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The Higher Concept

aimee mann and ted leo From tour bus buddies to performing duo The Both.

this Just in Aimee Mann and Ted Leo “were aware of each other and running in similar circles for a while,” but it was at a pledge drive for Tom Scharpling’s late, lamented The Best Show on WFMU that “we first really hung out and actually played together,” says Leo. “You were wearing a sailor hat,” Mann reminisces. But it was later, on Twitter, that they really hit it off. “Twitter is just such a great forum to be an exceptional doofus,” says Mann. “Ted and I really enjoy being doofuses together. There’s something about having just a ridiculous conversation that other people could overhear. It’s like kids giggling on a bus or something.” In fact, “it eventually translated into kids giggling on a bus,” says Leo; the two toured together in 2012, as opener and headliner: he the politically-minded mod/punk mensch, she the songwriter/bassist most famous for fronting ’80s newwavers ’Til Tuesday, scoring Oscar and Grammy nods for her Magnolia soundtrack, and moonlighting as Fred and Carrie’s put-upon housekeeper in Portlandia. Soon enough, “we started writing together,” says Leo. “It was so fun and so energizing and fulfilling that it really became obvious that we should keep going with it.” And so they became The Both, whose self-titled debut was released on Mann’s Superego Records on April 15, and who come to Port City Music Hall on April 26.

Leo and Mann live on opposite coasts; most of the album was written by comparing notes transcontinentally. “We’d start with stems of an idea and kick them back and forth,” says Leo. “Then we’d try to come together...and hone them into the finished product.” A listen to “Milwaukee,” the instantly catchy first song from The Both, spotlights the push-pull of the pair’s different but complementary styles: Mann’s mellifluous voice and propulsive bass lines, working in tandem with Leo’s harmonies and trebly guitar leads. (Drummer Scott Seiver played on the record; for the tour they enlisted Matt Mayall. “We’re a power trio,” says Mann.) The song’s vaguely Celtic thump, bass-forward melody, and descending guitar lines sound a little like Thin Lizzy. That’s no accident. “For me it was a really fun challenge to come up with song stems that I thought were ‘in the style of’ Ted Leo,” said Mann — which she confesses often boiled down to generalizations such as, “He uses a lot of chords!” or “He likes Thin Lizzy, so let’s try a shuffle.” Indeed, The Both regularly cover Thin Lizzy’s “Honesty is No Excuse,” and Leo says their mutual appreciation of that song was “this place of overlap for Aimee and me that in a way kind of kickstarted the whole thing.” “Collaboration is really fun,” says Mann. “It’s good to get outside of yourself. A part that I might write that I think is really hard-hitting,

then I put my soft little voice on top of it and it’s totally not what I intended — but to hear Ted’s voice on it really brings that sort of energy to it that I can’t deliver myself.” “That works both ways,” says Leo. “Aimee has a really classic sense of delivery and melody that I very much enjoy locking into. I think it helps me write a better part.” Back in 2012, Mann shot a video for “Labrador,” a single from her solo album, Charmer (Superego), directed by Scharpling. A funny “shotfor-shot remake” of ‘Til Tuesday’s 1985 hit “Voices Carry,” it featured a cameo from Jon Hamm. And also from Leo — wearing a ridiculous corkscrew-curly hairstyle. How much convincing did it take for Mann to parody her own MTV-era smash hit, one she’s been known to shy away from in the past? More importantly, how much doing did it take to get Ted to wear that wig? “Hahaha, It takes zero convincing to get Ted to wear a wig,” she said. Sure enough, a week later, they released the video for “Milwaukee.” In it, Leo is resplendent in a flowing mullet and ripped sleeves as “Ed Leo,” an avuncular fellow enlisted as a pinch-hit drummer for the The Both. “I think Ted wears a wig in every video now,” says Mann.

_Mike Miliard

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Welcome to Sandyland This Saturday night, Jonathan’s in Ogunquit welcomes comedian, actress, and brazen cultural observer Sandra Bernhard, who will perform her onewoman cabaret show, “Sandyland.” The show melds stand-up, theater, and music; Bernhard, who has been performing for live and television audiences for almost 40 years, thinks it’s well worth the price of admission. “Now more than ever, the classic great performers are people that should be seen and supported,” she says. “There’s not a lot of great people who have been out there, doing it year after year, and still bring something fresh and new and the passion and enthusiasm that I have for my work. I think of myself as a great social commentator and somebody who dissassembles and deconstructs what’s going on in a really fun, crazy way.” Those who know her from her time on Roseanne will be pleased to know that Bernhard recently returned to

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TV. On this season of ABC’s Switched at Birth, in a guest role written specifically for her, Bernhard plays a groovy art professor and something of a mentor to the character of Bay (Vanessa Marano). I ask her if she has any real-life advice to dole out to young performers. “You have to have your own point of view, no matter who you are, and if you can’t access that or tap into it, then you don’t really have anything to offer to the conversation,” she says. “It’s harder and harder, with social media and everybody weighing in, to be a reqlly unique performer and artist. So you better fine-tune that and hone your craft if you want to have longevity.”

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Meghan Brodie directed the world-premiere English production of Germaine Tillion’s In the Underworld for the University of Southern Maine (see our review on page 16). Megan Grumbling spoke with her about the experience.

coUld yoU talk a Bit aBoUt proceSS of yoU and the StUdentS in Undertaking material of SUch hiStorical gravity? The cast and I spent a lot of time on re-

search. We had an especially long “table work” period during which our dramaturg, Kirk Boettcher, shared lots of historical background with the cast . We read together, watched a documentary on Ravensbrück, and shared facts and questions on our private group Facebook page. Each actor based her character on the life of a real woman in Ravensbrück or another camp. Their commitment to learning about the women and trying to bring as much authenticity to their portrayals of the women’s lives is amazing. The actors are experiencing the solidarity and love shared by the women of Ravensbrück —this is an incredible gift for all of us. As a director, I wanted to honor the harshness inherent in Tillion’s script. I did not want to shy away from uncomfortable moments or dark humor. I wanted to be true to what I understood to be Tillion’s intentions. But I also wanted to be sure that this ensemble of actors could convey to audiences that the love and support the women in the camp offered each other transcended the realities of their everyday existence. I think they have accomplished that and I could not be more proud of their work.

how have the actionS and converSation aroUnd facUlty retrenchmentS at USm affected the work of yoU and yoUr StUdent theater artiStS? The cast and

production team of In the Underworld were devastated by the faculty retrenchments, which included me and our costume designer, Joan Mather. But I immediately let my cast and crew know that my work on this production was of paramount importance to me and I was dedicated to making this my best — even if my last — production at USM. It was a difficult time for all of us, but it never overshadowed our excitement about creating this piece of art together.

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Dead can dance In case you missed it, Ed Muskie last month endorsed independent Eliot Cutler for governor. This is remarkable for a number of reasons. For one thing, Muskie — the former governor, US senator and secretary of state — was one of the founders of the modern Democratic Party in Maine. His loyalty to its nominees is legendary. For another, although Cutler makes much of having once worked for Muskie, that was long before the candidate gave up public service for high-paying jobs with the influence-peddling industry in places like China. And finally, there’s the little matter of mortality. The Muskie in question died in 1996. The Muskie who drafted the endorsement (published as an op-ed in the March 28 Bangor Daily News) is his son, Edmund Junior, known as Ned. “Were he alive today, I believe [Muskie Senior] would proudly support Eliot for governor,” Junior wrote, dismissing the environmental groups that are backing Democratic hopeful Mike Michaud as “purely partisan,” a claim his Dem-to-the-core dad might have found amusing. There’s an ironic footnote to all this: One person (among many) who will certainly not be voting for Cutler this November is Ned Muskie, who’s a resident of Washington, D.C. Still, the exhumation of a Maine political icon to advance the electability of a current candidate has its appeal. Unlike the endorsements of living people, there’s no way the deceased can make comments that might embarrass the campaign, get caught in unseemly liaisons or be indicted for legal transgressions. In nearly every way, the residents of cemetery row have to be considered superior endorsers when compared to the living.

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Which explains the work crew busy digging up Margaret Chase Smith. Smith, the former Republican US senator, hasn’t held elected office since 1972 and cast off this mortal coil in 1995, but she’s still regarded with reverence by many older Mainers. As a result, all three campaigns booked séances in hopes of convincing her spirit to bless one of them. To date, Smith has been unresponsive, but once Cutler, Michaud, and GOP Governor Paul LePage start pounding on her coffin lid, they may make enough noise to wake the dead. Campaign-funded mediums have also made similar efforts to bring forth the specters of such deceased Maine political luminaries as Percival Baxter (former governor, creator of Baxter State Park; packed it in back in 1969), Thomas Brackett Reed (former speaker of the US House of Representatives; bought the farm in 1902), William Pitt Fessenden (ex-US senator and secretary of the treasury during the Civil War; croaked in 1869), and John Baldacci (ex-congressman and governor; refuses to stay dead in spite of repeated attempts to bury him). There’s nothing like being placed in a grave to enhance somebody’s popular appeal. By comparison, having some living politician say nice things about you is virtually worthless. Ask any Democrat running in Lewiston whether they’d rather have the endorsement of state Senate President Justin Alfond (technically alive) or former state Representative Louis Jalbert (indefinitely postponed in 1989), and they’ll tell you the Jalbert legacy of backroom wheeling and dealing is still worth a few thousand more votes. Former Portland mayor, Maine governor, and US Senator Ralph Owen Brewster (hammered out of order

back in 1976) may have been a front man for the Ku Klux Klan, a tool for Howard Hughes’ enemies, and a bag man for Richard Nixon, but his GOP ghost is still guaranteed to draw bigger crowds to campaign rallies than Republican congressional candidates Bruce Poliquin, Kevin Raye, and Isaac Misiuk combined. This unearths (ha!) another matter. If the dear decaying departed make the best endorsers, doesn’t it follow that they would also make the finest candidates? Instead of Eliot Cutler, we’d have Nathan Cutler, a Democratic governor the people never got tired of because he served less than three months in office in 1829 and 1830. In place of LePage, there’d be Hannibal Hamlin, a Republican who quit after a few weeks to become a US senator and eventually Lincoln’s first vice president. Substitute William King, Maine’s first governor in 1820, for Michaud, and not only do you get a personage later relied upon by the federal government to negotiate a difficult treaty with Spain, but also a registered Democratic-Republican Party member. Can’t get more bipartisan than that. Setting aside the small problems of musty odors, worms, spiders, and rats (issues no worse than those plaguing most meetings of the Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs), corpses would appear to offer a vastly improved option for operating state government. It’s well past time we repealed the term limits arbitrarily imposed by their life spans, and gave back control to our ancestors. Bring on the zombie apocalypse. Maybe we could get an endorsement for that idea from some actors on The Walking Dead. ^

