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With more than 200 bands in greater Portland alone, Creative Space director Tom Blackburn says one cannot underestimate their economic and social impact.

rock saves

Grime Studios in final fundraising stretch

Today Thompson’s Point is a motley collection of empty warehouses and even emptier warehouses, but plans for a $105 million overhaul will soon transform the lots abutting the Fore River into a gleaming new mixed-use development. It will also have the unintended consequence of decreasing Portland’s number of dedicated music rehearsal spaces in town, down from 25 down to 10. After half-a-dozen aborted attempts at finding a new home, Grime Studios owner Justin Curtsinger says things look good for a new, much larger space on Presumpscot Street, but it all hinges on a rapidly approaching fundraising deadline. “The time is now. If we don’t raise at least $70,000 by the twenty-first of this month, we’re going to have to pull the plug on the Presumpscot Street site,” says Curtsinger. The new space is more than twice the size of the Thompson’s Point building and has the capacity for as many as 25 rehearsal studios. Under Curtsinger’s direction, Grime has long boasted vacancy rates of less than 10 percent and currently has a waiting list of new tenants. “I’m not concerned about filling these rooms, but we could always just tap into the visual art community. I would be psyched to have it be more mixed use,” Curtsinger says. So far Curtsinger has managed to raise over $12,000 from private contributions and $3,000 through an online Indiegogo campaign. He’s very confident that a $35,000 loan currently in the works will go through, leaving him with some $20,000 to raise over the next week. And that’s just what he needs to sign a 10-year lease on the new space. “The whole project in total will cost about $150,000. I’ve already raised $50,000 and I think I could open by January 1 with another $50,000.,” he says. The last third of the $150,000 would hopefully come along once the space is already operating, according to Curtsinger. “All of this money is strictly for the buildout; just to be able to open the doors,” he says. That buildout to the Presumpscot Street space includes the installation of a sprinkler system, bathrooms, electrical work, and sound containment and is estimated at a cost of $90,000. As of Tuesday Grime Studios has attained 501(c)3 status, so now all future donations are now tax-deductible through fiscal sponsor Creative Space, a nonprofit aimed at helping address space needs for those within the creative economy. Curtsinger hopes this change in status will help Grime to drum up the funds it needs before the deal falls through on the new space, in which he’s already invested $10,000.

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providence phoenix to close; portland still in flight On October 8, our sister publication the Providence Phoenix announced that it would close, ending a 36-year run for the city’s only alt-weekly. What that means for our paper is a good and appropriate question. Here’s the answer: We’re fine. The Portland Phoenix will continue operations as the sole alt-weekly bearing the name, following the closure of the Boston Phoenix in March 2013. We’d like to acknowledge in this space the fantastic work the Phoenix did in covering Providence culture, and being a voice for the communities of people its city’s larger papers mostly excluded. Sad as it is to bid farewell to our other publications, we’re very proud to carry on the Phoenix tradition in Portland, and have this city’s hardworking and knowledgeable citizens and the many fascinating communities they inhabit to thank. We might see slight changes in layout and design, but in general, our paper’s rigorous arts support, engaged culture coverage, and critical news and political coverage will continue undeterred.

cast and crew A large group of the artists renting rehearsal space at Grime Studios in Thompson’s Point. With more than 200 bands in greater Portland alone, Creative Space director Tom Blackburn says one cannot underestimate their economic and social impact. Blackburn also acts as project manager for the new Grime space, and says that creative types are often the first to take to distressed areas of a city, which gets the ball rolling on further gentrification. “Creative workspaces are the backbone of Portland’s creative economy,” says Blackburn. Curtsinger and Blackburn first met in 2012 when doing an inventory of artists’ studios and rehearsal spaces in the city for Creative Portland. A seasoned nonprofit manager, Blackburn is Grime’s representative at the municipal level, tackling permitting and other issues that arise around a project that is guaranteed to get noisy. “Grime is particularly challenging with the loud music element,” Blackburn says. By all accounts the new Presumpscot Street space looks like the promised land for rehearsing loud rock music. “In every way this new space is the best-case-scenario. Both financially and logically; we have an awesome landlord, no neighbors—so no chance of noise complaints—and 24-hour access,” he says. That element of 24-hour access is particularly important to many of Grime’s current tenants. The city’s other largest practice space on Warren Avenue limits rehearsal to past 7 pm and each space is shared by as many as three of four different bands. “There is nothing out there that is affordable or open 24/7,” says Darren Brown of rock band Mome. James Hadley of prog-metal band Capture the Sun says that scheduling rehearsal time for a band is already hard enough without worrying about limited

hours of access. “We all have really odd schedules, so we really need a space that is open 24 hours,” he says. His brother Justin agrees, and adds that as a drummer, he has no choice but to rent rehearsal space. “I can’t drum at home, and if I had to store all my gear there it would be a mess.” “This place gets you to the stage,” says Bruce Merson, drummer with local rock band Nuclear Bootz. “It’s been the forefront of creativity in this town for years.”

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Something borrowed, something blue Want to save the taxpayers of Maine over $60 million? It’s so simple even somebody with no political skills at all can do it. Although, come to think of it, Paul LePage, Eliot Cutler, and Mike Michaud all have no political skills, and they can’t manage it. On Election Day in November, you’ll be asked to decide the fate of six bond issues totaling $50 million— plus another $11 million in interest payments. If you vote against all of them, we’ll never have to pay back that money. Instead, we could use the extra cash to lower taxes. Or expand healthcare. Or we could build a big bonfire and burn it. Depending on your ideological bias, one of those ideas ought to appeal. My personal preference would be to buy every Mainer of legal drinking age a beer. Although, there might not be enough left over for a decent tip. Republican Governor LePage, independent would-be-governor Cutler and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Michaud are all, to varying degrees, fans of bonding to pay for state projects that we otherwise couldn’t afford. LePage claims to be against such borrowing, but he’s done little to rally his fellow members of the GOP to that cause, resulting in some bonds being approved over his veto and others winning approval through his indifference. Cutler claims to be a fiscal conservative, but he wants to increase the state’s debt to buy a power plant in Bucksport, a proposal that would cost $75 million to $100 million plus interest. When Michaud was in the Legislature, he regularly cuddled up to bond issues, displaying not a hint of restraint in burdening future generations.

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But the governor doesn’t have the final say on this sort of borrowing. That’s up to voters, who are generally every bit as inept as politicians when it comes to managing the state’s debt. Currently, Maine has nearly $400 million in outstanding bonds. That’s not counting interest, which—as it happens—does count. In addition, another $127 million in borrowing has been authorized, but not yet issued. Although it will be, sooner or later. In 2015 alone, taxpayers will be on the hook for over $77 million in payments to bondholders. Some of that is certainly for necessary projects, such as roads, bridges, port facilities, and airports, without which we’d have no way to ship the stuff we don’t make here anymore to the places where they no longer want to buy it because they can make it cheaper themselves. Still, we need to maintain a certain amount of infrastructure so the tourists can get around. I have no particular objection to transportation bonds in moderate amounts. But none of this year’s proposed borrowing schemes is for highways or rail lines. Instead, we have a lot of far less practical proposals. First up is an $8 million bond to build a new laboratory at the University of Maine to study ticks, fleas, mosquitoes, and other outdoor pests. Some of the money will also be used to promote agricultural and natural-resources-based industries. If this sounds familiar, it’s because voters rejected a similar project in 2012. According to proponents, the public didn’t understand it. According to opponents, voters understood all too well how unnecessary it was. Over the 10-year life of this bond, we’ll have to pay as estimated $1.8 million in interest. Next, we’re being asked to

borrow $12 million for loans and loan guarantees for small businesses through the Finance Authority of Maine. FAME already has $28 million in reserves to back these programs, so there’s no pressing need for us to go further in debt to allow start-up companies to go further in debt. As for interest, it’ll come to as much as $3 million over the next decade. For a mere $10-million bond, voters can, according to state officials, “make the state a global leader in genomic medicine.” Apparently, that means studying genes to find cures for diseases. The way we do this is to give all that money to the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor for a new facility. In return, Jackson promises…er…well, it doesn’t exactly promise anything, such as new jobs or free flu shots. One thing we can count on, though, is that we’ll have to pay over $2 million in interest. There’s also a $3-million bond for a biotechnology lab and a $7-million package for increasing lobster processing capacity, both of which seem like the sorts of operations the private sector is supposed to handle. And while free enterprise is at it, it can pay the $2.5 million in interest, too. And there’s a proposal to borrow $10 million for improving water quality and restoring wetlands. I’m all for those, but if we included this work in the regular state budget, we’d save about $1.3 million in interest, which would make that clean water taste much better. Also, if we don’t restore wetlands, there might not be as many mosquitoes for that lab we’re not going to build to study. Be frugal on Nov. 4. Vote “no” a lot. ^

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difficulty breathing. to remedy my body dysphoria, i’d been wearing a chest binder that, ostensibly, had been causing problems. the hospital lacked fluency in transgender health and misdiagnosed my injury as one that would recover in three weeks. Since then, i’ve been in and out of treatments for what i now know to be a chronic pain condition. i’ve come to understand what it means for me to find queer and trans competency among health professionals. For anyone, doctor visits may be totally anxiety-producing. For queer, trans, and gender non-conforming people, there is disproportionately decreased promise of safety or comfort. racial and ethnic minorities therein are even more likely to be denied services and understanding. a world where genderaffirming surgeries and hormone therapies are not covered by most health insurance implies a sense of risk in marginalized identities entering a doctor’s office. the needs of lGbtQ individuals differ greatly. i could get into my many qualms and qualifications of healthcare until the cows come home, but what good would it do to hear from one person about very isolated experiences? i took a temperature check of healthcare as experienced by local queers to explore standards of lGbtQ competency, specifically in heterosexual providers. the criteria at the root of each story make a basic rubric for respect. it begins with the paperwork. many patients cannot select their sex or gender when prompted with binary options of only m or F. alternatively, medical forms could offer a wide variety of options or a blank line for limitless identification. this may symbolize a characteristic described by pete Franzen, selfidentified afraid-of-doctors person, as “being aware of and responsive to emotional sensitivity around gendered issues for people who are trans and/or gender non-conforming.” Kelly arbor is an hiV-positive genderqueer transsexual person and shared a story in which the intricacies of gender were met with such sensitivity. “When i was dying of aidS i was at St. Vincent’s hospital in nYc. i was shocked to be asked by emt personnel what pronouns i used, and then, offered a private room by the hospital because they acknowledged that room sharing in gender-specific settings can be awkward for trans folks.” Over the years, many providers misunderstood arbor’s gender and sexuality to such a degree that they decided arbor was not at risk for hiV. “they made the non-consensual decision to not do a complete Sti screen,” arbor says, “even though that’s what i asked for.” the hierarchy of medical expertise paternalism over patients’ knowledge of their bodies perpetuates the ways in which misconceptions make healthcare for queer people an unsafe space. Stephen Stratton is a female-to-male transgender person. throughout his recent pregnancy, Stratton worked with the back cove midwives for prenatal care, labor, and delivery. “they had never before worked with a pregnant transgender client. i was treated with respect, thoughtfulness.” Stratton says. “Our providers went ahead and met with and educated the nursing staff at mercy, where we were birthing, and answered questions so that we didn’t have to.” though some may be willing, queer patients are not required to educate providers. providers must be prepared to turn elsewhere for support in better understanding how to care for their queer patient, as modeled by the relationship between back cove midwives and mercy hospital, wherein the exchange of knowledge occurred in such a way that did not alienate or ask more of their patient. many misunderstandings and malpractices still must be remedied in order to see a widespread achievement of lGbtQ-specific criteria for care. it seems, however, this distribution, slowly, is occurring. Stratton went on testosterone in 2003. “many doctors were unwilling to do hormone therapy treatment because they didn’t want transgender patients coming to their family practice and driving away current patients,” Stratton says. “that was about 11 years ago in maine. hopefully things have changed.” ^

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forced out UsM administrators have announced that the university plans to retrench up to 50 faculty if others don’t voluntarily retire by october 20.

cutting higher education How corporatization is transforming USM _B y n ick sc h r o e d er

I know—you’ve gotta be tired of reading about USM. Trust me, us too. But there’s a problem. USM is being fundamentally transformed, and its chief executives aren’t being clear about why. The administration at USM, and the at the University of Maine system in Bangor, want us to think of them like you would a private business. Specifically one that’s in the red, and which needs to cut labor costs in order to stay afloat. They swear up and down that they’re in crisis, that they’re facing a $16 million deficit in Portland and an even greater deficit systemwide. Yet many within their ranks—many of them economists, public policy researchers, and sociology professors—are challenging the numbers, insisting they don’t add up. So we, the public, have to choose which side to believe. We believe that UMS is not in a fiscal crisis. And if they are, the highly paid administration at the head of the system are creating the conditions of the crisis themselves in order to mandate a large-scale transformation that serves business interests at the expense of the public good, and the expense of students. They’re taking a public resource that gets a large part of its revenue from state and federal taxes, and redirecting that money into the private sector, to the benefit of corporations. And they’re cutting teachers, good ones, and attempting to hire new ones—or the very same ones back—at reduced rates with far less job security.

