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Extremism in defense of climate justice is no vice Excerpted from a longer essay, which you can read in full at thePhoenix.com.

I want to say a word for radicalism — for the role of the radical in building a movement to confront climate change, the most urgent crisis human beings have ever faced. I want to start with two scenes, and two speakers, who embody the imperatives, and the limitations, of the moment in which we find ourselves.

July 26, 2011 Inside a federal courtroom in Salt Lake City, Utah, a 30-year-old climate activist named Tim DeChristopher is sentenced to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine for disrupting a Bureau of Land Management auction of oil and gas leases back in December 2008. Registered as Bidder #70, he managed to win bids worth $1.8 million for some 22,000 acres of public land near Canyonlands National Park — bids he had no way of paying. He had acted spontaneously, on his conscience, engaged in nonviolent resistance to the heedless new extraction of fossil fuels that are catastrophically heating the planet and threatening innumerable innocent lives.

Weeks before his sentencing, DeChristopher told Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell: “I’m a climate-justice activist. . . . We want a radically different world. We want a healthy, just world.” But first, he said, “we need to get the fossil fuel industry out of the way. First we’ve got to overthrow the corporate power that is running our government.” He understands what that requires. “It will involve confrontation and it will involve sacrifice.”

At his sentencing, standing before the federal judge, DeChristopher concludes a long, eloquent statement that spreads across the Internet and galvanizes a growing climate-justice movement: “This is not going away. At this point of unimaginable threats on the horizon, this is what hope looks like. In these times of a morally bankrupt government that has sold out its principles, this is what patriotism looks like. With countless lives on the line, this is what love looks like, and it will only grow. The choice you are making today is what side are you on.”

A month after DeChristopher speaks those words, the largest civil-disobedience action in a generation begins in front of the White House, where 1253 climate activists are arrested protesting the Keystone XL pipeline, the project that would tap the second-largest carbon deposit on Earth. (Last Sunday, February 17, tens of thousands more converged on Washington to demand that Barack Obama reject the pipeline once and for all.)

November 4, 2012 It’s the Sunday before Election Day, a week after Hurricane Sandy’s hellish landfall, and Congressman Ed Markey stands before a capacity crowd inside the Town Hall of Arlington, Massachusetts.

Hundreds of constituents have gathered on 48 hours notice for what the congressman has billed as an “emergency meeting” on climate

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change. Flanked by Kevin Knobloch, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Mindy Lubber, representing $11 trillion in assets as the director of the Investor Network on Climate Risk, Markey displays satellite photos of Boston illustrating that huge sections of the city — like the entire Back Bay — would be underwater if Sandy had hit the Hub instead of New York and New Jersey.

But Markey isn’t there just to talk about disaster response or building seawalls in Boston Harbor. He’s there to demonstrate his seriousness on confronting climate change, an issue that had until that week gone all but unmentioned in the election campaign and in the mainstream political media.

“As the Minutemen responded, so must we,” Markey tells his audience, calling for an unspecified “bold plan” from Washington to cut greenhouse emissions and prevent future “devastation.” Global warming, if unaddressed, could lead to “events so horrific,” he says, that they could “dwarf” other catastrophes in human history. In his final remarks, Markey intones, with what sounds like real passion: “The American Revolution, it started here. The abolitionist movement, it started here. The women’s movement, it started here. The anti-Vietnam movement, it started here. . . . The Freedom Riders, going South in the ‘60s, they left on buses from here. . . . [Global warming] is our generational challenge. The preceding generations accepted their challenges.”

I was at Arlington Town Hall that Sun-

day in November, and I had to wonder: if Markey was as serious as he sounded about climate change, what kind of “bold” action would match the necessity of the moment and his rhetoric invoking the grand radical tradition in American history?

Certainly nothing that he or any other politician in Washington, including (especially) President Obama, has ever proposed comes anywhere close. Even the doomed 2009 “cap-and-trade” bill that Markey coauthored — the strongest, indeed the only, comprehensive national climate legislation ever to pass either chamber of Congress — aimed merely to cut emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 (the same amount, as it happens, that Obama meekly pledged at the failed UN climate talks in Copenhagen that year). Compare that with what the scientific consensus, as represented by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says is required if we’re to have a chance of stabilizing the climate: at least 25 to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.

(Using the internationally recognized 1990 baseline, the Obama-Waxman-Markey target would amount to a roughly 4 percent reduction by 2020.) Those emissions targets are based on the IPCC’s most recent assessment, published in 2007, and its new report — due to be published later this year and next — is expected to paint a far darker picture. Global emissions are setting new records, currently rising roughly 3 percent per year.

Around the time that Markey spoke in Arlington, the International Energy

Agency, the World Bank, and PricewaterhouseCoopers were releasing reports that would surely have been called “alarmist” if issued by climate advocates. (As it happened, the reports were barely mentioned by major news outlets.) The generally conservative IEA affirmed that at least two-thirds of proven fossil-fuel reserves must stay in the ground between now and 2050 in order to have a shot at keeping the global average temperature from rising more than 2 degrees C (3.6 F), the internationally agreed-upon “red line.” (In its 2011 report, the IEA concluded that unless a massive global shift to clean-energy infrastructure begins in earnest within five years — make that four now — we’ll be “locked in” to catastrophic warming.) The World Bank warned that we’re on track for 4 degrees C (7.2 F) this century — which it says is quite likely beyond adaptation, and “must be avoided.” The analysts at PwC, in a report titled “Too Late for Two Degrees?,” concluded that we’ve “passed a critical threshold,” and that we should prepare for 4 degrees, or even 6 degrees (10.8 F), this century, unless the carbon-intensity of the global economy can be reduced by an unprecedented 5 percent per year for the next 40 years.

To put that conclusion in perspective: one of the world’s leading climate scientists, Kevin Anderson at the UK’s Tyndall Centre, has said that 4 degrees C would be “incompatible with an organized global community.” The US government’s draft National Climate Assessment, released in January, suggests that we’re on track for 9 to 15-degrees Fahrenheit warming over most of the United States within this century.

Unless, that is, we drastically change course.

It seems fairly obvious that the reason we don’t hear politicians, or the “serious” people in our media, talking (at least in public) about this situation — the true gravity of it — is that to grapple with this in any real way, to propose anything that would actually begin to address it with the necessary urgency at the national and global level, would simply sound too extreme, if not outright crazy. Leave fossil fuels in the ground?

You must be joking. Why, that would mean canceling the Keystone pipeline! It would mean putting Alberta’s tar sands, the second largest pool of carbon on the planet, off limits! Who are you kidding? Be serious! (Nevermind that a group of 18 top climate scientists signed a letter to Obama last month urging him to reject the pipeline to demonstrate the “seriousness of his climate convictions.”)

This is the reality — or the surreality — of the historical moment in which we find ourselves. At this late hour in the climate crisis, with the clock ticking down on civilization, to be serious about climate change — based, mind you, on what science and not ideology prescribes — is to be radical.

_Wen Stephenson

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How will you be remembered?

In politics, it’s known as the dreaded “L word.”

No, not “liberal.”

Or “lesbian.”

Or “lactose-intolerant” (although, a pro-lactose faction in Augusta has been pushing for stricter enforcement of civil rights laws to protect those who insist on drinking milk in public).

The L word stands for “legacy.” In some sad cases, it also denotes a “lack thereof.”

Which brings us to John Baldacci.

The former Democratic congressman and governor is best remembered for leaving the state in a financial mess. After four terms in the US House, during which he managed to leave no lasting impression, and eight years in the Blaine House, during which he never quite grasped the concept of matching expenditures to revenues, he retired to an inconsequential federal make-work job and then became a lobbyist.

As governor, Baldacci often appeared more incompetent than he actually was. Although, the more I think about it, the difference wasn’t all that significant. While many of his worst foibles can be blamed on a stagnant national economy, his persistence in believing that recovery was about to get under way led him into a pattern of offering spending plans that consistently proved to be beyond the state’s means.

I can’t blame Baldacci for not wanting to be buried under a tombstone that reads, “An Optimistic Oaf With A Tendency To Blow Other People’s Money.” But the only way he could possibly change that impression is to do something astonishing, such as manage the 2013 Boston Red Sox to a World Series championship or negotiate a successful peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinians or be arrested for appearing naked at the Democrats’ next Jefferson-Jackson dinner.

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Sad to say, Baldacci is pursuing none of these goals. Instead, he’s considering another campaign to recapture his old position. He said he’ll decide by April whether to again run for governor.

Republican Governor Paul LePage’s reaction when he saw a report on Baldacci’s plans: “I could hardly believe my eyes.”

Asked by reporters about the prospect of facing off against his predecessor in office, the governor quipped, “Christmas comes early sometimes.”

LePage owes his 2010 plurality win at the polls in large part to Baldacci’s inept performance, which convinced many otherwise-moderate voters that Maine needed drastic change. LePage gave them just what they asked for, thereby convincing many of those middle-of-the-roaders that they hadn’t meant for it to be quite that drastic. But polling numbers show that if confronted with the opportunity to oust LePage and return state government to the bad old days of Baldaccism, voters would likely decide there were some things worse than drastic.

