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If you haven’t already, you may notic e that Congress Square Park has a new vibe this spring. The Small Axe Truck is offering lunch there on weekdays between 11:30-2:30, and dinner on Wednesday-Friday evenings from 5:30-8 pm. A 20-foot-by-20-foot cedar bench by artist and sculptor Michael Clyde Johnson has been built in the middle of the space, providing a focal point as well as a spot to sit, lounge, and eat. Café tables and chairs are coming soon. And the Friends of Congress Square Park and SPACE Gallery

This summer, Congress Square will host events, performances, and a food truck. have teamed up to present a series of public events in the plaza over the course of the summer, including dance and music performances and community gatherings. “One thing we’ve been harping

on all along,” says Frank Turek, of Friends of Congress Square Park, “is that this is a really important public performance space.” He’s excited to bring more people into the park, the fate of which has sparked controversy in Portland over the past year. On June 10, Portlanders will vote on a citizen initiative that would amend the city land bank ordinance by adding 35 properties to the land bank (including Congress Square Park) and requiring either eight councilors to approve sales of those parcels or a public referendum if at least six councilors approve. Last year, the city council voted to sell a large chunk of Congress Square Park for $542,000 to a private hotel developer to allow construction of a hotel events room. If the initiative is approved, the Congress Square sale would go to referendum. Nat May, executive director of SPACE Gallery (which commissioned the 20x20 bench), agrees that programming in Congress Square will “activate” the park in a way that hasn’t been seen in some time. The calendar of events is still being finalized. Check congresssquarepark.org or spacegallery.org for updates.

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very reflex Reed decries: trying to send a message to those in power rather than contending for power itself,” Goldberg wrote. “The two parties at this point are pushing two very different, ideological visions of the role of the state and the market,” Mike Konczal wrote in TNR, responding to Reed’s suggestion that today’s neoliberals are virtually indiscernible from conservatives. But both Goldberg and Konczal, along with many others, agreed at least in part with Reed’s prescription for reform: “The crucial tasks for a committed left in the United States now are to admit that no politically effective force exists and to begin trying to create one. This is a long-term effort, and one that requires grounding in a vibrant labor movement. Labor may be weak or in decline, but that means aiding in its rebuilding is the most serious task for the American left. Pretending some other option exists is worse than useless.” I ask Reed how Hillary Clinton’s likely candidacy in 2016 fits into his thesis. He doubts that Elizabeth Warren will wage a campaign from the left, but even if she did, “what would happen is that the Democratic smart money — media money and Wall Street money — will make a determination early about which candidate is more electable, and the one whos the most electable will be the one who can raise the most money, and the one who can raise the most money is the one with the closest ties to Wall Street.” (Speaking of which, see our piece on campaign finance reform on page 8.)

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The author of an incendiary piece in Harper’s magazine that lambastes liberals for lacking conviction and being too focused on electoral politics is coming to Brunswick this Saturday. Adolph Reed, Jr.’s “Nothing Left: The long, slow surrender of American liberals,” published in the March issue of Harper’s, engendered a number of responses across the leftist blogosphere. A professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania (he’s previously taught at Yale and Northwestern), Reed is happy to have sparked a discussion. “I’m writing to try to identify and connect with people out there who have serious politics and to try to broaden the conversation,” he said in a phone interview this week. “The terms ‘left’ and ‘progressive’ — and in practical usage the latter is only a milquetoast version of the former — now signify a cultural sensibility rather than a reasoned critique of the existing social order,” Reed wrote. “The left careens from this oppressed group or crisis moment to that one, from one magical or morally pristine constituency or source of political agency (youth/ students; undocumented immigrants; the Iraqi labor movement; the Zapatistas; the urban “precariat”; green whatever; the black/Latino/LGBT ‘community’; the grassroots, the netroots, and the blogosphere; this season’s worthless Democrat; Occupy; a ‘Trotskyist’ software engineer elected to the Seattle City Council) to another.” Long quote, but worth it to show the tenor of Reed’s article; no wonder left-leaning media outlets like The New Republic and The Nation offered rebuttals. In the latter, Michelle Goldberg responded to Reed’s suggestion that Dems are overly fixated on electing people with a D next to their names — regardless of their true (neoliberal, corporatefriendly) politics. “A left that absented itself from the dirty work of electing a president would be indulging in the

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A lot of people think state government is an arbitrary and capricious entity, more inclined to promote chaos than the public good. Seems like a fair assessment to me. They claim bureaucrats routinely ignore serious problems while intruding in matters best left to individual judgments. They’ve got a case. Just check out the rules for vanity license plates issued by Maine’s secretary of state. Free speech, as envisioned by the Founding Fathers, has no place on the bumpers of your car. I realize the words and phrases you’re permitted to use on vanity plates may not qualify as the most crucial case of governmental infringement on our constitutional rights. Just because you can’t adorn your vehicle with a plate that says IDIOT, JERK or STOOPID doesn’t mean you’ve been stripped, in Putinlike fashion, of all opportunities to express these opinions. But it does demonstrate the random nature of regulatory systems and how easy it is for them to lose connection with any rational basis for their actions. It’s one thing when this lack of common sense blocks your lifelong desire to display a plate reading BOOGER, MUCOUS or SNOT. It’s quite another when it starts to edge over into political expression, a topic I’ll be exploring in more detail next week. But for right now, let’s enjoy some examples of how STOOPID government can be when given a little too much power. In all, the secretary of state has a list of over 6,400 expressions that can’t appear on license plates. Some are obvious choices: swear words and their myriad variations, ethnic and racial slurs, and certain bits of urban slang (such as POACH, which even by its street definition of stealing another person’s girlfriend seems

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pretty innocuous). But a sizable segment of the words and phrases that may never be hammered into raised metal letters is composed of stuff you could say in your grandmother’s presence without eliciting even a hint of disapproval. According to the secretary’s website, you can’t have a license plate that says OTHER. Nor is TOILET a permitted term. And fans of Boston Red Sox second baseman Pedroia may be perplexed by the discovery that DUSTIN is banned, until learning that the term has certain sexual connotations, none of them particularly obscene. Incidentally, the word SEX is on the no-no list, as are EROTIC and SEDUCE. Body parts get strict scrutiny. BREAST is deemed offensive, as is WOMB. And don’t even think of trying for any term relating to male or female genitalia. Almost anything using GAY is verboten, as well as LESBIAN, STUD, NUDIST, and NAKED. GIGOLO in a variety of spellings and misspellings fails to make the grade. And for reasons that escape me, GELDED and CONDOM are both prohibited. You won’t see many drug and alcohol references on license plates. Among the terms deemed detrimental to society are BEERDOG, BEERME, BOOZE, and DRUNK, as well as anything remotely related to marijuana, including an abbreviated CANABIS, a seemingly harmless HEMP, and a guilty-by-association KILO. “Doonesbury” fans should be forewarned that their application for ZONKER will be summarily rejected. Scatological terms are obvious ones to get the ax, but it seems like humorless excess to ban BRDPOO or COWPIE. And the exclusion of VOMIT makes me MAD (nope, can’t have that) enough to commit CARNAGE (but not on a license plate).

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Then there’s the utterly inexplicable: FLU, MEDAL, WEWON, and NONUKE. That last one, in particular, would appear to transgress into the area of limiting political speech. Nowhere does the lack of rationality come into play more than in religious references. You can order a plate that says JEWISH, but not one that says JEW. Those not of that persuasion will be distressed to discover they can’t label themselves as GOY or GOYIM. The secretary will approve GOD, but not GODGOD or HEYGOD. There’s nothing that says you can’t be riding with YAHWEH or ALLAH, although in that context, those words might prove an insult to, respectively, Hebrews and Muslims. Contractions of the names of major religions (and lots of minor ones) are okay. Latter Day Saints can get a plate with LDS, although dyslexic Mormons will be denied LSD. But heaven forbid the word ATHEIST makes it into metal. Also banished from the fold: SATAN, HELL, HELBENT, HELFIRE, DEVIL, and BELZBUB. For some reason, OLD NIC and EVIL1 slipped through the censors (although simple old EVIL got caught). It would appear that someone who worships OLD SCRATCH (too many letters, but otherwise permitted) or NO GOD (also okay) might have an interesting First Amendment legal case against the secretary’s office for impeding the free exercise of their religion (or lack thereof). As noted above, this is a minor example of governmental overreach. Next week, I’ll take a look at a far more serious effort to suppress free speech, one that could only be characterized as STOOPID — if that weren’t illegal. ^