The professors the administration are retrenching, or pressuring into retirement, are revenuegenerators for the university.

And they’re very good at it. The system administrators seem to shuffle costs and revenues between campuses every year; obscure mysterious speculative funds; build an increasing reserve of unrestricted net assets that don’t get counted toward the budget; and erode the shared governance that has characterized public higher education in favor of profit-driven models of privatization. What’s so wrong with privatization? Here’s how Pulitzer Prize-winning sociology professor Paul Starr defined it in 1988. Privatization “emerges from the counterargument against the growth of government in the West and represents the most serious conservative effort of our time to formulate a positive alternative.” The strategies of privatization, at higher education institutions across the country, include 1) getting rid of workers with union contracts; 2) hiring parttimers to do the work at a fraction of the cost; 3) coercing faculty to retire when their medical benefits are too high; 4) increasing unrestricted net assets for deployment in strategic investments; and 5) prioritizing educational programs that reward private sector industries at the expense of those in public policy, planning, sociology, and the arts. At a forum hosted by the Portland Community Chamber on October 1, before a room of business and industry leaders in greater Portland, UMS system Chancellor James Page laid it out: “If the University of Maine System is

going to be successful, we must forge, develop, expand, even create a partnership between the universities and the business community…” He continues: “I’m talking about a genuine partnership by which we become your best partners and your greatest assets, helping you think through the economic life of your business in this region of the state.” It’s hard to know Page means in practical terms—indeed, throughout the discussion of the university’s move toward the Metropolitan University and its enhanced focus on public-private relationships, we never hear precisely what such a partnership entails. The professors the administration are retrenching, or pressuring into retirement, are by and large revenue-generators for the university. According to USM Professor of Economics Joseph Medley’s analysis of public system records, and the accounts of the faculty in question, the new proposed cuts announced by the administration this month will lose the system $3.5 million in tuition revenue by this spring. Here’s an example. According to Medley’s calculations, the Sociology department currently brings in roughly $331,000 in revenue per semester, costing the school $166,000 in salary and benefits. Earlier this month, the school proposed to cut two of its three-and-a-half full time professors. The Criminology department brings in $382,000, costing

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$237,000; Flanagan proposed cutting two of its five faculty. For Economics: $587,000 revenue; $208,000 costs. With 44 percent of its faculty proposed to be cut. That’s $689,000 in net revenue for these three programs alone per semester—about $1.4 million per year—that the administration stands to lose. You might extrapolate that across the board. Flanagan wants to cut entire programs in Applied Medical Science, Community Planning and Development, Languages, Geosciences, and American and New England Studies, and merge programs in the Muskie School, refocusing it on environment and health and away from public policy. Cuts are slated for many more departments too. By cutting programs and professors (and their medical benefits), USM stands to lose tuition revenue, and their deficits are going to be bigger. “And Flanagan’s reply is that we’ll just have to cut more,” says Medley. “These motherfuckers are cheap.” One program they plan to develop? Cybersecurity. Chancellor Page raved about it at the Chamber meeting. If there’s a future for higher learning in the metropolitan region, it’s here.

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Medley, along with a large number of faculty and students, believes the budget crisis is manufactured. He worries about how certain costs and revenues seem to get moved between campuses each year. That the administration is deploying sleazy accounting practices like accelerated depreciation, which allows accountants to write-off buildings’ wearand-tear at an accelerated rate—sometimes one-third of the total value in its first year—as it would a structural cost, obscuring real revenues (so they don’t have to pay taxes on them) and making it appear like expenses are higher systemwide, artificially inflating the appearance of a budget crisis. He wonders what happens to money that gets

put in a renovation fund that never gets tapped. And he’s very concerned about scholarship money, for which he says the university has allocated $11 million this year, but has never issued more than $1.5 million in the past. Where does that money go? “We retain (it) and use it in subsequent years,” says Flanagan. Okay, but do the numbers reflect that? It’s questions like these that many have been trying to answer. “In these budgets, they have multi-million dollar categories that they don’t even have to spend,” says Medley. “And at the end of the year they can magically move around as they see fit. “The only ones responsible for this are the chief officers and the Board of Trustees.” And there’s more tricky numbers: USM President David Flanagan has been quoted numerous times over the past few weeks as saying that USM enrollment is down 30 percent in the last five years. But UMS system records report that student credit hours in Fall 2009 were 97,257, and in Fall 2013 were 90,164—a 7.3 percent difference (students pay by the credit hour). The exorbitant USM faculty costs? According to Medley, “they say the faculty’s benefit packages are around 54 percent. And so when somebody’s salary is $100,000, it’s really $154,000. But back in 2012 they had to file a report to the federal government. You lie to the federal government and it’s a crime and you can go to jail. That government audit was telling. From that, “When you break it down and see what faculty actually get, the benefit package is 31 percent,” he continues. “Where’s that 54 percent come from? That comes from the average on the total benefits of the total system averaged over the total salaries of the total system,” including staff, maintenance, etc. “I’m not saying that’s a bad thing (that others within the system get a greater percentage of benefits relative to salaries), it’s just a fact. If you make $25,000, your benefit package is 60-70 percent of what your salary is. “What they’ve been able to do because of that, and they’ve been informed of this

repeatedly, is they’ve been able to misrepresent total faculty compensation.” Differences between what the numbers say and what the administration says the numbers say lie elsewhere, too. According to her research comparing UMS system data to IPEDS (integrated post-secondary education data source, a product of the National Center for Education Studies), USM Professor of Economics Susan Feiner reports that USM actually had a $12 million surplus in 2012 based upon what they reuMS ported to the federal chancellor government. Where’d James Page that money go?

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Why is this happening? It’s really hard to say. But regardless of your political beliefs, it’s hard to defend a privatization of public schooling that narrows the field of study of its students while incentivizing its chief executors behave like these people are doing. Chancellors and system administrators turning profits in the sphere of public institutions using students’ and taxpayer money. To see examples of this, look no further than former UMS Chancellor Richard Pattenaude, who left his $300,000 position in 2012 to become President and CEO of the for-profit online education company Ashford University, where Medley estimates he makes close to a million dollars in salary and benefits. It’s worth noting what a dubious institution Ashford University is: the school lost its bid for accreditation in 2012; its faculty consists of over 95 percent parttimers; and it’s currently under federal

investigation for making millions off the GI Bill for Iraq and Afghanistan vets while its educational standards and graduation rates well below national levels. When Chancellor Page says to a room full of execs that the “higher educational models are changing,” for-profit institutions like Ashford are what he means. To compete with them, he would need to make the school more like them, offering enhanced online degrees and phasing out programs that don’t easily fit into a workforce that satisfies the private sector’s interests. We can’t speculate on the motives of those within the system, but it’s absolutely relevant that everything about this—the privatization of public resources, the erosion of policy research programs, the strategic partnerships with private sector corporations, the anti-labor mentality, and the absolute trust in the free market—is exactly the political strategy pushed by right-wing factions like the Koch Brothers, ALEC (national think-tank American Legislative Exchange Council), and Tea Party Governor Paul LePage. It’s LePage who nominated the last seven members to the Board of Trustees, it’s LePage who froze state tuition, and it’s LePage who decreased the amount of state allocation since he took over in 2010, finally fixing it as what it is today. Climb the conservative ladder higher if you like, and feel free to try to follow the pools of endless data streaming between the graphs on the system page, but something is wrong here, and it’s probably going to need legislation to stop it. ^

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USM President David Flanagan may have asked faculty to call students over the summer and encourage them to come back to school, but what he didn’t tell them is that there wouldn’t be much of a school to come back to. The University of Southern Maine’s Metropolitan Steering Committee proposed to spend $2 million on implementing a trademarked “Metropolitan University” model in September, and Flanagan announced to the USM community this month that the administration is prepared to retrench up to 50 faculty if not enough voluntarily retire by October 20. This comes after an email sent by Provost Joseph McDonnell last Monday, calling for a restructuring of the university in line with the metropolitan model, which essentially requires a number of eligible faculty to retire, and for the remaining professors to cooperate in discipline mergers and other adjustments to academic planning. The Provost said in the email that the university has two options: “eliminate many of our academic programs, or reconfigure our many small departments into more interdisciplinary programs. We chose to pursue the latter course to fundamentally

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transform the university with the cooperation of the faculty.” These changes are the next phase of what former President Theodora Kalikow started last spring. In announcing the results of a university re-visioning project in March, then-President Theodora Kalikow cited that any upcoming cuts or changes would set USM on the path to becoming an “Engaged Campus”—a model developed by the Carnegie Foundation meant to provide “recognition” to universities looking to carve out a marketable niche amongst higher education options for students and

other investors. The three most common types of schools listed with Carnegie are small, private, for-profit institutions offering associates degrees; “special focus institutions” (details of which are left unspecified); and public, medium-sized, rural-serving schools. And yet Carnegie’s definition of “community engagement” seems at odds with what students of USM’s Muskie School of Public Service are learning to do. The school offers five masters’ programs in policy, public health, and community planning, and nine certificates of graduate study. Last Monday’s message said that six graduate faculty would be laid off by the end of October—leaving one or at most two faculty to teach graduate courses. This is supposedly part of the university’s attempt to “slim down” an existing bachelor of arts degree program in environmental science to “attract a wider audience.” But why despecialize in a time when jobs and graduate schools are looking for expertise? Carnegie currently classifies USM as a “Master’s College – L”; the “L” stands for “large,” and the category includes schools that hand out more than 50 masters’ degrees per year, but less than 20 doctorates.

Carnegie lists UMaine, the flagship campus in Orono, as a “Research University” with “high research activity,” and Maine’s other public universities are listed as baccalaureate colleges. In a report to legislature early this summer, the UMS Board of Trustees wrote that “USM’s volume of research will not rise to the level of UMaine’s, but its research capacity and volume will be commensurate with the level required to meet its obligation to improve research, teaching and student learning in the context of addressing community workforce and economic development needs.” Being on par with Carnegie, therefore, means that any academic work done at USM is to somehow directly benefit the workforce or the economy. And this means USM is that much closer to becoming a “Metro-U”—a model campus initiative headed up by the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, or CUMU. And CUMU would love nothing more than to align higher education with the ideas of those who ultimately prioritize hardand-fast economic revitalization and job growth over cultural capital. For example, CUMU’s new vice president penned one of

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can’t cover the same material. On Tuesday, Flanagan told the Phoenix that the administration would consider hiring part-time faculty to help teach out the programs. “A number of professors have indicated a willingness to participate in teach out programs in French and Applied Medical Sciences,” Flanagan said in a phone interview. “If we can’t rely on retiring faculty, we will find qualified people to teach on a temporary basis.” Not only is this a violation of the faculty union contract, but it particularly hurts older faculty and faculty who are close to

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its success stories—a study of the economic benefits of a public-private partnership between the University of Missouri, and ExpressScripts, a pharmaceutical giant. Couched in the language of gentrification, a self-published CUMU report spins out an “urban revival” narrative, by blaming poor people and minorities for triggering white flight, and for the various stages of economic collapse in American cities that followed. It also describes “Metropolitan Universities” as “anchor” institutions, intimately tied to “the successes and failures” of the surrounding city—instantly appealing to those who have the city’s “best interests” in mind. If the connection between public-andprivate, university-and-corporate world isn’t particularly clear at USM, it may be because it’s portrayed in a way which puts the students and the state first. Flanagan said USM is trying to increase scholarship money available to incoming students, but an obligation to keep college “affordable and accessible” has become one of the major catalysts for program cuts and layoffs. In describing the budget deficit in March, Chancellor James Page said that “not every campus has can be expected to, nor do they have the resources to do everything,” and yet the system sought to avoid “passing increased costs to our students and families.” While raising tuition would be an equally lucrative response to a supposed financial crisis, Page makes it appear as though Maine’s students are too poor to afford seven campuses offering courses in the liberal arts. This adds up to a potentially gamechanging assertion: that faculty and students must forge partnerships with industry outside the university, no matter where they’re at in terms of their education or career, and in spite of their chosen field—a precursor to prioritizing work and service over academics and learning. By partnering with the likes of CUMU, Carnegie schools like USM can take advantage of alreadyexisting relationships between an institution and the greater region, to maximize relationships with hospitals, business, and industry to promote economic stimulation. But this isn’t just about which programs are losing money. While social sciences and humanities programs are being asked to merge programs in Philosophy are being asked to merge with Communications, while other programs are untouched because they fall in line with a university model that values service-based scholarship. According to Flanagan in a phone interview with the Phoenix on Tuesday, “Nursing and engineering are very expensive programs, but we retain them because of their relevance to public service…and to the Maine economy.” That may be true, but according to USM Professor of Economics Joseph Medley, those programs might actually be in the red, while departments slated to be cut—such as those in Economics, Criminology, and Sociology—are revenuepositive. Perhaps the Metro-U model requires administrators not to take a comprehensive look at the cultural and financial capital generated by a regional university, but instead, authorizes a breakdown of a liberal arts curriculum for the sake of being “community-engaged.” Being “metropolitan” seems less geared toward expanding the options available to nontraditional college students, and more likely to make it harder for certain graduates to pursue something outside of a working in healthcare, business or industry in a small city. Organizers last Monday explained to the press the inevitable problems that will come if the administration retrenches faculty in programs where other professors

The University of Maine system would rather authorize an administration to destroy a university, no matter how much it costs, to make it more business-friendly in the long term.

