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The final clue: the prison guards’ union has vocally defended the warden after her termination.

this Just in Getting answers

Why the prison warden got fired Corrections commissioner Joseph Ponte told the Legislature’s Criminal Justice Committee on January 16 that, because of state personnel law, he couldn’t publicly say — until severance negotiations are finished — why he had fired, six days earlier, Maine State Prison warden Patricia Barnhart. She has said she can’t say why, either.

But a likely reason is that Barnhart didn’t go along with the program: Ponte’s aggressive two-year-old effort to reform the prison.

Here’s a major clue. When asked in an interview what sort of new warden he would seek, Ponte replied he wanted somebody skilled in the “change process.”

Here’s another clue. Ponte has named Rod Bouffard the acting warden at Warren.

One of the most experienced change agents in the prison system, Bouffard reformed the Long Creek Youth Development Center, in South Portland. He transformed it from one of the harshest juvenile lockups in the country to a treatment-oriented model studied all over the country for its success in reducing recidivism, the return to criminal behavior after inmates are released.

In a brief interview, Bouffard, who said he wouldn’t apply to become the permanent warden because Warren is too far from his home in the Portland area, tellingly commented on his plans for the prison: “I’m definitely going to soften it” — a stunning remark from a corrections official. Bouffard said treating prisoners with respect begets better-behaved prisoners.

When it was suggested the prison’s “old boys’ network” may resist change, he replied: “Well, they’d better hang on. I’ve experienced that more than once in my career,” referring to staff resistance to reform at Long Creek.

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out without warning Ex-Maine State Prison warden Patricia Barnhart.

He added: “My philosophy is very different from most people in corrections.” It’s more like Commissioner Ponte’s, he said.

Ponte has said: “We’re not in the business of punishment, but corrections.”

Here’s a third clue: Prison reformers have long viewed Barnhart as a reform roadblock, too willing to accept the old ways. And they suspect that a recent alleged assault by a Maine State Prison guard captain on a handcuffed prisoner, Renardo Williams, had something to do with Barnhart’s firing.

In a telephone interview, Williams, serving 15 years for drug trafficking, gave his version of the Christmas Eve incident: After he

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The first cop arrives on the scene 10 minutes into the disturbance, and he is not amused. As he paces around the protest circle, explaining the concept of private property, he racks his brain for some solution to the unprecedented conundrum before him — they don’t get too many glue-ins around these parts. A few minutes pass, and a second officer arrives, followed by the Westborough chief of police and, minutes later, a fire truck. Even with all the king’s horses and all the

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objected to what he saw as harassment from the captain and a couple of other guards, the captain had handcuffs put on him. Told to sit down, he responded, “I choose to stand.”

Then, Williams said, the captain “tackled me,” knocking his legs from under him, and both fell down.

Prisoner-rights advocates have complained for years that this officer bullied inmates. He reportedly has been suspended or fired. The Corrections department didn’t reply by deadline to a request for his status.

(Because the Phoenix wasn’t able to reach him before deadline, his name is being withheld.)

Maine NAACP director Rachel Talbot Ross said the group plans to meet with Williams, an African American, to discuss the incident. Williams has been transferred to the Maine Correctional Center in Windham because, he said, “I feared for my life” from the captain’s friends and family working at the state prison.

In an interview, Ponte said he couldn’t comment on the incident because an investigation is going on. “It had nothing to do” with Barnhart’s dismissal, he said.

Bouffard, the new Maine State Prison boss, has a mental-health-treatment background, having run the Augusta Mental Health Institute (now Riverview Psychiatric Center) and the now-closed Pineland Center for the developmentally disabled.

His boss, Ponte, has become nationally known for dramatically reducing solitary confinement, in which many mentally ill prisoners had been placed. Ponte has accomplished other reforms, including reducing the frequency that probation violations send people back to prison, thereby helping stabilize what had been an ever-growing and ever-more-expensive prison population. He

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In the meantime, since one cop failed to separate the protesters with sheer force — by attempting to pry their hands apart — the medics move to unseal the glue in a more delicate manner. By scraping and peeling, they manage to eradicate most of the gobs, and erode whatever’s left with swabs soaked in nail-polish remover. Once the protestors are unglued, about an hour and a half into the fray, additional help arrives. Like the cops who called him, the locksmith appears anything but thrilled to be there; he puts his tools down anyway, and begins to drill the ankle lock on UNH senior Ben Trolio.

In a 10-minute shower of sparks, the locksmith manages to free everyone’s legs using the same technique — but that’s the easy part.

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also has reduced guard overtime expenses by millions of dollars a year.

Speaking of Ponte’s reforms at the Criminal Justice Committee meeting, its Senate chairman, Stan Gerzofsky, a Democrat, remarked, “It’s a big gamble the commissioner has taken on,” alluding to possible public reaction if an inmate or former inmate who was treated less strictly commits a heinous crime.

But, Gerzofsky said, “The alternative is warehousing, and that does nobody any good.”

“And it’s expensive,” Ponte interjected.

Senator Gary Plummer, the committee’s lead Republican, said the state needs to extend “the good things we’ve done with juveniles to another population” in the prison system.

Ponte and the Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition have long pushed for exactly that.

In an email, MPAC’s Jim Bergin said he hoped new leadership at the prison “will facilitate continued change from an outmoded punitive-based means of controlling inmates to an incentive-based approach.”

Bergin saw Barnhart’s firing as confirmation that “the lack of leadership at the top in the prison created an atmosphere where certain staff have been enabled to disregard policy and even instigate disruption as a means of discrediting the commissioner and his improvements.”

Indeed, veteran correctional officers have complained about Ponte’s new approaches to dealing with prisoners — to the point that Barnhart, who was appointed by Commissioner Martin Magnusson in 2009, was, after her firing, vigorously defended in the daily press by a guard union official.

_Lance Tapley

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The gang has so far raised more than $2000 — for bail commission fees, fines, and other expenses — through their website. As they await their court date, they’ve been speaking out about their January 7 shake-up. This Saturday, January 26, they’ll align with 350 New England and other activist groups in Portland, for a protest against ExxonMobil’s Northeastern tar-sands pipeline.

_Chris Faraone

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How to fix everything I’m not a big fan of reform. Perhaps that’s the result of a childhood lived under constant threats from parents and teachers that if I didn’t change my ways, I’d be sent to “reform school.”

I never took those warnings too seriously, so my aversion to reform probably owes more to reading H. L. Mencken. In his A New Dictionary of Quotations, there’s this listing: “Reforms should begin at home and stay there.”

It’s credited to “author unknown,” but that was often Mencken’s way of quoting himself.

Maine’s greatest contribution to Congress, Thomas Brackett Reed (speaker of the House, 1889-1891 and 1895-1899), was also less than enthusiastic about reform. Reed saw it this way: “An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.”

This state has a considerable history of reforms that haven’t worked out quite as promised. Prohibition, which Maine adopted long before the rest of the country, proved lucrative for criminals, but ineffective in most other ways. Term limits on legislators were supposed to open up seats so more ordinary citizens could serve.

Instead, that law allowed a few masterful tacticians to preside over an idiocracy. Public funding of elections was said to be the way to thwart the power of rich people and corporations. It turned out that was unconstitutional, and now those entities dominate campaign spending.

You might think the reformers would have learned their lesson by now, but you’d be wrong. They’ve just come up with a swell new proposal. It requires term limits on drinking booze paid for with public money.

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development. This year’s version of fixing what isn’t broken is called ranked-choice voting. The effort to have the governor elected by this complicated and expensive method is being sponsored by Democratic state Representative Janice Cooper and independent state Senator Richard Woodbury, both of Yarmouth (somebody should check the water supply in that town).

“This isn’t a major change in the way the system works,” Cooper told the Forecaster.

Assuming that by “major,” she doesn’t mean a constitutional amendment, the appropriation of millions of dollars, the creation of a logistical nightmare, and the likelihood of mass confusion. After all, most of those same drawbacks plague crowdcontrol efforts on an average Saturday night in Portland’s Old Port.

Speaking of Portland, it already has ranked-choice voting. It was used for the first time in 2011 to pick a mayor from among 15 candidates.

Voters rated each contender from their first choice to their last. When the ballots were counted the person with the lowest number of first-place votes was eliminated, and his or her support was distributed to whoever was ranked second. This process continued until somebody got a majority.

According to supporters, that’s the big advantage of ranked-choice voting. It produces a winner backed by over 50 percent of the electorate.

And it does that in the same way that Prohibition reduced immorality, term limits increased accountability and Clean Election funding did away with corruption.

Which is to say, it doesn’t.

Michael Brennan, the winner of the mayor’s race in Portland, received support on a little less than 46 percent of all valid ballots cast. That’s

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because ranked-choice voting requires throwing out any “exhausted” ballots, those on which the voter didn’t express a preference for either the eventual winner or the runner-up.

Let’s say there were five candidates for governor: a Democrat, a Republican, a Green, a well-financed independent, and a poverty-stricken nonparty hopeful with radical plans for improving government. You, being weary of the non-solutions offered by the major parties, fill out your ranked-choice ballot (which requires an advanced degree in mechanical engineering to understand) thusly: Your first choice is the underfunded independent. This is the great thing about ranked-choice. It allows you to support a candidate with no chance of winning without wasting your vote.

Your second choice is the Green, because you like the outsider’s perspective. Again, you get to vote your conscience without worrying about being shut out of the final decision.

Your third selection is the rich independent. You have your doubts, but you figure you’ve got to vote for somebody who’s a viable candidate.

You don’t vote for the Republican or Democrat.

After several days of state workers uploading ballots to a computer system capable of sorting them out and hand-counting the ballots on which there are ambiguities, the results are announced: One of the major-party contenders prevailed. But because you didn’t choose either of them, your vote isn’t figured in those totals.

For all intents, you might as well have stayed home on election day.

Home? Isn’t that where Mencken said reform belonged? ^

Form your comments. Then, re-form them. Only after that should you email them to me at aldiamon@herniahill.net.

fit’s shaping up to be depressingly like last year.

this year is just barely out of the crate, and already

With the dust still settling from the fiscal cliff fiasco, foot soldiers on both sides of the aisle are sharpening their knives for yet another clash, this time over something called the debt ceiling. But what exactly is it? tax revenues don’t begin to cover the cost of the uS’s spending programs, meaning the government has to borrow cash to make up the shortfall. But it doesn’t just hit up mom when it needs a loan. instead, it secures funds by packaging its debt into bonds known as “treasury securities.” investors — individuals, institutions, and countries — who buy them are effectively loaning the treasury the face value of that bond to do with as it pleases.

But there’s a finite amount of bonds the government can have in circulation before it has to seek congressional approval for more. periodically, the uS hits that debt ceiling — as happened on december 31, when it reached its borrowing limit of $16.4 trillion — and congress votes on whether or not to extend the government’s line of credit. historically, that’s just a formality, but in the summer of 2011, for the first time the debt ceiling was used as an instrument of political advantage. cue 2013, and once again republicans are holding the debt ceiling hostage to demands for huge spending cuts, under the guise of “deficit reduction.” (the Gop’s real objective? Gouge a big hole into entitlement programs and thereby shrink the government bureaucracies that administer welfare.) the current fight is emblematic of the poisonous, ideology-driven politics of our times. in refusing to raise the debt ceiling unless the president agrees to matching spending cuts, the republican-held congress is denying the president the funds to pay for spending it has already mandated. obama has compared this to dineand-dash. others have likened it to running up charges on a credit card and refusing to pay the bill at the end of the month. to add to the perversity, the president will be in breach of the law if he fails to dispose of the money the way congress has voted. in short, congress is directing him to spend money that it’s withholding, then exploiting the subsequent manufactured crisis to get its way. how’s that for cynical, circular logic? the (sort of) good news is that treasury secretary tim Geithner can stave off bankruptcy for another couple months using a patchwork of “extraordinary measures” (read: accounting tricks). after that, he (or his successor) may have to resort to issuing ious to the uS’s creditors — guarantees that they’ll be paid eventually. that might work for a while, but eventually the uS will default on its debts. in that event, payouts to Social Security beneficiaries will cease, military contractors and federal workers won’t receive paychecks, and foreign creditors will get stiffed (to name a few). But that’s nothing compared to the turbulence that would engulf the global economy and likely tip it back into recession. even if the fight doesn’t get that far, the uS economy could be in for a beating. therein lies the hypocrisy of the republicans’ position. though they claim to be looking out for the country’s long-term fiscal health by using the debt ceiling as way to force the issue on deficit reduction, in fact their hostage-taking could do lasting harm. the 2011 debt ceiling debacle led to a grim milestone — the first-ever downgrading of america’s credit rating. Who knows how much more damage the uS’s standing as safe haven and reserve currency might sustain if the Gop follows through on its threat of a knockdown, drag-out fight.

So far, obama has ruled out any extrajudicial end runs like minting a $1 trillion coin. instead, he seems to be counting on sanity to bring the opposition to the bargaining table. But with large swathes of the Gop still in thrall to tea party ideologues, that’s a dangerous gamble. ^

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The Turning of souls USM prof: Teaching iS aboUT SpiriT, noT daTa _b y Je f f i n g l i S Making an impassioned plea for humanistic considerations to remain paramount in our societal discussion about education and its continual improvement, University of Southern Maine philosophy professor Jeremiah Conway follows his own advice. He seeds his book, The Alchemy of Teaching (forthcoming in March from Sentient Publications), with stories of classroom encounters between students and ideas that remind us of an important, but oft-neglected, truth about education: It is no good if it merely teaches the young facts and tasks to be accomplished in the workforce. Rather, education must deeply and fully engage both students and teachers in the quest for understanding and connection.

Conway begins and ends with aspects of the Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus — and the Breugel painting depicting that myth’s climactic moment. He inquires thoroughly into what the story might mean (see excerpt in sidebar) Conway gently, calmly, and unrelentingly shreds the data-driven mantras of the modern industrial-style education system.

His heartfelt tales of students young and very old transforming themselves — and their teacher — get to the heart of a distinctly European, even Renaissance tradition of education: that its aim is not to indoctrinate nor to cause memorization, but rather to excite, to enthrall, and, above all, to spark the hu-

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thinking teacher Jeremiah conway urges deep interaction with material. man potential within each of us.

In constructing his subtle argument — for this is among the least argumentative examples of a persuasive essay — Conway marshals some unexpected forces. Among those making significant, and sympathetic, appearances here are a religious fundamentalist, a smartypants overachiever, a reclusivesilent type, and an elderly woman.

But there is more. A particularly impas-

‘Descendants of Daedalus’ Conway on what Breugel’s ‘Fall of Icarus’ was really about Fat the painting. i see that the myth is deeply concerned with the relation between considering the story now, i’m aware of themes that i wasn’t when i first looked

parents and children, one generation and the next. it’s also very much a myth about teaching, asking adults to consider the knowledge that they bequeath to the young. Further, the story concerns the powers and limits of technical knowledge. daedalus is a brilliantly clever man; in fact, his very name comes from the Greek word Daidalos, meaning “cunning worker.” in many ways, he personifies human technological inventiveness. yet the myth repeatedly suggests that this acumen can be dangerous, even destructive. daedalus’ talents helped to procreate the minotaur. he let tyrants employ his gifts for sinister purposes. he constructed the labyrinth, only to have it become a slaughterhouse for the young. he mastered the principles of flight and created wings, succeeding in bringing about the death of his son. in the background of The Fall of Icarus, i now see daedalus as a failed teacher and parent. in both roles, his legacy is complex and twisted. his technological brilliance and creativity are undeniable, yet they culminate in achievements that he ends up cursing. his gifts create suffering for himself and others. his care for his son seems limited to the provision of technological devices. is the myth a criticism of technical inventiveness? i doubt it. Whether exemplified in labyrinths or towers of Babel, the impulses to design and make are deeply ingrained in our human make-up and deserving of celebration. to me, the myth hints at a more subtle criticism — one that concerns education — that the transfer of technological knowledge and skills is insufficient. technology, if we are not to rue it, must conjoin with the cultivation of humanity. my attention shifts from [icarus’s] disappearing legs to the brilliant sun dominating the landscape, and the figures of the peasants going about their work. these peasants (whom Breugel often celebrates) possess something often forgotten in the midst of technological brilliance. they, frequently perforce, remain close to the earth. in their farming, fishing, and sailing, they rely upon and care for it. of course, they use technology as

sioned section takes the interpretation of Nietzsche’s nihilism in a direction even philosophy students might be surprised at. While the 19th-century German thinker thought the rise of lamentable decadence was the first step toward its subsequent dissolution, he wrote movingly in Thus Spoke Zarathustra of feeling and thinking and sensing and processing deep within the body — “in the blood,” as he put it. Conway’s professorial but not at all dry explication of this section of the text leads to an account of how a particular class of his engaged with this idea; the deep soulful examinations that discussion entails augur well for Nietzsche’s forlorn hopes.

Certainly more a work of thought and exploration than of diagnosis or prescription, The Alchemy of Teaching asks its readers to remember that those ancients who sought to transform base metals into valuable treasure didn’t know exactly how it might occur, but retained their sense of wonder and certainty at the potential of the universe to deliver riches beyond measure. We, and all students of any age or era, should be so lucky as to in herit not only the scientific determinism of the alchemists, but also their mystic faith in the ultimate possibility: that all leaden pupils might, with care, attention, and not a little bit of liberty, transform themselves — and, perhaps, their equally lucky teachers — into golden pioneers simultaneously finding and creating new worlds. ^

let it be a leSSon to yoU breugel’s ‘The fall of icarus’ has another hidden message for us.

well — they harness sail and plow and fishing pole. But their tools seem observant of nature, working with its rhythms. the peasant figures seem in the landscape part of nature, not its masters. did Breugel think that they possess a wisdom that daedalus and his son lack? in the simplicity of their lives, do they remain faithful to the earth, cultivating a sense of interdependence (and, hence, an awareness of limits) that neither daedalus nor icarus exhibit? like the circus troupe in Hard Times, do these peasants possess a respect for the earth that, for all his brilliance, daedalus fails to teach? this sixteenth-century painting is particularly appropriate to the world we inhabit. We’re a scientific, technological culture to an extent never previously imagined. We’re descendants of daedalus. i look at those two sticks of bare leg now and confront a warning and a teaching imperative: cultivate the humanity of the young or the advancement of technology will do us little good and considerable harm. help them be more mindful of themselves and others.

Grow compassion. consider and make teaching a noble profession. perhaps there’s time to develop a more acute sense of the interdependence of life. perhaps we can become more faithful to the earth. it is for us as it was for daedalus: the lives of our children depend on it.

excerpted from The Alchemy of Teaching by Jeremiah conway, published by Sentient Publications, copyright 2013. Used by permission.

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Plant-based Practice Learning to eat more with Less impact _b y De ir D r e F u L ton In the course of an hour, Chris McClay convinced me that I just may be able to live without cheese. Shocking, I know. It was her vegan chipotle nachos, made with lentils and nut-based “cheese” sauce (see sidebar for the recipe), that sparked my conviction.

McClay, 38, is the proprietor of Portland’s new Modern Vegan Cooking School and the Maine representative for the Wellness Forum, a national for-profit dietary-education organization. She’s been eating a plant-based diet since 1992, when a college course piqued her interest in vegetarianism and then full-on veganism. She hasn’t eaten any animal-derived products since then — really. No meat, no cheese, no dairy products. And, perhaps most remarkably, no cravings.

“It’s my choice,” she says in her Westbrook kitchen on a recent afternoon. She wakes up every day and thinks, “I can eat whatever I want today.” It just so happens that what she wants are vegan foods.

