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this Just in

“There’s more to this story than what we’re being told by the governor’s office. I think Maine people deserve to know the truth here.”

_Alan Caron, Envision Maine

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Imagine for a moment you’ve been tapped to run Maine’s top nonprofit that funds startups. In any other state, and under any other governor, you’d be given the autonomy to run the organization the way you think it should be run—that’s why you were hired, and you have the track record and credentials that warrant being treated like a professional. The sudden dismissal of Robert Martin, director of the Maine Technology Institute (MTI), raises questions and red flags about just how much autonomy Martin may have been given as the head of the nonprofit. Of course, like other previous members in the administration of Paul LePage, Martin may have strayed too far from the company line, or the governor’s need to micromanage, and was shown the door. Martin, who succeeded Director Betsy Biemann in 2012 at the helm of MTI, was fired by LePage two weeks ago. And like in Biemann’s case two years ago, the circumstances of his departure are somewhat cloudy. By every account, the work of Martin at MTI was exemplary. “I was surprised to hear it,” said Nat Henshaw, manager of CEI Ventures. “From

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my perspective (I’m not on the MTI board or anything), Betsy and Bob had done a good job, but I’m not close to the matter—I don’t really know what happened.” That was similar to Alan Caron’s reaction to the firing. Caron, who heads up Envision Maine, was slated to meet with Martin the morning that he was fired. “It came as a total surprise,” said Caron. “One day Bob was at the helm and the next, he was gone.” “There’s more to this story than what we’re being told by the governor’s office,” added Caron. “I think Maine people deserve to know the truth here, and we’re going to continue pursuing it.” CEI Ventures, with an office on Portland’s waterfront, oversees several venture capital funds based in Maine. Henshaw spoke about MTI’s activities in Maine, especially around early stage development. “I think they do a wonderful job (providing capital),” said Henshaw. “They seed the infant stage of a business’s development,” he said. “They are dealing with the hardest dollars for companies to get, as it relates to R&D.” In terms of startups, Henshaw

mentioned that MTI helps companies get to that next funding stage in their evolution. “They help seed entrepreneurs and get them to the next stage, where we (CEI) come in, or it might be the Maine Venture Fund, or Maine Angels, or some other venture group,” he said. In a state struggling with job creation and the transition from the 20th to 21st century, Maine’s entrepreneurial push is important to the state’s future growth. The problem for most early stage entrepreneurs is startup capital and getting their idea, product, or service to the next stage, where venture and angel funders can step in. For new entrepreneurs like Joel Alex, MTI’s funding has been the difference between merely having a great idea and being able to put that idea into action—in his case, Blue Ox Malthouse, which is Maine’s first commercial malthouse, serving as a catalyst for fostering the relationship between farmers, brewers, and other food producers. “Most of my funding’s come through MTI grants—this has allowed me the capitalization I’ve needed to get my idea to this next stage,” said Alex. “MTI has allowed me access to programs like Top Gun (he received a scholarship to attend), which connected me with the content, helped me develop necessary skills, and also, access the network that I’ve needed to connect with to succeed,” he added. MTI isn’t just about startups, either. They also help established companies that are looking to grow and finance process innovations, such as new products and new lines of business. CEI Ventures’ Henshaw indicated that MTI’s role has been particularly important in this area, especially for those companies that have struggled to find capital for expansion and growth. MTI is an industry-led, publiclyfunded nonprofit corporation, offering early-stage capital, commercialization assistance, and R&D support for new

products. It appears to have remained faithful to the mission inherent in its bipartisan founding in 1999. MTI’s director reports to a board of directors, which is appointed by Maine’s governor. MTI has invested more than $178 million in more than 1,500 companies, across seven key industry sectors, designed to stimulate and promote economic growth statewide. In July, Inc. Magazine lauded MTI’s development loan for startup tech companies as one of the nation’s “secret weapons for tech startups” and an example of one type of economic development incentive that actually works. These loans that can range upwards to $500,000 are offered three times a year, and support research and development of new and/or enhanced products, processes, or services leading to commercialization. LePage spokeswoman Adrienne Bennett refused to make any additional comment when called Monday morning, referring to the statement issued two weeks ago to the press, which characterized Martin’s departure as “a personnel matter.” When pressed on the issue in terms of whether there were specific personnel policies that Martin violated, Bennett said, “That’s all I’m going to be able to tell you on that matter.” Interestingly, Maine Economic and Community Development Commissioner, George Gervais, followed up with a phone call to this reporter around lunch time, offering to clarify what he termed as a mischaracterization of Martin’s dismissal as a “firing.” He also stated that he couldn’t comment on specifics because it was a “personnel matter.” When it was mentioned that other media outlets had used the term, “firing,” Gervais agreed that it had indeed been portrayed that way in the press. “Robert Martin was nearing the end of his two years. We decided not to renew his term,” said Gervais. When asked about Biemann who had served for more than five years prior to Marin, Gervais indicated that she had served “multiple terms.” “I want to be clear on this that the governor is committed to MTI and recognizes its importance to the state, especially in the commercialization of new businesses,” said Gervais. MTI has supported startups and entrepreneurs for 15 years—an argument can be made that this success is due in no small part to remaining free of political interference and whatever agenda or ideology the current administration happens to hold.

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politics + other mistakes Look out, Cleveland Eric Brakey is an energetic guy. But as an admirer of sloth, I have intense disdain for the excessively active. Even so, I’ll try to be objective in assessing Brakey’s chances this November of winning a state Senate seat representing Auburn, Minot, Mechanic Falls, Poland, and New Gloucester. That contest could be crucial in deciding control of the Senate. But before we get to the boring political stuff, let’s deal with that energetic thing. Brakey, 26, first came to public notice as one of the Ron Paul insurgents who hijacked the 2012 Republican state convention. As Maine director of Paul’s presidential campaign, he helped elect a renegade slate of Paul delegates, including himself, to the GOP national convention. The Republican establishment eventually got the upstarts thrown out for violating an obscure rule against excessive peppiness. But Brakey had established himself as a force to be reckoned with—if one doesn’t find reckoning to be overly tiring. Brakey, who listed his occupation at the time as professional actor, next turned up in a 2013 YouTube video dressed only in a Speedo and dancing manically. It was circulated by one of his enemies in the GOP in an effort to show he was (I’m not making this up) demonically possessed. But it turned out the footage was merely outtakes from a TV spot for a vitamin drink. Brakey told the Portland Press Herald, “It shows that I’m a full human being with more experience than just working in politics…It shows that I’m not just a career politician.” It turns out the phrase “career politician” is Brakey’s favorite epithet. In a video announcing his Senate candidacy, he used it at least

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once every 45 seconds. By the time that campaign footage was posted on his website, Brakey was no longer referring to himself as an actor. He was now a “Financial Record Keeper” for his family’s business, Brakey Energy. Never heard of it? That could be because the company only operates in Ohio (where, among other services, it advises corporations on ways to avoid energy efficiency standards). The commute from Auburn to Shaker Heights would probably exhaust a less robust individual. But there’s no way someone as full of vim and vigor as Brakey would entirely forsake acting. According to his website, he’s involved in community theater in his spare time. Of which there can’t be much, since he’s also a Big Brother, volunteers to teach computer science to home-schooled students, helps old ladies across the street, and provides vitamin water to the unhealthy. As if that weren’t enough, he heads up the libertarian Defense of Liberty political action committee (funded by Linda Bean of lobster-roll fame and members of his family), which recently gave more than half of the Legislature—mostly Democrats—a grade of “F” or the even-worse label of being a “constitutional threat.” Among the PAC’s goals are making gold and silver legal tender and halting the implementation of the United Nation’s dreaded Agenda 21. Brakey is running against Democratic state Senator John Cleveland of Auburn—who, by any rational assessment, would be considered a heavy favorite for re-election. Dems have a solid edge in voter registration in the district, and the only Republican to win here in recent memory, Lois Snowe-Mello, did so only because her opponents made concerted

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efforts to screw up. Cleveland is a former mayor and veteran legislator (which seems to meet Brakey’s definition of “career politician”), who runs a community and economic development consulting company. Right now, Cleveland isn’t on the donkey party’s list of senators facing tough fights to hang on to their seats, such as James Boyle of Gorham, Geoffrey Gratwick of Bangor, and Christopher Johnson of Somerville. “I am certainly not putting it past Cleveland to get outworked,” a prominent Democrat told me, “but I believe he won by well over a thousand votes last time. Let’s put it this way, if Brakey wins that seat, Dems will have much bigger things to worry about than simply being in the minority in the Senate.” Here’s a worry for Democrats. Of late, Cleveland has been getting hammered in the conservative media over an invoice he sent to the town of Poland for work he did sorting out a couple of co-mingled taxincrement-financing accounts. According to news stories, he charged nearly twice the original estimate, almost $13,000, prompting the selectmen to refuse to pay. The issues involved are convoluted, but there’s little doubt Cleveland has, to date, been widely portrayed as the villain. Whether someone as flakey as Brakey can capitalize on Cleveland’s public embarrassment remains to be seen. Beating an incumbent legislator takes more than just expending a lot of energy or promising to pay your debts in gold and silver. It takes focus, political smarts, and the ability to rally people to a cause with far less popular appeal than vitamin water. ^

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REFRESHING THE MEDIA fall-too-familiar position: holding my phone about three inches

on saturday night, i couldn’t sleep. i soon found myself in that

from my nose, my face bathed in blue light, my thumb scrolling through twitter. my feed was consumed by one thing: what was going down in Ferguson, the poor suburb of st. louis, missouri, where an unarmed young black man was shot six times and killed August 9. now, it was about 12:45 am on August 17 (technically sunday morning), and those who were still in the street in Ferguson were being informed by police over a loudspeaker: “You are violating a state-imposed curfew. You must disperse or you will be subject to arrest or other actions.” minutes later, shots were heard, tear gas and smoke bombs were fired at the crowd. refresh feed. refresh feed. refresh feed. i wasn’t alone, particularly in those first few days, in getting most of my news about what was happening in Ferguson from twitter. in fact, that has been one piece of the larger narrative around this week’s events—how twitter amplified the voices of protesters and citizen journalists, sounding an alarm to which the mainstream media and elected officials groggily responded. even when the so-called “real reporters” arrived on the scene, their updates were more valuable as part of the crowdsourced feed than as polished prose the next morning. of course, the fact that professional journalists Wesley lowery (for the Washington Post) and ryan reilly (Huffington Post) went and got themselves arrested for no reason did prove to be valuable in its own right. For better or worse, it was only after that orwellian turn of events that interest in Ferguson really skyrocketed. lowery acknowledged the part he and reilly played in raising the media profile of Ferguson: “it’s a good thing that new and renewed attention has been brought to Ferguson because of our arrest,” he told Politico. “however, it is disappointing that it was our brief detention—as opposed to the unrest, police clashes, and tear gases of monday and tuesday night—that finally caught the attention of the Beltway media.” (or, as chris King, editorial director of the st. Louis american, st. louis’ historically black newspaper, put it: “i get it, but everybody overdid the jailed journalist story.”) subsequent egregious violations of press freedoms against reporters and photographers representing al Jazeera, msnBc, and getty, have further underscored how the police are out of control in Ferguson. here, twitter served its purpose well, allowing observers to watch in real time as video cameras were shut off, reporters had tear gas fired at them, and journalists tweeted about having guns pointed at them. Because twitter is so democratic (at least for those with access to internet and smartphones) and these incidents are such obvious affronts to democracy, the medium was ideally matched to the message. on twitter, the lines between citizen, citizen journalist, and professional journalist are blurred, therefore trampling the rights of one amounts to wronging them all. As has happened in the past, the media has become part of the narrative even as it reports this important story. Bloggers and dead-tree columnists alike opined on the significance of twitter’s role in Ferguson. “twitter still carries a great deal of unverified and sometimes erroneous information, but for all its limitations, it has some very real strengths in today’s media climate,” david carr wrote in the new York Times. “it is a heat map and a window, a place where sometimes the things that are ‘trending’ offer very real insight into the current informational needs of a huge swath of news consumers, some of whom traditional outlets often miss...While much of mainstream media leaves communities of color unmoved—these are audiences that are underrepresented in terms of broadband access as well—twitter is a place many black users rely on for information.” that’s a real problem—if it’s true that “much of mainstream media leaves communities of color unmoved,” shouldn’t those outlets be striving to become more relevant to those communities? this is related to another question i’ve heard people ask over the last few days: once the upheaval in Ferguson has died down, how can we continue the important conversations about race and racism that the events have necessitated? Both traditional news outlets and social media will need to play a big role in keeping the story going, even as it morphs and diffuses. don’t let #Ferguson die. in the wake of michael Brown’s death, hashtag activism has taken on a new form. ^