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being tenured—for instance, the Provost wants faculty to begin to teach four classes per semester, instead of the typical 3-3 model. And yet, according to Professor of Classics Jeannine Uzzi, “some of my colleagues teach nine credits, but I often teach 10 or 11. There are inequities, but things changing across the board to the presumption of a 4-4 courseload…feels like change in our contract.” And it’s here where legitimate questions about the integrity of the numbers come into play. The revenue the system is working with is either uncalculated, or misinterpreted by an administration which has a history of misreporting figures to the school and to the state. This July, the state’s Government Oversight Committee released a final report on an investigation into UMS funds and funding. The University of Maine System (UMS) receives upwards of 14 million dollars annually from the Maine Economic Improvement Fund (MEIF), funds which are meant to be allocated to programs in science, technology, engineering, and math programs at various campuses. It’s up to UMS to decide how those funds are used, and yet the government report found that the university system has yet to establish measureable goals and objectives for MEIF funds—funds which are primarily split between UMaine and USM. The report also found that UMS misreported data to legislature, making it harder for the state to track where funds go and what they do at each campus. But its UMS’ response to the government report that reveals the most about its financial decisions: UMS claims that UMaine should not be compared to USM, because the flagship campus in Orono is Maine’s only public research university, and any research done at USM is meant to contribute to the “community workforce.” Although the money is limited in how it can be used, MEIF funding to UMS has increased steadily over the past 10 years, meaning that the state is far from being completely to blame for any of UMS’ financial complaints. But legislature has proven to be an uninspiring place to look for those concerned for the future of public higher education. At a press conference in April, Mayor Michael Brennan of Portland said about the Metro-U model: “These are decisions that need to be made by the faculty, by the students, and by the administration.” When students drafted a bill seeking a moratorium on past

and future cuts at USM, GOP Representative Ken Fredette said, “there will always be disagreement about how and where cuts are made, but that is a decision for the university, not the legislature.” But the legislature is involved with more than university finances—the governor appoints 15 out of 16 members of the Board of Trustees; eight were appointed by former governor John Baldacci, and seven were appointed by Paul LePage. BOT members are in charge of hiring administrators who develop plans for the future of each campus. So why don’t USM administrators fight to show the BOT and the legislature why the university is worth investing in? Perhaps because many of them have no personal connection to Maine (not that you should need one to defend public education, and yet), and probably because administrators have a habit of chasing higher-paying positions at universities around the country—hindering the development of any prolonged, meaningful relationship within the region. For example: before skipping out on USM entirely to take a post at Yeshiva University, President Selma Botman became “Special Assistant to the Chancellor on Global Education” in 2012, where she continued to receive a salary of over $200,000, and commissioned a report on international recruitment strategies that cost over $363,000. Botman was hired when Richard Pattenaude was chancellor of UMS. After leaving the position in 2012, Pattenaude went onto become the President and CEO of Ashford University—a for-profit extension of Bridgepoint Educations, which was forced to pay $7.25 million to the state of Iowa in May, after a state investigation into consumer complaints found the company to be in violation of the Consumer Fraud Act. The report found that Ashford mishandled tuition and fees and misrepresented their online degree programs; the company also came under fire for using advertising to target veterans, who receive subsidized tuition funds from the government in exchange for their duty and yet weren’t able to transfer credits earned at Ashford to other schools. Former President Kalikow now acts as President Emerita and Acting Vice Chancellor of the UMS system, where she will be undertaking none other than “a system-wide community engagement initiative” until next June. USM’s The Free Press reported that, in a statement emailed to the USM community last spring, Kalikow wrote “Community engagement is close to my heart. I believe it will be the salvation of nationwide public higher education.” That Richard Pattenaude somehow gleaned the expertise to run a for-profit, and yet publically funded university from his 21 years of service at Maine’s public university system, and that Kalikow’s adherence to community engagement means violating contract, are facts which reveal what UMS numbers cannot. The University of Maine System would rather authorize an administration to destroy a university, no matter how much it costs, to make it more business-friendly in the long term, than to take the time to evaluate what faculty and students are already doing right for more than just the economy. Administrators seem to have convinced leaders that the Metropolitan University will help USM carry out its duty as a steward of the state—but those in charge of USM makes it look like the school hasn’t done enough to deserve more than a corporate takeover. Those in charge would rather pay to let the school die on the vine than to take the time and money to figure out what truly works, and what doesn’t. ^

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“The Intoxicators” you might expect a more searing or raucous noise, but this is not the case. The boozy fugues Khumariyaan ply in are more spiritual than alcoholic, mixing acoustic guitars and traditional instruments like the berjab or the zerbaghali into an entrancing and hypnotic look at the Pushtoon musical renaissance. For those in the mainstream crowds, these young dudes from Away play acoustic sets that sound familiar, yet new. There’s a lot of folk, prog, and post-rock stuff going on here, and despite the ethnographic preciousness that organizers place on musicians from distant countries, these guys might be equally at home playing the Peshawar equivalent of the Porthole deck. That said, they’re still very good, and Pakistani bands don’t come around that often. Catch them for $30 at 7:30 pm. 88 Bedford St. 207.780.4270.

friday 17 OPEN FOR BLEEDNESS | Maine’s a scary place to live. There’s the usual grocery list of Stephen King, spooky forests, and gubernatorial candidates to give us chills. But the most disturbing fact is probably that for

five years now, DAMNATIONLAND has been able to find enough filmmaking weirdos to fill out its ghoulish yearly roster. Though not yet listed in the DSM-5, anyone delusional enough to spend months of planning, sink hundreds of dollars, and manipulate friends, family, and occasionally state officials into participating in carefully constructed fantasy worlds focused on horrific and macabre topics, then surely that person is suffering from grievous mental harm and should be hospitalized immediately. This year, the local horror film festival features selections from seven Maine filmmakers. Each film (as always) is set in Maine and does its best to turn the familiar into the unexpected, and the unexpected into the terrifying. The films range from the surreal to the splattery, and it should totally be said that trigger warnings abound. At 8 pm, the State Theatre hosts, AQUARIUS FUNKK (and ensemble) warms everyone up, the screening is about 90 minutes, and if you listen to the talk back, you can probably follow everyone over to SPACE Gallery for the afterparty at 10 pm. Tickets are $5 students, $10 advance and $12 day of show. 609 Congress St. 207.956.6000. AD ASTRA | Hopefully the road to the University of New Hampshire Observatory won’t be filled

with to many struggles as you voyage to the NEW ENgLAND FALL ASTRONOMY FESTIVAL, which kicks into gear tonight, and continues on until midnight on Saturday. This free event features activities both for astronomically inclined adults as well as children, with model rocket launches, workshops, games, both day and nighttime observation of the skies, Q&A sessions with expert astronomers and talks on celestial mythology and how to find your way around the sky. Impressively, the event kicks off at 7 pm with a keynote talk from Dr. Carolyn Porco, Imaging Science Team Leader for the Cassini mission to Saturn. If you know in your heart that space is still the place, don’t pass this up. And if no one is selling “What Would Neil deGrasse Tyson Do?” bracelets, we’ll consider that an opportunity missed. UNH Observatory at the west end of campus, on Spinney Ln, Durham. 603.862.1234. IT’S NOT ALICE’S | Yes. We know it’s not Thanksgiving yet, but we’re betting ARLO gUTHRIE is almost contractually obligated to launch into that 18-minute rambler every concert he plays. (It’s almost the kind of thing that might make a man want jump up and down shouting “Kill! Kill! Kill!”) Seats available at $82.50 and upwards if you

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back from a long and (until recently) somewhat mysterious hiatus, the smoothest, purest, indie pop-rock of SEEPEOPLES returns to hit available ears at the Empire this evening. The tightlycrafted Allston, Mass-formed band has collaborated and toured with a veritable who’s who of indie acts in the earlier parts of the decade, and generated an immense following, along with inspiring a number of “fucking fake sell-out copycat bands” if certain YouTube comments are to be believed. Portland’s evertalented EL SHUPAcAbRA opens for them in what should be a pretty amazing show. But don’t take our word for it, find out for yourselves. 10 pm. $10. 575 Congress St. 207.879.8988. GET WELCOMED | The second annual EAST bAYSIDE bLOcK PARTY gives people a chance to take in what is arguably the most rapidly changing neighborhood on the Peninsula. From noon till four businesses will be hosting a

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diverse spectrum of events, and will open their doors for anyone wandering through. Look for mobs of people spontaneously making kraut (we’re not kidding), local cocktail samplings, food swaps, fabric arts demonstrations and more. And if you stroll down by Marginal Way, see if there’s still ocean coming up through the sewer drains, you know, because global warming. Free. In the area bordered by Fox St, Washington Ave, Marginal Way and Franklin St. IT’S FOR A CAUSE | If you really can’t handle any of this crap and just want to drink beer, listen to loud music, and try and win some raffles, you should probably be at “Rocktober Breastfest” at the Irish Twins Pub. Crass as the title may seem, Oxford metal legends DEAD SEASON are actually rocking out in order to raise cash to fight against breast cancer, with all proceeds from the evening being donated to the Dempsey Fund. Who says metal doesn’t have a heart? With bEYOND THE FALL, L.O.T.O., 13 HIgH, and STRONgHOLD. Metal? Dempsey? Raffles? Obviously the most Lewiston thing to do in Lewiston is at 743 Main St. 207.376.3088.

sunday 19 TEACH THEM WELL | Worried your eight-year old has a critical deficiency when it comes to their appreciation of the contemporary music scene? Stop trying to read them Pitchfork reviews at bedtime, and instead bring them down to SPACE Gallery to see Brooklyn’s energetic music collective cUDDLE MAgIc and Lewiston’s gorgeous, hushed (and Rolling Stone featured!) ARbOREA play an all ages show this afternoon. While the line up is good enough to ensure a healthy attendance of listeners of all ages, SPACE is aiming to make this a concert where all can enjoy. Tickets are $8 for ages 13 and up, $5, for 6-12, and anyone under the age of five is free. Little legs will be dancing from four to six pm. 538 Congress St. 207.828.5600. ALL THAT JAZZ | Up at Bates College the MARcUS RObERTS TRIO plays, crisp, unadulterated bebop with amazing virtuosity. Pianists often dominate jazz trios, but the players in the Roberts trio—in addition to pianist Roberts, they are Jason Marsalis on drums and Rodney Jordan on bass—seem to be play as equals. Anyone who Wynton Marsails calls “the genius of the modern piano” certainly deserves some pause—and, undoubtedly, your attendance. Tickets are $25. 7 pm at the Olin Arts

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monday 20 TUMBLE ROUSERS | Tonight WMPG has seen fit to bring the rough and old-timey sounds of TUMbLINg bONES together with the high-energy strumming and plucking of the JERKS OF gRASS and the ubiquitous gRASSHOLES for their “Twelfth Annual WMPG Bluegrass Spectacular.” Fans of Tumbling Bones should catch them here before they leave on their upcoming world tour. The rest of you should put on your dancing shoes (whatever they may be) and head out to One Longfellow Square to support WMPG and all that is blue about grass. 6:30 pm. $15. 181 State St. 207.761.1757. TWOFER | While we highly doubt the need for sharknado preparedness. We certainly do acknowledge (and applaud) ANDREW SHAFFER and his ability to milk this absurdity for all it’s worth. His recent work How to Survive a Sharknado is a cleverly disguised attempt at a Guinness World Record for “Number of Groan-Inducing Puns in a Published Book.” Other animalistic meteorological phenomena, such as the “Boaricane” are discussed. Reading with him is author TIFFANY REISZ, whose bio contains the sentence: She dropped out of a conservative southern seminary in order to pursue her dream of becoming a smut peddler. Reisz, reads from her latest work of erotica, The Saint, featuring a rebellious

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film we’ll mention this week (see listings for plenty of others) is Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard’s documentary 20,000 DAYS ON EArTH WHIcH follows legendary rock artist Nick Cave on a day-inthe-life journey through his life as it stands. While Cave himself seems always to be performing for the camera, selecting bits of his history to highlight and some to obscure, conjuring emotions for the camera as needed. When he is elsewhere occupied, talking with his bandmate, or in the process of creating “Higgs Boson Blues,” the film makes up in spades with a verité look at the artists creative process. The result is intriguing, but inevitably polarizing when it comes to discussing his sincerity within the film, perhaps that’s what makes it, and him, so interesting. $8. 7:30 pm. 538 Congress Street. 207.828.5600. DON’T SAY NO | If “more clown makeup” is something you look for in a band then Asylum’s offering of nu-metal rappers TWIZTID and the sinister (but actually kind of sweet if you Wikipedia him) KUNg FU VAMPIRE should satisfy. These guys shows have become a staple at the Gathering of the Juggalos over the last few years, so if you go, be ready to drink the Faygo. 6:30 pm for a $22 cover. 121 Center St. 207.772.8274.

