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Even if people feel like using tools is something that makes them nervous, this is their opportunity to actually give it a shot.

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The Maine Tool Library wants to be Portland’s communal tool shed; a place where hobbyists, beginners, and pros can come to trade skills and help skirt the steep hardware costs of many home and garden projects. “The library could be up and running by the end of the summer,” says organizing team member Hazel Onsrud. The group has found a discounted space in East Bayside, identified a list of must-have tools, and studied up on liability insurance, but it all hinges on the web-based fundraising campaign now in its last week. “People vote everyday on all sorts of things just by spending their money, so the people have to decide if they want a tool-lending library,” says Onsrud. With a deadline looming the project has only raised a little more than one-third of its $13,000 goal on crowd-funding website Indiegogo, leaving organizers to hope for a big last minute push to help fund New England’s first large-sale tool library. Onsrud says the $13,000 would help the Tool Library to get on its feet by covering the cost of basic tool acquisition, liability insurance, legal aid, rent, and office supplies. “It’s mostly going towards quality tools,” she says. “You can’t just open up a tool-lending library that is based solely on donated tools because you wouldn’t have the breadth or quality necessary to [retain] membership,” says Onsrud. The insurance policy required to lend out things like power tools and ladders is “not insurmountable, but much more complicated than a regular library,” according to Onsrud. “It’s a lot harder to injure yourself with a book,” she says. The library would be a volunteerbased effort based in East Bayside and would be open four hours once a week, during which time members could rent and return tools and connect with one another to share tips and project ideas. The Library would stock a catalog of basic home tools for home and garden projects, as well as niche items like a cider press, copper cooling coils for home-brewers, and high-pressure canning equipment. “That sort of thing you might use once a year and then keep in the basement, those are the tools we will be trying to stock,” says Onsrud. The only limits include

gas-powered tools and ladders above a certain height, and members will have to provide basic proof of identity as a possible deposit on premium items. “Even if people feel like using tools is something that makes them nervous, this is their opportunity to actually give it a shot,” says Ian Johnson, a member of the working group and a professional carpenter. Johnson says the Library would be equally useful to beginners and professionals. “You can learn the skills without having to go buy something, and even if you are skilled, there are still tools you don’t have—like a post holedigger you might use to put a fence in your backyard.” Like a typical library, the project would be open to the idea of adjusting its acquisitions to meet the demands of its members. Naturally in Portland that might include a mushroom inoculation tool that allows one to inject spores into a rotted log and cultivate their own fungi at home, says Onsrud. Annual membership to the Maine Tool Library would be $50 in the first year. “Most people’s jaws drop when you say $50 a year, and that’s the way we wanted it; almost too good to be true,” says Onsrud. “It could change based on people’s abuse or misuse of the system, but we really think that accessibility needs to come first and $50 seems like a very reasonable fee,” she says. She says this model depends heavily on the volunteer efforts of the

Library’s members, who would be expected to staff the space. There are cost-savings across the board with membership in the Library, according to Onsrud. “There is a whole community (of people) who want to go and transform their garden plots at home but they don’t have that access,” she says. Even among those with the funds for larger home DIY projects, the Library will provide a way to help cut tool costs and free up space. “We obviously want to support local hardware and rental stores,” says Onsrud, but she hopes members will put the savings towards better quality building supplies or larger-scale projects. If funded, The Maine Tool Library would be organized under the umbrella of the Resilience Hub, an East Bayside non-profit focused on permaculture, or sustainable agriculture. The nonprofit hosts events like the “Permablitz,” a project “like a barnraising” where volunteers spend a day turning a community or residential garden space from empty lot to a mini-farm of edible food. “For a project like that, Permablitz would need a large quantity of shovels, and we would be the place where you could go for something like that,” says Onsrud. To donate to the Maine Tool Library’s Indiegogo campaign, visit: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/maine-tool-library-portland--2

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spend an hour on the internet, and you’re bound to run into some digital diarrhea. it ranges from comment section bloodsport to unfortunate font choices. it’s intimidating stuff for newbie bloggers and fresh-faced website developers looking to wade into that online ocean. Wordcamp maine, the state’s first Wordpresscentered development conference, is all about supporting and educating both the wannabes and already-dids of website development. Kicking off at 11:30 Am at the maine college of Art (mecA), with open registration on Friday, August 15, and running through sunday, the conference’s list of attendees continues to grow. With the impressive rota of topics and speakers, it’s easy to see why. Wordcamp maine was put together by twin powers hotchkiss consulting and hall internet marking (him), both based in portland. the faces directly behind the conference organization are sam hotchkiss, founder and principal of hotchkiss consulting and parka llc, stephen Quirk, the man behind the chic Factory portland website (factoryportland.com), Wordpress developers derek smart and rc lations, him developer gary thayer and Automattic’s theme designer michael cain. hotchkiss and Quirk have worked in the past on Bruteprotect, a web tool that protects sites from “botnet” attacks. “Botnet” refers to a type of malicious software (or “malware” if you prefer) that gets inside your computer (the “bot” in question) and turns it into a puppet machine, using the information however it wants to. With names like these steering the conference, there’s plenty to look forward to. the schedule starts small with sessions titled “content creation 101” and moves onto more specific subjects throughout the weekend. Writing security code, managing data, and how to survive as a web developer in the current saturated job market are all touched upon. these are the essentials, but there’s fun hijinks afoot as well. the “let’s Build an e-commerce store in 30 minutes!” session, with speaker patrick rauland, is bound to catch the eye of any tech-savvy local business owner. it’s impossible to do it all at once, but the schedule is set up in a way that allows for attendees to pursue their preferred track of development education. Be forewarned it is sorted—roughly— by interest and skill level. newcomers to Wordpress may prefer the security fundamentals session to the advanced hacking one. Keeping things informal is a big part of Wordcamp maine, and while networking opportunities may be present, it’s better to soak up the content instead. it’s different from other digital-focused conventions in this regard, where somehow wearing a really, really nice suit means you must know how to write software really, really well. Wordcamp is more concerned with educating and connecting local talent than anything else—all the sponsors off Wordcamp maine are businesses based in the state. on the event website any visitor or potential attendee can become a sponsor by donating $100.00. Big change from what a larger software company might offer. speaking of which, there’s going to be a happiness Bar that’s open to any and all questions attendees may have staffed by members of the Wordcamp team. Best of all, the tickets are a decent $30 for general admission for two days (Friday & saturday), and/or $20 for an all-day saturday pass. sunday is free, but space is limited: it’s contributor’s day, and is more for developers contributing to Wordpress core. either way, it might be time for local developers to pull those website ideas out and see what happens. if you’re going to build a marmoset-hair collecting blog, it might as well be well-formatted. _Chelsea Cook

While networking opportunities may be present, it’s better to soak up the content instead.

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politics + other mistakes Let ‘em fight The trouble with political debates isn’t the candidates. Sure, most of them never say anything interesting, often because they’re not very interesting people. But they were born that way, so it’s not their fault they’ve never uttered anything resembling a provocative comment. The real problem with these contrived events is the moderators (generally chosen because they’re even blander than the candidates), the questions (generally softball repeats of stuff that’s already been discussed to death in the media), and the rules (generally formulated to prevent anything spontaneous or revealing from occurring). In other words, debates are designed so there’s no chance they’ll help you decide how to vote. Although, there is strong evidence they’ll help you sleep. Several years ago (back when I was still concealing what a cynical jerk I am), I moderated a number of debates, and I quickly discovered that most of the rules—strict time limits on answers, no interrupting, no weapons—were stifling what was supposed to be happening. Which was actual debate. Instead, we got ever-so-polite social occasions filled with genial chitchat. Like a senior-citizen book club, only not so interesting. No responsible debate-sponsoring entity wants to be accused of sensationalism. But if the organizers of these straight-laced exercises in hypocrisy really intended to provide some insight into the participants’ thinking, they’d allow a little anarchy. Let the debaters hog the microphone. Let them wander wildly off topic. Let them shout each other down. I’m not even opposed to punches being thrown. I can already hear the League of Women Voters and other self-

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appointed guardians of civility objecting strenuously (but, of course, courteously) to these suggestions. They’ll claim we currently have too much of this sort of brutish behavior in both Washington and Augusta, where it contributes to gridlock and other blockages of the governmental bowels. Apparently, they believe the best way to deal with the barbarians who control Congress and the Legislature is to elect a bunch of wimps hampered by their obsession with etiquette. These misguided do-gooders seem to be laboring under the delusion that the purpose of debates is to provide an enlightened forum for mush. In reality, the reason for debates—as with any other form of confrontation, such as baseball games, wars, and court battles over alimony—is to win. Once one grasps that concept, preparing for the event becomes much simpler. Do away with podiums. Serve beer. Forget about suits and ties. Let the audience scream insults and hurl produce. Take bets on the outcome. In short, make debates less like church sermons and more like mixed martial arts. Consider how these modest changes would improve this year’s major races. Independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler, trailing badly in the polls, would be rethinking his strategy of demanding 16 debates with Republican incumbent Paul LePage and Democratic challenger Mike Michaud. After one round in which LePage, reinforcing his street-brawler image, explains his welfare policies by applying brass knuckles to the Cutler schnozzola, Eliot would be leaning toward a more limited number of engagements. When Michaud, recalling his blue-collar roots, argues in favor of increasing the minimum wage by

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chasing Cutler around the ring with a forklift, he’ll consider declining all future debate invitations. With Cutler retreating to his Cape Elizabeth mansion to nurse his wounds, LePage and Michaud would be free to deal directly with each other. Nail-studded two-by-fours and chainsaws ought to help clarify their positions on state spending and job creation. Admit it. You’d watch that—even if it was on pay-per-view. In the 2nd Congressional District, GOP candidate Bruce Poliquin has been reluctant to commit to any debate involving independent Blaine Richardson, arguing that Richardson hasn’t registered in any of the polls and isn’t a serious candidate. Meanwhile, Democrat Emily Cain insists that everyone who qualified for the ballot should be included in every debate. To resolve this matter, Cain and Richardson should break into Poliquin’s house (not the one in the 1st District, but his address of convenience in the 2nd), bringing along a giant vat of Jell-O. They should toss Poliquin into the gelatin and dive in after him for some serious wrestling with questions of immigration policy, national defense, and health care. I’m not opposed to having them do this in the nude. Chellie Pingree, the Democrat who holds the 1st District seat in Congress, is being challenged (sort of) by Republican Isaac Misiuk, in a race that no one, including the newspaper owned by Pingree’s husband, is paying attention to. A regular debate won’t fix that. But a duel over how to reduce the federal debt conducted with pistols at 30 paces might. It would also be the perfect occasion to discuss gun control. ^

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BROWN CASE ISN’T SO BLACKAND-WHITE one minute, michael Brown was walking to his grandmother’s house in Ferguson, missouri, on Aug 9. the next minute, he was dead—another young black man sent to his grave violently before he could even really live his life. As of this writing, we know that he was 18, preparing for college, loved rap music, and that he was unarmed. We know that he met his fate at the hands of local law enforcement and that his body lay on the street for several hours while members of the community gathered in sorrow and rage. the story changes at that point, though. Witnesses say Brown was standing with his arms raised; police say he struggled with an officer exiting his cruiser. Blacks in the community bemoan that a peaceful vigil on sunday was met by police in riot gear; police say their show of force didn’t start until the protesters and mourners became unruly. At least one officer called the gathered blacks “animals,” according to media reports. sadly, many of the news stories help reinforce the notion that the problem was a crowd of rioting savages, instead of looking at why things can go sour when a black crowd is confronted by a sea of white law enforcement—especially in the wake of a tragic event that seems to have all the trappings of an unnecessary police shooting. An email i recently received from a reader noted: “everything of yours that i’ve read in the Phoenix inevitably comes down to white people versus the rest. so, what’s the solution? more articles about social ills and anger, or an effort to understand the complexities of the challenge so that some substantial plan of action can be addressed?” As i ponder the Brown story and that email, i think: “Why isn’t the white media pondering the complexities?” this column isn’t long enough for me to spell out detailed action plans; it is, however, long enough to point out disparities so that hopefully people will begin to understand why so many non-whites in this country—particularly blacks—feel threatened and angry. there are too many stories of unarmed black men losing their lives at the hands of law enforcement officers, when similar stories about white victims are conspicuously and comparatively rare. too little attention paid to the deference that is often given to white suspects but not to black ones. Few whites want to contemplate that our society was set up on a foundation that established early on that blacks were seen as less than human. sure, the declaration of independence declared that “all men are created equal, endowed...with inherent and inalienable rights; (to) life, liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness,” but our very constitution made blacks three-fifths of a person. While we have made efforts to move beyond that with later amendments, it does not erase a national record that historically views black lives as less valuable than white lives. this belief still exists among many, many people in the white population, even if they don’t think about it or recognize it. Asking people who aren’t very many generations removed from being property (and even more recently, victims of Jim crow laws) to be happy that they are technically equal, when common indicators ranging from housing to education to healthcare to the justice system say otherwise, is asking a lot. We cannot ignore the fact that whites by and large continue to make policies that impact black lives and create the disparities. this fuels tensions when it comes to blackwhite relations. We cannot ignore the role of institutions and systems that continue to perpetuate a system that is inherently unfair and unjust. Fires don’t happen without some kind of spark; riots don’t just happen either. We’ll learn more about the Brown story as the days go on. But there is no doubt in my mind that this was a community that felt victimized, and furious because of that. that’s a story i wish somehow would have made it into news reports. ^

