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both classic and skate. Great new single track for snowshoeing. Rental equipment, food, and beverages at the lodge. Nestled on the side of Saddleback Mountain. 864-4309 or xcskirangeley.com Saddleback, Rangeley. 2,000-foot vertical drop, 66 trails, 2 quads, 2 double chairs, 1 T-bar, 85 percent snow-making, lodge, and terrain park. Modern lodge with fieldstone fireplace, pub, food court, coffee bar, and day care. New to Saddleback this year is Casablanca, the largest glade in the East, offering 44 acres of exciting tree skiing, and a new mid-mountain yurt called Kenembago Station to offer warmth, food, and beverage. Family Fun Days January 16 and Mach 13. 864-5671 or 864-3380 (snow info) or saddlebackmaine.com Seacoast Snow Park, Windham. 100-foot vertical drop, carpet lift for 2,000 people per hour, up to 12 lanes of tubing, 100 percent snow-making. Kick back at the bar, arcade, and coffee shop. For hours, call 892-5952 or visit seacoastfunparks.com Shawnee Peak, Bridgton. 1,300-foot vertical drop, 44 trails and glades, 1 quad/2 triple chair/1 double chair/1 carpet, night skiing, 99 percent snowmaking, 400-foot half-pipe, 2 terrain parks. “A new beginner trail off the top of the mountain called Sunset Blvd features spectacular views of Mount Washington and a gentle pitch for skiers and snowboarders of all ability,” says Melissa Rock, director of marketing. 647-8444 or shawneepeak.com Smiling Hill Farm, Westbrook. Over 25 kilometers of trails, snowshoeing, child friendly “with rentals available for children ages 4 and older, hot beverages, ice cream, and snacks,” says Deb Knight. Open seven days a week. 775-4818 or smilinghill.com Spruce Mountain, Jay. 300-foot vertical drop, 11 trails, 3 rope tows, night skiing, cross-country skiing, 50 percent snow-making, and ski classes for all ages. 897-4090 or sprucemountain.org Sugarloaf, Carrabassett Valley. 2,820-foot vertical drop, 138 trails, 4 quads (2 high-speed), 1 triple chair, 8 double chairs, 1 T-bar, 1 magic carpet, crosscountry skiing, 95 percent snow-making, Olympicsize superpipe, completely redesigned terrain parks, tubing park, antigravity complex with skate park, gym, and trampolines. New this season is a new line on Gondola Line Extension and new lines on the superpipe and the Sidewinder Snowboard Cross Course. Children’s Festival Week January 10 to 14. 1.800.THE.LOAF or sugarloaf.com Sunday River, Bethel. 2,340-foot vertical drop, 132 trails, 1 Chondola, 9 quads (4 high-speed)/3 triple chairs/2 double chairs/1 surface, 92 percent snow-making, 4 terrain parks, 1 superpipe, and 1 minipipe. Sunday River celebrates its 50 birthday this winter with a season-long celebration and $3.5 million in capital enhancements. Children’s Festival Week January 11 to 15. Massive spring events like Sunday River’s second annual Dumont Cup, set for March 26-27, keep the party going. 824-3000, 8245200, or sundayriver.com Titcomb Mountain, West Farmington. 340-foot vertical drop, 17 trails, 2 T-bars,1 handle tow, night skiing, 70 percent snow-making, terrain park, and 16 kilometers of groomed nordic trails. 778-9031 or titcombmountain.com

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Music

Bay Chamber Concerts, Rockland, Rockport, and Camden. Bluegrass Jam

Session, January 24; Ralph Stanley and his

Clinch Mountain Boys, January 24; Golden

Dragon Chinese Acrobats, February 13; and DBR and the New Clef Coalition,

March 7. 888-707-2770, 236-2823, or baychamberconcerts.org

Choral Art Society, Portland. At Merrill Auditorium: “Life, Death, Transfiguration,” with the Portland Symphony Orchestra, March 9; and Mozart’s Requiem, with Portland Ballet, March 30. 828-0043 or choralart.org

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Center, 46 Cedar Street, Lewiston.