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this year marks six decades since the brown v. board of education decision, in which the United States Supreme court ruled that state laws establishing and maintaining separate schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. in many ways an appetizer before the main course of the full-fledged civil rights era, the ruling declared that separate educational institutions were inherently unequal. here we are, 60 years later, in a country where the highest office of the land is held by a black man. A place where many believe that in as little as 30 years, white Americans will be outnumbered by non-whites. mixed-race individuals are positioned to move into the majority and, along with this, cheers about a post-racial society have grown. But behind the scenes, something more insidious is at work, as schools have slowly become more segregated by race. researchers at harvard’s Graduate School of education have noted a trend toward re-segregation that began in the 1980s and seems to be picking up steam. Southern states are moving the fastest at resegregation, though this phenomenon has been noted in places around the country, where African-American and latino students comprise increasing shares of public school systems. this matters in our supposedly (but not really yet) post-racial society, because research has shown that student bodies with predominantly brown and tan skin tend not to have equal access to the same resources from which predominantly white schools benefit, often as a function of how public schools are funded via property taxes. look at any major city in the country and you will find fewer white kids in the public school systems. that includes new england’s largest city, Boston, which is 53 percent non-white overall in terms of its population, yet the public schools are 85 percent Black and latino. When kids come and it’s time to enroll them in school, whites opt out either by moving to predominantly white communities or sending their kids to private schools. We are going backward when it comes to race in this country, and the growing awareness of how schools are re-segregating is the final warning call. despite the superficial appearance of racial parity when it comes to education and economics, whites still fare better than people of color. there is no getting around that. Sure, there are always extraordinary exceptions such as neil degrasse tyson, America’s foremost astrophysicist and nerd who, as a black man, has publicly acknowledged the roadblocks he has faced in his journey. But for every tyson, or oprah Winfrey for that matter, there are hundreds of thousands of people of color who will never get ahead, because the system is stacked and unfair. this goes beyond racism to fundamental problems within our society and its systems. ta-nehisi coates, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, summed up well in a recent column, writing: “ending white supremacy isn’t really in the American vocabulary. that is because ending white supremacy does not merely require a passive sense that racism is awful, but an active commitment to undoing its generational effects. ending white supremacy requires the ability to do math — 350 years of murderous plunder are not undone by 50 years of uneasy ceasefire. “A latent commitment to anti-racism just isn’t enough. But that’s what we have right now. With that in mind, there is no reason to believe that a total vanquishing of white supremacy is necessarily in the American future. “ the choice is ours. We either get intentional and do the hard work to create long-term change, including whites acknowledging and giving up the inherent bias in our culture that favors them, or we may end up with a browner nation that has just as much (or more) racial disparity as it always did. ^

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Bringing poetry back to the people

“if we had set out to create a program that was more threatening to the connection between poetry and its audience, we could hardly have done better than the system we have in America today,” maine’s poet laureate Wesley mcnair wrote in the introduction to Take Heart: Poems from Maine, an anthology published last year. “poetry books are routinely printed in runs of less than a thousand copies, and only a few are given reviews or shelf space in bookstores. partly in self-defense, poets band together in groups or aesthetic schools and offer bookstore readings attended by fellow poets and a few of the like-minded, or university readings attended mostly by students pressed into service. meanwhile the general public, standing at the edges of such events, decides that today’s poetry is probably not for them.” mcnair’s mission as the state’s appointed poet is to restore that connection — to find new ways of bringing poetry back into the everyday lives of maine people. in an address at the Blaine house earlier this month, he outlined several statewide initiatives he’s undertaken to fulfill that mission, including the newspaper column “take heart: A converstaion in poetry,” through which previously published poems find their way weekly into 31 maine newspapers with a combined circulation of 250,000 readers. he also highlighted the maine poetry express, inspired by maine’s Grange hall tradition of poetry readings by ordinary citizens. last year, the poetry express made 14 stops across maine; the tour will be reprised this summer. A third initiative, “poets in public,” is currently underway, with the aim of putting “maine poets on Youtube and on a specially created website, reading and discussing their work, so people in our state and

well beyond can find the work of maine poets by the click of a mouse.” And may 2 at mount Blue high School in Farmington will mark the launch of a fourth prong of mcnair’s poetry push: “Written Word, Spoken Word, and hip-hop,” an educational program that expands the ways students can access, understand, and embrace the concept of poetry. “this is a very bottom-up approach,” mcnair tells the Phoenix, one that will employ on the talents of maine poet and teacher Gibson Fay-leBlanc, local spoken word artist lady Zen, and rapper eric Axelman (a maine native currently living in providence, rhode island). traditional poetry, spoken word, and hip hop — “these are all valid approaches, they’re all related; in every one you’re talking about putting words on the page,” leBlanc says. Another educational piece of mcnair’s poet laureateship is “letters Between poets,” an extensively catalogued online collection of correspondence between mcnair and his mentor, poet and literary critic donald hall. A sort of modern day Letters to A Young Poet, searchable by keyword and accessible by theme, the exchange “includes conversation about poems in progress, publication and how to go about it, discouragement in moments of artistic failure, and the meaning of the writing life.” designed primarily for teachers and students, the letters are clearly relevant for writers and artists at every stage in their creative development. _deirdre fulton

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who doesn’t have remorseful flashes of beauty like “Before Stonewall,” where 13-year-old Spang digs up a covertly intimate moment with a schoolmate amidst the hetero pieties of a school dance. His stories burn and his inquiries press, but there is no moralizing here; just a good man wringing out truths that have long been aching to be employed into words. Another selection from Moon Pie Press, Robin Merrill’s short volume Jesus Was a Feminist collects a couple dozen brash, witty poems. A young woman who dedicates the volume (and the searing titular poem at its end) to her daughter, Merrill writes with the attuned ear of a slam poet, hammering the repetitions and spreading out quippy, confrontational lines for maximum impact. To the experience of a solo reader, however, this can sometimes feel a little pedantic (as in “Purple and Rust,” a brassy paean to being “lost”). But Merrill’s gift for inserting hairpin emotional turns, like the one in the powerful “Louisiana Sharecropper’s Chapel,” which transforms a seemingly innocuous atheist’s ramble into a harrowing insight on personal trauma, keeps her work incisive, useful, and brave. They don’t always leap off the page, but it’s easy to imagine Merrill the performer launching these poems into splendor. Director of the Haystack Mountain School for Crafts in Deer Isle, Stuart Kestenbaum is a widely credited poet in Maine circles and a devoted supporter of the scene. I was chagrined, then, to learn that I didn’t much enjoy his new volume, Only Now (Deerbrook Editions), which seemed replete with neo-Buddhist wisdoms and seemingly endless injunctions to “listen” and “look within.” Kestenbaum writes with an attention to systems and order that borders on the religious and instructional. Many poems, like the wryly didactic “Correct,” seem obsessively aware of this, as if its author were issuing formulas on how to work against his own ethos. In the best poems in Only Now, Kestenbaum shows himself more than adept at framing the limitations of human technology in capturing emotion — from the empty

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propagates it. Not to be confused with Injury, a lovely collection of spare, whimsical, and hyperliterary poems by Jonathan Aldrich (Maine Authors Publishing). At turns as epigrammatic as Jack Gilbert and spare as Robert Creeley, Aldrich weaves hard-fought insights into lyrical pieces often no bigger than a fortune cookie (witness “Seasonal”: “Curtail curtains. Shun shades, / love the light as fall fades.”). Reflective of a life spent in letters (references include Blake, Shelley, Melville, John Berryman, etc.), Aldrich is nonetheless unafraid of irony, or to play with formal structure, as in the largely unrecitable “Pillars of Criteria for Some Modern Poems.” For the most part a sparse, spacious volume, Aldrich concludes with the noisy narrative poem “Flacker in Paris,” a long meditation on a life lived at its frontlines. For some, the newest book by James Gendron, a Portland-raised contemporary poet ex-patted to Oregon, will be the most challenging. Titled Sexual Boat (Sex Boats) (Octopus Books), Gendron’s volume is the only style reviewed here that might be called the vanguard of modern poetry — at least as it is practiced in the journals of the Millenial literati. His terse, muscular poems (of which many are titled “Sex Boats”) display a desperate, cynical voice entirely appropriate to the concerns of his — for many of us, our — generation, voicing the desires, emotions, and misgivings of an era of perpetual war, suffocating surveillance, and mediated human connections. If Gendron has a formula, it’s this: Begin the poem with a series of illustrative, paratactic, quasi-absurdist phrases that don’t shy away from criticism or juvenilia, and then connect them at the poem’s conclusion with a killer last line. In the best poem titled “Sex Boat,” Gendron brilliantly stays on topic throughout, opening (“Ghosts are real, though not all ghosts.”), expanding (“I wish to haunt you, but I have no soul.”), and finishing (“The other world exists: / it’s in this one.”) in one quick arc. It’s not for lack of depth, but readers who haven’t found the taste or the patience for the conventions of most modern poetry might try this out. Maybe Kestenbaum is right after all: the temptation to look deeper affects us all. ^

stations of commerce in “Prayer While Downshifting” to the restrictions of language in “Extinction” — but the experience of reading them was generally stressful, and their servile devotion to some intangible notion of beauty, one which I too could achieve if only I looked ever deeper, seemed increasingly suspect. Love poetry but lack the hours the digest it? Jon Petruschke’s new self-published collection Dream Haiku has plenty of bite-sized nuggets of wit and wisdom to hold you over. The Munjoy Hill writer offers 200 insights on the universal subjects of unity (“She’s convinced / my two-word haiku is / a rant about her.”), alienness (“The most boring guy / offers to lend me / his bathing suit.”), self-reflection (“Mom frowns reading my / diary, but most of it’s / what I’d wished I’d done.”), politics Nick Schroeder can be reached at nschroeder@phx. (“Military’s / new policy - / Do tell, do com or on Twitter: @chawson. tell.”), and irreverence (“Try getting out of / boxing match, by refusing / to put down juice glass.”) As you can tell, Petruschke wisely strays from the 5-7-5 form in deference to the poem; while this may be more a collection of aphorisms, purists step down: there are more than enough passages here to satisfy the broadside of a fridge. To be young and hungry is a fine poet’s formula; to fuse those with integrity and accountability makes something special. Brody Wood’s self-published chapbook Arenas of Light collects six fearless pieces written through the lens of survival, the scrupulous articulation of injury, and the confrontation of loss. It’s on this subject in particular that Wood rewards — after all, as put in “such a dog”: “What good is an affair if you have nothing to say about loss?” This slender, staple-bound volume is a small but radical document of vitality, where stakes are high, courage is paramount, and ownership of the language of negativity (fear, loss, injury, etc.) is a powerful Dream Haiku by Jon petruschke weapon against a culture that silently

