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Each of the book’s 178 profiles tells the story of a Maine farm and what sets it apart.
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There’s no shortage of press about local food and farms in southern Maine. It’s possible to imagine those of us who live here starting to take it for granted: multiple farmers’ markets per week, restaurant menus that name those who grew their produce and meat, 30 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) options in Cumberland County alone. But for one Newfield woman at least, the opposite is true. Mary Quinn Doyle has spent the last two years traveling between Aroostook and York counties (and to the 14 in between) learning about and documenting 178 farms. Her compilation will be published this week in a book titled Unique Maine Farms. The Unique Maine Farms project began when she learned about Spiller Farm in Wells: a diversified CSA farm that donates over 22,000 pounds of fresh produce each year to hunger prevention agencies. She was drawn to profiling them because, as she says, “Maine is really facing a critical need to get good fresh local food to people in need.” From there, the project blossomed to exploring other farms. Each profile tells the story of a farm and what sets it apart. There’s Joseph and Fannie Zook who run Zook Family Farm in Fort Fairfield. They are part of a small Amish community in Aroostook County, live without electricity or phone, and drive their horse and buggy to the farmer’s market every week. There’s Bolduc Correctional Facility in Warren, whose farm vocational training program supplies all six adult correctional facilities in Maine with potatoes each year (over 200,000 pounds). There’s Mtn. Springs Trout Hatchery in Frenchville, whose efforts re-populated an endangered species of arctic char found in only twelve locations in the entire continental US. As an erstwhile farmer herself (she and her husband ran a greenhouse operation for many years), Doyle speaks passionately on the subject—particularly
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about documenting the stories of farmers on the fringe who might otherwise be overlooked: such as migrant workers, immigrant and refugee farmers, and people in correctional facilities. Farming publications, she says, are so often technical, written for small children, or focused on one farm. Doyle’s goal is to offer something entirely different. Unique, even. While the individual stories are seemingly endless (there’s literally a hundred of them), it is the collection in aggregate that is the most striking. Doyle has played an important role in “cross-pollinating”: that is, in moving from one farm to the next, she has witnessed the scope of what farmers are facing. She of rising transport costs in a state where the major population centers are in some cases eight hours south; she’s observed the impact of the decline of the potato industry and the challenges that the dairy industry is facing; she’s heard many farmers discuss the costs of obtaining and maintaining an organic certification. But at the same time, the breadth of her work allows her to speak with enthusiasm and an infectious sense of hope as she recounts stories of maintaining tradition, of young farmers, of cooperative farming and landsharing. The best part of this “labor of love,” as she calls it, is that as a former school teacher Doyle has
no interest in keeping this inspiration to herself. Her self-published book went to print this week in Lewiston, on paper made in Maine. It’s written for middle-schoolers and up—and the book sales’ proceeds will be used to donate one complimentary copy of the book to every library in Maine. And for kids even younger? She’s been collecting puppets for the last 40 years and has plans to tell the stories of these farmers in an interactive farm-related puppet show. Unique Maine Farms will be done just in time for the Common Ground Fair, September 19-21, in Unity. The last two years at the fair have been spent moving from one farmer to the next, learning new stories, taking photos. This year, Mary will be in one place—at her booth with her photo exhibit and the book. If you’re up in Unity, be sure to swing by—you’ll walk away immensely proud of the unique scope this state has to offer. ^
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as election season looms a mere eight weeks away, most mainers are fully aware just how much is at stake in the future of the state. but let’s not take any chances. after the maine league of Young Voters folded after last year (and, notably, the Press Herald announcing their decision not to run any endorsements at all) two of of the state’s most visible, progressive voter-awareness organizations for people are heightening efforts to get the word out, so that voters can enter november with a clear view of the issues at hand. on September 22, the league of Women Voters of maine will host an event at bayside bowl, where maine author melissa coleman will read from her back-to-the-land memoir this life is in Your hands. the nonpartisan organization that “handles voter registration, advocates clean elections, and hosts debates” will issue its seventh guide next month, and continue in their efforts to stave off attacks on early voting. While they’re in slightly more of a rebuild than the nationally supported league of Women Voters, similar efforts are underway from portland-centric Voter education brigade, who formed earlier this year from many of the same circles which comprised the maine league of Young Voters. Just like the league of Young Voters had done since 2004,the Voter education brigade plan to issue a local-citizen generated voter guide over the next month. the group is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the effort, and host a series of events in September and october with an eye toward engaging a community to the political races. on September 24 at think tank, the brigade plan to finalize their endorsements. on September 29, citizens can meet school board and city council candidates up for election at the ocean avenue School. and in late october, there’s sure to be more than a few good drinking-game ideas when the brigade hosts public viewing parties of the Gubernatorial debate (october 20) and a showdown between incumbent republican Senator Susan collins and democratic challenger Shenna bellows (october 27); both locations tba. ^ _Nick Schroeder
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The E.C. plan Independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler has proposed a much-needed change in the way Maine chooses its governor. Under the Cutler plan, the only people allowed to run would be those with the initials E.C. It should be an interesting race among Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, e.e. cummings, Eric Cartman, and the English Channel. I’d consider voting for South Park’s Cartman, because not only are all the other contenders either foreigners, fake names, deceased, or geographic features, but also because Cartman looks and talks like a little version of Paul LePage, only without the great restraint LePage exerts to avoid making offensive comments. Sure, Cartman has the disadvantage of being fictional, but so are most of the governor’s speeches. Of course, I’m kidding about Cutler making this preposterous proposal, which would be extremely self-serving on his part. Instead of a reform plan limited to advancing his own interests, the millionaire lawyer has put forth a comprehensive package of ideas designed to alleviate flaws in our electoral system—and make it easier for him to get elected. “This campaign for governor is a race between reform and business as usual, between bold ideas and the status quo,” Cutler told a Portland news conference. “Voters are hungry for much more than just a choice between what isn’t working now and what didn’t work before.” Instead, he’s offering a choice between what doesn’t work in other states and what doesn’t work in other states and Portland, too. Cutler wants Maine to adopt either open primaries—in which all candidates, regardless of party affiliation, run against each other,
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with the top two finishers facing off in the general election—or rankedchoice voting—in which voters rate the contenders from best to worst, with the last place candidates dropped from the running one by one until somebody gets a majority. Louisiana has used open primaries for gubernatorial and congressional races for decades, while earning a reputation for electing some of the most corrupt politicians in the nation. Studies have shown this method provides a significant edge to incumbents, who find it easier to best a fractured field of opponents than to fend off a single primary challenger. Even when there’s an open seat, the final two contenders are frequently from the same party, effectively leaving voters of other enrollments to choose between unpleasant and unpalatable. Portland picks its mayor using ranked-choice voting, which has resulted in the same guy winning the job who would have won if regular old plurality voting had been used. It’s also worth noting that, in spite of promises of proponents, rankedchoice didn’t result in a mayor with majority support. It only produced a winner who got a majority of the votes on those ballots backing one of the top two candidates. In other words, this complicated system renders results that are just as flawed as the previous method. Cutler also wants to eliminate what he calls “a corrupting flood of special interest dollars that increasingly drives our political parties to the extremes—where the money is— and poisons our politics with excessive and destructive partisanship.” I assume E.C. is just kidding around here, since he’s openly backing a lawsuit filed by his supporters that seeks to significantly increase the amount of cash individuals can
give to independent candidates. A federal judge recently granted those plaintiffs a preliminary injunction allowing them to double the amount they can donate to Cutler’s campaign from $1,500 to $3,000 and (inadvertently) allowing new donors to Democrat Mike Michaud and Republican LePage to increase their contributions by similar amounts. No doubt Cutler had tongue in cheek when he told reporters that change was “an important first step in reforming our political process.” Actually, Cutler does have one good idea (which puts him one up on Michaud and one behind LePage), which is to outlaw leadership political action committees. These PACs are slush funds filled with donations from special interests. They’re maintained by candidates for legislative leadership posts—often people who are running their own campaigns using taxpayer dollars so they can claim they’re “clean.” They then use the “dirty” cash to curry favor with other state House and Senate hopefuls. It’s like bribery, only legal. In general, though, the Cutler plan to reform Maine politics is designed not to deter corruption or refocus campaigning on issues that matter, but to clear away pesky obstacles that are keeping E.C. from relocating from his Cape Elizabeth mansion to the Blaine House. As for that idea of limiting the gubernatorial field to those with the initials E.C., Cutler has taken that off the table. The Egotistical Carpetbagger just got poll numbers showing that if that became law, he’d still lose to Democratic 2nd Congressional District candidate Emily Cain. ^
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a deep divide remains Unlike 46 years ago, when the majority of whites understood and knew that black life was markedly different than white life, today’s whites largely seem unaware of just how deep the divide runs. Why do i mention 46 years? let go back to summer 1967 in detroit, when a raid on an unlicensed bar set off a chain of events that came to be known as the detroit riots. the rioters were predominantly black, and the event lives on in US history as one of the worst race riots ever. the racial tensions of that summer led to the formation of the national advisory commission on civil disorders, more commonly referred to as the Kerner commission, named after otto Kerner, an illinois governor and chair of the group. the commission was charged with figuring out why the race riots happened and, more importantly, how they could be prevented from happening again. the commission released a 426-page report in winter 1968 that concluded the race riots and tensions in black communities were the result of white racism and suggested that white america bore much of the responsibility. “our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal,” the report noted. “this deepening racial division is not inevitable. the movement apart can be reversed. choice is still possible. our principal task is to define that choice and to press for a national resolution. to pursue our present course will involve the continuing polarization of the american community and, ultimately, the destruction of basic democratic values.” in a case of déjà vu, despite those insightful words 46 years ago, we are having near-identical conversations now, thanks to the events in Ferguson, missouri. longheld tensions bubbling to the surface in a community filled with racial imbalances as a result of police actions. the events in Ferguson are representative of something far greater than Ferguson itself. inequality for blacks is still a part of everyday life regardless of one’s socioeconomic background. as this paper discussed just a few weeks ago in a piece written by Phoenix editor nick Schroeder and musician Samuel James, black people still overwhelmingly live vastly different lives than their white peers even in places like maine. We may not ever have to concern ourselves with a Ferguson-style riot occurring in our state, but there are very few black people even in maine who do not live with daily reminders that we are never quite seen fully as people. Yet, as i mentioned at the start of this, white people mostly don’t see this. another problem in today’s climate is that when blacks name the continuing injustices, they are often accused of race baiting. Somewhere along the way, we allowed a few victories along racial lines to be seen as the complete eradication of racism, when nothing could be further from the truth. today black people are expected to pick themselves up when the same systemic inequities that existed and were named by government officials in 1968 are still at play. the longer we continue to embrace an unsteady truce and allow the superficial gains to stand as real change, we risk ensuring that our kids and grandkids will be having these same discussions in another 46 years. as the Kerner commission noted, “What white americans have never fully understood but what the negro can never forget—is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.” it was understood even 46 years ago that change and true racial equality would not happen until white america experienced a paradigm shift. personal racism is harder to find today but the structures that privilege whites have barely been touched. acknowledging that racial inequity that is woven into the very fabric of this nation is not an indictment against white people; it is instead a badly needed epiphany that can lead to healing our nation’s long-festering racial wounds. ^
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Modeled after the annual Boston event of the same name, the city-sponsored Portland Greenfest officially kicks off at 10 am Saturday, September 13, at which point a slew of musicians and eco-themed events will rule Monument Square until 4 pm or so. The morning lineup includes sets from the family-friendly, bluesy folk singer Monique Barrett, acoustic popper Jacob McCurdy, and Danny Rand, and Boston’s Johnny Fireseed and the Junkyard Dogs, whose instruments are made entirely from trash. Later, 17-year old “Rapper Ashley” is expected to, well…rap, about climate change and other issues appropriate to the day. The Brunswick native recently performed alongside Portland favorite Lady Essence at one of Asylum’s summer rap nights, the proceeds from which benefit local Boys and Girls Clubs, making Ashley one whom rap fans and activists alike should care about. Two trash-themed fashion shows and an ecopoetry slam accompany a series of special exhibits—including “Casco Bay Stories,” a multimedia project of the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership beautifully compiled by Salt Institute graduate Galen Koch. The multimedia presentation sheds light on the real people who actually live and work in the bay, like the young family who moor their sailboat/summer home in various coves throughout the year, or the fellow whose 40-year diving career renders up an ethnography of the changing waters. It’s been a long, sad career for Mark Kozelek. Luckily, the sad part is something he’s never really been ashamed of, and over twenty years of songwriting in Red House Painters, under his gov’t name, and now sun Kil Moon, he’s leveraged it into a weird sort of bliss. “I don’t know what happened or what anyone did,”—he explains in the Zeppelin-tribute-turned-memoir song “I Watched The Film The Song Remains the Same,” from his fantastic new record Benji—“but from my earliest memories I was always a very melancholy kid.” Kozelek is 47 now—he’s fine; he’s a happy, successful guy—but he knows that feeling isn’t going anywhere, and his acceptance of that fact makes his music far more poignant, silly, and rewarding than any of his acolytes. Behind all that subjectivity, he’s an excellent guitarist, too. See him at Port City Music Hall on September 18. And just south, The DipTych projecT ii closes its run at Biddeford gallery Engine on September 20, a collaboration between 38 artists specializing in encaustic painting—or, painting with hot wax. Artists were given six months and a theme: the latter predicated upon a compositional element such as line, texture, color, and
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the former the timeframe within which to curate a kind of materialist “conversation” with one another. The result is a series of works born out of this “call and response” model.
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Excitingly ambiguous—citydrift/Portland wades into our collective conscious-
ness September 19. Described as three days of “performances, installations, happenings, actions, readings, investigations, ephemera, panel discussions, discourse” by executive curator Jenna Crowder (read a full interview with her “Blurring art and life,” by Nick Schroeder in the August 29 issue) Many of us are familiar with the idea that art and life are separate, and yet citydrift seems to go beyond merely calling attention to that divide—artists and community members are invited to think about the physical acts of living and of art-making which characterize city life. Talking about what
makes an “art community,” or any other kind of community, reinvigorates the notion of the spectator, and is bound to open up new discussions about art and where it fits. If you can’t make it to any of the “drift sites” between September 19 and the September 21, the highlights go on display at the Space Gallery Annex at the artwalk on Oct 3. Despite the fact that it’s been an annual Maine ritual since the fall of 1977, there’s always that one friend who has— casually—never been to the coMMon Ground country fair. In addition to classic exhibitions and the esteemed Harry S. Truman manure pitch, this year’s fair features a venerable list of workshops and discussions, ranging in topic from medicinal marijuana to equine dentistry. Notably, democratic Senate candidate Shenna Bellows and her field director are slated to present a lecture titled “Grassroots Organizing: From Social Justice to Politics,” on continued on p 10
Aaron T Stephan, (United States, born 1974), An Awkward Meeting of Painting and Sculpture, mahogany, bronze, rubber, 33 7/8 x 32 1/4 x 18 7/8 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Museum purchase, 2004.40a,b ŠAaron T Stephan.
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Saturday. You can download/pore over the daily schedules at mofga.org. Despite significantly less local programming and/or cultural buzz around it, National Banned Books Week begins September 21. Considering that the top three most challenged books of 2013 include two children’s books (Captain Underpants and The Absolutely True Diary of a PartTime Indian), and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, book censorship is still very much a thing, and perhaps gets less coverage nowadays due of more visible acts of oppression. On September 24, the owner of sex-supply parlor Nomia, Gina o’rourKe, and erotica writer and editor rachel KraMer Bussel discuss the state of salacious literature today and the nuances amongst genres: porn, romance, erotica, and Fifty Shades. 6:30 pm in the Portland Public Library.
September 25-OctOber 2 Have you gotten your Biddeford time in yet? The closing of the Oak and the Ax come October gives us a bittersweet taste, while the news calls attention to the art and music scene that has helped pump life into the city of Biddeford for the past five years or so. Two reasons to take the 20-mile trek south: The Oak and the Ax Fest partners with Heart of Biddeford’s River Jam Festival this weekend to bring locally grown music and multimedia to dual indoor and outdoor stages. Acts include ex-Maine dame Lady Lamb the Beekeeper and What Cheer? Brigade out of Providence—a category-defying
19-piece brass band, both sure to return to a spirited Maine welcome. Down the way, Biddeford’s River Jam features an open jam sesh Friday night, free music during the day on Saturday and a small cover charge for evening acts-- more info can be found at heartofbiddeford.org. The Oak & The Ax has five shows of outsider folk, used-to-be punk, and experimental artists slated for the remainder of September, all worth your support, but be sure to see the oaK and the ax fest from September 26 through 28. Back in Portland, you probably won’t help but notice the critical Mass BiKe ride planned for September 27. Based off similar models started in Chicago and San Francisco, the ride is charged with the dual goal of assembling a social presence and collectively jamming out. In their words, “cyclists converge with the hope of a reaching a critical mass of riders to control traffic flow in the streets,” followed by a rock show at Geno’s doubling as a Green political rally, with jazz ensemble Pastel Sound Explosion and rock acts the Texarkana, Chakra, and Nuclear Bootz. Organizers promise, “It will be awesome.” the crowBait cluB brings back its King of Crows event, whereby local actors and playwrights restage the club’s most popular performance pieces of 2014. For the past 12 months (and beyond), your secretly thespian neighbors have been congregating at Mayo Street Arts’ intimate renovated church space, pulling names out of a hat, and curating theatrical masterpieces in under 15 minutes.
The KOC event is every night this weekend, September 25-27. Only one team will be named “king,” and yet you can see all the others (and join in, if you want) every first Wednesday of the month. Mayo Street ups its creep game on October 17, where you can watch the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in real audio—like, Portland’s Les Sorciers Perdus went and scored the whole damn thing, and their six-piece band plays it live while you watch. Starting Thursday, September 25 and running through Sunday, the caMden international filM festival draws 60-some-odd films and their makers from all over the world, and this year is no exception. Among this year’s crop of films, many are shedding major spotlight on Art and Craft: the subtly staggering story of prolific art forger Mark Landis and his commitment to distributing artworks to a litany of venerable US institutions. Landis revels himself from these acts of giving by using a variety of pseudonyms, including those of a grieving will executor and of a Jesuit priest, and yet the narrative manages to uncover the factors that compel Landis while questioning the “devious” nature of such charitable acts of subversion. Even if you’re not a baseball fan, there are plenty of themes to latch onto in tonight’s screening of no no: a docKuMentary. The former MLB pitcher Dock Ellis will be most remembered for being the only (known) pitcher to throw a no-hitter while on LSD (it’s a long story, better to let him tell it.) But after his passing in 2008, Ellis has evolved from
a sort of cult phenomenon to a very interesting jumping-off point for a lot of American themes: drugs, sure; but also racial inequality (Ellis, from Los Angeles, was always an outspoken adversary of racial prejudice); sobriety (after the LSD thing, plus the admission that he pitched every single game on amphetamines, Ellis sobered up and helped others do the same); and American culture at large. No No screens at SPACE Gallery on Monday, September 29, at 7:30 pm. Attention: the Cross Insurance Center and Cross Insurance Arena are not interchangeable names. They’re in opposite regions of the state. The (Portland) arena’s new name replaces the old title, Cumberland County Civic Center, in what’s a fairly naked demonstration of privatization efforts affecting Portland’s public venues and resources. The website is still theciviccenter.com, though. Coding error, or pro-business attempt to naturalize private industry? Whatever. And oh yeah, the metal group five finGer death Punch plays there on the 30th, with contemporaries Volbeat, Nothing More, and Hellyeah. Tickets are $40; if you need it, you need it. If electronica is a male-dominated genre, SPACE Gallery aims to counter that October 2, with a show of several radically female-identified electro/punk/pop groups from abroad. caMilla sParKsss self-identifies as “the fantasy ego of Barbara Lehnhoff from Swiss Canadian art punk band Peter Kernel.” We’ll take it! Sparksss cites her earthly origins as continued on p 12
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OctOber 3-9
Put off any non-grocery shopping until the weekend of October 9. The Maine College of Art opens its doors to the public Thursday through Sunday, offering y’all the chance to support local student artists. If you can’t make it to this one, the school puts on a Holiday sale in December.
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being couched in the musical language of Michael Jackson, The Police, Bonnie Tyler, Culture Club, and “Sweet dreams” by the Eurythmics, yet its unclear whether she rivals or revels in the sounds of Pussy Riot. Joining is Emanuelle de Hericourt (“edh”) coming stateside from Paris, who hails influence from the German electronic mogul Kraftwerk and from the UK-based DMX Krew. If alex June had a spirit animal (which she obviously does), it might well be Princess Peach meets Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse”—at least, from the sounds of this description: “June, the Chilean princess of galactic pop, weaves a dark-pink dramatic world, with flurries of synths, bubbling beats and her soaring vocals.” Last but most definitely not least, Portland’s own BaBe promises girlcore fabulousness to round out the venerable set. 8:30 pm, $7-10.
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Wednesday, October 8, and runs through Saturday. The Gerald clayton trio, headed up by none other than Gerald Clayton himself, takes its musical inspiration from its most immediate predecessor: Gerald’s father John, a jazz icon. The trio stops at Bates College for a set on October 3 at 7:30 pm; part of a momentous tour following the release of their fan-funded album Two-Shade. It’s a young trio (Gerald just turned 30), so if you’re among those uninitiated, it couldn’t hurt to hear what contemporary jazz sounds and feels like.
OctOber 10-16
In 2008, four young university students playing a set in a Peshawar, Pakistan nightclub may have seemed not that big a deal amidst the sociopolitical climate of the time. And yet, KhyMariyaan (translation: “The Intoxicators”) emerged as a nuanced response to the circumstances surrounding its birth: “Talibanisation, sectarian violence, military operations and neo-imperialist expansions.” Khymariyaan describes it audience as “the educated youth of Pakistan,” and it’s rather remarkable how what began as a college band has since developed a unique discourse. Sound is used less as a tool
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in waging a greater ideological battle, and is instead regarded as an aspect of the unifying power of live, acoustic music. Khymariyaan derives their sound from elements of traditional Pushtoon music— Pushtoon, the largest minority group in Pakistan—and yet seeks to build bridges between Middle Eastern musical traditions. Presented with a pre-show lecture curated by Reza Jalali of USM’s Office for Multicultural Affairs. October 16 at USM’s Hannaford Hall. The Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom has a decorated reputation along the New Hampshire/Southern Maine coast, and on Yelp. It still manages to pull off three stars, which most of us yearn for on a good day, and ZiGGy Marley definitely won five Grammys. Do it.
OctOber 17-23
You may have seen local filmmakers setting up shop at various spots around town this summer—probably because they were grinding to meet the annual deadline for DamnaTionlanD film submissions. Less a competition than a showcase, seven teams debut seven pieces of short cinema, which comprise a thematic spectrum ranging from spooky to gory, darkly comedic to downright terrifying. Each of these teams have carved out a place in the Portland film scene over the past few years by contributing to city- and state-wide incentives—the annual 48-hour film festival is oft described as the Superbowl of filmmaking, while the folks over at Possible Studios are near always willing to lend a space and a hand in producing various independent projects. Additional screenings will occur throughout Maine, but the big one is October 17 at the State Theatre. His name is Dacre Stoker and he’s the great-grandnephew of Bram, a/k/a the guy who wrote Dracula. At a screening of Vampires of new englanD, an awardwinning documentary that explores the worlds of the undead, the living Stoker comes to talk about the dead Stoker at Port City Music Hall on the 20, in association with Historical Haunts. There, he’ll share his family’s perspective on Dracula— the book, the film, and the institution—, enabling us audience members to acknowledge the parallels we’ve all drawn between family members and classic horror novels. 7 pm.
