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the muse comes in all forms Locally produced litmag’s latest volume pushes 450 pages of poetry and prose

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Checking in: The New Guard and The Writer’s Hotel

Former Mainer Shanna McNair started The New Guard, an independent, multi-genre literary review, in order to exalt the writer, no matter if that writer was well-established or just starting out (see “Mixing Old and New,” by Deirdre Fulton, February 21, 2012). Like its predecessors, the latest installment features well-known names and new-to-us talent, with offerings at times experimental and always well-executed. From bite-sized pieces up front to meaty work in the middle to in-depth interviews in the back, The New Guard is a must-read for anyone seeking to hone his or her craft. In this edited email interview, founding editor McNair—who will read her own work, along with TNG editor Scott Wolven, at Longfellow Books this Friday—tells the Phoenix about the 450-page Volume III, a new online component called BANG!, and The Writer’s Hotel, TNG’s educational operation out of New York City. The New Guard contests in fiction and nonfiction are open until July 14. It’s $15 to enter; learn more at newguardreview.com.

1) hoW has The New Guard eVolVed oVer three issues? What’s changed aBout either the process or the product? The New Guard is a labor of love. It’s not a money maker; it’s a way for us to publish a lot of newcomers alongside established writers. Each issue has been very different. Each one has its mood and its themes. The process has evolved, and will need to become more streamlined in order for us to continue to produce it. Volume IV is in the works now, and our contest is open until July 14. The judges are Tim Siebles in Poetry

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and Joe Wenderoth in Fiction. This issue will be different from the rest—maybe more raucous—and in it we’ll be including a letters section called “Letters to the Future.” We will always have our contests in fiction and poetry, and we’ll always publish our winners, but Vol. IV will likely be a slimmer book than our present book, Vol. III, which is almost 450 pages. We have moved our base of operations to New Hampshire, but since TNG was founded in Maine, we’ll keep a Maine element in all of our books.

wanted to make meaningful connections for people. We also wanted to get writers all charged up, get them a great place to read in the city, and help coach them to reconceive of their writing and the writing process. We aim to give writers new tools and opportunities, help them write a proper query letter, get a slick first 50 pages to show to an agent, and have some fun along the way. The Writer’s Hotel Master Class is set at a floating campus in Midtown Manhattan between three writer’s hotels: The Algonquin Hotel, Library Hotel, and The Bryant Park Hotel. The Writer’s Hotel Editors worked with accepted writers immediately upon acceptance to the Master Class, helping to polish manuscripts in anticipation of meeting agents on site, and we also worked with our writers for a full month afterward. Several of our writers have since been published and/ or signed to an agency. Many agency and Patton’s story, “The Bull Rider,” is outpublishing decisions are still pending, standing, as is former Portlander Quenton and we’re excited to have made so many Baker’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a connections for our writers. Nigger.” Also of note are the Mainer writer On site this June at The Bryant Park interviews this round: Lewis Robinson, and Library Hotels, we ran a rigorous Elizabeth Miles (a/k/a Phoenix writer Deirschedule. We held writing workshops, dre Fulton), and Patrick Quinlan. We are lectures on writing craft, and agent panvery proud of this issue. els. We also hosted agent speed-dating and put our writers in direct contact with 3) What can people expect from the agents. We had six agencies represented longfelloW Books reading this friday? on site and two acquisitions editors gave Will you Be reading other people’s pieca generous seminar, representing Little, es, or your oWn, or a comBination? Brown and Simon & Schuster. Our reading at Longfellow on Friday will As I mentioned, our writers had the be an “editor’s reading.” Scott Wolven and unusual opportunity to read their own I will be reading our own original work. original work at NYC venues as part of We’ve gotten a lot of requests for a reading “The Writer’s Hotel Readlike this, and we went with ing Series 2014.” And we it! We will both be reading created other literary events new original short stories. to give our Master Class its As always, we’ll bring proper literary backdrop, some wine and cheese and and to honor writers and a crackers and a lot of enthucity so steeped in writerly siasm. We will also be talkhistory. There were literary ing about The New Guard and walking tours, one given by The Writer’s Hotel. The Dorothy Parker Society, focusing on the Vicious 4) tell me aBout the WritCircle of Midtown and a er’s hotel—the educationtour of The New York Public al piece of your operaLibrary. We also hosted a tion. you just finished up game of “Wink, Murder,” this year’s conference in a game made popular the neW york city. What made the neW guard founder “Vicious Circle,” at The it so successful, and Shanna McNair Algonquin Hotel. New York What do you hope Will Distilling Company docome of this program? nated bottles of Dorothy Parker Gin for the The Writer’s Hotel is the online editorial evening event, and we all ate and drank and teaching arm of The New Guard, run and had a great time getting to know each by myself and Scott Wolven. The Writer’s other. It was one heck of a party! ^ Hotel Master Class is a conference we began this year and yes, it was an absolute _Deirdre Fulton smash. We will be holding the conference once a year in Midtown Manhattan in The New Guard editor’s reading: shanna mid-June. We decided to host the confermcnair and scott Wolven | july 11 | 7 pm | ence in New York City because it is at the at longfellow Books, one monument Way, heart of the publishing industry, and we portland | 207.772.4045

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Did you see that amazing cover art? We are in love with the cover painting by Mainer Matt Welch, “I’ll Be Here All Week.” Inside, there are some outstanding contributor letters in the “Love Letters” section, which we nominated for a Pushcart. Such luminaries as Sharon Olds, Stephen Dunn, and Barbara Hurd wrote extraordinary poems, alongside with the up-andcoming fan favorite Van Newell, who wrote a love letter to southern food. Sara

The New Guard is a labor of love. It’s a way for us to publish newcomers alongside established writers. We now have an online component called “BANG!” where writers can publish just a small bit of writing on that designated page. The amount of writing is rather minimal, so it’s meant to serve as a kind of calling card for the writer. This page is made up of both invited contributors and contributors who’ve submitted to BANG! online. We run one BANG! contributor for a month, and the writer gets to run three pieces total. That’s three pieces: 500 words (or less) of fiction or nonfiction or 20 lines of poetry (any combination is fine). This section has been very popular and we’re happy to run it, in hopes it will give extra support and recognition to writers on the net. BANG! submissions are accepted year-round.

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Between the dying and the dead Being politically deceased, you’d think Steve Woods would give us a break by putting on a dark suit, lying down in a coffin, and closing his eyes. Then we could get on with his eulogy (Dear friends, during his time on the campaign trail, there may have been a few people he didn’t annoy, but I’m sure that was just an oversight). Instead, Woods insists on acting as if he’s still got some life in him, proposing absurd public policies and levying wild charges against the state Democratic Party. You can be excused if you’ve so far failed to properly acknowledge Woods’s passing, since even by Maine standards, he’s a pretty obscure figure. But he did run for the US Senate in 2012 as an Independent, dropping out in the final days of the campaign and throwing his support to eventual winner Angus King. Given that Woods, a Yarmouth business owner and town councilor, was polling in the low single digits at the time, that had a minimal impact on the outcome, which saw King cruise to victory. As 2014 approached, Woods registered in the Democratic Party and announced he was running for governor. Hardly anybody paid attention, because, as you may have noticed, there are other, more viable options in that race. But Democratic officials were apparently concerned that Woods’s candidacy would prove a minor distraction from their focus on uniting the party behind presumptive nominee US Representative Mike Michaud. So they worked out a deal with Woods whereby he’d give up his long-shot bid for the Blaine House and run for the Legislature instead. Woods was willing to go along with that alteration in his ambitions, but was concerned that if he ran for the state Senate seat repre-

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senting Portland’s northern suburbs, he’d face primary opposition backed by the party apparatus. So he negotiated a weird, confidential deal with party honchos that in return for his not mucking up their gubernatorial campaign, they’d remain neutral in the legislative contest. The value of such a document would have to be somewhere between extraordinarily low and completely nonexistent, but Woods insisted on it being drafted. If it helped him at all, it wasn’t apparent at the polls. In the June primary, Woods, in spite of spending over $50,000 of mostly his own money, got trounced by better than a 2-1 margin by former Falmouth Town Councilor Cathy Breen, who spent about $7,000. Woods blamed his lack of voter appeal and subsequent lopsided loss on a conspiracy by Democratic insiders. Other observers, perhaps employing a more levelheaded analysis, chalked it up to Woods’s abrasive personality and, possibly, his outlandish position on dealing with the declining economy in northern Maine. Nevertheless, Woods filed a complaint with the state Commission of Governmental Ethics and Election Practices (motto: Isn’t “Governmental Ethics” An Oxymoron?) alleging Dem leaders “organized and contrived” to defeat him and hand the nomination to Breen. As evidence of this, he pointed to an endorsement of his opponent by the Falmouth Democratic Town Committee. Due to egregious federal interference in our lives in the form of the First Amendment to the US Constitution, there’s apparently no state law preventing persons or groups from making endorsements, an oversight that falls under the heading of free speech or something. As a result, the ethics commission dismissed most of Woods’s conspiracy theory, but did

agree to investigate whether the Falmouth Dems should have registered as a political action committee before communicating with likely voters encouraging support for Breen. Even if the town committee is found in violation, it won’t help Woods’s political viability, which evaporated last year after he announced that about 20 percent of Maine municipalities “have collapsed economically to the point where many are not sustainable.” He suggested residents of these towns located in rural sections of the state be encouraged to pile their belongings in their pickups and move to more prosperous locations (such as Yarmouth or Falmouth?), where—assuming none of them is an illegal alien—they can collect general assistance. The last one to leave should turn off the lights. It’s that kind of outside-the-box thinking that gets someone labeled a genius. Or, more often, a jackass. Woods has now failed to appeal to independents and Democrats. That leaves him the option of running for something as a Republican espousing a strong bias against northern Maine or as an anti-backto-the-land Green Independent. Neither seems like a course that could revive his credibility. Better to lower himself into a hole and have somebody throw dirt in his face. Consider this the first shovelful.

Correction: In my column two weeks ago, I got the number of University of Maine System campuses in Aroostook County wrong. There are two. My only excuse is I learned arithmetic in the UMaine system. Possible tombstone inscriptions and other snide remarks may be emailed to aldiamon@herniahill.net.