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HOW PORTLAND’S BEST DANCE NIGHTS LEFT THE OLD PORT BEHIND _By NICk SCHR OEDER

Portland dance nights are getting weirder, better, and more diverse, and the change is coming far from where people might look. While serious criticisms of Old Port’s nightlife are nothing new, these days DJs and dance circles can point to a growing number of alternatives throughout the city. And due to bizarre competitive tactics between Old Port clubs, an uneasy gulf between the Top 40 circuit and other DJs, and the growing availability of safer, more specialized parties elsewhere in town, Portland dance circles are thriving without the help of downtown. “It’s an exciting time to be a DJ in Portland,” says Greg Gould, who began playing and producing parties in Portland under the name DJ Silverchild in 2007. Gould says that people in Portland these days dance to a greater variety of styles than since he can remember, citing recent developments like the Bass-Time Continuum at the Big Easy (every Thursday night), and Empire’s Penthouse party (the last Friday of the month), a project of veteran house DJs Chris Gauthier, Marcus Caine, and Ed Garrison. “It’s exciting to see jungle and drum and bass come back into the forefront,” says Gould. “And vocal house—when I started that was only at Styxx, but now it’s being played everywhere.” “I don’t think there’s been a better time,” he says. “If you wanna go way back to the Metropolis in 2001, maybe, but nothing has been as good as what Flask is doing.”

“I wanted to create an atmosphere where you’re just there for the music, regardless of sexuality, age, race, whatever. It’s a matter of respect to other people.” _Jamie O’Sullivan

CHANGING THE TEMPO

Several other DJs echo the sentiment that Flask Lounge is leading the march of progress of Portland’s nightlife. The dark, sultry Spring Street bar hosts numerous parties per month, from a network of dance nights that include Jamie O’Sullivan’s tech-house-driven “Love” (every first Friday) and Mr. Dereloid’s “Foundation Friday” (every second), Don Damiani and MC Pensivv’s bassheavy “TRVP NITE” (select Sundays), to

the radical queer foundations of “Sub/ Merge,” a last-Saturday-of-the-month party-floor assembled by a 9-member consortium of activists who donate proceeds to left-wing political causes. As the number and quality of outercircle dance nights grow, Portland DJs are exerting direct influence on the environments they’re creating, as well as drawing attention to the origins of the increasingly diversifying music they’re playing. “If you hire me to play an event, it’s going to be challenging for the people who come out,” says Mo Nunez, a Portland DJ who plays by the name Mosart212. “Research and education are so integral to my music.” Nunez believes that the roots or origins of a song or style should carry some significance in the exchange between DJ and audience. He plays anything from hip hop, funk, soul, pop, house, and indierock, and his sets often include sampleflipping, the practice of mixing a newer song into the older track from which it takes its sample. “I’m a punk kid who loves pop music,” adds DJ Red Tide, who hosts “Sub/ Merge.” “But I’ll play hip hop, electropop, Top 40 stuff, remixes, some trap music, Bounce, and Jersey club, too. I want to play stuff that people have some familiarity with, but also pushes the boundaries.” One of the organizations that Red Tide and company donate to is Breakout, a rights organization for queer youth in New Orleans. “I play a lot of Bounce music, which originates in New Orleans,” they explain. “As a white DJ, I’m pretty conscious of cultural appropriation, and believe it’s important that we actually give back to the communities we dance to.” Proceeds have also been given to local organizations Portland Outright and the Southern Maine Workers Center, and the human rights group Perspective, a LGBTQ-rights organization located in Portland sistercity Arkhangelsk, Russia. “Every type of electronic music has its own history and different dance styles that go along with it,” says O’Sullivan. “I remember going out West and using my hands a lot (while I danced). I was in a place where people didn’t use their hands; it was all fancy footwork. They could tell immediately I wasn’t from around there.

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“The way people move, that really matters to me—the homage of where certain moves come from.” O’Sullivan started “Love” at Flask four years ago, after realizing that Portland had a need for a safe, inclusive dance night that wasn’t being offered anywhere else. “I wanted an atmosphere where you’re just there for the music, regardless of sexuality, age, race, whatever. It’s a matter of respect for other people, but it’s an especially safe place for people who are a minority, because of Flask’s history as a gay bar.” (Today the bar is still proudly gay-owned, yet no longer identifies with the official status it once did.) O’Sullivan says the seed for “Love” was planted at the White Heart, a dark bar located in the venue that is now Nosh on Congress St., where he started DJing 7 years ago. “The White Heart was lightning in a bottle, man,” says Nunez, remembering it as a place where any given night could be a mix of kids from rave, goth, punk, house, and techno scenes. “We may never see that again.”

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THE GREAT ESCAPE DJ Don Damiani holding it down at Trap Nite the music. As big as you build a name up, there’s gonna come a time that I lose my night to a 21-year old college kid who bought a setup and has more friends.” Verbatum, who is 36, has found that the competitive edge in Old Port DJ circles extends beyond the dance floors. He says that clubs in the Old Port suffer from their owners adopting a policy of forbidding their employees—from DJs to bartenders to bouncers—from working at neighboring clubs. “It blows my mind that there are certain DJs who can’t come play with me (at Basslines). That’s how the Old Port was huge; that’s how DJs get a different fanbase. “Everyone wants to be the big dog on the street,” he says. “The kind of mentality they’re in now, they’re trying to put (clubs) out of business, which will put everyone out of business.” Nunez believes that there’s a certain level of mutual respect between Old Port DJs and those on the periphery, but there’s almost never any crossing over between the two. “No DJ wants to be a disc jockey,” he says. “They want to be a tastemaker.” For him, the divide between the two cultures has aesthetic considerations as well. He dropped the DJ from his performing name years ago, and these days prefers

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While outer circles have picked up the slack, the culture of dance nights even closer to the Old Port seems to be changing as well. Will Otis, who has played as DJ Verbatum since 2001, became the primary booking agent for Basslines when it re-opened last year, in the spot formerly known as Club Binga’s Stadium. “They approached me about running the club 100 percent,” he says. “Club Binga’s Stadium, the name, kind of had a bad stench to it. Ladies’ night on Wednesdays used to be crazy; started getting the wrong crowd, and the cops were there a lot.” Verbatum renovated, re-painted, and cleaned up the basement dance club to appeal to a crowd more like the Pavilion drew in the early 2000s. He started booking nights like “Chaos,” a chem-free, 16+ dance party with glow sticks and silly string that featured fellow Old Port DJs Lenza, Ya Favorite Homie JR and DJ Asia. As someone who DJ’d in the Old Port for years, he knew exactly what sort of atmosphere he wanted to avoid. “I played for ten years, almost every weekend,” he says. “I’ll never get that back. I’ve lost friends. You work in the Old Port, and you meet friends and lose friends in cycles.” Verbatum says he hasn’t DJ’d in over a year. “Honestly, I just didn’t want to play in the Old Port anymore. It wasn’t about

GLOW IT UP A chem-free ‘Chaos’ night at Basslines

to play small bars and restaurants rather than larger dance floors. He also finds that many younger DJs are tonedeaf to the dynamics of certain rooms, opting instead to play the set they’re going to play whether the room likes it or not. “I’m discouraged by that. You wonder why people aren’t coming out to see you, and its like, dude, you’re playing drum and bass at 9 o’clock!” “There’s always been divisions between the two scenes,” says Verbatum. “I’ve tried to get guys like (dubstep artist and Milled Pavement label founder) Moshe and Nic (DJ Nicotine), but it doesn’t happen. I know a lot of people look at these Top 40 DJs who do it to get paid, for the girls, for attention. I think that’s why there’s that rift; (that) we don’t DJ for the right reasons.” Frustrations with the culture of Old Port dance nights aren’t being exclusively voiced from the fringe. Jeffrey Ramsay, a DJ and recording artist known as Ya Favorite Homie JR who plays “electro with Top 40-influences” (and who is also a radio DJ for Q97.9), represents one of the most mainstream voices in Portland nightlife. Yet even mainstream criticism of Old Port culture isn’t shocking these days. “I got tired of the Old Port really fast,” says Ramsay. “To me, it was the same people, ordering the same drink, requesting the same song, getting into the same fight, kicked out of the same bar, every week. Quickly turned into Groundhog Day.” “I feel when I play other venues that are not in the Old Port, the appreciation for the music is a bit more. In those situations, the music is what people come out for, rather than to just bar hop.” For their part, some Old Port DJs seem to acknowledge that a separation exists; they just take a laissez-faire approach. “As a DJ I only focus on the music, the crowd, and my performance,” says Jason Conti, a/k/a DJ Jay-C, who has a weekly residency at 51 Wharf. “I don’t find it beneficial for any DJ to talk poorly about someone from the scene which we are all trying to build together. If anyone fuels a divide I would say that they are hurting

our city with negativity and a lack of true perspective.” Jay-C, a DJ for over 15 years who plays “hybrid; high energy music that provides an experience” (and who is also a mixshow DJ for Hot 104.7), prefers to focus on the satisfaction of the crowd, observing Portland’s role in a larger picture. “Maine has made progress the last few years and is currently recognized by the music industry as a whole. There is no need for anything that will cause a setback. Things like a divide are a huge turnoff to people within the industry. If someone is negative I keep them as far away as possible.” But such “negativity” seems central to some new movements. Che Ros, who plays club music (“a blend of hip-hop, R&B, and house music”) at venues like Flask, SPACE Gallery, Local 188, and Styxx, finds the distinction more in the clientele than the DJs themselves. “My style might not work in the Old Port because the Old Port is in a weird time warp, trying to pull off some Jersey Shore/Miami Beach club thing,” he says. “Portland has way less money and way less big spenders than those locations. “The music is stale, the crowd is unenlightened, and there’s too much testosterone stinking up the rooms.” Don Damiani, a young DJ who’s one of two fronting Flask Lounge’s “TRVP NITE,” is similarly candid. “There’s just too much misogyny, and sexually aggressive, frustrated bros trying to find the ‘one’ for that evening.” Gould, who had a regular night at the Fore St. nightclub Pearl several years ago, agrees. “Dancing in the Old Port isn’t really about the music at all. You just go out there and get drunk and be with a certain type of people.” He also airs a gripe that DJs of all styles are increasingly likely to admit is a pet peeve: the expectation by dancers that DJ’s should fill requests—a true sign that the form is acquiring artistic standards. “The thing with Pearl didn’t work out for me,” Gould says. “The kids at that time really wanted dubstep, and that wasn’t really my thing.” Yet while plenty of DJs criticize certain dynamics of the sexual culture of dance nights in-town, _Mosart212 their issue is more about the dynamic of sexual energy than its presence in the room. “I’m trying to get people to let go of their inhibitions and want to fuck each other,” says Che Ros. “I often tell people I play for the girls in the room—it’s their party, and the guys will follow. I’m trying to create an environment that’s fun and conducive to hooking up in a safe way. We’re at a point now where if a guy is sexually aggressive, basically everyone in the room will police the situation and show that he and his actions are totally not welcome.” Yet perspectives between the two camps differ, not only about whether a problem exists, but on the DJs role in recognizing one at all. “The city is the safest it’s been in years,” says DJ Jay-C. “I don’t think an unsafe environment exists. It’s probably the safest nightlife environment I have witnessed in the country.” In any case, as Portland nightlife continues to evolve and adapt to its diversifying, educated population, Portland dancers are being given a lot more to think about before they take it to the club. ^

“No DJ wants to be a disc jockey. They want to be a tastemaker.”

