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‘Monumental change in the Arab world’ Code Pink cofounder, witness to Middle East revolution, speaks today BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

OK, there’s the freedom revolution in the Middle East to discuss, and, of course, the killing of Osama bin Laden, but Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin was asked to clear up one matter right up front: No, she has no plans to change the peace group’s name. “We’ve outlived the government’s colorcoded alert system, why would we change our name?” Benjamin asked. Benjamin, guest speaker today at the annual peace supper for Peace Action Maine at Portland’s Woodfords Congregational Church, said that now that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has dropped the color-coded alert system that inspired “Code Pink,” the anti-war group won’t be in a hurry to give up a label that is so familiar that Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” name-checked it recently. “We have a lot of national recognition,” Benjamin said. And if there’s a time that Code Pink can sell its anti-war message, it’s now, she said. While speaking in a telephone interview earlier this week with The Portland Daily Sun, Benjamin noted that the death of bin Laden, while a source of mixed emotions for many peace activists, provides an opening to push for a withdrawal of American troops from Medea Benjamin, cofounder of both Code Pink and the international human rights organization Global Exchange, joins protesters in Egypt during the prodemocracy revolution. Medea will be speaking at Peace Action Maine’s Peace Supper today in Portland. She said she won’t skirt controversy. “There is one issue that I will be bringing up,” Benjamin said, “and I’m not sure of the reception, and that’s Israel Palestine. (COURTESY PHOTO)

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On Mom’s Day, remember the deception It’s when you become a parent yourself that you first realize just how deceptive moms can be. My niece had one of those “ah-ha!” moments recently as she wrestled with a two-year-old on a relatively long drive. She remembered being a kid and helping her poor dim-witted mom read the road maps, becoming the navigator on many family trips. Now, my sister — her mom — can read a map the way a really good surgeon can read your MRI. She

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mountains and which backroads bypass traffic. My niece suddenly realized that all that navigation had to do with other kinds of paths. Every Mother’s Day (it’s Sunday, by the way) I recall that my mother’s deceptive ways focused on reading. Now, my mom is a retired third grade teacher who saw her role as a sort of “literacy goalie.” Nobody got past her without reading, and she considered teaching other subjects to nonsee ROBINSON page 4

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A reluctant transgender role model (NY Times) — “Becoming Chaz,” a documentary about the sex change of Chastity Bono, is an unflinchingly personal film, which will have its premiere on Oprah Winfrey’s network on Tuesday. The film details Chastity Bono’s journey from her spangled childhood in rhinestone pantsuits on “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour” to a more recent two years in her televised life: Chastity, now Chaz, invited cameras to witness the searingly intimate experience of his gender transition. At this point in his transition, Chaz is in his “second puberty,” a six- to seven-year process of hormone injections. The medical technology for genital reconstruction surgery is still too new, expensive, imperfect and risky for him to opt for “bottom surgery.” At age 13, Chaz knew he was attracted to women, and assumed he was a lesbian. “I knew my whole life something was different,” he said. “As a small kid, I could be one of the boys, playing sports, fitting in. When I hit puberty, I felt like my body was literally betraying me. I got smacked everywhere with femaleness. That was really traumatic.” Realizing that he should be male took years of deduction. “Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butchacting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.” Emboldened by seeing transgender people in the media, he still thought of gender-transition as the last resort of the suicidal: “I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That’s why they’re willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.” Several scenes in the film are interviews with Cher. Cher struggles throughout the film and never quite offers a sound bite of unequivocal support for her transgender son. Seeing Cher — gay icon nonpareil — so uncharacteristically jangled raised a sticky batch of questions: Could it be possible that the fact that Chaz is now a man is somehow Cher’s fault? Did the toxic culture of celebrity damage Chastity/Chaz’s gender identity? Did Cher’s almost drag-queenlike hyperfemale persona somehow devour Chastity’s emerging femininity? “I don’t think the way I grew up had any effect on this issue,” Chaz said. “There’s a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they’re mismatched. That’s all it is. It’s not complicated, it’s not a neurosis. It’s a mix-up. It’s a birth defect, like a cleft palate.”

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Al Qaeda conﬁrms bin Laden’s death (NY Times) — Al Qaeda released a statement on militant Web sites Friday confirming the death of Osama bin Laden, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi Web sites. The lengthy statement, dated May 3 and signed by Al Qaeda’s General Command, warned of new attacks and called on the Pakistani people to rebel against their government to protest its relations with the United States. Bin Laden was killed in a United States raid early Monday morning in Abbottabad, Pakistan. According to a translation provided by SITE,

which ran more than three pages, the statement said that Al Qaeda would not die with its founder and that its members would “continue on the path of jihad.” Bin Laden’s blood, they added, would not be “wasted in vain.” “It will remain, with permission from God the Almighty, a curse that chases the Americans and their agents, and goes after them inside and outside their countries,” the letter said. “Soon — with help from God — their happiness will turn into sorrow, and their blood will be mixed with their tears.” The authors of the statement said that the people of Pakistan should revolt against their leaders to “cleanse this

Protest in Cairo over bin Laden’s killing CAIRO (NY Times) — About 200 demonstrators gathered outside the United States Embassy here on Friday to protest the killing and burial at sea of Osama bin Laden as manifestations of what they called American hostility to Muslims. Like many in Egypt, most in the crowd said they doubted bin Laden’s responsibility for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and instead vented pent-up resentment of America for its invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan as well as its support for Israel. “Until now there is no legal document which charges or accuses Osama or anyone” of orchestrating the terrorist attacks, said Mamdouh Ismail, a speaker at the demonstration, founder of a new

Islamic political party and a candidate for Parliament — apparently unaware of the legal case in New York , filed in 1998 charging bin Laden and Al Qaeda with conspiracy to attack United States defense installations. (Prosecutors said this week that the charges would be dismissed.) “Let us talk about American injustice, the killing of women and children, the killing of Muslims all over the world at the hands of America.” Such peaceful demonstrations were prohibited before the Feb. 11 revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, and Egyptians have been relishing their chance to speak out about long-stifled complaints.

shame that has been attached to them” by the American raid. The statement demanded that Bin Laden’s remains be given to his family, not disposed of in an “improper way”; his body was buried at sea on Monday by United States forces. The statement also said the bodies of any relatives who had been killed should be handed over to the family and warned that “any offense will open unto you doors of multitudes of evil for which you will only have yourselves to blame.” One of Bin Laden’s sons was killed in the raid, according to American officials.

Data show bin Laden plots; C.I.A. hid near raided house WASHINGTON (NY Times) — After reviewing computer files and documents seized at the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, American intelligence analysts have concluded that the chief of Al Qaeda played a direct role for years in plotting terror attacks from his hide-out in Abbottabad, Pakistan, United States officials said Thursday. The C.I.A. had Bin Laden’s compound under surveillance for months before American commandos killed him in an assault on Monday, watching and photographing residents and visitors from a rented house nearby, according to several officials briefed on the operation. The documents taken at the Abbottabad compound, according to American officials, show that Bin Laden was in touch regularly with the terror network he created. With his whereabouts and activities a mystery in recent years, many intelligence analysts and terrorism experts had concluded that he had been relegated to an inspirational figure with little role in current and future Qaeda operations. A rushed examination of the trove of materials from the compound in Pakistan prompted Obama administration officials on Thursday to issue a warning that Al Qaeda last year had considered attacks on American railroads.

Worries about ‘Convenience Casinos’ in Florida APOPKA, Fla. — A drab strip mall in this city north of Orlando, Fla., includes the usual fixtures: a pharmacy and a payday loans store, as well as an Internet cafe with a sign on the door that reads “Copy-FaxPrint, Surf the Web.” And so, at 1 a.m. on April 19, three armed men tried to rob the place at a time when more than three dozen people were playing slot machine-type games on the cafe’s computer terminals. A security guard

shot and killed one of the men; the other two fled and were being sought. A woman hiding in the cafe bathroom told a 911 operator that the robbery was happening in “the casino, in Apopka.” The shooting death in a place that some customers call a casino has brought fresh scrutiny to Florida’s quickly multiplying “Internet sweepstakes cafes,” which now total nearly 1,000 statewide and are estimated to gross more than $1

billion this year, according to industry analysts, state legislators and their aides and lawyers in the gambling industry. It has also renewed calls by several county sheriffs for a statewide ban on the cafes’ games. They say the businesses are magnets for crime because they usually have large sums of cash on hand. Since nine sweepstakes cafes have opened in Seminole County, crimes at those addresses have increased 14 percent, according to data

compiled by the sheriff’s office. A bill was brought before the State Legislature this session that would have prohibited the games. Its proponents cite a host of concerns — worries about crime, compulsive gambling and morality. But the bill was rejected after an aggressive lobbying campaign by the companies that franchise some of the cafes. It did not help, industry critics say, that two state legislators own Internet sweepstakes cafes themselves.