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tects in Tokyo in 2003. From the first Portland event in 2007 sprung Pecha Kucha Maine, which hosts events from Blue Hill to Biddeford (including one at Engine, on 9/17—bi-monthly events are slated to commence in March). Presenters for both Maine events are yet to be announced, though July’s Portland event saw 11 presentations ranging in topics from quantum chemistry to the collapse of the honeybees. Come check out emerging trends among the hip hop scene at 9 pm on the October 30. MiKe clouds, vinyl caPe, criMewave, Mosart212, and Connecticut’s ZaK G all lend a different flavor to the show being put up at the new Empire: a brief Google yields terms like “goth-rap-metal” and “challenging dance selections.” We’re down. At Empire on October 30.
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Out of Canada comes stars with their new album “The North,” much of which colors them a blend of Arcade Fire, College, M83, and Fitz and the Tantrums. Opening act Hey! Rosetta managed to put together a pretty fucking beautiful “teaser” for their new album “Second Sight,” available on Youtube, which might help guide your decision regarding the show on November 8. The UK electronic-pop group london GraMMar and their goddamn haunting vocals come to the Port City Music Hall November 12. We adore them, but if you need more praise: The Guardian describes them as having a sort of early-90s ethos in their newest album, which Pitchfork calls their latest a “so-far immaculate collection.” 9 pm, $10. In another fine-looking show at Engine, the mixed media show TeXT anD TeXTUre brings a platform for artists formerly of the Portland’s Addison Woolley Gallery. On view through November 22 at 265 Main St. in Biddeford. Halloween is over, but people probably won’t think twice about you trotting out those snap-on fangs to one final event: novelist anne rice reads from her latest book Prince Lestat at the Music Hall in Portsmouth tonight. This book marks her triumphant return to the Vampire Chronicles series that made her so famous. All initial reviews of the book have been pretty favorable, even the NY Times states: “[the book’s] undead characters are utterly alive.” Glowing, for sure, but it makes us wonder if they know how vampires work. The reigning queen of novels about the damned visits on November 4, right as everything starts getting truly dark. ^
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AMONG THE STARS
NOTES FROM ExPERIENCERS SPEAK 2014, THE ALIEN AbdUCTION SUPPORT GROUP _by TEA L G A RdE L L A Underneath the framed black-andwhite photos of boat ropes, lighthouses, and taut sails lining the walls of the Renaissance conference room at the Clarion Hotel, Experiencers Speak is starting to take shape. The weekend’s annual UFO conference, hosted by the international alien abduction support group Starborn Support, focuses specifically on personal accounts from abductees, experiencers, and contactees. At a little before 9 in the morning on Saturday—once the florescent lights are on and the PowerPoint projector is tested in the front of the room of about 150 chairs, roughly a third full—Audrey Hewins, the cofounder of Starborn Support, is checking the sizes for this year’s t-shirts. Next to the folded and stacked shirts are bumper stickers she also has for sale (PRACTICE UNLIMITNESS; LIFE IS SHIFTING, LIVING IS KNOWING HOW). Next to her, Debi Tripp, an Energy and EFT practitioner (Emotional Freedom Technique—described THe TIme oF THeIr LIVeS The experiencers at last weekend’s UFO conference in Portland. on her handout as “Emotional Acupressure” and “Hypnosis on Steroids”) is arranging a handsome) and insectoids (large insect eyes, display of essential oils. Books written by childhood dreams that maybe aren’t dreams. thin limbs, and hard shells). On the cover of Ufo-ologists Stanton Friedman and Kathleen The next speaker, Mike, interrogates David’s book, A Visual Guide to Alien Beings, is his Marden are set out on the table. William himself. “I’m not using the scientific methdrawing “Galactic Family,” where each type Konkolesley, editor of The Experiencer Chronicle, od,” he chides in a Platonic dialogue. “Who of alien being is shown standing together blows up a life-sized green plastic alien and cares? I’m not a scientist.” He can’t depend against the backdrop of a starry sky. quips, “even aliens have to deal with inflaon knowledge but must use “heart and inDavid breaks away in moments to refertion!” Eight speakers are scheduled today, tuition,” which otherwise the logical mind ence specific beings likes “Estartlia,” a feand another eight for tomorrow. would shut off by asking, “Abduction? Me? male alien or “light being’” who floats “out At a podium stands Peter, the Master of Owls?” Mike’s presentation explores the conof a crack in the fabric of the air” in “unconCeremonies, who reads the guidelines for nection between those who have reported ditional love.” Later, I ask him if the name moderating an Abductee Support Group. UFO encounters and their seeming propenEstartlia is in honor of the goddess Astarte. Which are as follows: 1) The single most sity for “weird owl experiences.” He tells me suspects so, but it was a woman important issue to establish in the group Referencing the mythic symbolism of named Garnett who Estartlia had introduced process is confidentiality. 2) The primary obAthena’s owl and the writing of Carl Jung, herself to telepathically. I realize he is genjective of an abductee support group is to adhe posits that the frequency of UFO experitly reminding me Estartlia was not given a dress the emotional, practical, and psychoencers seeing owls may be a metaphor for name; she told Garnett what logical needs of abductee communication into the unconscious mind. it already was. experiencers. 3) Support If abductees have increased synchronicity, Another alien David groups must have a faciliand synchronicities are magic, and if as a references is “Yurani,” a tator. 4) Attendance at a friend told him, “anyone on a spiritual place female being whose race support group meeting has more synchronicities”, the owl experisuffers from low population should be by invitation. ences may be part of a spiritual awakening. due to lacking sexuality. 5) The ultimate goal of a He questions whether UFO abduction is Yurani studies humans to support group is the posisimilar to shamanic initiation. A curiosity learn about “emotions and tive personal transformaechoed by Debi, when she pointed out, in sexuality”—human sexualtion of the isolated and relationship to her unexplained markings, ity and reproduction being frightened abductee and that shamans at times return from the spirione of five themes in UFO discussion. tual plane with physical manifestations. abductions, he explains. “Consider yourself in Before introducing the next speaker, PeThe other four are: an alien a judgment-free bubble ter suggests a new word: “re-owl-ity.” The connection, a ‘mission’ in ‘til Sunday night,” Peter room fills with laughter. Later when I pass the future, impending casays, reminding that Chris in the foyer, he catches my eye and tastrophe, and government information shared over says “re-owl-ity” again, and we both smile. involvement. From memory david’s book the weekend is “extraorThree more experiencers speak before depicting various types of David closes with a dinarily personal” before Steve, Saturday night’s closing presenter. extra-terrestrials. quote from Bashar (on his introducing our first He has not had an encounter. He is not a website, I learn Bashar is a speaker, Michael Melton. contactee. “I’m an activist” he tells the audi“multi-dimensional being” a man named Melton, the co-director of Starborn ence. An article about Betty and Barney Hill, Darryl Anka claims to be channeling). “Fear Support, expresses how isolating it is to a couple who claimed to have been abducted not, worry not. You will become what you have your “worldview shattered” after an in a highly publicized case from 1961, first desire to be. For we see you as you are in our abduction or encounter. Once your worldcaught his attention. By the 1960s when he time and in our time you are among the view is shattered, he says, “you are tasked read the article, he says he “didn’t believe in stars and you know who you are.” with redefining your reality.” the government much by then, and it’s only After lunch is served in the back of the Also at the conference is David, an artgotten worse.” In 1995 he made the decision conference room (leftover stromboli from ist who works with experiencers to recrebetween “just paying rent or doing somethe welcome dinner Friday evening), I meet ate their descriptions of “alien beings” thing meaningful” and focuses his activattendee Chris, a psychotherapist and musiusing colored pencil and ink. During his ism on ending the “65-year truth embargo” cian from Nashville. He tells me he’s been presentation, David explains four types of regarding E.T.s. If the government lies, if interested in “this stuff” since he read Whitalien beings: greys (large head and eyes; journalists lie, he asks us, “Why is it the ley Strieber’s book Communion: A True Story. three-to-five feet tall; thin bodies; grey/ash people that lie tell the people who are telling He thinks his wife may be an experiencer. colored skin), reptilians (scales; lizard-like the truth they are lying?” (He doesn’t go into detail.) He mentions with claws or talons), nordics (blond hair, Like Kathleen, who ended her KATE dIGby SKINNER
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presentation with a call to end discrimination of experiencers through a chant (“Experiencers unite!”), Steve encourages disclosure for “the last closeted group.” With the speakers running past schedule, the evening Q&A is cancelled. Around 10 o’clock I head home while other attendees get beer from the convenience store and plan to reconvene in the Renaissance room. On Sunday, day two, the first speaker is Jim, who describes how he incorporates theories of quantum physics into his woodwork and sculpture before telling us his experience seeing a UFO this summer in Maine. He is followed by Keith, who holds up his hand explaining that his ring finger and middle finger are always joined—unless he’s typing. After Keith is Nancy, a ‘psychic detective’ currently researching “exolinguistics” or, simply put, how to talk to aliens. During one of the five or six coffee breaks, Mike tells me that you’ve either had an experience and get it, or you haven’t, and, even with the best of intentions, you don’t get it. At a point in his presentation he’d said, “the more tangled the story, the more I trust it.” Mike asks what brought me to the conference, explaining he hasn’t seen many young people at UFO conferences. I could tell him the story my mother told me. How once while driving through the La Sal Mountains in Utah she saw a light, a type of light she’s never seen before. The light didn’t diffuse and as soon as they saw it—her boyfriend, two hitchhikers and her—the van stopped running. Her tone remained casual as she told me. She was playing with my hair as we watched House Hunters. She said she suddenly felt very tired, and when she looked around everything seemed inanimate. But then the van started, and they drove on, and no one said anything else about it. But I don’t tell him this because it feels cheap in some way, because ultimately I’m the person who didn’t have the experience. I can’t fully understand it, or, as Mike would say, “get it”. In his afternoon talk, William Konkolesky recalls in his early twenties when three “greys” approached him and his girlfriend. He says they stared at her up and down while communicating with him telepathically: “no, not her”; “she’s not the one”; and “we don’t like this one.” Once the greys left, he and his girlfriend hightailed it out of there and ended up at a department store, where they “grounded themselves in consumerism.” They walked up and down the aisles touching the merchandise and watching the gerbils. He tells us they never spoke about it. She broke up with him shortly after. The rest of the afternoon consists of more presentations, one by a woman named Linda, who describes being abducted from her Manhattan apartment. “If you are an abductee, when you go home I want you to go to your closet. I want you to look at your clothes. They’re still there. Nothing has changed. Look in your fridge. Its all still there. Remember you’re still here. Keep your feet on the ground.” I catch Linda on her way out of the Clarion. I read her my notes to make sure I recorded her words correctly. Once I stop reading, she smiles and taking my chin between her index finger and thumb, pulls my face slightly forward in order to look into my eyes for a moment, before letting go. ^
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f MOE., at Collins Center for the Arts, in Orono on Sep 12. thursday 11 SOUND CARRIES ON THE WATER | The tourists aren’t gone yet, but one can stand to wager that there’ll probably be a better chance this week at getting a seat at the Portland Lobster Company than any before. Portland rock favorites DOMINIC & THE LUCID play a set on the harbor. Singer and guitarist Dominic Lavoie is involved with a number of other musical projects, but we’re happy to see that this particular incarnation continues. Hopefully the rest of the visitors from away will find it suitably palatable tuneage for scarfing their coveted double lobster plate. 6 pm. 180 Commercial St. 207.775.2112. LOUNGE SINISTER | Sonny’s is now hosting a good-as-regular Thursday night lounge thing with COREY GAGNE & PETE DUGAS, and/or their devious alter egos Humperdinck Humperdink and Glass Joe. Sip infused vodka cocktails as all your favorite hits get run through an ultra-lounge grinder that knows no mercy (and is also catchy as hell). Get relaxed at 10 pm sharp. No cover. 83 Exchange St. 207.772.7774.
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is the perfect time for excessive noodling. Just look at MOE. The jam-centric rock group got their start at the famed University of Buffalo (Go Bulls!) and have seemingly been playing college campuses ever since. Okay, we joke, but it’s no lie that they know their audience. New England loves the 13-minute extended jam, and (now that Phish is gone) these guys are the ones to provide it. If you can’t catch them up at the Collins Center in Orono tonight, don’t fret, moe. tends to wander through these parts every other season. $28-$33 at 8 pm. 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono; 207.581.1755. MEDIUM RARE | While it’s somewhat overused television or literature, anyone in real life who claims they can speak with the dead (and continually turn a profit off of it) is a rare thing indeed. According to her bio, MAUREEN HANCOCK “has spent the last twelve years demystifying the overwhelming subject matter of death” and helping others “tap into messages from
spirit.” Tonight (for $30 a head) she’s promising to give people a chance to hear from their dead loved ones. If you’re interested in receiving a little extra attention you can upgrade to a “VIP spiritual experience” for $50. Our thoughts? We’re more than a little skeptical, but hey, paying thirty bucks to see someone manipulate an audience by exploiting unresolved emotional issues is basically a night at the theater. 7 pm at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center 471 Stroudwater St, Westbrook. 207.857.3850. NEVER NUDES | Bring your sexpositive selves to the St Lawrence Arts Center tonight for a showcase of local dancers and performers entitled STEAMY NIGHTS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE. If you need more convincing, know that this one-night-only event features a pretty awesome cross-section of companies and performers around town, and they’re all doing this as a benefit for the St Lawrence Arts Center itself. The naughtiest-ofdances has seesawed between exploitative entertainment and body-image empowering art. It is a historically fascinating barometer of the consent and power
COLOR OF THE MIND | Green is the topic of choice for the folks assembled in Monument Square this afternoon. More info is provided in our Fall Preview on page 8, but highlights of the first annual PORLAND GREENFEST include: permaculture workshops, live music, a marine touch tank and an “upcycled fashion show.” Many more activities (including a few documentary screenings) are in store, but let’s be honest, they had us at “marine touch tank.” Bring the kids! 10-4 pm in Monument Square, on Congress St. LSD IN HELL | As daily life seems to continue to spiral down into a Hobbesian “war of all against all,” our desire to just take drugs, steal a hot-rod, and cruise around the California desert Mad Max-style becomes ever increasing. Providing a likely soundtrack to these Bella omnium antics is Oakland, California-based LECHEROUS GAZE, who bring their grimy, slightly psychedelic garage-punk to Empire tonight. Headbang the rest
of your brain cells into oblivion at 10 pm with CUSHING and SWAMP WATER. All-in-all, this should make for an excellently nasty, brutish, and (hopefully not) short evening. Tickets $7; 575 Congress St. 207.879.8988. AN EDUCATION | Across town
OKBARI MIDDLE EASTERN ENSEMBLE pays a fitting tribute to
composer and master Oudist the late Udi Alan Shavarsh Bardezbanian, who founding members of Okbari—Eric LaPerna and Amos Libby—studied under in Turkey. They’ve paired up with celebrated belly dancer, Jamileh Jeanne Handy and a number of other local musicians to celebrate the late, great teacher’s untimely 2006 passing. If tradition excites you, head over to Mayo Street Arts at 8 pm. Tickets are $15 at the door, or $8 with a valid student ID. 10 Mayo St. 207.615.3609.
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ing everything these days. Flying a little low on the radar this Sunday is the aptly named PORCHFEST taking place around the Deering Center neighborhood in Portland from noon till 4 pm today. The concept is simple but brilliant, have the musicians who live in the neighborhood play on their various porches
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in Portsmouth poignantly melancholic humors abound. Kent Stephen’s STAGE FORCE puts up a staged reading of Julia Cho’s very touching new play THE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE. The central conceit of the play is this: when you are in a relationship with someone, a new language emerges between that person and you. So, George the academic is in charge of a language archive, preserving languages before they are lost. He however is unable
to preserve the language of his estranged wife before she leaves him, or his new girlfriend, who can’t quite speak his ex’s language. George finds himself like a traveler in a foreign country, looking for someone who he can understand. It’s totally sad (see also: divorce, futility of communication) but also really beautiful and quite current. Starts at 7 pm; tickets $12. At the Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St., Portsmouth.207.439.5769. POTATO BANJO SCALLION | While we can all agree the quintessential OTTO experience is to be had waiting in line in January on a Saturday after midnight, it remains a very true fact that JOE WALSH & FRIENDS hold down an enjoyable bluegrass night there every Monday. So enjoyable we are even willing to sit down and have our pizza served to us. Join in all the good music at 574-6 Congress St.207.773.7099.
tuEsday 16 OUT THE DUNGEONS | When Illmatic was first released in 1994, East Coast rap experienced a small renaissance in content and form. With a skillful lyricism and focus on the everyday struggles of living in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Nas brought a genre-shaping breath of fresh air and subsequently altered the course of New York rap for decades to come. Two decades later, the documentary, NAS: TIME IS ILLMATIC sources an impressive list of musicians (including Alicia Keys, Busta Rhymes, Fab 5 Freddy) in talking about the album and its place in rap history. SPACE Gallery screens it tonight at 7:30 pm. 538 Congress St. 207.828.5600. SAME BRAINS | The seemingly boundary-less duo Cali Bulmash and Emily Lowinger bring their wild, saucy music show SLAM UP to the Red Door. Described by them as “a modern cabaret journey through the many stages of life and shades of love: requited and unrequited, gay, straight,
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WEdnEsday 17 BAND VISUALS | The beer and
music floweth tonight down at Novare Res Bier Cafe. For what basically has become one of the most late-twenties-andliving-in-Portland experiences you can check out JAW GEMS as they work through another flawless set, and ALTERED GEE as they probe the more obscure (and fuzzy) ends of the modern funk spectrum. Here we would typically make a cry to enjoy the end of summer and be outside while you can, but you probably all have realized that by now. 4 Canal Plaza. 207.761.2437. THOUGHTS POETICAL | Two poets who also happen to be psychotherapists (everyone needs a day job) read selections of their work at the RiverRun Bookstore this evening. SUSAN NISENBAUM BECKER and GARY WITHED are both accomplished poets who have seen their first books published in 2013. Journey with them as they explore both outer and inner spaces and sign a book or two along the way. 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth. 603.431.2100.
thursday 18 UNMENTIONABLES | There’s lots coming up this next week, including the fact that you need to do laundry (and take a shower). Scholar Kathleen M. Brown fills in a historical context with her talk, “WHAT’S LAUNDRY GOT
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elementally-themed installation in a Maine mill this fall. (She has tackled this every two years, adroitly, since 1998.) This one’s called, and considers, Matter, a show for which she needs 999 people to bring 3 cups of loose dirt from home during the its roughly three-week run. Curtis isn’t sharing how the dirt will be used, but if it’s like everything she’s done in the past, expect the viewer-participant boundary to shatter, and the simple, minimal experience to last possibly years. From October 4-24 at the Robinson Mill in Parsonsfield. At MECA, one could spend hours tracing the history of the concept of fair use, which art design and research firm Project_ (Ana Miljacki and Lee Moreau). Both academics and professors of architecture, their work compellingly outlines not just built edifices but built ideas—“Fair Use: An Architectural Timeline,” seizes upon the concept over research printed on dozens of large, blocky cards, as though critical study were as simple as digging for records in a vinyl bin. Elsewhere, the colorful and evocative collection “The Wrong Kind of Bars” offers a glimpse inside the creative minds of Maine inmates, far more than what we’re able to glean from the goods in that furniture store up in Thomaston. Among other school shows: At UNE’s Art Gallery in Portland, see “Coyote Connections: A Group Exhibition,” an aesthetic study of the animal as it’s appeared in several walks of mythos and culture, from 30 artists (October 9 into 2015). At the UMaine campus in Augusta, over a dozen students explore their connections to Cuban culture through photography, painting, and mixed- and upcycled media. “CUBA: Cultural Understanding Between the Arts” comes down October 3. And USM sets aside both campuses for an era-spanning look at the evolution of the US’ response to the Iraq War. “Opposing Gestures” was begun ten years ago by grad students Joseph Farbrook and Sama Alshaibi; today their video assemblages, sculptures, and photographs will attempt to carve new insights into a subject many have hardened to (September 23 through December 10). ^
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_by MEGAN GR U Mb LING Ok, let’s launch the theater preview with a few newish— and sometimes provocative—upcoming works on stage in the Portland area. And why not start with something called The Well of Horniness (September 25-28, at USM)? This “farcical radio play” concerns the murder of the husband of a “reformed” ex-lesbian sorority member, the investigation of whom falls to one Detective Garnet McClit. Need I mention that the subject matter is meant for the “mature”? I’m also pleased to report the hotoff-the-presses news that Dramatic Repertory Company will be staging a production of Caryl Churchill’s A Number (November 14-22, at the Portland Ballet Studio Theater). Churchill’s challenging 2002 play, learn your fixations The USM Theater written in the aftermath of the Department stages The Well of Horniness by cloned sheep Dolly and other exHolly Hughes, Sep 25-28. periments, tells the tale of a father forced to confront a series of his Music Theater offers the politically incorown cloned sons. rect puppets of Avenue Q (September 19-OcAnother compelling premise and recent tober 4) and the classic Oliver! (November script comes in Snowlion Repertory Com21 through December 7). Musical lovers pany, Moral and Political Lessons on Wyoming might also look to Les Miserables at Portland (November 14-23, at the Portland Stage Players (September 26 through October Studio Theater). This show takes as conceit 19); Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Sorcerer a near future in which theater as we know (September 18-28), at the Theater at Monit has been banned; the action takes place mouth; a musical version of The Witches during the censors’ cautionary reading of of Eastwick at the Ogunquit Playhouse the bad-old-days show Wyoming. (through September 27); and Godspell at The fall will also feature an array of Seacoast Repertory (also through Septemmodern favorites and classics, starting ber 27). Finally, Souvenir (Portland Stage, Ocwith Neil Simon’s coming-of-age-in-thetober 28 through November 16), comically Depression comedy Brighton Beach Memoirs showcases the tone-deaf recitals of actual (Portland Stage Company, September 23 soprano Florence Foster Jenkins. through October 19). Good Theater mounts More shows in the comedic realm inanother show set in the Depression, The clude the comedy of manners Mrs. Mannerly Rainmaker (October 1-19), about a spinster (Good Theater, October 29 through Novemand a con-man—and they report they’ll ber 23); A.R. Gurney’s rocky family in The be giving it a new look, plus color-blind Cocktail Hour (Public Theatre, October 17casting. In South Portland, Mad Horse will 26); and a locally written Halloween show stage Arthur Miller’s wrenching A View by Michael Tobin, Murder at Maine Manor from the Bridge (October 3-19); and more clas(Footlights at Falmouth, October 16-26). sic Miller comes to Seacoast Repertory, in A few recent dramas worth checking Portsmouth, with The Crucible (October 3 out will appear south of us. In Kittery, through November 2). William Inge’s coKent Stephens’s Stage Force mounts Gruemedic drama Bus Stop (October 31 through some Playground Injuries (which Sean MewsNovember 9), about strangers stranded in haw produced with such grim panache a Midwest diner, goes up at the University last year at SPACE) from October 17-26, of Southern Maine; and, finally, the recent and the Players’ Ring produces several Brian Friel favorite, Dancing at Lughnasa— inviting shows as part of its fall lineup, which recounts a narrator’s childhood including these three: the original musisummer in 1936 County Donegal with his cal called Missing: Wynter (September 19 mother and aunts—will be staged by the through October 5), billed as “a modern Originals, at the Saco River Grange Hall. cautionary tale somewhere between Just a few of theater’s more classic clasCervantes and Brothers Grimm”; Sarah sics will make it to stage this fall; they Ruhl’s 2007 Dead Man’s Cell Phone (October include a production of King Lear (November 31 through November 9); and Jon Rabin 6-9) at the Footlights at Falmouth; and Baitz’s 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Moliere’s School for Wives (November 14-30), Other Desert Cities (November 14-30). at the New Hampshire Theatre Project. AdFinally, for the kids: the Children’s ditionally, Naked Shakespeare will present Museum and Theater of Maine offers a its characteristic language-focused Bard new Alice in Wonderland, with music (October work on October 16 and 18 at the Portland 17-26), and the Gaslight Theater stages Museum of Art. Boo! Thirteen Scenes from Halloween (October 24 Quite a number of fall shows extend through November 3). ^ the season of music-driven theater. Lyric
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Variety is the spice of your record collection, so please tell me you don’t just pick a Pandora station and stick with it for weeks at a time. That’s the sixdisc changer in the car of the modern era. Wood, with bassist Adam Frederick particularly destroying his part. And Warren Mcpherson’s addition on various keyboards is definitely new and different, bringing in a heavy jazz influence (or maybe just letting Spooner particularly indulge in a direction he was going anyway). In “Shrouded,” though, he’s still the thoughtful songwriter that first caught your attention, with a simple strum accompanied by three- and four-note walks from the piano: “And I watch you from afar / And I feel you slip away / When you wished upon a sky full of stars / you never dreamed it’d end this way.”
