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Art book shows creative side of autism April is Autism Awareness Month. Presently, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is diagnosed in 1 in 68 children, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released last month. That’s more than two million people in the United States and 10 million worldwide. In Maine, there has been a 253 percent spike in childhood diagnoses over the past 10 years, says Cathy Dionne, director of the Autism Society of Maine. Awareness and understanding lags behind, but an art book may help shed new light on the intersection of ASD and creativity. Drawing Autism, edited by New York City-based behavior analyst Jill Mullin, highlights the artwork of more than 40 artists diagnosed with ASD. Heavy on art and less so on narrative, the collection’s foreword is from noted best-selling author Temple Grandin, a prominent proponent of the rights of autistic people and animal welfare. Mullins writes in her introduction that the rise in diagnoses of autism has resulted in “increased media attention” to ASD. While some focus has been paid

to how individuals with autism possess great talents in areas such as science and math, Mullins wanted Drawing Autism to highlight ASD’s creative side and promote the importance of fostering it. Her clinical background in Applied Behavior Analysis, combined with more than a decade helping individuals with ASD, serve her well as the book’s curator. The book is divided into seven chapters, with each chapter guiding readers across the autism spectrum visually. For instance, in Chapter One, “Interaction, Individual & Societal,” many of the pieces depict isolation and capture the difficulties and frustrations the artists experience interacting with the world. The artists selected for Drawing Autism were asked to fill out questionnaires in which they answer questions about when they started creating art (and why), what inspired each particular work, and why they chose their subject. For those who were able to complete the questionnaires, their answers accompany their artwork, demonstrating an incredible depth of understanding and awareness — as in Esther J. Brokaw’s “Winter Trees.” Brokaw

displays an impressionistic orientation in her use of oils. This painting captures the starkness of a winter landscape, with trees and their shadows, while the backdrop of the sky and its late-day colors offer a wonderful contrast. Brokaw articulated that in her work, she strove to create a painting that could be “appreciated up close, as well as from a distance.” As is the case with individuals with ASD, each person has varying levels of verbal and articulation skills; some required assistance from caretakers and family members in completing the questionnaire. A few were completely nonverbal and unable to share with readers what was behind the development of their particular piece(s). Still, in almost every instance, the work is able to speak for itself. Readers of Drawing Autism will be drawn to particular artists and styles. One of my favorites was Emily Williams. Her “A Portrait Of The Artist” kicks off Chapter One with an intriguing mixed media piece, which seeks to “represent my autism.” In it, Williams uses a multitude of images —gargoyles, leaves, hands, numbers, and

cows, among others — in an attempt to show, in part, how her brain works and how she observes with the world. She also chose to vary the media she worked in, ranging from ink to scratchboard. Many of the artists in the collection were diagnosed early in life; some, like licensed psychologist Michael P. McMannon, were adults. In McMannon’s case, he was 51 when diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. He shares with readers that he has learned to “embrace his differences and accept himself.” He’s also opened the Good Purpose Gallery in Lee, Massachusetts (goodpurpose.org), a dynamic gallery and work space with a mission to help integrate young individuals on the autism spectrum and with other learning differences, into community. Also in recognition of Autism Awareness Month, the Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine is currently showcasing works of art and writing from youth (aged 5-18) who have diagnoses on the autism spectrum.

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sangillo’s liquor license renewal denied it was a surly scene monday night at Sangillo’s tavern, where quor license: “they wanna make sure they’re making money here, i watched the city council debate and ultimately vote to deny and us being here prevents that.” the renewal of the bar’s liquor license by a vote of 5-4. Amid the After the vote, bartender Andrea lee said that even at 65, she ambient noise, everyone was allied and fixated on the screen, interwasn’t ready to stop tending bar. “i need the money,” she said, rupting every so often to issue some credo of support or hurl venommentioning that her 42-year-old son has a medical issue she was ous invective at the television. it was an odd tension — many patrons paying toward. “i can still run circles around these people and within the noisy room seemed quick to presume nobody scares me,” she said, adding that she’d that anyone speaking about them would naturally worked for the tavern in its various incarnations be mounting the case for their bar’s demise, quiet(as well as bars such as Bubba’s, popeye’s, and the ing only when someone who was paying closer Silver house tavern) for 36 years. lee still lives on attention would explain that, in fact, councilor nick nearby hancock Street. mavodones had just voted in favor of the bar, or in the aftermath of the vote, emotions were that the guy they’d just told to shut up, you bum! understandably running high, and those close was actually Sangillo’s’ lawyer michael center. to the bar had the disposition of those feeling toward the end of the vote, i spoke with the unfairly picked on. “it’s like the city’s playing doorman, a younger black man who did not wish monopoly and we’re Baltic Ave.,” said portland to be identified. he told me he’d been hired less resident Jim tremble. than a month ago and lived in Saco; he was ini“they wanna tear this place down and put in tially attracted to the position because he saw condos. make it better for the hipsters up on the _Jim Tremble, Portland hill,” added Steve, 46, a patron who says he grew a real opportunity to strengthen ties between portland communities. he agreed in part with up on nearby Anderson Street. “this has been a the sentiments asserted by some members of working man’s neighborhood for fifty, a hundred the council, noting that in spite of the material years. We’ve been here forever.” efforts Sangillo’s has taken to improve their standing (adding a it’s generational, working-class sentiments like these that 16-camera security system, requesting additional outside lightmake up the strongest arguments for Sangillo’s supporters, but ing, employing two doormen per evening, etc.), center’s blustereven that angle is more complex than it seems. the neighborhood ous, vehement rejection of the evidence mounted against the bar has been in operation since 1960, and owners have been quick bar likely didn’t help alleviate the doubt among city officials, like to protest that this is the first year there have been problems in councilors ed Suslovic and david marshall, that its ownership the neighborhood (23 calls in the last year according to police, 11 of was willing to be accountable. Style concerns aside, the doorman them for fights), a trend which tragically culminated in a shooting returned to a basic interpretation of the city’s push to deny the li- in the parking lot on January 28th that left a man paralyzed.

“It’s like the city’s playing Monopoly and we’re Baltic Ave.”

i asked lee what’s changed. “Well,” she says, “we’ve gotten a lot of them over the last year.” her eyebrows lift, her tone flattens. “i’m not supposed to say nothin’, and a lot of them are very nice. But there’s new people now. different nationalities.” however benign that statement might seem when uttered by a kindly, 65-year-old neighborhood bartender to a patron of the same color, its subtext is blaring. it echoes with management’s unfortunate, racially-charged decision to exclusively ban hennessy and remy martin, cognacs heavily marketed toward African Americans, as part of a corrections effort last month. it affirms city officials’ disappointment that the bar has thusfar opted to deny accountability for the problems in the neighborhood instead of taking responsibility. And it loses the bar’s most compelling argument — that it’s a treasured hangout for intergenerational, working class portlanders battling economic pressures and gentrification — behind a wall of xenophobia. But while it’s hard to strip away the uncomfortable, possibly ugly connotations of lee’s statement, let’s focus on its kernel of truth. observationally, at least, Sangillo’s has truly become a multi-ethnic bar, and its 30-seat layout ensures a remarkably close society among its patrons. the cognac ban is a distasteful interpretation of the problem, but my inclusion of lee’s statements here aren’t meant to accuse her or the bar of anything beyond that — there’s certainly nothing objectionable about the way she treats Sangillo’s’ diverse patrons. there have been incidents of violence nearby that need to be addressed, but there are also measurements of civic growth here that go beyond economics. Sangillo’s plans to appeal the process to the state level, hoping that a clean record in the interim will help their cause. in the meantime, Jell-o shots of all flavors are still $1.50. _Nick Schroeder

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In layman’s Terms

politics + other mistakes Green behind the ears When I think of Maine’s Green Independent Party, I think of … uh … well, to tell the truth, nothing much comes to mind. In part, that’s because I live in a section of the state where the Greens have virtually no presence. There may be a few of them studying impractical subjects at the University of Maine at Farmington or becoming one with the universe in a commune in Temple, but in most of Franklin County, “green” is strictly lower case and refers to money, freshly cut firewood, or our principal cash crop. The other reason I rarely pay attention to the Greens is because they’re of little political consequence. Outside of an infestation in Portland’s city government and a sprinkling of midcoast activists protesting stuff that probably won’t happen anyway, the party isn’t really part of the debate. The Greens’ high-water mark in the Legislature was electing one state representative in 2002, although a former member of the party, independent Ben Chipman, currently serves in the House. The Greens didn’t run a candidate for governor in the last election and won’t this time, either. For years, they’ve been a non-factor in congressional races. There are only about 38,000 registered members in the state, slightly more than the number of hunters with any-deer permits. Even so, the latter group has a lot more political clout. There are 15 Greens running for the Legislature this year, an increase over the last couple of election cycles, but less than in 2004, when the party had 20. In the two decades the Greens have been an organized party in Maine, they don’t appear to have learned much about winning political races, so the odds of any of the current crop being sworn in as

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elected officials would have to be considered somewhere between long and nonexistent. That’s not simply because the Greens have recruited weak candidates (although they seem to have a few of those), but because the party offers little in the way of intelligent support. The Green organization (use of that word may be a serious overstatement) doesn’t seem to have a lot of experience with how successful campaigns are conducted. Several of this year’s legislative candidates have no websites or Facebook pages. Those that do often offer amateurish efforts filled with blunders that wouldn’t be tolerated in the Republican or Democratic parties. For instance, Daniel Stromgren of Topsham is listed on his official Green Independent Party website as being “our Candidate for Senate Dist[.] 19.” Which is odd, because Stromgren is actually running for House District 54. The first thing visitors to this candidate’s home page learn is that he “was born in Cincinnatti (sic), Ohio.” Maybe Stromgren didn’t stick around his hometown long enough to learn to spell it, but regardless, it makes no sense to start your conversation with a Maine voter by emphasizing your non-native status. While we’ve occasionally elected people from away — Angus King (from Virginia), Jim Longley Jr. (from Mars) — foreigners generally have a distinct disadvantage. Anybody with the political wisdom of sushi would know that. Samuel Chandler, candidate in Portland House District 36, starts off his website biography by announcing that he’s recently completed a degree in “jazz piano performance.” I’m not sure how that’s applicable to the job he’s seeking. Later, he informs us he favors “cooperative

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models of Social Services,” but never bothers to explain what that means. The Green candidate in House District 97, Paige Brown of Northport, has a website that’s sole feature is a video of her answering inaudible questions about herself. Brown’s answers are also almost impossible to hear, but I think she said, “I believe in environmental issues” and that she opposed dredging and some sort of tank project. Although, given the quality of the audio, it could be the other way around. Before Alice Knapp of Richmond, a candidate in Senate District 23, tells visitors to her personal website (no campaign site yet) that she’s “a passionate advocate for health care system reform,” she informs them she was once a lobbyist for business interests at the Maine Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Way to play to the Green base. Even Greens who’ve run before don’t seem to have learned much from the experience. Thomas MacMillan got 27 percent of the vote in a Portland House race in 2012, beating the Republican nominee. But this year, his website isn’t yet operating. Asher Platts, making his second attempt to unseat Democratic state Senate President Justin Alfond of Portland, informs online readers that he’s “collaborated on many failed attempts to spark people’s imagination against Wall Street criminals.” Always good to stress one’s shortcomings. The Greens come off as a party badly in need of adult supervision. Lacking that, maybe they could bring back Jonathan Carter or Pat LaMarche. ^

Suggestions for chaperones and other advice may be emailed to me at aldiamon@herniahill.net, and I’ll pass it on to my Green pals.

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colossal conundrum My partner and I have been together for a few years and mostly have a great dynamic, but it is becoming clear that sexually (or anatomically, I should say), we are not matched. My penis sometimes hurts her. Ironically, I get the message from porn that my cock can’t be big enough. The bigger, the better! I am wondering if size does matter. Am I too big for the person I love? Is this a sign of incompatibility? I’m tired of thinking about it. _K.E.