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Gas is too cheap last month i used this space to report on one of the most significant steps ever taken by the uS government to prevent climate change: new rules proposed in June by the environmental protection agency that would require power plants across the nation to reduce carbon emissions 30 percent by 2020. Since electricity production accounts for nearly a third of carbon emissions produced in the uS, that’s a big deal. on the other hand, the rules don’t do anything to address the second largest source of carbon emissions: transportation. as long as getting around in a car and moving goods by truck remain cheap and easy, a huge share of carbon emissions will come from tailpipes. people love to complain about the high costs of driving, but gas in the uS remains a steal compared to other countries. the low cost of gas is especially obvious when it’s compared to the price of other commodities like bottled water, or basic staples like milk. our government spends a fortune pursuing policies that allow cheap gas and easy driving. the best way to push people to drive less would be to make driving more expensive. that’s why lots of environmentalists and economists have been pushing for years for a serious spike in the federal gas tax, which hasn’t been raised since 1993. currently, the federal gas tax is 18.4 cents per gallon. it’s hard to think of a more straightforward, common sense solution to any problem than a hike to the gas tax. doing so would ensure that people who benefit most from roads and bridges are the same people who pay for them, since dollars collected from the gas tax flow into the federal highway trust Fund. a higher gas tax would also help reduce congestion, incentivize more fuel-efficient cars, make public transit more attractive, and place a cost on the pollution that inevitably occurs anytime you burn gas. unfortunately, it’s pretty much taken for granted in Washington that raising the gas tax, despite being sensible policy, is politically poisonous. americans like consuming cheap gas— while complaining about expensive gas—and few politicians have the guts to mess with that self-destructive privilege. But there’s another, more urgent reason to raise the gas tax that might make it easier for lawmakers to go out on a limb. the highway trust Fund is running out of money. officials predict the fund will become insolvent by the end of July unless congress scrapes together some cash. abound 80 percent of the cost of maine’s road and bridge projects rely on federal funding, so if that money dries up the impact would be felt close to home. this dire need to find money to pay for roads and bridges has inspired a bipartisan proposal from uS Senators Bob corker (r-tenn.) and chris murphy (d-conn.) to raise the federal gas tax by 6 cents per gallon each year for the next two years. after that two-year period, the gas tax would be linked with the rate of inflation. that spike is not nearly enough to bring the price in line with the actual environmental and social cost of gasoline, but it’s a step in the right direction. most supporters of the bill are talking it up as a solution for the shortage in funds for roads and bridges, but its potential environmental impact is far more important. the major flaw in the bill, besides the modest increase, is that the Senators added a bunch of unnecessary and unrelated tax breaks to the legislation to make it more palatable to congress. Still, even in its current flawed form, the bill would bring important progress. it’s worth noting, though, that the shrinking size of the highway trust Fund actually reflects a positive trend. americans are paying less in gas taxes because they are already driving less and using fuel more efficiently. the average american vehicle owner drives nearly 10 percent less than they did in 2004, marking a fairly incredible reversal of the trend in driving throughout the twentieth century. plus, americans are driving more fuelefficient vehicles these days, and driving them less than they used to. that’s due in part to the obama administration’s steps to gradually increase fuel-efficiency standards. even with the higher standards, though, the uS is far behind other nations when it comes to fuel-efficiency. more importantly, the average american still drives far more miles than residents of other countries—even in the most developed nations. and that’s what needs to change if we’re serious about reducing carbon emissions and developing a transportation system that’s not overwhelmingly fossil-fuel-dependent. ^

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GIRLS (AND BOYS) ON FILM MIFF 2014 FEATURES GLENN CLOSE, SARA DRIVER, AND A BOY’S UNFORGETTABLE ADOLESCENCE _BY CH RIS T O PHE R G RA Y

The Maine International Film Festival, now in its 17th year in Waterville, remains one of the region’s more ambitious cultural institutions, less bound by a singular ambition than a desire to convey the breadth and depth of cinema’s past and present. (This, and a healthy dose of music and human-interest documentaries.) On that account, MIFF ’14 is an impressive achievement, offering area filmgoers its best program in years. With so much to survey, let’s make haste with the recommendations. (Particularly emphatic suggestions are marked in bold print.)

NEW NARRATIVE FILMS

Sampling twelve years in the life of a Texas family, and shot with a game crew of actors (and children becoming actors) over the same length of time, Richard Linklater’s boyhooD (MIFF’s opening night film) is the director’s latest conceptual feat, and perhaps his greatest achievement. By turns a pop-cultural time-capsule, a devastating chronicle of growing up with divorced parents, and a supremely relaxed and observant comedy, the film thrives on the cumulative power of its glancing profundities and its unique ability to depict the simple but unceasing passage of time. The debut feature by a protégé and editor of Terrence Malick, A.J. Edwards’s The Better Angels lives up to its pedigree. Narratologically inert but fluidly composed and sometimes brilliantly cut, the film imagines the early life and surroundings of Abraham Lincoln. Sundance crowd-pleaser Frank stars Michael Fassbender as a musician always clad in a fake, cartoon head. (Maggie Gyllenhaal and Scoot McNairy also headline a strong cast.) The prolific Frenchman Philippe Garrel (Regular Lovers) returns to the festival with his latest, Jealousy. Louis (Louis Garrel, Philippe’s son and collaborator) abandons his family to take up with a fellow actress, and Jealousy elegantly and elliptically tracks their relationship. love is sTrange is the latest from Ira Sachs (Keep the Lights On), and features John Lithgow and Albert Molina as lovers who run into professional trouble when they marry after a decades-long relationship. Other scheduling priorities should include The sTrange liTTle CaT and a masTer builDer. The former, beloved at festivals around the world, is set at a family dinner in Berlin, and does feature a titular character. The latter is the latest from the great Jonathan Demme (Stop Making Sense, Rachel Getting Married); Wallace Shawn stars in his adaptation of a Henrik Ibsen play.

NEW DOCUMENTARIES

An intriguing feature with some local flavor, Raymond St-Jean’s A Chair Fit for an Angel tracks the artistic and cultural legacy of the Shaker community. Along with footage from New Gloucester’s Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, the film focuses on Shaker-inspired dance and music performances. Other music films with potential include: Brasslands, a collective-produced film that applies the renaissance of Balkan brass music to the livelihoods of three subjects in various parts of the world; Finding Fela, a biographical effort and surefire entertainer from the inexhaustible, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side); and Alive Inside, the Audience Award winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

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Debra Granik’s first film since Winter’s Bone follows a Vietnam veteran and Harley enthusiast as he treks to Maya Lin’s memorial and engages with a changing America. The life-after-Superstorm-Sunday doc This Time Next Year should thrive in the capable hands of Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaiman (Remote Area Medical, Gerrymandering).

TRIBUTE AND CLASSICS PROGRAMS

The third actress to be honored with MIFF’s Mid-Life Achievement Award is Cruella de Vil herself, Glenn Close, who will make the voyage to Waterville on July 13 for a screening of Albert Nobbs. Other Close films featured at the festival include Dangerous liaisons and the forthcoming Low Down, co-starring John Hawkes and Elle Fanning. Also receiving kudos is one of the most important female voices in independent cinema, Sara Driver. Her collaborations with Jim Jarmusch are commemorated by a screening of the iconic sTranger Than ParaDise, which Driver produced, and a

showing of you are noT i, a 1981 adaptation of a Paul Bowles story that Driver directed and Jarmusch shot. Try to catch another Driver-helmed film, When Pigs Fly, which brings together Alfred Molina, Seymour Cassel, and Marianne Faithfull. “Masterpieces of Polish Cinema,” a collection of digital restorations curated by Martin Scorsese and highlighting works by Polish masters from the late 1950s through the early ‘80s, has been touring the country all year. Chief among the monuments appearing at MIFF are: Andrzej Wajda’s 1958 Ashes and Diamonds, set in the immediate aftermath of World War II among the Polish resistance; Wojciech Has’s epic 1965 nesting doll The sargossa manusCriPT; and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s immortal 1988 drama about the psychologies underlying crime and capital punishment, a shorT Film abouT Killing. The new documentary Eurocrime! will offer a fine primer for another interesting classics collection at MIFF, chronicling the evolution of the Italian police thriller in 1970s cinema. Political corruption, mob drama, and tweaked genre films dot the slate, which highlights a few

works by actor and MIFF guest Leonard Mann. His best showcase comes in 1969’s The ForgoTTen PisTolero, a spaghetti western founded on a Greek legend. Another great work tangentially related to the movement is Bernardo Bertolucci’s overwhelming The ConFormisT, which remains the existential political drama for a post-Antonioni age. Elsewhere, some one-off gems worth slotting a few hours for, each showing on 35mm: gun Crazy, Joseph H. Lewis’s perennially undervalued 1950 precursor to Bonnie and Clyde; Orson Welles’s extremely rare, unfinished 1938 pastiche of silent film tropes, Too muCh Johnson; and a wild, little-seen melodrama by Edward G. Ulmer, 1946’s Her Sister’s Secret. Consult the Maine International Film Festival’s website, miff.org, for advance ticket reservations and information about festival passes and the rest of this year’s program. ^

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cited by these off-the-beaten-path comedy shows. A small squad of touring stand-up artists—JeFF BiloDeau, lauren o’Brien, JeSSe egan, and Dewey BratCher—cohort at the Rising Tide Brewery on Fox St. tonight for a set amongst the vats. You wouldn’t think so, but it’s a fun place to hang out; plus everyone seems to agree the beer is excellent, and tonight it floweth. 8 pm; $10 at 103 Fox St. STATE AID | If you’re not effing around tonight, surround yourself with the brightest lights the city has to offer. The annual “State of the State” concert showcases some of the most battletested, widely loved, and totallycapable-of-bringing-it local music acts to the massive stage of the State Theatre. See the fusion of backwoods- and arena-country group mallett BrotherS BanD, the electropop sensation other BoneS, faith-based rock group the wreCking, alt-rapper SpoSe, party-funk group moDel airplane, and R&B act kenya hall BanD. A real cornucopia of sound. 7 pm; $15-18 at 609 Congress St., 207.956.6000.

f Snoop Dogg, at Portland Expo, in Portland on July 10. thursday 10 KEEP IT RUFF | A Lion in winter, yet still a Dogg in summer, the hip hop legend Snoop Dogg returns to Portland for a massive concert in the Portland Expo, home of the Red Claws. The artist’s newfound love, light, and positivity brought on by his recent embrace of reggae shouldn’t be too hampered by this temporary return to his old sobriquet, so expectations that he’ll just dust off “Lodi Dodi” or something might be far-fetched. With Cam groveS and B.aull. Tickets are $51.50 via Waterfront Concerts; show’s at 7 pm at 239 Park Ave. 207.358.9327. PEOPLES’ WHARF | The Porthole, a longtime staple of real-Mainer dining situated on the slowly-gentrifying wharfs of Commercial Street, received a grade-A review this week (see Brian Duff on page 24), a reversal of its somewhat less-than-stellar grade doled out by the city’s ambitious health inspector two years ago. It’s under new ownership now, but retains a good ton of the flair (and seagulls) of old. This era of the restaurant’s history

includes a lot more live music. Tonight and every Thursday, the smooth rhythms of soul-funk dude lyle DivinSky should aid conversation, libation, and digestion. 6 pm and free at 20 Custom House Wharf. 207.773.4653. WHAT ELSE IS NEW? | Noiserock maestro J Mascis, reunited with drummer Murph and bassist Lou Barlow (who sulked off to start the excellent Sebadoh in the late ‘80s), bring the middle-aged version of rock gods DinoSaur Jr. back to Portland tonight. Now that the media-driven narrative about the band’s old feuds has been beat into the ground (including by yours truly – see “Rollins to interrogate Dinosaurs” by Nick Schroeder, June 15, 2011), and they’ve already completed the novelty tours of their seminal records, there’s nothing left for them to do except be a very, very good band. Expect nothing less. With Portland’s doom-rock outfit ogre at Asylum; 9 pm, $25 at 121 Center St. 207.772.8274. A SORT OF HOMECOMING | Meanwhile in Gorham, at the relatively new music and comedy club Spire 29, the local musician Dexter Jenks returns from new digs in South Carolina to play with his shaggy-haired, jam-

saturday 12 CROSS-REFERENCE | Ever wonder how classic literature

might differ if it were told by women? While some academics have carved out entire branches of literary pursuits to the subject (like the study of captivity narratives), one thespian has endeavored another path. The performer SuSanna hamnet re-tells the story of Shakespeare’s King Lear, a tragic tale of hubris wherein a fallen king spurns the love of his three daughters and many of his subjects. Hard to say why, exactly. Hamnet’s retelling might take us closer to this perversely classic than the Bard could. Her one-woman show, titled Nearly Lear, is staged at the Celebration Barn, 190 Stock Farm Rd in South Paris, at 8 pm tonight. $8-14, call 207.743.8452 for details. UP THERE | If you can make it up there, the arootSakooStik muSiC FeStival should pack quite the punch. The County imports the Appalachian vibes of several roots, Americana, rock, and country acts for an annual all-day concert. Taking the stage are drone-wizards herBCraFt, bluegrass-folk group ghoSt oF paul revere, the reverential songwriter JaCoB auguStine, and many more (see our listings). 11 am; $20 at Thomas Park in New Sweden. PICK UP THE PEN | Two literary events of note today: the first is a letter-writing revival at SpaCe gallery—no frills, just you and your neighbors gathering together to satisfy those undernourished epistolary

rock/reggae band South Street, the sort of group that play without their shirts on. With top monnow; 8 pm, $13 at 29 School St., 207.222.2068.

friday 11 STILL AFLOAT | Stalwart Portland musician Mark Belanger’s long-traveled road with cancer rumbles over another checkpoint tonight, as his band pigBoat, a burly, barreling alliance of metal and stoner-rock, release their album Distracted by Adventures in Healthcare, a document of fears and frustrations surely far more dire than its cheeky title. They play with the blackened sludgemetal group Sylvia and minDSet X, a prog trio from Manchester, NH. 9 pm,$5 at Geno’s Rock Club, 625 Congress St., 207.221.2382. DINNER PLANS | In the early eve, venture down toward the Bayside area for bargains both culinary and domestic, as the portlanD Flea-For-all hosts a “night market and food festival,” involving special vendors and many of the area’s food trucks. 6:30 pm at 125 Kennebec St.