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Free comic day brings readers into the fold BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A day of goodies and give-aways aimed at drawing a new clientele into the world of the comic book kicks off Saturday, as Free Comic Book Day arrives at several shops in the area. Whether your allegiance lies with Batman and Robin or skews toward the Betty and Veronica side of the spectrum, Free Comic Book Day caters to a range of styles and genres from kid-friendly and retro material like Super Dinosaur and Mickey Mouse to superhero fare like Spider-Man and the Green Lantern. There will also be plenty of off-beat and specialinterest titles like Civil War Adventures and a graphic novel adaptation of a James Patterson novel. Much like mid-April’s Record Store Day, a joint marketing effort for independent record stores full of freebies and rare releases, Free Comic Book Day is an industry-wide effort to bolster independent comic retailers around the country, and help to expand the prominence of comics in the public consciousness. “I think it’s definitely expanding with the two biggest movies that are coming out this year being super-

hero movies,” said Tristan Gallagher, owner of Coast City Comics on Congress Sreet. “Comics are becoming a much more prevalent feature of American life as they are in Japanese life and have been for 20 or 30 years,” he said. “Nowadays there is so much variety. This event is about spreading the love, the appreciation and the fun of reading comics,” said Laura O’Meara, coA special origin edition of “Super Dino- owner of Casablanca saur” will be available Saturday at sev- Comics on Middle eral local shops participating in Free Street. Comic Book Day. (COURTESY PHOTO) O’Meara said that

Casablanca has been working with local libraries for a few years, setting them up with a collection of graphic novels to expand the literary horizons of readers young and old. “It’s an easy way for reluctant readers, especially reluctant teen readers, to get into prose novels,” O’Meara said. “But it’s a whole different way of appreciating a [book] — you have to be looking at the illustrations and following the story at the same time, it’s its own medium.” So what’s on Gallagher’s radar for Saturday’s free comic event? Everything from a superhero dinosaur (in Superhero Dinosaur) to a self-deprecating comic written by Batman actor Adam West to a kid-friendly release from Maine artist Joe Hill. “One things I’m kind of excited about is that the guy who wrote [AMC zombie mini-series] The Walking Dead has children’s action series coming out called Super Dinosaur,” he said. Both Casablanca and Coast City will offer a variety of freebies and specials throughout the day. Gallagher warns of Ghostbusters and a all-out costume contest, and O’Meara said the illustrator of the Cap’n Eli’s comic book will be on hand to do live sketches.

State approves changes to Portland waterfront zoning DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT City officials learned yesterday that its request for zoning amendments under the Shoreland Zoning Program was approved by the state Department of Environmental Protection. The Waterfront Central Zone amendments expand opportunity for development while continuing to protect working waterfront uses and infrastructure, the city said in a news release. “Today’s announcement marks the end of the successful planning process and the beginning of new opportunity for the city’s waterfront,” Mayor Nicholas Mavodones said in a statement.

He added, “For more than 20 years, Portland has strived to strike the right balance between protecting the character defining maritime uses that we love with other development that increasingly characterize the city’s new economy. We sought equilibrium by creating a mixed-use waterfront that supports our marine-based industries and as a result have created a dynamic waterfront that values the many industries for which our piers are their lifelines. It goes without saying that we are proud of the city’s waterfront and the local policies that support it.” “The changes approved today are the direct result of the hard work and commitment of the stakeholders, city staff and the City Council to work collaboratively

in developing policy that would present new development potential while protecting the city’s working waterfront. We took great pains to insure that the Waterfront Central Zone process involved everyone and while we may each have had our own oar, we all agreed to pull in the same direction,” Mavadones said. The Central Waterfront, located west of the Maine State Pier and east of the International Marine Terminal, is home to fifteen piers, dozens of marine and nonmarine businesses, and is the center of the region’s fishing economy. The zoning amendments for Portland’s Central Waterfront were developed to protect traditional marine business while allowing other compatible uses.

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A smoking ban too far New York City’s ban on smoking in its parks and on its beaches won’t go into effect until May 23, but notices about the rule are already appearing on benches and lampposts around town. The City Council passed the ban on the principle that a nonsmoker shouldn’t have to inhale even a tiny amount of secondhand smoke, whether in a bar or a Central Park meadow. But while there is a strong public-health case for banning smoking indoors, the case for banning it outdoors is much weaker — particularly when it runs the risk of a backlash that could undermine the basic goals of the antismoking movement. For 25 years I have testified before court proceedings, city council meetings and Congressional hearings in support of smoking bans in workplaces, including restaurants, bars and casinos. I base my position on the scientific evidence demonstrating that chronic ––––– exposure to secondhand smoke The New York — the sort of levels you’d expeTimes rience working in a smoky bar or restaurant — significantly increases the risk of respiratory disease, heart disease and lung cancer. Inevitably, smoking-ban opponents ask me, “What’s next, banning smoking outdoors?” My answer has always been no: not only can people move around and thus avoid intense exposure, but smoke quickly disperses in the open air.

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readers akin to shuffling Titanic deck chairs. “You can read up on math,” she would say, nearly at random. “You can’t math up on read!” This view was not always embraced by the local school administration or those executing math-based federal grants. But the extended family voted New Board as a bloc, and we were bountiful in those days, so she was mostly left alone. She seemed to plan my reading with a zeal and attention to detail usually reserved for Navy SEAL raids. And she also knew that if something wasn’t working, it’s best to just blow it up and move on. One summer of baseball and bicycles left me behind in what she considered the Tao of Book. That’s when she brought home the Twain. Of course, we knew Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in that way you “know” distant cousins. They were out there, but hardly a focal point. “A bit too old for you,” mom declared, using a brutally effective opening gambit. She said something about Tom and a

kiss? What? The suddenly interesting volumes did not look exactly like the other books that multiplied like rabbits around the house, setting up little stacks in various corners. They ranged from the Reader’s Digest condensed books to various reference volumes. These newcomers had embossed spines and hard covers. And they were placed atop Grandma Nana’s china cabinet. This was the domain of wallets and purses and medicines kept “out of reach” of us. The cabinet had an ornate top, which created a sort of tray with a two-inch wall. Inside, the stacked dishes offered a certain crashing doom if the thing were jostled in the least. So to reach the top required using the metal kitchen chairs with their trusty rubber floorprotection feet. My sister, nearly two years older, only trusted herself as lookout, so I was The Climber. The body was the big deal — you had to hold yourself

well back from the cabinet, rodstraight, and reach up and over the railing, lifting straight up so as not to hit the little railing. The urge to extend the arm for a brace against the cabinet was strong, and fatal — the thing would rock gently, with the chattering dishes threatening disassee ROBINSON page 5

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I’m less afraid of history than of revisionism Remember that guy who started this whole story off a couple of years ago by dumping our heroine Gretchen, a 44-year-old, divorced, criminal defense attorney, and running off with someone else? As you know, she gradually got over it, dated a bunch of people, and eventually met her current boyfriend, Adam. Since then there have been ups and downs, but overall, things have been going along pretty well. But John hasn’t left Portland. He’s still around on the margins, still keeps in touch with Gretchen and sometimes when Irina is away. ... The Port City Chronicle is the continuing story of a woman and her family seeking love and happiness in Portland in the midst of the Great Recession. You can buy Season 1 in book form, “Getting Off the Earth,” from GettingOfftheEarth.com. And now for this week’s episode of Season 2:

When You Can’t Evolve Fast Enough to Escape History “Chemistry is everything,” John said, walking beside me along the waterfront near the Saltwater Grill as he explained why we should get back together. “Biology is a smaller part, math has nothing to do with it, and let’s hope it doesn’t become history.” I looked at him skeptically. “That doesn’t make any sense,” I said, “but then I never was any good at science.” Anyway I’m less afraid of history than of revisionism. Because he was forgetting some of the major events on the timeline, like the Dark Ages when after three years he left me and moved in with a woman half my age. Just because it was ancient history to him didn’t mean I had moved on to a new era. I wasn’t capable of evolving that fast. “To make a long story into a haiku,” he added. But I wasn’t feeling the poetry. In fact I’d only agreed to hang out with him on condition he wouldn’t wax poetic about us getting together while Irina had at least temporarily split up with him. I changed the subject to get us back to the present. “This place is so restorative,” I said, walking away from him toward the water to put a little sterile distance between us. Anyway, John has been the least of my problems since I had to close my own law practice and join a firm to make ends meet. It seemed a long time since all I worried about was whether John and I would ever get back together. “It’s not destroying my enemies if that’s what you mean,” he said. “That’s the only kind of restoration I’m looking for.” Which I took as a reference to Adam since John always refers to him as the enemy. “That was out of line,” I said, finally annoyed.