“incompatibility is real. Sex is important in a relationship. Beauty fades. if this guy is thinking he’s going to want to have sex with this woman for the rest of his life, and this woman is in pain when she’s having sex, she’s not gonna want it, and that’s gonna cause problems. Unless she has a few children, or they can figure out what’s out there on the market as far as lubricants or toys or something... She wants to enjoy it, too!” _Ellen, 53, sales, interviewed at Trader Joe’s “Finding something that you can’t overcome is the thing that is going to end the relationship. in this case, the penis size is the issue. this could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. [But] i don’t think it’s the [sole] cause of a relationship ending; it would be a cause of a conversation that you can’t get through. in any relationship that you’ve had, has a single issue been the cause for a break up? i doubt it. if this is their only issue, then that is kind of shocking.” _Joshua, 31, photographer, interviewed at Marcy’s Diner “the compatibility part matters. certainly sexual compatibility is really important in any working relationship. if they’re not able to make it work other ways, i don’t think it can last. it just builds frustration, and i’ve definitely been in that position before. When it doesn’t match up sexually, it doesn’t work. if he’s questioning his relationship, its obviously cause for alarm. tough question.” _Martha, 29, server, interviewed at Bard “that’s really difficult, if it’s causing her pain and she’s not enjoying it. You don’t want your partner to be in terrible pain. i guess other than intercourse, if it satisfies you to have sex that’s not penetrative... i wonder if that’s satisfying. i’ve never had any friends who have had a long-term partner where that’s been the case. i guess non-penetrative sex, i suppose, might sustain?” _Derek, 21, in retail, interviewed on Exchange Street “i don’t think he’s too big; it’s dependant on how he uses it. i think that’s really important. its really important that they both be pleasured, too. he doesn’t necessarily have to have intercourse with his whole penis. is it just too big or too long? if its both, yikes. But she also needs to be a part of that, working with it. if its interfering where they aren’t having sex at all, could be a sign of incompatibility. compatibility is many pieces to the puzzle. if its lacking communication, sex... i don’t think the size of the penis [alone] is a sign of incompatibility.” _Ellen, 48, entrepreneur, interviewed at 7/11 on Congress Street My advice: this month’s question was a particularly difficult one to crowdsource. For starters, i kept running into people who didn’t know how to answer it, while others got defensive. dick size, evidently, is a sore topic for both genders. that made this question all the more important to ask, so i’m glad you wrote in, K.e. if you haven’t already, you and your partner need to discuss and explore the many different ways pleasure can be reached without full penis insertion, just as one portlander mentioned. however, if you both are the kind of lovers that like to ram and get rammed, then perhaps this relationship is inevitably fit to quit. not sure i believe in finding “the one,” but i do believe you can find “the one” vagina that will be bigger, better, and more comfortable for your colossal wang. And she’s gonna love it.

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all in a bad way.” “I believe it has more to do with our Johnson’s found that letting herself culture’s standards of beauty then anyRene Johnson had been posing for phobe objectified within the safe space of an thing. Long legs, large breasts, small tographers since age 14, but it was in a art class has done wonders for her own waist; young artists tend to rely on their particularly dark period nine years ago self-image. minds eye to draw before they trust their that her nude figure modeling career “It’s been a long journey to get here eyes and draw what they actually see in took off. and feel good about who I am, but doing front of them,” Johnson says. “I’d been looking for a fix; something figure modeling has been part of my own Downs has faced the same type of clinito help me and my body image, and I growth,” she says. cal criticism while posing at USM, and thought, what better way to figure out while he usually likes the renderings of how I feel about me than through a bunch himself, he’s found that of other people’s eyes?” Johnson says. Strike a poSe certain things are especially Starting out at MECA, Johnson has Johnson was at MECA liable to misrepresentation. since posed for students at SMCC, as well seeking a body painter “I have a kind of jagged as at home classes and private artists’ seswhen she struck up a conface, and it gets more sions. While she has slowly phased out versation with a receptionand more jagged in the modeling over the last few years, Johnson ist who asked if she had [drawings]. Also, my eyewas posing for three classes a week at the ever thought of fine art brows — which are very height of her time at MECA; the equivamodeling. large — still tend to get lent of nine hours spent naked every “I said ‘so you want me inflated,” he says. “It’s not week. She’s now had plenty of opportunito get naked in front of peoties to view herself through others’ lenses. like looking in a mirror, it’s ple?’, and she said ‘well yes, like seeing it through the “I’ve been seen naked by at least 1,000 there’s that too’.” lens of this person.” people at this point.” She started off posing Aside from the money This trial-by-fire approach to selffor an illustration class at and chance to legally exesteem might seem extreme, but the MECA, but didn’t actually ercise one’s exhibitionist academic atmosphere of a figure drawing _Jonathan downs disrobe her first time out. tendencies, both models say class gave Johnson the chance to hear her “I looked at the students there is something rewardbody described in an refreshingly abstract and just thought, I’m really ing about the experience and de-personalized way. close to their age and I see that sets it apart from the “You hear the same thing about your them on the street! So I totypical side job. body all the time. My features are diffitally chickened out and kept my bottoms “I’ve found it freeing in some abstract cult, I know that now,” she says, counton,” she recalls. way, sitting there — even with a bunch ing her lanky, angular body and uniquelyBy the time her next session with the of eyes scrutinizing your body — there’s flared nostrils among such traits. illustration class came around, she was something about being quiet, still, and Standing taller than the average womready to give them the full Monty. The renaked for two hours that’s meditative,” an, Johnson says male students especially sulting images surprised her. says Downs. “I feel like a utensil, not at tend to exaggerate her height. “I saw a bunch of stuff I hadn’t expected. It was an illustration class where they were writing children’s books, so it wasn’t just me, but all different kinds of me,” Johnson says. “By the end, I was hooked.” Downs looked into nude modeling gigs to fit his musician/student schedule after hearing about it from a friend. “It seemed to me like a bit of a challenge: to see if I will freak out if I’m naked in a room full of people,” he says. Going into his first day, Downs found himself hyper-aware of his own body. “I was really worried about my hygiene,” he says. “I normally don’t put deodorant on, but I did that day. I made sure every inch of my body was clean, but I didn’t do any, um... grooming, outside the normal run of things.” What Downs didn’t expect was the mental toll it takes to simply be still. “I remember struggling to hold some poses just because I would stop paying attention and catch myself rotating ever so slightly,” he says. As the hours spent au natural piled up, Downs learned how to alternate between poses and recognize his body’s limits. “There are some [poses] you would never imagine would cause discomfort unless you hold it,” he says. “It’s trial and error: I’ve had both legs fall asleep so when the beautiful inspiration rene Johnson says figure modeling helped her become more comfortable with her body.

Between his time on stage with postrock band Butcher Boy and two summers spent cranking around Portland on a pedicab, Jonathan Downs is a recognizable face around town. But it’s thanks to Downs’ other parttime pursuit that an increasing number of passers-by are recognizing him for something other than his face. “My friend’s seen you naked,” said a University of Southern Maine student in the back of Downs’ cab as he pedaled the increasingly giggly group of female underclassmen down the Maine State Pier last summer. As a nude figure model for USM studio art classes, Downs has posed 15 to 20 times a semester for the past three semesters, totaling some 70 hours spent naked in front of strangers. At this point, he’s gotten used to the occasional uncouth, outof-class recognition. “Anybody who hears something like that could think ‘are they a Peeping Tom? Is this somebody you’re intimate with or trying to get back at?’ The last thing they would probably think is that I’m employed to do it,” Downs says. From the art classes of USM, Maine College of Art, and Southern Maine Community College to private home workshops and one-on-one sessions, local figure models are getting naked for money and learning something about themselves in the process. But what motivates a person to face one of our greatest collective fears for $20 an hour?

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class is over I’m not able to get up and walk away, I‘m just sitting there.” What about other, even less desirable...stiffness? Downs says he has a foolproof stable of “awful, awful things [like] Russian gulags,” to muse on “if my mind starts to drift toward the sexual.” Coming from a ballet background, Johnson was used to holding difficult poses long before she stepped into the studio. Over the years she developed a repertoire of poses and hardly ever has to try anything new thanks to a fresh crop of students coming through MECA every three years, though she’s constantly trying to evolve her practice. “I use to do crazy, weird, super-dope poses, but as you get older your body changes,” she says. “[MECA instructor] Alex Rheault said ‘Rene, you don’t have to move so big. Just a simple shift or rotation and the class sees the picture in a whole different way. Calm down, think less.’.” Johnson’s newest challenge has been taking on 40-hour marathon poses for artist Joshua Langstaff and a home studio class. “It’s not 40 hours straight,” she explains, “but over maybe a month, you’ll hold a very difficult pose for 20 minutes at a time over a three-to-four hour timeframe.”

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corner,” he says. MECA students can be just as bad, according to Johnson. “Just as many of them don’t take it seriously and that can be pretty obnoxious,” she says. In fact, “I’ve had more incidents at MECA than at SMCC.” ‘Incidents’ include covertly taken cell gawkerS beware phone pictures and videos. “I’ve become Since he started posing for USM classes very good at being able to see it and I will three semester ago, Downs has modcall you out in front of the whole class if eled for both advanced and beginner you don’t erase it in front of me,” Johnson art classes. He says there is noticeable warns. “I don’t do this because I want to difference between those with talent and be seen by the world, I do it because people those looking to gawk their way through can learn from my skill. If you don’t rea studio art requirement. spect that, go away, there’s another way “I’ve felt a lot more comfortable in you can earn that credit.” the more advanced classes,” he says. “I Such creep-tastic behavior isn’t limited felt like people wanted me to be there, to students. “One male professor watched whereas in some intro classes, your presme disrobe, texted his friend and within ence seemed a little more of an affront two minutes two men — who had no reato people.” son to be there — came and stood there In one 100-level course, for example, for almost 20 minutes chit-chatting about Downs emerged from the bathroom in nothing,” says Johnson. his robe and noticed a particularly anxWhile she ranks private home studio ious-looking group of guys in one corner. classes as the most “respectful, quiet, “When I actually got naked there was an cozy” environment for posing, Johnson audible groan from somewhere in that says that MECA freshmen are typically her favorite to pose for largely because of the opportunity it gives her to educate them on the artist’s relationship with the model. “I love having the opportunity to walk in and say, this is who I am and this is something I take seriously so you should take it seriously. I am not some wooden statue that is untouchable.” Johnson says. While both Downs and Johnson have become more comfortable with their bodies since they started posing, the experience can still be nerve-wracking. “It’s still just as terrifying,” Johnson admits. “Every time I disrobe I stand there for the first 15 minutes deciding why everything in front of them is disgusting, then I find time to breathe and remind myself I’m here because the thinker downs modeled for this pencil drawing by I love who I am and they aileen andrews. love who I am.” ^

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great prizes, and a cash bar. It’s a fundraiser for the non-profit arts organization. 7 pm; $8. Waterfall Arts, 256 High St., Belfast. 207.388.2222. FEIST YOuR HEART OuT | Legendary, haunting, whimsical singer-songwriter Feist plays Portsmouth’s Historic Theater tonight as a headliner for the Portsmouth Singer Songwriter Festival; Johnnyswim (a popfolk-soul duo from Nashville) and keVin Drew (like Feist, he’s a Broken Social Scene alum) open. Shows starts at 7 pm; tix are $42-48. 131 Congress St., Portsmouth, NH. 603.436.2400.

saturday 12 LOVE ME DO | Have you ever

f alChemystiCs, at Reggae Fest, in Carrabassett Valley on April 12.

heard of the Beatles? JKJK. If you’re a fan, don’t miss the all toGether now tribute band show this Saturday at Jonathan’s in Ogunquit. This group of New England rockers may not be a Beatles look-alike band, but they sure do get the music and the energy right. The interactive show, which is “interspersed with nostalgic TV commercials from the ’60s,” gets you out of your seat and onto the dance floor shaking it like it’s 1965. 9 pm. Jonathan’s, 92 Bourne Ln., Ogunquit. $15. 207.646.4777. POETRY FEST | The 12th an-

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thursday 10 HOLLERIN’ LADIES | Using clever and original harmonies, Pretty Girls sinG soPrano have built a strong following among local music lovers. Their sound combine the group’s interests of acoustic and a cappella music to make lovely soul-freeing tunes. Check them out tonight at Local Sprouts Cooperative. 7 pm. 649 Congress St., Portland. 207.899.3529. DREDS FEST | Sugarloaf’s annual music festival, the Bud Light reGGae Fest, gets going tonight. This year’s line up includes bands such as Renegade Soundstation, Royal Hammer, Kiwi, Green Lion Crew, Catchavibe, Alchemystics, Soul Rebel Project, and Iration. If you can’t make any of Thursday’s shows, don’t worry. The festival runs all weekend. Sugarloaf, 5092 Access Rd., Carrabassett Valley. $5-$29. sugarloaf.com. SuSTAINAbLE SuDS | Those who are environmentally conscious should head over to Bull Feeney’s this evening for the first monthly sierra Club Pub GatherinG, aimed at bring-

ing together local, like-minded environmentalists in Portland and the surrounding areas. City Councilor Jon Hinck will stop by this month’s installment to discuss policy ideas and brainstorm ways to help make Portland a greener city. Discussion topics will range from the proposed municipal plastic bag and Styrofoam ordinances to a huge anti-Keystone rally planned for May. 6-7:30 pm. Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St., Portland. FMI call 207.761.5616.

friday 11 OLD ScHOOL | Nothing like a little nostalgia on a Friday night. Head over to Bubba’s Sulky Lounge for “80’s niGht” with DJ Jon. Fair warning: Folks take this ’80s thing pretty seriously, so squeeze into that old leotard, tease your hair, and get ready to boogie. Dressing up will get you into the dance club for free, and you’ll be entered into a contest to win 50 bucks. Can’t beat that with a stick. Or a pair of Doc Martens. Whatever you’re into. The fun gets started at 8:30 pm.