While the philosophy of veganism — avoiding the consumption of animal products — has been around for centuries, the term itself was coined in 1944 and the American Vegan Society was founded in 1960. Interest in the United States has gained steadily since then; surveys report that between 0.5 and 3 percent of Americans now identify as vegan (including Bill Clinton and Mike Tyson).

Proponents claim that eating a plantbased diet improves overall health and well-being, resilience to disease, skin problems, and energy levels. It also decreases a person’s carbon footprint, given that the industrial livestock sector releases significant pollution and greenhouse gas emissions into our water and atmosphere.

“I can’t think of a worse way to use resources that produce worse worldly outcomes,” McClay says. “It’s very political for me.” She also cites weight-loss benefits and disease-prevention as personal motivators.

Plus, going vegan can reduce your grocery bill, especially if you start to buy ingredients from the bulk aisle.

Two years ago — right around the time Clinton announced he’d gone vegan — McClay decided it was time to put herself out there as a resource to her community.

She’d reaped internal benefits of veganism for two decades; now she wanted to spread the word. She began offering personal chef services and private cooking lessons, and got positive responses to both. And so this month, she’s launching a series of public cooking classes to further widen her reach. On the docket in February: courses covering winter soups, cooking for weight-loss, greens, and dinnerparty fare.

Her teaching strategy is simple: Focus on creating an entire meal, rather than “meat with a side of vegetables.” Incorporate complex carbohydrates, grains, and legumes. When people dive into a plantbased diet thinking they can survive on salads alone, McClay cringes.

“They’re bloated, they’re starving, they’re bored,” she says.

With a Modern Vegan education, there are no restrictions, no portion control.

McClay likes to teach her students that they can eat as much as they want — as long as they’re eating the right stuff.

“You’re feeding yourself foods that nourish every cell in your body,” she says.

Her number one tip for healthier cooking? Stop using oil for sautéeing vegetables. Instead, use small amounts of water, lemon juice, broth, wine, or beer — not enough to steam what’s in the pan, just enough to make sure nothing burns or sticks (this doesn’t work in a nonstick pan).

An equally important tactic, much to my dismay, is to eliminate cheese, which McClay notes has addictive properties (researchers have claimed that cheese produces opiate effects in consumers — not to mention its high levels of cholesterol and fat). Now that I have her nut-sauce recipe in hand, I may be able to get closer to a cheese-less existence.

Not to worry: in McClay’s world, even baby steps count. If you sign up for a Modern Vegan cooking class, “I don’t expect that you have any intention of going vegan,” McClay says. “It’s about learning new foods, new things to eat, and ways to incorporate that on a personal level.” ^

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Learn more about Modern Vegan and the Wellness Forum on Tuesday, January 29, when McClay hosts a free dinner and discussion at the Masonic Lodge, 102 Bishop St, Portland. Registration is required; call 207.409.7778 or visit portland.wellnessforumrep.com. More information about Modern Vegan cooking classes can be found at modern-vegan.com.

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Are you A believer?

Ian SvenonIuS conjureS the SpIrIt world In revIvIng rock and roll hIStory

_b y n I ch o l aS S c h r oed e r These days, the road toward a successful music career seems very brightly lit. Like an intricate GPS device teeming with metadata, today’s lifestyle mags, rock camps, music blogs, reality shows, and alcohol industries each help to illuminate the path for young musicians, so that their efforts to create a healthy, productive rock group go as smoothly and efficiently as possible.

So where’s the problem? While this scenario might appear as a blessing for those looking to land a nice, comfortable career in music — or a zesty Pandora playlist, for that matter — some augur a certain danger in whittling rock and roll to a series of clean, flat stones placed over a bog one traverses en route to artistic fame or financial success.

One of those conspiring to muck up the path is Ian Svenonius: writer, DJ, and frontman of DC post-punk groups the Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses, and now Chain and the Gang. In his new and uniquely comprehensive book, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ’n’ Roll Group, Svenonius invokes the black-magic art of the séance in revising rock history, resurrecting dead rock stars and long-buried ideological perspectives on the origins and exhibitions of the well-traveled form.

Like a smoke bomb in a SXSW showcase, the ambitious project of Supernatural Strategies is to inject a spume of confusion into the staid, success-driven rock narrative of today, while serving as a quasimystical handbook for that rare musician still willing to take the long route. Written in a language couched in satire and anchored by years of experience, it is both a rigorous study of an elusive and enduring cultural art and a sobering critique of its many tortured machinations.

And as the contemporary music landscape has been re-stratified by new technologies and contracted economies, it might even be particularly topical. As Svenonius told the Portland Phoenix in a telephone call, the book is a response to what he perceives as a shifting ethos in the music world. “It’s generally considered a positive development that rock and roll bands are becoming institutionalized,” he explains.

“There are all these rock camps for kids now — they’re sponsored and fomented — and they’re filled with really practical knowledge about how to be in a band. It’s all laid out like a Petri dish, and that has profound implications on the form of rock and roll.”

While those familiar with Svenonius’s musical endeavors will recognize the séance as a stylistic conceit necessary to hurdle the threat of didacticism that can block such lofty concepts (see also the cheekily Marxian diatribes in Ulysses’ liner notes; his fey, soft-brewed James Brown impression fronting the Make-Up; or his squinty deadpan persona in the web series talk show Soft Focus), the shtick better allows him to reframe rock history as a

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thE lIvInG AnD thE DEAD Ian Svenonius digs into what might have happened while trying to chart a course to the future.

Even the most ideal rock camp won’t equip you with the lessons contained in this volume.

politically fraught yet ultimately irresistible social development, a paradoxical sort of “hocus-pocus” that both liberates its followers from the tedium and technocracy of daily life while at the same time capitalizing on the worst traits of consumer culture.

For the average rock fan, these ideas may sound exhausting, but such are the labors of séance. And it’s true; the lessons of Supernatural Strategies can sometimes feel born from more than the mind of one man. In its pages, Brian Jones decrees that “suffering is necessary to maintain the integrity of the group as an ‘object.’” Mary Wells redresses that “the actual origin of ‘the group’ as we know it . . . is the urban street gang.” Paul McCartney — go with it — dissects the British Invasion by telling us how “without the stain of slavery and oblivious to US race and class tension, (Britishers) felt free to mimic their favorite records . . . (and) gained success by imitating American — usually black — rock ’n’ roll artists.” And Richard Berry conjures that “(s)ince the USA is a nation founded on the ideas of individualism, rebellion, evangelism, white supremacy, black slavery, expulsion of native peoples, expansionism, commerce, and industry, these values all play a part in the formation of (its) primary and arguably greatest cultural export.” Each of these claims could supply an historian with a sizable research project, yet Svenonius, faithful to his muses, unpacks them in a mere few paragraphs before pressing on.

After some glib and crisply written chapters of historical repositioning, the reader emerges with a rather grimly conspiratorial view of rock and roll as an American-manufactured cultural weapon

of the Cold War. And while a sermon from the spirit world isn’t a source you could confidently cite in an academic text, that claim might have some truth to it. But leaving academic matters aside, even the most ideal rock camp won’t equip you with the lessons contained here, where the author refreshingly avoids the conventional ballyhoo and sanctimonious drivel that clouds most “rock insider” writing.

In a chapter titled “Finding the Group,” he apprises that “(s)ome of your collaborators might be refugees from awful jobs, insipid record collections, religious sects, bad marriages, and dormitories full of sports enthusiasts. Your group will be their last hope, and there might be desperation in their eyes. These are the ones you want.” In “Determining Goals,” we learn that “the group is familial, a radical restructuring of the family unit from the nuclear model to something more akin to a hunter-gatherer tribe or a Stalinera collectivist farm.” And in “Sex,” we come to understand that “for the groupie, there were live boys; for the men there were dead heroes. After all, the boy who mourns and honors the dead is transcending carnality . . . and is expressing his depth and his authentic passion for the music.”

But for all its bogus posturing and academic pretensions, Supernatural Strategies is ultimately the work of one of the movement’s true believers, and might be read as a serious — some might say important — effort. As he puts it, Svenonius sees rock and roll as “a sort of expression that was smothered during the rational age of enlightenment,” or a form of primordial communication that addresses timeless ideas of community and collaborative effort. “That explains its totally universal appeal. That’s why it’s like rediscovering fire, why it never gets old.”

Ideology is grossly inefficient, and so it naturally goes overlooked in any profitbearing career model, let alone one as competitive as the music business. The ones proferred in Supernatural Strategies, over a brisk 250 pages, analyze seemingly every facet of the industry as we know it, yet still might not get you any closer to the ultimate, unimpeachable goal of rock stardom. Some truly determined entrepreneurs out there might even subvert the author’s aim, finding Supernatural Studies to be a useful proxy for years of toil gigging the club circuit or conducting countless hours of stereo research. But however useful its readers might find it, this book is an event — because let’s face it, today’s rock and roll so often isn’t. ^

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f mataNa roberts, at Bowdoin College’s Studzinski Recital Hall, in Brunswick on Jan 25. thursday 24 CHANGE YOUR TONE | For today’s

accomplished musician, the most pressing question is what, exactly, to play? Some especially daring ones ask that question in real time — again and again and again.

Peek in on their answers at the Brunswick cultural depot known as Frontier Café, where the New

eNglaNd ImprovIsers orchestra bring the venue’s “Frontiers of Music” series into focus. 7 pm; by donation. 14 Maine St. in the Fort Andross Mill. 207.725.5222.

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| To use a disproportionately highstakes analogy, today’s musiclovers might think of dubstep as previous generations observed the Cold War: a protracted, victimless war of attrition where allied forces battle a mysterious and alien other for the hearts and minds of its followers. It’s far from over, but the result of this one might diverge from historical precedent. Dubstep, particularly its more populist and unsubtle Western iterations, is a tireless and beguiling foe. Its devotees — who beget disorienting colors and aromas, rehearse their gesticulations in oversized uniforms, and seemingly only

strike at night — appear legion, and have proven to be alarmingly adept at reproducing their thunderous, unifying hymns in clever, almost imperceptible variations. As the day of reckoning approaches, one such chorale leader, the DJ/ producer known as phutureprImItIve from Portland, Oregon, rallies the local delegation tonight at the Empire Dine and Dance, with a set from the native, bass-driven producer of the trees. 9 pm; $12 at 575 Congress St. 207.879.8988.

OH, YOU TWO! | Two boy-girl musical projects of considerable ardor, the New York acoustic folk duo two tree and the immaculately restrained outland meditations of arborea, make an attractive pairing at Local Sprouts Cooperative. 7 pm; by donation at 649 Congress St. 207.899.3529.

friday 25 AND WHAT A VOICE IT IS | The alto saxophonist and performer

mataNa roberts turned many

heads with her 2011 record COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres. The avant-jazz document represented her first forays into

vocalizations — both linguistic and otherwise — and gave birth to many harrowing, poetic, and dizzyingly emotional images of the history of black life in America.

Among other unforgettable moments, the politically-charged album contains an a capella gospel blues chant reimagining a slave auction (“libation for Mr. Brown: Bid em in...”), a breathless respinning of Albert Ayler-style sax work (“rise”), and a heartwrenchingly bittersweet paean to the life’s work of the artist’s mother (“how much would you cost?”). COIN COIN is a contemporary masterpiece of sorts, and the Chicago-born Roberts, still coming into her own as a performer (her resume includes more formal solo records amid collaborations with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Sticks and Stones, and TV on the Radio, among others), is a remarkably compelling draw to Bowdoin College tonight.

She leads a sax masterclass at 2 and performs a work-in-progress concert piece called “Prologue” at 7:30 pm. Tickets are free (but reservations recommended) at the college’s Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium. 207.798.4141.

WAY UP THERE | The rise to prominence of Maine psych-rock band coke weed has been nothing

short of remarkable. As if catching the US still in the insatiable binge of its post-Nirvana boom, the group busted out two haunting, velvety records in three years and scored a national gig opening for the Walkmen, all the while operating from Bar Harbor, which isn’t exactly the new Brooklyn.

They’ve lately been chumming with the singular blues musician mIcah blue smaldoNe, whose folk compositions have evolved over the years from faithful delta ditties to mesmerizing long-form meditations on the macabre. They play sets both separate and together (we’re told), along with the shapeshifting rock act aN eveNINg wIth. 9 pm; $6 at Empire Dine and Dance.

READ THE SIGNS | A surfeit of symbolic terms collide so perfectly in Waterville that we can’t help but take note: the rock and roll Americana group called gIrls, guNs, aNd glory play a club called Mainely Brews. Might be the most time capsule-able show in recent memory. 9 pm; by donation at 1 Post Office Sq. 207.873.2457.

VERY VERY LOCAL | The latest in a string of attractive shows at Mayo Street Arts, four of the region’s most engaging, slow-burning post-rock acts collect in defiant exhibition. Attend and you’ll get the delicate and ethereal songwork of lIsa/lIza; the heartache-y acoustic tales of wesley alleN hartley; the psych-folk of greg JamIe; and acId smoker, one man’s hypnagogic take on noisy

no wave. 8 pm; $5 at 10 Mayo St. 207.615.3609. Down the street, there’s a show that might be this one’s kissing cousin. Avant-folk group sNaex (Chriss Sutherland and Christopher Teret) play with songwriters matt rock and NathaN salsburg, the latter known for his revenant early-folk recordings and curatorship of the Alan Lomax Archive. 8 pm in — get this — Pistol Pete’s Upholstery Shop, 219 Anderson St. 207.671.7792.

STRUm fOR THE HILLS | Resurfacing above ground, we have the bluesy, soulful, feel-good rock musician martIN sextoN playing a show at the State Theatre.

Known as an A+ live performer, the songwriter reopens his long love affair with Maine audiences with a set by alterNate routes, a rock orthodox five-piece from Connecticut. 8 pm; $25-30 at 609 Congress St., 207.956.6000.

saturday 26 STORmING THE TREEfORT | Survey the comedy scene from any angle and you’ll notice the same thing: where are all the women?

Local, national, whatever: the funny business is a male-dominated sport. Tonight, the Maine writer, blogger, and comic erIN doNovaN brings us a welcome break from the standard. She reprises a show she calls “I’m Gonna Kill Him,” continued on p 16

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PLAY DEAD | If your January has been relatively free from pain and strife, you might renew your acquaintanceship with the themes in Augusta, where the thumpy popular metal band dead seasoN, an Oxford County original, play Bridge Street Tavern. 7-ish; small cover if any. 18 Bridge St., 207.623.8561.

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| It’s hardly newsworthy to report that most Americans aged 21 to 45 get a gIN blossoms song caught in their head 2.7 times per week (source redacted), but it might register as news to say that they like it. The long-tenured alt-rock band, author of the ’90s traditional “Hey Jealousy” and many others, play the Asylum tonight with local pop act worrIed well and crash boom baNg, new-breed rock fundamentalists from DC. 9 pm; $29 at 121 Center St. 207.772.8274.

GETTING OUTTA HAND | The pianist chrIstopher o’rIley, who made his mark in 2003 converting Radiohead songs to plaintive, new age-y piano ballads (he’s since done similar with the work of Elliott Smith and Nick Drake, among others), exhibits his craftsmanship at the Franco American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St. in Lewiston. $27 ($15 students under 18), 207.689.2000.

lects to celebrate Robert Burns, the 18th-century Scottish lyricist of tremendous cultural import. Speak of “The Bard” in Scotland and expect not some bloated rejoinder on the greatness of Shakespeare, but instead a silent, lips-pursed nod of gratitude in the direction of this man. The Portland version of that, now running six years strong, contains performances by poets aNNIe fINch and betsy sholl, composer daN soNeNberg, piper ray scott, and Cape Breton band hIghlaNd soles. 2 pm; $15 at the Portland New Church, 302 Stevens Ave. 207.767.6396.

monday 28 NOT THAT GENTLEmANLY | If

Sunday’s Robert Burns celebration leaves Shakespeare devotees feeling rebuffed, they might counter with a pint at the Press Room, where Seacoast theater troupe Seven Stages Shakespeare Company put on a dramatic reading of Two GenTlemen of Verona at 6:30.

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LOCAL DOC | Still haven’t seen last year’s landmark documentary BeTTinG The farm? Filmmakers Cecily Pingree and Jason Mann’s award-winning appraisal of a Maine dairy-farming community’s resistance efforts screens for free at Local Sprouts Cooperative at 7 pm.

LOW-END THEORY | Or say funk that, a sentiment best handled by local act mama’s boomshack, who tackle Parliament’s fat-bottomed classic Mothership Connection at the club’s Cover to Cover, a series that serves up classic albums whole. 9 pm; $5 at 55 Market St. 207.775.2266.

WEdnEsday 30 STRING BEING | The contem-

porary classical group ethel, a darkly stirring and dynamic string quartet (one of their projects reinterprets the work of Marvin Gaye), play one of several regional shows tonight at USM’s Abromson Community Center, 93 Bedford St. Tickets are in the $45 range (poke around our classical listings for a free show) for the 7:30 show. Call 207.842.0800.

THE HEART Of THE COUNTRY | Because of the era we live in, the presentation of songwriter tIft merrItt has been glossed with a veneer of “indie,” but it’s dyedin-the-wool alt-country. It’s also quite good, incorporating doses of southern belle charisma, morosely poetic torch songs, and a literary quality resembling Joni Mitchell or Emmylou Harris. Merritt plays One Longfellow Square with “Mexo-Americana” duo davId wax museum. 8 pm; $22 at 181 State St., 207.761.1757.

thursday 31 tuEsday 29 sunday 27 mUSIC’S NOT fOR EVERYONE

| While it’s rare to find the musician and performer IaN sveNoNIus without at least some of his tongue wedged firmly into cheek, his new book Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ’n’ Roll Group is a satisfying and seriously invigorating read (see this writer’s full review on page 12). He uncovers its themes in a sort of teach-in tonight at SPACE Gallery at 7:30, followed by a DJ set lasting until the magic runs out.

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| The New York Times made the controversial decision to shutter its Environmental section recently, folding the department’s seven reporters and two editors into other parts of the paper. This happens despite findings that climatechange coverage has declined in national media outlets since 2009.

One of those reporters is JustIN gIllIs, the writer who stewards the Green blog about energy and the environment, and who speaks at the College of the Atlantic’s Deering Campus Center at 7 pm. 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor, 207.288.5015.

TURN THE PAGE | File another month of life in the archive, and begin to wade into the deep waters of another theater season. Good Theater opens the dark comedy DeaTh By DesiGn this week, Penobscot in Bangor brings The suGar Bean sisTers, and Mad Horse, reviewed on page 20, takes the muzzle off BenGal TiGer in The BaGhDaD Zoo. SPACE celebrates the written word with a maINe womeN wrIte event while the Portland Public Library honors poet wesley mcNaIr, as another poet sharing his name, wesley hartley, continues the important work of remounting of his band the travelINg trees (at One Longfellow).

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art A brilliAnt exAmple lois DoDD’s first career retrospective showcases a briGht abstractionist _by Ken G re e n l e a f “Lois Dodd: Catching the Light” is the kind of show that reminds you why you got interested in art in the first place. The paintings are terrific and the big, first-floor gallery at the Portland Museum of Art has never looked better.

This is Dodd’s first career retrospective, and it is long overdue. There are more than 50 paintings that span 60 years. Many are large, the quality is uniformly high, and her method, while it has evolved over the years, has remained steady and consistent. Early in her career she found a way to work that suited her own needs and fulfilled her understanding of what art was about, and has followed it ever since with remarkable focus and clarity.