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“i have never had a sexual partner that could make me climax. the sensation is always so close...yet it never happens; i always need to end up completing myself. there is always frustration when it is my turn and has led to many arguments and feelings of low self-esteem in my partners that want to be the one to make me climax. at this point in life, having been dealing with this for about 15 years, it has become exceedingly frustrating for me, something that i now bring up before the initial sexual encounter. it has led me to actively abstain from any personal connections or promising encounters out of the feeling of shame. trying to figure it out. What do you think the answer is?” _T.M. “he’s choosing the wrong women. he’s not comfortable enough to get to that point. he’s got to get over all that anxiety. it could be he knows that’s going on, so when he does try to be sexual, he knows he’s not going to come. it’s anxiety, he has to have a different approach. Somebody must have hurt him enough to make him feel he’s not good enough. he got hurt so much that he feels like he can’t satisfy her. all these reasons play into it, and once you go into a sexual relationship thinking that way, its never going to happen.” _Julie, 42, management, + Trish, 53, buyer, interviewed outside of Mathew’s “i assume there’s a lot of anxiety between the two of them. especially if she knows that she’s trying to be ‘the one,’ so they’re both trying to shoot for that. [climaxing] is an important part, and maybe the best part, but the climax is not everything. [Sex] shouldn’t always be about trying to get to the end, but more about enjoying in the meantime.” _Tim, 27, grocery store worker, interviewed on the Eastern Prom “So he’s trying to ‘climb the mountain’ with a female partner? Satisfaction with sex depends on many things. When i have sex with my wife, i try to not think about [my] job...i have sex with the person. Sex is about chemistry. i’m the kind of man who needs to know [a person]. i need to have a drink with you, i need to go hang out with you. i need to know what your personality is, what you like or don’t like before having sex. like with my wife, i feel really comfortable having sex. he probably needs to find the right woman, and someone who will accept him for who he is.” _Marko, 36, senior security specialist, interviewed at the Portland Public Library Pro’s advice: “i believe we are responsible for our own pleasure and our own orgasm. how we decide to share our pleasure and complete surrender with others can bring up old patterns/habits and old wounds. i would invite you to take a look at some of the areas in your life where there may be potential blocks to letting go into sharing your pleasure with a partner. a mindful self-pleasure practice done over time produces enormous neurological benefit and assists with body regulation, getting attuned with others, having emotional balance, calming fear, gaining insight and empathy, being moral or ethical in our thinking and our actions, and having more access to our intuition. When there is consistent mindful self-pleasure at play, we pay attention to our alertness during our erotic sessions. regular practice over time expands and strengthens connections between neurons and creates new neurons. the more practice we get, the more ingrained the neural pathways become, supporting our practice.” _Isaiah, 45, somatic sexologist + relationship and intimacy coach (wakingeros.com) My advice: First off, if i could wave a magic wand, t.M., i would wish away the shame and guilt you have felt as part of your past, current, and now abstained, sex life. Secondly, the expectation for dudes to cum the way your girlfriends have wanted you to cum — inside of them, or as a direct result of intercourse — is yet another example of our miseducation that sex should look and feel a certain way. So what if you don’t cum inside of them? lastly, if this is something you definitely want to change for yourself and your sex life, talking to a therapist may help. ^

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There’s a big problem

one person ≠ one vote king shines spotlight on dark money in politics _By d eir dre ful t o n The system of rules that govern the flow of money in US politics is crumbling, “dark money” is gushing in through the cracks, and Maine’s Independent senator Angus King is among those pushing for reform. Last week, he chaired the Senate Rules Committee hearing, “Dollars and Sense: How Undisclosed Money and Post-McCutcheon Campaign Finance Will Affect the 2014 Election and Beyond,” at which former US Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens, who served on the court from 19752010 and authored the dissenting opinion in Citizens United, testified — a rare, if not unheard of, move for a retired justice.

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“What has occurred in the past five years represents revolutionary, not evolutionary, change in the way the financing of political campaigns has been regulated in this country...changes that threaten to undermine a fundamental principle of American democracy: one person, one vote,” King said in his opening statement at the hearing. In his statement and in an interview with the Phoenix, King highlighted a recent report by the Weslyan Media Project and the Center for Responsive Politics that analyzed political ad airings from January 1, 2013 to April 24, 2014. In addition to showing that interest group spending on US

Senate and House races is on the rise, the report shows that “dark money” — spending by groups that are not required to disclose their donors — comprises a majority of the interest group ads on the air. “I have a sense of urgency about this,” King says. “It’s getting to the point where what the candidates raise and spend is almost irrelevant.” (Of the $11 million spent in the 2012 US Senate race that King won, $7.4 million — more than two-thirds — was spent by outside groups, many of which do not disclose their donors. King raised $2.9 million to Charlie Summers’ $1.2 million and Cynthia Dill’s $184,000.)

A maze of money

this chart, from openSecrets.org, illustrates what independent senator angus King calls “the Byzantine structure that frustrates — if not defeats — transparency.” it shows how a network of politically active nonprofits, backed by the billionaire industrialists charles and david Koch and other conservative donors, raised at least 407 million in 2012, much of which was spent on the get-out-the-vote efforts and ads attacking president obama and congressional democrats, according to tax filings and campaign finance reports. Within this dark money system, there is little disclosure of donors and no limits to how much money is passed around.

provision of this constitution, shall be construed to prohibit the Congress or any King talks about the “three pillars” of state from imposing reasonable limits on the campaign finance regulatory system: the amount of money that candidates for sources of money, limits on giving, and public office or their supporters may spend disclosure. All three pillars, he fears, in election campaigns.” are crumbling. Later this year, the Senate will to take While it’s still illegal for corporations up a similar amendment, and unions to give money diproposed by New Mexico rectly to candidates for federal Democrat Tom Udall, that office, the 2010 Citizens United would allow Congress to limit decision threw out the ban on fundraising and spending on companies, unions, and asfederal campaigns, give states sociations spending money on the authority to govern campolitical ads and paved the way paign finance laws at the state for the creation of so-called level, and allow Congress to “super-PACs,” which accept oversee super PACs and indeunlimited donations and use pendent expenditures. that money to influence elecThat proposal is expected tions. By ruling this way, to fail because it won’t garner the Supreme Court (in a 5-4 enough Republican support, decision) limited our ability to angus king taking while campaign finance regulate the sources of money — on dark money. reform is widely seen as a who can give. Democratic goal. And while there remain “Campaign finance is not a partisan is— for now — limits on how much a person sue,” Justice Stevens said in his testimony can give to an individual campaign or candi(the first time he’d been in front of a Condate, last month’s McCutcheon v. Federal Election gressional committee since his confirmaCommission decision abolished “aggregate tion hearing in 1975). limits” on how much someone can give to But when the numbers show Republiseveral different campaigns or committees. It cans benefiting more from interest group was a major blow to the second pillar, limits advertising than Democrats, it’s hard not to on giving. view it as such. In both cases, the court suggested “Right now, the problem is that Rethat transparency — disclosure of who is publicans seem to see this as their adgiving what — minimize the potential vantage,” King says. “What I’m trying to for corruption. get across is, this could turn around in a But according to the Center for Responmonth. What I’m trying to get through sive Politics’ OpenSecrets.org, disclosure to these people is this is a danger for both requirements are being circumvented more sides.” (In fact, the Weslyan/CRP study than we (or Supreme Court justices) may shows an increase in Democratic group think. “Dark money groups — politically advertising this year over 2012; all it would active 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations take is one or two left-leaning equivalents and 501(c)(6) trade associations that, under of the Koch Brothers to give the advantage tax law, don’t have to disclose their donors to liberals as opposed to conservatives.) — aren’t supposed to spend the majority of He’s optimistic that we’ll see stronger their resources on politics,” OpenSecrets disclosure laws within the year; he says he’s reported last September. “But over the last getting interest from both sides. In fact, six years, a combination of Supreme Court decisions that loosened restrictions on their during last week’s hearing, GOP senator Ted Cruz, of Texas, said he supported immeelectoral activity, coupled with reguladiate disclosure — only without limits. tory confusion, has led to a surge in their Whatever the way forward, we must find political expenditures. Direct spending on a way to stop what King describes as “an federal elections by 501(c)(4) and 501(c)(6) groups has risen from $10 million in 2004 to arms race in undisclosed contributions.” That’s the goal of Lawrence Lessig’s new well over $300 million in 2012 — and that’s just counting what they reported to the Fed- Mayday PAC, launched this past Thursday. At Mayone.us, Lessig (a Harvard Law eral Election Commission, which doesn’t School professor and campaign finance reinclude all of their political spending.” form activist) is attempting to raise $1 milClearly, the three regulatory pillars lion to help elect like-minded politicians to King mentions are shaky, if not downCongress, where they could enact reform right unsound. legislation; if the $1 million goal is reached within 30 days (of May 1), it will trigger an ouT of The shadows additional $1 million in matching funds. “McCutcheon carried to its logical extreme and a new target of $5 million will be set. will get rid of individual limits,” New York “The ultimate aim of this SuperPAC is to Democratic senator Chuck Schumer said at end the dominance of SuperPACs in our the dark money hearing. elections,” it reads on the Mayday website. “As soon as they have the chance Ironic, to be sure, but also striking a chord: they’re going to knock down the limit on contributions to a single candidate,” King Already the campaign has raised close to half a million dollars. ^ agrees. “The only bulwark we have left is disclosure.” To that end, last month, Deirdre Fulton can be reached at dfulton@phx.com. King introduced the Real Time Transparency Act of 2014, which would require all contributions of $1000 or more be filed with the Federal Elections Commission within 48 hours. Stevens, for his part, advocates for a constitutional amendment that would read: “Neither the First Amendment, nor any

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With faculty positions restored and students heading into finals week, you might think the battle over the future of the University of Southern Maine has quieted. But the next few weeks hold much in store for the public institution, as factions within the campus community are firming their proposals and demands before crucial meetings in May and July determine the shape of the proposed “metropolitan university.” It’s been nearly a month since President Theodora Kalikow’s decision to reverse the faculty cuts first recommended to the system Board of Trustees in March. Those recommendations came as a response to what the University of Maine administration is calling a $14 million budget shortfall for USM and a $36 million deficit systemwide. In exchange for the rescindment (which Kalikow has said might only be temporary), the USM faculty senate is working on alternate budget proposals to present to the Board for consideration in the forthcoming fiscal year. But while the faculty senate operates on principles of shared governance stated in its bylaws, the final decision rests with the Board. The faculty senate deadline for the alternate proposals is May 31, and they are expected to be heard and voted upon at a Board of Trustees meeting in July. Meanwhile, outside the system, other forces are at work. The coalition of students known as Students for #USMfuture who oppose the cuts and austerity measures proposed by the administration plan to meet with Kalikow Thursday to voice their demands for how the school’s reforms will unfold, and again with the Board of Trustees at a meeting in Bangor on May 18-19. In an e-mail to the Phoenix, #USMfuture state their demands include: increased transparency from the administration about the metrics used to determine the cuts; a one-year moratorium on staff and faculty firings (retroactive to March 1); a pledge of support for the alternate budget plan being generated by the faculty senate; and the hiring of an independent firm to audit University of Maine system funds, an act which the group have stated they intend to finance themselves (via a crowdfunding campaign) if the Board of Trustees doesn’t bite. (In 2008, an independent audit was conducted on the USM system finances by the UK firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, but #USMfuture students aren’t satisfied with its objective or conclusions.) But before it gets that far, Students for #USMfuture might have support for an audit close at home. Michael Havlin, an economics student who has been a vocal protestor of the UMS budget cuts, told the Phoenix he has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to access the general ledger for the University of Maine system, something he believes will help clarify the dispute about the administration’s purported $14 million budget shortfall and the $183 million in “unrestricted net assets,” which several have cited as evidence that the budget crisis is fabricated. The total sum of UMS revenues and expenses are presented at large on the system website, along with employee salaries, but the reports don’t provide an itemized balance sheet, numbers which Havlin believes would illuminate the situation were they to be public.