The Androscoggin Valley Community Orchestra Winter Concert, January 29; Chiharu Naruse with Ben Noyes, January 30; Broadway Melodies, February 20; and Duncan Cumming and the Capital Trio, February 27. 689-2000 or francoamericanheritage.org Maine Center for the Arts, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono. Suzanne Vega, January 24. 5811755 or collinscenterforthearts.com Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell Street, Lewiston. Suzanne Vega, January 22. 786-6135 One Longfellow Square, 181 State Street, Portland. Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade with Chirstabel and the Jons, January 15; Eilen Jewell with Milton, January 16; The Portland Jazz Orchestra, January 21, February 11, and March 25; Aoife Clancy and Robbie O’Connell, January 22; An Evening with Chris Smither, Jaunary 23; An Acoustic Café Evening with Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Sollee, January 26; Grupo Mofongo, January 28; Jonathan Edwards, January 29; Jim Weider’s Project Percolator, January 30; Lucy Kaplansky, February 6; An Evening with Dar Williams, February 12; Robinella, February 16; Cliff Eberhardt, February 19; Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas, February 25; Alash Ensemble Tuvan Throat Singers, February 27; Po’ Girl, March 3; Iris DeMent, March 6; Firefall with Craig Bickhardt, March 18; and Bob Franke, March 20. 761-1757 or onelongfellowsquare.com Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress Street, Portland. The New Deal, January 20; Darien Brahms, January 26; Lady Lamb and the Beekeeper, February 2; Dilly Dilly, February 2; Marie Stella, February 9; Haru Bangs, February 9; Boo Tiddy, February 16; Montroller, February 16; This Way, February 23; Jacob Augustine, March 2; Dreamosaic, March 16; Cyborg Trio, March 16; By Blood Alone, March 23; and Ocean, March 23. 899-4990 or portcitymusichall.com Portland Symphony Orchestra, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle Street, Portland. “Woodwinds: Aesop’s Fables,” January 19; “Head and Heart,” January 24; “Strings: Strings at Sea,” February 10; “Rach and Romance!,” February 16; “Isn’t It Romantic?,” February 20; “Life, Death, Transfiguration,” March 9; and Chris Thile in Concert with the PSO!, March 28. 842-0800, 842-0812 TTY, or portlandsymphony.com Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Road, Brownfield. Suzanne Vega, March 28. 9357292 or stonemountainartscenter.com Women in Harmony, Woodfords Congregational Church, Portland. Winter concert, “Sun, Moon and Stars,” January 23 and 24. wihmaine.org

Dance

Portland Ballet, 517 Forest Avenue, Portland. Mozart’s Requiem, with the Choral Art Society, March 30 at Merrill Auditorium. 772-9671 or portlandballet.org

Theater

Good Theater, at The St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress Street, Portland. “The Spitfire Grill,” January 21 to February 14; and “The Importance of Being Earnest,” March 4 to March 28. 885-5883 or goodtheater.com Portland Stage Company, 25 Forest Avenue, Portland. Maine’s largest, fully professional nonprofit theater, founded in 1974. “The Mystery of Irma Vep,” January 26 to February 21; “The Real McGonagall,” February 18 to March 7; and “Master Harold,” March 2 to March 21. 774-0465 or portlandstage.org The Theater Project, 14 School Street, Brunswick. “Storytelling with Al Miller,” January 23 and March 20; “La Fille at Tess’ Market,” January 22 to February 13; “Wonder of the World,” January 23 to February 14; “Macbeth,” March 12 to 21. 729-8584 or theaterproject.com

By Blood Alone rocks the Arts District at Port City Music Hall on March 23.

Galleries

Abbe Museum, 26 Mount Desert Street, Bar Harbor. Ongoing: “Layers of Time;” “Sieur de Mont;” and Online “Wabanaki Timeline.” 2883519 or abbemuseum.org Art Gallery at UNE, Westbrook College Campus, University of New England, 716 Stevens Avenue, Portland. “Going Forward, Looking Back–Practicing Historic Photographic Processes in the 21st Century,” to January 31; UNE Faculty Exhibition, February 9 to 28; and “Celebrating Women,” opening March 8. 221-4499 or www. une.edu/artgallery Atrium Arts Gallery, University of Southern Maine, Lewiston-Auburn College, Lewiston. “The Inspired Hand IV,” January 19 to March 26, a biennial exhibition of work by members of the Maine Crafts Association with work in ceramics, metal, fiber, stone, wood, and mixed media. 7536500 or usm.maine.edu/lac/art Aucocisco Gallery, 89 Exchange Street, Portland. Works by William Saunders, January; and “Love in a Cold Climate,” February. 775-2222 or aucocisco.com Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston.“Joel M. Babb: The Process Revealed,” to March 26; “Barry Nemett: Drawings from Italy,” to March 26; and “Collection Project 4: Alumni Collections,” to March 27. 786-6158 or bates.edu/museum.xml Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Walker Art Building, Brunswick. “For All the Saints,” to January 10; “8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African America, a Moving Picture by Kara E. Walker,” to February 14; “Basquiat/ Warhol,” to April 4; “In Focus: Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” January 19 to March 14; and “Learning to Paint: American Artists and European Art, 1876-1893,” January 26 to May 16. 725-3275 or bowdoin.edu/art-museum Farnsworth Museum of Art, 16 Main Street, Rockland. “Maine in America” features works by Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, Thomas Eakins, Eastman Johnson, Fitz Hugh Lane, Frank Benson, Childe Hassam, and Maurice Prendergast. Exhibits include “Achieving American Art–American Art Between the Wars,” to January 24; and “Elegantly Attired: Victorian Apparel and Accessories in Coastal Maine,” to April 25. 5966457 or farnsworthmuseum.org Fore Street Gallery, 372 Fore Street, Portland. Gallery group show includes Paul Black, Sylvia Dyer, Claudette Gamache, and Stan Moeller. 8748084 or forestreetgallery.com Galeyrie Fine Art, 190 U.S. Route 1, Falmouth. Gallery artists show, new offerings from the Osher Map Collection and Falmouth Historical Society. Opening presentation of the 1932 Illustrated Map of Maine by Berta and Elmer Hader. 781-3555 or galeyrie.com Greenhut Galleries, 146 Middle Street, Portland. “Olio 2020,” to January 30; Variety Show and side gallery with a.k.a. Sandra Donnelly, Roy Germon, and Lori Tremblay, February 7 to 27; and Glenn Renell, March 4 to 27. 772-2693 or greenhutgalleries.com

Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine

College of Art, 522 Congress Street, Portland. “Exchange,” featuring work by Caitlin Berrigan, Lewis Hyde, Max Gimblett, David Ross, and Deb Todd Wheeler, January 20 to April 11. 775-3052,

(800) 639-4808, or meca.edu June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 122 High Street and 522 Congress Street, Portland. At Congress Street, “From the Inside,” an annual exhibit of work by behind-the-scenes staff at Maine College of Art, to January 23; at High Street, “Six MECA Painters, 10 Years Later,” featuring John Alexander, Matt Cote, John Foddrill, Erica Hansen, Cheryl Johnson, and Elizabeth Prescott, to January 30. 772-1961 (High Street), 699-5083 (Congress Street), or junefitzpatrickgallery.com Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington Street, Bath. Current exhibits include ten acres of ‘09PortlandMagazine 1/6horizontal 4.75X2.375 galleries and exhibits on 25 acres of waterfront, and “Some Burdensome: Big Ships, Big Cargoes,” to June 28. 443-1316 or mainemaritimemuseum.org 2009SummerGuideMaine State Museum, 83 State House Station, Augusta. “Maine Bounty: The People and Resources That Shaped Maine,” “12,000 Years in Maine,” “Made in Maine,” “Struggle for Identity,” and “Maine Gems.” 287-2301 or maine.gov/museum Museum of African Culture, 13 Brown Street, Portland. Ongoing: “Spirit Masks of the Igbo,” a collection of the traditional masks and ritual objects from the nine villages of Obaldemili people of South Eastern Nigeria. Showing currently is “The World of the Dogon” through January. 871-7188 or museumafricanculture.org Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, Portland. “Collage: Piecing it Together,” to February 28; ”Objects of Wonder: Four Centuries of Still Life from the Norton Museum of Art,” February 4 to June 6; and “Division and Discovery: Recent Work by Frederick Lynch,” February 27 to May 16. 7736148 or portlandmuseum.com Susan Maasch Fine Art, 567 Congress Street, Portland. Joseph Begnaud: Paintings; Sean Harris: Photographs, Silver Gelatin, and Digital; and sculpture by all gallery sculptors, January 23 to February 23. 699-2966 or susanmaaschfineart.com University of Maine Museum of Art, 40 Harlow Street, Bangor. “Resonant Places: Paintings by Meg Chase,” “Simple Complexity: Installation and Works by Gerry Stecca,” “Burnt Cove: Watercolors of the Maine Landscape by Gerald Matthew Immonen,” and “BioPermutation: Sculptures by David Isenhour,” January 15 to April 3. 561-3350 or umma.umaine.edu Wiscasset Bay Gallery, 67 Main Street, Wiscasset. “Gallery Selections,” contemporary New England art and recent selections, to March 31. 882-7682 or wiscassetbaygallery.com

Book Readings

Borders Bookstore, 430 Gorham Road, South Portland. Joe Hill reads from Horns, March 9, 7 p.m. 775-6110 or borders.com/online/store/ StoreDetailView_133 Wells Public Library, 1434 Post Road, Wells. Colin Sargent reads from Museum of Human Beings on January 27, 6:30 p.m. 646-8181 or wells.lib.me.us –Compiled By Diane Hudson

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