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Can you give me a little baCkground on your involvement with the Southern maine workerS’ Center, and to your ability, the ServiCeS it provideS? I got involved in the SMWC one year ago because I was excited by its dynamism, committed volunteer organizers, and combination of big vision and concrete action. The Southern Maine Workers’ Center is a membership-based organization working to build a grassroots, people-powered movement for human rights, like our right to health care and to work with dignity. We provide some services, like access to legal resources for workers, but mostly we believe organizing is the best way to make change and to win our rights in our workplaces and our lives. We were formed in 2006 by members of the Southern Maine Labor Council with the goal of building the power of non-union workers, especially low-wage, young, immigrant, and people of color workers in Southern Maine. Since then we’ve organized with restaurant workers and taxi drivers, conducted Know Your Rights trainings, supported workers building power in their workplaces, and helped workers claim wages owed to them. In January of 2013 we formed two key organizing committees—Health Care is a Human Right and Work With Dignity. Our committees are made up of, and led by, our members. We’ve got a free health care screening, rally, and community celebration coming up this Saturday at Deering Oaks Park from noon to 4 pm. This event is part of the Maine Health Care is a Human Right Campaign. It’s a great way to learn more about the work we do.

and arming of Iraq; political and financial support of sieges and occupations from Palestine to the Western Sahara; the spread of AFRICOM; the “military pivot” to the AsiaPacific; and much more. We are also seeing the increased militarization of US communities, from the patrolling of the US-Mexico border and detention of migrant children to mass incarceration to the arming of police departments with war-grade weaponry. If you look at the 2015 federal budget alone, 45 percent of the total went to current and past military expenses. Meanwhile, the US health care system remains the most expensive on the planet, yet delivers the worst care among industrialized nations. Amid rising inequality and rampant problems of poverty, unemployment, and underemployment, people in our society who are already marginalized and dispossessed are literally left to die with no access to affordable care when they need it most. Under the Affordable Care Act, which is still driven by the for-profit insurance system, these problems remain, especially in states like Maine that reject money for expanding Medicare. Imagine a society that, instead of putting resources toward spreading harm, invested in community well-being. To move towards this goal, it is necessary to look at the big picture of where our common _Sarah Lazare resources are going and where they ought to be devoted instead. That’s why I think we can’t talk about health care without talking about war, and vice versa.

“Imagine a society that, instead of putting resources toward spreading harm, invested in community wellbeing.”

what ConneCtionS do you find between health Care for uS CitizenS and the Country’S military involvementS elSewhere? First of all, I want to be clear that, in response to this question, I am sharing my own analysis and am not speaking for the SMWC as a whole. US tax dollars and the government that ostensibly represents us are backing the largest military empire in world history, which includes: nearly 1,000 US bases across the world; ongoing military occupation of Afghanistan; covert drone wars in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia; the ongoing militarization of Syria, air strikes

what do people need to know about the violenCe in iraq and Syria, and what wayS do you wiSh to enCourage diSCuSSion that aren’t being Covered by mainStream media? I want to be clear that, in response to this question, I am sharing my own analysis and not that of the organization. The US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, and policies of bombings dating back to 1991 and devastating sanctions before that, is responsible for setting the forces in motion that led to this current crisis. Following 2003 the US instated and backed a sectarian, elite regime that repressed Iraqis protesting against discrimination and political marginalization, discriminated against the country’s Sunni and other communities, further eroded workers’ rights, and more. An aggressive program of de-Ba’athification devastated numerous lives and tore the social fabric further. ISIS emerged in 2003 in opposition to US-led occupation and then spread to Syria. Now, once again, ordinary people are paying the price of US policy. The political and sectarian warfare we are seeing today is not an “age-old” conflict but emerged as a direct result of these factors.

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can generate such dismay in our hearts as the adequate-yet-heartless musical simulacra currently fronted by Mike Love. Sure, they play the songs perfectly, but there is an innocence that has been lost. Maybe that’s why (deep down in our cynical little hearts) we really want to go see this show. $29-$69. Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton Beach, NH. 603. 929.4100.

saturday 16 MODEL BEHAVIOR | It’s important to fight for what you believe in. Especially when that fighting is against your friends who are dressed up as indie-superhero types, use weird names, and raise cash for a good cause. SLAp: SU-

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Point Tavern (field trip!) to raise money for the Locker Project, a rather exciting, if nebulous, nonprofit working on a storage program to ensure individuals have greater agency over their online data. (Kudos to them for being so web-savvy). Watch contestants as they sweat, scream, and make funny faces in the name of Internet security. This high-brow concept gets some low-brow support at 8 pm today. $5 admission. 175 Pickett St., South Portland. 207.733.2245. GET TO THE POINT | Carnivores and anyone who has listened to

music in the past 30 years descend onto Thompson’s Point for the CLASH BASH & BBQ, Portland’s largest (and most outdoors) cover band battle to date. Sure the guy pretending to be Fogerty might not sound exactly like him, but he seems cool, and he probably went to the same college as you. If you ask us, this event is more about eating barbecue and drinking outdoors in a neat location than worrying about who wins. (Our money’s on ABBA) Bring $15 and a chair. 4 pm to 9 pm; Thompson’s Point Rd. in Portland. CONTEMPORARIES | If you’re spending any time in Portsmouth, check our listings for events in the pArMA MUSiC FESTiVAL. Musicians and composers at the forefront of classical, electronic, jazz, and rock are playing free shows all over NH’s port city, Wednesday through Saturday of this week. Their flagship “main event” is at the Music Hall this evening. There’s a dazzling array of international envelope-pushers here, as well as local luminaries that will be performing together, which makes it well worth the modest $20 they’re asking for admission. Celebrate the sound at 7 pm; 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, NH. 603.436.2400.

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thursday 14 DARK WAS THE NIGHT | The supermoon has come and gone. Darkness and comparatively dim moons are all we have to look forward to for the next month or so. Thankfully, there are some bright spots on the horizon. Like tonight, which finds SAMUEL JAMES playing at One Longfellow Square. The word “virtuoso” gets thrown around a lot, and we are loathe to add to the pile of compliments this expert songwriter and storyteller has accumulated over his many years captivating audiences across the world. (See what we did there?) Let’s just say that, combined with the intimate space of One Longfellow, and the growly blues-Americana of JAMES KEYES, makes this a night of musical syzygy one would be foolish to miss. Tickets are a reasonable $10-$12. 8 pm; 181 State St. 207.761.1757. POETS SOCIETY | Just outside the maddening crowds of Congress St., former Maine Poet Laureate BETSY SCHOLL (whose joyous, wise, and jazz-inspired verse is a favorite of ours) and

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of their poetry in the garden at the Wadsworth-Longfellow House. The reading is part of the Maine Historical Society’s Summer Garden Series, and focuses on poetry of home, place, and community. While listening, the more thoughtful might ruminate upon how “community” is an interesting discussion topic at the height of the season where most of the people roaming our streets are either without homes, or visiting from away. (The less thoughtful can cheekily remark that it’s been a long time since a poet could afford a home in the Arts District.) Non-members pay $5 at the gate. 5:30 pm; 489 Congress Street. 207.774.1822. UPTA PEAKS | The best thing about veteran Maine comedian BOB MArLEY playing a show on Peaks Island is trying to guess which ferry he’ll take there and back. The hard-working and Guinness World Record holding funnyman plays a show at the Inn on Peaks Island at 8 pm tonight (and he goes up to Naples on Sunday). 33 Island Ave., 207.766.5100.

friday 15 CAPED CRUSADERS | Do you

think Dracula would have enjoyed hip-hop? Perhaps the inventive lyrical gymnastics of the form might please his fictitiously immortal mind, or perhaps the ageless Carpathian sorcerer could find positive social reinforcement hearing Kanye declare “I Am a God,” or drool when the alliterative Biggie Smalls talked of people “getting their necks slit quick.” If all this were true, there is no doubt that ol’ Vlad the Impaler would get a kick out of lighting up and listening to VinYL CApE, who are hosting a 7” release party at SPACE Gallery this evening. Tonight is a good night for those who like their hip-hop weird and dirty. Joining them are CESCHi, JJ King, the super-danceable CrUnK WiTCH, and FrEE STEAK dinnEr. Tickets are $7 advance, $10 day of show. 8:30 pm; 538 Congress St. 207.828.5600. MIKE, NO | There are very few bands that we know of that generate such a passionately cultish following as the BEACH BOYS. There are also very few bands that

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f ALVAriUS B., at Empire, in Portland on Aug 18. insistence on screening trashy docufiction during Shark Week? Do you want your fake-real sharks to stay fake and your real-real sharks to be terrifying killing machines with black, lifeless eyes? Sometimes you don’t need your shark to be a megalodon, sometimes you just need your shark to be a damn big shark, chief. MENSK screens JAWS on the Eastern Prom at dusk (7:30 pm) today. NOBODY’S REAL | Who will take the stage at Asylum this Sunday evening? Will it be 45-year-old Michael David Cummings, or ageless Spider One of the alt-rock group pOWErMAn 5000? When the drum machines are fired up and the first fistpumping, horns-throwing, power chords explode from the PA, who will you be screaming for? The meager, flesh-bound mortal you see before you, or the ephemeral memory of the superhuman being that made goggles and bleached spiky hair the needed accessory for your adolescent rebellion? This, and other armchair philosophizing (also (HEd) p.E. and screamometal EYES SET TO KiLL) available tonight at 8 pm. $16. 121 Center St. 207.772.8274.

monday 18 IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT | Famed

for soliciting the farthest corners of the globe for esoteric music and imagery, former Sun City Girls frontman ALVAriUS B. makes Empire his home tonight. He is complimented in the strange by guests SAM SHALABi and Big BLOOd. The whole event should make for a very wild opener for your workweek. See them at 8:30 pm.

$10; 575 Congress St., Portland. 207.879.8988. ART IS POWER | Author and historian LYnn niCHOLAS arrives at College of the Atlantic to give a talk on her book The Rape of Europa and how Nazi appropriation, censorship and art-smuggling wrecked havoc on cultural centers throughout Europe during WWII. With the 2012 discovery of over a thousand pieces of presumed-lost works of art (by Picasso, Degas and others) in the apartment of the son of a Nazi art dealer, Ms. Nicholas is sure to have plenty to say about this fascinating and unsettling chapter of Western History. And hey, it’s free. 5 pm. 105 Eden St, Bar Harbor. 207.288.9500.

tuEsday 19 MORE DARKER | The blackest of Tuesdays descends this week. Princes of Portland’s black metal scene FALLS OF rAUrOS kick off their August tour at 8:30 pm tonight at SPACE Gallery. While their sound is certainly loud, Falls of Rauros’ songs contain a musicianship and reflective emotionality that younger, less-wizened groups often eschew in favor of pure aggressive bleakness. For them, pathos works. All of mankind’s work is but vain folly, and that’s sad, y’know? Playing with them are dark-folk favorites BUTCHEr BOY, “darkstench” pioneers rAMLOrd, and the new-ish FErAL, who have a promising roster of musicians from other local metal groups. $6-$8. 538 Congress St. 207.828.5600. NEW LIT | On a lighter note. Exchange Street’s delightful new bookshop, Sherman’s Books, welcomes emerging authors nOAH WiLLiAMS, ZAHrO HASSAn, grACE

rOBErTS, and HEnrY SpriTZ onto

their shelves with a book launch & signing at 7 pm today. The four young authors prove that some people take to writing like a seagull takes to pier fries. The rest of us, however, are stuck with clumsy bird-related metaphors. 49 Exchange St. 207.633.7262.

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WEdnEsday 20 FAMILY GRASS | The time of county fairs is almost upon us. Bluegrass lovers can get a head start on the season (and not need to pack your heavy sweaters) by heading up to the Blistered Fingers Family Bluegrass Music Festival in Litchfield. There’s a veritable smorgasbord of performers both local and national from CpS ExprESS and nOTHin’ FAnCY, to CHUrCH SiSTErS and LArrY EFAW & THE BLUEgrASS MOUnTAinEErS. Tickets are $15-

30 per night up to $80 for the full weekend. Come hear those high and lonesome harmonies. The calluses will be forming at the Litchfield Fairgrounds, 44 Plains Rd, Litchfield.