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finding the words

responding to racism, trauma, and the murder of michael brown in maine _b y n ick sc h r o e d er

day, a development which, while certainly deserving of a place in any would-be trial, its inclusion in the discussion of his Brown’s murder is absurd—it wasn’t even the reason Officer Darren Wilson had stopped him. This invoked a conversation about the politics of respectability—that the release of evidence which implied question marks about Brown’s character would justify that he was shot unjustly, criminally, out of one can only assume racially motivated reasons. Of course, the conflict has had farreaching implications for the freedom of the press, as the dystopian tactics police have used to arrest and otherwise suppress the work of local and national journalists on US soil has only increased the number of eyes tuning in via alternative media from afar (for more on that, read Deirdre Fulton’s “Refreshing the Media” on page 6). As a result, following on-the-ground journalists’ efforts in Ferguson has been critical in the nation’s understanding of the complex, systemically racist dimensions of the riots and rebellion in the area, and the discrepencies in reporting between mainstream media and alternative and independent journalism. Because of all these factors, it might be that there has never been a better, more topical time for an informed discussion about the politics of race in the US.

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In Portland, over a hundred mourners gathered for a vigil in Monument Square on August 14, part of a National Moment of Silence observed in over 80 cities nationwide. For over an hour, participants shared stories, photographs, and descriptions of dozens of victims of racialized murders by US police departments over the last few years—including Brown and Eric Garner, the unarmed Staten Island man who was killed on July 17 after being put in a chokehold by a police officer outside a convenient store, and whose death was captured on video. As more campaigns and events are on the horizon—a national rally titled Hands Up Turn Up Day of Action is scheduled to take place in eight cities the evening of August 20, though an observance in Portland has not been announced—local conversations on the issue are beginning to take shape, in social media, in-person conversations, and, slowly, through organizations. Unlike in Ferguson, Portland has a majority white population—85 percent according to 2010 census data. As many people of color state, such disproportion has the effect of burying serious discussions about the experiences of nonwhites

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Up until the Phoenix went to press on August 19, there were steady reports of what increasingly resembled a war zone in Ferguson, Missouri: heavily militarized police forces throwing canisters of tear gas throughout residential neighborhoods, arresting and firing rubber bullets at civilians on sight. The death of Michael Brown, the 18-year old man who was shot while unarmed by a white police officer in Ferguson on Saturday, August 9, was enough to ignite protests. But the events that have occurred since—arrests and intimidation of journalists; militarization of cops against their fellow citizens; racial biases of mainstream media; and the deployment of tear gas, a chemical weapon banned in international warfare—have brought Ferguson to the forefront of national attention, sparking critical discussions about structural racism, police brutality, and national media throughout the country that don’t seem to be going away soon. As Brown’s death has detonated a powder keg of rebellions and protests throughout the suburban St. Louis region, a startling array of facts have been released in the last week. Some of them tell the story quite well—like how Ferguson is an area with a population 63 percent black, and which employs a police force 94 percent white. More sobering statistics: In Ferguson, 86 percent of all those stopped by police are black, and nearly 93 percent of all arrests. Brown was shot six times while his arms were raised in an act of surrender, as an autopsy released August 17 confirmed. His body was left in the street by police forces for four hours. While the tragedy and its aftermath have occasioned a national conversation that was badly needed, few other developments coming out of the St. Louis suburb can be considered positive. On Thursday, it had seemed that the inclusion of Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol had defanged the situation, walking with the protestors and mollifying their anger with a powerful speech that included, at least symbolically, the appearance of a heartfelt apology on behalf of law enforcement. But by Saturday, Johnson was another one of many cops ordering the arrests of journalists in the region, and later that night the violence as a response to a state-imposed “curfew” escalated higher than it had ever been. In the ten days since his death—each of them, remarkably, filled with protests— national media have gone through several lenses to depict Brown. Police released a video which appeared to link him with a theft at a convenient store earlier in the

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We Can Talk About Ferguson

AnAlYZing the responses And FAllAcies oF the pAst WeeK

Here in Maine our black population is very small. Since exposure is key to understanding, it can be difficult to talk to us about certain things. Recently some of my white, male friends have told me that because I am black they have had a difficult time talking with me about the Ferguson riots. Here are some frequent comments I hear, along with my responses.

race. There absolutely are. What I am saying is that while both class and race have elements that are both corollary and causal to each other, they are separate issues and to conflate the two only distracts from the situation at hand. If you think that sentence was confusing then you’re starting to see my point.

“you’re being paranoid.”

The details of the robbery (including whether there even was one) are still unclear. But even if he robbed the store with a bazooka while laughing the sentence for robbery is not death.

If we tell you something is race-related you can try to understand or you could take us at our word. Do not tell us we are being paranoid. We are not being paranoid. Just as you can know by a look from a significant other that you are in trouble, we know from a look when someone is being racist. I have been pulled over more times than I can remember, but I know that eight of those times have been while I was walking. There was also a time that I found myself surrounded by six police officers questioning me about my actions while I was standing in front of a soda machine (I was buying a soda). This is the common Black American experience. It is something we live with and learn from every day. This does not make us paranoid. It makes us experts. If a doctor gives you a diagnosis, it is based on years of training and experience. If that doctor says you’ve got cancer it’s not because he’s paranoid. Consider the next black person you see to have a PhD in race relations.

“i don’t get the looting.”

Why do you care about the looting? Focus on the dead teenager, the protestors getting shot, and the journalists getting arrested. That’s the important part here. There is probably a guy out there using these riots to justify cheating on his wife. He’s not important either.

“this isn’t about race, it’s about class.”

No. This is about race. This is clear when you see the difference in choice. As minorities we don’t have a choice. If we don’t take to the streets for our rights, we don’t get them. But if you as the majority don’t take to the streets for our rights, you still get to keep yours. We need to be clear on that because we need you on our side. We as minorities can protest all we want, but if we don’t have members of the majority on our side then it might as well be 1989 while we’re standing in Tiananmen Square in front of a tank. I’m not saying there aren’t elements of class involved in

in Maine under dominant, white-centric institutions. It also unfairly lumps the experiences of the many diverse people of color into one amorphous bloc. That white people constitute such an overwhelming majority in the region suggests that any structurally significant conversation on the issue will need to include—if not be initiated by—Portland’s white population. So how does that happen? “So often we see people of color trying to lead this conversation, whether its being facilitators or working within institutions,” said Edwige Charlot. “We need to see people not of color taking ownership of it. It’s time for white people to say what their stake is in this. Charlot, a Portland visual artist (and a past contributor to the Phoenix), says that part of what she struggles with is the perception among Mainers that Ferguson is a world away. She says that Michael Brown’s death has reawakened a collective grief she’s experienced on many occasions throughout her life, such as the shooting of unarmed 17-year old Trayvon Martin in 2012. She struggles with the ways in which people in the Portland community are able and willing to talk about it, in conversation and on social media.

“What about the robbery?”

“it’s possible race Wasn’t even a factor. it could just be police brutality, i mean i don’t see race, so maybe officer darren Wilson doesn’t either.”

Nope. First of all, you do see race. Seeing race doesn’t make you a racist. It makes you a person with working eyes. There is nothing wrong with seeing race. Secondly, you are supposed to see race. Thirdly, you need to see race. If you couldn’t see race then you would lack the ability to differentiate between styles of cultural expression. Kanye West and Billy Ray Cyrus would sound the same to you. Your closet would have equal space for Ecko and Banana Republic. Shaft or A River Runs Through It could fit any mood you might be in on a rainy Sunday night. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley and Tina Fey’s Bossypants would both speak to you equally. This is not the case and it doesn’t make you a klansman. And, frankly, we’re gonna need to move past this if you’re really interested in having a productive conversation. Now, while it is impossible that he didn’t see race, it is very likely that officer Darren Wilson is also not a klansman. It is likely that he was scared. It is likely that he was scared because Michael Brown was black. There continues to be a tremendous fear of black men in this country. This is because of how the media has portrayed us. This is not the media’s fault. The media only gives us what we want. If there is a program on the air and no one watches it, then it goes away immediately. No, the fault is with Americans as a whole. If you watch D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) you can see that this is nothing new. The villainy of the film is miscegenation and the heroes are the KKK. If you think historically it becomes very clear that the problem stems from slavery. Slave owners were

“It’s frustrating to be thinking about Ferguson and see people posting cat videos,” she says. “It’s your turn to pick up the torch here. People of color are tired.” Keita Whitten, LCSW, is a clinician and social worker in South Portland whose work regularly deals with issues of trauma relating to race. She says that while there are enormous distinctions between the lives of present-day Black American descendents of enslaved Africans and newly arrived refugee population, both come to share the burdens of trauma and institutionalized racism in the US. “Once you’re here you’re thrown into this history of racism and what appears to be post-slavery in the US,” she says. “But we’re still not post-slavery. It’s like if we took at the Holocaust, which happened for a decade or less, and magnified it by three or four centuries’ worth of trauma. That’s what we have here.” Whitten says that for her and many other people of color, the Ferguson Riots and have inspired a “numbing” sort of reaction. “Like here we go again,” she says. “I see white Americans who are outraged, and for me, it’s just the continuing wound of that legacy. This outrage, Black Americans are kind of used to it.”

forced to free their slaves. The fear is natural. If you owned a slave and someone else forced you to free him, wouldn’t you not only be angry, but also fear his vengeance? Now understand that there were four million slaves. It is not unreasonable for a white person to be scared of that number of potentially vengeful black people. Now understand that slavery was not that long ago. (I am only 35 and my great grandfather was born a slave.) That fear can be passed down father to son very easily. It can be brought to work. It can be written into public policy. It can be all around you and so close to you that it’s not obviously recognizable as fear anymore. That is called institutionalized racism. It’s not the Klan lynching someone, but in many cases, especially this one, it can have the same result. And just in case you think that excuses, or lessens the impact of, or gives permission for institutionalized racism, it doesn’t. It’s 2014 and we all have computers in our pockets that have complete access to practically all of collected human knowledge. You can learn whatever you want whenever you want. It’s your responsibility to better yourself and there aren’t any more excuses.

“Well, at least things are better than they used to be.”