Nevertheless, Baldacci is seriously considering becoming a gubernatorial candidate because he believes that regaining his old office is the only way he can retrieve his legacy from the hazardous-waste dump where it’s been deposited.

That’s understandable. Nobody wants to wrap up a career notable for its lack of highlights (and its excess of body slams on the bottom) by being perceived in perpetuity as an incapable dolt. But just because we can empathize doesn’t mean we have to sympathize.

Plus, there are plenty of other ways to allow Baldacci to elevate his selfworth without subjecting the state to another round of his shortsightedness (let’s balance the budget by selling

the state’s liquor profits for the next decade to a group associated with one of my political pals for a fraction of what they’re worth) and cronyism (do you seriously believe that a Democratic administration would have pursued the corruption and lavish expenditures

by Democrats at the Maine Turnpike Authority or the wasteful spending by Democrats at MaineHousing, because if you do, you probably ought to ease off your intake of Oxys before the delusions get worse).

Instead of returning Baldacci to office in a vain attempt to redeem his good name, it would be far cheaper and less damaging to our fiscal health to erect a statue in his honor. Some noble work of art, where he assumes a heroic stance, eyes on the horizon, hands clenching an unbalanced budget, above a plaque that reads, “John E. Baldacci: His Vision Is With Us Yet.” Not obviously insulting, but also not entirely untrue.

It could be placed outside one of the schools forced to close as part of his consolidation plan.

Of course, LePage would have to be convinced not to have the thing torn down and moved to an undisclosed location.

Maybe, it would be easier to have the governor appoint Baldacci to some position where he couldn’t possibly screw things up any worse than they are now, but could pretend his abilities had finally been properly recognized: warden of the Maine State Prison, director of the state’s Medicaid computer system, Blaine House butler.

Or we could do the kindest thing.

We could make sure Baldacci’s legacy isn’t a negative one by forgetting all about him. ^

Don’t forget to take out your frustrations by emailing me at aldiamon@herniahill.net.

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Bottom feeders fa wide-ranging review of wrongful foreclosures by last month, federal regulators pulled the plug on

10 mortgage lenders at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis. the review’s failure isn’t just a crying shame — it encapsulates everything that’s wrong with our regulatory culture. the review set out to analyze the individual loans of 3.8 million americans foreclosed on between 2009 and 2010 in search of unfair practices. its goal: determine how much victims of those abuses should get in restitution. those practices included the infamous “robo-signing,” placing people in default who weren’t and improper cancelation of loan modifications — in many cases, misdeeds that led to people losing their homes. by now, we all know the story. We’re not talking about paperwork errors here, but felonies knowingly committed to cover for an earlier set of felonies. having fraudulently approved mortgages for countless unqualified borrowers, the banks found themselves saddled with heaps of toxic debt. in a blind panic to dump those assets, the banks, with utter indifference to the lives they were ruining, improperly foreclosed on people by the thousands — sometimes on a pretext as flimsy as a single late mortgage payment, sometimes with no grounds at all. the review was victims’ last, best hope for justice. but 14 months into it, with no end in sight and nearly $2 billion in fees down the drain, the office of the comptroller of the currency threw in the towel. Without consulting any of the more consumer-oriented regulatory bodies like the Fdic, it struck a shady, backroom deal with the 10 mortgage lenders — effectively destroying any hope of fair compensation for the wronged. the agreement scraps the case-by-case reviews in favor of an $8.5 billion settlement, with only $3.3 billion of that going directly to homeowners. that works out to — wait for it — $1500 per household (although payouts will range from a few hundred dollars to $125,000 based on the type of “servicing error” affecting the borrower). bankers rejoice! the settlement is a tiny fraction of the financial — never mind the psychological — damages their abuses inflicted on homeowners, and by extension the economy as a whole. For running over Joe public, they face nothing harsher than a speeding ticket.

So why’d the occ agree to such a raw deal on behalf of consumers? the term “conflicts of interests” doesn’t begin to convey the inefficiency, bungling, and double-dealing that plagued the review from the outset. then again, what do you expect when the “consultants” hired to pore over a bank’s foreclosure paperwork are employed by the bank? yep, you read right. lacking the manpower to run the review themselves, regulators ordered the banks to hire third-party contractors. (this happens all the time — since 2008, 130 enforcement actions taken against financial institutions were entrusted to firms on the banks’ payroll.) left to their own devices, banks did what banks do. they hired stooges — firms with longstanding ties to the banks and who understood that telling the truth was unlikely to win them repeat business. the resulting review so grotesquely understated the extent of wrongdoing that the occ mothballed the whole endeavor to save itself any further embarrassment.

Whether the review was just a spectacularly botched operation or a piece of political theater rigged to fail, it’s yet another indictment of the coziness of regulators and the banks. (did i mention that the ceo of promontory Financial Group, one of the firms reviewing bank of america, was the former head of the occ?) if there’s any takeaway, it’s this: for all the grandstanding about reforming the financial services industry, one of the biggest factors leading to the 2008 meltdown remains unchanged. as they have for decades, the foxes still brazenly run the henhouse. and until the coital clinch between regulators and the banks they’re supposed to be policing gets pried apart, the bottom-feeders who caused the Great recession will stay one step ahead of their just desserts. ^

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GroundfishinG in new enGland faces a bleak present and an uncertain future _b y d e ir d r e f u l ton As recently as 2008, Maine groundfishermen were feeling fairly optimistic. That year, scientists announced that the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank cod stocks, which had been close to collapse in the mid1990s, were on the rebound after years of rebuilding. Fishermen were understandably buoyed by the assessment.

“People took that to heart; they made plans expecting higher landings,” says Robert Vanasse, executive director of Saving Seafood, a non-profit communications organization for the seafood industry. “Boats made plans, the industry made plans, the auction houses were all geared up.”

So imagine everyone’s surprise and dismay when a subsequent survey (such assessments are performed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Marine Fisheries Service every few years) revealed that the 2008 projections had been off the mark. The stocks, it seemed, were no healthier than they had been. Fishermen were still having a hard time finding cod in the sea.

“They realized that, in fact, they had been wrong,” says Jonathan Labaree, director of community initiatives at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. “It’s difficult to know, frankly, exactly why they were wrong. It seems as though they overesti-

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mated the amount of fish out there because they didn’t really take into account all the information.”

According to a NOAA presentation at the end of January, the 2008 study was skewed because it didn’t properly account for the weight of the sexually mature fish in the stock, the health and size of young fish in the stock, and the number of fish dying due to fishing activities.

The revised 2011 NOAA assessment presented a much more dire picture. Cod stocks were in poor condition, rebuilding much more slowly than expected, and vulnerable to further depletion. Thus, at the end of last month, the New England Fishery Management Council — which establishes rules for small- and large-scale commercial fisheries between three to 200 miles off the coast of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut — cut the fishing quotas, significantly.

Fishermen’s allocation for Gulf of Maine cod was slashed 77 percent; for Georges Bank cod, the catch-limit cut was only slightly less painful at 61 percent (quotas for yellowtail flounder and haddock were also reduced).

On top of existing restrictions, these new limitations represent a serious constraint. “[M]any Council members expressed

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their awareness about the serious negative economic impacts that will undoubtedly occur and affect the small inshore boat fleet in New England most significantly,” a NEFMC release read. “Many fishermen in this group have been historically dependent on cod and have already seen the impacts of decreased catches.”

Meanwhile, environmental interests like the Conservation Law Foundation are calling for the NEFMC to shut down the cod fishery altogether to give the species a legitimate chance to rebuild.

It is not a great time to be a groundfisherman in Maine.

Headed to oblivion

There was a time when cod and other groundfish (such as halibut, flounder, and haddock) were the lifeblood of New England’s working waterfronts. From salt cod to frozen fish sticks, groundfish has been incorporated as a staple in American diets for centuries. McDonald’s has used various species of groundfish in its Filets-o-Fish for decades; Alexandre Dumas once wrote that it would be feasible to walk across the Atlantic “on the backs of cod.”

Things are much different now. Last fall, the US Department of Commerce declared the northeastern groundfishery a federal economic disaster. Where local groundfishermen used to bring in tens of millions of pounds of Atlantic cod per year, their catch has dwindled to hundreds of thousands of pounds. And according to the Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association: “In 1996, 188 vessels in the state of Maine took at least one fishing trip targeting groundfish. By 2010 this number had declined to only 52 vessels that left the shore to catch what was once the foundation of Maine’s fishing economy.”

“We’re just headed . . . to oblivion,” NOAA’s Northeast regional administrator John Bullard told the New York Times in February.

“There’s certainly reason for pessimism . . .

We all have to change at some points in our careers, and fishermen are no different. So change may be the order of the day.”

Indeed, several changes have already been put in place, and more are on the horizon.

In 2010, for example, the New England Fishery Management Council established a new groundfish management program

“that gives fishermen a more direct role in making decisions about when, where, and how to fish,” explains NEFMC public affairs officer Patricia Fiorelli. In this system, groups of fishermen establish themselves as sectors, akin to a harvesting cooperative, “that allocates an amount fishing privileges to its members, based on the amount of fish or quota each member brings to his or her group.”