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University of Maine at Augusta. This year’s festival features several poets from around Maine, as well as readings from emerging voices and a conversation about poetry in our schools. The festival is held each year to honor Terry Plunkett who taught English at the University of Maine for 30 years. Free. University of Maine - Augusta, Randall Student Center, 46 University Dr., Augusta. 207.621.3000. bAYSIDE bOMb | Bayside Bowl has a very solid pop/rock line up tonight. First up is an unplugged solo performance from sam anDerson, of the band Serious Rooms. Portland’s newest all-girl band, tiGer bomb, goes on second, fronted by Lynda Mandolyn of the San Fran riot grrrrl group Fabulous Disaster and Chris Horne of Portland’s The Brood. Wrapping up the night is the ever-eclectic Johnny Cremains band, who will be performing new songs from their soon-to-bereleased album. Free admission; all ages. 8pm. 58 Adler St., Portland. 207.791.2695.

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this weekend is Snowlion Repertory Company’s new production, the elePhant PieCe. The show, which the Village Voice described

$5 (if you’re a party pooper who won’t dress up). 92 Portland St., Portland. 207.828.0549. NOT HERE | This Thursday and Friday, activists gathered in New Gloucester for Not Here: A Conference on Human Trafficking (not-here.me). Tonight, the conference comes to a conclusion with “artists CombattinG traFFiCkinG,” a benefit concert and art show featuring Brunswick folkster JuD Caswell, the aCCenDo DanCe ComPany, and Maine classic-rock band hollow boDy eCleCtiC, who will be joined by members of the DaPonte strinG Quartet and the Vox noVa Chamber Choir to perform the world premiere of an original piece entitled “Now is the Time.” The program begins at 5 pm; find a full schedule at explorefrontier.com. It’s free, with donations accepted, at Fort Andross Mill, in Brunswick. FOOLISH POETS | Waterfall Arts’ annual Poets anD Fools

f bobby mCFerrin, at Merrill Auditorium, in Portland on April 13. as a “minstrel show cum Clockwork Orange,” tells a musical story full of elephant lore, surreal imagery, and plenty of song and dance. The cast includes local actors such as David Arthur Bachrach, Cathy Counts, Kara Haupt, Timothy Hartel, and John Kreutzberger. $35-45. 7:30 pm. At Portland Stage Company’s Studio Theater, 25A Forest Ave., Portland. snowlionrep.org.

blues of the ’20s and ’30s, but he successfully blends more modern roots music into his performances. And his upbeat banter is sure to put a smile on your face. Andy’s Old Port Pub, 94 Commercial St., Portland. 207.874.2639.

| Ten-time Grammy Award winning vocalist and conductor bobby mCFerrin comes to Portland tonight as a part of his Spirit You All tour, featuring traditionals, spirituals, and original songs that pay homage to his father, the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera Company. In performance, McFerrin integrates a lifetime of musical influences; this time around he’s backed by a five-piece band. $70, $60, $45. Portland Ovations, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. 207.842.0800.

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naked (fortunately and unfortunately). It’s about showcasing the power of Shakespeare’s language by saying it out loud, in non-traditional venues, without the fancy lighting, sets, and costumes that usually accompany Shakespeare performances. Do you see now why it’s called “naked”? Slainte hosts the next Naked Shakespeare event tonight at 7:30 pm. 24 Preble St., Portland. 207.828.0900. RIcH MAN, POOR MAN | Feeling blue? Check out Poor howarD at Andy’s Old Port Pub this Monday. A Kansas City native, coming to us by way of the Minneapolis folk-blues scene of the 1960s, “Poor Howard” Stith has been playing 12-string barrelhouse blues for over 30 years. His style is inspired by country

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the Portland Public Library? Join Dr. Dustin Sulak and Martin Lee (author of the book Smoke Signals) for an informative discussion about how weed works and why it’s safe for children and adults to use medically. At 6 pm in the Rines Auditorium at the Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland. For more info call 207.482.0188. FROM THE INSIDE | Maine Inside Out has been doing important work at the Long Creek Youth Development Center for several years, collaborating with incarcerated youth to create and share original theater both inside and outside that correctional facility. This evening at Westbrook High School, a group of young men present Journey Through PunishmenT, a performance piece that delves into youth substance abuse, followed by a panel discussion. The event is hosted in collaboration with Westbrook Communities that Care; it’s free and open to the public from 6:30-8 pm. 125 Stroudwater St., Westbrook. Email maineinsideout@gmail. com for more information.

WEdnEsday 16 ScOOPS FOR GOOD | If you

find yourself in Brunswick today, make sure to honor the warming

temperatures by participating in the Gelato FiasCo’s sCooP-athon. This very popular yearly fundraiser put on by the flagship sweet shop helps raise cash for the Brunswick Teen Center, with the store donating 100 percent of today’s sales to the center. Last year they raised over five grand — pretty sweet! Starting at 11 am. Gelato Fiasco, 74 Maine St., Brunswick. 207.699.4314. SMALL TOWN HuMOR | Comedian Jay GroVe will serve up the laughs at Cara Irish Pub & Restaurant in Dover, New Hampshire tonight. This comedian is notorious for his hilarious tales of growing up in a small town and his rapport with the crowd. Couple that with Cara’s reputation for really good beer and grub and you’ve got yourself a pretty solid Wednesday night. But watch out: Grove’s known as having a “knack for dealing with hecklers.” 9 pm. 11 Fourth St., Dover, NH. 603.343.4390.

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Assembling outstanding, historically significant works of art does not necessarily make for an excellent exhibition. This is unfortunately true for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography,â&#x20AC;? on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. For this show, the Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already impressive holdings of surrealist and modernist photography are augmented by loans from galleries and major institutions. As such, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Under the Surfaceâ&#x20AC;? constitutes a rare opportunity to see a vital aspect of the art movement in depth. While writing was initially the favored medium for probing the human psyche, photography played an important supportive role that is evidenced by display â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PoUPĂ&#x2030;e atoP Broken wicker chairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ca. 1935, by copies of surrealist journals and hans Bellmer, gelatin silver print. ÂŠ 2014 artists rights magazines, many of them consociety (ars), new York / adagp, paris. taining photographic images. Photography is in fact often considered best suited to emA bigger problem is the conflation of surbodying surrealismâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basic principles. Its realism â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the early-20th-century radical art instantaneousness and purported minimal impulse â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with surreal-looking images and authorship presumably make it most rethose of later artists. sponsive to the photographerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and viewBerenice Abbott may serve as the examersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; subconscious desires; its close relationple here. She did assist Ray in Paris but is ship to visible reality introduces levels of hardly known as a surrealist. Her distorted veracity and ubiquity not associated with self-portrait, for which she used a distorany other visual medium. tion easel she invented herself, was actually Surrealists utilized photography to exintended as an advertisement for the same. plore the invisible and unknowable in three This undefined inclusiveness may inadbasic ways: to capture found scenes of sugvertently expose one of surrealismâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weakgestive incongruity; to manipulate imagery nesses and strengths at the same time, in the darkroom; and to document actions which remains largely unaddressed in the of a surrealist bent, including oddly charged exhibition itself: over time, the surreal aesjuxtapositions of objects. The majority of thetic became dislodged from its original, images in the exhibition are examples of revolutionary intent, and appropriated as a these uses by the most acclaimed artists in purely formal idiom by visual makers from the field, including Hans Bellmer, Claude all walks of life, especially advertising. Cahun, RenĂŠ Magritte, and Man Ray. Object labels and the essay in the handBellmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contorted, violated â&#x20AC;&#x153;dollsâ&#x20AC;? are still some, free brochure pose another problem. hypnotic. In one of her best-known selfThe overarching focus is on technical aspects portraits, Cahun presents herself as a stylof the photographs, again and again spellized symbol of femininity, a puppet of her ing out processes in detail. Photographic own making. Magritteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s self-portrait, which experimentation was important and attensubstitutes one of his paintings for his torso, tion to process can be interesting, but more is both playful and meaningful. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also frequent augmentation with other kinds of one of Rayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early â&#x20AC;&#x153;rayographs.â&#x20AC;? The roster of analysis would have been welcomed. artists rightly expands beyond the European For an exhibition of works of this historicircle to include the Americas. Among those, cal importance and artistic caliber and at Juan CrisĂłstomo MĂŠndez Ă valosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fetishistic a university museum of Bowdoinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stature enactments are an intriguing discovery. I expect a more complex and nuanced preSo why is this not an excellent show? sentation that projects at least awareness of Not for the art, but for the presentation and theoretical and problematic issues, critical texts. While not distracting, the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reception, and continued influence. When grouping into traditional themes, such as viewing the exhibition I suggest letting still lifes and portraits, seems unnecessary the artworks speak for themselves as the and subtly undermines surrealistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; resisirresolvable enigmas that they are, which tance to categorizing their own endeavors. makes for a rich and provocative viewing And while some images certainly evoke an experience not to be missed. ^ often raised suspicion of misogyny within the movement (such as AndrĂŠ KertĂŠszâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Under the SUrface: SUrrealiSt turbing distortions of the female body that PhotograPhyâ&#x20AC;? through June 1 | at the Bowwere commissioned by a â&#x20AC;&#x153;bawdyâ&#x20AC;? magadoin college Museum of art, 9400 college zine), only one object label makes a passing Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3275 | bowdoin. reference to this possibility by mentioning edu/art-museum that women photographers chose female models as well. 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woodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s underwater footage in the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lakes and rivers is surprisingly clear, beautiful, and all the more fascinating for being our own landscape. Underwood shows us railroad tracks in Sebago Lake, the mesmerizingly long, red stems of lily pads, and the underwater dive of a loon, then video-profiles a long-time volunteer monitor of water clarity in Lake Megunticook, gently connecting our pleasure in the images to a sense of responsibility to preserve it. Underwood performs his carefully crafted script with an air of discovery, an appealing artlessness (he even acknowledges up front that he may have to call for a line or two), and above all, a beatific affection. He has a light comic hand with the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s various voices and gags (as a French instructor, as the Slavic Stepanek, and as Canadian and Brit friends with whom he begins an epic magic mushroom experience on the beach in Thailand), and with the more weighty matters of coming out and self-acceptance, he is candid without coming across as self-indulgent or confessional. Ultimately, the endeavor of Underwaterguy achieves what seems born of a gratifyingly whole and natural impulse: Underwood seeks to fully and joyfully immerse himself in the world, and to share with us the delight of that immersion. ^

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tHRee KellY ReIcHaRdt fIlMS coMIng to pMa _BY cHR IStop H eR gRa Y The films of Kelly Reichardt examine political and socioeconomic tumult in the midst of intense, occasionally overwhelming quietude. The director, one of the most admired and resourceful voices in American independent cinema, appears at the Portland Museum of Art Friday night to participate in a weekend-long retrospective of her three most recent films. Reichardt will discuss her latest work, 2010’s Meek’s Cutoff. It is set in 1845, and follows three couples venturing westward over the Cascade Mountains under the leadership of an obstinate, unreliable trail guide. 2008’s Wendy and Lucy (showing Saturday) is also concerned with a woman heading west: Michelle Williams’s Wendy has left her family in Indiana in order to find work at a fish cannery in Alaska, but she loses her dog and most of her budget during a pit stop in Oregon. In Old Joy, from 2006 and playing Sunday, two old friends reunite and tiptoe around the imperceptible damage that both time and distance have wreaked upon their relationship. However modest in premise, the defining characteristic of Reichardt’s cinema is its quietly bold insistence that class and politics play a dominant role in our social relations. Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy, in particular, have become potent historical documents. By way of its protagonist, the former unearths the age of defeatist liberalism before the rise of congenial, Obama/MSNBC-era progressivism. Daniel London’s expectant father Mark is coded as the pragmatic humanist, listening to Air America before he picks up Will Oldham’s Kurt for a hike. Kurt, a likable drifter, makes pained, earnest attempts to recover the old spark in their bond, but Mark is incapable of reciprocating. Reichardt shrewdly, imperceptibly alters our sympathies over the course of the film: at first, we chortle at Kurt’s rootlessness; later, we are devastated by Mark’s lack of empathy. Its memorable final shots exacerbate the crisis of where our emotional and ideological sympathies should lie. Wendy and Lucy is blunter but equally fraught. Released, by chance, in the nadir of the 2008 financial crisis, the film brutally chronicles the ways in which an

