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F Pulitzer cartooning finalist Matt Bors has some thoughts about Obama’s claims he wants to close Guantanamo. And yes, the inmates’ hunger strike continues — as does military force-feeding of them.

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Over the past few weeks, hundreds of bills have been floating around the State House — so many, in fact, that the Democratic leadership has waived the requirement to advertise public hearings (public notice will still occur online). Want to know what your elected officials are mulling over? Here is a subjective selection of bills that piqued our interest.

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F An Act to Protect cellUlar telePhone Privacy (LD1377; sponsored by Republican senator Robert Katz of Augusta; Judiciary Committee work session May 9) Prohibits government and law-enforcement officials from accessing text messages and cell phone call information without a warrant, except “in cases in which there is an imminent threat of death or serious physical injury or a threat to national security.”

F An Act to Protect social meDia Privacy in School and the Workplace (LD1194; sponsored by Republican representative Michael McClellan of Raymond; Judiciary Committee work session May 9) Prohibits public and private employers or education institutions from requiring or requesting that employees or students (current or prospective) provide usernames and passwords for personal social-media or email accounts.

F An Act to increase consUmPtion of maine fooDs in All State Institutions (LD1254; sponsored by Democratic representative Craig Hickman of Winthrop; divided report from Committee on State and Local Government) While current law does require state and school purchasers to buy meat, fish, some dairy products, and some types of fruits and vegetables directly from Maine food producers, this bill establishes a minimum percentage of Maine foodstuffs: at least

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F An Act to Protect the Privacy of citizens from Domestic UnmanneD aerial vehicle Use (LD236; Democratic senator John Patrick of Rumford; divided report from Judiciary Committee) This, a/k/a the Drone Bill, would regulate unmanned aerial vehicles, including their acquisition and operation by law-enforcement agencies in collecting, disclosing, and receiving information and the retention of information collected. “For the permitted operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle, the bill requires the consent of the subject person, a warrant or court order, an emergency situation that threatens life or serious bodily injury or an emergency enforcement situation that threatens national security or evinces conspiratorial criminal conduct requiring immediate operation of the vehicle before a warrant can be obtained,” says the bill summary. Also requires law-enforcement agencies and the Attorney General to post relevant information on their publicly accessible websites.

F An Act to Promote the safe Use anD sale of firearms (LD1240; sponsored by Democratic representative Mark Dion of Portland; tabled at a May 2 work session) Sponsored by the former Cumberland County sheriff, this is the most comprehensive gun-control bill being considered by the legislature. It would prohibit people who have been admitted to psychiatric hospitals on an emergency basis from buying firearms; increase the minimum age to obtain a concealed handgun permit from 18 to 21; include private sellers (including those at gun shows) in the definition of “firearm dealer;” and require all firearm dealers to conduct background checks (except for sales between family members).

F An Act to Prohibit the sale of energy Drinks to minors (LD753; sponsored by Democratic representative Katherine Cassidy of Lubec; divided report from Committee on Health and Human Services) No more Monsters for teens — this bill would prohibit the sale to minors of soft drinks that contain 80 or more milligrams of caffeine per 8 fluid ounces.

F An Act to create an animal abUser registry (LD1289; sponsored by Democratic representative Elizabeth Dickerson of Rockland) This bill would require a person convicted of animal cruelty under Maine’s criminal law or a comparable offense in another state to register annually as an animal abuser with the county sheriff for a period of 15 years; the registry would be publicly accessible.

F An Act to Prohibit sale or Possession of synthetic cannabinoiDs (LD661; sponsored by Democratic representative Adam Goode of Bangor; Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety work session May 10) Everyone knows about Diane Russell’s bill (LD1229) that would regulate and tax marijuana. This one tackles “synthetic cannabinoids,” commonly known as “spice” or “K2,” listing them as a schedule Z drug (like marijuana).

F An Act regarDing informeD consent to an abortion (LD760; sponsored by Republican representative Eleanor Espling of New Gloucester; Judiciary Committee hearing May 16) This and two other bills constricting reproductive rights will be considered at a public hearing next week; while Maine law already requires that a woman seeking an abortion be told, in writing, specific information such as the number of weeks elapsed from the time of conception and the risks associated with the abortion, this bill specifies that the woman must also be told orally.

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The focus, repeated throughout the presentation, was on choice — how much flexibility the school districts, and even individual schools and classroom teachers, would have to customize their devices for maximum usability.

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Such solutions aren’t going to come from HP and its partners, teachers and tech leaders listening in were told.

While it’s true, as Levin said, that “you shouldn’t be limited to accessing textbooks from a single source,” that was never true of the Mac-based program either.

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The webinar started with a five-minute effort to ensure the screen-and-audio sharing technology was actually working, punctuated by uncertainty about which representatives of which companies would be making remarks, or had said they would be there to speak, but hadn’t arrived yet.

Not an auspicious start.

Next came a very friendly five-minute pitch that could have been from 2002, when the Maine Learning Technology Initiative was just kicking off with Apple and Macintosh laptops for middle-schoolers. Amy Dupuis, the HP representative, and HP “education strategist” Elliott Levin explained why “one-to-one learning” was the “new”

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I don’t know where I stand When it comes to sex, there’s something ambivalent about Michael Michaud.

No, not that.

I mean Michaud’s position on abortion. Or rather his positions, since he has so many, he effectively has none at all.

During his long political career, Michaud, the Democratic congressman from Maine’s 2nd District and likely candidate for governor in 2014, has somehow gotten away with completely obscuring his opinion on a woman’s right to choose.

It wasn’t always that way.

There’s no question where Michaud stood when he was first elected to the Maine House of Representatives back in 1980, representing East Millinocket and vicinity. He was against abortion. He thought it should be illegal except in cases of rape, incest, and to save the life of the mother. He voted for every bill restricting access to the procedure.

When he moved up to the state Senate in 1994, he regularly received glowing ratings for his consistency from conservative organizations like the Maine Right to Life Committee and the Christian Civic League of Maine.

It wasn’t until Michaud ran for the US House in 2002 that things got fuzzy. Faced with a stiff challenge from a pro-choice Republican (yes, such creatures once walked the earth, along with other semimythical beasts like dinosaurs and professional athletes who didn’t take performance enhancing drugs), he started equivocating. He said he wouldn’t vote for a constitutional amendment banning the procedure.

He made noises that could have been interpreted as opposing federal restrictions (if you were a supporter of legal abortions) or supporting allowing states to regulate pregnancy any way they liked (if you were an oppo-

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nent). He was just vague enough to get elected.

Now in his sixth term in Congress, Michaud has compiled a record NARAL Pro-Choice America termed “mixed choice.” For instance, he opposed a bill that would have stopped Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds for family planning, but supported a measure that would have made it difficult to obtain abortions under the Affordable Care Act. In his 2012 re-election campaign, his chief of staff more or less accurately portrayed Michaud as neither pro-life nor pro-choice. In a statement to the MaineToday Media newspapers, Peter Chandler said his boss “has carefully weighed issues related to abortion and family planning.”

Which was a help to voters who favor candidates who resolutely refuse to carefully weigh the issues and instead decide what they’ll support by analyzing random messages from outer space. The Florida congressional delegation, for instance.

But back to Michaud. Now that Democratic 1st District US Rep. Chellie Pingree has announced she won’t run for governor next year, it’s increasingly likely the nomination will be Michaud’s for the taking, thanks to a poll that shows that of all the prominent Dems who might get into a three-way gubernatorial race, he’d lose by the smallest margin.

Trouble is, Michaud would face two candidates who aren’t the least bit equivocal on abortion. Republican Governor Paul LePage is pro-life.

Independent Eliot Cutler, in one of his few solid stands, is pro-choice.

If, as seems likely, the US Supreme Court should decide in the near future to overturn Roe v. Wade and rule that regulation of abortion is a matter for states to decide, the position of governor will be

crucial in determining the legality and availability of the procedure in Maine. With the Legislature of late swerving wildly from Republican to Democratic control, there’s no longterm assurance anti-abortion bills won’t pass, leaving only the chief executive’s veto as a defense of the rights of Maine women.

That should give a lot of prochoice voters pause when they consider whether to support Michaud.

Another little problem for the noncommittal congressman: There’s no way a Democrat can win the governorship unless he or she wins big in the liberal 1st District. And nobody can win in the 1st District unless he or she is pro-choice.

Even in the somewhat more conservative 2nd District, polls show libertarian-leaning voters favor legal abortion and oppose most limits on it as unnecessary government intrusions. While it may not be as much of a wedge issue in northern Maine as it is down south, appearing to be wishy-washy on the subject won’t help any candidate anyplace.

Expect Cutler to make the most of the congressman’s refusal to take sides, in an attempt to define mushmouthed Michaud as the second coming of 2010 Democratic gubernatorial nominee Elizabeth (Mush Mind) Mitchell. That, combined with Michaud’s generally undistinguished record during his long tenure in Washington, should give his opponents all the material they’ll need to render him into the third consecutive Democratic candidate for statewide office to finish third in the general election.

To prevent that disaster, Michaud needs to come out of the closet.

On abortion, I mean. ^

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Just a few weeks ago, phoenix food writer laura Mccandlish wrote about Maine’s edible seaweeds, such as wakame and nori (see “Maine Seaweeds Make Good eating,” april 26). She also mentioned rockweed, by far the dominant algae in Maine, found on the rocky ledges of intertidal zones up and down the coast. it’s not particularly edible (as Mccandlish noted, its primary food-related use is as an insulator during lobster- and clambakes), but this brownish-green, leggy seaweed does serve as a habitat for more than 150 species of crustaceans, groundfish, sea urchins, shorebirds, and waterfowl. its long fronds, dotted with ovular air sacs, employ the energy of the sun to convert inorganic nutrients (such as phosphate or nitrate) into organic biomass, helping to maintain water quality and serving as food for bacteria, small marine invertebrates, and insects, which in turn feed birds, fish, and mammals. Juvenile lobsters and pollock (a species of groundfish heralded as bountiful) are known to forage and seek refuge in underwater forests of rockweed; during low tide, tangled masses of this coastal flora provide protection from the heat and sun for various larvae and crustaceans. in addition to its ecological value, the abundant marine resource is also worth money — millions of pounds of rockweed are harvested every year to be used primarily as a supplement in animal foods and agricultural products. the state department of Marine resources estimates that the $20 million industry supports about 225 harvesting and processing jobs.

But some conservationists and landowners believe rockweed is being unsustainably harvested, thereby putting an entire coastal ecosystem at risk. the dennysville-based rockweed coalition, founded in 2008, wishes to bring a “complete halt to all rockweed harvesting along the Maine coast;” a “rockweed registry” maintained by downeast coastal conservancy lists more than 550 property owners from 12 towns who have publicly stated that they do not allow rockweed cutting on their property. (this registry, which is regularly distributed to commercial harvesters, has teeth because according to state law, the intertidal zone technically belongs to landowners.)

“We’re looking at rockweed not as a product to be cut and processed but as a habitat,” says robin hadlock Seeley, co-director of the rockweed coalition and assistant director for academic programs at cornell University’s Shoals Marine laboratory in Maine. She notes there is limited information about the long-term sustainability and impact of rockweed harvesting, and that rockweed (unlike other seaweeds such as kelp) grows very slowly and is difficult to restore. She points to an already over-harvested marine resource to bolster her point. “if we’re trying to bring back groundfisheries, the last thing you want to do is take away [groundfish] habitat. rockweed is worth more in the water than in the net.” rockweed cutters — who use a combination of handheld and mechanical tools — must obtain a seaweed harvesting license and are not permitted to cut fronds below 16 inches from their bases. in cobscook Bay, regulations are even stricter thanks to management plan that’s been in place since 2009 and includes a harvesting cap of 17 percent of the available rockweed. the legislature’s marine resources committee recently voted down an attempt to repeal the cobscook management plan. But it preserved instructions requiring the department of Marine resources to develop a statewide seaweed management plan, to be completed in draft form by January 2014. the rockweed coalition and its allies, which include the Maine coast heritage trust and the nature conservancy, hope to see stricter controls enacted as a result.

Meanwhile, harvesting entities continue to insist that the current approach works just fine. one of those is acadian Seaplants, of nova Scotia, which has developed special hand-cutting tools that “are operated from a boat, and have been designed to selectively thin the standing crop, ensuring resource sustainability and the integrity of the habitat and marine life,” according to the company’s publication addressing frequently asked questions about rockweed. these cutter-rakes “cannot hold and cut rockweed if it is below a certain length and biomass.” ^

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EnErgizEd, synErgizEd Enviros Maine’s environMental MoveMent reinvents itself for a new era of challenges _B y la n c e tap l e y Maine’s cherished environment may be threatened as never before by the gargantuan forces of economic globalization. In reaction, the state’s environmental movement is coalescing into a force stronger than ever. There are new players in the game — including Occupy — augmenting the old guard.

Not surprising for a state that sticks up into Canada, several big threats have Canadian connections:

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F a proposed east-west superhighway and utility corridor cutting across Maine’s middle from Quebec to New Brunswick; F a proposal by a giant Canadian energy corporation, J.D. Irving, to dig a big openpit mine for gold, silver, and copper at Bald Mountain in the heart of the fabled North Woods — allowed by a loosening of mining regulations rammed through the previous Legislature; F the possibility that highly toxic Canadian tar-sands crude oil could be pumped through an existing pipeline from Montreal across numerous Maine (and New Hampshire, Vermont, and Quebec) towns to Portland Harbor to be loaded into tankers.

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“Maine is in the way,” is how Jym St. Pierre, the longtime activist with the group Restore: The North Woods, describes the challenge to the state’s environment and environmentalists.

“An unabashed corporate takeover” is the way Jim Freeman, veteran Earth Firster and an Occupy organizer, describes the danger.

Big corporations, “the true eco-terrorists,” says Jonathan Carter, former Green Party candidate for governor, have become “more ferocious.”

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In response to the challenges, “there’s certainly a burst of activity,” St. Pierre says. In particular, the environmental cause at the grass roots has been energized and synergized by the Occupy movement.

At recent, crowded legislative hearings on environmental bills — where the eco-friendly folk vastly outnumbered the corporate lobbyists — Occupy activists were numerous. In new groups that have sprung up to meet the specific new threats, including opponents to the East-West Highway and the tar-sands oil, Occupiers are well represented.

Occupy “woke up a lot of people. It was a shot in the arm” to various causes, Freeman says. “The Occupy movement normalized protest,” says Lew Kingsbury, an Occupy Augusta organizer now active with several of the causes.

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The national park contradiction Fpoint has been demonstrated in long-standing public approval of the

yes, Maine people want their environment preserved, as the polls have shown. that

idea proposed by restore: the north Woods for a 3.2-million-acre Maine Woods national park and preserve, which would be bigger than yellowstone and yosemite parks combined.

Jym St. pierre has a handout listing a dozen Maine opinion polls over the last dozen years showing firm support — with a majority even in the Second district, where park opponents have been most vocal.

But here’s the contradiction: strikingly, Maine’s political class, with the notable exception of democratic 1st district representative chellie pingree, will not even support a federal study of the value of a park. the legislature two years ago swiftly and nearly unanimously passed a resolution opposing a study. deferring to this lack of political will, the major environmental groups have not gotten enthusiastically behind the restore plan. a 3.2-million-acre park is “just not feasible,” the nrcM’s pete didisheim claims.

St. pierre’s explanation is that support for the park is “broad and soft,” while opposition is “narrow and deep and loud and intimidating.” he lists the opponents: the politically powerful forest industry, snowmobilers’ groups, the Sportsman’s alliance of Maine, and zealous property-rights advocates.

Remarkably, the biggest threats now exercising environmentalists are not imminent (see sidebar, “The Issues”). The quick and muscular reaction to them expresses the movement’s strength, but it also may be an expression in the Internet Age of the knowledge — or suspicions — on the part of environmentalists of the interconnected, long-range machinations of global capital.

The 350 Maine and anti-mining activists, for example, suspect connections between what they are opposing and the East-West Highway. They say it could be used as a conduit for tar-sands oil as well as ore extracted at Bald Mountain. Cianbro’s Vigue, after all,

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far beyond the stereotypical coastal retired person, Portland yuppie, or back-to-the-land hippie.

Charles Fitzgerald, of Atkinson, a former Green Party congressional candidate, says, “One of the greatest pieces of good luck of my lifetime” — he’s 79 — is to participate in the East-West Highway opposition.

“It’s not just fringe people,” he says, but the “smart and focused” locals who have resided in his part of pastoral central Maine, the Piscataquis Valley, for many years — a “broad spectrum” including truck drivers, woodsmen, and farmers.