On April 4, 1968, my father got off a train to have a cigarette somewhere in Ohio. He was immediately arrested without being told why. As he was literally thrown in jail he noticed that the jail was not only full, but that everyone in it was black. When he asked why they were all there he was told because Martin Luther King, Jr. had just been assassinated and the white people were scared that there would be a race riot. When he moved to a small town in Maine a little more than 30 years ago, someone drove by the house in the middle of the night and shot out one of the windows. He still hasn’t replaced it. When I was a kid I used to get chased home by a bunch of kids throwing rocks and yelling nigger. Now that I’m 6’ 2” and 200 lbs., that doesn’t really happen too much anymore. Michael Brown was 6’ 4”. Just because things are different doesn’t mean they’re better, but if you want things to get better, and I’m certain that you do, we’re gonna have to talk about it. You’re gonna make mistakes. We probably will, too. That’s fine. Nobody’s perfect.

A YOUNG MICHAEL BROWN one of many circulated images of the victim in ferguson.

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Alain Nahimana, a coordinator with the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition, fears what he sees as a connection between the culture and rhetoric that inspired a situation like that in Ferguson with the language in which people of color are regarded in Maine. “The event is a reminder to us all of what hate can bring, and what can happen to poor and marginalized people within the communities here,” Nahimana says. He believes it’s present “when you listen to people’s comments on immigrants, or in the language of the policies of Governor LePage; how it’s used in a dehumanizing way—illegals and stuff like that. You just hope it doesn’t spread into communities.” Nahimana says that discussions about Ferguson haven’t reached an organizational level within the MIRC, or the Burundi Community Association of which he is the elected president, but it’s been an ongoing talking point in social conversations. He also had discussions about larger organizational efforts to integrate the refugee populations and AfricanAmericans in greater Portland, to help “integrate those communities economically and socially.”

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While Whitten’s day-to-day experience as a Black American and Nahimama’s as a Burundian immigrant have enormous differences, their position as a cultural other is perpetuated by the national media. A mother of two adult boys aged 18 and 25 (who also live in Maine), she says it’s very important that young people of color be taught about institutionalized racism and its effects, and works with people daily about maintaining a “healthy racial identity in the midst of the history of trauma.” “I’m working with young black boys who are constantly being targeted in their schools. Racial profiling is affecting their affect,” Whitten says. She believes it’s important to tell them that “racial disparity is not going to go away. You do have to watch when you walk down the street or when you date a white girl. Teachers are going to profile you. “What’s wrong is when deny our kids that, because then they’re in a schizophrenic state. We should say this is the truth.” Virginia Dearani, a founder and director of the One Tree Wholistic Learning Center

echoes the sentiment that portrayals by national media too often serve to perpetuate dangers on young people of color, a dynamic that has been widely on display in the ten days since Brown was killed. “What we see on TV about African Americans in the South, there is a lot of violence, but no good side,” he says. “As a parent of a 16-year old who will go to college soon, that is something I think about,” he says. “We try to talk to them, just sharing what we see on TV, and educating them that they might be separated because of their behavior.” “Young people (in Maine) don’t have resources,” Whitten says. “There are different men’s groups in Maine, but there are no men’s groups targeting young black experience in Portland. So instead we get Sudanese, Somali, and African American populations—all they get is BET propaganda. They walk around emulating the thug.” For Whitten, the death of Michael Brown is another reminder of an omnipresent worry for her sons’ safety. She describes one of her sons having experienced

“Young people (of color) in Maine don’t have resources. All they get is BET propaganda.” in South Portland, agrees that support for young people of color is lacking in the area. “You see some public school teachers do that within the curriculum, but I think the resources for having folks intentionally go in and facilitate dialogues around racism and how it plays out are limited.” Dearani founded One Tree in 2005 as a private, nonprofit educational institution that facilitates dialogues around “antioppression issues—race, class, and sexual orientation,” and how they’re portrayed in the media. Throughout the year, One Tree has distinct programs for youth from ages 3 to 14, while Dearani also teaches programs for early childhood educators about issues of racism, classism, and white privilege. For the youth in her summer programs, aged 3-5, Ferguson is not on their radar (“thankfully,” she adds), but she hopes to facilitate “a more intentional dialogue” with parents and educators that deals with some of the issues in the fall. But despite the efforts of those like Dearani, race education and support might not be reaching youth when they need it the most. Dagas Rugaba, President of the Rwandese Community Association and a Portland resident for 14 years,

a fundamental change once he entered the 11th grade, a response to what she describes as the structuralized elements of racism and trauma. “Before, he was (considered) cute, handsome,” she says. “Now he’s a threat. This is why a lot of young black men walk around with an I-don’t-give-a-fuck attitude, because that hurts.” In the past week, people in America have dissected many images of Michael Brown taken in the years before his death. There’s the one of him wearing a basketball jersey, blank-faced and flashing a peace sign. There’s the one of a youthful, full-cheeked Brown wearing headphones, with kindly wary eyes. And there are the grainy stills from the convenient store security video taken on the day of Brown’s death, which (allegedly) depicts him in a series of seemingly intimidating postures in his theft of cigarillos. In them, it’s possible to see the change that Whitten describes—a reserved, handsome boy adopting the affects of a different sort of young man. In Ferguson as in Portland, the questions and protests raised by Michael Brown’s death may be difficult and met with opposition, but they’re absolutely worth the effort. ^

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saturday 23 OMG OMG OMG | Do you like cats?

f inTeRneT CaT ViDeo FesTiVaL anD FaiR, at the Farnsworth Art Museum, in Rockland on Aug 23. thursday 21 STARBOARD BASS | Following up on last weeks article about the shifting dance scene in Portland, it is only fitting that we highlight what is probably going to be the most boat-shaking event that Casablanca Cruises has this year: the “Booty Trap Boat Party” featuring DJ Don Damiani, Che Ros and other villains of dance. They are gifted producers with a keen eye to creating a consensually freaky space (check the “Floor Report” by Nick Schroeder in last week’s August 15 issue), and hopefully no marine life will be disturbed by that 808 kick. Ask them to slow down, grab the wall—Jaeger and Dramamine was a bad choice—and then wiggle as if your ass were about to fall off. $15-18; 7 pm. Leaving from 18 Custom House Wharf. 207.831.1324. WILKOMMEN | Unnh! The dance just won’t quit! Except, this time it’s just for watching. Mad Horse Theater Company brings the sexyside of the Weimar Republic to South Portland with Christopher Isherwood’s CaBaReT. Summer prime time for musicals and longtime Portland directorTK, Raymond Dumont leads Sally

Bowles and the ensemble through all the sizzle and sarcasm of preWWII Germany under the shadow of a looming evil. (Fascism! Nazis!) Tickets are $20, $18 for students/ seniors. 24 Mosher St., South Portland. 207.747.4148. NOT BEING UNPOPULAR | Creator of the ever-popular and inspiring Amelia Rules! comic series JimmY GoWnLeY arrives at the Portland Public Library for a talk at 2 pm. The great thing about writing about late-childhood is that (most) everyone has been through that particular gauntlet. Loveable and inspiring Amelia has the wit and emotional resilience to navigate her parents divorce while being a tween at the same time. Gownley, today, offers anecdotes from his adolescence and path to becoming his own kind of superhero, a successful comic artist. Kids welcome (and get your books signed) at the Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq 207.871.1700.

friday 22 FRAN-TASTIC SOUNDS | There’s a lot of cool people gathered for the Frantasia Festival of Out

Music and Arts this weekend (Thursday through Saturday). This extremely fringe-y and eclectic festival is on its tenth year, and features more genre-defying acts than we can print. Here’s just the smallest taste: there’s the thought-bending, pathos-laden acoustics and vocalizations of aimee noRWiCh, Longfellow Square’s jazz clarinetist (and alleged clown-school dropout) FRank TuRek, the tumbling, cluttered, avant-jazz ambience of BiRD oRGan, and our current staff favorite iD m ThFFT aBLe who manages to obfuscate fully any intent or meaning in his earworminducing “music.” If you’ve ever tried to sample a dial-up modem, or played a song on guitar without touching the strings, these are your people. The bleeding edge congregates in the basement of Livermore Falls’ world class fitness gym, Fitness Stylz. (Incredible). $5-7 suggested donation. 17 Depot St., Livermore Falls. 207.212.6288. GER-MEX | Quick history lesson: during the American Revolution the British contracted German auxiliaries to fight alongside their own troops. The soldiers were primarily from the Hesse region of Germany, and so became known as “Hessians.” Thanks to superior

Following the lead of Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center, the Farnsworth Art Museum has assembled a 72-minute supercut of web-based feline frolicking, and built a whole heartwarming day around it. Behold: the inTeRneT CaT ViDeo FesTiVaL anD FaiR has arrived. The pet-friendly (and free) event will feature food vendors, art activities, a cat costume contest, a cat cuddle booth, a cat adoption center, and most adorably a “stuffed animal M.A.S.H. unit” where people can bring their stuffed animals in for some loving repair. The Farnsworth states that “internet

cat videos are doing many of the things compelling art should: raising questions, challenging assumptions, surprising people and—in the case of this festival—creating a real, multisensory experience.” That might be a bit much, but frankly we don’t care, we’re too busy rolling on the floor from spasm-inducing cuteness (or maybe it’s just the allergies). Festival starts at 5 pm with video screening at 8. 16 Museum St., Rockland. 207.596.6457. WALK IN THE PARK | While traffic gets jammed up around other art events, the folks in the know will stroll or cycle down to Lincoln Park this afternoon. PiCniC arrives again, with 100+ local vendors peddling clothing, jewelry, prints, bags, vintage gear and more. Eat some food, listen to music, and enjoy all that is sun-dappled and beautiful in these last days of summer. Featuring performances from: the enGLish muFFins, seRViCe,

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at 11 am at the intersection of Congress & Pearl Sts. MORE DANCE PLEASE | If your desire for more rhythmic body-talk should prove insatiable, SPACE Gallery might just prove remedy to your malady. New York’s acclaimed DJ JonaThan TouBin hosts the “New York Night Train Soul Clap & Dance Off” spinning the collection of ‘60s soul 45s that has earned him shout-outs from the likes of VICE

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tribulations of a soul struggling to find its twin have inspired many, from Sappho to Shakespeare, Wilde to Willie Nelson. Entering her discourse on the subject (entitled “Play With My Poodle”), is comedian, songstress, and celebrated public figure miss RiChFieLD 1981. Using “color video” and some audience participation, the Provicetown favorite chronicles her follies as she searches for the perfect mate. Our view: Miss Richfield is a hoot (and one hell of a musical saw player). If you’re looking for laughs, don’t miss her northernmost stop at the Music Hall Loft this evening. $40; 8 pm at 131 Congress St., Portsmouth, NH 603.436.2400. BIRD IN WINTER | The Denmark Arts Center presents a screening of Maine-made film BLueBiRD tonight at 7:30 pm. Filmmaker Lance Edmands sets his tale of quiet desperation and deep interpersonal struggle in a snowbound Millinocket both beautiful and chilling in its starkness. A great way, we figure, to prep for the winter that is surely coming. $5 suggested donation. 50 West Main St., Denmark 207.452.2412.

monday 25 NOLA SOUND | There’s something incredibly free and easy about the sound of JessY CaRoLina & The hoT mess. It’s a relaxing, slightly-intoxicated reeling about that brings to mind cocktails being whirled about on a wooden dance floor. Folks who like their jazz in the style of New Orleans shouldn’t miss this. (Fun fact: Jessy and her bandmates contributed music and vocals to the latest BioShock game, so if you’ve spent any time at a console recently, you might just recognize a song or two). The band plays the

