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this Just in

Faculty who were “retrenched” in March (and un-retrenched in May) are at risk of losing their jobs next month.

#USmfuture

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Board votes to ax programs, sell office

SpoSe deeply offended by maine gop’S SuggeStion of depravity

The USM community faces a hard reality after the UMS System Board of Trustees unanimously voted to eliminate three degree programs in Geosciences, American and New England Studies, and Lewiston-Auburn’s Arts and Humanities on Monday. The two-day meeting in Fort Kent called for annual reports from each of the university system’s seven schools, approved the sale of the Stone House in Freeport which houses USM’s MFA program in creative writing, and eliminated public policy curricula and five other degree-granting departments from the University of Maine in Orono. The BoT’s last-minute decision to move the meeting to Fort Kent from Portland garnered criticism from the activist group #StudentsforUSMfuture, who claimed that the move made it harder for faculty and students to voice their opinions regarding the cuts at the public forum. And yet, in a relatively unexpected move, chair of the board Samuel W. Collins and system vice chancellor Rebecca Wyke proposed on Monday to close the Bangor system office, citing that university administrators and “governance staff” are better suited to serve UMS from each campus than from a central location. Closing the office will save approximately $140,000 per year in primarily custodial and utility fees, yet public affairs officer Dan Demeritt said in a phone interview Tuesday that it was unclear where the money from those savings will be allocated within the system, and that it’s also unclear what exactly will happen to the three floors of the building on Central Street in

Idiot Box

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Bangor that are owned by UMS. “We will have an opportunity to dispose of the space, working closely with the city of Bangor and community members, which could have a cash benefit to the system. We have to deliberate with the city what the right use for that space is.” Demeritt says that the office primarily houses human resource management, information technology, finance, and procurement, and has the spatial capacity for 120 employees. The 102 current “university services” employees, along with the 14 staff who work in the Chancellor’s office, will establish new offices using space currently available at each of the seven schools. The board also outlined a plan to ask legislators for a 7.6 percent increase in state appropriations over the next two years—3.4% in 2016, and 3.8% in 2017. The system hasn’t seen an increase in the 176 million dollars it receives annually from the state since 2013. Any latent sense of unrest amongst UM campuses heightened last spring, when USM students and faculty urged President Theodora Kalikow to take a more nuanced approach to budget considerations. And Governor LePage’s three nominations to the BoT this month are sure to stoke animosity not just within UMS, but at the state level— Susan Dench, whose husband is LePage’s campaign treasurer and donor, has already garnered media attention for her blatantly anti-feminist blog affiliation with the Bangor Daily News, and a member of the state’s education committee has already expressed concern about Dench’s priorities. James “Jim” Donnelly was a Republican state representative before becoming vice president

of Machias Savings Bank, and re-nominated chair of the board Samuel Collins (businessowner and brother of Senator Susan Collins) has been a board member since 2010. The appointments of each nominee are to be approved via a confirmation hearing on Friday, September 26, in Augusta. It’s these folks who are charged with stocking the Chancellor’s office with roughly ten administrators—many of whom previously worked for the state. Both chief financial officer Rebecca Wyke and Ryan Low, executive director of government and external affairs, served as commissioner of the Department of Administrative and Financial Services during the Baldacci administration before coming to UMS; UMS waived a search process to hire LePage’s former communications director Dan Demeritt as its executive director of public affairs in June. In order to appoint Demeritt, UMS moved its public relations manager to a job in the Human Resource Department, eliminated her old position, and replaced it with Demeritt and his new title. Demeritt’s position carries with it a $125,000 salary, whereas the former PR manager made $58,000 per year (and received no pay raise upon shifting jobs). So how will this affect Portland? Students enrolled in eliminated programs at USM will be able to receive degrees, but may have to pursue them full-time—which could have inconvenient consequences for the many part-time students who work around greater Portland and/or have families. Last year, the Muskie School of Public Service almost lost national accreditation when President Kalikow threatened to cut 20 to 30 of its 310 faculty members—when asked if cuts to programming at USM will affect accreditation, Demeritt said that he had heard no suggestion of that. “The universities have an obligation to all students enrolled in programs to teach them out to reach their educational goals,” he said. “USM faculty will work with students individually.” Yet faculty who were “retrenched” in March (and then un-retrenched in May) are at risk of losing their jobs next month, when USM interim president Flanagan proposes to implement four immediate priorities for USM: balancing the 2015 budget, encouraging retirement amongst faculty, modifying recruiting strategies, and “reducing cost.” USM’s academic catalog is sure to be scrutinized over the coming weeks and months as students try to figure out what the university is contractually obligated to maintain and to provide, and as the national neoliberal war on arts and humanities in public universities calls into question the definition of academic freedom. The confirmation hearing for LePage’s nominees to the UMS Board of Trustees is at 9 am, in room 202 of the Cross State Office Building, 111 Sewall Street, in Augusta.

_Caroline O’Connor

WellS, maine – in a press release last Friday, the maine Gop makes the suggestion that a Spose lyric contained in a Knack Factory video “suggests Senator collins performs graphic sexual acts.” nothing could be further from the truth. the lyric in question reads: “i’m the King of maine, i’m the King of maine, i’ve got Susan collins giving everyone brain.” like many Spose songs, the lyrics here mock the boastful nature of most rappers. in this case, Spose claims to be so powerful he can actually make Senator collins sound like an intelligent person, actually educating the people of maine, rather than embarrassing herself as is her usual wont. Spose, in this cutting satire, posits a world where collins actually aspires to a livable wage, equal pay for women, and a halt to the ever-expanding gap between the extremely wealthy and the rest of america. of course, those ideas are preposterous. Where the maine Gop gets its ideas about “brain” referring to oral sex is unclear. “i mean,” said Spose, “have you ever seen Senator collins? i think it’s pretty clear she’s never performed oral sex on anyone. if anything, i think it’s cruel of the maine Gop to remind her husband of what he’s missing out on.” “in the future,” he continued, “i would hope they would contact me before grossly distorting the meaning of my art.” Further, Spose said he condemns the maine Gop’s blatant attention grab, which not only uses Knack Factory’s intellectual property to attract people to its Youtube page, but also suggest that the people of maine would consider oral sex a “graphic sexual act.” “Surely the people of maine are giving and receiving blow jobs on a daily basis,” Spose said, “and the idea of oral sex is hardly abhorrent. or perhaps the senator would like, as with her other puritanical ideas about women being second-class citizens, to make the act illegal in some way. i would like the maine Gop to clarify their position on oral sex and to make it clear whether they think mainers should be ashamed in some way of this completely normal pleasurable experience.” as for claims that the lyric is sexist or misogynistic in some way, Spose offers this retort: “in ‘16 counties,’ i exhort everyone to ‘fuck paul lepage.’ even if i was talking about Susan collins performing a sexual act, i think it’s clear i’m in favor of politicians of all genders copulating with the public frequently.” _Sam Pfeifle (every single word of it)

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In Layman’s Terms

politics + other mistakes Not an idiot

There are some really stupid people in Maine politics. But Mike Michaud isn’t one of them. Michaud, the Democratic US representative from the 2nd Congressional District and his party’s candidate for governor, is never going to be invited to join Mensa. But the myth that he’s a dope stems from misinterpretations of a couple of his personal traits and one very big character flaw. Not his flaw, though. It belongs to his critics. The issue of Michaud’s alleged lack of smarts got thrust into the mainstream media a couple of weeks ago when Democratic state Senator Geoffrey Gratwick of Bangor was surreptitiously recorded by a constituent as he campaigned door to door. In the heavily edited clips released by the state Republican Party, Gratwick can be heard saying Michaud is “not a brain guy.” Gratwick then goes on to say that if the gubernatorial contest were a two-way race between Michaud and independent Eliot Cutler, he’d prefer Cutler. In the wake of this controversy, I’ve heard comments to the effect that Gratwick may not be a “brain guy” himself for having been coaxed into making such ill-advised remarks. But I‘ve also been told repeatedly that his assessment of Michaud’s intelligence was, if anything, too kind. I haven’t spoken with Michaud since his days as a Maine legislator more than a decade ago, but during his years in Augusta, I interviewed him dozens of times. My assessment: He was uncomfortable when a microphone was thrust in his face. Even when he knew the reporter, he was rarely at ease during an interview, and he certainly wasn’t articulate. Most of his vocabulary seemed to consist of “um” and “ah.” If you were