Challenge yourself, for chrissakes. This fall will give you every opportunity to do something a little uncomfortable.
y Sept 12 Maybe you want to stomp
all those bearded, overalled, hippy types with 15 people in their band and some dude that doesn’t do anything but hit a triangle. So go see Max Garcia conover tonight at Mayo Street Arts. He releases an able follow-up to last year’s first fulllength Burrow with EllEry, very much the same kind of ultra-earthy folk treatises. Except the production and instrumentation from Ben Cosgrove is electric, tautly spare and multilayered, built on top of Conover’s finger-style acoustic. It’s hard not to recall the work that Joe Boyd did with Nick Drake, alongside string arranger Robert Kirby. Especially when you hear the brass on “Amapolas, Part One,” which is reminiscent of Kirby’s work on Bryter Later. Where Drake’s stuff was so all-encompassing, like being amidst a sauna of notes, Cosgrove lets Conover pull the reins way back and recall the feeling of a wide open dome of sky, of driving in the American West. Here, the “la-da-da” chorus is so subconsciously familiar it’s in your head instantaneously; you’re humming it on the way to get a can of beer from the fridge as soon as you hear it. On “Wildfires Outside Laramie, WY,” wife Sophie Nelson’s backing vocals are crazy tasteful, airy and a crisp contrast to Conover’s rumbling low end. There is a deep sincerity in what they’re doing, the quiet, awed tone of people who aren’t nearly done figuring out the world yet and ain’t in a big hurry to get there. It’s this kind of sentiment from “The Start of Fables”: “Bring it all back and be kind / And be easy baby / I know I don’t finish most things.”
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Sept 17 Surely, you don’t have time for all those wannabe ‘70s glam-metal stars, desperate for leather pants to return to fashion glory? Well, then head to Geno’s tonight to catch HeSSian celebrate, with Blood of Kinds, Eastern Spell, and Manic Abraxas, the release of BachElor of Black arts, a wicked collection of soaring rock vocals and ferocious guitar solos, on Stormspell Records. If you can’t rock out to the bass riff they ride in the heart of “Cloven Lady,” you’re potentially soulless. “Une Charogne” is three minutes of pure guitar assault. You can feel it in your sternum. And “Witch Road” is the kind of long-form epic not a
whole lot of bands churn out anymore.
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Sept 20 It’s possible you don’t feel like this “heavy” music is right for you at all! It is then incumbent on you to hit what might be the most anticipated local release of the past couple years: The new record from cruel Hand, thE NEgativEs. If you’re into that kind of thing, you’ve got the date penciled into your calendar already, so we’ll keep it brief: Muscular, old-school, DIY hardcore, with guys swinging their arms around and all the songs are two minutes long. If the first single, “Monument Square People,” is any indication, they’ve only doubled-down on the heaviness, with a peek behind the digital curtain and vocals like an air horn in a closet: “Failure. Redemption. Protest.” The energy in Port City Music Hall tonight will be intense, fueled also by Too Late the Hero, Battery Steele, DNA, and Bane. Grab all four of those records, and you can consider your collection well rounded. But enough of the conceit:
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Sept 23 USM resident composer Dan Sonenberg has been busy this summer, following up his epic, baseball-themed opera with a full-length solo record, Peaks Island Ferry, which hits Bull Moose today. It’s kind of like David Bowie doing Frank Zappa songs, with some of the intricacy you’d expect from a classical composer,
y Sept 24 Make sure to catch old friend
eliJaH ocean (Loverless) at the Empire, up from new New York to preview his second solo full-length, BriNg it all iN, which builds on the country-folk, new-Dylan sound he’s carved out for himself. The record doesn’t drop till Oct 7, but surely Ocean will be generous in providing a sneak peek.
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Sept 27 In a continuation of work done by the likes of Dana Gross, Samuel James, Micah Blue Smaldone, and Moses Atwood locally, BeaM & Fink have put together an old-time blues record in DoN’t sEll it, that’s for fans of the Smithsonian Folkways. It’s a mix of unearthed covers and originals and drops tonight at the Dogfish on Free Street, in Portland.
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oct 10 Looking for the next Pete Seeger or Willie Nelson? Make sure you’re keeping tabs on dan BlakeSlee, who’s persevering into something of a Northeast icon with his winsomely dark art and folk. Make sure to hit SPACE tonight for the local release of Owed to the Tanglin’ Wind, featuring turns from the Low Anthem, Jonah Tolchin, and Joe Fletcher.
y oct 11 Has it really been three years
since SunSet HeartS’ breakthrough Inside the Haunted Cloud? The 2012 EP they put out hasn’t been nearly enough to tide over fans of Casio-fueled indie dance pop. Luckily, they return tonight to SPACE with a new full-length, as yet untitled.
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Sept 13 Perhaps you find all that a bit twee, anyway. Just like the types who might frequent this first annual Portland Greenfest, what with the soft color palette and little stick figures riding bikes and recycling for pleasure. Better head down to see the JaSon Spooner Band headline the thing, in support of the brand-new chEmical, a fully midcareer and finely polished work by a singer-songwriter who knows what he’s doing. He doesn’t even sing on “T’ump,” and the jam isn’t far from Medeski Martin &
and plenty of drama, but also a directness and silliness that might surprise you.
expoSed ceilinG max Garcia Conover’s lush, earthy folk songs are easy to love.
a decent gypsy jazz sound? No one’s doing it better locally than Muddy ruckuS frontman Ryan Flaherty. The two-, often three-piece release their SelF-titled deBut today with a gig at the Empire. It’s got gads of guest types and was recorded with Abel Adame down at Acadia. ^
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OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | DJ
Mike Mahoney
| Jacob Forbes Quartet | 8 pm | Eric Quinn Quintet | 10 pm BRIAN BORU | Portland | Zealous Bellus | 9:30 pm BUBBA’S SULKY LOUNGE | Portland | DJ Jon | 9 pm CREMA | Portland | Salsa Sensation Viva + Soundwavz | 7 pm | benefit | $20 THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | Portland | Renovators | 8 pm EASY DAY | South Portland | Don Campbell | 10 pm EMPIRE | Portland | Lecherous Gaze + Cushing + Swamp Water | 10 pm | $7 FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | Kefka + Saeko + An Anderson | 9 pm GINZA TOWN | Portland | karaoke LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | October Road MAYO STREET ARTS | Portland | Okbari Middle Eastern Ensemble + Jamileh | 8 pm | $7-$15 OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | DJ Tubbs ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | Portland | Session Americana | 8 pm | $15 PORTLAND LOBSTER CO | Portland | Muddy Ruckus & the Burners | 12:30 pm | Blues Mafia | 6 pm PROFENNO’S | Westbrook | DJ Jim Fahey | 9 pm SEASONS GRILLE | Portland | karaoke with Long Island Larry | 8:30 pm STYXX | Portland | DJ Chris O + DJ Ross
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MONDAY 15
7 | 10 pm
51 WHARF | Portland | DJ Jay-C | 9 pm ACOUSTIC ARTISANS | Portland |
Sarah McQuaid | 8 pm
Local Beer Live Music Comedy Scratch Food Poetry Pub Quiz BULL FEENEY’S
MJ’S WINE BAR | Portland | DJ Dusty
portland’s pub
375 FORE STREET IN THE HEART OF THE OLD PORT 773.7210 FACEBOOK.COM/BULLFEENEYS @BULLFEENEYS
SEA DOG BREWING/SOUTH PORTLAND | South Portland | karaoke |
10 pm
SONNY’S | Portland | Corey Gagne & Pete Dugas | 10 pm
SPRING POINT TAVERN | South
51 WHARF | Portland | DJ Revolve ASYLUM | Portland | upstairs:
Dean Ford + Miss Fairchild + Justin Levinson | 9 pm | $6 | downstairs: “Plague,” goth/industrial night with Gothic Maine DJs | 9 pm | $2-5 BLUE | Portland | Muddy Ruckus | 6 pm | Gather Rounders | 8 pm | Acadian Aces | 10 pm BRIAN BORU | Portland | Lovewhip | 9:30 pm BUBBA’S SULKY LOUNGE | Portland | ‘80s Night,” with DJ Jon | 9 pm | $5 BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/PORTLAND | Portland | “acoustic night,” performers TBA | 4 pm THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | Portland | Travis James Humphrey | 5 pm | Viva | 8 pm FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | “Foundation Fridays” with Ed Garrison + Mr. Dereloid | 9 pm FROG AND TURTLE | Westbrook | Pete Witham & the Cozmik Zombies GINZA TOWN | Portland | karaoke
LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE
| Portland | Silent Sam & the Evans | 7 pm MAYO STREET ARTS | Portland | Max Garcia Conover | 7:30 pm | $12
ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland | Christina Gniadek
BIG EASY | Portland | “Roots Rock
Reggae Sundays,” with Stream | 9 pm | $5 GATHER | Yarmouth | “Bluegrass Brunch,” with Ron & Wendy Cody + Lincoln Meyers | 10 am LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | Sean Mencher & Friends | 11 am MAMA’S CROWBAR | Portland | blues jam with Lex Jones | 4 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | karaoke with DJ Mike Mahoney ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | Portland | Jazz Workshop | 10 am | $8 PORTHOLE RESTAURANT | Portland | North of Nashville | 2 pm PORTLAND LOBSTER CO | Portland | Mitch Alden Duo | noon | Pete Kilpatrick Band | 5 pm PROFENNO’S | Westbrook | open mic | 6 pm SKYBOX BAR AND GRILL | Westbrook | open jam | 2 pm STYXX | Portland | Latrice Royale | 8:30 pm | karaoke with Cherry Lemonade | 9 pm
ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland |
FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | “Unknown Pleasures,” darkwave & postpunk with DJ TK | 9 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | karaoke with DJ Don Corman OTTO | Portland | “Bluegrass Night,” with Joe Walsh & Friends | 8 pm PORTLAND LOBSTER CO | Portland | Connor Garvey & Friends | 6 pm RI RA/PORTLAND | Portland | open mic with EvGuy | 8 pm
TUESDAY 16
ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland |
Frank Donovan
ARMORY LOUNGE | Portland | Lounge Project | 6:30 pm BLUE | Portland | Cover Your Friends | 8 pm BULL FEENEY’S | Portland | open mic with Jake McCurdy | 9 pm FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | “Open Decks Night,” with Kid Ray | 9 pm LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | open mic with Flash Allen | 7 pm MAMA’S CROWBAR | Portland | “Piano Night” with Jimmy Dority | 8 pm MEG PERRY CENTER | Portland | open mic | 7 pm | acoustic jam session | 9 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | karaoke with DJ Mike Mahoney PORTLAND LOBSTER CO | Portland | Sam Shain & the Scolded Dogs | 6 pm
WEDNESDAY 17
ACOUSTIC ARTISANS | Portland |
Okbari Middle Eastern Ensemble | 8 pm | $15 ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland | Custom House Gang ASYLUM | Portland | upstairs: “Rap Night,” with Shupe & Ill By Instinct + Eyenine + God.Damn.Chan. + DJ KTF | 9 pm | $0-3 BLUE | Portland | Nicole Rabata | 7:30 pm | Irish Seisún | 9 pm BULL FEENEY’S | Portland | Squid Jiggers | 8 pm THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | Portland | acoustic open mic with Chris Bell | 7 pm EASY DAY | South Portland | Don Campbell | 6 pm FROG AND TURTLE | Westbrook | open blues jam with Poke Chop GATHER | Yarmouth | Fran & Zig | 6:30 pm GENO’S ROCK CLUB | Portland | Hessian + Blood of Kings + Eastern Spell + Manic Abraxas | 9 pm | $5 LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | Midnight Snack | 4 pm MAMA’S CROWBAR | Portland | “Local Lady Singer Songwriters,” performers TBA OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | DJ Marc Beatham ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | Portland | Steve Forbert | 8 pm | $20 PORTLAND LOBSTER CO | Portland | Vinyl Tap | 6 pm PROFENNO’S | Westbrook | karaoke with Lil’ Musicman | 9 pm
THATCHER’S PUB/SOUTH PORTLAND | South Portland | open mic | 6 pm
THURSDAY 18
51 WHARF | Portland | DJ Jay-C | 9
pm
ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland | Pretty Girls Sing Soprano ASYLUM | Portland | downstairs: “Retro Night,” with DJ King Alberto + DJ Dark City | 10 pm BASSLINES | Portland | “College Night” with DJ Trill1 | $0-$10 BIG EASY | Portland | “Bass-Time Continuum,” dance night with CloZee + Psymbionic + Digital Connection + One4ALL + Brede | 9 pm | $5-10
BLUE | Portland | Peacetime Generals | 7 pm | “Truth or Dare,” open mic games with Heather Styka | 8 pm | Northwood | 9 pm BULL FEENEY’S | Portland | Gorilla Finger Dub Band | 9 pm THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | Portland | Dapper Gents | 8 pm EMPIRE | Portland | Wild Adriatic + Whale Oil | 10 pm | $5 FROG AND TURTLE | Westbrook | Matt Brunner Project OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | karaoke with DJ Mike Mahoney ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | Portland | Le Vent Du Nord | 8 pm | $30 PEARL | Portland | Maine Electronic Entertainment DJs | 9 pm PORTHOLE RESTAURANT | Portland | Lyle Divinsky | 6 pm PORTLAND EAGLES | Portland | karaoke with Jeff Rockwell | 6 pm PORTLAND LOBSTER CO | Portland | Dominic & the Lucid | 6 pm | Dominic Lavoie & Friends | 6 pm SEA DOG BREWING/SOUTH PORTLAND | South Portland | karaoke | 10 pm
SONNY’S | Portland | Corey Gagne & Pete Dugas | 10 pm
STYXX | Portland | DJ Tubbz | 7 pm
MAINE THURSDAY 11
302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN |
Fryeburg | open mic | 8:30 pm BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | Dover Foxcroft | karaoke | 9 pm BEBE’S BURRITOS | Biddeford | open mic with Bill Howard
BLACK BEAR CAFE | Naples | Paddy Mills | 6:30 pm
BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK | Brunswick | karaoke | 8:30 pm
THE CAGE | Lewiston | open blues jam | 7 pm
CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN | Buck-
field | open mic | 7 pm
CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Biddeford | karaoke with DJ Caleb Biggers | 9 pm
CLUB TEXAS | Auburn | DJ B-Set | 9:30 pm
THE DRAFT HOUSE | South Paris | open mic | 8 pm
GFB SCOTTISH PUB | Old Orchard
Beach | open mic with Uncle Curtis & Miss Nancy | 7 pm HIGHLANDS COFFEE HOUSE | Thomaston | open mic | 6 pm INN ON THE BLUES | York Beach | Johnny Wad & the Cash | 9 pm IRISH TWINS PUB | Lewiston | karaoke | 8 pm KENNEBEC WHARF | Hallowell | Shizzle | 9 pm LIBERAL CUP | Hallowell | Blasted Knoll String Band | 7-10 pm LOMPOC CAFE | Bar Harbor | open mic MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | karaoke | 9 pm MAXWELL’S PUB | Ogunquit | karaoke | 9 pm MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | Woolwich | Steve Vellani | 6 pm OLD GOAT | Richmond | open mic | 8 pm RAILROAD DINER | Lisbon Falls | open mic | 8 pm RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Saco | Now is Now | 8-11 pm SEA DOG BREWING/BANGOR | Bangor | karaoke | 9 pm SKIP’S LOUNGE | Buxton | open mic | 7 pm SUDS PUB | Bethel | Denny Breau | 9 pm TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | Gray | open mic | 8 pm TORCHES GRILL HOUSE | Kennebunk | open mic | 7 pm TRAIN’S TAVERN | Lebanon | karaoke with DJ Dick Fredette | 7 pm YORK HARBOR INN | York Harbor | open mic | 7 pm
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FRIDAY 12
AMERICAN LEGION POST 56 | York | karaoke | 8 pm
ANNIE’S IRISH PUB | Ogunquit | open
mic | 7 pm
BENTLEY’S SALOON | Arundel |
Teazer | 8 pm
BLACK BEAR CAFE | Naples | Tom
O’Carroll | 6:30 pm
BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | Bath | karaoke with DJ Joe | 8:30 pm CARMEN VERANDAH | Bar Harbor | DJ Buffington | 9 pm CHAPS SALOON | Buxton | DJ Marky Mark FEILE IRISH RESTAURANT AND PUB | Wells | karaoke Annie | 8 pm FRONTIER CAFE | Brunswick | North of Nashville | 8 pm | $15
GREEN ROOM | Sanford | DJ Dubruso
| 9 pm
GUTHRIE’S | Lewiston | Mountain Emergency | 8 pm INN ON THE BLUES | York Beach | Family Affair | 9 pm IRON TAILS SALOON | Acton | Duke | 8 pm KENNEBEC WHARF | Hallowell | Happy Hour Band | 5:30 pm | Boneheads | 9 pm KERRYMEN PUB | Saco | Red Sky Mary | 8 pm MAINE STREET | Ogunquit | DJ Aga | 9 pm MAXWELL’S PUB | Ogunquit | karaoke | 9 pm MINE OYSTER | Boothbay Harbor | Mama’s Boomshack MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | Woolwich | Michael Reny | 6 pm MOOSE ALLEY | Rangeley | Jason Mancine | 7 pm MYRTLE STREET TAVERN | Rockland | karaoke | 9 pm NARAL’S EXPERIENCE ARABIA | Auburn | VJ Pulse | 10 pm PADDY MURPHY’S | Bangor | karaoke SHOOTERS SPORTS PUB | Mechanic Falls | karaoke with DJ Will SPLITTERS | Augusta | karaoke SUNSET DECK | Old Orchard Beach | Joeyoke | 9 pm TUCKER’S PUB | Norway | open mic | 7 pm
SATURDAY 13
BENTLEY’S SALOON | Arundel | Rosie | 2 pm | Stolen Mojo | 8 pm BLACK BEAR CAFE | Naples | Tom O’Carroll | 6:30 pm FRONTIER CAFE | Brunswick | Novel Jazz Septet | 8 pm | $15-18 GREEN ROOM | Sanford | DJ B-Phat | 9 pm INN ON THE BLUES | York Beach | Substance | 9 pm IRON TAILS SALOON | Acton | Gather Rounders | 1 pm | Red Sky Mary | 8 pm KENNEBEC WHARF | Hallowell | Calypso Soldiers | 9 pm KERRYMEN PUB | Saco | Hurricanes | 8 pm LIBERAL CUP | Hallowell | Sam Shain & the Scolded Dogs | 9 pm MAXWELL’S PUB | Ogunquit | karaoke | 9 pm MCSEAGULL’S | Boothbay Harbor | Elmore Twist MINE OYSTER | Boothbay Harbor | Tilden Katz MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | Woolwich | Steve Chadbourne | 6 pm MOOSE ALLEY | Rangeley | Fighting Fiction | 7 pm NARAL’S EXPERIENCE ARABIA | Auburn | VJ Pulse | 10 pm PIER PATIO PUB | Old Orchard Beach | Hello Newman | 9 pm RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Saco | Cattle Call | 8-11 pm SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM
| Topsham | karaoke with DJ Stormin’ Norman | 10 pm SKIP’S LOUNGE | Buxton | DJ Yadi SUNSET DECK | Old Orchard Beach | Joeyoke | 9 pm
SUNDAY 14
302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN | Fryeburg | Tom Rebmann | 11 am ANNIE’S IRISH PUB | Ogunquit | Irish session | 5 pm
BENTLEY’S SALOON | Arundel | Whiskey Militia | 1 pm BLACK BEAR CAFE | Naples | Paddy Mills | 6:30 pm BLOOMFIELD’S CAFE AND BAR | Skowhegan | open mic jam | 5 pm
Darius Rucker
BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | Bath |
Irish-American sing-along | 5 pm CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Biddeford | karaoke with DJ Don Corman | 9:30 pm HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | Bangor | karaoke with Suzy Q | 6 pm IRON TAILS SALOON | Acton | Packmann Dave | 1 pm THE KENNEBEC WHARF | Hallowell | open mic with Christine Poulson | 5 pm MCSEAGULL’S | Boothbay Harbor | Elmore Twist RAVEN’S ROOST | Brunswick | open mic | 3 pm SOUTHSIDE TAVERN | Skowhegan | open mic jam | 9 pm
MONDAY 15
BLACK BEAR CAFE | Naples | Irish sesseion with Junior Stevens | 7-10 pm
BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | Bath |
Irish session | 7 pm KERRYMEN PUB | Saco | open mic | 7:30 pm MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | open mic with Mike Rodrigue | 9 pm THE OAK AND THE AX | Biddeford | Great Valley + Soft Eyes + Fur | 8 pm | $8
TUESDAY 16
BENCH BAR AND GRILL | Gardiner | open mic | 6 pm
FIRE HOUSE GRILLE | Auburn |
open mic | 9 pm
FRONTIER CAFE | Brunswick |
“Frontiers of Music #16,” with Laurie Amat & Dave Seidel + Junko Fujiwara + Ben Noyes & Joshua DeScherer + Bill Matthews | 7:30 pm | by donation
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MAIN TAVERN | Bangor | open mic
| 9 pm
MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | Dave Mello | 6 pm | open blues jam | 9 pm MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | Woolwich | open mic | 7 pm ROCK HARBOR | Rockland | open mic | 8 pm RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Saco | open mic SHOOTERS SPORTS PUB | Mechanic Falls | open mic | 7 pm SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville | karaoke with Bryant TRAIN’S TAVERN | Lebanon | open mic | 7 pm
WEDNESDAY 17
27 PUB & GRILL | Wiscasset | open mic
CHARLAMAGNE’S | Augusta | open
mic
COLE FARMS | Gray | open mic FEILE IRISH RESTAURANT AND PUB | Wells | Irish session | 6 pm FUSION | Lewiston | open mic & karaoke | 9 pm
GREEN ROOM | Sanford | DJ B-Phat | 9 pm
SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM |
Topsham | open mic | 9:30 pm SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville | open mic
THURSDAY 18
302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN |
Fryeburg | open mic | 8:30 pm BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | Dover Foxcroft | karaoke | 9 pm BEBE’S BURRITOS | Biddeford |
open mic with Bill Howard BLACK BEAR CAFE | Naples | Jud Caswell | 6:30 pm
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PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Arbo-
THE OAR HOUSE | Portsmouth |
PUBLIC HOUSE AND PROHIBITION MUSIC ROOM |
PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Portsmouth | deck: Brad Bosse | 2 pm |
rea + Haunt The House | 9 pm | $7
Listings
Rochester | karaoke THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth |
Brunswick | karaoke | 8:30 pm CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN | Buckfield |
Saralee + Touch Me Normal + Fucko + Look to the Sky SONNY’S TAVERN | Dover | karaoke with Erik Swanson STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Irish session with Jordan TirrellWysocki | 6 pm
CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Bid-
FRIDAY 12
| 9 pm
mouth | karaoke
oke | 8 pm
BRITISH BEER COMPANY | Ports-
Four Sticks | 9 pm HARLOW’S PUB | Peterborough | Installers | $8 THE HOLY GRAIL | Epping | Max Sullivan KELLEY’S ROW | Dover | Livin’ the Dream | 9:30 pm KJ’S SPORTS BAR | Newmarket | karaoke | 9 pm MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | karaoke with Chris Michaels THE OAR HOUSE | Portsmouth | Bob Arens | 7 pm PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Portsmouth | deck: Eddie’s Shoe | 7 pm | grill: Brian Gray | 8:30 pm | pub: Dustin Ladale | 10 pm PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Mother Superior + Gretchen & the Pickpockets | 9 pm | $7-$10 STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Peter Prince & Moon Boot Lover + Conehead Buddha | 7 pm | $10
CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT
SATURDAY 13
Continued from p 27 BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK | open mic | 7 pm
deford | karaoke with DJ Caleb Biggers