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the insidious and also widely accepted nature of surveillance at popular Vegas attractions. How insidious? Well the “SIN” in the title actually stands for “Security Information Network.” So much for that bachelor party, eh? 4:30 pm at University of Southern Maine, Glickman Library, Room 423. 314 Forest Ave. 207.780.4117. IT AIN’T BRAGGIN | Acclaimed songwriter and composer DAN bERN, has a career that boasts an enviable number of Apatow-comedy soundtracks as well as an enviable amount of songs about having balls “big as small dogs.” He reaches the easternmost point of his tour at the Press Room in Portsmouth tonight at 10 pm. The witty but soulful songster croons to you in his distinctive timbre for the small fee of $10. 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth. 603.431.5186.

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in August when we wrote that bit about wanting to see Sarah McLachlan over seeing NATALIE MERcHANT? Yeah? Well remember when she was so upset by our press that she canceled the show? What? You don’t? Oh. Well, we can’t confirm it, but we’re pretty sure it happened that way. Anyway, all old wounds are healed and we’ll be at the State Theatre with bells on tonight. We love you, Natalie (even if your cover is $35-$65). 8 pm. 609 Congress St. 207.956.6000. THAT’S MY GRAVE | It’s that time of year again, time for the actors with Acorn Productions to bring out their “WALK AMONg THE SHADOWS” haunted cemetery tour. Watch the bones of one man walk about, while the bones of the man he’s pretending to be slowly rot in the earth beneath him. 6:30 pm. $10, $5 youth 12 & under. Eastern Cemetery at the corner of Congress and Mountfort St.

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TOm hAll ANd jOshUA FeRRY pROvIde pOweRFUl cOUNTeRARgUmeNTs _BY BR ITTA K ONAU Nobody quite believed Paul Delaroche’s 1839 pronouncement upon first seeing a daguerreotype. Painting has not really had to fight an existential struggle, but it has had to argue for its continued relevance and intrinsic difference from other artistic media. What makes painting so special? In Maine this seems a superfluous question, seeing how much painting is out there. But there’s painting and there’s painting. Some of it uses the medium not to depict something seen or imagined, but to see how far it can leave representation behind and still function in a similar way. Tom Hall currently shows work at the June Fitzpatrick Gallery and Joshua Ferry at Art House Picture Frames. The only thing these two artists share—and this is a big thing—is their belief in, and their ability to convince us of, the power of painting. The power of painting to surprise us, to nudge our imagination, to suggest what is not there. All there is is paint. And a world at the same time. Hall’s paintings range widely in size and continue his exploration of darkly atmospheric landscapes, which he gives a deliberate contemporary twist. While walking on them leaving footprints seems a rather facile strategy, interesting, disrupting effects are achieved by the incorporation of old or antiqued newspaper and book pages and selective application of varnish. This material subversion coexists with a historicism that harks back to tonalist painters like George Inness. In some of Hall’s images the reduction of landscape to horizontal bands of ground, trees, and sky can become borderline formulaic. However, further reduction to the point of near obscurity yields what I consider some of his strongest and paradoxically richest work to date. Suggesting links to both James McNeill Whistler and Ad Reinhardt, “Nocturne–Fort Gorges 1” nearly obliterates its subject in encroaching blackness. The difference between matte and glossy defines the fort and its nocturnal reflection, making surface details as much image-generative as any application of color. At his best, Hall continues to produce powerful images that make us question what fundamentally it is we actually see in them. Ferry’s seven paintings and one drawing go into several directions. Most successful are three paintings inspired by a journal written by the artist’s brother at age eleven. Each square canvas is inscribed around its perimeter with an entry of what a child may find memorable, like painting a boat or a passing oil tanker. The center of each work is occupied by, for Ferry, surprisingly freely applied fields of color. Although their surfaces are rich with incident, alone these would have a hard time holding up. In combination with the

writing, however, the works intriguingly highlight the process from inspiration over time-bound execution to final work. At the same time, they trigger complex associations between language and art. An event, captured through language, gives rise to non-verbal imagination. In effect, writing acts as physical and conceptual frame, as a stage set for the painting to perform its drama. “Aug. 6 (Pier)” is governed by a correlation between atmosphere (“sunny” and then “foggy”), activity, form, and color. A diagonal swath of yellow and blue juts into the gray swallowing everything else. Only very little evidence of previous layers of color remains. Ferry skillfully relies on the strength of color and brushwork alone to convey light, a feeling, a suggestion of narrative and reality. I only wish that a couple of the works did not have explanatory titles, which discourages other interpretations and pushes the images toward illustration. Hall and Ferry excel at suggesting scenes and objects without actually depicting them. Both expertly explore the emotional and suggestive potential of color, shape, and material specifics of surfaces, process playing a major role in the latter. Both create works that stimulate thought and imagination through subtle but complex painterly means.^

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miCHael kimBall’S GHOSTS OF OCEAN HOUSE _BY megan gr u mB ling A creaky old oceanfront Victorian. Three adult siblings who don’t like each other, plus a couple of spouses. A codicil to their father’s will that requires them to spend an excruciating week together in the house. And, of course, various ghosts. These are the old-school ingredients of Ghosts of Ocean House, a genrestyle thriller (nominated for the 2007 Edgar Award of Mystery Writers of America) by local playwright Michael Kimball, and directed by G. Matthew Gaskell for the Players’ Ring, in Portsmouth. The siblings and their spouses are mismatched for maximum screwball, stuckin-a-house effect. Uptight exeCuTiNG a sCeNe ashley risteen in one of many born-again Martin (Don guises in Ghosts’ Darlene. Goettler) barks commands at his twiggy, blonde, ebulliently hyperactive new wife Darand her subtler awareness, as she swerves lene (Ashley Risteen), who reels around between chaste kittenishness, specterin high-heel slippers, cheerfully overinduced hysteria, and rage. sharing about her blue-violet aura and The story also involves a lot of family her felonies. Meanwhile, Patsy (Adrienne bickering, of arguing about the past and Montezinos) has a mystery cell-phone whose fault certain traumas were. As interlocutor and tensions with her huswith the fighting of any family not our band Oliver (Charlie Bradley), a laconic own, a little of this goes a long way—espemathematician. Finally, the ironicallycially when it serves as a delivery mechanamed Sunshine is a former psychologist nism for exposition—and Gaskell’s aggreshaunted by her own ghosts—as are all of sive direction compounds the racket by the gathered guests, who proceed to hash keeping much of the acrimony at yelling out the family’s past and the mysterious volume. Martin is so severe to everyone— shenanigans in the library. especially his wife, whom he treats like That library handsomely conveys a a 13-year-old—and Patsy is so frequently sense of old New England ghostliness on barking bitterly at either him or Oliver the main stage, with faded wooden furthat it’s a genuine relief, and sometimes niture and spines of books, gauze, and most genuinely revealing, when the chardusty rose drapes at the window. Interacters’ words instead grow quieter, step ludes here between scenes are evocative, back, or take a break entirely: Oliver’s pooled in moonlight-blue and the sounds wry remark, after a pause in the fighting, of gulls and quiet piano. Some action is “Sad, how families don’t talk anymore”; also staged on the house’s deck, played on Darlene’s wild but careful mania as she a side-stage area near the entrance, and ploughs a tray of coffee mugs through a this allows a clever spatial juxtaposition: pile of jigsaw puzzle pieces, trying not to when characters look out on the “ocean,” knock a single one off. ruminating on fears of the unknown, the This less-is-more principle is also true actors are actually looking at the library, of the show’s most genuinely spooky moat one of their clan collecting herself or ments: A suddenly out-of-character tone turning off lights. (There are some sighthissing in Darlene’s mouth. The sound of line problems, though: don’t sit too far to a phone’s ringing creepily queered. A lone house right in the center section, or you’ll actor on a dark stage with a feeble flashmiss seeing some of the action.) light, a sudden thud. Such moments in Story-wise, once one suspends disbelief Ocean House are object lessons in the timeabout the terms of the will (which are a lessness and pleasure of what gives us little convenient as a restricting device), the chills, and they may make you wish, Ocean House offers some fun moments for whenever the siblings carry on anew with mild shivers. Free-reeling Darlene, it will their warring, that there were a few more come as no surprise, is ripe for possesghosts to interrupt them. ^ sion, and the chameleon-like Risteen, though somewhat hyperbolically directed The GhosTs of ocean house | by Michael in her first scenes, shifts into other states Kimball; Directed by G. Matthew Gaskell; Proand voices with brio and nicely alarming duced by New YORK Theatre Company, at the contrast. Risteen, indeed, keeps things Players’ Ring, in Portsmouth, NH | Through interesting throughout with a croquet October 26 | 603.436.8123 mallet and the reflexes of a racecar driver, as she negotiates Darlene’s high ditziness Read more Megan Grumbling at megangrumbling.com k atHle e n C av alaro

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If Slainte did nothing more than allow Nick Poulin the time and space to get Tall Horse together, its legacy may be pretty well secure. Who knows what will eventually come of the band, but Glue, as a six-song introduction to the world, is a damn fine work filled with highly listenable, ’90s-style indie rock, with some slo-core and alt-country mixed in. Like Toronto’s collection of bands and musicians that make up Broken Social Scene, the core of people who flitted through Slainte over the years has created a sound you can hear in Dustin Bailey Saucier’s various incarnations (new album coming soon), in bands like Worried Well and Boxes and First in Maths, and now in the three-piece Tall Horse, which gets plenty of help from the likes of Saucier and Forget, Forget’s Tyler DeVos. Though with bassist Dom Grosso (Boxes, and any number of other projects) and drummer Devin Ivy (Lisa/Liza), Poulin has a plenty-tight core. Grosso is happy to take over the melody of a chorus and Ivy plays with a loose and elastic style that mimics Poulin’s fluctuating moods, working transitions especially well. Poulin, himself, is in the Doug Martsch (Built to Spill), Jeff Martin (Idaho) class, both somewhat downtempo and fully emotionally invested, holding in the upper register but never quite moving into a falsetto. And he’s miserly with his lyrics, mulling lines over in his mouth, repeating them into meaninglessness, then hammering home an idea with a quick aside. “Walk of Shame” is the epitome of his