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To justify the cuts, system officials have repeatedly cited reduced state funding (down $6.2 million since 2008), frozen tuition, and declining enrollment. But Havlin says that doesn’t tell the whole story. “USM claims that enrollment is down yearly by about two percent,” he writes in an email. “However, what they are also failing to say is that their acceptance rate went down from 80% (in 2007) and 81.5% (in 2008) to 78% in 2010, so it’s possible that enrollment is down only because they are accepting less students, not because less students want to come. If this really were a ‘manufactured crisis,’ that piece of information would support it.” Last month Havlin and fellow economics student Will Gattis conducted a study that looked into the payment of $300,000 to Noel-Levitz, a financial aid leveraging firm and former subsidiary of student debt purchaser Sallie Mae, to “conduct a comprehensive study of markets, strategic pricing, and financial aid” for the University of Maine system, a practice of enrollment management that maximizes university profits on student loans. They noticed that in the period of time since Noel-Levitz had been consulted, student loan defaults have “drastically increased”, which Havlin and Gattis argue doesn’t sit well with the system’s cries of poverty or its business-minded ethos. “Whatever they’re prioritizing in their methodologies and advice for financial aid,” they wrote in an April 28 op-ed in the Press Herald, “it isn’t students’ ability to repay.”

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At the meeting scheduled over May 18-19 in Bangor, the Board of Trustees will vote on whether to approve a budget released last week, which plans to eliminate 157 positions across the system as well as pull from $10 million in reserves to cover USM expenses, according to recent reports. We may also hear results of an executive session, or closed-door discussion, regarding “the evaluation of personnel and the consideration and discussion on awarding of tenure” tabled from a meeting by the Academic and Student Affairs Committee, a BoT subcommittee, on April 23. Another item covered on April 23 was a discussion of the implications a lecture given at USM in late January by George Mehaffy, who holds the title of Vice President of Academic Leadership and Change at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU). Viewed in hindsight, Mehaffy’s talk might be seen as a philosophical framework for the cuts that followed. In a presentation titled “Perils and Promise of a New Age,” Mehaffy made a series of grim prognostications, many of which should sound familiar to those following the threat to higher ed nationwide. He spoke of the market-driven necessities of embracing MOOCs (massive open online courses), eroding the practice of tenure (citing a muchchallenged study by the National Bureau of Economic Research which found students at Northwestern University classes taught by adjuncts 7.3 percent more likely to take another class in that discipline, with a grade 1/10th of a percentage point higher than those in tenured classes), and observing re-

duced state funding as a given while ignoring the larger political context. While system administrators merely point to the urgency brought on by fiscal constraints, politics seem very much a factor. Decreased state funding for public education is a fixture of the conservative platform. #USMfuture’s demand to learn the criteria behind the selection of the 12 faculty cuts in March, which came overwhelmingly from the arts and humanities departments, echoes some of the louder national fears about conservatives’ attack on the humanities nationwide, professors of which tend to skew toward the political left. And many have noted that some of the strongest legislative proponents of MOOCs have been Florida Governor Rick Scott, Texas Governor Rick Perry, and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker — all Tea Party Republicans. Additionally, while efficiency, costcutting, and accessibility have led higher education reformers like Mehaffy to herald MOOCs as an inevitability in education reform, results on their effectiveness are mixed. Widespread reports list the dropout rate for MOOCs at around 90 percent; even Sebastian Thrun, the Stanford University professor and founder of online education company Udacity, has become skeptical, noting that only 5 percent of his students finish with a passing grade. MOOCs are one of many concerns about USM’s future voiced by student Alex Greenlee, a USM senior majoring in Classics and Political Science. Greenlee is a Board of Trustees student representative who also serves on the Academics and Student Affairs committee, and acts as a sort of liaison between the student body and the Board of Trustees — indeed, his comments about the student opposition to the faculty and program cuts at a Board meeting were cited by the administration as being a strong influence on the rescindment of the faculty cuts. While Greenlee agrees that there are “promising” features about MOOCs in terms of educational accessibility, he echoes common doubts about their real-world effectiveness. “It’s not how I learn,” he says. “There are things about attending school here that you can’t get [from taking online courses] at home. I’m constantly inspired by the place and diverse people I get to be around.” While not identifying as a member of the #USMfuture, Greenlee appears sympathetic to the cause, saying he “is in awe of the professionalism” shown by the group in helping to construct a different solution than the one proposed by Kalikow. Greenlee says he helped get them time before the Board of Trustees at the May 18-19 meetings, the first time the two parties will meet face-to-face. Greenlee sees his role to prevent further concessions in the life of students, whom he believes have stood to lose the most in the recent staff and faculty cuts over the last few years -- not only in the humanities, but in “necessary” positions, like the recently eliminated USM’s Dean of Students. “I’m trying to make sure that any of the upcoming cuts are as far away from students as possible,” he says. As the meetings draw nearer, it’s a principle many might rally behind. ^

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MOTHEr LOVEr | Mother’s Day isn’t until tomorrow, but why not start celebrating a little early? Mayo Street Arts presents “mother love” a showcase of music and poetry honoring motherhood in “all its manifestations,” with performances by Robin Merrill, Monique Barrett, and Nora Meiners. All proceeds from this show benefit Hope House, a project of Hope Acts, which offers programs in recovery and wellness as well as immigrant services. $12. 4 pm at 10 Mayo St., Portland. 207.615.3609. PETITE PLAYS | Portland Stage Company’s Little Festival is back for its 25th year! the little Festival oF the unexPected, running Wednesday-Saturday, is a much-anticipated annual theater event: a creative incubation period dedicated to public readings of new works, followed by discussion and collaboration

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andrea Sulzer’S inveStigationS into repreSentation _BY Br itta k onau At what point does process become image? What is lost, or gained, in translation from one medium to another, from one dimension to another? When does the space between things become more important than the things themselves? Andrea Sulzer’s “throughoutsideways” at the Portland Museum of Art contains only three older pieces (older meaning from two years ago). All others were finished this year — within the past four months to be exact. That freshness comes across as a flow of multiple strands of exploration, beginnings of new directions, and exuberant intellectual curiosity transporting us into a continuous state of wonder. One recurring theme is interstice as concept and practice, be it in the form of air, the relationship between different media, or the space that separates abstraction and figuration. With its mass of calligraphic ink marks, “cloud sound” (do they make sound?) evokes earlier drawings, but instead of representational fragments, here space and our perception of it are activated with some areas seemingly advancing, others receding. The result is a vertigo-inducing uncertainty in between. Good art like Sulzer’s asks more questions than it answers. For example: what is representation other than superstition? In 1797, Francisco de Goya painted “The Witches’ Flight” in which three airborne witches carry off a writhing male into the black void surrounding them, whilst two peasants try to block their senses to shut out this vision, and a donkey, symbol of ignorance, looks on. The painting has served as a springboard for Sulzer’s imagination. In the most directly related work, she sculpted the three witches out of modeling clay, envisioning a two-dimensional representation in the round, and then literally filled the air between and around them with black clay (imagine for a moment the witches being gradually enveloped by suffocating blackness). Instead of shaping a block of material into form, the latter is hidden within only to be unrecognizably revealed again when the artist cuts the mass into slices like MRI scans of the anatomy of human fears and beliefs — or inspirations. Goya’s satire of belief in witchcraft and superstition can serve as a metaphoric critique of representation itself in its convincing visualization of an imaginary occurrence. To state the obvious, representation is an illusion as well as “a trust in magic” and “false conception of causation,” — partial definitions of superstition. The penitential corozas Goya’s witches wear have an intriguing formal similarity and suggestive conceptual relation to Christian mitres and dunce caps, mixing superstition with religion and ignorance. The conical shapes that have repeatedly surfaced in Sulzer’s work thus resonate with multivalent suggestions connected to knowledge and morality. Is representation about what defines an image or what obliterates it? Several

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WWW.PORTLANDASYLUM.COM ‘night flight’ Sumi ink and acrylic on gampi paper; 37.5 inches by 25.75 inches by 3 inches; 2014. works embody an ostensible struggle with the urge to represent, “night flight” and “night mound” among them. Repeated applications of sumi ink to gampi paper caused it to buckle and pucker into mounds and crevices. Bursting forth from that darkness are latticeworks of light ovals accentuated with iridescent acrylic, which suggest mechanical reproduction of an unrecognizable image. We are left with a nightmarish inkling of unsavory, nocturnal things flying (like witches). “Stephen” suggests a Polaroid portrait created from modeling clay, but the way Sulzer both builds up and gouges out the features is truly subversive. Sulzer continually pushes her materials to their physical and conceptual limits often making process itself the image. Nowhere is that more obvious than in the woodblock prints bearing the result of over 80 “imageless” printings, including “green island,” which becomes a field of striated monoliths separated by canyons of air. Sulzer’s thoughtful artistic experimentation and fearless curiosity about imagemaking go in more directions than can be discussed here; some are inter-related and realized in several iterations while others are more like whirlwinds of first thoughts. “Throughoutsideways” grows richer in depth and importance as the work and its implications sink in over time, making it the strongest show I’ve seen in a long while. ^