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insensitive bureaucracy has pervaded American culture. Wendy’s shoestring budget comes unraveled over the course of two days in an anonymous town, as car trouble and run-ins with self-proclaimed authorities force her to increasingly desperate actions in order to partake of fundamental needs, such as food and sleep. Wendy’s purgatory feels overdetermined, but Reichardt’s attempt to portray a rigged social ladder remains commendable. Understated in their formalism, these two films are devoted to the details of lived experience, but they’re positively breezy when compared to Meek’s Cutoff, Reichardt’s forbidding, austere masterpiece. Filmed in the boxy, “Academy ratio” of classic Hollywood westerns, the movie upends the mythology of that genre: Reichardt’s travelers become trapped in an unending landscape, and the film is devoted to their quotidian struggles. Much of the film consists of producing food, building fires, and rationing belongings. (Nothing if not withholding and audience-unfriendly, the film consists of many distant long shots, and is more or less resistant to home viewing.) In whispers often difficult to hear, its characters question the guidance of Bruce Greenwood’s garrulous Stephen Meek, who captures a “threatening” native who may lead them to water and other resources. The men (Will Patton, Paul Dano, Neal Huff) become passive under Meek’s questionable leadership, while the women (Michelle Williams, Zoe Kazan, Shirley Henderson) become restive. Again, the film is politically pointed — Meek has been interpreted as Bush/Cheney figure, and the film’s bracing finale marks the end of a steady reversal of perceived gender roles — but the elemental wallop of Reichardt’s craft is the real revelation here. Her work is increasingly concerned with exposing bogus power structures, but her heart remains avowedly with the physical struggles of her characters. ^

For more information and showtimes visit pmamovies.org. Christopher Gray can be reached at christopher.ellis. gray@gmail.com.

ANYTHING BUT MEEK In Kelly Reichardt’s 2010 film, Meek’s Cutoff, the women (l to r: Shirley Henderson, Zoe Kazan, and Michelle Williams) become restive.

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Olas will tell you they’re more family than band, but maybe that’s not so uncommon. Actually realizing the nature of the relationship? That’s rarely talked about — the intimacy and intensity of the experience of playing music with someone else. Maybe it’s those bands who embrace that reality and explore the inner reaches of each others’ souls that produce the truly transcendent works. Maybe that’s as silly as arguing that “chemistry” helps win baseball games. Regardless, the band have newly created Cada Nueva Ola, as rollicking as any family dinner table. The latest five songs from Portland’s premier flamenco outfit offer a wild emotional ride, from life-affirming highs to soul-searching lows, explosively crafted from acoustic guitars, an oud, and the various percussive sounds created by hands on hands and body and shoes on floor. This is music for hair-wrenching and wild abandon, impulsive shouts, whoops, and hollers. Alongside the new EP, being released on vinyl, the band will also issue videos for the first three songs, directed and edited by Ali Mann, with help from David Meiklejohn and Nick Poulin. Watch them first. They

lend a great appreciation for the work Olas do, for the performative construction of the songs, and for the sense of purpose that infuses this group’s efforts. Ushered in by an upbeat strum build from Chriss Sutherland and Leif Sherman Curtis on guitars, and the cycling riffage of Tom Kovacevic on the oud, it’s hard not to be impressed by the gravity of Lindsey Bourassa and Megan Keogh’s movements in “Mis Amores Han Desparacido.” Their shoes echo precisely off the floor, invited by a storm of claps from Molly Angie and Anna Giamaiou, who also provide ooo-ooo backing vocals. Sutherland, too, sounds particularly insistent and impassioned, but the translation of the Spanish lyrics reveals a more contemplative message: “A great wind came through my life/ Carried and scattered my friends around the world/ A test perhaps?/ I don’t know.” The sheer athleticism on display by Bourassa in “Baya Song” is impressive in its own right, as she rips 32nd notes with her feet while muscling her way around the floor (perhaps the earlier baseball metaphor was inspired the fact that she has the quick feet of an elite second baseman).

Again, though, they belie their seriousness by opening up into a power-pop chorus (in relative terms) and repeatedly belting out “soy invincible” with an insistence that’s incredibly compelling. I wanted to quit my job and write a novel, right away. Listen to this with a buzz on and you might find yourself halfway to the airport with nothing but a passport and an extra change of underwear. The look on Bourassa’s face is incredibly determined. It’s life and death. This is the mantra of people who need to tell themselves they’re invincible just to get by, the oratory of the underdog, those people who have nothing else. The song is the same kind of subversive pop that KGFREEZE worked with “Better Falsetto,” when it comes down to it. Olas don’t take the easy way out, and they aren’t some kind of sunshine-all-day bullshit artists, but they are fiercely into what they do and offer a version of the world that’s hard not to fall in love with. I wish I spoke Spanish so I could better appreciate the biting realism of the “Phar Lap” verse, “Beating dead horses/ You know how they say/ You won’t want me tomorrow/

Remembering Dave Lamb

on april 5th, david lamb of the providence band Brown Bird died of leukemia at the age of 35. lamb lived in portland from around 2003 until 2011, during which time he founded Brown Bird as a solo project that evolved into a collaborative one, most notably with his wife morganeve Swain. their music had a large following in maine, selling out two record release shows at one longfellow Square last april (for their excellent sixth lp fits of Reason), while being covered several times by the phoenix, most recently for the cover story “Brown Bird is not a Folk Band.” in his memory, we compiled a modest list of remembrances from fellow artists.

From Jeff Prystowsky of the Providence band Low Anthem: today our dear friend dave lamb passed away. he was 35 years old and had been fighting leukemia for the past year. i was lucky to spend the day with his family and close friends gathered together from the hospital to support each other and share stories and memories of his life. the vibe in that room was inspiring. many of the people i met for the first time, since dave had so many friends, and not one did i find who wasn’t a) an incredible human being full of love and heart and b) didn’t have great little-known stories about dave, like how he could keep a beat at the drums while walking around the kit! i felt immediately comfortable and welcomed into

Brown Bird’s extended family. as heartbroken as we were, it was attest to how dave’s spirit still lingered on that such a community could spring forth naturally from his loved ones of different periods of his life. From Boston/Bar Harbor musician Audrey Ryan: in 2008 dave lamb and i went on a solo tour in the midwest, mid-atlantic, and back up thru new england. one of my most vivid memories of that tour was sitting at a bar in albany before a show with Wye oak and dave saying to me, “i just want to make music and travel like this, that can’t be that hard, can it?” he wanted me to affirm him but at the time i was starting to be convinced that maybe it was too hard. part of me really wanted to set dave straight, tell him it wouldn’t be easy for him to make a living at his art. But he had those smiling eyes that seemed so innocent and quietly determined; i just couldn’t play his devil’s advocate. looking back now i just feel so glad that he got to live his dream despite the odds. he made beautiful music, wrote timeless songs, and got to travel and live off of his art. that night he played “By the reins” and had people stomping their feet and dancing, i thought to myself, “this is a hit,” and it is the first song of his i’ve ever learned to cover. now it is my job, and every other musician who knew and loved dave, to learn Brown Bird

But you love me today,” in their most Flamenco song on the album. They’re gorgeous without trying to convince you they’re pretty. They close with two traditional numbers, “Volare” and “La Llorona,” that may be familiar to those already tuned into Spanish music. The former, written and popularized by Domenico Modugno (think Dean Martin), they update to a modern stringband tune, all kinds of charming. And then Olas absolutely crush your hopes and dreams with the dark and brooding story of La Llorona, a mythical “weeping woman,” with shoes on the floor sounding like echoes of gunfire in the distance. Sutherland nails the desperation of a woman who drowned her children for a man, only to have him reject her. That’s the kind of bad decision family sometimes forces you into, one that shatters hearts and tears at souls. But family, too, is a bedrock on which you can build toward the highest heights; and Olas have, again, truly created a monument here. ^

then turned to me and said quite bluntly, “your friend is so handsome, i always like a man with a beard.” it was a true harold and maude moment. Somewhat startled, i made eye contact both with dave and morganeve and we tried to keep our smiles from becoming a full-blown laugh. after the show when dave and morganeve were packing up the van i said to dave, “i bet you haven’t been hit on by an 87-year-old woman before, have you?” dave chuckled with his smiling eyes and said, “nope, that was a first.”

kindRed SPiRitS morganeve Swain and Dave lamb of brown bird. songs and keep playing them during our sets as a tribute, to give our old friend a voice. in September of 2011, i played a show with Brown Bird at the lompoc in Bar harbor. Before the show we were hanging out eating dinner there and my friend and old boss thistle Brown (who ran Wingspread Gallery in northeast harbor) joined us. thistle was about 87 years old at the time (she actually passed away that winter) and was a true original hippie artist. She sat drinking a glass of chardonnay, sipping her soup, and kept smiling at dave across the table. She

From Portland theater artist Aurora White: i’ve been thinking all day about what to write for my tribute to dave lamb, wrestling with which memory to choose. each one is like a single note, while the six years of memories are the whole song. ours is a song that began and ended with laughter and storytelling; love and friends. there are too many notes for this short piece, so instead i leave you with the lessons that i learned from my dear friend and how he lived his life: always have a twinkle in your eye and a smile. however possible, have an epic beard. always have music in your life. come home when you find true love. Go to faraway places and make new friends. look at the biggest obstacles as set backs and plan for the future. make great memories.

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CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Biddeford | karaoke with DJ Caleb Biggers

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RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth |

GFB SCOTTISH PUB | Old Orchard

Beach | Robert Johnson Project

mic | 7 pm

CHOP SHOP PUB | Seabrook | Funnel DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

wich | Steve Jones | noon

NARAL’S EXPERIENCE ARABIA |

Auburn | open mic with Johnny Rock

NEWCASTLE PUBLICK HOUSE | Newcastle | Paul Mellyn

NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | Bangor | DJ Baby Bok Choy + DJ T-Coz | 8 pm

OLD GOAT | Richmond | open mic | 8 pm

OLD MILL PUB | Skowhegan | Old Lib-

NEW HAMPSHIRE THURSDAY 10

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT |

Dover | bluegrass jam with Steve Roy

| 9 pm

CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | Ken Ormes Trio

CHOP SHOP PUB | Seabrook | karaoke | 8 pm

DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Jim Dozet | 9 pm

FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover |

Erin’s Guild

GARY’S RESTAURANT & SPORTS LOUNGE | Rochester | Jerry Rigged LILAC CITY GRILLE | Rochester | Tony Santesse

MARTINGALE WHARF | Portsmouth | Dave Gerard | 9 pm

MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | Nor-

man Bishop

PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Chris

DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Well-

BRITISH BEER COMPANY | Portsmouth | Tim Theriault Band CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | Drama Squad DJs

CHOP SHOP PUB | Seabrook | Wildside DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

mouth | karaoke

SUNDAY 13

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT | Dover | karaoke

THE HOLY GRAIL | Epping | Chris O’Neil | 8 pm

ORCHARD STREET CHOP SHOP | Do-

ver | open mic with Dave Ogden | 8 pm

THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Ben

TUESDAY 15

BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth |

“Honky Tonk Night,” with Seldom Playwrights BRAMBER VALLEY BAR-B-BAR | Greenland | open mic | 7 pm

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT | Dover | Celtic bluegrass open session | 7 pm

WEDNESDAY 16

BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth | open

mic | 8:30 pm

CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | karaoke DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

mouth | open mic | 8 pm HARLOW’S PUB | Peterborough | open

Dave Nappi | 5 pm CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | Drama Squad DJs

THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Green

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Lion Crew | 8 pm

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BOB MARLEY [COMEDIAN] | 9 pm |

Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St, Lewiston | 207.689.2000

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

GRAIG MURPHY + MIKE PRIOR + MATT KONA | 8 pm | Tupelo Music

Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $18-23 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com MARK SCALIA | Cara Irish Pub & Restaurant, 11 Fourth St, Dover, NH | 603.343.4390 PAUL REISER | 6 + 8:30 pm | Husson University, Gracie Theatre, 1 College Circle, Bangor | $25-32 | 207.941.7051