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f SuSanna hamnet: “nearly lear”, at Celebration Barn, in South Paris on July 12. with Katastro instincts. That starts at noon, with some cost for materials (at 538 Congress St.). The second is a little less traditional—at Mayo Street Arts, “nakeD people reaDing” seems to be as accurate and guileless a title as they come. Poetry and prose readers bare their innermost thoughts while assuming the corresponding wardrobe; photography strictly prohibited. 8 pm; $8-10 at 10 Mayo St. 207.615.3609. LISTEN FOR THE PINES | Meanwhile at One Longfellow, the Maine folk artist eliah pineS mounts a set of his bucolic, backwoods guitar songs, inspired by the remote, marginalized feeling one gets waiting for a dial-up internet connection to load. A CD-release. 8 pm; $7-10 at 181 State St., 207.761.1757.

sunday 13 EVOLUTIONS | The post-hardcore band CirCa Survive, from Philadelphia, have been evolving toward their current form of swirling, melodic emo-rock for almost ten years, led by the powerful, rangy, slightly Geddy Lee-quality vocals of singer Anthony Green. They’re on tour with Austin’s power-pop band ume, and play with locals BoX tiger at the Port City Music Hall. 7:30 pm; $20-22 at 504 Congress St., 207.899.4990. RUMBLERS | Providence’s low anthem play an intelligent blend of coffeehouse folk, timeless Americana, and dark alt-rock, and have amassed a sizable following in the seven years since their debut. They return here often, and head a show at Biddeford’s Oak and the Ax at 8 pm, with the neo-folk band Death veSSel (a welltraveled project of Kennebunk’s

Joel Thibodeau) and Providence’s like-minded laSt gooD tooth. $8, 140 Main St. LIKE IT IS | Fiction writer-ofimport Jonathan lethem, whose candid assessments of growing up in Brooklyn have influenced many, reads from his latest, Dissident Gardens, 7:30 pm at SPACE Gallery. Free, call 207.828.5600.

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Another offbeat comedy thang: Portland Comedy Co-Op member Travis Curran is the centerpiece of zany inexplicability at Empire tonight, hosting (one presumes), a program titled “the nuClear

Show, with traviS Curran, SCientiSt.” Thing is, dude is not

a registered scientist. Helped by comics near and far—such as Ted Pettengil, Kate Ghiloni, Tim Hofmann, Jordan Handren-Seavey, and Will Green—the show might be the start of something. 9 pm; $6 at 575 Congress St., 207.879.8988. SERENITIES | Leave it to Oak and the Ax to throw up the best shows in town on Monday nights in July. The serene, nylonplucked folk songs of Buffalo, New York, songwriter Julie Byrne are joined by the magnetic, barebones work of liza viCtoria (she of Lisa/Liza). With aDam lampel & Sunaterere at the Oak and the Ax. 8 pm; $8.

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It’s midsummer, and everyone’s social life is incredibly well-oiled. We’re not tired like we were six months ago, and are reminded,

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thursday 17 ON THE GREEN | Next week, the venerable Fenix Theatre Company stages its first performance of As You Like it, this year’s Shakespeare in the Park, directed by longtime Portland theater artist Peter Brown. Meanwhile, national punk groups take the big stage at Port City Music Hall, as touChe amore use hardcore thrash and Midwestern indie-rock to tirelessly probe the innerworkings of the emotional self, playing with tigerS Jaw and DaDS. 8 pm; $15

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MARc swANsON sEts stAGE fOR rehearsal space _BY MAR IAH BER GER ON Rehearsal Space: Dance and Conversation is weight; they appear as upended dresser the ICA at MECA’s summer centerdrawers, with linens full of secrets. piece, a collaboration between visual artist The craft of Swanson is his deliberation. Marc Swanson and New York choreograThe weights and measures of his composipher Jack Ferver for an original work of tions are precisely set, his asymmetries installation-based performance art inspired firmly counterbalanced. In Untitled (Double by Jean Genet’s play Les Bonnes (The Maids) to Drape Box), a diptych of twin shadow boxes display bandage-like swathes of fabric, the be devised and staged within the ICA. The festoon fixed solid from a bath of once-wet gallery-as-residency will begin mid-July, plaster. Such a result could be construed as with Ferver and dancers’ (Michelle Mola haphazard, but in the painstakingly identiand Jacob Slominski) daily creation process cal sags and folds is a promise from Swanin full public display. Currently, the exhibit son that his art is choices, not accidents. is all Swanson’s, an installation awaitBefore the performative elements come ing collaboration along with two rooms into play next week, Rehearsal Space houses separately devoted to his self-referential the character sketch of a man in absentia. In assemblage works. the vague space between the conflicts of his Rehearsal Space has an atmosphere of rustic and cosmopolitan stations, Swanson sneaking into an abandoned house, a verges on ghosting himself out of the condomestic arrangement of personal effects versation completely. The subtlety of his gesweighted by their owner’s absence. In tures could, especially with isolated pieces, works that come graduated out of Fluxus lose all personal reference. But together, this and assemblage heritage, Swanson uses series is so specifically intimate in its resoa palette of mirrors, wood, glass, and nance, the viewer is undeniably an interloper fabric, all in states both weathered and among these secrets. The show carves out the pristine, in combinations of high connegative space around the artist, revealing trasts and private sensitivities. Jaggedly his imprint as a shadow in the room. scored hunks of plywood frame delicately In conjunction with the exhibit, the ICA pinpricked threads of gold; drapes of is running free film screenings every Thursfabric are fixed frozen in bone-white plasday evening throughout July at 5 pm, focuster; monolithic mirrors lean casually up ing on new works in art and performance.^ against the walls. The work is uncluttered and exact, with an assured airiness that each piece contains nothing more, noth“ReheaRsal space: Dance and conversaing less, than prescribed. tion” | Through August 3 | ICA at MECA, Swanson is a Brooklyn artist, raised in 522 Congress St, Portland | 207.699.5040 | rural New England, who studied in New meca.edu/ica York and Skowhegan, Maine. His city and country accents actively abut and interlace, sometimes with conflict or hesitation. The weathered wood and dust-smeared windows might be farmhouse-salvaged, while smudgeless mirrors cut cold, severe edges like skyscraper windows. In his mostly white and wood palate, gold serves to both adorn with reverence and elbow-in a comment on class. For Rehearsal Space, Swanson pulls away from his betterknown, more overtly kitschy works— glittering antlers and bejeweled trophy heads—opting for a quieter duality of high and low, one that mediates the merits and tensions of both. Swanson openly pulls templates from his specific assemblage heroes, but strips them down to an austere set of elements, which, in turn, creates a space between influence and self-portraiture. The hanging extensions from the usual frame space echo Robert Rauschenberg’s rejection of the artwork square, but Swanson emblematizes and honors that refusal as an homage with the use of gold tassels and delicately dripping lengths of gold chain. The felt and fat of Joseph Beuys comes through—though more like memories than artifacts—in pelts of t-shirts: men’s cotton crew necks antiqued with stains, pinned taut like tanning hides, skins shed again and again. His shadow boxes suggest Joseph ‘unTITlEd (whITE CornEr floor PIECE)’ by Cornell (as so many do), but lose that Marc swanson; wood, mirror, paint, stain, fabric, souvenir preciousness in favor of gainplaster, photo; 82 by 40 by 28 inches ing a broader language of texture and

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medic, and haunting voice to a song about her abusive late husband’s dancing, and Billy’s sensitively portrayed father is at once stoic, loving, and volatile. Billy, in Parets’s expressive hands, shares his family’s nobullshit doggedness; what distinguishes him from them is less his pirouettes than his bewildered but fearless, nonjudgmental curiosity. Parets nails this, particularly in his bemused encounters with Barzee’s richly laconic Mrs. Wilkinson, and with his young cross-dressing friend Michael (Alec Shiman, with Mick Jagger charisma and unaffected ebullience for fringe and red tap shoes). And the dancing is often jaw-dropping. Interesting choreography (recreated and adapted by Adam Pelty) interweaves the physicality of clashing miners and cops with that of their dancing children (played by skilled young dancers who pretend entertainingly to dance badly). Even the minimalist bits delight, as when the men’s ensemble, playing a phalanx of cops, twitches, picks noses, and does jazz hands to the rhythms of syncopated percussion and slide whistles. And Parets is phenomenal, both vulnerable and fierce, literally shrieking in his defiant “Angry Dance.” He convincingly portrays Billy’s development from latent talent to focused dancer, and in a remarkable pas de deux with his older self (Stephen Hanna), he executes powerful leaps and turns, then hooks into a wire, rises, and spins so fast that I was astonished he can even walk straight afterward, let alone execute an accomplished final chain of turns to the edge of the stage. Finally, the writing has not just an irreverent wit (see the boozy shenanigans of “Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher”) but appealing ambiguities: the boy’s selfactualization doesn’t always seem the most urgent or sympathetic priority; its dramatic complications are rich, and its social implications are hard. Billy does deliver affirmation and a happy ending, but it earns it. ^

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seven minutes. They are and are not a stoner rock band, with tendencies toward jamming on a riff, but with a kind of punk curtness that shows up in everything from their I-don’t-give-a-fuck production values to the directness of their lyrics. I’ll leave it to the listener to gauge how much of that directness has inspiration in the healthcare experience. Vocalist and guitarist Mark Belanger thanks Dr. Helen Ryan and all at MCCM in the liner notes. Drummer Brian Chaloux thanks Dr. Elizabeth Bobzien, Dr. Devon Evans, Dr. Leslie Wu, and the R5 staff at Maine Medical Center. I’m not going to invade their privacy any further, or delve into their intentions, but, well, this is a long way off from “I Don’t Give a Fuck About Your Couch”: “You don’t care that I’m dying / We know that we’re both lying / To keep our jaws from seizing / To prove our own irrelevance.” It’s a sing-song piece that has you planning from the outset how it will fire up and get loud. The guitar is seriously wahed out, rippling sound waves, and there are doubled Belanger vocals: a low-down, dispirited voice in the bottom and a yelled delivery up top. “Storytime” is more Pixies, with Ed Porter’s bass doing melody work into the first verse, which is sung in dramatic fashion, a touch of Cobain entering as it continues in its disdain for apathetic humanity; they’ve heard all about how hard your life is, “But tell me one more time.”

