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Retracing Thoreau’s wild and woodsy journey

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“the note of the white-throated sparrow, a very inspiriting but almost wiry sound, was the first heard in the morning, and with this all the woods rang.” _Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods, “Allagash and East Branch” section

This Friday, May 16, a group of guides, members of the Penobscot Nation, academic scholars, and intrepid outdoorsy types sets off on a 16-day trip to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry David Thoreau’s The Maine Woods, a seminal piece of nature on little spencer pond Photo by Scot Miller/ScotMiller. writing and a time-capsule com, whose “Thoreau’s Maine Woods” exhibit is up through representation of our February 2015 at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. state’s natural history. Documenting three trips Thoreau took in 1846, 1853, and 1857, the I had heard of irrelevant things; now at book contains the transcendentalist’s oblength I was glad to make acquaintance servations on Maine’s forests, lakes, rivers, with the light that dwells in rotten wood. and wildlife — a travelogue that transports Where is all your knowledge gone to? It us into the wild, untamed northern woods evaporates completely, for it has no depth.” that have changed little over a century and Five Thoreau scholars are also coming a half. The anniversary tour will retrace along, to provide academic and historical Thoreau’s 1857 expedition; participants will context. Each segment of the trip will start paddle the full length of Moosehead Lake, with a reading of Thoreau’s text that will then cross into the Penobscot and Allagash help inform that leg of the journey, Wilson River watersheds, head down Webster says. And thanks to satellite mapping/ Stream (through Baxter State Park) to the communication technology provided by East Branch and main stem of the PenobMaine’s Pinnacle Tracking, we can follow scot River, and finish where they started: along from home — participate, even — via at Indian Island, just north of Bangor. (This Facebook (facebook.com/MaineWoodsDiswon’t be easy going. As Thoreau noted, covery) or Twitter (@themainewoods) using “Though you have nothing to do but see the the hashtag #150Thoreau. country, there’s rarely any time to spare, This, of course, is a concession to modern hardly enough to examine a plant, before life that even Thoreau would understand. the night or drowsiness is upon you.”) “Wild as it was, it was hard for me to get It’s a testament to the efforts of conserrid of the associations of the settlements,” vationists, private land-owners, and outhe wrote way back when. “Any steady and door recreation groups that this trip will be monotonous sound, to which I did not dis“remarkably similar to the experience that tinctly attend, passed for a sound of human Thoreau had 150 years ago,” says Mike Wilindustry. The waterfalls which I heard were son, senior program director at the Northnot without their dams and mills to my ern Forest Center non-profit, which is part imagination — and several times I found of the Maine Woods Discovery consortium that I had been regarding the steady rushing coordinating the tour. sound of the wind from over the woods beIn addition to guiding and logistical yond the rivers as that of a train of cars — the support from Mahoosuc Guide Service, cars at Quebec. Our minds anywhere, when New England Outdoor Center, and the Apleft to themselves, are always thus busily palachian Mountain Club, the travelers drawing conclusions from false premises.” will benefit from the cultural perspective of One hundred and fifty years later, this, several members of the Penobscot Nation — too, has not changed. But out there, in the just as Thoreau did in 1853 and 1857. Maine Woods, is maybe the closest we can “I have much to learn of the Indian, come to shutting off and just being. nothing of the missionary,” he wrote in _Deirdre Fulton 1857. “I am not sure but all that would tempt me to teach the Indian my religion would visit mainewoodsdiscovery.com/150thoreau be his promise to teach me his. Long enough to read a full itinerary and follow along.

These days, Maine knows no shortage of exciting literary events, readings, and workshops. But next Thursday’s Slice Magazine Literary Bash at Longfellow Books is truly not-to-be-missed, a showcase of emerging and established authors with connections to Maine — with some craft brews thrown in for good measure. Slice is a Brooklyn-based non-profit magazine that aims to bridge the gap between budding writers and the professional publishing realm, featuring interviews with literary legends, behind-the-scenes glimpses at the publication process, and fiction, essays, and poetry by both new and renowned authors. Next Thursday’s event will highlight the work of debut authors along with more well-known names; Biddeford’s new Banded Horn Brewing Co. will be providing the beer. We spoke to Slice creative director Celia Johnson about the magazine, our state’s literary landscape, and what we can expect from the party.

What makes Slice unique or different from other literary magazines? Slice was founded in 2007 by two book editors, myself and fellow editor Maria Gagliano. We were working at Random House at the time. We’ve always brought a publishing sensibility to the magazine. So, while we publish exciting and award-winning fiction and nonfiction by emerging writers, we also strategize how to help these writers (and others) garner attention from important people in the publishing industry. For example, we publish an interview with a debut author, editor, and agent in each issue, detailing the twists and turns of publishing a new book, from all three angles. Many of our subscribers are agents, editors, and other publishing professionals. We bridge that divide between new writing and the publishing world through our magazine and then, off the page, at events all around New York. We just hosted a big trivia/Pictionary showdown between three teams of major editors, agents, and authors at Housing Works Bookstore Café in Manhattan. It was a big hit — not only an opportunity for bookworms to watch their literary heroes compete, but a chance to mingle with other writers and publishing people of all stripes. We also host an annual writers’ conference every September in downtown Brooklyn, and many of our attendees have had great success connecting with agents and editors. It’s amazing how many great things can happen if you just give talented people a chance to meet one another!

you recently moved to maine from neW york. What’s your impression thus far of maine’s literary scene? It seems like

the Maine literary scene is every bit as vibrant and serendipitous as the New York

scene. At every turn, I seem to stumble into exciting new writers. And there are so many enthusiastic established writers, eager not only to discuss literature, but support those new voices, too. Perhaps I shouldn’t say stumble, though, because folks like Joshua Bodwell, of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, have been amazing, guiding me from one talented person to the next. And clearly Mainers support the arts. It’s exciting to live in a state where indie bookstores like Longfellow Books can thrive. The Telling Room, that wonderful literary nonprofit for young voices, receives such great support. And even beyond Portland, you find wonderful outlets for the arts, like Elements Bookstore and Café and Engine, an arts-driven nonprofit, both in Biddeford, among others. I also love that, just like in Brooklyn, great prose seems to go hand-in-hand with great local craft beer. My husband just started a brewery, Banded Horn, in Biddeford, and he’s already had the chance to serve up his beer at readings at SPACE and Engine, and to take part in The Telling Room’s big annual fundraiser. Of course, we’ll be serving his beer at Longfellow Books next week.

tell me a little more about the authors Who Will be shoWcased at the longfelloW books event. Why is their Work important, and What made their pieces memorable? At Slice we publish

a broad range of writers, and never have we boasted such an eclectic list of readers, from vastly different backgrounds, as we will at Longfellow next week. They share a few things in common: inimitable prose and a knack for great storytelling. They all have impressive and yet vastly different backgrounds, whether teaching at prestigious programs, receiving notable awards, or running renowned literary programs, among other achievements. Each reader is someone I’d describe as a writer to take note of, and they’re all at different stages in their careers. CJ Hauser and Kimberly Elkins are both celebrating debut novels with ties to Maine at this reading. Justin Taylor and Douglas W. Milliken are veteran authors, reading from their latest books. Joshua Bodwell is reading from one of two linked stories that appear in separate issues of Slice. Mira Maria Ptacin, who teaches the writing program at SALT in Portland and founded a renowned nonfiction reading series in Brooklyn, is the sole nonfiction writer, reading a truly unusual and insightful essay on motherhood.

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The truth ain’t what it seems The truth, some idiot of a television scriptwriter once wrote, is out there. Let’s hope it stays as far away as possible. Because if it wanders within range of a politician, there’s a danger it’ll be captured and genetically mutated to suit whatever agenda this particular pol is pushing. Truth, as anyone with more brains than a TV scriptwriter knows, is an elusive quality, subject to alteration not only by facts, but also by individual whims and assorted prejudices. In a democracy, that’s just the way it should be. Our system of government allows you to decide on the validity of such controversial topics as global warming, evolution, Medicaid expansion, welfare reform, and whether Republican congressional candidate Bruce Poliquin is actually a resident of the 2nd District. Finding the truth in any of these disputable matters is up to you. As an American, if you don’t choose to believe in the law of gravity, you’re free to step off a cliff. Unfortunately, there are those who feel compelled to meddle in this personal decision-making process. In spite of tons of evidence to the contrary, they have concluded that their ability to discern the truth is superior to yours. And in order to avail you of their advanced ability to determine veracity, they want to establish perhaps the stupidest institution this side of a TV sitcom. They want to create a government-run truth commission. To make the situation even weirder, the politicians who came up with this idea are also the very ones who don’t believe government has a role in protecting the environment, regulating financial institutions or mandating health-care reforms. They don’t trust the government to handle

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much of anything, but they do think it can figure out what’s true. The chief author of this contradictory scheme is GOP Governor Paul LePage. During the last legislative session, he attempted to pass a bill allowing the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices (motto: Wimpy — But Also Indecisive) to assess claims made by state candidates to determine if they were so much hokum. Legislators, being not quite as brain-dead as TV scriptwriters, decisively defeated the governor’s plan. They recognized that not only didn’t the ethics commission have any qualifications for deciding truthfulness, but even if it did, such action, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, would be an unconstitutional restraint of free speech. This action infuriated LePage, who dashed off an angry response. “Since when in the USA [is it] that the truth is unconstitutional,” he wrote. “Interesting, that lying to citizens is the position of the ACLU. It is a real shame that you and your organization do not promote the truth. What example are we providing our children with?” Since you asked, governor, we’re providing them with an example of governmental restraint. We’re instilling in them the belief that ordinary citizens can sort through the garbage politicians spew, discarding the lies all by themselves. We’re acknowledging that if they fail to adequately assess campaign claims — thereby electing blowhards, bullies or bunkum artists (not that I can think of anyone in public office who exemplifies those traits) — they’ll suffer the consequences until the next election, when they’ll have an opportunity to re-evaluate those characters’ credibility. LePage’s effort to establish a

truth commission isn’t the first such misstep in Maine history. Back in 2006, the aforementioned ethics commission took it upon itself to save the voters from themselves. A Republican legislative candidate named Michael Mowles of Cape Elizabeth had had the audacity to print a campaign brochure that contained old endorsements from GOP Senator Susan Collins and then-Senator Olympia Snowe that were left over from Mowles’ unsuccessful 2004 campaign. His primary opponent complained, and the commission ruled use of the comments was a violation of the law. Mowles took his case all the way to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, a process that took over two years. But he got that commission ruling overturned in slam-dunk fashion. “When the government undertakes to tell politicians what they can and cannot say in the course of an election, we must all be cautious,” wrote Chief Justice Leigh Saufley for the unanimous court. “The government may restrict the speech of political candidates only when it can clearly advance a compelling reason for the restriction. Avoiding substantive confusion among the voters regarding political issues simply does not present such a compelling interest.” In other words, finding the truth is up to you and nobody else. If you can’t be bothered to do that, you’ll face the possibility of ending up with a government full of bonkheads who can’t understand the First Amendment, let alone the state budget process. That would be a government a lot like the one we have now — to tell the truth. ^