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F You can gauge heaviness by how quickly it gets old. We think the childish downbeat stomp of early metallica is one of the most yawn-provoking things on the planet. the freeze-framed, soul-shuttering darkness of Sunn0))) can provoke chuckles in public settings, but can creep up on you whenever you’re alone. Queens of the Stone age used to feel kind of heavy, but whoops, they also kind of feel like the Foo Fighters. luckily John bonham’s sluggish kick drum in “Sick again” is still heaviness de rigueur—we could hear that in fifty years, eating grapes suspended in a hammock, and still probably fall over. and lucky for us, Zeppelin-style heaviness is also a model that seems to inspire ARCANE LORE, the two-piece heavy blues unit comprised of frontwoman Katie Gilchrest and drummer brandye

direct approach, neither judging nor particularly surprised: “Drinkin’ till you’re fucking what’s his name / Walking home that morning dressed the same.” Similarly, the open here is the best of what is a consistently great acoustic guitar sound, captured by engineer Jayson Whitmore (his brothers are the guys in Caro Khan) at his Penumbra Recordings. Then Ivy counts in on his sticks and the Patia Maule violin and swirling Saucier electric guitar are just the right kind of post-drunk remorse, miserable and a little bit clumsy, but damn if that wasn’t a good time. Tack on Maule’s backing vocals and extra contribution of tasteful piano near the finish, plus a meandering guitar solo and Grosso’s tossed off bass lick to close the piece out, and you’ve got one hell of a song, a piercing and bold and straightforwardly honest piece of sincerity. As with Wes Harding’s work, it’s that cracked-chest, open-veined sentiment you really respond to here. When Poulin broods in “Sour” that “you think I taste sour, but no one’s as sour as you,” it is less bitter than matter-of-fact, and when he notes in “Old Gun Shot” that, “I want to take you out with one old gun shot to the brain / Because I love you,” it really does seem affectionate, with the “because” clipped and cut short like he doesn’t want to admit it. That latter song is taken Uncle Tupelo by McKay Belk’s steel guitar, a cry that doesn’t become cloying thanks to a bigroom sound. The backing vocals, too,

sound more than a few steps away, like the band are aping the song’s central characters, keeping each other at a distance. With so much contemporary production focusing on immediacy and loudness, this record stands out for its openness and space. It’s plenty warm, and the various instruments are present and fully realized (except maybe for Grosso’s bass from time to time—it could be higher in the mix), but you never feel claustrophobic in the headphones. That helps the relatively rare big choruses here standout, as in “Insane,” where the jangledy pop comes through in bouncing guitar notes and extra backing vocals the second time around, where “know” has three syllables and Poulin’s voice tends to crack with rawness: “We’re all insane, you know.” It’s not hardly a question, and the way he delivers “insane” is with all the emphasis on the “in” so it almost seems more inclusive than accusatory. The whole thing is remarkably accessible, even when it gets loud in “Lights Out,” and even with slightly sketchy overtures. Whether imploring the listener to “beat the shit out of me” or insisting “I don’t know how to feel,” right before asking that you “die for me,” Poulin is often

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devine, to make Goldfish, a fabulous new fulllength album we didn’t even see coming. recorded by Jonathan Wyman at halo Studios, the thing smokes, waaaay punchier and more psychedelic than their 2012 effort Change of Mind. huge riffs, soaringly confident vocals, and wonderfully suspended arrangements, flickering with bursts of detailed noise that keep us locked in the whole way through. Visit arcaneloremusic.bandcamp.com to hear what might make its way onto many locals’ year-end list of heavyweights. F does anybody have an idea where you can dance in this town? Besides the clubs, we mean... F no matter where you are now, we have no doubt you started out like APATHETIC EUPHEMISM. the topsham-based two-piece

plays way-fucked bedroom folk siphoned through all kinds of filters and obscurities. You can barely understand it—and yet! it’s so listenable, even if the experience of the listen mostly sends us back to the sweet dumbness of our youth. that’s right, this is two young-sounding dudes recording straight to tape. they released a literal slew of them this summer, all sounds ranging from halfwinking twee ballads to total noise shutdowns balancing on a fulcrum of pop melody. Of course there’s Guided by Voices-worship going on; that doesn’t mean you’re going to like it. Wouldn’t be surprised to hear a real-song version of “Greene afternoon” performed somewhere in portland in a couple years. Visit apatheticeuphemism. bandcamp.com. ^

working some dark angle, but he never lays the nostalgia on too thick or gets overly maudlin. Nor does he waste your time. These are songs that deserve to go past four minutes and continue to feel fresh even when the words are washing over you for what seems like the twentieth time. Really, the biggest flaw might be that there’s not enough here. Over already? I was just getting into it. Perhaps there’s more material hot on its heels. ^

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Portsmouth | Julia Weldon | 9 pm PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Mark

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FRIDAY 17

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT |

THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE/ PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Fighting Friday | 9 pm

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WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | Hott Commodity | 9 pm

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FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | Tim

Theriault | 9 pm

SONNY’S TAVERN | Dover | Soggy Po’

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WEDNESDAY 22

BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth | open mic

DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | Red

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Theriault | 6:30 pm

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Hampton Beach | Mel & John Grasso | 8 pm

PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Dan Bern | 9 pm | $10

THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Ste-

Dover | open Irish session with Carol

DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

THURSDAY 23

DOLPHIN STRIKER | Portsmouth |

SUNDAY 19

BRITISH BEER COMPANY | Portsmouth | Studio Two [Beatles tribute] | 1 pm

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT | Coronis | 5 pm

mouth | karaoke

Don Severance | 7 pm

DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | karaoke with DJ Erich Kruger | 9 pm

PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Chris

MONDAY 20

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with DJ Kastro

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STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Irish session with Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki | 6 pm

THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Tigerman

WOAH + Cask Mouse | 9 pm

COMEDY THURSDAY 16

”STAND-UP COMEDY NIGHT,” HOSTED BY SAM BENNETT | 8 pm | Players’

Ring, 105 Marcy St, Portsmouth, NH | $12, $10 seniors/students | 603.436.8123 or www.playersring.org

FRIDAY 17

IRA PROCTOR | Gold Room, 510 Warren Ave, Portland | 207.221.2343

POPULAR THURSDAY 16

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD + DIARRHEA PLANET + MURCIELAGO | 9 pm | Port City Music

Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $13 | 207.956.6000 or portcitymusichall. com ARLO GUTHRIE | 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $75 | 207.935.7292 BOZ SCAGGS | 7 pm | University of Maine - Orono, Collins Center for the Arts, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono | $48-78 | 207.581.1755 KHUMARIYAAN | 7:30 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Hannaford Hall, 88 Bedford St, Portland | $30 | 207.780.4270

SOUND TRIBE SECTOR 9 + J.U.S.T.I.C.E. LEAGUE | 8 pm | State

SUNDAY 19

MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO | 7 pm |

Bates College, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St, Lewiston | 207.786.6135

THURSDAY 23

BRETT DENNEN | 8 pm | Stone

Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $40 | 207.935.7292 NATALIE MERCHANT | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $35-65 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland.com SAM ROBERTS BAND | 9 pm | Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $15-18 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall.com

DANCE

SATURDAY 18

Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $27.50-30 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland.com

PARTICIPATORY

St, Augusta | $8 | 207.242.2711

FRIDAY 17

House Concerts, Westbrook | $10; call for directions | 207.329.7812 or millbrookconcerts.blogspot.com

6:30 pm | People Plus/Brunswick, 35 Union St, Brunswick | $8, $5 seniors/students | 207.700.7577

”NEW ENGLAND ALL-STARS COMEDY NIGHT” | Charlamagne’s, 228 Water

AMY KUCHARIK | 8 pm | Mill Brook

SUNDAY 19

OPEN MIC | 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar,

189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

WEDNESDAY 22

”COMEDY NIGHT,” WITH JAY GROVE | 9 pm | Cara Irish Pub & Restaurant, 11 Fourth St, Dover, NH | 603.343.4390

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

Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | 207.773.7210

THURSDAY 23

”THE NUCLEAR SHOW” WITH TRAVIS CURRAN | Travis Curran | 9:30 pm

| Empire, 575 Congress St, Portland | $6 | 207.879.8988

TIM MCINTIRE + PAUL LANDWEHR + PHOEBE ANGLE + JAKE JACOBSEN |

8 pm | Spire 29, 29 School St, Gorham | $10 | 207.222.2068

COLBY NATHAN + TOM K + VIDEO NASTIES | 5 pm | The Oak and The

Ax, 140 Main St, Ste 107-Back Alley, Biddeford | $8 | theoakandtheax. blogspot.com

”COUNTRY NIGHT” WITH DJ TED RAZZ | 7:30 pm | Rockingham Ball-

room, 22 Ash Swamp Rd, Newmarket, NH | $10 | 603.659.4410 DEADNIGHT | 9 pm | Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St, Denmark | 207.452.2412 or denmarkarts.org DENNIS BRENNAN BAND | 8 pm | The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | $12-15 | 207.439.0114 ”DJ IN THE PARK” | 6 pm | Congress Square Park, Corner of Congress and High Sts, Portland

HEATHER MASSE & JED WILSON + MIKE & RUTHY | 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $25 | 207.935.7292

CONCERTS

MICHAEL TROY [ELTON JOHN TRIBUTE] | 8 pm | Seacoast Repertory

CLASSICAL FRIDAY 17

DAPONTE STRING QUARTET | 7:30

pm | Lincoln Theater, 2 Theater St, Damariscotta | $0-$20 | 207.563.3424

SUNDAY 19

GALLERY VOICES | 7 pm | University

of New Hampshire Celebrity Series, Paul Creative Arts Center, 30 Academic Way, Durham, NH | $10-$30 | 603.862.2290 or unh.edu/pcac

TUESDAY 21

UNH CONCERT BAND + UNH SYMPHONIC BAND | 8 pm | University

of New Hampshire, Johnson Theatre, 30 College Rd, Durham, NH | 603.862.2404 or unh.edu/theatredance/productions.html

Theatre, 125 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH | $27 | 603.433.4472 or seacoastrep.org RHYTHM FUTURE QUARTET | 7:30 pm | Saco River Theatre, 29 Salmon Falls Rd, Bar Mills | $25 | 207.929.6472

WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS + TWILIGHT SAD | 9 pm | Port City

Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $15-$18 | 800.745.3000 or portcitymusichall.com

SATURDAY 18

ARLO GUTHRIE | 7:30 pm | Opera

House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | sold out | 207.633.6855

CUDDLE MAGIC + ELEPHANT EAR

THURSDAY 23

| Westbrook Performing Arts Center, 471 Stroudwater St, Westbrook | $10-$36 | 207.857.3860

Portland Club, 156 State St, Portland | 207.775.2411

PAUL DRESHER ENSEMBLE | 7:30 pm

”THE GHOULWILL BALL,” WITH MOTOR BOOTY AFFAIR | 7 pm | The

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SATURDAY 18

BALLROOM DANCING WITH TRILOGY | 7:30 pm | Rockingham Ball-

room, 22 Ash Swamp Rd, Newmarket, NH | $14 | 603.659.4410

PERFORMANCE

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FRIDAY 17

JACK THE RIPPER |

Fri-Sat 8 pm | Portland Ballet Company, 517 Forest Ave, Portland | $22-25 | 207.772.9671 | www.portlandballet.org

SATURDAY 18

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”HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR” | 4 pm | Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St, Portland | 207.780.0118 or | maineirish.com

”THE GHOULWILL BALL,” WITH MOTOR BOOTY AFFAIR | 7 pm | The

Portland Club, 156 State St, Portland | 207.775.2411

OUTDOORS THURSDAY 16

BIRD WALK | 7 am | Maine Audu-

bon Society, 20 Gilsland Farm Rd, Falmouth | $5-$8 | 207.781.2330

THURSDAY 23

BIRD WALK | See listing for Thurs Continued on p 28

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OCT 17:

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with live score by Les Sorciers Perdus 7pm

OCT 24:

SAINTS & SOULS BALL w/Phantom Buffalo & The Last Sip

OCT 25:

Lunch & Dinner, 7 days a week 1140 Brighton Ave, Portland • 207-874-0000 • konasianbistrome.com

Tophat Toy Theater: Little Shop of Horrors TICkeTS AND INfO: www.mAyOSTreeTArTS.Org

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FAIRS & FESTIVALS FRIDAY 17

NEW ENGLAND FALL ASTRONOMY FESTIVAL | talks from field experts,

hands-on activities, model rocket launches, interactive skits for kids, solar and nighttime observing and more | University of New Hampshire - Observatory, Spinney Ln, Durham, NH

SATURDAY 18

Hoptoberfest! Sat. the 18th, 12-4pm, 14 Maine brewed beers using Maine grown wet hops. Tickets required, details on our website. - Monday Night Movie Night. Starting Monday the 20th, every week a different flick at 9:30 pm on the huge-mega-jumbosuper-tron. Food, beer, & cocktail specials.