The idea behind sector management is that giving more responsibility and authority to fishermen allows more intuitive and efficient fishing practices to emerge as alternatives to old-school, ineffective controls such as limiting days-at-sea or fishing areas.

It’s too soon to tell, less than three years in, how the sector strategy is affecting local groundfishermen or fish stocks.

There are some indications that sector management encourages consolidation,

with bigger fishing operations essentially buying out smaller ones. There’s also widespread concern about a provision requiring fishermen to cover the costs of at-sea monitoring.

“Even without the drastic reductions in catch limits, our fishermen cannot feasibly afford their expected share of at-sea monitors, and it is vital that NOAA provide full funding to cover these costs,” reads a letter sent to Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank on February 7, signed by all four members of Maine’s congressional delegation.

This display of interest and pressure from prominent Maine politicians (which has already resulted in one concrete concession: New England groundfishing vessels that did not catch their full share last year will be allowed to carry over a portion of that quota into 2013) is a welcome development, says Nick Battista, marine programs director at

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cod, haddock, and halibut to mainers: there is a Cod Cove just east of Wiscasset along route 1; Cod ledge between Swans island and isle au haut; Cod ledges (plural) just west of Winter harbor; Codhead ledge in eastern englishman bay, just off machias; and Tom Cod Cove off castine. the highest concentration of cod-named places is east of cape elizabeth in casco bay, where boaters can find easT Cod ledge, easT Cod ledge RoCk, wesT Cod ledge, and (surprise!) wesT Cod ledge RoCk. (also the Cod RoCks are on a point of land in the Sprague estate in cape elizabeth.) there’s haddoCk island in muscongus bay (off which are haddoCk island kelp ledge and haddoCk island ledge). three places are called haddoCk ledge — west of isle au haut, off lincolnville, and southwest of matinic island. there’s a haddoCk RoCk off the end of harpswell neck; halibuT hole west of Winter harbor (and barely north of cod ledges); halibuT ledge southeast of Vinalhaven; halibuT RoCk in the muscle ridge islands off South thomaston; two places called halibuT RoCks — south of popham beach, and west of Swans island (which also has a wesT halibuT RoCk nearby); and wesT halibuT ledges where isle au haut bay meets east penobscot bay also, don’t forget Codfish Ridge way up in aroostook county, between houlton and millinocket. if you want to see a map of all of these places, point your fishing boat’s browser to tinyurl. com/maineFishplacenames. _Ji

the Island Institute in Rockland.

“The fact that the Maine delegation...led this effort is huge and it means they’re paying attention to this issue,” he says.

The same letter called on NOAA to “invest in more frequent and improved stock assessments to help NOAA Fisheries and the Council . . . investigate the impacts of changing ocean temperatures, species interactions, and stock structure.”

This gets to the meat of the matter: Science.

“The largest overall issue is that there is not a lot of faith in the surveys and assessments,” says Saving Seafood’s Vanasse, pointing to all sorts of blemishes on NOAA’s record. (To this end, the Inspector General of the US Commerce Department is currently undertaking a several-phase investigation of fisheries rulemaking; the first report uncovered shoddy record-keeping, enforcement, and financial disclosures on the part of NOAA.) For one thing, “it’s just really tough to count fish in the ocean and do it accurately,” Battista says. It’s also difficult to quantify the effects of rising water temperatures and ocean acidification on fish populations. “Decisions have been made on the best science we have,” he says. “But the science isn’t good enough to answer the questions we have.” It’s important to realize that today’s struggling fish stocks are not necessarily the result of so-called “overfishing” — at this point, the fish aren’t even there to be overcaught. Many fishermen cannot even meet their (low) quotas. There’s more to this problem, they say, than greedy fishermen.

“We need to start thinking about things differently,” offers Ben Martens, executive director of the Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association, which advocates for small-vessel fishermen and operates the Port Clyde Community Groundfish Sector. He supports a shift away from single-species management and toward ecosystem-based management, which considers everything from climate change to fish biology to commercial practices. As he puts it: “It’s not the cuts that are going to hurt us, it’s not having fish in the water that’s going to hurt us.”

Even Fiorelli, of the New England Fishery Management Council, acknowledges that “catch limits must . . . take into account all of the uncertainties in the ecosystem: changing temperatures, ecological interactions, with other species . . . But while it is easy to state this, it is extremely complex and difficult to do. The ocean is a rapidly changing environment and we are struggling to understand its potential and limitations.”

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While better science and better gear might help (some experts work exclusively on designing fishing equipment and practices that help fishermen save money and be more selective in their harvests), the outlook remains grim for groundfishermen.

You may be wondering: Should I give up eating groundfish entirely? The answer, according to the experts, is a resounding No. “At the end of the day, we still need to make sure that the general public is eating and prioritizing locally caught fish,” Martens says, encouraging seafood lovers to “try something new” such as redfish or pollock, which are currently abundant off Maine’s coast.

By developing markets for these less popular species, we can help fishermen get better prices for their fish. And this is certainly in line with Battista’s long-term goal of oceanic equilibrium, which he thinks will come from “making decisions based on the future. The more fish we catch now, the less economic pain there is, but the more risk there is of not having a fishery in the future. It’s really tough to balance that.” ^

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small businesses, and the rising financial burden of maintaining a conventional rock group, it could be the best moment in history to start a band that consists solely of you and your spouse.

WhitehoRse, for one, are on it.

The Canadian duo of Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland make accessible, lyrical, lightly countrified pop songs, looped from tracks of traditional instruments and a miniature Bed, Bath, and Beyond catalog of amplified appliances, from leather Lay-Z-Boy recliners to telephone receivers. They play with bluegrass group the ghost oF PAul ReveRe at 8 pm; $8. 575 Congress St, 207.879.8988.

SHUCKS | A longstanding Portland tradition that fuses love for two acquired tastes — oysters and garage-rock — is revived at Bayside Bowl. This year’s “oysteR stomP” gives a nod specifically to wharf staple J’s Oyster Bar (which serves up free bivalves during happy hour all month), and brings fuzzouts the FliPsides and the evil stReAKs, with ’MPG dj mAtt little. 8 pm and free at 58 Alder St., 207.791.2695.

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f Angelique Kidjo, at Strand Theatre, in Rockland on Feb 21. thursday 21 BENIN HERE | The soulful, soar-

ing Beninoise singer Angelique Kidjo, whose career began in the late ’80s as a sort of African contemporary of Annie Lennox and evolved to a genre-hopping international appeal, is a pretty significant name to be playing Midcoast Maine in mid-February.

Fresh off a live album bearing the talents of Branford Marsalis, singers Diane Reeves and Josh Groban, and Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, the UNICEF ambassador and activist’s show is rumored to be a sensational affair. Kidjo hits the Strand, 345 Main St. in Rockland, at 7:30 pm; tickets are $55. 207.594.0070.

HEY SUBURBIA | From the burgeoning field of rock sociology, the writer and professor Ryan Moore, author of Sells Like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis, speaks about the role of music as an instrument of social change. Moore is young, which should be crucial to understanding his angle, and should be plenty savvy with regard to the repercussions of the more violent technological shifts of the last decade. Moore’s lecture, titled

“Rhythm, noise, & the City: musiC And soCiAl ChAnge,” starts

at noon at the University of New England’s Ketchum Library, Biddeford Campus, 11 Hills Beach Rd. 207.602.2709.

EMERGING VOICES | At 6:30, the Portland Public Library mounts an encore screening of the Telling Room’s affecting 2012 student documentary, The Whole World WaiTing, in which over a dozen young writers from Portland’s immigrant community perform original work amid the illustrative backdrops of carefully selected local settings. 6 pm in the Rines Auditorium followed by a discussion with the organization’s Young Writers and Leaders Program (with which this writer has volunteered as a mentor). Call 207.871.1700.

friday 22 DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN | To rest with the

terms jazz, folk, or roots would do a disservice to the hauntingly singular Portland band the ReveRie mAChine. Fronted by the bewitchingly talented Meghan

Yates, whose voice is equal parts Joan Armatrading and Joanna Newsom, the group’s late 2012 release Not By Blood is a mystical, intoxicating listen. Perhaps that’s why they get the otherworldly treatment tonight. Via the outer fringe label Eternal Otter, the Reverie Machine play off-trail at Zero Station, 222 Anderson St., at 7:30 pm.

WHAT HAPPENS | The duo dAve gAgne & sAeKo nishimuRA, who co-front the world-folk group Post Provost, offer a cheery midwinter set at the Inn on Peaks Island (in case you’ve forgotten such a thing exists). 7 pm at 33 Island Ave. 207.776.5100.

CALL IT A NIGHT | The long time between appearances for Portland rock band metAl FeAtheRs is not without explanation. The group — now slimmed to a trio — have been working on their impressive full-length Handful of Fog, their third (see this writer’s review on page 18), and unveil it tonight at Mayo Street Arts. With the fuzzed-out trash-punk of leAves leAves, synth-driven powerpop group Wood BuRning CAt, and AleX KeAton. 7:30 pm; $5 at 10 Mayo St., 207.615.3609.