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to wear your shirt.” Then there is talk of flowers and smelling the petals and the whole thing has a bit of a Shrek quality to it, but in the end it’s a nakedly honest song about intimacy and how difficult it can be to attain—and how good it feels when you haven’t had it in a while. That’s the thing about coming to grips with your humanity. You learn to appreciate what’s important. Not the routine hassles of life (as detailed in excruciating fashion on “Aunt Slappings”), but true emotion and feeling honestly come by. I wouldn’t wish Pigboat any more adventures with the healthcare system, but I’d hope even those who aren’t normally heavy music fans would give this new album a spin or two. ^

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cody, at 92. For those of us born in the ’70s and later, cody was most famous for mothering the Breau brothers, including denny, who you’ve seen playing country-style guitar if you’ve been out much at all in maine, and lenny, quite possibly the best guitarist to ever call maine home. unfortunately, lenny is maybe most famous for dying mysteriously in a los angeles swimming pool in 1984 at the age of 43, but go find the youtube videos. he was spectacular. and denny ain’t no slouch himself. look even deeper on the youtube machine, though, if you’re interested in the roots of maine’s storied country and bluegrass scenes. Betty cody was at its very beginnings. performing solo and with then-husband harold Breau (known as hal lone pine or the lone pine mountaineer; they divorced before he died in 1977), guitarist ray cou-

ture, and sometimes a very young lenny and other family and friends, cody was part of a stage show that reveled in the golden age of radio, fueled by Bangor’s WaBi, St. John’s cFBc, and other country stations up and down the east coast. cody and hal lone pine were married in 1940 and were an inspiration to the likes of maine country legends dick curless and mac mchale (mchale was born in 1932, the year hal made his radio debut), while cutting tracks with Westbrook’s al hawkes and touring with chet atkins and other members of the famous rca caravan, especially after they moved to Wheeling, West Virginia, home of the famous WWVa country station. the story goes that cody was

offered a big nashville contract after some initial hits on rca, but turned it down to stay in maine and raise her kids. perhaps ironically, lenny did eventually move to nashville as part of his long (and fruitless, finally) effort to find himself. it isn’t hard to hear why she drew attention to herself on tracks like “i really Want you to Know” and “pale moon,” where she shows off a brassy, full-bodied voice that’s effortless in the high tenor and can throw out a lilting yodel when called upon. it’s a voice that slices through the syrupy pedal steel and sits chillingly on top of an acoustic guitar strum. She was every bit the talent of Jeanne pruett or Kitty Wells or any of the many other pioneers

who brought the female voice to the big nashville stage, and it’s easy to see why col. tom parker, the guy who made elvis, would have offered her a deal. it may be that a gal raised in auburn, maine, just didn’t feel comfortable down there amongst the building country music industry machine. She wouldn’t be the first mainer to make that kind of choice. or maybe it’s true the colonel wasn’t interested in hal as a performer, and leaving her family for the bright lights was never really an option. regardless, cody essentially retired from the music biz after the family’s last attempt to stay afloat in music took them to Winnipeg, where lenny was inspired by the jazz scene and they hosted The Lonepine Caravan on canadian tV. She became a mill worker in lewiston, lived in a small apartment, and did a show or two here and there for fun and fond memories. thanks to the internet, though, her music lives on. there’s even a pandora station for hal lone pine & Betty cody. take a listen. ^

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ENDLESS JAGS sell the banquet, KEEp tHE MESS _BY NICK S CHRO E DE R The thing that makes desperation the irresistible, exotic beast that it is, is that it’s on a collision course. Ride with desperation long enough, and you’ll inevitably crash into wish-fulfillment (which only resets the process), maturation, or death. It’s a sad truth, but it’s sure fun while it lasts. The Endless Jags, the six-piece rock band from Portland, have been riding that beast for a few years now. They stormed out of the gate in 2012 with a sixsong EP of scorching guitars and weird sonic textures that balanced roughshod, hook-forward, Broken Social Scenederived pop with the energy and melody of the more evolved punk bands peaking before the collapse of the music industry. It was a style that felt like it came naturally, bolstered by the band’s secret-sauce element (they’re actually splendid fuckin’ musicians, most of whom spend more time playing in projects that please far more people than this one ever could), but anchored by the strident call-to-arms that make any rock band worth paying attention to. Yet while the EP was designed to gutpunch its listeners, a few songs could wither after repeated listening due to the Jags’ adherence to indie-rock orthodoxies and pop formulas—a confusing note for a supposedly nihilistic rock ‘n’ roll band to hit. Yet that’s precisely the faultline these guys are straddling: one foot in the terrain of the mainstream, the other ankle-deep in filth. Sell the Banquet, the band’s first proper full-length, basically digs them deeper in both directions. Its ten songs are smarter, more cohesive, and a bit more playful than its predecessor’s; more boastful of its propulsive rhythm section and the

excellent vocals of twin songwriters Oscar Romero and Tyler Jackson; and reaffirm every note of the battle-cry choruses that anchored their songs two years ago. Yet despite this apparent step toward maturation, the Jags never—and I don’t know how they pull this off—but they really never cave to the vapid, fatuous purr of mainstream appeal. It’s hard to say which side of that fence could claim opener “Boxcutter,” an upbeat party-starter which frames the good times as a spirit quest of chemically-aided peaks and valleys, but it’s a more solid, swaggering pop song than anything written two years ago. “Surfer” is even more satisfying, riding D.J. Moore’s organ melodies into a sequence of serious splashes in the chorus. And “Ready to Die” is the album’s best song, with Romero letting down the shroud of his typically obscured lyrics to hoist up the last flicker of a romance before it flames out. Jackson’s songs, peppered throughout the album and typically more ruminative than his foil’s, are fine chasers to Romero’s stiff, disaffected howls. “Fifty Grand” assembles all its scattered, impressionistic lyrics into a glorious and seriously Bob Pollard-y chorus. “Next Summer on the Ice” turns its mathy, fuzzed-out verses over to Justin Brady’s limber basslines and explodes into the beach-pop reverie Jackson summons in his Foam Castles project. “The Loop” tends to bloat the album’s second act a bit, trying to stretch a nifty-enough vocal melody into five-plus minutes of guitar parley. But the back end redeems, as the fierce blip of “Decameron” segues into the big payoffs of the noisy, six-minute closer “Hexer,” no clearer demonstration of a group of friends wishing the high would never end. What are the Endless Jags desperate for? Good question. For all their advanced musical knowledge, their heightened degree of familial trust, and their increasing willingness to trade in the languages of several styles beyond contemporary indie-rock, the Jags can often seem like a band without a coherent platform. Yet the album’s lyrics—obsessive, whimsical, and self-flagellating though they can be—are often surprisingly poetic, wistful, and commanding, evincing an ethos that doesn’t know exactly what it wants, but sure as shit understands what it’s running from. Entire nations have been founded on less. By comparison the Jags, a rock band somehow both brilliant and terrible, are only six dudes. A crash is inevitable—until the point when its not. ^

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raoke | 9 pm

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7:30 pm

MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | open mic with Mike Rodrigue | 9 pm

THE OAK AND THE AX | Biddeford

TUESDAY 15

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open mic | 6 pm

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Daniel | 1 pm | Fighting Fiction | 7 pm

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Story

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MONDAY 14

SATURDAY 12

Dover | karaoke | 8 pm

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| 8 pm

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THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Tommy

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FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | Mr.

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DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

NEW HAMPSHIRE BRITISH BEER COMPANY | Ports-

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT |

WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | Diezel | 9 pm CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT |

Dover | Irish session with Carol Coronis

WEDNESDAY 16

FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | Red

GARY’S RESTAURANT & SPORTS LOUNGE | Rochester | Ron Jones Band

| 8 pm

GOVERNOR’S INN | Rochester | Steve Organek

KELLEY’S ROW | Dover | Side Car |

9 pm

PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Portsmouth | deck: Haley Gowland Duo | 7 pm

PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | “Beat

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JEFF BILODEAU + LAUREN O’BRIEN + JESSE EGAN + DEWEY BRATCHER | 8

pm | Rising Tide Brewery, 103 Fox St, Portland | $10 JEFF DUNHAM | 6:30 & 9:45 pm | Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook, 72 Meadowbrook Ln, Lake Winnipesaukee, Gilford, NH | call for tickets | 603.293.4700 BOB MARLEY | 8 pm | Taste of Maine, 161 Main St, Woolwich | $21 | 207.443.4554

ALINGON MITRA + TIM HOFMANN + SHMAR + NATHAN BURKE + BRETT JOHNSON + MARK TURCOTTE | 8:30

Light Radio

pm | Stone Church, 5 Granite St, Newmarket, NH | $8-10 | 603.659.6321

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SATURDAY 12

HARLOW’S PUB | Peterborough | open

THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE/ PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Cadillac Three + Ryan Brooks Kelly

JEFF BILODEAU + LAUREN O’BRIEN + JESSE EGAN + DEWEY BRATCHER | 8 pm | Gold Room, 510 Warren Ave, Portland | $10 | 207.221.2343

GEORGE HAMM + JOHNNY CAIL + KEN RICHARD | 8 pm | Tupelo Music

Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $18-23 | 603.437.5100

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”HEADLINERS COMEDY NIGHT,” COMICS TBA | 7 pm | Mr. Goodbar, 8B

& Ramona Connelly | 5 pm

THURSDAY 17

PADDY’S AMERICAN GRILLE | Ports-

mouth | karaoke

mouth | Drew Yount | 9 pm

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PORTSMOUTH BOOK AND BAR |

Dozet Trio | 10 am

Dover | bluegrass jam with Steve Roy

MONDAY 14

Dover | Pete Peterson

with Chris Michaels

mouth | Family Affair | 6 pm

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mouth | deck: Kevin Burt | 2 pm | deck: Rockspring | 6 pm

BRITISH BEER COMPANY | PortsCARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT | | 9 pm

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FRIDAY 11

Listings Continued from p 19 TRAVIS CURRAN + TED PETTENGIL + KATE GHILONI + JORDAN HANDRENSEAVEY + WILL GREEN + TIM HOFMANN | 9 pm | Empire, 575 Congress St, Portland | $6 | 207.879.8988

TUESDAY 15

”LIVE & LOCAL,” WITH TROY PENNELL, ET AL. | 9 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $5 | 207.761.1757

WEDNESDAY 16

”COMEDY SHOW,” WITH JAY GROVE, ET AL. | 9 pm | Cara Irish Pub

& Restaurant, 11 Fourth St, Dover, NH | 603.343.4390 OPEN MIC | 6 pm | Union House Pub & Pizza, North Dam Mill, 2 Main St, 18230, Biddeford | 207.590.4825

”PORTLAND COMEDY SHOWCASE” PERFORMERS TBA | 8 pm | Bull

Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | 207.773.7210

THURSDAY 17

DOWNEAST HYSTERICAL SOCIETY | 7:30 pm | Freeport Theater of

Awesome, 5 Depot St, Freeport | 800.838.3006

CONCERTS CLASSICAL THURSDAY 10

BRIDGET KIBBEY & REBECCA RINGLE & SIWOO KIM | 7:30 pm |

Rockport Opera House, Central St, Rockport | $35, $10 youth 21 & under | 207.236.2514

SUNDAY 13

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TUESDAY 15

YOSVANY TERRY’S BOHEMIAN TRIO | 7 pm | Stonington Opera House, Burnt Cove Church, 17 Airport Rd, Stonington | 207.367.2788

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BAD COMPANY + LYNYRD SKYNYRD + DEAD DAISIES + STEVE RODGERS | 6 pm | Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion, 1 Railroad St, Bangor | $33-103 | 800.745.3000 MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER | ThursFri 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $85 | 207.935.7292 ANNI CLARK | 7 pm | Deertrees Theatre, Deertrees Rd, Harrison | 207.583.6747

CRUEL HAND + STREET SWEEPER SOCIAL CLUB + SWAMPS + CAUGHT IN A CROWD | 6 pm | Dover Elk’s

Lodge, 282 Durham Rd, Dover, NH | call for tickets B.B. KING | 8 pm | Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $49-86 | 603.929.4100