I’ve been a fan of Dodd’s for many years, and I’m in good company. She’s had a regular and appreciative audience of critics and other artists who love her work and sometimes learn from her way of seeing, or from her decades-long faith in her relationship to her own vision, or from both.

It would be no surprise to see a steady stream of visitors from New York and farther coming to Portland for this show.

Dodd began her showing career in the early 1950s, right around the high-water mark of New York School abstraction. At the time, modernist ideas had coalesced into something of an imperative toward abstraction, but there were a number of artists who felt that the sense of place and implicit narrative of representation still had powerful valence.

There was no going back after the reiterative self-awareness of Cézanne, Malevich, Eliot, Joyce, and Mondrian

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established conclusively that art was about the relationship between artist and viewer, and not about the subject. But a number of artists felt there was power in the relationship of the artist not so much to the subject, but to the subjective nature of the moment in its presence, and to the act of seeing it. Every day, even in the same spot, is different. Among those artists were Fairfield Porter, Alex Katz, Neil Welliver, and, especially, Lois Dodd. Many of them came to Maine from New York for part of the year, and in, say, the 1970s, one could easily walk into a 57th Street gallery and spot a recognizable scene from Lincolnville.

But it wasn’t about the scene as subject as much as it was about the artist’s presence at a place as an event. Dodd picks out subjects that will make a painting that resonates with her own interests. The rest is up to the viewer, who will take away their own, possibly rather different, experience, not of the place but of the painting.

Process is of very little value when discerning an artist’s thinking, but method is useful. The famous William Carlos Williams dictum “No ideas but in things” is at work here. In this show we can take a few of the formal outliers as a entry point for apprehending the pervasive, and interesting, underlying thinking that informs Dodd’s whole body of work.

Take, for instance the tall, skinny “Woods, 1975” — 14 feet tall by three wide.

The white house and yard in the bottom third are framed by tall thin spruce trunks that occupy the whole of the painting, and most of its area is filled by the trees’

‘RED VINE AND BLANKET, 1979’

crisscrossing horizontal branching. There is only one reason for such an unlikely framing arrangement: Dodd spotted it, liked it, and worked up the shape and size because she thought it would be interesting. It is.

Dodd’s color range can be complex and broad, but one particular painting, “Red Gladioli, 2005,” stands as an outer boundary of how she works with color. The background is in mostly greens, representing the foliage and stems of the plants. The blossoms, which course up through the painting moving slightly to the left, are brightly and unquestionably red, complementary in a way that makes the image visually unstable. It’s pretty big, four feet high by two wide, and cropped to provide little detail about the subject. This one vibrates and grabs you from a distance — a trick of the color, so to speak.

Dodd’s color is strong and coherent, and the effect of this whole group together

‘COW PARSNIP, 1996’

has a kind of luminosity that suggests the shows title actually makes sense, an exhibitional rarity. She doesn’t choose a subject because it’s inherently interesting or luminous; she picks it because she can make what she sees into a compelling painting, and that makes the subject interesting. It’s light created, more than light depicted.

It’s a subtle but important distinction.

The regular geometries of “Door, Staircase, 1981” and the color fields of “Burning House, Night, Vertical, 2007” and the implied domes of “Cow Parsnip, 1996” are worth looking at because of what she has made of them. She discovers, or uncovers, the poetic resonance of her subject.

We know it exists because she can see it and has the skills to make it available to others. We like these paintings because of what they are, rather than for what they show us.

The ideas are in the things, and they are good ideas. Picture after picture, Dodd’s penetrating pictorial intelligence shows through. They are thought out as pictures in the moment of their execution, not as demonstrations of a pre-conceived thesis. The kinds of things she thinks about could only be done as what they are.

The modernist reality of the awareness of the artificiality of any work of art coupled with the emotional and subjective awareness of place and circumstance result in a deep philosophical verity. These paintings are very real and very personal.

The modernist idea was born in Europe but grew up in the US. Dodd’s paintings, in that sense, are very American. Now in her mid-80s, Dodd has quietly worked her way through a long and productive career without the fanfare and argument that have been characteristic of many of her peers. She is still at the top of her game, and this exhibition shows she has been there for many years. ^

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theater Caging the tiger Mad Horse puTs on a searing puliTzer-noMinaTed iraq war play _by Megan gr u Mbling Not too long into Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, most of the characters pacing the stage are either dead, near death, or intimate enough with it to see ghosts. In an immediately post-Saddam Baghdad, violence and chaos are daily tangibles, and the dead are never truly gone. Between the deeds of a tyrant, two soldiers, a translator, and a tiger, playwright Rajiv Joseph weaves together potent and discomfiting threads in his Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama, produced by Mad Horse Theatre Company under the direction of Nathan Speckman.

The agonies here are thick and myriad. Disturbingly simple-minded US Marine Kev (Jake Cote) wants pussy, but he also CASUALTIES OF WAR The living evidence of terror and pain. aches to have any kind of friend in fellow Marine Tom (Evan Dalzell). Tommy, however, is imagery and whimpering before we begin to preoccupied with protecting his war spoils, a become desensitized. gold-plated semi-automatic and a gold toilet As the Tiger, and as a “guy” tiger at that, seat looted from Saddam’s dead son Uday Van Reenen is a bit of an odd choice. On (Brent Askari). Tom’s reluctant Arabic interBroadway, the role was played by Robin Wilpreter, Musa (Mark Rubin), once worked as liams, whose usual barely-contained kinetic a garden artist for Uday, whom he had every energy was probably put to good use as a reason to loathe; now he’s disgusted by the dangerously constrained cat. Van Reenen ignorant self-interest of his new American hits the Tiger’s wry, languishing anomie boss. Finally, the Tiger (Tootie Van Reenen) compellingly, but could do more to evoke — only recently shipped to Baghdad and the beast’s frustrated strength and sinews pretty pissed off about it, and shot by Kev in — perhaps in a blocking that better utilized the very first scene — philosophizes remorsethe show’s in-the-round staging to help drafully on his life as a killer and the God that matize the Tiger’s and others’ philosophical made it so. anguish.

Cote’s unsettling Kev has the most nuThe writing is both sensational and exance and the best-dramatized arc in Bengal pository. “The tiger keeps talking about episTiger, a play whose characters are sometimes temology and original sin,” complains Kev difficult to invest in, perhaps partly because to Tom, “and it’s annoying as fuck.” It kind of the allegorical flavor of the script. But of is, sometimes: while the ideas that these Kev inspires a dramatically convincing amcharacters grapple with — the perpetuation bivalence. Even early on, as he’s creepily obof violence, the relation of the living and the sessed with shooting animals and “getting dead — are of vital importance, it’s tiring to his dick wet,” his deep need for human conhear them told rather than shown, as when nection is a poignant source of sympathy.

Kev mulls, “What happens now that I am There are plenty of reasons to despise his colaware of and sensitive to the universe?” league Tom, but it’s harder to crack into this That said, Joseph writes a few arrestingly gold-looter’s anguish. In Dalzell’s hands, lovely, painful, fraught details, and SpeckTom’s barking aggression nicely bespeaks man and his actors handle them beautifully. cultural arrogance and a desperation underOne is when an Iraqi prostitute (Allison lying it; I’d like to see him brought closer to a McCall) inspects Tom’s “bionic hand” and more vulnerable breaking point. sweetly, candidly laughs to Musa in Arabic Askari pulls out the stops in his inimithat it “smells like milk” — a detail sometable, sarcasm-dripping fashion, portraying how at once humane and deeply strange, an eminently despicable Uday. His psychoand reprised later to haunting effect. Such pathic, faux-jovial tormenting of Rubin’s small details best let us feel the enormity of sympathetic, subtle Musa is dark and often these creatures’ immeasurable horrors, as quite graphic stuff, and I only wish that the well as their glints of absolution. ^ script had employed a little more economy in presenting this relationship: the drawing Bengal Tiger aT The Baghdad Zoo | by Rajiv out of even verbal torture certainly heightens Joseph | Directed by Nathan Speckman | Prothe agony of the victim, but an audience duced by Mad Horse Theatre Company | though can be presented with only so much sadistic February 3 | 207.730.2389

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Books Mysterious strangers LocaL susPense noveL conJures summertime _by D eir D r e Fu Lton plot and smooth writing, there are several I f these chilly winter days have you sections that would have benefitted from dreaming of sunbathing on the a bit more showing, and little less telling. beach, a new mystery novel by Maine auParticularly, Pahigian has a tendency to thor Josh Pahigian could be just the thing overexplain his characters’ emotional reato turn up the heat. soning. Consider this passage: Set in Old Orchard Beach over the “Marisol did not identify her lover by course of a summer, Strangers on the Beach is name, but she told the girls she’d been Pahigian’s first work of fiction; the partswept off her feet and taken away,” Patime University of New England writing higian writes. “She told them he’d been professor has previously written several twice her age, and that he’d taken her all books about baseball. It’s an impressive over the world. But in time she’d grown debut. This suspenseful thriller, imbued lonely and resentful. He’d told her where with local flavor (settings include Old to go, and how to act, and she’d never had Orchard Beach landmarks such as The any real say in anything. She’d begun to Brunswick and Beach Bagels), is a pagefeel like a kept woman, like she was just turner with short, snappy chapters that there for his pleasure.” often end in cliffhangers. It would make a Compelling complexity, to be sure, great beach read, come to think of it. but the reader already knows much of Pahigian introduces the reader to a this from earlier scenes. It’s almost like diverse and well-drawn cast of characters, the non-fiction author in Pahigian wants including wealthy foreign adventurer to make absolutely sure his readers unFerdinand Sevigny, whose arrival in town derstand what’s going on in his fictional sets off a deadly chain of events; his beaucharacters’ heads — but perhaps he could tiful younger mistress, Marisol, who has trust his audience more. Still, none of his hidden motivations of her own; Billy, interpretations or explanations are offthe teenaged son of a local alcoholic who base, so this quibble is minor. simply wants to escape his bleak life; and Strangers on the Beach is at its core a very Sally, a mentally challenged older woman self-contained thriller, leaving few loose who sees much but says little. All their ends in its wake. We are left with the lives, and more, become intertwined on impression that even after the Sevigny an early-summer evening before the inshake-up, the townies, the year-rounders, flux of tourists arrives. will resume their routines in short order.

Skepticism of outsiders — those who They will be perfectly happy to let the are from away as well as those who live waves wash away the brief, if exciting, inoutside of accepted boundaries —is a trusion, and to relish the quiet of winter, theme explored throughout the book. Of when fewer strangers come around. ^ course, the central plot relies on the concept of foreign invaders, a/k/a strangers, disrupting a sleepy summer town set in its StrangerS on the Beach | by Josh Pahiroutines. Additionally, there are several gian | 282 pages | Islandport Press | $22.95 | places where Pahigian (who currently lives Josh Pahigian reads January 30 @ 6:30 pm at in Buxton but formerly lived and worked McArthur Public Library, 207 Main St, Bidin OOB) makes sharp observations about deford | February 7 @ 7 pm at North Gorham tensions between locals and tourists, and Public Library, 2 Standish Neck Rd, Gorham this undertone of mistrust courses through | February 9 @ 2 pm at Thomas Memorial the novel.

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A LIoneSS of A LAdy LAMb The delivery is primal, shouted: “I’m as blue as blood before the blood goes red.” It is just one more reminder late in Lady Lamb the Beekeeper’s debut album, Ripely Pine, that she is no meek Lamb to be led around, but rather Queen Bee, very much a force of nature. If you’ve even glanced at Aly Spaltro’s photo (she’s the band, all by herself or otherwise), or seen her five-foot-nothing figure out in public, you know as soon as you hear the opening “Hair to the Ferris Wheel” that she summons her arresting voice from someplace seemingly outside herself, like her spirit is wearing a body three sizes too small.

The first bars simmer, moody with a spare electric guitar that will come to seem like Lady Lamb’s fifth limb, and her voice has no huskiness that might indicate even an extra effort to get so low.

“Love is selfish,” she leers, “love goes tick tock tick/And love knows Jesus/Apples and oranges.” What the fuck that means I don’t really care because the care with which she lets each word drop is exacting, like she’s mulling them over, unsure about them, wanting to view them from every angle, inside and out.

Spaltro does this throughout the album, sometimes seeming to actually move in with certain phrases, living with them for months before setting them free.

But then, after just a hint of clicking static, late enough in a long song that you’ve forgotten it might happen, there

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is a full rock entrance: “It’s a zoo in your room ... and you long to kiss like you won’t exist come the morningtime.” The drums come in rapid-fire bursts and then there is a muscular and grungy distorted guitar solo before we’re alternately caressed and slapped by a cappella vocals and staccato bursts of guitar.

From that point forward, you’re on notice to be on your toes. In songs that often sprawl out past five minutes, and sometimes build in chambers of backing strings and horns, Lady Lamb will take you wherever her muse leads and it’s nigh impossible not to follow.

“Rooftop” is the “single,” released first to the public as though for a radio station that doesn’t exist, a compact three minutes. It’s probably the catchiest out of the gate, with a quick snare keeping things lively and an indie-rock plinking of notes moving up and down the fretboard as a central message. But then are there trombones that bleed in, just a scratch of highup fiddle, then a full-on string section laying a backing bed, even clanking pots and pans for God’s sake, so much going on that it’s nearly overwhelming.

Overwhelming is Spaltro’s stock and trade. Hearing her live, even if only on the Live at Brighton Music Hall album that was just kind of given life and let wander on the Internet last year, you’ll find she may be even more strident and invested than she is here in the studio, taking a song like “Aubergine” and burying her face in

makinG heR own imaGe lady lamb the beekeeper gets going with a powerful disc. it, sinking her teeth to the gums.

Somehow, there’s a bass like a dance track, an old-school soul delivery with energy like Spaltro’s unhinged. Seriously.

Listen to the mocking “ha, ha, ha, ha” that helps close the truly rocking “Bird Balloons,” which is otherwise like 6gig with rounded edges, plus a hip-hop bravado: “I’m a ghost and you all know it/I’m singing songs and I ain’t slowin’.” And is that Dr. Dre programming the strings after the tempo change into a strut?

But we’re talking unhinged. How about “I still need your teeth in my organs” as a

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F When the music you make fits no social or historical milieu whatsoever, you know you’re on to something. this is the juncture that multi-instrumentalist RobeRt Stillman finds himself at upon release of the new long-player Station Wagon Interior Perspective (A Requiem for John Fahey). With the record, the portland-born musician takes on the specter (or “spectre,” perhaps — Stillman’s a Briton now) of the american primitive guitarist with many instrumental arrangements — not one of them involving guitar. Why such deviation from the form? Because though it may appear like a parlor trick, such tortuous routes are necessary to charm and seduce a ghost, especially one as famously curmudgeonly as Fahey. the album, issued locally as a 10-inch

on apohadion RecoRdS under the name robert Stillman and the archaic Future players, is a fuzzily familiar mix of pre-jazz american folk, lurching brass toots, and skeletal sound-collage. it’s a creative retelling of a music legend, and one that won’t prompt its spectral muse to emerge from the spiritual plane to issue a corrective.

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F We’ve been meaning to ask: do you drone? yeah, us too. and lately we’ve been doing so, in small doses, with indRe StyRke, a dark ambient project of rural Ghosts’ frontman erik neilson. the demo track “Good morning Sun” falls somewhere between the meditations of robert rich and a psychotically Twin Peaks-y new age bliss. Will Finest Times, the project’s promised full-length, follow suit? and when?

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F there’s a debate raging in the Wax Tablet offices about which is more colorful: the sunshine-and-lollipops imagery of inaugural poet richard Blanco’s “one today,” or the sparkling new video for Jaw GemS’ “Star Visor.” it’s heated. Some are in thrall to Blanco’s lyrical paean to “finishing one more report for the boss on time” and testament to building the “last floor of the Freedom tower.” others are more passionate about the imaginative stanzas of tyler Quist and hassan muhammad’s synth lines. Some quiver at Blanco’s rendering of “one moon like a silent drum tapping on every rooftop;” others at the stilted, jittery meter of dJ moore’s drumwork.

Some line up to salute the poet’s “rhythm of traffic lights, fruit stands: apples, limes, and oranges arranged like rainbows begging our praise(,)” while others can’t pull themselves away

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repeated lament? It’s what drives “You Are the Apple,” a jazz-punk tune that features a sneaky three-note guitar riff and stalker vamp. She’s magnesium on fire, but you never want to look away.

After years of living only with her first demos done in a home set-up, the amount of volume and body Brooklyn-based producer Nadim Issa delivers from such sparse arrangements (all done by Spaltro) is just so satisfying. It’s every bit an artist coming into her own. To see this executed with a full band — to reportedly include bass, drums, trumpets, trombone, violins, viola, cello, tuba, clarinet, keyboards, autoharp, and a choir (maybe not all at once) — will be pretty special, indeed.

Often enough, though, Spaltro proves she doesn’t need much accompaniment at all. “Regarding the Ascending Stairs” is a banjo tune like Abigail Washburn’s sorta-goth sister, where you can hear her walk in, sit down, and begin to play, and the sentiment is like this: “You handle me like an infant skull/And I cradle you like a newborn nightmare.”

After a whole song’s worth of patience, a playful electric bass line pops in, along with a tambourine. It fades and comes back even better, integrated with the banjo plucking so that they bounce off each other like helium atoms in a balloon.

How is this woman only 23? Her feel for dynamics, depth of feeling, and general grace are pretty special. To think that this is just the beginning? That’s fairly exciting. ^

Robert Stillman from the drippily kaleidoscopic visuals of directors Jay Brown and paul mihailoff. While our hQ remains bitterly divided, make sure your personal bureau of creative arts stays well informed.