Red Door tonight at 9:30 pm, with ian FiTzGeRaLD. 107 State St., Portsmouth, NH. 603.373.6827. WHAT’S IN A NAME | Nestled among the wharves of Commerical St., Andy’s Old Port Pub pulls Portland country/folk-rock act oBLe VaRnum in from the touristy throngs. Upbeat, melodic and with the spaciousness of a Montana (or Presque Isle) sky, Seth Gallant and friends put a very pleasing spin on the new “original country” resurgence. Plus, they do a decent cover of “Dead Flowers” which makes them okay in our book. 7 pm; 94 Commercial St., 207.874.2639.

tuEsday 26 DELICATE MASSIVE | It’s getting

time to check out Colby College’s exhibit Lois DoDD: CuLTiVaTinG Vision before it leaves on Aug 31. While typically known for her vivid oil paintings, this exhibit highlights the artist’s drawings, watercolors, and prints, all previously unavailable to the public. After she left the New York avantgarde circles she became popular with, Dodd found herself fascinated with landscape and figure, two things anathema in the era of Abstract Expressionism. Colby’s assembled collection shows how her lively eye took to the detail and monumental nature of these elements. 10 am to 5 pm (check listings for additional times) at the Colby Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville. 207.859.5600. POST-SLUDGERY | There’s some interesting merit in a one-man metal act. Case-in-point Brooklynbased noisemaker ZVI, who gets a warm welcome at Geno’s tonight. Zvi (aka Ron Varod) has a style borne of countless hours of (very worthwhile) noodling. We hear blendings of Kyle Shutt (The Sword), Kenny Hickey (Type O Negative), and even some of Funkadelic’s Eddie Hazel; all this occasionally descending into an oblique musique concrete, which could honestly just be one of the dude’s pedals malfunctioning. Joining him are Maine-based “experimental shoegazing, post-sludge/doom metal” natives STASIS, and the blisteringly dark,

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David Raymond can make substantive art with very little actual substance. A sculptor, painter, poet, and art writer who has been teaching at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, since 1964, Raymond is showing 21 recent ink on paper drawings at Brunswick’s ICON Contemporary Art. It is yet another superb showing of excellent and thoughtful abstract art at that venue. The drawings combine seemingly irreconcilable approaches, tendencies, and frameworks of reference. They are the progeny of hard-edge painting in their tight arrangements of geometric and organic shapes in a palette limited to five colors at the most. Exploring dynamic tension and equilibrium, the compositions are highly interesting and well-conceived (except the phallic ones). In “Tuned House,” a circular segment teeters on the edge of a vaguely anthropomorphic one (think matryoshka doll), both shapes dissected at the same imaginary line into two colors. The alignment of rounded and angular shapes posits the individual elements as separate yet of one piece as well. Placement of the configurations on the sheet is highly deliberate and important in terms of weight and balance, making them appear monumental on a small scale. The configurations read as flat, not even floating on a background, but rather as accretions, pierced by air (many of his recent sculptures have perforations), without gravity or substance, made of pulsating matter. The undulating shape in “Tuned House” is in fact not hard-edged but rather frayed at the edges. Actually, Raymond’s shapes have no edges. They are built up of nothing but small, incremental marks. Seen from afar, the drawings appear of low-intensity colors and stippled or marbleized with dense and lighter areas. Seen up close, they reveal themselves created in a language of circles, rectangles, ovals, and short parallel lines, and the space between them— simple, yet infinitely suggestive. The linear and circular lacunae are distributed to evoke a multitude of associations from cellular structures to that of the universe, scale remaining ambiguous. Landscape is suggested through topographical patterns but also map-like symbolism. There could be ancient mounds and crop circles, or imagery captured by satellites

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TRIPALDI’S OPEN CASKET DARKENS FOOTLIGHTS _BY MEGAN GR U MBLING Kevin, the man in the closed grey bitchery of Somerville’s Lindsay, and casket, is the catalyst for a series of his drunken renaissance at the hands of familial and sexual triangulations, in Open Charlotte is endearing. Casket, a dramedy about death, lust, and Tripaldi’s script weaves between love by Portland actress and playwright clever and earnest, with some great tellMegan E. Tripaldi. Developed in associaing details; Lindsay, for example, has tion with the Crowbait Club, Portland’s remembered the name of the bereaved monthly workshop for new theater works, family by writing it on her arm. The charOpen Casket now receives its first full proacters’ larger emotional states, on the duction at The Footlights in Falmouth, other hand, are sometimes conveyed via under the direction of Stephanie Ross. exposition-laced monologues and sweepDeceased Kevin was the brother of ing emotional statements, like Charlotte’s Charlotte (Elizabeth Chasse), who adored “I’m not a complete person anymore,” or him, and of Lawrence (Josh Brassard), Lawrence’s elaborate confession—to the who seems more concerned with getting casket—of insecure resentment. a decent cup of coffee than paying his Some of the most revealing moments respects, and whom Charlotte describes are actually wordless or abbreviated: a as “a dick” to his own wife, the long-sufquietly weeping Steph, thinking she’s fering Steph (Victoria Machado). Meanalone, interrupted by Lawrence giving while, sibling strife is perhaps even more his coffee an accusatory slurp behind her; histrionic between the straight-laced Mitchell (Josh Cohen) and his almost preternaturally bitchy sister Lindsay (Beth Somerville), who are watching the family funeral home while their parents are away. Between frank talks, slugs from flasks, and quickies on the embalming table, the assorted siblings and lovers must try to get through this funeral alive. Tripaldi’s premise and Ross’s staging of these funeral home hijinks offer some revealing patterns for characterization, as when each character makes an initial entrance alone into the room with the casket, and we can observe CONFLICTING EMOTIONS Josh Brassard and Elizabeth Chasse their subtle differhash out a scene in Open Casket ences—the quiet, broken heaviness of Charlotte’s approach; the fluttering Lawrence’s fragmented phone conversabreath that Steph catches midstride when tion with his mistress and his quiet “This she sees the casket; Lawrence’s smarmy, might be it,” with a nod toward his fumself-conscious condescension with Steph ing wife off-stage. I would love to see Triand his tight-lipped smile for Charlotte. paldi—who already has a strong sense for These characters are drawn interestcharacter, arc, and the power of the colingly by both playwright and actors, and loquial—work more in such leaps, gaps, make for dynamic constellations. Chasse and silences, and to trust both the actors plays Charlotte nice and low, with a and the audience to intuit the truths of subtle, casual inflection that gives her the unsaid. plenty of room to raise the emotional Tripaldi demonstrates a strong voice octave, while Machado’s tightly-wound with her entertaining dramedy, and the Steph is affecting as she softens into conFootlights is commendable for taking serifidences. Brassard does a bang-up job of ously the programming m.o. of cultivating not only making Lawrence a douchebag, new works by local playwrights like her. but delineating his eventual breakdown Encourage them! Falmouth and the Footfrom rage to vulnerability and finally a lights are but a skip away. ^ grief that cracks wide open. While the awkwardness of Cohen’s Mitchell with Open Casket | by Megan E. Tripaldi; bereaved people is a little curious, conDirected by Stephanie Ross; Produced at the sidering he was raised in the biz, he is Footlights in Falmouth | Through August 24 | humorously annoyed by the meticulous 207.747.5434

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cord, either—a great use of up-stroke in an indie-rock piece. The new set of six tracks picks right up where that left off. “The Sheaver” is bright and sunshiney in the guitars, dripping with reverb, building through a poppy verse-chorus combo before hitting a bridge that’s classic back-and-forth guitar bouncing, string to string. It extends into a guitar solo that’s well-measured and tasteful and eventually splits into two guitars, moving from one channel to the other in a call and response. It’s catchy without being straight pop, mostly thanks to Hart’s off-center vocals (“He said he was 20 / He’d been to rehab / Handsome, reticent / With long curly locks”), which are somewhere between one-time Merge resident Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel) and Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo. In fact, there’s a hook in “Nevermind the Mission” that’ll get you thinking of that sweater song Weezer hit it big with. This tune is faster-paced, though, and without as many nods to the Ramones. Doug Sisko drives it with his bass, walking up into the turnaround and defining the melody, and Hart gets off plenty of good lines that finish by turning Neil Young’s thoughts on burning out and fading away about 90 degrees: “Dreams can screw you so hard / And break your little heart...Better to quit than never start.” Jon York gets off another nice guitar solo here, too, but he’s even better on “Local Loser,” the tune here that will be stuck in your head for a week afterward, thanks to its re-

MEN WITH A MUSE first in maths bring the hooks back to Portland rock music. petitive phrasing, playing on the idea that those of us who care about local music are mostly just suckers. York’s angry peals drive a huge “ahhh-ahhh” bridge that crescendos into a final chorus: “I care too much.” The EP’s second half, though, is where things get really fun. “Singapore” brings in Combat Rock-style funk, with the swagger that defines the Strokes and vamp like Franz Ferdinand. “All Right All Night” is all-of-a-sudden aggressive, with staccato delivery from Hart and a bit of Built to Spill in the guitar interplay. These tunes are way more danceable, wide open and free-wheeling, with drummer Jeff Nutter really driving things with a forward lean. Remember those SPACE shows Phantom Buffalo used to play all the

time? That kind of thing. The album finishes up with a psychedelic coda, “Preble Street,” that’s pretty in an ugly way, something that wouldn’t be out of place on a Jeff Beam record. “I went down to Preble Street / I’m the second coming,” Hart declares amongst a series of lines that rise in the finish, questions and statements at the same time. Which is, of course, overstating matters. First in Maths aren’t the second coming. But they’re the best new rock band I’ve heard in Portland in a while. ^

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it’ll take a break-up to realize it, but the city is going to miss AWAAS, who experimented in more subgenres and played with more intensity and conviction than most artists do over severaldecade careers. As is often the case with those you have to see to believe, their biography is a hard one to write; as a final statement, It’s Great Dying is fittingly hard to pin down. its hybrid of metal, post-rock, and electronica plays like a desultory collection of ideas—at turns devotional and obsessive; excellent and experimental. While starting as a minimalist guitar-anddrums duo, in recent years AWAAs has swelled into a four-piece (five if you count sometimesvocalist Bridgette isabella semler), so it’s strange that the 12-track, one-hour-long swansong It’s Great Dying feels more than ever like a solo project of frontman Zack howard. two of its first three songs make this clear, inviting the listener to burrow into hypnotic twirls of delirious, often

tediously murky electronica. it’s rock where they work best. For all their incantations and insurrectional rhetoric, AWAAs’ politics have always been a little incoherent. But it hardly matters—in a world where imagine dragons sounding kinda like Fugazi is just about the closest mainstream rock gets to subversive content, then a post-punk band getting muddy with political aesthetics is hardly a crime. While their first ep contained lines that seemed like calls for genuine resistance against organized oppression, the bulk of It’s Great Dying succumbs to the seductions of love, the self, and their infinite reflections and rabbit-holes. the writing is still good, but a lot of its significance is irretrievable within howard’s psychological weeds. in the band’s early days, howard would routinely inquire between songs if the audience could hear his words; now, lines like “i am your abyss / we are big fun / standing on the shoulders / of forgetfulness” are barely discernible behind

the walls of vocal effects and guitar histrionics. it’s fine, but it’d be a stretch to say AWAAs are the outwardly political band they once were. thankfully, the band they’ve become—or bands, you might say—are often really good, and still plenty meaningful. newcomers noah defilippis and sean hadley, on synths and bass, add dimen-

sions to the sound that the previous incarnation could never approach. it’s to their credit that AWAAs leverage it in several different directions, from the witch-house act on “diamond Bullet,” a mogwai-ish post-rock march on “Big Fun,” the chilly shoegaze beauty of “instrumental iV,” and at their most compellingly powerful on tracks like the monolithic “no metaphor,” which fuses all in a sustained, six-minute flourish. it’s one of many songs that, in a world not too far off, AWAAs might be playing in front of thousands in an arena. instead, the band will play out the last moments of their life like thousands in maine folklore before them: on a boat, far off at sea, shouting desperately at a world that too seldom bothered to listen. ^

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

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

”PORTLAND COMEDY SHOWCASE” PERFORMERS TBA | 8 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | 207.773.7210

THURSDAY 28

AMY SCHUMER | 8 pm | Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $54-60 | 603.929.4100

CONCERTS CLASSICAL 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

FRIDAY 22

”FESTIVAL CONCERT PROGRAM 9: BRAHMS, SCHUMANN” | Fri 7:30

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

”SHERLOCK, JR.,” CHAMBER ENSEMBLE | 9 pm | Bay Chamber

Concerts, Union Hall, 24 Center St, Rockport | $35 | 207.236.2823 or baychamberconcerts.org

SUNDAY 24

”FESTIVAL CONCERT PROGRAM 9: BRAHMS, SCHUMANN” | See listing

for Fri

TUESDAY 26

BAROQUE ORCHESTRA OF MAINE | 7 pm | Stonington Opera House, Burnt Cove Church, 17 Airport Rd, Stonington | 207.367.2788 or operahousearts. org

POPULAR THURSDAY 21

BIP & BOP | 6 pm | Congress Square Park, Corner of Congress and High Sts, Portland

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 | Thurs-Sat | Litchfield Fairgrounds, 44 Plains Rd, Litchfield | $15-30 per night/$80 weekend

”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 BOB MILNE | 7:30 pm | Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | 207.633.6855

Richard Estes’ Final weeks!

