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Noam Chomsky, who has been incisive in his critiques of the corporatization of public universities, issued a note of support to the movement.

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It’s been a loud couple of weeks at the University of Southern Maine , as slated faculty and department cuts have put the school under a magnifying glass as a national case study in the austerity measures affecting public universities (see “Crisis at USM,” our feature story in last week’s issue). Last Tuesday, a group of USM students drafted an emergency bill, which proposed to study the distribution of funding within the UMaine system as well as place a yearlong moratorium on program and department cuts, retroaclegislative channels Maine Representative Ben Chipman (I-Portland) and #UMainefuture tive to March 1, 2014 coalition members present LR 2883 at the State House last Wednesday. The bill was voted down. through March 1, 2015. But the bill (LR 2883), sponsored by RepresentaThe recent proceedings have also “victory for the protests.” tive Ben Chipman (I-Portland), prompted the New England AmeriYet #USMfuture (and its larger was voted down 6-4 by a legislative can Studies Association, a regional faction, #UMainefuture) are concouncil in Augusta on Thursday, chapter of the American Studies Astinuing to apply pressure, believing preventing it from being further sociation, to issue a public statement the events to be part of a “national considered by the Maine legislature opposing the elimination of USM’s corporate war on higher education” this session. Yet the group appears American and New England Stud(so posted on their organizational unbowed. In a press release, Orono ies (one of three entire departments Facebook page). Bolstered by voices of student and #UMainefuture orgaproposed for cuts last week, along local and national support, the coalinizer Shannon Brennan said, “If with Geosciences and Recreation and tion of faculty, staff, and community they don’t want to make it a legisLeisure Studies), stating “as the only members opposing the austerity lative issue, then we’ll make it an humanities-based graduate program measures in the University of Maine election issue.” north of Boston focusing specifically System are advancing numerous The scenario has caught the aton regional concerns, the loss of this simultaneous efforts, from collecttention of national outlets, as sevprogram will undermine cultural ing signatures for an open letter to eral have weighed in on the budget programs throughout the state of Maine citizens (and legislators) to cuts. Paul Krugman blogged in the Maine” while noting that “these cuts assembling testimonies from former New York Times that the adminisdisproportionately impact women students in support of departments tration “seems eager to downsize and minorities. 85% of students in and faculty slated for elimination liberal arts and social sciences for the ANES program are women, and to holding public rallies for solidarreasons that go beyond money,” 90% of the positions cut at USM are ity with USM faculty — including a while Claire Potter, writing in her held by women and minorities.” march planned for Tuesday, April 8th Chronicle of Higher Education blog, The ongoing resistance efforts at noon at Portland’s City Hall (rain called the USM administration’s (and, doubtless, the widespread date April 10th), and another all day response “truly scary, both in its publicity) have had a modest effect. Friday, April 11th, at the Maine State willingness to accept scarcity logic On Thursday, the USM Office of House in Augusta. as the educational status quo and Public Affairs announced that a “colThey’ve got the city’s attention its desire to impose faculty and laborative faculty and staff process” too. Just before the Phoenix went to staff reductions by intimidation.” resulted in a plan to “save” degree press, Portland mayor Michael BrenEven the likes of public intellectual programs within the Recreation nan announced a press conference Noam Chomsky, who has been inand Leisure Studies department by discussing “the state of the Univercisive in his critiques of the corpointegrating them into the university of Southern Maine as it relates ratization of public universities and sity’s Nursing department, at least to...organizations and the city as a their dismantling of tenure-track temporarily. In a public statement, whole” at City Hall on Wednesday, positions, issued a note of support USM student body vice president April 2 at 1:15 pm. to the movement. Marpheen Chann has declared that a _Nick Schroeder

As Dmitry Yarosh, leader of the Ukrainian ultranationalist group Right Sector, calls for the destruction of Russian pipelines in Ukraine, two rival Islamic groups position themselves to provide Europe with natural gas from the largest natural gas reserve in the world. Iran and Qatar both share portions of this enormous reserve, however, each country relies on pipeline routes to Europe through Syria, who is in the midst of a civil war. The Shia pipeline, as proposed by Iran, would run from the Iranian South Pars gas fields through Iraq and Syria, under the Mediterranean, to Greece. In 2010, an agreement was signed by the participating countries to move forward with the venture. But the civil war in Syria, Al Qaeda-led violence in northern Iraq, and economic sanctions in Syria and Iran continue to make investment in and construction of the pipeline impossible. The Sunni pipeline, as proposed by Qatar and Saudi Arabia, would start at the Qatari North Dome gas fields and cross Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria to Turkey. Syria’s Assad refused to sign on to the project. With funding through Saudi security minister Bandar Bush, the Al Qaeda wing of the Syrian rebels seek to control land along the envisioned Sunni pipeline corridor in northern Syria. It should come as no surprise that Russia and the United States are supporting their respective allies as well as their own national interests in the conflict. Russia has established a naval base in the Syrian port city of Tartous. By partnering with Iran and Syria, Russia will still control the price of natural gas to Europe if the Shia pipeline is built. The Sunni pipeline offers the EU price competition and reduces Turkey’s dependence on Iranian gas. This makes the conflict in Ukraine all the more fortuitous. If Russian pipelines in Ukraine are disrupted by the Right Sector, interrupting the flow of natural gas to Europe, NATO support for an invasion and partition of Syria will be inevitable. So who exactly is the Right Sector — whose decisions impact international energy security? News reports call them members of UNA-UNSO, a far-right nationalist Ukrainian group. Comprised of approximately 1,500 extremist European radicals, the Right Sector employed paramilitary tactics while inciting Ukrainian violence, leading to the overthrow of the pro-Russian Ukrainian government. Rumored to be linked with NATO Special Forces, they have turned up in various anti-Russian campaigns since the fall of the Soviet Union. They have also been linked to German neo-Nazi extremist groups. Victoria Nuland (of “Fuck the EU” fame) from the US State Department and Arizona Senator John McCain met with various members of UNA-UNSO’s leadership in advance of President Barack Obama’s meeting with the Ukrainian interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, also a UNA-UNSO member. It is clear that Russia’s dominance in the European natural gas markets has forced western powers to take provocative measures. It remains to be seen if the west really wants to provoke Russia into taking additional military action in Ukraine, in support of Middle Eastern financial interests and at the expense of the European economic recovery.

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politics + other mistakes We now know what’s to blame for the decrepit condition of Maine’s economy. It’s not taxes, energy prices, unions, welfare or our forefathers’ lack of forethought in locating the state in a remote corner of the nation far from financial, industrial, and cultural centers. You’d think they’d have realized how difficult that was going to make it for their descendants to get highspeed Internet. No matter. Such errors in judgment are of little consequence when compared to our real problem. Fortunately, Republican Governor Paul LePage has identified the culprit. On March 20, LePage was the keynote speaker at the Environmental and Energy Technology Council of Maine’s convention in Hallowell. According to news reports, the governor said a couple of sensible things — and I write those words without the slightest hint of irony. He reiterated his belief that wind power is driving up electricity costs in the state, both because producing energy from huge turbines on formerly pristine mountaintops is inherently inefficient, and also because of the big subsidies the developers of these projects always require. LePage also explained why legislative term limits — forcing members of the state House and Senate to call it quits after eight consecutive years in office — have created a gridlocked Legislature filled with clunkheads with no institutional memory. In both cases, the governor was dead right. But, as has so often happened, LePage’s brief interaction with accuracy was followed by another of his attempts to drive the train where nobody has bothered to lay any tracks. According to the governor, the Legislature is riddled with “young people with firm agendas,” who are

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“hurting us in the long haul.” I’m not one of those given to kneejerk criticism of every ridiculous statement LePage makes. Sometimes, among the mangled syntax, muddled facts, and thoughtless smears, he makes valid points that can, with the proper equipment employed by trained professionals, be extracted from the wreckage. For all I knew, his claim about “young people” could be true. I decided to check it out. I didn’t have to look far to find a youthful legislator who meets LePage’s criteria. A mere 25 years old this week, he has established an agenda every bit as firm as LePage’s faith in his inept commissioner of the dysfunctional Department of Health and Human Services. So committed is this fellow to his platform that his colleagues made him the youngest member of legislative leadership in the country. His name is Alexander Willette of Mapleton, and he’s the assistant Republican leader in the Maine House. Oddly enough, Willette — who, by virtue of being barely out of his formative years, must be “hurting us in the long haul” — agrees with LePage on virtually every major issue. OK, maybe that’s not who the governor had in mind. Let’s check out state Senator Garrett Mason of Lisbon Falls. This misbegotten young person has yet to see his 30th birthday, and his ratings from special interest groups have been remarkably consistent (100 percent from the National Federation of Independent Businesses, 0 percent from the Maine State Employees Association), so he probably totes around one of those “firm agendas.” Which is the same one LePage has. No surprise, since Mason is a member of the GOP’s Tea Party wing. State Representative Ellie Espling

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of New Gloucester doesn’t list her age on her website, but the second-term legislator doesn’t look old enough to remember rotary phones. Likewise, state Representative Stacey Guerin of Glenburn, state Representative Aaron Libby of North Waterboro, state Representative Matthew Pouliot of Augusta, state Representative Corey Wilson of Augusta, and state Senator Michael Thibodeau of Winterport are all on the south side of 50, and all are Republicans. In fact, Thibodeau is the GOP leader in the Senate. It’s to LePage’s credit that he’s exposed these wet-behind-the-ears subversives before they do more damage. Of course, without them in the State House, Democrats would run rampant, but that’s a small price to pay for freeing ourselves from the “firm agendas” of adolescence and their long-term consequences. Actually, it’s remarkable there are so many young Republicans in office, since among voters 18 to 25 years old, just 19 percent are registered in the GOP, while 33 percent signed on with the Dems. Given LePage’s attitude, I don’t imagine the Republican figure will be seeing much improvement in the near future. Just to be fair (for once), I should consider an alternative possibility. Perhaps the trouble with Maine isn’t young people, but rather rigid ideologues of any age. As one critic of the current system put it, “Maine keeps doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. Let’s do something different this time.” That’s from an op-ed written earlier this year by the aforementioned Alexander Willette. Indeed, young whippersnapper, lead on. ^

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its outlook on the journalism landscape is decidedly less bleak than the one published a year ago. “even as challenges of the past several years continue and new ones emerge, the activities this year have created a new sense of optimism — or perhaps hope — for the future of American journalism,” the 2014 report reads. “[t]he level of new activity this past year is creating a perception that something important, perhaps even game-changing, is going on.” contrast that to this passage, from the 2013 study, which described the news industry as: “undermanned and unprepared to uncover stories, dig deep into emerging ones or to question information put into its hands.” this year’s report (the 11th of its kind) highlights the expansion of “digital native sites” that are infusing new money, energy, and tech-savviness into the business of newsgathering. While print newsrooms continue to slash jobs (a depressing 16,200 newspaper positions were lost between 2003-2012), more than 5,000 journalists now hold full-time editorial jobs at almost 500 digital news outlets, the report says, pointing to sites like BuzzFeed (which has a news staff of 170), propublica, mashable, and Vox media. one notable area of digital-only investment is in international reportage, which “comes amid pullbacks in global coverage from mainstream media.” Vice media has 35 overseas bureaus, for example. Online news video is another area experiencing growth, though it’s unclear how this trend will develop over time. of the 63 percent of Americans who watch videos online, 36 percent watch online news videos, many of them young people. Vice, nBc, and the huffington post all invested in digital news video production in 2013. “But a closer look suggests that digital news video does not necessarily have a clear or simple path to becoming a major form of news in the future,” the report’s authors add, citing the high cost of producing good-quality video (not to mention streaming it) as a major challenge. many Americans still get their news from local television, a sector that saw its audiences increase in 2013 for the first time in five years, with viewership increasing in every key time slot. that’s cool, but the picture isn’t entirely rosy. “Almost 300 full-power local tV stations changed hands in 2013, at a cost [of] more than $8 billion,” the report says, putting more stations in the hands of a few large owners. this happened locally last october when the Sinclair Broadcast Group, a maryland-headquartered company that owns the largest number of local television stations in the country, acquired the assets of WpFo-portland (a/k/a myFox23) for $13.6 million. “one measurable impact” of the trend “has been fewer stations originating local news content;” another is the increasingly common practice of sharing news content among stations as well as with other media such as radio or newspapers. While some say these types of content-sharing arrangements give outlets more resources to produce better quality news, others worry that viewers are losing access to independent sources. the report also contained (kind of) good news for my particular sector: circulation for the top 20 alternative weekly newspapers (a list that does not include the portland phoenix) declined again in 2013, but at a slower pace (6 percent) than in 2012 (8 percent) or 2011 (14 percent). F Speaking of digital news organizations... Upworthy cofounder and maine native eli pariser will give a talk at 4 pm this Friday, April 4 at the University of new england’s portland campus (visit une.edu for more details). in march, the media site announced “content partnerships” with human rights Watch, climate nexus, and propublica — two advocacy organizations and an online investigative journalism operation, respectively — through which they will more deeply cover human rights, climate change, and income inequality issues. here’s how Upworthy framed it in a blog post: “We don’t think it’s quite enough to promise to bring more attention to these topics: We’re also proud to announce we’re teaming up with some experts in these fields to get the coverage just right.” A revolutionary time, indeed. ^