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saturday 26 SPriNg iN Your StEP | The 7th

annual SpringtimE SpEctAculAr returns to Space Gallery tonight. Headed by belly dance teacher and community leader Rosa Noreen, you can expect this multi-genre Spectacular to be just that — spectacular. A wide range of dance styles will be on display, such as the Hawaiian hula, belly dance, and Bollywood, and there’ll be live music from blues troubadour/emcee Sam James. $15-18. 8 pm at 538 Congress St., Portland. 207.828.5600.

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| As is often said, “all good things

must come to an end.” Unfortunately, the axiom now applies to one of Portland’s favorite venues: Slainte (see “Farewell, Slainte,” by Sam Pfeifle, in last week’s Phoenix). Being the classy crew that they are, they are going out with one heckuva party. Say so long to this tiny but beloved bar at their event goodByE, SlAintE. Filling the night with over seven hours of entertainment, the musical line-up includes: ShAShAShA +

ginlAB + tAll horSE + duStin SAuciEr And thE SAd BAStArdS + WorriEd WEll + liSA/liZA + EvAn pArKEr of if And it + EriK nEilSon + Johnny fountAin + dAniEl KnudSEn. All this, plus

f BAthS, at Port City Music Hall, in Portland on April 27. thursday 24

starting at 7 pm. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 245 Maine St., Brunswick. 207.725.3275.

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Enactus and Special Olympics Maine host a benefit concert “An

EvEning for SpEciAl olympicS” tonight at Asylum. Local

comedian and filmmaker (and Best nominee) Travis Curran will host the evening. Among the performaning acts will be rock-popsoul group KriS rodgErS And thE dirty gEmS, five-piece alternative blues-Americana outfit WhitE pinE, and folk band tAll horSE. $10. 9 pm. 21+. At 121 Center St., Portland. 207.772.8274. WArHol’S floWErS | A flowery silkscreen by Andy Warhol (recently donated by the Andy Warhol Foundation) and a monumental painting by James Rosenquist (currently on loan to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art) are what prompted tonight’s Thursday Night Salon lecture: “Spring floWErS: Andy WArhol And JAmES roSEnquiSt,” delivered by Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral curatorial fellow Sarah Montross and curator Joachim Homann. They’ll address the subject of flowers in Pop Art,

friday 25 it’S ourS | The 33rd annual

tAKE BAcK thE night mArch And rAlly returns to Portland to-

night. Co-sponsored by the Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine (SARSSM) and the Portland Police Department, this event aims at to spread awareness about sexual violence and help educate the community about ways to prevent sexual assault. 6-8 pm in Monument Square. 207.828.1035. MoNStEr MASH | The classic American comedy young frAnKEnStEin: thE muSicAl is in its second week at the Lyric Music Theater in South Portland. Based on the 1974 film directed by master-of-parodies Mel Brooks, this hilarious musical comedy revisits the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his kooky companions, Igor the hunchback and Inga the lab assistant. Musical numbers include “He Vas My Boyfriend”

it’s free. Starting at 5 pm and going ’til close. Slainte Wine Bar & Lounge, 24 Preble St., Portland. 207.828.0900. tHE lAtE SHoW | Whether

you know him from his turn as Patrick Kuby on Breaking Bad, his voiceover work on Grand Theft Auto IV, or as a stand-up star, you’ll surely agree that Bill Burr is one of the top comedic voices of his generation. The early show sold out, but there are still tickets available for the 10 pm Late Show. They’re $35. State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland. 207.956.6000.

sunday 27 PEddliNg PEdAlS | Just when you thought you were too lazy to bike (or move) ever again, the grEAt mAinE BiKE SWAp returns to give you a burst of motivation. The Bike Swap is an awesome way to get gently used bicycles — hybrids, road bikes, mountain bikes, children’s bikes — at a super affordable price. (Not to mention a great way to clean out your garage.) Get there early because this is pretty much like Black Friday for bikes. 10 am. University of Southern Maine - Portland, Sullivan Complex, Portland. FMI call the Bicycle Coalition of Maine: 207.623.4511. dirtY, dirtY EXErCiSE | Speaking of getting off the couch, people these days are finding some really crazy ways to exercise. For example, there’s that terrifying foot race where you’re chased by bloodsucking zombies trying to eat you. Or how about

and “The Transylvania Mania.” $17.99-21.99. 8 pm at 176 Sawyer St., South Portland. 207.799.1421. NEW SouNdS | Portland’s newest musical act, BAxtEr, plays at Bayside Bowl tonight. Blending folk and rock, they model their tunes off the likes of Bob Dylan and Dave Matthews. Maine native Raffi Der Simonian (also my boss at my other gig at Maine College of Art) fronts the band, who play a mix of originals and covers that range from contemporary folk to rock to blues. 8 pm. 58 Alder St., Portland. 207.791.2695.

f SpringtimE SpEctAculAr, at SPACE Gallery, in Portland on April 26. with BOBBY LONG today’s into thE mud chAllEngE, a 2.5-mile obstacle course in which contestants run through a whole lotta mud to get to the finish line. Children and adults alike dress up in silly costumes and then quickly trudge their way through muck and sludge all in the name of sportsmanship — and charity of course! Proceeds from the event go to support the USM Sport Management Scholarship Fund. 8 am. Gorham Middle School, 106 Weeks Rd., Gorham. 207.780.5256 gEt ClEAN | The Californiabased electronica musician BAthS blurs the musical lines tonight at Port City Music Hall. His music has been described as “post-modern pop” — not too heavy or dark like some groups, just straight pleasant. Give his song “Animals” a listen to if you need a sample. Co-headlining is the Scottish rap trio young fAthErS. $12-14. 9 pm. 504 Congress St., Portland. 207.956.6000. SEX, loVE, ANd MurdEr | The true-crime documentary The

GalapaGos affair: saTan Came To eden has its last viewing at

the Portland Museum of Art at 2 pm. Using home-movie excerpts, modern high-def footage, and dramatic voiceovers, the film tells the story of a Berlin doctor and his mistress who move to the Galapagos Islands in the 1930s to start a new life but quickly get into trouble with a media- and a gun-loving Baroness. What follows is a series of unsolved disappearances and a murder, complete with melodrama and sexual intrigue. $8. 7 Congress Square, Portland. 207.775.6148.

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| For a fun evening filled with music and dance from all over the world, head over to People Plus in Brunswick for their weekly intErnAtionAl folK dAncE night. You’ll learn traditional folk dances from countries across the globe, which turns out to be not only a great way to exercise but also to socialize! People of all ages and walks of life are welcome. $8; $5 seniors/ students. 6:30 pm. People Plus-Brunswick, 35 Union St., Brunswick.

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acclaimed painter and curator Inverna Lockpez speaks tonight at University of Maine - Augusta about her new graphic novel Cuba: my revoluTion. The books tells the story of Lockpez’s time in Cuba, working as a medic during that country’s revolution. Lockpez served at the Bay of Pigs and then attended art school in Havana; the book is a beautiful combination of her words and paintings. 6:30 pm, preceded by a potluck dinner with the author. Richard Randall Student Center, University of Maine -

Augusta. 207.621.3385. PiCKiN’ ANd PiZZA | Join JoE WAlSh & friEndS for another free and fun bluegrass night at Otto Pizza’s Arts District location. You may know Joe Walsh as one of the members of The Gibson Brothers or the Stowaways, but he also has had a prolific solo career playing his mandolin. When he’s not touring, he’s playing gigs all over town, and serving as managing director of Berklee College’s American Roots Music Project. In other words, the real deal. 8 pm. Otto Pizza, 574 Congress St., Portland. 207.773.7099

tuEsday 29 PrEPArE for tAKE-off | The decade-old group modEl AirplAnE returns tonight to groove its way back into our hearts. Boasting some of Portland’s best musicians (like Dan Boyden, Pete Genova, and Lyle Divinsky) the soul/funk group (a/k/a “seven-piece funkalicious soul explosion”) kick off a series of summer performances with a gig at One Longfellow Square’s new Live & Local series. $5. 8:30 pm. One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland. 207.761.1757. WAr ANd PEACE | Where President Barack Obama was once optimistic about brokering (or helping to achieve) peace between Israel and Palestine, he and interested observers are now frustrated and seemingly stuck. “How is it that Obama’s active and aggressive search for progress has become mired in the status quo?” wonders nationally-renowned author and activist Josh Ruebner, who will explore the subject in a talk that shares its name with his recently published book, “ShAttErEd hopES: oBAmA’S fAilurE to BroKEr iSrAEli-pAlEStiniAn pEAcE.”