But John was unrepentant. “Listen,” he said. “I was born out of line and I haven’t gotten in line ––––– yet.” Daily Sun So I got on line at the Novelist Saltwater Grill to prove a point and at the same time get a great lobster roll. Because unlike John I understand that sometimes you have to wait for the things you really want. “Anyway, you never mean anything you say,” I noted, mostly for my own sake, after we’d picked up our food and were sitting at a table on the deck outside. But with the sun on his handsome face, lighting up his green eyes and glancing off his thick, wavy hair, I remembered why I had so much trouble getting over him. Because there really was a lot of chemistry between us. Unless it was just biology. “Why do you think that?” he asked. “Every once in a while I do feel genuinely committed to a sentence as I say it.” Which was certainly more commitment than he’d shown me. “I feel like you’re a little hostile,” I said. But it turned out even that had nothing to do with me. “That’s probably because I have a backache, I need some coffee, and I have to go to the bathroom. So there’s a bunch of things happening to me anatomically.” “There’s a bathroom in the restaurant,” I said. He shrugged. “Why won’t men use public bathrooms?” I asked. “Because of what other men have done in them,” he said. “You have to remember that men are pigs, while women are kitty cats.” It explained a lot about why he’d replaced me with a girl who spent most of her time in pink tutus. As a criminal defense lawyer, with all the tough edge that required, there was no way I could compete with the surface femininity of anyone decked out as a princess. During the years we were together he’d always found pink cloying, but somehow that changed when he met Irina. Then he reached over and pulled a necklace out from under my sweater. “Speaking of which, what’s this you’re wearing? Since when would you wear a locket? You hardly ever wore jewelry when we were going out, let alone something as girly as a locket.” Meaning under Adan’s influence I’d become more of a kitty cat than I used to be. Though the truth was I had always been just as soft and gentle as Irina even if I rarely wore pink. “Do you ever wear those emerald earrings I gave you?” he asked. Apparently he assumed Adam had given me the

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locket to mark his territory. Whereas in fact Grace made it in art class. “What’s in it?” he asked. “A shaved squirrel,” I said. Actually it held a piece of moss from our back yard. But John was still fixated on his enemies. “How would you rate Adam anyway?” he asked. “On a scale of 1 to 10, would you say he’s a two? Or a three?” “What about Irina?” I asked, fighting back. “Or is she a ten because she speaks three languages?” Of course Irina didn’t have to say anything to be a ten. After all, she’s a 23-year old Russian ballet dancer with long blond hair and a gorgeous body. But apparently I had the math wrong. “She speaks three languages and she’s boring in all of them,” he said. “So why do you stay with her?” I asked. Because, of course, it’s possible to stay with a person even if they’ve left you. “It’s a battle between my brain and my heart, which probably puts it somewhere around my tonsils,” he said. So we were back to biology. “I know I’m full of contradictions,” he said, seeing my confusion. “Some of them are small. Others really rock the universe.” Which shows you where he locates himself in terms of the other astral bodies. Then another couple sat down next to us on the Earth’s surface at the same picnic table. “What a lovely view,” the woman said. Meaning it’s hard not to stare at John because he’s so good looking. At least so it seemed from where her eyes were focused at a hundred-and-eighty-degree angle from the image normally depicted on the postcards. So apparently she also was motivated by biology. After all, water and sky are beautiful but for most people chemistry gets old without the warmth of human contact. It was something John hadn’t quite grasped as he tried to rekindle our relationship, at least temporarily. Anyway, the Saltwater Grill isn’t exactly a place where people go for unobstructed views of nature. But at this point I was perfectly willing to share John with the public. In fact it helped to have company, even if it was more talkative than I would have liked. Our neighbor’s husband seemed to feel the same way, since he took the opportunity to be completely silent. They’d obviously already done a lot of talking in eight years of marriage. In fact he spoke only under duress. “What was your favorite restaurant in Portland, honey?” she asked him for the second time after giving us a complete run-down of their week-long vacation on the Maine coast. He looked at her distantly as if returning mentally from a fishing trip by himself in the North Woods. “What?” he asked. see WENDEL page 8

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ter. From the strategic comfort of the living room couch, with its view of a returning mother giving plenty of time to return the books, we devoured the adventures of Tom and Huck much like kids today embrace the Harry Potter craze. We soon took sides — most were Team Tom, but I sided instantly with Huck on grounds of better adventures and lack of adult supervision. The school soon took some of us out of the regu-

lar reading schedules and sent us to the library for “personalized reading advancement.” There was disagreement on terms like “disruptive” and “age appropriate language.” We eventually did read up on science (nobody thought to put the biology books on a high shelf) and of course all the rest. How much influence did that summer of mom’s Twain deception have on me? Oh, I don’t know … but I do write for a living and my son is named Finn because nobody should face sixth grade as “Huckleberry.” And once-

banned authors like Henry Miller still hold mustread status. So, soon enough, we will have a not-yet reading list at our house and we’ll likely use the big cabinet in the living room corner. And I’ll leave the house and linger at the grocery, giving him plenty of time to enjoy that raft, because in the list of family traditions, we can’t forget deception. (Curtis Robinson is an owner and founding editor of The Portland Daily Sun. His column appears on Saturdays.)

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from the sensation and all you want are snacks, the couch and remote control to fondle. Now, if too much time goes by I know I’ll never jot it down and chances are I’ll already forget some stuff. But I’ve gotta find a routine that works though cause I’ve got many, many years to try and recall and new shows are adding up. Luckily, there are some I’ll never forget. Like my first live music performance ever was in Cape Cod when I was maybe five or six. I saw the legendary Mills Brothers. The Mills Bros. were a jazz vocal group from the late 20s. I was a kid so just the vibe of a live performance of any kind was thrilling. Looking back now, I’m really lucky to have seen that historical group. I saw Spinal Tap perform at Carnegie Hall in the late ‘90s. It was terrific. They even opened for themselves as the Folksmen; this before the movie A Mighty Wind was released. I remember we had seats at the top of Carnegie Hall and there was no elevator in that place. We walked up the entire building and I almost died. I never felt as poor as I did crawling up to my seats. That top section is way up there folks. Way. and I’m not afraid of heights at all, but that was super scary. Our seats were so steeply slanted I was worried about falling over the banister. Seriously. The show was a classic though. Even Elvis Costello guest appeared on “Give Me Some Money.” Paul Shaffer and about five bass players showed up for “Big Bottom.” I’m sure I’ll never forget that one, but I should mark it down when I get that list happening. Oh yeah, I got to see Stevie Ray Vaughn about five months before he died. I saw Queens of the Stone Age here in Portland at the Asylum in 1998 with only about thirty other people. I also saw them play in a record store in New Jersey in 2000. They played a full, electric set in the store. Amazing. I saw a hip hop show in 1991 that featured Public Enemy, the Geto Boys, Naughty By Nature, Salt & Pepa, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince (aka Will Smith), Leaders

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Spinal Tap, Fishbone top live music list continue to do, this is a fair thing to be doing. Are you thinking of shows right now as you read this? Shows you want to always remember? I want to be able to have a cheat sheet so when I talk to my kids, when I have some, about seeing bands I don’t draw a blank. My mom saw some rock n’ roll shows when she was a kid living north of Boston. She kinda remembers them. She was at the show at the Garden seeing Jerry Lee Lewis when he pretty much started a riot. She saw some other shows but doesn’t remember them much. I’d love to know. I don’t want to forget because music is so important to me. If it is to my children I’d like to give them the best recollection possible. Sometimes people are content with leaving their memories in their heads. Some others these days feel the need to take four hundred photos on their smart phones during the show (ehhhh). To each their own. I think for me though, the Live Log is the way to go and I suggest to you maybe you do the same if you go to see alot of live shows. That way if you went to the show I went to this week, we can have a good talk about it! In case I forget to jot it down.