BARON WORMSER | reads from his

EAST BAYSIDE BLOCK PARTY | with

ALL $7.25! ALL of October! ALL come with Crab Rangoons! Open M-Th 11:30AM-10PM | Fri-Sat 11:30AM-11PM | Sun 12PM-10PM 511 Congress St. Portland, ME 04101 207-747-5322

NEW ENGLAND FALL ASTRONOMY FESTIVAL | See listing for Fri YORK BEACH HARVESTFEST & KIDSFEST | York, Rte 1A, York |

207.363.4422 | www.gatewaytomaine. org

FRIDAY 17

WES MCNAIR | reads his poetry volume The Lost Child | 6:30 pm | Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq, Portland | 207.871.1700

SUNDAY 19

NATHANIAL W. COOK + E. C. HANLON | discuss Falling into Fate &

Unreedemed: Hateful and Others | 5 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore.com

”RHYTHMIC CYPHER,” POETRY SLAM & OPEN MIC | 7 pm | b.good, 15

Exchange St, Portland | 207.619.4206

MONDAY 20

SPOKEN WORD & POETRY OPEN MIC | 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar, 189

Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

TIFFANY REISZ + ANDREW SHAFFER | read from their books The Saint

& How to Survive a Sharknado | 7 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore.com

TUESDAY 21

THURSDAY 23

ties & activities | downtown Ogunquit, Ogunquit

ite St, Newmarket, NH | 603.659.6321

SUNDAY 19

MIND BODY SPIRIT FESTIVAL | with workshops, readings, vendors, & more | 10 am-4 pm | Hilton Garden Inn, 5 Park St, Freeport | mindbodyspiritfestival.org

OGUNQUITFEST | town-wide festivi-

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

WEDNESDAY 22

FOOD THURSDAY 16

”THE MAKERS MEAL” | with lo-

cal food by Bread & Butter Catering Company, beer by local breweries, and works by Running with Scissors studio artists | 5 pm | Running With Scissors, 250 Anderson St, Portland | $75 | 207.831.5682

SATURDAY 18

SUNDAY 19

SOUTH PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET | 10 am | South Portland City Hall,

Back Parking Lot, 41 Thomas St, South Portland | 207.799.7743

TUESDAY 21

”LOCAL FOODS BREAKFAST,” NETWORKING BRUNCH | 8:30 am | Local

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

WEDNESDAY 22

PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET | 7

am | Monument Square, Congress St, Portland | 207.774.9979

POETRY & PROSE THURSDAY 16

BILL ROORBACH | reads from his

book The Remedy for Love | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks.com

TALKS THURSDAY 16

”BUILDING MULTI-RACIAL MOVEMENTS” | 6 pm | Southern Maine

Workers’ Center, 68 Washington Ave, Portland | 207.200.7692

”SCHOOLS IN TRANS*ITION: SUPPORTING TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE STUDENTS IN K-12 EDUCATION” | with Pete Dawson + Gia Drew

+ Wayne Maines + Zack Paakkonen + AJ Yarn | 5:30 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Glickman Library, 7th Floor, 314 Forest Ave, Portland | 207.780.4269

”SIDORE LECTURE: INSIDE ANONYMOUS” | with Gabriella Coleman | 4 pm | University of New Hampshire, Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH | 603.862.2600 or unhmub.com

FRIDAY 17

”CAN WE TALK? A PRESENTATION ON BREAST CANCER HEALTH AND WELLNESS” | noon | University of

New England - Biddeford, Decary Dining Hall, 11 Hills Beach Rd, Biddeford | 207.602.2461

MONDAY 20

”IMMIGRATION IN MAINE: PAST AND FUTURE” | with James Tierney

| 7:30 pm | Bates College, Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave, Lewiston | 207.753.6933

”IS WAR BETWEEN THE GREAT POWERS STILL POSSIBLE?” | with

Christopher Coker | 7:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.775.3321

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”’WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?’: IN HOMER’S ILIAD AND FOUR RECEPTIONS” | 4:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

TUESDAY 21

”A WALL IN JERUSALEM: HOPE, HEALING, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE” | with Dr. Mark Braver-

man | 7 pm | First Parish Church of Portland, 425 Congress St, Portland | 207.761.5616 or firstparishportland. org

”TYRANNICAL TEACHERS AND STUDENT-CITIZENS” | with Brett

Rogers | 4:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

WEDNESDAY 22

”BIRDING IN A DIGITAL AGE: PART TWO” | with Doug Hitchcox

| 7 pm | Maine Audubon Society, 20 Gilsland Farm Rd, Falmouth | $10$15 | 207.781.2330 or maineaudubon.org

”PIETER COECKE VAN AELST AND THE ART OF DESIGNING TAPESTRIES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE” | with Elizabeth Cleland

| 4:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.775.3321

”SIN CITY: LAS VEGAS & THE CULTURE OF SURVEILLANCE” | with Jane Kuenz | 4:30 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Glickman Library, Room 423, 314 Forest Ave, Portland | 207.780.4117

THURSDAY 23

”EXPLORING WITH DROSOPHILA: LESSONS LEARNED ON A JOURNEY THROUGH THE FLY GENOME” | with Sarah Elgin | 12:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.775.3321

”SEEING RED: SOVIET WOMEN IN GRAPHIC FORM” | with Helena

Goscilo | 7 pm | Bowdoin College, Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

THEATER ACORN PRODUCTIONS |

207.650.3051 | Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Sq, Portland | Oct 16-

Studio Theatre, 959 Islington St, Portsmouth, NH | Oct 17-18: A Num-

ARTS IN MOTION THEATER COMPANY | 603.356.0110 | 2780 White

Mountain Highway, North Conway, NH | Oct 16-19: Who’s Afraid of Vir-

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM & THEATRE OF MAINE | 207.828.1234 | kitetails. com | 142 Free St, Portland | Oct 17-

Strider Theater, Runnals Building, 4520 Mayflower Hill, Waterville |

Oct 18: “Colby on Stage,” theater & dance performances | 7:30 pm

COMMUNITY LITTLE THEATRE |

207.783.0958 | laclt.com | Great Falls Auditorium, Great Falls School, 30 Academy St, Auburn | Oct 16-19:

GARRISON PLAYERS ARTS CENTER

| 603.516.4919 | 650 Portland Ave, Rollinsford, NH | Oct 18-26: Legally Blonde |

PENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY

SEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE

| 603.433.4472 | seacoastrep.org | 125 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH | Oct 16:

S.T.U.R.S.: “Seeking the Unknown Realm Society,” storytelling | 6 pm | Oct 16-26: The Crucible | Thurs 7:30 pm; Fri 8 pm | $22-30

SEVEN STAGES SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | 7stagesshakes.wordpress.

com | Press Room, 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH | Oct 20: “ShakesBEERience: Macbeth” | 6:30 pm

SLIGHTLY OFF-CENTER PLAYERS | 207.564.8943 | Center Theatre, 20 E Main St, Dover Foxcroft | Oct 17-19: “A

ART GALLERIES AARHUS GALLERY | 207.338.0001 |

50 Main St, Belfast | aarhusgallery.com

| Tues-Sun 11 am-5:30 pm | Through Nov 2: “Life-form Studies,” photography by Michael Alpert + sculpture by Jemma Gascoine

ADELLE’S COFFEEHOUSE |

CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART | 207.236.2875 | 162

GEORGE MARSHALL STORE GALLERY | 207.351.1083 | 140 Lindsay Rd,

York | georgemarshallstoregallery.org

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MAINE CHARITABLE MECHANIC ASSOCIATION | 207.773.8396 | 519

Congress St, Portland | mainecharitablemechanicassociation.com | Tues-

Thurs 10 am-3 pm | Through Oct 31: “The Art of Teaching Printmaking,” prints by Janie Young MAINE POTTERS MARKET | 207.774.1633 | 376 Fore St, Portland | mainepottersmarket.com | Sun-Wed 10 am-6 pm; Thurs-Sat 10 am-9 pm | Through Oct 31: “Pottery for Oktoberfest,” stone works by Jacqueline Hickey MONKITREE GALLERY | 207.512.4679 | 263 Water St, Gardiner | 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 | nahcotta. com | Mon-Wed 10 am-6 pm; ThursSat 10 am-8 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm | Through Oct 31: mixed media group exhibition PHOPA GALLERY | 207.317.6721 | 132 Washington Ave, Portland | Wed-Sat noon-5 pm | Through Oct 26: “Proving Ground,” photography by Michael Kolster PINECONE+CHICKADEE | 207.772.9280 | 6 Free St, Portland | Mon-Sat 10 am-6 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm | Through Oct 31: “The Super Awesome Record Cover Art Show,” reimagined album covers by Kimberly Convery + Kris Johnsen + Ryan LaMunyon + Liz Long + Molly Steinmetz + Steven R. Zittel PORTLAND ART GALLERY | 207.956.7105 | 154 Middle St, Portland | Through Oct 31: mixed media group exhibition PORTLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY | 207.871.1700 | 5 Monument Sq, Portland | Through Dec 15: “The Faces That Launched a Thousand Ships,” maritime exhibit | Through Dec 26: “The Pulps!”, vintage pulp fiction cover art RICHARD BOYD ART GALLERY | 207.712.1097 | 15 Epps St, Peaks Island | richardboydartgallery.com | 10 am-5 pm | Through Oct 31: “Scenes from Maine,” mixed media group exhibition RIVER ARTS | 207.563.1507 | 241 Rte 1, Damariscotta | Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through Nov 6: “Figures & Faces,” mixed media group exhibition ROBINSON MILL | 10 Mill Street, Parsonsfield | Through Oct 24: “MATTER,” installation & audience-perpetuated works by Amy Stacey Curtis

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pm; by appointment | Through Oct 24: “Turning in Your Hand: The Blue Marble Project,” mixed media group exhibition YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | 207.363.2818 | 15 Long Sands Rd, York | Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat 10 am-1 pm; Mon-Tues + Thurs 10 am-6 pm; Wed noon-8 pm | Through Oct 30: “Jacket Project,” by Lauren Gillette

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

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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” | Through Dec 31: “Hendrick Goltzius: Mythology & Truth,” paintings, drawings, & engravings | Through Jan 4, 2015: Alison de Vere: “Psyche and Eros,” animated film | Through March 8, 2015: “Weaving the Myth of Psyche: Baroque Tapestries from the Wadsworth Atheneum” | Ongoing: “American Artists at Work, 18401950” + “Contemporary Masters, 1950 to the Present” + “Lovers & Saints: Art of the Italian Renaissance” COLBY COLLEGE | 207.859.5600 |

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

Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Free admission | Through Jan 4, 2015: “Bernard Langlais,” paintings | Through June 7, 2015: “Alex Katz: Selections,” mixed media | Through July 15, 2015: “Highlights from the Permanent Collection,” mixed media | Ongoing: “Process & Place: Exploring the Design Evolution of the AlfondLunder Family Pavilion” + “Alex Katz Collection”

DYER LIBRARY/SACO MUSEUM

Wed 10 am-8 pm; Thurs-Sun 10 am-5 pm | 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, 2015: “The Shakers: From Mount Lebanon to the World,” mixed media FRYEBURG ACADEMY | 207.935.9232 | Eastman Performing Arts Center, 745 Main St, Fryeburg | fryeburgacademy.org | Mon-Fri 9 am-1 pm; by appointment | Through Oct 31: “The Kienbusch Legacy: A Family of Artists” group exhibition | Oct 17: “Mesoamerica Resiste,” large-scale illustration by the Beehive Collective | 7 pm

GREAT BAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE

| 603.427 | Gateway Gallery, 320 Corporate Dr, Portsmouth, NH | call for hours

| Through Nov 15: “Elizabeth Patterson: Life & Color,” colored pencil drawings 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 March 31, 2016: “We Are What We Hide,” long-running exhibit in- & outside gallery walls MAINE COLLEGE OF ART | 207.775.3052 | Porteous Building, 522 Congress St, Portland | meca.edu | Mon-Fri 8 am-8 pm; Sat-Sun 12 pm-5 pm | Through Oct 25: “Reap & Sow: The Work of Maine Art Educators,” mixed media MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM | 207.329.9854 | 267 Congress St, Portland | treeoflifemuseum.org | MonFri 10 am-2 pm | Through Oct 31: “Genesis:Exodus” works by George Wardlaw MUSEUM L-A | 207.333.3881 | Bates Mill Complex 1, 35 Canal St, Lewiston | museumla.org | Mon-Sat 10 am-4 pm | Admission $5, students and seniors $4 | Oct 16: “Rock Around the Clock: L/A’s Music Making Machine, 1950s to 1970s” | reception 1-4 pm | Ongoing: “Portraits & Voices: Shoemaking Skills of Generations” 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: “Treasures of British Art, 1400-2000: The Berger Collection” | Through Feb 8: “Aaron T. Stephan: To Borrow, Cut, Copy, & Steal,” sculptural installation UNITY COLLEGE | 207.948.7469 | Leonard R. Craig Gallery, 42 Depot St, Unity | call for hours | Through Oct 31: “Form Singularity: Paintings & Sculpture,” by Richard Keen | reception Oct 16 5-7 pm