7 pm. University of Southern Maine – Portland, Wishcamper Center, 34 Bedford St., Portland. 207.780.4141. HolY PArtiClE! | Those of you who are into scientific breakthroughs (so, all of you) should not miss tonight’s screening of parTiCle fever at SPACE Gallery. This film follows six scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest and most powerful particle collider and the most expensive experiment in the history of the planet. Following the film will be

a live video chat with producer David Kaplan, who is also a professor of theoretical particle physics at John Hopkins University (and therefore will be able to answer your myriad questions). $8. 7:30 pm at 538 Congress St., Portland. 207.828.5600.

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Playwrights Festival is back again this year, featuring new work by more than 80 actors, writers, and directors. Tonight, see a staged reading of the festival’s only fulllength script, Linda Britt’s WhaT if..., in which “an after-dinner game turns dangerous as alcohol flows freely and the participants reveal closely-held secrets, leading to betrayal and an unexpected resolution.” Directed by Nate Speckman and featuring a cast of local favorites, this is just one of the MPF’s many offerings for theater-lovers this week (and next). The festival comes to a grand conclusion with the 24-Hour Theater Project on May 4. Check next week’s Phoenix for more. 7:30 pm; $15; at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St., Portland. maineplaywrightsfestival.org.

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week, hide your 13 year olds, because huntEr hAyES is coming to town. This pop-country crooner is known for emotional songwriting, multi-instrumental talent, and for possibly being teen queen Selena Gomez’s post-Bieber hook-up. That’s at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. 207.947.7345. lA ViE EN roSE | And in celebration of the modern women of Francophone music, lES

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ant girls dig up a monolithic statement _BY nick schr oed er The four artists known as Ant Girls — Rebecca Goodale, Colleen Kinsella, Vivien Russe, and Dorothy Schwartz — began working together in 2012, inspired by the complex habits and societies of leafcutter ants: working in colonies, laying eggs and cultivating fungus — not the worst metaphors for the creative process. Looking at the sprawling, dynamic exhibit they’ve installed throughout the Atrium Gallery at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn Campus and halfway down the college’s hallway, one could draw parallels to ant biology all day. Echoes of the complex societies of leafcutter ants reverberate in the colors, forms, and materials of the exhibit. Amassed on pedestals and adorning walls are the Girls’ material “cargo” — the products of their labor. A “nuptial swarm” of winged paper ants is suspended above the colony, while a “wing pile” in its center — fully wearable by visitors — simulates the insects’ practice of discarding them after mating. And so on. It’s the sort of exhibit that might be easily confused as decorative — indeed, “Ant Farm” is so playful and colorful one easily imagines some mordant college student rejecting it as kidstuff. Which raises the question — what’s wrong with that? In many respects, this is truly a testament to collaboration, process, and work. Its practitioners — four hardened veterans of the Maine arts scene — are seemingly invested in exhuming new habits and methods of making work, forming an intricate and frankly fairly enviable arts community whose ideas and labors lie well outside the dictates of any supposed art market or institutional demand. Any complete catalogue of the Ant Girls’ works would have to be abridged — there’s just too much here to name. Fully immersive, it’s comprised of dozens of handcrafted artists’ books, a few glass terrariums, several framed drawings, and countless screenprints (including, touchingly, several employing “exquisite

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corpse” practices between the four women) — and that’s not counting the archive of individual works by the four artists mounted in the hall. Once you’ve seen those independent pieces, it’s a pleasure to trace the stylistic contributions within the aggregate works — Goodale’s techniques of paper cutting and folding; Kinsella’s wispy lines and surrealistic visual grammar; Russe’s hypnotic arrangements of field and color study; and Schwartz’s stark, Leonard Baskin-inspired woodcuts. But ultimately, “Ant Farm” doesn’t belong to the visitor any more than a mound of dirt belongs to the pedestrian. Anyone interested in this sort of culture is going to have to dig. The magnificence of the Ant Girls exhibit belies two ironies. The first, of course, is that for all the lessons available attesting to the sort of life one could cultivate pursuing the arts, “Ant Farm” could very well be the last visual art exhibit at USM’s Lewiston-Auburn outpost while the facility still offers an Arts and Humanities program. The second is a little grimmer. Dorothy Schwartz passed away in March at 75, and despite numerous testaments within the exhibit both to her vivacity and the commandment to celebrate rather than mourn, the specter adds a powerful element to an installation so teeming with life. Schwartz’s husband, the avant-garde composer Elliott Schwartz (also a teacher at Bowdoin College), has composed works online with Big Blood, the psychedelicfolk duo comprised of Kinsella and Caleb Mulkerin (available at the website antgirlsmaine.blogspot.com). ^

“Ant FArm: At the nexus oF Art & science,” mixed media installation by Ant Girls: rebecca Goodale + colleen Kinsella + Vivien russe + Dorothy schwartz | through June 6 | university of southern maine - Lewiston/Auburn, 51 Westminster st, Lewiston | 2307.753.6500 Nick Schroeder can be reached at nschroeder@phx.com.

‘Ant scroLL’ (detail), three scrolls, each 43 inches by 30 feet; by the ant girls (colleen kinsella, rebecca goodale, dorothy schwartz, and Vivien russe).

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Even after French Resistance leader Germaine Tillion was arrested by the Nazis, she still found ways to defy. While imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, from 1943-45, the former ethnologist not only risked her life taking secret notes about the horrors around her, but also managed to write an entire operetta of dissent, Le Verfügbar aux Enfers. It wasn’t performed until 2007 in the original French, and only now receives its world-premiere English performance, by the University of Southern Maine Department of Theatre. Horrific but rich in gallows humor, Tillion’s script is called In the Underworld in a new translation by Annie and Karl Bortnick, commissioned by USM and on stage now at Russell Hall under the impressive direction of Meghan Brodie. In the Underworld expresses torA SUPUrB enSeMBLe members of the In the ments both institutional and disUnderworld cast, pre-head-shaving/-hair-cutting. armingly personal, in a sequence of lyrics set to well-known music of Tillion’s day — often in facetiously trains, and chimes, pacing is especially major keys. The show begins as five new bracing when we’re shocked out of its patinmates, heads freshly shaven (Mary tern, as when a comic song (about rutabaKate Ganza, Clare McKelway, Caroline gas) is cut short by a gunshot. O’Connor, Hannah Perry, and Elinor And this ensemble of 11 women, dressed Strandskov), join six others already at Rain stripes and pale and purpled with bruises, vensbrück (Callie J. Cox, Helena Crothersis simply remarkable as they talk of terVillers, Virginia Hudak, Madelyn James, rifying minutiae, camp slang, and small Sable Strout, and Rhiannon Vonder Haar). acts of rebellion, as they detail and display On Angelica Pendeleton’s elegant, impostorture scars to upbeat oom-pah-pah. Their ing rendering of the camp — tall wood faces express an affecting range of emowalls, rough-hewn bunks, poles strung tions — some are haunted, some hardened, with barbed wire — the superb ensemble some contorted with rage — and effectively swerves adroitly between searing irony and portray both an aggregate of individuals and earnest rage or lament about sick passes, a strikingly bonded, cohesive group. Accomprison food, and the sad slackening of the panied by Jonathan Marro’s excellent ninenear-starving women’s breasts. piece orchestra, their voices are texturally Between the songs, an inmate dressed varied and often very fine, with moments of in a hat and tails, called The Naturalist breathtaking harmony. They perform Maria (Madelyn James, with crisp, deadpanned Tzianabos’s simple choreography of circling delivery), holds forth on the characterisand riffs on tango and the can-can with an tics of “the Verfügbar,” which the Bortappealing artlessness, and summon great nicks translate as “the Forlorn,” a new gravity when, in the next moment, they human “species” born of the camps often glare stock still in the footlights. “sensitive to sudden noises,” or stricken For the prisoners to satirize their world, with “logorrhea” as bodies are wheeled under such conditions, was a quiet mutiby. Tillion’s formulations are disarming. ny. The actresses who portray them deliver The Naturalist compares the Verfügbar to accomplished, complex, devastating perother organisms, for example, asexual liformances in this audacious, momentous, chens: they are “sometimes female — but not-to-be-missed collaboration. In the Undermostly, nothing at all.” Immediately after world is an uncommon homage to the many this observation, the group sings “Our ordinary women who, with such wit, bravSex Appeal” about the sorry state of their ery, and communion, resisted even the sexuality, at once arch and sorrowful. most extraordinary of horrors. ^ Two types of Verfügbar exist: a “good for nothing” and a “saboteur.” Tillion is most IN THE UNDERWORLD | By Germaine Tillion interested in the latter. | Translated by Annie and Karl Bortnick | DiThe women’s emotional resistance builds rected by Meghan Brodie; Musical Direction in a pattern of alternating dark-comic and and Lyric Adaptation by Jonathan Marro; Arserious in its songs and commentary. These rangements and Composition by Christophe contrasts keep the pace energetic, with the Maudot | Produced by the University of exception of a few longer solemn songs, Southern Maine Department of Theater, in and with some elusiveness in the arc of the Gorham, through April 27 | 207.780.5151 or Naturalist (after one particularly harrowing usm.maine.edu/theatre/underworld song, she disappears back into the ensemble for the duration). Punctuated by beautiful Megan Grumbling can be reached at shifts in lighting and sounds of whistles, mgrumbling@hotmail.com.

