538 Congress St. “If you are a property owner and have from throughout Greater Portland. Audiences will recognize served. Don’s talk will include dozens of barn photos of the had to deal with acts of graffiti vandalism or you are somesome familiar faces (including Reed Foehl, star of last sumlocal area and will include a history of farming in Maine and one who thinks that street art adds to the urban environmer’s Pinocchio, taking on the role of Christopher Robin), the large number of influences on changing barn design. ment this discussion is for you! This panel will explore many and welcome several new actors, including Hannah Duston Society members will hold a business meeting following the facets of the issue, from defining what is graffiti vs street art, as Roo. The show runs for through part of April vacation program. what is acceptable as responsible adult behavior and the and during the following weekend). Tickets are $8 each ($7 social and economic fallout from graffiti. Come lend your for members) and can be reserved at the front desk (142 see next page

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Abromson Center of the University of Southern Maine with doors opening at 8 a.m. and program beginning at 9 a.m. Featured speakers will be: David Meyer, PhD, staff psychologist with the PTSD Clinical Treatment Team at Togus VA Medical Center; Kate Braestrup, community minister with the Maine Warden Service and best-selling author of “Here If You Need Me”; Michael Uhl, PhD, Vietnam veteran who has been diagnosed with PTSD. Author of “Vietnam Awakening”; Camilo Mejia, Iraq war veteran and casualty of PTSD. Author of “Road From ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia”; Charlie Clements, MD, a Vietnam veteran, he is currently director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy Center. Author of “Witness to War” which chronicles his experiences as a physician and human rights activist in El Salvador, and his own struggle with PTSD. Workshops will include: NonInvasive Treatment Options for PTSD; Refugees from War Torn Countries and their Needs; Surviving in Silence; Evidence-based treatments used for returning veterans and the trauma continuum. The Mobile Vet Center, a counseling and referral service for veterans and their families, will be on site throughout the day. The event will beneﬁt health care professionals veterans and their loved ones, and others who have been victimized by trauma. Professionals will receive Certiﬁcates of Attendance that will delineate “contact hours” which may qualify for Credit Equivalent Units. To pre-register (recommended), or for additional information, go to www.vfpmaine.org.

St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church Holy Week services at Old Orchard Beach 7 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. 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.

Friday, April 22 2011 Urban Earth Day Celebration 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. MENSK, Flintstonecar and the City of Portland will host Portland’s 2011 Urban Earth Day Celebration. Monument Square (rain location, Portland Public Library) “The event brings together many of Portland’s environmental and nonproﬁt organizations, artists, sustainable businesses and residents and will give the public an opportunity to learn about local efforts to promote the city’s green economy and improve Portland’s urban environment. The celebration will feature local, organic food, compost demonstrations, agricultural presentations, seed/ sappling give-aways, dance performances, art, street musicians, face painting, and much more. The event offers fun, free activities for all ages. Wolfe’s Neck Farm will showcase local agricultural and environmental education activities for youth including displaying some of their farm animals. The Department of Public Services will provide information on ways residents can prevent stormwater pollution, an important environmental effort to improve the health of the city’s natural waterways. Nearly 30 organizations including Local Sprouts Cooperative, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, Maine Standard Biofuels, ecomaine, Open Sky Fund and Soma Massage & Wellness will participate in the celebration.” For more information about the Urban Earth Day Celebration, visit www.MENSKmaine.org

Earth Day celebration in Bar Harbor 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Once again, College of the Atlantic is inviting the greater Maine community to an Earth Day celebration. This year it will be held on Saturday, April 23. The celebration this year is being organized entirely by students, who are enthusiastically sharing their talents, creations and expertise. COA’s student-run Earth Day combines environmental and social awareness with a variety of artistic and folkloric festivities. Among the arts activities are an African dance workshop by COA alumnus Tawanda Chabikwa who has returned to teach dance at the college for a term, music performances, a drumming circle, storytelling, face painting and art displays. Look for mural-making, circus activities, slam poetry, and invisible theater as well. There will also be music sharing, so bring your own instruments.” For information contact Jose Merlo at jmerlo@coa.edu or 460-2239, or the college at 288-5015, or www.coa.edu.