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economic ‘bests’ in the spirit of this issue’s focus on the Best of portland and beyond, here’s a look at the best of what’s been going down on the economic front: Best Maritime Move to Link Maine’s Markets with the World: a sudden and unexpected surge of life came to portland’s working waterfront last year when the icelandic company eimskip announced it would launch regular cargo ship service between portland and european ports. take a look at the huge piles of eimskip shipping containers beside the casco Bay Bridge and you’ll get a sense of the scale of goods that are now flowing in and out of Maine thanks to this move. the presence of eimskip has also allowed for a bizarre infusion of icelandic culture into portland, including a recent eimskip-sponsored series of free nordic-themed events at Space Gallery. the main impact of eimskip’s presence, though, is the chance for portland to remain a real working port and for Maine to have a vital economic link with the rest of the world. Best Effort to Derail Maine’s Economy: the chances of Maine becoming the nation’s next high-tech hub are slim, but there is at least one technology-oriented industry that the state is uniquely suited to serve: offshore wind energy. Maine’s coast is prime for the installment of offshore wind turbines, which is why the norwegian company Statoil was willing last year to invest $120 million in floating wind turbines off the coast of Boothbay harbor. But Governor lepage has made it clear he doesn’t like wind energy, and that’s why he reneged on a contract with Statoil that had already been approved by the public Utilities commission, prompting the company to back off the investment altogether. lepage says his intention was to give a University of Maine offshore wind project a better chance at winning funding, but the reasoning behind his excuse is incoherent. Since then, the UMaine project failed to win full funding, leaving scarce money for an industry that seemed to be the state’s best chance at combining large-scale economic development with sustainable energy production. Best Common-Sense Economic Proposal: the city of Seattle recently drew the nation’s attention by raising the city’s minimum wage to $15 per hour. Maine’s minimum wage is exactly half that rate — $7.50 per hour. as long as Governor lepage reigns in augusta, that’s not going to change. Fortunately, portland has a mayor who recognizes that the city doesn’t have to wait. Mayor Michael Brennan said he expects to send a minimum wage ordinance to the city council finance committee this fall (see “efforts mount to raise minimum wage,” by deirdre Fulton, March 28). What that ordinance will look like is yet to be determined. there’s a reasonable case to be made that Seattle’s steep hike is a step too far, even if it’s taking effect in a series of smaller increases. But there’s no sensible reason why any city, especially one undergoing a development boom, should allow its workers to be paid at a rate that’s 30 percent lower than the minimum wage in the 1960s (in inflation-adjusted dollars). Best Struggle Against the Corporatization of Education: the University of Southern Maine’s decision earlier this year to layoff faculty and staff in the face of budget shortfalls was in no way an unusual occurrence in the increasingly corporate-minded world of higher education. the student reaction to those cuts, on the other hand, was truly something special. the Students for #USMfuture movement that emerged not only won a key battle, helping convince USM to reverse the faculty layoffs, but also rallied a broad swath of the student body to demand a substantive role in the decision-making processes that shape the school’s future. now the students should set their sights even higher, because the root of the problem lies not with USM administration but instead with the misplaced national priorities that have made nearly every university in the country feel more like a shopping mall or a corporate headquarters than a bastion of bold thinking and the free exchange of ideas. Best Creative Fundraiser: the best fundraisers make you want to open up your wallet without even knowing what cause your money is supporting. ripple effect’s ‘over the edge’ fundraiser is a perfect example. the local non-profit is giving anyone who raises $1,000 the chance to rappel 13 stories down one of the tallest buildings in portland into Monument Square. even if you don’t like the idea of supporting an organization that gives local kids life-changing adventures on an island in casco Bay, it would be hard to not want to do this. the big rappel takes place on May 17 and there are a few spots left. ^

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Editors’ Picks 2014 THE BEST

our weird and off-the-radar personal faves (plus a few constructive criticisms) _By por t l a n d pho e ni x s t af f

Our ‘Best of’ categories are quite comprehensive (see our supplement in this issue), but there’s a lot of stuff they don’t cover — things that defy categorization, things we didn’t even know needed to be honored until we saw/experienced/enjoyed them. And that’s why we have Editors’ Picks. To recognize what’s off-the-radar, underground, and underrated; to celebrate alt-consumerism; to amplify the whispers we hear on the streets and in the bars. And, frankly, to give props to our personal faves. Because we all have our own unique experience as Portlanders, our own corners to cry in, our own hobbies to work at, our own go-to treats and treasures, our own nostalgia-inducing sights, smells, and sounds...To honor those, we offer these, a handful of personal Bests.

Best locally sourced Porn: Fruit PuncH Productions

Tired of searching for titillation from the same old generic skin-flick production companies? Sick of seeing the same plastic body types boning away in the same tired positions, faking another runof-the-mill climax? Simply frustrated by pornography that continues to perpetuate a misogynistic, homophobic, rape-culture status quo? Well, have we got an all-natural, local alternative for you. Fruit Punch Productions, run by a trans couple based here in Portland, is committed to safersex, consent-based porn that turns the lens away from the heteronormative smut that saturates the sex video industry. Fruit Punch delivers characters of different orientations, gender identities, races, and body types that talk about what they want, and how they want it. We think that’s pretty hot. Check out their first feature film, One Night Stand (which was nominated for a Feminist Porn Award, an honor bestowed by the Toronto-based Good for Her sex store), or browse their wonderfully NSFW Tumblr page. It’s sexy and super-informative. You might even see a familiar face. So switch off the YouPorn, stop trying to navigate another depressing pop-up disaster zone, and click your free hand over to Fruit Punch Productions for a good time. It’s like a fresh farmer’s market for your pants.

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Countless basements and garages across Maine are filled with bikes, skis, snowshoes, and other outdoor gear that hardly gets used. Meanwhile, thousands of Mainers can’t come close to affording the gear they need to safely and comfortably explore Maine’s forests, rivers, mountains, and trails. Brooke Burkett, a outdoor educator who lives on Munjoy Hill, came up with a solution for both problems: Create a gear thrift store where people can donate their underused sporting goods (it’s tax-deductible!) and other folks can buy them. Burkett opened the Portland Gear Hub last fall in the basement of the YMCA; it has since sold loads of outdoor equipment at affordable prices.

Instead of dropping a few hundred dollars to try out cross-country skiing, for example, the Hub sells everything you need — boots, skis, bindings, and poles — for just $20. Ice skates go for $8, adult bikes average about $130, and climbing shoes cost roughly $20. The Gear Hub is about more than selling gear, though. It’s primary aim is to use its profits to fund community and youth development programs (there’s also a Gear Library, through which youth organizations, after paying a low membership fee, can borrow equipment for kids to use). The Hub has already hosted community workshops on bike repair and this month it starts holding regular “open bench time,” when anyone can pay a small fee to use the Hub’s bike shop for DIY cycle maintenance.

70 Forest Ave, Portland (below the YMCA) | 207.874.1111 | portlandgearhub.org

Best Place to Have a Good cry: reicHe scHool PlayGround Geodesic dome

This time of year, as the weather warms up, the windows of the city come down. You can hear the birds chirping, the children playing, dogs barking, car alarms blaring, your neighbors screwing again. Ah, spring! The world is blossoming all around, and all you want to do is have a good cry. Why? For all the reasons — war, hunger, corrupt governments, no one messages you back on Tinder. Whatever the cause, sometimes all you need is to bawl it out. But whereas your apartment was a safe room all damn winter long, now it feels like the joy of spring is pouring through your window screens, trying to ruin your bad mood. The best answer to the impossible indignity of audible urban emotions? Get yourself over to the playground at Reiche Elementary School,

right in the heart of the strolling West End community, climb to the top of the geodesic dome in the playground, and let Portland know that just because winter’s over doesn’t mean the ice in your heart has melted. As you lay there, allowing the bungees to hug it out around you, weep at full volume into the sky. We suggest night time, when bleakness can really hit its peak. You will be the shaking voice of reason in this time of dubbing optimism. You can remind the whole neighborhood that while winter might be six months off, its bitterness lives on in you.

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Best all-PurPose maker’s sHowroom: Ferdinand

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has been a bedrock of creativity. The woman is constantly, constantly making things — party hats, t-shirts, pins, greeting cards, jewelry, weirdo costumes, bizarre notebooks, you name it — and the stuff she puts together changes all the time. Not exactly a thrift store, nor a vintage boutique, craft shop, or brica-brackery; it’s more like all of those wrapped in one — a non-corporate onestop party shop. These days Portland is most certainly a makers’ town, with the development of festivals like Picnic and stores like these cropping up everywhere. But it’s Ferdinand that’s been here since the beginning, showcasing dazzlingly diverse, signature handcrafted goods fueled by the singular efforts of one person. It’s like an art student’s dream played out into reality. Yes, it can be done.

243 Congress St, Portland | 207.761.2151 | ferdinandhomestore.com

Best late-niGHt PuBlic restroom: none

Wow, what a fun night out on the town! All those pitchers of margaritas, and beer, and probably some water in there somewhere! And all that late-night food really hit the spot! Now it’s 1 am, and that means all the establishments of Portland start to kick us out and lock their doors. Time for the long stagger home to bed. But...those last three Allagashes are still sloshing inside you. And perhaps that second dinner at midnight is starting to feel like a poor decision. What do you do? While it’s fairly obvious that dozens of other people have peed in various dark corners of the Old Port, you know a guy still paying off that public urination fine. And what if this gastric situations is way more than just a whiz? Well, plainly, you’re shit out of luck. The Portland Downtown District website kindly lists various public restrooms in parking garages, the Portland Public Library, the visitor’s center, even City Hall, but few are open past 6 pm, and there’s not a handle to jiggle after the ferry terminal closes at 11:30 pm. Portland has done a great job building itself up as a food and cocktail destination, and with all the buzz, it’s only going to be a more hoppin’ summer. But if we don’t want our beautiful harbor town to start smelling like a New York City subway stop, Portland is going to have to make some big-kid-city decisions about public bathroom facilities, pronto.

Best airinG oF alternatives to our current economic and Political systems: tHe soaPBox on wmPG

WMPG radio host Eric Poulin switched from music to public affairs last year, and since then he’s brought an increasingly impressive array of voices to his new show, The Soapbox. His guest list ranges from luminaries like liberal hero Noam Chomsky and Marxist economist Richard Wolff to local activists like Asher Platts, chair of the Maine Green Independent Party, and Michael Hillard, a University of Southern Maine professor and labor economist. Poulin says he wants the Soapbox to provide an outlet for robust dialogue about all sorts of issues and ideas that are typically ignored or dismissed in the mainstream media. His goal: “Provide a bastion of rationality and authentic criticism in a world rife with self-interested and divisive political commentary.” You’d be hardpressed to find such intellectually-engaging interviews, with such a mix of local and national voices on such a range of topics, anywhere else on Maine’s airwaves. Expected soon on the Soapbox: Ralph

Nader, Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, and author and journalist Chris Hedges.

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Best new Place to Get muGGed: tHe alley Between tHe Hyatt Place Hotel and Hélène m.