TOM CLARK: “TOURISTS, TEENAGERS, TECHNOLOGY, & OTHER THINGS THAT AIN’T RIGHT” | 8 pm |

Spire 29, 29 School St, Gorham | $10 | 207.222.2068

SUNDAY 13

“COMEDYPALOOZA SHOWCASE” WITH TIM HOFMANN, ET AL. | 8 pm | Big Easy, 55 Market St, Portland | $3 | 207.894.0633 or www.bigeasyportland.com

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

OPEN MIC | 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

WEDNESDAY 16

THURSDAY 10

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

FRIDAY 11

FEIST + JOHNNYSWIM + KEVIN DREW | 7 pm | Historic Theater, Music

Hall, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $42,$48 | 603.436.2400 or themusichall.org/tickets GARY SREDZIENSKI + SERFS | 7:30 pm | The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | $12-15 | 207.439.0114 LADY LAMB THE BEEKEEPER | 8 pm | Music Hall, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $20 | 603.436.2400 or themusichall.org/tickets/index.asp LIVINGSTON TAYLOR | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $35 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com PATTY LARKIN | Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St, Bath | $18-$20 | 207.442.8455 or chocolatechurcharts.org PORTLAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA | 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $15 | 207.935.7292 REGGAE FEST | See listing for Thurs ROD PICOTT + AMY BLACK | 8 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $15-20 | 207.761.1757

SYNTHETIV VISION + DESPOILER + DV-I + URARIDER + VIDEO NASTIES |

8 pm | Strange Maine, 578 Congress St, Portland | by donation | 207.771.9997

ALL TOGETHER NOW [BEATLES TRIBUTE] | 9 pm | Jonathan’s,

RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth |

THURSDAY 17

BRITISH BEER COMPANY | Portsmouth | Jackson Wetherbee | 9 pm

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT |

Dover | bluegrass jam with Steve Roy | 9 pm

Portsmouth, NH | 603.436.9289

| 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

CONCERTS

CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | Ken Ormes

CLASSICAL

CHOP SHOP PUB | Seabrook | karaoke

THURSDAY 10

DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Preciphist | 9 pm

GARY’S RESTAURANT & SPORTS LOUNGE | Rochester | Red Sky Mary LILAC CITY GRILLE | Rochester | Dan

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“COMEDY NIGHT,” WITH JAY GROVE

MARTINGALE WHARF | Portsmouth |

Proudly Featuring Head Chef John Dugans and Head Brewer Rob Prindall

| Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St, Waterville | $20 | 207.873.7000

ready | Evaredy | 9 pm

THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Eva-

| 8 pm

mouth | karaoke

DARWIN’S WAITING ROOM: “COMICALITY,” SKETCH COMEDY

DAPONTE STRING QUARTET | 8 pm

SATURDAY 12

Dover | Irish session | 5 pm

DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

Suites, 1777 Washington St South, Auburn | $10 | 207.777.1777

WEDNESDAY 16

“COMEDY NIGHT,” PERFORMERS TBA | Rusty Hammer, 49 Pleasant St,

Trio

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT |

BRIAN BRINEGAR + TUCK TUCKER + NICK LAVALLEE + MICHELE MORTENSEN | 8 pm | Fireside Inn &

mic | 8 pm

BRITISH BEER COMPANY | Portsmouth | Brickyard Blues | 1 pm

FRIDAY 11

CARTELLI’S BAR AND GRILL | Dover |

MONDAY 14

FRIDAY 11

COMEDY 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

USM YOUTH ENSEMBLES | 7 pm | Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | $8, $5 seniors/students | 207.842.0800

SATURDAY 12

BOWDOIN ORCHESTRA | 3 pm | Bow-

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

TAPESTRY SINGERS OF NEWCASTLE | Sat-Sun sat 7:30 ; sun 3 pm |

Lincoln Theater, 2 Theater St, Damariscotta | 207.563.3424

SUNDAY 13

BOWDOIN COLLEGE CONCERT BAND | 2 pm | Bowdoin College, Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.798.4141 CARMINA BURANA | 3 pm | University of Maine - Orono, Collins Center for the Arts, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono | $16 - $40 | 207.581.1755

TAPESTRY SINGERS OF NEWCASTLE | See listing for Sat VIRGINIA ESKIN, PIANO | Virginia

Eskin | 3 pm | St. Luke’s Cathedral, 143 State St, Portland | $25, students free | 207.772.5434

TUESDAY 15

PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | 9:15 pm | Bates College, Olin

Arts Center, 75 Russell St, Lewiston | 207.786.6135

220S | 9 pm | Ipanema Bar & Grill, 10 Broad St, Bangor | 207.942.5180

92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit | $15 | 207.646.4777 or jonathansrestaurant. com DAN HICKS & THE HOT LICKS | 7:30 pm | Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St, Bath | $25-28 | 207.442.8455 or chocolatechurcharts. org JERRY DOUGLAS | 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $30 | 207.935.7292 LUCY KAPLANSKY | 8 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $20-25 | 207.761.1757 NATALIE MERCHANT | 8 pm | Music Hall, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $69-75 | 603.436.2400 or themusichall.org/tickets/index.asp OPUS ONE BIG BAND | 7 pm | Scarborough High School, Alumni Gymnasium, Rt 1, Scarborough | $15 REBEL RIOT | Happy Acres Hall, 3704 Bennoch Rd, Alton REGGAE FEST | See listing for Thurs

TIME PILOTS + BOB CHAREST BAND

| Landing At Pine Point, 353 Pine Point Rd, Scarborough | $15 | 207.774.4527

SUNDAY 13

BOBBY MCFERRIN: “SPIRIT YOU ALL” | 7 pm | Portland Ovations, Mer-

rill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | $70, $60, $45 | 207.842.0800

CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS + AOIFE O’DONOVAN | 8 pm | Stone

TUCKERMANS AT 9 + STAIRWELLS | 7 pm | Garrison Players Arts Center, 650 Portland Ave, Rollinsford, NH | $18, $15 youth | 603.516.4919

TUESDAY 15

CAROLE KING | benefit | 9:30 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd,

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AFRO-CARIBBEAN DANCE PARTY

| 9 pm | Slainte, 24 Preble St, Portland | 207.828.0900 INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE | 6:30 pm | People Plus/Brunswick, 35 Union St, Brunswick | $8, $5 seniors/ students | 207.700.7577

Listings Continued from p 21 Londonderry, NH | $150 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com

GOLD LIGHT + DYING FALLS + ELM BOLT + LISA/LIZA | 6 pm | Bunker

Brewing Co, 122 Anderson St, Portland JEFF BEAM + BUTCHER BOY | 8 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $5 | 207.761.1757 LONG TIME COURTING | 7 pm | Skye Theatre, 2 Highland Dr, Carthage | $15 | 207.562.4445

THURSDAY 17

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO + SENSITIVE BOYS | 8 pm | Tupelo Music

Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $30 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com NELLY | 8 pm | University of New Hampshire, Whittemore Center Arena, 128 Main St, Durham, NH | 603.862.4000

TAKING BACK SUNDAY + TONIGHT ALIVE + SLEEPWAVE | 8 pm | State

Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $25-30 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland.com

“TURNSTILE THURSDAY,” FREEFORM OPEN MIC | See listing for Thurs

SATURDAY 12

CONTRADANCE | 8 pm | Topsham

Grange Hall, 47 Pleasant St, Topsham | $10, $7 seniors/students | 207.233.4325

WEDNESDAY 16

WEDNESDAY NIGHT STOMP WITH PORTLAND SWING PROJECT | 7:30

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

THURSDAY 17

SALSA DANCING WITH DJ BRAULIO |

See listing for Thurs

PERFORMANCE THURSDAY 10

“LITERALLY BURLESQUE,” USM STUDENT SHOW | 7:30 pm | One

Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $8, $5 students | 207.761.1757

FRIDAY 11 CINDERELLA |

SATURDAY 12

CINDERELLA | See listing for Fri THE LASANSKY STUDIO OF DANCE 2014 | 7 pm | Camden Opera House, 29

DANCE

Elm St, Camden | $14 adults, children $8 | 207.236.7963 | www.camdenoperahouse.com

PARTICIPATORY THURSDAY 10

SALSA DANCING WITH DJ BRAULIO | 8 pm | Pearl, 444 Fore St, Portland | $5 | 207.653.8486

RYAN P CASEY: “CLASS ACT: AN EVENING OF TAP DANCE” | 7:30 pm |

The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | $16-20 | 207.439.0114

SPRING DANCE CONCERT | See listing for Fri

REGGAE FEST | See listing for Thurs

SATURDAY 12

SUNDAY 13

CINDERELLA | See listing for Fri

THURSDAY 17

SPRING DANCE PERFORMANCE | 8

pm | Bowdoin College, Pickard Theater, Bath Rd, Brunswick | 207.725.3103 | www.msmt.org

EVENTS THURSDAY 10

SIERRA CLUB MONTHLY PUB GATHERING | a gathering of environ-

mental activists in Portland | 6 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | 207.773.7210

FRIDAY 11

“POETS & FOOLS COSTUME PARTY” | variety show with poets, storytellers, musicians, performers, food, & raffle | 7 pm | Waterfall Arts, 256 High St, Belfast | $8 | 207.388.2222

FAIRS & FESTIVALS THURSDAY 10

NORTHEAST BIOMASS HEATING EXPO | green heating fair | Thurs 5

REGGAE FEST | See listing for Thurs

SUNDAY 13

REGGAE FEST | See listing for Thurs

TERRY PLUNKETT POETRY FESTIVAL | University of Maine - Augusta,

Jewett Auditorium, 46 University Dr, Augusta | 207.621.3000

SATURDAY 12

POETRY NIGHT | 7 pm | Common

FOOD SATURDAY 12

SACO RIVER MARKET | 9 am | Mills at

Street Arts, 20 Common St, Waterville | 207.749.4368 or commonstreetarts.com

TERRY PLUNKETT POETRY FESTIVAL | see listing for Fri

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

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

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

PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET | 7

am | Monument Square, Congress St, Portland | 207.774.9979 SCOOP-A-THON | benefit for the Brunswick Teen Center | 11 am | Gelato Fiasco, 74 Maine St., Brunswick | 207.699.4314

THURSDAY 10

FRIDAY 11

POETRY & PROSE BETSY SHOLL | reads from her book

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

OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | 7:30 pm

| Pleasant Note Coffeehouse, First

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THURSDAY 10

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

Room | 9 am | El Rayo, 101 York St, Portland | 207.780.8226

WEDNESDAY 16

“BEAT NIGHT,” MUSIC & POETRY | 7

BENTLEY WARREN | reads from his novel Wicked Fast | 2 pm | Bentley’s Saloon, 1601 Portland Rd, Rte 1, Kennebunkport | 207.985.8966 or bentleyssaloon.com

MONDAY 14

FEED THE ARTS | to benefit The Telling

THURSDAY 17

SUNDAY 13

NORTHEAST BIOMASS HEATING EXPO | See listing for Thurs

Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St, Auburn | 207.783.0461

“POETRY ON TAP” | open mic

TUESDAY 15

OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | with

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

“ZION HILL POETRY,” READING SERIES | 6:30 pm | Stone Church,

5 Granite St, Newmarket, NH | 603.659.6321

WEDNESDAY 16

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

“IS ‘CONSERVATIVE ENVIRONMENTALIST’ AN OXYMORON? | with Steven F. Hayward | 4 pm | Bowdoin College, Hubbard Hall, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

“LGBT ELDERS: THE STONEWALL GENERATION FACES THE CHALLENGES OF AGING” | with Douglas

Kimmel + Daralyn Maxwell + Lois Galgay Reckitt | 4:30 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Glickman Library, 7th Floor, 314 Forest Ave, Portland | 207.780.4269

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

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

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

“TRAFFIC: GERMAN CHEMISTS, AUSTRIAN SMUGGLERS, AND THE COCAINE EPIDEMIC IN INDIA” | pre-

sented by Alison Frank Johnson | 7 pm | Bowdoin College, Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

SATURDAY 12

“INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON US ‘PIVOT’ TO ASIA-PACIFIC” | with

Joseph Gerson + Fumi Inoue + Subrata Ghoshroy + Hyun Lee | 7 pm | Unitarian Universalist Church, 15 Pleasant St, Brunswick | 207.729.8515 or uubrunswick.org

SUNDAY 13

“ZUMWALT: THE LIFE & TIMES OF ADMIRAL ELMO ‘BUD’ RUSSELL ZUMWALT” | 11 am | Maine Maritime