Meet the Artist: 2011 Biennial Talks

Tedford Homeless Shelter fundraiser 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. In an effort to end homelessness in the mid-coast region, area businesses will join Gov. Paul LePage at the Southern MidCoast Chamber of Commerce where a fundraiser will take place from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. The beneﬁt will raise money for the Tedford Homeless Shelter at 34 Federal St. in Brunswick. The Brunswick Area Interfaith Council established Tedford in 1987 after a growing number of people sought shelter at mid-coast Maine churches. Gov. LePage announced a Capitol for a Day event will be held throughout Sagadahoc County on Friday, April 22

‘The Elephant in the Living Room’ 6:30 p.m. “The Elephant in the Living Room” screens at Movies at the Museum at the Portland Museum of Art. Friday, April 22, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 23, 2 p.m.; Sunday, April 24 2 p.m. NR “The Elephant in the Living Room is a documentary ﬁlm about the controversial American subculture of raising the most dangerous animals in the world as common household pets. Director Michael Webber follows the journey of two men at the heart of the issue. One, Tim Harrison, a man whose mission is to protect exotic animals and the public, and the other, Terry Brumﬁeld, a big-hearted man who struggles to keep his two pet African lions that he loves like his own family.” http://www.portlandmuseum.org/ events/movies.php

‘Killer Joe’ screening 7:30 p.m. “Killer Joe” screening. “(Please note: Due to graphic violence, nudity and strong adult content, no one under 18 will be admitted.) Drugs, guns, sex, and country-western: this ain’t your daddy’s night at the theater. Something like the love-child of Sam Shepard and Quentin Tarantino, “Killer Joe” lures you with pitch black humor into the trailer-trash world of a greedy and vindictive Texan clan desperate enough to murder their mother for her insurance policy. Unable to pull off the dirty deed themselves, they hire a contract killer who sinks his claws into their young daughter and sends their plan spiraling out of control. In his ﬁrst play, Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts pushes Southern Gothic to a pulpy, shocking extreme, creating a visceral experience that builds tension to a jaw-dropping, hilariously depraved climax.” SPACE Gallery. $12 general/$10 members, 18 plus.

Dark Follies: Vaudeville Never Died 8 p.m. Dark Follies: Vaudeville Never Died — It was just resting its eyes! Show Times: April 22 at 8 p.m., April 23 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. “For nearly four years Dark Follies has

Tonight at 7 p.m., Portland Arts & Cultural Alliance and SPACE bring another season of Creative Conversations, mediated discussions about the arts from a personal, local and regional perspective. The topic is “Part 2: Street Art vs. Grafﬁti.” (FILE PHOTO) brought its vaudeville style variety show to the streets of Portland, Maine during First Friday Art Walks from June to September. Featuring live music, dancing, juggling, side show acts, and more they have entertained crowds of all ages on many a summer night. … Your favorite Portland street vaudevillians are taking their show from the downtown square to the Lucid Stage. Join Dark Follies for a full scale revival of the vaudeville variety show. With performances by Kait-ma, The Lovely Janice, Cait Capaldi, Bus Stop Love, Lindsey Feeney, Antebellym, Sybil, Jan Hanseth, Scavenger, The Dark Follies Rhythm Orchestra, and more! Lady Selcouth, Mistress of the Dark Follies presides over this extravaganza of dance, song, comedy and vaudeville antics!” Tickets are $12 general admission seating $10 students/seniors and may be purchased at the Lucid Stage box ofﬁce and www.lucidstage.com

Saturday, April 23 Symposium on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder 9 a.m. Maine Veterans for Peace is sponsoring its fourth Symposium on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Surviving Trauma. The all-day event will be held at the