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DIGITAL D8ING looking for punchy soundbites, you’d best keep searching. Michaud graduated from high school, but never went to college. His lack of higher education is a rarity at his level of politics, and probably contributes to his inability to be glib. But over the years, he’s schooled himself in the way government works, and he has a solid, practical understanding of issues. If I made enough of an effort in my interviews with him, I often got some insight into what was really going on in the Legislature, because he understood the process better than most of his colleagues. That should be obvious to his critics. Michaud learned how the strings were pulled from John Martin—at that time the autocratic, all-powerful speaker of the Maine House. Michaud put that knowledge to good use, serving credibly as both chairman of the Appropriations Committee and president of the state Senate. Those are complicated jobs. No stupid person could fake his way through them. That doesn’t make him a “brain guy,” but it places him several notches above the average legislator. So how come the perception he’s a clunkhead has such staying power? In Gratwick’s case, I think there were two factors at work. First, he was campaigning in Bangor, Cutler’s hometown and a city he carried in the 2010 governor’s race. Gratwick said nice things about Cutler because he was sucking up to a voter. Legislative candidates do this all the time, and it’s hardly worth noting their petty dishonesties. The second reason Gratwick might disparage Michaud’s intelligence is considerably nastier. It’s called elitism, and there’s a lot of it going around. Gratwick is a medical doctor, a specialist in rheumatism and arthritis according to his website.

He comes from a background and lives in a world far different from that of a Franco-American millworker such as Michaud. Likewise, Cutler, the son of well-to-do parents and a Cape Elizabeth millionaire lawyer, never hesitates to brush off Michaud as a lightweight, unworthy of the Blaine House. Like many of Michaud’s critics, they’re predisposed to snobbery. And like the candidates Michaud beat in his many runs for office, they’re inclined to underestimate his mental capabilities. None of the above should be interpreted as an endorsement of Michaud for governor. It’s fair to criticize him for flip-flopping on issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage. He’s got a record of failing to address persistent problems in areas ranging from health care to veterans services to welfare. He has yet to demonstrate he has the imagination or vision needed to lead the state in a positive direction. But that doesn’t make him a stupid politician. It just makes him a typical one. But let’s get back to that inarticulate thing. Here’s the esteemed Dr. Gratwick verbatim from the ambush tape: “So, Michaud is…[inaudible] Michaud is…umm he’s not the…he’s good, he’s good, he’s strong, high average, but he’s not a brain guy.” That’s followed by this: “Appears I would have probably if it were Michaud and Cutler, I probably would have probably voted for Cutler, because I think he’s probably more measured and brighter.” I would probably not go around probably disparaging other people’s intelligence if I probably couldn’t talk better than that. Probably. ^

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ten years, a wave the camden international film festival’s journey from provincial to premier _B y chri s t op h e r g r ay I first made it up to the Camden International Film Festival in 2009. The event was turning five years old. It lived up to whatever expectations one might have for a fledgling regional arts event. The opening night film, A.J. Schnack’s Convention, played to a scanty audience with a high median age on a Thursday. On Friday, I saw a couple of lumpy but interesting character studies at Camden’s Bayview Street Cinema; the venue hummed, but the Main St. walking traffic didn’t hint there was anything special happening in the area. The crowds got bigger and more interesting as the weekend hit. A lot of them showed up to see one tremendous film, Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher’s October Country, and stayed for a wearying string of environmental treatises. Two warned about the perils of overfishing, and one was narrated by Ted Danson, which I guess was a selling point. A good party or two let us drown those thudding fears of collapse. Under the circumstances, this seemed like a net positive for the area’s film culture. As it turns out, 2009 wound up being the year CIFF began a quick and striking evolution into a major stop on the documentary festival unit, not to mention an appealing destination weekend for regional culture vultures. “Five years ago, when we were still developing our local audience,” festival founder Ben Fowlie

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diplomatically recalled over the phone last week, “it was still a pretty radical idea for people to even consider coming up from Portland for a weekend of documentaries.” For a while, “it was happening, and it was a great event,” Fowlie said. “And then we added Points North, which was a half-day session. It was barely even a forum, but we called it one anyway.” The Points North Documentary Forum, an opportunity for filmmakers to pitch their prospective works to a collection of prestigious industry funders, piqued the interest of younger and more far-flung filmmakers. Hundreds now apply to take part in the program and the pitch session, which is open to the public. It lasts through half the weekend these days, as five projects helmed by a few dozen filmmakers compete for cash and networking opportunities. (Three Points North Pitch alums, including J. P. Sniadecki, will be screening films at CIFF this year. Sniadecki’s The Iron Ministry is reviewed alongside this article.) The Al Jazeera America offshoot AJ+ is sponsoring a parallel pitch session at CIFF this

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The films

brief reviewS of what i’ve Seen from thiS year’S ciff Actress

Saturday, 4:30 pm, Bayview Street Cinema Brandy Burre, one-time cast member of The Wire and current stay-at-home mom in upstate New York, repeatedly declares that she abandoned acting for parenthood. As she mulls over a return to stage or screen, Robert Greene’s (Kati with an I, Fake It So Real) documentary gently questions that claim. Domestic scenes blur into stagey monologues or surreal pageantry. Slow-motion sequences of Burre engaging in the activities of motherhood—washing dishes, snatching a plastic hanger from her daughter—are lit with a Sirkian lushness, and carry an overwrought undertow of tragedy or magic. In more naturalistic lighting, a long, creeping shot finds Burre discussing the increasing thorniness of her marriage; when the racket of a pellet stove interrupts her monologue, the spell is broken, and we question the nature and tenor of this performance. Actress is elusive but impressive, getting at the tricky nature of self-identification with equal parts empathy and artifice.

ApproAching the elephAnt

Sunday, noon, Bayview Street Cinema An assured, propulsive debut feature, Amanda Rose Wilder’s film documents the first year of the Teddy McArdle Free School in Little Falls, New Jersey. Somehow housed in the basement of a church, the school attempts to foster democratic sentiments among its young students—all rules are to be voted on by committee—but the lure of anarchy is potent. A series of scenes emphasizing kids wielding hammers, saws, and power tools is a metaphor for the stakes: individual personalities and the seemingly omnipresent threat of physical harm threaten to render the institution a quick failure. But even as Wilder’s stunning black and white cinematography captures the wild, unbridled energy of the students, she finds quieter moments that suggest the unique potential of the school. When Lucy, one of Approaching the Elephant’s irrepressible stars, doesn’t like another student’s drawing, she gives herself a psychology lesson as she calibrates her criticism: “It’s not my style of drawing. I’m not trying to be mean…I’m not saying it’s bad, I’m saying that I don’t like it.”

A goAt for A Vote

Friday, 11:30 am, Farnsworth Art Museum Jeroen van Velzen’s film has been done before—This American Life and the 2007 documentary Please Vote for Me have used the stakes of a school election as a mirror, reflecting a nation’s broader concerns and character—but it still manages to charm. As two boys and a girl compete for the position of school president in Kenya, bribes are de rigeur, but each candidate finds alternately unique and curious ways of asserting their superiority. Van Velzen’s unfussy camerawork observes each child trying to craft a workable image as swarms of peers question their tactics and demand more candy.

guidelines (lA MArche A suiVre)

Saturday, 2:30 pm, Farnsworth Art Museum Perhaps my favorite find of this year’s festival, JeanFrancois Caissy’s film plays like a formalist sequel to Approaching the Elephant. Guidelines divides its time between sequences underlining the choreography of everyday activities in a Canadian high school, others showing teens at leisure creating their own fun, and a series of disciplinary meetings between impulsive students and a couple of largely unseen diplomatic counselors. Caissy’s serene, unblinking camera captures its subjects simultaneously engaging in and reckoning with the end of adolescence. The film’s concurrent threads are woven together with smart sound design and a bracing compositional rigor; like the work of Frederick Wiseman, Guidelines follows an organizing principle that seems to capture the essence of both an institution and a mode of life.