DOMESTICA | In this era of increased tax incentives for

| The massively popular Tijs Michiel Verwest, better known as the Dutch DJ tiesto, was part of the first wave of club producers to transcend the anonymity inherent in electronic dance music to achieve international fame. He heads a night of house music and trance at UNH’s Whittemore Center, with tommy tRAsh &

quintino and local producer joe BeRmudez, at 7:30 pm. $30, 128

Main St., 603.862.4000.

saturday 23 TRUST YR INSTINCTS | How best to explain the massive appeal of events like the 48 houR musiC FestivAl? Now in its fifth year, around 100 local musicians have been participants, and while they’re sure to have forged some lasting memories, timeless stories, and ironclad endorsements, the underlying appeal of the ad hoc rock fest is its ability to whittle all the bullshit of having a band down to one manic fantasy weekend of music, which is as close an approximation of what it felt like when we were teens in the basement. If this year’s class doesn’t contain people you know, it will undoubtedly include those moments of glory, apprehension, frustration, and joy you’ll find fondly familiar. 8:30 pm; $10 at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., 207.828.5600.

DEEP SHADE | The indigo giRls, the pathbreaking American folk duo who have long outlived any need for description, play with a full backing band (known separately as the shAdoW BoXeRs) at the Music Hall in Portsmouth. 8 pm; $32-40 at 131 Congress St., Portsmouth, NH. 603.431.2400.

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A SOUND LIKE STEAM | As one half of the pummeling, Belfastbased industrial band Ancestral Diet, Clare Hubbard is a demon — a icy, possessed valkyrie feeding off noise and disarray. But it’s Hubbard’s more restrained persona, the somber and darkly poetic folk artist CAethuA, who performs tonight at the Oak and the Ax. It is this guise whose evocative 2012 album, The Summer is Over Before It’s Begun, was one of the year’s most distinctive psych-folk releases. She’s part of a compelling triple-bill with miCAh Blue smAldone, the breathtaking Portland-gone-north balladeer, and Jagjaguwar recording artist loRd dog BiRd, who plays with the Baltimore band Wilderness.

8 pm; $8 at 140 Main St. in Biddeford. Visit theoakandtheax.com.

sunday 24 LIFE’S WORK | No doubt several

from Portland’s old guard will see classic acts devonsquARe and sChooneR FARe at the Landing in Scarborough. The 35th annual reunion concert and benefit also features sets by folkers denny BReAu, AlAnA mCdonAld, don CAmPBell, and more. 3 pm; $22-25 at 353 Pine Point Road.

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WEIRD COLISEUM | suPeR luChA eXPlosivA, a pretty marvelous new development of Mexican wrestling with ties to Portland’s theater scene, make its next appearance at Jimmy the Greek’s, a venue with high expectations — due to the presence of a mechanical bull — for physical entertainment. Tickets are reportedly available at Portland’s Coast City Comics; the show is 4 pm in the heart of Old Orchard Beach, 215 Saco Ave. 207.934.7499.

CHILD OF THE ’60S | The shifting cultural mores of 1960s America are the subject of duck and coVer, a new play making its world premiere by the Maine playwright Michael Kimball.

Directed by Lisa Stathoplos, it’s a world seen through the eyes of 12-year-old Stevie Whitebottom, who confronts a series of heavy realities through encounters with

his expatriated uncle Bunny. In its closing weekend at the West End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington St. in Portsmouth, NH. 2 pm; $15-18. 207.370.9062.

GREAT REACH | The fifth and latest episode of the fantastically inventive TV ShoW, the patchwork video project by arts education orgs Shoot Media and Bomb Diggity Arts, screens twice today at SPACE Gallery: 12:30 and 7 pm. $5.

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monday 25 FOUND SOUND | A rough one tonight: the band deeP Woods, who deliver fast melodic punk to the tune of the late ’90s, play with like-minded dude-groups stoRm the BAy and locals steineR stReet. With dustin sAuCieR, a scene graduate gone acoustic, at 9 pm. $5 at Geno’s, 625 Congress St., 207.221.2382.

BOSTON TRAPS | The clever, pop-culture referential, and highly regarded Boston jazz group the soFFeRmAn PeRsPeCtive, captained by drummer George Sofferman, is a major act at UNH tonight. Known to craft jazz tunes from such unlikely sources as Star Wars’ “Imperial Death March,” the group is almost designed for student consumption. 8 pm at the Johnson Theatre, 30 College Rd in Durham, NH. 603.862.2404.

tuEsday 26 VERSUS | Tickets for an evening with poet laureate RiChARd BlAnCo sold out as quickly as you might expect, but there’s a surprising number of other big events in town. The adult contemporary folk singer shAWn mullins, coincidentally a sort of protégé of Indigo Girls’ Amy Ray (who’s also in town), comes to One Longfellow Square. With ChuCK CAnnon, 8 pm; $25-30.

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PUBLIC POLICY | As the principles of public education are attacked from seemingly all angles, you might feel comforted sharing a few retaliation points — or at least sympathy nods — with others. At a lecture forum titled “the FutuRe oF higheR eduCAtion: PhilosoPhiCAl PeRsPeCtives,”

three USM professors discuss one of the most contentious national topics. 5 pm at the Maine Law Building, 246 Deering Ave. in Portland. 207.780.4258.

WEdnEsday 27 TWO GUYS WITH A PLAN | Through 15 albums, 18 EPs, seven live discs and more than 500 entries to the late ’80s entrepreneurial/art project Diala-Song, the band they might Be giAnts are among the most prolific in the history of rock music. Nonetheless, their latest, the forthcoming Nanobots, finds them invigorated, stuffing 25 “extremely short songs” into the beginning of yet another new chapter. They play with DC weird-folk group vAndAveeR at the Port City Music Hall, 7:30 pm; $25-40. 504 Congress St. 207.899.4990.

IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD | Two free events: at Local Sprouts, the stoneCoAst ReAding seRies celebrates Black History Month with a variety of readings headed by local jazz-poet lAdy zen at Local Sprouts (7 pm, 649 Congress St., 207.899.3529), and if it intrigues, Flask Lounge tests out the first edition of “unKnoWn PleAsuRes,” a curated night of icy post-punk (9 pm, 117 Spring St., 207.772.3122).

thursday 28 SPRING FORTH | Next week, as the days get longer and longer, the rock groups RuRAl ghosts and the teXARCAnA (see Sam Pfeifle’s review on page 20) play with FoR moRning at the Empire, former Spin Doctor ChRis BARRon plays the first of a series of throwback jam-rock shows (many with ex-Blues Traveler John Popper) at the Big Easy, and the British rock group WishBone Ash, known for their twin lead guitar setup, roll through a venue in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, spring is on its horse.

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‘TOTEM’ Mixed media by eduardo Bertone, 2012.

Have ideas, will travel CRossinG the sea to Go Below the suRfaCe _ By Ken G R e e n l e a f The world is, as Tom Friedman has noted, flat, which doesn’t take much label-reading to ascertain. What have you bought recently that wasn’t made overseas?

But place is place, and Madrid ain’t Portland. “This Flat Earth/Esta Tierra Plana” at Rose Contemporary invites consideration about cultural thinking and artistic exchange as it takes place at the personal level, distinct from industrial, commercial, or even diplomatic channels. This is visual art’s great value — it’s individuals who matter, not institutions. The message is the mediators, not the medium, and what we learn is, at its essence, conveyed from one person to another.

“This Flat Earth/Esta Tierra Plana” is an exchange project among artists based in Maine showing in Madrid with a number of Spanish artists, and the same people subsequently showing in Portland. It was co-organized by Jeff Badger of Portland-based Tetra Projects and Madrid-based Rubicon1.

The group of works appeared in Madrid at Embajadores con Provisiones in January, and is in Portland at Rose Contemporary through this month.

For thematic as well as practical purposes the artists were asked to use the same size paper, A3, about 16.5 by 11.5 inches.

They are more or less about a here-to-there cross-ocean idea, with a dash of thinking about colonial history and seasoned with them-and-us comparisons, but at the heart of the project it’s simply a fun thing to do that informs because it’s art. The works are done because the artists are doing what they like to do, and the content conveyed is secondary, sometimes purely notional and sometimes non-existent. The messages are encoded not so much in what is depicted, but rather in the personal experience of each viewer with each work.

The people are, from Spain: Irene Blanco, Eduardo Bertone, Zuzia, Sabek, Ruina, Pincho, Zé Carrión, rHo, Borondo, Seann Brackin, Rubicon 1, RBN, Ciril23, Chylo, Toño, and Dingo Muto Perro; from Maine: Kyle Bryant, Kenny Cole, Colleen Kinsella, Carrie Scanga, Jeff Badger, Justin Richel, Irina Skornyakova, Kimberly Convery, Anne Buckwalter, and Cassie Jones.

“Flat Earth” in this context means that the art world, and the ideas that drive it, is no longer confined to a locality. The old “Paris then and New York now” paradigm is gone, fled like the transoceanic steamer and its stickered trunks. While one can discern sensibility distinctions that might be characterized as “Spanish” or “Maine-ish,” technically and conceptually they could be from anywhere. The world is flat.