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ARTIST AND ADOLESCENT MAKE ARRESTINg SIGRID _BY NICK SCHR OED ER If you think adulthood is hard, give Sigrid’s line of existential questioning adolescence a try. reach their vanishing point, Fireman Every bit of the unpredictable, painstakemploys devices to delimit them. A seemingly arranged information we’re given ingly peripheral sequence involving a about the life of Sigrid Harmon, the subject bird trapped inside someone’s home. An of the quasi-documentary film/video art interlude of dirty footage of a televised project Sigrid on Her 14th Birthday, invites us to performance by Yma Sumac with Sigrid’s crawl through the ever-darkening tunnels voiceover review. And most importantly, of our own anxieties and confusions, often the brilliant film’s supporting cast, includback to their original, eerily familiar source. ing a hilarious performance by local drag Whether you choose to watch it as a artist Taffy Pulls, and Sigrid’s “imaginary” film or a work of video art doesn’t matfriend Aidan, a real-life human the same ter. John Fireman’s piece makes a strong age, whose charming volubility brings out case either way. The effect is particularly the film’s richest, most unconventionally true for Portlanders, who get to see sevpoignant moments. eral forms of filmmaking—from Fluxus to Not a ton of Fireman’s work is availmumblecore to jarring home video—frame able online, but some is, and it shows that a raw and effortlessly interesting young the obsessive platter of scattershot visuperson exploring their city in a way that’s als so satisfying in Sigrid has been part of rarely captured. his vocabulary for awhile now. Human Fireman, a New York City transplant interiority is still his subject here, though recently graduated from MECA’s MFA prothis work is far more universally engaging gram, treats Portland with an obvious revhaving transposed its locus onto another’s. erence and a unique, hard-won fascinaThrough Sigrid’s lens, Fireman can more tion. The scenes, testimonials, and found ably map out the conflicting avenues of footage that compose Sigrid are threaded by anxieties, desires, and obsessions than shots of Portland landmarks and culture— anyone’d be able to do on their own. That much of it with a pretty loose weave. the film announces itself in the opening One favorite is when our heroine learns credits as “A Video Zine By: Sigrid Harshe’s been suspended from school for mon” isn’t just one of its many sleights-ofmaking inscrutably expressive zines. She hand, it’s also a conceptual truth: the film trudges angrily down the long corridor of plays like its driven by her imagination, her school to its trophy room, where the as absurd and radical as the collage of an camera cuts to ominous close-ups of the marble busts of the long-dead luminaries on display around her, plus another shot of the Portland Conservatory for dramatic similitude. Among other freshyet-truthful depictions of city life, we get musique concrete performer Skot Spear (a/k/a id m theft able) uncorking his avant-garde sorcery in a scene within Strange Maine, Sigrid walking aimlessly tHAt Old Feeling A dejected Sigrid faces classic crossroads. around desolate sites slated for future development, and a city statue paired with “intersexed RomneyObama” in Sigrid’s an audio clip of blistering black metal. homemade zines that gets her suspended Meanwhile not a single trope of liberal from school. Portland fascination is to be found—no Sigrid on Her 14th Birthday is an unlikely coastline, no food scene, no arts or “cremerging of minds that’s as fresh, authoriative economy.” Instead, behind the adoally confused, and genre-slippery as they lescent ennui, the subtext of the defense come. It’s a genuinely inclusive film that of core values against encroaching corpohasn’t outgrown its roots as an obsessively rate forces has significant resonance. pastiched video collage, and it’s one of the And Sigrid—who seems like a Bayside best flicks about Portland life I’ve ever seen. resident with the amount of footage the Unlike my teenage years, I’d go back and do film spends with her there—is a thoroughly it again and again. compelling subject; guileless and good and, despite moments of confusion and vulnerSigrid on Her 14tH BirtHday | film | ability, strangely comfortable. She wrestles Featuring Sigrid Harmon; Produced by John with the injustices and measurements of Fireman | screening at the Oak and the Ax, rebellion of her age, but she’s never trivial140 Main St, in Biddeford | with performances ized. Fireman’s edit spares her of any acby Asthmatic + id m theft able | Aug 15 | 8 pm torly contrivance. When the vistas of | theoakandtheax.com

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MonMouth’s R&J and the quest foR passion _BY Megan gR uMBling

thrust and parry Romeo and Juliet’s supporting cast finding the heart of the play. Wherefore art we so enduringly enamored of Romeo and Juliet? Is it the vicarious thrill of love before we knew better, or the affirmation that we do, indeed, know better? Their romance is more impulsive than starry in a measured, traditional production at the Theater at Monmouth, directed by Dawn McAndrews: one wants less to be in the teenagers’ skin, quivering along with them, than to shout out advice, to tell them to just slow down and think things through a little, for God’s sake. McAndrews doesn’t modernize or gussy up the lovers’ time and place; Romeo (Leighton Samuels) and Juliet (Lindsay Tornquist) live and swoon in period Verona, which is, in set designer Stacey Koloski’s rendering, spare, classical, and elegant: Juliet’s balcony extends in clean lines from stage right, and the space beneath and downstage of it is used for most all other settings. The folk of Verona wear quietly refined white sleeves and simple tunics in hues of wine, earth, and bronze. Virginal Juliet wears white, of course, and in Lindsay Tornquist’s portrayal she is blonde, broad-smiling, graceful, and often rippling with laughter. She has the self-possession and empathetic gaze of the class president who is also genuinely nice, and there’s an appealing candor and artlessness to her speech. Her Romeo, in Samuels’ hands, has a winning grin and careening enthusiasm—he reels around stage like swift water over a rocky creek bed, occasionally even falling over himself in the process. The love of these two is sweet, giddy, and not particularly carnal. They are nice, normal kids, not particularly rebellious by nature; they look good together, and they convey an endearing buddy quality, though not an all-absorbing passion, in their wooing. Their giggling, reeling, and lack of ceremony stand in contrast to the pomp and poise of the older nobles like Capulet (Will Harrell, tall, entitled, and sometimes ominous), Lady Capulet (Lisa Woods, with wary, haughty distance), and Max Waszak’s excellent, imperious Tybalt.

On the other hand, there’s little pomp or poise in Bill Van Horn’s old Friar, who gives the sense of having once been young and impulsive himself (you can hear it in his bellowed “Holy St. Francis!”), or in Juliet’s Nurse, played by Janis Stevens, who plays her comedy with attention to the wistful, intimate bond between her and her charge. Staging includes much fighting, and Paul Dennhardt’s fight choreography is elaborate, performed slowly enough that we can follow every jab through to its impact. Lighting is often clarion in conjuring mood—it raises a lovely warmth on Juliet in the moments before her famous monologue—though at the Capulet party, the house is lit by strings of clear bulbs that are not only a little bright for the scene’s masquerade, but also oddly anachronistic on so classical a set. A better staging touch is aural: the use of bells on the wrists of the partygoers jingle in controlled unison during a dance, jingle harder in a lurching entrance of Mercutio (whom Michael Dix Thomas takes on some bracing, escalating rants), and quietly break up into ambient jingles as the dance ends, as people slip off into groups and—in one case—a star-crossed twosome. That couple grows more complex and dramatically interesting once Romeo slays Tybalt; Tornquist’s Juliet, particularly, shows a fine anguish and ambivalence as she tries to reconcile her love’s role. But I wanted more fire in the primal attraction that fuels their story. McAndrews, interested in the cumulative acts of impatience and recklessness that bring the tragedy, seems to highlight the ordinariness of the romance. I wanted to be more transported by, and thus invested in, their passion. Instead, I was rooting for the kids, but I was also shaking my head, feeling old, and just waiting for them to do what I knew they were bound to do. ^

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The CrUnk wITCh ThAT They Are down from the country: heartbeats in hyperspace Three albums in, Crunk Witch are now far more than novelty. The all-digital, husband-wife duo of Brandon Miles and Hannah Collen have created enough material at this point to establish a clear method behind what can sometimes seem like madness. With the brand-new Heartbeats in Hyperspace, it’s like they’ve put together a topdrawer session band, but everyone’s playing through pedals that turn guitar chords into buzzing digitization, snares into sizzling fuzzbombs, horns into distended whirls. The songs are big radio rock tunes, sometimes more like Broadway bits, but with a space-aged bent that makes everything disorienting. This is thanks to a bit of open-source programming software called Buzz, which is worth investigating if you’re the type to crush time on Reddit and install your own Linux server. Producer James Holden seems to be one of its bigger proponents, along with bands like Australia’s Hunz, who maybe sound a bit like Crunk Witch. Basically, you play something like a keyboard or an MPC, and then can route the sound through any number of virtual machines to create the sound you’re looking for (which may or may not wind up sounding like an “instrument”). What station is this? Did you slip

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me something? Why is Freddie Mercury wearing that astronaut suit? That’s “Moonbase Blues” for you, taking classic rock and making it science fiction. It opens just like the Bay State’s “Winter Mitts,” but replaces that elegant viola with a keyboard line that’s as inorganic as the vacuum of space. Yet Miles as lead singer is just dripping with drama: “I’m a cowboy / I live to fly in the sun. / I ride the light-years / Until I come undone.” There’s certainly some David Bowie doing his Major Tom schtick, but it all seems less faux-futuristic here. This isn’t a put on. It’s desperate wishcasting. What could be better than a space-based love affair? Well, maybe the love affair of Collen and Miles all by itself. Really, they’re quite precious. The opening “Start of It All,” details the union nicely. “It all started on MySpace,” the story goes, and the result is “the Crunk Witch that we are.” Portions of the song are straight-up Headstart! (or how they sound on “Monday,” anyway) infused with 8-bit Casio sounds and thrumming back beat. And “Whirlwind” is as big a classic rock love song as you’re going to hear

nowadays. With all the hallmarks of your standard ‘60s pop number, we hear how “you’re my little whirlwind” (echoes of Del Shannon doing “you’re my little runaway,” for sure) and the pull back for the verse could replace the repeating buzz with a delicate acoustic guitar without skipping a beat. But all is not pop, here. Crunk Witch haven’t forsaken their hardcore and screamo roots. “Kill the Cartridge” is straight-up metal in the open, but the video game synths do mute the effect. It’s like playing Mario Kart with all the characters wearing black trenchcoats. Princess Peach has a lip ring and is wearing a ton of eyeliner. On the other end of the spectrum, “Clash of the Droids” is aptly named, like a disco dance contest amongst C-3PO’s contemporaries, with some Daft Punk YouNG, LouD, AND PRECIouS the husband-wife in its low end and a Devo vibe duo of crunk witch. to the chorus. Crunk Witch are dramatic in all the right ways. Silly and sincere and wholly invested. Crunk Witch walk a fine line. What Ultimately, though, they live to enterthey do is so bright and in your face—like tain, and that comes through most clearunicorns shooting rainbows out every ly in the excellent “Sugar Rush,” which orifice—that it can all be too much someis crazy catchy and infused with the same times. Of course, it can also be that you kind of energy that Chubby Checker used can’t get enough. ^ to get all those kids twisting: “I’m gonna cannonball for you / Drop it down and Heartbeats in Hyperspace | Released by Crunk make it wet.” Miles is definitely at his Witch | with Vinyl Cape + Ceschi + JJ King + Free best here, vampy and quirky, but not Steak Dinner | at SPACE Gallery, in Portland | Aug over the top. 15 | facebook.com/crunkwitchmusic

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You can never shed a label F not that it represents a drift from their stance of refusing to give away their music for free, but we’re pleased too see a whole lot of MILLED PAVEMENT releases hit Bandcamp this week. most have been in readily accessible digital form on Amazon or itunes for awhile, but we like to think Bandcamp democratizes the process a bit. course, this comes just in time for the release of a new one by VINYL CAPE, a ferocious collab between experimental, punk-cut rapper Brzowski, producer c $ Burns, and connecticut’s mo niklz. We’re long past the era where most

indie labels should’ve burned to the ground, and we have to say, milled pavement’s collective energy, tireless touring efforts, and dedication to its artists is a tremendous statement. do visit milledpavement.bandcamp.com for the full dig. F HIGH SPIRITS, one of our favorite transcendental, punk/surf indie bands in town, just released a live one that sounds at least as good as anything they’ve laid to tape (a/k/a one other thing). recorded by mike cunnane for his cut the shit imprint, these folks have really sailed into their own—exhibit A being an updated version of the older track “gravity,” replete

with laser-bright guitar lines and a haunting, bewildered half-sneer by frontlady Alice. songs are still checking in at around 90 to 150 seconds, just breezing by on the strength of those thud-punk bursts of percussive primitivism. But they’re more satisfyingly an instrumental band than ever—if the spare “Jungle Queen” were ever to find its way onto the back-side of a mixtape you presented to someone you yearned for, our take is that it would get the point across! this band have leapt into the stratosphere of the very good. to hear Live from Earth from Space, head to highspirits.bandcamp.com.