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Sunday, 2:30 pm, Bayview Street Cinema After My Kid Could Paint That and The Tillman Story, Amir BarLev wraps up a trilogy of films documenting the tense aftermath of ephemeral media spectacles. Happy Valley revisits the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal, which rocked Penn State University and tarnished the records of the school’s football team and haloed coach, Joe Paterno. Bar-Lev is a

shrewd student of public scandal, and here he captures the tension between the media’s thirst for narrative and moral shaming and a public of students and sports fans that thinks this punishment has gone too far. This is very thorny territory, and Happy Valley is admirably keen to give time to each nuance of perspective on the Sandusky scandal; simultaneously, the film seems structurally haphazard, and may have benefitted from a less journalistic approach.

In Country

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Friday, noon, Bayview Street Cinema With experimental, experiential works like Sweetgrass, Manakamana, and the mighty Leviathan, the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab has found audiences for some of the most impressive and mind-bending documentaries of recent years. J. P. Sniadecki’s (Foreign Parts) The Iron Ministry should be no exception. Stitched together—with impeccable attention to sound detail—from three years’ worth of train rides from factory to rural towns in China, Sniadecki creates a fraught portrait of a lower-class finding its way through a rapidly changing nation. As overstuffed cabins are littered with trash and bodies piled upon one another, the churning and creaking metal becomes a suspense soundtrack. Long, quiet stretches pass where the viewer is left to hypothesize about the external lives of these passengers—no one reads and many smoke, some purchase instant noodles while others come on board with huge baskets of fresh produce and meat—but a handful of uncommonly gripping scenes allow them to speak for themselves.

Waiting for August

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Sunday, 3 pm, Farnsworth Art Museum “Can we fuck? Just once? One little fuck?” Meet Marcel, whose wife is leaving him in the opening scene of Sabine Lubbe Bakker and Niels van Koevorden’s film. Left without a mate and down to weekend visitation with his young children, Marcel engages more fully in his hobbies: drinking beer and hanging out with his serene, rum-guzzling pal Bob. As Marcel tries to get his act together in middle-age, Ne Me Quitte Pas unfolds in an interesting, uneasy tenor where absurdist comedy meets mundane tragedy. The film doesn’t reach its Beckettian aspirations, but its handsome, stagey frames and surprising outpourings of grief offer a lot to chew on.

Ne Me Quitte Pas

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Sunday, 10:30 am, Farnsworth Art Museum The present-day analogue to the Gold Rush is underway in Williston, North Dakota, where an oil boom has drawn thousands amid rumors of instant professional advancement. Pastor Jay Reinke is left to deal with much of the dirty underbelly of this economic sensation in Jesse Moss’s film. With apartments full, hotels booked, and commercial parking lots now restricted, the pastor’s Lutheran church becomes the only place where transient job-seekers can find shelter. When local discontent over the new arrivals reaches a fever pitch, Reinke defends his program to the media and his congregation, but simultaneously undertakes an action that threatens his pleas of righteousness. Moss’s bare-bones style captures the rippling consequences of Reinke’s righteous stance with an unfettered intimacy; one man’s moral crisis comes to hold a revelatory mirror up to an entire country.

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Sunday, 10:30 am, Strand Theatre Tracy Droz Tragos’s and Andrew Droz Palermo’s film, about three lower-class teenagers in the titular Missouri town, means to be well-intentioned. One of its subjects is pious and caring, playing a rough hand as best as he can. The other two suffer from un- or mistreated behavioral conditions, chain smoke, and flirt with becoming wards of the state. A better film might wrench some meaning from this narrative imbalance, or give some sense of the broader town it’s named after, but Rich Hill is weirdly content to dwell in poverty tourism, with an attendant preponderance of Pepsi logos and the sight of a kid lighting a cigarette on an electric toaster. The editing and a lame ambient soundtrack suggest the film aspires to the lyrical rural portraits of Terrence Malick and David Gordon Greene, but the content plays like early Harmony Korine. Nonetheless, Rich Hill won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

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year, as they seek short works to feature on their website. Points North and its affiliated programs have played a major role in establishing CIFF as an institution that can bolster young artists. CIFF Managing Director Caroline von Kuhn, a fixture in the New York festival world (and a filmmaker herself), is in her second year as a full-timer at the festival. “I came three years ago to see what it and Points North were all about,” she said. “The focus of this festival is so much about how to support filmmakers, but there are just as many people who have no connection to filmmaking that want to attend a master class. To see these young filmmakers pitching in front of heavy hitters, and to have local audiences just as invested in these projects” convinced von Kuhn that CIFF was something special, and worth signing on to. In short, the CIFF formula—be interesting and useful to the industry, and give the community an event to look forward to—has yielded a most crucial quality: buzz. The crowd of artists making the annual trip to the Midcoast grows considerably now that CIFF’s program has about doubled in size: 33 features are being shown this year, and a great many of the filmmakers will be attendance. Critics, journalists, local film students, Portland arts scenesters, and plenty more are now fixtures of the festival’s increasingly well-branded landscape. Attendance is probably just a year or two away from approaching five figures. All of this buzz has changed the make and model of the festival for the better. In 2009, “I was 28 and pretty new to the industry,” Fowlie said. “I hadn’t started traveling that much, and didn’t know a lot of filmmakers.” His early focus for CIFF was to “program work that would really appeal to a wide, mainstream audience.” Sometimes, Fowlie’s interest in unusual, character-focused works jived with his audience’s thirst for more heartwarming or educational fare. His first major coup probably came in year four, with a workin-progress screening of Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly’s 2009 film, The Way We Get By. Set at the Bangor International Airport and the homes of its three senior citizen,

troop-greeter subjects, the film did well on the festival circuit and ultimately found a home at PBS. This success helped Fowlie make more industry connections, and bolstered his confidence when it comes to programming more unexpected, less didactic fare. “The audiences we’ve cultivated have become so invested that they know they may get something a little more out there, but it’ll be a good story.” As the festival has evolved, examples of Fowlie’s preferred breed of film—once a small niche of the documentary universe—have become a lot more common, a lot more variegated, and a lot more accomplished. “I feel like there has been a swing over the past three or four years where we are gravitating toward a certain specific type of work,” Fowlie said. “Cinematic nonfiction, or work that is playing with the idea of expanding the documentary or experimenting within the form of the documentary, because it’s such a broad form that you have a lot of opportunities.” For evidence, one could spend a good chunk of their time at CIFF just watching films about school-aged children. While shooting the shit with Fowlie and von Kuhn at the end of our conversation, I mentioned that it would be neat to show two of my favorite of this year’s CIFF offerings—Approaching the Elephant and Guidelines, both set pretty much exclusively in schools—back to back, so audiences could take in their distinctive spins on similar themes. They tipped me off to three more films about kids I hadn’t seen yet, and had recently noticed this potential for a mini-festival on their own. “We decided a panel on documenting youth would be great, so we’re going to have four of the filmmakers on a panel on Friday,” Fowlie said. “What’s it called, Caroline?” “‘Documenting Youth,’” von Kuhn quipped. The panel, part of the Points North Forum, will take place at 2 pm Friday in the Camden Opera House. I’d anticipate a crowd. ^

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f WHAT CHEER? BRIGADE, at River Jam Festival, in Biddeford on Sep 27. thursday 25 ANNIVERSARY MC | It’s been one whole year since Empire re-opened itself as a Chinese kitchen, and improved the existing music space upstairs. To celebrate, TRAVIS CURRAN hosts a super-deluxe version of his Nuclear Show with notably prominent comedian LOUIS RAMEY (as seen on Comedy Central Presents, NBC’s Last Comic Standing, etc.) as well as Boston comedy veteran SHAWN CARTER, the grizzled and venerable TIM HOFFMAN, and “best jawline” nominee JORDAN HANDREN-SEAVEY. Though their science may not be able to pass tests of rigor, the laughs will be empirical. Six bucks (can you beat that?) at 9:30 pm. This event kicks off a three-night string of anniversary-themed shows at Empire this weekend. So do the smart thing: check listings and plan your weekend accordingly. 575 Congress St. 207.879.8988. MACHINE-LIKE | Estonian composer Arvo Part once was quoted as saying “I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played.” Such statements could be made