There was a schoolboy canard in my youth that asserted that Columbus, while selling his India project to the Spanish court, declared the world was round, while others

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‘UNE CATASTROPHE PASSANT À L’ATELIER’ Mixed media, gouache on cut paper and ink jet collage, by Justin Richel, 2012. believed it was flat. Not true of course: In the 15th century anyone with any sense knew it was round, although Columbus had underestimated its circumference and his error gave him courage. There’s a reference to the unfortunate admiral and his little fleet in the poster for this show, anachronistically appearing near a shoreline with a Maine-like lighthouse on it. The world after Columbus flattened out, but the technology for five centuries or so afterward put severe limits the transfer of ideas, goods, and diseases.

Travel and communications were difficult, slow, dangerous, and expensive. Today they are easy, fast, safe, and cheap.

Thanks to high-speed communications and digital imaging, everybody can know what everyone is doing, anywhere. Galleries are much alike, no matter where they are. But there’s still an important reason for shows to travel. It’s not just the ideas that need to move. To really experience what a work does, you need the thing itself.

One can detect the flow of ideas again

and again in “This Flat Earth.” There’s a taste of South Bronx street art, the collective (and international) energy of Fluxus, the occasional polemic and postmodern comedy.

Some notions seem odd. An example is the circular reference in Zé Carrión’s “Hitler,” which seems to have been rendered from Charlie Chaplin’s anti-Hitler film The Great Dictator, using an American source for a portrait of history’s nastiest person, one who affected Spain’s civil war.

Jeff Badger’s “Triumph of the Vanishing Point” deconstructs a house and its contents as they disappear into the perspective point that would have allowed it to appear real, as if Hoovered into oblivion by technical artistic demands. A different sort of illusion appears in Carrie Scanga’s “the Past in Perspective,” in which the railing of a platform, or deck, directs the eye past toy-like houses toward a distant horizon, charged with expectation.

The inscription on Pincho’s untitled careful rendering of a heavy paving roller implies that unfettered, American-style economics will pave over the world, but at least will do it with style. In “Decommissioned” Kenny Cole updates roles of the Niña and Pinta with a Spanish submarine (the Siroco) that enters into an unspecified narrative that includes some arrows of direction, stacks of gold coins, and a child with a life vest grasping a tiller.

Irina Skornyakova’s “Layers” reaches back to some of the foundational ideas of modernist art as articulated by Malevich. While not especially local to Maine or Spain, Skornyakova shows there is a universality to that line of thinking and still much to be mined from it.

An attentive viewer will grasp pretty quickly there are a few lines of social, political, and economic commentary flowing through this group of work, but that is not where the show’s deeper significance lies.

Visual art in general doesn’t do social relevance all that well, if for no other reason than its usual reach is from one individual to another, and, as with poetry, there’s not a lot of room for narrative or expository coherence.

What is most likely to occur is a confirmation (or not) of one’s own views, rather than a keener understanding of the issues involved.

There is a greater value here, though, and it lies within the personality of each individual voice. They may or may not be telling us something we need to know, but they are telling us who they are. It’s not so much what they say, but who is saying it and how they do it. We are making personal acquaintances across a cultural and geographical distance. Things are familiar, the world is flat, but location still matters. ^

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theater TesT flighTs BLack-Box reSuLtS Show SucceSS _ By Meg a n g ruMB L In g It’s an on-stage-off-stage winter in Portland Stage Company’s Studio Theater, where PSC has just launched its new Studio Rep Series, rotating between productions by three different companies: Lorem Ipsum’s If We Were Birds, Horn and Ivory Productions’ For the Lulz, and Bess Welden’s Big Mouth Thunder Thighs. In addition, during the dark nights of that multi-threaded run, a fourth company, the Seeing Space, mounts two one-acts billed as Moments as Inertia.

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The ancient Greek myth of Philomela is one of blood lust and sexual violence: Athenian princess sisters Procne and Philomela are separated when the elder, Procne, is given in marriage to Tereus, the warrior king of Thrace. Later, at his new wife’s request, Tereus sails to Athens to bring Philomela for a visit, but seized with lust, he rapes her, cuts out her tongue, and leaves her in the woods. Philomela and Procne enact a horrific revenge and finally, desperate, beseech the gods to turn them into birds. In Erin Shields’s harrowing 2011 retelling, she uses birds to present a Greek chorus of brutalized women both ancient and modern, in the unflinching If We Were Birds, directed by the Phoenix’s own Deirdre Fulton, in a devastating production by Lorem Ipsum.

Fulton and her cast enact the story’s fraught relationships with breathtaking physicality. Early on, bathing and confiding in thin white undergarments, sisters Procne and Philomela (Ellen White and Heather Irish, both superb) have a fluid intimacy; they’re beautifully paired, White’s curves and coy, measured voice against Irish’s nymph-like frame and giddy shrillness. As a girl teetering on the cusp between child and young woman, Irish is arresting, slipping between myriad postures and gestures to reveal Philomela’s every volatile emotional shift, including her agony when their loving but patriarchal father (the excellent Corey Gagne) gives away her sister.

Meanwhile, Procne uses the lust of Tereus (Nicholas Schroeder, also a Phoenix scribe) as leverage; the two slink around the stage in a dance equal parts eros and skirmish. As the warrior, Schroeder conjures Tereus’s lust — especially toward Philomela — as a frighteningly tangible, uncontainable force, his mouth agape as if in helpless thrall. Tereus’s hair-raising monologue before the rape (“It’s not me, it’s my blood,” he tells himself) is so coolly spoken, so devoid of accountability, that it’s terrifying. The rape itself, riddled with obscenity and throbbing with the

breaking down Still, stark, brutal: Lorem Ipsum’s If We Were Birds. chants of the bird chorus, is excruciating.

The birds whose ranks the sisters will join (Karen Ball, Mariah Bergeron, Emma Payton Cooper, Amanda Huotari, and Lisa Van Oosterum) evoke both the archetypal and the particular, color the action with chirps and twitches (along with Emily Dix Thomas’s quietly melancholic cello), and build the tension with even the sound of their synched breaths. And in Shields’s most agonizing innovation, the birds relate actual accounts of women brutalized during 20th-century conflicts, tortuous monologues delivered with the stillness and starkness of bones.

Both dramatically and rhetorically, Lorem Ipsum’s brutal but tender production is consuming. The nuances of its characters reveal how ambivalent and how culturally embedded their attitudes toward war and women, blood lust and sexual lust. By the end, even given the gods’ consolations of wings, expect to feel battered, numb, and sad. The story’s best recourse against the horror is to “Speak it,” and the sounds that come out of those birds’ throats are haunting: part song, part sob.

“for the laughs” — one might post or do something online. And “for the lulz,” indeed, seems to be the cloudy m.o. of one determined young hacker, in this cyberthriller by Ben Ferber (directed by Todd Brian Backus).

Online realms, including blogs, Twitter feeds, and IRC (Internet Relay Chat) conversations, constitute the main “settings” of For the Lulz, the plot of which concerns cyber-attacks carried out by the hacker “poof” (Shannon Stockwell), and the attempts of cyber-vigilante MrJ (Eric Worthley), tech journalist Fay (Ella Wrenn), and ex-con hacker/professor Gale (Caroline O’Connor) to identify, expose, and/or shut “poof” down.

Their fast-paced dialogue abounds in the clipped syntax of Twitter, technical explanations (DDoS, “freaking”), and the wild-west obscenities of the blogosphere (“Nice tits, cuntmuffin!”). It’s exhausting, but it does nicely express the thrills of online anonymity and alliances, as do its capable actors, who are energetic and quirkily comic.

The larger problem with Lulz, as its characters “meet” online or on the phone, is that we really only ever have a shadowy — a virtual — sense of the emotional stakes. It’s difficult to emotionally invest in anyone: a fundamental dramatic weakness. Cyber-thrillers often succeed by juxtaposing the virtual and the physical, the text (often so limited, especially online) and the subtext beneath what a character says (or types). Some more play with these ideas might help For the Lulz ground its virtual dramas more solidly in the stakes of its actual world.

This new company presents two oneacts whose young, stubborn protagonists are trapped and static, as events surrounding them intensify. Sam Shepard’s 1966 Chicago (directed by Patti Anne Miller) centers on the expressionist, stream-of-conscious rant of Stu (Kelsey Taylor), who remains planted in an empty bathtub, spouting entertainingly profane marine fantasies, as his lover Joy (Amanda Painter, with knowing restraint) prepares to leave him. Taylor impressively sustains what is basically one long monologue (now play-acting a screeching, bitter old lady; now conjuring a beach filled with screwing sailors and virgins). He manages to break it up nicely, finding beats of affection and dejection as well as the high antics, all the way through to Stu’s rather pointedly symbolic (but nevertheless endearing) retreat from the water.

Rather than a bathtub, the heroine of Antígona Furiosa, Griselda Gambaro’s Argentine riff on the Sophocles (directed

by Lila Rachel Becker) is trapped in a triangle of strung-up rope and the inevitabilities of pride and Greek myth.