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anywhere. None parked and barely any on the streets. Cabs too. Did we need to go to this show, really? At that time? Yes and I have no regrets. Plus that was just before Incubus got real boring. I saw Fishbone play at a classic called in Boston called the Axis. This was in the early ‘90s and it was the same day they had played Lollapalooza. They arrived so late the show almost didn’t happen. No openers, no pre show festivities. Just an after show, club show featuring just them. I hadn’t eaten all day and was famished. My concert friend bought me a few beers and I was a weeble wobble most of the night weak and waiting for Fishbone. They showed up about midnight and laid out a killer set. On the tune “Servitude”, a guest vocalist came out and tried to sing with the band on the chorus. He was so awkward and out of place, but it still somehow jived because he was cool and people were feeling his surprise appearance. The guest was Layne Staley from Alice in Chains. For every great show theres a lame duck I still need to log though to keep this thing as full and complete as possible. This isn’t going to be a log for just good shows. I want the documentation of them all. So that means I’ll still jot down seeing Disturbed numerous times at the Civic Center (for work purposes) and Jewel at the Harborside Pavillion in Boston (pleasing an old girlfriend) to name a few. Seeing so many shows as I have and

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“Why don’t you ever listen?” she griped. It was a harsh return to civilization. “Because you talk so fast if you started at the same time as the Acela you’d beat it to Boston by an hour and a half.” So she tried to make up for it by making us talk instead. “How are you guys doing?” she asked. It was a tough question. Because the most important thing about how we were doing is that we were not doing it together. But there was no need to answer anyway because she had moved on. “You must love it here,” she said. “I wouldn’t go that far,” John said. “I like it okay but I can’t say I love it. I am Jewish after all.” But the tourist was undaunted. “What do you do?” she asked. So while explaining we were both lawyers, but not together, I told her my law practice had just gone under. She gave me a sympathetic look that John mistook for criticism since he’s not that good at understanding

communication between kitty cats. “There’s no shame in that,” he said. “To start a business is to invite failure and accept it on its own terms.” Which left me confused as to whether I’d made a mistake somewhere, but I appreciated the attempt at moral support. “Anyway, nothing lasts forever,” the woman said. She was determined to enjoy the view on her vacation no matter what was in it. “Right,” John said, gesturing at the weathered boards of the marina but looking at me. “Everything eventually wears down no matter how hard it is. That’s chemistry.” “Or it’s defeated,” I said. “Even the Mongols were finally driven out of China.” But he didn’t get the sarcasm. “I thought they just lost interest and left,” he said. “No, they didn’t lose interest,” I said. “They were definitely killed.” I had to keep reminding him that the end of our relationship was his doing so he wouldn’t rewrite history. But he always got around me. “That’s what I meant,” he said. “It’s hard to stay interested when you haven’t got a head.” Then he tried to break the tension, which was clearly

making the tourists uncomfortable. “Anyway,” he said. “The Celtics are in the playoffs and I can’t tell you how happy you are.” Which was a reference to my lack of interest in basketball, which exceeded even the Mongols’ lack of interest in China after they were defeated in battle. So I thought it was finally time to leave the battlefield. I wished the tourists well and got up to go. “Do you have your purse?” John asked. “My purse?” I asked sarcastically. “Since when am I the kind of woman who carries a purse? You mean my bag.” I threw on my old leather cargo bag that’s loaded with books, as well as various rocks, twigs and leaves I’ve picked up on my travels. Because the truth is I’m quite interested in both chemistry and biology. But John didn’t understand any of that. “You’re right,” he said. “You’re more like a purse snatcher.” So it seemed my only choices were to be a kitty cat or a bad guy and there wasn’t any room in between. (Heidi Wendel is a former editor of the Columbia Law Review and has written for The New York Times, among others.)

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True, there is evidence that being near someone smoking, even outdoors, can result in significant secondhand smoke exposure. Researchers at Stanford found that levels of tobacco smoke within three feet of a smoker outside are comparable to inside levels. But no evidence demonstrates that the duration of outdoor exposure — in places where people can move freely about — is long enough to cause substantial health damage. But that hasn’t stopped many opponents of smoking. Citing new research, they have argued that even transient exposure to tobacco smoke can cause severe health effects like heart disease and lung cancer. For example, last year the surgeon general’s office claimed that “even brief exposure to secondhand smoke can cause

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Afghanistan and Iraq. “I find it interesting that a lot of people in the public, the pundits and some of the people in Congress are starting to speak up louder to say, ‘Shouldn’t we be winding down these wars now?’ That’s the opening I hope we can take advantage of,” Benjamin said. Benjamin’s announced speaking topic at the Peace Action Maine Peace Supper is “From Egypt to Washington D.C.: How to Build a Peoples’ Movement for Peace” — Benjamin was in Egypt earlier this year when the revolution against President Hosni Sayyid Mubarak erupted. But it’s hard to ignore Sunday’s news that Navy SEALs had killed bin Laden in Pakistan, so Benjamin said, “I certainly want to bring the issue of Osama bin Laden’s death into the whole picture.” How does Sunday’s news set with one of the world’s most famous peace activists? “I don’t support extrajudicial killings,” Benjamin clarified, “I think we should be a nation that goes by the rule of law, but I also understand it and it’s certainly better than the years of all-out war against people who never attacked us.” And from a pragmatic standpoint, the death of bin Laden may provide an opening. “I think now we can push for a really stepped-up withdrawal, and in fact I’m working with not only people in the progressive community but also conservatives and libertarians to jointly put pressure on the administration,” Benjamin said. Peace activists were dismayed when President Obama announced an increase of 50,000 troops in Afghanistan after promising a significant withdrawal. Code Pink plans to hold his feet to the fire. “We are watching and we are demanding that ‘significant’ be ‘significant,’” Benjamin said. “We’re one of the only groups that have continued to protest these wars under the Obama administration,

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, May 7, the 127th day of 2011. There are 238 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 7, 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims (rams), France, ending its role in World War II. On this date: In 1711 (New Style calendar), Scottish philosopher David Hume was born in Edinburgh. In 1789, the first inaugural ball was held in New York in honor of President George Washington and his wife, Martha. In 1861, Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta. In 1915, nearly 1,200 people died when a German torpedo sank the British liner RMS Lusitania off the Irish coast. In 1941, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra recorded “Chattanooga Choo Choo” for RCA Victor. In 1954, the 55-day Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam ended with Vietnamese insurgents overrunning French forces. In 1963, the United States launched the Telstar 2 communications satellite. In 1975, President Gerald R. Ford formally declared an end to the “Vietnam era.” In Ho Chi Minh City — formerly Saigon — the Viet Cong celebrated its takeover. In 1977, Seattle Slew won the Kentucky Derby, the first of his Triple Crown victories. (On this date in 2002, Seattle Slew died.) In 1984, a $180 million out-of-court settlement was announced in the Agent Orange class-action suit brought by Vietnam veterans who charged they’d suffered injury from exposure to the defoliant. One year ago: A BP-chartered vessel lowered a 100-ton concrete-and-steel vault onto the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well in an unprecedented, and ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to stop most of the gushing crude fouling the sea. Before a record hockey crowd of 77,803, the United States lost to host Germany 2-1 in the opening game of the world ice hockey championships. Dave Fisher, lead singer of the 1960s folk group the Highwaymen, died in Rye, N.Y., at age 69. Today’s Birthdays: Former Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., is 79. Singer Jimmy Ruffin is 72. Actress Robin Strasser is 66. Singer-songwriter Bill Danoff is 65. Rhythmand-blues singer Thelma Houston is 65. Rock musician Bill Kreutzmann (Grateful Dead) is 65. Rock musician Prairie Prince is 61. Actor Robert Hegyes is 60. Movie writer-director Amy Heckerling is 59. Actor Michael E. Knight is 52. Rock musician Phil Campbell (Motorhead) is 50. Country musician Rick Schell is 48. Rock singer-musician Chris O’Connor is 46. Actress Traci Lords is 43. Singer Eagle-Eye Cherry is 40. Actor Breckin Meyer is 37. Rock musician Matt Helders (Arctic Monkeys) is 25.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: You recently printed a “Contract for Drivers,” by John Violette. It requires teenage drivers to maintain decent grades, follow all traffic laws and never drive impaired or get in the car with a driver who is. It reminded me of the essay “Dead at 17,” which relates what happens when kids don’t follow those rules. Every year there are new teenage drivers who haven’t seen it. Maybe if parents attach it to the contract, the need to drive safely will have a greater impact. Please print it again. -- Chicago Mom of Three Dear Mom: This essay and John Violette’s contract make an effective combo. We hope parents will show both to their newly licensed children: “Dead at Seventeen” by John Berrio Agony claws my mind. I am a statistic. When I first got here I felt very much alone. I was overwhelmed by grief, and I expected to find sympathy. I found no sympathy. I saw only thousands of others whose bodies were as badly mangled as mine. I was given a number and placed in a category. The category was called “Traffic Fatalities.” The day I died was an ordinary school day. How I wish I had taken the bus! But I was too cool for the bus. I remember how I wheedled the car out of Mom. “Special favor,” I pleaded. “All the kids drive.” When the 2:50 p.m. bell rang, I threw my books in the locker ... free until tomorrow morning! I ran to the parking lot, excited at the thought of driving a car and being my own boss. It doesn’t matter how the accident happened. I was goofing off -- going too fast, taking crazy chances. But I was enjoying my freedom and having fun. The last thing I remember was passing an old lady who seemed to be going awfully slow. I heard a crash and felt a terrific jolt.