Gosh, there’s been quite a lot of talk about that new Hyatt Place Portland-Old Port hotel on Fore Street! Those architects really got a feel for the beauty of early New England buildings as shown in the IKEAlike sterile anonymity of a geographically orphaned facade of corporate nothingness! But their biggest achievement has so far been overlooked in the brutal hotel bashing: The construction of the dull behemoth created a narrow alley between the Hyatt and the pre-existing Helene M. shop (one of the line of retail establishments next to the Fore Street Parking Garage). By day it’s a pretty innocuous corridor, a convenient way to cut from the Bank of Maine to the Gelato Fiasco. But by night it’s an unlit dead zone that starts at the back of a parking garage and ends facing the bar-fight-friendly end of Fore Street. Perhaps the safety lighting is just back-ordered (priority to the elaborate glass lounge lighting!), but currently it’s a creepy, hard-to-see, mugger’s dream on a late Friday night in the Old Port. For now, stick to the lit sidewalks and remember that mace is legal in Maine.

Best not-really-a-cookie cookie: cHoomi cookies

The Choomi Desert Island Coconut cookie, a half-inch-thick disc of coconut, sugar, butter, honey, and a few other natural ingredients, is a cross between a macaroon (in texture and flavor) and a cookie (in general shape, size, and density). Born out of the Po’ Boys & Pickles kitchen, they are simply fantastic — soft and sweet, but not cloyingly so, with a satisfying richness and chewy consistency; no wonder customers used to buy an entire day’s worth before lunch. To keep up with cultish demand, Choomi creator (and Po’ Boys owner) Peter Zinn started selling them outside the sandwich shop, and now you can find these GMO-, gluten-, and preservative-free treats on shelves all around the state. They are, dare we say it, better than Girl Scout cookies. And they’re available year-round, which is more than we can say for Caramel deLites (the cookies formerly known as Samoas).

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Best urBan FaceliFt: tHe scHwartz BuildinG mural at 600 conGress street

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Park, stands the Schwartz Building, erected in 1920. One of the most visible spots in the city, it’s been home over the years to various offices, artist studios, and shops. Since 2010, however, it’s been largely vacated and under renovation. The large glass windows of the first floor are covered in plywood, which initially served as both protection from damage and a public notice board for posters and flyers. Last year, a mural was painted on the plywood facade — a paint-by-numbers style piece in a Lisa Frank palette, a portrait of a girl with wind-blown hair. Just a sweet face, looking out at the traffic as if to say: “Hey, after I’m done with my horseback riding lesson, let’s get some ice cream and talk about our too-swiftly vanishing youth.” It was the face of an omen — such innocence cannot last. Especially at street level on the Congo. In less time than it takes to say “my stave church is burning,” the little lass got a heavy application of corpse paint, the classic makeup of Norwegian black metal bands. This was the destruction of sanctioned public art by callous vandalism. Right? Or was it public commentary on the false face of purity? Or a feminist reclamation of the female as muse? Or the dark markings of inner turmoil made visible by the hand of the common man? Not really sure, but we kinda love it.

Best cateGory-in-waitinG: Portland Food trucks

Last year, Portland finally got a clue and paved the way for food trucks; as a result, we enjoy everything from burgers to burritos to duck skewers to pizza cones from kitchens-on-wheels around the city. Several of them were nominated in our Best of Readers Poll, and they made impressive showings against stiff, brick-and-mortar competition. One of our personal faves is the Small Axe Food Truck. Currently offering lunch and dinner service next to the awesome “untitled patio” public art installation in Congress Square Park, Small Axe offers quick on-the-go options with a ton of culinary panache, like the curry fish bowl, jalapeno smoked brisket sandwich, and the marvelous chicken tikka sandwich, a locally sourced filet with crisp slaw and yummy cilantro mayo on a plump, doughy bun. Obviously, next year we’ll need a Best Food Truck category. For the time being, lets just say they’re all The Best.

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the end of the month, he’ll have opened Old Port Spirits and Cigar in the former Downeast Beverage space. There, he’ll sell a wide selection of craft beer and booze, plus cigars out of the state-of-the-art humidor he had installed just this week. No doubt he’ll be telling stories the whole time.

233 Commercial St, Portland | 207.772.9463 | oldportwine.com

Best Punk resistance eFFort: Grime studios

Best oFFPeninsula Food HuB: intersection oF veranda street and wasHinGton avenue

Whether it’s breakfast, lunch, dinner, booze, or dessert you’re after, you can find it at this up-and-coming intersection. Let’s start with breakfast. Now home to Hella Good Tacos (Joshua Bankhead’s food cart that sells hella good Mexicali eats), Steve and Renee’s Diner is suddenly a foodie destination, garnering accolades for its Mexicali spins on classic diner fare. They offer breakfast burritos to go, too — grab one of those (just $3.50!) and dig in. Maybe walk if off with a couple loops around Back Cove? Then you’ll have room for a steamy bowl of pho goodness from Veranda Noodle Bar, all brothy and spicy and restorative. You’ll want to cool down after that, of course, with a cone from Beal’s (coffee Oreo? teaberry? whoopie pie?). And in between any of these delights, of course, there’s Howie’s, the hole-in-the-wall pub that overlooks the on- and off-ramps connecting Washington to 295. There, you can procure a $2 PBR, nurse it in a corner, and pretty much be left alone to revel in your gluttony.

Over a year when the gentrification of Portland became a mainstream talking point, Grime Studios fortified what might possibly be the last punk stronghold in town — the rehearsal studio space in Thompson’s Point. The city sure has big plans for the area, slated to be developed into a complex that would include an outdoor amphitheater, residential condos, and the performing arts college Circus Conservatory of America over the next 10 years. That’s all well and good, but the question is: Without places like this, where would Chaos Sauce practice? Formerly known as Prime Artist Studios, Grime hosts over 20 bands at any given time, and it’s arguably the last remaining affordable spot to do so. And the style of music is besides the point. Even if you adopt the cynical, careerist perspective and believe playing in a noisy rock band is merely a stepping stone to being a “real musician,” fine — but those artists need space to be creative and socialize, too. We don’t know what the future holds for places like Grime, but the need for affordable, collectivized studio space in town is only growing more dire, and they’re some of the only ones answering the call.

Best Pizza rivalry: slaB vs. micucci’s

This one’s about to really heat up. Last June, the popular pizza maestro Stephen Lanzalotta was fired from his post at Micucci’s Grocery, one from which for six years he sold his marvelous, original recipe Sicilian slab-style pizzas from a bakery in the grocer’s back room. (According to reports of an e-mail Lanzalotta issued to friends and patrons, part of the

dispute was because he advocated for pay raises and more hours for his bakery assistants — the nerve!). Making matters stickier, Micucci’s continued to sell the slab after Lanzalotta’s departure — despite the fact that everyone who cares about food in Portland associates it with the 55-yearold baker — prompting Lanzalotta to ask his fans for a boycott of Micucci’s baked goods. Nearly a year later, Lanzalotta is weeks away from the opening of Slab, his new Sicilian street food/pizza parlor in the Public Market building on Preble Street, a move that will finally allow the fans of his mouthwatering food a chance to vote with their bellies. It’s a rare sort of labor dispute that gets so much attention in the court of popular opinion, but that’s the magic of pizza for you.

Best armcHair adrenaline rusH: ue maGazine

From rooftops to caves, from abandoned insane asylums to unused subway stops, from under the city to dangling above it, there is so much we don’t see, so much we don’t notice. For us, the drones, UE Magazine is a wake-up call, a reminder that the world is weird and beautiful and dangerous and so much bigger and more intricate than we think it is. Photos taken from within enormous city drainpipes or atop a towering skyscraper — they take our breath away, making us rethink the rules and infrastructure that frame our daily lives. For those within the subculture, UE Mag is even more vital, giving urban explorers the chance to share their work — their often-breathtaking photography, their careful planning and execution, and perhaps most importantly, their balls. The magazine’s founder and editor lives in Portland, Maine, but the magazine (available in print or digital format) features and reaches adventurous types all over the globe. The upcoming issue, for example, features photography by and an interview with Tom Ryaboi, a rooftop photographer from Toronto, Canada, as well as an interview with Moses Gates, author of the international UE memoir, Hidden Cities.

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These days, when smoking cigarettes is so roundly and brazenly frowned upon, cigar-smoking has somehow retained its cache. It’s not for everyone, of course. But those who partake embrace it with gusto and confidence, treating it as a hobby to be perfected rather than a vice to be indulged. Cigars, like wine, have stories and flavors and pasts — they’re nothing like a cigarette, which is consumed almost thoughtlessly and tossed aside, easily forgotten. Not so with a Montecristo or Cohiba or any of the other high-quality cigar brands Jacques deVillier carries in his Commercial Street humidor. Those are to be savored. It makes sense that Jacques, the bombastic and fantastic owner of Old Port Wine and Cigar, not only knows a lot about the two main products he sells, but also knows how to tell a good story — you’ll not soon forget a shopping experience here. Lucky us: By

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saturday 17 bEER ME! | Le sigh. There are a

lot of uncertainties in this life. But if there’s one thing you can always be sure of it’s that if it’s warm outside and you want to attend something with the word “fest” in it, Old Orchard Beach has probably got you covered. This weekend’s celebration is BeerfeSt! Possibly the best one there is. This all-day event features over 30 microbrews and live music, making it like a great way to spend your Saturday. Things get started at a respectable 12 pm. Old Orchard Beach Pier, Old Orchard Beach. 207.934.3595.

TEXAS HAS A WHOREHOUSE IN IT | Feeling a little racy

tonight? Catch the Portland Players’ latest offering, the BeSt little WhorehouSe in texaS, which was nominated for a

JUNE 4 whole host of awards when it premiered on Broadway in 1979. This musical tells the story of whorehouse owner Miss Mona Stangley, who recently inherited the Chicken Ranch brothel from the previous owner. When a crusading television personality starts exposing the Chicken Ranch’s illegal activities, Mona and her girls fight to keep the place from being closed down. With some of greater Portland’s best musical theater voices. $20. Curtain at 7:30 pm. The Portland Players, 420 Cottage Rd., South Portland. 207.799.7337. fIDDLERS EXTRORDINARE | If brothels ain’t your thing, One Longfellow Square is showcasing some phenomenal instrumentalists tonight. Mandolin/fiddle/ guitar virtuosos Joe WalSh, Brittany haaS, and oWen MarShall are masters of their craft; tonight, they’ll blend their particular strains of old-time, Celtic, and bluegrass in a collaboration that attempts to find common ground between their musical traditions (they succeed, if you ask us). Joining them will be fiddler lauren rioux and guitarist lincoln MeyerS. $15-$20. 8 pm at 181 State St. 207.761.1757.

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f chiP Kidd, at Port City Music Hall, in Portland on May 22. thursday 15 HELLO SUMMER | Portland’s favorite summer event is just around the corner: the Pride Parade and Festival, scheduled this year for June 21. The volunteers behind Pride Portland! are just as excited as you are. So excited, in fact, they’ve planned out a spectacular evening to launch the summer festivities: the Pride Portland! launch Party, featuring entertainment from MC Cherry Lemonade, Stripwrecked Burlesque, the Kings of the Hill, B. Thighs, and Atomic Trash, plus a first-ever fashion show from the dapper folks at Jack Tar 207. Pride Portland is making history with this party! Don’t miss it. $5. VIP $25. Doors at 7; show at 8 pm. Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St. 207.956.6000.