11 a.m. to noon. Avy Claire, Rachel Katz, Kim Bernard, & Mark Wethli 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. Suzannah Sinclair, Liv Kristin Robinson, Heath Paley and Robert Shillady; 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., Michael Shaughnessy, Carol Aronson-Shore, Richard Veit and Clint Fulkerson. http://portlandmuseum.org/Content/5614.shtml

Fur Cultural Revival peace rally for Darfur

After Marc Mailhot’s performance during the Louis’ Living Legends 6 Show at McAuley Performing Arts Center on April 10, he has been invited to perform in the Lewiston Cabaret on April 30. He will join other talented performers. “Marc’s performance ‘blew us away,’ host Louis Philippe said. In addition to the two songs played at the Living Legends Show ... ‘Hernando’s Hideaway’ and his own classic version of Chopsticks ... Marc will also perform the ‘Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet.’” (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St., Portland. Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center of Maine) presents a Rally for Peace in Darfur at The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St. This event is free and open to the public, however, donations will be accepted for Fur Cultural Revival. Speakers will include Darfur Genocide survivor El-Fadel Arbab, as well as local activists and members of the Sudanese refugee communities. There will be a showing of the film, “The Devil Came On Horseback.” Starring Brian Steidle, this film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and covers the story of the Darfur genocide. The film has a running time of 85 minutes. Sudanese snacks and refreshments will be served. “ Since 2003, more than 400,000 people have been killed in Darfur, Sudan. More than 2.7 million people have been displaced. Southern Maine now boasts the largest organized Darfuri refugee community in the United States. Although Sudanese President Al-Bashir is now wanted by The International Criminal Court for war crimes in Darfur, the genocide continues.” see next page

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Sunday, April 24 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.

Tuesday, April 26 DownEast Pride Alliance ‘Business After Hours’ 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Flask Lounge, 117 Spring St. “Delicious hot appetizers, cash bar with $5 drink specials and media table will be provided. Flask isa newly renovated bar offering pub-style food in a cozy environment. They offer homemade food, plasma TVs, live music and local entertainment. ... The DownEast Pride Alliance (DEPA) is a GLBTQ business networking group in Southern Maine meeting monthly at local establishments for ‘Business After Hours’ events that provide a safe forum for, and help strengthen, the local gay and gay-friendly business community.” FMI: www.depabusiness. com