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_B y l a n c e t ap l e y As I finished writing this article, Michael called me from Riverview. “I couldn’t stand it no more,” he said in an anguished voice. “I kept asking them, but they friggin’ wouldn’t talk to me, so I cut an artery — the same place, in my arm. They took me to the emergency room. I had to have forty stitches.” Michael said he now had someone to talk with all the time, one-on-one. Michael James is a very mentally ill man whom the Riverview Psychiatric Center wants to send back to the Maine State Prison, where he still has to serve nine years for burglary, robbery, and assault. The director of the State Forensic Service, a psychologist, says Michael’s fundamental problem is that he makes bad choices, so he can’t be treated. Deeply scarred on his left arm and on — and inside — his head, Michael vividly illustrates in one man the inhumane failure in Maine and the nation of both the public mental-health and the prison systems, which over 35 years have merged in their role of containing the unruly poor. Michael, 31, has spent most of his life in the custody of one or the other system. It’s universally accepted that legislatures and Congress never provided adequate funding for community mental-health care, which was supposed to replace the old “snake pit” mental hospitals. Instead, prodigious funding was provided for prisons and jails as their inmates skyrocketed in numbers, many of them mentally ill. The Maine Department of Corrections once said 40 percent of prisoners took psychotropic medicine and 85 percent were mentally ill or drug addicts. The trend continues: the Legislature is now considering a nearly-$5-million cut in funds for community mental-health agencies. The state’s chief mental hospital, Riverview, in Augusta, operated by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), saw its budget shrink by $2 million from 2009 to 2012. And then last fall it lost $20 million a year in federal funding — half its budget — because of inadequacies in patient treatment and staff and patient safety. Now the criminalization of the indigent mentally ill in the county jails (those who can’t make bail) has gone so far that they can be sent directly to prison, if they act out enough, even before being convicted of a crime. Last year the Legislature expanded the state prison’s Mental Health Unit to receive this population and others who create jail disturbances. And in the current legislative session, several Democratic leaders even sponsored a bill that would have allowed the state to send “civil” mentally ill people — in no way involved with the criminaljustice system — to a jail mental-health ward. It was killed after an outcry from civil-liberties advocates. In the early 1800s and for centuries earlier, asylums and prisons were undifferentiated. They contained a hideous mix of criminals, the insane, the homeless poor, prostitutes, and the otherwise deviant. As

michael james a recent mugshot from Kennebec county Jail. the century progressed, Dorothea Dix, of Hampden, Maine, became internationally famous for separating out care for the insane and for treating them as mentally ill. But American society has been returning to the old system. In Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dorothea Dix is turning over and over in her grave.

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I met Michael James in late 2005 in the Maine State Prison, in Warren. A fiercelooking but blue-eyed, handsome young man, he was doing time for petty robbery and burglary (a 12-year sentence) and assaults on prison guards (three years). I was beginning what turned into a long-running investigative series on prison abuse in Maine and elsewhere (120 articles so far). I focused first on the long-term solitary confinement in the Maine prison’s usually-full, 100-cell Special Management Unit or “Supermax.” Mind-destroying, lengthy isolation was — and still is — common in prison systems all over the country. Prolonged solitary I described as torture, which increasingly is the word used for it by human-rights groups and the United Nations. (For my Phoenix prison series, go to: thephoenix.com/maine-prisons.) Other prisoners told me Michael was the Supermax’s most-tortured inmate. Hard-bitten felons practically begged me to do something about the cruelty Michael suffered. He had spent three and a half years in isolation by the time I inter-

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viewed him through a Plexiglas window. He had been put into solitary, he said, for threatening to kill himself. His fellow Supermax inmates believed Michael held the record — five in one day — for “cell extractions,” which were, in essence, officially approved beatings inflicted by a SWAT-like team on disobedient prisoners. They were pepper-sprayed, yanked from their cells, stripped naked, and strapped into the “restraint chair,” where they might remain for many hours. Joseph Ponte, who became Corrections commissioner in 2011 and sharply reduced solitary confinement, also showed that these extractions were unnecessary. He all but banned them, and chaos did not result. Ponte was recently chosen to institute similar reforms as head of New York City’s jails. In his solitary cell, Michael cut himself, smashed his head against the wall, and threw feces at guards — typical symptoms of human beings forced into long-term isolation. By 2005 the prison had charged him with 10 feces assaults on guards — felonies — and hauled him into court. Fifty years could have been added to his sentence. But his lawyer — Joseph Steinberger, of Rockland — convinced a jury in 2006 that Michael was not criminally responsible because of insanity. As required, the judge committed him to Riverview’s forensic section, which confines mental patients involved with the criminal-justice system. State officials were shocked by this verdict — the first of its kind — and refused to send him to the hospital until he had finished his sentence. A long legal battle took place. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court finally said Michael had to go to Riverview, but his time there wouldn’t count against his sentence. He could be sent back to prison, the court said, if he was cured of violent tendencies or found “not amenable to treatment.” Even though a Riverview psychiatrist testified in a court hearing in 2011 that Michael was a “garden-variety” patient, and even though the state admits his actions “have improved significantly in the hospital setting,” the state is now arguing that he should be returned to prison because he has incurable “antisocial personality disorder” — among his many other diagnoses. Michael and his court-appointed attorney, Hank Hainke, are fighting the state’s petition. They and his foster parents believe that putting him back in prison would be very bad for him — and dangerous for people at the prison. If he is allowed to stay at Riverview, he hopes somehow, at some point, to receive a commutation of his sentence. Even if that happened, he couldn’t be released from DHHS custody until a judge agreed. In the past state experts have expressed fears about what would happen if Michael were returned to prison — such as Ann LeBlanc, the forensic service director (“In prison he wouldn’t do well”). Now she is among those lining up to support the

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Michael could go weeks or months without problems, but then came the savage outbursts.

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When he was delivered to Riverview in mid-2007 from the torment of the Supermax, Michael seemed almost ecstatic. But he did not stay happy. In December, 2007, his assertive voice on my answering machine wanted me to report on “the abuse that we receive in here and the negativity and the trauma that some of us go through on a regular basis. Thank you and have a great holiday season.” The hospital’s records (which Michael gave me access to) show that he often threatened others and threatened to commit suicide. They also note his head banging and diagnoses of intermittent explosive disorder and antisocial personality disorder. Between 2008 and 2010 he spent several periods of months at a time in jail and prison stemming from assaults and property destruction. “I don’t even know why I hit the staff I did,” he told me at one point. The notes on Michael also reveal him to be — mixed with his fierce demands — open, polite, well-spoken, and even “jovial.” In 2011, he acted much better under the influence of Clozaril, an antipsychotic drug. He successfully petitioned the court to leave Riverview to go on supervised shopping trips, to Planet Fitness, and to ball games in Portland. The judge, Donald Marden, remarked in court that Michael was believed to be impossible to treat, “but they’ve kept right at it,” congratulating hospital staff and Michael. Justice Marden also observed that the prison’s tools to treat Michael are “counterproductive.” But Michael’s behavior deteriorated. Last December he threatened Riverview staff members with a chain wrapped around his fist. He wound up hurting only himself, cutting his arm and slamming his head hard against a door. He called me a few days later, saying “my brain is really messed up.” He was fined $200 for the threats.

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By all accounts, Michael’s youth in the many institutions that held him was a nightmare — for him and for those taking care of him. Besides Jackson Brook, he spent time at Spurwink in Brunswick, a residential treatment center. Reports say he ran away, broke windows, and assaulted a staff person — the latter act sending him to the Maine Youth Center for a stretch. He spent several years at a Massachusetts home for severely disturbed youngsters, where he reportedly broke a staff person’s nose, but he also did well in school, a “model for his peers,” as a report reads. At 17, he was at a mentalhealth center in New Hampshire, where he is reported to have punched and bit staff members and experienced “intense sadness, anger.” In 2000 he left a Spring Harbor stay for the Labontes, after being taken off all his medications, he told me in one of our talks at Riverview. On December 29, when he turned 18, he was free of DHHS custody. In January he asked Robin if he could visit her. “But he never came back after that,” Judy said. He quickly got in with a small-timecriminal, druggie crowd on the streets of Lewiston. He told me he didn’t know “how to survive in society.” It only took weeks before he was arrested for snatching a purse, helping other youths break into a car, and robbing a $55 check from a mentally disabled man, using a cigarette lighter shaped like a gun. The victim couldn’t say if Michael was the one who roughed him up. From the beginning Michael admitted everything, and he pleaded guilty. Justin Leary, his attorney, told the judge that he couldn’t offer an alternative to incarceration. He said there was no room for Michael at the Augusta Mental Health Institute (AMHI), which Riverview replaced a few years later. His DHHS caseworker, Kelly Davis, wrote the court: “I would urge for Michael to be put in a secure, staff-intensive facility, perhaps a psychiatric facility, for the duration of his life.” But the judge, Superior Court Justice Robert Crowley, concluded at the sentencing: “He has had all that we have to offer as a society. It’s unfortunate that we don’t have more.” Michael’s sentence of 12 years in prison was extraordinarily stiff for his crimes — especially, for an 18-year-old. “I’m sad to say,” Crowley announced, “that I think

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and now newly appointed as acting commissioner of the Corrections Department, mentioned the “massive influx” of mentally ill people into Maine’s prisons. Not only has this national trend manifested itself in Maine because of the inadequacy of community mental-health treatment, but also because of the widely recognized inadequacy — the small size, the staff shortages and turnover, the mismanagement — of Riverview. It has only 92 beds, half for forensic patients. For more than two decades, after a suit brought by AMHI patients, the courts have tried to force the state to improve its mental-health care — without, critics would say, much success. Now federal authorities are trying to force the state to clean up its act at Riverview by withholding the $20 million, which Maine taxpayers would have to make up. And state inadequacy is blatantly behind the request to send Michael back to prison. As Michael put it, “They wanted a bed” freed up. A letter to the court from Assistant Attorney General Katherine Greason states: “Every patient who unnecessarily remains at Riverview represents a defendant whose time in jail is extended as he or she waits for a hospital bed to become available.” As the county sheriffs constantly complain, the jails are bursting with mentally ill inmates. If Riverview can get rid of its most disruptive patients, it would be easier for the state to tell the feds the hospital is doing better — and, please, give us the $20 million back. Deficient care in the ward for difficult forensic patients was a big cause of the loss of funds. That’s where Michael spends much of his time. In a hearing last November, Justice Marden, who was the trial judge when Michael was found not criminally responsible for the assaults on prison guards, found a contradiction, a circular logic, in what the state said in 2006 about Michael and what it’s saying now. Eight years ago the state argued that, before getting psychiatric care, Michael should complete his sentence at the prison because it could always send him to Riverview on an emergency basis. But now, Marden noted, “Riverview is saying he’s not amenable” to treatment, so he should go to the prison. The judge adjourned the hearing until he could hear, he said, how Michael would be dealt with at the prison. A personality disorder, which the state says Michael has, is usually deeply ingrained, often demonstrated by disruptive behavior, and — within and without the psychiatric profession — controversial. But the profession recognizes that personality disorders are serious mental illnesses and that they can be amenable to treatment. “We treat people with personality disorders who are probably as ill as anyone we have,” said Robert Anderson, a psychiatrist at Kennebec Behavioral Health, a community mental-health agency, at the Augusta forum last fall. Personality disorders, though, are not easily responsive to drugs. And if treatment works, it often includes a lot of psychotherapy. In other words, personality disorders are expensive illnesses to treat. Prisoner advocates say that, because of the expense, corrections systems use personality-disorder diagnoses to deny or

michael as a child in home photos provided to the Phoenix.