Glass and steel ﬂew everywhere. My whole body seemed to be turning inside out. I heard myself scream. Suddenly, I awakened. It was very quiet. A police ofﬁcer was standing over me. I saw a doctor. My body was mangled. I was saturated with blood. Pieces of jagged glass were sticking out all over. Strange that I couldn’t feel anything. Hey, don’t pull that sheet over my head. I can’t be dead. I’m only 17. I’ve got a date tonight. I’m supposed to have a wonderful life ahead of me. I haven’t lived yet. I can’t be dead. Later I was placed in a drawer. My folks came to identify me. Why did they have to see me like this? Why did I have to look at Mom’s eyes when she faced the most terrible ordeal of her life? Dad suddenly looked very old. He told the man in charge, “Yes, he’s our son.” The funeral was weird. I saw all my relatives and friends walk toward the casket. They looked at me with the saddest eyes I’ve ever seen. Some of my buddies were crying. A few of the girls touched my hand and sobbed as they walked by. Please, somebody -- wake me up! Get me out of here. I can’t bear to see Mom and Dad in such pain. My grandparents are so weak from grief they can barely walk. My brother and sister are like zombies. They move like robots. In a daze. Everybody. No one can believe this. I can’t believe it, either. Please, don’t bury me! I’m not dead! I have a lot of living to do! I want to laugh and run again. I want to sing and dance. Please don’t put me in the ground! I promise if you give me just one more chance, God, I’ll be the most careful driver in the whole world. All I want is one more chance. Please, God, I’m only 17.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to: anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.

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Saturday, May 7 Brewing For A Cause 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sebago Brewing Company is pleased to announce they will be holding the second annual Brewing For A Cause. This event was conceived to raise funds for the Trek Across Maine, a three-day, 180-mile bike ride in support of the mission of the American Lung Association. This is the third year that Sebago has had an employee cycling team participating in the event. Sebago brewers and will be brewing “Trekker Pale Ale” and attendees will be able to participate in the brewing process as well as take a case of this special Single Batch Series home! It will be a full day of brewing (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and lunch will be provided for all attendees. Tickets are $125 and are now available to the general public on the Sebago Brewing Company website. This unique fundraiser sold out very quickly last year, so Sebago is encouraging people to purchase tickets early if they’d like to attend! For more information visit sebagobrewing.com, call 207856-2537, or email jon@sebagobrewing.com.

Absentee voting, voter registration available at Portland City Hall

day concludes at SPACE Gallery with all the participating artists. Lunch at the Museum and a concluding reception at SPACE Gallery with participating artists is included in the registration fee. This symposium is the second of a series of three to celebrate the opening of the Winslow Homer Studio in September 2012.” http://portlandmuseum.org

Sen. Snowe delivers remarks at Bath Iron Works christening 10 a.m. U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe, R-Maine, will deliver remarks at a christening event for a destroyer built at Bath Iron Works. The destroyer has been named in honor of the late U.S. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Michael Murphy, a posthumous Medal of Honor recipient.

Protest of Aegis destroyer at Bath Iron Works 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The Navy will “christen” another Aegis destroyer on Saturday, May 7 at Bath Iron Works. Peace groups in Maine plan to hold a protest at the event from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Following the protest people are invited to come to the Addams-Melman House (212 Centre St) in Bath for a pot luck lunch at noon. The protest is being sponsored by the Smiling Trees Disarmament Farm, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, Maine Veterans for Peace and CodePink Maine. For more information please contact 763-4062 or 443-9502.