RELAX WITH MALLET | Across the bridge at Cape Elizabeth’s only café, tonight brings the chance to drink beer and listen to some cozy tunes from one of Maine’s most popular musicians: Will Mallett. Best known as one of two Mallet Brothers, Will’s playing solo this evening. $5 cover at 7:30 pm. The Local Buzz, 327 Ocean House Rd., Cape Elizabeth. 207.541.9024. handSoMe GuyS | Another local fave, the daPPer GentS, plays tonight at the Dogfish Bar and Grille. If you haven’t heard this four-piece live yet, you’ve been missing out. Their tunes, a mix of covers and originals, range from acoustic rock to popfolk, drawing musical inspiration from groups like the Avett Brothers and Led Zepplin. See for yourself every third Thursday, 8 pm, at the Dogfish. 128 Free St., Portland. 207.772.5483.

friday 16 SOUNDS LIKE DIRT | Farming season is upon us and what better way to kickstart it than to watch an informative and inspiring flick about dirt? Symphony of the Soil is a documentary that takes viewers across four continents to learn how soil works and its crucial role in the health of the planet. Renowned filmmaker Deborah Koons Garcia (Jerry Garcia’s wife, fyi), known for her eye-opening film The Future of Food, will be on hand for a panel discussion after the screening, along with organic farming legend Eliot Coleman and local restaurateur Leslie Oster. $10 for members of the general public; free for PMA and MOFGA members. At 6:30 pm (with matinee showings on Saturday

and Sunday) at the Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square. 207.775.6148. SNOOZIN’ LIKE MAMMALIA | Local author douGlaS MilliKen’s latest book, To Sleep As Animals, tells the story of a narcoleptic photographer who is sent to the Nevada desert to conduct obscure research for a shadowy organization. There, “reality starts to blur” — and the same might happen at Milliken’s book launch tonight, where theater collective loreM iPSuM (of which two Phoenix employees are members) will embody characters from the book, Mind Wheel will perform an improvised sound-collage, and the Bearded lady will be slinging Animals-inspired cocktails. Free at 8 pm. SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. 207.828.5600. fRANCO-fUNNIES | Elsewhere, catch the Franco-American Heritage Center’s last comedy

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f Brittany haaS, at One Longfellow Square, in Portland on May 17. this weekend with more than 100 comics artists and writers, panel discussions, and the breathtaking Iron Cartoonist competition (!). For the last six years MeCAF has brought the behind-the-scenes aspects of comic arts creation to the public. Remember, this isn’t your typical comic convention — don’t expect to see any comics dealers or long cardboard boxes of back issues for sale. Plain and simple, this is comics for the people who love ’em. Just $5. 10 am-5 pm at the Portland Company Complex, 58 Fore St., Portland. FMI visit mainecomicsfestival.com. bLUES SUNDAY | The Maine Blues Society is hosting its annual road to MeMPhiS blues showdown this afternoon at the Big Easy. This year there will be two categories of competition: band and solo/duo acts; among those set to participate: Blood Orange Martinis, Blues Mafia, Downeast Soul Coalition, and Pokechop and the Other White Meats. This event is free and is a great way to sample the Maine blues scene. 12 pm. The Big Easy, 55 Market St., Portland. 207.775.2266. SURf’S UP | Despite freezing water temperatures and a dangerously rocky shoreline, Maine has a pretty dedicated surfing community, which has (surprisingly) been around since the 1960s. Lewiston-Auburn native Brian Goding’s documentary Shoot the pier explores the beginnings of this surfing subculture, with archival Super 8 film footage he unearthed from that era. The film shows some of Maine’s original surfers riding the first waves that were ever caught in the state. Rad. $8. 7:30 pm at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland. 207.828.5600.

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waves! Get active on this fine Monday night at Flask’s unKnoWn PleaSureS party, which is basically a sweaty, awesome, post-punk/new wave/synthpop/ industrial lovefest. There will be

drink specials and a few birthdays will be celebrated. No cover. Just dance. 9 pm. Flask Lounge, 117 Spring St. 207.772.3122.

MOVE YA bOOTY, SHAKE YA MIND | Here’s a question for you: What doeS MoveMent have to do With creativity? Join the

Maine Center for Creativity, clinical psychologist Kirsten Milliken, and personal coach Dylan Newcomb, the creator of the UZAZU Mind-Body Method, as they attempt to answer just that at this Creative Toolbox Salon. We’re particularly interested in hearing from Newcomb, who is based in New York City and specializes in helping people integrate breath, movement, and imagination into both their creative practices and their personal relationships. The talk will explore subjects such as working with ADHD, how our use of breath and body helps foster creativity, and finding ways to release creative blocks. $15 or free for Maine Center for Creativity members. 5:30 pm. Peloton Labs, 795 Congress St. 207.730.0694.

tuEsday 20 NERDY bUT REALLY COOL | Maybe I’m just a flower nerd, but a talk about early-20th-century garden styles sounds pretty awesome. If reading that made your tulips tingle or even if you’re just a black-thumbed fangirl obsessed with a certain PBS historical drama, then head out to the Falmouth Memorial Library this evening to hear Terry Nickel’s talk, “the GardenS of doWnton aBBey: Garden StyleS froM the early 20th century.”

And then go home and justify binge-watching the show for hours as “further research.” 6:30 pm at the Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Rd., Falmouth. 207.781.2351. CLASSICAL CERVANTES | Most of us know the basic plot of Don Quixote. Windmills, Sancho Panza, Dulcinea, etc. But have you ever heard it interpreted through music? (Man of La Mancha doesn’t count.) Do so tonight, when the Portland Symphony Orchestra

brings Richard Strauss’ musical piece Don Quixote to life with the help of world renowned American cellist Zuill Bailey and conductor Robert Moody. 7:30 pm. $32-81. Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. 207.842.0800.

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you’ve almost certainly appreciated his work. One of the best-known graphic designers in America, Kidd has designed book covers for Alfred A. Knopf and helped foster a revolution in the art of American book packaging. He’s won loads of awards and his hilarious 2012 TED Talk is a classic. And would you believe it? He’s speaking tonight at Port City Music Hall, with a cocktail reception beforehand and a book signing afterward. $30 for AIGA Maine members; $40 for normals. 5:30 pm at Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St., Portland. 207.956.6000 bELIEVE IT OR NOT | Also next week, the classic-rock group the MonKeeS play the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom as part of their reunion tour. As my mom would say, heck yes! It’s sure to be a groovy time. And would you look at that, they still have some tickets left! $35. 8 pm. Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton, NH. 603.929.4100.

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phopa’s three artists re-interpret their environs _BY nick schr oed er In our media landscape, bare facts about the environment are constantly subject to spin. In a show of captivating works on paper using radically different approaches, three artists reaffirm that truism, using the visual vocabulary of environmental studies to create art that engages our capacities for politics, poetry, and metaphor. A regionally acclaimed artist whose work rewires the modes of perception used to assess the natural world, Avy Claire, of Blue Hill, might be approached as a poet of symbols and materials. Her mixed media pieces each build from a foundational image on translucent film (mostly photographs of shadows), onto which Claire adds hash marks, ink puddles, scribbly nonlinguistic characters, and other spare, codified images. Her palette echoes the hues of the earth — verdant greens, cavernous blues, and soft yellows mounted onto a brilliant white — and the effect is a tone that radiates feelings of positivity, appreciation, ‘croSS-track 4’ by nancy Manter; ink, gesso, and abundance. Lest that get a little charcoal, and white pencil on paper; 2013 precious, Claire incorporates some subtle hints of ecological disaster into her works — thinly legible text copy Manter’s paintings are intuitive — accounts of environmental catastrophe they’re not the methodical geothermal mounted onto the film. studies they could pass for — but her emThe product is so attractive as to arouse ployment of precision focus and haphazard suspicion. Is she utilizing an aesthetics of play give them a capaciousness that traneco-politics to make essentially decorative scends their simplicity. And while it never works? The agreeable colors, rustic landleaps beyond the level of subtext, these piecscapes, and vaguely Zen-like use of script es contain more than a hint of peril: There’s suggest these pieces could be mounted no dodging the concomitant questions that onto the mantle of any upper middle class arise from any observation of climate study. home, their activist inspirations buried Owing to a novel design, the primitive under the fashions of the Midcoast fine art pinhole photography methods of Stoningmarket. I don’t think that’s what Claire’s ton artist Anne-Claude Cotty are the show’s intending here. Her signature as an artmost obscure. She uses cardboard boxes for ist is too strongly developed, the images cameras and strips of tape for shutters, the too carefully crafted and personal. Yet the images boring themselves onto photo paper question nags, one of the corollaries of art through several microscopic holes in the surthat flirts with a universal beauty. face. Rendered in black and white onto paper A student in geothermal sciences — roughly a square foot in size (though Cotty wind circulation, plate tectonics, climate colors a few in by hand), these images are change, and all that — Nancy Manter’s resolutely poetic, emotional works. Several surfaces revisit this sort of imagery images blur into a field of non-representative through a host of mediums, the material shades, the meaning suffused into planes properties of each a sort of distant echo of reserved for far outside the field of photogthose in the natural world. By Manter’s raphy. In the excellent triptych, “On the hand, gesso bleeds thick swaths of snowy Salt Breath of an Evening Breeze,” you can white texture; white pencil grids introduce barely make out a visual vocabulary of buoys a scientific lens while thin lines simulate and lobster traps, while the final image is a topography. Many within the framed far outside the aesthetic of Maine waterfront series “Cross-Track” use red and blue ink art. Any larger and these photos would beto add another dimension, fusing with come too documentarian, too about something. the gesso in rich deposits of mysterious Cotty, like her accomplices in this fine show, volume, as if spotlit by an aerial object. prefers not to grant us such stable footing. ^ “Endless Landscape,” a series of unframed paper works assembled in a wide, pan“Beneath the Surface,” mixed media oramic spread in the gallery corner, is a works on paper by avy claire + anne-claude raw, original take on landscape painting, cotty + nancy Manter | through May 31 | at subverting its traditional subject onto a PhoPa Gallery, 132 Washington ave, Portland more ethereal plane. | 207.317.6721

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Into the wILd

yeti take you off the trailS

How would you feel if they really did pull Bigfoot out of the woods, cuffed and prodded? You know that’s how it’d be. We humans would hunt and trap him, demanding his compliance. Forget trying to charm the guy. We’re frightened of wild things. The untamed. Someone actually choosing to live a life completely apart from society, disagreeing entirely with the accepted common wisdom, gives us the willies. It’s certainly easier to discount aberrant ideas entirely. An abominable snowman? That has to be, as rap trio The Yeti say at the end of “The Question,” “all a crock of shit.” Doesn’t it? Talk about things that go bump in the night: The Yeti, who recently released the full-length Abominable, take the album-ofthe-year talent of Trails, with producer The Lin and vocalist Syn the Shaman, and tack on Dray Sr., lending a deep-throated and full-bodied delivery in counterpoint to Shaman’s growling anger. It’s a freeswinging, elbow-throwing, and maybe slightly mysterious combination that’s going to be more than welcome to fans of Trails’ work. Get it? This, Yeti’s work, is off the trail. In the woods and away from the lights. It’s exactly that untamed — and dark — quality that they have to get right to succeed with tracks this aggressive and

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presumptive, to say the least. Should you see the Wizard behind this kind of material? Well, it becomes a farce and falls in on itself. Do these Mainers have it in them to talk murder? To be lurid and provocative? Or does Dray give us a wink-wink with lines like “And if I wasn’t bustin’ slugs and being a thug, I’d need a hug,” from the quizzical “If I,” over The Lin rocking the MPC to trigger samples with a pop, ahead of the beat. It’s fair to wonder if all the bombast isn’t really just a suit someone put on to make a grainy movie that might fool a few people. But it’s also fair for Syn the Shaman to retort: “If I gave a fuck, I would show it.” Which makes the finish of “A Few Footsteps in the Snow,” where Shaman outlines his distaste for most local rappers (this is an important rap-genre trope), ironic: “Yeah it fucking bothers me, so know I’m keeping score.” As the album incorporates samples from media on abominable snowmen, it becomes ever more clear how Yeti embrace an underdog mentality, setting themselves up as outsiders. Just as the snowman has been driven to the shadows by encroaching society, this kind of turntablism-fueled, hyper-male rap has been ushered out of the mainstream for the time being, as hip hop begins to embrace its middle age.