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reduce prisoner mental-health care. That is part of a “diagnosis game,” said Alan Mills, an attorney at the Uptown People’s Law Center in Chicago and, nationally, a leading prisoner advocate. Here’s an example of what could be called a diagnosis game: the law establishing Maine’s expanded state-prison Mental Health Unit — now 32 cells, up from 16 — was designed to take from the county jails their most-disruptive mentally ill inmates. But the law specifically excludes from the unit people who have personality disorders. Joseph Fitzpatrick told me this is to ensure that these numerous inmates won’t take up all the space. The drafters of the bill, he said, wanted the unit’s beds reserved for patients who could be more easily treated with drugs.

what Michael faces

If Michael is sent back to prison because Riverview doesn’t want to treat his personality disorder, and if the prison Mental Health Unit prefers not to treat personality disorders, his fate in prison would not be promising. The Maine State Prison is dangerous. Two inmates have been killed in the last year. One murder was of a man in the Mental Health Unit by another inmate-patient. He allegedly had assaulted another patient in the unit a few months before. Here’s more game-playing: last year Corrections covered up the fact that that murder had taken place in the Mental Health Unit, even keeping it from Criminal Justice Committee members weighing the bill that the Legislature overwhelmingly approved to expand the unit. (See “Legislators kept in dark about Mental Health Unit murder,” by Lance Tapley, November 14, 2013.) In the most recent prison homicide, in February, a mentally ill inmate in a regular cellblock was accused of beating and repeatedly stabbing another inmate, and he was able to take his time doing so. The typical prison supervision ratio is one correctional officer to 80 prisoners. To put it mildly, Michael’s inability to

control himself — occasional violent outbursts, many threats of violence, bullying — would not go over well with prisoners or guards. After his return to Riverview from a period in the prison, a psychiatric assessment notes: “His stay there was tumultuous and included episodes of self-injurious behavior, suicidality, and periods of time on both the Mental Health Unit and in administrative segregation.” Larry Labonte warned, “If he has to go back to prison he will die there.” He believed Michael will either kill himself or his outbursts will get him killed — or he’ll kill somebody, Judy feared. Despite the new Mental Health Unit’s reluctance to deal with personality disorders, Michael could be put into it. Now called the Intensive Mental Health Unit or IMHU, it’s a big step up from the old unit, corrections officials say. Fitzpatrick wowed a congratulatory legislative Forensic Mental Health Services Oversight Committee in February when he described its “therapeutic” atmosphere, with a staff of 16, including five mental-health technicians, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, and three social workers. “The people who struggle with mental illness are excited about it,” he told legislators. But Charlie Miles, a Riverview patient who recently spent a couple of weeks at the new unit, is not excited about its ability to provide actual treatment. According to Miles, the mental-health technicians are not qualified mental-health workers, so “they can’t give you advice.” There’s not much group therapy — just card games, movies, and the like. No trips outside for shopping, ball games, and museums, as provided at Riverview. It’s much more restrictive than Riverview, he said in a telephone interview. A big problem, he said, is that if there’s trouble in the adjacent administrative-segregation section — solitary confinement — IMHU inmates are locked into their cells. Their staff has to be sent next door to tackle the trouble. And when medications are passed out three times a day, he said, lock-downs also occur.

Creek Youth Development Center after big budget cuts saw staff numbers reduced. As for Riverview, in December its patient advocate, Jay Harper, told the Health and Human Services Committee that violent incidents there resulted from not enough staff and under-trained staff. Harper became acting Riverview superintendent in March when Mary Louise McEwen was fired after she wasn’t able to regain the $20 million the feds pulled. (Harper recently told me that the problem of under-trained staff had been solved by the hiring of “acuity specialists.”)

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In the 2001 court testimony, statements were made by all sides that prison was a bad choice for Michael. But he was sent there, and it turned out to be a terrible choice. Torture awaited him. So here’s what could be the biggest absurdity in this story: let’s say Michael goes back to prison and survives his sentence. He then faces two years of probation; if he hasn’t improved a great deal, he’ll quickly violate it and serve two more years in prison. If he survives that, he’ll then it’s always MoNey be on the street, on his own, completely. The Labontes imagine the ideal environIf prison turns him into a monster, he’ll ment for Michael: a guarded working have free reign to act like one. farm. “If you had a chore, he’d do it,” Case in point: at the Supermax, MiJudy said. He also needs “normal people” chael’s cell was across the corridor from around him, she added. At Michael’s 2001 sentencing, Judy told that of Michael Woodbury, another menthe judge, “He came home to me and there tally ill man who spent a long time in solitary confinement. In 2007, soon after was just no program available, and that, Woodbury’s release from prison, he shot I think, is the problem.” At that hearing, Michael testified that he wanted to be in a and killed three men in a bungled New Hampshire robbery. Before his release he program “where I can actually learn how had given a “manifesto,” as he called it, to to be in society.” a prison mental-health worker, predicting Programs? They cost money. he “was going to crack like this.” A lot of state money has been spent The Corrections Department and thenon prisons, but mostly for buildings and Governor John Baldacci’s office washed guards, not much on therapeutic, educatheir hands of responsibility. In so many tional, and vocational programs, as high words, the governor’s office said Woodrecidivism rates bear witness. And now even prison budgets are being slashed. The bury had made bad choices. Donald Beauchene, a thoughtful foMaine State Prison’s budget was cut by rensic patient at Riverview, worries that $9.6 million from 2009 to 2012. Recently, the prison IMHU “will strengthen in the violence rose at South Portland’s Long public the perception of the mentally ill as criminals.” But the public may have already regained that nineteenth-century perception. Few are protesting the criminalization of the mentally ill. “At his core there’s a decent person trying to cope with this mental illness,” said Joe Steinberger, Michael’s former lawyer, adding: “Mike James needs what the world is least likely to give him: love. Without that he will not survive. The state is not a very good deliverer of that commodity.” Love may be too much to ask from the state — from the public, from us. But is it too much to ask for humane, even generous care? Maybe that would be enough to save Michael, enough to protect us from him, and enough to give us back some humanity. ^

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“My only way to deal with stress is to hurt myself,” he said. But when he stabbed himself 60 times with a pen that he got from a guard, his destination was solitary confinement, “which makes things worse.” (The Corrections Department didn’t reply by deadline to a request for comments on Miles’s criticisms.) The IMHU is, of course, set within a prison. “People who should be in a hospital should be in a hospital,” commented Zach Heiden, of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, on prison mentalhealth care, in an interview last fall. Senator Margaret Craven, the Democrat who chairs the Health and Human Services Committee, said in a recent email that people with personality disorders should be treated at a psychiatric hospital. The IMHU is not even technically a hospital. A spokesperson for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — the outfit that defunded Riverview — told me CMS wouldn’t monitor the treatment of patients at the prison unit since “uncertified facilities fall outside the scope of CMS.”

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WORD UP | Don’t miss one of Portland’s best monthly literary events, held the first Monday of every month at LFK: Word Portland, a reading series featuring writers at all stages of their processes. This month, a/k/a tonight, there will be poetry and prose from playwright and fiction writer Jenny Smick, poet Ethan Stebbins, and novelist Emily Young, who is a co-founder of the series. 9 pm. 188a State St, Portland. 207.899.3277.

tuEsday 8 HASHTAG ENGAGEMENT | This afternoon, students For #usmFuture will host a solidarity march through downtown Portland, an opportunity for anyone in Southern Maine to show their support for the students, staff, and faculty at USM who have recently been heavily affected by last month’s announced program cuts and faculty layoffs. (See Nick Schroeder’s update on page 4.) All participants will march to “ensure human rights to education, healthcare, housing, food and a healthy environment.” Starts with a noon rally in Monument Square; professors who cannot attend are urged to hold midday classes in Congress Square Park, along the march route. Find out more at facebook.com/studentsforusmfuture.

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learning to hear, and listen the struggle to find one’s triBe at Psc _BY meg a n g rum B l in g Though deaf from birth, Billy (Garrett Zuercher) has been raised by his hearing family as a man without a handicap. His parents were adamant that he neither learn to sign nor identify as “deaf,” and now he’s a bang-up lip-reader. But he becomes less sure about who he is, and to whom he belongs, when he falls for a woman who’s growing deaf, herself. The vicissitudes of identity and community are difficult negotiations in Nina Raine’s drama Tribes, dynamically directed by Christopher Grabowski for Portland Stage Company. This vivid, sometimes profanely comedic drama concerns not just the tribe of the deaf, but the tribal instincts of family itself, and the sentiments that can, no matter the language, be lost in translation. The high-decibel dissonance of a tuning orchestra prefaces our first look at the rancorous dynamics of Billy’s intellectual British family: conversations are breakneck, combative, and usually shouted between his critic father Christopher (Michael Sean McGuinness), novelist mother Beth (Eliza-

beth West), would-be opera singer sister Ruth (Portland’s own fine comic actress Kat Moraros), and not-quite academic brother Dan (Matthew Stuart Jackson) — all of whom are living in one house. They stomp around their spacious kitchen (Rohit Kapoor’s elegant design) yelling epithets about circumcision, opera, porn, the critical worth of Ruth’s writer crush, and who is or isn’t a cunt or sucking cocks. As all this comes to a crescendo of voices, our focus shifts cinematically to Billy at the end of the table, reading, peacefully outside this defining verbal element of his family’s identity. In contrast, Billy’s first meeting with Sylvia (Kate Finch), in the chic anteroom of a deaf community event reception, is quiet, sensitive, and simpatico. Their chemistry is immediate in the hands of Zuercher and Finch, who navigate with wit and sympathy as they communicate in a mix of signing, Billy’s indistinct, consonant-stricken speech, and outright silences. Though sarcastic like his family, Sylvia is — has to be, on account of her deafness — more watch-

ful, and understands Billy in a way his relatives cannot. But family difficulties ensue. Chris is adamantly against signing, and Dan, recently dumped, is at once jealous of his brother’s romantic happiness and protective, lest Billy be taken from their family and its ways. Thus, Billy comes to rethink his own role in the tribe that raised him. That family’s bellicose ways are drawn big, but they ring true. Moraros and Jackson, both a delight in their snarky sibling comedy, also convincingly convey the complicated blend of love, competition and possessiveness that consumes them as siblings. Jackson’s haunted Dan is especially hamstrung by the complex impulse at once to define and be defined by his brother. Finch’s clarion, kind Sylvia provides a striking catalyst for Billy and his family, and her physical grace offers a contrast both to their histrionics and to what they think they know about language. When Chris baits Sylvia about the linguistic inferiority of signing, she is challenged into some remarkable signings of idiomatic

profanities, and then, at Dan’s behest, a breathtaking translation of a poem. Subtle multi-media elements in Tribes offer a thoughtful sense of the differences in how these characters communicate. Supertitles projected above the stage frequently display translations of Sylvia’s signing, of Billy’s voice, and — most disarmingly — of what has been communicated when neither character has said anything in any formal language. As turns out, no language is truly enough. Raine’s script covers an impressive amount of ground on some of our most fundamental questions about the nature and value of language, and how we are defined by those we are given or choose. Ultimately, this beautiful production of Tribes is a wise and uncommon exploration of how we try, fail, and can learn to hear each other. ^

TRIBES | by Nina Raine | directed by Christopher Grabowski | produced by Portland Stage Company, through April 13 | 207.774.0465 or portlandstage.org

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Battle of the eXes at Portland PlaYers _BY mega n grum B l ing Ah, our first loves — how passionate, how rash, how infuriating. Good thing we move on into mature, responsible relationships. But oh, if only these later romances had quite the chemistry of the first. Noël Coward puts his characteristically cynical spin on what happens when two exes happen upon each other anew — during their honeymoons with new spouses — in a very winning community theater production of the farce Private Lives. Claudia Hughes directs a vibrant production as part of the 83rd season of The Portland Players. On tastefully appointed terraces in the south of France, Elyot (Charlie Cole) and Amanda (Rebecca Cole) are all maturity and measure with their new spouses: Elyot with his young, insecure Sibyl (Katie Lynn Mcdowell) and Amanda with her milquetoast Victor (Jaimie Schwartz). Blasé and worldly, they humor curiosity about their disastrous former marriage, and how it compares to the new. “I love you much more calmly,” Rebecca indulges Victor, with only a whiff of boredom. In Hughes’s well cast production, the jaded exes pose entertaining contrasts to their new partners. McDowell’s needy innocence, girlish good looks, and selfrighteously clear smile are the essence of vanilla against Amanda’s deadpan, matter-

love/HATe charlie and rebecca cole, married in real life, portray rancor on stage. of-fact flippancy and her unconventional beauty, with her hair done in close golden waves and her withering Bette Davis eyes. Where McDowell’s Sibyl spills her heart’s truth with high-pitched candor, Rebecca

Cole’s Amanda delivers both repartee and lies with flashing eyes and a shrug. As for the men, Schwartz’s taut build and uptight carriage speak the world of difference between him and Cole’s Elyot, with his caddish floppiness of hair, suit, and limbs and the snarky set of his mouth. Is it any wonder that Amanda and Elyot make out right there on the terrace? Rebecca Cole and Charlie Cole are married in real life, and their chemistry is at once ardent and comfortable, with verisimilitude in a lot of nuances that acted couples often overdramatize. The tension of their first reunion is blessedly free of physical histrionics — the most visible sign of their affliction is troubled breathing. Later, alone in Amanda’s Paris flat (a beautiful, breezily bohemian set), they show a satisfying understanding of how spousal hellfire can spiral from petty moments of boredom, and they do an excellent job navigating each arc of the couple’s incessant, extreme reversals of affection. This is especially fun to watch in their self-imposed two-minute silences to restore the peace, which showcase great physical work, in lovely little compositions of crossings and turnings toward and away each other, which finally soften into relenting laughter. And the couple’s

moments of happiness are supremely sensual and familiar, entwined on a loveseat in an intimate silken tangle. How could Sybil and Victor stand a chance? Production designers, too, have put a lot of energy into drawing the contrast between the couples. Not only do the two locales differ greatly on the color wheel — the soft greys and greens of the hotel terrace against the clementine-red of Amanda’s flat — but the lighting shifts drastically, from cool blue gels to an almost surreally orange warmth. Costumes are stunning throughout; Amanda, particularly, looks drop-dead gorgeous in her glittering cream and black dressing gown and robe; and Elyot’s silk PJs are a louche Brit’s dream. The one production area that needs a tweak is sound (the amplified orchestral refrains often overpower the actors), but overwhelmingly this play and its performers are lovely to look at. That its characters behave in such a deliciously unlovely manner is the pleasure of Coward, and Portland Players allows us plenty of merry, vicarious venom. ^