about the evening of subtle shifts unfolding at SPACE Gallery tonight. Brooklyn-based acoustic trio DAWN OF MIDI arrive to perform some of their critically acclaimed and inscrutably deepin-the-groove tuneage. Taking inspiration from minimal house and electronic music, Dawn of Midi recreate the driving, seamless force of that genre using only acoustic instruments in a way that catapults them into a very listenable sort of “future jazz.” It’s appealing to all sorts of music lovers while still remaining perplexing and infuriating for the rest. With COOKIES and PASTEL SOUND EXPLOSION. Go see which cross-section of Portland listened to that one Radiolab episode, at 8:30 pm; tickets $12. 538 Congress St. 207.828.5600. SWAGGER & CIRRHOSIS | Let’s be honest here. All this “Throwback Thursday” crap is clouding up the real reason man invented the Thursday: getting drunk. Why fawn over the drunk selfies of yesterday when you could be out discovering the shape of hangovers yet to come? SAMMY ADAMS brings his partycentric and liver-shivering jams to Asylum. He’s accompanied by smooth MC (and former Rhode

two wheels and a heart, there’s a Critical Mass bike ride starting at Monument Square at 6 pm tonight. Cyclists converge to change the flow of traffic in the streets and give a big “HEY GUYS, THIS IS WHAT WE ALL SHOULD BE DOING RIGHT NOW” to surrounding motorists. The event terminates at Geno’s Rock Club, which is only about a quartermile up Congo, so no need to sweat it about getting sweaty. You can save that for later when Pastel Sound Explosion (rather busy weekend for them, eh?), TEXARKANA, NUCLEAR BOOTZ, and the heaviness of SWARMLORD take the stage. The Maine Green Party will be campaigning as well. Ride at 6 pm, show at 7. 625 Congress St. 207.221.2382. BIDDO BOUND | Don’t you

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Whether artists, curators, and museumgoers are openly concerned with them or not, personal identity is the currency of the gallery art world. Whether abstract paintings, technologically enhanced design, conceptual sculpture, or assemblage—the thing often resists description, usually obscuring with it the terms of how the thing was made. Instead, it’s the personal identifier—the who—that remains the most ready classification for how work is considered. How, then, to think about art when the artists’ identities are removed? “The Wrong Kind of Bars” shows roughly a dozen paintings by prisoners within the Maine State Prison in Thomaston, produced in the facility’s art program. Vibrant, a little rapturous, and almost psychedelically colorful, the most interesting thing about these landscape paintings is their particular grain of anonymity. According to ICA director Daniel Fuller, artist-inmates are disallowed from signing any of their work, possibly to discourage cult collectors’ markets from building around those behind bars. But the prison’s art program—referred to at the state level as the Industries program—remains highly regarded by its residents. Fuller explains that at a visit last summer, he heard stories of inmates protesting their own transfer to facilities with lesser security because their new homes would have inferior art programs. When inmates leave prison, they’re given $50 from the state to help re-start their lives. While works at “The Wrong Kind of Bars” are exhibit-only, the paintings produced at the Maine State Prison are for sale to the public—with one-third of funds allocated to the state, one-third to the prison, and onethird to the artist. 50 dollars doesn’t travel far; many of those incarcerated save their proceeds to supplement their funds the day they’re released. It’s an unusual (and ethically debatable) sort of art market, but the principle is noteworthy: the work of these anonymous artists almost literally buys back their identities.

Elsewhere in the ICA, two loosely connected exhibits from the Boston-based, husband-and-wife architectural design team Ana Miljacki and Lee Moreau (the latter from Maine) lend an impressive amount of substance to the history of two very different ideas—one immaterial and the other concrete. The scope of the pair’s “Fair Use: An Architectural Timeline” is extraordinarily precise: in rows of neat informational cards and a cache of sculpted architectural forms, the arc of a contentious, legalistic idea drawn over a several-hundred year history. The duo offer a straight, annotated timeline of how fair use has offered culture an evolutionary loophole out of the proprietary notions of copyright, via appropriation of forms, concepts, trajectories, and theories. In the rear gallery, the duo’s “Project_ Rorschach” (with help from architect Sarah Hirschman) attempt to conjure a visual history of ideas through the psychological litmus of a Rorschach inkblot. Ten prints bear highly saturated images composed from miniaturized forms of dozens of modern architectural buildings—Spain’s Museum of Cantabria; the Vertical City in Jakarta; some flashy Tokyo Apartment complex erected in 2010—its thesis seeming to be that modern urban life wouldn’t be possible without the appropriation of form. Their Rorschach test motif isn’t the most transparent and inviting way to engage with these ideas, but that seems also important: copyright laws can be easily applied to sloppy cut-and-paste jobs; not so with the meticulously assembled transubstantiation of an abstracted idea. In the forms generated by these inkblots, it’s nearly impossible to tell which shapes originally belonged to whom. ^

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elaborate on the puppets’ emotional life: Crowley and Harmon work their Princeton and Molly on the subtler end, with bright, innocent smiles, while Peterson gets pretty histrionic giving tortured face to his Rod. Voices are strong, and everyone manipulates their brightly-colored rod- or arm-puppets (smartly constructed by Karen Trask) quite capably—Reardon’s Nicky, particularly, has a great careening physicality. Some of the show’s funnier touches hearken back to the stoner randomness of the old Sesame Street imagery, like a chorus of brown boxes with anxious eyes, or a dream sequence in which a commitmentfearful Princeton runs from a gaggle of bridal veils with outstretched monster paws. When the dangerously adorable Bad Idea Bears succeed in urging someone into excess drinking or drunk sex (in fun work by Doni Tamblyn and Kyle Aarons), they squeal “Yay!” with a delight that more or less mimics the effects of dopamine. Set design (Carr and Ken Hutchins) is nicely conceived—there’s a clever birds-eye set piece of Nicky and Rod in their twin beds—and the block of brick, clapboard, and brownstone row houses itself looks convincingly like a mild cartoon of dereliction. Its overall character, meanwhile, is a mild cartoon of subversion. With its puerile joke-insights (see “The Internet is for Porn”), glib political incorrectness, and general off-color content, Avenue Q will probably not appeal to those of PG-rated or subtle tastes, and some of its satire, like “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist,” might seem tone-deaf in, e.g., the aftermath of Ferguson. Thematically, it feels like a show for twenty-somethings—those at an age when both solipsism and nostalgia for undergraduate comforts are still acute (as so literally limned in “I Wish I Could Go Back to College”). You kind of want to tell these poor, angsty young puppets not that it gets better, exactly, but that it gets bigger. ^

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BELTInG OUT ThE cLASSIcS beam & fink hammer out the gamut on Don’t sell it. a favorite or chance upon a forgotten memory. For me it’s “Trouble in Mind,” a version of which has made it into the bluegrass community and which you’ve maybe heard Janis Joplin do, with just an electric guitar and some odd typing in the background. But the 1965 Aretha Franklin version is deadly, her voice crisp and clean and providing just an inkling of the power she’d later display. Beam & Fink wring every second out of it, like the heat of the summer is so oppressive they can barely move and yet they can’t get quite enough of it: “That sun’s gonna shine on my back porch someday.” Mine, too. ^

more rhythmic shuck and jive. On Leadbelly’s “Take This Hammer,” he follows Beam’s vocal arc subtly, then takes on the lower harmony in the second verse, mixing up his accompaniment. Beam resists nicely, too, what must have been an urgent desire to break his voice with passion on the third go-round of each verse here. It’s a fine line between invested and over the top and Beam walks it well. It doesn’t sound exactly like the Lomax brothers originally captured it, but that’s for the better. If they had tried to emphasize the room too much, with toe tapping and chair creaking, it might have come off as trying too hard. This is a contemporary album that explores old songs, not a documentary or playacting. If you’ve spent any time with roots and soul music, you’re likely to uncover

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but if it helps get Susan collins and her straightup evil, pro-citizens United position out of office, we’ll take it. F regarding the future of GRIME STUDIOS, our ears are planted firmly to the dirt. We at the tabber make no reservations about fully supporting the relocation venture of this soon-to-be-former thompson’s point practice studio. the city needs music played; artists to congregate; noise not to die. Justin curtsinger, ahab of the Grime Studios project (see “Finding the practice” by nick Schroeder in the June 13 issue), is presently captaining an online fundraising campaign to move operations to 299 presumpscot St., a location which we’re told bands will be able to play loud as they can without fear of disturbing the neighbors.