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You know those people predicting Bayside/East Bayside are the new Congress Street (which was the new Old Port)? Maybe the existence of Bunker Brewing, a nano-brewery and event space on Anderson Street, doesn’t prove them right, but it’s a solid addition to the Bayside Bowl-Portland & Rochester-Mayo Street Arts constellation. (BTW, the Sahara Club may be a private club for recovering alcoholics, but they do have an open mic for sober musicians on the first Saturday of every month. Given all this, Bubba’s looks like the vanguard of a movement if you squint a bit.) Anyway, Bunker this Friday is where you’ll find Jaw Gems, maybe the most intellectually satisfying band in Portland, releasing their first full-length album, the 13-song Blades Plural. Perhaps that classification is counterintuitive for a band with few lyrics, but the quartet forces you to fill in the blanks, to consider what else. It’s not simply their non-traditional arrangement, with no guitars and multiple keyboards and synthesizers, but also their composition, where there is so much repetition and so many layered phrases that you don’t even consider verses or choruses. There are waves coming at you, but no distinct melody. Jaw Gems is the ultimate jam band, as you can completely lose yourself in their works. Ultimately, they’re absurdist, keeping you searching for meaning as they exercise absolute freedom to go wherever their whims lead.

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F it’s not often you get to see the FoGCuttErs in full regalia — which makes sense. if you’re going to pull that many people together for a gig, it better be worth their while. certainly, the Big Band Syndrome shows at the State theatre, of which there have been three, have been worth it — for the audience and band both. So, as you prep for a Fogcutters full-band gig at port city this Saturday, you might want to grab big band Syndrome, Vol. 2, a live recap of the second big State event, with 20 tracks featuring a variety of local frontpeople doing rearranged versions of some of their best tunes. lylE divinsKy’s intro to the album is exactly what he does well. What a showman. For whatever reason, it seems as though big personality and voice has gone out of style in pop music, but his combo of Sinatra and King Kong Bundy is entertaining as hell. “are you ok?” with anna loM-

Ahmad Hassan Muhammad will hold a note on the Wurlitzer for two full bars. Drummer DJ Moore might use only a kick drum and a sample pad on some tunes, but then control the melody with a full kit on “Pitch Bend,” presenting a smoothly flowing contrast to the halting Muhammad on Wurlitzer, jagged and clipped. Tyler Quist is mentioned by musicians in hushed tones and with good reason: it wouldn’t be weird for him to be playing two keyboards, triggering sounds with his feet and blowing through a vocoder all at the same time. And Andrew Scherzer — just listen to the way he fills a song with bass in “Akai Floss.” As a recurring rift bubbles up like carbonation, he hops from the slippery top of one bubble to another, like a Plinko disc falling through pegs. He’s at a gallop in “Blonde Face,” riding right alongside Moore’s insistent nail gun of a rhythm. They share qualities with Kieran Hebden’s Four Tet, but because it’s not all programmed (Jaw Gems will capture a line, loop it, then play another line over it), they possess more elasticity. It’s jazz and it’s hip hop, particularly in “Young Pulp,” but it’s really neither of those things, like Jamiroquai on peyote. Of course, psychedelics aren’t for everyone, but if you’re into having your mind expanded just a bit, Jaw Gems will fit the bill. ^

bard is huge as well, swelling up and carrying her on a wave, to which her voice really responds nicely. and rapper EyEninE rises to the occasion for his two tracks, seemingly completely at ease with 20odd pieces behind him, instead of a single dJ. the result is so much warmer than his album tracks. in other cases, there’s a little bit of had-to-be there syndrome. “Walken” and “Sakura” play to KylE GErvais’ strengths, showing him incredibly present and invested. the popping horns are like exclamation points appearing around his head. But the crooner thing for “over” is kind of “eh” without being able to see whether he’s being a bit ironic or not. Still, with 20 tracks, there’s plenty of bang for your buck, and you’ll likely understand what the fuss is all about. F one of the weirder, messier music events to have emerged from this town’s artists, we’re pleased to see that Food FiGht is back on the

menu this year. the second annual event is a battle-of-the-bands comprised of workers at local restaurants, bars, and coffee shops, who endeavor to write and perform a set’s worth of original material over three competitive nights. a serious hoot; and one in which stakes are weirdly both high and low. Food Fight rests on the notion that a) most people employed in the service industry are artists of some type and b) working busy nights at local restaurants has the power to link and you and your co-workers on a cosmic, intuitive plane, which is ingredient numero uno for a great band. does your bar function like E.S.P.era Miles davis? Trout Mask-era Beefheart? the period in Fleetwood Mac where everyone was sleeping together or getting divorced? hear the labors of food service translated into sound over three competitive Sundays on June 9, 16, and 23, at empire and port city Music hall.

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FRIDAY 9

ADAMS STREET PUB | Biddeford |

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ALISSON’S RESTAURANT | Ken-

nebunkport | Muddy Ruckus + Daisy

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THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE GRILLE | Old Orchard Beach | Bonks &

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karaoke | 8 pm

BLACK BEAR CAFE | Naples | Jud Caswell

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THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE GRILLE | Old Orchard Beach | Fighting

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BULL MOOSE LOUNGE | Dexter | Dee-

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BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | Bath | karaoke with DJ Joe | 8:30 pm

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CARMEN VERANDAH | Bar Harbor | DJ Jeff Buffington | 9 pm

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Biddeford | DJ Caleb Biggers

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THE OAK AND THE AX | Biddeford |

SUNDAY 11

302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN | Fryeburg | Tom Rebmann | 11 am

BLOOMFIELD’S CAFE AND BAR |

THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE GRILLE | Old Orchard Beach | Quiet Riot

Act | 1 pm

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | Bath | Irish-American sing-along | 5 pm

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Bid-

deford | karaoke with DJ Don Corman | 9:30 pm

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CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN | Buckfield | open mic | 7 pm

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CLUB TEXAS | Auburn | DJ B-Set |

9:30 pm

GFB SCOTTISH PUB | Old Orchard Beach | Robert Johnson Project

open mic | 6 pm

GUTHRIE’S | Lewiston | Stephanie

Brunswick | Irish session | 7 pm

CLUB 737 | Bath | open mic with Yan-

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LION’S PRIDE | Brunswick | open mic

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KERRYMEN PUB | Saco | open mic

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FRIDAY 9

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TUESDAY 13

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SATURDAY 10

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

WEDNESDAY 14

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COMEDY THURSDAY 8

BOB MARLEY | 8 pm | Stone

Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $27.50 | 207.935.7292

FRIDAY 9

BOWDOIN CHAMBER MUSIC FEST | 4

& 7:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.798.4141 THE SUMMER KING | An Opera on the Life of Josh Gibson | 7:30 pm | Portland Ovations, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | $42, $35 | 207.842.0800

FRIDAY 9

MOMENTA QUARTET | 7:30 pm | Bates College, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St, Lewiston | $12 | 207.786.6135

DICK DOHERTY | Gold Room, 510

SATURDAY 10

SUNDAY 11

| The Grand, 165 Main St, Ellsworth | $26 | 207.667.9500 or grandonline.org

Warren Ave, Portland | 207.221.2343

BIRDIE GOOGINS | 7 pm | St Law-

rence Arts & Community Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | $15, $12 seniors/youth | 207.775.5568 or www. stlawrencearts.org

“COMEDYPALOOZA SHOWCASE” WITH TIM HOFMANN, ET AL. | 8 pm | Big Easy, 55 Market St, Portland | $3 | 207.894.0633 or www.bigeasyportland.com OPEN MIC | 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

WEDNESDAY 14

“COMEDY NIGHT,” WITH JAY GROVE | 9 pm | Cara Irish Pub &

Restaurant, 11 Fourth St, Dover, NH | 603.343.4390 OPEN MIC | 6 pm | Union House Pub & Pizza, North Dam Mill, 2 Main St, 18-230, Biddeford | 207.590.4825

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

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

ROSSINI’S LA CENERENTOLA | 1 pm

SUNDAY 11

MIDCOAST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | 2:30 pm | Orion Performing Arts Center, 66 Republic Ave, Topsham | $20 | 207.729.3891

PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: “HARRY POTTER & THE MAGIC OF MUSIC” | Portland Symphony

Orchestra | 2:30 pm | Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | $10 | 207.842.0800

WEDNESDAY 14

USM YOUTH ENSEMBLES | 7:30 pm | University of Southern Maine - Gorham, Corthell Concert Hall, 37 College Ave, Gorham | $8, $5 seniors/students | 207.780.5256

POPULAR THURSDAY 8

COLIN BLUNSTONE | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $50-$55 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com

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SUZY BOGGUSS | 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $45 | 207.935.7292

VOLBEAT + POMONA + TRIVIUM + DIGITAL SUMMER | 8 pm | Hamp-

ton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $41 | 603.929.4100

SATURDAY 10

AARON LARGET-CAPLAN | 7:30 pm | Saco River Theatre, 29 Salmon Falls Rd, Bar Mills | 207.929.6472

BUCKCHERRY + FOZZY + RED SKY MARY | 8 pm | Hampton Beach Casino

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

FRIDAY 9

ERIC BETTENCOURT + ADRIANNE LENKER + BUCK MEEK | 8 pm | One

Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $12/$17 | 207.761.1757 GORDON BOK + CAROL ROHL | 7:30 pm | Saco River Theatre, 29 Salmon Falls Rd, Bar Mills | $20 | 207.929.6472