Antígona (April Singley, fiercely) relates the tragedy of her death sentence and suicide with the colloquial, sometimes stooge-like narrative help of two men in a café (Hal Cohen and Adam Ferguson) in perhaps the 1970s. Straddling ancient Thebes and, presumably, the state-sponsored terrorism of a recent Argentina, together the three tell the story (Cohen charmingly re-enacting Creon’s ruling with a military jacket and a mannequin with a light bulb at its neck) and parse its themes of power, justice, repentance, and pride.

BIg Mouth thunder thIghs, Bess WeLden

This one-woman vaudeville show, starring Welden and directed by Jennie Hahn, takes on food and the body. Weaving storytelling, memoir, and poetry with jokes, roller-skating, and “deathdefying acts,” Welden’s show is a variety act about self-acceptance. ^

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rock DreDging up the low Metal Feathers Net their best record yet _by Nicholas s chr oed er If you’re going to make huge structural changes, before your third record is a fine time to do it. Portland rock band Metal Feathers may now be referenced against their back catalogue, which much of Handful of Fog, their excellent and fantastically deep third record, makes sound like a profoundly different band. And they kind of are. The organ, employed almost emblematically on Statistically Marred and Contrast Eats the Slimey Green, is virtually gone. Its player, Derek Lobley, has shifted to drums, replacing the departed Althea Pajak.

Whether that registers as a subtle or massive change depends on your familiarity with the band. Jay Lobley’s songs have always been mercurial. They very clearly split his allegiances between a virtuosity for hook-driven pop perfection and a willful self-effacement — some might say self-medication — that manifests in a flair for the erratic. This is a constant variable.

It doesn’t change on Handful of Fog — and probably never will — but you might be surprised to learn how much else has.

As a four-piece, Metal Feathers have rattled off songs as slick as Television, as whimsical as Guided By Voices, or as cakedin-wanderlust as late ’80s Sonic Youth. This trio version can hit all those notes too. But at its core, indeed from the opening spasm of “This Band is a Secret,” it’s clear that Handful of Fog observes a fundamentally different task. Its 12 songs bore into an interior that Lobley and co. have heretofore only winkingly flashed at their listeners. Yet instead of burying it behind a barrage of clever melodies, lo-fi orthodoxies, and studious displays of indie-rock historiography, this record uncovers it for all that it’s worth.

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ten. The ballad “I Hold Her Up” is a sort of sickly-sweet sequel to Statistically Marred’s “Tough” (or, if you know your Lobley, the entire A-side of Cult Maze’s 35, 36) while “Rotten Cop” levies a muscular riff against the most naked display of pathos the frontman has yet attempted. In varying hues, they’re easily the most stirringly emotional tracks in the catalog, yet neither would prepare you for “In the Moon and Still,” a dizzying, rapturous composition as affecting and yearningly psychedelic as anything — no shit — that Dinosaur Jr. or My Bloody Valentine has ever done.

This growth in sound is not a contrivance; there is evidence everywhere of band members shifting dynamics and gaining each others’ trust. It is pronounced in the bass lines of Jason Rogers, which make for some of the album’s most memorable moments, and it’s often marvelous to witness in the intrepid drumming of the younger Lobley. And while several jammier, disheveled passages can attest that this new unit is still trying to cohere, there are less tangible reasons to believe they’re tighter than ever.

A good chunk of the album’s second act puts this on display. The fleet “Witch Tricks” is like Garage Rock 101, and “Sparkle Motorcycle” spills a guitar squall onto some particularly spirited drumming. Jay makes like Zoot Horn Rollo on the six-string interlude “Of Human Bandages,” and the jigsaw diptych “West End Blackout/ The End of ‘Chains’” is a gorgeous piece of fuck-it sonic bricolage, on par with the sort of slapdash brilliance found in late Paul Westerberg.

To say Metal Feathers are the best band in Portland would not be incorrect. And this is — though it may take a bit to determine — their best album. If the sort of thing means anything to you, it’s probably the most thoughtful, inhabitable break-up record by a local rock band since Zootz closed.

As with their other albums, it makes a fantastic argument for the creative virtues of lo-fi production, often using noise, samples, and even static as poetic illustrations. But to these jaded ears, the reason it could be a mighty record is in what it manages to dredge up about the human condition, particularly in regard to trust, familiarity, and human error. It may be a long way to the bottom, but the water is warmer than ever. ^

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It’s been a while since Portland had itself a bona fide new label, something more than just a vanity title for a band’s self-released album. It makes sense, considering the fracturing nature of the music industry in general and the ease with which independent artists can record and release music nowadays.

What’s a label even good for? Well, for the artist, it can help with some of the details that tend to elude musicians, like PR and getting set up with services like iTunes and Bandcamp. But for the listener, the best of labels can serve as a filter. What with the firehose of music we’re presented with today, it can be nice if a label shows itself to have a taste that’s compatible with yours and that you can trust.

Portland’s Eternal Otter is consistently on target with its releases, which tend to be dead serious and somewhat lo-fi, lending themselves to vinyl reproduction. Cornmeal carries Portland’s alt-country torch. There was a time when it looked like Pigeon Records might be our East Coast Jagjaguar, though it’s mostly now in hibernation.

What will be Lorem Ipsum Recordings’ hallmark? Judging by the new label’s first seven-song sampler, they’ll be grabbing the baton from Cat and Mouse Records (Dead End Armory, Travis Cyr, Frank Hopkins, Anna’s Ghost, Dead Man’s Clothes, etc.), which put out its second annual compilation in 2007 and now lays dormant (and now I’m remembering Acoustic Coffee fondly — no one’s really stepped in to fill that gap, have they?).

Available for pay-what-you-want download on Bandcamp, From Lorem, with Love (Volume 1) features a song each from every band on the label and promises to be quarterly.

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We’ll see about that. Many of us remember the good idea that was the Gigaphone Record in the early 2000s and how that musical periodical turned out to be too much of a grind to keep up with.

Things are different now, though. No longer would you ever dream of sending someone a CD in the mail every three months, and the likes of Bandcamp makes these kinds of quickie features incredibly easy to distribute and consume.

They also can, at their best, provide great insight into artist development and how albums come to be. One of the tracks here is label proprietor Erik Neilson’s demo version of “The Fear,” essentially just vocals and acoustic guitar and lots of reverb, tape hiss, and string squeak.

Compare that to the full song offered by Neilson’s band, Rural Ghosts, and you start wondering where the song will go. “Eyes” features a warm bowed bass in the open with electric guitar and skittering drums with a forward beat like Radiohead. It’s not quite Peter Murphy’s “Cuts You Up,” but the bass is active and drives the melody while a xylophone elbows in at the midway point.

Why that instrumentation and arrangement? Such is the songwriter’s job, but there’s much more opportunity for the listener to peek into the workspace nowadays.

Not only Portland workspaces, either.

Young Readers, actually just a single guy named Steven Silva, open the compilation and are based in Oklahoma. It’s a slow acoustic guitar piece, until “All I Have” brings in cello and fiddle in opposing channels and the vocals double up and eventually become a soaring chorus: “I’ll be fine/Without a fancy house I will get by/If all I have/Is you.”

FiLL in the bLanks rural Ghosts are among those on the new sampler.

These kinds of samplers can also serve to introduce us to brand-new bands worth following, like Brett & Lean, a duo who are completely new to me (and the Internet, as far as I can tell), with voices that sit wonderfully side by side in the mix, and a hint of Ian & Sylvia to their writing style. Indre Styrke are also just about brand-spanking, supplying here a blend of slo-core electronica and classic-rock electric guitar, doing nicely with a paucity of notes.

Finally, Whit Walker and Oliver Waterman show themselves to be a pair of talents worth keeping an eye on. Walker’s “Momma Wanna Hold Yer Hand” has a repeating call and response of the title phrase, accompanied by a jangling tambourine that keeps things Haight-Ashbury in the open before getting more folksy

with the addition of a squeezebox. The organization here is pretty interesting.

Waterman is more psychedelic, like early Genesis spinning out a seven-minute-plus song full of buzzing electric guitar played in halting phrases and dramatic vocals that leave him gasping for breath.

Is there a cohesive aesthetic here? I think you’ll find it in the mix of indie sentiment and organic instrumentation and arrangement. There’s something throwback in what Lorem Ipsum is doing, reminiscent of four tracks in living rooms with oriental rugs on the floor. How suited that is to this new-age all-electronic delivery system. ^

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Species of local rockfish F of all the bands honoring the working-class folk traditions of the maine coastline, few come as hardy as the longstanding eclectic acoustic unit the hoLy MackereLs. named after one of the fattiest and most nutritious of groundfish, the group released a new record this winter titled Don’t Take Too Many of Them to Make a Dozen, a smart, quirky, and earnest blast of blues-folk from the midcoast. they play as a duo and four-piece at some of the saltiest pubs in the boothbay region; seek out their jams at webtonemusic.50megs.com.

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Tuna Boots, the six-song debut ep by Leaves Leaves. the foursome cook up a charred filet of post-punk pop magic — an onslaught of hot-rock ideas held in check by a strategically low-ceiling production effort. in other words, this is portland’s version of shitwave, if we’re still calling that a genre, and it sounds great. dive in at leavesleavesband.bandcamp.com, or see them open for MetaL Feathers’ record release show Feb 22 at mayo Street arts.