What quality is more crucial in the modern city? Visit curtsinger’s crowdfunding campaign at indiegogo.com/projects/grime-studios-relocation to learn more about the plans for the 25-room, 24/7 practice studio. F We’re blown back by the buzz all the way over here from los angeles rapper MILO’s new album a toothpaste suburb. Yeah, the dude’s originally from biddeford (his mom, Shay Stewart-bouley, writes the diverse city column for this paper), but this has all the makings of a national breakthrough album for this hyper-literate, philosophical, and kinda tender young rapper. dude’s got solid politics, too. in any case, we’re claiming him. hear the whole damn thing at hellfyreclub.bandcamp.com. ^

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Opportunity knocks F before this week’s #SPOSEGATE, when was the last time a maine artist wriggled their way into state legislative politics? You don’t need another take on this week’s Gop-manufactured controversy (though Sam pfeifle’s certainly got a rascally one on page 4), but you can expect Spose—who knows an opportunity when he sees one—to get more out of this deal than any politician. the rapper’s printing up shirts bearing collins’s image with a #pdank logo emblazoned on a banner over her mouth. tacky? clever? Sexist? irreverent? an effective way to get otherwiseapolitical millennials to turn out the vote for Shenna bellows this november? depending on how you slice it, #sposegate (we can’t believe we’re calling it that either) is a little bit of each.

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THURSDAY 2

”GREATER PORTLAND SIGNATURE CHEF’S AUCTION” | benefit |

5:30 pm | DiMillo’s on the Water, 25 Long Wharf, Portland | 207.772.2216 | marchofdimes.com/maine

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

WEDNESDAY 1

”FIRESIDE TALES” WITH LYNNE CULLEN | Newagen Seaside Inn, 60

Newagen County Rd, Southport | 207.633.2544

THURSDAY 2

DAVID BLAIR | reads his poetry | 5

pm | University of New Hampshire, Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH | 603.862.2600 or unhmub.com

POETRY & PROSE FRIDAY 26

JON DEREK CROTEAU | discusses

So good.

MONDAY 29

”LEADERSHIP LESSONS OF HISTORY: DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN ON THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS” | 7 pm | University of New Hampshire, Johnson Theatre, 30 College Rd, Durham, NH | 603.862.2404 or unh.edu/theatre-dance/productions.html

1 Union Wharf, Portland

Enjoy Eva’s scratch-baked sweets and a custom beverage from our new Bistro Espresso Bar!

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TUESDAY 30

breakfast - lunch - dinners to-go

with Benjamin Powell | 6 pm | University of New England - Portland, WCHP Lecture Hall, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland | 207.221.4375

”HEART REGENERATION: WHAT THE ZEBRAFISH CAN TEACH US” | with Voot Yin | noon | University of New England - Biddeford, Alfond Hall, 11 Hills Beach Rd, Biddeford | 207.602.2888

WEDNESDAY 1

”CIVIC FORUM: NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE MAINE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM” | with members of

Maine-Wabanaki Reconciliation, Engagement, Advocacy, Change and Healing (REACH) | 7:30 pm | Bates College, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St, Lewiston | 207.786.6135

”WOMEN AND THEATER IN CLASSICAL ATHENS” | with Laura

McClure | 7:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

THURSDAY 2

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Wilfred Richard | 7 pm | Bowdoin College, Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.775.3321

”THE MIMA MOUND MYSTERYSOLVED?” | with Emmanuel “Man-

”MAINE TO GREENLAND: EXPLORING THE MARITIME NORTHEAST” | with William Fitzhugh and

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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 DOLPHIN STRIKER | 603.431.5222 | 15 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH DOVER BRICK HOUSE | 603.749.3838 | 2 Orchard St, Dover, NH DOWN UNDER CLUB | 207.992.2550 | Seasons Grille & Sports Lounge, 427 Main St, Bangor 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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| 47 Broad St, Auburn FLASK LOUNGE | 207.772.3122 | 117 Spring St, Portland FROG AND TURTLE | 207.591.4185 | 3 Bridge St, Westbrook FRONTIER CAFE | 207.725.5222 | Fort Andross, 14 Maine St, Brunswick FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | 603.617.3633 | 1 Washington St, Dover, NH FUSION | 207.330.3775 | 490 Pleasant St, Lewiston GENO’S ROCK CLUB | 207.221.2382 | 625 Congress St, Portland THE GIN MILL | 207.620.9200 | 302 Water St, Augusta GINZA TOWN | 207.878.9993 | 1053 Forest Ave, Portland THE GREEN ROOM | 207.490.5798 | 898 Main St, Sanford GRITTY MCDUFF’S | 207.772.2739 | 396 Fore St, Portland GRITTY MCDUFF’S/AUBURN | 207.782.7228 | 68 Main St, Auburn

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

| 207.865.4321 | Lower Main St, Freeport GUTHRIE’S | 207.376.3344 | 115 Middle St, Lewiston HARLOW’S PUB | 603.924.6365 | 3 School St, Peterborough, NH

BLOOMFIELD’S CAFE AND BAR

| 207.474.8844 | 40 Water St, Skowhegan BLUE | 207.774.4111 | 650A Congress St, Portland BLUE MERMAID | 603.427.2583 | 409 The Hill, Portsmouth, NH BRAY’S BREWPUB | 207.693.6806 | Rte 302 and Rte 35, Naples BRIAN BORU | 207.780.1506 | 57 Center St, Portland BRITISH BEER COMPANY | 603.501.0515 | 2 Portwalk Place, Portsmouth, NH Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach BUBBA’S SULKY LOUNGE | 207.828.0549 | 92 Portland St, Portland

375 Fore St, Portland

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207.443.6776 | 98 Center St, Bath

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

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

CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN |

207.336.2126 | 371 Turner St, Buckfield

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

CARMEN VERANDAH |

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 CHEBEAGUE ISLAND INN | 207.846.5155 | 61 S Rd, Chebeague Island CHOP SHOP PUB | 603.760.7706 | 920 Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH

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HIGHLANDS COFFEE HOUSE |

207.354.4162 | 189 Main St, Thomaston HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | 877.779.7771 | 500 Main St, Bangor THE HOLY GRAIL | 603.679.9559 | 64 Main St, Epping, NH IRISH TWINS PUB | 207.376.3088 | 743 Main St, Lewiston IRON TAILS SALOON | 207.850.1142 | 559 Rte 109, Acton JONATHAN’S | 207.646.4777 | 92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit THE KAVE | 207.469.6473 | 177 Silver Lake Rd, Bucksport KELLEY’S ROW | 603.750.7081 | 421 Central Ave, Dover, NH THE KENNEBEC WHARF | 207.622.9290 | 1 Wharf St, Hallowell KERRYMEN PUB | 207.282.7425 | 512 Main St, Saco KJ’S SPORTS BAR | 603.659.2329 | North Main St, Newmarket, NH 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

MILLBROOK TAVERN & GRILLE

| 207.824.2175 | Bethel Inn, On the Common, Bethel MILLIE’S TAVERN | 603.967.4777 | 17 L St, Hampton, NH MINE OYSTER | 207.633.6616 | 16 Wharf St, Pier 1, Boothbay Harbor MJ’S WINE BAR | 207.653.6278 | 1 City Center, Portland MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | 207.443.6563 | Rte 1, Woolwich MOOSE ALLEY | 207.864.9955 | 2809 Main St, Rangeley MR. GOODBAR | 207.934.9100 | 8B West Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach MYRTLE STREET TAVERN | 207.596.6250 | 12 Myrtle St, Rockland NARAL’S EXPERIENCE ARABIA | 207.344.3201 | 34 Court St, Auburn NEWAGEN SEASIDE INN | 207.633.2544 | 60 Newagen County Rd, Southport NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | 207.907.4380 | 56 Main St, Bangor THE OAK AND THE AX | | 140 Main St, Ste 107-Back Alley, Biddeford THE OAR HOUSE | 603.436.4025 | 55 Ceres St, Portsmouth, NH OASIS | 207.370.9048 | 42 Wharf St, Portland OLD GOAT | 207.737.4628 | 33 Main St, Richmond OLD MILL PUB | 207.474.6627 | 39 Water St, Skowhegan OLD PORT TAVERN | 207.774.0444 | 11 Moulton St, Portland ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | 207.761.1757 | 181 State St, Portland ORCHARD STREET CHOP SHOP | 603.749.0006 | 1 Orchard St, Dover, NH OTTO | 207.773.7099 | 574-6 Congress St, Portland PADDY MURPHY’S | 207.945.6800 | 26 Main St, Bangor PEARL | 207.653.8486 | 444 Fore St, Portland PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | 207.783.6200 | 134 Main St, Lewiston PEDRO’S | 207.967.5544 | 181 Port Rd, Kennebunk PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | 207.941.8805 | 14 Larkin St, Bangor 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