8 a.m. to noon. The City Clerk’s office will be open for absentee voting and voter registration for Tuesday’s School Budget Validation Election. For the May 10 election, Portland voters will be asked: “Do you favor approving the Portland School Budget for the upcoming school year that was adopted at the latest City Council budget meeting?” Maine’s School Administrative Reorganization Law requires all school districts to hold elections for approval Kid Open Studios: Tunnel Books! of their budgets. The budget must be approved noon. SPACE Gallery will host a lesson by a majority of voters. Detailed information about in tunnel bookmaking led by Ashley the school budget may be found on the Portland Shoukimas. “These books are a set of Public Schools Web site at www.portlandschools. pages bound with two folded strips on org. Absentee ballots are available upon request each side, viewed through a hole in the and can be returned to the City Clerk’s office in City Laura Graham and Benedetto Robinson in “Antony & Cleopatra” with the Naked Shakespeare troupe. cover. Making tunnel books is a really Hall now between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. The public can enjoy Shakespeare in the park with the second annual Riverbank Shakespeare Festival fun and easy way to explore landscape Residents can register to vote in person at the City now playing at Riverbank Park on Main Street in Westbrook. (COURTESY PHOTO) and achieve depth of field with simple Clerk’s office. On Election Day, residents must regmaterials.” Drop by anytime from noon ister at their polling place. All local polling places items off. Donations will go primarily to the our Rotary Youth to 3:30 p.m. Suggested age is 5 and up. will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 10. AbsenExchange Program.” Falmouth Rotary is a volunteer sertee ballots must be returned to the City Clerk’s office by 8 vice organization that supports a variety of community and ‘Queen to Play’ film screened at PMA p.m. on May 10. For more detailed information about where international causes, including the Rotary Youth Exchange 2 p.m. “Queen to Play” screens at Movies at the Museum or how to vote, contact the City Clerk’s office at 874-8677. Program, polio eradication, Safe Passage, the Falmouth at the Portland Museum of Art. Saturday, May 7, 2 p.m.; Voters can also check online to locate their polling place Food Pantry, Maine Childrens Cancer Center, and girls litSunday, May 8, 2 p.m. NR. “Oscar winner Kevin Kline (‘A online, http://www.portlandmaine.gov/voter/pollplace.asp. eracy in Afghanistan. Items that will be NOT be accepted Fish Called Wanda’) and the luminous Sandrine Bonnaire include appliances and white goods (ovens, washer/dryers, (‘Vagabond’) square off in this stylish and sophisticated Workshop on solar shower building stoves), items with freon such as refrigerators and air condramedy of newfound passions and mid-life triumphs, set on 9 a.m. On May 7-8, Mike Beaudry, a timber framer, timber ditioners, fluorescent bulbs, and mercury-bearing items the postcard-perfect isle of Corsica. Lovely, repressed, and hewer and log builder from Montville, will lead a two-day (thermo, thermostat). quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène (Bonnaire) workshop at Newforest Institute in Brooks. The main projdiscovers she has a knack for chess. This obsession-much ect during this workshop will be the construction of a roof New Gloucester quilt show to the chagrin of her husband and teenaged daughter-leads frame for a solar shower building. Starting with logs, partici9 a.m. to noon. A quilt show is to be held at the New her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American pants will hew out dimensional timbers, cut joinery, make Gloucester History Barn, Route 231, behind the Town Hall, doctor (Kline, in his first French-speaking role)-a liaison that trunnels, and raise and trunnel the frame. Workshop fees New Gloucester. Local quilters working in a variety of styles radically transforms both of their lackluster lives. In French are a sliding scale from $90 to $180 depending upon ability will be featured. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by with English subtitles.” to pay for two days including lunch and snacks. Attendees the New Gloucester Historical Society. have the option to register for breakfasts and dinners and Riverbank Shakespeare Festival Resisting Racism workshop overnight accommodations or tenting space for a modest 2 p.m. The Acorn Shakespeare Ensemble, presenters of the 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Resisting Racism workshop with Ewuare X. fee. For more information and to register, please contact “Naked Shakespeare” series, once again offers local audiOsayande of POWER (People Organized Working to EradiNewforest at info@newforestinstitute.org or 722-3625. ences the treat of Shakespeare in the park with the second cate Racism). Also Sunday, May 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., annual Riverbank Shakespeare Festival at Riverbank Park Falmouth Rotary Club electronics recycling day University of Southern Maine Wishcamper Center, Room on Main Street in Westbrook. The centerpieces of the festi9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Rotary Club of Falmouth will host an 102 (Building directly behind the Main Library); $20-100 val are two late-period romances that contain some of the electronics recycling day at the Falmouth Shopping Center sliding scale. “Please be as generous as you can. No one richest and most complex language in the entire canon: parking lot on U.S. Route 1 in Falmouth. Town residency is will be turned away for lack of funds. Registration is encourAntony and Cleopatra and Cymbeline. Additionally, the not required. Items accepted include household electronaged and appreciated!” For more info, contact RousePortYoung Actors Shakespeare Conservatory will present as ics such as TV’s, computers , monitors (keyboard, mouse), land@gmail.com or 949-6668 their final showcase The Comedy of Errors. All 3 shows have printers, scanners, DVD players, VCR’s, radios, stereos, Symposium on artist studios been abridged to various extents and will be offered free of microwaves ovens, cell phones, game consoles, cords, cir10 a.m. to 5 p.m. “Art On-Site: Studio Practice in 21st-Cencharge with a suggested donation of $10. Performances cuit boards, and digital picture frames. Falmouth Rotary is tury Art,” hosted by Portland Museum of Art. Price: $35; take place May 6 to 22 on Friday evenings, Saturday aftera volunteer service organization that supports a variety of members: $25. Auditorium and Portland Studios. “What noons and evenings, and Sunday afternoons and evenings. community and international causes, including the Rotary role does an artist’s studio play in the creative process? The complete performance calendar appears below. AudiYouth Exchange Program, polio eradication, Safe Passage, From the 19th-century studios of Winslow Homer and Fredence members are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and/or the Falmouth Food Pantry, Maine Childrens Cancer Center, eric Church to contemporary artists working on Congress blankets and picnic during the performances. No reservaand girls literacy in Afghanistan. Street, Maine has been a magnet for artists. This day-long tions are necessary, and in case of inclement weather, audiFalmouth Rotary Club electronics recycling day symposium begins with artist and author Joe Fig, whose ences are encouraged to check Acorn’s website at www. 9 a.m. The Rotary Club of Falmouth will host an electronics decade of interviews with artists resulted in his book Inside acorn-productions.org or call the business office at 854recycling day on Saturday, May 7 from 9-2 at the Falmouth the Painter’s Studio as well as pushing him in a new direc0065. May 7 at 2 p.m., Comedy of Errors; May 7 at 6 p.m., Shopping Center parking lot on U.S. Route 1 in Falmouth. tion for his own work. Fig’s doll-housed sized recreations of Cymbeline; May 8 at 2 p.m., Comedy of Errors; May 8 at 6 Items accepted include household electronics such as artists at work in their studios ask us to think about studio, p.m., Cymbeline; May 13 at 6 p.m., Cymbeline; May 14 at TV’s, computers, monitors (keyboard, mouse), printers, place, and practice. David Row, painter and 2011 Portland 2 p.m., Antony and Cleopatra; May 15 at 2 p.m., Comedy of scanners, DVD players, VCR’s, radios, stereos, microwaves Museum of Art Biennial juror will discuss how place relates Errors; May 15 at 6 p.m., Antony and Cleopatra; May 20 at 6 ovens, cell phones, game consoles, cords, circuit boards, to practice with illustrations of his New York and Maine stup.m., Antony and Cleopatra; May 21 at 2 p.m., Antony and and digital picture frames. “This event allows people to dios. We will then break for lunch in the Museum Café before Cleopatra; May 22 at 2 p.m., Cymbeline; May 22 at 6 p.m., drop off their electronics so they can be recycled or disgoing on our tour of Portland studios in the afternoon. Studio Antony and Cleopatra. Free, suggested donation $10. FMI: posed of in an environmentally friendly way”, says Anne visits will include: Joe Kievitt, Lauren Fensterstock and Aaron www.nakedshakespeare.org or 854-0065 Payson of the Falmouth Rotary Club. “We simply ask that Stephan, Charlie Hewitt, as well as The Artist Studio Building people make a donation to Rotary at the time they drop their where many artists will be in their studios for questions. The see next page

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Absentee voting, voter registration available at Portland City Hall 8 a.m. to noon. The City Clerk’s office will be open for absentee voting and voter registration for Tuesday’s School Budget Validation Election. For the May 10 election, Portland voters will be asked: “Do you favor approving the Portland School Budget for the upcoming school year that was adopted at the latest City Council budget meeting?” Maine’s School Administrative Reorganization Law requires all school districts to hold elections for approval of their budgets. The budget must be approved by a majority of voters. Detailed information about the school budget may be found on the Portland Public Schools Web site at www. portlandschools.org. Absentee ballots are available upon request and can be returned to the City Clerk’s office in City Hall now between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Residents can register to vote in person at the City Clerk’s office. On Election Day, residents must register at their polling place. All local polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 10. Absentee ballots must be returned to the City Clerk’s office by 8 p.m. on May 10. For more detailed information about where or how to vote, contact the City Clerk’s office at 874-8677. Voters can also check online to locate their polling place online, http://www.portlandmaine.gov/voter/pollplace.asp.

Workshop on solar shower building 9 a.m. On May 7-8, Mike Beaudry, a timber framer, timber hewer and log builder from Montville, will lead a two-day workshop at Newforest Institute in Brooks. The main project during this workshop will be the construction of a roof frame for a solar shower building. Starting with logs, participants will hew out dimensional timbers, cut joinery, make trunnels, and raise and trunnel the frame. Workshop fees are a sliding scale from $90 to $180 depending upon ability to pay for two days including lunch and snacks. Attendees have the option to register for breakfasts and dinners and overnight accommodations or tenting space for a modest fee. For more information and to register, please contact Newforest at info@newforestinstitute.org or 722-3625.

Falmouth Rotary Club electronics recycling day 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Rotary Club of Falmouth will host an electronics recycling day at the Falmouth Shopping Center parking lot on U.S. Route 1 in Falmouth. Town residency is not required. Items accepted include household electronics such as TV’s, computers , monitors (keyboard, mouse), printers, scanners, DVD players, VCR’s, radios, stereos, microwaves ovens, cell phones, game consoles, cords, circuit boards, and digital picture frames. Falmouth Rotary is a volunteer service organization that supports a variety of community and international causes, including the Rotary Youth Exchange Program, polio eradication, Safe Passage, the Falmouth Food Pantry, Maine Childrens Cancer Center, and girls literacy in Afghanistan.

Falmouth Rotary Club electronics recycling day 9 a.m. The Rotary Club of Falmouth will host an electronics recycling day on Saturday, May 7 from 9-2 at the Falmouth Shopping Center parking lot on U.S. Route 1 in Falmouth. Items accepted include household electronics such as TV’s, computers, monitors (keyboard, mouse), printers, scanners, DVD players, VCR’s, radios, stereos, microwaves ovens, cell phones, game consoles, cords, circuit boards, and digital picture frames. “This event allows people to drop off their electronics so they can be recycled or disposed of in an environmentally friendly way”, says Anne Payson of the Falmouth Rotary Club. “We simply ask that people make a donation to Rotary at the time they drop their items off. Donations will go primarily to the our Rotary Youth Exchange Program.” Falmouth Rotary is a volunteer service organization that supports a variety of community and

international causes, including the Rotary Youth Exchange Program, polio eradication, Safe Passage, the Falmouth Food Pantry, Maine Childrens Cancer Center, and girls literacy in Afghanistan. Items that will be NOT be accepted include appliances and white goods (ovens, washer/dryers, stoves), items with freon such as refrigerators and air conditioners, ﬂuorescent bulbs, and mercury-bearing items (thermo, thermostat).