“Salt of the earth” folks, Freeman says, have joined three new grass-roots organizations: the Stop the East-West Corridor coalition; 350 Maine, an anti-fossil-fuel group opposed to the Portland-Montreal Pipe Line corporation’s use of tar-sands oil from Alberta; and Thanks But No Tank, the Searsport-based group that recently succeeded in blocking a 14-story-high liquid-propane tank from being constructed in that coastal community (the group is sticking around to deal with other possible industrial threats).

Peter Vigue, the Cianbro construction giant’s CEO and chief promoter of the EastWest Highway, impoliticly calls the state’s central region the “empty middle.” The locals, however, have told him there’s somebody there. Testifying to the breadth of opposition, the towns of Monson and Sangerville have passed moratoriums on development connected to the highway.

Likewise, Casco, Bethel, Raymond, and Waterford in southern and western Maine have opposed the pipeline’s transport of tarsands oil (along with 39 towns in Vermont and others in New Hampshire and Quebec, according to Bob Klotz of 350 Maine). The 236-mile pipeline at one point goes alongside Sebago Lake, a recreational mecca and source of Portland’s drinking water. (The present flow of regular crude oil would have to be reversed. It now goes from South Portland, where tankers unload it, to a refinery in Montreal.)

Even Democratic Senator Troy Jackson, the assistant majority leader from far-northern Allagash, who in a recent legislative hearing opposed bills that would put up roadblocks to a Bald Mountain mine, admitted in an interview that he has constituents “on both sides of the issue” — despite the touted economic benefit to his poor Aroostook County district. He also admitted he’s personally “not 100 percent for” the mine.

For a smaller park proposal, however, that situation appears to be changing. Both the nrcM and Maine audubon are expressing interest in philanthropist roxanne Quimby’s desire to give 100,000-plus acres to the federal government of land she has accumulated east of Baxter State park for a combined park and multi-use recreation area.

Based a consultant’s recent study laying out the economic impact of such a park, says didisheim, “we are enthusiastic about the potential benefits for the region and for Maine as a whole.” neither the nrcM nor audubon, however, has taken a formal position yet on the Quimby gift. even though, presumably, millions of people nationally would enjoy a national park for noneconomic reasons, the economic argument is, locally, the important one. _lt

has promoted it as an “energy corridor.”

“It’s legitimate to worry” about the hidden agenda, says the Natural Resources Council of Maine’s longtime chief lobbyist, Pete Didisheim. Vigue’s statements about what the corridor would carry have been vague and ever-changing.

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The environmental movement in Maine “has been strong for a long time,” says Didisheim. The pre-eminent state environmental organization, the 54-year-old NRCM has 12,000 members, a $2-million annual Continued on p 12

ThE issuEs how are Maine’s major environmental issues playing out in the legislative session now in progress? as audubon’s Jennifer Gray puts it, there won’t be a “big leap forward this year.” lepage and his veto power still occupy the governor’s office. But with supportive democratic leadership it’s possible that some reforms can be enacted and anti-environmental legislation beaten back.

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activists are behind seven, largely overlapping anti-highway bills. although cianbro is still pushing for the highway, it did not show up at the hearings. anti-highway troops showed up in droves, including representatives of businesses on existing east-West roads who fear a diversion of traffic onto a superhighway. the transportation committee will probably combine the bills into one. certain to be in it: rescinding the $300,000 for the study of the 220-mile, private toll road’s feasibility. not even the governor supports the study now. eAst-west highwAy

ld 1302, sponsored by assistant democratic house floor leader Jeff Mccabe, is supported by the mainstream environmental organizations. it would put many restrictions on mining — perhaps making open-pit mining impossible. at the environment and natural resources committee hearing on it and other mining bills, anti-mining speakers greatly outnumbered those who said let the rule-making take its course on last year’s loosening of restrictions. irving has not announced definite plans to mine at Bald Mountain. at the hearing, democratic representative ralph chapman of Brooksville told horror stories of past mining in his district that saw few jobs provided and huge, still-ongoing pollution costs. the nrcM’s pete didisheim thinks “some elements” of 1302 may pass. ld 1059, which would fully repeal last year’s law giving the green light to mining, is supported by grass-roots activists, but might have little chance to get by the governor’s veto. miNiNg

the pipeline corporations trying to get permission to send tar-sands oil from alberta through pipelines west, south (see: Keystone xl controversy), and east, have not announced whether they want to pump oil to portland through the existing Montreal-portland pipeline. But the portland pipeline company, controlled by exxonMobil, has expressed interest in that use, tAr-sANds-oil pipeliNe

and one canadian company, enbridge, is asking for permission to send the oil to Montreal. ld 1362, sponsored by representative Ben chipman, the portland independent, would establish a two-year moratorium on tar-sands-oil use and require the department of environmental protection to study the potential effects on Maine. the nrcM supports the bill, but, since pipelines are regulated by the feds, it also wants the environment and natural resources committee to get involved in making sure a proper federal permitting process is followed.

Several bills before the energy and Utilities committee promote the use of renewable energy, including ld 1085, an act to establish the renewable energy Feed-in tariff, which has strong support from 350 Maine and the Sierra club. it would give individuals the right to “feed in” to the electricity grid energy produced by their solar panels or a windmill and get paid for it. environment Maine, an up-and-coming activist group based in portland — another example of the broadening of the state’s environmental movement — has raised the alarm about lds 1187 and 1262, which are being pushed by some businesses. they ask the public to finance a natural-gas pipeline from the shale formations of the Mid-atlantic states that produce gas using controversial “fracking” techniques. eNergy

last year the legislature allowed the norridgewock private landfill to expand. this year hillary lister, the state’s tireless anti-waste warrior, is pushing for ld 1363, which puts a one-year moratorium on landfill expansion. its prospects appear good, though she worries about what the sizable lobbying effort mounted by the waste industry may engender in other legislation. _lt wAste dumps

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budget, and 21 staffers. It not only lobbies on legislation: it monitors the all-important rules promulgated after legislation is passed, speaks out on federal issues, and engages in legal actions.

Over the past 15 years — typically, in coalition with other groups — the NRCM has successfully pushed for conservation-landacquisition bonds; the recycling of electronic waste; the dismantling of Kennebec and Penobscot River dams; and the creation of the Efficiency Maine trust, which financially assists businesses and residents to conserve energy. The NRCM recently helped restore the alewife run in the St. Croix River.

Despite national surveys showing a weakening of environmental concerns during the continuing economic doldrums, in Maine support for preserving the environment remains high — a “pretty stable sentiment,” Didisheim says. In a poll done for his group in 2011, over 90 percent of Mainers said environmental preservation should be a priority of lawmakers.

While in the past Maine’s established eco-organizations have found themselves at loggerheads with single-issue groups (in the 1980s it took years for the forces working to shut down the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant to bring the NRCM to an anti-nuclear position), the mainline outfits are now working on many issues with the new grass roots.

Klotz, 350 Maine’s chief organizer, notes that the NRCM and the Sierra Club are cooperating with his group on the pipeline issue and on other global-warming concerns. (The “350” comes from the group’s affiliation with 350.org, the international organization pushing for policies to reduce global-warming atmospheric carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million.)

Both the NRCM and the Sierra Club are opposed to the East-West Highway and are working to retighten the mining law. This effectively puts them in bed with radical Occupiers. Klotz, for example, received his political baptism with Occupy. For him, in fact, 350 Maine is “an Occupy working group.”

The two wings of the movement complement each other. The two biggest groups, the NRCM and the Maine Audubon Society, have money, constant legislative presence, political respect, and realism (speaking of state legislation, Didisheim observes, “We pursue what we believe can pass”). The grass-roots groups’ strengths include passion, intense focus, and the ability to bring in new blood.

Maine Audubon is seen among activists as more conservative than the NRCM. But it’s opposed to the East-West Highway, and it supports tightening the mining regulations — though for Audubon the highway issue is not a priority, says Jennifer Burns Gray, Audubon’s lobbyist. The group has not taken a position on the pipeline. Gray says it focuses on issues affecting wildlife and their habitat.

some divide persists

Not all divisions between the grass-roots activists and the environmental establishment have disappeared. The single-issue people tend to see the establishment groups as too conservative and too eager to compromise. For instance, while Stop the East-West Corridor is pushing for legislation to make it virtually impossible for state government to cooperate on highway projects with private corporations, the NRCM is only supporting bills to halt the present highway proposal.

It’s a class thing, Jim Freeman says: the proper folks in organizations like the NRCM, Maine Audubon, and the Sierra Club “live more in a bubble” and don’t mix with ordinary working people.

But the major division on issues among Maine environmental activists belies the class analysis — the development of windmills.

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Finding an economic argument Fment is their talk about the need for economic alternatives to the a big contribution of the new people in the environment move-

big threats. in the history of Maine environmentalism, this is an uncommon conversation — as a rule, the fight has been reactive. the discussion has arisen because almost all development plans rely on a single argument: jobs — a forceful one in a poor state. to be sure, environmentalists have long spoken about how Maine’s tourism industry will be protected by preservation of the environment — an argument freshly made by thanks But no tank. and they propose economic alternatives such as less-environmentally-damaging energy sources —decentralized solar, wind, tidal, and small hydro —as a counter to nuclear, coal, oil, and giant dams. those suggestions, however, are neither comprehensive responses to Maine’s general lack of good jobs nor specific alternatives to many jobpromising industrial proposals.

But now chris Buchanan, the statewide coordinator of Stop the eastWest corridor, is promoting local cooperatives, putting “workers and the environment first rather than the bottom line.” She cites historical models — Franklin d. roosevelt’s rural electrical cooperatives created in the Great depression — as well as current ones — the ubiquitous credit unions; Fedco, the Maine garden-supply co-op; and, in Spain, the Mondragon corporation, a co-op federation that has been a mainstay, she says, of that country’s economy throughout its current crisis. recently, at an anti-east-West-corridor meeting that saw 60 people attend in the tiny village of parkman, in piscataquis county, the cooperatives idea was a central topic and, she and others say, was well received. this type of business “does well because workers are happy and motivated,” Buchanan says. Usually, workers own the cooperatives. the economic-alternatives conversation is spreading. charles Fitzgerald, a successful businessman, talks about local, “agrarian” economic development. he mentions small farmers and a cheese-maker in his area.

Still, there’s no real economic plan articulated by the anti-highway folk — or by others in the grass roots. “nothing concrete yet,” Jim Freeman says.

Buchanan admits the cooperative idea requires a lot of public education. especially, there’s no alternative to corporate plans for Maine’s vast forest, its largest resource, which figures in many environmental battles and is owned by large, distant corporations — increasingly, by Wall Street investment firms with a hunger for immediate profits. the last time Maine environmentalists took a big step toward an

Not all the divisions between the grass roots and the ecoestablishment are gone. But the lines are blurring, and collaboration is definitely common.

Nothing says I love you mom quite like great seafood economic alternative for the forest was the Ban clearcutting citizeninitiated referendum campaign of the 1990s, which Jonathan carter directed. if industrial clearcutting were banned, labor-intensive forestry would have to be practiced. although the ban was highly popular at the start of the battle, it was beaten down by millions of dollars of fear-inducing advertising by the forest industry (about, of course, jobs). Most Maine politicians, democrats as well as republicans — and even the nrcM and Maine audubon — didn’t support the ban (though the Sierra club did). (disclosure: the author was involved in the Ban clearcutting campaign.) the clearcutting battle demonstrated how, when public fears are raised about jobs — or when more jobs are promised — democratic politicians are not certain votes for the environment. there were some democratic votes last year for relaxing the mining law and for the public funding, to the tune of $300,000, of a Maine department of transportation study of the east-West highway’s feasibility, even though cianbro’s Vigue had alleged the highway-corridor was to be created only with private funds.

Until there are well-thought-out and clearly articulated alternative economic plans for Maine’s future, however — and perhaps some appealing politicians enunciating them—the environmental movement will always be, fundamentally, playing defense. _lt

wind” can be seen from all the mountains now, laments Jonathan Carter, who heads up the Forest Ecology Network and lives in Lexington, near the Appalachian Trail. He and some other grass-roots environmentalist types criticize the NRCM and Audubon for their support of mountain wind projects.

Both NRCM’s Didisheim and Audubon’s Gray use the same phrase to express their groups’ support for windmills: they should be “appropriately sited.” Both organizations have successfully opposed some wind projects, such as the turbines proposed for Redington Mountain, near Carrabassett Valley.

The division on wind power, however, most simply reflects the fact that, as an alternative to fossil fuels that pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, wind generation is popular among many rank-and-file environmentalists and, polls show, the general public — but it is not popular among hikers on Maine’s lovely mountain ridges or the folks who live nearby.

Even Occupy organizer Lew Kingsbury, involved in the anti-East-West Highway and anti-mining campaigns, says of windmills, “They’re not nuclear power. They’re not going to kill anybody.”

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In spite of the NRCM’s position on wind power, Carter says the group “tackles important work,” citing its strong stand in the clash several years ago over Plum Creek’s plan for Moosehead Lake, the state’s largest inland water body.

The Land Use Regulation Commission’s 2009 go-ahead to Plum Creek to develop Moosehead was the NRCM’s biggest recent

disappointment, although the group was successful in helping to reduce the project’s size. The other significant recent loss was last year’s loosening of restrictions on open-pit mining, allowing Bald Mountain and possibly other locations in Maine to be excavated on a large scale.

Because the first two years of Republican Governor Paul LePage’s term coincided with his party’s control of the Legislature, environmental groups had to go strong on defense.

With Democratic support and the help of the few remaining Republican moderates, they beat back many of the most regressive bills, such as one gutting the returnable-bottle law. In the last session they lost also on several bills that weakened state agencies regulating the environment.

Now, however, the NRCM — emboldened by the seating of a Democratic Legislature and in cooperation with other established advocacy groups and the enlivened grass roots — is trying to take the initiative on a variety of environmental issues.

This spring, the movement is seeing a rebirth or, at least, a re-blossoming. Expressing this development in the sober tones of Maine Audubon, Gray says, “The voice of the environmental community has gotten stronger and more effective.”

In the end, the movement’s juices are flowing because the threats to Maine and the Earth are, for many people, enormous and becoming greater. The global Big Money behind these threats can sometimes seem like a Goliath. But as Melanie Lanctot, representing a coalition of “green churches” at a recent hearing on energy legislation, observed: “David won.” ^

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HOT TOPIC | The cultural and (sorta) literary phenomenon that was American women’s collective embrace of Fifty Shades of Grey is one of the more interesting things to happen in the world of books the last few years. Look at it from one perch and sure, it’s treacly pap; on the other hand, what have you done to shake up the lives of bored Christian housewives in the Midwest? No matter where you stand on the matter, jokes about E.L. James’s book are certainly ripe for the plucking, all of which serve to further advance the general good of making people feel more comfortable about sex and how to talk about it. Spank! The FiFTy ShadeS parody, is one such endeavor; the musical comedy returns to the State Theatre at 7:30 pm. $32.50, 609 Congress St., 207.956.6000.

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and though it might be too easy to anoint Sandberg’s book as the era’s feminist clarion call, its buzz has certainly pushed forward the many voices on the issue. On a regional level, one of them is Silvia Dominguez, a writer and professor of sociology at Northeastern University whose work on women’s welfare, race relations, and social networks (in real life, that is) in greater Boston has earned

f WiTTenBerG, at Portland Stage Company, in Portland through May 19. local Americana-gone-radio pop band otheR BoneS, and the meaSleS. (All food goes to a soup kitchen.) 8 pm at 10 Mayo St., 207.615.3609.

CENTER OF TOWN | It’s also one of those nights where the Asylum’s a lodestar of entertainment. The mighty rock band WhitComB play for the first time in six months to celebrate the release of their latest EP, The Conqueror. With two-man local sludgefeast loRD eaRth, Boston’s BlaCK thai, and New Haven’s loRD FoWl. $8 upstairs at the Asylum at 121 Center St. Downstairs, you may find there’s no more progressive variants of hip hop, club, and funk around, as alteReD gee, Don Damiani, and goD.Damn.Chan play for free.

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in the miDDle eaSt: a paleStinian peRSpeCtive,” in the wake

of Israel’s massive bombing of Syria on Sunday, which, it should be noted, went without US condemnation. The lecture is led by former PLO militant turned peace activist Nizar Farsakh at 2:30 pm in the college’s Visual Arts Center in Brunswick.