Through September 7, 2014 Visit the world of Richard Estes, American Photorealism’s foremost painter.

(207) 775-6148 | portlandmuseum.org

#RichardEstes

$5 surcharge; free for PMA members

DAUGHTRY + GOO GOO DOLLS + PLAIN WHITE T’S | 6:30 pm | Bank

WAYLON SPEED + MALLETT BROTHERS BAND | 8 pm | Camden

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

FRIDAY 22

”ADVENTURES IN JAZZ” | 6 pm | Bay Chamber Concerts, Union Hall, 24 Center St, Rockport | $10-45 | 207.236.2823 or baychamberconcerts. org

BLISTERED FINGERS FAMILY BLUEGRASS MUSIC FESTIVAL | See listing for Thurs

RUTHIE FOSTER | 8 pm | Stone Moun-

tain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $30 | 207.935.7292 GIBSON BROTHERS | 8 pm | Center Theatre, 20 East Main St, Dover Foxcroft | $25-30 | 207.564.8943 or centertheatre.org BOBBI LANE | 6 pm | Waterfront Concert Series, Ellsworth Harbor Park, Union River Gazebo, Ellsworth | 207.667.9500 MARTINS | 7 pm | Seaside Pavilion, 8 Sixth St, Old Orchard Beach | $14-19 | 888.718.4253 MODEL AIRPLANE | 9 pm | Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $10-12 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall.com ALANIS MORISSETTE | 8 pm | Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $45-90 | 603.929.4100 TAJ MAHAL | 7 pm | Prescott Park, Marcy St, Portsmouth, NH | $8-10 sugg. donation TARTAN TERRORS | 7:30 pm | Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | $22-27 | 207.633.6855 BEN VEREEN | 8 pm | Great Waters Music Festival, Kingswood Arts Center, 21 McManus Rd, Wolfeboro, NH | $30-60 | 603.569.7710

SATURDAY 23

BLISTERED FINGERS FAMILY BLUEGRASS MUSIC FESTIVAL | See listing for Thurs

BLUE HIGHWAY | 7:30 pm | Op-

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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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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 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 BENCH BAR AND GRILL | 207.582.4277 | 418 Water St, Gardiner 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 BLUE | 207.774.4111 | 650A Congress St, Portland BLUE MERMAID | 603.427.2583 | 409 The Hill, Portsmouth, NH BLUE MOON LOUNGE | 207.858.5849 | 24 Court St, Skowhegan BRAY’S BREWPUB | 207.693.6806 | Rte 302 and Rte 35, Naples BRIAN BORU | 207.780.1506 | 57 Center St, Portland BRITISH BEER COMPANY | 603.501.0515 | 2 Portwalk Place, Portsmouth, NH

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

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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

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CHEBEAGUE ISLAND INN | 207.846.5155 | 61 S Rd, Chebeague Island CHOP SHOP PUB | 603.760.7706 | 920 Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH CLUB TEXAS | 207.784.7785 | 150 Center St, Auburn COLE FARMS | 207.657.4714 | 64 Lewiston Rd, Gray CREMA COFFEE COMPANY | | 9 Commercial St, Portland DANIEL STREET TAVERN | 603.430.1011 | 111 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH DOBRA TEA | 207.370.1890 | 151 Middle St, Portland THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | 207.772.5483 | 128 Free St, Portland DOVER BRICK HOUSE | 603.749.3838 | 2 Orchard St, Dover, NH EASY 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 GINZA TOWN | 207.878.9993 | 1053 Forest Ave, Portland GOVERNOR’S INN | 603.332.0107 | 78 Wakefield St, Rochester, NH THE GREEN ROOM | 207.490.5798 | 898 Main St, Sanford GRITTY MCDUFF’S | 207.772.2739 | 396 Fore St, Portland 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

207.288.2766 | 119 Main St, Bar Harbor

HIGHLANDS COFFEE HOUSE | 207.354.4162 | 189 Main St, Thomaston 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

603.750.4002 | 446 Central Ave, Dover, NH CENTRAL WAVE | 603.742.9283 | 368 Central Ave, Dover, NH CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | 207.282.7900 | 15 Thornton St, Biddeford CHAPS SALOON | 207.347.1101 | 1301 Long Plains Rd, Buxton CHARLAMAGNE’S | 207.242.2711 | 228 Water St, Augusta

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

rell Rd, Kittery Point

CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN |

207.336.2126 | 371 Turner St, Buckfield

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

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

CARMEN VERANDAH |

CARTELLI’S BAR AND GRILL |

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

KERRYMEN PUB | 207.282.7425 | 512

PROFENNO’S | 207.856.0011 | 934

KJ’S SPORTS BAR | 603.659.2329 |

PUBLIC HOUSE AND PROHIBITION MUSIC ROOM | 603.948.1082 | 45 N

Main St, Saco

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 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 MAINE STREET | 207.646.5101 | 195 Maine St, Ogunquit MAINELY BREWS | 207.873.2457 | 1 Post Office Sq, Waterville MAMA’S CROWBAR | 207.773.9230 | 189 Congress St, Portland MARK’S PLACE | 207.899.3333 | 416 Fore St, Portland MATHEW’S PUB | 207.253.1812 | 133 Free St, Portland MAXWELL’S PUB | 207.646.2345 | 243 Main St, Ogunquit MAYO STREET ARTS | 207.615.3609 | 10 Mayo St, Portland MCSEAGULL’S | 207.633.5900 | Gulf Dock, Boothbay Harbor MEG PERRY CENTER | 207.619.4206 | 36 Market St, Portland MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | 207.642.3363 | 35 Blake Rd, Standish MILLIE’S TAVERN | 603.967.4777 | 17 L St, Hampton, NH MINE OYSTER | 207.633.6616 | 16 Wharf St, Pier 1, Boothbay Harbor MJ’S WINE BAR | 207.653.6278 | 1 City Center, Portland MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | 207.443.6563 | Rte 1, Woolwich MOOSE ALLEY | 207.864.9955 | 2809 Main St, Rangeley MR. GOODBAR | 207.934.9100 | 8B West Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach MYRTLE STREET TAVERN | 207.596.6250 | 12 Myrtle St, Rockland NARAL’S EXPERIENCE ARABIA | 207.344.3201 | 34 Court St, Auburn NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | 207.907.4380 | 56 Main St, Bangor NONANTUM RESORT | 207.967.4050 | 95 Ocean Ave, Kennebunkport THE OAK AND THE AX | | 140 Main St, Ste 107-Back Alley, Biddeford 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 ORCHARD STREET CHOP SHOP | 603.749.0006 | 1 Orchard St, Dover, NH OTTO | 207.773.7099 | 574-6 Congress St, Portland PADDY MURPHY’S | 207.945.6800 | 26 Main St, Bangor PEARL | 207.653.8486 | 444 Fore St, Portland PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | 207.783.6200 | 134 Main St, Lewiston PEDRO’S | 207.967.5544 | 181 Port Rd, Kennebunk PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | 207.941.8805 | 14 Larkin St, Bangor 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 LOBSTER CO | 207.775.2112 | 180 Commercial St, Portland PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | 603.430.8582 | 64 Market St, Portsmouth, NH PRESS ROOM | 603.431.5186 | 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH

Main St, Westbrook

Main St, Rochester, NH 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 THE RED DOOR | 603.373.6827 | 107 State St, Portsmouth, NH RI RA/PORTLAND | 207.761.4446 | 72 Commercial St, Portland RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | 603.319.1680 | 22 Market St, Portsmouth, NH ROOSTER’S | 207.622.2625 | 110 Community Dr, Augusta ROUND TOP COFFEEHOUSE | 207.677.2354 | Round Top Farm, Main St, Damariscotta RUDI’S | 603.430.7834 | 20 High St, Portsmouth, NH RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | 207.571.9648 | 100 Main St, Saco Island, Saco SALVAGE BBQ & SMOKEHOUSE | | 919 Congress St, Portland SEA DOG BREWING/BANGOR | 207.947.8009 | 26 Front St, Bangor

SEA DOG BREWING/SOUTH PORTLAND | 207.871.7000 | 125

Western Ave, South Portland

SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM | 207.725.0162 | 1 Maine St, Great Mill Island, Topsham SEA KETCH | 603.926.0324 | 127 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH SEA40 | 207.795.6888 | 40 East Ave, Lewiston SEASONS GRILLE | 207.775.6538 | 155 Riverside St, Portland SILVER HOUSE TAVERN | 207.772.9885 | 123 Commercial St, Portland SILVER STREET TAVERN | 207.680.2163 | 2 Silver St, Waterville SLAB | 207.245.3088 | 25 Preble St., Portland SOLO BISTRO | 207.443.3378 | 128 Front St, Bath SONNY’S | 207.772.7774 | 83 Exchange St, Portland SONNY’S TAVERN | 603.343.4332 | 328 Central Ave, Dover, NH SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland 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

SERVING FOOD UNTIL 12:30AM EVERY DAY, WEEKEND BRUNCH FROM 10AM

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THATCHER’S PUB/SOUTH PORTLAND | 207.253.1808 | 35 Foden Rd,

South Portland

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 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

KNEISEL HALL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL JUNE 27 – SEPTEMBER 7

CoNCERTS

FRIDAYS: 7:30 PM

MASTER CLASSES

oPEN REHEARSALS

SUNDAYS: 4:00 PM 137 Pleasant street, Blue Hill 207-374-2203 www.kneisel.org festival@kneisel.org

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THE HaRbOR ViEw aT

JONES LaNDiNg Peaks island, Maine Royal Hammer Open Every Sunday at 10:30! No Cover before 11:15.