PRIVATE LIVES | by Noël Coward | directed by Claudia Hughes | produced by The Portland Players, in South Portland, through April 6 |207.799.7337 or portlandplayers.org

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If Believe, the debut full-length from Ghost of Paul Revere, seemed like a haymaker in the scrap for local roots vocal supremacy, then Tumbling Bones, with the brand-new Loving a Fool, prove they can take one on the chin and give what-for in their own right. Of course, such competitions are the constructs of music writers with too much time on their hands, but it’s fun to imagine the two bands going toe-to-toe. Both take immense care with their harmonic construction, arranging their varied voices to emphasize dynamic range in ways that go beyond the standard formula of joining along for the chorus. Each band threw opening jabs with an early and promising EP. Now Tumbling Bones have followed Ghost’s release earlier this year with a full-length debut of their own, equally impressive in its construction and execution. But whereas Ghost lean contemporary with their roots, Bones go much more traditional, inspired by well-formed old-Nashville and bluegrass songwriting. In fact, they go so far as to include a Bill Monroe/Bessie Lee Maudlin tune, “Voice from on High,” that they recorded to sound like it’s issuing from an old cabinet radio, around which a family might have gathered in the days when there wasn’t much else to do after dark. And it sounds sorta crappy, to tell the truth, like being old-timey just for oldtimey’s sake. Most of the time, though, the band succeed in mining traditional songs and affectations without coming off too precious. Maybe the best indication of this is that they bounce back and forth

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between standards and their own works seamlessly. Those of you who listen to albums front to back might notice that Kyle Morgan handles vocals and songwriting on the odd songs to open: one, three, five, and seven. Even employed in different stylistic approaches, his voice is hard to miss, like Rufus Wainwright’s, but with more of a shit-eating grin. “Broken Things,” the opener, is a stand-out, with standard turnaround construction that’s warmly familiar and a flawed protagonist: “A wilted flower, a soiled gown/ She don’t have many unbroken vows.” If they sound a bit like the Tricky Britches at times, it’s no surprise. They mine the same general back catalog and employ the Britches’ Tyler Leinhardt on the fiddle. On “Broken Things” he’s in unison with Jake Hoffman’s banjo, while on Rotten Belly Blues’ “Money Is for Spending” he trades licks with the electric guitar, introducing the first instrumental break and finishing off the second. In between, Chris Connors and Tim Findlen rise up the percussion with hand claps and shaker in a way that augments the grit of the electric and is mostly noticeable for the void it leaves when it drops away. It’s the same kind of gypsy-jazz vibe that The Burners exude and that the Bones also ply on the minor-fueled “How They’re Rolling,” where Peter Winne just carves the song up with a bracing harmonica. Winne’s writing contribution is much more mellow, though. “This Time Last Year” is like Elvis doing “Blue Christmas” — just a little bit goofy, but with an edge provided by Findlen’s saw near the finish.

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an inspiRed TRiO tumbling bones, currently on tour, will return to Portland for a show at one longfellow Square on July 26. It certainly has the feel of a Ringo track on a Beatles album. The title track, a waltz with a brushed snare to emphasize the time signature, seems more fully in the Bones wheelhouse, with just a flavor of contemporary indie delivery. Morgan gives it a touch of Brit-pop when he draws “fool” into two and three syllables, even while Findlen makes his uke sound an awful like a trad bluegrass mandolin. Really, there’s not much they get wrong, but my taste tends toward their more hardcharging takes. The two-minute “Bound to Ride” is pitch-perfect, with a rolling banjo and just the right wild abandon in the vocals, similar to the way Dark Hollow Bottling Company (RIP) nailed their “Kick-

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30-minute invincibility F We could not help but notice how quickly the feelings of invincibility washed over us while listening to tR!ll!ON$, a new electronic beat tape released by the dJ GOd.damn.Chan. it feels great — often in ways we necessarily can’t put into words. All 29 minutes lurch along in Alist style, whether via the big swirling synths of “Stutterer Shutterer,” the hiccupy funk of “notAtdinnerrrr,” or the barebones crew anthem of “KoolAsKimchi.” particularly love the way this dude does drops. he doesn’t just knock out the whole structure of the beat; he lets you feel it crumble and decay. We only wish we had the mc

ing My Dog Around” with Jim White on the lead vocals. And the Dixie-flavored “Just Because” is the kind of thing Hot Club of Cowtown does so well, bringing an old line like “just because you think you’re so pretty/ Just because you think you’re so hot” right back to the present day. The bad news in all of this is that Tumbling Bones just played a little farewell show at Portland & Rochester before they left on a tour that will take them across the country and across the pond, returning them to Portland for a show in late July at One Longfellow. I suggest you pencil that into your calendar. ^

capacities to step out in front of this swagger. even “Sneezus,” a track in fitting with the ugly production values of the Kanye record, shows chan able to clarify styles that aren’t necessarily his, layering a sustained gross bass tone with weirdo synth bombs and jittery clicks and clacks. recommended: goddamnchan.bandcamp.com. F the man KRis ROdGeRs dropped a new ep of his narrative driven piano pop last week, a solid seven tracks of drippingly earnest, ironyfree major-key melodies and heart-wrenching subjectivity titled Whiskey and Soda. it’s roughly half covers — one of them the Billy Joel preacher

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COMEDY THURSDAY 3

JORDAN HANDREN-SEAVEY + CONNOR MCGRATH + AHARON WILLOWS-HEBERT | 8 pm | Guthrie’s, 115

Middle St, Lewiston | 207.376.3344

FRIDAY 4

DARWIN’S WAITING ROOM: “COMICALITY,” SKETCH COMEDY | Fri-Sun

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Fri-Sat 8 pm; Sun 7 pm | Players’ Ring, 105 Marcy St, Portsmouth, NH | $12, $10 seniors | 603.436.8123 or www. playersring.org

“FIRST FRITURDAY NIGHT LIVE,” STAND-UP COMEDY SERIES | 6:30 pm

SATURDAY 5

DARWIN’S WAITING ROOM: “COMICALITY,” SKETCH COMEDY | See listing for Fri

JEFF MUSICAL ANIMAL SHOW | 11

am | South Portland High School, 637 Highland Ave, South Portland | $15-20 | 207.767.3266 or www.spsd.org

“LAUGHS FOR AFRICA” WITH LAMONT PRICE + ANDREW MAYER + REV. JAMES CHRISTIE + SEAN CLARKE | all proceeds go to the Afri-

can Hope Network | 8 pm | Porthole Restaurant, 20 Custom House Wharf, Portland | $20 | 207.773.4653 or portholemaine.com

SUNDAY 6

“COMEDYPALOOZA SHOWCASE,” WITH TIM HOFMANN + SAM PELLETIER + JAKE JACOBSON + MARK TURCOTTE + DOUG COLLINS + BRYCE HANSON + MIKE O’BRIEN | 8 pm | Big

Easy, 55 Market St, Portland | $2.50-3 | 207.894.0633 or www.bigeasyportland.com OPEN MIC | 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

MONDAY 7

COMEDY OPEN MIC | 8 pm | Big Easy,

55 Market St, Portland | 207.894.0633 or www.bigeasyportland.com

WEDNESDAY 9

“COMEDY NIGHT,” WITH JAY GROVE | 9 pm | Cara Irish Pub & Restaurant, 11 Fourth St, Dover, NH | 603.343.4390 OPEN MIC | 6 pm | Union House Pub & Pizza, North Dam Mill, 2 Main St, 18230, Biddeford | 207.590.4825

“PORTLAND COMEDY SHOWCASE,” PERFORMERS TBA | 8 pm | Bull

Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | $5 | 207.773.7210

THURSDAY 10

“A NIGHT OF STAND UP COMEDY,” WITH SAMUEL BENNETT, ET AL. |

7:30 pm | Players’ Ring, 105 Marcy St, Portsmouth, NH | $12, $10 seniors | 603.436.8123 or www.playersring.org

CONCERTS

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CLASSICAL SATURDAY 5

HANDEL & HAYDN SOCIETY | 3 pm |

SUNDAY 6

ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON | 2 pm

449 Forest Avenue, PortlAnd | 207.797.3366

| Bowdoin College, Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.798.4141

ST. PETERSBURG STRING QUARTET | 7 pm | University of New Hampshire Celebrity Series, Paul Creative Arts Center, 30 Academic Way, Durham, NH | $30 | 603.862.2290 or unh.edu/pcac

WEDNESDAY 9

AMERNET STRING QUARTET | 7:30

pm | Bowdoin College, Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.798.4141

WEDNESDAY 9

DAPONTE STRING QUARTET |

noon | Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St, Rockland | $25 | 207.596.6457 or farnsworthmuseum.org STANLEY & GRIMM | 7 pm | Skye Theatre, 2 Highland Dr, Carthage | $15 | 207.562.4445

DANCE

POPULAR

PARTICIPATORY

THURSDAY 3

ican Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St, Lewiston | $22 | 207.689.2000

land | $5 | 207.653.8486

LES STROUD | 7 pm | Franco-AmerSTRAY BIRDS + DARLIN’ COREY | 8 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $10-15 | 207.761.1757

“TURNSTILE THURSDAY,” FREEFORM OPEN MIC | Thurs 7 pm |

Community Television Network Theater, 516 Congress St, Portland | 207.775.2900

FRIDAY 4

“10TH ANNUAL CELE SOIREE: CELEBRATING IMMIGRATION THROUGH THE ARTS” | benefit with

live performances by Olas + Voix des Agnes + reading by Elizabeth Strout | 6 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Abromson Community Education Center, 88 Bedford St, Portland | $45-55 | 207.780.5900 BRIT FLOYD | 7:30 pm | Cumberland County Civic Center, 48 Free St, 1st Floor, Portland | $49.50, $39.50, $25 | 207.775.3458 or theciviccenter.com BROOKS YOUNG BAND | 8 pm | Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St, Rochester, NH | $12 | 603.335.1992 FLANNERY BROTHERS | 10 am | The Grand, 165 Main St, Ellsworth | $3 | 207.667.9500 or grandonline.org HOWIE CARR | 8 pm | Landing At Pine Point, 353 Pine Point Rd, Scarborough | $25 | 207.774.4527

PATTY LARKIN + MELISSA FERRICK | 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts

Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $25 | 207.935.7292 ROOMFUL OF BLUES | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $25 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com SOGGY PO BOYS | 8 pm | The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | $12-15 | 207.439.0114 WILLY PORTER | 8 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $18-23 | 207.761.1757

SATURDAY 5

ELLIS PAUL | 7:30 pm | Camden Op-

era House, 29 Elm St, Camden | $18 | 207.236.7963 or camdenoperahouse. com EMILIA DAHLIN | 7:30 pm | Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center, 280 Water St, Gardiner | $16, $14 seniors, $12 children | 207.582.7144 or johnsonhall.org “KIDS & TEENS OPEN STAGE” | 1 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $5 | 207.761.1757 MICHELLE LEWIS | 7:30 pm | Village Coffee House/New Gloucester Congregational Church, 19 Gloucester Hill Rd, New Gloucester | $10 | 207.926.3260 MICROMASSE | 8 pm | The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | $12-15 | 207.439.0114 NELLIE MCKAY | 8 pm | Jonathan’s, 92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit | $30.50 | 207.646.4777 or jonathansrestaurant. com

PAT COLWELL & SOUL SENSATIONS | 8 pm | Chocolate Church

Arts Center, 804 Washington St, Bath | $25 | 207.442.8455 or chocolatechurcharts.org

“SPIRIT OF SWING” WITH DJ MARK PERSKY | 8 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $10-12 | 207.761.1757

SUNDAY 6

AOIFE O’DONOVAN | 8 pm | Jona-

than’s, 92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit | $23 | 207.646.4777 or jonathansrestaurant.com JOHN GORKA | 7 pm | St Lawrence Arts & Community Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | $50 | 207.775.5568 or stlawrencearts.org

SALSA DANCING WITH DJ BRAULIO | 8 pm | Pearl, 444 Fore St, Port-

FRIDAY 4

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE |

6:30 pm | People Plus/Brunswick, 35 Union St, Brunswick | $8, $5 seniors/students | 207.700.7577