JAW GEMS + CONTRAPPOSTO + ALTERED GEE | 9 pm | Bunker Brewing Co, 122 Anderson St, Portland | $5

JOHN SEBASTIAN + PAUL RISHELL & ANNIE RAINES | 8 pm | Waterville Op-

era House, 1 Common St, Waterville | $25-30 | 207.873.7000

KREWELLA + LOGIC + RADICAL SOMETHING | 7 pm | Colby College,

Wadsworth Gymnasium, 4180 Mayflower Dr, Waterville | $35, $28 students | 207.859.4000

KRIS DELMHORST + ANDERS PARKER

| 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $20 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com MAVERICKS | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $25-50 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland. com MICHAEL RENO HARRELL | 8 pm | The Brickhouse, 259 Broadturn Rd, Scarborough | 207.233.6755

PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE + JONATHAN EDWARDS + CHRIS ROSS | 7:30 pm

| The Grand, 165 Main St, Ellsworth | $47 | 207.667.9500 or grandonline.org SARAH BLACKER | 7 pm | KMH Music, 412 Main St, Presque Isle | 207.764.3651

JOHNNY WAD & THE CASH + DELTA GENERATORS | 9 pm | Inn On the

Blues, 7 Ocean Ave, York Beach | 207.351.3221 JOHN SEBASTIAN | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $45 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com KRIS DELMHORST | 8 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $15/$20 | 207.761.1757

LACE + ERRORAEON & SCROTAL TEAR + LUST HIGHWAY + ID M THEFTABLE | 8 pm | Strange Maine,

578 Congress St, Portland | by donation | 207.771.9997

MIDCOAST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

| 7:30 pm | Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St, Lewiston | $20 | 207.689.2000 MOTOR CITY FEVER | 8 pm | Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St, Rochester, NH | $32/$28 | 603.335.1992 PRIMO CUBANO | 8 pm | The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | $15 | 207.439.0114

PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE + JONATHAN EDWARDS + LIVINGSTON TAYLOR | benefit | 7 pm | State

Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland |

$26.50-76.50 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland.com

“RISE ABOVE FEST,” WITH AVENGED SEVENFOLD + BLACK STONE CHERRY + DEVOUR THE DAY + HELLYEAH + KYNG + MOTORHEAD + SEETHER + SKINDRED + TRIVIUM + DEAD SEASON | 6 pm | Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion, 1 Railroad St, Bangor | $50.75-73.75 | 800.745.3000

ROCKIN’ RON & THE NEW SOCIETY BAND | Happy Acres Hall, 3704 Bennoch Rd, Alton

RODNEY CROWELL | 8 pm | Boothbay

Harbor Opera House, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | 207.633.6855

SUNDAY 11

MARTIN HAYES & DENNIS CAHILL | 8 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $22-27 | 207.761.1757

MONDAY 12

SANDI THOM + STEVE JONES | 8 pm

TUESDAY 13

JASON BONHAM’S LED ZEPPELIN EXPERIENCE | 8 pm | Hampton Beach

Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | 603.929.4100

PETE MILLER + CHRISTIAN CUFF | 8:30 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $5 | 207.761.1757

WEDNESDAY 14

JIMMIE VAUGHAN & TILT-A-WHIRL BAND | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall,

2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com

THURSDAY 15

GREEN LION CREW | 9 pm | Inn On the Blues, 7 Ocean Ave, York Beach | 207.351.3221

MAIA SHARP + GARRISON STARR + AG | 8 pm | One Longfellow Square,

181 State St, Portland | $15/$20 | 207.761.1757 TOM RUSH | 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $37.50 | 207.935.7292

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

DANCE PARTICIPATORY THURSDAY 8

SALSA DANCING WITH DJ BRAULIO |

8 pm | Pearl, 444 Fore St, Portland | $5 | 207.653.8486

FRIDAY 9

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE | 6:30

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

WEDNESDAY 14

WEDNESDAY NIGHT STOMP WITH PORTLAND SWING PROJECT | 7:30

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

THURSDAY 15

SALSA DANCING WITH DJ BRAULIO |

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PERFORMANCE FRIDAY 9

SAHAR, A BALLET | 7 pm | St Lawrence Arts & Community Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | $10 | 207.775.5568 | www. stlawrencearts.org

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VIVID MOTION: “THE SEVEN VOYAGES OF SINBAD” | 7:30 pm | St

Lawrence Arts & Community Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | $12, $6 youth 13 & under | 207.775.5568 | www.stlawrencearts.org

EVENTS THURSDAY 8

MECAMORPHOSIS: MAINE COLLEGE OF ART SPRING GALA, THESIS EXHIBITION AND FASHION SHOW | 5:30 pm | Maine College of Art, 522 Congress St, Portland | $25$75 | 207.775.3052 or | meca.edu

FRIDAY 9

“THEATER PROJECT ART AUCTION” | with art, handmade crafts, jewelry, & dancing | 6 pm | Inn at Brunswick Station, 4 Noble St, Brunswick | $20 | 207.837.6565

MONDAY 12

AMAZING WORLD OF ANIMALS |

6 pm | The Grand, 165 Main St, Ellsworth | $5 | 207.667.9500 or | grandonline.org

WEDNESDAY 14

“6TH ANNUAL PORTLAND PHOENIX BEST OF PORTLAND AWARDS,” WITH ALTERED GEE + PETE WITHAM & THE COZMIK ZOMBIES | 6:30 pm | Port City Music

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“LOWRY’S LODGE” | poetry readings

“MOTHER LOVE,” MUSIC & POETRY WITH ROBIN MERRILL + MONIQUE BARRETT + NORA MEINERS, ET AL.

“POETRY ON TAP” | open mic & featured poets | 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

| Fields Pond Audubon Center, 216 Fields Pond, Holden | $5 | 207.989.2591

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

FAIRS & FESTIVALS

TASTING AND TOUR OF BAXTER BREWING WITH SAILMAINE | 6

pm | Ocean Gateway Terminal, 14 Ocean Gateway Pier, Portland | $40 | 207.791.0870

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TUESDAY 13

MOONLIGHT CANOEING | 7 pm

chefs, cookbook authors, cooking demos, & tastings | Fri-Sat 10 am | Mercy Hospital, Fore River Campus, 175 Fore River Pkwy, Portland | $25-30 | 207.879.3000 or thedivineseries.com

The next seminar is May 15th @6pm Elks Lodge 13 Elm St. Sanford. Come for pizza & “beer” Please RSVP

MONDAY 12

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“BIG NIGHT 2014,” READINGS & CELEBRATION WITH THE TELLING ROOM | 7 pm | University of Southern

MONDAY 12

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| 4 pm | Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St, Portland | $12 | 207.615.3609

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“PRIDE PORTLAND! LAUNCH PARTY” | 8 pm | Port City Music

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THURSDAY 8

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POETRY & PROSE

by Jim Donnelly + Anna Wrobel + Annie Finch + David Moreau | 7 pm | Saccarappa Art Collective, 861 Main St, Westbrook | $3 | 207.591.7300

SATURDAY 10

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WINE AND CHOCOLATE EXTRAVAGANZA | 11 am | Sweetgrass Farm

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WEDNESDAY 14

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WEDNESDAY 14

CHRISTINA BAKER-KLINE IN CONVERSATION WITH KATE MANNING |

THURSDAY 15

“BEAT NIGHT,” MUSIC & POETRY | 7

TALKS THURSDAY 8

“A CELEBRATION OF FEMINIST CREATIVITY & COMMUNITY” | with Uni-

versity of Southern Maine’s Women & Gender Studies Program | 6 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Glickman Library, 7th Floor, 314 Forest Ave, Portland | 207.780.4269

“AFRICAN AMERICANS & THE U.S. GOVERNMENT DURING AND AFTER THE CIVIL WAR” | with Chandra Manning | Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St, Portland | $10 | 207.774.1822 or mainehistory.org

“PECHA KUCHA KENNEBUNK,” ART TALKS | 6:30 pm | River Tree Arts,

35 Western Ave, Kennebunk | $5 | 207.967.9120 or rivertreearts.org

“PECHA KUCHA NIGHT: SUDDENLY, BLOOM!” | 7:30 pm | Strawbery Banke,

14 Hancock St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.433.1100 or strawberybanke.org SHECHANGES | 7 pm | Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St, Portland | $15 | 207.615.3609

“VOTER EDUCATION BRIGADE LAUNCH PARTY” | 5:30 pm | Think

Tank/Portland, 533 Congress St, Portland | 207.619.3660

SATURDAY 10

“HOW CAN WORKERS OWN HOMES IN PORTLAND?” | forum with

Machigonne Community Land Trust | 5 pm | East End Community School, 195 North St, Portland | 207.874.8228

“NOTHING LEFT: THE SURRENDER OF AMERICAN LIBERALS,” | with

Adolph Reed, Jr. | 6:30 pm | Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St, Brunswick | 207.725.5242 or curtislibrary.org

MONDAY 12

LIGHTENING TALKS | with Martha Kearsley,Don Lindgren, and Scott Vile | 6 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | 207.828.5600 or space538.org

TUESDAY 13

“VINTAGE FISHING TACKLE” WITH SANTE GUILIANI, FRED KRETCHMAN, AND DAN LEROUX | 7 pm | York Public Library, 15 Long Sands Rd, York | 207.363.2818

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“BABY BOOMERS, HEPATITUS C VIRUS, & THE ROLE OF PUBLIC HEALTH: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW” | with Mary-Kate Appicelli | 7 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Southworth Planetarium, 96 Falmouth St, Portland | 207.780.4249 or usm.maine. edu/planet PECHAKUCHA | 7:15 pm | Asylum, 121 Center St, Portland | $5 | 207.772.8274