Museum, 243 Washington St, Bath | $7 | 207.443.1316 or mainemaritimemuseum.org

MONDAY 14

“AIDS IS A KINSHIP DISEASE: ORPHAN CARE & THE CHANGING FAMILY IN LESOTHO” | with Ellen

Block | 6 pm | Bowdoin College, Adams Hall, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

TUESDAY 15

“ESSENTIALS OF COLLEGE PLANNING” | 10 am | Portland CareerCenter, 185 Lancaster St, Portland | 207.775.5891

MEDICAL MARIJUANA: BASICS AND CUTTING EDGE APPLICATIONS | 5 pm

| Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq, Portland | 207.871.1700

“THE MILITARY ART OF THOMAS J. LEAMON” | with Jim Leamon | noon |

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

WEDNESDAY 16

“ESSENTIALS OF COLLEGE PLANNING” | 10 am | Portland Adult

Education, 57 Douglass St., Portland | 207.775.5891

“SECURITIZATION OF WATER, CLIMATE CHANGE, & MIGRATION LINKAGES IN ISRAEL, JORDAN, & SYRIA” | with E.S. Weinthal | 7:30

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

THURSDAY 17

ARCHITALX LECTURE BY JENNY E. SABIN | 5:30 pm | Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square, Portland | $15 | 207.775.6148 or portlandmuseum.org

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

“CRIMINAL BIRTHS: INFANTICIDE, STILLBIRTH, & THE RIO DE JANEIRO POLICE, 1890-1940” | with Cassia

Roth | 4 pm | Bowdoin College, Edward Pols House, Brunswick

“HOW GREEN IS YOUR GROCER?” WITH PETER COOKE AND KASEY HARRIS | 5:30 pm | Frontier Cafe, Fort Andross, 14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222 or explorefrontier.com

“THE GENOMICS REVOLUTION & PERSONALIZED MEDICINE — THE SCIENCE & THE HYPE” | with Daniel

Brazeau | 7 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Southworth Planetarium, 96 Falmouth St, Portland | 207.780.4249 or usm.maine.edu/ planet

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| Wish Theater, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | April 10-12: Harrison Bergeron Escapes from the Zoo | ThursSat 8 pmKresge Auditorium, Visual Arts

FREEPORT THEATER OF AWESOME | 800.838.3006 | theaterofawesome.

Performing Arts Center, 745 Main St, Fryeburg | April 11: Hypnotist Roderick

JOHNSON HALL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | 207.582.7144 | johnsonhall.org

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ARTSTREAM STUDIO GALLERY

CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART | 207.236.2875 | 162 Russell

GLEASON FINE ART/BOOTHBAY HARBOR | 207.633.6849 | 31 Townsend

Ave, Boothbay Harbor | gleasonfineart. com | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 11 am-

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

Portland | sanctuarytattoo.com | Tues-

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

SEACOAST ARTIST ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 603.778.8856 | 225 Water

St, Exeter, NH | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm |

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” | Ongoing: “An Exhibition of Bronze”

BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

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 | Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr, Waterville | colby.edu/museum |

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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 Lunder-Colville Collection & the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” | Through June 8: “The Lunder Collection: A Gift of Art to Colby College” | Through June 29: “Alex Katz: Assembly II,” paintings, cutouts, & works on paper | Ongoing: “Process & Place: Exploring the Design Evolution of the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion” + “Alex Katz Collection” DYER LIBRARY/SACO MUSEUM | 207.283.3861 | 371 Main St, Saco | sacomuseum.org | Tues-Thurs noon-4 pm; Fri noon-8 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through May 3: “From the Elegant to the Everyday: 200 Years of Fashion in Northern New England” 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 | April 12-Sept 28: “Coloring Vision: From Impressionism to Modernism,” paintings | Through April 27: “19th Century Perspectives: People & the Land,” paintings | Through Dec 31: “Ideals of Beauty: The Nude,” mixed media ICA AT MECA | 207.879.5742 | 522 Congress St, Portland | Wed-Sun 11 am-5 pm; Thurs 11 am-7 pm | Through March 31: “We Are What We Hide,” long-running exhibit in- & outside gallery walls MAINE COLLEGE OF ART | 207.775.3052 | Project Window, 522 Congress St, Portland | 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 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 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

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 | Through June 7: “Amy Beeler: Passion & Adornment,” sculpture & jewelry works | Through June 7: “Joe Kelly: Works from 2007-2014,” sculptures & drawings | Through 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 NEW HAMPSHIRE MUSEUM OF ART | 603.862.3712 | Paul

Creative Arts Center, Durham, NH | unh. edu/moa | Mon-Wed 10 am-4 pm;

Thurs 10 am-8 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | Free admission | April 11-May 16: “2014 M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition,” mixed media | reception April 11 6-8 pm | April 11-May 16: “2014 Senior B.A. & B.F.A. Exhibition,” mixed media

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 7:45 am-11 pm; Fri 7:45 am-8 pm; Sat 10 am-8 pm; Sun 10 am-11 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

Through April 30: “N’tolonapmenk: Our Relatives’ Place” | Through Dec 31: “Twisted Path III: Questions of Balance” | Ongoing: “Layers of Time: Archaeology at the Abbe Museum” + “Dr. Abbe’s Museum”

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 10: Tiny Tots: Amazing Mazes 10:30am; Star Show 10:30am; Baby Yaga Storytime 2:30pm; Tide Pool Touch Tank 3:30pm | April 11: Eye-Spy Slime Game 10:30am; Riddles & Jokes

Hour 3-4pm; Cinderella: The World’s Favorite Fairy Tale 4pm $9 | April 12: Animal Friends 10:30am; The Eyeball Show 11am; Cinderella: The World’s Favorite Fairy Tale 1pm, 4pm $9; Open Art Studio 2-3pm; Smooshy Smelly Science 3:30pm | April 13: Young Engineers: Tall Towers 11am; Baba Yaga Storytime 12pm; Cinderella: The World’s Favorite Fairy Tale 4pm $9 | April 15: Sing-a-long Story Time 11am; Papier-mache Party 3-4pm | April 16: Cinderella: The World’s Favorite Fairy Tale 10am $9; Open Art Studio 11am12pm; Young Engineers: Tall Towers 3:30pm | April 17: Tiny Tots: Fingerpainted Eggs 10:30am; Star Show 11:20am; Baba Yaga Storytime 3pm; Tide Pool Touch Tank 3:30pm

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | 603.742.2002 | 6

Washington St, Dover, NH | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Admission $7, seniors $6 | Through May 26: “Through the Lens: A Look at Our Diverse World,” photography MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | 207.774.1822 | 489 Congress St, Portland | mainehistory.org | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm | $8, $7 seniors/students, $2 children, kids under 6 free | Through May 26: “This Rebellion: Maine & the Civil War” MAINE MARITIME MUSEUM | 207.443.1316 | 243 Washington St, Bath | mainemaritimemuseum.org | Daily 9:30 am-5 pm | Admission $10, $9 seniors, $7 for children seven through 17, free for children six and under | Through June 1: “Going Coastal: Humor, Parody, & Amusement of a Maritime Nature” | Through June 1: “Those Contrary Winds: Weather & its Effects on Ships, Mariners, & Maritime History” | Ongoing: “A Maritime History of Maine” + “A Shipyard in Maine: Percy & Small & the Great Schooners” + “Snow Squall: Last of the American Clipper Ships” MAINE STATE MUSEUM | 207.287.2301 | 83 State House Stn, Augusta | mainestatemuseum.org | MonFri 9 am-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-4 pm | Admission $2, $1 for seniors and children ages 6-18, under 6 free | Through April 30: “Maine Voices from the Civil War” | Ongoing: 12,000-plus years of Maine’s history, in homes, nature, shops, mills, ships, & factories

PEARY-MACMILLAN ARCTIC MUSEUM | 207.725.3416 | Bowdoin College,

Hubbard Hall, 5 College St, Brunswick | bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/index.shtml | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm

| Free | Through April 27: “Scrimshaw: Selections from the Peter C. Barnard Collection” | Through May 31: “Animal Allies: Inuit Views of the Natural World” | Through Dec 31: “Robert E. Peary & His Northern World” PORTSMOUTH ATHENAEUM | 603.431.2538 | 9 Market Sq, Portsmouth, NH | Tues, Thurs, & Sat 1-4 pm | Through May 17: “The 1749 Model of the HMS America, the Athenaeum’s First Object -- 1820” VICTORIA MANSION | 207.772.4841 | 109 Danforth St, Portland | victoriamansion.org | Through May 21: “Mansion as Muse,” installation by Amy Yoes + Andrew Mowbray + Mark Dion + Dana Sherwood + Justin Richel

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 AMERICAN LEGION POST 56 | 207.363.0376 | 9 Hannaford Dr, York 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 ATHENS MEDITERRANEAN PIZZERIA | 207.354.0040 | 179 Main St,

Thomaston

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 BENCHWARMERS | 207.729.4800 | 212 Maine St, Brunswick BIG EASY | 207.894.0633 | 55 Market St, Portland BILLY’S TAVERN | 207.354.1177 | 1 Starr St, Thomaston BINGA’S STADIUM | 207.347.6072 | 77 Free St, Portland BLACK BEAR CAFE | 207.693.4770 | 215 Roosevelt Trail, Naples BLOOMFIELD’S CAFE AND BAR | 207.474.8844 | 40 Water St, Skowhegan 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 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 | 207.828.0549 | 92 Portland St, Portland

CHARLAMAGNE’S | 207.242.2711 | 228 Water St, Augusta CHOP SHOP PUB | 603.760.7706 | 920 Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH CHUMMIES PUB | 207.667.0080 | 49 Water St, Ellsworth CLUB 737 | 207.442.0748 | 737 Washington 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 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 FEILE IRISH RESTAURANT AND PUB | 207.251.4065 | 1619 Post Rd, Wells

FLASK LOUNGE | 207.772.3122 | 117

Spring St, Portland

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

GARY’S RESTAURANT & SPORTS LOUNGE | 603.335.4279 | 38 Milton Rd, Rochester, NH

GATHER | 207.847.3250 | 189 Main St,

Yarmouth

GENO’S ROCK CLUB | 207.221.2382 | 625 Congress St, Portland

BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/FREEPORT |

GFB SCOTTISH PUB | 207.934.8432 | 32

BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/PORTLAND |

THE GIN MILL | 207.620.9200 | 302

BULL FEENEY’S | 207.773.7210 | 375

GINGKO BLUE | 207.541.9190 | 455 Fore

207.865.0600 | 581 Rte 1, Freeport

| 50 Wharf St, Portland Fore St, Portland

BULL MOOSE LOUNGE |

207.924.7286 | Moosehead Trail Motor Lodge, 300 Corrina Rd, Dexter BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | 207.443.6776 | 98 Center St, 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 CARTELLI’S BAR AND GRILL | 603.750.4002 | 446 Central Ave, Dover, NH 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

Old Orchard St, Old Orchard Beach

Water St, Augusta

St, Portland

GINZA TOWN | 207.878.9993 | 1053 Forest Ave, Portland 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 Wa-

ter St, Hallowell

HIGHLANDS COFFEE HOUSE |

207.354.4162 | 189 Main St, Thomaston HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | 877.779.7771 | 500 Main St, Bangor THE HOLY GRAIL | 603.679.9559 | 64 Main St, Epping, NH 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

KJ’S SPORTS BAR | 603.659.2329 | North Main St, Newmarket, NH 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 LISA’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE | 207.621.0599 | 15 Bangor St, Augusta 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 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 NEWCASTLE PUBLICK HOUSE | 207.563.3434 | 52 Main St, Newcastle 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 PORT TAVERN | 207.774.0444 | 11 Moulton St, Portland 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 PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | 207.941.8805 | 14 Larkin St, Bangor PHOENIX HOUSE & WELL | 207.824.2222 | 9 Timberline Dr, Newry PLEASANT NOTE COFFEEHOUSE | 207.783.0461 | First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St, Auburn 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

READFIELD EMPORIUM | 207.685.7348 | 1146 Main St, Readfield RED & SHORTY’S | 603.776.3305 | 4 Paul St, Dover, NH 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 ROOSTER’S | 207.622.2625 | 110 Community Dr, Augusta ROUND TOP COFFEEHOUSE | 207.677.2354 | Round Top Farm, Main St, Damariscotta RUDI’S | 603.430.7834 | 20 High St, Portsmouth, NH RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | 207.571.9648 | 100 Main St, Saco Island, Saco SALVAGE BBQ & SMOKEHOUSE | | 919 Congress St, Portland SAVORY SQUARE BISTRO | 603.926.2202 | 32 Depot Sq, Hampton, NH 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 SHEEPSCOT GENERAL | 207.549.5185 | 98 Townhouse Rd, Whitefield SHENANIGANS | 207.213.4105 | 349 Water St, Augusta SIDE STREET CAFE | 207.801.2591 | 49 Rodick St, Bar Harbor 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 SLAINTE | 207.828.0900 | 24 Preble St, Portland