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Richard Estes’ Realism is organized by the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The museums thank the following donors for their generous support of the exhibition: Gabrielle Bekink and the Honorable Rudolf Bekink, Isabelle and Scott Black, Thelma and Melvin Lenkin, The Lunder Foundation —Peter and Paula Lunder, Debbie Frank Petersen, Walter and Lucille Rubin Foundation, Holly and Nick Ruffin, and John Wilmerding. Local corporate sponsor: Bank of America. Local media sponsors: WCSH 6, Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, and Maine Public Broadcasting Network. Richard Estes (United States, born 1932), Beaver Dam Pond, Acadia National Park (detail), 2009, oil on board, 12 1/2 x 30 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Anonymous gift, 2104.2 © Richard Estes, courtesy Marlborough Gallery, New York.

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SATURDAY 16

”CATCH A RISING STAR,” WITH BOBBY COLLINS | 8 pm | Leavitt The-

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SUNDAY 17

”HEADLINERS COMEDY NIGHT,” COMICS TBA | 7 pm | Mr. Goodbar, 8B West Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach | 207.934.9100 BOB MARLEY | 7 pm | Freedom Cafe, 923 Roosevelt Trail, Naples | $20 | 207.693.3700 OPEN MIC | 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

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

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PORTLAND SYMPHONY ENSEMBLE QUARTET | 7:30 pm | Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | 207.633.6855

FRIDAY 15

”A PROGRAM OF FRENCH MUSIC” |

”ELEANOR SOKOLOFF TRIBUTE GALA CONCERT” | 6 pm | Bay Chamber Concerts, Rockport Opera House, 6 Central St, Rockport | $10-60 | 207.236.2823 or baychamberconcerts.org

PARMA Music Festival, Prescott Park, Prescott Park, Portsmouth, NH | $5 | 603.436.2400 ”MAIN EVENT” | with Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra + Ovidiu Marinescu + Stacie Lin + Sarah Borrello + Redline Brass Quintet + Chris Klaxton & the State Line Big Band + Portsmouth Pro Musica + Mac Ritchey + Matthias Müller | 7 pm | PARMA Music Festival, Music Hall, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $20 | 603.436.2400

SUNDAY 17

”FESTIVAL CONCERT PROGRAM 8: BARTÓK, FAURÉ” | See listing for Fri ”NEW MUSIC BRUNCH: PAOLA PRESTINI, JOHN ZORN, PHILIP GLASS, ARVO PÄRT” | noon | Bay

Sun 4 pm | Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Rte 15, Blue Hill | call for tickets | 207.374.2203 or kneisel.org

Chamber Concerts, Union Hall, 24 Center St, Rockport | $25, $10 youth 21 & under | 207.236.2823 or baychamberconcerts.org PETER BLOOM & MARK LEIGHTON | 3 pm | West Kennebunk United Methodist Church, 160 Alfred Rd, West Kennebunk | $12-$15 | 207.985.6632

| 6 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore.com

| 6 pm | Bay Chamber Concerts, Brewster Point, Rockport | call for tickets | 207.236.2823 or baychamberconcerts. org

”FESTIVAL CONCERT PROGRAM 8: BARTÓK, FAURÉ” | Fri-Sat 7:30 pm;

PARMA ARTIST RECEPTION WITH MATTHIAS MULLER | Matthias Muller

”PENDULUM: CHAMBER MUSIC ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT” | with Ari-

ana Wyatt + Benjamin Wyatt + Tracy Cowden + Aliana Delaguardia + Lisa Leong + Chris Arrell + Deirdre Viau + Matthias Muller + Sylvia Ahramjian + Ovidiu Marinescu + John Roberts + Melsen Carlsen + John Roberts + Emily Hanna Crane + Hui-Ting Yang + Mei-Fang Lin + Jim Rhinehart | 10 am | PARMA Music Festival, St John’s Episcopal Church, 101 Chapel St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.436.2400

”THE LUNAR ENSEMBLE PRESENTS: A SHAKESPEARE CONCERT” | 2 pm

| PARMA Music Festival, St John’s Episcopal Church, 101 Chapel St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.436.2400

SATURDAY 16

”CONTRASTS,” CHAMBER ENSEMBLES | 9 pm | Bay Chamber Concerts, Union Hall, 24 Center St, Rockport | $25 | 207.236.2823 or baychamberconcerts.org

”TELEMINE’S OPERA: PIMPINONE”

WEDNESDAY 20

KATHLEEN HALEY + GLENDA WINKLE-MORROW + MARK THALLANDER | noon | Basilica of Saints Peter & Paul, 122 Ash St, Lewiston | 207.777.1200

THURSDAY 21

”BEETHOVEN, DOHNANYI” | 7:30 pm | Bay Chamber Concerts, Rockport Opera House, 6 Central St, Rockport | $10-45 | 207.236.2823 or baychamberconcerts.org

POPULAR THURSDAY 14

BILL MCHENRY & RJ MILLER | 7 pm | Congress Square Park, Corner of Congress and High Sts, Portland CAPTAIN BANGAROO | 7 pm | Casablanca Cruises, Portland Harbor Tour, 18 Custom House Wharf, Portland | $15 | 207.831.1324

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DON CAMPBELL BAND | 7 pm | Deer-

MOODY BLUES + TEN FOOT POLECATS | 8 pm | Bank of New Hampshire

Pavilion at Meadowbrook, 72 Meadowbrook Ln, Lake Winnipesaukee, Gilford, NH | $35-68 | 603.293.4700 or meadowbrook.net

”THREE GUITARS” WITH ALEX LUBET & MAJA RADOVANLIJA + MICHAEL GREGORY JACKSON + TIM WEBB | 6 pm | PARMA Music Festival,

Portsmouth Music & Arts Center, 973 Islington St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.436.2400 TILDEN KATZ | 7 pm | Fort Sumner Park, Portland ”UNDERGROUND LOUNGE” | with Qwill + Chris Baum + DJ Jaminic + Radio Scotvoid + Fishing the Sky + Liquivox + Adam Vidiksis | 8 pm | PARMA Music Festival, The Red Door, 107 State St, Portsmouth, NH | $5 | 603.436.2400

FRIDAY 15

BEACH BOYS | 8 pm | Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $38-81 | 603.929.4100 GAVIN HOPE | 7:30 pm | Great Waters Music Festival, Inn on Main, 200 N Main St, Wolfeboro, NH | $25 | 603.569.1335

”NEW ENGLAND ARTISTS SHOWCASE” WITH WILL DAILEY + CLARA BERRY & WOOLDOG + MATTHIAS MÜLLER | 8 pm | PARMA Music Fes-

SATURDAY 16

CRYSTAL BOWERSOX + SETH GLIER | 7:30 pm | Strand Theatre, 345 Main St, Rockland | $17.50 | 207.594.0070 RONDA DALE | Fifth Maine Museum, Seashore Ave, Peaks Island | $15 | 207.766.3330

”HOOKFEST,” WITH BIM SKALA BIM + LETTUCE + MICHALE BERNIER

& FREEVOLT + SPITTIN’ VINNIES + KING HAMMOND | 2 pm | Redhook Ale

”PARMA MUSIC FESTIVAL,” WITH RED LINE BRASS QUINTET + PORTSMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA + PORTSMOUTH PRO MUSICA + CHRIS KLAXTON & HIS BIG BAND | 7 pm |

Music Hall, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $25 | 603.436.2400

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THURSDAY 21

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SUNDAY 17

GOO GOO DOLLS + DAUGHTRY + SKYLER | 6:30 pm | Bank of New

JACKSON BROWNE | 8 pm | Merrill

Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | $40-100 | 207.842.0800

GAVIN DEGRAW & MATT NATHANSON + ANDREW MCMAHON | 8 pm

TUESDAY 19

BOB WEIR & RATDOG + CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD | 6:30 pm |

Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook, 72 Meadowbrook Ln, Lake Winnipesaukee, Gilford, NH | $30-60 | 603.293.4700 or meadowbrook.net JONNY LANG + RICH ROBINSON | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $25-50 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland.com TITUS ANDRONICUS | 9 pm | Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $12-14 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall.com

WEDNESDAY 20

ARCADE FIRE + ANTIBALAS + DAN DEACON | 7 pm | Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion, 1 Railroad St, Bangor | $2559.50 | 800.745.3000

”BOOTY TRAP BOAT PARTY,” CRUISE WITH CHE ROS + DON DAMIANI, ET AL. | 7 pm | Casablanca

Cruises, Portland Harbor Tour, 18 Custom House Wharf, Portland | $1518 | 207.831.1324 CDR | 6 pm | Congress Square Park, Corner of Congress and High Sts, Portland Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook, 72 Meadowbrook Ln, Lake Winnipesaukee, Gilford, NH | $30-68 | 603.293.4700 or meadowbrook.net KISHI BASHI | 8 pm | Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $12-14 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall.com BOB MILNE | 7:30 pm | Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | 207.633.6855 SORCHA & THE CLEARING | 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | 207.935.7292 STREAM REGGAE | 7 pm | Fort Sumner Park, Portland

WAYLON SPEED + MALLETT BROTHERS BAND | 8 pm | Camden

Opera House, 29 Elm St, Camden | 207.236.7963 or camdenoperahouse. com

DANCE PARTICIPATORY FRIDAY 15

COUNTRY NIGHT | Rockingham

SATURDAY 16

”BALLROOM NIGHT WITH THE DON ALTOBELLO BAND” | 7:30 pm | Rock-

ingham Ballroom, 22 Ash Swamp Rd, Newmarket, NH | 603.659.4410 ”MILONGA DEL ESTE” TANGO | 8 pm | Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St, Portland | $10-$12 | 207.615.3609

TUESDAY 19

LINE DANCING | 6:30 pm | Mem-

ory Lane Music Hall, 35 Blake Rd, Standish | 207.642.3363 | www.memorylanemusichall.com

PERFORMANCE THURSDAY 14

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM |

Thurs-Fri 7 pm; Sat 2 & 7 pm | Maine State Ballet, 348 Rte 1, Falmouth | $17-23 | 207.781.7672 | www.mainestateballet.org

”PLACEHOLDERS: A DANCE ABOUT DENMARK, ME” WITH HIO RIDGE DANCE | Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm | Den-

mark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark | $10 | 207.452.2412 | denmarkarts.org

FRIDAY 15

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SATURDAY 16

ART MOVES: “LIFE BEYOND CYNICSM” | 7 pm | Portland Ballet Com-

pany, 517 Forest Ave, Portland | $15 | 207.772.9671 | www.portlandballet.org A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM | See listing for Thurs

”PLACEHOLDERS: A DANCE ABOUT DENMARK, ME” WITH HIO RIDGE DANCE | See listing for Thurs

EVENTS SATURDAY 16

workshops, food, & arts and activities | noon | Deering Oaks Park, Park Ave and Deering Ave, Portland

”SLAP: SUPERHERO LADY ARMWRESTLERS OF PORTLAND,” LOCKER PROJECT BENEFIT | 8 pm |

Spring Point Tavern, 175 Pickett St, South Portland | $5 | 207.733.2245

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CLUB DIRECTORY 51 WHARF | 207.774.1151 | 51 Wharf St, Portland ACOUSTIC ARTISANS | 207.671.6029 | 594 Congress St, Portland ADAMS STREET PUB | 207.283.4992 | 5 Adams St, Biddeford ALISSON’S RESTAURANT | 207.967.4841 | 5 Dock Sq, Kennebunkport AMERICAN LEGION POST 56 | 207.363.0376 | 9 Hannaford Dr, York ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | 207.874.2639 | 94 Commercial St, Portland ANNIE’S IRISH PUB | 207.251.4335 | 369 Main St, Ogunquit ASYLUM | 207.772.8274 | 121 Center St, Portland BASSLINES | 207.699.4263 | Binga’s Stadium, 23 Brown St, Portland BAYSIDE BOWL | 207.791.2695 | 58 Alder St, Portland BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | 207.564.8733 | 73 North St, Dover Foxcroft 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 BLACK BEAR CAFE | 207.693.4770 | 215 Roosevelt Trail, Naples BLOOMFIELD’S CAFE AND BAR

| 207.474.8844 | 40 Water St, Skowhegan BLUE | 207.774.4111 | 650A Congress St, Portland 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

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

BUBBA’S SULKY LOUNGE |

207.828.0549 | 92 Portland St, Portland

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

BULL MOOSE LOUNGE |

207.924.7286 | Moosehead Trail Motor Lodge, 300 Corrina Rd, Dexter BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | 207.443.6776 | 98 Center St, Bath

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| 207.772.5483 | 128 Free St, Portland DOLPHIN STRIKER | 603.431.5222 | 15 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH DOVER BRICK HOUSE | 603.749.3838 | 2 Orchard St, Dover, NH DOWN UNDER CLUB | 207.992.2550 | Seasons Grille & Sports Lounge, 427 Main St, Bangor THE DRAFT HOUSE | 207.739.2989 | 187 Main St, South Paris