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ASYLUM | Portland | downstairs: “Plague,” goth/industrial night with Scavenger + Znuh + Bullet Bill | 9 pm | $2-5 BIG EASY | Portland | “Cover to Cover,” live album cover night: When Particles Collide perform Green Day’s “Dookie,” with original set | 9 pm | $5 BLUE | Portland | Bob Rasero | 6 pm | Putnam Murdock | 8 pm | Trapparatus | 10 pm BRIAN BORU | Portland | Jason Spooner Band | 9 pm | Jumpoff | 9 pm BUBBA’S SULKY LOUNGE | Portland | “80s Night,” with DJ Jon | 9 pm | $5 BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/FREEPORT | Freeport | Travis James Humphrey & the Honky Tonk Love Machine | 9:30 pm THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | Portland | Brian Patricks | 5 pm | Travis James Humphrey | 5 pm EMPIRE DINE AND DANCE | Portland | upstairs: Coke Weed + An Evening With + Micah Blue Smaldone | 9 pm | $6 FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | “Slow & Low,” EDM with Mr. Dereloid + Ed Garrison + Chris Gauthier | 9 pm GENO’S | Portland | Great Western Plain + MiniBoone + Bunny’s Swine + R.S.O. | 9 pm | $5 GILBERT’S CHOWDER HOUSE/ WINDHAM | Windham | Ralph Arse-

nault | 6 pm

Express | 9 pm GOLD ROOM | Portland | Chance Langton | 8 pm | $10 JAMESON TAVERN | Freeport | Travis James Humphrey | 6 pm JOE’S NEW YORK PIZZA | Portland | DJ Roy LOCAL BUZZ | Cape Elizabeth | Brian Patricks | 8 pm | Tumbling Bones | 8 pm LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | “Resurgam Records,” showcase | 7 pm MAYO STREET ARTS | Portland | Greg Jamie + Lisa/Liza + Wesley Allen Hartley + Acid Smoker | 8 pm | $5 OASIS | Portland | DJ Lenza | 8 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | DJ Tubbs | 9 pm ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | Portland | Chad Hollister Trio | 8 pm | $15-20 PROFENNO’S | Westbrook | karaoke with DJ Bob Libby | 9 pm RIRA | Portland | Complaints | 10 pm STYXX | Portland | DJ Tony B | 9 pm ZACKERY’S | Portland | Straight Lace | 8:30 pm | $5

SATURDAY 26

51 WHARF | Portland | lounge: DJ

Tony B | 9 pm | main floor: DJ Jay-C | 9 pm ASYLUM | Portland | upstairs: “Strike a Chord: a Music Discovery Funhouse,” interactive music exhibit with Portland Music Foundation | noon | downstairs: “Balance,” house music with Marcus Caine + Jeremy Chaim + VJ Foo + Ed Garrison | 9 pm | upstairs: Gin Blossoms + Worried Well + Crash Boom Bang | 9 pm | $26-29 BAYSIDE BOWL | Portland | “Tiki Freakout,” with Vivisectors + Icepicks + Caught Flies + Zombie Beach | 8 pm | $5 BIG EASY | Portland | Sly-Chi + Eyenine | 8:30 pm | $8 BLUE | Portland | Marc Chillemi Quartet | 6 pm | Domino Jazz | 8 pm | Wurlibird | 10 pm BUBBA’S SULKY LOUNGE | Portland | “Everything Dance Party,” with DJ Jon | 9 pm THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | Portland | Wetsuits EMPIRE DINE AND DANCE | Portland | upstairs: All Good Feel Good Collective + Eight Feet Tall + Joint Chiefs | 9 pm | $5 FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | Electrovangogh + Animal Colors | 9 pm GENO’S | Portland | Her Majesty’s Cabaret + Wilbur Wilbur Nealbur + A Severe Joy + Chamberlain | 9 pm | $5 GINGKO BLUE | Portland | Rick Miller & His Band | 8 pm GRITTY MCDUFF’S | Portland | Chronic Funk JOE’S NEW YORK PIZZA | Portland | DJ Roy LOCAL BUZZ | Cape Elizabeth | Nick Ludington | 8 pm LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | Tumbling Bones | 11 am | Dark Follies + So Sol + Lauren Zuniga | 7 pm OASIS | Portland | club: DJ Lenza | 8 pm | downstairs: DJ Tiny Dancer | 8 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | DJ Tubbs | 9 pm ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | Portland | Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters | 8 pm | $27-30 PROFENNO’S | Westbrook | DJ Jim Fahey | 9 pm RIRA | Portland | Tickle | 10 pm SEASONS GRILLE | Portland | karaoke with Long Island Larry | 8:30 pm SLAINTE | Portland | “Dance Night,” with Deejay Tremendous Cream + Deejay Marieke VI | 9 pm SONNY’S | Portland | Mosart212 STYXX | Portland | back room: DJ Chris O | 9 pm | front room: DJ Kate Rock | 9 pm

SUNDAY 27

BRIAN BORU | Portland | open traditional Irish session | 3 pm DOBRA TEA | Portland | “Rhythmic Cypher” open mic & poetry slam | 7 pm FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | “Trap Night,” hip hop with Pensivv + El Shupacabra + Sandbag + Mr Harps + God.Damn.Chan. + Psychologist | 9 pm LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | Sean Mencher | 11 am OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | karaoke with DJ Don Cormin + DJ Mike Mahoney | 9 pm PROFENNO’S | Westbrook | open mic | 6 pm RIRA | Portland | Sly-Chi | noon SPACE GALLERY | Portland | Ian Svenonius: “Supernatural Strategies,” book reading & DJ set | 7:30 pm STYXX | Portland | karaoke with Cherry Lemonade | 7 pm

MONDAY 28

BIG EASY | Portland | “The Players’ Ball,” funk jam | 9 pm | $3 EMPIRE DINE AND DANCE | Portland | downstairs: open jam | 6 pm | downstairs: North of Nashville | 8 pm FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | Lord Earth + Builder of the House | 8 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | karaoke with DJ Don Cormin + DJ Mike Mahoney | 9 pm STYXX | Portland | DJ Captain Steve | 9:30 pm

TUESDAY 29

BIG EASY | Portland | “Cover to Cover,” live album cover night: Mama’s Boomshack perform Parliament’s “Mothership Connection,” with original set | 9 pm | $5 BULL FEENEY’S | Portland | open mic poetry with Port Veritas | 9:30 pm EMPIRE DINE AND DANCE | Portland | downstairs: Will Gattis + Scott Girouard | 8 pm GRITTY MCDUFF’S | Portland | Travis James Humphrey | 10 pm LOCAL 188 | Portland | Jaw Gems | 10 pm LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | Mark Dennis | 7 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | karaoke with DJ Don Cormin + DJ Mike Mahoney | 9 pm RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Saco | open mic with Joint Enterprise | 8-11 pm SEA DOG BREWING/SOUTH PORTLAND | South Portland | open mic |

9:30 pm

SLAINTE | Portland | karaoke with DJ

Ponyfarm | 9 pm

WEDNESDAY 30

ASYLUM | Portland | upstairs: karaoke with DJ Johnny Red | 9 pm

BIG EASY | Portland | “Rap Night,”

with Ill By Instinct + Shupe | 9 pm | $3 BINGA’S STADIUM | Portland | downstairs: DJ Verbatum | 8:30 pm BLUE | Portland | Tim Adam’s Bodhran Spectacular | 7:30 pm | traditional Irish session | 9:30 pm EMPIRE DINE AND DANCE | Portland | upstairs: “Clash of the Titans: T Rex vs ELO,” live cover night | 9:30 pm | $6 FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | Isaiah Bennett | 7:30 pm GINGKO BLUE | Portland | Jennifer Porter | 6 pm LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | old time music jam | 7 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | karaoke with DJ Don Cormin + DJ Mike Mahoney | 9 pm ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | Portland | Tift Merritt + David Wax Museum | 8 pm | $18-22 RIRA | Portland | Jeff Cusack | 8:30 pm

SLAINTE | Portland | open mic | 8 pm | Kwesi Kankam | 10 pm

THURSDAY 31

302 SPORTS BAR & GRILLE | Windham | karaoke with DJ Billy Young 51 WHARF | Portland | DJ Revolve | 9 pm

ASYLUM | Portland | downstairs:

“Al’s Basement,” with DJ King Alberto | 9 pm BIG EASY | Portland | Band Beyond Description | 10 pm BLUE | Portland | Wesley Hartley & the Traveling Trees + Sorcha + Henry Jamison | 7 pm BRIAN BORU | Portland | North of Nashville | 9:30 pm EMPIRE DINE AND DANCE | Portland | downstairs: Pete Witham & the Cozmik Zombies | 7:30 pm FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | “Blaqdada,” with Che Ros + Bary Juicy | 9 pm GENO’S | Portland | Diapasyn + KBG | 8 pm | $5 GINGKO BLUE | Portland | Octane | 8 pm GRITTY MCDUFF’S | Portland | Vinyl Tap | 8 pm LOCAL 188 | Portland | DJ Boondocks | 10 pm LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | Jimmy Dority | 7 pm OASIS | Portland | DJ Lenza | 8 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | karaoke with DJ Don Cormin + DJ Mike Mahoney | 9 pm PEARL | Portland | Maine Electronic | 10 pm RIRA | Portland | Kilcollins | 10 pm

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SEA DOG BREWING/SOUTH PORTLAND | South Portland | karaoke | 10 pm

SONNY’S | Portland | Jaw Gems | 10 pm

STYXX | Portland | DJ Kate | 9 pm

MAINE THURSDAY 24

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BIG EASY LOUNGE | Bangor | Kevin Bate | 9 pm

BRAY’S BREWPUB | Naples | kara-

oke with Pete Powers | 9 pm

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK |

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CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR |

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FRESH | Camden | Lee Sykes | 6 pm FRONTIER CAFE | Brunswick |

“Frontiers of Music #7,” with New England Improvisers Orchestra | 7 pm | by donation FUSION | Lewiston | open mic | 9 pm HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | Bangor | Daniel Taylor | 8 pm IPANEMA BAR & GRILL | Bangor | Red Stripes THE LIBERAL CUP | Hallowell | Juke Joint Devils | 7 pm MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | Standish | DJ Steady + Dray Sr. + Dray Jr. + Envy MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | Woolwich | Mike Rodrigue | 6 pm MOOSE ALLEY | Rangeley | North of Nashville | 8 pm PHOENIX PUB | Bangor | DJ Reid | 8 pm THE RACK | Kingfield | open mic RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Saco | Pitch Black Ribbons | 8 pm SAVORY MAINE | Damariscotta | Hurry Down Sunshine | 6 pm

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| Ragged Jack | 8 pm GUTHRIE’S | Lewiston | A Moment’s Notice | 8 pm HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | Bangor | Rockin’ Ron | 9 pm IRISH TWINS PUB | Lewiston | Random Order KERRYMEN PUB | Saco | Gorilla Finger Dub Band | 8 pm LEGENDS RESTAURANT | Newry | Denny Breau | 7 pm MAINE STREET | Ogunquit | karaoke | 9 pm MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | Girls, Guns, & Glory | 9 pm MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | Standish | DJ Laser Lou MILLBROOK TAVERN & GRILLE | Bethel | Brad Hooper | 8 pm MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | Woolwich | Chuck & Jerry | 6 pm MOOSE ALLEY | Rangeley | Last Kid Picked | 9 pm NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | Bangor | Him & Her | 8 pm PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | Bangor | Dakota

MILLBROOK TAVERN & GRILLE |

CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN | Buckfield | karaoke | 7 pm

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Bid-

NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | Bangor

David Mello | 7 pm

THE OAK AND THE AX | Biddeford |

Mello | 6 pm | open mic blues jam with Dave Mello | 9 pm MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | Woolwich | open mic | 7 pm NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | Bangor | jazz jam with G Majors | 7 pm PADDY MURPHY’S | Bangor | open mic | 9:30 pm PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | Bangor | DJ Tew Phat | 7 pm

SLIDERS RESTAURANT | Newry | SPLITTERS | Augusta | karaoke SUDS PUB | Bethel | Dan Stevens |

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O’Death + “Little” Timmy Findlen & His Aroostook Hillbillies | 8 pm | $10 PEAK LODGE | Newry | Poke Chop & The Other White Meats | 7 pm PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | Bangor | Dakota PHOENIX HOUSE & WELL | Newry | Deepshine | 4 pm | Shut Down Brown | 9 pm RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Saco | Girls, Guns, & Glory | 8 pm SAVORY MAINE | Damariscotta | “Young Musician Showcase” | 6 pm SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM | Topsham | karaoke with DJ Stormin’ Norman | 10 pm SILVER SPUR | Mechanic Falls | Record Family | Record Family SLIDERS RESTAURANT | Newry | Adam Waxman | 7 pm STUDIO BISTRO AND BAR | Bethel | Caroline Cotter | 7:30 pm TUCKER’S PUB | Norway | Denny Breau + Arlo West WATER STREET GRILL | Gardiner | Rock Street Refugees | 9 pm WIDOWMAKER LOUNGE | Kingfield | Ross Livermore Band YORK HARBOR INN | York Harbor | Dan Stevens | 8 pm

Richard Cranium

SUNDAY 27

7:30 pm

TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | Gray |

karaoke

TUG’S PUB | Southport | Steve Jones Trio | 5:30 pm VACANCY PUB | Old Orchard Beach | karaoke | 9 pm WATER STREET GRILL | Gardiner | DJ Roger Collins | 9 pm WIDOWMAKER LOUNGE | Kingfield | Ross Livermore Band

SATURDAY 26

BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | Dover Fox-

Brunswick | Bitter Brew | 8 pm CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Biddeford | DJ Filthy Rich | 9 pm CRYSTAL FALLS | Chelsea | Almost

Tribute]

TUESDAY 29

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SHOOTERS BILLIARDS BAR & GRILL | Lincoln | karaoke SILVER SPUR | Mechanic Falls | Cow-

BULL MOOSE LOUNGE | Dexter | Deejay Relykz

Standish | Back in Black [AC/DC

deford | Travis James Humphrey |

ALL AMERICAN TAVERN | West Paris | Jordan Kaulback + Frontline BEAR BREW PUB | Orono | DJ Maine

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK |

MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL |

Bethel | Pete Kilpatrick | 8:30 pm MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | Woolwich | Ron Durgin Trio | 6 pm MOOSE ALLEY | Rangeley | Last Kid

THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE GRILLE | Old Orchard Beach | Tickle |

8:30 pm

Ski & Stay

Nick Racciopi | 7 pm THE RACK | Kingfield | Darlin’ Corey | 9 pm RAVEN’S ROOST | Brunswick | Red Sky Mary | 8 pm

Event | 9 pm

croft | Black Rose

BLACK BEAR CAFE | Naples | Paddy Mills

BRAY’S BREWPUB | Naples | Pam Baker & the SGs | 9 pm

BRIDGE STREET TAVERN | Augusta

| Dead Season

THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE GRILLE | Old Orchard Beach | HurriBULL MOOSE LOUNGE | Dexter | BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK |

Brunswick | Bitter Brew | 8 pm | Bitter Brew | 8 pm

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Bid-

deford | DJ Filthy Rich | 9 pm CLUB TEXAS | Auburn | Jeroba Jump | 8 pm

THE FOGGY GOGGLE | Newry | Joshua

Tree [U2 tribute] | 9 pm FUSION | Lewiston | DJ Kool V | 9 pm THE GREEN ROOM | Sanford | Sun Dog | 9 pm HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | Bangor | Daniel Taylor | 3 pm IRISH TWINS PUB | Lewiston | ForeFront THE KENNEBEC WHARF | Hallowell | Nikki Hunt Band KERRYMEN PUB | Saco | Lower East Side | 8 pm LEGENDS RESTAURANT | Newry | Jim Gallant | 7 pm THE LIBERAL CUP | Hallowell | Muddy Marsh Ramblers | 9 pm LOMPOC CAFE | Bar Harbor | Forget Forget MAINE STREET | Ogunquit | DJ Ken | 9 pm MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | Sam Shain & the Scolded Dogs | 9 pm

302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN |

Fryeburg | Tom Rebmann | 11 am BRAY’S BREWPUB | Naples | open mic | 8 pm

9 pm

THE END ZONE | Waterville | open mic | 5 pm

MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | Dave

WEDNESDAY 30

BACK BURNER TAVERN | Brownfield

| open acoustic jam

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Biddeford | Travis James Humphrey | 9 pm CHARLAMAGNE’S | Augusta | open mic DAVIS ISLAND GRILL | Edgecomb | open mic FAST BREAKS | Lewiston | open blues jam with Denny Breau FUSION | Lewiston | VJ Pulse | 9 pm IPANEMA BAR & GRILL | Bangor | karaoke IRISH TWINS PUB | Lewiston | karaoke THE KENNEBEC WHARF | Hallowell | open jam with Derek Savage | 9 pm PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | Bangor | karaoke with DJ Ed McCurdy | 7 pm SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM | Topsham | open mic | 9:30 pm WOODMAN’S BAR & GRILL | Orono | open mic | 10 pm

THURSDAY 31

302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN |

Fryeburg | open mic with Coopers |

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Bid-

8:30 pm

| 9:30 pm FRESH | Camden | Blind Albert | 6 pm THE LIBERAL CUP | Hallowell | Bobby do J-Max | 5 pm MAINE STREET | Ogunquit | karaoke | 9 pm PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | Bangor | karaoke with DJ Ed McCurdy | 7 pm TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | Gray | open mic blues jam | 4 pm

bur

deford | karaoke with DJ Don Corman

MONDAY 28

FRESH | Camden | Paddy Mills | 6 pm MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | open mic | 8:30 pm

MARGARITA’S/AUBURN | Auburn |

karaoke | 8 pm

PADDY MURPHY’S | Bangor | kara-

oke | 9:30 pm

PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | Lewiston | open mic

SLATES RESTAURANT AND BAKERY | Hallowell | Denny Breau + Paul

Melynn + Ann Breau | 8:15 pm | $15

BEAR BREW PUB | Orono | DJ CaliBEAR’S DEN TAVERN | Dover Foxcroft | karaoke

BRAY’S BREWPUB | Naples | Gorilla

Finger Dub Band | 9 pm

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK |

Brunswick | karaoke | 8:30 pm CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN | Buckfield | open mic | 7 pm

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Bidd-

eford | karaoke with DJ Biggs | 9 pm THE DEPOT PUB | Gardiner | Nikki

Hunt Band FUSION | Lewiston | open mic | 9 pm HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | Bangor | Daniel Taylor | 8 pm IPANEMA BAR & GRILL | Bangor | Red Stripes IRISH TWINS PUB | Lewiston | Mike Krapovicky THE LIBERAL CUP | Hallowell | Steve Jones Band | 7 pm NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | Bangor | DJ Baby Bok Choy + DJ T Coz | 8 pm

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THE RACK | Kingfield | open mic RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB |

Saco | Pat Foley | 8 pm SAVORY MAINE | Damariscotta | Hurry Down Sunshine | 6 pm

SEA DOG BREWING/BANGOR |

Bangor | karaoke | 9 pm SUDS PUB | Bethel | Denny Breau

NEW HAMPSHIRE THURSDAY 24

STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Big

Hush Sweet Harlot,” with Jay Psaros + GramaFoma | 8 pm RIRA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Oran Mor | 7 pm SPRING HILL TAVERN | Portsmouth | Old School | 9 pm

SATURDAY 26

TUESDAY 29

Jamsterdam

raoke | 8 pm

BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth | CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | Drama

BARLEY PUB | Dover | bluegrass jam

Squad DJs | 9 pm

CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | Ken

Double Shot

with Steve Roy | 9 pm

Ormes Trio

CHOP SHOP PUB | Seabrook | karaoke

DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover |

James McGarvey | 9 pm

FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover |

Maganahan’s Revival THE HOLY GRAIL | Epping | Chris O’Neil | 8:30 pm MARTINGALE WHARF | Portsmouth | B-Cap | 8 pm PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Bob Halperin | 9 pm RIRA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Joel Cage | 10 pm RUDI’S | Portsmouth | Chris Klaxton | 6 pm SPRING HILL TAVERN | Portsmouth | Tim Theriault | 9 pm STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Irish session | 6 pm | Lady Soul + Wave/ Decay + Blacklight Ruckus | 9 pm | $5 THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | Portsmouth | Bad Baby | 8 pm

FRIDAY 25

BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth | Seth Gooby + Peter Squires CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | Drama Squad DJs | 9 pm DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Portsmouth | karaoke | 9 pm DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Charlotte Locke + Nemes | 9 pm FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | Tim McCoy & the Papercuts HILTON GARDEN INN | Portsmouth | Wellfleet THE HOLY GRAIL | Epping | Side Car | 8:30 pm HONEY POT BAR & LOUNGE | Seabrook | Ghosts of Rory + A Minor Revolution KELLEY’S ROW | Dover | Livin’ the Dream | 9 pm KJ’S SPORTS BAR | Newmarket | karaoke | 9 pm THE LOFT AT STRAFFORD FARMS

| Dover | Dan Walker

MARTINGALE WHARF | Portsmouth | Marina Davis & Dave Brown | 8 pm

MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | karaoke

THE OAR HOUSE | Portsmouth | Bob Arens & Margo Reola | 8 pm

PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Ports-

mouth | grill: Sev | 9:30 pm | pub: Brooks Hubbard | 10 pm

PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Juliet &

the Lonesome Romeos | 9 pm | $5 THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | George Vala + Audioprophecy | 9 pm RUDI’S | Portsmouth | Duke Snyder | 6 pm SPRING HILL TAVERN | Portsmouth | Brickyard Blues | 9:30 pm