IRISH TWINS PUB | Lewiston | karaLIBERAL CUP | Hallowell | Fault Line
| 7-10 pm
LOMPOC CAFE | Bar Harbor | open mic MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | karaoke | 9 pm
MAXWELL’S PUB | Ogunquit | kara-
oke | 9 pm
RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Saco |
Joint Chiefs | 8-11 pm
SEA DOG BREWING/BANGOR | Ban-
gor | karaoke | 9 pm SUDS PUB | Bethel | Denny Breau |
9 pm
TRAIN’S TAVERN | Lebanon | karaoke with DJ Dick Fredette | 7 pm YORK HARBOR INN | York Harbor | open mic | 7 pm
NEW HAMPSHIRE THURSDAY 11
mouth | Drew Yount | 9 pm
| Dover | bluegrass jam with Steve Roy | 9 pm DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Alex Sunderland | 9 pm FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | Erin’s Guild | 9 pm GOVERNOR’S INN | Rochester | Wellfleet | 8 pm PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Portsmouth | deck:Tim Theriault Duo | 7:30 pm
DANIEL STREET TAVERN | PortsFURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover |
BRITISH BEER COMPANY | Ports-
mouth | Kate & the Bluebirds | 9 pm DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Portsmouth | karaoke DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Ride | 9 pm | Sasquatch & the Sick-aBillies + A Man Called Stu | 9 pm FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | Mr. Personality | 9 pm THE HOLY GRAIL | Epping | Sireteaux
Don Severance | 7 pm
deck: Costley, Comp & Hubbard | 7 pm | pub: Dan Walker | 10 pm PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Seth Walker + Loves It | 9:30 pm | $5 SEA KETCH | Hampton | Ray Zerkle + Steve Tolley SONNY’S TAVERN | Dover | “Sex Pistols Photo Show,” with Joe Stevens STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Rockspring | 7 pm | $6-$10 WILLY’S ALE ROOM | Acton | Dave Macklin Band | 9 pm
SUNDAY 14
CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT
GARY’S RESTAURANT & SPORTS LOUNGE | Rochester | karaoke | 7
pm
MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | karaoke with Chris Michaels
PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT |
Portsmouth | deck: Dave Gerard | 7:30 pm
THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Slam Up | 8 pm | $5
SONNY’S TAVERN | Dover | Soggy
Po’ Boys | 9 pm
WEDNESDAY 17
BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth | open mic
DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Portsmouth | open mic | 8 pm THE HOLY GRAIL | Epping | Bob &
Steer | 8 pm | $1
bon Garage + Max Garcia Conover
STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Wild Eagles Blues band | 7 pm
THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE/ PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | open mic | 8 pm
TIME OUT PUB | Rockland | Mikey
Junior | 7-10 pm | $10
TUESDAY 16
FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover |
Tim Theriault | 9 pm
SATURDAY 13
THURSDAY 11
BLACKBERRY SMOKE | 8 pm | Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $27 | 603.929.4100 BONEHEADS + HOLY MACKERELS | 7 pm | Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | 207.633.6855
RUBBLEBUCKET + BODY LANGUAGE | 8 pm | Port City Music Hall,
SUNDAY 14
FRIDAY 12
pm
ing for Fri
Dozet | 8 pm | $1
WEDNESDAY 17
Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $50 | 207.935.7292 ATOMIC FUNK PROJECT | 8 pm | The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | $15 | 207.439.0114
GOVERNOR’S INN | Rochester |
THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Car-
Warren Ave, Portland | 207.221.2343 BILL COSBY | 8 pm | Cross Insurance Center, 74 Gilman Rd, Bangor | $42.5068 | 207.947.7345 DARWIN’S WAITING ROOM | improv comedy | Fri-Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | Players’ Ring, 105 Marcy St, Portsmouth, NH | $15, $12 seniors/students | 603.436.8123 or www.playersring.org
ing for Fri
Greg Irish Duo
MONDAY 15
PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Jared
DAVE ANDREWS | Gold Room, 510
504 Congress St, Portland | $15-18 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall. com
PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Portsmouth | deck: Chad Verbeck | 7:30
pm
POPULAR
FRIDAY 12
DARWIN’S WAITING ROOM | See list-
| Dover | Irish session with Carol Coronis & Ramona Connelly | 5 pm DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Portsmouth | karaoke DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | karaoke with DJ Erich Kruger | 9 pm PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Portsmouth | deck: Jimmy D | 2 pm SEA KETCH | Hampton | Ray Zerkle SONNY’S TAVERN | Dover | Steve Carter | 7 pm WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | karaoke | 9 pm
PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Portsmouth | deck: Justin Ladale | 7:30
ter for the Arts, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono | 207.581.1755
COMEDY
PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Jim PUBLIC HOUSE AND PROHIBITION MUSIC ROOM | Rochester | karaoke SONNY’S TAVERN | Dover | Jazzpu-
tin: “Harry Nilsson’s The Point” WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | DJ Kelley | 9 pm
THURSDAY 18
BRITISH BEER COMPANY | Portsmouth | Fil Pacino Duo | 9 pm
Wellfleet | 8 pm
THE HOLY GRAIL | Epping | Bob & Greg Irish Duo
DARWIN’S WAITING ROOM | See list-
”PORTLAND COMEDY SHOWCASE” PERFORMERS TBA | 8 pm | Bull
Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | 207.773.7210
THURSDAY 18
AAMER RAHMAN | 7:30 pm | Bow-
doin College, Pickard Theater, Bath Rd, Brunswick | 207.725.8769 or www. msmt.org HEADLINERS COMEDY CLUB | 7 pm | Portsmouth Gas Light, 64 Market St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.430.8582
PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Ports-
mouth | deck: Rob & Jody | 7 pm PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | “Beat Night,” music & poetry | 7 pm
PUBLIC HOUSE AND PROHIBITION MUSIC ROOM | Rochester | karaoke THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth |
Lentils + Free Pizza + Rick Rude + Little My SERENITY MARKET & CAFE | Rye | drumming circle | 7 pm | $8 SONNY’S TAVERN | Dover | DJ STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Irish session with Jordan TirrellWysocki | 6 pm
CONCERTS
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL | 8 pm |
CROSSROADS INTERNATIONAL CELTIC FESTIVAL | Deertrees The-
atre, Deertrees Rd, Harrison | call for times & tickets | 207.583.6747 or deertreestheatre.org MARC BRANN | Fri-Sat 7 pm | The Footlights in Falmouth, 190 US Rte 1, Falmouth | call for tickets | 207.756.0252 MOE | 8 pm | University of Maine Orono, Collins Center for the Arts, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono | $28-$33 | 207.581.1755
SATURDAY 13
CLASSICAL FRIDAY 12
FRANK GLAZER | 7:30 pm | Franco-
American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St, Lewiston | $15-$20 | 207.689.2000
SUNDAY 14
PARKER QUARTET | 3 pm | University of Maine - Orono, Collins Cen-
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL | 7:30 pm | Strand Theatre, 345 Main St, Rockland | $35-40 | 207.594.0070 MARC BRANN | See listing for Fri JEN CHAPIN | 7:30 pm | Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St, Bath | 207.442.8455 or chocolatechurcharts.org JUDY COLLINS + ARI HEST | 8 pm | Music Hall, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $30-$50 | 603.436.2400
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DON CAMPBELL: “DAN FOGELBERG TRIBUTE SHOW” | 7 pm |
Freeport Theater of Awesome, 5 Depot St, Freeport | call for tickets | 800.838.3006
DR. JOHN & THE NITE TRIPPERS
| 7 pm | Prescott Park, Marcy St, Portsmouth, NH | $8-10 sugg. donation | portsmouthnh.com/visitors/ppark.html ”FUTURE: 3014” | 7 pm | art & music performances with Video Nasties + KTTNMTTNZ + Hi Tiger + Fast Food Prints + Holly Danger + Irina Skornyakova + Angel Bean & Marita Kennedy-Castro + Emma Wynne Hill, et al. | Zero Station, 222 Anderson St, Portland
”GHOSTLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL,” WITH GHOST OF PAUL REVERE + SPENCER ALBEE + DAVE GUTTER + WILL DAILEY + DOMINIC & THE LUCID + ANNA LOMBARD + SAMUEL JAMES + SUITCASE JUNKET | with food
trucks, camping, beer garden, & late night campfire jam with Tricky Britches + Jacob Augustine + Old Soul + Travis Cyr | 2 pm | Thomas Point Beach, Rte 24, Brunswick | call for tickets | 207.725.6009 or ghostofpaulrevere. com
”OLD ORCHARD BEACH BLUESFEST AT THE BALLPARK” | 1-7
pm | with James Montgomery + Mike James & the Blue Lions + JCW Experiment + Rockin’ George Leh + Colwell Brothers | Ballpark, 7 Ballpark Way, Old Orchard Beach | $20 | oob365.com
DARIUS RUCKER + CASSADEE POPE + JOEL CROUSE + BEN CESARE BAND | 7 pm | Bank of New
Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook, 72 Meadowbrook Ln, Lake Winnipesaukee, Gilford, NH | $30-60 | 603.293.4700 or meadowbrook.net NOEL PAUL STOOKEY | 7 pm | Stonington Opera House, Main St, Stonington | $30-40 | 207.367.2788 or operahousearts.org YABUNO ETTUN PROJECT | 7 pm | The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | $12 | 207.439.0114
SUNDAY 14
SLAID CLEAVES | 8 pm | Stone
Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $20 | 207.935.7292
”HARVEST MOON FESTIVAL,” WITH RUSTED ROOT + ADAM EZRA GROUP + BLISS | noon |
Redhook Ale Brewery, 35 Corporate Dr, Portsmouth, NH | $15-20 | 603.430.8600 x18
TUESDAY 16
WEEKS + BRAVE BABY | 9 pm | Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $10-12 | 207.956.6000 or portcitymusichall.com
”LOCAL MUSIC VIDEO SHOWCASE,” CURATED BY DAVID MEIKLEJOHN | 5:30 pm | Congress
Square Park, Corner of Congress and High Sts, Portland
permaculture workshops, slam poetry and an upcycled fashion show | 10 am | Monument Square, Congress St, Portland | 207.774.9979
THURSDAY 18
SUNDAY 14
BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN | 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts
Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $95 | 207.935.7292 AARON NEVILLE | 7:30 pm | Music Hall, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $47-57 | 603.436.2400 SUN KIL MOON | 9 pm | Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $18-20 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall.com
”MAINE RALLY FOR RECOVERY: RECOVERING PEOPLE, RECOVERING COMMUNITIES” | with with
food, games, live music, DJs, dunk tanks, tie dye, face painting, arts & crafts, & lectures | noon | Deering Oaks Park, Portland
”MARTIN’S POINT BRIDGE BASH”
PARTICIPATORY
| with music, food trucks, circus school performers, book sale, antique cars, bicycle decorating and see bridge building equipment up close | 1 pm | Martin’s Point Bridge, Portland ”PORCHFEST” | live music on porches and lawns throughout neighborhood | noon | Deering Center, Portland
FRIDAY 12
THURSDAY 18
DANCE INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE |
6:30 pm | People Plus/Brunswick, 35 Union St, Brunswick | $8, $5 seniors/students | 207.700.7577
SATURDAY 13
CONTRA DANCE | 8 pm | Topsham Grange Hall, 47 Pleasant St, Topsham | $7-$10 | 207.233.4325
”SPACE BOAT PARTY” | masquerade party | 4:45 pm | Casco Bay Lines, 56 Commercial St, Portland | $20 | 207.828.5600
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
TUESDAY 16
THURSDAY 11
Lane Music Hall, 35 Blake Rd, Standish | 207.642.3363 | www. memorylanemusichall.com
wide festival of art, theater, poetry, & more | Ogunquit, Rte 1, Ogunquit | 207.646.2939 | www. ogunquit.org/
LINE DANCING | 6:30 pm | Memory
PERFORMANCE FRIDAY 12
”STEAMY NIGHTS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE” | 7:30 pm | St
Lawrence Arts & Community Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | $10 | 207.775.5568 | www.stlawrencearts. org
SATURDAY 13
”DANCE OF THE HARVEST MOON” | belly dance show with
Frank Farinaro + Baseema + Bevin Victoria + Di’ahna + Ester Rahel + Francesca + Hayley Chanel + Heather Powers + Joie Grandbois + Jaylee + KC & Friends + Lulu Stone + Nabintu + Rosa Noreen + Sasha Khetarpal-Vasser + Zabel, et al. | 9 pm | Geno’s Rock Club, 625 Congress St, Portland | $10-12 | 207.221.2382
FRIDAY 12
”MAUREEN HANCOCK, THE MEDIUM NEXT DOOR, LIVE!” | 7 pm |
804 Washington Street, Downtown Bath
DON’T MISS GRAMMY WINNER MELISSA MANCHESTER, NOV. 8! UPCOMING 2014 HIGHLIGHTS: Jen Chapin (urban folk soul): Sept. 13 Dave Mallett (classic folk): Sept 20 The Cowsills Trio (classic rock): Sept. 27 Dinner-Mystery Theater (dinner & a show!): Oct. 25 International Christmas Series!
listing for Thurs
AND SO MANY MORE!
SATURDAY 13
CAPRICCIO IN OGUNQUIT | See listing for Thurs
WELLS FAMILY JAMBOREE | with
hayrides, apple picking, games, prizes, food & farm vendors | Spiller Farm, 1054 Branch Rd, Wells | 207.646.2451
SUNDAY 14
CAPRICCIO IN OGUNQUIT | See listing for Thurs
FARMINGTON FAIR | with harness
racing, livestock shows, animal pulling events, & food | downtown Farmington, Franklin Ave & High St, Farmington | farmingtonfairmaine.com/
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THURSDAY 18
pm | Novare Res Bier Cafe, 4 Canal Plaza, Portland | 207.761.2437
| featuring music, children’s activities, film screenings, exhibitors,
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FRIDAY 12
Westbrook Performing Arts Center, 471 Stroudwater St, Westbrook | $30-$50 | 207.857.3860
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”BEAT NIGHT,” MUSIC & POETRY
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FOOD SATURDAY 13
PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET |
7 am | Deering Oaks Park, Park Ave and Deering Ave, Portland
WEDNESDAY 17
PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET |
7 am | Monument Square, Congress St, Portland | 207.774.9979
POETRY & PROSE THURSDAY 11
KATE GALE + ALICE B FOGEL + LEIA PENINA WILSON | read their
poetry | 7 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore. com JAMES WITHERELL | discusses Ed Muskie: Made in Maine | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks.com
FRIDAY 12
CHRIS GUILLEBEAU | reads from
The Happiness of Pursuit | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks.com VALERIE MASON-JOHN | reads from Eight Step Recovery: Using the Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction | 7 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore.com OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | 7:30 pm | Pleasant Note Coffeehouse, First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St, Auburn | 207.783.0461
SATURDAY 13
FRIDAY 11
”PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MARCH PUB SOCIAL” | discussion & info session
on Sept 21 People’s Climate March, with Sierra Club | 5:30-7:30 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | maine.sierraclub.org
”SEA STATE 10.0: THE GHOST OF CLIMATE FUTURE” | with Jim
Carlton | 6:30 pm | Gulf of Maine Research Institute, 350 Commercial St, Portland | gmri.org
”WHY DID AMERICANS STOP EATING LOCALLY?” | with Mat-
thew Booker | 7 pm | Bowdoin College, Sills Hall, Smith Auditorium, Brunswick | 207.200.7692
WEDNESDAY 17
”JUST CONVERSATIONS” | with Restorative Justice Institute of Maine | 7:30 pm | Frontier Cafe, Fort Andross Mill, 14 Maine St, Brunswick | $10 | 207.725.5222 ”THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE: GLOBAL UNITY THROUGH GLOBAL DIVERSITY” | with Billy Mills | 7 pm | University of New England – Biddeford, Campus Center | 207.283.0171
THURSDAY 18
”A SENSE OF ONENESS: THE ART & LIFE OF BERNARD LANGLAIS” | with Hannah W. Blunt | 5 pm | Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq, Portland | 207.871.1700 ”UNDERSTANDING CLASS” | 6 pm | Southern Maine Workers’ Center, 68 Washington Ave, Portland | 207.200.7692 ”THE VISHNU” | with Christopher Buckley | 5 pm | University of New England – Portland, Alfond Hall, 630 Pool St, Biddeford | 207.221.4627
”WHAT’S LAUNDRY GOT TO DO WITH IT?: CARING FOR THE BODY IN THE 19TH CENTURY UNITED STATES” | with Kathleen M. Brown
| 7 pm | Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St, Portland | $0-$8 | 207.774.1822 or mainehistory.org
”SLAM UP/SAME BRAIN TOUR” | slam poetry with Zack de la Rouda + Ben Toppi | 8 pm | Vena’s Fizz House, 345 Fore St, Portland | 207.747.4901
SUNDAY 14
”RHYTHMIC CYPHER,” POETRY SLAM & OPEN MIC | 7 pm |
b.good, 15 Exchange St, Portland | 207.619.4206 BARBARA BATES SEDORIC | reads from The LastingMatters Organizer | 4 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore. com
MONDAY 15
OPEN MIC POETRY NIGHT | 6:30 pm | Serenity Market & Cafe, 25 Sagamore Rd, Rye, NH | 603.319.1671
TUESDAY 16
OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | with
Port Veritas | 7 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | $2.50-3 | 207.773.7210 RANDY SUSAN MEYERS | reads from her novel “Accidents of Marriage” | 7 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore. com
”ZION HILL POETRY,” READING SERIES | 6:30 pm | Stone Church, 5 Granite St, Newmarket, NH | 603.659.6321
WEDNESDAY 17
SUSAN NISENBAUM BECKER + GARY WHITED | read their poetry |
7 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore.com HAMPTON SIDES | discusses In the Kingdom of Ice | 7 pm | The Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $48 | 603.436.2400
THEATER ACORN PRODUCTIONS |
207.854.0065 | acorn-productions. org | Mechanics Hall, 519 Congress St, 3rd Floor, Portland | Sept 15-29:
“Naked Shakespeare,” workshops | 6:30 pm | free
EVERYMAN REPERTORY THEATRE | 207.236.7963 | Camden Opera
House, 29 Elm St, Camden | Sept
13-21: Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike | Sat 7 pm; Sun 2 pm | $10-$20
THE FOOTLIGHTS IN FALMOUTH
| 207.756.0252 | 190 US Rte 1, Falmouth | Sept 18-28: The Wizard of Oz | 7 pm | call for tickets FREEPORT PLAYERS | 207.865.2220 | Freeport Community Center, 53 Depot St, Freeport | Sept 11-21: Almost, Maine | Thu-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 2 pm | $10 OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE | 207.646.5511 | ogunquitplayhouse. org | 10 Main St, Ogunquit | Through Sept 27: The Witches of Eastwick | Thurs + Wed 2:30 & 8 pm; Fri + Tues 8 pm; Sat 8:30 pm; Sun 2 pm | $39-79 SCHOOLHOUSE ARTS CENTER | 207.642.3743 | schoolhousearts.org | 16 Richville Rd, Standish | Sept 12-28: The Mousetrap | Fri-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 5 pm | $18, $16 seniors/students
SEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE
| 603.433.4472 | seacoastrep.org | 125 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH | Sept 11-27: Godspell | Thurs 7:30 pm; Fri-Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | $22-30
ST LAWRENCE ARTS & COMMUNITY CENTER | 207.775.5568
| stlawrencearts.org | 76 Congress St, Portland | Sept 13-14: Elizabeth
Peavey: My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother | Sat 7 pm; Sun 2 pm | $12-$15
STAGE FORCE | 207.439.5769 | harborlightstage.org | Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH |
Sept 15: “Play Reading Series: The Language Archive” | 7:30 pm | $12 THEATER AT MONMOUTH | 207.933.9999 | theateratmonmouth. org | Cumston Hall, Rte 132, Monmouth | Sept 18-28: The Sorcerer | 7:30 pm | $10-30
ART GALLERIES 3 FISH GALLERY | 207.773.4773 | 377
Cumberland Ave, Portland | 3fishgallery.com | Thurs-Sat 1-4 pm & by
appointment | Through Sept 30: paintings by Kelly McConnell AARHUS GALLERY | 207.338.0001 | 50 Main St, Belfast | aarhusgallery. com | Tues-Sun 11 am-5:30 pm | Through Sept 28: works in fiber by Julie H. Rose ART SPACE GALLERY | 207.594.8784 | 342 Main St, Rockland | artspacemaine.com | Fri-Sat 11 am-4 pm | Through Sept 30: “Monhegan Series and Other Works” paintings by Daniel Anselmi + works by Barbara Fischer Eldred + Pamela Hetherly + Lydia Kaeyer + Hannah Nelsbach ARTSTREAM STUDIO GALLERY | 603.516.8500 | 10 Second St, Dover, NH | Through Oct 31: “After You: An Ekphrastic Art & Poetry Exhibition,” with S Stephanie + Mimi White + Jessica Purdy + Susan Schwake + Kate Knox + Wayne Atheron BARN GALLERY | 207.646.8400 | 1 Bourne Lane, Ogunquit | buoygallery. org | Through Sept 30: “Fall Exhibitions,” painting & photography by Tom Hibschman + paintings by Everlyne Harper Neill BUOY GALLERY | 207.439.6611 | 2 Government St, Kittery | buoygallery.org | Through Sept 30: “Digital Prince,” video & digital prints by Andy Heck Boyd
CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART | 207.236.2875 | 162
Russell Ave, Rockport | artsmaine. org | Through Sept 20: Betsy Eby:
“Painting With Fire” + Ron Leax: “Collage” + Tom Burkhardt: “Recent Work” CHASE’S GARAGE | 207.361.4162 | 16 Main St, York | 10 am-7 pm | Through Oct 5: “Plate to Paper” non-toxic prints by Zea Mays
CHOCOLATE CHURCH ARTS CENTER | 207.442.8455 | 804 Washing-
ton St, Bath | chocolatechurcharts. org | Tues-Wed 10 am-4 pm; Thurs
noon-7 pm; Fri 10 am-4 pm; Sat noon-4 pm | Through Sept 13: photogrpahy invitational group exhibition COMMON STREET ARTS | 207.749.4368 | 20 Common St, Waterville | commonstreetarts.com | Wed-Sat noon-6 pm | Through Sept 13: “Honey, I Shrunk the ARTworks” mixed media group exhibition COURTHOUSE GALLERY | 207.667.6611 | 6 Court St, Ellsworth | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through Sept 14: paintings by Philip Frey + John Heliker + Ed Nadeau + Paul Hannan | Sept 18-Oct 25: paintings by June Grey + Linda Packard + Lisa Tyson Ennis + Alan Vlach | reception Sep 17 5-7 pm DAMARISCOTTA RIVER GRILL | 207.563.2992 | 155 Main St, Damariscotta | call for hours | Through Oct 27: paintings by Marcia Brandwein Furman DOWLING WALSH GALLERY | 207.596.0084 | 357 Main St, Rockland | dowlingwalsh.com | call for hours | Through Sept 30: works by Eric Green + Sarah McRae Morton EDWARD T. POLLACK FINE ARTS | 617.610.7173 | 25 Forest Ave, Portland | Wed-Sat 11 am-6 pm | Through Sept 30: “American Prints, Drawings, & Photographs of the 20th Century: Realism & Modernism”| Sep 12-14: “Brooklyn Antiques & Book Fair” ELIZABETH MOSS GALLERIES | 207.781.2620 | 251 Rte 1, Falmouth | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through Sept 20: “Of Women by Women,” mixed media paintings by Lesia Sochor + Veronica Cross
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ENGINE | 207.229.3560 | 265 Main St, Biddeford | feedtheengine.org | Tues-
Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 11 am-4 pm | Through Sept 20: “The Diptych Project II,” group encaustic exhibition + “Beautify in Blue,” mixed media 10” by 10” works
FIREHOUSE CENTER FOR THE FALCON FOUNDATION | 207.563.8104 | 5 Bristol Rd, Damariscotta | Fri-Sun
1-5 pm | Through Sept 27: “The Rock Paintings: Joseph Fiore, The Geological Works, 1978-2001,” paintings, pastels, & watercolors FRONTIER CAFE | 207.725.5222 | Fort
Andross Mill, 14 Maine St, Brunswick
| call for hours | Through Oct 31: “Stories in Assemblage,” works by Mildred Johnson