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - FARMINGTON | 207.778.7072 | Art Gallery,

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 | Through Nov 18: “About Then/About Now,” mixed media anniversary exhibition

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 ad-

mission | Through Jan 31: “Out of Nowhere: Paintings by John Gallagher, 1996-2014” + “Staring at the Sun with a Penny in my Pocket,” paintings by Matt Phillips + “Tales from the Turnpike,” oil-on-panel paintings by Suzanne Laura Kammin + “The Little Fools,” photography & installation by Roz Leibowitz | 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 Oct 31: “Annual Sculpture Garden Invitational” | Through Nov 30: “(Re) Building Memory: A Trajectory of the Black Atlantic” mixed media by Paula Gerstenblatt | Through Jan 11, 2015: “Coyote Connections: A Group Exhibition,” mixed media | Ongoing: paintings & photography by Maine artists + labyrinth installation

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 + 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; SatSun 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 | 207.780.4850 | Osher Map

Library, Glickman Family Library, 314 Forest Ave, Portland | usm.maine.edu/maps

| Tues-Thurs 1-4 pm; Sat 10:30 am-2:30 pm | Free admission | Through Feb 26: “The Art of the Hand-Drawn Map,” manuscript maps | 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 Wash-

ington 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

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Through Oct 31: “Powerful Pollinators!”, student art exhibit 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” PORTSMOUTH ATHENAEUM | 603.431.2538 | 9 Market Sq, Portsmouth, NH | Tues, Thurs, & Sat 1-4 pm | Through Nov 26: “Norma Bernstein Smith: Talented Artist, Adventuresome Spirit,” paintings

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| 207.223.9929 | 145 S Main St, Winterport 51 WHARF | 207.774.1151 | 51 Wharf St, Portland ACOUSTIC ARTISANS | 207.671.6029 | 594 Congress St, Portland ALISSON’S RESTAURANT | 207.967.4841 | 5 Dock Sq, Kennebunkport AMERICAN LEGION POST 56 | 207.363.0376 | 9 Hannaford Dr, York ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | 207.874.2639 | 94 Commercial St, Portland ANNIE’S IRISH PUB | 207.251.4335 | 369 Main St, Ogunquit ARMORY LOUNGE | 207.774.4200 | Portland Regency Hotel, 20 Milk St, Portland ASYLUM | 207.772.8274 | 121 Center St, Portland BASSLINES | 207.699.4263 | Binga’s Stadium, 23 Brown St, Portland BAYSIDE BOWL | 207.791.2695 | 58 Alder St, Portland BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | 207.564.8733 | 73 North St, Dover Foxcroft BEBE’S BURRITOS | 207.283.4222 | 140 Main St, Biddeford BENTLEY’S SALOON | 207.985.8966 | 1601 Portland Rd, Rte 1, Kennebunkport BIG EASY | 207.894.0633 | 55 Market St, Portland BLACK BEAR CAFE | 207.693.4770 | 215 Roosevelt Trail, Naples BLUE | 207.774.4111 | 650A Congress St, Portland BLUE MERMAID | 603.427.2583 | 409 The Hill, Portsmouth, NH BLUE MOON LOUNGE | 207.858.5849 | 24 Court St, Skowhegan BRAY’S BREWPUB | 207.693.6806 | Rte 302 and Rte 35, Naples BRIAN BORU | 207.780.1506 | 57 Center St, Portland BRIDGE STREET TAVERN | 207.623.8561 | 18 Bridge St, Augusta BRITISH BEER COMPANY | 603.501.0515 | 2 Portwalk Place, Portsmouth, NH

THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE GRILLE | 207.934.2171 | 39 West

Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach BUBBA’S SULKY LOUNGE | 207.828.0549 | 92 Portland St, Portland

BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/PORTLAND | | 50 Wharf St, Portland BUCKS NAKED BBQ/WINDHAM

| 207.893.0600 | 4 Turning Leaf Dr, Windham BULL FEENEY’S | 207.773.7210 | 375 Fore St, Portland BUNKER BREWING CO | | 122 Anderson St, Portland BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | 207.443.6776 | 98 Center St, Bath

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK | 207.729.9400 | 16 Station

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CAMPFIRE GRILLE | 207.803.2255 | 656 North High St, Bridgton CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN | 207.336.2126 | 371 Turner St, Buckfield CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT | 603.343.4390 | 11 Fourth St, 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 CLUB TEXAS | 207.784.7785 | 150 Center St, Auburn

COLE FARMS | 207.657.4714 | 64 Lewiston Rd, Gray DANIEL STREET TAVERN | 603.430.1011 | 111 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH THE DEPOT PUB | 207.588.0081 | 14 Maine St, Gardiner 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 EASY STREET LOUNGE | 207.622.3360 | 7 Front St, Hallowell

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| 207.710.2011 | 265 Main St, Biddeford 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

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

FIRE HOUSE GRILLE | 207.376.4959

| 47 Broad St, Auburn FLASK LOUNGE | 207.772.3122 | 117 Spring St, Portland 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

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

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

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| 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 HAWG’S PEN | 603.755.3301 | 1114 Rte 11, Farmington, NH

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

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

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

LITCHFIELD’S BAR AND GRILL |

207.646.5711 | 2135 Post Road, Litchfield 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

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| 603.742.7012 | 58 New Rochester Rd, Dover, NH LOMPOC CAFE | 207.288.9392 | 36 Rodick St, Bar Harbor M ROOM AT MILLENNIUM | 207.368.2352 | 416 Oxbow Rd, Palmyra 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

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| 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 MIXERS | 207.375.4188 | 136 Sabattus Rd, Sabattus MJ’S WINE BAR | 207.653.6278 | 1 City Center, Portland MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | 207.443.6563 | Rte 1, Woolwich MOOSE ALLEY | 207.864.9955 | 2809 Main St, Rangeley MR. GOODBAR | 207.934.9100 | 8B West Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach MYRTLE STREET TAVERN | 207.596.6250 | 12 Myrtle St, Rockland NARAL’S EXPERIENCE ARABIA | 207.344.3201 | 34 Court St, Auburn NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | 207.907.4380 | 56 Main St, Bangor NONANTUM RESORT | 207.967.4050 | 95 Ocean Ave, Kennebunkport

NORTH BEACH BAR AND GRILL

| 603.967.4884 | 931 Ocean Blvd, Hampton Beach, NH 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 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 BOOK AND BAR | 617.908.8277 | 40 Pleasant St, Portsmouth, NH PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | 603.430.8582 | 64 Market St, Portsmouth, NH PRESS ROOM | 603.431.5186 | 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH PROFENNO’S | 207.856.0011 | 934 Main St, Westbrook

PUBLICK HOUSE AND PROHIBITION MUSIC ROOM | 603.948.1082 | 45 N Main St, Rochester, NH | 367 Fore St, Portland

PURPLE CATERPILLAR |

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 RED & SHORTY’S | 603.776.3305 | 4 Paul St, Dover, NH 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 SEA40 | 207.795.6888 | 40 East Ave, Lewiston SEASONS GRILLE | 207.775.6538 | 155 Riverside St, Portland SHOOTERS SPORTS PUB | 207.345.7040 | 128 Lewiston St, Mechanic Falls SILVER HOUSE TAVERN | 207.772.9885 | 123 Commercial St, Portland SILVER SPUR | 207.345.3211 | 272 Lewiston St, Mechanic Falls SILVER STREET TAVERN | 207.680.2163 | 2 Silver St, Waterville SKYBOX BAR AND GRILL | 207.854.9012 | 212 Brown St, Westbrook SLATES RESTAURANT AND BAKERY | 207.622.4104 | 169 Water St, Hallowell

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 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 TANNERY PUB | 207.583.9077 | 56 Main St, Harrison TANTRUM | 207.404.4300 | 193 Broad St, Bangor

THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE/ PORTSMOUTH | 603.427.8645 | 21

Congress St, Portsmouth, NH THE THIRSTY PIG | 207.773.2469 | 37 Exchange St, Portland TIME OUT PUB | 207.593.9336 | 275 Main St, Rockland TORCHES GRILL HOUSE | 207.467.3288 | 102 York St, Kennebunk TRAIN’S TAVERN | 207.457.6032 | 249 Carl Broggi Hwy, Lebanon TUCKER’S PUB | 207.739.2200 | 290 Main St, Norway WALLY’S PUB | 603.926.6954 | 144 Ashworth Ave, Hampton, NH WILLY’S ALE ROOM | 207.636.3369 | Rte 109, Acton YORK HARBOR INN | 207.363.5119 | 480 York St, York Harbor ZACKERY’S | 207.774.5601 | Fireside Inn & Suites, 81 Riverside St, Portland

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Food a call for coq au vin immigrant kitchens _by lind say ster ling Last spring I met a French woman in my spin class at the YMCA who taught me how to make authentic coq au vin. Ever since then, I’d been on the lookout for the requisite coq (that means “rooster” in French) for the full experience. A promising lead: one of my neighbors acquired 12 baby chicks and five turned out to be roosters. By fall, their crowing at 4 am was generating serious complaints in the neighborhood. The owner asked me if I thought a neighborhood dinner featuring the noisy chicken would make everyone feel better. I jumped in: “Yes, I do. Would you like me to make authentic coq au vin out of them?” Ursula carried the roosters from the coup to her clothesline, where her friend Ron tied their feet to the line. Upside down, the birds really did fall instantaneously and conveniently asleep. Miraculously, they stayed asleep while Ron pulled the heads down and sliced through their supple throats. Red blood dripped into a bucket below. Wings flapped frantically. The pet birds, sadly, were dead. Ron dunked them in hot water, pulled off all the beautiful feathers, cut off the heads and feet, and eviscerated them. I was relieved to see the familiar sight of whole, pale-skinned chickens, ready to be cooked. I could take it from there. Nathalie Petersen from Paris, France, had shown me how to cook coq au vin in her home in Cape Elizabeth. In a cast iron pot she seared bone-in chicken pieces in oil, and then added chopped yellow onion, a couple tablespoons of flour, two cloves of garlic, a bouquet of fresh thyme and sage, and a bottle of red wine. While the chicken and wine were cooking, in a separate pot she cooked pearl onions and mushrooms with a pound of chopped bacon. Once the onions, bacon, and mushrooms were juicy and soft and the chicken was cooked, she combined the chicken and all the vegetables and juices into one pot.

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As I reread my notes from Natalie’s house, to my horror I realized that she hadn’t drained off any of the bacon fat. The whole evening would backfire if my neighbors found out how much bacon fat I put in their dinner. What are you trying to do, kill us? We’re kale smoothie drinkers for crying out loud… Bacon is so uncool. I can’t believe you’d try to get us to eat that...You couldn’t just make a quinoa salad, could you. I tried to make the sauce with less bacon fat, but it was not good at all. I went ahead and served the authentic version, which tasted divine, and made a vague joke about the meal not being exactly fat free, so if someone sued me—she didn’t tell me there was bacon fat in there!—my ass was covered. The evening was a wild success. Everybody loved the coq au vin, and each other. And no one died. Except, of course, the roosters, and somewhere, a pig. I do wonder why our theories about animal fat are totally inconsistent with low rates of heart disease in France. I hope the author of The Big Fat Surprise is right, and Americans come around to thinking that animal fat ain’t so bad. And the next time I make coq au vin, I won’t have to sneak around with the bacon. ^ For the recipe and to contact Lindsay Sterling, visit immigrantkitchens.com.

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the flaws in “Dark Alliance” but also exposes the pettiness of Webb’s national competitors (especially at the Los Angeles Times), who preferred to poke holes in his reporting rather than to follow up on his charges. Director Michael Cuesta, a veteran of HBO’s Homeland, imparts enough paranoid-thriller ambience to propel the complex story; with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rosemarie DeWitt, Barry Pepper, Michael Sheen, and Jeremy Renner in a strong performance as the hounded journalist.