PUBLIC HOUSE AND PROHIBITION MUSIC ROOM | 603.948.1082 | 45 N

Main St, Rochester, NH THE RACK | 207.237.2211 | 5016 Access Rd, Carabassett 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 CITY ROASTERS & CAFE | 207.594.4123 | 316 Main St, Rockland 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 SHENANIGANS | 207.213.4105 | 349 Water St, Augusta SILVER HOUSE TAVERN | 207.772.9885 | 123 Commercial St, Portland SILVER STREET TAVERN | 207.680.2163 | 2 Silver St, Waterville SKIP’S LOUNGE | 207.929.9985 | 299 Narragansett Trail, Buxton SKYBOX BAR AND GRILL | 207.854.9012 | 212 Brown St, Westbrook SLAB | 207.245.3088 | 25 Preble St, Portland SMILIN’ MOOSE PUBLYK HOUSE AND TAVERN | 207.739.6006 | 10 Market Sq, South Paris

SOLO BISTRO | 207.443.3378 | 128

Front St, Bath SONNY’S | 207.772.7774 | 83 Exchange St, Portland SONNY’S TAVERN | 603.343.4332 | 328 Central Ave, Dover, NH SOUTHSIDE TAVERN | 207.474.6073 | 1 Waterville Rd, Skowhegan SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland SPIRE 29 | 207.222.2068 | 29 School St, Gorham 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

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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

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PLAYERS’ RING | 603.436.8123 |

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THEATER ACORN PRODUCTIONS |

AQUA CITY ACTOR’S THEATRE | 207.873.7000 | Waterville Opera

House Studio Theater, 93 Main St, Waterville | Sept 26-28: Maggie’s Get-

ting Married | Fri-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 2 pm | $12 AQUILA THEATER | 207.581.1755 |

Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Road, Orono | Sept 30: Emily

FROGTOWN MOUNTAIN PUPPETEERS | 207.667.9500 | The Grand,

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“Legend of the Banana Kid” | 1 pm | $5-$10

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ART GALLERIES 3 FISH GALLERY | 207.773.4773 | 377 Cumberland Ave, Portland | 3fishgallery.com | Thurs-Sat 1-4 pm & by ap-

pointment | 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 | Mon-Fri noon-6 pm; Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through Oct 31: “After You,” ekphrastic art & poetry exhibition by S Stephanie + Mimi White + Jessica Purdy + Susan Schwake + Kate Knox + Wayne Atherton BARN GALLERY | 207.646.8400 | 1 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit | http: | Through Oct 13: “Fall Exhibitions,” painting & photography by Tom Hibschman + paintings by Evelyne Harper Neill

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BUOY GALLERY | 207.450.2402 | 2 Government St, Kittery | Tues-Sat

CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART | 207.236.2875 | 162

Russell Ave, Rockport | artsmaine. org | Sept 27-Dec 7: “CMCA Biennial

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

GEORGE MARSHALL STORE GALLERY | 207.351.1083 | 140 Lindsay Rd,

York | georgemarshallstoregallery. org | Thurs-Sat 11 am-5 pm; Sun 1-5 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 |

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RICHARD BOYD ART GALLERY |

Local Beer Live Music Comedy Scratch Food Poetry Pub Quiz BULL FEENEY’S

Sunday 122 - 3p: Monday 8p: Tuessday 7p:

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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

Supupststaikairsörs sh Irish Session Geeks Who Drink Poetry Slam Open Mic Comedy Showcase Squid Jiggers

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ROUX & CYR INTERNATIONAL FINE ART GALLERY | 207.576.7787

| 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 |

MUSEUMS BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.786.6158 | 75 Russell St,

Olin Arts Center, Lewiston | bates. edu/museum-about.xml | Tues-Sat

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 Oct 19: “Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective” | Sept 27-Dec 31: “Hendrick Goltzius: Mythology & Truth,” paintings, drawings, & engravings | Sept 27-March 8: “Weaving the Myth of Psyche: Baroque Tapestries from the Wadsworth Atheneum” | Sept 30-Jan 4: Alison de Vere: “Psyche and Eros,” animated film | Ongoing: “American Artists at Work, 1840-1950” + “Contemporary Masters, 1950 to the Present” + “Lovers & Saints: Art of the Italian Renaissance” COLBY COLLEGE | 207.859.5600 |

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

Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Free admission | Through 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

FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM

10 am-5 pm, open until 8 pm with free admission Wed | $12, seniors & students $10; under 17 free & Rockland residents free | Admission $12; $10 seniors and students; free for youth under 17 and Rockland residents | Through Sept 28: “Coloring Vision: From Impressionism to Modernism,” paintings | Through 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 | Through Oct 31: “The Kienbusch Legacy: A Family of Artists” group exhibition | opening reception Sep 13, 1-3 pm HUSSON UNIVERSITY | 207.992.4925 | Robert E. White Gallery, 1 College Circle, Bangor | Through Oct 30: “Cold Stream Reflections (Altered Imagery),” mixed media works by Patricia Pasteur 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 | Oct 2: “Ruffneck,” visual art & music performances by Hi Tiger + 32french + DJ Lonzo + Radon Chong + Punk Sugar Burn Lab 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

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 | reception Sep 26 5-8 pm 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 Feb 8: “Aaron T. Stephan: To Borrow, Cut, Copy, & Steal,” sculptural installation | Oct 2-Jan 4: “Treasures of British Art, 1400-2000: The Berger Collection”

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,

Squid Jiggers

246 Main St, Farmington | Tues-

Sun noon-4 pm | Through Oct 19: “Throwing Things at the Sky to See if They Stick,” works by Barry Whittaker

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

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MUSEUM OF ART |

603.862.3712 | Paul Creative Arts Center, Durham, NH | unh.edu/moa

| Mon-Wed 10 am-4 pm; Thurs 10 am-8 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | Free admission | Through Oct 19: “GraphiCornucopia,” mixed media group exhibition | Through Oct 19: Jon Imber: “Human Interest,” paintings

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - GORHAM | 207.780.5008 |

Art Gallery, USM Campus, Gorham | usm.maine.edu/~gallery | Tues-Fri 11 am-4 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | Through Dec 10: “Opposing Gestures” mixed media by Joseph Farbrook + Sama Alshaibi

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - LEWISTON/AUBURN |

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

Mon-Thurs 8 am-8 pm; Fri 8 am4:30 pm | Free admission | Through Nov 22: “Secrets of the Sea” mixed media group exhibition

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - PORTLAND | 207.780.5008 | Area Gallery, Woodbury Campus Center, Bedford St, Portland | MonFri 7 am-10 pm | Through Dec 10: “Diatribes,” four-channel video by Joseph Farbrook & Sama Alshaibi

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 | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Admission $7, seniors $6 | Through 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” + “Pollinators in the Gardens” photography + “Pollinators,” sculptural show curated by June Lacombe | Through Oct 31: “Powerful Pollinators!”, student art exhibit

DISCOVER PORTSMOUTH CENTER

| 603.436.8420 | 10 Middle St, Portsmouth, NH | portsmouthhistory.org |

10 am-5 pm | 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”

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PICK YOUR POISON

is LanZaLotta’s sLaB tHe citY’s Best oUtLaW Food? _BY Bria n dUFF The National Institutes of Health just published a randomized study that confirms the rumors: carbohydrates are poison and should be avoided. So how should we feel about the new temple to carbs launched by their patron saint here in Portland: Stephen Lanzalotta’s Slab Sicilian Streetfood? We should feel good. Christian asceticism was poison for the soul, but should we shun the dazzling cathedral at Chartres?! Carbon emissions poison the planet, but should we skip the campfire to sit in the cold and dark? Of course not. Lanzalotta’s bread transcends any scientific methodology or measurable outcomes. What is science really but the final manifestation of the ascetic ideal, and our fear of the mysterious and unpredictable? It is the NIH that is hostile to life, and Slab offers visceral proof. It is mysterious what makes Lanzalotta’s bread so good, but the excellence of Slab’s cuisine was predictable. If carbs are poison, Portlanders should feel privileged to be poisoned by this man, who has been the city’s best baker for as long as there has been good food in this town—at Sophia’s, at Micucci, and now at Slab. And despite the ambition of Slab, which dwarfs his previous ventures in size and investment, his informal touch is still evident everywhere. You eat off paper, and even the forks are wood. While the