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for that.” The majority of the footage was shot in Van Buren, with other scenes captured in Frenchville, Grand Isle, Madawaska, Fort Kent, Hamlin, and other towns that dot the Maine-Canada border. All the potatoharvest scenes were shot at the LaJoie Family Farm in Van Buren. “So much of script came from the research we did in the area,” Gaudet says. “We didn’t know how bad the prescription drug abuse was until we went there.” While talking with students at a local school, they discovered how easy it was for them to acquire different kinds of pills through dealers and existing smuggling rings. This led to interviews with Maine Drug Enforcement Agency officials and convicts serving time at Houlton Jail for smuggling. At one point Pullapilly and Gaudet secured a perfect location to film a drug-exchange scene — almost too perfect. “Before we could use it, the guy who owned it was arrested for smuggling cocaine,” Pullapilly says. Despite the script and project being tailored to and inspired by the area, investors kept trying to steer Pullapilly and Gaudet away from actually filming in Maine. “They didn’t want to invest in a movie shot in Maine, because the tax incentives just aren’t there,” Gaudet says. But the two filmmakers decided to take the project home and keep it there. “Aron grew up in Maine and was like ‘I’m gonna make this movie a Maine movie.’ It had to be authentic,” Pullapilly says. “So, we gathered whatever money we could get and got whatever local support we could.” Their efforts paid off and the film premieres nationwide — distributed by Tribeca Film — on May 2. Before that, Beneath the Harvest Sky has special pre-release screenings in select Maine locales (including Portland, Waterville, Bar Harbor, Bangor, and Houlton) on Friday, April 25. Both Pullapilly and Gaudet will be teaching a filmmaking workshop at SPACE Gallery at 12 pm on the 25th, and will be present for a post-film discussion after the Saturday, April 26 evening screening at the Nickleodeon in Portland. ^

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As with most songs here, Bettencourt also shows off his considerable chops on the acoustic guitar, with great fingerwork that he uses to alter the song’s tempo as he breaks down into the chorus with each step of this line’s litany: “Tears they sting my eyes like broken glass, or rock, or hail.” The chorus is highly singable, then gives way to a couple of guitars soloing alongside each other, one more wah-ed than the other, with everything perfectly rough around the sonic edges. And it all gets a good fireside embrace from Anna Lombard’s and Sara Hallie Richardson’s ethereal backing vocals, like a glow behind Bettencourt’s head. Most of the rest of the album is more upbeat, or at least more up-tempo. Even the waltz that finishes the record, “Under a Tree,” is quick and delicate on the acoustic guitar, where Bettencourt can tell a story without needing the English language. It’s infused, too, with Lauren HastingsGenova violin, which sits overtop Pete Genova’s thumping bass (congrats on getting hitched, kids), and then Morse chimes in with an electric guitar line. In the headphones, you might be particularly aware of guitar parts being plugged into the left and right channels. In fact, it’s hard not to notice the construction of the album as a whole. It can add a level of enjoyment — “hey, is that a banjo on ‘Shake Us Off’?” — but there are times, as on “Weary Traveler,” where the crisp repeating phrases come off as mechanical, like you’re listening to a robot band

BAck whERE hE BELOngs eric bettencourt returns to Portland with a new album in tow. at Disneyland, created specifically for your themepark enjoyment. There’s a frequently intense energy that takes on different meaning, too, when you hear the words to a tune like “Shake Us Off”— is it anger that fuels Bettencourt? “Have you any sense of what we’ve done?” he asks in what opens as a ballad, with Morse being appropriately moody on the pedal steel. But then you notice “she” is probably the Earth, and you hear, “I’ll hold you like we were living/ In hell’s darkest ravine,” and that “there’s nothing left to destroy,” repeated with the easiest of singsong deliveries, like the end of the world is so inevitable it isn’t even bad news. Is the furor with which some of these songs move actually more like fury? Even a song like “Climbing Back,” which is full of Widespread Panic-style blues jam, has plenty of dark themes — “I learned to

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transaction — muck that up with some dynamic noise and you’ve more or less got a John maus song. Sure, maybe it’s not “listenable” in the way people describe most music, but there’s something pretty special about how dumb and pointless Traveling sprinkler (the album) is, and we only use those terms with the highest regard. of course, Baker has a history of going off-script. remember: this is the guy who followed up The anthologist with house of holes, a collection of tongue-in-cheek, fantasy erotica (imagine a xxx The cat in the hat and you’re close). no doubt the novel should be tackled first, but visit nicholsonbaker.bandcamp.com to give the weirdness that is Traveling sprinkler a whirl. or if you take the recommendation less literally, make your next album a sculpture.

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College, Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.798.4141 DIRTY MCCURDY | 9 pm | Harmony Hall, 383 Gray St, North Yarmouth | $8-$10 | 207.657.4300

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ANDREA GIBSON + JESSE THOMAS | 6:30 pm | Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $15-18 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall. com MODEL AIRPLANE | 8:30 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $5 | 207.761.1757

WEDNESDAY 30

BOWDOIN AFRO-LATIN MUSIC ENSEMBLE | 7:30 pm | Bowdoin

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

THURSDAY 1

HUNTER HAYES | 7 pm | Cross In-

surance Center, 74 Gilman Rd, Bangor | $16.40 | 207.947.7345

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

DAVID MALLETT | 7:30 pm | The

Grand, 165 Main St, Ellsworth | $22 | 207.667.9500 or grandonline.org DJANGO REINHARDT | 7:30 pm | The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | 207.439.0114 GRAND SLAMBOVIANS | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $25 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com ROBERT SARAZIN BLAKE | 7 pm | Markel’s Bakehouse, 26 Water St, Castine | 207.326.9510

RODRIGO Y GABRIELA + BOBBY LONG | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609

Congress St, Portland | $25-40 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland. com TARBOX RAMBLERS | 8 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $15 | 207.761.1757 USM VOCAL JAZZ ENSEMBLE | 8 pm | University of Southern Maine - Gorham, Corthell Concert Hall, 37 College Ave, Gorham | 207.780.5256 WICKED GOOD BAND | Fri-Sat 8 pm | The Footlights in Falmouth, 190 US Rte 1, Falmouth | $15 | 207.756.0252

SATURDAY 26

ANTIGONE RISING | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $25 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com LE VENT DU NORD | 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $35 | 207.935.7292 MALLETT BROTHERS BAND | 7:30 pm | Brewer Performing Arts Center, 92 Pendleton St, Brewer | $15-20 | 207.989.4140 ROY ZIMMERMAN | 8 am | First Universalist Church of Yarmouth, 97 Main St, Yarmouth | $18 | 207.846.4148 or uuyarmouth.org RYAN MONTBLEAU | 8 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $15-20 | 207.761.1757 SQUID JIGGERS | 7 pm | North Windham Union Church, 723 Roosevelt Trail, Windham | 207.892.6142 TIME PILOTS | medical benefit | 7 pm | Gold Room, 510 Warren Ave, Portland | $10 | 207.221.2343 TOMORROW MORNING | Ipanema Bar & Grill, 10 Broad St, Bangor | 207.942.5180 WICKED GOOD BAND | See listing for Fri

SUNDAY 27

Western Ave, Augusta | $10 adults, $5 kids SIMONS & GOODWIN | 3 pm | McArthur Public Library, 270 Main St, Biddeford | 207.247.4181

MONDAY 28

ALL TIME LOW + HANDGUNS + MAN OVERBOARD + MAYDAY PARADE + WE ARE IN THE CROWD |

7 pm | State Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $22-25 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland.com

DANCE PARTICIPATORY THURSDAY 24

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

land | $5 | 207.653.8486

FRIDAY 25

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE |

6:30 pm | People Plus/Brunswick, 35 Union St, Brunswick | $8, $5 seniors/students | 207.700.7577 PILOBOLUS | 8 pm | Portland Ovations, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | $32-44 | 207.842.0800

WEDNESDAY 30

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

CLUB DIRECTORY 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 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 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

THURSDAY 1

BUBBA’S SULKY LOUNGE |

PERFORMANCE

BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/FREEPORT | 207.865.0600 | 581 Rte 1,

SALSA DANCING WITH DJ BRAULIO | See listing for Thurs

FRIDAY 25

PILOBOLUS | 8 pm | Portland Ova-

tions, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | $32-44 | 207.842.0800

SATURDAY 26

SPRINGTIME SPECTACULAR | 8

pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | $15-$18 | 207.828.5600 | space538.org

EVENTS

207.828.0549 | 92 Portland St, Portland

Freeport

BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/PORTLAND | | 50 Wharf St, Portland BULL FEENEY’S | 207.773.7210 | 375 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

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

THURSDAY 24

CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN |

ern Maine - Portland, Hannaford Hall, 88 Bedford St, Portland | $50 | 207.774.5555 or | bluewrap.eventbrite.com

CAPTAIN DANIEL STONE INN

CARMEN VERANDAH |

BLUE WRAP PROJECT RUNWAY 2014 | 6 pm | University of South-

HEIRLOOM APPLE ORCHARD WORK PARTY | 11 am | University

FRIDAY 25

TAKE BACK THE NIGHT | rally &

march | 6 pm | Monument Square, Congress St, Portland | 207.774.9979

SATURDAY 26

MAINE ROLLER DERBY | 5 pm | Portland Expo, 239 Park Ave, Portland | $12 adults, $5 kids or | portlandevents.com/Expo.htm Continued on p 24

207.336.2126 | 371 Turner St, Buckfield

| 207.373.1824 | 10 Water St, Brunswick

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT | 603.343.4390 | 11 Fourth St, Dover, NH

207.288.2766 | 119 Main St, Bar Harbor

CARTELLI’S BAR AND GRILL |

603.750.4002 | 446 Central Ave, Dover, NH CASA DEL LUNA | 207.241.0711 | Lewiston Mall, Lewiston CHARLAMAGNE’S | 207.242.2711 | 228 Water St, Augusta 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

CREMA COFFEE COMPANY | | 9 Commercial St, Portland DOBRA TEA | 207.370.1890 | 151 Middle St, Portland

THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE |

207.772.5483 | 128 Free St, Portland DOGFISH CAFE | 207.253.5400 | 953 Congress St, Portland DOLPHIN STRIKER | 603.431.5222 | 15 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH DOVER BRICK HOUSE | 603.749.3838 | 2 Orchard St, Dover, NH DOWN UNDER CLUB | 207.992.2550 | Seasons Grille & Sports Lounge, 427 Main St, Bangor EASY STREET LOUNGE | 207.622.3360 | 7 Front St, Hallowell ELEMENTS: BOOKS COFFEE BEER | 207.710.2011 | 265 Main St, Biddeford EMPIRE | 207.879.8988 | 575 Congress St, Portland FAST BREAKS | 207.782.3305 | 1465 Lisbon St, Lewiston FAT BELLY’S | 603.610.4227 | 2 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH FATBOY’S SALOON | 207.766.8862 | 65 Main St, Biddeford FEDERAL JACK’S | 207.967.4322 | 8 Western Ave, Kennebunk