Wednesday, April 27 Walking tours about mobility on Congress Street

noon. The city of Portland in collaboration with Greater Portland Metro Bus, the Port1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. “‘Hosland Downtown District, the pice the Musical’ A WorkGreater Portland Council of shop in Three Acts, facilitated On Friday and Saturday, “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” will Governments and the Portland by Lenora Trussell, ‘End- be presented by the Children’s Puppet Workshop at Mayo Street Area Comprehensive Tranof-Life Tour Guide’” Sun- Arts. Vintage marionette show. 2 p.m. $4 kids/$8 adults, at the sit System will host a public days, April 24, May 1, May door. Visit http://mayostreetarts.org. (COURTESY IMAGE) meeting to discuss ways to 8, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Allen improve mobility on Congress Avenue Unitarian UniversalStreet between State Street and Franklin Street including ist Church, 524 Allen Avenue Ave., Portland. “This series the feasibility of establishing a bus priority corridor from is about looking at that end-of-life journey we are all desHigh Street to Elm Street. Prior to the meeting, the public tined to take … someday. Each class stands alone. You is invited to participate in one of two guided walks along may attend any or all. 1. Easter, April 24, “I Know An Old the corridor from Longfellow Square to Lincoln Park. For Lady Who Swallowed A Fly,” what can we expect to be more information about the meeting and the Portland able to manage during our dying process? 2. May Day, Mobility Project, visit the city’s website at http://www. May 1, “Somewhere Over The Rainbow,” what’s next? portlandmaine.gov/planning/congressstreetbus.asp. To An exploration of purpose and destiny. 3. Mother’s Day, RSVP for the tour or public meeting or to submit quesMay 8, “If you Love, Love, Love Me,” nuts and bolts infortions, email WBN@portlandmaine.gov. Noon: Guided mation about end-of-life preparations. What we want, need, and have to do before we die AND what we will do. walking tour of the corridor from Longfellow Square; 1 Trussell is a certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse who has p.m.: Guided walking tour of the corridor from Lincoln written two books, “Pain Smarts” and “Circling the Drain,” Park; 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.: Public Meeting, Institute for Conwhich will available at the workshops. “She brings a humortemporary Art Maine College of Art, 552 Congress St. ous, sometimes poignant, mostly informational approach to ‘The future of coastal management in Nova Scotia’ her workshops, and considers herself an ‘End-of-Life Tour 4:10 p.m. Nova Scotia is considering a new management Guide’ assisting in the navigation of End-of-Life journeys.” focus for its waters, and one of the key figures in developFor more information contact the church at office@a2u2. ing the policy is a College of the Atlantic graduate. Justin org or 797-7659. Huston, chair of Nova Scotia’s Provincial Oceans Network, will be returning to COA to discuss his work. The talk, “Our Monday, April 25 Coast: The future of coastal management in Nova Scotia,” will be in the college’s McCormick Lecture Hall. It is part of the college’s spring Marine Policy Speaker Series. Huston Portland Music Foundation teams with Bayside Bowl is the chair of Nova Scotia’s Provincial Oceans Network, 7 p.m. As the Portland music industry continues to grow and an interdepartmental body responsible for the development expand, the Portland Music Foundation would like to help and implementation of the province’s new 10-year coastal everyone working in the community to make connections strategy program, the first of its kind in Canada. Unlike and get to know one another. The PMF will host a Music the United States, where federally supported state coastal Industry & Community Night at Bayside Bowl, located at management programs have been in place since the 1970s, 58 Alder Street in Portland. Anyone working in the music Canadian provinces are only now beginning to develop their industry — musicians, promoters, club owners, journalists, own coastal management programs. CHRISP@coa.edu or engineers, etc. — can come out to the free event, have a 288-5015, 801-5715. Free. drink, maybe do some bowling, and hang out with other people in the music business. For more information on the Business After 5/Online Auction PMF, visit www.portlandmusicfoundation.org 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Each year the Falmouth/Cumberland Community Chamber awards scholarships to seniors of Public hearings on budgets Falmouth and Greely high schools to further their educa7:30 p.m. The public will have one of several opportunities tion. This year we are hosting an online auction to benefit to voice their opinion on the Portland Public School system the scholarship fund which can be found at www.biddingand the City of Portland’s municipal budget. Monday, May forgood.com/fccc. The site may be visited at anytime and 2, the City Council will hold a public hearing for the municipal bidding will be held from April 14 through April 28, 2011. budget only and will vote on the school budget. The school In addition, we will be hosting a social event at OceanView budget will then be sent to the voters for a citywide vote Retirement Community where we will also have web access Tuesday, May 10. The City Council will vote on the municito encourage last minute bidding. To donate for the aucpal budget May 16. Monday, April 25, 7:30 p.m., City Countion, contact Jim Barns, 781-7677, jbarns@barns-law.com cil Chambers: City Council Public Hearing for school budget or Ann Armstrong, 347-2355, aarmstrong@gorhamsavingsonly. Thursday, April 28, 5:30 p.m., Room 209: Finance Combank.com). Register by April 26. mittee Public Hearing, public comment taken on city budget. Monday, May 2, 7 p.m., City Council Chambers: City Council UMF salutes Peace Corps 50th Anniversary Public Hearing for city budget only. Tuesday, May 10: Citywide 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. In celebration of the Peace Corps 50th vote on school budget. Visit the city’s website for the latest Anniversary, University of Maine at Farmington Career information on the budget process, www.portlandmaine.gov/ Services and Ferro Alumni Center are joining together to financialreports.htm#FY12_Budget_Process. sponsor “Serving America and Around the World: A Forum

‘Hospice the Musical’ workshop series

Exploring Opportunities in Service.” This event is free and open to the public and will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., North Dining Hall A, UMF Olsen Student Center.