GALLERY AT 100 MARKET STREET | 603.436.4559 | 100 Market St, Portsmouth, NH | call for hours | Through Nov 7: “Summer of 2014,” mixed media group exhibition + “Shades of the Past,” photography by Monica Bushor & Matt Lavigne GENO’S ROCK CLUB | 207.221.2382 | 625 Congress St, Portland | call for hours | Sept 12-30: “Sex at the Disco...NYC’s Sexual Playground: Vintage & Unseen images of NYC’s Underground Disco Era,” by Veretta Cobler | reception Sept 12 6 pm
GEORGE MARSHALL STORE GALLERY | 207.351.1083 | 140 Lindsay
Rd, York | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm |
Through Oct 5: “Having Too Much
Fun,” paintings by Richard Brown Lethem + “Life Observed,” paintings by Amy Brnger + “Ms. Behavior,” photography by Nancy Grace Horton + “Sculpture,” by Cabot Lytford GREENHUT GALLERIES | 207.772.2693 | 146 Middle St, Portland | greenhutgalleries.com | Mon-Fri 10 am-5:30 pm; Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through Sept 27: paintings by Tom Paiement HARLOW GALLERY | 207.622.3813 | 160 Water St, Hallowell | harlowgallery.org | Wed-Sat noon-6 pm; Sun-Tues by appointment | Through Sept 27: “Apparent Contradictions,” drawings by James Chute JOY TO THE WIND GALLERY | 207.633.7025 | 34 Atlantic Ave, Boothbay Harbor | call for hours | Through Sept 30: “Shelter II: Emotional Landscapes,” paintings by Lynne Seitzer
JUNE FITZPATRICK GALLERY
| 207.699.5093 | 522 Congress St, Portland | junefitzpatrickgallery.com | Tues-Sat noon-5 pm | Through Oct 31: “Fall Salon 2014,” mixed media group exhibition KENNEBUNK FREE LIBRARY | 207.985.2173 | 112 Main St, Kennebunk | kennebunklibrary.org | Mon-Tues 9:30 am-8 pm; Wed 12:30-8 pm; Thurs-Sat 9:30 am-5 pm | Through Sept 30: works in oil by Allison Hoffman
KITTERY ART ASSOCIATION |
207.967.0049 | 8 Coleman Ave, Kittery | kitteryartassociation.org | Sat noon-6
pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Through 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 28: “Color Vision,” acrylic paintings by Irma Cerese MAYO STREET ARTS | 207.615.3609 | 10 Mayo St, Portland | call for hours | Through Sept 30: “Tropical Moon,” mixed media works by Phantom Buffalo (Sean Newton + Jonathan Balzano-Brookes + Timothy Burns + Philip Willey) MONKITREE GALLERY | 207.512.4679 | 263 Water St, Gardiner | landingart.com | Tues-Fri 10 am-6 pm; Sat noon-6 pm | Through Nov 1: “Maine: Always in Season,” photography & pastel works by Jim Townsend + Fran Townsend NAHCOTTA | 603.433.1705 | 110 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | MonThurs 10 am-6 pm; Fri-Sat 10 am-7 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm | Through Sept 28: “Enormous Tiny Art: Autumn,” mixed media group exhibition PHOPA GALLERY | 207.317.6721 | 132 Washington Ave, Portland | WedSat noon-5 pm | Through Sept 13: “Travel Journals,” photography by Brendan Bullock
Randy Susan Myers
PINECONE+CHICKADEE |
207.772.9280 | 6 Free St, Portland |
Mon-Sat 10 am-6 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm | Through Oct 2: “Michael: A Koala Vampire Lovestory” multimedia exhibit by Eric Hou PORTLAND ART GALLERY | 207.956.7105 | 154 Middle St, Portland | call for hours | Through Sept 30: mixed media group exhibition RICHARD BOYD ART GALLERY | 207.712.1097 | 15 Epps St, Peaks Island | 10 am-5 pm | Through Sep 30: “Wandering Thru the Tide,” pastel & ink works by Pam Cabanas RIVER ARTS | 207.563.1507 | 241 Rte 1, Damariscotta | Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through Oct 2: “Water/Reflections,” mixed media group exhibition
ROUX & CYR INTERNATIONAL FINE ART GALLERY | 207.576.7787
2014-15 Concert Season Robert Russell, music director Visit www.choralart.org or email info@choralart.org for details about our exciting season. Christmas at the Cathedral An Epiphany Celebration Time Remembered – Time Forgotten Appearances with the Portland Symphony Orchestra
| 48 Free Street, Portland | Through Sept 27: works in oil and photography with Ken Valastro + Michael McAllister
SACCARAPPA ART COLLECTIVE
| 207.591.7300 | 861 Main St, Westbrook | Tues-Thurs noon-6 pm; Fri-Sat noon-7 pm | Through Oct 11: “Chaos,” paintings & drawings by Michel Droge, et al.
SEACOAST ARTIST ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 603.778.8856 | 225 Water
St, Exeter, NH | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through Sept 27: “Sunrise/Sunset,” mixed media group exhibition | reception Sep 18 4-6 pm SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland | space538. org | Wed-Sat noon-6 pm | Through Sept 12: “Ofrendas Florales,” Ecuadorian flower wreaths from Broadturn Farm SPINDLEWORKS | 207.725.8820 | 7 Lincoln Sq, Brunswick | spindleworks. org | Mon-Sat 6:30 am-6 pm; Sun 7 am-6 pm | Through Oct 31: “Stitches,” woven works by gallery artists SUSAN MAASCH FINE ART | 207.478.4087 | 4 City Center, Portland | susanmaaschfineart.com | Wed-Sat noon-6 pm | Through Sept 30: “The Contemporary Sealed Portrait,” works by Jack Montgomery + “Jessica Gandalf: Recent Paintings” WATERFALL ARTS | 207.388.2222 | 256 High St, Belfast | Tues-Fri 10 am5 pm; by appointment | Through Sept 12: “Living Wall Installation,” vertical garden YORK ART ASSOCIATION | 207.363.4049 | 394 York St, York | call for hours | Through Sept 20: “Local Color Exhibition,” mixed media group show + “Alana Russell: Recent Works in Pastel” ZERO STATION | 207.347.7000 | 222 Anderson St, Portland | Sep 13: “Future: 3014,” art & music performances with Video Nasties + KTTNMTTNZ + Hi Tiger + Fast Food Prints + Holly Danger + Irina Skornyakova
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10 am-5 pm | Through Oct 12: “Encountering Maine,” mixed media group exhibition | Through Dec 13: “Convergence: Jazz, Films, & the Visual Arts”
BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.725.3275 | 245 Maine St,
Brunswick | bowdoin.edu/art-museum | Tues-Wed + Fri-Sat 10 am-5
pm; Thurs 10 am-8:30 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Free admission | Through Sept 14: “Is This What You Do With What You View?: Selections from the Dorothy & Herbert Vogel Collection,” mixed media + “On 52nd Streeet: The Jazz Photography of William P. Gottlieb” | Through Oct 19: “Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective” | Ongoing: “American Artists at Work, 1840-1950” + “Contemporary Masters, 1950 to the Present” + “Lovers & Saints: Art of the Italian Renaissance” COLBY COLLEGE | 207.859.5600 |
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Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Free admission | Through Jan 4: “Bernard Langlais,” paintings | Through June 7: “Alex Katz: Selections,” mixed media | Through July 15: “Highlights from the Permanent Collection,” mixed media | Ongoing: “Process & Place: Exploring the Design Evolution of the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion” + “Alex Katz Collection” DYER LIBRARY/SACO MUSEUM | 207.283.3861 | 371 Main St, Saco | sacomuseum.org | Tues-Thurs noon-4 pm; Fri noon-8 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through 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 Sept 28: “Color-
ing 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 FRYEBURG ACADEMY | 207.935.9232 | Pace Galleries of Art, 18 Bradley St, Fryeburg | fryeburgacademy.org | Mon-Fri 9 am-1 pm; by appointment | Sept 13-Oct 31: “The Kienbusch Legacy: A Family of Artists” group exhibition 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 + “The Wrong Kind of Bars: Paintings from the Maine State Prison” | Through March 31, 2016: “We Are What We Hide,” long-running exhibit in- & outside gallery walls MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM | 207.329.9854 | 267 Congress St, Portland | treeoflifemuseum.org | Mon-Fri 10 am-2 pm | Through Oct 31: “Genesis:Exodus” works by George Wardlaw | gallery talk with Suzette McAvoy Sep 14, 4 pm
OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF ART
| 207.646.4909 | 543 Shore Rd, Ogunquit | ogunquitmuseum.org | Mon-Sat 10:30 am- 5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm | Through Oct 31: “A Modernist Menagerie: Works from the Permanent Collection,” sculptures, paintings, & works on paper + “Amy Stacey Curtis: Drawings” + “Andrew Wyeth: The Linda L. Bean Collection” + “Henry Strater: Arizona Winters, 1933-1938,” paintings + “Tradition & Excellence: The OMAA Permanent Collection”
PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY
| 603.777.3461 | Lamont Gallery,
Frederick R Mayer Art Center, Tan Ln, Exeter, NH | exeter.edu/art/ visit_Lamont.html | Mon 1-5 pm;
Tues-Sat 9 am-5 pm | Free admission | Through Oct 18: “Self Made,” prints by Tara Misenheimer + portraits by Cybèle Mendes + mixed media works by Lauren Kalman + Caleb Cole 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 Jan 4: “Aaron T. Stephan: To Borrow, Cut, Copy, & Steal,” sculptural installation | gallery talk with Jessica May Sep 12, noon
SALT INSTITUTE FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES | 207.761.0660 | 561
Congress St, Portland | salt.edu | Tues-Fri noon-4:30 pm | Through Sept 12: “Spring 2014 Salt Student Show,” mixed media
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - AUGUSTA | 207.621.3243 | Danforth Gallery,
Jewett Hall, 46 University Dr, Augusta | Mon-Thurs 8:30 am-7 pm;
Fri 8:30 am-5 pm | Through Oct 3: “CUBA: Cultural Understanding Between the Arts,” mixed media student exhibition
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - FARMINGTON | 207.778.7072 | Art Gallery,
246 Main St, Farmington | Tues-Sun
noon-4 pm | Sep 11-Oct 19: “Throwing Things at the Sky to See if They Stick,” mixed media works by Barry Whittaker
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.561.3350 | Norumbega
Hall, 40 Harlow St, Bangor | umma. umaine.edu | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm
| Free admission | Through Sept 20: “Awake,” paintings by Maya Brodsky + “Looking Back Six Years -- Part Two, Selected New Acquisitions,” mixed media + “Young Curators: 8 Scoops,” mixed media | Ongoing: “Selections from the Permanent Collection”
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND PORTLAND | 207.221.4499 | Art Gal-
lery, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland | une. edu/artgallery | Wed 1-4 pm; Thurs 1-7 pm; Fri-Sun 1-4 pm | Through Sept 28: “Making a New Whole: The Art of Collage” | Through Oct 31: “Annual Sculpture Garden Invitational” | Through Nov 30: “(RE) BUILDING MEMORY: A Trajectory of the Black Atlantic” mixed media by Paula Gerstenblatt + “(Re)Building Memory: A Trajectory of the Black Atlantic,” works by Paula Gerstenblatt | reception Sep 11, 5-7 pm | Ongoing: paintings & photography by Maine artists + labyrinth installation
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | 603.862.3712 | Paul Creative
Arts Center, Durham, NH | Mon-Wed 10 am-4 pm; Thurs 10 am-8 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | Through Oct 19: Jon Imber: “Human Interest,” paintings + “GraphiCornucopia,” mixed media group exhibition | Through Dec 31: “Restraint & Release,” sculpture by Wendy Klemperer
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”
CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | 603.742.2002 | 6 Washington St, Dover, NH | arts-
maine.org | Sept 13-Nov 14: “Wet!”, underwater photography & painting
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
DISCOVER PORTSMOUTH CENTER | 603.436.8433 | 10 Middle St, Portsmouth, NH | portsmouthhistory. org | call for hours | Through Oct 3: “Bold & Brash: The Art of John Haley Bellamy,” wood carvings 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
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”
SARAH ORNE JEWETT HOUSE MUSEUM | 207.384.2454 | 5 Port-
land St, South Berwick | call for hours | Through Oct 15: “Here by the Sea: Contemporary Art of the Piscataqua”
STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM
| 603.433.1100 | 14 Hancock St, Portsmouth, NH | strawberybanke. org | call for hours | Through Oct 31: “Finding Home: Stories from a Neighborhood of Newcomers”
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THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE GRILLE | 207.934.2171 | 39 West Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach BUBBA’S SULKY LOUNGE | 207.828.0549 | 92 Portland St, Portland
BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/PORTLAND | | 50 Wharf St, Portland BULL FEENEY’S | 207.773.7210 | 375 Fore St, Portland
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207.443.6776 | 98 Center St, Bath
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CAPTAIN & PATTY’S RESTAURANT | 207.439.3655 | 90 Pepperrell Rd, Kittery Point
CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN |
207.336.2126 | 371 Turner St, Buckfield
CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT | 603.343.4390 | 11 Fourth St, Dover, NH
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207.288.2766 | 119 Main St, Bar Harbor CENTRAL WAVE | 603.742.9283 | 368 Central Ave, Dover, NH CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | 207.282.7900 | 15 Thornton St, Biddeford CHAPS SALOON | 207.347.1101 | 1301 Long Plains Rd, Buxton CHARLAMAGNE’S | 207.242.2711 | 228 Water St, Augusta CHOP SHOP PUB | 603.760.7706 | 920 Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH
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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 DOWN UNDER CLUB | 207.992.2550 | Seasons Grille & Sports Lounge, 427 Main St, Bangor THE DRAFT HOUSE | 207.739.2989 | 187 Main St, South Paris EASY DAY | 207.200.2226 | 725 Broadway, South Portland EASY STREET LOUNGE | 207.622.3360 | 7 Front St, Hallowell EBENEZER’S BREWPUB | 207.373.1840 | 112 Pleasant St, Brunswick EMPIRE | 207.879.8988 | 575 Congress St, Portland FAST BREAKS | 207.782.3305 | 1465 Lisbon St, Lewiston FATBOY’S SALOON | 207.766.8862 | 65 Main St, Biddeford FEDERAL JACK’S | 207.967.4322 | 8 Western Ave, Kennebunk
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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 FROG AND TURTLE | 207.591.4185 | 3 Bridge St, Westbrook FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | 603.617.3633 | 1 Washington St, Dover, NH FUSION | 207.330.3775 | 490 Pleasant St, Lewiston
GARY’S RESTAURANT & SPORTS LOUNGE | 603.335.4279 | 38 Milton
Rd, Rochester, NH GATHER | 207.847.3250 | 189 Main St, Yarmouth GENO’S ROCK CLUB | 207.221.2382 | 625 Congress St, Portland GFB SCOTTISH PUB | 207.934.8432 | 32 Old Orchard St, Old Orchard Beach THE GIN MILL | 207.620.9200 | 302 Water St, Augusta GINZA TOWN | 207.878.9993 | 1053 Forest Ave, Portland 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 GRITTY MCDUFF’S/AUBURN | 207.782.7228 | 68 Main St, Auburn GUTHRIE’S | 207.376.3344 | 115 Middle St, Lewiston HARLOW’S PUB | 603.924.6365 | 3 School St, Peterborough, NH
HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEEHOUSE AND TAVERN | 207.621.1234 | 119 Water St, Hallowell
HIGHLANDS COFFEE HOUSE | 207.354.4162 | 189 Main St, Thomaston THE HOLY GRAIL | 603.679.9559 | 64 Main St, Epping, NH INN ON THE BLUES | 207.351.3221 | 7 Ocean Ave, York Beach IRISH TWINS PUB | 207.376.3088 | 743 Main St, Lewiston JIMMY THE GREEK’S/OLD ORCHARD BEACH | 207.934.7499 | 215
Saco Ave, Old Orchard Beach JONATHAN’S | 207.646.4777 | 92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit KELLEY’S ROW | 603.750.7081 | 421 Central Ave, Dover, NH THE KENNEBEC WHARF | 207.622.9290 | 1 Wharf St, Hallowell KERRYMEN PUB | 207.282.7425 | 512 Main St, Saco KJ’S SPORTS BAR | 603.659.2329 | North Main St, Newmarket, NH LFK | 207.899.3277 | 188A State St, Portland THE LIBERAL CUP | 207.623.2739 | 115 Water St, Hallowell
LILAC CITY GRILLE | 603.332.3984 |
45 N Main St, Rochester, NH LITTLE TAP HOUSE | 207.518.9283 | 106 High St, Portland LOCAL 188 | 207.761.7909 | 685 Congress St, Portland
LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE
| 207.899.3529 | 649 Congress St, Portland LOMPOC CAFE | 207.288.9392 | 36 Rodick St, Bar Harbor MADDEN’S PUB & GRILL | 207.899.4988 | 65 Gray Rd, Falmouth MAIN TAVERN | 207.947.7012 | 152 Main St, Bangor MAINE STREET | 207.646.5101 | 195 Maine St, Ogunquit MAINELY BREWS | 207.873.2457 | 1 Post Office Sq, Waterville MAMA’S CROWBAR | 207.773.9230 | 189 Congress St, Portland MATHEW’S PUB | 207.253.1812 | 133 Free St, Portland MAXWELL’S PUB | 207.646.2345 | 243 Main St, Ogunquit MAYO STREET ARTS | 207.615.3609 | 10 Mayo St, Portland MCSEAGULL’S | 207.633.5900 | Gulf Dock, Boothbay Harbor MEG PERRY CENTER | 207.619.4206 | 36 Market St, Portland MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | 207.642.3363 | 35 Blake Rd, Standish MILLIE’S TAVERN | 603.967.4777 | 17 L St, Hampton, NH MINE OYSTER | 207.633.6616 | 16 Wharf St, Pier 1, Boothbay Harbor MJ’S WINE BAR | 207.653.6278 | 1 City Center, Portland MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | 207.443.6563 | Rte 1, Woolwich MOOSE ALLEY | 207.864.9955 | 2809 Main St, Rangeley MR. GOODBAR | 207.934.9100 | 8B West Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach MYRTLE STREET TAVERN | 207.596.6250 | 12 Myrtle St, Rockland NARAL’S EXPERIENCE ARABIA | 207.344.3201 | 34 Court St, Auburn NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | 207.907.4380 | 56 Main St, Bangor THE OAK AND THE AX | | 140 Main St, Ste 107-Back Alley, Biddeford THE OAR HOUSE | 603.436.4025 | 55 Ceres St, Portsmouth, NH OASIS | 207.370.9048 | 42 Wharf St, Portland OLD GOAT | 207.737.4628 | 33 Main St, Richmond OLD PORT TAVERN | 207.774.0444 | 11 Moulton St, Portland THE OLDE MILL TAVERN | 207.583.9077 | 56 Main St, Harrison ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | 207.761.1757 | 181 State St, Portland OTTO | 207.773.7099 | 574-6 Congress St, Portland 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 PIZZA TIME SPORTS & SPIRITS | | 185 US Rte 1, Scarborough PORTHOLE RESTAURANT | 207.773.4653 | 20 Custom House Wharf, Portland PORTLAND EAGLES | 207.773.9448 | 184 Saint John St, Portland PORTLAND LOBSTER CO | 207.775.2112 | 180 Commercial St, Portland PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | 603.430.8582 | 64 Market St, Portsmouth, NH PRESS ROOM | 603.431.5186 | 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH PROFENNO’S | 207.856.0011 | 934 Main St, Westbrook THE RACK | 207.237.2211 | 5016 Access Rd, Carabassett RAILROAD DINER | 207.353.6069 | 697 Lisbon St, Lisbon Falls RAVEN’S ROOST | 207.406.2359 | 103 Pleasant St, Brunswick READFIELD EMPORIUM | 207.685.7348 | 1146 Main St, Readfield THE RED DOOR | 603.373.6827 | 107 State St, Portsmouth, NH RI RA/PORTLAND | 207.761.4446 | 72 Commercial St, Portland
RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | 603.319.1680 | 22 Market St, Portsmouth, NH ROCK HARBOR | 207.593.7488 | 416 Main St, Rockland ROOSTER’S | 207.622.2625 | 110 Community Dr, Augusta RUDI’S | 603.430.7834 | 20 High St, Portsmouth, NH RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | 207.571.9648 | 100 Main St, Saco Island, Saco SALVAGE BBQ & SMOKEHOUSE | | 919 Congress St, Portland 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 SERENITY MARKET & CAFE | 603.319.1671 | 25 Sagamore Rd, Rye, NH SHEEPSCOT GENERAL | 207.549.5185 | 98 Townhouse Rd, Whitefield SHENANIGANS | 207.213.4105 | 349 Water St, Augusta SHOOTERS SPORTS PUB | 207.345.7040 | 128 Lewiston St, Mechanic Falls SILVER HOUSE TAVERN | 207.772.9885 | 123 Commercial St, Portland SILVER STREET TAVERN | 207.680.2163 | 2 Silver St, Waterville SKIP’S LOUNGE | 207.929.9985 | 299 Narragansett Trail, Buxton SKYBOX BAR AND GRILL | 207.854.9012 | 212 Brown St, Westbrook SOLO BISTRO | 207.443.3378 | 128 Front St, Bath SONNY’S | 207.772.7774 | 83 Exchange St, Portland SONNY’S TAVERN | 603.343.4332 | 328 Central Ave, Dover, NH SOUTHSIDE TAVERN | 207.474.6073 | 1 Waterville Rd, Skowhegan SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland SPLITTERS | 207.621.1710 | 2246 N Belfast Ave, Augusta SPRING HILL TAVERN | 603.431.5222 | Dolphin Striker, 15 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH SPRING POINT TAVERN | 207.733.2245 | 175 Pickett St, South Portland STONE CHURCH | 603.659.6321 | 5 Granite St, Newmarket, NH STYXX | 207.828.0822 | 3 Spring St, Portland SUDS PUB | 207.824.6558 | Sudbury Inn Main St, Bethel TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | 207.657.7973 | 61 Portland Rd, Gray TANTRUM | 207.404.4300 | 193 Broad St, Bangor THATCHER’S PUB/SOUTH PORTLAND | 207.253.1808 | 35 Foden Rd,
South Portland
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Congress St, Portsmouth, NH THE THIRSTY PIG | 207.773.2469 | 37 Exchange St, Portland TIME OUT PUB | 207.593.9336 | 275 Main St, Rockland TORCHES GRILL HOUSE | 207.467.3288 | 102 York St, Kennebunk TOWNHOUSE PUB | 207.284.7411 | 5 Storer St, Saco TRAIN’S TAVERN | 207.457.6032 | 249 Carl Broggi Hwy, Lebanon TUCKER’S PUB | 207.739.2200 | 290 Main St, Norway UNION HOUSE PUB & PIZZA | 207.590.4825 | North Dam Mill, 2 Main St, 18-230, Biddeford 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
Katie and Jason Adoptive pAreNtS
When Katie and Jason met they knew they wanted a family together and as people do when they fall in love they had one of those conversations that later feels prescient. They talked about how if they could not have a child – they would adopt. After several years of trying to get pregnant they came to the realization that adoption really was going to be their best way of having the family they dreamed of. They called Stepping Stones. “It was really easy. I googled adoption in Maine and Stepping Stones came up and we decided to call and find out more about the adoption process.” “We felt incredibly well taken care of. Stepping Stones walked us through the A-Z of adoption and made sure we understood the risks and challenges – the adoption staff was very open about the realities of the adoption process – we always felt really well supported. We completed all our paper work and settled down to wait to see if and when we would become adoptive parents. Then after a few months we got the call that a baby was available and were asked if we could get to the hospital the very next day. We were overwhelmed, nervous and excited. We were thrilled. We had the opportunity to meet with our birth mother and even had the chance to stay over in the hospital with the baby in our room. Our adoption was finalized in June. We are just so thankful to have our baby and begin our family. When we are ready to add to our family – we will certainly work with Stepping Stones again. We had a really good experience – they helped us make our dream of having a family come true.”