”PROM NIGHT” SWING DANCE WITH BLUE WILLOW BAND | 9 pm

MONDAY 7

OUTDOORS TUESDAY 8

NATURE POETRY READING | 7 pm | Fields Pond Audubon Center, 216 Fields Pond, Holden | 207.989.2591

FAIRS & FESTIVALS THURSDAY 3

”POETRY ON TAP” | open mic & fea-

tured poets | 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

POETRY READING WITH GIBSON FAY-LEBLANC + MEGAN GRUMBLING +CHRISTOPHER SEID | 1:30 pm | Royal

TUESDAY 8

OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | with

PORTLAND CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL | East End Community School, 195

North St, Portland | $5-10 | 207.874.8228

Port Veritas & featured poets | 7 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | $2.50-3 | 207.773.7210

FRIDAY 4

WEDNESDAY 9

PORTLAND CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL | See listing for Thurs

SATURDAY 5

PORTLAND CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL | See listing for Thurs

SUNDAY 6

DAVID FERRY | reads from his poetry volume Bewilderment | 4 pm | Bowdoin College, Moulton Union, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

”OUT & ALLIED PERFORMANCE,” WRITINGS BY LGBTQ & ALLIED YOUTH | 7:30 pm | University of South-

PORTLAND CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL | See listing for Thurs

ern Maine - Portland, Woodbury Campus Center, Portland | 207.798.0213

SATURDAY 5

THURSDAY 10

Congregational Church, 267 Falmouth Rd, Falmouth | $10, $7 youth 21 & under, $5 youth 5-12 | 207.756.2201

berland County Civic Center, 48 Free St, 1st Floor, Portland | 207.775.3458 | www.theciviccenter.com

of poems Otherwise Unseeable | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks.com

| Woodfords Club, 179 Woodford St, Portland | 207.772.4893

CONTRA DANCE | 8 pm | Falmouth

”SPIRIT OF SWING” WITH DJ MARK PERSKY | 8 pm | One Long-

fellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $10-12 | 207.761.1757

SUNDAY 6

NORTHEAST BIOMASS HEATING EXPO | green heating fair | 5 pm | Cum-

FOOD

BETSY SHOLL | reads from her book

TALKS

FOLK DANCE | 7 pm | New Church,

FRIDAY 4

THURSDAY 3

WEDNESDAY 9

food art with literary references | 5 pm | Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq, Portland | 207.871.1700

of Art, 7 Congress Square, Portland | $15 | 207.775.6148 or portlandmuseum.org

302 Stevens Ave., Portland | $5 | 207.216.3890

WEDNESDAY NIGHT STOMP WITH PORTLAND SWING PROJECT |

”EDIBLE BOOK FESTIVAL” | edible

SATURDAY 5

ARCHITALX LECTURE BY EELCO HOOFTMAN | 6 pm | Portland Museum “FREDERICK DOUGLASS, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, & THE CIVIL WAR” | with

End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.436.6660 or pontine.org

“PAPAL BULLS, WISHFUL WONDER, & THE MANY FICTIONS OF THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY” | with

Annette Kolodny | 6 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Wishcamper Center, 34 Bedford St, Portland | 207.780.4141

WEDNESDAY 9

“GENUINE ARTIFICE: MURIEL SPARK & THE CASE FOR RUTHLESS AUTHORIAL MANIPULATION” | with

Brock Clark | 7 pm | Bowdoin College, Moulton Union, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

“RACE, MASS INCARCERATION, & CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN A COLORBLIND SOCIETY: ISSUES FOR MAINE COMMUNITIES” | with Grainne Dunne + T. Richard Snyder + Rachel Talbot Ross | 7 pm | Bowdoin College, Searles Science Building, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3567

“WHY WE LOVE BREAKING BAD: WORK, AUSTERITY, & AUTONOMY” |

with Jason Read + David Peirson | 2:30 pm | University of Southern Maine Portland, Glickman Family Library, 5th Floor, 314 Forest Ave, Portland | 207.780.4270

THURSDAY 10

ARCHITALX LECTURE BY ALEXANDER LEVI | 6 pm | Portland Museum of

Art, 7 Congress Square, Portland | $15 | 207.775.6148 or portlandmuseum.org

“BEING HUMAN — CONVERSATIONS THAT MATTER: ART & PLAY” | panel

discussion with Sarah Shepley + Willa Wirth + Amy Bruch | 7 pm | Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St, Portland | 207.329.9854 or treeoflifemuseum.org

“EVERYONE’S TOWN: THORNTON WILDER’S LEGACY” | with Penelope

Niven | 7 pm | Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St, Portland | 207.774.1822 or mainehistory.org

Robert S. Levine | 7 pm | Bowdoin College, Moulton Union, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

“IS ‘CONSERVATIVE ENVIRONMENTALIST’ AN OXYMORON? | with

SALSA DANCING WITH DJ BRAULIO | See listing for Thurs

“MAN RAY & MARCEL DUCHAMP & THE SURREALIST MOVEMENT” | 7

PERFORMANCE

SUNDAY 6

| with Brian Purnell | 12:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Moulton Union, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

“SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE CURRICULUM” | with Emily Kane | noon | Bates

7:30 pm | Acoustic Artisans, 594 Congress St, Portland | $5-10 sugg. donation | 207.671.6029 | acousticartisans.com

THURSDAY 10

FRIDAY 4

CINDERELLA |

Fri 7 pm; Sat 2 & 7 pm; Sun 2 pm | Maine State Ballet, 348 Rte 1, Falmouth | $19-25 | 207.781.7672 | www.mainestateballet.org

DIRIGO DANCE PROJECT: “NEW WORKS” | 5 pm | Bright Star World

Dance, 108 High St, Portland | 207.370.5830 | brightstarworlddance.com OKBARI | with belly dancers | 8 pm | Blue, 650A Congress St, Portland | 207.774.4111 | portcityblue.com SPOONMAKER’S DIAMOND | with belly dance | 8 pm | Dobra Tea, 151 Middle St, Portland | 207.370.1890

SATURDAY 5

CINDERELLA | See listing for Fri ROBINSON BALLET | Sat 7 pm; Sun

3 pm | Robinson Ballet, Grand, 165 Main St, Ellsworth | 207.667.9500

EVENTS FRIDAY 4

SPRING FEVER FOR THE ARTS | 7

pm | Portsmouth Arts & Music Center, 75 Albany St, Portsmouth, NH | $50-$60 | 603.431.4278

SATURDAY 5

ICEPICKS + SUPERHERO LADY ARMWRESTLERS OF PORTLAND [S.L.A.P.] | medical benefit | 8 pm |

Geno’s Rock Club, 625 Congress St, Portland | $5 | 207.221.2382 PILLOW FIGHT DAY | 3 pm | Monument Square, Congress St, Portland | 207.774.9979

TUESDAY 8

“MARCH FOR STUDENT & WORKER RIGHTS,” #UMAINEFUTURE RALLY | noon | Congress Square,

Corner of Congress and High Sts, Portland

28TH ANNUAL CHOCOLATE LOVER’S FLING | Holiday Inn By the Bay, 88 Spring St, Portland | $50 | 1.800.345.5050 or innbythebay.com

TUESDAY 8

LOCK, STOCK & BARREL | 5 pm |

Vignola, 10 Dana St, Portland | $50 | 207.772.1330 or cinqueterremaine.com/ vignola_design.html

MAINE RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION TRADE SHOW | 10 am | Cumberland

County Civic Center, 48 Free St, 1st Floor, Portland | 207.775.3458 or theciviccenter.com

WEDNESDAY 9

PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET | 7

am | Monument Square, Congress St, Portland | 207.774.9979

POETRY & PROSE THURSDAY 3

MURRAY CARPENTER | reads from his novel “Caffeinated” | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks.com

FRIDAY 4

SUNDAY 6

“RHYTHMIC CYPHER,” POETRY OPEN MIC | with Rhythm & Regalia

| 6:30 pm | Dobra Tea, 151 Middle St, Portland | 207.370.1890

THINKING HEART ENSEMBLE: “THE RETURN: PILGRIMAGE TO THE HEART” | 4 pm | Maine Jewish

Museum, 267 Congress St, Portland | 207.329.9854 or treeoflifemuseum.org

“IS THE LEGACY OF ROBERT KENNEDY PROPERLY UNDERSTOOD?”

College, New Commons Building, 136 Central Ave, Lewiston | 207.786.6330

“THE PORTRAIT OF ANTIQUITY: PORTRAITURE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD” | with Fred Albertson | 4:30

pm | Bowdoin College, Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.775.3321

FRIDAY 4

“AN EVENING WITH GOOD MORNING AMERICA’S GINGER ZEE — METEOROLOGIST & STORM CHASER” | 5:30 pm | Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $89 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall.com

“HOW ARTS MEET MISSION: ARTISTS ENGAGED IN ACTIVISM, ACTIVISTS MAKING ART” | with Kevin

Simowitz + Kolawole A. Bankole + Elise Pepple + Donna McNeil + Tommy Waltz | noon | University of New England - Portland, Art Gallery, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland | 207.221.4499 or une.edu/artgallery

“MISSION DRIVEN INNOVATION: CAN TECHNOLOGY CHANGE THE WORLD?” | with Eli Pariser author of

MONDAY 7

“WHAT WE STILL DON’T KNOW ABOUT ADDITION & MULTIPLICATION” | with Carl Pomerance | 8 pm

| Bowdoin College, Searles Science Building, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3567

TUESDAY 8

“CRIME & PUNISHMENT ON THE ISLES OF SHOALS: THE BALLAD OF LOUIS WAGNER” | with John Perrault | 5:30 pm | Pontine Theatre, West

Steven F. Hayward | 4 pm | Bowdoin College, Hubbard Hall, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

pm | Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 245 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.3275 or bowdoin.edu/art-museum

”RESTORING IMPERILED ECOSYSTEMS USING FIRE” | with Leda N.

Kobziar | 4 pm | Bowdoin College, Druckenmiller Hall, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3567

”TRAFFIC: GERMAN CHEMISTS, AUSTRIAN SMUGGLERS, & THE COCAINE EPIDEMIC IN INDIA (19001914)” | with Alison Frank Johnson |

7 pm | Bowdoin College, Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

THEATER AIRE (AMERICAN IRISH REPERTORY ENSEMBLE) | 207.799.5327 | Portland

FREEPORT THEATER OF AWESOME

NEW HAMPSHIRE THEATRE PROJECT’S JUNIOR YOUTH REPERTORY COMPANY | 603.431.6644 | 959 Islington St, Portsmouth, NH | April

PLAYERS’ RING | 603.436.8123 | play-

ersring.org | 105 Marcy St, Portsmouth, NH | April 9-June 11: “Generic Theater’s

Play Reading Series,” dramatic readings | 7:30 pm PORTLAND OVATIONS | 207.842.0800 | Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | April 5: We’re Going on a Bear Hunt | 11 am | $15

PORTLAND PLAYBACK THEATRE COMPANY | portlandplayback.com |

ST LAWRENCE ARTS & COMMUNITY CENTER | 207.775.5568 | stlawrencearts.

org | 76 Congress St, Portland | Through

April 6: Good Theater presents “Underwater Guy” | Thurs 7 pm; Fri-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 2 pm | $15-$20 TANDEM THEATRE COMPANY | Port-

land Stage Company, Susie Konkel Theater for Kids, 25A Forest Ave, Portland |

ART GALLERIES 3 FISH GALLERY | 207.773.4773 | 377

Cumberland Ave, Portland | 3fishgallery. com | Thurs-Sat 1-4 pm & by appoint-

GALLERY AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND | 207.221.2288 | 443 Congress St,

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‘Gasaroo! Sat April 5th. Featuring a ridiculous line-up of Allagash beers, including lots of rare & sour treats. Live music by Jaw Gems to keep the party going late!”

Entrance through alley-way on lower exchange st at key bank sign. Horas: Mon-Thu 4-1 Fri 3-1 Sat & Sun 12-1

www.novareresbiercafe.com (207) 761-2437

restaurant brewery distillery

The promise of sunny days drinking on the patio…

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SANCTUARY TATTOO & ART GALLERY | 207.828.8866 | 31 Forest Ave,

Portland | sanctuarytattoo.com | Tues-Sat

SEBAGO BREWING SHOWCASE

FEATURING M QUAD (1,000TH BATCH!) FRYE’S LEAP IPA, FULL THROTTLE DOUBLE IPA, AND BARREL-AGED BARLEYWINE.