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Front St, Bath SONNY’S | 207.772.7774 | 83 Exchange St, Portland SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland THE SPAGHETTI STAIN | 603.343.5257 | 421 Central Ave, Dover, NH SPARE TIME | 207.878.2695 | City Sports Grille, 867 Riverside St, Portland SPEAKEASY | 207.596.6661 | 2 Park Dr, Rockland SPRING POINT TAVERN | 207.733.2245 | 175 Pickett St, South Portland 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

THATCHER’S PUB/SOUTH PORTLAND | 207.253.1808 | 35 Foden Rd,

South Portland

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 TRAIN’S TAVERN | 207.457.6032 | 249 Carl Broggi Hwy, Lebanon 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 ZACKERY’S | 207.774.5601 | Fireside Inn & Suites, 81 Riverside St, Portland

Sunday - Friday 4 - 7p: All Drafts $3 All Whiskies 20% off Thursday & Friday 5 - 6p: BACON & CHEESE Happy Hour Thursday 9:30p:

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Bite into these pocket-sized comfort foods _By B ria n duff Last month a young New Hampshire man made love to a ham and cheese Hot Pocket; the resulting video is what led the mobile app Vine to change its policy on adult content. The incident calls to mind another anecdote, this one at a Midwestern Wendy’s, where the poet Joe Wenderoth “saw a guy with three Biggies at once.” Wenderoth reflected that, “one wonders not about him but about what it is that holds us back.” Here in Maine we are no less avid about a savory hand pie than our New Hampshire neighbors. But we choose to appreciate them the old fashioned way, thanks to a group of local bakers whose pastry expertise result in hand pies worth eating — with pleasure and with gusto. It is not hard to understand the appeal of a savory hand pie. Just about every culture has its own version — portable, but including many of the best qualities of food at home: warm, buttery, comforting — from the empanada to the pasty to the samosa. Given the global hand pie diversity, there is no sense arguing right and wrong methods, ingredients, thickness of crust, styles of crimping. What matters is the overall effect, and in this sense local bakers offer an interesting variety.

On any given day the greatest variety is available at Little Bigs Bakery, on a busy corner of Route 1 in South Portland (207.747.4233; facebook.com/littlebigs). Each hand pie at Little Bigs has a different mien — in terms of shape, chubbiness, color of crust, and crimping pattern — and they look fantastic on a big rack that sits near the entrance. A chalkboard gives the details on at least eight options. Their pork pie looks like a mini version of a grown up meat pie — round, with a top crust decorated with a pig made from dough. Generous pieces of untrimmed pork, fat and rich, soak up a subtle Dijon sauce. The flavor of the sauce manages to infuse the crust without making it soggy, and caramelized onion adds a touch of sweetness. Their classic chicken pot pie has a crust so flaky, delicate, and buttery that I needed a fork to eat it. Another with spinach, artichoke, and carrot had a thicker crust in a triangle shape. The hand pie didn’t get too dense or heavy, despite a tangy goat cheese mixing with the spinach. Little Bigs also has the greatest variety in terms of international approach. Their Thai chicken had a musky red curry sauce, with the right just-thick consistency for this style of eating. We wished the bamboo shoots

had added more crunch. The Indian samosa was fantastic; in fact, it is better than the typical samosa in many ways — nicely spiced, baked instead of fried, with bigger pieces of cauliflower and fresher spinach. At Maine Pie Line (207.249.5121; one of each, please a selection of hand pies from Little Bigs. mainepieline.com) four varieties of hand pies shepherd’s pie. The finely ground meat is all looked alike — darkly gorgeous halfmildly seasoned, so you can taste the sweet moons — and had the same fantastic flaky, green flavor of the tender peas. The chicken buttery, and just salty crust. We especially pie featured bigger chunks of tender meat, liked their vegetarian versions, like one along with carrot and potato, in a rich, with corn, tomato, and feta, plus fresh comforting sauce made from its own juices basil and a touch of heat. Another with and touched with sage. squash and white bean was thoughtfully Here in Maine we are simply the best at spiced, and satisfying without heaviness. certain things — like that one-day pledge In another, earthy dark mushrooms and drive we pull off for public radio. We are altart goat cheese balanced the sweetness of so tops at being old and shunning diversity, cranberries and caramelized onion. as recent Census figures indicate. And now Daigle Baked Goods (207.331.0167; daiglewe’ve got this hand pie thing. If we must bakedgoods@gmail.com) sticks to two hand fetishize commodities, we should do it in pies — each a fat round of lovely pale golden the right way (unlike our neighbors in New crust, big enough that you need two hands Hampshire). In making such appealing to hold it. Each is classical in approach. hand pies, Maine bakers make it easy. ^ The pork version resembles a traditional

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Lars von trier gives you what he wants _By ch ris t o phe r g ra y Throughout its two volumes and four hours of explicit sexuality, masochism, philosophical debate, and self-analysis, Nymphomaniac remains the steadfast vision of a director talking to himself, and assuming you’ll be interested enough in him to listen and pay close attention. Filmmaker Lars von Trier — seasoned fashioner of open wounds/psycho-physical provocations such as Antichrist, Melancholia, and Dancer in the Dark — splits his persona between Nymphomaniac’s two main characters. Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), the titular sensualist bent on self-pleasure and an independent societal rebellion, spends most of the film on a bed, bruised after an encounter that left her on her back in a dark alley. Seligman, played by Stellan Skarsgard, is the isolated, hyper-literate bookworm and autodidact who recovers her and steals her into his bedroom. As Joe relates the story of her sexual life, Seligman finds theoretical metaphors and Freudian explanations for each of its episodes, even as he sometimes questions the veracity of her relations. Though extremely complex (and already underrated) in its structure and style, Nymphomaniac begins in the present

and its frequent flashbacks move mostly chronologically. The first half of the film finds Joe’s early sexual awakening budding into obsession. Here, she is portrayed in flashback by Stacy Martin, and experiences much ecstatic, sometimes hilarious bliss (some of it with her first partner and future husband, Shia LaBeuof’s Jerome) along a few minor disruptions. The first volume’s centerpiece establishes Joe’s distance from societal norms, as a jilted wife and mother (a methodical Uma Thurman) shows her two young children the “whoring bed” that has caused their father to abandon his family. Joe silently observes this anguished, extended exchange of raw emotions about loyalty and family with the remote curiosity of an alien observer. This volume ends, for Joe, with a far more urgent tragedy that steers her, in volume two, to even more subversive means to achieve sensual pleasure. That Nymphomaniac fails largely to titliate (in volume one) and shock (in volume two) should not be misunderstood as a failing on von Trier’s part — as it largely has been thus far — but something of a tactic or a consequence of his previous works. The title itself

sex ed? stacy martin in Nymphomaniac: Volume I is a spoiler alert, and it’s unclear how much farther von Trier can take his art, which is often both undeniably feminist and undeniably hard on its female characters and actors. The director revisits notorious moments from his earlier films here: a divine intervention recalls the finale of Breaking the Waves; cosmic underpinnings refer to Melancholia; and a traumatic moment with an abandoned infant is a literal recreation of a scene from Antichrist. He also chronicles and expands his cadre of cinematic tricks, moving with tremendous fluidity between agonizing Dogme-style verité, widescreen grandeur, low-lit gloom, black-and-white,

jump cuts, and scenes where musical notations and calculations are superimposed onto the screen. The result is something akin to a highlight reel, but more like the purest distillation of von Trier’s filmmaking. Nymphomaniac’s unruly structure allows the director to do whatever he wants in order to best capture the moment he’s after. (Beethoven and Rammstein are equally prominent in the soundtrack.) All that said, it’s telling that so much of this sex epic leaves us in an uninteresting, drab bedroom with two figures in civil conversation. When their talk begins, Joe sets out to explain to Seligman why she is a uniquely rotten, evil individual. Her interlocutor tries to talk her out of it with odd interjections about fly fishing and worldhistorical religious traditions, placing her in the natural order of things. By film’s end, each character comes to be both more and less than what they make themselves out to be: the director tries to insist that his sensitivity, caustic humor, self-scrutiny, and penchant for provocation are all of a single piece. The great joke of the film’s finale is about whether or not von Trier can successfully convey his multitudes. ^

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Unless otherwise noted, all film listings this week are for Friday April 11 through Thursday April 17. Times often change with little notice, so please call the theater before heading out. For complete film-schedule information, check the Portland Phoenix Web site at www. thephoenix.com.

movie Th e a Te r lisT ing s

dinner + movie Portland CInEMaGIC Grand

333 Clarks Pond Parkway, South Portland | 207.772.6023

163 High St, Belfast | 207.338.1930 Call for shows & times.

EVEnInGStar CInEMa

15 Front St, Farmington | 207.778.4877 Call for shows & times.

tHE Grand BUdaPESt HotEl |

nordICa tHEatrE

Tontine Mall, 149 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.729.5486

CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr SoldIEr | 12:30 am, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45 dIVErGEnt | 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:40 draFt daY | Fri-Sun: 11:15 am, 1:50,

Fri-Sat: 1:30, 4, 6:30, 8:45 | Sun-Thu: 1:30, 4, 6:30

14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222

nICKElodEon CInEMaS 1 Temple St, Portland | 207.772.4022

dIVErGEnt | 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:25 EnEMY | 2:15, 9:35 tHE Grant BUdaPESt HotEl | 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:20, 9:40 noaH | 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30

nYMPHoManIaC: VolUME 1 | 1, 7 nYMPHoManIaC: VolUME 2 | 4, 9:35

tHE raId 2 | 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:15

WEStBrooK CInEMaGIC

183 County Rd, Westbrook | 207.774.3456

Bad WordS | 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 7:20, 9:40

CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr SoldIEr | noon, 12:15, 3:10, 3:30,

FrontIEr CInEMa

ElaInE StrItCH: SHoot ME | FriSat: 2 | Sun: 2, 6, 8

tHE UnKnoWn KnoWn | Tue: 2, 5, 8 | Wed: 2, 5 | Thu: 2

lEWISton FlaGSHIP 10 855 Lisbon St, Lewiston | 207.777.5010

CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr SoldIEr | 12:45, 3:50, 7:10 dIVErGEnt | 12:30, 3:40, 6:45 tHE lEGo MoVIE | 12:50, 3:30, 7:30 tHE MonUMEntS MEn | 1:15, 4:15, 7:25

Mr. PEaBodY & SHErMan | 1:30, 4:35, 7:15

MUPPEtS MoSt WantEd | 1, 4:05, 6:55

nEEd For SPEEd | 12:35, 3:35, 6:40 non-StoP | 1:35, 4:20, 7:45 rIo 2 | 1:05, 4, 7 300: rISE oF an EMPIrE | 1:20,

4:30, 7:40

lInColn tHEatEr 2 Theater St, Damariscotta | 207.563.3424

a BIrdEr’S GUIdE to EVErYtHInG | Wed: 7

tIM’S VErMEEr | Fri: 2, 7 | Sat: 2 | Sun: 7 | Wed: 2 | Thu: 2, 7

tHE MaGIC lantErn

9 Depot St, Bridgton | 207.647.5065 Call for shows & times.

6:45, 7, 9:40, 9:50

CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr SoldIEr 3d | 12:30, 3:45, 7:30 dIVErGEnt | 12:10, 3:20, 6:40, 9:40 draFt daY | 11:50 am, 2:15, 4:45,

7:30, 10

God’S not dEad | 12:10, 3, 7, 9:45 tHE lEGo MoVIE | 11:50 am, 2:10, 4:30

lonE SUrVIVor | 7:10, 9:50 Mr. PEaBodY & SHErMan | 11:50 am, 2:10, 4:30, 7, 9:20

MUPPEtS MoSt WantEd | 12:30, 3:45, 7:10, 9:45

300: rISE oF an EMPIrE | 3:20, 6:50

MaInE aUBUrn FlaGSHIP 10 746 Center St, Auburn | 207.786.8605

tHE Grand BUdaPESt HotEl |

1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 9:25

ColonIal tHEatrE

narroW GaUGE CInEMaS

Old Joy

1 Freeport Village Station, Suite 125, Freeport | 207.865.9000

oXFord FlaGSHIP 7

1570 Main Street, Oxford | 207.743.2219 Call for shows & times.

raIlroad SQUarE CInEMa 17 Railroad Sq, Waterville | 207.873.6526

tHE FaCE oF loVE | 3:10, 7:10 tHE Grand BUdaPESt HotEl | Fri: 2:50, 4:55, 7, 9:05 | Sat: 12:45, 2:50, 4:55, 7, 9:05 | Sun: 12:45, 2:50, 4:55, 7 | Mon-Thu: 2:50, 4:55, 7 tHE lUnCHBoX | Fri: 2:30, 4:40, 6:50, 9 | Sat: 12:20, 2:30, 4:40, 6:50, 9 | Sun: 12:20, 2:30, 4:40, 6:50 | MonThu: 2:30, 4:40, 6:50 SUrPrISIa | Sat: 9:30 lE WEEK-End | Fri: 5:10, 9:10 | SatSun: 1:10, 5:10 | Mon-Thu: 5:10

rEEl PIZZa CInEraMa 33 Kennebec Place, Bar Harbor | 207.288.3828

lE WEEK-End | Fri-Mon: 6, 8:30 oMar | Tue-Thu: 6, 8:30

rEGal BrUnSWICK 10 19 Gurnet Rd, Brunswick | 207.798.3996 Call for shows & times.