See our Facebook page for giveaways & specials. Don’t forget we are available for weddings, private parties, and corporate events! Joneslanding.net For more information, please call 207-766-5652 or visit us on the web at www.joneslanding.net

Listings Continued from p 22 HENRY JAMISON & LAUREN NICOLE AKIN + PERFECT HAIR + MR. NEET | 7 pm | The Nest, South Portland

”MASH IT UP SKA FEST,” WITH BEAT HORIZON + BIM SKALA BIM + KING HAMMOND + EL GRANDE + ROOTS, RHYTHM, & DUB | 7 pm |

Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $12-15 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall.com ALANIS MORISSETTE | 6 pm | Maine State Pier, Commercial St & Franklin Arterial, Portland | $36.75-61.75

PUTNAM SMITH + APRIL REED-COX

| 7:30 pm | The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | $12-$15 | 207.439.0114 CHRIS SMITHER | 7 pm | Prescott Park, Marcy St, Portsmouth, NH | $810 sugg. donation

SKYLARK SISTERS + MYLES BULLEN + UNIQUE DIVINCI + NICK HUGO + PEACH HAT CHAKRA | 7 pm

| Dreamship Studio, 15 Boynton St, Portland

SUNDAY 24

”BIG FUN ON A BOAT,” AWAAS + DREAM REAPER + MOUTH WASHINGTON + MOUNT SHARP | 2 pm |

Saturday, August 23 at 7:30 PM · $18/$16 A visual, kinetic expression of human emotions, relationships and what it means to be alive. SRT is thrilled to once again host this vibrant young dance company!

Casablanca Cruises, Portland Harbor Tour, 18 Custom House Wharf, Portland | $12 | 207.831.1324 ANNI CLARK | 8:30 pm | Freeport Theater of Awesome, 5 Depot St, Freeport | 800.838.3006 KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND | 8 pm | Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $39-59 | 603.929.4100 NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND | 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $75 | 207.935.7292

TEN STRINGS AND A GOAT SKIN

MONDAY 25

49TH PARALLEL DANCE COMPANY presents PATHWAYS

Thursday, August 28th - 7:30 PM · $20 “These three young guys are extraordinary musicians and they are unlike any trad/Acadian band you’ve ever heard. You’ve got to see them to believe them.” –Mike Campbell, The Carleton, Halifax Urban Folk Festival

JENNIFER PORTER CONCERT & CD RELEASE Saturday, September 6th - 7:30 PM · $20 · Call 207-929-5412 This concert will celebrate the release of Jennifer’s new CD, Easy Living, which features a dozen Jazz classics from the 20s, 30s and 40s. Be sure to make reservations early for this very special evening!

RORY BLOCK

Saturday, September 20th - 7:30 PM · $30 Heralded as “a living landmark” (Berkeley Express), “a national treasure” (Guitar Extra), and “one of the greatest living acoustic blues artists” (Blues Revue), Rory returns to SRT after an unforgettable sold out show last year!

Tickets & Info: 207-929-6472 or SACORIVERTHEATRE.ORG

CHRISTOPHER TIGNOR + ALEXANDER TURNQUIST | 8:30 pm; BYOB |

BIRDS ON A WIRE | 7:30 pm | Brick

Church for the Performing Arts, 502 Christian Hill Rd, Lovell | $10, $5 youth 15 & under | 207.925.1500 CHANDLERS BAND | 7 pm | Fort Sumner Park, Portland

LES CLAYPOOL’S DUO DE TWANG + REFORMED WHORES | 9 pm | Port

City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $28-30 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall.com

RICKY SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER + GIBSON BROTHERS |

8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $100 | 207.935.7292 TEN STRINGS & A GOAT SKIN | 7:30 pm | Saco River Theatre, 29 Salmon Falls Rd, Bar Mills | $20 | 207.929.6472

”THOMAS POINT BEACH BLUEGRASS SPECIAL” | with games, children’s activities, & live performances by Lonely Heartstring Band + Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper + Barefoot Movement + Steel Wheels + Williamson Branch + New England Bluegrass Band + Rhonda Vincent & the Rage + Reno & Harrell + Maine Youth Bluegrass Ensemble + Gibson Brothers + Spinney Brothers + Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass + White Mountain Bluegrass + Balsam Range + Del McCoury Band + Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys + Tennesee Mafia Jug Band | Thomas Point Beach, Rte 24, Brunswick | 207.725.6009 or thomaspointbeach. com TRAIN + WALLFLOWERS | 8 pm | Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook, 72 Meadowbrook Ln, Lake Winnipesaukee, Gilford, NH | $30-75 | 603.293.4700 or meadowbrook. net

DANCE

Buoy Gallery, 2 Government St, Kittery | buoygallery.org

PARTICIPATORY

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FRIDAY 22

KINGS OF LEON + YOUNG THE GIANT + KONGOS + CONNIPTION FITS | 7 pm | Bank of New Hampshire

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

WEDNESDAY 27

SATURDAY 23

pm | Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion

ingham Ballroom, 22 Ash Swamp Rd, Newmarket, NH | 603.659.4410

”UPROAR FESTIVAL,” WITH GODSMACK + SEETHER + POP EVIL + SKILLET + BUCKCHERRY, ETC. | 1:30

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

29 School St, Gorham | $10-$13 | 207.222.2068

TUESDAY 26

LINE DANCING | 6:30 pm | Mem-

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

PERFORMANCE SATURDAY 23

49TH PARALLEL DANCE COMPANY: “PATHWAYS” | 7:30 pm | Saco River

Theatre, 29 Salmon Falls Rd, Bar Mills | $18, $16 seniors/students | 207.929.6472

LADY LUCK BURLESQUE: “TIME OF THE SEASON” | 8 pm | Music Hall, 131

Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $35 | 603.436.2400 | www.themusichall. org/tickets/index.asp

”PATHWAYS” BY THE 49TH PARALLEL DANCE COMPANY | 7:30 pm

| Saco River Theatre, 29 Salmon Falls Rd, Bar Mills | $16-$18 | 207.929.6472

EVENTS SATURDAY 23

”BIDDEFORD BALL” FASHION SHOW + BENEFIT | with runway

show, maker’s market, silent auction, dancing and food | 7 pm | Building 13, Pepperill Mill Campus, 2 Main St, Biddeford | $25-$100

MAINE NATIVE AMERICAN SUMMER MARKET | basketmaking, stone

carving, bark etching, beadwork, jewlery, dancing and performances | 10 pm | Shaker Museum, 707 Shaker Rd, New Gloucester | 207.926.4597 or | shaker.lib.me.us

SUNDAY 24

”PRIDE PORTLAND! SUMMER POOL PARTY” | with music by DJ Chris O

| 11 am-4 pm | Admiral’s Inn Resort, 87 Main St, Ogunquit | $5 | prideportland.org

OUTDOORS SATURDAY 23

GUIDED CANOE TOURS | Sat-Mon 10

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

SUNDAY 24

GUIDED CANOE TOURS | See listing for Sat

MONDAY 25

GUIDED CANOE TOURS | See listing for Sat

FAIRS & FESTIVALS THURSDAY 21

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

”FRANTASIA: FESTIVAL OF OUT MUSIC & ARTS” | with Aimee Nor-

wich + Andrea Pensado + Anima Projection + Bats from Pogo + Ben Hersey + Bird Organ + Big Plastic Finger + Chester Hawkins + Christopher Cathode + Claire Elizabeth Barratt + Flandrew Fleisenberg & Loren Groenendaal + Ned + Frank Turek + Gelineau-Wright Duo + Grateful Ded Jr. + Id m thfft able + Jenni Baron + Jonas Bers + Joshua L. Erskine + Lance the Boil + Layne Garrett + Lori Tremblay + Martin Chartrand + Matt Luczak + Mia Zabelka + Nick Dentico + Pas Musique + John 3:16 (Philippe Gerber) + Poor Elements + Stanley Schumacher & Friends + Stephanie Lak & Jennifer Gelineau + Inner Eye + Jazz Fakers + Tommy Szostek & Family + Dei, Marc, & Greg + Yours Truly Jane | Fitness Stylz, 17 Depot St, Livermore Falls | $5-7 | 207.212.6288

FRIDAY 22

AMERICAN FOLK FESTIVAL | with music & dance, crafts, & children’s activities | downtown Bangor, Bangor BLISTERED FINGERS FAMILY BLUEGRASS MUSIC FESTIVAL | See listing for Thurs

”FRANTASIA: FESTIVAL OF OUT MUSIC & ARTS” | See listing for Thurs

SATURDAY 23

AMERICAN FOLK FESTIVAL | See list-

ing for Fri

BLISTERED FINGERS FAMILY BLUEGRASS MUSIC FESTIVAL | See listing for Thurs

”FRANTASIA: FESTIVAL OF OUT MUSIC & ARTS” | See listing for Thurs

INTERNET CAT VIDEO FESTIVAL AND FAIR | cat costume contest,

cat cuddle booth, stuffed animal “M.A.S.H.” unit, food vendors, art activities, onsite adoptions and a 72-minute cat video reel screening at 8 pm; cats welcome | 5 pm | Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St, Rockland | 207.596.6457 | farnsworthmuseum.org NEW GLOUCESTER FAIR | car show, animal farm, pony rides, craft tent, bake-off contest, face painting, food, live music, antler throwing contest, and a vintage baseball game | 10 am |

Don Campbell Trio

2013 Casco Bay Lines Music on the Bay

29 SALMON FALLS RD | PO BOX 1 · BAR MILLS, ME 04004-0001

THURSDAY 28

”SALSA DANCING” WITH ELIZABETH HASKELL | 7 pm | Spire 29,

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.

Budweiser, Coors, Miller lite: 6 PaCk of 12 oz Cans $5 out the door

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New Gloucester Fairgrounds, Bald Hill Rd, New Gloucester | 207.926.3188 PICNIC MUSIC + ARTS FESTIVAL | 11 am | Lincoln Park, Congress & Pearl Sts, Portland

WCSH SIDEWALK ARTS FESTIVAL

| visual art festival along Congress St | Portland, Portland | 207.756.8275 | www.ci.portland.me.us/rec/rec.asp

MAINE STATE MUSIC THEATRE

| 207.725.8769 | msmt.org | Pickard

SUNDAY 24

Theater, Bowdoin College, Brunswick |

AMERICAN FOLK FESTIVAL | See list-

ing for Fri

THURSDAY 28

THOMAS POINT BEACH BLUEGRASS SPECIAL | with games, children’s ac-

tivities, & live performances by Lonely Heartstring Band + Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper + Barefoot Movement + Steel Wheels + Williamson Branch + New England Bluegrass Band + Rhonda Vincent & the Rage + Reno & Harrell + Maine Youth Bluegrass Ensemble + Gibson Brothers + Spinney Brothers + Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass + White Mountain Bluegrass + Balsam Range + Del McCoury Band + Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys + Tennesee Mafia Jug Band | Thomas Point Beach, Rte 24, Brunswick | 207.725.6009 | www.thomaspointbeach.com

49th Parallel Dance Company at Saco River Theatre

OXFORD HILLS MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION |

207.739.6200 | Norway Grange #45, 15 Whitman St, Norway | Aug 21-24:

MONDAY 25

FOOD

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

SATURDAY 23

PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET | 7

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

WEDNESDAY 27

PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET | 7

am | Monument Square, Congress St, Portland | 207.774.9979

Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

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OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | with Port Veritas | 7 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | $2.50-3 | 207.773.7210

THURSDAY 28

JOHN MARCIANO | reads and dis-

POETRY & PROSE THURSDAY 21

”BEAT NIGHT,” MUSIC & POETRY | 7

SUNDAY 24

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

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

TALKS THURSDAY 21

”A VISIT WITH JIMMY GOWNLEY” | 2 pm | Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq, Portland | 207.871.1700 ”P.I. LECTURE SERIES: TSUNAMI TATTOO” | q&a with the staff of Tsu-

nami Tattoo | 6:30 pm | Fifth Maine Museum, Seashore Ave, Peaks Island | 207.766.3330