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January 30 - April 27, 2014 Explore exceptional drawings and sketchbooks from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned collection of American art, including rarely seen works by Marsden Hartley, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and John Singer Sargent. $5 surcharge; free for PMA members

(207) 775-6148 | portlandmuseum.org The exhibition is organized by the Brooklyn Museum. Generously supported by Lila Hunt, The Roy A. Hunt Foundation. Foundation support: Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust. Media sponsors: WCSH 6, Maine magazine, and Maine Home+Design. J. Carroll Beckwith (United States, 1852-1917), Portrait of Minnie Clark (detail), circa 1890s, charcoal and pastel on blue-fibered, medium-weight, moderately textured laid paper, 22 3/8 x 18 1/4 inches (sheet). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of J. Carroll Beckwith, 17.127

11 am-7 pm | April 4-30: “Phantasmagoric,” works by Eric Pomorski + Elisabeth Heller + Clayton Cameron + Glenn Chadbourne | reception April 4 5-8 pm

SEACOAST ARTIST ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 603.778.8856 | 225 Water

STATE THEATRE BUILDING STUDIOS

MUSEUMS AFRICAN CENTER FOR THE SACRED ARTS AT THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURE | 207.871.7188 | 13 Brown St,

Portland | museumafricanculture.org |

Tues-Fri 10:30 am-4 pm; Sat noon-4 pm | $5 suggested donation | Through April 14: “The Spirits of the Grassland” | reception April 4 5-8 pm | Ongoing: “An Exhibition of Bronze”

BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

April 4-May 24: “Polish Posters: Art & Illusion” | April 4-May 24: “Senior Thesis Exhibition 2014,” mixed media student exhibition | reception April 5 6-8 pm

BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.725.3275 | 245 Maine St,

Brunswick | bowdoin.edu/art-museum | Tues-Wed + Fri-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Thurs 10 am-8:30 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Free admission; donations welcome | Through June 1: “Surrealism in Motion,” short films | Through June 1: “The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections” | Through June 1: “Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography” | Ongoing: “American Artists at Work, 1840-1950” + “Contemporary Masters, 1950 to the Present” + “Lovers & Saints: Art of the Italian Renaissance” COLBY COLLEGE | 207.859.5600 | Mu-

seum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr, Waterville | colby.edu/museum | Tues-Sat

10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Free admission | Through June 8: “American Weathervanes from a Distinguished Maine Collection” | Through June 8: “Histories of Now: Six Artists from Cairo,” video works | Through June 8: “Julianne Swartz: Affirmation,” sound installation | Through June 8: “Spaces & Places: Chinese Art from the LunderColville Collection & the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” | Through June 8: “The Lunder Collection: A Gift of Art to Colby College” | Ongoing: “Process & Place: Exploring the Design Evolution of the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion” + “Alex Katz Collection” FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM | 207.596.6457 | 16 Museum St, Rockland | farnsworthmuseum.org | 10 am-5 pm, open until 8 pm with free admission Wed | $12, seniors & students $10; under 17 free & Rockland residents free | Admission $12; $10 seniors and students; free for youth under 17 and Rockland residents | Through April 27: “19th Century Perspectives: People & the Land,” paintings ICA AT MECA | 207.879.5742 | 522 Congress St, Portland | Wed-Sun 11 am-5 pm; Thurs 11 am-7 pm | Through April 6: “Bryan Graf: Across the Interior,” photography installation | reception April 4 5-8 pm | Through April 6: Robert Beatty: “Soundtracks for Takeshi Murata” | Through March 31: “We Are What We Hide,” long-running exhibit in- & outside gallery walls MAINE COLLEGE OF ART | 207.775.3052 | 522 Congress St, Portland | meca.edu | Mon-Fri 8 am-8 pm; Sat-Sun 12 pm-5 pm | April 4: “Maine College of Art Student Art Sales” | reception 5-8 pm | April 4: “Merit Competition,” mixed media student exhibition | reception 5-8 pm | April 4: “Revision,” mixed media student show | reception 5-8 pm | Through April 18: “Melt,” window installation by Reenie Charriere | Through June 4: paintings by Anne Ireland MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM | 207.329.9854 | 267 Congress St, Portland | treeoflifemuseum.org | Mon-Fri 10 am-2 pm | Through April 21: “Josefina Auslander: Departures & Arrivals,” drawings & acrylic paintings | reception April 4 5-8 pm PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | 207.775.6148 | 7 Congress Square,

Portland | portlandmuseum.org | Tues-

Thurs + Sat-Sun 10 am-5 pm; Fri 10 am-9 pm | Admission $12; $10 students/seniors; $6 youth 13-17; free for youth 12 & under and for all Fri 5-9 pm | Through April 6: “Youth Art Month,” student works | Through April 27: “Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum” | Through June 15: “Preserving Creative Spaces: The Historic Artists’ Homes & Studios Program,” documentary installation | Through July 27: “PMA Family Space: Clint Fulkerson,” drawings | Through Aug 3: “George Daniell: Picturing Monhegan Island,” photographs & drawings

SALT INSTITUTE FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES | 207.761.0660 | 561

Congress St, Portland | salt.edu | Tues-Fri

noon-4:30 pm | April 4 Through May 2: “The Battle We Didn’t Choose,” photography by Angelo Merendino | reception 5-8 pm

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - AUGUSTA

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.561.3350 | Norumbega Hall, 40

Harlow St, Bangor | umma.umaine.edu |

Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm | Free admission | April 4-June 7: “Amy Beeler: Passion & Adornment,” sculpture & jewelry works | April 4-June 7: “Joe Kelly: Works from 2007-2014,” sculptures & drawings | April 4-June 7: “Looking Back Six Years — Part One: Selected New Acquisitions,” mixed media | Ongoing: “Selections from the Permanent Collection”

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND PORTLAND | 207.221.4499 | Art Gallery, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland | une.edu/ artgallery | Wed 1-4 pm; Thurs 1-7 pm;

Fri-Sun 1-4 pm | Through June 14: “The Painting of John Calvin Stevens” | Through June 15: “Recent Acquisitions & Selections from the Permanent Collection,” mixed media | Ongoing: paintings & photography by Maine artists + labyrinth installation

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - GORHAM | 207.780.5008 | Art Gallery,

USM Campus, Gorham | usm.maine. edu/~gallery | Tues-Fri 11 am-4 pm; Sat-

Sun 1-5 pm | Through April 6: “USM Juried Student Exhibition,” mixed media | reception March 13 6-8 pm

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - PORTLAND | 207.780.4270 | Kate

Cheney Chappell Center for Book Arts, Great Reading Room, 7th Floor, Glickman Library, 314 Forest Ave, Portland | usm.maine.edu/bookarts | Mon-Thurs

CLUB DIRECTORY 302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN | 207.935.3021 | 636 Main St, Fryeburg

317 MAIN ST MUSIC CENTER CAFE | 207.846.9559 | 317 Main

St, Yarmouth 51 WHARF | 207.774.1151 | 51 Wharf St, Portland ACOUSTIC ARTISANS | 207.671.6029 | 594 Congress St, Portland ADAMS STREET PUB | 207.283.4992 | 5 Adams St, Biddeford ALISSON’S RESTAURANT | 207.967.4841 | 5 Dock Sq, Kennebunkport ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | 207.874.2639 | 94 Commercial St, Portland ANNIE’S IRISH PUB | 207.251.4335 | 369 Main St, Ogunquit ASYLUM | 207.772.8274 | 121 Center St, Portland BASSLINES | 207.699.4263 | Binga’s Stadium, 23 Brown St, Portland BAYSIDE BOWL | 207.791.2695 | 58 Alder St, Portland BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | 207.564.8733 | 73 North St, Dover Foxcroft BELL THE CAT | 207.338.2084 | 15G Starrett Dr, Belfast BENCHWARMERS | 207.729.4800 | 212 Maine St, Brunswick BIG EASY | 207.894.0633 | 55 Market St, Portland BINGA’S STADIUM | 207.347.6072 | 77 Free St, Portland BLUE | 207.774.4111 | 650A Congress St, Portland BLUE MERMAID | 603.427.2583 | 409 The Hill, Portsmouth, NH BLUE MOON LOUNGE | 207.858.5849 | 24 Court St, Skowhegan

BRAMBER VALLEY BAR-B-BAR

| 603.430.7713 | 75 Bramber Valley Dr, Greenland, NH BRAY’S BREWPUB | 207.693.6806 | Rte 302 and Rte 35, Naples BRIAN BORU | 207.780.1506 | 57 Center St, Portland BRITISH BEER COMPANY | 603.501.0515 | 2 Portwalk Place, Portsmouth, NH

THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE GRILLE | 207.934.2171 | 39 West Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach

BUBBA’S SULKY LOUNGE |

7:45 am-11 pm; Fri 7:45 am-8 pm; Sat 10 am-8 pm; Sun 10 am-11 pm | April 6: “Book Arts Bazaar” | 10 am-3 pm | Through May 1: “Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here,” traveling exhibition | Through May 31: “Rescued, Redeemed, Revived,” book arts | Through Aug 14: “Charting an Empire: The Atlantic Neptune,” cartographic exhibition

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207.443.6776 | 98 Center St, Bath

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM & THEATRE OF MAINE | 207.828.1234 | 142 Free St,

Portland | kitetails.com | Tues-Sat 10

am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm; Mon during school vacations | $10, $9 seniors, $7 youth under 17, free under 6; first Friday of the month is free 5-8 pm | April 3: Tiny Tots: Mix and Measure 10:30 am; Star Show 11:30am; Tide Pool Touch Tank 3:30pm | April 4: Fire Safety Friday 10:15; What Does the Cat Say? Puppet Show 11:30am; $2 First Friday 5-8pm | April 5: The Eyeball Show 11am; Smooshy Smelly Science 3:30pm | April 6: Celebrate Spring: Holi 10:30am; Meet a Bunny 12:30-1:30pm; Cooking Healthy: Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese 2pm; Baby Yaga Storytime 4pm | April 8: Sing-a-long Story Time 11am; Papier-mache Party 3-4pm | April 9: Open Art Studio 11am-12pm; Color Play: Complimentary Colors 3:30pm | April 10: Tiny Tots: Amazing Mazes 10:30am; Star Show 10:30am; Baby Yaga Storytime 2:30pm; Tide Pool Touch Tank 3:30pm VICTORIA MANSION | 207.772.4841 | 109 Danforth St, Portland | victoriamansion.org | Through May 21: “Mansion as Muse,” mixed media works by Mark Dion & Dana Sherwood + Andrew Mowbray + Justin Richel + Amy Yoes

207.828.0549 | 92 Portland St, Portland

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH |

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK | 207.729.9400 | 16 Station

Ave, Brunswick THE CAGE | 207.783.0668 | 97 Ash St, Lewiston CAMPFIRE GRILLE | 207.803.2255 | 656 North High St, Bridgton

CAPTAIN & PATTY’S RESTAURANT | 207.439.3655 | 90 Pepperrell Rd, Kittery Point

CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN |

207.336.2126 | 371 Turner St, Buckfield

CAPTAIN DANIEL STONE INN | 207.373.1824 | 10 Water St, Brunswick CASA DEL LUNA | 207.241.0711 | Lewiston Mall, Lewiston CENTRAL WAVE | 603.742.9283 | 368 Central Ave, Dover, NH CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | 207.282.7900 | 15 Thornton St, Biddeford CHAPS SALOON | 207.347.1101 | 1301 Long Plains Rd, Buxton CHARLAMAGNE’S | 207.242.2711 | 228 Water St, Augusta CHOP SHOP PUB | 603.760.7706 | 920 Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH

CLUB 737 | 207.442.0748 | 737 Wash-

ington St, Bath CLUB TEXAS | 207.784.7785 | 150 Center St, Auburn COLE FARMS | 207.657.4714 | 64 Lewiston Rd, Gray

COMMON GOOD SOUP KITCHEN

| 207.244.3007 | 566 Seawall Rd, Southwest Harbor CREMA COFFEE COMPANY | | 9 Commercial St, Portland DANIEL STREET TAVERN | 603.430.1011 | 111 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH DOBRA TEA | 207.370.1890 | 151 Middle St, Portland THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | 207.772.5483 | 128 Free St, Portland DOGFISH CAFE | 207.253.5400 | 953 Congress St, Portland DOLPHIN STRIKER | 603.431.5222 | 15 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH DOVER BRICK HOUSE | 603.749.3838 | 2 Orchard St, Dover, NH DOWN UNDER CLUB | 207.992.2550 | Seasons Grille & Sports Lounge, 427 Main St, Bangor EASY STREET LOUNGE | 207.622.3360 | 7 Front St, Hallowell