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Ol’ Dirty Bucket + Eight Feet Tall | 9 pm | $5-7 THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | Portsmouth | Old Abode | 9 pm WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | Old Bastards | 9 pm

CHOP SHOP PUB | Seabrook | DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

mouth | karaoke | 9 pm

DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | A Simple Complex + East is East | 9 pm FAT BELLY’S | Portsmouth | DJ Provo | 7 pm FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | Watkinsonics HILTON GARDEN INN | Portsmouth | Rick Watson THE HOLY GRAIL | Epping | Robert Charles | 8:30 pm KELLEY’S ROW | Dover | Gazpacho | 9 pm KJ’S SPORTS BAR | Newmarket | karaoke | 9 pm THE OAR HOUSE | Portsmouth | Don Severance | 8 pm PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Portsmouth | grill: Dave Clark | 9:30 pm | pub: Jimmy D | 10 pm PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Larry Garland & Friends | 1 pm | Jim Dozet Group | 9 pm | $5 THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Matt McNeill | 9 pm RIRA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Tim Theriault | 10 pm RUDI’S | Portsmouth | Chris Klaxton | 6 pm SPRING HILL TAVERN | Portsmouth | Rhythm Method | 9:30 pm STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Paranoid Social Club | 9 pm | $10 THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | Portsmouth | Todo Bien | 9 pm WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | Rage | 9 pm

SUNDAY 27

DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

mouth | karaoke | 9 pm

DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | karaoke with DJ Erich Kruger | 8 pm MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | karaoke PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Jon Lorentz Quartet | 6 pm | $10 THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Green Lion Crew | 9 pm | $5 RUDI’S | Portsmouth | Sharon Jones | 11 am SPRING HILL TAVERN | Portsmouth | Jim Gallant | 7 pm STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | open mic with Dave Ogden | 7 pm WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | Rob Benton | 9 pm

MONDAY 28

CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | karaoke with Davey K | 9 pm MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | karaoke PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Jim Dozet Trio | 8 pm

THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE |

Portsmouth | Eddie Japan + Kingsley Flood | 9 pm

COMEDY

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THURSDAY 24

CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | karaoke with Nick Papps | 10 pm

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COUSIN SAM’S PIZZERIA AND BREW | Rochester | Tony Santesse

| 5 pm

FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | Tim Theriault | 9 pm

MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | karaoke

OPEN MIC | 8 pm | Slainte, 24 Preble

FRIDAY 25

FOCUS GROUP | improv comedy | 8 pm | Next Generation Theatre, 39 Center St, Brewer | 207.989.7100 or nextgenerationtheatre.com TOM HAYES + JAY GROVE + TAMMY POOLER | 8 pm | Franco-

PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | jazz jam with Larry Garland | 5:30 pm | “Hoot,” open mic | 9 pm SPRING HILL TAVERN | Portsmouth | George Belli | 8 pm STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | bluegrass jam with Dave Talmage | 9 pm THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | Portsmouth | open mic | 8 pm

House, 29 Elm St, Camden | $15 | 207.236.7963 or www.camdenoperahouse.com

WEDNESDAY 30

SUNDAY 27

mic | 8:30 pm

CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | DJ Bobby

pm | Mama’s Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

CHOP SHOP PUB | Seabrook | ka-

THURSDAY 31

BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth | open Freedom raoke

DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St, Lewiston | $10-12 | 207.689.2000

SATURDAY 26

ERIN DONOVAN: “I’M GONNA KILL HIM” | 7:30 pm | Camden Opera

”OFFBEAT COMEDY,” OPEN MIC | 9

OPEN MIC | See listing for Thurs

mouth | open mic | 8 pm

FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | All Good Feel Good Collective

MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | karaoke

PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Ross

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Robinson | 9 pm

CLASSICAL

redy | 9 pm

THURSDAY 24

THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | EvaRIRA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth |

ROY MACNEIL | 7:30 pm | University

open mic | 8 pm RUDI’S | Portsmouth | Dimitri Yiannicopulus | 6 pm SPRING HILL TAVERN | Portsmouth | Kate Redgate | 8 pm THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | Portsmouth | Reverie Machine WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | “Hip Hop Wednesdays,” with DJ Provo + Hustle Simmons | 9 pm

pm | The Grand, 165 Main St, Ellsworth | $15, $10 youth 12 & under | 207.667.9500 or grandonline.org

THURSDAY 31

SATURDAY 26

BARLEY PUB | Dover | bluegrass jam

with Steve Roy | 9 pm CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | Ken Ormes Trio CHOP SHOP PUB | Seabrook | karaoke DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Southbound Outlaws | 9 pm THE HOLY GRAIL | Epping | Dave Gerard | 8 pm HONEY POT BAR & LOUNGE | Seabrook | Granite Planet PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Back on the Train | 9 pm RIRA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Fil Pacino | 10 pm RUDI’S | Portsmouth | John Franzosa | 6 pm SPRING HILL TAVERN | Portsmouth | Frank Drake Trio | 9 pm STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Irish session | 6 pm | “Tightgroove Recordings Takeover,” EDM night | 9 pm | $3-5

of Southern Maine - Gorham, Corthell Concert Hall, 37 College Ave, Gorham | 207.780.5256

FRIDAY 25

”THE GOLD RUSH,” FILM SCREENING & LIVE SCORE BY TEMPO | 7

CHRISTOPHER O’RILEY: “OUT OF MY HANDS” | 7:30 pm | Franco-

American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St, Lewiston | $27, $15 students under 18 | 207.689.2000 UNH CHORAL GALA | 7 pm | University of New Hampshire, Johnson Theatre, 30 College Rd, Durham, NH | 603.862.2404 or unh.edu/theatre-dance/productions.html

SUNDAY 27

BANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: “BACH, MOZART, MAHLER” | 3 pm

| Collins Center for the Arts, University of Maine, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono | $19-43 | 207.581.1755

PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: “HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOZART” | 2:30 pm | Merrill Audito-

rium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | $26-64 | 207.842.0800

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MONDAY 28

”DECOMPRESSION CHAMBER MUSIC SEASON 5 - CONCERT 1” | 6 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $12-15 | 207.761.1757

TUESDAY 29

ETHEL: “FLASH CONCERT” | 7:30 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | 207.828.5600 or space538.org

WEDNESDAY 30

ETHEL: “PRESENT BEAUTY” | 7:30 pm | Portland Ovations, Hannaford Hall, Abromson Community Center, 93 Bedford St, Portland | $46, $42 seniors | 207.842.0800

THURSDAY 31

PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: “KINDERKONZERT” | 9:30

&10:30 am | Crooker Theater, Brunswick High School, 116 Maquoit Rd, Brunswick | 207.319.1910

POPULAR

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA | 8 pm | Portland Ova-

202 Woodford St, Portland | $15, $10 seniors/students | 207.774.8243 or woodfordschurch.org

Street Arts, 10 Mayo St, Portland | $7 | 207.615.3609

MARTIN SEXTON + ALTERNATE ROUTES | 8 pm | State Theatre,

SUNDAY 27

ECSTATIC DANCE | 10 am | Ecstatic

tions, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | sold out | 207.842.0800 609 Congress St, Portland | $25-30 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland.com

MATANA ROBERTS: “PROLOGUE” | 7:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.798.4141 OLD SOUL | 6 pm | Motorland Vintage America, North Dam Mill, 2 Main St, Ste 37-101, Biddeford | 207.710.6699 PAUL BYROM | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $30 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com SHANNA UNDERWOOD | Fri-Sat 7 pm | Samoset Resort, 220 Warrenton St, Rockport | 207.596.6055

SNAEX + MATT ROCK + NATHAN SALSBURG | 8 pm | Pistol Pete’s

Upholstery Shop, 219 Anderson St, Portland | $5 | 207.671.7792

SATURDAY 26

BONEHEADS | 8 pm | Boothbay Harbor Opera House, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | $10 | 207.633.6855 CHRIS SMITHER | 7:30 pm | Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St, Bath | $22-25 | 207.442.8455 or chocolatechurcharts.org DON CAMPBELL: “AN EVENING OF DAN FOGELBERG MUSIC” | 7:30 pm

FRIDAY 25

AUDIOBODY | 7 pm | Fryeburg Academy, Eastman Performing Arts Center, 745 Main St, Fryeburg | $15, $10 students | 207.935.9232 or fryeburgacademy.org ”HEAR MY SONG: THE BEST OF BROADWAY & BEYOND,” WITH MARIE PRESSMAN & ED REICHERT | 8 pm | University of

Southern Maine - Gorham, Corthell Concert Hall, 37 College Ave, Gorham | 207.780.5256

| Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St, South Portland | $22 | 207.799.1421 or lyricmusictheater.com

JP JOFRE HARD TANGO CHAMBER BAND | 7 pm | Strand Theatre, 345 Main St, Rockland | $35, $25 adults 21-35, $10 youth under 21 | 207.594.0070 SHANNA UNDERWOOD | See listing for Fri

WOMEN IN HARMONY: “NEVER GONNA STOP” | Sat 7 pm; Sun 4 pm

| Woodfords Congregational Church,

ANNI CLARK & DOUG BENNETT BAND | 3 pm | York Public Library, 15 Long Sands Rd, York | 207.363.2818

HIGHLAND SOLES + DAN SONENBERG + ANNIE FINCH + RAY SCOTT | 2 pm | Portland New Church, 302 Stevens Ave, Portland | $15, $10 youth 18 & under | 207.772.8277

WOMEN IN HARMONY: “NEVER GONNA STOP” | See listing for Sat

MONDAY 28

FRED BUDA QUINTET | 8 pm | Uni-

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

WEDNESDAY 30

ENGLISH BEAT | 8 pm | Tupelo Mu-

sic Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $35-40 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com KEANE + YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $30-35 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland.com

DANCE

SUNDAY 27

Dance Maine, 408 Broadway, South Portland | $10-15 sugg. donation | 207.408.2684 | ecstaticdanceme.com

PERFORMANCE FRIDAY 25

TAP TAP JAZZ |

Fri 7 pm; Sat 1 & 4 pm | Maine State Ballet, 348 Rte 1, Falmouth | $15-20 | 207.781.7672 | www.mainestateballet.org

SATURDAY 26

DARK FOLLIES + SO SOL + LAUREN ZUNIGA | 7 pm | Local Sprouts Coop-

erative, 649 Congress St, Portland | 207.899.3529 | localsproutscooperative.com

RED, HOT, & LADYLIKE + SONARDANCE + DJ ASIA + JESSANI BELLYDANCE | 6:30 pm | Avant Dance & Event Center, 865 Spring St, Westbrook | $15 | 207.899.4211 | avantmaine.com TAP TAP JAZZ | See listing for Fri

MONDAY 28

SOUL STREET DANCE: “TAKIN’ IT TO THE STREET” | Soul Street Dance

| 10 & 11:30 am | The Grand, 165 Main St, Ellsworth | $3 | 207.667.9500 | grandonline.org

PARTICIPATORY FRIDAY 25

SACRED CIRCLE DANCE | 7 pm | Portsmouth Center for Yoga and the Arts, 95 Albany St #9, Portsmouth, NH | $5 | 603.431.4755 | www.portsmouthyoga.com

SATURDAY 26

BALLROOM DANCE PARTY | 8 pm |

The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | $7 | 207.439.0114

CONTRA DANCE WITH JENNY VAN WEST & FRIENDS | 8 pm | Mayo

EVENTS FRIDAY 25

”SUSTAIN MAINE,” PEP RALLY FOR “NO TAR SANDS RALLY” |

with performance by Substitutes | 5 pm | Empire Dine And Dance, 575 Congress St, Portland | 207.879.8988

SATURDAY 26

”SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ‘WEDDING RECEPTION,’” COMMUNITY CELEBRATION | 6 pm | St Ansgar

Lutheran Church, 515 Congress St, Portland | free | 207.774.8740

”TAR SANDS FREE NORTHEAST DAY OF ACTION,” TAR SANDS OIL PROTEST & AWARENESS RALLY | 11:30 am | Monument Square, Congress St, Portland | 207.774.9979

WEDNESDAY 30

WINTER BIRD WALK | with Anna Stunkel | 1 pm | College of the Atlantic, Dorr Museum, 105 Eden St, Bar Harbor | 207.288.5395

THURSDAY 31

”WESTBROOK FEUD,” LIVE GAME SHOW | benefit | 6:30 pm | Westbrook Performing Arts Center, 471 Stroudwater St, Westbrook | $7, $5 students | 207.857.3860

FAIRS & FESTIVALS FRIDAY 25

”PORTLAND ON ICE,” CITY NIGHTLIFE CELEBRATION | vari-

ous locations | downtown Portland | 207.772.6828 | www.portlandmaine. com/cornerstone-events/

SATURDAY 26

”CAMDEN WINTERFEST” | with

Fresh Maine seaFood – done right IT’S HERE! LATE NIGHT HAPPY HOUR THURSDAY - SATURDAY TRIVIA NIGHT - LADIES NIGHTS - DART LEAGUES NOW SERVING SUNDAY BRUNCH 10AM - 2PM OPEN ALL WINTER! WED. - SUN 175 Lower main St. Freeport, Maine 04032 207 865 9105 freeportseafoodco.com

crafts, face painting, & activities | noon | Camden Public Library, 55 Main St, Camden | 207.236.3440 | mainedreamvacation.com/event/ camden-winterfest

”PORTLAND ON ICE,” CITY NIGHTLIFE CELEBRATION | See listing

for Fri

SUNDAY 27

”PORTLAND ON ICE,” CITY NIGHTLIFE CELEBRATION | See listing

for Fri

MONDAY 28

”PORTLAND ON ICE,” CITY NIGHTLIFE CELEBRATION | See listing

for Fri

TUESDAY 29

”PORTLAND ON ICE,” CITY NIGHTLIFE CELEBRATION | See listing

for Fri

steve almond presents ‘If Sex Sells, Then I’m Buying: A Night of Red Hot Erotica’ | SPACE Gallery, Jan 26 @ 7:30 pm

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”BIDDEFORD WINTERFEST” |

downtown Biddeford | 207.284.8520 | www.heartofbiddeford.org/

”PORTLAND ON ICE,” CITY NIGHTLIFE CELEBRATION | See listing

for Fri

THURSDAY 31

”BIDDEFORD WINTERFEST” | See

”NEW HAMPSHIRE AUTHORS SERIES,” WITH REBECCA RULE |

Joe Monninger discusses his nonfiction work | 2 pm | University of New Hampshire, Dimond Library, 18 Library Way, Durham, NH | 603.862.1535

”RHYTHMIC CYPHER” OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | with Sarah Lynn

listing for Wed

Herklots + Mark Dennis | 7 pm | Dobra Tea, 151 Middle St, Portland | 207.370.1890

for Fri

MONDAY 28

”PORTLAND ON ICE,” CITY NIGHTLIFE CELEBRATION | See listing

FOOD SATURDAY 26

FARMERS’ MARKET | 9:30 am | Saco

River Market, Saco Island, 110 Main St, Biddeford WINTER FARMERS’ MARKET | 9 am | Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St, Portland | 207.780.0118 or maineirish.com

TUESDAY 29

4-COURSE LASAGNA DINNER |

6 pm | Wellness Forum, Masonic Lodge, 102 Bishop St, Portland | 207.409.7778

WEDNESDAY 30

CUMBERLAND FARMERS’ MARKET | 10 am | Allen, Sterling, & Lothrop, 191 US Rte 1, Falmouth

POETRY & PROSE THURSDAY 24

KATRINA KENISON | discusses Magical Journey: an Apprenticeship in Contentment | 6:30 pm | The Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $39 | 603.436.2400

FRIDAY 25

JOHN BOVE | discusses Two Weeks Notice...Aloha | noon | Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq, Portland | 207.871.1758 or portlandlibrary.com

SATURDAY 26

”LOCAL WRITERS” | poetry & prose readings | 4 pm | Local Buzz, 327 Ocean House Rd, Cape Elizabeth | 207.541.9024 STEVE ALMOND: “IF SEX SELLS, I’M BUYING: A NIGHT OF RED HOT EROTICA” | 7:30 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | $5 | 207.828.5600 or space538.org

SUNDAY 27

IAN SVENONIUS: “SUPERNATURAL STRATEGIES” | with discus-

sion of Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group, & DJ set | 7:30 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | 207.828.5600 or space538.org

MOSTLY HARMLESS BOOK GROUP | discuss Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash | 6 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks. com

TUESDAY 29

INTERNATIONAL BOOK GROUP | discuss Barbara Nadel’s Belshazzar’s Daughter | 6 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks. com JASON ANTHONY | discusses Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, & Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine | noon | Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St, Portland | 207.774.1822 or mainehistory.org JUSTIN GILLIS | New York Times reporter | 7 pm | College of the Atlantic, Deering Campus Center, 105 Eden St, Bar Harbor | 207.288.5015

OPEN MIC POETRY WITH PORT VERITAS | 9:30 pm | Bull Feeney’s,

375 Fore St, Portland | 207.773.7210

”SUPER BOWL POETRY SLAM,” WITH PORT VERITAS | 7 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | 207.773.7210

THURSDAY 31

”MAINE WOMEN WRITE” | with readings from Monica Wood + Barbara Walsh + Debra Spark + Morgan C. Rogers + Annie Finch | 7:30 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | $5 | 207.828.5600 or space538. org WESLEY MCNAIR | discusses his poetry volume, The Words I Chose: a Memoir of Family & Poetry | 6 pm | Portland Public Library, Rines Auditorium, 5 Monument Sq, Portland

TALKS THURSDAY 24

”CLIMATE CHANGE ARRIVED -NOW WHAT?” | 7:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.775.3321

”DEEP THINGS OUT OF DARKNESS: A HISTORY OF NATURAL HISTORY” | 4 pm | College of the Atlantic, Gates Community Center, 105 Eden St, Bar Harbor | 207.288.5015

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”DIRIGO NORTH & SOUTH: MAINE’S LONG & VARIED CONNECTION FROM THE POLAR WORLD” | with Charles H. Lagerbom | 7 pm | Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St, Portland | 207.774.1822 or mainehistory.org

FRIDAY 25

”CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE: THE IMPACT OF WAR ON THE LIVES OF CHILDREN” | with Dan Muller | 7

pm | Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St, Portland | 207.772.0680 or megperrycenter.com

MONDAY 28

”THE TROUBLE WITH MALARIA IN AFRICA” | with James L.A. Webb, Jr

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

TUESDAY 29

”ESSENTIALS OF COLLEGE PLANNING” | 9 am | Midcoast Center for Higher Education, 9 Park St, Bath | 877.282.2182

”ESSENTIALS OF COLLEGE PLANNING” | 1 pm | Southern Midcoast CareerCenter, 275 Bath Rd, Brunswick | 800.281.3703

”MAKING PARAGUAY REAL: THE POLITICS OF MEASUREMENT IN THE AGE OF REGULATION” | with

Kregg Hetherington | 4 pm | College of the Atlantic, McCormick Lecture Hall, 105 Eden St, Bar Harbor | 207.288.5015 or coa.edu

WEDNESDAY 30

”BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: A PATHWAY TO HEALTH EQUITY” | with Georges C. Benjamin

| noon | University of New England - Portland, Ludcke Auditorium, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland | 207.221.4950 or une.edu

THURSDAY 31

”MANAGING YOUR ONLINE REPUTATION” | with Matt Ivester | 7:30

pm | Bowdoin College, Memorial Hall, Libra Theater Studio, Brunswick | 207.725.3225

”NUCLEAR ARCHITECTURE IN CANCER & AGING-RELATED DISEASES” | with Lindsay Shopland |

noon | University of New England - Biddeford, Alfond Hall, 11 Hills Beach Rd, Biddeford | 207.602.2888

THEATER BATES COLLEGE | | Schaeffer Black

Box Theater, 329 College St, Lewiston

| Jan 25-26: “Asia Night,” variety show | Fri-Sat 7:30 pm CASCO BAY HIGH SCHOOL | | 196 Allen Ave, Portland | Jan 25-27: Pippin | Fri-Sat 7 pm; Sun 2 pm

FRYEBURG ACADEMY | 207.935.9232 | fryeburgacademy.org | Eastman

Performing Arts Center, 745 Main St, Fryeburg | Jan 25: Audiobody | 7 pm |

$15, $10 students

GOOD THEATER | 207.885.5883 |

goodtheater.com | St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | Jan 30-Feb 24: Death by Design | WedThurs 7 pm | $15-25

HEARTWOOD YOUTH ENSEMBLE |

207.563.1373 | heartwoodtheater.org | Parker B. Poe Theater, Lincoln Academy, Academy Hill Rd, Newcastle | Jan

25-27: Ghost-Writer | Fri-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 3 pm HUSSON UNIVERSITY | 207.941.7051 | Gracie Theatre, 1 College Circle, Bangor | Jan 27: “Potted Potter! The Unauthorized Harry Experience: A Parody” | 3 & 8 pm | $25, $15 youth under 12

LAKE REGION COMMUNITY THEATRE | 207.838.3846 | Lake Region

High School Auditorium, 1877 Roosevelt Trail, Naples | Jan 25-26: Lovers

Rochester, NH | Jan 24-Feb 2: All

Shook Up | Thurs-Fri 8 pm; Sat 2 & 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | $8-15 SANDY RIVER PLAYERS | 207.779.7084 | University of Maine -

Farmington, Emery Community Arts Center, Farmington | Jan 25-27: Once Upon a Mattress | Fri-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 2 pm | $17, $15 students

SEVEN STAGES SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | | 7stagesshakes.word-

press.com | Press Room, 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH | Jan 28: “Shakes-

BEERience: Two Gentlemen of Verona” | 6:30 pm STATE THEATRE | 207.956.6000 | statetheatreportland.com | 609 Congress St, Portland | Jan 29: “Spank!