EASY DAY | 207.200.2226 | 725

Broadway, South Portland EASY STREET LOUNGE | 207.622.3360 | 7 Front St, Hallowell EBENEZER’S BREWPUB | 207.373.1840 | 112 Pleasant St, Brunswick EMPIRE | 207.879.8988 | 575 Congress St, Portland FAST BREAKS | 207.782.3305 | 1465 Lisbon St, Lewiston FAT BELLY’S | 603.610.4227 | 2 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH FATBOY’S SALOON | 207.766.8862 | 65 Main St, Biddeford FEDERAL JACK’S | 207.967.4322 | 8 Western Ave, Kennebunk

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

FIRE HOUSE GRILLE | 207.376.4959 | 47 Broad St, Auburn

FLASK LOUNGE | 207.772.3122 | 117

Spring St, Portland FOG BAR & CAFE | 207.593.9371 | 328 Main St, Rockland THE FOGGY GOGGLE | 207.824.5056 | South Ridge Lodge, Sunday River, Newry FREEDOM CAFE | 207.693.3700 | 923 Roosevelt Trail, Naples FROG AND TURTLE | 207.591.4185 | 3 Bridge St, Westbrook FRONT STREET PUBLIC HOUSE | 207.442.6700 | 102 Front St, Bath FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | 603.617.3633 | 1 Washington St, Dover, NH FUSION | 207.330.3775 | 490 Pleasant St, Lewiston

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

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

HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEEHOUSE AND TAVERN | 207.621.1234 | 119 Water St, Hallowell

HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | 877.779.7771 |

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

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

Saco Ave, Old Orchard Beach JONATHAN’S | 207.646.4777 | 92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit JONES LANDING | 207.766.5652 | 6 Welch St, Peaks Island 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 LITTLE TAP HOUSE | 207.518.9283 | 106 High St, Portland LOCAL 188 | 207.761.7909 | 685 Congress St, Portland

LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | 207.899.3529 | 649 Congress St, Portland LOMPOC CAFE | 207.288.9392 | 36 Rodick St, Bar Harbor MADDEN’S PUB & GRILL | 207.899.4988 | 65 Gray Rd, Falmouth MAIN TAVERN | 207.947.7012 | 152 Main St, Bangor MAINE STREET | 207.646.5101 | 195 Maine St, Ogunquit MAINELY BREWS | 207.873.2457 | 1 Post Office Sq, Waterville MAMA’S CROWBAR | 207.773.9230 | 189 Congress St, Portland 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 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 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 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 OTTO | 207.773.7099 | 574-6 Congress St, Portland PEARL | 207.653.8486 | 444 Fore St, Portland PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | 207.783.6200 | 134 Main St, Lewiston PEDRO’S | 207.967.5544 | 181 Port Rd, Kennebunk PIER PATIO PUB | 207.934.3595 | 2 Old Orchard St, Old Orchard Beach PIZZA TIME SPORTS & SPIRITS | | 185 US Rte 1, Scarborough PORTHOLE RESTAURANT | 207.773.4653 | 20 Custom House Wharf, Portland PORTLAND EAGLES | 207.773.9448 | 184 Saint John St, Portland PORTLAND LOBSTER CO | 207.775.2112 | 180 Commercial St, Portland PORTSMOUTH BOOK AND BAR | 617.908.8277 | 40 Pleasant St, Portsmouth, NH PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | 603.430.8582 | 64 Market St, Portsmouth, NH PRESS ROOM | 603.431.5186 | 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH PROFENNO’S | 207.856.0011 | 934 Main St, Westbrook

PUBLIC HOUSE AND PROHIBITION MUSIC ROOM | 603.948.1082 | 45 N Main St, Rochester, NH

PURPLE CATERPILLAR | 367 Fore St, Portland

THE RACK | 207.237.2211 | 5016 Access Rd, Carabassett

RAILROAD DINER | 207.353.6069 | 697 Lisbon St, Lisbon Falls

RAVEN’S ROOST | 207.406.2359 |

103 Pleasant St, Brunswick READFIELD EMPORIUM | 207.685.7348 | 1146 Main St, Readfield THE RED DOOR | 603.373.6827 | 107 State St, Portsmouth, NH RI RA/PORTLAND | 207.761.4446 | 72 Commercial St, Portland

RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | 603.319.1680 | 22 Market St, Portsmouth, NH RUDI’S | 603.430.7834 | 20 High St, Portsmouth, NH RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | 207.571.9648 | 100 Main St, Saco Island, Saco SALVAGE BBQ & SMOKEHOUSE | | 919 Congress St, Portland SEA DOG BREWING/BANGOR | 207.947.8009 | 26 Front St, Bangor SEA DOG BREWING/SOUTH PORTLAND | 207.871.7000 | 125

Western Ave, South Portland

SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM | 207.725.0162 | 1 Maine St, Great Mill Island, Topsham SEA KETCH | 603.926.0324 | 127 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH SEA40 | 207.795.6888 | 40 East Ave, Lewiston SEASONS GRILLE | 207.775.6538 | 155 Riverside St, Portland SHOOTERS SPORTS PUB | 207.345.7040 | 128 Lewiston St, Mechanic Falls SILVER HOUSE TAVERN | 207.772.9885 | 123 Commercial St, Portland SILVER STREET TAVERN | 207.680.2163 | 2 Silver St, Waterville SKIP’S LOUNGE | 207.929.9985 | 299 Narragansett Trail, Buxton SKYBOX BAR AND GRILL | 207.854.9012 | 212 Brown St, Westbrook SLAB | 207.245.3088 | 25 Preble St, Portland SLOW BELL CAFE | 207.846.3078 | 2 Walker Rd, Chebeague Island SOLO BISTRO | 207.443.3378 | 128 Front St, Bath SONNY’S | 207.772.7774 | 83 Exchange St, Portland SONNY’S TAVERN | 603.343.4332 | 328 Central Ave, Dover, NH SOUTHSIDE TAVERN | 207.474.6073 | 1 Waterville Rd, Skowhegan SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland THE SPAGHETTI STAIN | 603.343.5257 | 421 Central Ave, Dover, NH SPLITTERS | 207.621.1710 | 2246 N Belfast Ave, Augusta SPRING HILL TAVERN | 603.431.5222 | Dolphin Striker, 15 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH SPRING POINT TAVERN | 207.733.2245 | 175 Pickett St, South Portland STONE CHURCH | 603.659.6321 | 5 Granite St, Newmarket, NH STYXX | 207.828.0822 | 3 Spring St, Portland SUDS PUB | 207.824.6558 | Sudbury Inn Main St, Bethel SUNSET DECK | 207.934.3532 | the Pier, Old Orchard Beach TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | 207.657.7973 | 61 Portland Rd, Gray TANTRUM | 207.404.4300 | 193 Broad St, Bangor THATCHER’S PUB/SOUTH PORTLAND | 207.253.1808 | 35 Foden Rd,

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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 TORCHES GRILL HOUSE | 207.467.3288 | 102 York St, Kennebunk TOWNHOUSE PUB | 207.284.7411 | 5 Storer St, Saco TRAIN’S TAVERN | 207.457.6032 | 249 Carl Broggi Hwy, Lebanon TUCKER’S PUB | 207.739.2200 | 290 Main St, Norway UNION HOUSE PUB & PIZZA | 207.590.4825 | North Dam Mill, 2 Main St, 18-230, Biddeford UNION STATION BILLIARDS | 207.899.3693 | 272 St John St, Portland WALLY’S PUB | 603.926.6954 | 144 Ashworth Ave, Hampton, NH WATER DOG TAVERN | 207.354.5079 | 1 Starr St, Thomaston YORK HARBOR INN | 207.363.5119 | 480 York St, York Harbor ZACKERY’S | 207.774.5601 | Fireside Inn & Suites, 81 Riverside St, Portland

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SUNDAY 17

ART & FINE CRAFT SHOW | See listing for Sat

OUTDOORS SATURDAY 16

GUIDED CANOE TOURS | Sat-Mon 10

am | Scarborough Marsh Audubon Center, Pine Point Rd (Rte 9), Scarborough | $9/$12 | 207.883.5100

SUNDAY 17

SATURDAY 16

”CHILI FEST: MAINE STATE COOKOFF” | 11 am | Wells Chamber of

Commerce, Wells Junior High School, 1470 Post Road, Wells | 207.646.2451

PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET |

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

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LOCAL FOODS NETWORKING BREAKFAST | 8:30 am | Local Sprouts

Cooperative, 649 Congress St, Portland | 207.899.3529 or localsproutscooperative.com

GUIDED CANOE TOURS | See listing

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am | Monument Square, Congress St, Portland | 207.774.9979

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GUIDED CANOE TOURS | See listing for Sat

FAIRS & FESTIVALS SATURDAY 16

ANNUAL ITALIAN BAZAAR | Sat 5

pm; Sun 11 am | St Peter’s Parish, 72 Federal St, Portland | 207.773.7746

BRUNSWICK OUTDOOR ART FESTIVAL | with painting, sculpture, mixed

media, graphics and drawing, photography, fine crafts, live music, theater and dance performances, performance artists, & face painting | 9 am | Brunswick Mall, Maine St, Brunswick | 207.729.0023

SHAKER VILLAGE FOLK FESTIVAL

SUNDAY 17

ANNUAL ITALIAN BAZAAR | See listing for Sat

WEDNESDAY 20

BLISTERED FINGERS FAMILY BLUEGRASS MUSIC FESTIVAL | with

CPS Express + Nothin’ Fancy + Larry Efaw & the Bluegrass Mountaineers + Monadnock + Seth Sawyer Band + Bluegrass Diamonds + Grascals + Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice + Church Sisters + Gibson Brothers | Litchfield Fairgrounds, 44 Plains Rd, Litchfield | $15-30 per night/$80 weekend

PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET | 7

POETRY & PROSE THURSDAY 14

CHRISTIAN BARTER + CHRISTOPHER ROBLEY + BETSY SHOLL |

SUNDAY 17

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

Perry Center, 36 Market St, Portland | 207.619.4206 or megperrycenter.com

MONDAY 18

LYNN H. NICHOLS | talks about her

book, The Rape of Europa | 5 pm | College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden St, Bar Harbor | 207.288.9500 OPEN MIC POETRY NIGHT | 6:30 pm | Serenity Market & Cafe, 25 Sagamore Rd, Rye, NH | 603.319.1671

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

Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

TUESDAY 19

MATTHEW BERRY | discusses FAN-

TASY LIFE: The Outrageous, Uplifting and Heartbreaking World of Fantasy Sports From the Guy Who’s Lived It | 7 pm | The Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $35 | 603.436.2400

NOAH WILLIAMS + ZAHRO HASSAN + GRACE ROBERTS + HENRY SPRITZ

| emerging authors book launch & signing | 7 pm | Sherman’s Books, 49 Exchange St, Portland | 207.633.7262 OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | with Port Veritas | 7 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | $2.50-3 | 207.773.7210

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

ite St, Newmarket, NH | 603.659.6321

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THURSDAY 21

”BEAT NIGHT,” MUSIC & POETRY | 7

TALKS THURSDAY 14

”ORGANIZING FOR THE RIGHT TO HEAL” | 6 pm | Southern Maine Work-

ers’ Center, 68 Washington Ave, Portland | 207.200.7692

SATURDAY 16

”MUSIC IN ADVERTISING” | with

THURSDAY 21

”P.I. LECTURE SERIES: TSUNAMI TATTOO” | 6:30 pm | Fifth Maine

Museum, Seashore Ave, Peaks Island | 207.766.3330

THEATER ARTS IN MOTION THEATER |

207.935.9232 | artsinmotiontheater.com | Fryeburg Academy, Eastman Performing

Auditorium, Great Falls School, 30 Academy St, Auburn | Aug 14-17: Hair-

spray | Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 2 pm | $18, $15 seniors, $12 youth

DEERTREES NEW REPERTORY COMPANY | 207.583.6747 | Deertrees

Theatre, 156 Deertrees Rd, Harrison |

HARBORSIDE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | 207.667.9500 | The Grand, 165

Main St, Ellsworth | Aug 16: Hamlet |

Don Campbell Trio

2013 Casco Bay Lines Music on the Bay

THURSDAY 21

Thursday, aug 21 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Join us for Happy Hour with the Don Campbell Trio! $10 in advance/$12 day of

Jenny WooDman Friday, aug 29 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm

This maine legend plays of variety of classic hits and music from today. $20 For more information please check our website at cascobaylines.com For groups of 20 or more, please call (207) 774-7871 ext. 105.