F this year should bring two new records by saint soLitude, the reflective and shimmering pop project of brunswick native dup crosson,

who recently left the indie-mecca of asheville, north carolina, to return home. to go with the new environs, crosson’s reportedly been revisiting some musical inspirations, augmenting his distinctive nod to Sunny day real estate with a recent immersion into old ’50s soul records and some cues from Spacemen 3 and nick cave. another smart move: the new Saint Solitude stuff marks a return to recording on analog tape. how toasty! While crosson paddles through these old and oddly familiar waters, you might spend some time with his 2011 record, By Some Great Storm, at saintsolitude.bandcamp.com.

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SUNDAY 24

BRIAN BORU | Portland | open traditional Irish session | 3 pm

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MONDAY 25

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ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland | Mike Krapovicky BIG EASY | Portland | “Cover to Cover,” live album cover night: Builder of the House play Bright Eyes’ “Lifted, or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground,” with original set” | 9 pm | $5 BULL FEENEY’S | Portland | poetry slam with Port Veritas | 7 pm | 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 | open mic | 7 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | karaoke with DJ Don Cormin + DJ Mike Mahoney | 9 pm ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | Portland | Shawn Mullins + Chuck Cannon | 8 pm | $25-30 SEA DOG BREWING/SOUTH PORTLAND | South Portland | open mic |

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| upstairs: “Clash of the Titans: ‘80s tv songs vs ‘90s tv songs,” live cover night | 9 pm | $6 FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | “Unknown Pleasures,” post punk night | 9 pm GINGKO BLUE | Portland | Lorraine Bohland & Terry Foster | 6 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | karaoke with DJ Don Cormin + DJ Mike Mahoney | 9 pm PORT CITY MUSIC HALL | Portland | They Might Be Giants + Vandaveer | 7:30 pm | $25-40 RI RA/PORTLAND | Portland | Peter Miles | 8:30 pm SLAINTE | Portland | open mic | 8 pm | Henry Hoagland | 10 pm

THURSDAY 28

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

ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland |

Eric French ASYLUM | Portland | downstairs: “Al’s Basement,” with DJ King Alberto | 9 pm BIG EASY | Portland | Chris Barron + Lazy Lightning + Band Beyond Description | 9 pm | $5 BLUE | Portland | Tom Schena | 7 pm | Samuel James & Dana Gross | 9 pm BRIAN BORU | Portland | North of Nashville | 9:30 pm THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | Portland | Ghost of Paul Revere EMPIRE DINE AND DANCE | Portland | downstairs: Pete Witham & the Cozmik Zombies | 7:30 pm | upstairs: For Morning + Rural Ghosts + Texarcana | 9 pm FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | “Blaqdada,” with Bary Juicy + Che Ros | 9 am FROG AND TURTLE | Westbrook | Waiters | 7 pm GINGKO BLUE | Portland | Mike James’s Blue Lions | 8 pm GRITTY MCDUFF’S | Portland | Vinyl Tap | 8 pm LOCAL 188 | Portland | DJ Boondocks | 10 pm LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | Geoff Zimmerman + Rob Horne | 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 PORT CITY MUSIC HALL | Portland | Talib Kweli + Corey Mo’Eyenine + Sandbag | 9 pm | $20 RI RA/PORTLAND | Portland | Kilcollins | 10 pm

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

SLAINTE | Portland | DJ Dwight Pow-

ers | 10 pm SONNY’S | Portland | Jaw Gems | 10 pm SPRING POINT TAVERN | South Portland | acoustic open mic | 7:30 pm STYXX | Portland | DJ Kate | 9 pm

9:30 pm

MAINE

Ponyfarm | 9 pm

THURSDAY 21

WEDNESDAY 27

Fryeburg | open mic with Coopers |

SLAINTE | Portland | karaoke with DJ

ASYLUM | Portland | upstairs: kara-

oke with DJ Johnny Red | 9 pm BIG EASY | Portland | Gangsta Grass + Ill by Instinct & El Shupacabra + open mic | 9:30 pm | $3 BINGA’S STADIUM | Portland | downstairs: DJ Verbatum | 8:30 pm BLUE | Portland | Rodney Miller & Owen Marshall | 7:30 pm | traditional Irish session | 9:30 pm BULL FEENEY’S | Portland | Squid Jiggers | 8 pm THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | Portland | acoustic open mic | 7 pm

302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN | 8:30 pm

BEAR BREW PUB | Orono | DJ Calibur BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | Dover Fox-

croft | karaoke

BRAY’S BREWPUB | Naples | karaoke with Pete Powers | 9 pm

BRIDGE STREET TAVERN | Augusta | Kris Hype | 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

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EUREKA HALL RESTAURANT |

Stockholm | Tricky Britches + Travis

YORK HARBOR INN | York Harbor |

Rick Watson

HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | Bangor | kara-

oke | 6 pm

Hounds | 9 pm

THE KENNEBEC WHARF | Hallowell | open jam with Chris Savage | 5 pm THE LIBERAL CUP | Hallowell | Eric French | 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

do J-Max | 7 pm

Drive Band

MONDAY 25

Nashville | 8:30 pm THE RACK | Kingfield | open mic RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Saco | Fretful Duo | 8 pm SEA DOG BREWING/BANGOR | Bangor | karaoke | 9 pm SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville | Travis James Humphrey | 7 pm SLIDERS RESTAURANT | Newry | Paul Melynn | 7 pm TANTRUM | Bangor | FloNation WATER STREET GRILL | Gardiner | DJ Roger Collins | 9 pm

Brunswick | Bitter Brew | 8 pm CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Biddeford | DJ Filthy Rich | 9 pm CHARLAMAGNE’S | Augusta | Mi-

karaoke | 8 pm

CLUB TEXAS | Auburn | Uncle Jack +

| 9 pm

Cyr | 6:30 pm FRESH | Camden | Three Point Jazz Duo | 6 pm FUSION | Lewiston | open mic | 9 pm

SATURDAY 23

BEAR BREW PUB | Orono | DJ Maine Event | 9 pm

HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEEHOUSE AND TAVERN | Hallowell | Nuts HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | Bangor | Chris

croft | Midnight Rose

IPANEMA BAR & GRILL | Bangor |

BRAY’S BREWPUB | Naples | Blues

THE LIBERAL CUP | Hallowell | Bobby

BULL MOOSE LOUNGE | Dexter | Over

Ross | 8 pm

Red Stripes

MOOSE ALLEY | Rangeley | North of

BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | Dover FoxBLACK BEAR CAFE | Naples | Paddy Mills

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK |

chael Reny

boy Billy

Beyond the Fall + Left on the Outside + Clubber Lang | 8 pm | $10 THE END ZONE | Waterville | Bob White | 8 pm FEDERAL JACK’S | Kennebunk | Travis James Humphrey & the RetroRockets | 10:30 pm FIRE HOUSE GRILLE | Auburn | Pop Rocks | 8:30 pm THE FOGGY GOGGLE | Newry | Dead Sessions [Grateful Dead tribute] | 9:30 pm FRONTIER CAFE | Brunswick | Samuel James | 8 pm | $10-12 FUSION | Lewiston | DJ Kool V | 9 pm THE GREEN ROOM | Sanford | Middle Ground | 9 pm HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | Bangor | Mainely Country Band | 9 pm INN AT BRUNSWICK STATION | Brunswick | “Ice Bar,” with Scotty & the Bigdogs | 5 pm | $10-12 IPANEMA BAR & GRILL | Bangor | 220s | 9 pm KERRYMEN PUB | Saco | Hurricanes | 8 pm LEGENDS RESTAURANT | Newry | Jim Gallant | 7 pm THE LIBERAL CUP | Hallowell | Tim Sullivan Trio | 9 pm LOMPOC CAFE | Bar Harbor | Tricky Britches MAINE STREET | Ogunquit | DJ Ken | 9 pm MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | Flabberghaster | 9:30 pm MAXWELL’S PUB | Ogunquit | karaoke | 9 pm MILLBROOK TAVERN & GRILLE | Bethel | Denny Breau | 8:30 pm MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | Woolwich | Chuck & Jerry | 6 pm MOOSE ALLEY | Rangeley | Motor Booty Affair | 9 pm | $10 NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | Bangor | Crown Vics | 8 pm NOSTALGIA TAVERN | Kingfield | Nikki Hunt Band THE OAK AND THE AX | Biddeford | Micah Blue Smaldone + Caethua + Lord Dog Bird | 8 pm | $8 PEDRO’S | Kennebunk | Primo Cubano | 9 pm PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | Bangor | Riot Act PHOENIX HOUSE & WELL | Newry | Shut Down Brown | 9:30 pm POMODORO’S BISTRO | Turner | Brian Patricks | 7 pm RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Saco | Pat Foley | 8 pm SAVORY MAINE | Damariscotta | Hurry Down Sunshine | 6 pm SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM | Topsham | karaoke with DJ Stormin’ Norman | 10 pm SILVER SPUR | Mechanic Falls | Patio Cowboys SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville | Nick Racciopi SLIDERS RESTAURANT | Newry | Poke Chop | 7 pm STUDIO BISTRO AND BAR | Bethel | Sorcha | 7:30 pm WATER STREET GRILL | Gardiner | Cinnamon | 9 pm WIDOWMAKER LOUNGE | Kingfield | Spirit Family Reunion + Hot Day At the Zoo | 9:30 pm | $10 YORK HARBOR INN | York Harbor | Dan Walker

| Rob Burnell

SUNDAY 24

FRIDAY 22

ALISSON’S RESTAURANT | Ken-

nebunkport | karaoke | 8:30 pm BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | Dover Foxcroft | Midnight Rose BILLY’S TAVERN | Thomaston |