The 50 Shades Parody” | 8 pm | $27.50-32.50 THEATER PROJECT | 207.729.8584 | theaterproject.com | 14 School St, Brunswick | Jan 25-Feb 10: “Winter Cabaret” | Fri-Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | pay-what-you-want

& Other Strangers | Fri 7:30 pm; Sat 1 & 7:30 pm | $9

MAD HORSE THEATRE COMPANY

| 207.730.2389 | Hutchins School, 24 Mosher St, South Portland | Jan 24-Feb 3: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo | Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 2 pm | $22 MYSTERY FOR HIRE | 207.782.2088 |

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| Jan 26: “Mystery at My Family Reunion,” dinner theater | 7 pm | $39 (incl. meal) NEXT GENERATION THEATRE | 207.989.7100 | nextgenerationtheatre. com | 39 Center St, Brewer | Jan 30: “The Nite Show with Dan Cashman,” variety show | 6 pm O’BRIEN EVENTS CENTER | 207.873.0111 | 375 Main St, Waterville | Jan 26: Ray Santos, hypnotist | 8 pm PENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY | 207.942.3333 | penobscottheatre.org |

Bangor Opera House, 131 Main St, Bangor | Jan 30-Feb 17: The Sugar Bean

Sisters | Wed-Thurs 7 pm | $22 PLAYERS’ RING | 603.436.8123 | playersring.org | 105 Marcy St, Portsmouth, NH | Jan 25-Feb 10: The Odd Couple | Fri-Sat 8 pm; Sun 7 pm | $15, $12 seniors/students PORTLAND PLAYERS | 207.799.7337 | 420 Cottage Rd, Portland | Jan 25-Feb 10: Arsenic & Old Lace | Fri-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 2 pm | $20 PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY | 207.774.0465 | portlandstage.com | 25A Forest Ave, Portland | Through Feb 17: Greater Tuna | Thurs-Fri + Wed 7:30 pm; Sat 4 & 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | $34-44 PUBLIC THEATRE | 207.782.3200 | thepublictheatre.org | 31 Maple St, Lewiston | Jan 25-Feb 3: The Hound of the Baskervilles | Fri + Thurs 7:30 pm; Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | $18, $5 youth 18 & under ROCHESTER OPERA HOUSE | 603.335.1992 | 31 Wakefield St,

ART GALLERIES 3 FISH GALLERY | 772.342.6467 | 377

Cumberland Ave, Portland | 3fishgallery.com | Thurs-Sat 1-4 pm & by ap-

pointment | Through Jan 31: “Smoke Stack Series,” works by Neill Ewing Wegmann 45 MEMORIAL CIRCLE | 207.622.3813 | Lobby Gallery, 45 Memorial Circle, Augusta | Through Jan 25: “Mapping the Air,” installation by Donna Parkinson & Sarah Vosmus AARHUS GALLERY | 207.338.0001 | 50 Main St, Belfast | aarhusgallery. com | Thurs-Sun noon-6 pm | Jan 31Feb 24: “Heart,” mixed media group exhibition ADDISON WOOLLEY GALLERY | 207.450.8499 | 132 Washington Ave, Portland | Wed-Sat noon-5 pm | Through Jan 26: “Travels With Eddie & Other Surprises,” photography by Diane Hudson + “Visual Whispers,” photography by Dan Dow

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| 603.330.0333 | 56 North Main St, Rochester, NH | Mon-Fri noon-6 pm; Sat 10 am-2 pm | Through Jan 30: “Prints of the Year,” group printmaking exhibition AUCOCISCO GALLERIES | 207.775.2222 | 89 Exchange St, Portland | aucocisco.com | Wed-Sat 11 am-5 pm, and by appointment | Through March 30: “Winter Salon,” mixed media group exhibition BUOY GALLERY | 207.450.2402 | 2 Government St, Kittery | Wed-Sat 5-9 pm | Through Jan 26: “Patterned

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It’s time.

Time to clean out. Time to get organized. Time to box up the no-longer used, worn, played with or needed.

Time to donate to Goodwill - bringing order back to your home, while creating jobs, reducing landfills and putting clothes on your neighbor’s back.

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CHOCOLATE CHURCH ARTS CENTER | 207.442.8455 | 804 Washington St, Bath | chocolatechurcharts.org |

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Not a shirt. Not a shoe. Not a person.

Tues-Wed 10 am-4 pm; Thurs noon-7 pm; Fri 10 am-4 pm; Sat noon-4 pm | Jan 25-March 16: “Winter Wonderland,” mixed media group exhibition | reception Jan 25 6-8 pm

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land | Through March 24: “Looking In | Looking Out,” installation by Amy Jorgenson CONSTELLATION ART GALLERY | 207.409.6617 | 511 Congress St, Portland | constellationgallery.webs.com | Mon-Thurs noon-4 pm; Fri noon-4 pm & 6-8 pm; Sat 2-8 pm | Jan 25-Feb 20: “Occupy Gallery,” mixed media group exhibition DOBRA TEA | 207.370.1890 | 151 Middle St, Portland | Mon-Thurs 11 am-10 pm; Fri-Sat 11 am-11 pm; Sun 11 am-6 pm | Through Jan 31: “Eclipse: Works of Art in Pen & Ink,”

by Travis Graslie EDWARD T. POLLACK FINE ARTS | 617.610.7173 | 25 Forest Ave, Portland | Wed-Sat 11 am-6 pm | Through Jan 31: “Mallarme Suite,” works by Ellsworth Kelly ELIZABETH MOSS GALLERIES | 207.781.2620 | 251 Rte 1, Falmouth | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through March 10: “Despite Winter, Gardens,” works by Martha Burkert + Sue Hammerland + Andrea Rouda + Alysia C. Walker + Angel Braestrup FRANKLIN GALLERY | 603.332.2227 | 60 Wakefield St, Rochester, NH | Mon-Fri 9 am-8 pm; Sat 9 am-6 pm; Sun 10 am-5 pm | Through Feb 27: “From the Many, One,” mixed media group exhibition FRONTIER CAFE | 207.725.5222 | | explorefrontier.com | Tues-Thurs 11 am-9 pm; Fri-Sat 11 am-10 pm; Sun 9 am-3 pm | Through Feb 24: “CSA: Community Supporting Arts,” mixed media group exhibition

2-4 pm | Through April 27: “Regional & State Invitational,” juried mixed media exhibit GREEN HAND BOOKSHOP | 207.450.6695 | 661 Congress St, Portland | greenhandbooks.blogspot.com | Tues-Fri 11 am-6 pm; Sat 11 am-7 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Through Jan 31: “Fancy Food Chains,” drawings

by Jada Fitch HANSON STREET GALLERY | 603.948.2035 | Portable Pantry, 12 Hanson St, Rochester, NH | Mon-Wed 7:30 am-2:30 pm; Fri-Sat 7:30 am-8 pm; Sun 7:30 am-4 pm | Through Jan 27: works by Nate Twombly HARLOW GALLERY | 207.622.3813 | 160 Water St, Hallowell | harlowgallery.org | Wed-Sat noon-6 pm; SunTues by appointment | Through Feb 9: “Ingrained,” printmaking show

by Sarah Vosmus + Willy Reddick + Donna Parkinson + Tony Kulik + Martha Briana HARMON & BARTON’S | 207.650.3437 | 584 Congress St, Portland | harmonsbartons.com | 8 am-5:30 pm | Through Jan 31: “Why I Moved to Maine: Photographs & Cyanotypes of Maine & Beyond,” photography by Michael Heiko INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN ART | | 45 Smith St, #1, Portland | instituteforamericanart@gmail.com | Sat 4-8 pm | Through Feb 16: print by Marsden Hartley JENNY WREN GALLERY | 603.335.3577 | 107 N Main St, Rochester, NH | Wed-Sat noon-6 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through Jan 27: works

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JUNE FITZPATRICK GALLERY AT MECA | 207.699.5083 | 522 Congress

Feb 15: “From the Inside,” MECA staff exhibition | Through Jan 27: “MECA Painters 10 Years Later,” paintings by John Capello + Jason Cornell + Michael Marks + Nolan Stewart + Sage Tucker-Ketcham + Stacey Vallerie JUST US CHICKENS GALLERY | 207.439.4209 | 9 Walker St, Kittery | call for hours | Through Feb 16: silk paintings, scarves, pillows, & other works by Sue Wierzba KENNEBUNK FREE LIBRARY | 207.985.2173 | 112 Main St, Kennebunk | kennebunklibrary.org | Mon-Tues 9:30 am-8 pm; Wed 12:30-8 pm; Thurs-Sat 9:30 am-5 pm | Through Jan 31: “Honest & Catkins - a Life’s Work of Beauty,” retrospective exhibit by Florence Nellie Holland KENNEDY GALLERY | 603.436.7007 | 41 Market St, Portsmouth, NH | MonTues 9:30 am-6 pm; Wed-Thurs 9:30 am-6:30 pm; Fri-Sat 9:30 am-7 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through Feb 3: works by Dave Petengill KITTERY ART ASSOCIATION | 207.967.0049 | 8 Coleman Ave, Kittery | kitteryartassociation.org | Sat noon-

6 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Jan 26-Feb 17: “Waste Not, Want Not,” member exhibition LOCAL 188 | 207.761.7909 | 685 Congress St, Portland | local188.com | Mon-Fri 5:30 pm-1 am; Sat-Sun 9 am-2 pm & 5:30 pm-1 am | Through Jan 31: works by Kimberly Convery + Meg K Walsh LUCY’S ART EMPORIUM | 603.740.9195 | 303 Central Ave, Dover, NH | lucysartemporium.com | Mon-Fri 11 am-6 pm; Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through Feb 2: “Holiday Small Works Show,” group exhibition

MAINE FARMLAND TRUST GALLERY | 207.338.6575 | 97 Main St,

Belfast | Through Feb 28: “CSA: Com-

munity Supporting Arts,” mixed media group exhibition MAINE FIBERARTS | 207.721.0678 | 13 Main St, Topsham | mainefiberarts. org | Tues-Fri 10 am-4 pm; Sat 11 am-2 pm | Through Feb 15: “Tools to Equip the Shaman for Night Travels,” installation by Susan Mills

MAINELY FRAMES AND GALLERY

| 207.828.0031 | 541 Congress St, Portland | Mon-Wed 10 am-6 pm; Thurs-Fri 10 am-8 pm; Sat 10 am-6 pm; Sun 1-4 pm | Through Jan 31: “Collection of a Maine Top Selling Artist: Bill Paxton,” watercolors, acrylics, & oils MAYO STREET ARTS | 207.615.3609 | 10 Mayo St, Portland | call for hours | Through Jan 31: works by Pat Corrigan + Jennifer Gardiner MCLAUGHLIN-HILLS GALLERY | 603.319.8306 | 110 State St, Portsmouth, NH | Tues-Sun 1-6 pm | Through Jan 27: “Oblivion,” works

by Fernando M. Diaz MEG PERRY CENTER | 207.772.0680 | 644 Congress St, Portland | megperrycenter.com | Tues-Sat noon-6 pm | Through Jan 31: “A Child’s View from Gaza,” youth drawings | reception Jan 25 5-9 pm MONKITREE GALLERY | 207.512.4679 | 263 Water St, Gardiner | Tues-Fri 10 am-6 pm;Sat noon-6 pm | Through Jan 26: “Local Color,” works by Nancy Barron + Megan Bastey + Johanna Moore MOTORLAND VINTAGE AMERICA | 207.710.6699 | North Dam Mill, 2 Main St, Ste 37-101, Biddeford | Mon-Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat 10 am-3 pm | Jan 25: works by Peter Dugovic | reception 5-8 pm

NEW HAMPSHIRE ART ASSOCIATION | 603.431.4230 | 136 State St,

Portsmouth, NH | Wed-Sat 10 am-5

pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through Jan 26: “50 Shades of Gray,” mixed media group exhibition NORTH DAM MILL | 207.229.3560 | Pepperell Mill, 2 Main St, Biddeford | northdammill.com | Daily noon-5 pm | Jan 25: works by Alternative Program students | reception 5-8 pm PORTLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY | 207.871.1700 | Lewis Art Gallery, 5

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Monument Sq, Portland | portlandlibrary.com/programs/LewisGallery. htm | Mon-Thurs 10 am-6 pm; Fri 10

am-7 pm; Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through Feb 23: “Prints: Breaking Boundaries,” group printmaking exhibit | Through June 13: “The Sea Within Us: Iconically Maritime in Fashion & Design” RICHARD BOYD GALLERY | 207.792.1097 | Island Ave. & Epps St., Peaks Island | Thurs-Sun 10 am-5 pm | Through Feb 17: “New Year,” mixed media works by Jay LaBrie + Bob Salandrea + Wyn Foland + Pam Cabanas + Jeanne O’Toole Hayman RIVER ARTS | 207.563.1507 | 241 Rte 1, Damariscotta | Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through Jan 25: “Black, White, Grey,” mixed media group exhibition ROSE CONTEMPORARY | 207.780.0700 | 492 Congress St, Portland | Wed-Sat noon-4:30 pm | Through Jan 26: “Emergent,” installation by Rebecca Fitzpatrick + Petra Simmons + Andrew Frederick | reception Jan 26 6-9 pm SALAZAR GALLERY | | 265 Main St, 3rd Floor, Biddeford | salazargallery. com | call for hours | Jan 25: “Maine Seascapes & Landscapes,” paintings

by Roland Salazar Rose | reception 5-8 pm SAVORY MAINE | 207.563.2111 | 11 Water St, Damariscotta | call for hours | Through Feb 5: “CSA: Community Supporting Arts,” group exhibit

SEACOAST ARTIST ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 603.778.8856 | 225 Water

St, Exeter, NH | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm

| Through Jan 31: works by Terry Donsker | Through Feb 2: “Black & White,” juried art exhibition SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland | space538. org | Wed-Sat noon-6 pm; by appointment | Through Feb 15: “itiswhatitis,” ambrotype photographs by Michael Kolster | Through Feb 16: “Creator / Creations,” prints

by Edwige Charlot SPINDLEWORKS | 207.725.8820 | University College, 9 Park St, Bath | call for hours | Through Feb 28: “Unexpected Thaw,” works by Donald Freeman + Dana Albright + Kevin Babine + Michelle Rice THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | 207.772.5483 | 128 Free St, Portland | thedogfishbarandgrille.com | Mon-Sat 11:30 am-12:30 am; Sun noon-8 pm | Through Jan 31: photography by Patti Genest THE OAK AND THE AX | | 140 Main St, Ste 107-Back Alley, Biddeford | theoakandtheax.blogspot.com | Daily 11 am-8 pm | Jan 25-Feb 16: “Looking for Love in Biddo,” paintings

by Nancy Kureth | reception Jan 25 5-9 pm THOS. MOSER SHOWROOM | 207.865.4519 | 149 Main St, Freeport

| Mon-Sat 10 am-6 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm | Jan 31-April 15: “Paintings & Prints,” by Laurie Hadlock + Carrie Lonsdale | reception Jan 31 6-8 pm TOPSHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY | 207.725.1727 | 25 Foreside Rd, Topsham | topshamlibrary.org | Mon + Wed 10 am-6 pm; Tues + Thurs 10 am-8 pm; Fri noon-6 pm; Sat 9:30 am-2:30 pm | Through Feb 16: “Joy of Art,” mixed media group show YARMOUTH ARTS | | 317 Main St

Community Music Center, Yarmouth | yarmoutharts.org | Mon-Fri noon-6

pm | Through Feb 7: “Small Works Holiday Show,” 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 March 26: “Alumni Show,” mixed media group exhibition

MUSEUMS BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART |

207.786.6158 | 75 Russell St, Olin Arts Center, Lewiston | bates.edu/museum-about.xml | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm

| Through March 22: “Max Klinger (German, 1857-1920), The Intermezzo Portfolio” + Robert S. Neuman’s “Ship to Paradise,” paintings | Jan 25-March 22: Fransje Killaars: “Color at the Center,” textile installation

BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.725.3275 | Bowdoin College,

9400 College Station, Brunswick | bowdoin.edu/art-museum | Tues-Wed

+ Fri-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Thurs 10 am8:30 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Free admission; donations welcome | Through Feb 24: “Real/Ideal: Transformations in 19th Century Painting” | Through March 3: “The Fixed Image: History & Process in American Photography” | Through March 5: “Fantastic Stories: the Supernatural in 19th Century Japanese Prints” | Through March 10: “A Printmaking ABC: In Memorium David P. Becker” | Jan 31-Feb 1: “Reading Prints: David P. Becker’s Legacy at the Bowdoin Museum of Art,” printmaking symposium | Ongoing: “The Renaissance & the Revival of Classical Antiquity” + “In Dialogue: Art from Bowdoin & Colgate Collections” + “In a New Light: American & European Masters” + “Simply Divine: Gods & Demigods in the Ancient Mediterranean”