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FShort Takes xxx LAnD HO! 94 minUteS | railroad SqUare cinema + the mUSic hall In this engaging, low-key character study, two lonely old guys from Kentucky pair up for a tour of Iceland, where their friendship deepens even as their prospects for romantic adventure diminish. Paul Eenhoorn, a quiet, sober Australian actor best known for the moving This Is Martin Bonner (2013), plays Colin, a grieving widower whose ill-considered second marriage has just blown up in his face; Earl Lynn Nelson, a relative newcomer, nearly upstages Eenhoorn as Colin’s brother-inlaw, Mitch, an impetuous, potsmoking good ol’ boy whose partymonster shtick is belied by the fact that he used to be a surgeon. The movie was cowritten and codirected by Aaron Katz (Dance
heirloom varieties, accompanied by beautiful color photographs. Become an apple aficionado through Jacobsen’s vignettes detailing rare and common apples’ history, as well as which apples are best for fresh eating, baking, saucing, and cider. The book’s final chapter provides apple recipes, from lobster Waldorf salad to classic tarte tatin. Jacobsen’s short introduction delves into the apple’s journey from Europe to the fledgling Untied States (including mention of John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed, and his entrepreneurial work adding value to plots of land by installing apple orchards) and then into the declining number of apple varieties available in today’s supermarket. Jacobsen also details the work of pomologists like Maine’s John Bunker, who hunts down rare apple varieties and preserves them in his Palermo orchard. Bunker and his wife Cammy Watts offer a 5-week apple CSA, providing share members with 55-60 pounds of apples, delivered every other week from mid-September until early December. The “Out on a Limb” CSA showcases about 30 different unusual apple varieties, from early-season tart specimens to end-ofseason apples that sweeten in storage. Bunker will return to MOFGA’s Common Ground Fair again this year with his popular apple display.
In southern Maine, apples have been quietly populating stands at the farmers’ market for about a month now. The first arrivals are what farmers call “Early Macs,” or McIntosh apples. This New England favorite is best early in the season, before the flesh takes on an unappealing mushiness. At Uncle’s Farm’s stand, farmer Mike Farwell is selling these Early Macs, plus Cortlands, Ginger Golds, and Paula Reds for $1.50/lb. Nearby Snell’s Farm is selling Sunrise Macs and Ginger Golds. All of these varieties are good for both fresh eating and baking, but do not store well like some other lateREinvEntinG thE whEElbARRow apple eaters have season varieties. new tricks up their sleeve every fall. Sweet cider from Meadow Brook Farm & Orchard in Raydrink. Whether you’re drinking or eating mond is also now available at the farmers’ your apples this fall, look beyond the sumarket, and their pick-your-own orchard permarket to see, as Jacobsen says, “the is open weekends from 9 am to 6 pm. At many things an apple can be, the many the Urban Farm Fermentory, brewer Reid roles it can play in our lives.” Emmerich ferments juice from McIntosh and Cortland apples using the yeast naturally present on the fruit. The resulting Rowan Jacobsen, Apples of Uncommon Char“cidah” is much drier than most varieties, acter, reading and apple tasting | September as other commercial cideries add addi22 | 6 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., tional yeast and sugar to create a sweeter Portland | 207.828.5600 | free
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Party USA) and Martha Stephens, two young indie talents who shouldn’t understand the wisdom and acceptance of old age as well as they obviously do.
_J.r. Jones
xW tHe One i LOve 91 minUteS | nicKelodeon A young couple (Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss) hope to salvage their troubled marriage with a weekend getaway at a house out in the country, only to find the adjoining cottage occupied by duplicates of themselves. Screenwriter Justin Lader has exactly one good idea here—the doppelgangers are idealized versions of the spouses, each of whom quite naturally prefers the duplicate to the annoying person he or she came with—but that isn’t enough to keep this afloat
The Trip to Italy
until the end. When the couple first realize what’s going on, the husband immediately references The Twilight Zone, whose 26-minute time slot would have been more appropriate here. Charlie McDowell directed; with Ted Danson.
_J.r. Jones
xx tHe tRip tO itALy 106 minUteS | nicKelodeon Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, and director Michael Winterbottom reunite for this sequel to their indie favorite The Trip
(2011), with the stars embarking once again on a restaurant-reviewing tour that guarantees plenty of food porn and literate table talk. The most remarkedup scene in the original was a hilarious sequence in which the two master mimics debate how best to impersonate Michael Caine; it’s reprised endlessly here, with quick takes on Hugh Grant, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, and Gore Vidal. Despite these moments, some spectacular seaside vistas, and numerous quotations from Byron, the movie soon grows tedious; Coogan’s irritation with his traveling partner has diminished significantly, and the laughs along with it.
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Unless otherwise noted, all film listings this week are for Friday, September 12 through Thursday, September 18. Times can and do change without notice, so do call the theater before heading out. For up-to-date filmschedule information, check the Portland Phoenix Web site at thePhoenix.com.
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333 Clarks Pond Parkway, South Portland | 207.772.6023
aS aBoVE, So BEloW | 7:10, 9:40 BoYHood | 12:30, 4, 7:30 dolPHIn talE 2 | 11:40 am, 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 tHE GIVEr | 4:45, 9:50
GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY | 12:30, 3:45, 7, 9:45
tHE IdEntICal | 11:40 am, 2:10, 4:40 IF I StaY | 11:45 am, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45
tHE noVEMBEr Man | 11:45 am, 2:15, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40
tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES | 11:30 am, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 WHEn tHE GaME StandS tall | 11:30am, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50
nICKElodEon CInEMaS 1 Temple St, Portland | 207.772.4022
BoYHood | 1:10, 4:30, 8:00 tHE droP | 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30 tHE GIVEr | 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:20, 9:35
tHE HUndrEd-Foot JoUrnEY | 1:30, 4:10, 6:50
MaGIC In tHE MoonlIGHt | 1:50, 7 tHE onE I loVE | 1, 5:10, 7:15, 9:20 tHE trIP to ItalY | 8:45 WalKInG WItH tHE EnEMY | 1,
3:20, 6:40, 9:15
tHE HUndrEd Foot JoUrnEY | noon, 3:10
tHE IdEntICal | 1:30, 4, 7, 9:25 IF I StaY | 12:30, 3:30, 7:10, 9:40 lEt’S BE CoPS | 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:35
tHE noVEMBEr Man | 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40
tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES | 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:15 WHEn tHE GaME StandS tall | 12:30, 3:30, 7:15, 9:50
BrIdGton tWIn drIVE-In tHEatrE 383 Portland Rd, Bridgton | 207.647.8666
dolPHIn talE 2 + IF I StaY | 7:30 GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY + lEt’S BE CoPS | 7:30
ColonIal tHEatrE
163 High St, Belfast | 207.338.1930 Call for shows & times.
EVEnInGStar CInEMa
Tontine Mall, 149 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.729.5486
loVE IS StranGE | TBA MaGIC In tHE MoonlIGHt | TBA MY old ladY | TBA
FrontIEr CInEMa
3:50, 6:55
HErCUlES | 2:05, 4:40, 7:45 IF I StaY | 1:50, 4:25, 7:40 Into tHE StorM | 1:45, 4:20, 7:25 lUCY | 2, 4:35, 7:30 MalEFICEnt | 1:20, 4:10, 7:15 PlanES: FIrE and rESCUE | 1:35, 3:35, 6:40
tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES | 1:30, 4:05, 7:10
lEaVItt tHEatrE
Main St, Ogunquit | 207.646.3123
BoYHood | Fri: 8
lInColn tHEatEr 2 Theater St, Damariscotta | 207.563.3424
a MoSt WantEd Man | Fri-Sun: 7 | Tue-Wed: 7 | Thu: 2, 7
tHE MaGIC lantErn
9 Depot St, Bridgton | 207.647.5065
dolPHIn talE 2 | 4, 7 tHE GIVEr | 4:30, 7:30 tHE HUndrEd Foot JoUrnEY | 4:15, 7:15
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FranK | Fri-Sat: 2 | Sun: 2, 6, 8
15 Front St, Farmington | 207.778.4877 Call for shows & times.
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SUPErMEnSCH: tHE lEGEnd oF SHEP Gordon | Fri: 7 | Sat-Sun: 2
tHE HUndrEd Foot JoUrnEY |
3:45, 6:40, 9:20 7 Congress Square, Portland | 207.775.6148
WEStBrooK CInEMaGIC
183 County Rd, Westbrook | 207.774.3456
14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222
daWn oF tHE PlanEt oF tHE aPES | 1:05, 3:55, 6:45 dolPHIn talE 2 | 1:15, 3:40, 7 GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY | 1,
185 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | 207.633.0438
Fri-Thu: 7 | Sun: 3, 7
lEWISton FlaGSHIP 10 855 Lisbon St, Lewiston | 207.777.5010
1 Freeport Village Station, Suite 125, Freeport | 207.865.9000 Call for shows & times.
oXFord FlaGSHIP 7 1570 Main Street, Oxford | 207.743.2219 Call for shows & times.
raIlroad SQUarE CInEMa 17 Railroad Sq, Waterville | 207.873.6526
aKIra | Sat: 9 alIVE InSIdE | Fri: 3:10, 5:10, 6:50 | Sat: 1:20, 3:10, 5:10, 6:50, 8:30 | SunThu: 3:10, 5:10, 6:50 tHE droP | Fri: 2:40, 4:45, 7:10, 9:25 | Sat: 12:25, 2:40, 4:45, 7:10, 9:25 | SunThu: 2:40, 4:45, 7:10, 9:25 tHE Grand SEdUCtIon | Fri: 2:25, 4:40, 7, 9:15 | Sat-Sun: 12:15, 2:25, 4:40, 7, 9:15 | Mon-Thu: 2:25, 4:40, 7 MaGIC trIP | Wed: 7
rEEl PIZZa CInEraMa 33 Kennebec Place, Bar Harbor | 207.288.3828 Call for shows & times.
rEGal BrUnSWICK 10 19 Gurnet Rd, Brunswick | 207.798.3996 Call for shows & times.
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783 Portland Rd, Rte 1, Saco | 207.282.6234 Call for shows & times.
SaCo drIVE-In tHEatEr 969 Portland Rd, Saco | 207.284.1016
dolPHIn talE 2 + IF I StaY | FriSat: 7:45
SMIttY’S CInEMaBIddEFord
420 Alfred St, Five Points Shopping Center, Biddeford | 207.282.2224 Call for shows & times.
SMIttY’S CInEMaSanFord
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SPotlIGHt CInEMaS 6 Stillwater Ave, Orono | 207.827.7411 Call for shows & times.
StonInGton oPEra HoUSE
Main St, Stonington | 207.367.2788
GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY | Fri: 7 | Sun: 4, 7
Strand tHEatrE 345 Main St, Rockland | 207.594.0070
MaGIC In tHE MoonlIGHt | Fri:
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538 Congress St, Portland | 207.828.5600
naS: tIME IS IllMatIC | Tue: 7:30
HUSSon UnIVErSItY doCUMEntarY FIlM SErIES on EtHICS tHE GraCIE
1 College Circle, Bangor | 207.941.7888
tHE UnKnoWn KnoWn | Tue: 7:30
5:30| Sat: 3, 5:30, 8 | Sun: 3, 5:30 | Mon: 7 | Tue: 1 | Thu: 7
tHoMaSton FlaGSHIP 10
9 Moody Dr, Thomaston | 207.594.2100 Call for shows & times.
MaInE oUtdoor FIlM FEStIVal SaCo drIVE-In tHEatEr
969 Portland Rd, Saco | 207.284.1016
nEW HaMPSHIrE tHE MUSIC Hall
28 Chestnut St, Portsmouth | 603.436.9900
land Ho | Fri: 7 | Tue-Wed: 7 a MaStEr BUIldEr | Fri-Sat: 7 | Tue-Thu: 7
rEGal FoX rUn StadIUM 15
45 Gosling Rd, Portsmouth | 603.431.6116 Call for shows & times.
WInd and rattlESnaKES + dESErt ICE + FatHoMS oF ConSCIoUSnESS + MCConKEY | Fri-Sat: 7:45
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BAG IT | Sun: 3:30 tHE loraX | Sat: 11 am
aS aBoVE So BEloW | noon, 2:10, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40
dolPHIn talE 2 | 11:50 am, 2:15, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 tHE droP | 12:30, 3:10, 6:50, 9:15 tHE EXPEndaBlES 3 | 12:20, 3:20, 6:45, 9:30 tHE GIVEr | 11:50 am, 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY | 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 9:30
HoW to traIn YoUr draGon 2 | 11:40 am, 2:10, 4:30
tHE HUndrEd Foot JoUrnEY | 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 9:35
tHE IdEntICal | 7, 9:30 Into tHE StorM | 7, 9:20 lEt’S BE CoPS | 12:30, 2:15, 7:10, 9:50
lUCY | 12:10, 2:30, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 MalEFICEnt | 11:40 am, 2, 4:30 no Good dEEd | 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:20
tHE noVEMBEr Man | 12:20, 3:20, 7, 9:30
tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES
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MaInE alaMo tHEatrE
85 Main St, Bucksport | 207.469.0924
BoYHood | Fri-Sat: 7:30 | Sun: 2
aUBUrn FlaGSHIP 10
746 Center St, Auburn | 207.786.8605
aS aBoVE, So BEloW | 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 9:35
tHE EXPEndaBlES 3 |6:50, 7, 9:35 FranK MIllEr’S SIn CItY: a daME to KIll For | 9:50 tHE GIVEr | 12:50, 3:50, 7:05, 9:20 GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY | 12:10,
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verybody loves Portland. The internet does, we do, and we’re assuming (since you chose to go to school around here) you do. But as every longtime Portlander would love to tell you, it’s not all roses and sunshine in the Forest City. To that end we’ve put together a primer of minor inconveniences that most all of us have shared in. Think of it as a little checklist of crap that comes with a special silver lining. What is that silver lining, you ask? Well, it’s called being a Portlander. Let’s begin. If you’re going to live here, you will… 1. …run into your ex on an almost daily basis. Portland is a small city. If you haven’t noticed this, try breaking up with someone. No matter how hard you try, both you and your ex’s instinctive patterns of avoidance will invariably lead to a run-in on the street, or worse, at a party you were both hoping to meet someone new at. This is how Portland got its less popular nickname: “The City of Hooking Up with Your Ex- Even Though You Know You Shouldn’t.”
2. …get “walk blocked” by tourists. Those of you just arriving at school only have a few cruise ships left to really experience what year-round residents of Portland deal with every summer. Huge families of people “from away” rolling three-to-five deep down the sidewalks, stopping every twenty feet to take a picture of a building or look at those cartoonish maps the city hands out. Walking behind these people is like going back to using a dial-up modem: lots of noise, little results. Our advice? Point them to DiMillo’s (tell them it’s where “the real Portland” goes) and keep on walking.
3. …be late for something because the bridge went up. “We’re cutting it pretty close.” “Yeah, but it’s only three minutes to campus. We’re fine.” “Hey, did that sign say the bridge was up?” “Guuuuhh—“ True facts: the Casco Bay Bridge is the most expensive commuter-delaying apparatus in the Greater Portland area. Plan accordingly.
4. …get completely lost in the west end. Who knew that the slight curvature of a few streets could wind up being so inexplicably baffling? The Escherian topography of the area beyond Aurora Provisions is best navigated by locals (some of whom reportedly have unlocked homing pigeon-like
techniques in their brains), or someone with a smartphone and a solid 5G connection. Everyone else should just stick to Congress St.
5. …start going to brunch at the worst possible times. Do you brunch? Of course you do. However, one day soon you’ll wake up and lazily decide to go for brunch at the same time every other Portland resident (sans waitstaff) has decided to as well. Make small talk while you contemplate eating your companions during your hour-plus wait for bar seating, and make sure you put actual food in your stomach before finishing that first Bloody Mary.
6. …explain to someone you live in maine, not oregon. Let’s get our facts straight: we do not live in “the other Portland.” We live in the original. In 1845, the merchant Francis W. Pettygrove, born in Calais, won the right to name the Oregonian city in a coin toss. He chose to name it after his beloved hometown of Portland, Maine. Headaches and confusion have persisted ever since. Perhaps it would have been easier if Asa Lovejoy had won, and the world would have had to deal with two Bostons.
7. …see the sea dogs lose. Yeah, they may be doing okay this season, but no one’s a real Portlander till you’ve felt the strange ennui that sets in after realizing that you’re going to sit and watch your home team get murdered for the next two hours (and was something you paid to do). Eating a Sea Dog biscuit can alleviate your despair, but eating five may be seen as a cry for help.
8. …totally bite it on a loose brick. Cobblestones, alcohol, and elaborate footwear just don’t mix. Unless you enjoy being caught on someone’s Vine stumbling around like a baby giraffe, it’s best to take at least one of those options out of the equation. Much
more sinister though, are the loose bricks that pop out of even the most recently rebuilt sidewalks. One moment you’re walking along holding up your end of an engaging discourse about the political ramifications of the Friends finale, the next thing you know, you’re in free fall, praying that no one important sees you kiss bricks (hint: someone always will).
9. …get your car towed in a snow ban. There are oodles of ways to get towed in this city, but a snow ban is a special occasion. Not only can you get towed for not moving your car to a designated parking spot, you can also get towed if you don’t get your car out of said parking spot by the time designated by the city’s byzantine parking rules. Helpful tip: use your anger to develop new and unusual profanities to use when shoveling out your car for the fifth time in a week.
10. …be forced to navigate an unplowed sidewalk. More winter fun! This one is like a real life 404 error: Suddenly the wellmaintained sidewalk you were looking for isn’t there anymore. Replacing it is something that resembles the Khumbu Ice Fall on Everest. Lacking crampons and oxygen masks, most people just say screw it and walk down the street. Colorful motorist/ pedestrian exchanges ensue.