_J.R. Jones

XXX men, women & childRen 119 minUtes | nickelOdeOn + railrOad sqUare cinema Jason Reitman’s latest Oscar bait reaches for the zeitgeist like no Hollywood movie since American Beauty (1999), and you have to give him credit for thinking big even though he drives the theme into your skull with a ball-peen hammer. In a white, middle-class Anytown, USA, high school students and their unhappy parents live their lives almost completely online, the disconnection and dishonesty of text messaging and Facebook posts corrupting their most precious relationships. Adapted from a novel by Chad Kultgen, this is one of those rare movies that gets better instead of worse as it progresses from comedy to drama; once Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air) has finished zinging his characters for their self-absorption, their chronic loneliness and insecurity prove rich material for the able cast (especially Rosemarie DeWitt, Judy Greer, and Dean Norris). Emma Thompson supplies the stilted omniscient voice-over narration; with Jennifer Garner, Adam Sandler, Dennis Haysbert, J.K. Simmons, and Olivia Crocicchia.

_J.R. Jones

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Unless otherwise noted, all film listings this week are for Friday, October 17 through Thursday, October 23. 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.

movie Th e a T e r l is T ing s

dinner + movie FUrY | noon, 3, 6:30, 9:30 GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY | 12:15,

Portland

3:30, 6:45, 9:30

CInEMaGIC Grand

333 Clarks Pond Parkway, South Portland | 207.772.6023

alEXandEr and tHE tErrIBlE, HorrIBlE, no Good, VErY Bad daY | 11:45 am, 2:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:20 annaBEllE | 11:45 am, 2:10, 4:30, 7, 9:30

tHE BESt oF ME | 12:45, 3:30, 7:10,

tHE HUndrEd Foot JoUrnEY | 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:30

tHE JUdGE | noon, 3:10, 6:45, 9:10 lEFt BEHInd | 6:50, 9:45 tHE MaZE rUnnEr | 12:10, 3, 6:45, 9:20

MEEt tHE MorMonS | noon, 2:10, 4:20, 7: 9:15

tHIS IS WHErE I lEaVE YoU | 11:50 am, 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50

9:50

tHE BooK oF lIFE | 11:30 am, 2, 4:15, 7, 9:30

tHE BoXtrollS | 11:40 am, 2:10,

4:40, 7:10, 9:30

draCUla Untold | 11:30 am, 2, 4:15, 7, 9:20

FUrY | 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45

nICKElodEon CInEMaS 1 Temple St, Portland | 207.772.4022

MaInE aUBUrn FlaGSHIP 10

746 Center St, Auburn | 207.786.8605

alEXandEr and tHE tErrIBlE, HorrIBlE, no Good, VErY Bad daY | 12:10, 2:10, 4:20, 7:15, 9:15 annaBEllE | 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 9:35 FUrY | 1, 4, 7, 9:50 tHE BESt oF ME | 1:20, 4:10, 7:10,

9:40

7:10, 9:40

9:20

MEn, WoMEn and CHIldrEn | 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20

MY old ladY | 1:20, 6:20 traCKS | 3:40, 9:55

WEStBrooK CInEMaGIC

183 County Rd, Westbrook | 207.774.3456

alEXandEr and tHE tErrIBlE, HorrIBlE, no Good, VErY Bad daY | 11:50 am, 2, 4:10, 6:50, 9:50 annaBEllE | 11:50 am, 2:10, 4:30, 7, 9:40

tHE BESt oF ME | 12:10, 3:10, 7, 9:40 tHE BooK oF lIFE | 12:10, 2:30,

4:45, 7:10

tHE BooK oF lIFE 3d | 9:45 tHE BoXtrollS | noon, 2:15, 4:30,

7, 9:20

dolPHIn talE 2 | 2:15, 3:10 draCUla Untold | 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:30

ColonIal tHEatrE

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

EVEnInGStar CInEMa

Tontine Mall, 149 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.729.5486

MaGIC In tHE MoonlIGHt | Fri: 2 | Sat: 2 | Sun: 2, 6, 8

HarBor tHEatrE

185 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | 207.633.0438

GonE GIrl | Fri-Sun: 7

lEWISton FlaGSHIP 10 855 Lisbon St, Lewiston | 207.777.5010

lInColn tHEatEr 2 Theater St, Damariscotta | 207.563.3424

loVE IS StranGE | Fri: 2 | Sat: 7 | Sun: 7 | Wed: 2, 7 | Thu: 2

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alEXandEr and tHE tErrIBlE, HorrIBlE, no Good, VErY Bad daY | 4:30, 7:15 tHE BooK oF lIFE | 4:15, 7 GonE GIrl | 4, 7:30

SaCo drIVE-In tHEatEr

9 Depot St, Bridgton | 207.647.5065

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

nordICa tHEatrE

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8:15 | Sun-Thu: 1:30, 3:45, 6

FrontIEr CInEMa

oXFord FlaGSHIP 7

14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222

daMnatIonland | Tue: 2, 6, 8 | Wed: 2, 6 | Thu: 2, 6, 8

17 Railroad Sq, Waterville | 207.873.6526

narroW GaUGE CInEMaS

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

MY old ladY | Fri-Sat: 1:30, 3:45, 6,

Kill the Messenger

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

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.

783 Portland Rd, Rte 1, Saco | 207.282.6234 Call for shows & times.

969 Portland Rd, Saco | 207.284.1016

HalloWEEEn + tEXaS CHaInSaW MaSSaCrE | Thu: 7

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

795 Roosevelt Trail, Windham | 207.892.7000 Call for shows & times.

SPotlIGHt CInEMaS

6 Stillwater Ave, Orono | 207.827.7411 Call for shows & times.

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

FIlM SPECIalS PMa MoVIES

7 Congress Square, Portland | 207.775.6148

dEad oF nIGHt | Fri: 6:30 tHE rEd SHoES | Sat: 2 KInd HEartS and CoronEtS | Sun: 2

SPaCE GallErY

538 Congress St, Portland | 207.828.5600

20,000 daYS on EartH | Tue: 7:30

nICKElodEon CInEMaS 1 Temple St, Portland | 207.772.4022

tHE HanoVEr HoUSE + HaUnt ME | Wed: 7

Port CItY MUSIC Hall 504 Congress St, Portland | 207.956.6000

HIGHEr | Sat: 8 VaMPIrES oF nEW EnGland | Mon: 8

StonInGton oPEra HoUSE

tHE tHEatEr ProJECt

tHIS IS WHErE I lEaVE YoU |

nIGHt oF tHE lIVInG dEad | Fri:

Main St, Stonington | 207.367.2788

14 School St, Brunswick | 207.729.8584

Fri-Sun: 7

7:30

Strand tHEatrE

345 Main St, Rockland | 207.594.0070

FranK | Fri: 5:30 | Sat: 8 | Sun: 3 MY old ladY | Fri: 8 | Sat-Sun: 5:30 | Mon: 7 | Tue: 1, 7

tHoMaSton FlaGSHIP 10

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

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nEW HaMPSHIrE tHE MUSIC Hall

28 Chestnut St, Portsmouth | 603.436.9900

FIndInG FEla | Tue: 7 | Wed: 7

GHoStPort alaMo tHEatrE

85 Main St, Bucksport | 207.469.0924

HaUnt ME + raGGEd ISlE SEaSon 3 | Sat: 6 tHE HanoVEr HoUSE | Sat: 10

nEW HaMPSHIrE FIlM FEStIVal tHE MUSIC Hall

28 Chestnut St, Portsmouth | 603.436.9900 100+ films from Oct 16-Oct 19. Check nhfilmfestival.com for shows & times.

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_by sy Mbo line Da i This weekend the dark of the moon (that extraspecial accident-prone time) coincides with Sunday night, so if this when you have encountered someone new, exciting, apparently-charming and agreeable, make sure you’re seeing them clearly. You might be enraptured with someone plagued with the dithers. The rest of the week has a larger-thanusual number of void-of-course hours. This means the moon isn’t making any angles to other planets, which can make for a “freefall” result, particularly for plans and communications you thought were firm. Speaking of communication, our condolences to Providence readers and I am devastated over the closing of the Phoenix down south. For more, visit “Sally Cragin Astrology” on Facebook.

_ by M a t t J o n es

“the big picture”

— you, your time, and your place.

Across 1 tree with needles 5 bangladesh’s capital 10 Slanted type of type: abbr. 14 The Dukes of Hazzard deputy 15 ___ alphabet 16 Got in the pool, maybe 17 prefix with “mom” 18 Foot holder 19 andrews of sportscasting 20 You’re part of it, along with being in the class mammalia 23 Spike who directed Crooklyn 24 Stadium cheer 25 cream of the crop 27 abbr. on a cornerstone 29 part of a crab 32 part of a race 33 Jolly ___ 36 additionally 37 You’re living in it, geologically 39 Some resorts 41 armed agent 1

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Down 1 magazine with a famous crossword 2 4th and ___ 3 probably soon 4 class for intl. students 5 Unnecessary hassle 6 Suspicion 7 cairo cross 8 about 2.2 pounds, for short 9 computer brand 10 perfect 11 burrito outside 12 takes to the skies 13 Spy novelist deighton 21 citified 22 “do the ___” 26 driving force 28 War god 29 doing the dishes, say 30 niihau necklaces 31 missouri structure 34 One end of the iditarod race 35 nicholas ii, e.g. 36 Woody Guthrie’s kid 37 he’d love to have you over for dinner 38 class that’s simple to pass 39 teacher for the day 40 ___ colors 43 taipei pan 45 tour worker 46 difficult 47 talks to online 49 boston paper 50 Fort ___, Florida 51 See it the same way 54 “Uh-huh” 55 too far to the left or right, as a field goal attempt 56 Fusses 57 baby bleater 58 First name in Orioles history 8

thursday october 16 11

Waning moon in leo. an excellent day for working with children or in advertising. From now through next thursday’s new moon, all projects should be completed (or abandoned). leo moons bring out warm and social impulses—or a protective side if you’re a taurus, cancer, leo, Sagittarius, aquarius, or Scorpio. libra, Gemini, capricorn, aries, Virgo, and pisces, could be surprised (favorably) by the passion of others. 27

Friday october 17 12

Waning moon in leo, another fine day for socializing, advertising yourself, or trying a crazy new hair style. taurus, Scorpio, capricorn, pisces, and aquarius could be petulant, yet entertaining in their vexation. Gemini, cancer, leo, Virgo, libra, aries, Sagittarius: romantic yearnings could make you feel like a kid. this is good, yes? 28

saturday october 18 13

Waning moon in leo, moon void-of-course 9:10 am until 7:08 pm when it moves into Virgo. Fire sign moons can make folks excited about events or conflicts that aren’t worth the time. cravings for “spice in your life” could range from triple-x rated hot sauce, or going on a social-media opinion rampage. life moves briskly for some taurus, Scorpio, aquarius, capricorn, and pisces, but cancer, capricorn, Virgo, leo, Sagittarius, aries, and libra should give others the benefit of the doubt. 29

sunday october 19 14

Waning moon in Virgo. at last! cleaning time! this lunar phase is superb for cleaning out a workplace or bathroom. today and tomorrow, sweep like you’re cinderella. pisces, Gemini, and Sagittarius could be touchy and oversensitive. Virgo, capricorn, taurus, cancer, leo, libra, Scorpio, aquarius, and aries: be precise, and be brief. You’ll be easily deflected from your purpose, so heads down and charge.. 30

Monday october 20 15

Waning moon in Virgo, moon void-of-course 11:30 pm until 7:12 am tuesday. as the new moon approaches, think about completing tasks begun around mid-September. Virgo moons bring out the critical side in us all, and Sagittarius, Gemini, aquarius, aries, and pisces could be sharp with others. Virgo, capricorn, taurus, cancer, leo, libra, and Scorpio: deal with your health, and make an extra-effort with grooming, especially if you’re out with a loved one. 31

tuesday october 21 16

Waning moon in libra. this is the “accident-prone” time of the month. decisions made today and tomorrow, could be reversed next week. look for ways to “go with the flow” no matter how turbulent the water. to questions asked quite a while ago could be forthcoming for leo, Virgo, libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, aquarius, pisces, taurus, Gemini. aries, cancer, and capricorn could feel cornered. 32

Wednesday october 22

dark of the moon in libra. today and tomorrow, the planets are in libra and Scorpio and in transition, so libra’s impulses towards openness and harmony clash with Scorpio’s self-interest and secretiveness. Sound interesting? You bet. it’s easy to see things as “worse” than they are, particularly for cancer, capricorn, aries, taurus, leo, and aquarius. libra, Gemini, Sagittarius, pisces, Scorpio, and Virgo: simplify, or the universe will start removing what you don’t need. 1

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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