DYER LIBRARY/SACO MUSEUM | 207.283.3861 | 371 Main St, Saco | sacomuseum.org | Tues-Thurs noon-4 pm; Fri noon-8 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through Jan 31: “Watercolors: Beginners & Beyond,” group exhibit | Through March 2: “I My Needle Ply With Skill: Samplers of the Federal Period,” historical needlework exhibit | Jan 25 | gallery talk with Leslie Rounds | 6:30 pm FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM | 207.596.6457 | 16 Museum St, Rockland | farnsworthmuseum.org | 10 am-5 pm, open until 8 pm with free admission Wed | $12, seniors & students $10; under 17 free and Rockland residents free | Admission $12; $10 seniors and students; free for youth under 17 and Rockland residents | Through March 10: “Recent Acquisitions” | Through April 7: “Andrew Wyeth: Pencil Drawings & Watercolor Sketches” | Through Sept 22: “Decorating the Everyday: Popular Art from the Farnsworth” ICA AT MECA | 207.879.5742 | 522 Congress St, Portland | Wed-Sun 11 am-5 pm; Thurs 11 am-7 pm | Through March 3: “This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s,” mixed media | Through April 7: “Ander Mikalson: Score for Two Dinosaurs” + “Whales & Nails,” installation by Dan DenDanto MAINE COLLEGE OF ART | 207.775.3052 | 522 Congress St, Portland | meca.edu | Mon-Fri 8 am-8 pm; Sat-Sun 12 pm-5 pm | Through Feb 3: “Create: an Exhibition of Works

by Continuing Studies Students” | Through Feb 10: “Process & Place: MECA 2013 Residency Exhibition” MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM | 207.329.9854 | 267 Congress St,

Through Feb 25: “Dorothy Schwartz: Evolution of a Printmaker” MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURE | 207.871.7188 | 13 Brown St, Portland | museumafricanculture.org | TuesFri 10:30 am-4 pm; Sat noon-4 pm | $5 suggested donation | Through Jan 30: “The Incarnation of Earthly Creations,” mixed media Haitian art exhibit | Ongoing: “An Exhibition of Bronze” PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY | 603.777.3461 | Lamont Gallery, Freder-

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| Free admission | Through March 2: “Pop Paradise,” works by Dave Lefner + Kelly Reemtsen + Robert Townsend | reception Jan 25 6:30-8 pm | gallery talk Jan 26 10 am PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | 207.775.6148 | 7 Congress Square, Portland | portlandmuseum.org | Tues-Thurs + Sat-Sun 10 am-5 pm; Fri 10 am-9 pm | Admission $12; $10 students, seniors; $6 youth 13-17; free for youth 12 & under and for all Fri 5-9 pm | Through Feb 3: “The Portland Society of Art & Winslow Homer’s Legacy in Maine” | Through Feb 17: “Between Past & Present: Historic Photographic Processes & the Winslow Homer Studio” | Through April 7: Lois Dodd: “Catching the Light,” plein-air painting retrospective

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Congress St, Portland | salt.edu | TuesFri noon-4:30 pm | Through Feb 8: “Tinder,” mixed media documentary exhibit

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| 207.859.5600 | 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr, Waterville | colby.edu/museum | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Free admission | Through March 31: “Rediscoveries 4: Comedy, Seriously” | Ongoing: “Process & Place: Exploring the Design Evolution of the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion” + “Alex Katz Collection”

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| Area Gallery, Woodbury Campus Center, Bedford St, Portland | MonFri 7 am-10 pm | Through April 3: “USM Art Faculty Exhibition,” mixed media | reception Jan 24 4-6 pm

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OTHER MUSEUMS

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Mount Desert St, Bar Harbor | abbemuseum.org | Through Oct 31:

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UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - ORONO

| 207.581.3245 | Lord Hall Gallery, 5743 Lord Hall, Orono | Mon-Fri 9 am-4:30 pm | Through Jan 25: “UM Department of Art Senior Studio Exhibition”

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.561.3350 | Norumbega

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UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND PORTLAND | 207.221.4499 | Art Gal-

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

January 26: Gorilla FinGer @ 9pm

1-7 pm; Fri-Sun 1-4 pm | Through March 3: “Maine Women Pioneers III: Homage” | Ongoing: paintings & photography by Maine artists + labyrinth installation

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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; SatSun 1-5 pm | Free admission | Jan 26-March 28: “California Impressionism: Paintings from the Irvine Museum” + “Sacred Landscapes of Peru: the Photographs of Carl Austin Hyatt” | reception Jan 25 6-8 pm

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - GORHAM | 207.780.5008 |

Art Gallery, USM Campus, Gorham | usm.maine.edu/~gallery | Tues-Fri 11

am-4 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | Through March 6: “Everything,” installation

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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - LEWISTON | 207.753.6500

| Atrium Gallery, 51 Westminster St, Lewiston | usm.maine.edu/lac/art/exhibits.html | Mon-Thurs 8 am-8 pm; Fri 8 am-4:30 pm | Free admission

ABBE MUSEUM | 207.288.3519 | 26 “N’tolonapemk: Our Relatives’ Place” | Ongoing: “Layers of Time: Archaeology at the Abbe Museum” + “Dr. Abbe’s Museum”

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM & THEATRE OF MAINE | 207.828.1234 | 142 Free

St, Portland | kitetails.com | TuesSat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm; Mon during school vacations | $10, $9 seniors, $7 youth under 17, free under 6; first Friday of the month is free 5-8 pm | Jan 24: Tiny Tots: Instrument Exploration 10:30 am; “Bouncing Birds,” creative movement class 11-11:45 am; Star Show 11:30 am; Dominoes Deluxe 3:30 pm | Jan 25: Llama Llama Puppet Show 10:30 am; Touch Tank 11:30 am; Cloud Dough 3:30 pm | Jan 26: Natural Artifact Exploration 11 am; Camera Obscura Presentation noon; Kids on the Block 1 pm; Open Art Studio 2-3 pm; DIY Perfume Workshop 3:30 pm ($8) | Jan 27: Trash to Treasure: Amazing Aquariums 1 pm; Music & Dance Afternoon 2:30 pm | Jan 29: Let’s Play: Fast & Slow 11 am; Paper Mache Play: Birds!

3:30-4:30 pm | Jan 30: Open Art Studio 11 am-noon; Cocoa Storytime: Madeline 3:30 pm | Jan 31: Tiny Tots: Shape Scavenger Hunt 10:30 am; Star Show 11:30 am; Dollar-GoRound 3:30 pm

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | 603.742.2002 | 6

Washington St, Dover, NH | TuesSat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Admission $7, seniors $6 | Through March 1: “Toys,” oil paintings by Anne Scheer

DISCOVER PORTSMOUTH CENTER | 603.436.8420 | 10 Middle St,

Portsmouth, NH | portsmouthhistory. org | 10 am-5 pm | Through March 31: “Nancy Lyon: Weaving the New Hampshire Landscape,” textiles

MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

| 207.774.1822 | 489 Congress St, Portland | mainehistory.org | TuesSat 10 am-5 pm | $8, $7 seniors/ students, $2 children, kids under 6 free | Through May 26: “Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine,” historical exhibit MAINE MARITIME MUSEUM | 207.443.1316 | 243 Washington St, Bath | mainemaritimemuseum.org

| Daily 9:30 am-5 pm | Admission $10, $9 seniors, $7 for children seven through 17, free for children six and under | Through May 26: “Ahead Full at Fifty: 50 Years of Collecting at Maine Maritime Museum” | Through Oct 25: “Honing the Edge: the Apprenticeshop at 40” | Ongoing: “A Maritime History of Maine” + “A Shipyard in Maine: Percy & Small & the Great Schooners” + “Snow Squall: Last of the American Clipper Ships” + “The Sea Within Us: Iconically Maritime in Fashion & Design” 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 May 18: “Malaga Island, Fragmented Lives” | Ongoing: 12,000-plus years of Maine’s history, in homes, nature, shops, mills, ships, & factories 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 | Jan 26-March 22: Fransje Killaars: “Color at the Center,” textile installation | Ongoing: “Portraits & Voices: Shoemaking Skills of Generations” OSHER MAP LIBRARY | 207.780.4850 | University of South-

ern Maine, Glickman Family Library, 314 Forest Ave, Portland | usm. maine.edu/maps | Tues-Thurs 1-4

pm | Free admission | Through Feb 28: “Iconic America: the United States Map as a National Symbol”

PEARY-MACMILLAN ARCTIC MUSEUM | 207.725.3416 |

Bowdoin College, Hubbard Hall, 5 College St, Brunswick | bowdoin. edu/arctic-museum/index.shtml |

Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm | Free | Through April 6: “Animal Allies: Inuit Views of the Natural World” | Through April 16: “In a State of Becoming: Inuit Art from the Collection of Rabbi Harry Sky” | Ongoing: “Chilling Discoveries About Global Warming” + “The Roosevelt: a Model of Strength” + “The North Pole” + “Permanent Collection” PORTSMOUTH ATHENAEUM | 603.431.2538 | 9 Market Sq, Portsmouth, NH | Tues, Thurs, & Sat 1-4 pm | Through Feb 28: “17th Annual Proprietors Art Show” SOUTHWORTH PLANETARIUM | 207.780.4249 | Science Building, 70

Falmouth St, University of Southern Maine - Portland, | usm.maine.edu/ planet | call for hours | free | Jan 25: Two Small Pieces of Glass 7 pm; Eight Planets & Counting 8:30 pm | Jan 26: Rusty Rocket 3 pm | Jan 27: Full Dome: The Little Star That Could 3 pm

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302 SPORTS BAR & GRILLE | 207.894.5730 | 765 Roosevelt Trail, Windham 51 WHARF | 207.774.1151 | 51 Wharf St, Portland

ALISSON’S RESTAURANT | 207.967.4841 | 5 Dock Sq, Kennebunkport ALL AMERICAN TAVERN | 207.674.3800 | 64 Bethel Rd, West Paris ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | 207.874.2639 | 94 Commercial St, Portland ASYLUM | 207.772.8274 | 121 Center St, Portland BACK BURNER TAVERN | 207.935.4444 | 109 Main St, Brownfield BARLEY PUB | 603.742.4226 | 328 Central Ave, Dover, NH BAYSIDE BOWL | 207.791.2695 | 58 Alder St, Portland BEACHFIRE BAR AND GRILLE

| 207.646.8998 | 658 Main St., Ogunquit BEAR BREW PUB | 207.866.2739 | 36 Main St, Orono BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | 207.564.8733 | 73 North St, Dover Foxcroft BEBE’S BURRITOS | 207.283.4222 | 140 Main St, Biddeford BIG EASY | 207.775.2266 | 55 Market St, Portland BIG EASY LOUNGE | 207.992.2820 | Charles Inn, 20 Broad St, Bangor BILLY’S TAVERN | 207.354.1177 | 1 Starr St, Thomaston BINGA’S STADIUM | 207.347.6072 | 77 Free 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 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

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/FREEPORT | 207.865.0600 | 581 Rte 1, Freeport

BULL FEENEY’S | 207.773.7210 | 375 Fore St, Portland

BULL MOOSE LOUNGE |

207.924.7286 | Moosehead Trail Motor Lodge, 300 Corrina Rd, Dexter

BUXTON TAVERN | 207.929.8668 |

1301 Rte 22, Buxton

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | 207.443.6776 | 98 Center St, Bath

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK

| 207.729.9400 | 16 Station Ave, Brunswick THE CAGE | 207.783.0668 | 97 Ash St, Lewiston CAMPFIRE GRILLE | 207.803.2255 | 656 North High St, Bridgton CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN | 207.336.2126 | 371 Turner St, Buckfield CENTRAL WAVE | 603.742.9283 | 368 Central Ave, Dover, NH CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | 207.282.7900 | 15 Thornton St, Biddeford 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

COUSIN SAM’S PIZZERIA AND BREW | | 160 Washington St,

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CRYSTAL FALLS | 207.582.8620 | 1280 Eastern Ave, Chelsea CURVA ULTRA LOUNGE | 207.866.3600 | 103 Park St, Orono DANIEL STREET TAVERN | 603.430.1011 | 111 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH DAVIS ISLAND GRILL | 207.687.2190 | 318 Eddy Rd, Edgecomb DEER RUN TAVERN | 207.846.9555 | 365 Main St, Yarmouth

THE DEPOT PUB | 207.588.0081 | 20 Maine St, Gardiner DOBRA TEA | 207.370.1890 | 151 Middle St, Portland

THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | 207.772.5483 | 128 Free St, Portland DOOBIE’S BAR & GRILL | 207.623.7625 | 349 Water St, Augusta DOVER BRICK HOUSE | 603.749.3838 | 2 Orchard St, Dover, NH EASY STREET LOUNGE | 207.622.3360 | 7 Front St, Hallowell EMPIRE DINE AND DANCE | 207.879.8988 | 575 Congress St, Portland THE END ZONE | 207.861.4435 | 26 Elm St, Waterville THE FARM BAR & GRILLE | 603.516.3276 | 25A Portland Ave, Dover, NH FAST BREAKS | 207.782.3305 | 1465 Lisbon St, Lewiston FAT BELLY’S | 603.610.4227 | 2 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH FEDERAL JACK’S | 207.967.4322 | 8 Western Ave, Kennebunk

FEILE IRISH RESTAURANT AND PUB

| 207.251.4065 | 1619 Post Rd, Wells FLASK LOUNGE | 207.772.3122 | 117 Spring St, Portland THE FOGGY GOGGLE | 207.824.5056 | South Ridge Lodge, Sunday River, Newry FORE PLAY | 207.780.1111 | 436 Fore St, Portland FRESH | 207.236.7005 | 1 Bay View Landing, Camden FRONTIER CAFE | 207.725.5222 | Fort Andross, 14 Maine St, Brunswick THE FUNKY RED BARN | 207.824.3003 | 19 Summer St, Bethel FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | 603.617.3633 | 1 Washington St, Dover, NH FUSION | 207.330.3775 | 490 Pleasant St, Lewiston GATCH’S FOOD & SPIRITS | 207.364.2050 | 137 Rumford Ave, Rumford GELATO FIASCO | 207.607.4002 | 74 Maine St., Brunswick GENO’S | 207.221.2382 | 625 Congress St, Portland THE GIN MILL | 207.620.9200 | 302 Water St, Augusta GINGKO BLUE | 207.541.9190 | 2 Portland Sq, Portland GOLD ROOM | 207.221.2343 | 510 Warren Ave, Portland THE GREEN ROOM | 207.490.5798 | 898 Main St, Sanford GRITTY MCDUFF’S | 207.772.2739 | 396 Fore St, Portland GRITTY MCDUFF’S/AUBURN | 207.782.7228 | 68 Main St, Auburn GUTHRIE’S | 207.376.3344 | 115 Middle St, Lewiston HANNA’S TAVERN | 207.490.5122 | 324 Country Club Rd, Sanford

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AND TAVERN | 207.621.1234 | 119 Water St, Hallowell HILTON GARDEN INN | 603.431.1499 | 100 High St, Portsmouth, NH HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | 877.779.7771 | 500 Main St, Bangor THE HOLY GRAIL | 603.679.9559 | 64 Main St, Epping, NH HONEY POT BAR & LOUNGE | 603.760.2013 | 920 Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH HOOLIGAN’S IRISH PUB | 207.934.4063 | 2 Old Orchard Rd, Old Orchard Beach HOXTER’S BAR & BISTRO

| 207.629.5363 | 122 Water St, Hallowell IPANEMA BAR & GRILL | 207.942.5180 | 10 Broad St, Bangor IRISH TWINS PUB | 207.376.3088 | 743 Main St, Lewiston JACK’S PLACE | 207.797.7344 | 597 Bridgton Rd, Westbrook JAMESON TAVERN | 207.865.4196 | 115 Main St, Freeport

JIMMY THE GREEK’S/ OLD ORCHARD BEACH | 207.934.7499

| 215 Saco Ave, Old Orchard Beach

JIMMY THE GREEK’S/SOUTH PORTLAND | 207.774.7335 |

115 Philbrook Rd, South Portland

JOE’S NEW YORK PIZZA |

207.699.5559 | 420 Fore St, Portland

JONATHAN’S | 207.646.4777 | 92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit

JUMPIN’ JAKE’S SEAFOOD CAFE & BAR | 207.937.3250 | 181 Saco Ave,

Old Orchard Beach 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 LEGENDS RESTAURANT | 207.824.3500 | Grand Summit Resort Hotel, 97 Summit Dr, Newry THE LIBERAL CUP | 207.623.2739 | 115 Water St, Hallowell LOCAL 188 | 207.761.7909 | 685 Congress St, Portland LOCAL BUZZ | 207.541.9024 | 327 Ocean House Rd, Cape Elizabeth LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | 207.899.3529 | 649 Congress St, Portland THE LOFT | 207.541.9045 | 865 Forest Ave, Portland

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| 603.742.7012 | 58 New Rochester Rd, Dover, NH LOMPOC CAFE | 207.288.9392 | 36 Rodick St, Bar Harbor 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 MARGARITA’S/AUBURN | 207.782.6036 | 180 Center St, Auburn MARK’S PLACE | 207.899.3333 | 416 Fore St, Portland MARTINGALE WHARF | 603.431.0091 | 99 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH MATHEW’S | 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 MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | 207.642.3363 | 35 Blake Rd, Standish MILLBROOK TAVERN & GRILLE | 207.824.2175 | Bethel Inn, On the Common, Bethel MILLIE’S TAVERN | 603.967.4777 | 17 L St, Hampton, NH MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | 207.443.6563 | Rte 1, Woolwich MOOSE ALLEY | 207.864.9955 | 2809 Main St, Rangeley MY TIE LOUNGE | 207.406.2574 | 94 Maine St, Brunswick NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | 207.907.4380 | 56 Main St, Bangor NONANTUM RESORT | 207.967.4050 | 95 Ocean Ave, Kennebunkport THE OAK AND THE AX | 140 Main St, Ste 107-Back Alley, Biddeford THE OAR HOUSE | 603.436.4025 | 55 Ceres St, Portsmouth, NH OASIS | 207.370.9048 | 42 Wharf St, Portland OLD PORT TAVERN | 207.774.0444 | 11 Moulton St, Portland THE OLDE MILL TAVERN | 207.583.9077 | 56 Main St, Harrison ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | 207.761.1757 | 181 State St, Portland PADDY MURPHY’S | 207.945.6800 | 26 Main St, Bangor THE PAGE | 603.436.0004 | 172 Hanover St, Portsmouth, NH PEAK LODGE | 800.543.2754 | Sunday River, Newry PEARL | 207.653.8486 | 444 Fore St, Portland PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | 207.783.6200 | 134 Main St, Lewiston PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | 207.941.8805 | 14 Larkin St, Bangor PEPPERCLUB | 207.772.0531 | 78 Middle St, Portland PHOENIX HOUSE & WELL | 207.824.2222 | 9 Timberline Dr, Newry PHOENIX PUB | 207.404.4184 | 123 Franklin St, Bangor PORT CITY MUSIC HALL | 207.899.4990 | 504 Congress St, 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 | 603.430.9122 | 64 Market St, Portsmouth, NH POST ROAD TAVERN | 207.641.0640 | 705 Main St, Ogunquit PRESS ROOM | 603.431.5186 | 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH PROFENNO’S | 207.856.0011 | 934 Main St, Westbrook PUB 33 | 207.786.4808 | 33 Sabattus St, Lewiston THE RACK | 207.237.2211 | Sugarloaf Mountain A, Kingfield RAVEN’S ROOST | 207.406.2359 | 103 Pleasant St, Brunswick THE RED DOOR | 603.373.6827 | 107 State St, Portsmouth, NH

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72 Commercial St, Portland RIRA/PORTSMOUTH | 603.319.1680 | 22 Market St, Portsmouth, NH RJ’S BAR AND GRILL | 83 Washington St, Dover, NH THE ROOST | 207.799.1232 | 62 Chicopee Rd, Buxton RUDI’S | 603.430.7834 | 20 High St, Portsmouth, NH RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | 207.571.9648 | 100 Main St, Saco Island, Saco RUSTY HAMMER | 603.436.9289 | 49 Pleasant St, Portsmouth, NH SAVORY MAINE | 207.563.2111 | 11 Water St, Damariscotta SCHEMENGEES BAR AND GRILL | 207.777.1155 | 551 Lincoln St, Lewiston SEA 40 | 207.795.6888 | 40 East Ave, Lewiston

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Western Ave, South Portland SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM | 207.725.0162 | 1 Maine St, Great Mill Island, Topsham SEASONS GRILLE | 207.775.6538 | 155 Riverside St, Portland

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The koan of Chinese food Where can We find our moment of Zen? _By Bria n duf f It seems every time I check out a promising new Chinese place in Portland, federal officials arrest someone at a dismal Chinese restaurant elsewhere in Maine (this week it was the Twin Super Buffet in Brewer that was raided by the feds). Is this the Chinese-food universe maintaining some kind of spiritual balance? Is it karma? In this case it’s Zen. Zen Chinese Bistro to be exact, which has taken over the west-Old Port space formerly occupied by District.