11. …see someone wearing the clothes you sold at a consignment shop. Who doesn’t love rocking some vintage duds? Portland has plenty of choice thrift stores and consignment boutiques, most of which will take the best of your unwanted threads and turn them into credit for you. However, old items often end up popping up on your friends (or the next wave of MECA freshmen), and sometimes you realize that you wish you had never parted with that ironic wolf sweatshirt, or that
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12. …run into the on-peninsula/ off-peninsula dilemma. We live in a pretty solidly walkable city. However, once someone gets a residence on “the Peninsula” (anywhere east of I-295) they end up behaving as if it would take them two days to get to Hannaford. Anyone living west of I-295 will subsequently declare the Peninsula to be impossible to find parking on and use the excuse to stay in and watch Netflix.
13. …get “port-splained” by a veteran portlander. “Man, I wish we could still go to the White Heart. That was a wild scene. Oh, you don’t know the White Heart? Well, you know where Nosh is…” It is a serious fact that the longer someone stays in Portland, the more nostalgic and opinionated they will grow about its changing landscape. One of the key symptoms of this is namedropping places that aren’t around anymore, especially to people who could care less about that bar that used to be where Styxx is. Take notes if you want (you can use it to impress the old dudes at Geno’s), or just ignore it and do whatever (that was the way we acted when we were in college). So go ahead: pretend Binga’s never burnt to the ground, and Geno’s was never the Skinny/ was never a old porn theater. It’s all boring history anyway. It’s your city now, you get to decide the best spots… and yes, one day we may all eventually despise you for that. ^
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s a rule, students are overstimulated. Your online research efforts are relentlessly flooded with ads, and even the basic communication tools of social media are rife with solicitations to purchase something, attend some event, or ‘like’ some organization. Surely, you’ll want to get away from it all. Thankfully, Portland has no shortage of bars, concert halls, and reading rooms, and those each have their own draws. But if you’re looking for entertainment on any old night of the week, either to catch up with a friend or to meet some new ones, here’s some realtalk advice about your in-town options.
Amigo’s
This is a place you’ll find yourself on those rainy, windy, bottomless nights when your hunt for fun mingles with the devilish urge to destroy yourself juuust a little bit. When there aren’t rawly funky rock bands playing in the fenced-in back patio, you can huddle in a booth sipping strong margaritas and crushing a nacho plate—seriously some of the best in the city—letting the burly riff-rock blaring from the speakers drown out the bros shouting around the pool table. For some there’s no clearer picture of heaven.
Brian Boru
92 Portland Rd. | DJ & dancing Fri-Sat
Bull FeeNey’s
21+ | 9 Dana St. | sporadic shows Fri-Sat
ArcAdiA NAtioNAl BAr
It opens next week, so everything we can say about this new barcade is pure speculation. We have the labors of local dudes Dan Aceto and Ben Culver to thank for this youthful fantasia-tobe—pinball, video games, and a full bar can go a long way in those dreary winter nights when you’re given up wrestling with that Psych essay. 24
Preble St. | no live music…yet?
Asylum
Their concerts are super well promoted, but you don’t always hear about the weekly fare at this Old Port hang. Friday’s “Plague” night of goth/industrial tunes is something everyone should try at least once; Thursday’s basement dance party is an ageless wonder that still features some weird, risky tunes among the crowdpleasers; and Wednesday’s Rap Night does for Portland what Yo! MTV Raps once did for the entire world. 121
Center St. | live music & dancing Wed-Fri
BAssliNes/BiNgA’s stAdium
This truly enormous sports bar and wing-o-rama hut has been known for their ladies’ night for a while now— sometimes for the wrong reasons. Word is the environment’s gotten a little less crazy (and a little safer) since DJ Verbatum refashioned the
Sure, you can carve out a place to sulk in one of those side-room nooks with all the weird seasonal bric-a-brac if you absolutely must, but most people are here to shake some capital-A Ass on that lit-up dance floor. Friday and Saturday nights have long been the exclusive territory of DJ Jon, who plays everything, ‘80s ‘til now. $5 cover; free if you dress like the ‘80s (like, what does that even mean anymore?).
basement into Basslines last year. They still host a ladies’ night every Wednesday, and a college night with DJ Trill1 every Thursday, one of the few places in town 18-20-year olds can dance. Look out for the Chaos parties.
23 Brown St. | DJs & dancing Wed-Thurs
BAyside Bowl
which may be exactly what you’re looking for after spending all week with your fellow students. The dark, lovely little room’s got cover and is all ages, but their one-drink-minimum policy still applies across the board. We recommend the ginger ale. 650A
Congress St. | live music Tues-Sun
BriAN Boru
Still one of the best places to see live music, watch a game, play sports, or yell really loudly; with strangely far fewer downsides that come from practicing any of those activities in other bars. Crucially, it’s not a 21+ venue, and while their live music schedule is pretty irregular, you can always count on a good, free, scorching garage-rock show at least once a month, and if you pay attention, many other inspired rock jams too. 58 Alder St. | sporadic live music
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Blue
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With its fine wine list, scrumptious tapas, and refined musical tastes, Blue attracts something of an older crowd—
From 50 paces away, Boru sometimes looks like a real brawler’s bar. But walk inside and it’s a bunch of career Mainers who all seem to be great friends. They know how to drink, can appreciate a good country tune or Irish shanty, and no longer have any use for the playground of bars down on Fore St. Folk, roots, country, jam, and cover bands play Thursday through Sunday. 57 Center St. | live
Names can be deceiving. Bubba’s is actually one of the most gleeful, quixotic places on the peninsula.
This multi-level Irish pub in the Old Port has an incredible amount of programming per week, including the classic Maine duo Squid Jiggers every Wednesday; the reggae-ish Gorilla Finger Dub Band every Thursday, and a rotating cast of singer-songwriters Friday and Saturday. They’re also paving the way in the city’s spoken word poetry and comedy scenes, with notoriously interesting open mics every Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. 21+ | 375 Fore St. | poetry
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BuNker BrewiNg compANy
You’re gonna have to dig this spot up sooner or later. A Bayside brewery that’s gotten increasingly creative cramming dozens of weirdos in for shows and dance nights and whathave-you, Bunker’s a decent spot to hang out, sip ales, and play cornhole even when there’s no official party. Shows and parties are intermittent and the doors are 21+, but the believers keep coming back. 122 Anderson St.
dogFish BAr ANd grille
With Jazz Fridays, Wednesday night open mics, and sessions every Thursday and Saturday with local bands of softer flavores, Dogfish remains one of the sturdier places to pop in for a drink with an old friend, or stumble in with a large crowd. 128
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how many functions this place fills, from remote office to classic-style coffeehouse to political action center to pub, and they’ve quietly got some of the best—and cheapest—local foods in the city. 653 Congress St. | live music
Thurs-Sun
mAmA’s crowBAr
The most unabashedly neighborhoody of all the venues of this list, students’ll have to defer to whatever mood the drinking locals are in that night, be it poetry, comedy, piano night, or power metal (via the soundsystem). All nights are killer: Mondays are open mic poetry, Tuesdays all-request piano jukebox night, and Sundays bring open mic comedy. (Friday night, of course, is all about knitting.) No off nights here. 21+ | 189 Congress St. |
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Geno’s
eAsy dAy
This enormous, ‘cross-the-bridge bowling alley is relatively new on the scene, but they’ve got a plethora of TVs, cheap beers, and a still-inprogress entertainment schedule of acoustic acts (it’s all ages, of course, so they can’t get too weird). Bowling never goes out of style, and now you and your friends can fight about which side you’re on. 725 Broadway,
South Portland
empire
Revamped into a dim sum restaurant last year, the entertainment side of Empire has finally returned to full strength. Of course they’ve kept up the Clash of the Titans live cover nights every Wednesday (no matter how steeled your resolve, you’re bound to be lured by at least one of those this year), but the rest of their schedule is now packed as well, with an impressive number of local acts. Word is longtime Portland musician/man-about-town Spencer Albee’s handling the booking here now, and the man’s finger has been on the pulse for the better part of two decades. Look out, too for the excellent Penthouse dance parties, every last Friday of the month. 21+ | 575
Congress St. | live music most nights
FlAsk louNge
Leader of the pack in Portland’s dance scene, Flask is the site of most of the city’s best dance nights, from Unknown Pleasures (a goth/darkwave affair); Love (every first Friday, house and techno); Friction Friday (drum & bass, every third Friday), and many more. Toss in some free or super-
cheap punk shows, weird themed karaoke, and an “open decks” DJ night for young selectors, and you’ve got a truly great hangout spot. 21+. |
117 Spring St. | DJ & dancing most Fri-Sun; select shows otherwise
geNo’s
Portland’s ripest repository of stiff drinks and loud music, Geno’s is a good notch to get in your belt early in your Portland career. Odds are you’re not about to “get into” heavy metal at this point—if you’re there, you’re there—but it’s important to remember that this is a fine place to hang even if Hessian isn’t playing that night. They’ve also become a dark horse theater venue in the last few years. Got an idea? We hear Geno’s is game for it all, and really easy to book. 21+
| most shows $5 | 625 Congress St. | live music most nights
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Mostly just a restaurant/bar, this place comes alive every Tuesday night when dozens of hot young people with complex personalities flock to see the funky live band or DJ that sets up in the middle of the room. Used to be hip hop/jazz wizards Jaw Gems had this on the lockdown, now it’s pretty free.
21+ | 685 Congress St. | live music Tues
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All ages, all the time, this workerrun co-op is known for its open fiddle jams (every Wednesday morning), its rockabilly brunches (with Sean Mencher every Sunday), and its cozy folk shows Thursday through Saturday. We’re constantly amazed at
Mayo is a gem, and while they don’t operate like most “clubs,” they offer a truly inspired set of programs to choose from each month, from swing dances, puppet shows, rock and classical concerts, and Portland’s original Crowbait Club, a participatory theater workshop open to all. There are beer and wine options at this old converted church, but their events are all ages. 10 Mayo St. | sporadic live music
old port tAverN
An old standby in cobblestone valley, the OPT offers DJs and dancing literally every damn night of the week. The dance floor is raw, dark, and super sweaty; and the mostlyTop-40 fare is reliably broken up by some oddball karaoke choices every so often. 21+ | 11 Moulton St. | DJ/karaoke &
dancing every night
oNe loNgFellow squAre
OLS differs from most venues on this list because it’s not open without an event, but they’ve changed their game so much recently that they warrant inclusion anyway. This has long been a gem for, you know, older crowds, a place to see traveling blues and folk vets from all over. And it still is, except now they’re doing a lot more local shows, including a very successful run Tuesday nights this summer hosting two-fers with inexpensive covers. All ages | 181 State
St. | live music most nights
peArl
This classic Old Port nightclub offers a dance floor, a full bar, and a steady roster of DJs armed with terabytes’ worth of Top-40 tracks. If that sounds like your kind of night, you’re certainly not alone. Dance nights here are 21+ and occur Thursday through Saturday, and your attendance implies that you’re okay with the very strong likelihood that a photographer-dude will take a candid photo of you and splatter it all over Facebook. 442 Fore
St. | DJ & dancing Thurs-Sat
porthole
You’re gonna have to get quick to this classic wharf spot. Their brunches are killer, yes, but they’ve lately spritzed it up, under new management, into an evening hangout. Blue-eyed soul dude Lyle Divinsky marks this territory every Thursday night until mid-November, and it’s a nice, off-the-radar spot to feel the chill creep into your bones from overseas. | 20 Custom house
Wharf | live music every Thurs
purple cAterpillAr
Pretty trippy, right? With all the turnover in the Old Port, who would have thought that a hookah bar would be around for going-on ten years? This 18+, everyday establishment has been doing its thang awhile now, getting a recent surge from their Friday night DJ sessions led by straightedge radio personality and ultra-posi electropop producer Ya Favorite Homie JR. 367
Fore St. | DJ every Fri
ri rA
There are Ri Ra’s all over the country, so you know when you slip into one that you’re signing up for a classic college experience: good quality pub food, a balanced beer selection of domestics and local brews, and a steady diet of acoustic guitars and singalongs. And a fair amount of fiftysomethings to hang out with, too. 72 Commercial St. | live music most
nights
soNNy’s
This is a bar, straight up, and a pretty swank one at that. But they’ve persisted in offering interesting music options for long enough that they’re worth a spot on your entertainment radar. Check out the mysterious Humperdinck Humperdink (not a typo), who performs tongue-in-cheek lounge versions of timeless classics from the FM, alt-rock, and punk canons every Thursday night. 21+ | 83
exchange St. | live music Thurs
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There’s been a resurgence of attention toward local music this summer, and SPACE has led the way. Rock, electronic, hip hop, weird-folk, metal, and punk shows abound these days, and they’ve sprinkled in some DJ nights now and then, too: it’s a big floor that’s kinda awkward when halffilled, but they keep it nice and dark. Most shows 18+. 538 Congress St. | live
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styxx
Definitely 21+, this literallyunderground gay nightclub in the Old Port is mostly known for its intense dance nights, but their Sunday night karaoke (with the illustrious Cherry Lemonade) is a great way to summon a part of you that doesn’t have a chance to come out in “regular” bars. 3 Spring
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elcome to college in the big city! Aside from the chilling cold seven months out of the year, Portland is a great place to spend a few years pretending to study. The Forest City’s culinary options stretch before you like so many oyster varieties at the hippest new raw bar. There’s duck liver crostini! Truffled mac and cheese! Three-pound porterhouse steak! Wood-oven roasted mussels! But after a trip to the campus bookstore, the annual pilgrimage to Target, and let’s not even mention that first tuition installment, your bank account balance is starting to look mighty paltry in the face of anything truffled or sous vide. So here’s 13 options that will satisfy your inner foodie without causing you to decide between the omakase and your Econ text book.
El Rayo’s RicE and bEan bowls
This festive Mexican restaurant, set in a refurbished gas station, offers many affordable dishes packed with the tangy, salty, spicy flavors of the cuisine. You could snack on the Mexico City-style street corn on the cob, coated with chipotle mayonnaise and dusted with cotija cheese ($4.95). The fried plantains ($5.95), fundido (chorizo cheese dip with corn chips, $5.95), and nachos ($4.25) all call to the budget diner. But go for an oft-overlooked option: the rice and bean bowls with grilled fish, steak, vegetables, or mushrooms ($8.95$9.75). Piled high with fresh toppings like shredded lettuce, sliced radishes, and cilantro, these rice bowls leave you feeling virtuously full in a way nachos never could. El Rayo Taqueria,
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Chef/owner Damian Sansonetti sports an impressive culinary resume from the kitchen of his high-end Italian restaurant Piccolo. Sample the talented chefs’ cheaper offerings at his casual sandwich shop Blue Rooster Food Co. Blue Rooster offers “lowbrow” foods like bacon-wrapped hot dogs and tater tots, made with creative twists and high-quality ingredients. Tot standouts include Buffalo Hot Tots ($6.50), smothered in hot sauce and blue cheese, topped with fried celery root and carrot, and the Early Bird ($6.50), where a bed of fried potatoes supports bacon, a drizzle of maple mayo, hot sauce, and a fried egg. Note: Blue Rooster is one of few late night dining options in the city (open until 2 am Thursday through Saturday). Blue Rooster
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All of the vendors in Monument Square’s Portland Public Market offer quick and affordable meal options. But Kamasouptra’s soups are hearty, creatively flavored, and surprisingly filling. A $5 cup of soup comes with a fist-sized whole wheat roll to complete the meal. Try the rich grilled cheese and tomato soup, refreshing gazpacho, or kicky jalapeño beer and cheddar. A variety of gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan soups are always available. Should you find yourself needing fuel for back-toschool shopping while you’re at the Maine Mall, Kamasouptra’s second location in the food court is your best option. Kamasouptra, 28 Monument Way |
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Between Eventide Oyster Co., Boone’s Oyster House and Fish Room, and J’s Oyster Bar, there’s no shortage of fine places to enjoy a wide variety of bivalves from Maine and away. But the pleasure of slurping down a dozen or two often comes with a hefty price tag. Not so at Hot Suppa, the Cajun-themed West End restaurant,
Options for cheap eats abound within Portland’s burgeoning food truck scene, but Small Axe offers the foodiest bang for your buck. Chef/ owners Bill Leavy and Karl Deuben worked in some of the city’s finest restaurants before launching their own truck last year. Small Axe’s menu uses upscale ingredients like braised pork belly, locally caught hake, cold smoked beef burgers, and local produce, in items that are the $8-$10 range. Try the aforementioned Lightning Smokestack burger with spicy Shishito peppers ($10) or a curried vegetable and rice bowl with or without fish ($9). Small Axe truck’s chefs serve lunch starting at 11:30 am on weekdays. Small Axe food truck,
partnered with supersized-food lover and owner of Nosh Kitchen Bar, Jason Loring, to open Slab Sicilian Street Food. Here, just as at Micucci’s, the slab is large, the sauce is sweet, and the sparse cheese salty and browned from the heat of the oven. “Splurge” on the slaw ($5), a crunchy mix of thinly-sliced cabbage, fennel, beets, carrots, and red onion, which is a nice foil to the heavier carb options. If you can wait that long, excess slabs go for $2 each late night—watch their Facebook page for the announcement.
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tEn tEn pié bEnto box
The true gastronaut enjoys seeking out the newest hole-in-the-wall offering delicious fare. For that, turn to Ten Ten Pié, the new multicultural market and bakery in the former home of a beloved Italian deli in the Bayside neighborhood. Their bento box lunch specials change daily, but always include a delicious and filling mix of veggies, meat, and rice. Recent options include five-spice pork and rice with daikon radish, green beans, and a hard-boiled egg ($8.50) and Thai green curry with multigrain rice and a carrot-cranberry salad ($7.25). If you can spare an extra $2-3, you’ll be rewarded with sweet treats such as double chocolate sake cake, brown Continued on p 14
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Portland’s posh new steakhouse may boast prime cuts of meat at prices that rival a week’s worth of groceries. But really, whenever anyone sums up a steakhouse, it always comes down to the sides. The New York Strip may have been divine, but how was the creamed spinach? Get right to the things that matter by scoring said sides at a discount during Timber’s happy hour. Try a number of $5 appetizers, including jalapeño cornbread, Buffalo chicken croquettes, and batter-fried bacon with maple syrup. Soak up the swanky atmosphere while savoring comfort food on the cheap, weekdays from 4-6 pm. Timber Steakhouse & Rotisserie, 106
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If you live in the Oakdale neighborhood by USM, you’ll quickly discover there’s not too many quality food options on the busy thoroughfare of Forest Ave. That said, there are a few gems worth your time, and Bayou Kitchen tops the list. This casual eatery is packed on weekends for brunch, but also serves lunch 7 days a week until 2 pm. Specializing in Cajun classics like jambalaya, beans and rice, and gumbo, the Bayou can turn up the heat when you want it. With prices reflecting their off-peninsula location, the portions are massive. The Huevos Rancheros amounts to an entire burrito stuffed with black bean or beef chili, topped with two eggs, salsa, and sour cream, or go light with their à la carte sides, all under $5. Bayou Kitchen, 543 Deering Ave. |
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17 books you should read in college
(Whether your professors tell you to or not) _by em i l y y o un g
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he following is a list of books you should read in college, whether you like reading books or not. But before we get to that, I’ll recommend some books that aren’t on the list, like books assigned by your professors, and books recommended by friends. Challenge yourself to read something you wouldn’t. Read obvious books like Hamlet, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Sense and Sensibility, and Man’s Search for Meaning. And if you find yourself hating any one of them, throw the book across the room and pick up something else. Read all the books. Let’s start with philosophy—I think we can agree that, to a certain extent, college is mostly about thinking and talking about thinking and problem solving and discovery of how life is. What I really want to recommend to you is A. A. Milne’s The World of Pooh, which, toilet humor aside, is one of the best. But since not everyone wants to be seen reading a children’s book, let’s read Benjamin Hoff’s THE TAO OF POOH, which takes Milne’s stories and prescribes them as a way of learning about true happiness and eastern philosophy. This is one of the most fun philosophy books that exist and Pooh (through Hoff) really will pique your interest in Taoism.
THE TAO OF POOH Some lessons aren’t worth unlearning.
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins ZEN MIND, BEGINNER’S MIND by Shunryu Suzuki, a collection of talks recorded by one of the Zen Buddhist monk’s students. Still in the realm of eastern philosophy but moving from speaking generally about Taoism, we’re now speaking specifically about Buddhist meditation—from thinking to doing. As it’s taken from talks rather than intended for print, so many of the lines are simple and resonate deeply, and may be just the thing for the mind of a college student thrown into transition and disorganization. “It’s impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order.”
ARTFUL by Ali Smith is one of those books that is said to defy categorization, and that’s actually true. Taken from a series of lectures Smith delivered in 2012 and then strained through a mind deeply devoted to fiction, this book reads like a novel (yet isn’t) as it meanders seamlessly between plot and essay (it isn’t really this either), Smith ruminates on time, form, edge, offer and reflection, while keeping the book tied to loss, literature, and the ghosts of the past. And as confusing as all that may sound, it’s so readable.
THE cOLOR MASTER You gotta know the dark to see the light.
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ARTFUL Like your diary, but without the winces.
YOU cAN’T wIN No, not that Jack Black.