LONDON SOULS + KENYA HALL BAND | 5 pm | Alive at Five Concert

Series, Monument Sq, Portland | 207.772.6828 SNOOP DOGG | 7 pm | Portland Expo, 239 Park Ave, Portland | $51.50 | portlandevents.com/Expo.htm JENNY WOODMAN | 7:30 pm | Casco Bay Lines Music on the Bay, 56 Commercial St, Portland | $20 | 207.774.7871

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JEFF BEAM + KAFARI + BOYFRIENDS | 8 pm | Bunker Brewing Co, 122 Anderson St, Portland | $5 MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER | See listing for Thurs SETH GLIER | 8 pm | Jonathan’s, 92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit | $30 | 207.646.4777 GORDON LIGHTFOOT | 8 pm | Great Waters Music Festival, Kingswood Arts Center, 21 McManus Rd, Wolfeboro, NH | $35-80 | 603.569.7710

”STATE OF THE STATE,” WITH MALLETT BROTHERS BAND + OTHER BONES + SPOSE + WRECKING + MODEL AIRPLANE + KENYA HALL BAND | 7 pm | State Theatre,

609 Congress St, Portland | $15-18 | 207.956.6000 ”SUNSET BOOZE CRUISE” | 2 pm | Casablanca Cruises, Portland Harbor Tour, 18 Custom House Wharf, Portland | 207.831.1324 TRAVIS TRITT | 8 pm | Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $33-55 | 603.929.4100

SATURDAY 12

AMBIENT TRUST FUND | 6 pm | Casa-

blanca Cruises, Portland Harbor Tour, 18 Custom House Wharf, Portland | $20 | 207.831.1324

”AROOTSAKOOSTIK MUSIC FESTIVAL” | Toughcats + Tricky Britches +

Jacob Augustine + Dan Blakeslee & the Calabash Club + Ghost of Paul Revere + Suitcase Junket + Muddy Ruckus + Audrey Ryan + Dominic & the Lucid + Line of Force + GK & the Right of Way + Heather Styka + Herbcraft + Theodore Treehouse + Putnam Smith + Sorcha + Travis Cyr | 11 am | Arootsakoostik Music Festival, Thomas Park, New Sweden | $20

BABE. + BLOOD WARRIOR + GREAT WESTERN PLAIN + BUTCHER BOY | 3

pm | Bunker Brewing Co, 122 Anderson St, Portland | $5

BEATLES FOR SALE [BEATLES TRIBUTE] | 7 pm | Deertrees Theatre,

Deertrees Rd, Harrison | 207.583.6747 or deertreestheatre.org

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER | 7 pm | Prescott Park, Marcy St, Portsmouth, NH | $8-10 sugg. donation

BRANDY CLARK + HEATHER PIERSON + INDIGO GIRLS + JENNIFER NETTLES | 7 pm | Bank of New Hamp-

shire Pavilion at Meadowbrook, 72 Meadowbrook Ln, Lake Winnipesaukee, Gilford, NH | $27-69 | 603.293.4700

DJ BILLY YOUNG + DJ CHRIS COLE + ILL BI1L | 1 pm | Casablanca Cruises,

Portland Harbor Tour, 18 Custom House Wharf, Portland | $15 | 207.831.1324

EILEEN IVERS & IMMIGRANT SOUL

| 7:30 pm | Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | $25-30 | 207.633.6855

JOSH RITTER & THE ROYAL CITY BAND | 7:30 pm | L.L. Bean, Discovery Park, Freeport | 800.441.5713

MAGGIE ROSE | 8 pm | Jonathan’s,

92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit | $37.50 | 207.646.4777

”MAINE MUSIC AWARDS HALL OF FAME SHOW,” WITH HOWIE DAY + DON MCLEAN + DAVID MALLETT + ELLIS PAUL + DEVONSQUARE + CAROL NOONAN + MALLETT BROTHERS BAND | 7 pm | Cross Insurance Arena, 48 Free St, 1st Floor, Portland | $39-69 | 207.947.7345

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE + BRODY DALLE | 6 pm | Cross Insurance

Center, 74 Gilman Rd, Bangor | $24-54 | 207.947.7345

RAILROAD EARTH + YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND + JAKE JOLIFF & ALLIE KRAL | 8 pm | Hampton Beach

Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $31.75 | 603.929.4100 TUCKERMANS AT 9 | 8 pm | The Footlights in Falmouth, 190 US Rte 1, Falmouth | $15 | 207.756.0252

SUNDAY 13

74 Gilman Rd, Bangor | $63.50-83.50 | 207.947.7345

JOHN HIATT & THE COMBO + ROBERT CRAY BAND | 8 pm | Hampton Beach

Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $38-60 | 603.929.4100 NORTHERN GROOVE | 2 pm | Casablanca Cruises, Portland Harbor Tour, 18 Custom House Wharf, Portland | $15 | 207.831.1324

MONDAY 14

GORDON LIGHTFOOT | 8 pm | Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | $52-72 | 207.842.0800 JAMES TAYLOR & HIS ALL-STAR BAND | 8 pm | Bank of New Hamp-

shire Pavilion at Meadowbrook, 72 Meadowbrook Ln, Lake Winnipesaukee, Gilford, NH | $40-100 | 603.293.4700

TUESDAY 15

BEACH PARTY BOYS [BEACH BOYS TRIBUTE] | 7 pm | Seaside Pavilion, 8

Sixth St, Old Orchard Beach | $14-19 | 888.718.4253 STRAIGHT NO CHASER | 7:30 pm | Music Hall, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $40-73 | 603.436.2400

YOSVANY TERRY & HIS BOHEMIAN TRIO | 7 pm | Stonington Opera House, Burnt Cove Church, 17 Airport Rd, Stonington | call for tickets | 207.367.2788

WEDNESDAY 16

CASTLEBAY: “MAINE’S BYGONE BALLADS” | 5:30 pm | Maine Historical

Society, 489 Congress St, Portland | $5 | 207.774.1822 DR. BOOGIE | 7 pm | Casablanca Cruises, Portland Harbor Tour, 18 Custom House Wharf, Portland | $15 | 207.831.1324 KINGSLEY FLOOD | 7:30 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | call for tickets | 603.437.5100 LONE BELLOW | 7 pm | Prescott Park, Marcy St, Portsmouth, NH | $8-10 sugg. donation LORD HURON | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $20-25 | 207.956.6000

YES + SYD ARTHUR | 8 pm | Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $44-77 | 603.929.4100

THURSDAY 17

ALASDAIR FRASER & NATALIE HAAS | 8 pm | Jonathan’s, 92 Bourne

Ln, Ogunquit | $28 | 207.646.4777 JONATHAN BROWN | 6:30 pm | Bates College, Quad, 2 Andrews Rd, Lewiston | 207.786.6400

CRACKER + CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN + LYDIA LOVELESS |

8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $35-50 | 603.437.5100 EXTREME + CHARLIE FARREN | 8 pm | Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $32 | 603.929.4100

”MIDCOAST MUSIC FEST,” WITH JASON SPOONER BAND + BEAT HORIZON | 6:30 pm | Darrows

Barn, Round Top Farm, 3 Round Top Ln, Damariscotta | $15, $7.50 | 207.563.1507 or roundtoparts.org

SUZZY ROCHE & LUCY WAINWRIGHT ROCHE | 8 pm | Stone

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

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PROMETHEUS DANCE: “HEART OF THE MATTER” | See listing for Fri RED, HOT, & LADYLIKE | 8:30 pm | Mr. Goodbar, 8B West Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach | $12 | 207.934.9100

”SUMMER TIME SOIREE,” WITH STRIPWRECKED BURLESQUE | 7:30

pm | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark | $10 sugg. donation | 207.452.2412 | denmarkarts.org

THURSDAY 17

CAMILLE A. BROWN & DANCERS: “MR. TOL E. RANCE” | 7:30 pm | Bates

Dance Festival, Schaeffer Theater, Bates College, Lewiston | $25, $18 seniors, $12 students | 207.786.6161

MOSTLY BROTHERS & COMPANY

| medical benefit | 7 pm | Camden Opera House, 29 Elm St, Camden | $15 | 207.236.7963 | www.camdenoperahouse.com

EVENTS

FRIDAY 11

”THE NEW GUARD LITERARY REVIEW VOLUME 3” | poetry &

prose readings | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045

SATURDAY 12

”LETTER CIRCLE: REVIVING THE LOST ART OF LETTER WRITING” |

noon | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | $3 | 207.828.5600 or space538.org ”NAKED PEOPLE READING” | poetry & prose readings | 8 pm | Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St, Portland | $8-10 | 207.615.3609

FRIDAY 11

SUNDAY 13

Portland Flea-for-All, 125 Kennebec St, Portland | 207.482.9053

novel Dissident Gardens | 7:30 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | 207.828.5600

”FLEA BITES,” NIGHT MARKET & FOOD TRUCK FESTIVAL | 6:30 pm |

FAIRS & FESTIVALS THURSDAY 10

OSSIPEE VALLEY FAIR | Thurs-Sun |

JONATHAN LETHEM | discusses his

”RHYTHMIC CYPHER,” POETRY SLAM & OPEN MIC | 7 pm | Meg

Perry Center, 36 Market St, Portland | 207.619.4206

MONDAY 14

”POETRY ON TAP,” OPEN MIC & FEATURED POETS | 9 pm | Mama’s

DEERTREES NEW REPERTORY COMPANY | 207.583.6747 | Deertrees

MAINE STATE MUSIC THEATRE

| 207.725.8769 | msmt.org | Pickard Theater, Bowdoin College, Brunswick |

OPERA HOUSE AT BOOTHBAY HARBOR | 207.633.6855 | 86 Townsend

Ossipee Valley Faigrounds, 291 South Hiram Rd, Hiram | ossipeevalleyfair.com

Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

FRIDAY 11

TUESDAY 15

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The Bone Orchard | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | with Port Veritas | 7 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | $2.50-3 | 207.773.7210

ite St, Newmarket, NH | 603.659.6321

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SUNDAY 13

WEDNESDAY 16

OSSIPEE VALLEY FAIR | See listing

SATURDAY 12

NORTH ATLANTIC BLUES FESTIVAL |

See listing for Sat

OSSIPEE VALLEY FAIR | See listing for Thurs

FOOD

PAUL DOIRON | discusses his novel

”ZION HILL POETRY,” READING SERIES | 6:30 pm | Stone Church, 5 Gran-

SATURDAY 12

THURSDAY 17

am | Deering Oaks Park, Park Ave and Deering Ave, Portland

pm | Press Room, 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.5186 REBECCA MAKKAI | discusses her novel The Hundred-Year House | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045

PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET | 7

SUNDAY 13

”BEERTOGRAPHY TOUR” | two-stop

art of brewing and photography tour with John Kleinchester | 10 am | In’Finiti, 250 Commercial St, Portland | $85 | 207.221.8889 or infinitimaine.com

WEDNESDAY 16

PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET | 7

am | Monument Square, Congress St, Portland | 207.774.9979

OUTDOORS SUNDAY 13

SHIPYARD OLD PORT HALF MARATHON & SUMMER FESTIVAL | 5k race |

7:30 am | Shipyard Brewing Company, 86 Newbury St, Portland | $25-30 | 207.761.0807

MONDAY 14

”THE KING TIDE BYO CHAIR PARTY” | high rising tide observance event with street theater performances, puppet shows, films, & more | Mon 12:01 am | East Bayside, Cove St & Marginal Way, Portland

POETRY & PROSE THURSDAY 10

ELAINE MCGILLICUDDY | reads and discusses her novel Sing to Me & I

”BEAT NIGHT,” MUSIC & POETRY | 7

TALKS THURSDAY 17

”TICK-BORNE ILLNESSES & THEIR PREVENTION” | 6:30 pm | Falmouth

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

THEATER ARTS IN MOTION THEATER |

207.935.9232 | artsinmotiontheater.com | Fryeburg Academy, Eastman Performing Arts Center, 18 Bradley St, Fryeburg | July