Film: ‘American; The Bill Hicks Story’ 7:30 p.m. SPACE Gallery screening. $7/$5 for SPACE members, all ages. “Much more than a comedian, Bill Hicks was and still is an inspiration to millions. His timeless comedy tackled the contradictions of America and modern life head on. But his unique gift was to tease apart the essence of religion, the dangers of unbridled government power and the double standards inherent in much of modern society, using nothing but his hilarious ideas and the uncompromising observational style that continues to resonate with successive generations.”

Friday, April 29 Words & Images 2011: Resurgam Book Release Party 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The launch for the forty-ﬁrst publication Words & Images will feature Kate Cheney Chappell, Adrian Blevins, and an exclusive reading by bestselling author Andre Dubus III from his recent release Townie: A Memoir. There will be a cash bar, free hors d’ouerves, and live music from 8-9 p.m. by Olas, a Portland-based ﬂamenco-inspired band. The event is free and open to the public. Words & Images 2011:Resurgam is the latest issue from Words and Images, a student-produced publication from the University of Southern Maine. Talbot Lecture Hall in Luther Bonney Hall, USM Portland Campus, 92 Bedford St.

‘The Woodmans’ 6:30 p.m. “The Woodmans” screens at Movies at the Museum at the Portland Museum of Art. Friday, April 29, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 30, 2 p.m.; Sunday, May 1, 2 p.m. NR. “Francesca Woodman’s haunting black-and-white images, many of them nude self-portraits, now reside in the pantheon of great photography from the late 20th century. The daughter of artists Betty and George Woodman (she a ceramicist and he a painter/photographer), Francesca was a precocious RISD graduate, who came to New York with the intention of setting the art world on ﬁre. But in 1981, as a despondent 22-year-old, she committed suicide. The Woodmans beautifully interweaves the young artist’s work (including experimental videos and diary passages) with interviews with the parents who have nurtured her professional reputation these past 30 years, while continuing to make art of their own in the face of tragedy. The ﬁlm grapples with disturbing issues, among them: parent-child competition and the toxic level of ambition that fuels the New York art scene.” ” http://www.portlandmuseum.org/events/ movies.php

The Journey Within at Mayo Street 7 p.m. The Journey Within: A performance by Anca Gooje at Mayo Street Arts. “Discover the fascinating world of Bharata Natyam, the most ancient style of Indian classical dance in a unique experience of self discovery. The performance is presented by Anca Gooje who choreographed and performed in India and Europe. Come and experience this mystical art form!” Tickets online and at the door: $10. http:nirananda.ticketleap.com/indiandance/

Maine Playwrights Festival marathon 7:30 p.m. Acorn Productions, a nonproﬁt art presented located in the Dana Warp Mill, announces the complete line-up for the 10th annual Maine Playwrights Festival (MPF), the company’s annual celebration of the work of local theater artists. The month-long festival begins in early April with staged readings of two full-length plays. Later in the month, the MPF moves to the St. Lawrence Arts Center, where 10 short plays will be presented in two evenings of rotating repertory between April 14 to 29. Each evening of plays will be presented four times, along with a special marathon evening on Friday, April 29 on which all 10 plays will be performed beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to the 10th annual Maine Playwrights Festival are $16 for adults, $14 for students and seniors. The MPF culminates with the second annual 24-Hour Portland Theater Project, which features directors from five different area companies. The 24-Hour Portland Theater Project will have two performances at 5:30 and 8 p.m. on the St. Lawrence Stage on Saturday, April 30. Entrance to the 24-Hour Portland Theater Project festival is $8. The 10 playwrights whose short plays have been selected for the MPF are all Maine residents hailing from a variety of communities throughout the state: Marie Coyle (Portland), Larry Crane (Southport), Lynne Cullen (Yarmouth), Shannara Gillman (Seal Harbor), Kathy Hooke (Portland), Michael Kimball (Cape Neddick), Cullen McGough (Portland), Jefferson Navicky (Portland), Isabel Sterne (Cape Elizabeth), Michael Tooher (Portland). This year’s short plays will be directed by Karen Ball, Laura Graham, Michael Levine, Stephanie Ross, and Tess Van Horn. www. acorn-productions.org or 854-0065