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MUM’S THE WORD | It’s Mother’s Day. If for you and yours that means running alongside thousands in support of fighting breast cancer, consider joining the poRtlanD Sea DogS motheR’S Day 5K, which kicks off at Hadlock Field at 9 am. 207.874.9300. If it means quaffing lambics over heaps of bacon and eggs, head to the gorgeous new wharfside restaurant in’Finiti (250 Commercial St.), who reel in famous Belgian brewer Urbain Coutteau for a prix fixe “Brouwer’s Brunch” from 10:30 to 2:30. (The prix is $60.) If it means sharing with Ma your true hues culturally speaking, bring her to Mathew’s of course, where a lineup of some of the region’s finest off-center rock bands play on the roof at 2. They are: BRenDa, metal FeatheRS, Foam CaStleS, the Fat CReepS, the RattleSnaKeS, and zeBu. $5 at 133 Free St. 207.253.1812.

SURFACING | At night, Portland intimate folk-rock favorite Kate SChRoCK plays a rare sets at the St. Lawrence Arts Center. She reportedly recorded a follow-up

to 2007’s Invocation last winter.

That record bears the title Solo Imperfecto, and though its release date is still TBA, fans should expect a sampling tonight. 7 pm, $12.

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students are frantically finishing their final papers, you might storm USM this evening to catch one of two intriguing events. At the WMPG radio station at 92 Bedford St., the longstanding youth talk radio project Blunt hosts an open house in an effort to recruit new members at 7, while at the same hour, a rather grim discussion descends on the question “aRe We enteRing a neW DaRK ageS?” appropriately (if somewhat comically) located in the Southworth Planetarium, 96 Falmouth St. 207.780.4929.

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DiggS are one of the city’s most dynamic roots/soul acts, and they naturally come alive in the summer. Tonight they tackle one of the warm weather blues-rock greats: Bonnie Raitt’s Nick of Time.

With an original set for the Big Easy’s Cover to Cover series. 9 pm, $5 at 55 Market St. 207.775.2266.

RHYME SCHEME | National Poetry Month came and went, but there’s still plenty of readings available if you scan the listings right. Tonight’s is a big one: it’s the “Maine Poetry Express,” a sort of pop-up lit session conceived by Poet Laureate WeSley mCnaiR, which collects performances by featured poets, discussion points, and several guest readers who read the features’ works. Interesting way to deepen the study.

Tonight’s event gathers McNair, former fellow Maine Laureate BRuCe Spang, and BetSy Sholl.

At SPACE Gallery; free at 7 pm.

feature that dramatizes the beliefs of the figures of Dr. Johann Faustus and Martin Luther, and positions each as primary influences on a young Hamlet An engrossing chinstroker of a production with no lack for intellectual grappling, Wittenberg plays through May 19; see Megan Grumbling’s review on page 17. Tonight’s show is at 7:30 pm. $34-44 at 25A Forest Ave., 207.774.0465.

IS IT A GAME? | Portland’s feverish throng of performance artists, theater kids, and largehearted delinquents might do well to read the profile of The inSTiTuTe on page 28. The film’s a confusing one for sure, but offers a compelling glimpse of one of the most successful and actualized blurrings of art and life in modern existence. 7:30 pm, $8 at SPACE Gallery. If that sort of foolishness sickens you, maybe you’d prefer watching Kubrick’s psychological morality tale a CloCkWork oranGe with droogs of your own at the Oak and the Ax in Biddeford. 8 pm, 140 Main St.; theoakandtheax. com.

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Karola Bryant + saMuel Minot: June 13-15 In response, alternative models for ralf feyl + Michael WaterMan: June 20-22 showing and selling art have been cropsarah Bartlett + elizaBeth JaBar: June 27-29 ping up. Damien Hirst certainly cannot complain about not getting enough attention and was probably motivated by financial considerations, but his move to cut out the middleman and go directly to the secondary market and have an auction house sell his newest work to the highest bidder falls within this category. In related fashion artists have opened up their studios for direct sales without representation. So-called pop-up shows appear in unusual spaces, pretty much unannounced, for just a few days. Virtual online galleries, exhibition spaces, and even auction houses like Paddle8 avoid the costs associated with brick-andmortar establishments.

Additionally, concept and curation is being re-infused into several art fairs, including New York’s SPRING/BREAK Art Show.

Much of this seems quite removed from the art world in Maine, and some people may say, luckily so. But it offers some context for what is happening at Portland’s Aucocisco Galleries right now. Owner and director Andres Verzosa is showing 13 three-day two-person shows this season.

Verzosa is perfectly aware of the disappearance of hierarchy and authority that I would maintain is not only taking place in the art world, but has already happened in art criticism and publishing.

Digital technology and ‘CHILD’ oil and silver leaf on baltic birch, 36 by 18 inches, the Internet have spurred 2012, by tanya Fletcher. an immense growth

Much has been made of Prince Hamlet’s exhausting philosophical indecision. To be or not? To kill or not? He has a hell of a time figuring it out, when he should be happily ensconced in college life back in Wittenberg. Many of us have studied the Hamlet’s inner turmoil in his rotten home state. But did you ever wonder what the guy was like in college?

Playwright David Davalos proposes that Hamlet (Rob McFayden) is trying to decide whether to major in theology or philosophy, and that he is studying with no less than Martin Luther (Hall Hunsinger) and the fictional John Faustus (Michael Hammond). All three men are on the brink of the upheavals that will make them famous — Luther’s denouncement of the Catholic Church in his 95 Theses, Faustus’s sale of his soul to the devil for the sake of knowledge and pleasure, and Hamlet’s notorious indecision — in Wittenberg, a witty and fanciful philosophical romp. It receives a rich, empathetic, and very funny production under the direction of Ron Botting and Merry Conway, at Portland Stage Company.

It’s late October 1517, and Hamlet is energized by the life of the mind and this hip, intellectual, beer-loving college town. He hangs out with his two favorite professors, listening them espouse very different views of life, death, science, and God. Luther lives with monastic forbearance, self-flagellates, and is devoted to the principles of Christianity. Bon vivant Faustus drinks, smokes, and fornicates, plays the guitar during open-mic night at the Bunghole, and considers the Bible “a great novel” and the devil “a state of mind.” Hunsiger’s sensitive Luther is composed and cautious, though he’s also given to bursts of spiritual love, and can easily share a laugh at his own expense or Faustus’s. Faustus, in Hammond’s marvelous hands, is Dionysian and impulsive, a dynamo who would have been at home on a 1960s campus.

Their relationship is the heart and soul of the play. Luther’s realm is the altar, while

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andy Verzosa’s re-thinKing at aucocisco The global art world has been changing dramatically in the recent past and is evolving still. Into what nobody really knows at this point, but plenty of promising experimentation is happening.

To begin, the membrane between for profit and non-profit has become increasingly permeable. Since Andy Warhol’s embrace of art as business and business as art in the 1960s, both have become closely intertwined, not to everybody’s liking. That an art dealer, Jeffrey Deitch, would become the director of a major museum (MOCA in Los Angeles) would have been unthinkable not that long ago, and his appointment and direction has remained controversial.

Art museums used to be taste-makers, gatekeepers of critical recognition, and upholders of the artistic canon, positions that have become conflict-ridden over the past decades. One significant goal many museums nowadays aspire to is that of being more inclusive in programming, staff appointments, and visitorship.

Much of that is aimed at increasing attendance because it translate into relevance when applying for grants and asking for corporate sponsorship, as well as an increase in direct revenue (never mind that admission fees have been steadily climbing, effectively countering claims of democratization).

With corporate sponsorship declining, many museums are no longer able to organize hugely expensive blockbuster shows with mass appeal. Instead, many art museums now pad their exhibition schedules with permanent-collection shows, which can be a very rewarding and educative experience if done right, with the critical distance becoming to a serious curatorial endeavor. Another overt ploy to cater to a large audience is to “crowd-curate” shows as the Brooklyn Museum has done occasionally, which appears questionable if the goal is to broaden our horizons and not merely reinforce what we already know.

A few commercial galleries and auction houses, on the other hand, have put on museum-quality shows that often include loans from public collections to build provenance for the work that is for sale. The commercial art market is still red-hot, even if the economy in general is slow to recover, with galleries opening and closing at a rapid pace, and auction houses continuing to make good profits.

The insatiable appetite for the new in contemporary art is feeding a mushrooming number of art fairs throughout the world, fueled by many of the same handful of mega-galleries like Gagosian, which have opened branches in every major city of the world it seems. These galleries’ power

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of creative endeavors. However, for Verzosa there has to be more than an instant hit in order to be successful. “These kinds of projects need a prolonged infusion of energy, otherwise they will not last and will not have much impact on a community, virtual or real,” he said during a recent visit. While Verzosa maintains that his baker’s dozen is not an attempt to reinvent or critique the gallery system, he is “sick of gatekeepers” and what he sees as mere busy energy around art institutions, even non-profits. His motif, however, is much more personal than that.

These 26 artists have long been parts of his life, in some instances going back decades or even a previous generation. Their statements for the shows express again and again appreciation of Verzosa’s support, encouragement, and enterprising energy. By organizing “Double Dozen,” Verzosa “wanted to give something back” not just because these are his friends but because he believes in the artistic merit of their work. And in many ways this series represents an homage to his hometown Portland and its vibrant arts community whose growth he has witnessed and fostered in so many ways. Verzosa will actually get to experience the other side of the gallery structure when his own work will be on view at Gorham’s Isaac Dyer Galleries (June 9-22).

When “Double Dozen” is over, Verzosa will not go back to the usual. Instead, he “will try to organize the shows smarter and more efficiently.” Meaning, artists on his roster will no longer be guaranteed shows every other year, and he plans to support especially those artists who have shown great loyalty to his gallery. It sounds as if he’s tightening the reins and re-evaluating whether it is worth his time and effort to work with particular artists.

If this suggests a mid-life crisis, it definitely appears to be a reconsideration of goals and values. Several recent personal losses have made Verzosa more aware of the fragility of life, his own included.

“But most importantly, this is about art, life, and relationships,” he explains. And in this sense Verzosa’s re-evaluated gallery schedule and artists’ roster offer another model for consideration. Even if it may sometimes be easy to forget this simple fact in the middle of a high-stakes art world, what is at its center is not money alone but personal relationships and the artists themselves. Their creativity fuels our passion for art, for wanting to live with it. ^

“DOUBLE DOZEN” | through June 29 | at Aucocisco Galleries, 89 Exchange Street, Portland | 207.775.2222 | aucocisco.com

Faustus’s is a study lined with books, vials, and curiosities (fine set design by Anita Stewart), but they meet in the pub. They’re close friends, despite their oppositions; each has a strong respect for the other’s intellect, they debate with spirit, and to watch the rapport drawn by Hunsinger and Hammond, both excellent, is an utter pleasure. They chide, tease, console, and rage at each other — over God, heliocentrism, and Faustus’s all-encompassing love for a “fallen woman” (Caley Milliken, dynamically) — with the candor and the sheer enjoyment of true intimates.

Hamlet spends much of his time absorbing his professors’ wisdom, along the way picking up plenty of one-liners that he’ll soon be pronouncing back in Denmark (a running joke). McFayden makes the prince an amiable, eager, energetic acolyte with only a touch of angst — just enough to suggest the despair that will later engulf him. McFayden does well relating Hamlet’s ominous, father-centered dreams (which are analyzed

by Faustus in proto-talk therapy), and he has a fantastic scene of playing tennis against an angry Frenchman — a witty foreshadowing of his fateful swordfight with Laertes.

Davalos’s script, which proceeds from such a whimsical conceit, likewise plays it out with lots of imaginative disregard for historical purity. Anachronistic allusions abound, from Faustus’s credo “Turn in, turn down, turn off” to a kind of Elizabethan proto-punk band’s act in the Bunghole. Wittenberg impressively manages to incorporate the history of Luther’s Theses and other philosophical revolutions without being bookish about it. Both script and acting make the philosophies feel, as they should, like the fervid lifeblood of Luther and Faustus. In fact, they are both so passionate, so convincing, and so entertaining, it’s easy to see why Hamlet couldn’t decide. ^

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Look, just because they’re a stringband doesn’t mean they sound like Mumford and Sons. Or the Lumineers.

And certainly not Of Monsters and Men. Now that everyone is getting a stringband swerve on, you might as well pay attention to the subtleties of the genre.

Tricky Britches? They lean pretty heavily toward the old-timey end of the spectrum, with a deep and abiding respect for the body of American stringband work, manifesting itself in original songs that are instantly familiar. On their third album, Good Company, they mostly move forward by virtue of simply being better players. This is a band still on the rise. As they write more songs, play more gigs, build more rapport, they establish just where their material uniquely sits on the spectrum.

It’s hard not to hear Old Crow Medicine Show’s “Hard to Love” in the album’s opening “Leave My Troubles Behind,” fronted by often-bassist Jed Bresette. It has a drive to it, melodies that jump into the chorus, and a wishcasting bent: “Put a bullet in my chest.” But that’s backed

by Ryan “Bear” Wilkinson’s “Long Day,” which is as much Dick Curless as anything else, with shades of a young Elvis.

A classic trucking song, it’s probably the closest thing we’ve had to Diesel Doug and the Long Haul Truckers since they called it a day.

Wilkinson isn’t Curless, of course.

That guy’s voice was made of velvet.

Really, Tricky Britches don’t have a transcendent lead vocalist. They make up

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for it, though, with bench depth. Each of the four band members takes at least one lead turn; the variety and album organization are particular strengths here.

Fiddler Tyler Lienhardt’s best effort is “Creepin’ Up on Me,” where he really finds his wheelhouse. It’s a Django-style piece, at times like you’d hear behind a Scooby Doo bit at a haunted house in the Bayou, with shades of the Hackensaw Boys’ “Oh, Girl.” The bass is percussive, with Besette taking a page out of Kris Day’s book, and Lienhardt delivers the perfect amount of mania: “Yes, I was on the right track/Oh, but now I derailed/ There’s no going back.”

Mandolinist Seth Doyle adopts a twang for the Dixified “Brackett St.,” and there’s more Django yet, this time in the style of the Hot Club of Cowtown, especially when Lienhardt gets ripping, and Hot Club’s Elana James can really rip. The New Orleans feel they pull off is testament to Lienhardt’s increasingly adept feel with his bowing. His “Finest Kind” is a playful waltz, too, like the backing to a Lawrence of Arabia on Broadway. It’s also sort of barbershop, though.

Like “Black & White,” not all the songs are predictable. The minor backstep they pull off in the chorus here gives a sour undertone to a devotional that might raise your eyebrows anyway. Sure, the “what I wouldn’t give to be that dress” part seems like high praise, but aren’t those black-and-white stripes the sort of thing a skunk would appreciate? “Monadnock” is an ultra-traditional instrumental in the

Those shiRTs! and their Tricky britches.

A part, but then opens up into something far more pop in the B. There aren’t any curveballs in their “Sally Ann/Rye Straw” traditional medley to close the album, though. This is old-school, like Clayton McMichen on the fiddle in the 1920s. It might get you thinking about the medley with “Sail Away Ladies” at its heart that the Mammals featured late on their excellent Evolver, too. At 3:52 and the kind of pace Tricky Britches drive it, you’re damn near exhausted by its finish. (If you like what they’re up to here, you might want to check out Mark O’Connor’s “New Nashville Cats” while you’re at it.)

Similarly, Besette isn’t far from Merle Travis in his “Fish in the Sea,” which is a mash-up of “Nine Pound Hammer” and “I’m Just a Used-to-Be to You,” the latter of which can be found with Maine’s own Roland White on the front at the Station Inn in Nashville on YouTube. “I’m always in the best company,” Besette sings, and, considering the varied pillars of stringband music these guys call to mind, they’ll get no arguments from me. ^

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So watch out, local 2025 country scene! and in a miraculous coincidence, the PoRTland PUblic libRaRy unveiled a brand new Ukulele lending library in the teen room, proudly declaring the addition of the “hipster instrument” (as they call it in a recent press release) to the collection for youth to check out along with books. So watch out, local neighbors!

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sphere at Funtown, vague ’90s nostalgia, Muppet Babies, and lying down sky-high in the center of a roller-skating rink. it’s a trip! Four tracks, 30-plus minutes of utterly unabashed prog-metal/witchhouse theatrics. perhaps M83 is the closest mainstream touchstone here, but these two dudes are so relentlessly epic it would probably make that pretty boy blush. on the other hand, one has to be careful with this stuff. applied to most public, everyday circumstances it could really do a number on your irony meter. Might be best to see them live while everyone else has an equal stake. no questioning their commitment, though; visit superorder.bandcamp.com.

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extinction throughout the winter, they emerged to play the biggest shows of their life a couple weekends ago, opening for Brown Bird and the dirty projectors and releasing the six-song ep The Golden Room, which is a cerebral and sullen sparkler of a album. What might come next is hard to gauge. Jeff Beam is out and working on his own stuff, henry Jamison’s living in Vermont and gigging solo, and peter Mclaughlin’s here, working sound at multiple music venues. Whatever will be, will be.