NEW LOCATION

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Thursday, August 28th Reception 5-8 pm

THEATER ARTS IN MOTION THEATER |

Couples that DanCe together, stay together

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ART GALLERIES AARHUS GALLERY | 207.338.0001 |

50 Main St, Belfast | aarhusgallery.com | Tues-Sun 11 am-5:30 pm | Through Aug 31: “Meditations on Color,” paintings by Marc Leavitt

ART GUILD OF THE KENNEBUNKS |

207.967.8543 | Kennebunkport Community House, Temple St, Kennebunkport

Local Beer Live Music Comedy Scratch Food Poetry Pub Quiz Bull Feeney’s Sunday - Friday 4 - 7p: All Drafts $3 All Whiskies 20% off Thursday & Friday 5 - 6p: FREE BACON & CHEESE Thursday 9p - Close: $2 PBR & NARRAGANSETT Wednesday 8p - Close: $3 BAXTER Stowaway & Seasonal

Thursday 9:30p: Friday 9:30p:

Hello Newman

Doctor Fatfinger upstairs Jake McCurdy downstairs

Saturday 9:30p:

Skösh upstairs

Dave Rowe downstairs

Monday 8p: Tuesday 7p: Tuesday 9:30p: Wednesday 8-10p: Wednesday 8-11p:

Geeks Who Drink Poetry Slam Open Mic Comedy Showcase Squid Jiggers

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375 Fore Street in the heart oF the old Port 773.7210 Facebook.com/bullFeeneyS @bullFeeneyS

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FIREHOUSE CENTER FOR THE FALCON FOUNDATION | 207.563.8104 | 5 Bristol Rd, Damariscotta | Fri-Sun

org | Wed-Sat noon-6 pm; Sun-Tues by appointment | Through Aug 30: “Estey, Garde, & Florence,” paintings ICON CONTEMPORARY ART | 207.725.8157 | 19 Mason St, Brunswick | Mon-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 1-4 pm | “New Drawings,” works by David Raymond KITTERY ART ASSOCIATION | 207.967.0049 | 8 Coleman Ave, Kittery | kitteryartassociation.org | Sat noon-6 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Through Aug 24: “Reflections,” works by Karen Camlin + Pat Higgins + Rhonda Mann + Christopher Strickland | Aug 28-Sept 21: “Ekphrasis: Poetry & Art,” mixed media group exhibition LANDING GALLERY | 207.594.4544 | 8 Elm St, Rockland | landingart.com | Tues-Sat 11 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Through Sept 7: “By-Gone Boats,” clay sculptures by David Riley Peterson + “Maine’s Light,” paintings by Bjorn Runquist | Through Sept 28: “Color Vision,” acrylic paintings by Irma Cerese LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | 207.899.3529 | 649 Congress St, Portland | localsproutscooperative.com | Mon 8 am-3 pm; Tues-Thu 8 am-9 pm; Fri-Sat 8 am-10 pm; Sun 9 am-3 pm | Through Sept 4: “Home Bodies,” mixed media works by Pete Franzen + Hazel Koziol MARK WENTWORTH | 603.436.0169 | 346 Pleasant St, Portsmouth, NH | Through Aug 31: oil paintings by Jeannette Matatics + Steve Matatics MAYO STREET ARTS | 207.615.3609 | 10 Mayo St, Portland | call for hours | Through Aug 31: “Contemporary Fort,” drawings, prints, & installation by Anne Buckwalter + Pilar Nadal MONKITREE GALLERY | 207.512.4679 | 263 Water St, Gardiner | Tues-Fri 10 am-6 pm;Sat noon-6 pm | Through Aug 30: “Contexture” mixed media works by Kathy Goddu + Priscilla Nicholson + Susan Perrine + Jill Snyder Wallace + Susan Walker NW BARRETT GALLERY | 603.431.4262 | 53 Market St, Portsmouth, NH | Through Aug 31: “Essays & Estuaries,” mixed media group exhibition PERIMETER GALLERY | 207.338.0968 | 96 Main St, Belfast | Tues-Sat 7 am-5 pm; Sun 8 am-2 pm | Through Aug 24: “Standard” fabric banners by Karen Gelardi PHOPA GALLERY | 207.317.6721 | 132 Washington Ave, Portland | Wed-Sat noon-5 pm | Through Sept 13: “Travel Journals,” photography by Brendan Bullock RIVER ARTS | 207.563.1507 | 241 Rte 1, Damariscotta | Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through Aug 28: “The Maine Story: Land & Sea,” mixed media group exhibition RIVER TREE ARTS | 207.967.9120 | 35 Western Ave, Kennebunk | rivertreearts. org | Mon-Fri 10 am-6 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | Through Aug 29: “Metal. Rust. Wood. Paint.”, mixed media works by Rusty Theriault + Nathan Nicholls + Annie Hiedel + Meredith Radford + Dave Allen + Paul Bonneau

SEACOAST ARTIST ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 603.778.8856 | 225 Water St, Exeter, NH | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm

| Through Aug 30: “How Does Your Garden Grow?”, mixed media group exhibition | reception Aug 21 4-6 pm SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland | space538.org | Wed-Sat noon-6 pm | Through Aug 29: “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” THE SALT EXCHANGE | 207.347.5687 | 245 Commercial St, Portland | 5-10 pm | Through Aug 31: “Monhegan V Perspectives,” paintings by Betty Heselton + Sally Loughridge + Joyce Greenfield + Marlene Loznicka 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, 18401950” + “Contemporary Masters, 1950 to the Present” + “Lovers & Saints: Art of the Italian Renaissance” COLBY COLLEGE | 207.859.5600 | Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr, Waterville | colby.edu/museum | Tues-

Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Free admission | Through Aug 31: “Lois Dodd: Cultivating Vision,” works on paper | Through Jan 4, 2015: “Bernard Langlais,” paintings 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 Oct 12: “Project _,” architectural installation by Ana Miljacki + Lee Moreau | Through Oct 12: “The Wrong Kind of Bars: Paintings from the Maine State Prison” | Through March 31, 2016: “We Are What We Hide,” longrunning exhibit in- & outside gallery walls MAINE COLLEGE OF ART | 207.699.5010 | Charles C. Thomas

Gallery, 522 Congress St, Portland

| Through Aug 29: “Wednesday Mornings: Recent Work by the Mill Painters” MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM | 207.329.9854 | 267 Congress St, Portland | treeoflifemuseum.org | MonFri 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 | TuesFri noon-4:30 pm | Through Sept 12: “Spring 2014 Salt Student Show,” mixed media

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - FARMINGTON | 207.778.7292 | Emery Com-

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

Wegman: Way Up in Maine,” mixed media works

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND 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 Gal-

lery, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland | une. edu/artgallery | Wed 1-4 pm; Thurs 1-7 pm; Fri-Sun 1-4 pm | Through Sept 28: “Making a New Whole: The Art of Collage” | Through Oct 31: “Annual Sculpture Garden Invitational” | Ongoing: paintings & photography by Maine artists + labyrinth installation

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”

COASTAL MAINE BOTANICAL GARDENS | 207.633.4333 | 132 Botanical

Gardens Dr, Boothbay | 9 am-5 pm | Through Sept 30: “From the Mountains to the Sea: Plants, Trees, and Shrubs of New England” | Through Sept 30: “Pollinators in the Gardens” photography + “Pollinators,” sculptural show curated by June Lacombe | Through Oct 31: “Powerful Pollinators!”, student art exhibit 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 MARITIME MUSEUM | 207.443.1316 | 243 Washington St, Bath | mainemaritimemuseum.org | Daily 9:30 am-5 pm | Admission $10, $9 seniors, $7 for children seven through 17, free for children six and under | Through Sept 28: “Eye Sweet & Fair: Naval Architecture, Lofting, & Modeling” | Ongoing: “A Maritime History of Maine” + “A Shipyard in Maine: Percy & Small & the Great Schooners” + “Snow Squall: Last of the American Clipper Ships” MAINE STATE MUSEUM | 207.287.2301 | 83 State House Stn, Augusta | mainestatemuseum.org | Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-4 pm | Admission $2, $1 for seniors and children ages 6-18, under 6 free | Through April 30: “Maine Voices from the Civil War” | Ongoing: 12,000-plus years of Maine’s history, in homes, nature, shops, mills, ships, & factories

PEARY-MACMILLAN ARCTIC MUSEUM | 207.725.3416 | Bowdoin College, Hubbard Hall, 5 College St, Brunswick

| bowdoin.edu/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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EVERY BEEF EATER SHOULD READ THIS iMMigrant KitcHens _By Lin ds a y s t e rLing Most animal parts come so deconstructed from the whole that I don’t think of animals at all when I’m cooking. Steak tips are steak tips. Hamburgers are hamburgers. This is perhaps how I’ve lived as a meat eater, in a kind of denial: I’m not eating animals, I’m eating meat. But recently I came face to face with an animal part that threatened my usual delusion. At a recent family reunion, my brother-inlaw, Tom, gave me a gift from Vermont: the tongue of his young grass-fed, organic heifer. He gave it to me frozen, sealed in thick plastic. What a gift! It was special, priceless, and gross. I had never cooked tongue myself, but I recalled my two Russian friends, Alla and Yulia, reminiscing about the good old days of beef tongue in Russia, so I took it to them, hoping they’d know what to do with it. In their kitchen, Alla took the thawed hunk of muscle out of the package. It was long and huge like a giant slug. Alla and Yulia looked excited. Reunited with beef tongue at last! I’d never seen a beef tongue before, so I was trying to act like I was totally cool with the fact that there was cow’s tongue on the cutting board in front of me. It looked a lot like my own tongue, only bigger, and it was blue-gray like dead people on CSI. As far as animal body parts

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go, tongue ranks up there in my book with bull’s balls as the grossest animal part I could think to eat. Sure, when you think about eating chopped up animal parts, it’s all gross: shoulder, leg, back, ribs, tongue, heart—what’s the difference? But the tongue just seems so personal. Like you might as well just boil the cow’s eyeballs so that they can look up at you, cooked, from a bowl of eyeball soup. Alla simmered the massive tongue in water with bay leaf, onion, parsley, carrot, and salt for an hour and a half while she and her daughter made some dishes to go with it: mashed potatoes, sautéed mushrooms, and a garden salad. When Alla said the tongue was done, it still looked like a cow’s tongue even though now it was floating in a broth that looked like soup, flecked with pretty triangles of carrot. She removed it from the broth, peeled off the layer of outer skin, and then sliced the tongue crosswise into medallions of meat, about two inches wide. Finally, we were looking at meat. It looked good, like normal beef. And it tasted delicious. The texture was smooth, unlike the striated quality of other cuts of meat, and a little bouncy on the tooth. It was great with a little horseradish on top, and with the whole meal they’d prepared.

using the total animal alla slices the beef. When I was telling my mother about my squeamishness, she scolded, “Farm to table people need to grow up and get some tongue. Where do people think all the beef tongues go?” Tom told me that the other farmers he knows throw the tongues away because there’s no market anymore for them. Apparently, sometime in the last 50 years Americans became too cool for peasant food. They’d rather just

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them or stay on earth with her on-again, off-again rocker boyfriend (Jamie Blackley). In the fashion of melodrama, every moment is impossibly huge, and the movie is occasionally compelling in its brazen lack of subtlety. There are even shades of Bergman in the existential premise, but director J.R. Cutler is more interested in the young leads’ cookie-cutter romance, and the clunky nonlinear plot precludes any sort of comprehensive narrative. With Joshua Leonard and Mireille Enos.