11-Aug 1: Theater-Rific | 7 pm

ARUNDEL BARN PLAYHOUSE |

207.985.5552 | 53 Old Post Rd, Kennebunk | Through July 12: A Chorus

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SATURDAY 12

SEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE The Pirates of Penzance | Thurs 7:30 pm; Fri-Sat 8 pm | $22-30

SEVEN STAGES SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | 603.828.1337 | 7sta-

gesshakespeare.org | Prescott Park, Portsmouth, NH | July 13-Aug 17: The Comedy of Errors | 3 pm

STAGES: PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY FOR KIDS | 207.699.3330 | 24

Mosher St, South Portland | July 11-13: Oklahoma | $13

STONINGTON OPERA HOUSE |

207.367.2788 | operahousearts.org | Main St, Stonington | July 10-20: Ro-

Summer Indoor Climbing Camp Monday-Friday Ages 6-16 years 9am-Noon June 30 – Aug. 8 $170.00 per child/week

meo & Juliet & Zombies | Thurs-Fri + Sun 7 pm; Sat 2 & 7 pm | $25-35

TEN BUCKS THEATRE COMPANY

ART GALLERIES 3 FISH GALLERY | 207.773.4773 | 377

Cumberland Ave, Portland | 3fishgallery.com | Thurs-Sat 1-4 pm & by

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Summer Outdoor Climbing Camp Monday-Friday Ages 12 -18 July 21-25 & Aug. 11-15 $525.00 per child/week After-School Program

Monday-Thursday 3:30-5:00pm • 6-15 years

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HARLOW GALLERY | 207.622.3813 |

Listings Continued from p 21 CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART | 207.236.2875 | 162 Russell

Ave, Rockport | artsmaine.org | July 12-26:

160 Water St, Hallowell | harlowgallery. org | Wed-Sat noon-6 pm; Sun-Tues

Street, Portland | Through July 28: paintings by Sally Ladd Cole + Dennis Perrin | Through July 31: “2-Person Show,” oil paintings by Sally Ladd Cole + Dennis Perrin

| 207.351.1083 | 140 Lindsay Rd, York | georgemarshallstoregallery.org | Thurs-

Portland | sanctuarytattoo.com |

GEORGE MARSHALL STORE GALLERY

Sat 11 am-5 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Through July 13: “From Above,” paintings by Grant Drumheller + “Paintings & Drawings - A Survey,” by George Lloyd + “Making Time,” drawings by Scott Schnepf GREEN HAND BOOKSHOP | 207.450.6695 | 661 Congress St, Portland | greenhandbooks.blogspot.com | TuesFri 11 am-6 pm; Sat 11 am-7 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Through July 31: “Secret Koala Secrets,” archival prints by Eric Hou GREENHUT GALLERIES | 207.772.2693 | 146 Middle St, Portland | greenhutgalleries.com | Mon-Fri 10 am-5:30 pm; Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through Aug 2: paintings by John Whalley

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| 207.828.0031 | 541 Congress St, Portland | Mon-Wed 10 am-6 pm; Thurs-

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

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

WATERFALL ARTS | 207.388.2222 |

256 High St, Belfast | Tues-Fri 10 am-5

pm; by appointment | Through July 25: “Living in These Bodies, Part I,” mixed media works by Angela Lorenz + Peggy McKenna + Jessica Straus | Through Sept 12: “Living Wall Installation,” vertical garden

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

Brunswick | bowdoin.edu/art-museum | Tues-Wed + Fri-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Thurs 10 am-8:30 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Free admission | Through Sept 14: “On 52nd Streeet: The Jazz Photography of William P. Gottlieb” + “Is This What You Do With What You View?: Selections from the Dorothy & Herbert Vogel Collection,” mixed media | Through Oct 19: “Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective” | Ongoing: “American Artists at Work, 18401950” + “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 Aug 31: “Lois Dodd: Cultivating Vision,” works on paper | July 12-Jan 4: “Bernard Langlais,” paintings | Ongoing: “Process & Place: Exploring the Design Evolution of the AlfondLunder Family Pavilion” + “Alex Katz Collection” 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 + “The Wyeths, Maine, & the Sea,” paintings & works on paper | Through Jan 4: “The Shakers: From Mount Lebanon to the World,” mixed media ICA AT MECA | 207.879.5742 | 522 Congress St, Portland | Wed-Sun 11 am-5 pm; Thurs 11 am-7 pm | Through Aug 3: “Rehearsal Space: Dance & Conversation,” performances, films, & installation by Marc Swanson + Jack Ferver & Company | Through March 31, 2016: “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 July 18: “ART // SERVICE,” mixed media works by war veteran artists | Through Aug 29: “Wednesday Mornings: Recent Work by the Mill Painters” OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF ART | 207.646.4909 | 543 Shore Rd, Ogunquit | ogunquitmuseum.org | MonSat 10:30 am- 5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm | Through Aug 31: “Alexandra de Steigeur: Small Island, Big Picture,” photography | Through Aug 31: “Richard Brown Lethem: Figure (=) Abstraction,” paintings | Through Oct 31: “Andrew Wyeth: The Linda L. Bean Collection” + “Henry Strater: Arizona Winters, 1933-1938,” paintings + “Tradition & Excellence: The OMAA Permanent Collection” PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | 207.775.6148 | 7 Congress Square, Portland | portlandmuseum.org | Tues-Thurs + Sat-Sun 10 am-5 pm; Fri 10 am-9 pm | Admission $12; $10 students/seniors; $6 youth 13-17; free for youth 12 & under and for all Fri 5-9 pm | Through 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 | Through Sept 7: “Richard Estes’ Realism,” paintings

SALT INSTITUTE FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES | 207.761.0660 | 561

Congress St, Portland | salt.edu | TuesFri noon-4:30 pm | Through Aug 8: “In the Shadows: Urban Refugee Children in Africa,” photography by Amy Toensing

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - FARMINGTON | 207.778.7292 | Emery Com-

munity Arts Center, 111 South St, Farmington | Through Sept 7: “William

Wegman: Way Up in Maine,” mixed media works

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 Sept 28: “Making a New Whole: The Art of Collage” | Through Oct 31: “Annual Sculpture Garden Invitational” | Ongoing: paintings & photography by Maine artists + labyrinth installation

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - PORTLAND | 207.780.4850 | Osher

Map Library, Glickman Family Library, 314 Forest Ave, Portland | usm.maine. edu/maps | Tues-Thurs 1-4 pm; Sat 10:30 am-2:30 pm | Free admission | Through Aug 14: “Charting an Empire: The Atlantic Neptune,” cartographic exhibition

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

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 AMERICAN LEGION POST 56 | 207.363.0376 | 9 Hannaford Dr, York ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | 207.874.2639 | 94 Commercial St, Portland ANNIE’S IRISH PUB | 207.251.4335 | 369 Main St, Ogunquit ASYLUM | 207.772.8274 | 121 Center St, Portland BAYSIDE BOWL | 207.791.2695 | 58 Alder St, Portland BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | 207.564.8733 | 73 North St, Dover Foxcroft BEBE’S BURRITOS | 207.283.4222 | 140 Main St, Biddeford BENTLEY’S SALOON | 207.985.8966 | 1601 Portland Rd, Rte 1, Kennebunkport BIG EASY | 207.894.0633 | 55 Market St, Portland BINGA’S STADIUM | 207.347.6072 | 77 Free St, Portland BLUE | 207.774.4111 | 650A Congress St, Portland BLUE MERMAID | 603.427.2583 | 409 The Hill, Portsmouth, NH BRAY’S BREWPUB | 207.693.6806 | Rte 302 and Rte 35, Naples BRIAN BORU | 207.780.1506 | 57 Center St, Portland 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 BULL FEENEY’S | 207.773.7210 | 375 Fore St, Portland BULL MOOSE LOUNGE | 207.924.7286 | Moosehead Trail Motor Lodge, 300 Corrina Rd, Dexter BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | 207.443.6776 | 98 Center St, Bath

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK | 207.729.9400 | 16 Station

Ave, Brunswick THE CAGE | 207.783.0668 | 97 Ash St, Lewiston CAMPFIRE GRILLE | 207.803.2255 | 656 North High St, Bridgton

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

CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN |

207.336.2126 | 371 Turner St, Buckfield

CAPTAIN DANIEL STONE INN | 207.373.1824 | 10 Water St, Brunswick

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

CARMEN VERANDAH |

207.288.2766 | 119 Main St, Bar Harbor

CARTELLI’S BAR AND GRILL |

603.750.4002 | 446 Central Ave, Dover, NH CASA DEL LUNA | 207.241.0711 | Lewiston Mall, Lewiston 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

CHEBEAGUE ISLAND INN | 207.846.5155 | 61 S Rd, Chebeague Island CHOP SHOP PUB | 603.760.7706 | 920 Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH 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 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 DOVER BRICK HOUSE | 603.749.3838 | 2 Orchard St, Dover, NH EASY STREET LOUNGE | 207.622.3360 | 7 Front St, Hallowell EBENEZER’S BREWPUB | 207.373.1840 | 112 Pleasant St, Brunswick

ELEMENTS: BOOKS COFFEE BEER

| 207.710.2011 | 265 Main St, Biddeford EMPIRE | 207.879.8988 | 575 Congress St, Portland 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

FIRE HOUSE GRILLE | 207.376.4959

| 47 Broad St, Auburn FLASK LOUNGE | 207.772.3122 | 117 Spring St, Portland THE FOGGY GOGGLE | 207.824.5056 | South Ridge Lodge, Sunday River, Newry FREEDOM CAFE | 207.693.3700 | 923 Roosevelt Trail, Naples FROG AND TURTLE | 207.591.4185 | 3 Bridge St, Westbrook FRONT STREET PUBLIC HOUSE | 207.442.6700 | 102 Front St, Bath FRONTIER CAFE | 207.725.5222 | Fort Andross, 14 Maine St, Brunswick FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | 603.617.3633 | 1 Washington St, Dover, 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 GINZA TOWN | 207.878.9993 | 1053 Forest Ave, Portland THE GREEN ROOM | 207.490.5798 | 898 Main St, Sanford GRITTY MCDUFF’S | 207.772.2739 | 396 Fore St, Portland GRITTY MCDUFF’S/AUBURN | 207.782.7228 | 68 Main St, Auburn GUTHRIE’S | 207.376.3344 | 115 Middle St, Lewiston HARLOW’S PUB | 603.924.6365 | 3 School St, Peterborough, NH HIGHLANDS COFFEE HOUSE | 207.354.4162 | 189 Main St, Thomaston THE HIVE | 207.985.0006 | 84 Main St, Kennebunk HOOLIGAN’S IRISH PUB | 207.934.4063 | 2 Old Orchard Rd, Old Orchard Beach INN ON THE BLUES | 207.351.3221 | 7 Ocean Ave, York Beach IRISH TWINS PUB | 207.376.3088 | 743 Main St, Lewiston IRON TAILS SALOON | 207.850.1142 | 559 Rte 109, Acton JONES LANDING | 207.766.5652 | 6 Welch St, Peaks Island 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 LINDBERGH’S LANDING | 207.934.3595 | End of Pier, Old Orchard Beach LISA’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE | 207.621.0599 | 15 Bangor St, Augusta LITTLE TAP HOUSE | 207.518.9283 | 106 High St, Portland LOCAL 188 | 207.761.7909 | 685 Congress St, Portland LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE