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GEORGE MARSHALL STORE GALLERY | 207.351.1083 | 140 Lindsay Rd,

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ROUX & CYR INTERNATIONAL FINE ART GALLERY | 207.576.7787 | 48 Free

Street, Portland | Through May 31:

“Russian Master Paints New England,” oil paintings by Stas Borodin

SACO RIVER GRAPHICS GALLERY

| 516 Congress St, Portland | Through May 31: “Nature Embossed,” watercolor & copper panels by Chong & Judi Lim

SEACOAST ARTIST ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 603.778.8856 | 225 Water

THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE |

207.772.5483 | 128 Free St, Portland | thedogfishbarandgrille.com | Mon-Sat

11:30 am-12:30 am; Sun noon-8 pm | Through May 31: “Collage Photography,” by Evearad Stelfox THE OLD WHITE CHURCH | 207.642.4219 | 15 Salmon Falls Rd, Buxton | Through May 25: “My Maine: The Paintings of Michael McDonald” TIME GALLERY | 207.874.9868 | Com-

munity Television Network, 516 Congress St, Portland | Mon-Fri 10 am-6 pm |

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

Tues-Fri 10:30 am-4 pm; Sat noon-4 pm | $5 suggested donation | Through May 31: “Ethiopia: Revisiting the Afar Tribesmen,” photography by Nanci Kahn | Ongoing: “An Exhibition of Bronze”

BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

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

Brunswick | bowdoin.edu/art-museum

| Tues-Wed + Fri-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Thurs 10 am-8:30 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Free admission; donations welcome | Through June 8: “Frontier Visions: The American West in Image & Myth,” works on paper | 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 | Through May 31: Nature Photography by Jennifer Brown | Through May 31: “Sacy Bay Artists,” mixed media group exhibition FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM | 207.596.6457 | 16 Museum St, Rockland | farnsworthmuseum.org | 10 am-5 pm, open until 8 pm with free admission Wed | $12, seniors & students $10; under 17 free & Rockland residents free | Admission $12; $10 seniors and students; free for youth under 17 and Rockland residents | Through Sept 28: “Coloring Vision: From Impressionism to Modernism,” paintings | Through Dec 31: “Ideals of Beauty: The Nude,” mixed media | Through Dec 31: “The Wyeths, Maine, & the Sea,” paintings & works on paper ICA AT MECA | 207.879.5742 | 522 Congress St, Portland | Wed-Sun 11 am-5 pm; Thurs 11 am-7 pm | Through March 31: “We Are What We Hide,” long-running exhibit in- & outside gallery walls MAINE COLLEGE OF ART | 207.775.3052 | 522 Congress St, Portland | meca.edu | Mon-Fri 8 am-8 pm; SatSun 12 pm-5 pm | Through May 23: “In Habit: 2014 Senior Thesis Exhibition,” mixed media student works | 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 | Through June 15: “Recent Acquisitions,” mixed media | Through June 22: paintings by John Laurent | Through Oct 31: “Henry Strater: Arizona Winters, 1933-1938,” paintings PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | 207.775.6148 | 7 Congress Square, Portland | portlandmuseum.org | Tues-Thurs + Sat-Sun 10 am-5 pm; Fri 10 am-9 pm | Admission $12; $10 students/seniors; $6 youth 13-17; free for youth 12 & under and for all Fri 5-9 pm | Through June 1: “Art in Process: Weather in High School Art & Science,” student works | 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 | Through Aug 24: “Andrea Sulzer: throughoutsideways,” drawings & prints

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - FARMINGTON | 207.778.7292 | Emery Community

Arts Center, 111 South St, Farmington |

Through May 17: “Pardon My Tartle: UMF Senior Art Show,” mixed media

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

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

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND PORTLAND | 207.221.4499 | Art Gallery,

716 Stevens Ave, Portland | une.edu/ artgallery | Wed 1-4 pm; Thurs 1-7 pm;

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

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MUSEUM OF ART | 603.862.3712 | Paul Creative Arts Center, Durham, NH

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - LEWISTON/AUBURN | 207.753.6500 |

Atrium Gallery, 51 Westminster St, Lewiston | usm.maine.edu/lac/art/exhibits. html | Mon-Thurs 8 am-8 pm; Fri 8 am4:30 pm | Free admission | Through June 6: “Ant Farm: At the Nexus of Art & Science,” installation by Colleen Kinsella + Vivien Russe + Rebecca Goodale + Dorothy Schwartz

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - PORTLAND | 207.780.4270 | Kate

Cheney Chappell Center for Book Arts, Great Reading Room, 7th Floor, Glickman Library, 314 Forest Ave, Portland | usm. maine.edu/bookarts | Mon-Thurs 7:45 am-11 pm; Fri 7:45 am-8 pm; Sat 10 am-8 pm; Sun 10 am-11 pm | Through May 31: “Rescued, Redeemed, Revived,” book arts | Through Aug 14: “Charting an Empire: The Atlantic Neptune,” cartographic exhibition

OTHER MUSEUMS 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 dur-

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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: “From Slavery to Maine,” archival exhibition | 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” SOUTHWORTH PLANETARIUM | 207.780.4249 | Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, University of Southern Maine - Portland, | usm.maine.edu/ planet | call for hours | free | May 2:

Dinosaurs at Dusk 7pm; Eight Planets and Counting 8:30pm | May 9: Two Small Pieces of Glass 8:30pm | May 10: Dinosaurs at Dusk 3pm | May 11: Rusty Rocket’s Last Blast 3pm | May 12: Dinosaurs at Dusk 1pm | May 14: Eight Planets and Counting 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

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DANIEL STREET TAVERN | 603.430.1011 | 111 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH DOBRA TEA | 207.370.1890 | 151 Middle St, Portland THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | 207.772.5483 | 128 Free St, Portland DOGFISH CAFE | 207.253.5400 | 953 Congress St, Portland DOVER BRICK HOUSE | 603.749.3838 | 2 Orchard St, Dover, NH DOWN UNDER CLUB | 207.992.2550 | Seasons Grille & Sports Lounge, 427 Main St, Bangor EASY STREET LOUNGE | 207.622.3360 | 7 Front St, Hallowell ELEMENTS: BOOKS COFFEE BEER | 207.710.2011 | 265 Main St, Biddeford EMPIRE | 207.879.8988 | 575 Congress St, Portland FAST BREAKS | 207.782.3305 | 1465 Lisbon St, Lewiston FAT BELLY’S | 603.610.4227 | 2 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH FATBOY’S SALOON | 207.766.8862 | 65 Main St, Biddeford FEDERAL JACK’S | 207.967.4322 | 8 Western Ave, Kennebunk FEILE IRISH RESTAURANT AND PUB | 207.251.4065 | 1619 Post Rd, Wells FLASK LOUNGE | 207.772.3122 | 117 Spring St, Portland 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 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

Brunswick

St, Hallowell

St, Lewiston

| 207.354.4162 | 189 Main St, Thomaston THE HOLY GRAIL | 603.679.9559 | 64 Main St, Epping, NH IRISH TWINS PUB | 207.376.3088 | 743 Main St, Lewiston IRON TAILS SALOON | 207.850.1142 | 559 Rte 109, Acton

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

BUBBA’S SULKY LOUNGE |

207.828.0549 | 92 Portland St, Portland

BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/FREEPORT |

207.865.0600 | 581 Rte 1, Freeport

BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/PORTLAND |

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEEHOUSE | 207.729.9400 | 16 Station Ave, AND TAVERN | 207.621.1234 | 119 Water THE CAGE | 207.783.0668 | 97 Ash CAMPFIRE GRILLE | 207.803.2255 | 656 North High St, Bridgton

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

CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN |

207.336.2126 | 371 Turner St, Buckfield CAPTAIN DANIEL STONE INN | 207.373.1824 | 10 Water St, Brunswick

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

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR |

207.282.7900 | 15 Thornton St, Biddeford CHAPS SALOON | 207.347.1101 | 1301 Long Plains Rd, Buxton CHARLAMAGNE’S | 207.242.2711 | 228 Water St, Augusta CHOP SHOP PUB | 603.760.7706 | 920 Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH CLUB 737 | 207.442.0748 | 737 Washington St, Bath

HIGHLANDS COFFEE HOUSE

JIMMY THE GREEK’S/OLD ORCHARD BEACH | 207.934.7499 | 215 Saco Ave, Old Orchard Beach