FEILE IRISH RESTAURANT AND PUB | 207.251.4065 | 1619 Post Rd, Wells

FLASK LOUNGE | 207.772.3122 | 117

Spring St, Portland FOG BAR & CAFE | 207.593.9371 | 328 Main St, Rockland THE FOGGY GOGGLE | 207.824.5056 | South Ridge Lodge, Sunday River, Newry FREEDOM CAFE | 207.693.3700 | 923 Roosevelt Trail, Naples FROG AND TURTLE | 207.591.4185 | 3 Bridge St, Westbrook FRONT STREET PUBLIC HOUSE | 207.442.6700 | 102 Front St, Bath FRONTIER CAFE | 207.725.5222 | Fort Andross, 14 Maine St, Brunswick FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | 603.617.3633 | 1 Washington St, Dover, NH 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 GFB SCOTTISH PUB | 207.934.8432 | 32 Old Orchard St, Old Orchard Beach THE GIN MILL | 207.620.9200 | 302 Water St, Augusta GINGKO BLUE | 207.541.9190 | 455 Fore St, Portland GINZA TOWN | 207.878.9993 | 1053 Forest Ave, Portland 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 THE HIVE | 207.985.0006 | 84 Main St, Kennebunk IRISH TWINS PUB | 207.376.3088 | 743 Main St, Lewiston IRON TAILS SALOON | 207.850.1142 | 559 Rte 109, Acton

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 KING EIDER’S PUB | 207.563.6008 | 2 Elm St, Damariscotta 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 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 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 MINE OYSTER | 207.633.6616 | 16 Wharf St, Pier 1, Boothbay Harbor 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 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 THE OLDE MILL TAVERN | 207.583.9077 | 56 Main St, Harrison ORCHARD STREET CHOP SHOP | 603.749.0006 | 1 Orchard St, Dover, NH OTTO | 207.773.7099 | 574-6 Congress St, Portland PADDY MURPHY’S | 207.945.6800 | 26 Main St, Bangor PEARL | 207.653.8486 | 444 Fore St, Portland PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | 207.783.6200 | 134 Main St, Lewiston PEDRO’S | 207.967.5544 | 181 Port Rd, Kennebunk PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | 207.941.8805 | 14 Larkin St, Bangor PHOENIX HOUSE & WELL | 207.824.2222 | 9 Timberline Dr, Newry PORT CITY MUSIC HALL | 207.899.4990 | 504 Congress St, Portland PORTHOLE RESTAURANT | 207.773.4653 | 20 Custom House Wharf, Portland PORTLAND EAGLES | 207.773.9448 | 184 Saint John St, Portland PORTLAND LOBSTER CO | 207.775.2112 | 180 Commercial St, Portland 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 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

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 SERENITY MARKET & CAFE | 603.319.1671 | 25 Sagamore Rd, Rye, NH SHEEPSCOT GENERAL | 207.549.5185 | 98 Townhouse Rd, Whitefield 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 SKYBOX BAR AND GRILL | 207.854.9012 | 212 Brown St, Westbrook SLAINTE | 207.828.0900 | 24 Preble St, Portland

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

May 1st begins Belgian Bier Fest - 20 Days of Belgian specialties on tap!

www.novareresbiercafe.com (207) 761-2437

SLATES RESTAURANT AND BAKERY | 207.622.4104 | 169 Water St,

Hallowell

SMILIN’ MOOSE PUBLYK HOUSE AND TAVERN | 207.739.6006 | 10 Market Sq, South Paris

SOLO BISTRO | 207.443.3378 | 128 Front St, Bath

SONNY’S | 207.772.7774 | 83 Ex-

change St, Portland SONNY’S TAVERN | 603.343.4332 | 328 Central Ave, Dover, NH SOUTHSIDE TAVERN | 207.474.6073 | 1 Waterville Rd, Skowhegan SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland THE SPAGHETTI STAIN | 603.343.5257 | 421 Central Ave, Dover, NH SPARE TIME | 207.878.2695 | City Sports Grille, 867 Riverside St, Portland SPRING POINT TAVERN | 207.733.2245 | 175 Pickett St, South Portland STADIUM PUB AND LOUNGE | | 1145 Park Ave, Cranston, RI STOCKHOUSE | 207.854.5600 | 506 Main St, Westbrook STONE CHURCH | 603.659.6321 | 5 Granite St, Newmarket, NH STYXX | 207.828.0822 | 3 Spring St, Portland SUDS PUB | 207.824.6558 | Sudbury Inn Main St, Bethel TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | 207.657.7973 | 61 Portland Rd, Gray TANTRUM | 207.404.4300 | 193 Broad St, Bangor 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 WALLY’S PUB | 603.926.6954 | 144 Ashworth Ave, Hampton, NH WATER STREET GRILL | 207.582.9464 | 463 Water St, Gardiner WILLY’S ALE ROOM | 207.636.3369 | Rte 109, Acton WOODMAN’S BAR & GRILL | 207.866.4040 | 31 Main St, Orono ZACKERY’S | 207.774.5601 | Fireside Inn & Suites, 81 Riverside St, Portland

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FRIDAY 25

“PRESENTATION ON GREEN CHEMISTRY” | with John C.

ELIZABETH LYDIA BODNER

| reads and discusses her novel Seven Women in Maine | noon | Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq, Portland | 207.871.1700

Listings

Warner | 3:30 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Luther Bonney Hall, Bedford St, Portland | 207.780.4200

“SANITARY CONCERNS: HARRIET EATON, STATE RELIEF WORK, & THE FIGHT OVER FEDERAL BENEVOLENCE DURING THE CIVIL WAR” | with Jane Schultz | 7 pm |

SUNDAY 27 Continued from p 22 SPRINGTIME SPECTACULAR | 8 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | $15-$18 | 207.828.5600 or | space538.org

SUNDAY 27

GREAT MAINE BIKE SWAP | 10 am | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Sullivan Complex, Portland | 207.780.4141

OUTDOORS SUNDAY 27

“INTO THE MUD CHALLENGE” |

mud obstacle course & benefit | 8 am | Gorham Middle School, 106 Weeks Rd, Gorham | 207.780.5256

”MAINE MALL 5K FOR LYME DISEASE AWARENESS” | 9:30 am |

Jimmy the Greek’s/South Portland, 115 Philbrook Rd, South Portland | $16 | 207.774.7335

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Check out the World Famous Maine Diner!

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Northern Lights PORTlAnD’S lARgEST SMOkE SHOP wITH THE BIggEST SElECTIOn •The BEST selection of hookahs & accessories including Fantasia Shisha •THE LARGEST selection of vaporizers (including parts and accessories) •Open early and open late every night, here for any smoking emergency •Up to date on all smoking accessories •Something for everybody, wide price ranges and variety of products •Local hand blown glass and glass by well known artists •Water pipes by Illadelph, toro, left coast, and David Goldstein •Concert t-hirts, posters, tapestrys

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

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

MONDAY 28

INVERNA LOCKPEZ | reads and

TUESDAY 29

OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | with

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

WEDNESDAY 30

DAVID BIDLER | reads and discuss-

FOOD SATURDAY 26

WEDNESDAY 30

PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET |

7 am | Monument Square, Congress St, Portland | 207.774.9979

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

POETRY & PROSE

JAMES HAYMAN | reads & discusses

Sarah Montross + Joachim Homann | 7 pm | Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 245 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.3275 or bowdoin.edu/artmuseum

“THE GREAT RECESSION’S HURRICANE SWATH THROUGH INTIMATE LIFE: SOCIAL & PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE US SINCE THE ECONOMIC CRISIS” | with Harriet Fraad | noon | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Glickman Family Library, 5th Floor, 314 Forest Ave, Portland | 207.780.4270

MONDAY 28

“POLITICAL & NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN CENTRAL ASIA” | with Andrew Wachtel | 7 pm | Bowdoin College, Hubbard Hall, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

“WRITING & PUBLISHING SCIENCE FICTION” | with Francesco

Verso | 7 pm | Bowdoin College, Massachusetts Hall, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

TUESDAY 29

”“ESSENTIALS OF COLLEGE PLANNING” | 10 am | Portland Ca-

THURSDAY 1

JAN ELIZABETH WATSON | reads

reerCenter, 185 Lancaster St, Portland | 207.775.5891

and discusses her novel What Has Become of You | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks. com

“THE SHATTERED HOPES OF OBAMA’S PEACE PLAN—WHAT NEXT?” | with Josh Ruebner | 7 pm

| University of Southern Maine Portland, Wishcamper Center, 34 Bedford St, Portland | 207.780.4141

WEDNESDAY 30

TALKS

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

THURSDAY 24

“SPRING FLOWERS: ANDY WARHOL & JAMES ROSENQUIST” | with

cation, 57 Douglass St., Portland | 207.775.5891

“BUILDING STUDENT POWER: A CONVERSATION WITH STUDENT CLIMATE ACTIVISTS” | followed

“THE FUTURE OF MAINE’S WILD FISHERIES IN A CHANGING ECOSYSTEM” | with Robin Alden | noon

by USM Story Slam | 6 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Woodbury Campus Center Amphitheater, Portland | 207.228.8218

“MUST MEDITERRANEAN MEN BE MASCULINE?: REFLECTIONS ON A STEREOTYPE” | with Michael Her-

zfeld | 7 pm | Bowdoin College, Searles Science Building, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3567

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| University of New England - Biddeford, Marine Science Center, Biddeford | 207.602.2440

“THE NON-HARMONIOUS, UNPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVENESS OF GOING AGAINST...” | with Ste-

ven Pane + Gustavo Aguilar + Kristen Case + Matthew Houston | 3 pm | University of Maine - Farmington,

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Richard Kurin | 4:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3124

THURSDAY 1

“CULTURE & BARBARISM: NAZI ART PLUNDERING & THE RESTITUTION FIELD MOVING FORWARD” |

with Jonathan Petropoulos | 7:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.775.3321