| 207.899.3529 | 649 Congress St, Portland

THE LOFT AT STRAFFORD FARMS

| 603.742.7012 | 58 New Rochester Rd, Dover, NH LOMPOC CAFE | 207.288.9392 | 36 Rodick St, Bar Harbor MADDEN’S PUB & GRILL | 207.899.4988 | 65 Gray Rd, Falmouth MAINE STREET | 207.646.5101 | 195 Maine St, Ogunquit MAINELY BREWS | 207.873.2457 | 1 Post Office Sq, Waterville MAMA’S CROWBAR | 207.773.9230 | 189 Congress St, Portland MARK’S PLACE | 207.899.3333 | 416 Fore St, Portland MATHEW’S PUB | 207.253.1812 | 133 Free St, Portland MAXWELL’S PUB | 207.646.2345 | 243 Main St, Ogunquit MAYO STREET ARTS | 207.615.3609 | 10 Mayo St, Portland MCSEAGULL’S | 207.633.5900 | Gulf Dock, Boothbay Harbor MEG PERRY CENTER | 207.619.4206 | 36 Market St, Portland 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 NONANTUM RESORT | 207.967.4050 | 95 Ocean Ave, Kennebunkport THE OAK AND THE AX | | 140 Main St, Ste 107-Back Alley, Biddeford THE OAR HOUSE | 603.436.4025 | 55 Ceres St, Portsmouth, NH OASIS | 207.370.9048 | 42 Wharf St, Portland OLD 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 ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | 207.761.1757 | 181 State St, Portland 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 PADDY’S AMERICAN GRILLE | 603.430.9450 | 27 International Dr, Portsmouth, NH PEARL | 207.653.8486 | 444 Fore St, Portland PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | 207.783.6200 | 134 Main St, Lewiston PIER PATIO PUB | 207.934.3595 | 2 Old Orchard St, Old Orchard Beach PORT CITY MUSIC HALL | 207.899.4990 | 504 Congress St, Portland PORTHOLE RESTAURANT | 207.773.4653 | 20 Custom House Wharf, Portland PORTLAND LOBSTER CO | 207.775.2112 | 180 Commercial St, Portland

PORTSMOUTH BOOK AND BAR |

617.908.8277 | 40 Pleasant St, Portsmouth, NH PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | 603.430.8582 | 64 Market St, Portsmouth, NH PRESS ROOM | 603.431.5186 | 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH PROFENNO’S | 207.856.0011 | 934 Main St, Westbrook THE RACK | 207.237.2211 | 5016 Access Rd, Carabassett RAVEN’S ROOST | 207.406.2359 | 103 Pleasant St, Brunswick THE RED DOOR | 603.373.6827 | 107 State St, Portsmouth, NH RI RA/PORTLAND | 207.761.4446 | 72 Commercial St, Portland ROCK CITY ROASTERS & CAFE | 207.594.4123 | 316 Main St, Rockland ROOSTER’S | 207.622.2625 | 110 Community Dr, Augusta RUDI’S | 603.430.7834 | 20 High St, Portsmouth, NH RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | 207.571.9648 | 100 Main St, Saco Island, Saco SALVAGE BBQ & SMOKEHOUSE | | 919 Congress St, Portland SAVORY SQUARE BISTRO | 603.926.2202 | 32 Depot Sq, Hampton, NH SCHOONER LANDING | 207.563.7447 | 40 Main St, Damariscotta SEA DOG BREWING/BANGOR | 207.947.8009 | 26 Front St, Bangor

SEA DOG BREWING/SOUTH PORTLAND | 207.871.7000 | 125

Western Ave, South Portland

SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM | 207.725.0162 | 1 Maine St, Great Mill Island, Topsham SEA40 | 207.795.6888 | 40 East Ave, Lewiston SEASONS GRILLE | 207.775.6538 | 155 Riverside St, Portland SILVER HOUSE TAVERN | 207.772.9885 | 123 Commercial St, Portland SKIP’S LOUNGE | 207.929.9985 | 299 Narragansett Trail, Buxton SKYBOX BAR AND GRILL | 207.854.9012 | 212 Brown St, Westbrook SMILIN’ MOOSE PUBLYK HOUSE AND TAVERN | 207.739.6006 | 10 Market Sq, South Paris

SOLO BISTRO | 207.443.3378 | 128

Front St, Bath SONNY’S | 207.772.7774 | 83 Exchange St, Portland SONNY’S TAVERN | 603.343.4332 | 328 Central Ave, Dover, NH SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland SPEAKEASY | 207.596.6661 | 2 Park Dr, Rockland SPIRE 29 | 207.222.2068 | 29 School St, Gorham SPRING HILL TAVERN | 603.431.5222 | Dolphin Striker, 15 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH SPRING POINT TAVERN | 207.733.2245 | 175 Pickett St, South Portland STONE CHURCH | 603.659.6321 | 5 Granite St, Newmarket, NH STYXX | 207.828.0822 | 3 Spring St, Portland SUNSET BAR & GRILL | 207.934.5075 | 37 West Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach SUNSET DECK | 207.934.3532 | the Pier, Old Orchard Beach

THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE/ PORTSMOUTH | 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 TRACKSIDE STATION | 207.594.7500 | 4 Union St, Rockland TRAIN’S TAVERN | 207.457.6032 | 249 Carl Broggi Hwy, Lebanon WALLY’S PUB | 603.926.6954 | 144 Ashworth Ave, Hampton, NH WATER DOG TAVERN | 207.354.5079 | 1 Starr St, Thomaston WILLY’S ALE ROOM | 207.636.3369 | Rte 109, Acton YORK HARBOR INN | 207.363.5119 | 480 York St, York Harbor ZACKERY’S | 207.774.5601 | Fireside Inn & Suites, 81 Riverside St, Portland

Katie and Jason Adoptive pAreNtS

When Katie and Jason met they knew they wanted a family together and as people do when they fall in love they had one of those conversations that later feels prescient. They talked about how if they could not have a child – they would adopt. After several years of trying to get pregnant they came to the realization that adoption really was going to be their best way of having the family they dreamed of. They called Stepping Stones. “It was really easy. I googled adoption in Maine and Stepping Stones came up and we decided to call and find out more about the adoption process.” “We felt incredibly well taken care of. Stepping Stones walked us through the A-Z of adoption and made sure we understood the risks and challenges – the adoption staff was very open about the realities of the adoption process – we always felt really well supported. We completed all our paper work and settled down to wait to see if and when we would become adoptive parents. Then after a few months we got the call that a baby was available and were asked if we could get to the hospital the very next day. We were overwhelmed, nervous and excited. We were thrilled. We had the opportunity to meet with our birth mother and even had the chance to stay over in the hospital with the baby in our room. Our adoption was finalized in June. We are just so thankful to have our baby and begin our family. When we are ready to add to our family – we will certainly work with Stepping Stones again. We had a really good experience – they helped us make our dream of having a family come true.”

Adoption. Case Management. Community Mental Health. Mental Health First Aid. Shelter and Homeless Services 1.888.866.0113 Call Now Steppingstonesusa.org

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Our Ratings

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porthole diners Forgive, Forget, Feast on _By Bria n d UF F Though they offer an appealing moral clarity, in practice zero tolerance policies have ruined any number of urban schools, fragile marriages, and card-marred soccer games. Zero tolerance almost ruined Portland a few years back, when restaurant inspector Michele Sturgeon took her job so seriously (failing 83 percent of the restaurants she inspected in 2011) that the city had to buy her off—paying her over $18,000 to resign and “never to disparage or speak ill of the city or any of its products.” The most disparaging thing she ever said was that there were rats in the kitchen of the Porthole. And while the city was hoping to purchase its restaurants a little more tolerance, everyone could agree that rats are not good. So it’s fortunate that the Porthole found new ownership, renovated the kitchen and the bones of the building, and hired a new chef. But it’s equally welcome that the new Porthole resembles the scrappy old one in many ways. If you are looking for a completely spiffed pierdining experience, ask the hostess at Boone’s if she can fit you in among their well-dressed crowd. If you want something more relaxed, slip on by and seat yourself at a picnic table on the Porthole’s huge deck, where the atmosphere is palpably relaxed. There sleepy dogs laze in

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the shade under some tables, and romperclad women carry the conversation for their big, laconic, sunburned boyfriends in Red Sox shirts and sleeve tattoos. The pleasant server can’t tell you much about the entrees because she always orders the burger. It is pretty great out there. And the food is not bad either. The chef has done with the menu what the owner did with the place—elevating things without changing them fundamentally. So despite the server’s predilections, it’s worth veering from the burgers and fried fish into the more interesting dishes. The fish tacos, for example, break from common practice by opting for a crunchy blue-corn shell rather than soft tortillas. There are lots of tender, blackened pieces of some whitefish or another. On top sits a pile of crunchy slaw and juicy-sour pico de gallo. The pinkish aioli has a kick of sriracha (a company whose factory was nearly shut down by a zero tolerance policy on noxious odors in Irwindale, California). On their purple plate, the blue goopy tacos look both messy and appealing—sort of in the spirit of the Porthole itself. A scallop entrée, on the other hand, looks dignified, with an attractive sear on the big juicy mollusks. The scallops themselves were cooked just right—barely through the center. They sat in a buerre blanc sauce that was a touch gloppy, and

could have used more lemon. The menu promised fingerling potatoes and baby spinach but instead the potatoes cuddled up to some simple butter-sautéed chopped veggies. Those same PartY Colors the porthole’s tastefully unorthodox fish tacos veggies were served with and some new white-backed captain’s the baked stuffed haddock, this time chairs. Spots like the Porthole are the along with creamy mashed potatoes. fruits of our city and state’s commitment In this case the sauce—a tangy lobster to tolerance. Governor LePage has led the sherry cream—was more successful. But way by tolerating (even encouraging?) a the main ingredients really needed no little light domestic terrorism. And our adornment. The big thin piece of hadcity too can live with, even be enlivened dock had not dried out in baking, and it by, ambiguously legal activities like Airbwas wrapped around a huge juicy pile of nb subletting, teen drinking, and some nicely seasoned crab stuffing. It’s nearly low-key Craigslist prostitution. At spots half the price of the comparable dish next like the Porthole deck, the whole uptight door at Boone’s, and while it’s a little less idea of rules and regulations can fade fancy (Boone’s stuffs it with lobster and completely from your mind. Best $18,000 scallop), it is a really nice entree. we ever spent. ^ Thanks to the appealing cuisine and laid back atmosphere, along with local beers on tap and a few crisp white wines, $$ Porthole restaurant and Pub | the Porthole deck is better than ever. The 20 Custom house Wharf, Portland | Mon-sat 7 interior too looks like itself only better, am–10 pm; sun 7 am-7 pm | Visa/MC/disc/ with a few new booths, a coat of paint, amex | 207.773.4653

movie reviews in brief

more accomplished film this might have been.

_Ben sachs

xxx SnOwPieRCeR 100 minutes | r | nicKelodeon

In this Exorcist knockoff, Eric Bana plays a lapsed Catholic policeman who rediscovers his faith while investigating a series of crimes whose perpetrators are all possessed by the devil. Director Scott Derrickson (Sinister) demonstrates a knack for atmosphere but little sense of pacing; some sequences are effectively spooky (particularly one set at the Bronx Zoo), though just as many feel uninspired and the longer dialogue scenes stop the movie dead in its tracks. There’s a nicely modulated performance from Edgar Ramirez, as a drug-addictturned-priest, that hints at the

The human drive toward ecological collapse often seems like a screaming train that can’t be halted, which gives this postapocalyptic thriller by Bong Joonho (The Host) a potency indivisible from its premise. Decades after an atmospheric experiment to counteract global warming has instead plunged the world into a new ice age, a little community of survivors rides a passenger train around and around the planet, the haves housed near the engine and the have-nots suffering at the back; a rebellion led by two malcontents (Chris Evans and Jamie Bell)

Tammy

and leading up through the cars introduces us to a succession of fantastic technology and eccentric characters (not the least of which is Tilda Swinton as an officious Thatcher-like governess). As with The Host, the political satire is teased out gradually as the story progresses and never intrudes on one’s enjoyment of the movie’s richly imagined

world. With John Hurt, Octavia Spencer, and Ed Harris.