ELEMENTS: BOOKS COFFEE BEER

| 207.710.2011 | 265 Main St, Biddeford EMPIRE | 207.879.8988 | 575 Congress St, Portland FAST BREAKS | 207.782.3305 | 1465 Lisbon St, Lewiston FAT BELLY’S | 603.610.4227 | 2 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH FATBOY’S SALOON | 207.766.8862 | 65 Main St, Biddeford FEDERAL JACK’S | 207.967.4322 | 8 Western Ave, Kennebunk FLASK LOUNGE | 207.772.3122 | 117 Spring St, Portland FOG BAR & CAFE | 207.593.9371 | 328 Main St, Rockland THE FOGGY GOGGLE | 207.824.5056 | South Ridge Lodge, Sunday River, Newry FREEDOM CAFE | 207.693.3700 | 923 Roosevelt Trail, Naples FROG AND TURTLE | 207.591.4185 | 3 Bridge St, Westbrook FRONT STREET PUBLIC HOUSE | 207.442.6700 | 102 Front St, Bath FRONTIER CAFE | 207.725.5222 | Fort Andross, 14 Maine St, Brunswick FUSION | 207.330.3775 | 490 Pleasant St, Lewiston GATHER | 207.847.3250 | 189 Main St, Yarmouth GENO’S ROCK CLUB | 207.221.2382 | 625 Congress St, Portland GFB SCOTTISH PUB | 207.934.8432 | 32 Old Orchard St, Old Orchard Beach THE GIN MILL | 207.620.9200 | 302 Water St, Augusta GINGKO BLUE | 207.541.9190 | 455 Fore St, Portland GINZA TOWN | 207.878.9993 | 1053 Forest Ave, Portland GOVERNOR’S INN | 603.332.0107 | 78 Wakefield St, Rochester, NH THE GREEN ROOM | 207.490.5798 | 898 Main St, Sanford GRILL 28 | 603.766.6466 | Pease Golf Course, 200 Grafton Rd, Portsmouth, NH GRITTY MCDUFF’S | 207.772.2739 | 396 Fore St, Portland GRITTY MCDUFF’S/AUBURN | 207.782.7228 | 68 Main St, Auburn GUTHRIE’S | 207.376.3344 | 115 Middle St, Lewiston HARLOW’S PUB | 603.924.6365 | 3 School St, Peterborough, NH

HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEEHOUSE AND TAVERN | 207.621.1234 | 119 Water St, Hallowell

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207.354.4162 | 189 Main St, Thomaston THE HIVE | 207.985.0006 | 84 Main St, Kennebunk IRISH TWINS PUB | 207.376.3088 | 743 Main St, Lewiston

JIMMY THE GREEK’S/OLD ORCHARD BEACH | 207.934.7499 | 215

Saco Ave, Old Orchard Beach KELLEY’S ROW | 603.750.7081 | 421 Central Ave, Dover, NH THE KENNEBEC WHARF | 207.622.9290 | 1 Wharf St, Hallowell KERRYMEN PUB | 207.282.7425 | 512 Main St, Saco

LAST CALL | 207.934.9082 | 4 1st St, Old Orchard Beach LFK | 207.899.3277 | 188A State St, Portland THE LIBERAL CUP | 207.623.2739 | 115 Water St, Hallowell LILAC CITY GRILLE | 603.332.3984 | 45 N Main St, Rochester, NH LION’S PRIDE | 207.373.1840 | 112 Pleasant St, Brunswick LITTLE TAP HOUSE | 207.518.9283 | 106 High St, Portland LOCAL 188 | 207.761.7909 | 685 Congress St, Portland LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE

| 207.899.3529 | 649 Congress St, Portland LOMPOC CAFE | 207.288.9392 | 36 Rodick St, Bar Harbor MAIN TAVERN | 207.947.7012 | 152 Main St, Bangor MAINE STREET | 207.646.5101 | 195 Maine St, Ogunquit MAINELY BREWS | 207.873.2457 | 1 Post Office Sq, Waterville MAMA’S CROWBAR | 207.773.9230 | 189 Congress St, Portland MARK’S PLACE | 207.899.3333 | 416 Fore St, Portland MARTINGALE WHARF | 603.431.0091 | 99 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH MATHEW’S PUB | 207.253.1812 | 133 Free St, Portland MATTERHORN | 207.824.6836 | 292 Sunday River Rd, Newry MAXWELL’S PUB | 207.646.2345 | 243 Main St, Ogunquit MAYO STREET ARTS | 207.615.3609 | 10 Mayo St, Portland MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | 207.642.3363 | 35 Blake Rd, Standish MILLIE’S TAVERN | 603.967.4777 | 17 L St, Hampton, NH MJ’S WINE BAR | 207.653.6278 | 1 City Center, Portland MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | 207.443.6563 | Rte 1, Woolwich MOOSE ALLEY | 207.864.9955 | 2809 Main St, Rangeley MR. GOODBAR | 207.934.9100 | 8B West Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach MYRTLE STREET TAVERN | 207.596.6250 | 12 Myrtle St, Rockland NARAL’S EXPERIENCE ARABIA | 207.344.3201 | 34 Court St, Auburn NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | 207.907.4380 | 56 Main St, Bangor THE OAK AND THE AX | | 140 Main St, Ste 107-Back Alley, Biddeford THE OAR HOUSE | 603.436.4025 | 55 Ceres St, Portsmouth, NH OASIS | 207.370.9048 | 42 Wharf St, Portland OLD GOAT | 207.737.4628 | 33 Main St, Richmond OLD MILL PUB | 207.474.6627 | 39 Water St, Skowhegan OLD PORT TAVERN | 207.774.0444 | 11 Moulton St, Portland THE OLDE MILL TAVERN | 207.583.9077 | 56 Main St, Harrison ORCHARD STREET CHOP SHOP | 603.749.0006 | 1 Orchard St, Dover, NH OTTO | 207.773.7099 | 574-6 Congress St, Portland PADDY MURPHY’S | 207.945.6800 | 26 Main St, Bangor PEARL | 207.653.8486 | 444 Fore St, Portland PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | 207.783.6200 | 134 Main St, Lewiston PEDRO’S | 207.967.5544 | 181 Port Rd, Kennebunk PHOENIX HOUSE & WELL | 207.824.2222 | 9 Timberline Dr, Newry PORT CITY MUSIC HALL | 207.899.4990 | 504 Congress St, Portland PORTHOLE RESTAURANT | 207.773.4653 | 20 Custom House Wharf, Portland PORTLAND EAGLES | 207.773.9448 | 184 Saint John St, Portland PORTLAND LOBSTER CO | 207.775.2112 | 180 Commercial St, Portland PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | 603.430.8582 | 64 Market St, Portsmouth, NH PRESS ROOM | 603.431.5186 | 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH PROFENNO’S | 207.856.0011 | 934 Main St, Westbrook THE RACK | 207.237.2211 | 5016 Access Rd, Carabassett

RAVEN’S ROOST | 207.406.2359 | 103 Pleasant St, Brunswick THE RED DOOR | 603.373.6827 | 107 State St, Portsmouth, NH RI RA/PORTLAND | 207.761.4446 | 72 Commercial St, Portland RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | 603.319.1680 | 22 Market St, Portsmouth, NH RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | 207.571.9648 | 100 Main St, Saco Island, Saco SALVAGE BBQ & SMOKEHOUSE | | 919 Congress St, Portland SEA DOG BREWING/BANGOR | 207.947.8009 | 26 Front St, Bangor SEA DOG BREWING/SOUTH PORTLAND | 207.871.7000 | 125

Western Ave, South Portland

SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM

| 207.725.0162 | 1 Maine St, Great Mill Island, Topsham SEA40 | 207.795.6888 | 40 East Ave, Lewiston SEASONS GRILLE | 207.775.6538 | 155 Riverside St, Portland SHENANIGANS | 207.213.4105 | 349 Water St, Augusta SILVER HOUSE TAVERN | 207.772.9885 | 123 Commercial St, Portland SILVER STREET TAVERN | 207. 680.2163 | 2 Silver St, Waterville SKIP’S LOUNGE | 207.929.9985 | 299 Narragansett Trail, Buxton SKYBOX BAR AND GRILL | 207.854.9012 | 212 Brown St, Westbrook SLAINTE | 207.828.0900 | 24 Preble St, Portland

SLATES RESTAURANT AND BAKERY | 207.622.4104 | 169 Water St,

Hallowell

SOLO BISTRO | 207.443.3378 | 128 Front St, Bath

SONNY’S | 207.772.7774 | 83 Exchange St, Portland

SONNY’S TAVERN | 603.343.4332 | 328 Central Ave, Dover, NH

SOUTHSIDE TAVERN |

207.474.6073 | 1 Waterville Rd, Skowhegan SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland SPARE TIME | 207.878.2695 | City Sports Grille, 867 Riverside St, Portland SPEAKEASY | 207.596.6661 | 2 Park Dr, Rockland SPRING HILL TAVERN | 603.431.5222 | Dolphin Striker, 15 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH SPRING POINT TAVERN | 207.733.2245 | 175 Pickett St, South Portland STADIUM PUB AND LOUNGE | | 1145 Park Ave, Cranston, RI STOCKHOUSE | 207.854.5600 | 506 Main St, Westbrook STONE CHURCH | 603.659.6321 | 5 Granite St, Newmarket, NH STYXX | 207.828.0822 | 3 Spring St, Portland SUDS PUB | 207.824.6558 | Sudbury Inn Main St, Bethel TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | 207.657.7973 | 61 Portland Rd, Gray THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | 603.427.8645 | 21 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH THE THIRSTY PIG | 207.773.2469 | 37 Exchange St, Portland TIME OUT PUB | 207.593.9336 | 275 Main St, Rockland TORCHES GRILL HOUSE | 207.467.3288 | 102 York St, Kennebunk TOWNHOUSE PUB | 207.284.7411 | 5 Storer St, Saco TUCKER’S PUB | 207.739.2200 | 290 Main St, Norway UNION HOUSE PUB & PIZZA | 207.590.4825 | North Dam Mill, 2 Main St, 18-230, Biddeford UNION STATION BILLIARDS | 207.899.3693 | 272 St John St, Portland WALLY’S PUB | 603.926.6954 | 144 Ashworth Ave, Hampton, NH WATER STREET GRILL | 207.582.9464 | 463 Water St, Gardiner WIDOWMAKER LOUNGE | 207.237.6845 | Sugarloaf Mtn, Kingfield ZACKERY’S | 207.774.5601 | Fireside Inn & Suites, 81 Riverside St, Portland

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quick and easy indian? no longer just a foodie fantasy

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_By lin ds a y s t e rl in g Indian food is one of my favorite cuisines, but it can be among the most complicated to cook. In my experience, it tends to require 15 spices you don’t have, a lot of work, and extremely long cooking times. The chicken biryani I wrote about here, for example, takes four hours to cook (see “How Much Spice is Humanly Possible,” by Lindsay Sterling, March 8, 2013). That’s not saying it isn’t worth it — it is, especially for a party. But wouldn’t it be great to know a relatively easy Indian dish that you could cook in less than an hour? I asked my friend Shweta Galway, from Gujarat state in India, what she likes to cook. Growing up in a Hindu family, her mom made vegetarian Indian food every night. “Every day in my household there would be rice, roti, vegetables, and dal,” she recalls. Now a pharmacist and the mom of two young kids, Shweta’s favorite dish to prepare on a weeknight is palak paneer and roti. Palak means spinach. And paneer is the type of cheese that’s mixed into it: fresh and mild, like cottage cheese, ricotta, or farmer’s cheese, but drier and pressed into a block. There are many longer, more complicated versions of palak paneer than hers, but Shweta has found her method to be fast, tasty, and achievable on a weeknight.

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One corner-cutting trick Shweta learned from her sister-in-law is to use frozen creamed spinach as an ingredient. Then all you have to do is sauté onions and garlic in olive oil in a large sauté pan, and add the creamed spinach, frozen chopped spinach, spices, and cheese. And she doesn’t make a custom blend of a lot of different spices. She has faith in the contents of the garam masala in her cabinet. She used Patel Brother’s brand, which is a blend of coriander, red chili, cumin, clove, star anise, mace, fennel seeds, black pepper, bay leaves, cinnamon, dry mango, salt, and clove leaves. She adds two teaspoons of this to the spinach and lets that be that. Her final product, also known as saag paneer (saag being any cooked dish of leafy greens), was kid-friendly with regard to spiciness; you could kick up the heat if you like more intensity. Roti is a type of flatbread made out of Indian atta flour, which is a light yellow flour used in many South Asian flatbreads and milled from durum wheat. After mixing water into the flour and a little bit of olive oil, Shweta kneads the dough for five minutes until it’s smooth and doesn’t break when stretched. She rolls out little pieces into very thin discs with a tool that looks like a drummer’s drumstick.

fiLLEd with hot air Roti puffs up over a blue flame. Shweta’s rotis were each as perfect as a full moon, while mine looked like cartoons of Maine islands. She recalls getting a lot of practice when she was a young girl. “I used to get made fun of when I was little,” she says. “People would say, ‘Oh look, yours has a nose!’ ‘Yours look like India.’ It was fun.” She then cooks the discs of dough on a hot, dry stove until they puff up with warm air and toasty spots appear. To eat palak paneer, you tear off a piece of roti and use it to scoop up spinach and cheese.

Then you eat the whole bite of spinach and bread together. Earthy, hot, creamy, and delicious, Shweta’s spinach and flatbread eliminate the fuss while keeping the homemade heart. ^

Every month, Lindsay Sterling visits the home of a local immigrant to learn how to make a new dish from a different part of the world. Visit immigrantkitchens.com for the recipe, how-to photos, and live cooking class info.