“SOCIAL POLITICS & THE COLD WAR” | with Dagmar Herzog | 7:30

pm | Bowdoin College, Moulton Union, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

THEATER A COMPANY OF GIRLS | 207.871.1700

CHOCOLATE CHURCH ARTS CENTER | 207.442.8455 | chocolat-

echurcharts.org | 804 Washington St, Bath | April 25-May 4: The Cherry

FREEPORT THEATER OF AWESOME

PENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY

| 207.942.3333 | penobscottheatre. org | Bangor Opera House, 131 Main St, Bangor | April 24-May 11: Our Town

VIP

MAINE PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL | maineplaywrightsfestival.org | St

Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | April 24-26: “The Alpha

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - GORHAM | 207.780.4141 | usm.maine.

edu | Russell Hall, 37 College Avenue, Gorham | Through April 27: In the Underworld | Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 5 pm | $15, $11 seniors, $8 students

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| Mon-Thurs 10 am-6 pm; Fri 10 am-7 pm; Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through April 30: “Bound Together: USM Book Arts,” group show RICHARD BOYD GALLERY | 207.792.1097 | Island Ave & Epps St, Peaks Island | Thurs-Sun 10 am-5 pm | Through April 30: “It’s Not So Black & White IV,” acrylic & ink works by Jane Herbert + Pam Cabanas + Wyatt Bar + Petrea Noyes RIVER ARTS | 207.563.1507 | 241 Rte 1, Damariscotta | Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | April 25-May 22: “My Community: Day to Day,” mixed media group exhibition RIVER TREE ARTS | 207.967.9120 | 35 Western Ave, Kennebunk | rivertreearts.org | Mon-Fri 10 am-6 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Through May 3: “Print. Paper. Ink.”, group works on paper show | reception April 11 5-7 pm

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

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

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

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| 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 | Tues-

Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Free admission | Through June 8: “American Weathervanes from a Distinguished Maine Collection” | Through June 8: “Histories of Now: Six Artists from Cairo,” video works | Through June 8: “Julianne Swartz: Affirmation,” sound installation | Through June 8: “Spaces & Places: Chinese Art from the 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 | May 1-31: “Sacy Bay Artists,” mixed media group exhibition | 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 26-Dec 31: “The Wyeths, Maine, & the Sea,” paintings & works on paper | Through April 27: “19th Century Perspectives: People & the Land,” paintings | Through Sept 28: “Coloring Vision: From Impressionism to Modernism,” 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 | 207.699.5010 | Charles C. Thomas Gallery, 522 Congress St, Portland | Through June 4: paintings by Anne Ireland OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF ART | 207.646.4909 | 543 Shore Rd, Ogunquit | ogunquitmuseum.org | Mon-Sat 10:30 am- 5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm | May 1-June 15: “Recent Acquisitions,” mixed media | May 1-June 22: paintings by John Laurent | May 1-Oct 31: “Henry Strater: Arizona Winters, 1933-1938,” paintings PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY | 603.777.3461 | Lamont Gallery, Freder-

ick R Mayer Art Center, Tan Ln, Exeter, NH | exeter.edu/art/visit_Lamont.html

| Mon 1-5 pm; Tues-Sat 9 am-5 pm | Free admission | Through May 3: “A Whole New Game: Sports & Games in Art,” mixed media group exhibition PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | 207.775.6148 | 7 Congress Square, Portland | portlandmuseum.org | TuesThurs + 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 | April 24: PMA Family Day | April 26-Aug 24: “Andrea Sulzer: throughoutsideways,” drawings & prints | May 1-June 1: “Art in Process: Weather in High School Art & Science,” student works | Through April 27: “Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum” | Through June 15: “Preserving Creative Spaces: The Historic Artists’ Homes & Studios Program,” documentary installation | Through July 27: “PMA Family Space: Clint Fulkerson,” drawings | Through Aug 3: “George Daniell: Picturing Monhegan Island,” photographs & drawings

SALT INSTITUTE FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES | 207.761.0660 | 561

Congress St, Portland | salt.edu | Tues-

Fri noon-4:30 pm | Through May 2: “The Battle We Didn’t Choose,” photography by Angelo Merendino UNITY COLLEGE | 207.948.7469 |

Leonard R. Craig Gallery, 42 Depot St, Unity | call for hours | Through April

25: “Space & Waves & Tendencies,” works by Heather Lyon | reception April 18 4 pm

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| 207.621.3000 | Gannett Building, 331 Water St, Augusta | Through April 26: “1st Annual Maine Statewide High School Ceramic Arts Show”

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munity Arts Center, 111 South St, Farmington | Through May 17: “Pardon My Tartle: UMF Senior Art Show,” mixed media

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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 |

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - GORHAM | 207.780.5008 | Art Gal-

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

pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | Through May 2: “2014 BFA & BA Exhibition,” mixed media student show | reception April 18 6-8 pm

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - LEWISTON | 207.753.6500 | Atrium

Gallery, 51 Westminster St, Lewiston | usm.maine.edu/lac/art/exhibits.html |

Mon-Thurs 8 am-8 pm; Fri 8 am-4:30 pm | Free admission | Through May 3: “Ant Farm: At the Nexus of Art & Science,” installation by Colleen Kinsella + Vivien Russe + Rebecca Goodale + Dorothy Schwartz

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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 7: “2014 President’s Art Show,” mixed media student exhibition | Through May 31: “Rescued, Redeemed, Revived,” book arts | Through Aug 14: “Charting an Empire: The Atlantic Neptune,” cartographic exhibition

OTHER MUSEUMS ABBE MUSEUM | 207.288.3519 | 26

Mount Desert St, Bar Harbor | abbemuseum.org | Thurs-Sat 10 am-4 pm |

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 24: Tiny Tots: Play-Doh Sculptures 10:30am; Cinderella: The World’s Favorite Fairy Tale 11:30am; Star Show 11:30am; Cinderella: The World’s Favorite Fairy Tale 3pm; Tide Pool Touch Tank 3:30pm | April 25: Riddles & Jokes Hour 3-4pm; Cinderella: The World’s Favorite Fairy Tale 4pm | April 26: Meet the Animals 10:30am; The Eyeball Show 11am; Cinderella: The World’s Favorite Fairy Tale 1pm; Open Art Studio 2-3pm; Smooshy Smelly Science 3:30pm; Cinderella: The World’s Favorite Fairy Tale 4pm | April 27: Flower Fest 10:30am-12:30pm; Cinderella: The World’s Favorite Fairy Tale 4pm | April 29: Artist at Work: Erin McGee Ferrell paints traditional Hmong Attire 11am-2pm; Papiermache Party 3-4pm | April 30: Artist at Work: Erin McGee Ferrell paints traditional Hmong 11am-2pm; Young Engineers: Tall Towers 3:30pm | May 1: Tiny Tots: Balloon Ball 10:30am; Star Show 11:30am; 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 | Mon-Fri 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

Urban sugar will be back again this year.

dinner + movie Food truck Fleet updates ‘tis the season for dining al fresco _by ka te mcca rty Portland food trucks are coming out of hibernation, so we thought we’d check in with the existing fleet for an update on their upcoming season. First, the good news: most truck owners were very happy with their first year of service in Portland. Only one truck ran out of gas, so to speak, after a season in Back Cove Park — Portside Picnic. Owner Rich Earle cites costly permits as well as size and location restrictions as his reasons for closure. In fact, only a handful of trucks manage to operate successfully on city property. Gusto’s Italian’s business is booming, serving filled flatbread cones and fried snacks to late night revelers in the Old Port. But owner Jim Chamoff says parking is difficult to find late at night (city regulations allow for the operation of food trucks in any nonresidential area after 10 pm). As a result, Gusto’s employees head out to find parking at 5 or 6 pm and then have to run generators for several additional hours to power the truck’s refrigerators. The owners of El Corazon established themselves on Spring Street at Temple Street, serving Mexican fare to the business crowd on weekdays. Food trucks are allowed to operate on designated streets as long as they feed the meters. El Corazon owner April Garcia says it’s particularly important to maintain

a consistent presence in one location: “We established this spot as this is where we are; people know we’re going to be there.” Kevin Sandes of Urban Sugar Mobile Café (the mini-donut truck) only experienced a few months of service in Portland last fall before heading to Sugarloaf for the winter. He tried his luck on Commercial Street by the cruise ship dock, hoping to capture tourists’ business as they came off the boat. But he found the limited space allowed for food truck parking was taken up by the cruise ship vans taking passengers on daytrips. Kevin and his wife Valeri will be back this season, operating on city property during the week and in Portland Flea-for-All’s parking lot on Sundays. Most trucks choose to rent space from a private business on the peninsula or motor out of Portland altogether. The Small Axe food truck’s chefs sold their carefully-crafted breakfast fare to Tandem Coffee’s customers in East Bayside and leased space in a parking lot next to City Hall for lunch service. This year, owners Bill Leavy and Karl Deuben easily renewed their food truck’s operational permit with the city and plan to serve lunch and dinner from the privatelyowned lot. Deuben said, “Our process with [City Hall] was really smooth, in that they sent us a renewal form and we sent them

money, and we want to keep it like that.” Nate Underwood’s Wicked Good truck headed out to Peaks Island, where he served “wicked” items like chicken and waffles. With a second truck in Portland LinE ’EM up Portland’s kitchens on wheels are emerging from hibernation. this year, Underwood hopes to emphasize the revamped “good” side of truck has just started serving at special the menu, with vegan items from Modern events, with all proceeds going to the Food Vegan’s Chris McClay. Bank. Fishin’ Ships, with a variety of fish Last August, the city changed its regula‘n chips, plans to launch this summer; and tions to allow food trucks to cluster, like at Anywhere Coffee Bar from Gorham Grind is the popular monthly Flea Bites event in the aiming to be in operation June 1. Portland Flea-for-All parking lot in Bayside. Scope out this year’s mobile fleet at the Flea Bites returns in May, and Jack Barber of upcoming Street Eats & Beats event, featurMainely Burgers plans to participate. Barber ing Gusto’s Italian, Wicked Good, El Corais looking forward to “creat[ing] a destinazon, Small Axe, PB&ME, Love Cupcakes, tion where everyone in the family can find Good Shepherd, Pinky D’s (Lisbon Falls), something they like.” and Sweet Tomatoes (Boston). ^ Four new trucks are launching this year: Ana’s Mobile Gourmet was recently spotted STREET EATS & BEATS | Saturday, May 3, serving Mexican food and plans to launch 12-5 pm | Ocean Gateway Lot | $10 | tinyurl. full-time mid-May. Good Shepherd’s food com/streeteatsandbeats