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If you’re the sort of angsty wanderer for whom On the Road and Catcher in the Rye appeals, let me recommend to you YOU cAN’T wIN by Jack Black. A memoir written in the 1920s, Black’s conversational style details his various adventures living as a hobo and a yegg around the US and Canada. This is my answer to Twain, the Beats, westerns, and history all rolled into one. If that isn’t recommendation enough, it’s William S. Burroughs’s favorite book. Let’s pause a moment for novels. If the idea behind this list is survival, then escapism is key. If I were writing a desert island book list, I would fill it with novels. A good place to start, especially here in Maine, is with Stephen King. I find that people generally fall on two sides when it comes to King—either “I love his horror novels” or “I don’t read him because I don’t like horror.” For both of these reasons, I recommend King’s HEARTS IN ATLANTIS. It isn’t horror. It is a novel composed of five connected novellas, largely about college and coming-of-age, about the Vietnam War, and search for meaning, and love. There are touches of sci-fi and mystery in here, enough for those who crave it, yet contained enough for those wary of genre fiction. There’s also THE HISTORY OF LOvE by Nicole Krauss, a beautifully written, read-straight-through type of novel. It traces the history of a book called The History of Love through three alternating perspectives—an old man, a young girl, and more explicative sections tracing the book’s unlikely journey towards publication. It is also what it says it is—a history of love. I’ll emphasize that the book is moving, but it’s formed of equal parts humor and heartbreak. If you think novels are old hat, try novel’s spunkier little sister the short story. Choose a collection from the Best American series or find an author you like. Read Salinger’s Nine Stories or O’Conner’s Everything That Rises Must Converge. For something new, I recommend THE cOLOR MASTER by
AMERIcANAH Get acquainted with the intersections.
the Northwest Earth Institute, which can be purchased on the Northwest Earth Institute website. The guide is more than just a book—it, of course, provides answers to the “why” and “how” questions of sustainability (also the “what is it” question if you’re not quite there yet), but if you’ve got a band of folks ready to go, Choices for Sustainable Living is also set up as a seven week course for discussion and implementation. Speaking of good reasons to get fired up, I also recommend getting fired up about the injustices of war. This is an old standby as far as causes go, but it’s worth your time. A good place to start is Howard Zinn’s YOU cAN’T
BE NEUTRAL ON A MOvING TRAIN: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF OUR TIMES, where the famous historian and civil rights activist details his time as a bombardier in WWII and how that led to becoming a leader in the fight for social change. If Zinn’s direct approach is a turn-off to you, and you’d rather take the sci-fi, time-traveling, memoirish-novel route towards feeling indignant about war, please turn to SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIvE
cALvIN AND HOBBES... Tortured philosophical friendship is life itself. Aimee Bender. Bender’s work has always drifted in an out of the mystical, and this collection is no different. While only a few of the stories actually contain elements of magic realism, they all dabble in an ethereal darkness while remaining grounded in a reality that one can understand. Aside from escapism, narrative fiction can also be an easy window to understanding experiences that may be very different from our own. I’m writing on the assumption that, this article being aimed at Maine college students, the majority of you reading this are white Americans. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s AMERIcANAH is a beautifully written novel about the experiences of a nonAmerican black woman (specifically a Nigerian immigrant) in an American college and beyond. I found it to be at the same time foreign and completely relatable. Adichie explores race, love,
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loss-of-innocence, other people’s assumptions, and what it means to be a modern American woman and a modern Nigerian woman in a completely accessible, I-was-obsessedwhile-I-was-reading-it sort of way. If you’re a traditionally-aged college student (read: twentyish), you’re probably going through this time in your life where you are beginning to realize your own potential: to defy what used to seem inevitable, to create your own destiny, and to exact change in the world. Now all you have to do is decide what sort of change to exact. If you’re like I was in college, it was almost more important to be a part of some sort of cause than to make sure it was the best cause. If you are currently a rebel in the market for a cause, please let me suggest a good one. A good one is humanity’s future on this earth. An excellent guide in support of this cause is
SLAUGHTERHOUSEFIvE Still America’s literary dad.
OR THE cHILDREN’S cRUSADE: A DUTYDANcE wITH DEATH by Kurt Vonnegut
Jr. Actually, read this one even if you don’t care about war. Read it because Vonnegut’s prose reads like the father we should all have: frank, comforting, and whimsical while imparting all the truths about life. Read anything by Vonnegut for this reason. For those nights (or mornings or afternoons) when you really want to get lost in a favorite old book, but you’re so lazy you don’t even really want to read a whole book with all those words and lengthy narratives, please turn to comics. I specifically recommend THE cALvIN
AND HOBBES 10TH ANNIvERSARY BOOk by Bill Watterson. Not only is it an excellent collection of strips chosen by the author, but it provides an illuminating introduction, also by Watterson, on craft, ethics, and what makes him tick. Continued on p 20
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On the flip side, if you’re craving that old-favorite feeling, but narratives restricted to half a page and a scant four panels aren’t nearly enough, and if you refuse to waste your time on anything as short as a single book, dust off HIS DARk MATERIALS by Philip Pullman. If it isn’t already an old favorite, it will be soon. It’s as easy to sink into as any YA trilogy, but it sneaks history, religion, philosophy, myth, and heart in between fantasy, wonder, and first love. If you read this in middle school, you probably missed something. If you didn’t read this in middle school, well, you missed reading it in middle school and it’s time to get cracking. The value in Jennifer Michael Hecht’s
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Lastly, let’s find ourselves. A good place to start is Rebecca Solnit’s A FIELD GUIDE TO GETTING LOST. Solnit, perhaps most famous for having coined the term “mansplain,” here writes a meditation on the wonders of literally getting lost, and if you let her takes you down this twisty path, you will get lost in this book. This is where you can find yourself.
TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS: ADvIcE ON LOvE AND LIFE from Dear Sugar by
Cheryl Strayed is my answer to all the self-help or how-to books that people have suggested I add to this list. Here, the author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail collects sixty-or-so letters from the anonymous agony column she penned from 2010 to 2012. Strayed’s variety of advice by way of personal essay is irresistible, and she considers each query with an open heart and true reflection—a level of compassion which really comes through on the questions where it is clear how few fucks Strayed gives about sparing the asker’s feelings over offering them the truth of a situation. Anyone would be hard-pressed not to learn a thing or two about themselves while leafing through this book. Are you starting to feel like you don’t have time to read all this stuff in between school and work, and worried that you therefore MAY NOT SURVIVE? Think about this: my brother used to scan huge maps for a living, and each map would take a few minutes to scan. He managed to read whole books at work, three minutes at a time. I, on the other hand, am partial to reading and walking, leaving no second wasted on frivolous things like looking around the neighborhood. If you’re not feeling as dedicated as we are, forget the whole list and just find something you’re passionate about. I asked one friend, who I never thought of as a reader, what his favorite book was. He named a cookbook, and immediately renewed my faith in books as objects perfect for anyone in any situation. You just have to find the right one. ^
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it’s not you, it’s me a guide to how you will feel before, during, and after your breakup with the humanities, in epistolary form _by da vi d c a r o n
Dear LiberaL arts Degree,
I’m writing to you in clunky analog because I want to be sure I express with depth and precision exactly what it is I’m feeling right now. I expect your mind is racing already—typical of you really, “Why this? What could you possibly want to say that merits the slow collection of thoughts a letter implies?” (Let’s face it, Humanities: you think too much, which is part of why I care so deeply for you)—but I won’t keep you suspended by our usual kind of discursive patter. This might be hard for you to conceive of: beginning in medias res during a formal address. But you’ll understand, by the end, why I’ve chosen this device. I love you and I’ll always love you, but we’ve grown apart. Or, at least, I have. It’s been a gradual deterioration: at first things seemed so cut and clear, black and white. We had our share of binary moments, but we pushed through by realizing how these differences emphasized important features of our respective lives. And I think we grew to appreciate those differences. Toward the end though… what can I say? It’s become so schizophrenic. You don’t seem able
That’s not to say I didn’t savor the time we had together. When I recollect my initial attraction to you I can’t help but admit that, at first, it felt like a fling—I had no desire to invest in a relationship and let’s be honest: there were others, of course there were others, you had to know that. Sarah Lawrence, St. John, Marlboro…you weren’t the only one, Farmington. I was simply biding my time: experimenting with new places, new people, new experiences. You were older than me, much older in fact, and that had its own kind of appeal. Plus you didn’t live far away, which helped. However, despite the difference in age and my original intention to remain unavailable, I began to discover that I was, beneath the thin veneer of disinterest, investing myself in you. You were the only one among the lot of potential interests that seemed to want me, that
...though i’m not one to subscribe to the idea that History has an arc or design or, further yet, end to it (these are things i’ve learned from you), i feel in this case that our history—the little one—has reached its intended denouement. to make up your mind about anything anymore: it’s all jouissance or irony or pastiche—and oh, the jargon of it all! I just wish you would say what you mean every so often instead of making it so difficult! I get it: art is hard. But even that notion is passé these days. I’ve been feeling this way for some time, and though I’m not one to subscribe to the idea that History has an arc or design or, further yet, end to it (these are things I’ve learned from you), I feel in this case that our history—the little one—has reached its intended denouement. I know it sounds irrational, but you’ll have to trust me when I tell you that feelings often triumph over reason in cases like these.
pursued me. My parents were timid about endorsing the relationship, but I assured them it was what I wanted at this particular junction in my life. They did their best to support me, and I was able to come home on occasion to do laundry and chitchat about how things were going. As we spent more and more time together, I began to feel a great expanse open up in my heart and my mind: there are so many indispensable things I’ve learned from you. Before we met my interests were scattered and indeterminate—it felt as though you brought them into focus. You revealed parts of me to myself that I had not known previously existed.
Do you remember our first time interrogating the notion of nothing? I can’t imagine anything more compelling. Our mutual interests in literature, philosophy, religion; the way we would stay up late and read together— what can I say? I was smitten. I was young and eager to learn from the experiences you’d already lived. Everything felt new and fresh, everything was deeply revelatory, every discovery a Joycean epiphany. I was at the height of my confidence. I balked at the romantic interests of those around me—friends who were more interested in settling down, or in what their partners would provide for them in the future. But us! We were trailblazers. We were forging new paths, burning with a fervor so hot that surely our names would become cornerstones of the Western canon. So what happened? Nothing. You made me feel so clever and comfortable, you were so accommodating and accepting that I stopped pushing myself. I knew exactly how to please you, or, worse yet, how to get by without even trying: what words to use, what cultural references you would “get,” the kind of language that would impress you when we were with your friends—it all became so routine. And don’t get me wrong: I adore your friends, but their conversations eventually felt so…stagnant. Whenever the lot of you would get together it was as though the only thing you could do was rehearse the past. It was the same conversations
over and over again and I know—I know— how important it was for all of you to situate yourselves, to give meaning and context to your respective milieus. But couldn’t we have, once in a while at least, moved forward? Couldn’t we have thought about the present, or even the future, instead of the past? Couldn’t I have chimed in with something important on occasion? Was there room for me to say something original? I desperately wanted there to be, but never found the niche into which I might fit. I’m as much at fault as you are in this respect. I was bewildered by your friends and referenced them as frequently as possible—they had such reputations! Geoffrey, Mark, Chinua, Toni, Derek W, Jean-Paul, Friedrich, Slavoj, Ingmar, Julia K, Simone, Hélène, Roland, Sigmund, Jacques, Ferdinand, Rudolf O, Martin B…oh, the whole lot of them! They were tremendous and intimidating and, inasmuch as I sought to impress you, I wanted to impress them as well. But as I’ve said: it took fairly little time to fall into the same habitual conversations, and I learned the formulas quickly. Try as I might to express myself in the throes of their polemics, to say something new or equally incendiary, I wound up feeling small and neglected. Where did my voice, where did my inexperience, fit in with their gravitas and force? I found myself speaking a kind of ventriloquism, casting my voice across the room, using the same words but with a modulated pitch so it would be understood but unrecognizable. I needed to learn to be my own person and, inasmuch as you always encouraged me to do exactly that, I never felt fully in possession of myself. I was too eager to please and, if I’m honest, you were too eager to reward continued on p 24
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me for that behavior: I quickly learned the art of procrastination and worse yet, began to identify a disciple of one of the lesser known deities: Bullshitting. Eventually, the creeping sense of unease grew into disaffection and resentment. I felt remote from you and remote from myself too. On those occasions I would turn to drink. God only knows how often that was the case. And when I wasn’t doing it with your friends, I was doing it more frequently and in greater volume with mine. It was fun to frame the world in different ways with you for a time. To put on one pair of glasses and see the world this way, to put on another and see it differently. But what did it accomplish? What did it do? It makes me recall something your friend Paul V said once—do you remember? About there being no guarantee that the only viable endeavor might someday be the practice of bread making. That in fact there’s no reason to believe that someday, those who don’t participate in the kind of essential vocations that sustain life might be precluded from partaking in the products of those that do. You all dismissed him, but it stuck with me. Despite my love for you, it never felt as though we were doing anything—always sitting around, always talking about doing things, about how things could be done or ought to be done, but never doing them. It was exhausting. It’s time for me to go and do things in the world. With that sentiment in mind I suppose I can explain why I began this letter with an ending: I want to be a writer, Humanities. A fiction writer. I’ll never forget the lessons I learned from you, and I’ll cherish the experiences we shared, but it’s time I found my voice, which is something I never felt I had with you. I hope you understand and someday, if I’m lucky, I’ll get to be the subject of all your obsessive explications.
I remember how easy it was, how comfortable, to date an older partner. Someone who’s already well established, who can provide for you in almost every imaginable way. It causes you to lose touch with reality. Makes it easy to become dependent, lazy even. You forget the life you’re responsible for: your own. Once the relationship is over there’s not much to show, aside from a greater tolerance for alcohol and the phrase “liquid modernity,” which, in any normal conversation, will get you slapped. In the years that followed the breakup I spent some time traveling abroad: first France, then England. I bumped into the Humanities again during my visit to the UK. We shared a brief affair. York challenged me in ways that Farmington couldn’t have prepared me for, despite my thinking I’d learned all I could from the latter. Let’s face it: Europe is smarter. Nonetheless, the relationship failed in the same way, for the same reasons, notwithstanding a renewed energy and optimism on my part. I guess what I’ve learned is that I couldn’t have gotten where I am without those relationships. I want so badly to dismiss them as unimportant, as things I could have foregone in the interest of more concrete endeavors, but they’ve shaped who I am and how I see the world. I’m more receptive, critical, and discerning and I do my best to practice those skills often. Meanwhile I work as a bartender, waiter, and bar-back at a local haunt in town. I’m writing this from the Speckled Ax, the only studio I can afford given my income. I can’t say that I’m entirely happy, but I’m not unhappy: I’m in a new relationship that I’m excited about; I live in a fantastic apartment in Parkside; I make my own schedule and that’s one of the few things I value most at this point in my life. Four days on, three days off. With those three days I’m able I reexamine my past, excavate the texts that were important to me, find new ones and expand my understanding. I write, I read, I create—I’m building a library in my home. I can’t say I have any true regrets, but there is a constant longing to go back to the Humanities. To have the comfort of those places and people, to have my schedule and choices regulated. But it’s reassuring these days to know the choices I make are mine. Things will be ok. And that’s enough for me. ^
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Journal Entry, Early September I’ve been thinking about the Humanities again. I always get this way when the summer’s ending— looking over the few scraps of paper that remind me of them. One in particular, the card they made on our fourth anniversary, was so thoughtful, made with such craft. But it all seems like a dream now.
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asically, if you’re a student in southern Maine and are at all interested in arts and humanities, and have a budget of exactly $10 to spend on any one event, there’s a lot in your favor. I mean, I guess there are sporting event schedules online, but I’m pretty sure all of those cost money, and at least one of these events involves free food. So there’s that. The University of Southern Maine theater department brings three shows to the mainstage in Gorham this fall, at a time when theater that lies just out of the city (the Footlights in Falmouth, Deertrees Theatre, Theater at Monmouth, etc.), has proven to be really, really exciting. First, a live staged reading of The Well of Horniness by Holly Hughes goes up September 25, and runs for four nights. Director Meghan Brodie, who was responsible for bringing to life a translated version of a French Holocaust drama at USM last spring, describes the show as part detective story, part soap opera, and part camp comedy. The publication of Hughes’s radio play in 1990—for which she lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts for its content—remains relevant for its confrontation of homophobia, sexism, and racism. In light of a significant loss of faculty and staffing suffered by USM’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences last spring, Brodie’s production is one of many examples of departments reaching out to one another in solidarity, and as part of a renewed sense of community amongst affected programs. The show on Saturday, September 27, will be followed by a Women and Gender Studies post-show discussion at the theater.
THE WELL OF HORNINESS | By Holly Hughes | Directed by Meghan Brodie | Produced by the University of Southern Maine Department of Theater | Sep 25-28
| Russell Hall, Gorham |207.780.5151 | $15 general admission, $5 students | usm. maine.edu/theatre/well Next in the season, William Inge’s Bus Stop naturally takes place in a Missouri bus stop, and promises a light-hearted story about a set of quirky strangers who find themselves stranded there by a blizzard. Theater professor Tom Power’s revival of the American classic hopes to attest to the universality of the human spirit and the inevitable conflicts and attractions which color the lives of seemingly divergent folk. Inge, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Picnic, is a figurehead in Midwestern theatrical circles, and Bus Stop offers a look into what it was like to live in the crossroads between South and West, during a crossroads in the twentieth century.
which, with songs like “Totally Fucked,” “The Dark I Know Well,” and “The Bitch of Living,” resonated with angsty high school theater kids when it was produced on Broadway back in 2006. Many of those kids are now college-age, and, if not still doing theater, would probably appreciate this rendition, which features students of USM’s School of Music in the 13 title roles.
SPRING AWAKENING | Based on the play by Frank Wedekind | Directed by Edward Reichert; Musical Direction by Kellie Moody; Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater; Music by Duncan Sheik | Corthell Concert Hall, Gorham | Oct 31 through Nov 2 |$15, $5 students | 207.780.5555 | usm.maine.edu/ music/spring-awakening
Southern Maine artists and activists get a chance to reflect on their BUS STOP | By William Inge | Directed by place in politics come September, Thomas Power; Produced by the University when the University of Southern of Southern Maine Department of Theater Maine Art Department and galleries | Russell Hall, Gorham | Oct 31 through Nov bring the works of two provocative, 9 | $15, $8 students | 207.780.5151 | usm. contemporary artists to both Gorham maine.edu/theatre/bus-stop and Portland campuses. The Iraqborn Sama Alshaibi, associate If you’re only willing to take a professor at the University of Arizona 20-minute ride west as long as its in Tucson, and Joseph Farbrook, worth your while, you’d probably associate professor at the Worcester be interested in the provocative, Polytechnic Institute, combine their disturbing, yet achingly beautiful knowledge of visual and media arts tragicomic musical about teens going in Opposing Gestures—“an interactive through puberty in sexually repressed exploration of political, existential, nineteenth-century Germany. and personal dilemmas demonstrated A liberal arts college might well be through individual human gesture the perfect setting for the musical, and motion.” Comprised of two separate exhibitions at both campuses, an opening reception featuring an artist talkback, and a brown bag lunch discussion, Gestures features two major collaborations between Alshaibi and Farbrook: in Diatribes, the artists capture one another’s responses to the US invasion of Iraq through interviews recorded in 2003, which are presented to users via a four-screen, interactive tube television set. Diatribes, a decade later, curates the artists’ GUERRILLA DANCER responses to their original by Joseph Farbrook, collaboration, and will be from Diatribes on display at the Woodbury
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Sama Alshaibi & Joseph Farbrook: Opposing Gestures: Diatribes + Diatribes, a decade later | Sep 23 through Dec 10 | USM Art Gallery, 37 College Ave, Gorham | Tues-Sun noon–4 pm | AREA Gallery, 35 Bedford St, Portland | Mon-Fri 7 am-10 pm | 207.780.5008 20 minutes west of town, the Art Gallery in Gorham offers visitors the chance to engage in Farbrook’s interactive video, “Human Nature,” in which the viewer can “use a video game controller to navigate a digital world comprised of seemingly endless video selfies with references to sprawling skyscrapers and the domestication of nature.” Less hands-on observers can contribute to a Community Response Wall, a new gallery idea that functions which curates a safe space for dialogue and reflection. Appropriately, USM’s Multicultural Center has partnered with Peace Action Maine and USM’s Women and Gender Studies department in hosting a Teach-In at Portland’s AREA Gallery, whereby four panelists will engage the USM and greater Portland community in a discussion about the history of the US-Iraq conflict.
“US-Iraq Teach-In” | Woodbury Campus Amphitheater, Portland | Oct 8 | 11:30 am | 207.228.8200 And on first Fridays, students looking to head downtown for Art Walk festivities can catch a bus to Monument Square on the hour from Gorham, and on the half-hour from Portland. Bus service connects students to the city from 6 pm to midnight; the first Art Walk of the fall promises to be no less engaging or enlightening than past ones. This will connect USM students to MECA, consistently one of the art scene’s highlights.
For the exhibit The Wrong Kind of Bars, ICA Director Daniel Fuller has curated a selection of works painted by incarcerated artists at the maximum-security Maine State Prison in Thomaston, as part of the prison’s industries program. From the publicity image MECA’s put on its website, these paintings look pretty effing beautiful-- and makes you think about the value of an artwork once it comes into a public setting where Continued on p 28
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The design and research firm “Project_” brings a timeline of “historical instances, characters, trajectories, theories and court cases” to the ICA, which seeks to situate the discourse of modern architecture within its place in history and culture. The fruition of a graduate research workshop at MIT, “Fair Use: An Architectural Timeline” is cocurated alongside Project_Rorschach, a meditation on the relationship between culture and architecture. Their “Project_Rorschach” is a direct reference to the images used to administer Rorschach tests, whereby viewers are prompted to examine the cycling of such images through time and culture. While the opening reception passed in August, the exhibit is described intriguingly as “an aesthetic object in its own right.” Perhaps it provides a welcome chance for visitors to think about the images Art Walk offers us to see and to have.
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And have you heard about Portland’s Greenfest? Yeah, it’s a thing, and its inaugural one is happening November 13, all day in Monument Square. While the eco-film festival debuted in early September with a showing of the 2007 farm documentary Greenhorns, you still have time to catch some films and events through September 13, when they screen Bag It, a consumptive commentary. You can also catch DamNation or The Lorax on September 11 and 13, respectively; all films shown at the Portland Public Library. And food! The day-of event, in Monument Square, includes a Green Art exhibition, a “trashion” show, an eco-poetry slam, and a day-long setlist which features local favorites the Jason Spooner Band, Boston’s Johnny Fireseed & the Junkyard Dogs, and 17-year old, economically conscious rapper Ashley.
Portland Greenfest | Sept 13 | 10 am-4 pm | Monument Square | portlandgreenfest.org Finally, in November, USM will host something called “Genocide and ME: Shining the Light of Truth,” a Ted Talk-style presentation developed a broad coalition of social justice organizations and truth efforts. Here, Mainers can learn about issues of genocide: its occurrences abroad, how it’s affected Maine’s refugees, and the haunting residual influence it has had
upon Maine’s First Nations people, the Wabanaki.Panelists include former Maine Congressman Tom Andrews, of United to End Genocide, Penobscot historian and Wabanaki REACH Wellness Coordinator Maria Girouard, and an ILAP-sponsored new American speaker. Each panelists will speak, accompanied by musical and poetic interludes, and panelists will field questions and comments from the audience.
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Over at Portland’s UNE campus, a series of public lectures might provide students of all persuasions grist for their intellectual mills. What’s more, they’re all over the political spectrum. Take this pro-sweatshop lecture by Benjamin Powell, director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech, for instance. Powell wrote a book which argues that sweatshops provide “the best available opportunity” for workers and that they play an “important role in economic development.” Cool! Next time thousands of people in Bangladesh are killed due to unfit working conditions in a slave-labor garment factory, we’ll be sure to thank this libertarian think-tank bro for assuring us it’s just a necessary hazard to becoming an entrepreneur.
“Sweatshops: Improving Lives and Economic Growth,” with Benjamin Powell | Sep 29 | 6 pm | University of New England— Portland, WCHP Lecture Hall, 716 Stevens Ave | 207.221.4435 On another train of thought, Farmington’s American Lit professor Kristen Case, mounts a spirited, holistic defense of the humanities— sure are a lot of those these days— taking into account present-day arguments which frame liberal arts education as “luxuries” public schools can’t afford.
“Walden, the Humanities, and the Classroom as Public Space,” with Kristen Case | Nov 24 | 6 pm | University of New England—Portland, WCHP Lecture Hall, 716 Stevens Ave | 207.221.4435 And as the militant forces of ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, command more attention from the West, you might augment your curriculum with enhanced focus on Islamic Studies. Anouar Majid, UNE professor and director at the campus’s Center for Global Humanities, delivers a lecture called “The Past and Future of American-Muslim Relations” on November 12, outlining the fundamental complexities and gray areas between the US and the Muslim world.
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