_J.r. Jones

xxW TAMMY 96 minutes | nicKelodeon + clarKs pond cinemaGic + saco cinemaGic & imax + westbrooK cinemaGic + auburn flaGship + bridGton twin drive-in

Melissa McCarthy stars as a midwestern loudmouth who, fired from her job at a burger joint and furious that her husband is having an affair, skips town with her wily, pill-popping grandmother (Susan Sarandon). Their sights are set on Niagara Falls, but a booze-filled run-in with the police strands them in Louisville. Like a classic road comedy, this tends to drift from scene to scene rather than adhere to a strict plot; the movie revolves mostly around McCarthy, hilarious in her best performance to date. She cowrote the script with her husband, Ben Falcone, providing her character with a nuance absent from her other starring roles; she shows a more dramatic side, and not every joke is predicated on her weight. Falcone directed; with Kathy Bates and Mark Duplass.

_drew hunt

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Unless otherwise noted, all film listings this week are for Friday, July 11 through Thursday, July 17. Times can and do change without notice, so do call the theater before heading out. For up-to-date film-schedule information, check the Portland Phoenix Web site at thePhoenix.com.

movie Th e a Te r lisT ing s

dinner + movie Portland CInEMaGIC Grand

333 Clarks Pond Parkway, South Portland | 207.772.6023 Call for shows & times.

nICKElodEon CInEMaS 1 Temple St, Portland | 207.772.4022

PMa MoVIES

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

TAMMY + A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST | 8

7 Congress Square, Portland | 207.775.6148

EVEnInGStar CInEMa

WEStBrooK CInEMaGIC

SNOWPIERCER | Fri-Sat: 1:30, 4, 6:30, 8:55 | Sun-Thu: 1:30, 4, 6:30

IDA | Sat-Sun: 2

183 County Rd, Westbrook | 207.774.3456 Call for shows & times.

MaInE alaMo tHEatrE

85 Main St, Bucksport | 207.469.0924

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS | Fri-Sat: 7:30 | Sun: 2

Tontine Mall, 149 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.729.5486

FrontIEr CInEMa 14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222

lInColn tHEatEr 2 Theater St, Damariscotta | 207.563.3424

THE IMMIGRANT | Fri-Sun: 7 | TueWed: 7 | Thu: 2

nordICa tHEatrE

1 Freeport Village Station, Suite 125, Freeport | 207.865.9000

BRASSLANDS | Tue: 2 | Wed: 2, 6 | Thu: 2 FED UP | Fri-Sat: 2 | Sun: 8

PrIdES CornEr drIVEIn tHEatrE

HarBor tHEatrE

TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION + X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST | 8

185 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | 207.633.0438

22 JUMP STREET | Fri-Sat: 7 | Sun: 3, 7 | Mon-Tue: 7

aUBUrn FlaGSHIP 10

lEWISton FlaGSHIP 10

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES | 12:40, 3:40, 7, 9:30, 9:50 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D | 1:30, 4:20, 7:25

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES | 12:30, 4, 7 DELIVER US FROM EVIL | 1, 4:10, 6:40

746 Center St, Auburn | 207.786.8605

855 Lisbon St, Lewiston | 207.777.5010

651 Bridgton Rd, Westbrook | 207.797.3154

rEEl PIZZa CInEraMa 33 Kennebec Place, Bar Harbor | 207.288.3828

BELLE | 6, 8:30 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES | 5:30, 8:15

rEGal BrUnSWICK 10

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

SaCo CInEMaGIC & IMaX

783 Portland Rd, Rte 1, Saco | 207.282.6234

SaCo drIVE-In tHEatEr

969 Portland Rd, Saco | 207.284.1016

EARTH TO ECHO + DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES | 8:20

SMIttY’S CInEMaBIddEFord

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

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS | Mon-Thu: 11 am DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES | Fri-Sat: 11:30 am, noon, 3, 3:30, 6:30, 7:45, 9:45 | Sun-Wed: 11:30 am, noon, 3, 3:30, 6:30, 7 | Thu: 11:30 am, noon, 3, 3:30, 6:30

SMIttY’S CInEMaSanFord

1364 Main St, Sanford | 207.490.0000

SMIttY’S CInEMaWIndHaM

795 Roosevelt Trail, Windham | 207.892.7000

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

MaInE IntErnatIonal FIlM FEStIVal raIlroad SQUarE CInEMa 17 Railroad Sq, Waterville | 207.873.6526

WatErVIllE oPEra HoUSE 1 Common St, Waterville | 207.873.7000

Love is Strange

Strand tHEatrE

345 Main St, Rockland | 207.594.0070

CHEF | Fri: 8 | Sat: 3, 5:30, 8 | Sun: 3, 5:30 | Mon: 7 | Tue: 1, 7 | Thu: 7

nEW HaMPSHIrE tHE MUSIC Hall

28 Chestnut St, Portsmouth | 603.436.9900

PALO ALTO | Fri: 7 | Tue-Thu: 7

FIlM SPECIalS BaYSIdE BoWl

58 Alder St, Portland | 207.791.2695

THE HUDSUCKER PROXY | Wed: 8

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Back page Jonesin’

Moonsigns

Puzzle solution at ooM thePhoenix.coM/recr

_by syMbo line Da i Where is the summer going? (And are we going out for ice cream again?) The sun in Cancer brings out the domestic urges (also protectiveness and defensiveness), and the moon going to its full phase helps projects and relationships that have been bubbling along to have that get-it-done surge so beloved by bipolar folks in the “manic” phase. Yes—the full moon can bring useful mania! Nothing wrong with that! (Can you tell I can’t wait to go on vacation?) This week’s moon encourages you all to take some chances, particularly when it comes to home décor or eccentric friends. For more, write sally@moonsigns.net.

_ by M a t t J o n es

“WATCH YOUR STEP” — bad things are underfoot

toon time

Across 1 Suit fabric 6 “charlie’s angels” actress cheryl 10 Flip, as a coin 14 Griffin, in part 15 “the Kite runner” protagonist 16 office shape 17 Sluggish crawl 19 With 35-down, red great 20 “Bob & carol & ___ & alice” 21 Brightness measures, for short 22 “hawaii Five-o” actor Fong 24 tear 25 on target 26 esteemed 28 She played rudy on “the cosby Show” 31 drawer’s eraser 32 confidently 34 Weather phenomenon 37 ending for arch or mock 38 Wooden shoe worn by peasants 40 one out of ten 41 earn 4

44 he married a Kardashian 47 Kennedy’s killer, officially 49 Works on a long sentence? 50 deus ex ___ 52 50-year-old (!) Brad 53 make inquiries 54 Warehouse unit 55 ___ and outs 56 Shakespeare title word 59 directing surname 61 coffee break talk 64 atop 65 neet rival 66 react to shocking news, maybe 67 make a nice home 68 Baker’s amts. 69 pole wavers 10

Down 1 Battery component 2 Fall back 3 “holy cow!” 4 Super Bowl xlii mVp manning 5 hallucinatory states 6 Forgetful moment 7 doctor’s org. 8 Football hall of Famer eric 9 devised, with “up” 10 Spinning item 11 chews the scenery 12 Fancy fabric 13 Snoozed 18 young pigeons 23 “top Gun” enemy planes 25 Word starting some superhero names 27 Filbert, for one 28 Bill of umpiring fame 29 Green land? 30 they’re “in flight,” according to “afternoon delight” 31 Just ___ (no better) 33 they won three World Series in the 1970s 35 See 19-across 36 nl team 39 Skill noted by temp agencies 42 Suffix after flu 43 dunderhead 45 uses, as plates 46 concerning, when texting 48 apply holy oil to 50 Georgia city 51 Without dissent 52 morgan or anthony 56 Biggest of seven 57 penalize 58 makes a decision 60 “___ cool” 62 Glass part 63 mr. mineo

Full moon in capricorn (moon void-of-course 12:19 am until 3:06 am in Sagittarius). the thunder moon brings enormous focus on capricorn, aries, cancer, and libra (to a lesser extent taurus, Gemini, pisces, Virgo, and aquarius) who should have communication breakthroughs or opportunities to talk with different people. “Slow and steady” is the theme for leo, Sagittarius, and Gemini. 17

Waxing moon in Sagittarius. the sign of the archer brings out everyone’s sense of humor and a yearning for earning. Fire sign moons are social, sometimes to a point of passionate interaction. and so love matters should go smoothly for libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, capricorn, aquarius, aries, and leo. impulsiveness could bring consequences for Virgo, pisces, Gemini, taurus, and cancer. 16

Friday July 11

_ by J en sor e n sen

thursday July 10

saturday July 12 2

Waning moon in capricorn. oh, those home projects are just screaming right now! capricorn moons enhance our ability to think logically, do repetitive tasks, and work on structure and construction. they are also helpful for enduring tedium, so you may get into one of those circular conversations over the fence with a neighbor. Willing to do the work: capricorn, aquarius, pisces, Sagittarius, Scorpio, taurus, and Virgo. uncharacteristically subdued: libra, cancer, aries, leo, and Gemini. 18

sunday July 13 3

Waning moon in aquarius (moon void-of-course 1:56 am until 3:06 am in capricorn). improvisational fun, particularly for aquarius, libra, Gemini, and pisces. aquarius moons favor friendship, so you may want to reach out to someone you haven’t seen for a while, especially capricorn, Sagittarius, cancer, and aries. taurus, Scorpio, leo, and Virgo: if you feel you’re being rushed into something, you are. 19

Monday July 14 4

tuesday July 15 5

Wednesday July 16 6

Moon Keys

Waning moon in pisces. it’s an “in” kind of day—inconsistency in intent, particularly for Gemini, Virgo, libra, leo, and Sagittarius. But it’s also an excellent day for shoe-shopping (as is tomorrow), or visiting folks in prison or who are otherwise incarcerated. capricorn, aquarius, pisces, aries, taurus, cancer, and Scorpio all are highly tuned-in. 22

Waning moon in pisces. the sign of the fish is the end of the road astrologically (on a monthly basis, since the moon takes 29.5 days to move through those 12 signs). Focus on your feet and your journey, and allow time for nostalgia. happy to drift: aries, aquarius, libra, Gemini, pisces, cancer, Sagittarius. more touchy: Virgo, Scorpio, leo, capricorn. 21

Waning moon in aquarius, moon void-of-course 7:22 pm until 2:40 am tuesday. an evening Vc moon brings confusion and improvisational opportunities. But it’s another fine day for shore up friendship, or savor the kind of simpatico that makes for a good buddy. hopeful and creative: Sagittarius, capricorn, aquarius, pisces, aries, Gemini, and libra. missing signals—not intentionally: taurus, leo, Scorpio, Gemini, and cancer. 20

This horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. Simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | When the moon is in your sun sign, you are beginning a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect increased insight and emotionality. When the moon moves into the sun sign opposite yours (see below), expect to have difficulties dealing with the opposite sex, family, or authority figures; social or romantic activities will not be at their best. | When the moon is in Aries, it opposes Libra, and vice versa. Other oppositions are Taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, Cancer/Capricorn, Leo/Aquarius, and Virgo/Pisces. The moon stays in each sign approximately two and a half days. | As the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of course,” making no major angles to planets. Consider this a null time and try to avoid making or implementing decisions if you can. But it’s great for brainstorming. | For Symboline Dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, visit our Web site at thePhoenix.com. Symboline Dai can be reached at sally@moonsigns.net.

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