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 Aug 31: “Animal Allies: Inuit Views of the Natural World” | Ongoing: “Cape Dorset & Beyond: Inuit Art from the Marcia & Robert Ellis Collection” + “Robert E. Peary & His Northern World” + “Faces of Greenland: Ivory Carvings from the Bareguard Collection” 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” SOUTHWORTH PLANETARIUM | 207.780.4249 | Science Building, 70

Falmouth St, University of Southern Maine - Portland, | usm.maine.edu/ planet | call for hours | free | April

24: The Little Star that Could 11am; Laser Mania 12pm, 2pm, 3pm, 6pm, 7pm; Eight Planets and Counting 1pm | April 25: Rusty Rocket 11am; Laser Mania 12pm, 2pm, 3pm, 6pm, 7pm; Dinosaurs at Dusk 1pm | April 26: Laser Mania 1pm, 3pm, 6pm, 7pm | April 27: Laser Mania 1pm, 3pm | April 28: Dinosaurs at Dusk 1pm | April 30: Two Small Pieces of Glass 1pm 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

FShort Takes XXX railway man 116 minUtes | r | coming soon to eveningstar Captured by the Japanese in the 1942 invasion of Singapore, British officer Eric Lomax labored over the ThailandBurma Railway, just like the soldiers in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), but given the torture and deprivation he endured, this adaptation of his 1995 memoir is unlikely to send you out of the theater whistling. The story opens in 1980, as the damaged veteran (Colin Firth) takes a loving wife (Nicole Kidman) but their happiness is threatened by his night terrors and other emotional problems; eventually he decides to return to southeast Asia and confront one of his torturers, who now runs a war museum (Hiroyuki Sanada). As an early reference to Brief Encounter suggests, this falls squarely in the

movie reviews in brief

British tradition of quality, but the cast is excellent (especially Stellan Skarsgard as a fellow survivor) and the screenplay, by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson, is delicately attuned to the emotional cost of war and the terrible struggle to be healed.

_Jr Jones

XXXX cesar chavez 101 minUtes | pg-13 | railroad sqUare (april 24) Good old-fashioned agitprop, this heartfelt biopic of the labor-rights leader succeeds in valorizing Chavez while also honoring the countless migrant workers who powered his grassroots movement. Screenwriters Timothy J. Sexton and Keir Pearson seem to have studied Salt of the Earth (1954) for their portrait of collective action; the film effectively dramatizes the challenges of organizing

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large-scale protests as well as the surge of communal feeling that such endeavors inspire. Befitting the collectivist theme, the cast (which includes Rosario Dawson, America Ferrera, John Ortiz, and John Malkovich) is uniformly modest, never distracting from the historic subject matter; Michael Peña is particularly impressive in the lead, resisting the obvious temptation to make Chavez larger than life. Diego Luna, a fine actor himself, directed, grounding the story in earthy, authentic-seeming detail. In English and subtitled Spanish.

_ben sachs

XX transcendence 119 minUtes | pg-13 | nickelodeon + westbrook cinemagic + saco cinemagic & imax + clarks pond This expensive sci-fi feature

marks the directorial debut of Christopher Nolan’s longtime cinematographer Wally Pfister; like Nolan’s Inception, it’s conceptually rich and impressive on a technical level, but also heavy-handed as drama and surprisingly rudimentary in its sense of character. Reminiscent of the cult classic Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), the film considers what might happen if an artificial intelligence came to surpass the intellectual capabilities of human beings. Johnny Depp, in what may be his most joyless performance, plays a scientist whose intelligence gets implanted into an A.I. system after his death; Rebecca Hall plays his widow, who becomes servant to the system once it starts speaking in Depp’s voice. There are some wonderful ideas here, but Pfister lacks the storytelling chops to make them come alive onscreen.

_ben sachs

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_by syMbo line Da i This week is the dark of the moon, which could be an accident-prone interval for some (Virgo, Gemini) and a time for discarding many objects. Late this week, be alert for folks who come in with the crazy, unlikely, outlandish “fix” for a longstanding problem — they could actually be onto something. Romance this weekend is particularly favored for water signs who are, as we know, the most comfortably in touch with their romantic side. Durable fresh starts launch mid-week, and not before.

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Across 1 ___ lanka 4 Beaver barriers 8 like some phones or moves 13 “___ dieu!” 14 “the dark Knight rises” director 15 hall’s singing partner 16 entanglement 18 cuban dance 19 the result of turning dollar bill portraits into clouds? 21 Acts human? 22 “Jack Sprat could ___ fat” 23 commuter’s option 26 “man of a thousand Faces” chaney 27 embarrassing reason that hospital gown won’t stay put? 30 Actress Sue ___ langdon 31 Abbr. with a Spanish surname 32 tiny amount 33 Farm’s mouse-catcher 37 enjoy, like pretzels 39 plenty

Down 1 “Snl” cartoon creator robert 2 “dawn of the dead” director 3 hereditary 4 Shiba inu meme character 5 Good to go 6 cocktails with umbrellas 7 horses, at times 8 more or less 9 haleakala national park’s island 10 24-hr. device 11 1860s soldier, briefly 12 Scanning org. 14 egg ___ 17 monopoly quartet: abbr. 20 moderately slow in tempo 23 Bibliophile’s item 24 “do ___ others …” 25 Jazzman Getz 27 card game with a colorful deck 28 Yanni fan, maybe 29 Jasmine, e.g. 30 disapproving of 33 erykah who sang “on & on” 34 “poor me!” 35 memorization 36 “previously...” 38 “i get it” responses 41 Wood furniture worker 44 1990s arcade basketball game 45 “the house of the Spirits” author Allende 46 “my name is” rapper 47 liquor made from agave 48 indy-winning family 51 King or carte lead-in 52 “Baby ___” (Amy poehler/ tina Fey movie) 53 tardy 54 Agcy. that compiles the occupational outlook handbook 55 “You Are here” chart 56 Glass in the radio booth 57 parisian turndown 8

40 Small batteries 42 Article printed daily? 43 Where pigs find potential partners? 46 A bird in the bush 49 Find a job for 50 Some tests 51 “Agreed!” 52 24-hour marathon of Bruce lee movies, for instance? 55 “pink Friday” singer nicki 58 not lopsided 59 Agreeable odor 60 Athletic competitions 61 hearing aid? 62 “catch me if You can” airline 63 detective novelist ___ Stanley Gardner 64 Kicking org.

thursday april 24 12

Waning moon pisces. A good day for photography, radiology and shoe-shopping. Also excellent for procrastination, drinking, and wallowing in nostalgia. pisces moons are super for creating or appreciating art. pisces, Scorpio, cancer, and Aries: if you’re miffed, you’re over-reacting. taurus, capricorn, Aquarius, and leo: look back, and fix what’s broken. even if it takes twice the time you expected. 28

Friday april 25 13

Waning moon in pisces, moon void-of-course 4:03 pm until 6:01 am Saturday. “put it off until later,” is today’s motto, as water sign moons on a Friday give all a case of the “dwindles.” pisces, Scorpio, cancer, and Aries: in the late afternoon, take another look at something that perplexed you earlier today and yesterday. Sagittarius, Gemini, Virgo, and libra: second-guessing yourself comes easily. Stay the course. leo, taurus, capricorn, and Aquarius: no rushing. 29

saturday april 26 14

Waning moon in Aries. Best use of your time is with barbeques and projects that are quick fixes. Aries, leo, Sagittarius, and taurus need stimulation, so today is super for short-notice gathering. libra, capricorn, cancer, and Scorpio: you may be craving stimulation, which means you could be Very loUd without realizing. Gemini, Virgo, Aquarius, and pisces: look for short cuts. 30

sunday april 27 15

Waning moon in Aries, moon void-of-course 7:02 am until 10:23 am monday. An all-day void-of-course moon means resolutions made today will have a big loophole, and tempers could be frayed, particularly for libra, capricorn, Scorpio, and cancer. Aries, Sagittarius, taurus, and leo: your distracted side is on the ascendant. don’t make promises you can’t keep. Gemini, Virgo, Aquarius, and pisces: keep your sense of humor, particularly around folks who act like kids. 31

Monday april 28 16

dark of the moon in Aries, void-of-course until 10:23 am when it moves into taurus. Beware fresh starts — that’s for tomorrow. Save money matters until the afternoon; use the morning for negotiating a better deal — however you translate that. on thin ice and wanting to take a risk: Aquarius, Scorpio, leo, libra, cancer, and capricorn. Aries, taurus, leo, Virgo, Gemini, and Sagittarius: take time to aim, and then fire, particularly later in the day. 32

tuesday april 29

new moon in taurus. Scorpio, leo, Sagittarius, and Aquarius are definitely not at their best — yet they probably want to “get something happening.” not a good day to negotiate with them. or, frankly, with others. more information comes forward tomorrow, and that’s when taurus, Virgo, capricorn, pisces, libra, Gemini, Aries, and cancer can see clearly. 1

Wednesday april 30

Waxing moon in taurus, moon void-of-course 11:53 am until 4:56 pm when it moves into Gemini. Shopping, buying highend merch, and other material investments are a good idea, but keep the receipts, thanks to the void moon. taurus, Virgo, capricorn, pisces, Gemini, libra, Aries, and cancer have incredible followthrough, so if you want something done, knock on their door. Scorpio, leo, Sagittarius, and Aquarius: hold off on taking action. the planets are throwing you banana peels. 2

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 sunsign horoscopes and advice column, visit our Web site at thePhoenix. com. Symboline Dai can be reached at sally@moonsigns.net.

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