SaCo CInEMaGIC & IMaX

783 Portland Rd, Rte 1, Saco | 207.282.6234 Call for shows & times.

SMIttY’S CInEMaBIddEFord

420 Alfred St, Five Points Shopping Center, Biddeford | 207.282.2224

SMIttY’S CInEMaSanFord

1364 Main St, Sanford | 207.490.0000 Call for shows & times.

SMIttY’S CInEMaWIndHaM

795 Roosevelt Trail, Windham | 207.892.7000

SPotlIGHt CInEMaS 6 Stillwater Ave, Orono | 207.827.7411 Call for shows & times.

Strand tHEatrE 345 Main St, Rockland | 207.594.0070

EnCorE BroadCaSt oF la BoHEME BY tHE MEtroPolItan oPEra | Tue: 1 BrEatHE In | Fri: 5:30, 8 | Sun: 3, 7 | Mon-Tue: 1, 7 | Thu: 7

dEad rIVEr roUGH CUt | Wed: 7

tHoMaSton FlaGSHIP 10

9 Moody Dr, Thomaston | 207.594.2100 Call for shows & times.

nEW HaMPSHIrE tHE MUSIC Hall

28 Chestnut St, Portsmouth | 603.436.9900

tHE BrItISH arroWS | Sun: 7 | Wed-Thu: 7

tHE CraSH rEEl | Thu: 7 GlorIa | Sun: 3, 7 | Tue: 7

rEGal FoX rUn StadIUM 15

45 Gosling Rd, Portsmouth | 603.431.6116 Call for shows & times.

FIlM SPECIalS alaMo tHEatrE

85 Main St, Bucksport | 207.469.0924

lUnaFESt: SHort FIlMS BY...For... aBoUt WoMEn | Fri: 7

PMa MoVIES

7 Congress Square, Portland | 207.775.6148

MEEK’S CUtoFF | Fri: 6 old JoY | Sun: 2 WEndY & lUCY | Sat: 2

SPaCE GallErY

538 Congress St, Portland | 207.828.5600

BrEadCrUMB traIl: a lanCE BanGS FIlM aBoUt SlInt | Tue: 7:30

UnIVErSItY oF SoUtHErn MaInE Portland

Hannaford Hall, 96 Falmouth St, Portland | 207.780.4141

tHE GHoStS In oUr MaCHInE | Thu: 6:30

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Across 1 nutty person (and new oed entry of 2014) 12 talk freely 15 Ziti and such

16 Ap competitor 17 Genre for “the Breakfast club” or “A catcher in the rye” 18 cornelius of “Soul train”

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_by syMbo line Da i Here comes the Pink Moon, a/k/a the Egg Moon, the Fish Moon, and the Planter’s Moon, on Tuesday. I love that lunations have different names, depending on the culture. And with lengthening days, many of us will be at our best during this period. Now, some folks are at their best during full moons; others are made extremely uncomfortable during this phase. What’s your category? Email me at sally@moonsigns.net. It’s always interesting to see which signs are at their best. By the way, the moon rules Cancer, so you crabbies should be claws-up this week!

19 people and language in clint eastwood’s “Gran torino” 20 Waiting for a real person, maybe 22 “imagine that!” 27 ___ popken (plussize clothing retailer; hidden in pUllABle) 28 Abu dhabi’s loc. 30 Secretly schemed against 33 ice cream shop item 36 lot for londoners 37 nut 41 Away from the workplace for good 43 magician harry, Sr. or harry, Jr. 46 designation ditched after smoking bans 47 robert indiana stamp insignia 48 did some dirty dancing 51 Wipes clean 54 “does that ring ___?” 57 like a new coat, at first? 58 Acknowledges, with “to” 63 ___ heartbeat 64 lacking feeling 65 roofing sealant

66 1955 hit about coal mining

Down 1 Suffix after sand or man 2 director egoyan 3 Army surplus store stuff 4 Kevin who played dave 5 1980s teammate of Bird and mchale 6 Former Un Secretary General ___ hammarskjöld 7 “Kiss, Kiss, Kiss” singer 8 Switch status 9 1950 film noir classic 10 Ad image 11 Genesis locale 12 Ballet star nureyev 13 theater with a log rubbed for good luck 14 odist with a type of ode named for him 21 “Sons of Anarchy” star charlie 23 noises from chopper blades 24 old-school comedian Buddy 3

25 Bouncers ask for them 26 tourist activity of declining popularity? 28 Bar code 29 pie ___ mode 31 musician on the road 32 “Gas Food lodging” actress Skye 34 rack contents 35 tetra’s home 38 looked after 39 particle suffix, in physics 40 Warehouse qty. 42 AAA job 43 messed up big-time 44 John Bobbitt’s ex-wife 45 2009 film set on the planet pandora 49 part of dKnY 50 Guy who was all thumbs? 52 Shield bearing medusa’s head: var. 53 Apple tech support? 55 Attachment on property 56 Fords produced until 1991 59 ___ populi 60 Sinus specialist, for short 61 “___ drives me crazy” (1989 #1 hit) 62 Bee chaser? 7

thursday april 10

Friday april 11

Waxing moon in Virgo. cleaning up, getting a functional (rather than decorative) hair cut, putting numbers through a fine screen. excellent for planning a garden. health matters — and health matters beckon, particularly for Virgo, capricorn, cancer, taurus, libra, and leo. tongue-tied or accident-prone: Sagittarius, Gemini, pisces, Scorpio, Aquarius, and Aries. 13

saturday april 12

Waxing moon in leo, moon void-of-course 2:26 am until 6:08 pm when it moves into Virgo. excellent day for sales, acting, persuasion, or entertaining children. or behaving like an adorable child. (Aquarius, taurus, pisces, Gemini, and Scorpio may play the part of Annoyed-But-indulgent parent). A fine evening for being a stickler. leo, Aries, Sagittarius, libra, capricorn, and cancer are hot to trot. don’t try to put a bridle on them unless you want to be kicked. 12

Waxing moon in Virgo, moon void-of-course 1:12 pm until 4:33 am Sunday morning. earth sign moons mean we may not be moving particularly quickly, or that we get stuck — i mean stuck — in some point of view. harmony seeks out: Virgo, capricorn, taurus, Scorpio, cancer. discord rules Sagittarius, Gemini, pisces, Aquarius, and Aries. 14

sunday april 13

Waxing moon in libra. All the arts are highlighted today, and creativity is enhanced for libra, Aquarius, Gemini, leo, Virgo, Scorpio, and Sagittarius. it’s a good day for staying in touch with peers and partners — also for “chatting up” new folks. the nearlyfull moon will make some (especially capricorn, cancer, pisces, taurus, and Aries) crazy and overwhelmed. But interesting to watch. 15

Monday april 14

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_w r i te u s a t p o r tl a n D -F e e D baCk @p hx . CoM

caMpus controversy We could debate whether nick Schroeder’s march 28 article, “crisis at USm,” was a news story or an editorial, but i do not think that would be productive to the important discussions currently taking place on and off campus. however, mr. Schroeder’s article is riddled with inaccuracies that cannot be left to stand uncorrected. For example, the list of faculty retrenchments is rife with errors in terms of the types of personnel actions taken or actions proposed to be taken and the dates of these actions. then, there is mr. Schroeder’s misunderstanding of the term “retrenchment.” this is a recognized term across higher education that refers to a formal process used to lay off tenured members of an institution’s faculty for economic reasons. it is not a “jargony term for eliminating specific programs” as described by mr. Schroeder. Finally, president Kalikow recommended for elimination the programs in Geosciences, recreation and leisure Studies, American and new england Studies, and Arts and humanities at our lewiston-Auburn college. the article omitted Arts and humanities. Furthermore, these are proposals for elimination. the Faculty Senate, through shared governance, will submit its counter recommendations to the president by may 5. presidents in the Umaine System cannot eliminate academic programs. program eliminations must be approved by the University of maine Board of

trustees, in this case at their July meeting. recommendations are just that. last week, a plan was devised to save recreation and leisure Studies by integrating it into the School of nursing temporarily. had mr. Schroeder called USm public Affairs to check his facts, we would have been happy to address his questions. one has to wonder what other statements made in the article are also incorrect. personally, i would like to say that none of this has been easy for anyone at USm. Students are losing some of their favorite professors. We are losing our colleagues, both in the faculty and staff ranks. While USm will be sure to graduate everyone who may have their program eliminated, it is heart wrenching for students to learn their academic department is slated for possible elimination. What gives us heart is watching our students rally around their university. many of us are proud of them. Judie alessi o’Malley (‘09 M.a.) assistant Director, usM office of public affairs nick Schroeder writes: Thanks for your response. It’s good to see that USM administrators are taking criticisms to the UMS Directions Package seriously. Thanks also for your acknowledgement of the cuts to the Arts and Humanities department in LewistonAuburn. In the decision to focus on the on the unfolding scenario in Portland, where criticism has been the loudest, I meant no slight against

the losses elsewhere in the system. I appreciate that you’ve drawn a distinction between the department and faculty cuts having already been initiated (as I put it in my story), versus being merely recommended by President Kalikow. I wonder how meaningful that distinction truly is. The presentation of the Directions Package on March 19 showed Kalikow and the system Board of Trustees to be unified in their vision; regardless, the proposal seems to be having the desired effect. Some faculty from those departments are retiring. Others, like Recreation and Leisure Studies professor Nancy Richeson (profiled on our cover), have found positions elsewhere, and I imagine several more will follow suit. The announcement that USM plans to reconfigure certain RLS programs in the School of Nursing came on March 27 — two days after we went to press (I covered it in a followup in last week’s issue). As for the term “retrenchment,” we could be at an impasse. Of course I don’t imply USM originated the term, and am with you that it’s becoming more widespread as situations like these occur more frequently in universities across the US. Still, its usage, and the process it defines, are exclusively in the domain of corporate strategy, to the degree where other terms — such as those defined in union agreements and tenure contracts — are nullified. Since the definition of jargon is a term that exclusively serves the interests of a particular trade or profession (in this case business), and with the deployment of corporate strategies so jarringly at odds with a public institution, I’m comfortable with the description.

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Waxing moon in libra. there should be a name for the day before the full moon, just as the “dark of the moon” is the term for the one preceding the new moon. i’ve found folks are more accident-prone, inclined to blurt, and heckbent on forward movement, no matter how ill-advised. libra moons favor activities with partners, and public relations. charming: libra, Aquarius, Gemini, leo, Virgo, Scorpio, Sagittarius. Alarming: capricorn, pisces, taurus, cancer, and Aries. 16

tuesday april 15 1

Full moon in libra, moon void-of-course 3:42 am until 12:20 pm when it moves into Scorpio. look back to march 30, and see if you started something that now needs adjustment. Firmlyheld convictions wobble, particularly for capricorn, Aries, taurus, and cancer. Simplicity is overrated if you’re libra, Aquarius, Gemini, and Scorpio. Willing to go back and forth: pisces, Virgo, leo, and Sagittarius. 17

Wednesday april 16 2

Waning moon in Scorpio. Great time to plan a garden, or cut to the chase. A good day for spies, barbers, and those in intelligence work. neediness could afflict taurus, leo, Gemini, and Aquarius, who could be impatient with others. cancer, pisces, Scorpio, and Sagittarius: be strategic, and don’t be afraid to gently guide others. this may seem like manipulation, particularly to capricorn, libra, Aries, and Virgo. 18

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.

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