F it’s been four years since isobell last recorded a note, but hannah tarkinson’s moody rock band plan to drop Sea Spells, a nine-song smoker, on June 1, when the five-piece play Space with olas and the reverie Machine.

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302 SPORTS BAR & GRILLE | Wind-

TUESDAY 14

Tony B | 9 pm | main floor: DJ Jay-C | 9 pm ASYLUM | Portland | upstairs: Whitcomb + Black Thai + Lord Fowl + Lord Earth | 9 pm | $8 | downstairs: “Trillionaire Saturdaze,” with Altered Gee + Don Damiani + God.Damn.Chan. | 10 pm BIG EASY | Portland | Bob Charest Band | 9 pm BLUE | Portland | Nomads | 6 pm | Sarah Ford | 8 pm | Wurlibird Jazz | 10 pm BRIAN BORU | Portland | Jumpoff | 9 pm BUBBA’S SULKY LOUNGE | Portland | “Everything Dance Party,” with DJ Jon | 7 pm GINGKO BLUE | Portland | David Mello Trio | 5 pm | Travis James Humphrey & the RetroRockets | 9 pm LOCAL BUZZ | Cape Elizabeth | J. Grinner | 8 pm LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | Ron Cody & Friends | 11 am | Meghan Yates | 7 pm MARK’S PLACE | Portland | DJ YFHJR MAYO STREET ARTS | Portland | “The Pantry Party,” with Other Bones + Lisa/Liza + Measles | 8 pm | $10/cans of food OASIS | Portland | downstairs: DJ Tiny Dancer | 8 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | DJ Tubbs | 9 pm ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | Portland | Tricky Britches + Tall Heights + Ghost of Paul Revere | 7:30 pm | $12-17 PEARL | Portland | DJ Revolve PORTLAND EAGLES | Portland | Bill Young, Jr. | 3 pm | Bill Young | 5 pm PROFENNO’S | Westbrook | DJ Jim Fahey | 9 pm RI RA/PORTLAND | Portland | North of Nashville | 10 pm SEASONS GRILLE | Portland | karaoke with Long Island Larry | 8:30 pm SLAINTE | Portland | “Soul Dance Party,” with DJ Tremendous Cream & DJ Marieke Vi | 9 pm STYXX | Portland | back room: DJ Chris O | 9 pm | front room: DJ Kate Rock | 9 pm

BIG EASY | Portland | “Cover to Cover,”

ham | Stolen Mojo 51 WHARF | Portland | lounge: DJ

SUNDAY 12

ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland | Adela & June | 8:30 pm

BRIAN BORU | Portland | Irish ses-

sion | 3 pm

FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | “Trap Night,” hip hop with El Shupacabra + Sandbag | 9 pm LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | Sean Mencher | 11 am MATHEW’S | Portland | Brenda + Fat Creeps + Metal Feathers + Zebu + Foam Castles + Rattlesnakes | 2 pm | $5

ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland | Bill Howard | 7 pm

live album cover night: Anna & the Diggs perform Bonnie Raitt’s Nick of Time, with original set | 9 pm | $5 BLUE | Portland | Irish session | 9 pm BULL FEENEY’S | Portland | open mic | 9:30 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | karaoke with DJ Mike Mahoney | 9 pm SLAINTE | Portland | karaoke with DJ Ponyfarm | 9 pm

WEDNESDAY 15

ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland | David Beam & the Custom House Gang

ASYLUM | Portland | upstairs: karaoke with DJ Johnny Red | 9 pm

BIG EASY | Portland | “Rap Night,”

with Ill By Instinct + Shupe | 9 pm | $3 BINGA’S STADIUM | Portland | DJ Ryan Deelon | 9 pm BLUE | Portland | Noir | 7:30 pm BULL FEENEY’S | Portland | Squid Jiggers | 8 pm FROG AND TURTLE | Westbrook | Uke’n’Smile | 8:30 pm GINGKO BLUE | Portland | Lorraine Bohland & Terry Foster | 6 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | DJ Marc Beatham | 9 pm ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | Portland | Ryan Montbleau | 8 pm | $15-20 RI RA/PORTLAND | Portland | Jeff Cusack | 8:30 pm SLAINTE | Portland | open mic with Dustin Saucier | 8 pm | Scott Baldwin | 10 pm

THURSDAY 16

302 SPORTS BAR & GRILLE | Windham | karaoke with DJ Billy Young

51 WHARF | Portland | DJ Revolve |

9 pm

ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland | Ronda Dale | 7 pm

ASYLUM | Portland | downstairs: “Al’s

Basement,” with DJ King Alberto | 9 pm BIG EASY | Portland | Band Beyond Description | 10 pm BLUE | Portland | Rebel Darling + Badger & Bean | 7 pm BRIAN BORU | Portland | Duquette | 9 pm BULL FEENEY’S | Portland | Hello Newman | 9:30 pm THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | Portland | Pitch Black Ribbons FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | karaoke with DJ Cougar | 9 pm FROG AND TURTLE | Westbrook | Uke’n’Smile | 7 pm GINGKO BLUE | Portland | Gypsy Caravan | 8 pm LOCAL 188 | Portland | Jaw Gems | 10 pm LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | Ron Cody & Friends | 7 pm

MARK’S PLACE | Portland | DJ Tiny

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK |

SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville

MATHEW’S | Portland | Still Well An-

CAPTAIN DANIEL STONE INN |

TANTRUM | Bangor | DJ Jeff WATER STREET GRILL | Gardiner | DJ

Dancer

gel + Cold Falling | 8 pm OASIS | Portland | DJ Lenza | 8 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | karaoke with DJ Mike Mahoney | 9 pm ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | Portland | James McCartney + Jon Sandler | 8 pm | $15-20 PORT CITY MUSIC HALL | Portland | Melissa Ferrick | 8 pm | $20-22 PORTLAND EAGLES | Portland | karaoke | 6 pm RI RA/PORTLAND | Portland | Kilcollins | 9 pm

SEA DOG BREWING/SOUTH PORTLAND | South Portland | karaoke | 10 pm

SLAINTE | Portland | DJ Silverchild |

10 pm

SONNY’S | Portland | Jaw Gems | 10

pm

STYXX | Portland | DJ Kate | 9 pm

MAINE THURSDAY 9

302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN |

Fryeburg | open mic with Coopers |

8:30 pm

BEAR BREW PUB | Orono | DJ Calibur

| 10 pm

BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | Dover Foxcroft | karaoke

BENTLEY’S SALOON | Kennebunkport | open mic | 7 pm

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | Bath |

Jud Caswell | 7 pm

Brunswick | karaoke | 8:30 pm Brunswick | open mic | 6 pm

| Kevin Hamel

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Biddeford | karaoke with DJ Biggs | 9:30

Roger Collins | 9 pm

CLUB TEXAS | Auburn | pub: karaoke

ALISSON’S RESTAURANT | Kennebunkport | karaoke | 8:30 pm BILLY’S TAVERN | Thomaston | Mallett

pm

with Scotty Dawg | 9 pm | DJ B-Set | 9:30 pm EUREKA HALL RESTAURANT | Stockholm | John Clavette | 6:30 pm FRESH | Camden | Three Point Jazz Duo | 6 pm KERRYMEN PUB | Saco | Deely Stan [Steely Dan tribute] | 7:30 pm THE LIBERAL CUP | Hallowell | Juke Joint Devils | 7 pm M ROOM AT MILLENNIUM | Palmyra | karaoke | 9 pm MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | karaoke | 9 pm MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | Standish | DJ Laser Lou MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | Woolwich | Aaron Nadeau | 6 pm NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | Bangor | When Particles Collide + Ghost of Paul Revere | 8 pm PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | Lewiston | Depths | 8 pm THE RACK | Kingfield | open mic ROOSTER’S | Augusta | Chris Poulson RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Saco | Travis James Humphrey | 8 pm SAVORY MAINE | Damariscotta | Married With Chitlins SEA DOG BREWING/BANGOR | Bangor | karaoke | 9 pm

FRIDAY 10

Brothers Band | 8 pm | $7 BRAY’S BREWPUB | Naples | Barry Arvin Young | 9 pm

THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE GRILLE | Old Orchard Beach | Tickle |

8:30 pm

BULL MOOSE LOUNGE | Dexter | Dee-

jay Relykz

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

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK |

Brunswick | Mike Schools | 9 pm CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN | Buckfield | open mic

CAPTAIN DANIEL STONE INN | Bruns-

wick | Katie Daggett

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Biddeford | DJ Filthy Rich | 9 pm

CHARLAMAGNE’S | Augusta | Acoustic

Chi | 7:30 pm CRAZY 8’S | South Paris | Denny Breau

FEILE IRISH RESTAURANT AND PUB | Wells | karaoke | 8 pm

FRESH | Camden | Paddy Mills | 6 pm FRONTIER CAFE | Brunswick | Jenna

Campbell + Martin Swinger + Ed DesJardins | 8 pm | $12-15 FUSION | Lewiston | Cinnamon | 9 pm

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TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | Gray | karaoke

Listings Continued from p 19 GUTHRIE’S | Lewiston | Red Lion Fam-

Hey, gang! Put away your marbles and jacks and put that game of hopscotch on hold, because it’s time to learn a little bit about that jim dandy movie feller all the teens are raving about: Peter Weller! So grab a lemon phosphate and head on down to the talkie shop to feast your peepers on “Naked Lunch”, out this week on a Ray as Blu as the eyes of your best gal! His typewriter’s a moonman! I really have no idea why I’m speaking like this!

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension – Peter Weller is a hard personality to pin down. He really doesn’t give you a lot. It’s not even that he’s coolly disaffected, I don’t think. He’s just not going to give the situation any more energy than it absolutely deserves, and generally just a fraction less than needed. That fraction has served him well. He exists in that one molecule of time where blandness coheres with brilliance, creating an off-putting heroism that is difficult to look away from. That started here, with “Buckaroo”. If you profess to love the 80’s, yet haven’t watched this movie yet, I submit that you have yet to truly experience them.

Robocop – Also, he’s Robocop! So bow down! Bow down at once! All right, I know, obviously, that Robocop is awesome, and we all love it, but we focus too much on the very clear awesomeness of the movie itself, and that kinda takes away from Weller’s impressive performance here. Yes, it’s a bit of a cartoon, and yes it’s a dark comedy, but Weller really becomes a half-man/half-robot, with all of the complex emotional conflict that requires. It’s a role that required that aforementioned fraction, and I can’t think of anyone else who could have pulled it off.

Screamers – And sometimes he makes movies about underground knife-wielding robots that kill miners on other planets. But hey gang, that’s aces too!

with Long Island Larry | 8:30 pm TUG’S PUB | Southport | School Street Band | 5:30 pm WATER STREET GRILL | Gardiner | DJ Roger Collins | 9 pm

SATURDAY 11

BEAR BREW PUB | Orono | DJ Maine

ily | 8 pm

Event | 9 pm

with DJ Trevor Brown | 8 pm HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | Bangor | Midnight Rose | 9 pm HOOLIGAN’S IRISH PUB | Old Orchard Beach | Kevin Shields & T.C. | 9 pm IRON TAILS SALOON | Acton | Jerry Rigged | 8 pm JONATHAN’S | Ogunquit | Iris Dement | 8 pm | $41.50 KERRYMEN PUB | Saco | Andi Fawcett & Zach Romanoff | 6:30 pm MAINE STREET | Ogunquit | DJ Aga | 9 pm MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | North of Nashville MAXWELL’S PUB | Ogunquit | karaoke | 9 pm MCSEAGULL’S | Boothbay Harbor | karaoke MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | Standish | Ryan Brooks Kelly | 8 pm MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | Woolwich | Dave Shaffer | 6 pm MOOSE ALLEY | Rangeley | Sonic Paradigm | 9 pm MR. GOODBAR | Old Orchard Beach | DJ Steady MYRTLE STREET TAVERN | Rockland | karaoke NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | Bangor | Blind Albert Duo | 8 pm THE OAK AND THE AX | Biddeford | Billy Wylder + Sorcha + Jo Sorrell | 8 pm PATIO PUB | Old Orchard Beach | JB5 | 9 pm PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | Lewiston | Ron Bergeron | 8 pm PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | Bangor | Shyboy ROCK CITY ROASTERS & CAFE | Rockland | Tom Albury | 7 pm ROOSTER’S | Augusta | Sam Shain ROUND TOP COFFEEHOUSE | Damariscotta | open mic | 6:45 pm | Greg Klyma | 8:30 pm | $7, $4 seniors, youth 12 & under free SAMOSET RESORT | Rockport | Shanna Underwood SHEEPSCOT GENERAL | Whitefield | Danger, I Reckon | 5 pm | $5 SHOOTERS BILLIARDS BAR & GRILL | Lincoln | karaoke | 9 pm SILVER SPUR | Mechanic Falls | Peter Allen & Hurricane Mountain SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville | Mike Reny & Friends SOLO BISTRO | Bath | Ralph Norris & Mickey Felder | 6:30 pm SPLITTERS | Augusta | karaoke | 8 pm SUDS PUB | Bethel | Brad Hooper | 7:30 pm

Ryan Brooks Kelly | 2 pm BRAY’S BREWPUB | Naples | Last Call | 9 pm

HANNA’S TAVERN | Sanford | karaoke

PETER WELLER!

TOWNHOUSE PUB | Saco | karaoke

BENTLEY’S SALOON | Kennebunkport |

THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE GRILLE | Old Orchard Beach | Rizing

Tide | 1 pm | Kilcollins | 8:30 pm BULL MOOSE LOUNGE | Dexter | Desperado BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | Bath | Belfast Brogue | 8 pm CAPTAIN DANIEL STONE INN | Brunswick | Rick Turcotte & Mike Schools CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Biddeford | DJ Filthy Rich | 9 pm CHARLAMAGNE’S | Augusta | Ron Bergeron | 7:30 pm

FEILE IRISH RESTAURANT AND PUB

| Wells | Straight Lace Ltd. | 7:30 pm FRESH | Camden | Lee Sykes | 6 pm FRONTIER CAFE | Brunswick | Mallett Brothers Band + Joe Gallant | 8 pm | $15 FUSION | Lewiston | DJ Kool V | 9 pm HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | Bangor | Rock Dox | 9 pm HOOLIGAN’S IRISH PUB | Old Orchard Beach | Joeyoke | 9 pm | Kevin Shields & T.C. | 9 pm IRON TAILS SALOON | Acton | Saxx Roxx | 1 pm | Dirty McCurdy | 8 pm | $2 JONATHAN’S | Ogunquit | Peter Case | 8 pm | $25 KERRYMEN PUB | Saco | Hurricanes | 8 pm THE LIBERAL CUP | Hallowell | Pete Kilpatrick Band | 9 pm LINDBERGH’S LANDING | Old Orchard Beach | Joeyoke | 9 pm MAINE STREET | Ogunquit | DJ Ken | 10 pm MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | Change of Plans MAXWELL’S PUB | Ogunquit | karaoke | 9 pm MCSEAGULL’S | Boothbay Harbor | Elmore Twist MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | Standish | Tony Boffa Band | 8 pm MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | Woolwich | John Hasnip | 6 pm MOOSE ALLEY | Rangeley | Scott/Joe Band | 9 pm MR. GOODBAR | Old Orchard Beach | Grassroot Band | 9 pm NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | Bangor | Bill Barnes Jazz Trio | 8 pm PATIO PUB | Old Orchard Beach | JB5 | 9 pm PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | Lewiston | Shawn Tooley | 7 pm PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | Bangor | Shyboy

ROOSTER’S | Augusta | Acoustic Chi RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Saco |

SLATES RESTAURANT AND BAKERY | Hallowell | Peter Alexander | 8:15

THURSDAY 16

FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover |

TIME OUT PUB | Rockland | LittleWolf

Fryeburg | open mic with Coopers |

8:30 pm

GARY’S RESTAURANT & SPORTS LOUNGE | Rochester | karaoke | 7 pm HARLOW’S PUB | Peterborough |

Poke Chop | 8 pm

pm | $15

Underwood

| 7 pm | $10

SAMOSET RESORT | Rockport | Shanna SAVORY MAINE | Damariscotta | Chris-

302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN |

BEAR BREW PUB | Orono | DJ Calibur

| 10 pm

open bluegrass jam

| karaoke

Seabrook | open mic with Kastro LILAC CITY GRILLE | Rochester |

tine Woodman

TUESDAY 14

Topsham | karaoke with DJ Stormin’