105 minutes | nickelodeon A good-hearted Irish Catholic priest (Brendan Gleeson) hears confession from a man who claims that as a child he was serially raped by his parish priest; because the rapist has died, the victim promises to murder his confessor in a week’s time as a perverse vengeance against God and the church. This gripping spiritual drama by writer-director John Michael McDonagh (The Guard) functions as a transparent Christian allegory, yet it derives most of its emotional force from our popular rage against the priesthood; the cross shouldered by its hero consists, in no small part, of all the ecclesiastical crimes now tumbling out of the closet. Gleeson brings his usual fierceness and gravity to the role, and there are fine supporting turns

throw undeniable body parts away than face the truth: most of us eat chopped up animals and like it. The whole experience got me thinking that we’ve got to bring tongue back in to vogue. Yeah, it’s hard to look at, but you could always just cook it with your eyes closed. Find the recipe at www.ImmigrantKitchens.com. Ask Pat’s Meat Market or your local farmer or butcher for beef tongue. ^

Calvary

_drew Hunt

by Chris O’Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aiden Gillen, and Dylan Moran.

_J.r. Jones

xW if i stAY 107 minutes | nickelodeon + clarks pond cinemagic + westbrook cinemagic + smittY’s biddeford + smittY’s windham + lewiston flagship + nordica theatre

Cheesy barely begins to describe this maudlin tearjerker, adapted from a young-adult novel, about a 17-year-old girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) who suffers a nasty car accident, slips into a coma, and has an out-of-body experience. Her parents and younger brother have died in the crash, so she has to decide whether she wants to move on to the next life with

xxxW BOYHOOD 165 minutes | nickelodeon + clarks pond cinemagic + eveningstar cinema + saco cinemagic + railroad sQuare cinema + strand theatre Filming periodically over 12 years, writer-director Richard

Linklater follows a Texas boy from first grade to high school graduation, noting along the way how his mother’s unhappy relationships with men color the boy’s own interaction with the opposite sex. The movie is being hailed for its novel production, though in fact British director Michael Winterbottom beat Linklater out of the box with his superb, little-noticed Everyday (2012), chronicling a workingclass family over five years. That movie progresses more naturally than this one, which can’t afford to introduce a single character unless there’s a significant payoff later. But Linklater’s writing is typically warm and insightful, and the cast is uniformly excellent, including Ellar Coltrane as the quiet, down-to-earth hero. With Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke.

_J.r. Jones

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tHE HUndrEd-Foot JoUrnEY | 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:25 Into tHE StorM | 1, 3, 5, 7:15, 9:20 MaGIC In tHE MoonlIGHt | 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 a MoSt WantEd Man | 1:40, 4:15, 7, 9:30

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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

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tHE PUrGE: anarCHY | 7:40 tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES | 1:15, 4:05, 7:10

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lInColn tHEatEr 2 Theater St, Damariscotta | 207.563.3424

BEGIn aGaIn | Fri: 7 | Sat: 2, 7 | MonWed: 7 | Thu: 2, 7

tHE MaGIC lantErn

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tHE GIVEr | 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:45 GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY | 1:15,

5 | Thu: 2

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tHE HUndrEd Foot JoUrnEY | Fri-Thu: 7 | Sun: 3, 7

lEWISton FlaGSHIP 10

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

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rEEl PIZZa CInEraMa 33 Kennebec Place, Bar Harbor | 207.288.3828

tHE GIVEr | Fri-Thu: 5:30, 8 lUCY | Fri-Thu: 6, 8:15

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SaCo CInEMaGIC & IMaX

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tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES

BoYHood | 4:30, 8 tHE EXPEndaBlES 3 | noon, 3:30,

| 1, 4, 7, 10

7, 10

4:15, 7:15, 9:30

narroW GaUGE CInEMaS

nordICa tHEatrE

HarBor tHEatrE

and So It GoES | 11:45 am, 2, 4:30 daWn oF tHE PlanEt oF tHE aPES | 12:10, 3:20, 6:45, 9:30 tHE EXPEndaBlES 3 | 12:20, 3:20,

3:35, 6:40

alIVE InSIdE | Tue: 2, 5, 8 | Wed: 2,

14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222

Sat-Sun: 2

183 County Rd, Westbrook | 207.774.3456

FrontIEr CInEMa

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WEStBrooK CInEMaGIC

3:50, 6:55

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tHE GIrl on tHE traIn | Fri: 7 |

GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY | 1,

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FranK MIllEr’S SIn CItY: a daME to KIll For | 4:30. 7. 9:20 FranK MIllEr’S SIn CItY: a daME to KIll For 3d | 11:30 am, 2 tHE GIVEr | 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 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 IF I StaY | noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10

ISland oF lEMUrS: MadaGaSCar: IMaX 3d | 11:30 am, 12:50, 2:10 lEt’S BE CoPS | noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30,

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

9:50

raIlroad SQUarE CInEMa

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BoYHood | 1:25, 7

lUCY | noon, 2:10 PlanES: FIrE & rESCUE | 11:30 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, 9:50 22 JUMP StrEEt 11:30 am, 4:40, 10 WHEn tHE GaME StandS tall | 11:50 am, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50

SaCo drIVE-In tHEatEr

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SMIttY’S CInEMaBIddEFord

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SMIttY’S CInEMaSanFord

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SMIttY’S CInEMaWIndHaM

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tHE EXPEndaBlES 3 | Fri-Sat: noon, 3:15, 7, 10 | Sun-Mon: noon, 3:15, 7:15 | Tue-Thu: 3:15, 7:15

tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES | Fri-Sat: noon, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 |

Sun-Mon: noon, 3:45, 6:45 | Tue-Thu: 3:45, 6:45

SPotlIGHt CInEMaS

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Strand tHEatrE

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_by syMbo line Da i This week’s waning moon is a time to rest, recover, finish, or discard. Starting things isn’t advised, unless you have projects that happen quickly (toast, a postcard, etc.). Other planets are favoring fire and air sign folks (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius) who should be bold and speak up as needed. This week also brings a confluence between Mars (taking action) and Saturn (having limits set). Both planets are in Scorpio, so our water sign friends should have more endurance than usual. Let me know how that goes, and if you socialize on media, I’m “Sally Cragin Astrology” on Facebook.

_ by M a t t J o n es

“bebop”

Across 1 Cast Away carrier 5 is willing to 10 cyberbidder’s site 14 scat legend Fitzgerald 15 Film score composer morricone 16 The Joy of Cooking author rombauer 17 packing the wrong clothes for the shore? 19 comic-con attendee, probably 20 participate in charades 21 Kyle’s little brother on South Park 22 coop matriarchs 23 Valentine offering 25 cracker with seven holes 27 dance music with slow shifting bass sounds 31 Artists using acid 34 Word following who, what, when or how 35 Beatnik’s bro 37 pen name? 38 give a hint to 40 “___ have something stuck in my teeth?” 1

— try to keep up.

toon time

_ by J en sor e n sen

41 43 44 47 48 50 52 53 54 56 58 63 64 66 67 68 69 70

prefix with trafficking ctrl-___-del throws out social finesse early rock nickname, with “the” the o in “Jackie o” sty reply Alumnus like cotton candy Fish in Japanese cuisine imposed limits on gymnastics legend Korbut part of the neighborhood where all the downers live? James and the Giant Peach author roald half a danny elfman band second word in fairy tales chip that starts a pot element from the greek word for “strange” Jeopardy! owner 8

Down 1 country’s mcentire 2 30 Rock star Baldwin 3 half step lower, in music 4 stuffed shell food 5 like platypuses 6 palindromic experimentalist 7 get the knots out 8 enjoy a scoop 9 shannen of 90210 10 half of half of half 11 undergarments that allow for air flow? 12 “Agreed!” 13 runs off at the mouth 18 Johnny cash cover of a nine inch nails song 24 “Boston legal” actor 26 double-clicked symbol 27 “unleaded” beverage 28 dangly lobe in the throat 29 report from a slow vegetable-purchasing day? 30 ___ lanka 31 tabloid worker 32 christina of Black Snake Moan 33 glasgow residents 36 dwarf with glasses 39 Vegas night sight 42 e-mail address symbols 45 diner player 46 eat, as pretzels 49 series ender 51 Very little, as of ointment 53 oldest man in space John 54 club or cream follower 55 stratagem 57 mario of the nBA 59 Favorable factor 60 the cops, in slang 61 mBA’s course 62 Fashion initials 65 earlier than now 10

thursday august 21 13

Waning moon in cancer, moon void-of-course 3:34 pm until 4:49 pm tomorrow. this waning moon prompts self-protective, even secretive practices. Finish your projects—don’t start another until the monday, when the moon is new. capricorn, Aries, libra, Aquarius, and sagittarius could be blunt, or make jokes others can’t understand. cancer, taurus, scorpio, pisces, gemini, leo, and Virgo are in a romantic mood—yet want others to make the first move. 29

Friday august 22 14

Waning moon in cancer, moon void-of-course until 4:49 pm when it moves into leo. Another “home-based” day, particularly for taurus, gemini, cancer, leo, Virgo, scorpio, and pisces. “sticking to what you know” is a theme for all, while libra, Aries, sagittarius, Aquarius, and capricorn should hold back from forcing communication or action (from themselves and others). this particularly sign in this phase says that everyone’s a lit-t-tle sensitive—especially when it comes to trifles. 30

saturday august 23 15

Waning moon in leo, sun moves into Virgo. if others are pressuring you into a decision, stand firm. the so-called “dark of the moon” period brings matters to light that were hidden, much as a submerged beach ball will rocket out of the pool if you try to stand on it. leo, Aries, and sagittarius: turn trifles into celebrations. scorpio, pisces, and cancer: follow-through is a problem. Virgo, taurus, and capricorn: others’ inconsistency rankles. Aquarius, libra, and gemini: bring sparkle to the sad sacks in your circle. 31

sunday august 24 16

dark of the moon in leo. this accident-prone day suggests that some will need to over-share, while others could give in to more sensational indulgences (over-eating is a temptation). gemini, cancer, leo, Virgo, libra, sagittarius, and Aries won’t be able to keep a secret, and scorpio, Aquarius, pisces, capricorn, and taurus could mishear others and get vexed. What gets decided today could be reversed tomorrow or the weekend. 32

Monday august 25

new moon in Virgo. Another excellent day to complete a project, although afternoon plans could be altered or changed at the last minute. gemini, scorpio, cancer, leo, Virgo, and libra have skills to find the easy way out, while pisces, gemini, sagittarius, Aquarius, and Aries could over-complicate a situation, and then want to walk away. hey, it’s monday, it may be difficult to hide from being inattentive. 1

tuesday august 26

Waxing moon in Virgo, moon void-of-course 10:29 pm until 5:54 pm Wednesday. pissy and prissy have lots to say. pissy and prissy can mess up Your dAY! today’s theme is improvement, as in, “who thinks you need to improve?” some will take comments meant innocently with a bit of ire, although romance for cancer, leo, Virgo, libra, scorpio, taurus, and capricorn could be unexpectedly sweet. pisces, sagittarius, gemini, Aquarius, and Aries may need to tantrum. 2

Wednesday august 27

Waxing moon in Virgo, moon void-of-course until 5:54 pm when it moves into libra. despite an all-day Voc moon, it’s an excellent day for cleaning or improving your health. or thinking about what you should do, getting on the internet and ordering a bunch of vitamins. Whatever works for self-soothing—go for it. some can get good advice about a work situation, particularly Virgo, libra, capricorn, Aquarius, gemini, and taurus. cancer, scorpio, pisces, Aries, sagittarius, and leo: you may have difficulty focusing. 3

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.