Ultimately, the three are good enough together that the trappings don’t matter all that much. As a genre piece, Abominable hits all of its marks, and as a concept piece it never feels forced. This is the kind of music that takes a long time to perfect and evinces care and feeding. That’s why, as you’ll hear during the quick and industrial “Hush,” there’s no fear of encountering, with Yeti, just “ another John Doe rapper.” This isn’t safe, or friendly, but it as much indomitable as Abominable. ^

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F With the legions of black metal bands cropping up these days, it’s important to remember how good of one we have right here in FALLs oF rAuros. they rarely play out, but their recordings are devastating enough to keep them on the radar. the four-piece group have a new split lp out with Minnesota’s panopticon — two songs, about 20 minutes worth — half of it blisteringly fast, melodic black metal in the vein of USBM practitioners Weakling or Krallice and the other half folkier and more remote. highly recommended if you want something heavy, relentless, and smart. available at fallsofrauros.bandcamp.com. F Gotta confess: we didn’t arrive at the Astrogatrix, a super-pleasurable new album by portland recording artist CAThode rAy Tube, by way of his deep-space fantasy novel of the same name. But if that book is anything like the Astrogatrix — the Soundtrack, is all over the

ChAnneLing The CryPTid the yeti are dark and bombastic on abombinable. When Dray in “Sure Footing” talks about hating the local scene and the “cold shoulder” it’s given him, you have to wonder if he’d have it any other way. Being “underground” can be a safe artistic choice: If you don’t get popular, well, you weren’t trying to get popular. So there. But us-against-the-world can produce great results, too. “Prelude to a Yeti” has some of the most lyrical cutting you’ll hear, like The Lin is speaking with a spitting sneer. Dray crushes some “you” in “FUMH”: “You’re like my fucking appendix/ They said I could live without you.” Syn is expertly and succinctly dismissive in “Murder and Mayhem”: “Fail if you want to/ I’d bail if I was you.”

BvvJesus by turny les

map. the alias of portland author chang terhune collects nine long tracks of meditative listener’s techno. nothing jawdroppingly groundbreaking, but plenty impressive nonetheless; each piece

trekking into outer subforms of the genre from the last 20-30 years and treating them with studied, often daring execution. among the many dense and cinematic scenes conjured here is “58 days,” where several engines of synth ambience lift some psych-dub rhythms into lofty emotional peaks. the tense, vaguely arabic textures of “alice’s Jive” have us recalling our fonder moments with Muslimgauze. and the cold, post-industrial burn of the cabaret Voltaire-ish “Metal Universe” takes a few listens for its oscillating, subterranean textures to fully bubble up, though it kept us afloat regardless. chilly, self-reflective techno is out-of-season right now, but we could always use more of the moments music like this is made for. Visit therealcathoderaytube.bandcamp.com to listen and download. F We say we are fans of certain genres — metal,

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reggae, drone — but the proper nurture of that love and appreciation depends on the will to strip it down, step away, start anew. this is what we felt listening to the very raw folk songs on a seven-song ep by Turny Les. titled BvvJesus and recorded, as it is credited, onto “a fucking iphone,” the record spans about 12 minutes of spare, guileless ministrations of frustration, desperation, and hope. Music the barest vehicle for getting the thought across. if that sounds a little twee, well, maybe so. But we find it’s got a fair amount of edge, and appreciate how turny les isn’t trying to move us or anything, just getting some stuff off his chest. Folk music gets bloated and blustery all the time; it’s good to remember what we liked about it in the first place. Visit turnyles.bandcamp. com and catch him playing with a bunch of other outsider-folkers at the new Meg perry center (36 Market St.) on May 29.

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

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Music Hall, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $10 | 603.436.2400 | www.themusichall.org/tickets/ index.asp

ROBINSON BALLET PRESENTS “THE JUNGLE BOOK” | Sat-Sun

3 pm | Husson University, Gracie Theatre, 1 College Circle, Bangor | 207.941.7051

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Symphony Orchestra | 7:30 pm | Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | $31-81 | 207.842.0800

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DON CAMPBELL QUARTET | 2 pm | University of Maine - Augusta, Jewett Auditorium, 46 University Dr, Augusta | 207.621.3385 HOWIE DAY | 7 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $30 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com JAZZ BRUNCH | 10 am | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $8 | 207.761.1757

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

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

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

FRIDAY 16

DAPONTE STRING QUARTET | 7:30

MAINE PUBLIC SAFETY PIPE & DRUM CORPS + MAINE HIGHLAND FIDDLERS + SQUID JIGGERS | 6:30 pm | Orion Performing

listing for Sat

DECOMPRESSION CHAMBER |

TUESDAY 20

MALLET BROTHERS | 8:30 pm |

One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $10 | 207.761.1757 PRESS GANG | Tue-Wed Tues-Wed 7 pm | Skye Theatre, 2 Highland Dr, Carthage | $15 | 207.562.4445

WEDNESDAY 21

JAMIE LYNN HART + ASHLEY DAWN + MB PADFIELD | 7:30 pm

| Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com PRESS GANG | See listing for Tue

THURSDAY 22

VIVID MOTION: “THE SEVEN VOYAGES OF SINBAD” | See listing for

Thurs

THURSDAY 22

“SHORT TERM DANCE VARIETY SHOW” | 5 pm | Bates College,

Schaeffer Black Box Theater, 329 College St, Lewiston | 207.786.6400

EVENTS THURSDAY 15

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

Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $5 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall. com

SATURDAY 17

FAST & FEMALE POWER HOUR | 10 am | L.L. Bean, Discovery Park, Freeport | 800.441.5713 MAINE ROLLER DERBY | 5 pm | Portland Expo, 239 Park Ave, Portland | $12 | portlandevents.com/ Expo.htm R-RATED HYPNOTIST SHOW | 7 pm | Spectacular Event Center, 395 Griffin Rd, Bangor | $20 | 207.941.8700

GREEN LION CREW | See listing

SUNDAY 18

MONKEES | 8 pm | Hampton Beach

| 10 am-5 pm | Portland Company Complex, Portland | $5 | mainecomicsfestival.com

for Thurs

Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | 603.929.4100 PORTLAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA | 8 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $5 | 207.761.1757

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

Thurs

MAINE COMICS ARTS FESTIVAL

OUTDOORS SATURDAY 17

AIDS WALK OF CENTRAL MAINE

DANCE PARTICIPATORY THURSDAY 15

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

FRIDAY 16

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE |

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

WEDNESDAY 21

WEDNESDAY NIGHT STOMP WITH PORTLAND SWING PROJECT | 7:30

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

THURSDAY 22

SALSA DANCING WITH DJ BRAULIO | See listing for Thurs

| 9 am | Waterfront Park, Hallowell | $0-15

FOOD SATURDAY 17

BEERFEST | noon | Old Orchard Beach Pier, Old Orchard Beach | 207.934.3595 or oobpier.com

WEDNESDAY 21

PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET |

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

POETRY & PROSE THURSDAY 15

“BEAT NIGHT,” MUSIC & POETRY | 7 pm | Press Room, 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.5186

Continued on p 22

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

317 MAIN ST MUSIC CENTER CAFE | 207.846.9559 | 317 Main St,

Yarmouth

4 POINTS BBQ & BLUES HOUSE | 207.223.9929 | 145 S Main St, Winterport 51 WHARF | 207.774.1151 | 51 Wharf St, Portland ACOUSTIC ARTISANS | 207.671.6029 | 594 Congress St, Portland ADAMS STREET PUB | 207.283.4992 | 5 Adams St, Biddeford ALISSON’S RESTAURANT | 207.967.4841 | 5 Dock Sq, Kennebunkport ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | 207.874.2639 | 94 Commercial St, Portland ANNIE’S IRISH PUB | 207.251.4335 | 369 Main St, Ogunquit ASYLUM | 207.772.8274 | 121 Center St, Portland BASSLINES | 207.699.4263 | Binga’s Stadium, 23 Brown St, Portland BAYSIDE BOWL | 207.791.2695 | 58 Alder St, Portland BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | 207.564.8733 | 73 North St, Dover Foxcroft BENCHWARMERS | 207.729.4800 | 212 Maine St, Brunswick BIG EASY | 207.894.0633 | 55 Market St, Portland BILLY’S TAVERN | 207.354.1177 | 1 Starr St, Thomaston BINGA’S STADIUM | 207.347.6072 | 77 Free St, Portland BLACK ANCHOR VILLAGE PUB | 207.374.7012 | 50 Main St, Blue Hill BLACK BEAR CAFE | 207.693.4770 | 215 Roosevelt Trail, Naples BLOOMFIELD’S CAFE AND BAR | 207.474.8844 | 40 Water St, Skowhegan BLUE | 207.774.4111 | 650A Congress St, Portland BRAY’S BREWPUB | 207.693.6806 | Rte 302 and Rte 35, Naples BRIAN BORU | 207.780.1506 | 57 Center St, Portland BRITISH BEER COMPANY | 603.501.0515 | 2 Portwalk Place, Portsmouth, NH THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE GRILLE | 207.934.2171 | 39 West

Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach BUBBA’S SULKY LOUNGE | 207.828.0549 | 92 Portland St, Portland

BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/FREEPORT |

207.865.0600 | 581 Rte 1, Freeport

BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/PORTLAND | | 50 Wharf St, Portland

BULL FEENEY’S | 207.773.7210 | 375 Fore St, Portland

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

FLASK LOUNGE | 207.772.3122 | 117

Spring St, Portland FREEDOM CAFE | 207.693.3700 | 923 Roosevelt Trail, Naples FROG AND TURTLE | 207.591.4185 | 3 Bridge St, Westbrook FRONT STREET PUBLIC HOUSE | 207.442.6700 | 102 Front St, Bath FRONTIER CAFE | 207.725.5222 | Fort Andross, 14 Maine St, Brunswick FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | 603. 617.3633 | 1 Washington St, Dover, NH FUSION | 207.330.3775 | 490 Pleasant St, Lewiston

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

Rochester, NH GATHER | 207.847.3250 | 189 Main St, Yarmouth GENO’S ROCK CLUB | 207.221.2382 | 625 Congress St, Portland GFB SCOTTISH PUB | 207.934.8432 | 32 Old Orchard St, Old Orchard Beach THE GIN MILL | 207.620.9200 | 302 Water St, Augusta GINZA TOWN | 207.878.9993 | 1053 Forest Ave, Portland THE GREEN ROOM | 207.490.5798 | 898 Main St, Sanford GRILL 28 | 603.766.6466 | Pease Golf Course, 200 Grafton Rd, Portsmouth, NH GRITTY MCDUFF’S | 207.772.2739 | 396 Fore St, Portland GRITTY MCDUFF’S/AUBURN | 207.782.7228 | 68 Main St, Auburn GUTHRIE’S | 207.376.3344 | 115 Middle St, Lewiston HARLOW’S PUB | 603.924.6365 | 3 School St, Peterborough, NH

HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEEHOUSE AND TAVERN | 207.621.1234 | 119 Wa-

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | 207.443.6776 | 98 Center St, Bath

ter St, Hallowell

| 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

HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | 877.779.7771 |

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

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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 CHAPS SALOON | 207.347.1101 | 1301 Long Plains Rd, Buxton CHARLAMAGNE’S | 207.242.2711 | 228 Water St, Augusta CHOP SHOP PUB | 603.760.7706 | 920 Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH CHUMMIES PUB | 207.667.0080 | 49 Water St, Ellsworth CLUB 737 | 207.442.0748 | 737 Washington St, Bath CLUB TEXAS | 207.784.7785 | 150 Center St, Auburn COLE FARMS | 207.657.4714 | 64 Lewiston Rd, Gray CREMA COFFEE COMPANY | | 9 Commercial St, Portland

HIGHLANDS COFFEE HOUSE |

207.354.4162 | 189 Main St, Thomaston 500 Main St, Bangor

THE HOLY GRAIL | 603.679.9559 | 64 Main St, Epping, NH

IRISH TWINS PUB | 207.376.3088 | 743 Main St, Lewiston

IRON TAILS SALOON | 207.850.1142 | 559 Rte 109, Acton

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

Old Orchard Beach 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 LAST CALL | 207.934.9082 | 4 1st St, Old Orchard Beach LFK | 207.899.3277 | 188A State St, Portland THE LIBERAL CUP | 207.623.2739 | 115 Water St, Hallowell LILAC CITY GRILLE | 603.332.3984 | 45 N Main St, Rochester, NH LION’S PRIDE | 207.373.1840 | 112 Pleasant St, Brunswick LISA’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE | 207.621.0599 | 15 Bangor St, Augusta

LITTLE TAP HOUSE | 207.518.9283 | 106 High St, Portland LOCAL 188 | 207.761.7909 | 685 Congress St, Portland LOCAL BUZZ | 207.541.9024 | 327 Ocean House Rd, Cape Elizabeth LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | 207.899.3529 | 649 Congress St, Portland LOMPOC CAFE | 207.288.9392 | 36 Rodick St, Bar Harbor MAIN TAVERN | 207.947.7012 | 152 Main St, Bangor MAINE STREET | 207.646.5101 | 195 Maine St, Ogunquit MAINELY BREWS | 207.873.2457 | 1 Post Office Sq, Waterville MAMA’S CROWBAR | 207.773.9230 | 189 Congress St, Portland MARK’S PLACE | 207.899.3333 | 416 Fore St, Portland MARTINGALE WHARF | 603.431.0091 | 99 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH MATHEW’S PUB | 207.253.1812 | 133 Free St, Portland MAXWELL’S PUB | 207.646.2345 | 243 Main St, Ogunquit MAYO STREET ARTS | 207.615.3609 | 10 Mayo St, Portland MCSEAGULL’S | 207.633.5900 | Gulf Dock, Boothbay Harbor MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | 207.642.3363 | 35 Blake Rd, Standish MILLBROOK TAVERN & GRILLE | 207.824.2175 | Bethel Inn, On the Common, Bethel MILLIE’S TAVERN | 603.967.4777 | 17 L St, Hampton, NH MINE OYSTER | 207.633.6616 | 16 Wharf St, Pier 1, Boothbay Harbor MJ’S WINE BAR | 207.653.6278 | 1 City Center, Portland MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | 207.443.6563 | Rte 1, Woolwich MOOSE ALLEY | 207.864.9955 | 2809 Main St, Rangeley MR. GOODBAR | 207.934.9100 | 8B West Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach MYRTLE STREET TAVERN | 207.596.6250 | 12 Myrtle St, Rockland NARAL’S EXPERIENCE ARABIA | 207.344.3201 | 34 Court St, Auburn NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | 207.907.4380 | 56 Main St, Bangor THE OAK AND THE AX | | 140 Main St, Ste 107-Back Alley, Biddeford THE OAR HOUSE | 603.436.4025 | 55 Ceres St, Portsmouth, NH OASIS | 207.370.9048 | 42 Wharf St, Portland OLD GOAT | 207.737.4628 | 33 Main St, Richmond OLD MILL PUB | 207.474.6627 | 39 Water St, Skowhegan OLD PORT TAVERN | 207.774.0444 | 11 Moulton St, Portland THE OLDE MILL TAVERN | 207.583.9077 | 56 Main St, Harrison ORCHARD STREET CHOP SHOP | 603.749.0006 | 1 Orchard St, Dover, NH OTTO | 207.773.7099 | 574-6 Congress St, Portland PADDY MURPHY’S | 207.945.6800 | 26 Main St, Bangor PEARL | 207.653.8486 | 444 Fore St, Portland PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | 207.783.6200 | 134 Main St, Lewiston PEDRO’S | 207.967.5544 | 181 Port Rd, Kennebunk PLEASANT NOTE COFFEEHOUSE

| 207.783.0461 | First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St, Auburn PORT CITY MUSIC HALL | 207.899.4990 | 504 Congress St, Portland PORTHOLE RESTAURANT | 207.773.4653 | 20 Custom House Wharf, Portland PORTLAND EAGLES | 207.773.9448 | 184 Saint John St, Portland PORTLAND LOBSTER CO | 207.775.2112 | 180 Commercial St, Portland PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | 603.430.8582 | 64 Market St, Portsmouth, NH PRESS ROOM | 603.431.5186 | 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH PROFENNO’S | 207.856.0011 | 934 Main St, Westbrook RAVEN’S ROOST | 207.406.2359 | 103 Pleasant St, Brunswick THE RED DOOR | 603.373.6827 | 107 State St, Portsmouth, NH RI RA/PORTLAND | 207.761.4446 | 72 Commercial St, Portland

RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | 603.319.1680 | 22 Market St, Portsmouth, NH ROOSTER’S | 207.622.2625 | 110 Community Dr, Augusta ROUND TOP COFFEEHOUSE | 207.677.2354 | Round Top Farm, Main St, Damariscotta RUDI’S | 603.430.7834 | 20 High St, Portsmouth, NH RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | 207.571.9648 | 100 Main St, Saco Island, Saco SALVAGE BBQ & SMOKEHOUSE | | 919 Congress St, Portland SEA DOG BREWING/BANGOR | 207.947.8009 | 26 Front St, Bangor SEA DOG BREWING/SOUTH PORTLAND | 207.871.7000 | 125 Western

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SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM | 207.725.0162 | 1 Maine St, Great Mill Island, Topsham SEA40 | 207.795.6888 | 40 East Ave, Lewiston SEASONS GRILLE | 207.775.6538 | 155 Riverside St, Portland SHENANIGANS | 207.213.4105 | 349 Water St, Augusta SILVER HOUSE TAVERN | 207.772.9885 | 123 Commercial St, Portland SILVER SPUR | 207.345.3211 | 272 Lewiston St, Mechanic Falls SILVER STREET TAVERN | 207.680.2163 | 2 Silver St, Waterville SKIP’S LOUNGE | 207.929.9985 | 299 Narragansett Trail, Buxton SKYBOX BAR AND GRILL | 207.854.9012 | 212 Brown St, Westbrook SLAINTE | 207.828.0900 | 24 Preble St, Portland SLATES RESTAURANT AND BAKERY | 207.622.4104 | 169 Water St,

Hallowell

SOLO BISTRO | 207.443.3378 | 128 Front St, Bath

SONNY’S | 207.772.7774 | 83 Exchange St, Portland

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

SOUTHSIDE TAVERN | 207.474.6073 | 1 Waterville Rd, Skowhegan

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Sports Grille, 867 Riverside St, Portland SPEAKEASY | 207.596.6661 | 2 Park Dr, Rockland SPRING HILL TAVERN | 603.431.5222 | Dolphin Striker, 15 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH SPRING POINT TAVERN | 207.733.2245 | 175 Pickett St, South Portland STOCKHOUSE | 207.854.5600 | 506 Main St, Westbrook STONE CHURCH | 603.659.6321 | 5 Granite St, Newmarket, NH STYXX | 207.828.0822 | 3 Spring St, Portland SUDS PUB | 207.824.6558 | Sudbury Inn Main St, Bethel TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | 207.657.7973 | 61 Portland Rd, Gray TANTRUM | 207.404.4300 | 193 Broad St, Bangor THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | 603.427.8645 | 21 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH THE THIRSTY PIG | 207.773.2469 | 37 Exchange St, Portland TIME OUT PUB | 207.593.9336 | 275 Main St, Rockland TORCHES GRILL HOUSE | 207.467.3288 | 102 York St, Kennebunk TOWNHOUSE PUB | 207.284.7411 | 5 Storer St, Saco TRAIN’S TAVERN | 207.457.6032 | 249 Carl Broggi Hwy, Lebanon TUCKER’S PUB | 207.739.2200 | 290 Main St, Norway TUG’S PUB | 207.633.3830 | Robinson Wharf, Southport UNION HOUSE PUB & PIZZA | 207.590.4825 | North Dam Mill, 2 Main St, 18-230, Biddeford UNION STATION BILLIARDS | 207.899.3693 | 272 St John St, Portland WALLY’S PUB | 603.926.6954 | 144 Ashworth Ave, Hampton, NH WATER STREET GRILL | 207.582.9464 | 463 Water St, Gardiner ZACKERY’S | 207.774.5601 | Fireside Inn & Suites, 81 Riverside St, Portland

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MONDAY 19

DOUGLAS W. MILLIKEN | reads

and discusses Thunderstruck & Other Stories | 7 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore. com OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | with Port Veritas & featured poets | 7 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | $2.50-3 | 207.773.7210 POETRY READING | 6:30 pm | York Public Library, 15 Long Sands Rd, York | 207.363.2818

“ZION HILL POETRY,” READING SERIES | 6:30 pm | Stone Church, 5 Granite St, Newmarket, NH | 603.659.6321

WEDNESDAY 21

DOUGLAS W. MILLIKEN | reads

MICHAEL ALBION + JOHN BUBAR + SHARON DAYNARD | read and

discuss Best New England Crime Stories 2014: Stone Cold | 7 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore.com

THURSDAY 22

SLICE MAGAZINE LITERARY BASH | with Joshua Bodwell, CJ

Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Rd, Lewiston | 207.786.8376 SENIOR SERIES | noon | Prince Memorial Library, 266 Main St, Cumberland Foreside | 207.829.2215

“THE CHANGING FACE OF MAINE: TEACHING ENGLISH TO SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES IN LEWISTON & PORTLAND” |

with Anne Kemper | noon | Lewiston Public Library, 200 Lisbon St, Lewiston | 207.784.0135 or lplonline.org

SATURDAY 17

“19TH AND 20TH CENTURY EUROPEAN ART” WITH JULIE KAGAN | 1 pm | Portland Museum

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

SUNDAY 18

“NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE YORK AREA” WITH DR. EMERSON (TAD) BAKER | 7 pm | York