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Thursday, August 28th Reception 5-8 pm

7:30 pm | $12, $10 seniors/students, $8 youth

MAD HORSE THEATRE COMPANY |

207.747.4148 | Mad Horse Theater, 24 Mosher St, South Portland | Aug 14-24:

MAINE STATE MUSIC THEATRE

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

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SEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE

SEVEN STAGES SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | 603.828.1337 | 7stagesshake-

speare.org | Prescott Park, Portsmouth, NH | Aug 17: The Comedy of Errors | 3 pm

STONINGTON OPERA HOUSE |

207.367.2788 | operahousearts.org | Main St, Stonington | Aug 14-24: The Last

AUDITIONS GASLIGHT THEATER | 207.626.3698 |

gaslighttheater.org | Hallowell City Hall Auditorium, 1 Winthrop St, Hallowell |

Aug 16-21: Audition for “Boo! Thirteen Scenes from Halloween” | Sat 9 am; Tues + Thurs 6 pm

ART GALLERIES AARHUS GALLERY | 207.338.0001

| 50 Main St, Belfast | aarhusgallery. com | Tues-Sun 11 am-5:30 pm |

CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART | 207.236.2875 | 162

Russell Ave, Rockport | artsmaine. org | Through Sept 20: Betsy Eby:

“Inter Lithics,” window installation by Miles Templeton | Through Sept 5: “Face Off,” installation by Katie Bell | Through Sept 6: “Staying Put,” mixed media installation by Adam John Manley SUSAN MAASCH FINE ART | 207.478.4087 | 4 City Center, Portland | susanmaaschfineart.com | Tues-Sat 11 am-5 pm | Through Aug 30: “Brenton Hamilton: New Calotype Works” + “Kiki Gaffney: New Paintings” WATERFALL ARTS | 207.388.2222 | 256 High St, Belfast | Tues-Fri 10 am-5 pm; by appointment | Through Aug 29: “Living in These Bodies, Part II: Future Mothers Tent,” installation by Elizabeth Jabar + Colleen Kinsella | 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: “Is This What You Do With What You View?: Selections from the Dorothy & Herbert Vogel Collection,” mixed media + “On 52nd Streeet: The Jazz Photography of William P. Gottlieb” | Through Oct 19: “Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective” | Ongoing: “American Artists at Work, 1840-1950” + “Contemporary Masters, 1950 to the Present” + “Lovers & Saints: Art of the Italian Renaissance” COLBY COLLEGE | 207.859.5600 |

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

Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Free admission | Through Aug 31: “Lois Dodd: Cultivating Vision,” works on paper | Through Jan 4: “Bernard Langlais,” paintings | Through June 7: “Alex Katz: Selections,” mixed media | Through July 15: “Highlights from the Permanent Collection,” mixed media | Ongoing: “Process & Place: Exploring the Design Evolution of the AlfondLunder Family Pavilion” + “Alex Katz Collection” DYER LIBRARY/SACO MUSEUM | 207.283.3861 | 371 Main St, Saco | sacomuseum.org | Tues-Thurs noon-4 pm; Fri noon-8 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through Aug 31: “River, Lake, Ocean: Inspired by a Body of Water,” mixed media group exhibition | Through Nov 9: “At Home in the Victorian Era,” historical exhibit of furnishings, textiles, & bric-a-brac 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 Aug 31: “Stories of the Land & its People,” mixed media student exhibition | Through Sept 28: “Coloring Vision: From Impressionism to Modernism,” paintings | Through Nov 9: “Andrew Wyeth: Portrait Studies,” mixed media | 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 March 31, 2016: “We Are What We Hide,” long-running exhibit in- & outside gallery walls | Aug 21-Oct 12: “Project _,” architectural installation by Ana Miljacki + Lee Moreau + “The Wrong Kind of Bars: Paintings from the Maine State Prison” MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM | 207.329.9854 | 267 Congress St, Portland | treeoflifemuseum.org | Mon-Fri 10 am-2 pm | Through Aug 29: “Vessels,” sculpture & prints by Lin Lisberger OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF ART | 207.646.4909 | 543 Shore Rd, Ogunquit | ogunquitmuseum.org | Mon-Sat 10:30 am- 5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm | Through Aug 31: “Alexandra de Steigeur: Small

Island, Big Picture,” photography + “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 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 | Tues-Fri noon-4:30 pm | Aug 15-Sept 12: “Spring 2014 Salt Student Show,” mixed media

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - FARMINGTON | 207.778.7292 | Emery Community

Arts Center, 111 South St, Farmington |

Through Sept 7: “William Wegman: Way Up in Maine,” mixed media works

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND BIDDEFORD | 207.283.0171 | Campus

Center, 11 Hills Beach Rd, Biddeford | une. edu/studentlife/campuscenter | Mon-Fri 8 am-7 pm | Through Aug 28: “Cut, Arrange, Glue: Collage Improvisations by Robin Brooks”

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND PORTLAND | 207.221.4499 | Art Gallery,

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

Sun 1-4 pm | Through 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

OTHER MUSEUMS ABBE MUSEUM | 207.288.3519 | 26

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

pm | Through Dec 31: “Twisted Path III: Questions of Balance” | Ongoing: “Layers of Time: Archaeology at the Abbe Museum” + “Dr. Abbe’s Museum” MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | 207.774.1822 | 489 Congress St, Portland | mainehistory.org | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm | $8, $7 seniors/students, $2 children, kids under 6 free | Through Aug 31: “Home: The WadsworthLongfellow House & the Emergence of Portland” + “Snapshots of Portland, 1924: The Tax Man Cometh” MAINE STATE MUSEUM | 207.287.2301 | 83 State House Stn, Augusta | mainestatemuseum.org | MonFri 9 am-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-4 pm | Admission $2, $1 for seniors and children ages 6-18, under 6 free | Through April 30: “Maine Voices from the Civil War” | Ongoing: 12,000-plus years of Maine’s history, in homes, nature, shops, mills, ships, & factories

PEARY-MACMILLAN ARCTIC MUSEUM | 207.725.3416 | Bowdoin College,

Hubbard Hall, 5 College St, Brunswick | bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/index. shtml | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 2-5

pm | Free | Through Aug 31: “Animal Allies: Inuit Views of the Natural World” | Ongoing: “Cape Dorset & Beyond: Inuit Art from the Marcia & Robert Ellis Collection” + “Robert E. Peary & His Northern World” + “Faces of Greenland: Ivory Carvings from the Bareguard Collection” PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM | 207.548.0334 | 40 East Main St, Searsport | penobscotmarinemuseum.org | call for hours | Through Oct 19: “Fish, Wind, & Tide: Art & Technology of Maine’s Resources” | Ongoing: “Keeping Warm Exhibition” + “Regional Watercraft” + “Gone Fishing” + “Souvenirs for the Orient” + “Rowboats for Rusticators” + “History, Economy, & Recreation of the Penobscot Region” + “Hall of Ship Models” + “Folk Art of the Penobscot” + “Sea Captains of Searsport” + “Scrimshaw”

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preserve precious produce you can pickle that! _By kat e mcca rt y In his preserving cookbook Saving the Season, University of California Master Food Preserver Kevin West writes, “nature’s bounty is abundant, but fleeting,” and encourages preserving as a means of capturing edible nostalgia in a jar. That’s all well and good in California, where a bygone season just means a different bounty at the year-round farmers’ market. But in Maine, the end of the growing season means we’re staring down the decidedly unsexy barrel of local produce like potatoes, carrots, and beets from storage. That is, unless you add one more thing to your already-full summertime agenda: preserving. Entrepreneurial hipsters have driven the cost of a quart of pickles up to the $10 mark, so making your own is not only economical, but immensely satisfying. You can preserve your vegetable pickles in jars by canning them (visit UMaine Extension’s website for recipes, instructions, hands-on classes, and videos at extension. umaine.edu/food-health/food-preservation) or you can skip the food safety concerns and make quick refrigerator pickles. At Salvage BBQ, Jay Villani douses thinly sliced cucumbers and onions in a sweet “bread and butter” brine flavored with mustard seed, turmeric, celery seed,

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salt, and plenty of sugar. The sweet yet tart pickles balance out the fatty smoked meats and the spicy barbecue sauce. Portland Hunt & Alpine Club’s chef Ricky Penatzer pickles any produce he can get his hands on, sourcing sunchokes, blueberries, beets, green strawberries, and cabbage (just to name a few) from Dandelion Springs Farm, Alewive’s Brook Farm, and FarmFresh Connection. Penatzer serves his pickled concoctions on the various “børds” at the Scandinavian-themed craft cocktail bar, using the pickles’ texture and bright flavors to offset the richness of the cheese plates, deviled eggs, and smoked trout with brown butter mayo. At Piccolo, Damian Sansonetti pickles zucchini, onions, and fennel slices in vinegar, then covers the vegetables with a layer of olive oil. He serves the zucchine sott’olio alongside salumi and says the pickles have a silky, “confit” texture. Sansonetti aims to preserve fruit jams and sauces with his wife, Chef Ilma Lopez, for later use in her intricate desserts. While wild Maine blueberries and apples are available nearly year round, local strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and peaches are precious commodities. While all of these can be preserved in jars in jams and jellies, freezing whole berries

or fruit slices offers a more versatile product. Would-be preservers may balk at the prices per quart at the farmers’ market, so seek out “Pick Your Own” bring it, winter the fortress of pickles at portland hunt and alpine club operations. An afternoon spent says that by late winter, the vegetable mix at Snell’s Family Farm in Buxton or Fairis fairly cabbage-heavy, so “anything that winds Farm in Topsham can yield pounds can break up the cabbage is welcome.” of raspberries and blueberries at a fraction Between two seasons of light and dark, of the cost. bounty and scarcity, create a little time to Standard Baking Co.’s bakers freeze master simple preserving techniques to blackberries and raspberries in the sumbrighten your plate, whether it’s pickled mer to use in buckles (baked fruit with or sweet. Should you posses the knowa cake topping) and buckwheat scones. how to preserve, but not the equipment, Abby Huckel at Local Sprouts Cooperative such as canning pots, dehydrators, jar freezes fruit sauces and cut fruit for the lifters, and funnels, support the fledgling café’s bakery. The fruit is baked into mufPortland Tool Library. The organizers aim fins, pies, and scones, while the catering to create a lending library of home and crew makes berry frostings and filling for garden tools, including preserving supwedding cakes. Huckel even freezes vegplies. Donations to their startup fund etables at the café, using previously frocan be made at indiegogo.com/projects/ zen snap peas, corn, and peppers in their maine-tool-library-portland--2 (read more vegetable mix, served alongside scrambled on page 4). ^ eggs, home fries, or in a stir fry. Huckel

movie reviews in brief

x gUARDiAnS OF THe gALAXY 121 minutes | clarks pond cinemagic + saco cinemagic + westbrook cinemagic + auburn flagship + smitty’s biddeford + smitty’s windham Five interstellar oddballs— among them a humanoid tree and a talking raccoon with a bad attitude—band together to keep a mythic whatsit out of the hands of an evil whosis. Most of the juice in this Marvel Studios behemoth comes from wisecracking Chris Pratt, completing his decade-long metamorphosis from comic chubster to chiseled action hero, and an ironic soundtrack of ‘70s and ‘80s dance hits, which Pratt’s character accesses from a treasured mixtape cassette that his dying mother gave him back on planet Earth. As you might have guessed, these meager

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pleasures are swallowed up in all the frantic action and overblown CG sequences. James Gunn directed; with Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Djimon Hounsou, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close, and Benicio Del Toro.

_J.r. Jones

xW THe giveR 94 minutes | nickelodeon + clarks pond cinemagic + saco cinemagic + westbrook cinemagic + auburn flagship + smitty’s biddeford + smitty’s windham

A winner of the Newbery Medal, Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver (1993) prefigured such publishing juggernauts as The Hunger Games and Divergent with its story of a bland futuristic society in which conformity is valued above all else and a teenage hero learns to question the social order. Incredibly, this screen adaptation is rated PG-13, which means that parents, who will probably find it excruciatingly simpleminded, are cautioned to keep it away from their middle school children, the only viewers who might possibly enjoy it. Jeff Bridges, who spent years trying to bring the book to the screen, plays the title character, a mystical mentor who schools the hero in humanity’s forgotten legacy of physical and emotional violence; Meryl Streep is the chief elder, an ice queen who wants to stop this pair from lousing up their antiseptic Eden.