New Gloucester quilt show 9 a.m. to noon. A quilt show is to be held at the New Gloucester History Barn, Route 231, behind the Town Hall, New Gloucester. Local quilters working in a variety of styles will be featured. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the New Gloucester Historical Society.

Resisting Racism workshop 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Resisting Racism workshop with Ewuare X. Osayande of POWER (People Organized Working to Eradicate Racism). Also Sunday, May 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., University of Southern Maine Wishcamper Center, Room 102 (Building directly behind the Main Library); $20-100 sliding scale. “Please be as generous as you can. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Registration is encouraged and appreciated!” For more info, contact RousePortland@gmail.com or 949-6668

Symposium on artist studios 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. “Art On-Site: Studio Practice in 21st-Century Art,” hosted by Portland Museum of Art. Price: $35; members: $25. Auditorium and Portland Studios. “What role does an artist’s studio play in the creative process? From the 19th-century studios of Winslow Homer and Frederic Church to contemporary artists working on Congress Street, Maine has been a magnet for artists. This day-long symposium begins with artist and author Joe Fig, whose decade of interviews with artists resulted in his book Inside the Painter’s Studio as well as pushing him in a new direction for his own work. Fig’s doll-housed sized recreations of artists at work in their studios ask us to think about studio, place, and practice. David Row, painter and 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial juror will discuss how place relates to practice with illustrations of his New York and Maine studios. We will then break for lunch in the Museum Café before going on our tour of Portland studios in the afternoon. Studio visits will include: Joe Kievitt, Lauren Fensterstock and Aaron Stephan, Charlie Hewitt, as well as The Artist Studio Building where many artists will be in their studios for questions. The day concludes at SPACE Gallery with all the participating artists. Lunch at the Museum and a concluding reception at SPACE Gallery with participating artists is included in the registration fee. This symposium is the second of a series of three to celebrate the opening of the Winslow Homer Studio in September 2012.” http://portlandmuseum.org

Kid Open Studios: Tunnel Books! noon. SPACE Gallery will host a lesson in tunnel bookmaking led by Ashley Shoukimas. “These books are a set of pages bound with two folded strips on each side, viewed through a hole in the cover. Making tunnel books is a really fun and easy way to explore landscape and achieve depth of ﬁeld with simple materials.” Drop by anytime from noon to 3:30 p.m. Suggested age is 5 and up.

‘Queen to Play’ ﬁlm screened at PMA 2 p.m. “Queen to Play” screens at Movies at the Museum at the Portland Museum of Art. Saturday, May 7, 2 p.m.; Sunday, May 8, 2 p.m. NR. “Oscar winner Kevin Kline (‘A Fish Called Wanda’) and the luminous Sandrine Bonnaire (‘Vagabond’) square off in this stylish and sophisticated dramedy of newfound passions and mid-life triumphs, set on the postcard-perfect isle of Corsica. Lovely, repressed, and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène (Bonnaire) discovers she has a knack for chess. This obsession-much to the chagrin of her husband and teenaged daughter-leads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor (Kline, in his ﬁrst French-speaking role)-a liaison that

radically transforms both of their lackluster lives. In French with English subtitles.”

Riverbank Shakespeare Festival 2 p.m. The Acorn Shakespeare Ensemble, presenters of the “Naked Shakespeare” series, once again offers local audiences the treat of Shakespeare in the park with the second annual Riverbank Shakespeare Festival at Riverbank Park on Main Street in Westbrook. The centerpieces of the festival are two late-period romances that contain some of the richest and most complex language in the entire canon: Antony and Cleopatra and Cymbeline. Additionally, the Young Actors Shakespeare Conservatory will present as their ﬁnal showcase The Comedy of Errors. All 3 shows have been abridged to various extents and will be offered free of charge with a suggested donation of $10. Performances take place May 6 to 22 on Friday evenings, Saturday afternoons and evenings, and Sunday afternoons and evenings. The complete performance calendar appears below. Audience members are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and/or blankets and picnic during the performances. No reservations are necessary, and in case of inclement weather, audiences are encouraged to check Acorn’s website at www. acorn-productions.org or call the business ofﬁce at 8540065. May 7 at 2 p.m., Comedy of Errors; May 7 at 6 p.m., Cymbeline; May 8 at 2 p.m., Comedy of Errors; May 8 at 6 p.m., Cymbeline; May 13 at 6 p.m., Cymbeline; May 14 at 2 p.m., Antony and Cleopatra; May 15 at 2 p.m., Comedy of Errors; May 15 at 6 p.m., Antony and Cleopatra; May 20 at 6 p.m., Antony and Cleopatra; May 21 at 2 p.m., Antony and Cleopatra; May 22 at 2 p.m., Cymbeline; May 22 at 6 p.m., Antony and Cleopatra. Free, suggested donation $10. FMI: www.nakedshakespeare.org or 854-0065

Peace Action Maine 2011 Peace Supper 4 p.m. This year’s Keynote Speaker for the Peace Action Maine Peace Supper will be Medea Benjamin. Supper at 5 p.m. Woodfords Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St., Portland, $20. “Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of both CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global Exchange. She has been a tireless advocate for social justice for more than 20 years. Described as ‘one of America’s most committed — and most effective — fighters for human rights’ by New York Newsday, and called ‘one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement’ by the Los Angeles Times, Medea has distinguished herself as an eloquent and energetic figure in the progressive movement. In June of 2005, she was one of 1,000 exemplary women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize collectively, on behalf of the millions of anonymous women who do the essential work of peace worldwide. Since the September 11, 2001 tragedy, Medea has been working to promote a U.S. foreign policy that would respect human rights and gain us allies instead of contributing to violence and undermining our international reputation. In 2000, she was a Green Party candidate for the California Senate. During the 1990s, Medea focused her efforts on tackling the problem of unfair trade as promoted by the World Trade Organization. Widely credited as the woman who brought Nike to its knees and helped place the issue of sweatshops on the national agenda, Medea was a key player in the campaign that won a $20 million settlement from 27 US clothing retailers for the use of sweatshop labor in Saipan. She also pushed Starbucks and other companies to start carrying fair trade coffee. A former economist and nutritionist with the United Nations and World Health Organization, Benjamin is the author/editor of eight books, and she currently lives in Washington, D.C. Her speaking topic at the Peace Action Maine Peace Supper will be ‘From Egypt to Washington D.C.: How to Build a Peoples’ Movement for Peace.’” Call Peace Action Maine at 772-0680.

The Mad Hatter Affair by MHS 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. The Mad Hatter Affair at the Woodlands Club in Falmouth. “Consider this an ofﬁcial invitation to the Mad Hatter Affair, MHS’s gala fundraiser. Now in its 15th year, the Mad Hatter is a festive Kentucky Derby party, a spirited way to welcome spring, and great opportunity to support MHS. The Mad Hatter offers a chance for friends of MHS and guests to gather, dress up in derby attire (outlandish hats encouraged!), sip mint juleps, watch the race live from Churchill Downs, and to dine and dance the night away. Activities include a hat parade and contest, and live and silent auctions. For more on this wonderful evening, including photos from last year’s event, visit the MHS blog. Tickets: $100/person.” FMI and to buy tickets, contact Elizabeth Nash at 774-1822, ext. 206 or enash@mainehistory.org.

‘Seascapes’ art reception in Cape Elizabeth 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Cape Elizabeth painter Etsuko Leeaphon will present. “Seascapes from Japan, Thailand and Maine” at Thomas Memorial Library May 2-31. An opening reception will be held at the library on Friday, May 6 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The event is open to the public. Thomas Memorial Library, 6 Scott Dyer Road, Cape Eliza see next page

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Saturday, May 7 De Temps Antan 8 p.m. “De Temps Antan is a high-energy trio featuring three of Quebec’s most talented musicians coming out of the city’s vibrant music scene. Since 2003, Éric Beaudry, André Brunet and Pierre-Luc Dupuis have been exploring and performing time-honored melodies from the stomping grounds of Quebec’s musical past. Using ﬁddle, accordion, harmonica, guitar, bouzouki and a number of other instruments, these three virtuosos blend boundless energy with the unmistakable joie de vivre found only in traditional Quebec music. All three members previously performed with the celebrated ensemble La Bottine Souriante (Beaufry remains a member of La Bottine). Brunet was featured in the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver British Columbia. Showing the talent runs deep, Brunet’s brother Réjean is a member of another dynamic Quebecois ensemble, Le Vent du Nord.” Hannaford Hall, University of Southern Maine, Portland. http://portlandovations.org

Willie Nile at One Longfellow 8 p.m. Willie Nile is a songwriters’ songwriter and his live performances are legendary. He has toured across the U.S. opening for The Who at the personal request of the band and sang with Bruce Springsteen at Giant Stadium. Bruce recently joined Willie on stage in Asbury Park for Willie’s song “Heaven Help The Lonely”.Now Willie has just completed a new album, The Innocent Ones, for River House Records. It was released in Europe on Oct 11th and the North American release announcement will be coming soon. The album contains 11 original songs and was produced in New York City by Willie, Frankie Lee, Stewart Lerman, Steuart Smith (lead guitarist of The Eagles) and Hirsh Gardner. $20, all ages.