Public Library, 15 Long Sands Rd, York | 207.363.2818

TUESDAY 20

“THE GARDENS OF DOWNTON ABBEY: GARDEN STYLES FROM THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY” | 6:30 pm | Falmouth

Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Rd, Falmouth | 207.781.2351 or falmouth. lib.me.us

WEDNESDAY 21

“WHAT DOES MOVEMENT HAVE TO DO WITH CREATIVITY?” WITH DYLAN NEWCOMB | 5:30

pm | Peloton Labs, 795 Congress St, Portland | $15 | 207.210.6595

THURSDAY 22

CHIP KIDD | graphic design talk

& comedy show | 5:30 pm | Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $30 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall.com

THURSDAY 15

“BABY BOOMERS, HEPATITUS C VIRUS, & THE ROLE OF PUBLIC HEALTH: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW” | with Mary-Kate Appicelli

| 7 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Southworth Planetarium, 96 Falmouth St, Portland | 207.780.4249 or usm.maine. edu/planet PECHAKUCHA | 7:15 pm | Asylum, 121 Center St, Portland | $5 | 207.772.8274

FRIDAY 16

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am-6 pm | Through May 31: “M.S. McKenzie’s Mixed Media Show” VESTIBULE 594 | 594 Congress St, Portland | Through May 31: oil

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BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

| 207.786.6158 | 75 Russell St, Olin Arts Center, Lewiston | bates.edu/ museum-about.xml | Tues-Sat 10

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BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.725.3275 | 245 Maine

St, Brunswick | bowdoin.edu/artmuseum | Tues-Wed + Fri-Sat 10

am-5 pm; Thurs 10 am-8:30 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Free admission; donations welcome | Through June 1: “Surrealism in Motion,” short films | Through June 1: “The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collections” | Through June 1: “Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography” | Through June 8: “Frontier Visions: The American West in Image & Myth,” works on paper | Ongoing: “American Artists at Work, 1840-1950” + “Contemporary Masters, 1950 to the Present” + “Lovers & Saints: Art of the Italian Renaissance” COLBY COLLEGE | 207.859.5600 |

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

Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Free admission | Through June 8: “American Weathervanes from a Distinguished Maine Collection” | Through June 8: “Histories of Now: Six Artists from Cairo,” video works | Through June 8: “Julianne Swartz: Affirmation,” sound installation | Through June 8: “Spaces & Places: Chinese Art from the Lunder-Colville Collection & the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” | Through June 8: “The Lunder Collection: A Gift of Art to Colby College” | Through June 29: “Alex Katz: Assembly II,” paintings, cutouts, & works on paper | Ongoing: “Process & Place: Exploring the Design Evolution of the AlfondLunder Family Pavilion” + “Alex Katz Collection” DYER LIBRARY/SACO MUSEUM | 207.283.3861 | 371 Main St, Saco | sacomuseum.org | Tues-Thurs noon-4 pm; Fri noon-8 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | May 17-June 15: “Pastel Painter of Maine,” international juried exhibition | Through May 31: Nature Photography by Jennifer Brown | Through May 31: “Sacy Bay Artists,” mixed media group exhibition FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM | 207.596.6457 | 16 Museum St, Rockland | farnsworthmuseum.org | 10 am-5 pm, open until 8 pm with free admission Wed | $12, seniors & students $10; under 17 free & Rockland residents free | Admission $12; $10 seniors and students; free for youth under 17 and Rockland residents | Through Sept 28: “Coloring Vision: From Impressionism to Modernism,” paintings | Through Dec 31: “Ideals of Beauty: The Nude,” mixed media | Through Dec 31: “The Wyeths, Maine, & the Sea,” paintings & works on paper ICA AT MECA | 207.879.5742 | 522 Congress St, Portland | Wed-Sun 11 am-5 pm; Thurs 11 am-7 pm | Through March 31: “We Are What We Hide,” long-running exhibit in& outside gallery walls

MAINE COLLEGE OF ART |

207.775.3052 | 522 Congress St, Portland | meca.edu | Mon-Fri 8 am-8

pm; Sat-Sun 12 pm-5 pm | Through May 23: “In Habit: 2014 Senior Thesis Exhibition,” mixed media student works | Through June 4: paintings by Anne Ireland

OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF ART

| 207.646.4909 | 543 Shore Rd, Ogunquit | ogunquitmuseum.org | Mon-Sat 10:30 am- 5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm | Through June 15: “Recent Acquisitions,” mixed media | Through June 22: paintings by John Laurent | Through Oct 31: “Henry Strater: Arizona Winters, 1933-1938,” paintings PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | 207.775.6148 | 7 Congress Square, Portland | portlandmuseum.org | Tues-Thurs + Sat-Sun 10 am-5 pm; Fri 10 am-9 pm | Admission $12; $10 students/seniors; $6 youth 13-17; free for youth 12 & under and for all Fri 5-9 pm | May 22-Sept 7: “Richard Estes’s Realism,” paintings | Through June 1: “Art in Process: Weather in High School Art & Science,” student works | Through June 15: “Preserving Creative Spaces: The Historic Artists’ Homes & Studios Program,” documentary installation | Through July 27: “PMA Family Space: Clint Fulkerson,” drawings | Through Aug 3: “George Daniell: Picturing Monhegan Island,” photographs & drawings | Through Aug 24: “Andrea Sulzer: throughoutsideways,” drawings & prints

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - FARMINGTON | 207.778.7292 | Emery Community Arts Center, 111 South St, Farmington | Through May 17:

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

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.561.3350 |

Norumbega Hall, 40 Harlow St, Bangor | umma.umaine.edu | Mon-Sat 10

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

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND PORTLAND | 207.221.4499 | Art Gal-

lery, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland | une. edu/artgallery | Wed 1-4 pm; Thurs 1-7 pm; Fri-Sun 1-4 pm | Through June 14: “The Painting of John Calvin Stevens” | Through June 15: “Recent Acquisitions & Selections from the Permanent Collection,” mixed media | Ongoing: paintings & photography by Maine artists + labyrinth installation

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MUSEUM OF ART | 603.862.3712 |

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

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

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - LEWISTON/AUBURN |

207.753.6500 | Atrium Gallery, 51 Westminster St, Lewiston | usm. maine.edu/lac/art/exhibits.html |

Mon-Thurs 8 am-8 pm; Fri 8 am4:30 pm | Free admission | Through June 6: “Ant Farm: At the Nexus of Art & Science,” installation by Colleen Kinsella + Vivien Russe + Rebecca Goodale + Dorothy Schwartz

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

Mon-Thurs 7:45 am-11 pm; Fri 7:45 am-8 pm; Sat 10 am-8 pm; Sun 10 am-11 pm | Through May 31: “Rescued, Redeemed, Revived,” book arts | Through Aug 14: “Charting an Empire: The Atlantic Neptune,” cartographic exhibition

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pm | Through Dec 31: “Twisted Path III: Questions of Balance” | Ongoing: “Layers of Time: Archaeology at the Abbe Museum” + “Dr. Abbe’s Museum”

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

PEARY-MACMILLAN ARCTIC MUSEUM | 207.725.3416 | Bowdoin

College, Hubbard Hall, 5 College St, Brunswick | bowdoin.edu/arcticmuseum/index.shtml | Tues-Sat

10 am-5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm | Free | Through Aug 31: “Animal Allies: Inuit Views of the Natural World” | Ongoing: “Cape Dorset & Beyond: Inuit Art from the Marcia & Robert Ellis Collection” + “Robert E. Peary & His Northern World” + “Faces of Greenland: Ivory Carvings from the Bareguard Collection” PORTSMOUTH ATHENAEUM | 603.431.2538 | 9 Market Sq, Portsmouth, NH | Tues, Thurs, & Sat 1-4 pm | Through May 17: “The 1749 Model of the HMS America, the Athenaeum’s First Object -- 1820”

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three times lucky miyake diner joins the masterful chef’s local line-up _By B ria n duff Any competent marketing executive will warn you about the dangers of brand extension. Three is often one too many: Nacho and Cool Ranch Doritos, sure. But “Jacked” Doritos, no. Return of the Jedi was a treacly mess. That third Brontë sister was a disappointment. The looming Jeb Bush presidency petrifies. But do such mundane rules apply to a transcendent talent like Portland’s Masa Miyake (thrice recognized in this Best Of issue)? His new Miyake Diner, which joins his high-end sushi place Miyake and his noodle-centric Pai Men Miyake, offers a chance to find out. Miyake’s new diner reclaims the location of his original restaurant, the wonderful Food Factory. The small space feels even smaller now, thanks to the curving bar along two walls. A single table, sort of picnic in style and size, is tucked in a corner. That little bit of the restaurant has been surrounded by old wood, floor to ceiling, which makes it look a bit like a sauna. The rest of the room is lighter, with the handsome 10-seat bar fronted by white walls and a large window. While at Miyake Restaurant (on Fore Street), you gaze upon a mostly Japanese staff who work with silent efficiency; at the diner you are squeezed in with some white guys who do not seem particularly

FShort Takes xxw belle 104 MinUtes | pG | coMinG soon to railroad sqUare & eveninGstar Written by Misan Sagay, this British historical drama is getting the “inspiring true story” treatment, though the inspiring parts aren’t true and the true parts aren’t inspiring. Dido Elizabeth Belle was the illegitimate child of an African woman and a white captain in the Royal Navy; deposited at the estate of her uncle, the esteemed jurist William Murray, Earl of Mansfield, she grew to young adulthood in social limbo, too low to dine with the family but too high to dine with the servants. Sagay turns her plight into a Jane Austenstyle romance involving both sincere and scheming suitors, which allows him to unpack the social attitudes of the time. His invented narrative works much better than the ensuing legal

quiet. Who knows who’s in the kitchen? It could be Miyake himself. But you get the feeling it isn’t — that you’ve been handed off to the next generation and that the kids are in charge. And you wonder if these are mere adulators who have latched onto a virtuoso, or true coadjutors who inherited his spirit and skill. The good news is that the kids are alright. While the Diner’s food and vibe don’t remind you of Miyake’s other spots, this rendition is masterful in its own way. The garrulous bustle suits its Izakaya menu focused on drinking and small plate snacks. Drinking mostly means sake, and they have an extensive list. The Kaori “fragrance” sake was sweet and mild, but with a kick of olive funk underneath. A Hakkasan had a pleasant hint of citrus and a strong floral aroma. The food leans toward the rich, salty, umami side of the spectrum — with enough heft and grease to be good with drinks. Pork meatballs were shaped like glistening footballs, accompanied by a quivering egg yolk and chopped scallions. The yolk had a deep yellow-orange color and a thick creamy texture. The sausage was seasoned mildly so you could taste the braised meat’s own rich flavor, even when dipped in the yolk and sharp scallion. The okonomiyake

pancake, made with cabbage, scallion, scallops and bacon, was dense and heavy with lots of breading. While the original Miyake Food FacwhAT’S olD IS NEw AgAIN the miyake diner inhabits miyake’s original spot tory eschewed on spring street. heavy sauces for sharp sprigs So the Miyake brand is proving itself to and sprouts, here there is a thick lattice of be impressively elastic. The diner manages mayonnaise and plum sauce. Clinging to it to let the familiar Miyake excellence show all is a salty, funky pile of shaved dry fish. It through the new atmosphere, and a differblended into a pleasant and filling salty-rich ent quiver of flavors and approaches. This mélange, as did a dish of eel paired with is no Jacked Dorito. It is not even an Anne creamy eggplant. Brontë. If anything, it’s an Emily, the sister Despite the general tendency toward whose taste for wild, recklessly passionate boldness, there are moments that call to characters makes you long a little for Charmind the old Miyake light touch. You can lotte’s calm and responsible Jane Eyre. But see it in the contrast between an octopus Jane would be dull without Rochester, and salad and a dish of sautéed whelk, beautithe Miyake empire is similarly enlivened by fully served in a curving seashell. While the its fresh and more feral Diner. ^ whelk had a rich, peppery, briny flavor that was in keeping with the rest of the menu, the octopus exhibited a tender-chewy texture $ MIYAKE DINER | 129 Spring St, Portland | Mon to deliver a fresh, barely pickled, brightness + Fri: 7 am-2 pm and 6 pm-1 pm; Tues-Thurs: 6 along with some crunchy cucumber just pm-1 am; Sat: 6 pm-1 am | Visa/MC/Amex/Disc | touched with salt. 207.541.9175 | miyakerestaurants.com

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drama based on the 1781 Zong massacre, in which British slave traders tossed their sick slaves overboard; Murray ruled on the case as lord chief justice, and though the verdict is presented here as a blow against slavery, it was really a more mundane question of insurance law. Amma Asante directed; with Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as the title character, and Tom Wilkinson in a strong performance as Murray.