_J.r. Jones

xW MAgiC in THe MOOnLigHT 98 minutes | nickelodeon + railroad square cinema Woody Allen on autopilot, retreating into the jazz age again for a blunt, listless thesis film about the limits of rationality. An arrogant stage illusionist (Colin Firth) is hired to discredit a fake mystic (Emma Stone) but soon falls under her spell; the story takes place in the late 1920s and most of the action transpires at an estate on the French Riviera, so there are good tunes and lovely scenery to distract one from the tossed-off script. As usual the writer-director has attracted a strong cast (including Marcia Gay Harden, Jacki Weaver, Simon McBurney, and Eileen Atkins), though I’m sure most actors understand by now that making a movie with him is like playing the lotto. Better luck next time.

_J.r. Jones

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183 County Rd, Westbrook | 207.774.3456

and So It GoES | 11:45 am, 2, 4:30 tHE EXPEndaBlES 3 | 12:20, 3:20, 6:45, 9:35

GEt on UP | 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:30 tHE GIVEr | 11:50 am, 2:10, 4:40,

7:20, 9:45

GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY | noon, 12:15, 3:15, 3:30, 6:30, 6:45, 9:15, 9:30

HErCUlES | 7:10, 9:45 HoW to traIn YoUr draGon 2 | 11:40 am, 2:10, 4:30

tHE HUndrEd Foot JoUrnEY |

tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES

| 11:50 am, 12:20, 2:10, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50

tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES 3d | 3:40, 7, 9:30 tranSForMErS: aGE oF EXtInCtIon | 2:30, 9 22 JUMP StrEEt | 6:50, 9:40

MaInE alaMo tHEatrE 85 Main St, Bucksport | 207.469.0924

daWn oF tHE PlanEt oF tHE aPES | Fri-Sat: 7:30 | Sun: 2

aUBUrn FlaGSHIP 10

746 Center St, Auburn | 207.786.8605

tHE EXPEndaBlES 3 | 12:50, 3:50,

tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES | 1, 4, 6:45, 9:05

tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES 3d | noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7:20, 9:40

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

GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY + Into tHE StorM | 8:15 lEt’S BE CoPS + lUCY| 8:15

ColonIal tHEatrE

163 High St, Belfast | 207.338.1930

GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY | Fri: 5:30, 8 | Sat: 1:45, 5:30, 8 | Sun: 1:45, 7 | Mon-Tue: 7 | Wed: 4:30, 7 | Thu: 7 Into tHE StorM | Fri: 5:55, 8:10 | Sat: 2:15, 5:55, 8:10 | Sun: 2, 7:15 | Mon-Tue: 7:15 | Wed: 4:55, 7:15 | Thu: 8

tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES

| Fri: 5:40, 7:45 | Sat: 2, 5:40, 7:45 | Sun: 2, 6:50 | Mon-Tue: 6:50 | Wed: 4:40, 6:50 | Thu: 6:50

EVEnInGStar CInEMa

Tontine Mall, 149 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.729.5486

a MoSt WantEd Man | Fri-Sat:

7, 9:45

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

9:30

FrontIEr CInEMa

tHE GIVEr | 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 7:15, GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY | 12:20, 3:40, 6:50, 9:30

GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY 3d | 1:30, 8

HErCUlES | 4:15

14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222

FIndInG FEla | Tue: 2, 5, 8 | Wed: 2, 5 | Thu: 2, 5, 8 lIFE ItSElF | Fri-Sun: 2, 5, 8

HarBor tHEatrE

185 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | 207.633.0438

JErSEY BoYS | Wed-Thu: 7 a MoSt WantEd Man | Fri-Tue: 7 | Sun: 3, 7

lEWISton FlaGSHIP 10

855 Lisbon St, Lewiston | 207.777.5010

daWn oF tHE PlanEt oF tHE aPES | 1, 4, 7:10 EartH to ECHo | 1:30, 3:40 GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY | 1, 3:50, 7

HErCUlES | 1:15, 3:45, 7:45 lUCY | 1:35, 4:30, 7:30 MalEFICEnt | 1:30, 4:05, 7:15 PlanES: FIrE & rESCUE | 1:45, 4:20, 6:55

tHE PUrGE: anarCHY | 1:50, 4:15, 7:25

taMMY | 7:40 tranSForMErS: aGE oF EXtInCtIon | 6:40

lEaVItt tHEatrE

nordICa tHEatrE

1 Freeport Village Station, Suite 125, Freeport | 207.865.9000 Call for shows & times.

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

raIlroad SQUarE CInEMa 17 Railroad Sq, Waterville | 207.873.6526

rEEl PIZZa CInEraMa 33 Kennebec Place, Bar Harbor | 207.288.3828

tHE Grand SEdUCtIon | Fri-Mon:

Main St, Ogunquit | 207.646.3123 Call for shows & times.

TBA

lInColn tHEatEr

rEGal BrUnSWICK 10

2 Theater St, Damariscotta | 207.563.3424

BBC doCU-draMa: CHUrCHIll’S FIrSt World War | Mon: 7 WordS & PICtUrES | Fri-Thu: 7

tHE MaGIC lantErn

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

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

HErCUlES | Tue-Thu: TBA 19 Gurnet Rd, Brunswick | 207.798.3996 Call for shows & times.

SaCo CInEMaGIC & IMaX

783 Portland Rd, Rte 1, Saco | 207.282.6234

and So It GoES | 4:40 BoYHood | 1, 4:30, 8 tHE EXPEndaBlES 3 | noon, 3:30, 7, 10

tHE GIVEr | 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY | 12:30,

3:30, 6:45, 9:30

GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY IMaX 3d | 1, 3:50, 7, 9:50 tHE HUndrEd Foot JoUrnEY | 1, 4, 7, 9:40

Into tHE StorM | 12:30, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:30

lUCY | 11:40 am, 2:20, 4:50, 7:10, 9:40 PlanES: FIrE & rESCUE | 11:30 am, 2,

SEX taPE | 7, 9:30 StEP UP all In | 11:40 am, 1:50, 4:10, 7:20, 9:50

tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES | 11:30 am, 1:50, 4:10, 7, 9:20 tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES 3d | noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7:30,

StonInGton oPEra HoUSE

Main St, Stonington | 207.367.2788

taMMY | Fri: 7 | Sat : 6, 8

Strand tHEatrE

345 Main St, Rockland | 207.594.0070

BEGIn aGaIn | Sat: 3, 5:30, 8 | Sun: 3, 5:30 | Mon-Thu: 7

tHIrd PErSon | Fri: 8 | Tue: 1

tHoMaSton FlaGSHIP 10

9 Moody Dr, Thomaston | 207.594.2100 Call for shows & times.

9:50

22 JUMP StrEEt | 11:30 am, 4:40, 10

SaCo drIVE-In tHEatEr

969 Portland Rd, Saco | 207.284.1016

tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES + lUCY | Fri-Sat: 8:15

SMIttY’S CInEMaBIddEFord

420 Alfred St, Five Points Shopping Center, Biddeford | 207.282.2224 Call for shows & times.

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SMIttY’S CInEMaWIndHaM

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28 Chestnut St, Portsmouth | 603.436.9900

VEnUS In FUr | Wed-Thu: 7 WordS & PICtUrES | Fri: 7 | Sun: 4 | Tue-Thu: 7

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_by syMbo line Da i This weekend’s lunar sign is mostly Taurus (Gemini, Sunday evening and beyond). Given that there are five weekends in August (isn’t that exciting? So much more appealing than five weekends in January), summer parties (on the lanai, the fire escape, the porch) should be in full swing— even though the moon is now in its waning phase. And yes, in the spirit of marketing (such a Leo sun concept—that’s what’s happening now, folks), do visit me on Facebook, where I have the “Sally Cragin Astrology” page. Otherwise, write sally@moonsigns.net. I am available for astrological consults and Tarot, with flexible reading hours.

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“any questions?” — save them until the end.

Across 1 Android download 4 Letters from Iwo ___ 8 “dancing Queen” group 12 december danger 13 ivy league sch. 15 scanned pic 17 2013 single from dJ snake and lil Jon 20 nod in unison 21 european high points 22 gardner of The Night of the Iguana 23 garden gastropod 26 cleans (up) 28 home to missoula and Bozeman 31 rolled pair 32 ending after Japan or taiwan 33 long, long ago 38 Baseball family surname 40 “neither snow ___ rain...” 41 it’s a bit of a stretch 42 norah Jones ballad 47 Jack-in-the-box sound 48 Brand that ran “short shorts” ads 1

toon time

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49 “let me clean up first...” 51 speed’s mysterious nemesis, in cartoons 54 taboo act 55 ___ king 56 Best-of-the-best 59 they’re all tied up 63 dr. seuss book made into a 2008 movie 67 Be stealthy 68 Alpaca relative 69 ___ Zeppelin 70 literary Jane 71 Good Will Hunting director gus Van ___ 72 shark’s home 1

thursday august 14

Down 1 Aqua Velva alternative 2 electrical cord’s end 3 sound from a happy cat 4 he plays dr. John Watson 5 stock market debut, briefly 6 sound from a happy kitten 7 oscar winner paquin 8 highly nauseous? 9 company based in munich 10 “one planet” religion 11 plant used to make tequila 14 lombardi trophy awarder 16 hhh, in Athens 18 Fit one inside another 19 Vision-related 24 A as in Argentina 25 “i Will survive” singer gloria 27 like lawns in the morning 28 trapper Keeper maker 29 city bidding for the 2022 Winter olympics 30 “Animal” band ___ trees 31 galapagos islands visitor 34 greet the queen 35 obama 2008 campaign word 36 me-generation concerns 37 grabs some shuteye 39 “___ reader” (alternative digest) 43 drunk singing, often 44 he claimed not to be a crook 45 Abbr. in an employee benefits handbook 46 tugs on 50 ___ lisa 51 Arena shouts 52 lacking a partner 53 Barker’s successor 57 maple leafs, Bruins, et al. 58 squiggly critters 60 night fliers 61 “... i ___ wed” 62 Fizzy drink 64 paving material 65 A step below the majors 66 44-down’s initials

Friday august 15 7

Waning moon in Aries, moon void-of-course 11:50 am until 11:58 am when it moves into taurus. After-lunch hours the next two days bring excellent auguries for banking, or moving funds around (or picking up the pennies that fell on the rug). morning brings fizzing tempers—particularly for libra, scorpio, sagittarius, Aquarius, and capricorn. taurus, leo, Virgo, pisces, gemini, cancer, and Aries: it’s okay to be greedy. 23

saturday august 16

Waning moon in Aries. speed is of the essence, and Aries moons are superb for accelerating activities. Also a period when cancer, libra, capricorn, and scorpio could be short-tempered. Aries, leo, sagittarius, and taurus: take a chance, be brave, and trust your impulses. gemini, Virgo, pisces, and Aquarius: others may complicate the story, but you can cut to the chase—and others love you for it.

Waning moon in taurus. this moon brings an affinity for vocal music and a taste for luxury. taurus moons are fancy, and it might be easy to have more dessert than you planned! some may need reassurance (particularly leo, scorpio, Aquarius, sagittarius, and libra). Aries, gemini, pisces, taurus, cancer, capricorn, and Virgo: your taste is on-target—so is your endurance. 24

sunday august 17 9

last quarter moon in taurus, moon void-of-course 8:26 am until 6:21 pm. A turning point for events that began on or around July 26. or should have begun. taurus moons are excellent for shopping or money management and pisces, Aries, taurus, gemini, and cancer could be avid consumers. leo, Aquarius, and scorpio could be touchy today and tomorrow—handle with care! 25

Monday august 18 10

Waning moon in gemini. personally, i love it when the week begins with an air or fire sign moon. it’s much easier to get people excited about projects, or to reach those you need to (why—with Facebook, email, texting, phone calls, is anyone out of reach ever?!) however, some could be fussier than they think they are (“i’m not mad – i’m just explaining…”) such as sagittarius, Virgo, pisces, cancer, and taurus. 26

tuesday august 19 11

Waning moon in gemini, moon void-of-course 10:54 pm until 4:45 am Wednesday. phone calls and other brief communications take center-stage—it’s a fine day for clearing the air and being straightforward about details. conversation is lively and covers a wide range of topics. Aries, taurus, gemini, cancer, leo, Aquarius, and libra could have tender connections with loved ones, while Virgo, sagittarius, and pisces could get caught up in delaying. 27

Wednesday august 20 12

Waning moon in cancer. From now until August 25, the waning moon cycle is in play, so avoid starting projects, or “overcomplicating” items you’re working on. cancer moons are excellent for the domestic arts, and taurus, gemini, cancer, leo, Virgo, scorpio, and pisces will be sensitive and insightful. libra, Aries, and capricorn could be forthright, yet not graceful, and damned if people don’t notice that slip in your stride. 28

Moon Keys

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