FShort Takes xW THe eQUALiZeR

132 minUteS | nickelodeon + clarkS pond cinemagic + Saco cinemagic + weStbrook cinemagic + Smitty’S biddeford + Smitty’S Sanford + Smitty’S windham + aUbUrn flagShip Denzel Washington stars as a former CIA operative (and needless to say, a human killing machine) who singlehandedly takes on the entire Russian mafia. This violent action thriller is based on the 80s TV series with Edward Woodward, though director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) also borrows heavily from David Fincher, aping the arty grunge of Fight Club, the preternatural lighting of Zodiac, and the claustrophobic interiors of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Fuqua isn’t the only one desperate to elevate the routine material; screenwriter David Wenk shoehorns in a needless

inside is handsomely designed under the lofty wood ceiling of the old public market house, the courtyard beer garden is appealingly utilitarian with its long orange tables distressed by previous use. But what is most familiar is the bread, which underlies almost everything on the menu. In its several manifestations at Slab it mingles the airy quality of an Italian loaf, the crustiness of the best French, and some extra dimension of flavor that is rustic and earthy and wheaty. You can appreciate it on the excellent Sicilian slab—a huge fat-crusted rectangle covered with a candy red sweet/ tart sauce and oily pools of melted cheese. But the bread seems even better when paired with ingredients that work harder to stand up to it—as in the caponata with its thick layer of near-bitter eggplant in a dark, winey sauce; or in the meatloafmeatball sandwich, where a crunchier bread encases huge portions of tender beef and pork, mingling with sauce and cheese. One of last week’s specials featured rich pulled pork and soft white cheese between slices of focaccia so delicate and flakey it approached filo. Its accompanying sauce was almost meaty with tomato and pepper. For something lighter one should look for the chalkboard specials, also tucked away on the drink side of the menu. The slaw is so light and fresh it tends toward

salad, with a great kick of anise and fennel. And the sauerkraut is so light and fresh it tends toward slaw, with crunchy red cabbage spotted with tart little caperSAY YOUR PRAYERS the flagship pizza at preble st.’s slab. berries. Fried cauliflower, NIH anti-carb mission by making other tender and just bitter, was paired with carbs seem comparatively inedible. And sharp pepperoncini on a long skewer, and unlike the NIH scientists, with their served with a funky white sauce. Drinks dull presentation of the mortality data, feature interesting cocktails, Sicilian Lanzalotta has defended his perspective wines, and American microbrews, all reawith eloquence—both with his food and sonably priced. There are two huge desin his book on these questions—The Diet serts, a cone-shaped cannoli and a terrific Code. In the book he invokes the more hualmond-y girelle. The later can be served mane science of the Renaissance, an era with delicious creamy custard. which knew how to court danger in the Lanzalotta offers his own mysteries, name of life. Guess what NIH? The sun but these mysteries are nothing to be is poison too. Should we shut it off? Or afraid of. Who doesn’t want a partner soak it up, perhaps in a downtown beer who is mercurial enough to keep your garden, along with the perfect slice of interest, but absolutely reliable in the carbohydrates? ^ things that matter? Why did Sophia’s close? What happened at Micucci? Why is he not world famous? I don’t know. But Slab Sicilian Streetfood | 25 Preble St, Porthe never leaves and never stops making land | Mon-Sat 11 am-1 am | 207.245.3088 | that bread. His Slab actually supports the Visa/MC/Disc

movie reviewS in brief

subplot in which the hero mentors a young loser at the local Home Depot, and Washington grandstands his way through several heated soliloquys. With Chloe Grace Moretz and Marton Csokas.

Love is Strange

xx A wALk AMOng THe TOMbSTOneS 114 minUteS | clarkS pond cinemagic + weStbrook cinemagic + Saco cinemagic + Smitty’S windham + aUbUrn flagShip

_Ben sachs

xxxW LOve iS STRAnge 94 minUteS | railroad SqUare cinema One of the most heartrending films ever made, Leo McCarey’s Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) centers on a long-married couple who lose their home and are forced to split up, each rooming unhappily with one of their children. That story was rooted in the economic realities of the Depression, whereas this unofficial remake by writerdirector Ira Sachs (Forty Shades of Blue, Keep the Lights On) springs from

the shifting social landscape of same-sex unions: the elderly sweethearts this time around are gay New Yorkers (Alfred Molina and John Lithgow) who consecrate their many years together by tying the knot but, after the marriage gets one of them fired from his job at a Catholic school, must vacate

their rent-controlled apartment. Preserved from the original, and beautifully realized in Sachs’s sensitive characterization, are the pain of separation and the despair of becoming a burden on the next generation. With Marisa Tomei, Darren E. Burrows, and Charlie Tahan.

_J.r. Jones

Liam Neeson is a private investigator trailing two sickos who prey on the wives of rich drug traffickers. Adapted from a novel by Lawrence Block, this revenge thriller evokes Charles Bronson vehicles from the mid 1970s, right down to the title. It’s nasty, cynical, and heavy on the torture, though writerdirector Scott Frank, working with the gifted cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. (The Master), achieves a thick, foreboding atmosphere. As usual, Neeson gives a more thoughtful performance than the material deserves. With Dan Stevens.

_Ben sachs

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Unless otherwise noted, all film listings this week are for Friday, September 26 through Thursday, October 2. 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

tHE BoXtrollS | 11:40 am, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30

dolPHIn talE 2 | 11:40 am, 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50

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nICKElodEon CInEMaS 1 Temple St, Portland | 207.772.4022

BoYHood | 1, 6:30 tHE droP | 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30 tHE EQUalIZEr | 1, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 tHE HUndrEd-Foot JoUrnEY | 1:20, 4

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tHE trIP to ItalY | 1:40, 4, 6:40, 9:10 tUSK | 4:40, 7:20, 9:40

PMa MoVIES

7 Congress Square, Portland | 207.775.6148

JEaloUSY | Fri: 7 | Sat-Sun: 2

WEStBrooK CInEMaGIC

183 County Rd, Westbrook | 207.774.3456

tHE BoXtrollS | noon, 2:15, 4:30, 7 tHE BoXtrollS 3d | 9:20 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 EQUalIZEr | 12:20, 3:20, 6:40, 9:30

tHE GIVEr | noon, 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45

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ColonIal tHEatrE

163 High St, Belfast | 207.338.1930 Call for shows & times.

EVEnInGStar CInEMa

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| 3:20, 6:50

MY old ladY | Fri-Sat: 1:30, 3:45, 6, 8:15 | Sun-Thu: 1:30, 3:45, 6

am, 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50

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tHIS IS WHErE I lEaVE YoU | 11:50 a WalK aMonG tHE toMBStonES | 12:15, 3:20, 7, 9:40

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MaInE alaMo tHEatrE 85 Main St, Bucksport | 207.469.0924

MaGIC In tHE MoonlIGHt | FriSat: 7:30 | Sun: 2

14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222

ManHattan SHort FIlM FEStIVal | Fri-Tue: 2, 5, 8 | Wed: 2 | Thu: 2, 5, 8

HarBor tHEatrE

185 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | 207.633.0438

CalVarY | Fri-Sun: 7 | Wed: 3, 7

lEWISton FlaGSHIP 10

aUBUrn FlaGSHIP 10

855 Lisbon St, Lewiston | 207.777.5010

3:50, 6:55

746 Center St, Auburn | 207.786.8605

9:40

a WalK aMonG tHE toMBStonES | 12:20, 3:40, 6:55, 9:30 WHEn tHE GaME StandS tall |

3:35, 6:40

tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES | 2:05, 4:40, 7:45 tHIS IS WHErE I lEaVE YoU | 1:05,

345 Main St, Rockland | 207.593.6593

art and CraFt | Fri: 6:30 dIrIGo SHortS: GroWInG loCal | Sun: 5 MatEo | Sat: 10:30 am Mr. dYnaMItE: tHE rISE oF JaMES BroWn | Sat: 8:45

BaY VIEW StrEEt CInEMa 10 Bay view st, Camden| 207.593.6593

tHE HUndrEd-Foot JoUrnEY | 4:30, 7:30

tHE MaZE rUnnEr | 4, 7

narroW GaUGE CInEMaS

3:55, 6:45

lInColn tHEatEr

nordICa tHEatrE

12:30, 3:30, 7:15, 9:50

BrIdGton tWIn drIVE-In tHEatrE

Thu: 7

dolPHIn talE 2 + tHE MaZE

Strand tHEatrE

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

2 Theater St, Damariscotta | 207.563.3424

383 Portland Rd, Bridgton | 207.647.8666

CaMdEn IntErnatIonal FIlM FEStIVal

CalVarY | Fri: 7 | Sat: 2 | Wed-

tHE MaGIC lantErn

9 Depot St, Bridgton | 207.647.5065

dolPHIn talE 2 | 4:15, 7:15

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.