Monday, May 9 Jerusalem and the Starbaskets / Phantom Buffalo / Foam Castles at the Apohadion 8 p.m. Columbia, Missouri stalwart rockers and De Stijl Records signees Jerusalem and the Starbaskets have been holding down their spot in the midwest as the king and queen of the scene. James Jackson Toth (Wooden Wand) is also a big fan and can say it better than we can: “Basically a duo (although sometimes augmented by other members), Jerusalem and the Starbaskets play unfashionable, unpretentious and completely devastating pop music, and they’re one of my all time favorite live bands… sounding like the third Velvets LP played by The Terminals. Note the righteous guitar tone any stoner rock Chud would envy, and catchy, infectious tunes (with a recent emphasis on country melodies) that will stay in your head for weeks. Completely necessary and great.” Our own princely posters, Phantom Buffalo open the night with Foam Castles. Co-presented by SPACE Gallery and our friends at The Apohadion Theater, located at 107 Hanover Street, Portland Maine. Cash only at the door, ﬁrst come ﬁrst serve.$5-$10, all ages.

Tuesday, May 10 Goes Cube / Waranimal / Huak at Space Gallery 8 p.m. It would be easy to call Brooklyn’s Goes Cube a metal band. After all, their music is heavy, loud, and often fast. But Goes Cube continually demonstrates that it exists in a universe all its own: outside the trends and styles of New York (where the band formed), and outside of the standard metal tropes - drawing on inﬂuences that also include punk, hardcore, noise, and indie rock. Their idea is simple: make the

heavy heavier, fast faster, hooky hookier, and pretty prettier. Their new disc - In Tides And Drifts (The End Records) - even calls upon folk singer Jaymay, whose haunting melodies break hearts as the band behind her batters eardrums. Waranimal are a totally excellent party metal band who recently gave us a strong contender for show of the winter season by ﬁlling SPACE with a bounce house, silly string, and a whole lot of crowdsurﬁng dudes in hawaiian shirts. Local punk (post-punk/hardcore/ political/art/just-call-it-great) quartet Huak have a new full length coming this summer and open this show. HillyTown Presents works with both national touring acts and Maine musicians to curate unique live music experiences. $8, 18+

Sunday, May 15 Phil Kline’s ‘John the Revelator’ 3 p.m. “Considered one of the most signiﬁcant works of the past decade, composer Phil Kline’s ‘John the Revelator’ is a gorgeous and powerful Mass for the 21st century. ‘John the Revelator’ ﬁnds inspiration in the writings of Samuel Beckett and poet David Shapiro, early American hymns, shape-note singing and the events of 9/11. Acclaimed for their ‘smoothly blended and impeccably balanced sound’ (The New York Times), Lionheart is joined by municipal organist Ray Cornils and Portland String Quartet for this unique presentation. The concert will feature a new work for organ by Kline, commissioned in part by Portland Ovations and Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ. Merrill Auditorium. Presented in collaboration with Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ and LARK Society for Chamber Music. http://portlandovations.org

Wednesday, May 18 Steve Martin: An Evening of Bluegrass & Banjo 7:30 p.m. “Performing with The Steep Canyon Rangers, An Evening of Bluegrass & Banjo, Merrill Auditorium. The legendary Steve Martin is a true renaissance man. Now the actor, comedian, novelist, playwright, and musician teams up with the accomplished bluegrass quintet Steep Canyon Rangers for an evening of bluegrass and banjo. Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers first played together in 2009, garnering praise from fans and critics alike. The popularity of their joint live performances has resulted in a new album, Rare Bird Alert, due out this spring. This is Martin’s second bluegrass album. His first, The Crow/New Songs For The Five-String Banjo, won a 2010 Grammy for best bluegrass album. The Steep Canyon Rangers are a classic five-man string band comprised of a guitar, fiddle, upright bass, banjo and mandolin. Martin adds a second banjo and additional vocals making for a unique and exciting sound.” Portland Ovations is pleased to announce that Tony Trischka & Territory have been added to the concert featuring Steve Martin with Steep Canyon Rangers. http://portlandovations.org

Saturday, May 21 David Crosby & Graham Nash at the State Theatre 8 p.m. “As a duo, longtime creative partners David Crosby and Graham Nash bring out the best in each other, their distinct yet complementary styles balancing an equation that delivers a seamless and inspiring musical whole. Two-thirds and one-half, respectively, of Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, these Rock and Roll Hall of Famers are legendary for their airtight and crystal-clear vocal harmonies, as sublime when delivered by simply these two together as they are from the

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Mother’s Day road race is state’s largest 5k BY JEFF PETERSON THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

If you’re tired of eating brunch at a restaurant or grilling, how about pounding the pavement as a way to celebrate Mother’s Day? That’s what nearly 3,000 people will be doing in Portland on Sunday. It is the 11th annual Mother’s Day 5K Road Race. The Portland Sea Dogs and Maine Track Club team up with Paradigm Window Solutions and Key Bank to put on the event that raises money for Maine Breast Cancer Research. “It is more than a race,” claims race organizer Howard Spear. “Men run in the race, but this is really about the power of women since it is Mother’s Day. It is also a great family event. Runners, walkers and even people with strollers are welcome to take part.” The 5K starts at 9:15am, but before that, children 12 and under can take part in a free fun run. It is a third of a mile and goes from the Fitzpatrick Stadium track to Hadlock Field. The 5K course starts in front of the Portland Expo building, travels down Congress Street, turns down Stevens Avenue and makes a right onto Brighton Avenue. Then it is back down Deering Avenue into Fitzpatrick Stadium. The race then ends inside Hadlock Field in front of

the third base dugout. “It is a one of kind race,” said Spear. “Slugger and his mother start the race and then we end it right inside the ballpark. The stadium will be open for spectators and the public address announcer calls the end of the race for as many runners as possible.” The race is a fundraisers and a family event, but many runners take part to win. The top male and female finishers will receive a trophy, a pair of Sea Dog’s season tickets for the remainder of the 2011 season, and throw out the first-pitch prior at The Portland Sea Dogs and Maine Track Club team up with Paradigm Window Solutions and Key Bank a future game. The top to put on the event that raises money for Maine Breast Cancer Research. The 11th annual Mother’s three males and females Day 5K Road Race is Sunday. (COURTESY PHOTO) in each age group will land. She usually takes part in triathalons and also be presented with awards. road races to better her time and win. Not in This will be the third time running the Moththis race. Day lost her mother to breast cancer er’s Day 5K Road Race for Sandra Day of Pot25 years ago, so this day and race has taken on a special meaning. “I do this race for her,” said Day who lost her mother when she was just 13-years-old. “I love this event because it is mostly running with the girls, representing motherhood and raising money for a good cause. I really feel an extra bond when all the moms come out.” Day, who is 38-yearsold, will be running with several of her friends this Sunday in a group called “Shejams. “We get together a few times a week and train for races,” said Day. “We also get together in our team jerseys and run in races. It is always more fun when you workout and race with a group.” To say Day won’t be alone this Sunday would an understatement. With nearly 3,000 runners, The Mother’s Day 5K Road Race is the biggest 5K in the state and the second biggest race overall behind Beach to Beacon. Besides all of her running buddies and the other participants, Day knows her mother will be there with her as well, from start to finish. “I do all my running for her,” claimed Day. Maybe that’s why everytime she runs now, it feels like Mother’s Day. Participants of the race will receive a complimentary ticket to attend a future Sea Dogs game