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“We were pretty close to begin with,” said Adam. “It’s great for us to be doing something together like lacrosse, that we both love.” Lacrosse has always been something special for the Rothbarts. Bob played the game in high school and then eventually coached in a youth league. He got his son into it right around fifth grade and Adam has been hooked every since. Actually Bob started coaching at Deering during Adam’s senior season. Adam then went on to play at the next level at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire. After graduating in January, he returned to Maine to look for work. “I had a summer job lined up,” said Adam. “But I really had nothing else going on from March until then, so when my dad said he was looking for an assistant coach, I jumped at the chance.” The team has been practicing for a few weeks now and the Rothbarts have been working together to help build the Rams into a championship calibur team. Twelve varsity players return to a Deering team that finished 7-6 last season and lost in the opening round of the playoffs. The Rothbarts are hoping for bigger and better things this spring. Bob works with the defense and Adam is the offensive mind of the coaching staff. “He gives me a lot of freedom,” said Adam. “I know he’s the boss, but he lets me do things I am good at.” The father/son experiment seems to be working so far. “Adam has been great. He can walk the walk and talk the talk when it comes to the players,” said Bob. “He can jump right in and demonstrate to the guys. He actually has his stick and helmet with him so he can jump right in at every practice. To be honest with you, I have really learned a lot from him. At 22,

The Rothbarts — Adam, left, and Bob, right — are a son-and-father coaching duo at Deering High School. (COURTESY PHOTO)

he’s young, so he can really relate to the players and that’s important in high school.” At 52, Bob isn’t sure how long he will continue to coach lacrosse at Deering, but whenever he decides to call it quits, Adam will be waiting in the wings. “I would love to end up taking over at Deering,” admitted Adam. “I love it here and I really enjoy coaching the kids, it is very rewarding. It all depends on where I end up getting my real job.” The Rams opened the season with a 10-4 win

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on Thursday against Marshwood and are getting prepared for another game Wednesday against Thornton Academy, but Bob and Adam would be the first ones to admit that no matter how much success they experience together, they won’t agree on everything. “Sometimes I think maybe I should be the coach. When he does something old school,” said Adam. “I tell him, come on dad, let’s do new school.” “There are times when I pull rank,” said Bob. “I’m the boss and every now and then I have to give him a friendly reminider.” For this father and son it sounds like old times.

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Geoffrey Mutai’s time of 2:03:02 was the fastest marathon ever run by nearly a minute. (Cj Gunther/ European Pressphoto Agency/The New York Times)

Kenyan runs fastest marathon in Boston BY PETER MAY THE NEW YORK TIMES

BOSTON — With a brisk wind at his back and a determined countryman on his shoulder to push him down the stretch, Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya pulled away from Moses Mosop in the final quarter-mile Monday to win the 115th Boston Marathon. His time, 2 hours 3 minutes 2 seconds, was the fastest marathon run by nearly a minute, and it smashed the course record, set last year, by nearly three minutes. Mutai, running the hilly 26.2-mile

course for the first time and in ideal conditions, beat the internationally recognized world record, 2:03:59, set in September 2008 in Berlin by Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie, who benefited from having pace setters. Boston does not allow pace setters. Mosop finished four seconds behind Mutai Monday. The time is not considered a world record, however, because the Boston course is not sanctioned as being record eligible by the International Association of Athletics Federations, track and field’s world governing body.