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does it with ease, and his putdowns can be breathtaking. Andrew Dodge wrote the screenplay; with Allison Janney, Ben Falcone, and Philip Baker Hall.

(April 11) + rAilroAd sqUAre (April 18) + frontier (April 20th & 27th)

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A 40-year-old troublemaker (Jason Bateman) takes advantage of a legal loophole to enter a nationwide spelling bee, dragging along a freaky journalist who’s writing a magazine story about him (Kathryn Hahn) and doing his best to corrupt a lonely Indian-American tyke (Rohan Chand) who’s entered in the competition. Trashy, ribald laughs in the Bad Santa vein, this marks Bateman’s directorial debut; it’s not much to look at, but at least he has the nerve to push the insolence, profanity, and brutal insult humor to its absolute limits. Comedians always pay lip service to Groucho Marx, but few mainstream performers actually attempt his level of viciousness; Bateman

xxW captain aMeRica: the winteR sOlDieR 136 minUtes | pg-13 | westbrook cinemAgic + sAco cinemAgic & imAx + regAl brUnswick + regAl AUgUstA + smitty’s biddeford, sAnford, windhAm + AUbUrn + lewiston + oxford This sequel to Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) trades that film’s 1940s setting for a contemporary one and its genial tone for a blithe cynicism more typical of Marvel Studios. The convoluted story involves the sabotage of SHIELD — the secret agency of Captain America (Chris Evans) and his superhero peers — by another organization

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that’s rooted in Nazi Germany. Unless you’re intimately familiar with the so-called Marvel universe (or you really love CG explosions), little of this will resonate; directors Joe and Anthony Russo race through everything but the specialeffects set pieces, assuming that fans will compensate for the lack of nuance by drawing on

their knowledge of the comic books. The impressive supporting cast includes Anthony Mackie, Scarlett Johansson, Frank Grillo, Robert Redford, and Samuel L. Jackson.

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Based on a series of Belgian children’s books, this pleasant 2012 animation feature (a French-Belgian-Luxembourgian coproduction) looks as if it were created in colored pencil and watercolors; the images have a soft, inviting quality that befits the storybook narrative. The title characters are, respectively, a bear and mouse who become friends after teaming up to break into a candy store. Barring a few suspenseful sequences, the storytelling is leisurely and the tone gentle, which makes this a welcome alternative to the bombast of such recent US animations as How to Train Your Dragon. Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, best known for the cult TV series A Town Called Panic and its movie spin-off, directed with Benjamin Renner.

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SoldIEr | 3:40, 6:45 CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr SoldIEr 3d | Fri-Sat: 12:45, 9:45 | SunThu: 12:45

dIVErGEnt | Fri-Sat: 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 | Sun-Thu: 12:40, 3:40, 6:40

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tHE BIG lEBoWSKI | Sat: 9:30 tHE FaCE oF loVE | Fri: 3, 5, 7, 9 | Sat: 1, 3, 5, 7 | Sun: 1, 3, 5 | Mon: 3, 5, 7 | Tue: 3, 5 | Wed-Thu: 3, 5, 7 tHE Grand BUdaPESt HotEl | Fri: 2:40, 4:45, 6:50, 8:55 | Sat: 12:35, 2:40, 4:45, 6:50, 8:55 | Sun: 12:35, 2:40, 4:45, 6:50, 8:55 | Mon-Thu: 2:40, 4:45, 6:50, 8:55

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CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr SoldIEr | 5:30, 8:15 non-StoP | Fri-Mon: 6:30, 8:30 tIM’S VErMEEr | Tue-Thu: 6, 8

noaH | 12:30, 1, 3:30, 4, 7, 8, 10:05 non-StoP | 12:30, 3:30, 7:10, 9:50 SaBotaGE | noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10 300: rISE oF an EMPIrE | 7:30, 9:50

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1364 Main St, Sanford | 207.490.0000

BaCK to tHE FUtUrE | Wed: 7 CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr SoldIEr | Fri: 12:15, 3:45, 7:30, 7:45,

9:30 | Sat: 12:15, 3:45, 4:15, 7:30, 7:45, 9:30 | Sun: 12:15, 3:45, 4:15, 7:15 | MonThu: 3:30, 7 CarS | Wed: 11:30 am dIVErGEnt | Fri-Sat: noon, 4, 7:30, 9:45 | Sun: noon, 3:45, 7 | Mon-Thu: 3:45, 7 draFt daY | Thu: 8

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_by syMbo line Da i This waxing moon cycle should bring twists and turns to projects that may have seemed simple a month ago. As the earth thaws, and the sun’s rays work their magic, even the most discouraged Eeyore-like reader may feel invigorated. So what to do and where to start? The first-quarter lunar cycle means you go faster as well as being more deliberate about your direction. This is the time when others may try to deflect you — so be on-guard, particularly Libra who are having their “halfbirthday” cycle (and are cheerfully changeable anyway). For more, visit moonsigns.net.

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“I know It forward and backward” — letters in alphabetical order, that is

Across 1 Big ___ (david ortiz’s nickname) 5 one in a million, e.g. 9 desert Storm missile 13 robin thicke’s dad

letters

14 15 16 17

coffee ice cream flavor mr. peanut accessory Bubbly popper Stick with mario (and not that dreadful hedgehog instead)?

60 61 62 63 64 65 66

19 First name in talks 20 dandling place 21 Wilder’s “Silver Streak” costar 22 carries out orders 24 Without exception 26 Ford or rollins 28 put forth 29 draw upon 30 Still able to stay awake for a few more minutes? 34 disposition 35 Kolkata currency 36 Boy in “toy Story” 40 Why there’s now only a huge pile of banana peels left? 43 tree gunk 46 “dear” advice giver 47 Some winds 48 not quite in the majors 50 “do me a ___” 52 tank buildup 53 Be slack-jawed 54 column’s counterpart 57 robot dance caller’s instruction to folk dance?

cake laced with rum lewd look despotic roswell sightings Bread heels meets a bet recipe part

Down 1 Accord 2 Sunblock ingredient 3 “Sorry about that” 4 Ballpoint fluid 5 Bench wear 6 Feel sore 7 p, on a frat house 8 musical knack 9 contempt 10 Favor asker’s opening 11 labor forces 12 order from above 14 loads 18 Bender 20 Janitor’s pocketful 23 Bucking beast 24 dice 25 lopsided 26 it may be cured 27 Bulldog, schoolwise 28 opium origin

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31 A ___ called Quest 32 Fitness program based on latin dancing 33 ___ lama 37 Annual non-athletic sports event 38 Billy ___ Williams 39 QB gains 41 Van trailer? 42 eye up 43 not wobbly 44 Sorkin who voiced harley Quinn in the Batman animated series 45 overate, with “out” 49 Figure skating event 50 “___ alive!” 51 national gemstone of Australia 53 School supplies list item 55 double reed instrument 56 nesting insect 58 Some notebooks 59 miner’s quarry 60 Student driver?

thursday april 3

7-tower concept was unveiled in the fall of 2012 and within a week of the unveiling of the four-tower concept in January 2013? You bought into stories fabricated by a developer whose profits we taxpayers are subsidizing and by the city officials who have their own preconceived, unalterable ideas about what is best for the rest of us. I thought you were trying to report how out of touch City Hall is with the needs and hopes of the city at large as demonstrated by an unprecedented level of opposition, in City Hall and in the Courts, to what they are trying to do. Finally, why did you quote, unfiltered, a young ideologue who represents no known constituency and whose ideas are also contradicted by the facts. When I was his age I didn’t trust anyone over 40 either, but class war? Really? Based on my owning the smallest house in the most diversified neighborhood in Portland and my colleague in a fourth-floor walkup in the Old Port? Is this what passes for reporting in the Phoenix? Big picture? Our community is going to face some of the toughest times it has ever seen in the coming few decades. The immediate future will be threatened by outsized development schemes driven

peter Monro, portland

Waxing moon in Gemini. this lunar phase encourages elaborate social gatherings with — perhaps — a multitude of locales. Virgo, pisces, and Sagittarius could be in a combative mood, so take politics and religion off the conversational table (diplomacy should be a goal for capricorn, Scorpio, and leo). Gemini, libra, Aquarius, taurus, and Gemini are more focused on alternatives than staying the course. 6

Waxing moon in Gemini, moon void-of-course 10:55 am until 5:40 pm when it moves into cancer. Venus moves into pisces. the planet of love and the moon are at odds, so “strange bedfellows” is this week’s leitmotif. if you’re attracted to someone totally outside your comfort zone, you’re in tune with the moon. most vulnerable: Virgo, Sagittarius, capricorn, and Scorpio. 7

Waxing moon in cancer. A fine day for fishing and planting, as well as baking and domestic wizardry. cancer, Scorpio, pisces, taurus, Virgo, Gemini, and leo have ingenious insights into others, while libra, Aries, Aquarius, Sagittarius, and capricorn are looking for emotional turmoil (guys, get out of the house). 8

First quarter moon in cancer, moon void-of-course 2:14 pm until 5:50 am tuesday. mercury moves into Aries. A turning point for events that began at the end of march. today and tomorrow, the moon is at odds with mercury, the planet of short messages and journeys. Be skeptical about “the best laid plans” (especially libra, Aries, Aquarius, and capricorn). cancer, Scorpio, pisces, taurus, Virgo, Gemini, and leo: say it twice. 9

tuesday april 8

Monday april 7

sunday april 6

saturday april 5

only by profit. If in doubt, watch what comes out of City Hall — in negotiation behind closed doors now — for the Portland Company buildings, in lack of respect for existing structures and rules about height and scale. It’s gonna be a doozie. Longer term, and already underway the threat is coming from climate disruption, which is already straining our infrastructure, our budgets, and our way of life. For us to adapt as needed to weather the coming storms, literal and metaphorical, we will need to work together as a whole community. We need a City Hall that works with all of us — actually listens and responds — and we need media that are serious about not just the issues, but the underlying facts. And we need both officials and media to promote respectful disagreements — not personal attacks — that allow public conversations to continue and grow to shape a resilient future that we shall so desperately need. As Tom Paine said so wisely and so pertinently not so long ago, “If we don’t all hang together, we shall surely all hang separately.” Please contribute to our hanging together.

Friday april 4

the Will oF the people In “City Hall vs its People?” (see “Portland vs Her People,” by Jeff Inglis, March 21) why didn’t the Phoenix record that: The Planning Board approved Midtown with solid walls taller than almost any building in Bayside (83 feet and 92 feet tall) as “minimal intrusions” in view corridors specified in the city’s Comprehensive Plan and the land use ordinances. That alone demonstrates the Planning Board is more than cynical in maintaining it did not have to the tools to deny the project. Or that the Bayside Neighborhood Association officially and lines of persons at the microphones and in the press unofficially opposed the height increases the City Council (and its own district councilor) granted last April to the project. That demonstrates the Council disregards the will of the people and affected neighborhoods. On the other hand, why did the Phoenix mistakenly report that opposition to the project began last fall, a year after the hue and cry against it actually began? Why did the Phoenix allow paid shills for the developer to say that opponents “came late in the process” when opposition began the moment the City’s

Waxing moon in Gemini (moon void-of-course 2:43 am until 7:48 am). excuses, excuses — the more creative the better. Gemini moons favor enterprises involving words, so if you’re in the business of persuasion, the sky’s the limit. Social butterflies: Gemini, taurus, cancer, Aquarius, and libra. Grubstage: leo, Scorpio, and capricorn. Grudge stage: Virgo, pisces, and Sagittarius.

Waxing moon in leo. Joy in the morning! leo moons encourage childlike wonder, tantrums and entertainment. those in sales should push themselves until next tuesday’s full moon. confident and creative: Gemini, leo, cancer, Virgo, libra, Aries, and Sagittarius. inclined to hissy fits: taurus, Scorpio, Aquarius, pisces, and capricorn. 10

Wednesday april 9

Waxing moon in leo. i hate the term “hump day” but leo moons definitely help push a project that needed some oomph (or a defender) over the edge. change your coiffure, or buy something red and flaunt it. leo moons aren’t for the shy. 11

Moon Keys

This horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. Simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | When the moon is in your sun sign, you are beginning a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect increased insight and emotionality. When the moon moves into the sun sign opposite yours (see below), expect to have difficulties dealing with the opposite sex, family, or authority figures; social or romantic activities will not be at their best. | When the moon is in Aries, it opposes Libra, and vice versa. Other oppositions are Taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, Cancer/Capricorn, Leo/Aquarius, and Virgo/Pisces. The moon stays in each sign approximately two and a half days. | As the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of course,” making no major angles to planets. Consider this a null time and try to avoid making or implementing decisions if you can. But it’s great for brainstorming. | For Symboline Dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, visit our Web site at thePhoenix.com. Symboline Dai can be reached at sally@ moonsigns.net.