KELLEY’S ROW | 603.750.7081 | 421

Central Ave, Dover, NH

THE KENNEBEC WHARF | 207.622.9290 | 1 Wharf St, Hallowell KERRYMEN PUB | 207.282.7425 | 512 Main St, Saco KJ’S SPORTS BAR | 603.659.2329 | North Main St, Newmarket, NH LAST CALL | 207.934.9082 | 4 1st St, Old Orchard Beach LFK | 207.899.3277 | 188A State St, Portland THE LIBERAL CUP | 207.623.2739 | 115 Water St, Hallowell 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 MAIN TAVERN | 207.947.7012 | 152 Main St, Bangor MAINE STREET | 207.646.5101 | 195 Maine St, Ogunquit MAINELY BREWS | 207.873.2457 | 1 Post Office Sq, Waterville MAMA’S CROWBAR | 207.773.9230 | 189 Congress St, Portland MARK’S PLACE | 207.899.3333 | 416 Fore St, Portland MARTINGALE WHARF | 603.431.0091 | 99 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH MATHEW’S PUB | 207.253.1812 | 133 Free St, Portland MAXWELL’S PUB | 207.646.2345 | 243 Main St, Ogunquit MAYO STREET ARTS | 207.615.3609 | 10 Mayo St, Portland MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | 207.642.3363 | 35 Blake Rd, Standish MILLIE’S TAVERN | 603.967.4777 | 17 L St, Hampton, NH 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 NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | 207.907.4380 | 56 Main St, Bangor THE OAK AND THE AX | | 140 Main St, Ste 107-Back Alley, Biddeford THE OAR HOUSE | 603.436.4025 | 55 Ceres St, Portsmouth, NH OASIS | 207.370.9048 | 42 Wharf St, Portland OLD GOAT | 207.737.4628 | 33 Main St, Richmond OLD MILL PUB | 207.474.6627 | 39 Water St, Skowhegan OLD PORT TAVERN | 207.774.0444 | 11 Moulton St, Portland THE OLDE MILL TAVERN | 207.583.9077 | 56 Main St, Harrison ORCHARD STREET CHOP SHOP | 603.749.0006 | 1 Orchard St, Dover, NH OTTO | 207.773.7099 | 574-6 Congress St, Portland 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 PICASSO’S PIZZA & PUB | 401.739.5030 | 2323 Warwick Ave, Warwick, RI PLEASANT NOTE COFFEEHOUSE | 207.783.0461 | First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St, Auburn PORT CITY MUSIC HALL | 207.899.4990 | 504 Congress St, Portland PORTHOLE RESTAURANT | 207.773.4653 | 20 Custom House Wharf, Portland PORTLAND EAGLES | 207.773.9448 | 184 Saint John St, Portland PORTLAND LOBSTER CO | 207.775.2112 | 180 Commercial St, Portland PORTSMOUTH BOOK AND BAR | 617.908.8277 | 40 Pleasant St, Portsmouth, NH PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | 603.430.8582 | 64 Market St, Portsmouth, NH PRESS ROOM | 603.431.5186 | 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH PROFENNO’S | 207.856.0011 | 934 Main St, Westbrook THE RACK | 207.237.2211 | 5016 Access Rd, Carabassett RAVEN’S ROOST | 207.406.2359 | 103 Pleasant St, Brunswick THE RED DOOR | 603.373.6827 | 107 State St, Portsmouth, NH RI RA/PORTLAND | 207.761.4446 | 72 Commercial St, Portland

RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | 603.319.1680 | 22 Market St, Portsmouth, NH 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 SEA KETCH | 603.926.0324 | 127 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH 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 SHENANIGANS | 207.213.4105 | 349 Water St, Augusta SIDE STREET CAFE | 207.801.2591 | 49 Rodick St, Bar Harbor SILVER HOUSE TAVERN | 207.772.9885 | 123 Commercial St, Portland SILVER SPUR | 207.345.3211 | 272 Lewiston St, Mechanic Falls SILVER STREET TAVERN | 207.680.2163 | 2 Silver St, Waterville SKIP’S LOUNGE | 207.929.9985 | 299 Narragansett Trail, Buxton SKYBOX BAR AND GRILL | 207.854.9012 | 212 Brown St, Westbrook SLAINTE | 207.828.0900 | 24 Preble St, Portland SLATES RESTAURANT AND BAKERY | 207.622.4104 | 169 Water St, Hallowell

SOLO BISTRO | 207.443.3378 | 128 Front

St, Bath

SONNY’S | 207.772.7774 | 83 Exchange St, Portland

SONNY’S TAVERN | 603.343.4332 | 328

Central Ave, Dover, NH SOUTHSIDE TAVERN | 207.474.6073 | 1 Waterville Rd, Skowhegan SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland THE SPAGHETTI STAIN | 603.343.5257 | 421 Central Ave, Dover, NH SPARE TIME | 207.878.2695 | City Sports Grille, 867 Riverside St, Portland SPEAKEASY | 207.596.6661 | 2 Park Dr, Rockland SPRING HILL TAVERN | 603.431.5222 | Dolphin Striker, 15 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH SPRING POINT TAVERN | 207.733.2245 | 175 Pickett St, South Portland STYXX | 207.828.0822 | 3 Spring St, Portland SUDS PUB | 207.824.6558 | Sudbury Inn Main St, Bethel TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | 207.657.7973 | 61 Portland Rd, Gray THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | 603.427.8645 | 21 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH THE THIRSTY PIG | 207.773.2469 | 37 Exchange St, Portland THIRSTY WHALE | 207.288.9335 | 40 Cottage St, Bar Harbor TIME OUT PUB | 207.593.9336 | 275 Main St, Rockland TORCHES GRILL HOUSE | 207.467.3288 | 102 York St, Kennebunk TOWNHOUSE PUB | 207.284.7411 | 5 Storer St, Saco TUCKER’S PUB | 207.739.2200 | 290 Main St, Norway TUG’S PUB | 207.633.3830 | Robinson Wharf, Southport 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 WATER STREET GRILL | 207.582.9464 | 463 Water St, Gardiner ZACKERY’S | 207.774.5601 | Fireside Inn & Suites, 81 Riverside St, Portland

Our Ratings

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cheap soups for modern times

mi sen’s noodle Bowls hit the spot _By Bria n dUF F Soon the largest of large economic trends will affect even the way we eat out. Research recently published by Thomas Piketty demonstrates a near inevitable tendency toward the accumulation of wealth among a tiny super-elite (see “Extreme inequality: historical quirk or long-term reality?” by Zack Anchors, in last week’s issue). The rest of us will rent a few rooms on their property by the month, and sell our labor to them by the hour. Already the “middle class” is losing its ability to buy homes, maintain careers, carry out transcendent projects, create stable families, or afford fancy dinners. It might be okay. Obamacare will keep us healthy in our diminished state until our Social Security kicks in (fingers crossed!). And a good life is pretty cheap. Anyone with a smartphone can download a lifetime of worldly entertainment for free or thereabouts (as long as you can afford that monthly fee). But you can’t eat data, and the diminished Americans of the future will still crave the pleasure of a restaurant meal. The Mi Sen Noodle Bar on Congress offers a premonition of the future of dining out: a satisfying meal that is globally inspired, up on the latest trends, and about the price of a good smartphone app. At Mi Sen bowls of soup are $5 — $6 if you want wontons or the duck. The soup is not

just priced like an app, the menu works like one too, complete with graphics that would look at home on a high-def screen. You follow a little flow chart to choose from seven broths, seven noodles, and seven proteins (not unlike Pom’s noodle place nearby). Like our high-tech gadgets, the soups are sort of pan-Asian, with nods toward American taste. And like our gadgets, these soups are pretty remarkable given the price. Asian noodle soup has unrivaled capacity to efficiently deliver richness, complexity of flavor, variety of texture, and satisfying infusions of umami. At Mi Sen they deliver it in deep white bowls of a dignified size. The best was the num sai — a chicken broth soup, which we ordered with flat rice noodles. The broth had a light, bright quality, and the fat little wontons were not too heavy. Ground chicken clung to the tender noodles, while green beans, sprouts, and crispy wonton added some crunch. The num daeng featured chicken broth sweetened with palm sugar. It was pleasant, but got too sweet by the bottom of the bowl. A green curry soup had plenty of vegetal heat in its thin milky broth. It was a spicy cousin to the tangy and creamy tom kha. Mi Sen also offers brothless noodle dishes. A “dry noodle” is actually damp with a light sauce that combines sweetness and a sort of sour tang with notes

sLoW-BurninG horror

THE HANOVER HOUSE will maKe yoU a Believer _By deirdre F Ulto n When you’re making a movie about a haunted house, it’s best if the house is actually haunted (for authenticity’s sake, of course). Fortunately for director Corey Norman, the 1883 farmhouse in Western Maine where he filmed The Hanover House was definitely home to some eerie phenomena. Over 16 days of filming in January 2013, members of the cast and crew reported seeing floating lights, feeling mysterious gusts of air, and even witnessing apparitions of an old man and a young boy. “I get creeped out just thinking about going back to the house,” says Haley Norman, Corey’s wife and co-writer, who also served as makeup artist for this Bonfire Films production. Filmed over the course of 16 days in January 2013, The Hanover House tells the story of Robert Foster (Brian Chamberlain), who, returning from his father’s funeral, hits a young girl with his car.

STuFF oF NighTMAreS Brian chamberlain gets creepy in The Hanover House.

SATiSFyiNg ANd AFFordABle mi sen’s “dry noodles” and broth-based soups are boldly flavored. of lime and fish sauce. Drunken noodles were fat and substantial, with a bite reminiscent of Chinese five-spice and crunchy vegetables. The ginger noodles infused the same ingredients with a subtler spice and just a whisper of gingery sharpness. The appetizers were less satisfying than the soups and noodles — shumai were a bit bland and spongy, the radish cakes bland and mushy, and the taro roll all greasy starch. The look of Mi Sen is humble but nice enough (like our future rented apartments). The drop ceiling is too high to really notice. Large front windows let in some good light, and big mirrors bounce it around. The service is pleasant and efficient. A mother-son team runs the kitchen. The restaurant has a buzz, as word of good cheap soup spreads fast in these gadgetted times. Another new book on inequality offers lessons for the restaurant scene and