Fryeburg | karaoke | 9:30 pm

BENTLEY’S SALOON | Kennebunkport

DJ Maine Event

BRAY’S BREWPUB | Naples | Fontana

SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM |

Norman | 10 pm SILVER SPUR | Mechanic Falls | Pat Libby & Shilo Creek SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville | Meryia & the Guys TUCKER’S PUB | Norway | Brad Hooper | 7 pm WATER STREET GRILL | Gardiner | Backlash | 9 pm

SUNDAY 12

302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN | Frye-

burg | Tom Rebmann | 11 am BENTLEY’S SALOON | Kennebunkport |

Nikki Hunt Band | 1 pm | Bob Cangello | 6 pm BRAY’S BREWPUB | Naples | jam session | 8 pm

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 | Biddeford | karaoke with DJ Don Corman | 9:30 pm COMMON GOOD SOUP KITCHEN | Southwest Harbor | Bruce Cassady & Hugh Bowden | 10 am | $12 FRESH | Camden | Blind Albert | 6 pm HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | Bangor | karaoke | 6 pm IRON TAILS SALOON | Acton | BBGunz | 1 pm THE KENNEBEC WHARF | Hallowell | open jam with Chris Poulson | 5 pm THE LIBERAL CUP | Hallowell | Steve Vellani Duo | 5 pm MAINE STREET | Ogunquit | karaoke | 9 pm MCSEAGULL’S | Boothbay Harbor | Dave & Chris Gagne THE OLDE MILL TAVERN | Harrison | open mic | 5 pm PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | Bangor | karaoke with DJ Ed McCurdy | 7 pm SOUTHSIDE TAVERN | Skowhegan | open jam TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | Gray | open mic blues jam | 4 pm

MONDAY 13

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | Bath | Irish

session | 7 pm FRESH | Camden | Paddy Mills | 6 pm KERRYMEN PUB | Saco | open mic | 7 pm MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | open mic with Mike Rodrigue | 8 pm MOOSE ALLEY | Rangeley | karaoke | 9 pm PADDY MURPHY’S | Bangor | karaoke | 9:30 pm PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | Lewiston | open mic with Mike Krapovicky | 6:30 pm

302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN | BRIDGE STREET TAVERN | Augusta | CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Biddeford | Travis James Humphrey | 9 pm EASY STREET LOUNGE | Hallowell | karaoke

THE END ZONE | Waterville | open

mic with Mike Rodrigue | 5 pm IRISH TWINS PUB | Lewiston | open mic MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | Dave Mello | 6 pm | open blues jam with Dave Mello | 9 pm MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | Woolwich | open mic | 7 pm NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | Bangor | jazz jam with the G Majors | 7 pm PADDY MURPHY’S | Bangor | open mic | 9:30 pm PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | Bangor | DJ Tew Phat | 7 pm ROOSTER’S | Augusta | Bob Colwell RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Saco | open mic with Joint Enterprise | 8 pm SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville | karaoke WATER STREET GRILL | Gardiner | open mic with Yankee Wailer

WEDNESDAY 15

BENTLEY’S SALOON | Kennebunk-

port | open mic | 7 pm

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Bidd-

eford | Travis James Humphrey | 9 pm CHARLAMAGNE’S | Augusta | open

mic with John Hasnip | 7:30 pm DAVIS ISLAND GRILL | Edgecomb | open mic FRONTIER CAFE | Brunswick | Dark Hollow Bottling Company | 7 pm | $10 FUSION | Lewiston | open mic | 9 pm IRISH TWINS PUB | Lewiston | karaoke THE KENNEBEC WHARF | Hallowell | open jam with Derek Savage | 9 pm M ROOM AT MILLENNIUM | Palmyra | open mic | 8 pm MCSEAGULL’S | Boothbay Harbor | karaoke MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | Standish | karaoke with DJ Greg Powers | 8 pm PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | Bangor | karaoke with DJ Ed McCurdy | 7 pm READFIELD EMPORIUM | Readfield | open mic SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM | Topsham | open mic | 9:30 pm SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville | open mic WATER STREET GRILL | Gardiner | DJ Roger Collins | 9 pm WOODMAN’S BAR & GRILL | Orono | open mic | 10 pm

Erin’s Guild

BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | Dover Foxcroft

HONEY POT BAR & LOUNGE |

| open mic | 7 pm

Matt Gelinas

& Friends | 8 pm | karaoke with Pete Powers | 9 pm

MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | Nor-

MARTINGALE WHARF | Portsmouth | Dave Gerard | 8 pm

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK |

man Bishop

CAPTAIN DANIEL STONE INN |

session | 6 pm | Blacklight Ruckus + Hornitz | 9:30 pm | $5 THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | Portsmouth | Fearless Ones + Duty Free | 9 pm

Brunswick | karaoke | 8:30 pm Brunswick | open mic | 6 pm

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Bidd-

eford | karaoke with DJ Biggs | 9:30 pm CLUB TEXAS | Auburn | pub: karaoke with Scotty Dawg | 9 pm | club: DJ BSet | 9:30 pm FRESH | Camden | Three Point Jazz Duo | 6 pm FRONT STREET PUBLIC HOUSE | Bath | Brian Patricks | 7 pm FRONTIER CAFE | Brunswick | “Frontiers of Music,” with USM String Quartet + Mimi Rabson Trio + Dan Barrett + Ben Noyes + Frank Mauceri + Dan Sonenberg + Beth Wiemann | 7 pm | by donation THE LIBERAL CUP | Hallowell | Jazzy Chas & the DelRossi Posse | 7 pm M ROOM AT MILLENNIUM | Palmyra | karaoke | 9 pm MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | karaoke | 9 pm MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | Standish | DJ Laser Lou MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | Woolwich | Steve Jones | 6 pm NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | Bangor | DJ Baby Bok Choy + DJ T Coz | 7:30 pm THE OAK AND THE AX | Biddeford | Poor Old Shine + Old Soul | 8 pm | $8 THE RACK | Kingfield | open mic ROOSTER’S | Augusta | Dana Kelley SAVORY MAINE | Damariscotta | Bruce Hardina SEA DOG BREWING/BANGOR | Bangor | karaoke | 9 pm SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville | Travis James Humphrey | 7 pm SUDS PUB | Bethel | Denny Breau TANTRUM | Bangor | DJ Jeff WATER STREET GRILL | Gardiner | DJ Roger Collins | 9 pm

NEW HAMPSHIRE THURSDAY 9

BARLEY PUB | Dover | bluegrass jam with Steve Roy | 9 pm BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth | Green Lion Crew CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT | Dover | Dan Walker CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | Ken Ormes Trio CHOP SHOP PUB | Seabrook | karaoke with Matty R. DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Jim Tyrrell | 9 pm

STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Irish

FRIDAY 10

BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth | “Music for Change,” showcase

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT | Dover | Louie & the Flemtones

CARTELLI’S BAR AND GRILL | Dover

| Dave Nappi | 5 pm CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | Drama Squad DJs CHOP SHOP PUB | Seabrook | Wrek’d DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Portsmouth | karaoke DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Cult 45 + Hey Zeus + Red Sky Mary + Supermachine | 9 pm FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | All Good :: Feel Good Collective HARLOW’S PUB | Peterborough | Run Gazelle Run + Van Burens HONEY POT BAR & LOUNGE | Seabrook | Ape the Grim + DJ Guess Who + Gauge + Raychel Revolver | 8 pm | $10 KELLEY’S ROW | Dover | SoulMate KJ’S SPORTS BAR | Newmarket | karaoke | 9 pm LILAC CITY GRILLE | Rochester | People Skills MARTINGALE WHARF | Portsmouth | Jerks of Grass | 9 pm MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | karaoke with Chris Michaels THE OAR HOUSE | Portsmouth | Bob Arens & Margo Reola | 8 pm PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Portsmouth | deck: Discount Gigolos | 7 pm | club: DJ Koko-P | 9 pm | grill: Dan Walker | 9:30 pm | pub:: Keith Henderson | 10 pm PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Martin England & the Reconstructed | 9 pm | $5 THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | “Hush Hush Sweet Harlot,” with Jerry Brookman | 7 pm | $5 | Ryan Obermiller + Randy Deshaies | 10 pm RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Complaints | 10 pm RUDI’S | Portsmouth | Dimitri & the Wolfe | 6 pm SPRING HILL TAVERN | Portsmouth | Michael Troy & Tre Mack | 9:30 pm

STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Jauntee + Big Sway + Honest Thieves | 9 pm | $5-8 THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | Portsmouth | Eight Feet Tall | 9 pm WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | Avalanche | 9 pm

SATURDAY 11

BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth | 73 Duster

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT | Dover | Tammy Lynn & Myles High CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | Drama

Squad DJs

CHOP SHOP PUB | Seabrook | MSF

Band

DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

mouth | karaoke

DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Ride

| 9 pm

FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover |

Dusty Gray

THE HOLY GRAIL | Epping | Three Play KJ’S SPORTS BAR | Newmarket | ka-

raoke | 9 pm

LILAC CITY GRILLE | Rochester | Kenny Samuelson THE OAR HOUSE | Portsmouth | Don Severance | 7 pm PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Portsmouth | deck: Radio Daze | 7 pm | club: DJ Koko-P | 9 pm | grill: Will Metivier | 9:30 pm | pub: Tony Santesse | 10 pm PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Larry Garland & Friends | 1 pm | Serfs | 9 pm | $7 THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Sith | 10 pm RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Mugsy | 10 pm RUDI’S | Portsmouth | Chris Klaxton | 6 pm SPRING HILL TAVERN | Portsmouth | Brick Yard Blues | 9:30 pm STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Van Gordon Martin | 8:30 pm | $5-7 THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | Portsmouth | Mighty Mystic + High Hopes Band + Green Lion Crew | 8 pm WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | 40 Below Summer | 8 pm

SUNDAY 12

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT | Dover | karaoke

DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

mouth | karaoke

DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Jim Dozet Trio | 9 am | karaoke with DJ Erich Kruger | 10 pm HILTON GARDEN INN | Portsmouth | Erika Hunter | 9 am PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Sharon Jones | 6 pm | $10 THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Green Lion Crew | 9 pm | $5 RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Irish session | 5 pm | Drew Yount | 8 pm RUDI’S | Portsmouth | Jim Dozet | 10 am STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | open mic with Dave Ogden | 7 pm WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | Rob Benton | 8 pm

Mesa Verde

MONDAY 13

CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | karaoke with Davey K | 9 pm PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Mike Stockbridge Trio | 8 pm THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | “Hush Hush Sweet Harlot,” with J Cat + Mark Mandaville | 8 pm | $5 RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Oran Mor | 7 pm WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | DJ Provo | 9 pm

TUESDAY 14

103 RESTAURANT | Rochester |

karaoke

BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth | “Honky Tonk Night,” with Seldom Playwrights

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT

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BARLEY PUB | Dover | bluegrass jam with Steve Roy | 9 pm

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5/12 @ In’finiti:

Belgian Brewers Brunch. 10:30 am, 5 courses, 6 biers, 1 cocktail, $60 tax & tip included.

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Trio

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Wednesday, 5/8: Pete Miller @ 7pm Thursday, 5/9:

Seabrook | open mic with Kastro LILAC CITY GRILLE | Rochester | Pat Foley

MARTINGALE WHARF | Portsmouth |

Josh Cramoy | 9 pm MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | Norman Bishop PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | upstairs: “Beat Night,” jazz & poetry | 7 pm | Morgan Davis | 9 pm RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Hott Commodity | 10 pm RUDI’S | Portsmouth | Rob Gerry & John Funkhouser | 6 pm STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Irish session | 6 pm | Jake Davis & the Whiskey Stones | 9:30 pm | $5

The New Salt featuring Jason Phelps @ 7pm Music, Food, Drinks and No Cover!

Private room available 78 Middle Street Portland, Maine 04101 207.772.0531 www.pepperclubrestaurant.com

COMEDY THURSDAY 9

OPEN MIC | 8 pm | Slainte, 24 Preble

St, Portland | 207.828.0900 RON G | 7 pm | Colby College, Page Commons, Waterville |

”SPANK! THE FIFTY SHADES PARODY” | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609

Congress St, Portland | $27.50-32.50 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland. com

FRIDAY 10

Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $24 | 603.436.2400 or www.themusichall. org/tickets/index.asp

Illustration by Marty Braun

mouth Pearl, 45 Pearl St, Portsmouth, NH | $15 | 603.431.0148 or portsmouthpearl.com OPEN MIC | 10 pm | Mesa Verde, 618 Congress St, Portland | 207.774.6089

WEDNESDAY 15

liston-Immanuel United Church, 156 High St, Portland | 207.775.2301 or broadneckbaptistchurch.org UMF ORCHESTRA | 7:30 pm | University of Maine - Farmington, Nordica Auditorium, 111 South St, Farmington | $8, $6 seniors | 207.778.7000

SUNDAY 12

MAINE MUSIC SOCIETY: “SONGS FROM THE GARDEN” | See listing for Sat

PORTLAND ROSSINI CLUB | 3 pm | St. Luke’s Cathedral, 143 State St, Portland | $10, $5 seniors | 207.772.5434

OPEN MIC | 8 pm | Rusty Hammer,

THURSDAY 16

THURSDAY 16

| 7:30 pm | St John’s Episcopal Church, 200 Main St, Thomaston | 207.354.8734

49 Pleasant St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.436.9289

OPEN MIC | See listing for Thurs TIM SAMPLE | 7:30 pm | Fryeburg

Academy, Eastman Performing Arts Center, 745 Main St, Fryeburg | $15-18 | 207.935.9232 or fryeburgacademy.org

CONCERTS CLASSICAL THURSDAY 9

BOWDOIN CHAMBER ENSEMBLES | 4

& 7:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.798.4141 ”CHAMBER ENSEMBLES FEST 1” | 4 pm | Bowdoin College, Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.798.4141 ”CHAMBER ENSEMBLES FEST 2” | 7:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.798.4141

FRIDAY 10

JAZMIN DERICE: “GRADUATE VOICE RECITAL” | 8 pm | University of

Southern Maine - Gorham, Corthell Concert Hall, 37 College Ave, Gorham | 207.780.5256

Sun 3 pm | Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St, Lewiston | call for tickets | 207.689.2000

TOM COTTER | 8 pm | Music Hall, 131

Tickets: 207.774.0465 | www.portlandstage.org

IRA PROCTOR + STEVE SCARFO + ANTHONY SCIBELLI | 8 pm | The Ports-

”FRIDAY NIGHT COMEDY,” WITH IAN STUART | 8 pm | Club Texas, 150

SATURDAY 11

PROFESSIONAL THEATER MADE IN MAINE

pm | St Lawrence Arts & Community Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | $15 | 207.775.5568 or www.stlawrencearts. org

SATURDAY 11

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BIRDIE GOOGINS: “ACCIDENTALLY MAINE’S ONLY SUPERMODEL” | 7:30

BRIAN BEAUDOIN | 8 pm | Gold

Room, 510 Warren Ave, Portland | $10 | 207.221.2343

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RENAISSANCE VOICES | 8 pm | Wil-

MAINE MUSIC SOCIETY: “SONGS FROM THE GARDEN” | Sat 7:30 pm;

”PORTLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: END OF YEAR CONCERT” | 3

pm | Portland Conservatory of Music, 202 Woodfords St, Portland | by donation | 207.775.3356 or portlandconservatory.net

DAPONTE STRING QUARTET

POPULAR THURSDAY 9

”BATES FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL,” WITH VELOCIPEDE + PRESS GANG + ALBA’S EDGE + KATIE MCNALLY & ERIC MCDONALD + GREG & JESSIE BOARDMAN | Thurs 5 pm;

Fri 9 am; Sat 11 am | Bates College, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave, Lewiston | $5-20/day; $10-30/weekend | 207.786.6255 or bates.edu/chasehall.xml ROD PICOTT | 7 pm | St Lawrence Arts & Community Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | $15 | 207.775.5568 or stlawrencearts.org

FRIDAY 10

ANNA & THE DIGGS | 9 pm | Inn On

the Blues, 7 Ocean Ave, York Beach | $6 | 207.351.3221

”BATES FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL,” WITH VELOCIPEDE + PRESS GANG + ALBA’S EDGE + KATIE MCNALLY & ERIC MCDONALD + GREG & JESSIE BOARDMAN | See listing for

Thurs

DUKE ROBILLARD BAND | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $25 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com