CaMdEn oPEra HoUSE 29 Elm St, Camden| 207.593.6593

HaPPInESS |Sat: 8 SEEdS oF tIME | Sun: 7:30 VIrUnGa | Thu: 7:30

FarnSWortH art MUSEUM 16 museum st, rockland| 207.593.6593

raIlroad SQUarE CInEMa 17 Railroad Sq, Waterville | 207.873.6526

tHE droP | Fri-Thu: 2:40, 7:10 loVE IS StranGE | Fri: 3, 5, 7, 9 | Sat-Sun: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 | Mon-Thu: 3, 5, 7

MY old ladY | Fri: 2:20, 4:35, 6:50 |

Sat-Sun: 12:05, 2:20, 4:35, 6:50 | MonThu: 2:20, 4:35, 6:50 tHE trIP to ItalY | Fri-Thu: 4:50 tUSK | Fri-Sat: 9:05

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.

The Equalizer

SaCo CInEMaGIC & IMaX

783 Portland Rd, Rte 1, Saco | 207.282.6234

tHE BoXtrollS | 12:30, 3:20, 7, 9:40

dolPHIn talE 2 | 12:20, 3, 7, 9:30 tHE droP | 12:10, 2:40, 7, 9:30 tHE EQUalIZEr: tHE IMaX EXPErIEnCE | 12:30, 3:30, 7, 9:50 GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY | 12:30, 3:30, 8

tHE HUndrEd Foot JoUrnEY | 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:30 lEt’S BE CoPS | 12:10, 3:20, 7:30, 9:50 tHE MaZE rUnnEr | noon, 12:20, 3, 3:30, 6:45, 7, 9:20 tHE noVEMBEr Man | 12:10, 9:15

tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES | 3:20, 6:50 tHIS IS WHErE I lEaVE YoU | 11:50

am, 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 tHE trIP to ItalY | 12:10, 2:50, 7:20, 9:50

a WalK aMonG tHE toMBStonES | 12:15, 3:20, 7, 9:40

SaCo drIVE-In tHEatEr

969 Portland Rd, Saco | 207.284.1016 Call for shows & times.

SMIttY’S CInEMaBIddEFord

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

SMIttY’S CInEMaSanFord 1364 Main St, Sanford | 207.490.0000 Call for shows & times.

SMIttY’S CInEMaWIndHaM

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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 Call for shows & times.

Strand tHEatrE 345 Main St, Rockland | 207.594.0070 See film specials.

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nEW HaMPSHIrE tHE MUSIC Hall

28 Chestnut St, Portsmouth | 603.436.9900

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45 Gosling Rd, Portsmouth | 603.431.6116 Call for shows & times.

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_by syMbo line Da i This week, the moon is waxing, so it’s getting larger and larger in the sky. Projects and relationships get more active and intense, and you may find a project, interaction, activity, or relationship that seemed simple, actually gets very complex (you need to take multiple steps, versus just a few). That Libra sun helps a lot of relationships begin, so if you’ve been on the fence about pursuing a friendship, take a chance. The early waxing moon is very forgiving if you are starting a project. Visit “Sally Cragin Astrology” for more.

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thursday september 25

Friday september 26

Waxing moon in Scorpio (moon void-of-course in libra, 8:39 am until 10:29 am). late morning hair-cutting appointments (through tomorrow) are a smart move as Scorpio rules knives and surgery). taurus, leo, and aquarius could be blunt in communication—diplomacy will be difficult for you folks until later this week. Virgo, libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, capricorn, pisces, cancer, aries, and Gemini could enjoy edgy, or even off-color humor. 4

saturday september 27

Down 1 blind ___ bat 2 light, in la paz 3 JFK library architect 4 harriet’s husband 5 too far to catch up to 6 total jerk 7 teatro alla ___ (milan opera house) 8 asian wrap 9 the Who’s “baba ___” 10 “the same place,” in footnotes 11 Wednesday’s father 12 american wildcat 13 they’re all set to play 18 broadway backer 23 cuatro y cuatro 24 1980s duo 25 country singer-songwriter who wrote hits for merle haggard 27 2000s iraq war subject, briefly 31 cloister sister 33 inbox stuff 35 The Very Hungry Caterpillar author carle 36 Work on your biceps? 40 comedian margaret 41 amount equal to a million pennies 43 ending for psych 44 one-horse carriage 46 Vegas headliner? 48 born to be wild? 49 dons, as clothes 50 new York silverware city 51 Goes diving, casually 52 ruckus 57 miata maker 59 “open” author agassi 61 actress Sorvino 66 “Your moment of ___” (“the daily Show” feature) 67 Sliver of hope 68 “___ got a golden ticket...” 69 “Stupid Flanders,” to homer

Waxing moon in libra. moon and sun are still in harmony, and since libra is ruled by Venus (goddess of love and beauty), the dominant influence sky-wise is helping us see both sides of a situation—whether we want to or not! libra, Virgo, leo, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Gemini, and aquarius: find the “graceful” way of presenting unexpected news. cancer, capricorn, aries, pisces, and taurus: it’s okay to lean on a partner today. it doesn’t weaken your steely resolve in other areas.

Waxing moon in Scorpio. every now and then, the moon is in Scorpio on the weekend, where it can do some good (in the sensual realm), versus amping up weekday paranoia and dread (Scorpio is such a darn serious sign!). however, intensity could put some folks (taurus, leo, and aquarius) off-balance. however, Virgo, libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, capricorn, aries, and Gemini could find perceptions sharpened, and patience-with-fools diminished. 5

sunday september 28

Waxing moon in Scorpio, moon void-of-course 4:31pm until 6:50 pm when it moves into Sagittarius. Streamline everything—and don’t forget to flirt. new friendships could have a humorous side, particularly for libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, capricorn, aquarius, aries, cancer, and leo. pisces, taurus, Virgo, and Gemini may not “get” the big picture (have patience with them). 6

monday september 29

Waxing moon in Sagittarius (moon void-of-course 11:29 pm until 12:41 a.m. tuesday). another fine day for travel or study. are you interested in exotic topics? You are totally in tune with the moon. Gemini, pisces, and Virgo could be traversing rocky emotional terrain, but libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, capricorn, aquarius, aries, taurus, cancer, and leo can get in touch with their “lighter” side (the side that doesn’t glare intensely at folks for no reason). 7

tuesday september 30

Waxing moon in capricorn. a fine day for home repairs or figuring out what the structural flaw is in fill-in-the-blank. Fix something today, and it should stay fixed. aries, libra, and cancer could lose patience with folks who need to take their time on a declaration or commitment. Scorpio, Sagittarius, capricorn, aquarius, pisces, leo, taurus, Virgo, and Gemini: romance is the last thing on your mind. is that true of your loved one?! 8

Wednesday october 1

First quarter moon in capricorn. a turning point for projects begun around September 24. the bean-counters are at their best during a capricorn moon on a monday—it’s easy to see the big and little picture simultaneously. practical solutions present themselves and Scorpio, Sagittarius, capricorn, aquarius, pisces, taurus, leo, and Virgo can score big points with all. libra, aries, and cancer should avoid those “self-inflicted” injuries (chagrin, foot in mouth...) 9

moon Keys

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

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