_jr jones

xxw neighbORs 97 MinUtes | r | nickelodeon + westbrook cineMaGic + clarks pond + saco cineMaGic & iMax + nordica + reGal brUnswick + sMitty’s biddo, sanford, & windhaM + aUbUrn + lewiston Elaborate sight gags are few and far between in contemporary movie comedy, but this

Seth Rogen effort has one shot involving an air bag that ranks alongside the biggest laughs of the silent era. Aside from that it’s an energetic, hit-or-miss affair about young parents (Rogen and Rose Byrne) clashing with the fraternity that moves into the house next door (commanded by a perpetually stripped-to-the-waist Zac Efron). Stressed out by work and their new baby, the couple envy the frat boys their freedom almost as much as they resent the noise, which is a funny idea; unfortunately the artless script by Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O’Brien tends to spell it out in dialogue more than dramatize it through behavior. A later sight gag involving Byrne’s swollen breasts and Rogen getting shot in the face with milk is more gross than funny, but at least these guys are trying. Nicholas Stoller (The Five Year Engagement) directed; with Lisa Kudrow, Ike Barinholtz,

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Carla Gallo, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.

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xxx gODzilla 123 MinUtes | pG-13 | nickelodeon + westbrook cineMaGic + clarks pond + saco cineMaGic & iMax + nordica + reGal brUnswick + sMitty’s biddo, sanford, & windhaM + aUbUrn + lewiston For the latest Hollywood remake of the sci-fi classic, screenwriter

Max Borenstein and director Gareth Edwards hew to the Jaws formula, dividing audience identification between an eccentric techie (Ken Watanabe), a straight-shooting family man (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), and the monster, which in this case turns out to be the most charismatic of the three. Their movie may be highly calculated, but at least it doesn’t feel soulless; as in Spielberg’s blockbusters, the sets (decorated by Elizabeth Wilcox) are filled with quirky bric-a-brac, bringing a lived-in dimension to the big-budget spectacle, and Edwards displays a welcome playfulness in some of his flamboyant camera movements. Alexandre Desplat’s score is an enjoyable pastiche in itself, drawing from John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, and Akira Ifukube’s theme from the Japanese original. With Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche, and David Strathairn.

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tHE aMaZInG SPIdEr-Man 2 + roBoCoP | Fri-Sun: 8:15 GodZIlla + 300: tHE rISE oF an EMPIrE | Sun: 8:15 tHE lEGo MoVIE + GodZIlla |

tHE aMaZInG SPIdEr-Man 2 | 12:15,

ColonIal tHEatrE

Portland 333 Clarks Pond Parkway, South Portland | 207.772.6023

3:30, 6:45, 9:45

CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr SoldIEr | 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45 GodZIlla | 1, 4, 7:10, 10 tHE Grand BUdaPESt HotEl | 7, 9:20

HEaVEn IS For rEal | Fri-Sun: 11:15 am, 1:40, 4, 7:10, 9:40 | Mon-Thu: 1:40, 4, 7:10, 9:40

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

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4:30, 7, 9:40 | Mon-Thu: 2, 4:30, 7, 9:40

tHE otHEr WoMan | Fri-Sun: 11:15 am, 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 | Mon-Thu: 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50

nICKElodEon CInEMaS 1 Temple St, Portland | 207.772.4022 Call for shows & times.

WEStBrooK CInEMaGIC

183 County Rd, Westbrook | 207.774.3456

6:50, 7:10, 9:35, 9:50 GodZIlla 3d | 11:50 am, 3, 6:30, 9:15 HEaVEn IS For rEal | 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:15

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tHE Grand BUdaPESt HotEl | Fri-Sat: 7:30 | Sun: 2

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tHE aMaZInG SPIdEr-Man 2 | 12:20, 6:45

tHE aMaZInG SPIdEr-Man 2 3d |

3:30, 9:45

lEGEndS oF oZ: dorotHY’S rEtUrn | 12:10, 2:25, 4:40 MIllIon dollar arM | 1, 4, 6:55, 9:40

nEIGHBorS | 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:35 tHE otHEr WoMan | 1:10, 4:05, 7:15, 9:50

tHE QUIEt onES | 7 rIo 2 | noon, 2:15, 4:35

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

Fri-Sat: 8:15 163 High St, Belfast | 207.338.1930 Call for shows & times.

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

FrontIEr CInEMa 14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222

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

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rIo 2 | Fri-Mon: TBA FIndInG VIVIan MaIEr | Tue-Thu: TBA

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

SaCo CInEMaGIC & IMaX

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

12:30, 3:45, 7:15, 10 | Sun: 12:30, 3:45, 7:15, 10 | Mon-Thu: 4, 7

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2, 6, 8

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HEaVEn IS For rEal | Fri-Sat: 7 | Sun: 3

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

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12:15, 1:30, 3:20, 4:30, 7

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lInColn tHEatEr 2 Theater St, Damariscotta | 207.563.3424

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_by syMbo line Da i Thank you for all your comments about my mom’s passing. This week is especially bittersweet because her 80th birthday would have been May 15. She was a true Taurus — artistic, musical, and consistent. Happiest as part of a “gang” and highly resolute. Or, as the entire family said, stubborn. She never quite understood what I’m doing here with astrology but she was my biggest supporter, and was always happy to weigh in on the qualities of her own sign. So, Happy Birthday to all the Tauruses out there, particularly those of you who are parents or artists.

_ by M a t t J o n es 1

“Get Back”

— return to what you know

Across 1 Woodshop tools 5 dish (out) 9 Florida fullback, for short 12 Fluish, perhaps 13 “Space invaders” company 15 Mascara’s target 16 campus letters 17 convincing 18 “... butterfly, sting like ___” 19 “___ for alibi” (Grafton novel) 20 places for missing persons reports 22 “and i’ve got one, two, three, four, five ___ working overtime” (xtc lyric) 24 nixes a bill 25 1980 running medalist Steve 26 Unobtrusive, as a ringtone setting 29 it’s heard in houston 31 affected

32 it may hold up an arp 33 Sapporo sashes 37 one end of a fencing sword 39 1968 Winter olympics site 43 ___ apso 44 lock up tight 45 convent-ional title? 46 item exhumed years after burial 50 hem’s partner 51 part of ncaa 52 like mad callers 53 “Born Free” lioness 54 Queens diamond, once 55 take on more issues? 56 othello, for example 57 allergy source 58 QB play 59 roadside rest stops 17

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saturday May 17 5

Monday May 19 7

Waning moon in aquarius (moon void-of-course 3:02 am until 5:58 am in capricorn). Mars moves direct, so if something got stalled in late fall, forward momentum happens, particularly for libra, aquarius, and Gemini. Since aries, capricorn, and cancer have a difficult Mars angle, they look at roadblocks as “necessary delays.” aquarius moons are about friendship — lots of pals, versus one deep relationship, so spend your time with the group, especially aquarius, Gemini, pisces, libra, Sagittarius, capricorn, aries. cancer, Virgo, taurus, Scorpio, and leo: keep your cards close. 24

tuesday May 20

Waning moon in aquarius, moon void-of-course 6:21 pm until 8:18 am Wednesday. Sun moves into Gemini. air, air, everywhere, so conversations are plentiful. as is exaggeration. it’s easy to promise what you can’t deliver. aquarius, libra, Gemini, and pisces: find the most graceful manner of communication (especially if you are bowing out). taurus, leo, Virgo, cancer, and Scorpio: it’s easy to be vexed by the airheads. don’t take it personally — spacey people are spacey with all! capricorn, Sagittarius, and aries: this is an excellent day for reviewing options. 24

Wednesday May 21 9

last quarter moon in pisces. a turning point for events that occurred on april 29, or that climaxed around May 14. Quarter moons give us all some breathing space. Use this time to look backwards more than ahead, because from now through May 28, the theme is finishing (or abandoning). pisces, Scorpio, cancer, and aries: your antenna are tuned into all kinds of subtleties — enjoy. Virgo, Sagittarius, leo, Gemini, and libra: free-floating depression could find you. Find a better hiding place. aquarius, taurus, and capricorn: take the slow road. 25

Moon Keys

Waning moon in capricorn. a weekend capricorn moon means it’s a good day for looking at long-term investments. however, if you are miserly (or spend time with frugal folks), they’ll be in overdrive in terms of being grasping or gloomy. capricorn, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Virgo, taurus, aquarius, and pisces: don’t let others talk you out of what you intend to do. this may mean you say nothing about what you intend to do! cancer, libra, aries, leo, and Gemini: your sense of humor may be misinterpreted. 21

Waning moon in Sagittarius, moon void-of-course 3:43 am until 4:12 am Saturday. When the moon is void-of-course, you’ll want to doublecheck everything — from prices to directions. a fine day for learning something new, particularly if you’re Sagittarius, leo, aries, or capricorn. Virgo, Gemini, pisces, and cancer could have a touch of “high anxiety,” particularly if you have financial problems or are in the habit of overdoing things. taurus, libra, Scorpio, and aquarius: you can lighten the tension for all.

Waning moon in capricorn. the second day of a capricorn moon suggests work on long-term projects. the sign of the goat symbolizes great perseverance, particularly in the face of obstacles and long odds. libra, cancer, aries, leo, and Gemini: stick with the folks you can trust, and if you’re feeling a little laz-z-zy, you’re in tune with the moon. capricorn, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Virgo, taurus, aquarius, and pisces could be happiest if cooking a meal that takes a very long time to complete.

Waning moon in Sagittarius. a great day for humor, or appreciating the lighter side (as Mad magazine’s dave Berg used to cartoon). Sagittarius moons bring a lightness and definitely prompt the risk-takers to surge forward. if you’re accident-prone, wear the sensible shoes. Shining brightly: Sagittarius, capricorn, aries, and leo. Feeling needy (or knee’d): Virgo, Gemini, cancer, and pisces. looking for friendship and willing to take a chance: taurus, libra, Scorpio, and aquarius.

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