HOT CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO |

7:30 pm | Bates College, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St, Lewiston | $20 | 207.786.6135 NOTE BOOK CAFE | noon | Bowdoin College, Gibson Hall, Brunswick | 207.725.4141 OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | 7:30 pm | Pleasant Note Coffeehouse, First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St, Auburn | 207.783.0461 SHASHASHA + OLD SOUL | 7:30 pm | St Lawrence Arts & Community Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | $12 | 207.775.5568 or stlawrencearts.org

SATURDAY 11

ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL | 8 pm |

Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $50 | 207.935.7292

AUDREY RYAN + CHRIS ROBLEY | 8 pm | Engine, 265 Main St, Biddeford | $8 | 207.229.3560 or feedtheengine.org

”BATES FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL,” WITH VELOCIPEDE + PRESS GANG + ALBA’S EDGE + KATIE MCNALLY & ERIC MCDONALD + GREG & JESSIE BOARDMAN | See listing for

Thurs

BELA FLECK + MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO: “ACROSS THE IMAGINARY DIVIDE” | 7:30 pm | Bowdoin Col-

lege, Pickard Theater, Bath Rd, Brunswick | $25 | 207.725.3433 or msmt.org BRUCE MARSHALL GROUP | 9 pm | Inn On the Blues, 7 Ocean Ave, York Beach | $6 | 207.351.3221 COKE WEED | 7 pm | Common Street Arts, 20 Common St, Waterville | $10 | 207.749.4368 or commonstreetarts.com DAN HICKS & THE HOT LICKS | 7:30 pm | Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St, Bath | $25-28 | 207.442.8455 or chocolatechurcharts.org

DAY FOR NIGHT + SETH WARNER TRIO | 7:30 pm | Bates College, former Maple Room, 22 Park St, Lewiston | free; tickets required | 207.786.6135

DENNY BREAU & PAUL MELLYN | 8 pm | Boothbay Harbor Opera House, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | $12-15 | 207.633.6855

”FANDANGO: INTERNATIONAL DANCE & MUSIC CONCERT” | 7

pm | College of the Atlantic, Gates Community Center, 105 Eden St, Bar Harbor | $5, $2 students | 207.288.5015 HOME BY EIGHT | 10:30 am | Prince Memorial Library, 266 Main St, Cumberland Foreside | 207.829.2215

HOT CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO: “CINEMA VIVANT” | 7 pm | Strand

Theatre, 345 Main St, Rockland | $40, $30 youth 21-35, $10 youth under 21 | 207.594.0070

OLD GREY GOOSE: “DOWNEAST FIDDLE JAMBOREE” | 7:30 pm | Saco

River Theater, 29 Salmon Falls Rd, Bar Mills | $14, $12 seniors/students | 207.929.6472 PRESS GANG | 7:30 pm | University of Maine - Farmington, Emery Community Arts Center, 111 South St, Farmington | 207.778.7880 PRIMO CUBANO | 6 pm | Unitarian Universalist Church of Portsmouth, 292 State St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.664.7200

SCOTTY MCCREERY + SARAH DARLING | 8 pm | Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $26-46 | 603.929.4100

”SPRING BASH” | benefit with

barbecue & live music by Pete Witham & the Cozmik Zombies | 6:30 pm | The Portland Club, 156 State St, Portland | $25 | 207.775.2411 SQUID JIGGERS | 7:30 pm | UU Theater, First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St, Auburn | 207.783.0461 JOHNNY WINTER | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $50 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com

SUNDAY 12

DAROL ANGER, JOE WALSH, GRANT GORDY, & COREY DIMARIO QUARTET | 5 pm | College of the Atlantic, Gates Community Center, 105 Eden St, Bar Harbor | $10 | 207.288.5015

HOT CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO: “MOTHER’S DAY AFTERNOON SWING DANCE” | 3 pm | Union

Hall, 24 Center St, Rockport | $45, $15 youth 18 & under KATE SCHROCK | 7 pm | St Lawrence Arts & Community Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | $12 | 207.775.5568 or stlawrencearts.org

”MAC MCHALE TRIBUTE SHOW,” WITH EMERY HUTCHINS + SMOKEY VAL + JOHN & SALLY ROC + CAROLYN HUTTON + HERMAN MCGEE + ERICA BROWN | 2

pm | Skye Theatre, 2 Highland Dr, Carthage | $15 | 207.562.4445

TUESDAY 14

FRETLESS | 7 pm | St Lawrence Arts & Community Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | $15 | 207.775.5568 or stlawrencearts.org TRICKY BRITCHES | 6:30 pm | Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St, Bath | 207.443.5141 or patten.lib. me.us

WEDNESDAY 15

FRETLESS | 7 pm | Skye Theatre,

2 Highland Dr, Carthage | $15 | 207.562.4445

FRYEBURG ACADEMY JAZZ ENSEMBLES | 8 pm | Stone Moun-

tain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $35 | 207.935.7292 STOMP | Wed-Thurs 7 pm | Portland Ovations, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | $45-60 | 207.842.0800 MATT WERTZ | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $25 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com

THURSDAY 16

KARLA BONOFF | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $35 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com ROB DUQUETTE | 10:30 am | Thomas Memorial Library, 6 Scott Dyer Rd, Cape Elizabeth | 207.799.1720

HANK & DIXIE | 7 pm | Inn On the

SATURDAY 11

HERBCRAFT + BITCHIN BAJAS + CONJJJECTURE + BATH SALTS | 7

Portland Expo, 239 Park Ave, Portland | $7-8, $6 youth or portlandevents.com/Expo.htm

Blues, 7 Ocean Ave, York Beach | $10 | 207.351.3221

pm | Darkmouth Castle, Portland | by donation DOUGIE MACLEAN | 8 pm | Boothbay Harbor Opera House, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | $20-25 | 207.633.6855 MOTLEY CRÜE | 5 pm | Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion, 1 Railroad St, Bangor | $41.75-91.75 | 800.745.3000 STOMP | See listing for Wed

DANCE PARTICIPATORY FRIDAY 10

LATIN DANCE PARTY | 8 pm | The

Dance Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | $710 | 207.439.0114

SUNDAY 12

HOT CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO: “MOTHER’S DAY AFTERNOON SWING DANCE” | 3 pm | Union

Hall, 24 Center St, Rockport | $45, $15 youth 18 & under

PERFORMANCE THURSDAY 9

MOMIX: “BOTANICA” | 7:30 pm |

Portland Ovations, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | $30-44 | 207.842.0800

SATURDAY 11

ALICE IN WONDERLAND | Sat-Sun

2 pm | Maine State Ballet, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | $20-40 | 207.781.7672

”COMMUNITY DANCE SHOWCASE” | 7 pm | The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | 207.439.0114

CONTRA DANCE WITH T-ACADIE | 8 pm | Wescustugo Hall, Rte 115, North Yarmouth | 207.712.2837

MAINE ROLLER DERBY: PORT AUTHORITIES VS. NHRD | 5 pm |

”NOT-SO-SILENT AUCTION & DINNER” | 4:30 pm | Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St, Portland | 207.780.0118 or maineirish. com

”OUT AS I WANT TO BE,” QUEER FASHION SHOW & DANCE PARTY | benefit | 7:30 pm | David Scriven Crowley Gallery, 409 Main St, Rockland | 207.594.0733

SUNDAY 12

”MOTHER OF A CRAFT FAIR & FESTIVAL” | with music

by Tricky Britches + Kirkmount | 10 am | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $7 | 207.935.7292

FOOD FRIDAY 10

”PORTLAND KITCHEN TOUR” | cooking demo & tasting with discussions with chefs & food writers | Fri-Sat 10 am | St Lawrence Arts & Community Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | $25 | 207.775.5568 or stlawrencearts.org

SATURDAY 11

PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET |

7 am | Deering Oaks Park, Park Ave and Deering Ave, Portland ”PORTLAND KITCHEN TOUR” | See listing for Fri

WEDNESDAY 15

PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET |

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

POETRY & PROSE

BARBARA DAMROSCH |

discusses The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook | noon | Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Rd, Falmouth | 207.781.2351 or falmouth.lib.me.us BARBARA DAMROSCH | discusses The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks. com ”LITERARY DEATH MATCH” | vaguely competitive readings | 7:30 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | $8-10 | 207.828.5600 or space538.org OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | 7:30 pm | Pleasant Note Coffeehouse, First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St, Auburn | 207.783.0461 LAYNE WITHERELL | discusses Wine Maniacs: Life in the Wine Biz | noon | Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq, Portland | 207.871.1758 or portlandlibrary.com

SATURDAY 11

JOE HILL | discusses his novels |

Books-a-Million, 430 Gorham Rd, South Portland | call for time | 207.253.5587

SUNDAY 12

”RHYTHMIC CYPHER,” OPEN MIC POETRY & SLAM | chapbook release

by Heather Bright Eyes | 7 pm | Dobra Tea, 151 Middle St, Portland | 207.370.1890

MONDAY 13

HILDRED CRILL + MARK DECARTERET + KATHERINE TOWLER + MIMI WHITE | read their poetry | 7

pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore.com

”POETRY ON TAP,” OPEN MIC & FEATURED POETS | with Port Veritas | 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

STORYTELLING OPEN MIC WITH CONOR MCGRATH | 8 pm | Slainte,

THURSDAY 9

TUESDAY 14

ing for Sat

novel Five Days | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks. com FIONA MAAZEL | discusses her novel Woke Up Lonely | 7 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore.com ”SHESPEAKS: REBEL YELL” | with Pam Erickson + Shannara Gillman + Noel Gallagher + Erica Labb + Josephina Gasca | 7:30 pm | Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St, Portland | $12-15 | 207.615.3609

Crime Online | 7 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore.com STEVE HOBSON | discusses A Blind Man in the Land of Zen | 6:30 pm | Prince Memorial Library, 266 Main St, Cumberland Foreside | 207.829.2215

EVENTS FRIDAY 10

”ALL-SPECIES PARADE,” WITH SPINDLEWORKS |

4 pm | downtown Brunswick, Maine St, 2ND FRIDAY ART WALK | 5 pm | downtown Brunswick, Maine St, Brunswick

DOUGLAS KENNEDY | discusses his

5/9 @ In’finiti: lunch hang session with Urbain from De Struise Brouwers. Brew session around 5:30pm 5/11 @ Novare: 13 Struise biers on tap and Urbain on hand to talk shop.

5/12 @ In’finiti: Belgian Brewers Brunch. 10:30 am, 5 Entrance through courses, 6 biers, 1 cocktail, alley-way on $60 tax & tip included. Call lower exchange st for reservations 207-221-8889 at key bank sign.

All Belgian bier on tap at Horas: Novare through May 20th Mon-Thu 4-1 leading into Novare’s 5th Fri 3-1 birthday party on the 21st!

Sat & Sun 12-1

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SUNDAY 12

ALICE IN WONDERLAND | See list-

Belgian Bier Fest events this week:

FRIDAY 10

J.A. HITCHCOCK | discusses True

PORT VERITAS’ OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | with featured poets &

Lola Haskins | 7 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | $2.50-3 | 207.773.7210

Continued on p 24

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Day Camps • Overnight Camps • Wilderness Expeditions • Leadership Programs

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Listings

”GETTING AHEAD: SOCIAL MOBILITY, PUBLIC HOUSING, & IMMIGRANT NETWORKS, PT. 3” | with

Continued from p 23 CATHIE PELLETIER | discusses her

novel The One Way Bridge | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks.com ”THE MAINE POETRY EXPRESS” | with Wesley McNair + Joshua Bodwell + Betsy Sholl + Bruce Spang | 7 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | 207.828.5600 or space538.org

WEDNESDAY 15

”A TRANSIENT/VANITY PRESS” | readings & spoken word | 7:30 pm | Nocturnem Draft Haus, 56 Main St, Bangor | 207.907.4380 ROBERT KLOSS | discusses his novel The Alligators of Abraham | 7 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore.com EVA MURRAY | discusses Island Schoolhouse: One Room for All | noon | Portland Public Library, Rines Auditorium, 5 Monument Sq, Portland

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Ages 8-18 | www.rippleffect.net | 207-791-7870

THURSDAY 16

”BARBARA WALSH DISCUSSES AUGUST GALE” | noon | University

of New England - Portland, Maine Women Writers Collection, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland | 207.221.4334 AMY BRILL | discusses her novel A Movement of Stars | 7 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore.com JEREMIAH CONWAY | discusses The Alchemy of Teaching | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks.com

TELLING ROOM STUDENT ANTHOLOGY RELEASE PARTY | Illumination:

NEW HAPPY HOUR

a Young People’s Encyclopedia of Wonder | 7 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Abromson Community Education Center, 88 Bedford St, Portland | 207.780.5900

UPSTAIRS: “BEAT NIGHT,” JAZZ & POETRY | with David Amram | 7

pm | Press Room, 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.5186

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| May 10-12: The Common Heart | Fri 8 pm; Sat 4 & 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | $23 PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY | 207.774.0465 | portlandstage.com | 25A Forest Ave, Portland | Through May 19: Wittenberg | Thurs-Fri + Tues-Wed 7:30 pm; Sat 4 & 8 pm; Sun 2 pm; Thurs 2 & 7:30 pm | $34-44 PUBLIC THEATRE | 207.782.3200 | thepublictheatre.org | 31 Maple St, Lewiston | May 9-12: The Last Romance | Thurs-Fri 7:30 pm; Sat 2 & 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | $18, $5 youth 18 & under SCHOOLHOUSE ARTS CENTER | 207.642.3743 | schoolhousearts.org | 16 Richville Rd, Standish | May 10-19: “MOMologues 2: Off to School” | Fri-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 3 pm | $14, $12 seniors/students STAGE FORCE | 207.439.5769 | harborlightstage.org | Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | May 13: dramatic reading of Off the Ice

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ART GALLERIES 3 FISH GALLERY | 772.342.6467 | 377 Cumberland Ave, Portland | 3fishgallery.com | Thurs-Sat 1-4 pm & by appointment | Through May 31: “Beyond Pollack: Experiments in Abstract Construction,” oil & mixed media works by Jack Sell 45 MEMORIAL CIRCLE | 207.622.3813 | Lobby Gallery, 45 Memorial Circle, Augusta | Through June 14: “Brother & Sister Exhibition,” works by David & Frances Hodsdon AARHUS GALLERY | 207.338.0001 | 50 Main St, Belfast | aarhusgallery. com | Thurs-Sun 11 am-5:30 pm | Through June 2: “Sublime Monotony,” mixed media group exhibition ALPACA SHED | 207.797.5565 | 23 Temple St, Portland | Tues-Sat 10:30 am-5:30 pm | Through May 31: photography by David Costa THE ART DEPARTMENT | 207.294.2797 | 611 Congress St, Portland | theartdepartment.me | Through May 31: “Printapalooza: A Printivus Festivus,” group printmaking show ART HOUSE PICTURE FRAMES | 207.221.3443 | 61 Pleasant St #110, Bakery Building, Portland | arthousepictureframes.com | Mon-Sat 10 am-6 pm | Through May 25: “Pastel Painters of Maine,” mixed media group exhibition ARTSTREAM STUDIO GALLERY

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pm; Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through May 31: “Sea to Sea,” paintings by Amy Ruppel + Rachel Blumberg ASYMMETRICK ARTS | 207.594.2020 | 405 Main St, Rockland | Mon-Sat 10 am-5:30 pm | Through May 10: Gabriella D’Italia: “Land Frames” AUCOCISCO GALLERIES | 207.775.2222 | 89 Exchange St, Portland | aucocisco.com | Thurs-Sat 9 am-5 pm | Through May 11: works

by Josefina Auslander + Tanya Fletcher | reception May 9 5-7 pm | reception May 11 3-5 pm | May 16-18:

works by Johanna Moore + Amy Ray | reception May 16 5-7 pm BUCKSPORT HOME GALLERY | 119 School St, Bucksport | call for hours | Through May 31: “Archetype VI,” mixed media group exhibition | reception May 10 4-8 pm BUOY GALLERY | 207.450.2402 | 2 Government St, Kittery | WedSat 5-9 pm | Through May 24: “Territory*Decay: Drawings in Ink,”

by Sarah Baldwin CARVER HILL GALLERY | 207.594.7745 | 338 Main St, Rockland | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 11 am-3 pm | Through May 31: “Synecdoche,” group painting exhibition CASCO BAY FRAMES | 207.774.1260 | 295 Forest Ave, Ste 6, Portland | Through June 30: “14th Annual Employee Art Show,” mixed media by Michael Argondizza + James Barner + Tony Cox + Michael Fraser + Holly Karolkowski + Laurel Lopez

CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART | 207.236.2875 | 162

Russell Ave, Rockport | artsmaine.org | Through May 12: “ARTicipation!”, mixed media student art exhibit