Zen the concept is not about transcendence, but rather about deepening the quality of our worldly presence. Zen the Chinese Bistro is not exactly transcendent, but it does enhance the quality of Chinese cuisine in Portland. The menu does not veer far from the beaten path of Americanized-Chinese, but it executes those classic dishes well, with fresh ingredients. That is enough to put Zen among the upper tier of Chinese restaurants in town.

In taking the space over from District, they have not changed it much. There is minimal Asian kitsch. Downstairs is the same bar, with dark wood, black leather booths, and a few tables. And they are taking the bar seriously: they have a nice Asian-tinged cocktail list, some good beer on draft, and a genuine wine list. Upstairs

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FShort Takes xxxw gRegORY CRewDSOn: BRieF enCOUnTeRS 77 minutes | pma movies Photographer Gregory Crewdson makes pictures that do everything a movie does except move.

Focused on the depressed towns of Western Massachusetts, he puts together a meticulously detailed scene, engages a crew of up to 60, arranges dozens of lights, waits for the right moment, snaps the photo, and then subjects it to a rigorous postproduction process. When they succeed, the images transcend the lower-class world that is their subject and touch on an otherworldliness reminiscent of David Lynch, Edward Hopper, or Andrei Tarkovsky. Ben Shapiro shot this documentary over 10 years and not only achieves a portrait of the artist but also captures the artistic process itself, following Crewdson from initial inspiration to finished

they have brightened the large dining room a bit, mostly with a vibrant blue paint.

Many dishes at this sort of restaurant depend on the quality of the brown sauce that forms the base for so many entrées.

Zen has a good one: neither too thick nor too thin, with a nice base of garlic and soy. It’s used to good effect in a number of dishes, like Hunan beef, where it had a mild chili heat. It coated big tender pieces of meat and diced veggies — piping hot from the wok, but still with plenty of crunch. The same basic sauce was leant a sharper garlic bite and more aggressive pepper heat in a dish of vegetables with garlic sauce.

Cashew chicken started with a different, lighter, sauce that offered a nice balance of sugars and heat. There were plenty of springy button mushrooms, along with a crunchy mix of celery, carrots, and green bell peppers that were on the edge of red, and thus not too bitter. Sesame chicken was sweet but not candy-sweet like you often get, and the breading stayed crisp rather than getting sauce-soaked.

An udon noodle dish was good as well.

The noodles were soft but not mushy, and the pork tender. The dish had that sort of mildness that isn’t bland, but allows the quieter umami flavors of onion and mush-

room to emerge. And Zen is getting many little things right: The sour soup, too often an afterthought, has been given some care. It has a real sour zing and the bite of fresh scallion. Even a ramekin of sweet house-made duck sauce was a pleasant surprise, as it was cloudy with the pulp of actual fruit. Zen has a chatty owner, usually behind the bar. He will give you work-out tips, and perhaps lead you to offmenu dishes once you are a regular. I wouldn’t be surprised if the best dishes are there, since someone in the kitchen knows their stuff.

Zen, the concept, is about the elimination of suffering, and if we patronize quality Chinese places like Zen, or China Taste across town, it might go some way toward eliminating the incentive for cruel labor practices at some other Chinese spots in Maine. ^

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ATTENTION TO DETAIL often an afterthought at other restaurants, Zen’s sour soup is made with care.

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product. “It’s a sign,” Crewdson says when a garbage picker mysteriously appears on a somber street scene in Lee, Massachusetts, perfecting the shot. Just one more epiphany in a body of work that shimmers with immanent revelation.

Broken City

_peter Keough

xx HYDe PARK On HUDSOn 94 minutes | eveninGstar + railroad sQuare + wells Lurking beneath Hyde Park on Hudson, the latest film to repurpose historical icons for Oscar-bait melodrama, is a screwball comedy trying desperately to break though. Franklin D. Roosevelt, played by Bill Murray, seems chiefly interested in escaping his motorcade so he can score a handjob from his distant cousin (Laura Linney). King George and Queen Elizabeth visit in hopes of securing help for England during WWII, but spend most of their

time fretting about the social implications of being served hot dogs at a picnic. The First Lady (Olivia Williams) spends her time debating whether it’s impolite to refer to Her Royal Highness as “Elizabeth.” Sometimes it’s all played for droll, knowing laughs. But most of the time it feels like an SNL sketch with all the punchlines removed.

_Jake mulligan

xx BROKen CiTY 109 minutes | auburn + oxford + smitty’s biddeford + smitty’s sanford + spotliGht + wells To paraphrase Roman Polanski’s masterful noir, it’s not Chinatown. Not for lack of trying, though, as burly gumshoe and disgraced ex-cop Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) initiates a creaky, convoluted plot by

taking 50 grand from lubricious New York mayor Hostetler (Russell Crowe) to find out who’s shtupping Hizzoner’s wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones).

Before you can say Noah Cross, Billy finds himself drawn into a maelstrom of corruption, shady real estate deals, extortion, murder, and half-baked dialogue. This, plus the ordeal of watching his actress wife get humped in an “indie” movie, drives the recovering alcoholic Taggert back to the Jameson bottle, allowing Wahlberg to stir from his inertia and draw on his explosive physicality. Meanwhile, director Allen Hughes tries to be “indie” himself by pointlessly circling the camera around random scenes. Jeffrey Wright distinguishes himself in the star-heavy cast as the morally ambiguous police commissioner; for his reward he gets the best line in the film.

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Unless otherwise noted, all film listings this week are for Friday,January 25 through Thursday, January 31. Times can and do change without notice, so do call the theater before heading out. For up-to-date film-schedule information, check the Portland Phoenix Web site at thePhoenix.com.

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333 Clarks Pond Parkway, South Portland | 207.772.6023 Call for shows & times.

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1 Temple St, Portland | 207.772.9751 Call for shows & times.

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7 Congress Square, Portland | 207.775.6148

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183 County Rd, Westbrook | 207.774.3456 Call for shows & times.

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

EVEnInGStar CInEMa

Tontine Mall, 149 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.729.5486

HYdE ParK on HUdSon | Fri-Sun: 1:30, 4, 6:30, 8:30 | Mon-Thu: 1:30, 4, 6:30

FrontIEr CInEMa 14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222

CHaSInG ICE | Sun: 2, 6, 8 | Tue: 2 | Wed: 2, 6, 8 | Thu: 2

lEWISton FlaGSHIP 10 855 Lisbon St, Lewiston | 207.777.5010 Call for shows & times.

narroW GaUGE CInEMaS 15 Front St, Farmington | 207.778.4877

dJanGo UnCHaInEd | Fri-Mon: 12:30, 3:30, 7:20 | Tue: 7:20 | Wed: 12:30, 3:30, 7:20 | Thu: 7:20

BroKEn CItY | Fri-Sat: 7, 10 | SunThu: 7

GnoMEo & JUlIEt | Wed: 11:30 am HanSEl & GrEtEl: WItCH HUntErS | Fri-Sun: noon, 7 | Mon-Thu: 7 HanSEl & GrEtEl: WItCH HUntErS 3d | Fri-Sat: 3:30, 10 | Sun-Thu: 3:30

tHE HoBBIt: an UnEXPECtEd JoUrnEY | Fri-Sun: noon, 3:45 | MonThu: 3:30

tHE laSt Stand | Fri-Sat: 7:30, 10 |

HYdE ParK on HUdSon | Fri: 4,

noon, 4, 6:30 | Mon-Thu: 4, 6:30 ParEntal GUIdanCE | Fri-Sun: noon, 3:30 | Mon-Thu: 3:30 PEEWEE’S BIG adVEntUrE | Wed: 7 ZEro darK tHIrtY | Fri-Sat: 11:45 am, 3, 6:30, 9:30 | Sun: 11:45 am, 3:30, 7 | Mon-Thu: 3:15, 7

6:45, 9:25 | Sat: 1, 4, 6:45, 9:25 | Sun: 1, 4, 6:45 | Mon-Thu: 4, 6:45 lInColn | Fri: 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 | Sat: 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 | Sun: 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 | Mon-Thu: 3:30, 6:30 lES MISEraBlES | Fri: 3:25, 6:25, 9:35 | Sat: 12:15, 3:25, 6:25, 9:35 | Sun: 12:15, 3:25, 6:25 | Mon-Thu: 3:25, 6:25 SIlVEr lInInGS PlaYBooK | Fri: 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 | Sat: 1:05, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 | Sun: 1:05, 4:05, 6:50 | Mon-Thu: 4:05, 6:50 ZEro darK tHIrtY | Fri: 3:35, 6:35, 9:40 | Sat: 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:40 | Sun: 12:35, 3:35, 6:35 | Mon-Thu: 3:35, 6:35

SPaCE GallErY

538 Congress St, Portland | 207.828.5600

CHaSInG ICE | Fri: 7:30 onlY tHE YoUnG | Wed: 7:30

SPotlIGHt CInEMaS

Mon-Thu: 3:40

SMIttY’S CInEMaSanFord

6 | Mon-Thu: 7

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BroKEn CItY | Fri-Sat: 6:30, 9:30 |

tHoMaSton FlaGSHIP 10

1 Freeport Village Station, Suite 125, Freeport | 207.865.9000

alaMo tHEatrE

420 Alfred St, Five Points Shopping Center, Biddeford | 207.282.2224

MoVIE 43 | Fri-Sat: noon, 4, 7, 10 | Sun:

Sun-Thu: 7:15 MaMa | Fri-Sat: 3:30, 7:30, 10 | Sun: 3:30, 7:15 | Mon-Thu: 4, 7:15 MonStErS, InC 3d | Fri-Sun: 12:30 MoVIE 43 | Fri-Sat: 12:30, 4, 7:15, 10 | Sun: 12:30, 4, 7:15 | Mon-Thu: 4, 7:15 ParEntal GUIdanCE | Fri-Sun: noon, 3:45 | Mon-Thu: 4 PEEWEE’S BIG adVEntUrE | Wed: 7 SIlVEr lInInGS PlaYBooK | Fri-Sat: noon, 3:15, 6:45, 10 | Sun: noon, 3:15, 6:45 | Mon-Thu: 3:30, 6:45 ZEro darK tHIrtY | Fri-Sat: noon, 3:15, 6:30, 10 | Sun: noon, 3:15, 6:30 | Mon-Thu: 3:30, 6:45

nordICa tHEatrE

MaInE

SMIttY’S CInEMaBIddEFord

GanGStEr SQUad | Fri-Sat: 3:40, 10 | HanSEl & GrEtEl: WItCH HUntErS | Fri-Sat: 1, 4:15, 7:20, 9:50 | SuntHE HoBBIt: an UnEXPECtEd JoUrnEY | 12:10, 6:30 lInColn | 12:30, 4, 7:30 lES MISEraBlES | 12:45, 3:50, 7:10 SIlVEr lInInGS PlaYBooK | Fri-Sat: 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 9:30 | Sun-Thu: 12:15, 3:30, 6:50 ZEro darK tHIrtY | Fri-Sat: noon, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 | Sun-Thu: noon, 3:15, 6:30

oXFord FlaGSHIP 7

1570 Main Street, Oxford | 207.743.2219

BroKEn CItY | Fri-Sat: 1:10, 4:05, 7, 9:25 | Sun-Thu: 1:10, 4:05, 7

HanSEl & GrEtEl: WItCH HUntErS | Fri-Sat: 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:20 |

1364 Main St, Sanford | 207.490.0000

Sun-Thu: 6:30

GnoMEo & JUlIEt | Wed: 11:30 am HanSEl & GrEtEl: WItCH HUntErS | Fri: 12:30, 7:30 | Sat-Sun: 12:30, 6:30 | MonThu: 6:30

HanSEl & GrEtEl: WItCH HUntErS 3d | Fr-Sati: 3:30, 9:45 | Sun-Thu: 3:30

tHE HoBBIt: an UnEXPECtEd JoUrnEY | Fri-Sun: 11:45 am, 3:15 |

| Sun-Thu: 1:30, 4:10, 7:20

ParEntal GUIdanCE | Fri-Sat: 1:20, 4:15, 6:50, 9:15 | Sun-Thu: 1:20, 4:15, 6:50 ParKEr | Fri-Sat: 1, 4, 6:55, 9:30 | SunThu: 1, 4, 6:55

raIlroad SQUarE 17 Railroad Sq, Waterville | 207.873.6526

HYdE ParK on HUdSon | Fri: 3, 7:10, 9 | Sat: 1, 3, 7:10, 9 | Sun-Mon: 1, 3, 7:10 | Tue-Thu: 3, 7:10 tHE IMPoSSIBlE | Fri: 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9 | Sat: noon, 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9 | Sun: noon, 2:10, 4:30, 6:50 | Mon-Thu: 2:10, 4:30, 6:50 lIFE oF PI | Fri-Sat: 2:40, 7:10, 9:40 | Sun-Thu: 2:40, 7:10 SIlVEr lInInGS PlaYBooK | Fri: 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:15 | Sat: noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:15 | Sun: noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7 | MonTue: 2:20, 4:40, 7 | Wed: 4:40, 7 | Thu: 2:20, 4:40, 7 SIStEr | Sat-Sun: 10 am

rEGal BrUnSWICK 10

19 Gurnet Rd, Brunswick | 207.798.3996 Call for shows & times.

SaCo CInEMaGIC & IMaX

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

9:55

tHE laSt Stand | 12:25, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:40

MaMa | 12:40, 3:20, 5:25, 7:40, 9:50

tHE MUSIC Hall

ProMISEd land | Fri-Sat: 7 | Sun: 4

a latE QUartEt | Fri-Sat: 7 | Sun: 3, 7

Main St, Stonington | 207.367.2788

Strand tHEatrE

345 Main St, Rockland | 207.594.0070

tHE BIG PICtUrE | Fri: 5:30, 8 | Sun: 1, HoW to SUrVIVE a PlaGUE | Sun: 3:30

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

WEllS FIVE Star CInEMa

75 Wells Plaza, Rte 1, Wells | 207.646.0500

Sun-Thu: 7 MaMa | Fri-Sat: 12:30, 4, 7:30, 10 | Sun: 12:30, 4, 7 | Mon-Thu: 4, 7

7:10, 9:45 | Sun: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 | MonThu: 4:10, 7:10

tHE laSt Stand | Fri-Sat: 7, 9:45 |

Chasing Ice

nEW HaMPSHIrE

StonInGton oPEra HoUSE

Mon-Thu: 3:15

tHE HoBBIt: an UnEXPECtEd JoUrnEY | 2, 6:45 tHE laSt Stand | Fri-Sat: 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 | Sun-Thu: 1:40, 4:25, 7:05

BroKEn CItY | 12:35, 3:10, 5:20, 7:35,

BroKEn CItY | Fri: 4:15, 7, 9:45 | Sat: 1:15, 4:15, 7, 9:45 | Sun: 1:15, 4:15, 7 | Mon-Thu: 4:15, 7

Sun-Thu: 1:50, 4:20, 7:10

MoVIE 43 | Fri-Sat: 1:30, 4:10, 7:20, 9:35

6 Stillwater Ave, Orono | 207.827.7411

HanSEl & GrEtEl: WItCH HUntErS | Fri: 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 | Sat: 1:10, 4:10,

28 Chestnut St, Portsmouth | 603.436.9900

| Tue-Thu: 7

lIVE BroadCaSt oF tHE MaGIStratE BY tHE natIonal tHEatrE oF london | Sat: 1

rEGal FoX rUn StadIUM 15

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

CHICo Y rIta | Thu: 7 a ContraCorrIEntE | Wed: 7 loPE | Mon: 7:30 taMBIEn la llUVIa | Tue: 7

CaMdEn PUBlIC lIBrarY

55 Main St, Camden | 207.236.2823

aMErICa’S MUSIC: SWInG JaZZ | Sun: 3

CatHolIC CHarItIES

USM - Portland, Glickman Library, 7th Floor, 314 Forest Ave, Portland | 207.781.8550

UProotEd | Tue: 6

drEaMland tHEatEr

Winter Street Center, 880 Washington St, Bath | 207.443.2174

Man on a WIrE | Thu: 7

tHE Grand

165 Main St, Ellsworth | 207.667.9500

tHE Gold rUSH (WItH lIVE SCorE BY tEMPo) | Fri: 7

lInColn tHEatEr

2 Theater Rd, Damariscotta | 207.563.3424

EUroPa KonZErt FroM naPolI | Sun: 2 lEd ZEPPElIn: CElEBratIon daY | Thu: 7

loCal SProUtS CooPEratIVE

FIlM SPECIalS

653 Congress St, Portland | 207.899.3529

BEttInG tHE FarM | Mon: 7

BatES CollEGE

UnItY CollEGE

arGo | Fri: 7:30 | Sat: 2, 7:30 | Sun: 2 |

tHE atoMIC StatES oF aMErICa

Olin Arts Center, Lewiston | 207.786.6255

Center for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St, Unity | 207.948.7469

Mon: 4:30

| Mon: 7

BoWdoIn CollEGE

YorK PUBlIC lIBrarY

Visual Arts Center, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

15 Long Sands Rd, York | 207.363.2818

aIMEE & JaGUar | Sat: 7

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_by syMbo line Da i This week the moon is waxing and waning, and that all-important full moon happens on Saturday. Full moons are useful for taking a crisis to a breaking point, or bringing random people together to make a “team.” Since this moon is in child-centered Leo, you may find an urge to procreate somehow blends with a desire to get a whole new set of toys (hey, it happens). If you need to make a decision, and you feel it’s all too confusing right now, you do have another two weeks until the new moon, when decisiveness comes more easily. For more, visit moonsigns. net or friend me as “Symboline Dai” on Facebook.

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Big fat cancer moons generally signify turf-wars. “Where’s mine?” comes naturally to many, particularly cancer, Scorpio, aries, libra, capricorn, and pisces. Sensitive yet insightful could be the default mode for taurus, Virgo, Gemini, aquarius, Sagittarius, and leo.

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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.

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