Frantic and scared, he seeks help at a nearby farmhouse. But this isn’t just any house — for one thing, it’s his deceased dad who answers the door. Once inside, Robert must face and overcome his personal demons in order to save himself and his wife (Casey Turner). The only problem is, as the movie’s tagline tells us, “the house gets what it wants” — and only one may leave the house alive. The cast includes Anne Bobby (of Cliver Barker’s Nightbreed) as Robert’s estranged mother, Daniel Noel as his dad, Matt Delamater (who was recently cast in another feature, Desiree Van Til and Sean Mewshaw’s Tumbledown), and Jenny Anastanoff. “I am the luckiest man on the planet to get the cast that I did,” says Norman, a Windham native who chairs the Communication and New Media department at Southern Maine Community College. “When Casey did her initial audition, I stopped breathing during one of the takes.” He credits Chamberlain, Turner, and the rest of the cast for bringing “depth and life” to the characters beyond what viewers might expect from a horror film. “One thing that bothers me with the modern state of horror it’s about the blood and gore and it’s not really about

a place like Mi Sen. Paying for the Party, by Elizabeth Armstrong and Laura Hamilton, demonstrates that college, long considered the path to the middle class and the good life — is less an educational experience than an expensive four-year social event that suits the wealthy while impoverishing the rest. Restaurant dining extends this expensive sociality into postcollegiate life. Meanwhile with a simple e-book app you could stay home (from dinner or college) and read every word of Jane Austen, for free! Like Jane’s girls, or Chellie Pingree, I hope for a fortunate marriage. But if that doesn’t transpire, it’s nice to know that Mi Sen is out there, offering meals to comfort a new underclass at prices we can afford. ^

$ Mi Sen Noodle Bar | 630 Congress St., Portland | Visa/MC/Amex | Mon-Thurs 11am– 9:30pm; Fri-Sat 11am – 10pm; Sun 11am8:30pm | 207.747.4838

the characters,” he says, describing The Hanover House as more of a “slow-burn horror film — from the second they step into the house until the end of the film, the tension builds and builds and builds and we don’t give the audience a chance to step out of it.” Norman’s feature-length debut was originally slated to premiere at the Lewiston Auburn Film Festival, where it was nominated for several awards including Best Feature Film, Best Director, and Best Actress; when that event was cancelled, Ry Russell of the Saco Drive-In stepped in to offer Norman and other filmmakers the chance to show their work at the first annual Dead at the Drive-In Horror Film Festival, which takes place this weekend. Attendees can also see Norman’s previous short film, Natal (which screened Damnationland 2013), as well as the world premiere of the horror comedy How to Kill a Zombie. ^

28 May 9, 2014 | the portland phoenix | portland.thephoenix.coM

Unless otherwise noted, all film listings this week are for Friday, May 9 through Thursday, May 15. Times can and do change without notice, so do call the theater before heading out. For up-to-date film-schedule information, check the Portland Phoenix Web site at thePhoenix.com.

movie Th e a Te r lisT ing s

dinner + Movie Portland CInEMaGIC Grand

333 Clarks Pond Parkway, South Portland | 207.772.6023

tHE aMaZInG SPIdEr-Man 2 | 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45

lEGEndS oF oZ: dorotHY’S rEtUrn | Fri-Sun: 11:30 am, 1:40, 4:10,

tHE Grand BUdaPESt HotEl | FriSat: 12:40, 3:40, 6:55, 9:20 | Sun-Thu: 12:40, 3:40, 6:55

7:10, 9:40

9:55 | Sun-Thu: 1:30, 4:30, 7:20 tHE otHEr WoMan | Fri-Sat: 1, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 | Sun-Thu: 1, 4:10, 7:10 rIo 2 | 12:45, 4

tHE QUIEt onES | 7:30, 9:50 rIo 2 | 12:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:05

BrIdGton tWIn drIVE-In tHEatrE 383 Portland Rd, Bridgton | 207.647.8666

FroZEn + CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr SoldIEr | Fri-Sun: 8:10 tranSCEndEnCE + 300: rISE oF an EMPIrE | Fri-Sun: 8:10

CEntEr tHEatrE

20 East Main St, Dover Foxcroft | 207.564.8943

dIVErGEnt | Sat: 2, 5

ColonIal tHEatrE

163 High St, Belfast | 207.338.1930

noon, 3:15, 6:30, 9:25

tHE aMaZInG SPIdEr-Man 2 | Fri: 5:20, 8:05 | Sat: 1:45, 5:20, 8:05 | Sun: 1:45, 6:45 | Wed: 4:20, 7:05 | Thu: 6:45 HEaVEn IS For rEal | Fri: 5, 7:05, 9:10 | Sat: 2:15, 5, 7:05, 9:10 | Sun: 1:30, 3:30, 7 | Wed: 4, 6:05, 8:10 | Thu: 5:30, 7:30 tHE otHEr WoMan | Fri: 5:30, 7:45 | Sat: 2, 5:30, 7:45 | Sun: 2, 7:10 | Wed: 4:30, 6:45 | Thu: 7:10

4:30, 7, 9

EVEnInGStar CInEMa

nICKElodEon CInEMaS 1 Temple St, Portland | 207.772.4022

tHE aMaZInG SPIdEr-Man 2 |

FIndInG VIVIan MaIEr | 12:15, 2:30, tHE Grant BUdaPESt HotEl | 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:20, 9:40

tHE lUnCHBoX | 1:15, 4, 6:40, 9:10 nEIGHBorS | 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 tHE raIlWaY Man | 1:30, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20

WEStBrooK CInEMaGIC 183 County Rd, Westbrook | 207.774.3456

tHE aMaZInG SPIdEr-Man 2 | noon, 12:20, 3:20, 3:40, 6:40, 7:15, 9:45 tHE aMaZInG SPIdEr-Man 2 3d | 11:50 am, 3:10, 6:30, 9:35 BEarS | 12:20, 2:30, 4:40, 7:10, 9:15 BrICK ManSIonS | noon, 2:10, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30

MaInE alaMo tHEatrE

85 Main St, Bucksport | 207.469.0924

draFt daY | Fri-Sat: 6:30 | Sun: 2

aUBUrn FlaGSHIP 10

Tontine Mall, 149 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.729.5486

tHE raIlWaY Man | Fri-Sat: 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9 | Sun-Thu: 1:30, 4, 6:30

FrontIEr CInEMa 14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222

danCInG In JaFFa | Tue: 2 | Wed-Thu: 2, 6, 8

nEXt Goal WInS | Sat-Sun: 2, 5, 8

lEWISton FlaGSHIP 10 855 Lisbon St, Lewiston | 207.777.5010

tHE aMaZInG SPIdEr-Man 2 | 12:15, 1, 3:20, 4:05, 6:45, 7:15

CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr SoldIEr | 12:30, 3:40, 6:35 dIVErGEnt | 12:20, 3:30, 6:50 Mr. PEaBodY & SHErMan | 1:05, 4:30

MUPPEtS MoSt WantEd | 12:45,

lInColn tHEatEr 2 Theater St, Damariscotta | 207.563.3424

tHE Grand BUdaPESt HotEl | Fri: 2, 7 | Sat: 7 | Sun: 2, 7 | Wed-Thu: 2, 7

tHE MaGIC lantErn

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

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

nordICa tHEatrE

1 Freeport Village Station, Suite 125, Freeport | 207.865.9000

3:40, 6:45, 9:45

3:30, 6:30

1:30, 4:40, 7:50 BEarS | 12:10, 2:10, 4:15 BrICK ManSIonS | 12:20, 2:30, 4:45, 7:05, 9:15

CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr SoldIEr | Fri-Sat: 6:35, 9:40 | Sun-

tHE aMaZInG SPIdEr-Man 2 3d |

Thu: 1:15

nEIGHBorS | Fri-Sat: 1:30, 4:30, 7:20,

oXFord FlaGSHIP 7 1570 Main Street, Oxford | 207.743.2219 Call for shows & times.

raIlroad SQUarE CInEMa 17 Railroad Sq, Waterville | 207.873.6526

BEnEatH tHE HarVESt SKY | Fri: 4:30 | Sat-Sun: 12:15, 4:30 | Mon-Thu: 4:30 FIndInG VIVIan MaIEr | Fri: 2:45, 4:45, 7, 8:50 | Sat: 12:50, 2:45, 4:45, 7, 8:50 | Sun: 12:50, 2:45, 4:45, 7 | MonThu: 2:45, 4:45, 7 tHE Grand BUdaPESt HotEl | Fri-Sat: 2:35, 6:50, 8:55 | Sun-Thu: 2:35, 6:50 loCKE | Fri: 3:10, 5:10, 7:10, 9:05 | Sat: 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:10, 9:05 | Sun: 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:10 | Mon-Thu: 3:10, 5:10, 7:10

rEEl PIZZa CInEraMa 33 Kennebec Place, Bar Harbor | 207.288.3828

a BIrdEr’S GUIdE to EVErYtHInG | Fri-Mon: 5:30, 8

tHE lUnCHBoX | Tue-Thu: 5:30, 8

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

SaCo CInEMaGIC & IMaX

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

tHE aMaZInG SPIdEr-Man 2 | 12:30, 1, 4, 4:30, 7:30, 8

tHE aMaZInG SPIdEr-Man 2 3d IMaX | noon, 3:30, 7, 10

GodZIlla | Thu: 7 HEaVEn IS For rEal | Fri-Sat:

7:10, 9:40

12:15, 4, 7:15, 10 | Sun: 12:15, 4, 7 | Mon-Thu: 4, 7

CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr SoldIEr | noon, 3, 8 dIVErGEnt | 1, 4, 8 draFt daY | 12:30, 7 tHE Grand BUdaPESt HotEl |

12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:40

HEaVEn IS For rEal | 12:20, 3,

7:30, 10

tHE otHEr WoMan | 12:30, 3, 7, 9:30 tHE QUIEt onES | 12:20, 2:40, 5,

7:20, 9:30 rIo 2 | noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10 tranSCEndEnCE | 3, 9:50

SMIttY’S CInEMaBIddEFord

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

tHE aMaZInG SPIdEr-Man | Fri-

CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr SoldIEr | Fri-Sat: noon, 3:15, 6:30,

SMIttY’S CInEMaWIndHaM

795 Roosevelt Trail, Windham | 207.892.7000

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