CHOCOLATE CHURCH ARTS CENTER | 207.442.8455 | 804 Washington

St, Bath | chocolatechurcharts.org | Tues-Wed 10 am-4 pm; Thurs noon-7 pm; Fri 10 am-4 pm; Sat noon-4 pm | Through May 11: “Fiddleheads & Springtime Pleasures,” mixed media group exhibition

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Mon-Sat 10 am-7 pm | Through May 25: Aaron T. Stephan: “Paths,” installation

COLEMAN BURKE GALLERY/PORTLAND | 207.725.3761 | 504 Congress St, Port City Music Hall Window, Portland | Through May 31: “Heavy,” window installation by Ben Potter

COMMON STREET ARTS |

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Sat noon-6 pm | Through May 31: “Crossing the Messalonskee: Senior Art Exhibition,” by Colby College students CONSTELLATION ART GALLERY | 207.409.6617 | 511 Congress St, Portland | constellationgallery.webs.com | Mon-Thurs noon-4 pm; Fri noon-4 pm & 6-8 pm; Sat 2-8 pm | Through May 24: “Viva Cuba,” photography

by Ann Tracy | Through May 30: “MAC Windows,” mixed media works by the Maine Artists Collective ELIZABETH MOSS GALLERIES | 207.781.2620 | 251 Rte 1, Falmouth | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through June 1: Annette Kearney: “Take Flight” + Diane Bowie Zaitlin: “Eloquent Silence” FRONTIER CAFE | 207.725.5222 |

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May 16-June 19: “Helen St. Clair: A Life in Art,” oils, collages, & drawings GLEASON FINE ART/PORTLAND | 207.699.5599 | 545 Congress St, Portland | gleasonfineart.com | Wed-Fri 11 am-6 pm; Sat 11 am-5 pm | Through June 29: “Clarence K. Chatterton (1880-1973): An Artist’s Artist,” retrospective exhibit + Phil Barter: “New Work” GREENHUT GALLERIES | 207.772.2693 | 146 Middle St, Portland | greenhutgalleries.com | Mon-Fri 10 am-5:30 pm; Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through June 1: “New Work” paintings by Colin Page HARBOR SQUARE GALLERY | 207.594.8700 | 374 Main St, Rockland | harborsquaregallery.com | Mon-Sat 11 am-5 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through May 31: “Tree Work | An Arbor Day Celebration,” mixed media group exhibition | Ongoing: “Muir Garden of Contemporary Sculpture” + “Tran-

scendence Through Sculpture” + fine art, jewelry, and contemporary American art HARLOW GALLERY | 207.622.3813 | 160 Water St, Hallowell | harlowgallery. org | Wed-Sat noon-6 pm; Sun-Tues by appointment | Through June 1: “18th Annual Juried Art Exhibition,” mixed media ICON CONTEMPORARY ART | 207.725.8157 | 19 Mason St, Brunswick | Mon-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 1-4 pm | Through May 25: “Graphite/Paper/2D/3D,” drawings & sculptures by James Marshall KATIE MADE BAKERY | 207.771.0994 | 181 Congress St, Portland | Through May 31: works by Lisa Dombek KENNEBUNK FREE LIBRARY | 207.985.2173 | 112 Main St, Kennebunk | kennebunklibrary.org | Mon-Tues 9:30 am-8 pm; Wed 12:30-8 pm; Thurs-Sat 9:30 am-5 pm | Through May 31: 2D works by Kennebunk High School students KENNEDY GALLERY | 603.436.7007 | 41 Market St, Portsmouth, NH | MonTues 9:30 am-6 pm; Wed-Thurs 9:30 am-6:30 pm; Fri-Sat 9:30 am-7 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through May 31: still life paintings by Ellen Friel KITTERY ART ASSOCIATION | 207.967.0049 | 8 Coleman Ave, Kittery | kitteryartassociation.org | Sat noon-6 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Through May 12: “Art in Bloom,” installation | May 16-26: student exhibition LANDING GALLERY | 207.594.4544 | 8 Elm St, Rockland | landingart.com | Tues-Sat 11 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Through May 29: “Bits to Its: 3D Printing Art Show,” with Maine FabLab LOCAL 188 | 207.761.7909 | 685 Congress St, Portland | local188.com | MonFri 5:30 pm-1 am; Sat-Sun 9 am-2 pm & 5:30 pm-1 am | Through June 30: acrylics by Doug van Werssowtz & silkscreens by Anna O’Sullivan LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | 207.899.3529 | 649 Congress St, Portland | localsproutscooperative.com | Mon-Sat 8 am-10 pm; Sun 8 am-4 pm | Through May 31: “A Company of Girls Art Show,” mixed media group exhibition

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St, Exeter, NH | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through June 1: “Out to Pasture,” juried group exhibition SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland | space538. org | Tues-Sat noon-6 pm | Through May 24: “Surface Tension,” mixed media exhibit by former Portland Color artists | Through June 21: “I Was Dreaming This,” paintings by Sophia Narrett TIDEMARK GALLERY | 207.832.5109 | 902 Main St, Waldoboro | Wed-Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through June 1: paintings

by Jean Kigel | reception May 11 5-7 pm WATERFALL ARTS | 207.388.2222 | 256 High St, Belfast | Tues-Fri 10 am5 pm; by appointment | Through May 24: “Earth,” mixed media group exhibition WELLS PUBLIC LIBRARY | 207.646.8181 | 1434 Post Rd, Wells | call for hours | Through May 31: portraits

by Wyatt Barr YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | 207.363.2818 | 15 Long Sands Rd, York | Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat 10 am-1 pm; Mon-Tues + Thurs 10 am-6 pm; Wed noon-8 pm | Through June 30: mixed media works by Ron Crusan

MUSEUMS BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.786.6158 | 75 Russell St, Olin Arts Center, Lewiston | bates.edu/museumabout.xml | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through May 25: “Selections from the Permanent Collection: Recent Acquisitions” | Through May 25: “Senior Exhibition 2013,” mixed media student works + “The Mind’s Eye,” graphite drawings by Dozier Bell

BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.725.3275 | Bowdoin College,

9400 College Station, Brunswick | bowdoin.edu/art-museum | Tues-Wed

+ Fri-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Thurs 10 am8:30 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Free admission; donations welcome | Through June 2: “Sense of Scale, Measure by Color: Art, Science, & Mathematics of Planet Earth” + “Simply Divine: Gods & Demigods in the Ancient Mediterranean” + “Transformative Gestures: Paintings of the Renaissance” + “Unity & Fragmentation: Selections from the Permanent Collection” | Through July 14: “Per Kirkeby: Paintings & Sculpture” 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 and Rockland residents free | Admission $12; $10 seniors and students; free for youth under 17 and Rockland residents | Through Sept 22: “Decorating the Everyday: Popular Art from the Farnsworth” | Through Nov 17: “Andrew Wyeth: Her Room,” tempera, watercolor, & pencil works | Through Dec 29: “American Treasures: Small Treasures,” sculpture + “Every Picture Tells a Story: N.C. Wyeth Illustrations from the Brandywine River Museum” | Through Jan 5: “A Wondrous Journey: Jonathan Fisher & the Making of Scripture Animals” | Through Feb 2: “American

Hot Club of san franCisCo May 10 @ 7:30 pm | Olin Arts Center, Bates College, Lewiston | $20 | laarts.org Treasures: Other Voices,” mixed media group exhibition FRYEBURG ACADEMY | 207.935.9232 | Eastman Performing Arts Center, 745 Main St, Fryeburg | fryeburgacademy.org | Mon-Fri 9 am-1 pm; by appointment | Through May 18: “Mark Baum, Painter (1903-1997): A Retrospective” 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 | May 10-June 2: “2013 MFA Thesis Exhibition,” mixed media student works MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM | 207.329.9854 | 267 Congress St, Portland | treeoflifemuseum.org | Mon-Fri 10 am-2 pm | Through June 24: George Mason: “New Work” 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 June 28: “Lines Converge, Colors Dance,” multimedia works by Ashley Bryan + Daniel Minter + Rohan Henry | Ongoing: “An Exhibition of Bronze” 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 Oct 31: “Henry Strater: A Life in Art,” retrospective + “Sixty Works - Sixty Years,” mixed media 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 | Through May 19: “Blueberry Rakers,” photography by David Brooks Stess + “Voices of Design: 25 Years of Architalx,” interactive exhibition | Through Sept 8: “The William S. Paley Collection: a Taste for Modernism”

SALT INSTITUTE FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES | 207.761.0660 | 561

Congress St, Portland | salt.edu | TuesFri noon-4:30 pm | Through Feb 8, 2014: “Tinder: Maine Stories by Fall 2012 Graduates,” mixed media

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - AUGUSTA | 207.621.3530 | Klahr Center, 46 University Dr, Augusta | Mon-Fri 9 am-4 pm | Through May 31: “Toward Greater Awareness,” installation by Mitch Lewis

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND BIDDEFORD | 207.283.0171 | Campus

Center, 11 Hills Beach Rd, Biddeford | une.edu/studentlife/campuscenter |

Mon-Fri 8 am-7 pm | Through June 3: still life works by Judith Logan

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 May 12: “Maine Women Pioneers III: Worldview” | Ongoing: paintings & photography by Maine artists + labyrinth installation

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MUSEUM OF ART | 603.862.3712 | Paul Creative Arts Center, Durham, NH | unh. edu/moa | Mon-Wed 10 am-4 pm; Thurs 10 am-8 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | Free admission | Through May 17: “2013 MFA Thesis Exhibition (II)” + “2013 Senior BA & BFA Exhibition”

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 June 7: “Pollination: Evolving Miracles,” mixed media group 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 during school vacations | $10, $9 seniors, $7 youth under 17, free under 6; first Friday of the month is free 5-8 pm | Through Aug 31: “Show & Tell Gallery: Artwork by Youth With Autisum Spectrum Disorder” | May 9: Tiny Tots: Monoprints 10:30 am; Star Show 11:30 am; Bubble Wand Making 3:30 pm | May 10: The Circus is in Town 10:30 am; Touch Tank 11:30 am; Bubble Machines 3:30 pm | May 11: Ooey, Gooey, Messy, Slimy Day 10:30 am4:30 pm; Camera Obscura noon; Open Art Studio 2-3 pm | May 12: Mother’s Day noon-5 pm; Fairy Garden Special 1-2 pm | May 14: Spring Paper Flowers 11 am; Urban Gardening: Pea Planting 3:30 pm | May 15: Open Art Studio 11 am-noon; Bubble Wand Making 3:30 pm | May 16: Tiny Tots: Shape Scavenger Hunt 10:30 am; Animal Fun 11 am; Mini-Campsites 3:30 pm

302 SPORTS BAR & GRILLE | 207.894.5730 | 765 Roosevelt Trail, Windham 51 WHARF | 207.774.1151 | 51 Wharf St, Portland ACOUSTIC ARTISANS | 207.671.6029 | 594 Congress St, Portland ALISSON’S RESTAURANT | 207.967.4841 | 5 Dock Sq, Kennebunkport ALL AMERICAN TAVERN | 207.674.3800 | 64 Bethel Rd, West Paris ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | 207.874.2639 | 94 Commercial St, Portland ASYLUM | 207.772.8274 | 121 Center St, Portland BACK BURNER TAVERN | 207.935.4444 | 109 Main St, Brownfield BAYSIDE BOWL | 207.791.2695 | 58 Alder St, Portland BEACHFIRE BAR AND GRILLE

| 207.646.8998 | 658 Main St., Ogunquit BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | 207.564.8733 | 73 North St, Dover Foxcroft BEBE’S BURRITOS | 207.283.4222 | 140 Main St, Biddeford BENTLEY’S SALOON | 207.985.8966 | 1601 Portland Rd, Rte 1, Kennebunkport BIG EASY | 207.775.2266 | 55 Market St, Portland BINGA’S STADIUM | 207.347.6072 | 77 Free St, Portland BLACK BEAR CAFE | 207.693.4770 | 215 Roosevelt Trail, Naples BLUE | 207.774.4111 | 650A Congress St, Portland BLUE MERMAID | 603.427.2583 | 409 The Hill, Portsmouth, NH BRAY’S BREWPUB | 207.693.6806 | Rte 302 and Rte 35, Naples BRIAN BORU | 207.780.1506 | 57 Center St, Portland BRIDGE STREET TAVERN | 207.623.8561 | 18 Bridge St, Augusta

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

DOGFISH CAFE | 207.253.5400 |

953 Congress St, Portland DOOBIE’S BAR & GRILL | 207.623.7625 | 349 Water St, Augusta DOVER BRICK HOUSE | 603.749.3838 | 2 Orchard St, Dover, NH EASY STREET LOUNGE | 207.622.3360 | 7 Front St, Hallowell EMPIRE DINE AND DANCE | 207.879.8988 | 575 Congress St, Portland THE FARM BAR & GRILLE | 603.516.3276 | 25A Portland Ave, Dover, NH FAST BREAKS | 207.782.3305 | 1465 Lisbon St, Lewiston FAT BELLY’S | 603.610.4227 | 2 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH FEDERAL JACK’S | 207.967.4322 | 8 Western Ave, Kennebunk

FEILE IRISH RESTAURANT AND PUB

| 207.251.4065 | 1619 Post Rd, Wells FLASK LOUNGE | 207.772.3122 | 117 Spring St, Portland THE FOGGY GOGGLE | 207.824.5056 | South Ridge Lodge, Sunday River, Newry FORE PLAY | 207.780.1111 | 436 Fore St, Portland FRESH | 207.236.7005 | 1 Bay View Landing, Camden 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 THE FUNKY RED BARN | 207.824.3003 | 19 Summer St, Bethel 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

GENO’S | 207.221.2382 | 625 Congress St, Portland

THE GIN MILL | 207.620.9200 |

302 Water St, Augusta GINGKO BLUE | 207.541.9190 | 2 Portland Sq, 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 HANNA’S TAVERN | 207.490.5122 | 324 Country Club Rd, Sanford

BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/FREEPORT |

HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEEHOUSE AND TAVERN | 207.621.1234 |

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | 603.742.2002 | 6 Wash-

BULL FEENEY’S | 207.773.7210 | 375

HILTON GARDEN INN | 603.431.1499 |

pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Admission $7, seniors $6 | Through May 27: “Mosaic: Our Multicultural Neighborhood,” mixed media DISCOVER PORTSMOUTH CENTER | 603.436.8420 | 10 Middle St, Portsmouth, NH | portsmouthhistory.org | 10 am-5 pm | Through May 31: “New Hampshire Art Association Printmakers Open Juried Exhibition” + “Seacoast Reflections,” photography by Suzie Goodwin 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: “Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine,” historical exhibit NEW GLOUCESTER HISTORY BARN | 207.926.3188 | Rte 231, New Gloucester | May 16: “Mystery Night,” artifacts

1301 Rte 22, Buxton

ington St, Dover, NH | Tues-Sat 10 am-5

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 6, 2014: “Animal Allies: Inuit Views of the Natural World” | Through April 16, 2014: “In a State of Becoming: Inuit Art from the Collection of Rabbi Harry Sky” | Ongoing: “Chilling Discoveries About Global Warming” + “The Roosevelt: a Model of Strength” + “The North Pole” + “Permanent Collection” SOUTHWORTH PLANETARIUM | 207.780.4249 | Science Building, 70 Fal-

mouth St, University of Southern Maine - Portland, | usm.maine.edu/planet | call

for hours | free | May 10: Eight Planets & Counting 7 pm; IBEX: The Search for the Edge of the Solar System 8:30 pm | May 11: The Little Star That Could 3 pm | May 12: Two Small Pieces of Glass 3 pm

207.865.0600 | 581 Rte 1, Freeport

Fore St, Portland

BUXTON TAVERN | 207.929.8668 | BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH |

207.443.6776 | 98 Center St, Bath

BYRNES IRISH PUB/ BRUNSWICK | 207.729.9400 |

16 Station Ave, Brunswick THE CAGE | 207.783.0668 | 97 Ash St, Lewiston CAMPFIRE GRILLE | 207.803.2255 | 656 North High St, Bridgton CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN | 207.336.2126 | 371 Turner St, Buckfield

CAPTAIN DANIEL STONE INN | 207.373.1824 |

10 Water St, Brunswick CENTRAL WAVE | 603.742.9283 | 368 Central Ave, Dover, NH CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | 207.282.7900 | 15 Thornton St, Biddeford CHARLAMAGNE’S | 207.242.2711 | 228 Water St, Augusta CLUB TEXAS | 207.784.7785 | 150 Center St, Auburn

COUSIN SAM’S PIZZERIA AND BREW | 160 Washington St,

Rochester, NH CRAZY 8’S | 207.739.2989 | 300 Park St, South Paris CURVA ULTRA LOUNGE | 207.866.3600 | 103 Park St, Orono DANIEL STREET TAVERN | 603.430.1011 | 111 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH DAVIS ISLAND GRILL | 207.687.2190 | 318 Eddy Rd, Edgecomb DEER RUN TAVERN | 207.846.9555 | 365 Main St, Yarmouth DOBRA TEA | 207.370.1890 | 151 Middle St, Portland THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | 207.772.5483 | 128 Free St, Portland

119 Water St, Hallowell

100 High St, Portsmouth, NH THE HIVE | | 84 Main St, Kennebunk HONEY POT BAR & LOUNGE | 603.760.2013 | 920 Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH HOOLIGAN’S IRISH PUB | 207.934.4063 | 2 Old Orchard Rd, Old Orchard Beach HOXTER’S BAR & BISTRO | 207.629.5363 | 122 Water St, Hallowell IRISH TWINS PUB | 207.376.3088 | 743 Main St, Lewiston IRON TAILS SALOON | 207.850.1142 | 559 Rte 109, Acton JACK’S PLACE | 207.797.7344 | 597 Bridgton Rd, Westbrook

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

Old Orchard Beach

JIMMY THE GREEK’S/SOUTH PORTLAND | 207.774.7335 |

115 Philbrook Rd, South Portland

JOE’S NEW YORK PIZZA |

207.699.5559 | 420 Fore St, Portland JONATHAN’S | 207.646.4777 | 92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit

JUMPIN’ JAKE’S SEAFOOD CAFE & BAR | 207.937.3250 |

181 Saco Ave, Old Orchard Beach

THE KAVE | 207.469.6473 |

177 Silver Lake Rd, Bucksport

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 THE LIBERAL CUP | 207.623.2739 | 115 Water St, Hallowell LILAC CITY GRILLE | 603.332.3984 | 45 N Main St, Rochester, NH LINDBERGH’S LANDING | 207.934.3595 | End of Pier, Old Orchard Beach

LOCAL 188 | 207.761.7909 |

685 Congress St, Portland LOCAL BUZZ | 207.541.9024 | 327 Ocean House Rd, Cape Elizabeth LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | 207.899.3529 | 649 Congress St, Portland THE LOFT | 207.541.9045 | 865 Forest Ave, Portland LOMPOC CAFE | 207.288.9392 | 36 Rodick St, Bar Harbor M ROOM AT MILLENNIUM | 207.368.2352 | 416 Oxbow Rd, Palmyra MAINE STREET | 207.646.5101 | 195 Maine St, Ogunquit MAMA’S CROWBAR | 207.773.9230 | 189 Congress St, Portland MARGARITA’S/AUBURN | 207.782.6036 | 180 Center St, Auburn MARK’S PLACE | 207.899.3333 | 416 Fore St, Portland MARTINGALE WHARF | 603.431.0091 | 99 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH MATHEW’S | 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 MCSEAGULL’S | 207.633.5900 | Gulf Dock, Boothbay Harbor MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | 207.642.3363 | 35 Blake Rd, Standish 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 MY TIE LOUNGE | 207.406.2574 | 94 Maine St, Brunswick MYRTLE STREET TAVERN | 207.596.6250 | 12 Myrtle St, Rockland NONANTUM RESORT | 207.967.4050 | 95 Ocean Ave, Kennebunkport 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 ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | 207.761.1757 | 181 State St, Portland THE PAGE | 603.436.0004 | 172 Hanover St, Portsmouth, NH PATIO PUB | 207.934.3595 | 2 Old Orchard St, Old Orchard Beach 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 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 | 603.430.9122 | 64 Market St, Portsmouth, NH POST ROAD TAVERN | 207.641.0640 | 705 Main St, Ogunquit PRESS ROOM | 603.431.5186 | 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH PROFENNO’S | 207.856.0011 | 934 Main St, Westbrook PUB 33 | 207.786.4808 | 33 Sabattus St, Lewiston THE RACK | 207.237.2211 | Sugarloaf Mountain A, Kingfield RAVEN’S ROOST | 207.406.2359 | 103 Pleasant St, Brunswick READFIELD EMPORIUM | 207.685.7348 | 1146 Main St, Readfield 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 ROCK CITY ROASTERS & CAFE | 207.594.4123 | 316 Main St, Rockland THE ROOST | 207.799.1232 | 62 Chicopee Rd, Buxton 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 RUSTY HAMMER | 603.436.9289 | 49 Pleasant St, Portsmouth, NH SAMOSET RESORT | 207.596.6055 | 220 Warrenton St, Rockport SAVORY MAINE | 207.563.2111 | 11 Water St, Damariscotta SCHEMENGEES BAR AND GRILL | 207.777.1155 | 551 Lincoln St, Lewiston SEA 40 | 207.795.6888 | 40 East Ave, Lewiston 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 SEASONS GRILLE | 207.775.6538 | 155 Riverside St, Portland

SEBAGO BREW PUB/KENNEBUNK | 207.467.8107 | 67 Portland Rd, Kennebunk SHEEPSCOT GENERAL | 207.549.5185 | 98 Townhouse Rd, Whitefield SHOOTERS BILLIARDS BAR & GRILL | 207.794.8585 |

222B West Broadway, Lincoln

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 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 SOUTHSIDE TAVERN | 207.474.6073 | 1 Waterville Rd, Skowhegan SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland SPARE TIME | 207.878.2695 | City Sports Grille, 867 Riverside St, Portland SPECTATORS | 207.324.9658 | Rte 4, Sanford SPLITTERS | 207.621.1710 | 2246 N Belfast Ave, Augusta SPRING HILL TAVERN | 603.431.5222 | Dolphin Striker, 15 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH SPRING POINT TAVERN | 207.733.2245 | 175 Pickett St, South Portland 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 T&B’S OUTBACK TAVERN | 207.877.7338 | 6 Jefferson St, Waterville TANTRUM | 207.404.4300 | 193 Broad St, Bangor THATCHER’S PUB | 207.887.3582 | 10 Cumberland St, Westbrook THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | 603.427.8645 | 21 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH THE THIRSTY PIG | 207.773.2469 | 37 Exchange St, Portland THE TIME OUT BAR & GRILL | 207.907.4992 | 30 Clisham Rd, Brewer TIME OUT PUB | 207.593.9336 | 275 Main St, Rockland TORTILLA FLAT | 207.797.8729 | 1871 Forest Ave, Portland 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 STATION BILLIARDS | 207.899.3693 | 272 St John St, Portland VACANCY PUB | 207.934.9653 | Ocean Park Rd, Old Orchard Beach WALLY’S PUB | 603.926.6954 | 144 Ashworth Ave, Hampton, NH WATER STREET GRILL | 207.582.9464 | 463 Water St, Gardiner WHITE’S CUE CONNECTION | 207.657.2266 | Rte 100, Gray WOODMAN’S BAR & GRILL | 207.866.4040 | 31 Main St, Orono YORK HARBOR INN | 800.343.3869 | Rte 1A, York Harbor ZACKERY’S | 207.774.5601 | Fireside Inn & Suites, 81 Riverside St, Portland

MAY 8-14

Wed.8: Trivia Nite 7pm Thu.9: NORTH OF NASHVILLE 9:30pm Fri.10: TRAVIS JAMES HUMPHREY 9:30pm Sat.11: THE JUMPOFF 9:30pm Sun.12: Big Brunch 10:30, Irish Sessions 3pm Tue.14: Game Nite 6pm

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333 Clarks Pond Parkway, South Portland | 207.772.6023

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At Buck’s Naked BBQ the meat is cooked plain — without being infused or coated with in any particular sauce. This is meat we can relate to. What is any one of us Americans, really, but a warm pile of flesh lacking any particular piquancy? We don’t even move around much anymore. We just sit there at a desk or on a couch. All that is missing is the plate underneath us. Is it so surprising that the Jamestown settlers ate that girl?

At Buck’s you can splash your meat with any of various sauces, housed in red squeeze bottles at your table — just as we, lacking the deeper qualities of character, try on different personalities, and their accompanying clothes, skin markings, and facial hair.

This works better for Buck’s than it does for the rest of us. Though they call the meat “naked,” most of Buck’s barbecue has been rubbed with a subtle mix of spices that mingles nicely with the smoke of the cooker and the meat’s natural flavor. We didn’t need to reach for those red bottles too often.

Buck’s, which first established itself in Freeport, has taken over the huge space formerly occupied by Havana South in the Old Port. The space is filled with huge booths

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and tables — the better for families and large parties to gather around massive platters of meat and lots of sides. There is some kitschy décor around, but wherever you are sitting most of it is far away. Inside your highwalled booth you will focus on the food. The servers are relaxed and convivial, but they also take care of your meal.

A salad consisting of a grilled head of romaine had some appealing smokiness and got off the heat before wilting. It was served with a mushy mix of grilled squash and peppers. A lamb appetizer came with a terrific salad — lively bitter greens enhanced by a mix of feta and black olives, with a light dressing. The lamb was great too, tender and a touch fatty with rich earthy flavor. But the mint sauce had more sugar than sour, which pushed it in the direction of toothpaste. But sauce-schmauce with meat this good, which is the general theme at Buck’s.

On the other hand, we relied on a spicy sauce to enliven the fried okra. Since it was the day’s special side dish, it was surprising that it seemed pre-frozen.

The actual barbecue, on the other hand, seems beyond reproach. The pork ribs in particular were spot-on, with a great char,

rich flavor, and just-right tender, fatty moistness.

The pulled pork had the right texture, but lacked the same depth of pork flavor, and here we used some of the sauce to good effect. The best of these was a MANY OPTIONS a selection of the barbecue at Buck’s. vinegary-peppery version with a black dered if anyone could successfully fill it with stripe on the red bottle. The beef brisket had a business that did not involve black-out a deep rich flavor and was expertly cooked drinking and ladies-nights. Buck’s might be just past any hint of stringiness. The house the solution. It is family-friendly, but has a sausage was more sweet than spicy, with a cheeky attitude and retains a bit of meatypleasant smokiness. The chicken was the drinky frisson, which gives it just enough only disappointment — just a touch dry, edge to fit in the neighborhood. The Old Port with the spice rub stopped cold by the skin. is so often about finding a way to get naked A side of cheesy (and peppery) grits was terwith somebody. Buck’s reminds us that exrific when piping hot, but the texture went istentially speaking we already are, and that south with cooling. The braised greens were is okay. ^ expertly done, with a nice touch of vinegar and pepper, and just the right tenderness.

This particular Old Port space has long $ BUCK’S NAKED BBQ | 50 Wharf St, Portland loomed on Wharf Street like that hollow pit | 11 am-9 pm Sun-Thurs; 11 am-11 pm Fri-Sat | we carry where our souls should be. I wonVisa/MC/Amex | 207.899.0610

EnCorE BroadCaSt oF GIUlIo CESarE BY tHE MEtroPolItan oPEra | Wed: 6:30 tHE GrEat GatSBY | noon, 3:10, 6:40 tHE GrEat GatSBY 3d | Fri-Wed: 9:40

Iron Man 3 | 11:45 am, 3, 6:50, 9:40 Iron Man 3d | noon, 3:30, 7:10, 9:50 MUd | 1, 4, 7:15, 9:50 oBlIVIon | Fri-Wed: 11:30 am, 3:50, 7, 9:45

PaIn & GaIn | Fri-Wed: 1, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40

Star trEK Into darKnESS | Thu:

12:30, 3:30, 7, 9:50

Star trEK Into darKnESS 3d | Thu: noon, 3, 6:45, 9:40

nICKElodEon CInEMaS 1 Temple St, Portland | 207.772.9751

tHE anGElS’ SHarE | 1:30, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15

tHE CoMPanY YoU KEEP | 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45

42 | 4, 7, 9:40 tHE GrEat GatSBY | 12:30, 1:45, 3:30, 5, 6:30, 8, 9:25 Iron Man 3 | 1, 4, 6:40, 9:20 PaIn & GaIn | 12:45

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life is elsewhere

spencer Mccall’s Bewildering The InsTITuTe _By n ich o l a s s chro e d er Ostensibly, the first feature film by Spencer McCall seeks to provide a portrait of a San Francisco organization called the Jejune Institute, whose mission hovers somewhere between the poles of self-help, performance art, disinformation, and an alternate-reality game. But if this is a portrait, we’re not in art class anymore.

Over a series of interviews with organizers and “inductees” spliced with raw-seeming candid footage of Jejune activities in full swing, we join together the bare bones of a most mysterious organizational body.

There’s a hazily cultish, pseudoscientific induction ceremony; a bizarre sort of scavenger hunt through the city’s financial district; and even a renegade inductee called Organeil whose fervent dedication to the reshaping of reality so far surpassed the group’s that it led to a sort of shadowy splinter faction. All is punctuated by a litany of stilted dispatches from an aged 1960s hippie-in-a-suit named Octavio Coleman, Esq., Jejune’s purported intellectual founder and fervent proselytizer of its practice of “Nonchalance,” about whom portrayals vary widely: virtuous godhead, scientific mastermind, and ne-

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INTENTIONAL MISDIRECTION? The Institute raises many questions. farious crackpot.

The role of pseudoscience looms large throughout. Indeed, by their own accounts several members first discovered the Jejune Institute through flyers for strangely metaphysical quack products (like the Vital Organ Force Field, for example). Interest in such things, the film would suggest, is a trait shared by certain adventurous or otherwise disaffected souls; these are the majority of Jejune participants, who recall with a bubbling mix of bewilderment and wonder their roles in

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subterranean rescue missions, objectless protests, and spontaneous dance jams at public pay phones (the latter of which involves a sasquatch, just so you know).

As a roundabout sort of documentation of a fundamentally ephemeral practice, it’s only natural that The Institute falls short of fully capturing its subject. Even after the second viewing, the impulse to consult the Internet for clues was strong.

But such inquiries go nowhere. The Institute is a closed loop.

As so much else will prove to be, the film reveals the Jejune Institute product line i as something of a red herring. The only thing they’re selling, it seems, is obsequious devotion to the philosophies of one Evalyn Lucien, a free-spirited young woman we learn went missing in 1988. If Coleman is the intellectual forebear of Nonchalance, then Eva (the film insists on the nickname without the forensic attachment of a surname) is its matriarch, writing longingly about a place she calls “elsewhere.” As if bounding down a rabbit hole or one of its own tortuous scavenger hunts, the sudden focus on her dossier is startling. She is exalted: Eva the artist, Eva the discontent, Eva the icon. The sensation of huh? is prolonged.

But holding it to the standards of a documentary seems a little unfair. McCall’s film might equally be seen as a sort of instruction manual. He’s clearly fascinated — maybe even involved to a degree — with his subject, and seems to understand that

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treating it either with rigorous exegesis or the blustery devotion of an acolyte would greatly diminish its appeal. He also doesn’t bother to contextualize, and so like Eva and Coleman, the specters of Wilhelm Reich, L. Ron Hubbard, Allan Kaprow, Judith Malina, Ivan Stang, and even The Matrix haunt the film from afar. Putting aside its fictions, it smartly examines the possibilities of non-monetized life, and so is basically a must for performance-art students, latent Situationists, punks, hippies, radicals, cultural studies academics, the unconscionably bored, and any theater person who goes beyond Sam Shepard.

But content aside, what makes The Institute work is elsewhere indeed. Like one of Jejune’s oblique product flyers, McCall maintains a palpable distance from his study, relying instead on a flux of symbols and gestures that shepherd the viewer down several paths at once. In doing so, his film simulates the same sort of trapdoor from reality so tantalizing about its subject.

No doubt, it’s one of the most unique documentaries I’ve seen in a while. And though it’s not exactly what it purports to be — and that’s as much as I’ll say on the matter — the same might very well be said about everyday life. ^

XXX THE INSTITUTE | written and directed

by Spencer McCall | May 15 @ 7:30 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | $8 | space538.org

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_by syMbo line Da i The moon is new and waxing this week. You may find matters that once seemed minor now loom larger. Or, if last week brought crisis and chaos, resolution comes quickly. As for the holiday?

Easily handled. For Capricorn, Taurus, and Virgo: don’t spare the expense. Gemini, Aquarius, and Libra: creative gestures are appreciated. Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius: she’ll be thrilled you remember.

Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces: no need to rehash the dismal parts of your growing up.

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The moon stays in each sign approximately two and a half days. | As the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of course,” making no major angles to planets. Consider this a null time and try to avoid making or implementing decisions if you can. But it’s great for brainstorming. | For Symboline Dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, visit our Web site at thePhoenix.com. Symboline Dai can be reached at sally@moonsigns.net.

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