Wesley Hartley & the Traveling Trees | 8 pm BLACK BEAR CAFE | Naples | Belfast Brogue BRAY’S BREWPUB | Naples | Blue Steel Express | 9 pm

THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE GRILLE | Old Orchard Beach | Tickle |

8:30 pm

BULL MOOSE LOUNGE | Dexter | Dee-

jay Relykz

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK |

Brunswick | Puddn’head | 9 pm CAMPFIRE GRILLE | Bridgton | Squid

Jiggers | 8 pm

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Biddeford | DJ Filthy Rich | 9 pm CHARLAMAGNE’S | Augusta | Jonah Howard

EUREKA HALL RESTAURANT |

Stockholm | Tricky Britches | Tricky Britches + Travis Cyr | 9:30 pm

FEILE IRISH RESTAURANT AND PUB | Wells | Karaoke Annie | 8 pm FRESH | Camden | Lee Sykes | 6 pm FUSION | Lewiston | Veggies By Day HANNA’S TAVERN | Sanford | On Tap HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | Bangor |

Ranura | 9 pm

INN AT BRUNSWICK STATION |

Brunswick | “Ice Bar,” with DJ Larry Moore | 5 pm | $10-12

IRISH TWINS PUB | Lewiston | Pop Rocks | 8 pm

THE KENNEBEC WHARF | Hallowell |

Nikki Hunt Band

KERRYMEN PUB | Saco | Andi Faw-

cett & Zach Romanoff | 6:30 pm MAINE STREET | Ogunquit | karaoke | 9 pm MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | Dirigo | 9:30 pm | $5 MILLBROOK TAVERN & GRILLE | Bethel | Shawn Tooley | 8:30 pm MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | Woolwich | Barry Arvin Young | 6 pm | DJ Cory Creamer | 9 pm MOOSE ALLEY | Rangeley | Jason Mancine | 8 pm NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | Bangor | Him & Her | 8 pm PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | Lewiston | Keith Dover | 8 pm PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | Bangor | Riot Act PHOENIX HOUSE & WELL | Newry | Nick Racciopi | 7 pm PHOENIX PUB | Bangor | Blast Addicts | 9 pm POMODORO’S BISTRO | Turner | Skosh | 7 pm RAVEN’S ROOST | Brunswick | Almost There | 9 pm

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

SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville SOLO BISTRO | Bath | Flash Allen |

302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN |

SPLITTERS | Augusta | karaoke TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | Gray |

Fryeburg | Tom Rebmann | 11 am CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Biddeford | karaoke with DJ Don Corman

VACANCY PUB | Old Orchard Beach |

FAST BREAKS | Lewiston | Yahoos +

6:30 pm

karaoke

karaoke | 9 pm

WIDOWMAKER LOUNGE | Kingfield | Stereo_Type | 9:30 pm

FRESH | Camden | Paddy Mills | 6 pm MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | open

mic | 8:30 pm

MARGARITA’S/AUBURN | Auburn | MOOSE ALLEY | Rangeley | karaoke PADDY MURPHY’S | Bangor | karaoke

| 9:30 pm

PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | Lew-

iston | open mic

SLATES RESTAURANT AND BAKERY | Hallowell | Anna & the Diggs |

8:15 pm | $15

TUESDAY 26

BRAY’S BREWPUB | Naples | 13 Scotland Road | 8 pm

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

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Bidd-

CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN | Buckfield

| open mic | 7 pm

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Biddeford | karaoke with DJ Biggs | 9 pm FRESH | Camden | Lee Sykes | 6 pm FUSION | Lewiston | open mic | 9 pm GUTHRIE’S | Lewiston | Kit Demos | 8 pm

HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | Bangor | Chris

Ross | 8 pm

IPANEMA BAR & GRILL | Bangor | Red Stripes

KING EIDER’S PUB | Damariscotta |

Arthur Webster & Mark Stover | 7 pm

THE LIBERAL CUP | Hallowell | Steve

Jones Band | 7 pm

MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | Wool-

wich | Married With Chitlins | 6 pm NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | Bangor

| DJ Baby Bok Choy + DJ T-Coz | 8 pm THE RACK | Kingfield | open mic RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Saco | Packmann Dave | 8 pm SAVORY MAINE | Damariscotta | Rusty Hinges | 6 pm SEA DOG BREWING/BANGOR | Bangor | karaoke | 9 pm SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville | Bill Cameron TANTRUM | Bangor | FloNation WATER STREET GRILL | Gardiner | DJ Roger Collins | 9 pm YORK HARBOR INN | York Harbor | open mic | 7 pm

eford | Travis James Humphrey | 9 pm EASY STREET LOUNGE | Hallowell |

NEW HAMPSHIRE

THE END ZONE | Waterville | open

BARLEY PUB | Dover | bluegrass jam

karaoke

mic | 5 pm

IRISH TWINS PUB | Lewiston | open

CHOP SHOP PUB | Seabrook | karaoke DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover |

mic | 7 pm

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 RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Saco | open mic with Joint Enterprise | 8 pm SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville | karaoke

WEDNESDAY 27

BACK BURNER TAVERN | Brownfield | open acoustic jam BRAY’S BREWPUB | Naples | Kris-

ten Chute & Ryan Halliburton | 7 pm

THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE GRILLE | Old Orchard Beach | open

Trio

Tristan Omand | 9 pm HARLOW’S PUB | Peterborough | open bluegrass jam THE HOLY GRAIL | Epping | Dan Walker LILAC CITY GRILLE | Rochester | Hopeless Duo MARTINGALE WHARF | Portsmouth | Don Campbell Duo | 8 pm THE PAGE | Portsmouth | Tony Santesse Duo | 9 pm PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | upstairs: “Beat Night,” jazz & poetry | 7 pm | Benny Stellman Combo | 9 pm THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Old Saw + Liz Frame & the Kickers | 8 pm RUDI’S | Portsmouth | Chris Klaxton & Rob Gerry | 6 pm STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Irish session | 6 pm | Cowboy Dave | 9 pm | $5 THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | Portsmouth | Turkuaz | 9 pm

mic

FRIDAY 22

deford | Travis James Humphrey |

Bryan McDewell

CHARLAMAGNE’S | Augusta | open

Pickins’

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Bid-

9 pm mic

DAVIS ISLAND GRILL | Edgecomb |

103 RESTAURANT | Rochester | BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth | Slim CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | Drama Squad DJs | 9 pm

open mic

CHOP SHOP PUB | Seabrook |

Breau | 7 pm 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 SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville | open mic TANTRUM | Bangor | DJ Assassin WATER STREET GRILL | Gardiner | DJ Roger Collins | 9 pm WOODMAN’S BAR & GRILL | Orono | open mic | 10 pm YORK HARBOR INN | York Harbor | Peter Black | 7 pm

DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

FAST BREAKS | Lewiston | Denny

THURSDAY 28

302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN |

Fryeburg | open mic with Coopers | 8:30 pm

BEAR BREW PUB | Orono | DJ

Calibur

BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | Dover Foxcroft | karaoke

BRAY’S BREWPUB | Naples | Fon-

| 9:30 pm

tana & Friends | 8 pm

Dr Fat Finger + Midlife Krisis + Skosh | noon | $10 FRESH | Camden | Blind Albert | 6 pm

| Alan Jones

BRIDGE STREET TAVERN | Augusta BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK | Brunswick | karaoke | 8:30 pm

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with Steve Roy | 9 pm

CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | Ken Ormes

MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | Dave

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THURSDAY 21

FIRE HOUSE GRILLE | Auburn | open mic

Oak Street LOftS 72 Oak Street

Soundtrack to Monday

mouth | karaoke | 9 pm

DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Supermachine | 9 pm

FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover |

Roots, Rhythm, & Dub THE HOLY GRAIL | Epping | Matt Gelinas | 8:30 pm KELLEY’S ROW | Dover | Jamsterdam KJ’S SPORTS BAR | Newmarket | karaoke | 9 pm LILAC CITY GRILLE | Rochester | Tony Santesse | 8 pm THE LOFT AT STRAFFORD FARMS | Dover | Wellfleet | 7:30 pm MARTINGALE WHARF | Portsmouth | Michael Troy & Matt Luneau | 8 pm MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | karaoke THE OAR HOUSE | Portsmouth | Bob Arens & Margo Reola | 8 pm PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Portsmouth | DJ Koko P | 9 pm | grill: Brooks Hubbard | 9:30 pm | pub: Corey Brackett | 10 pm PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Erica Brown & the Bluegrass Connection | 9 pm THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | KC Hallett | 9 pm RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Red Sky Mary | 10 pm STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Mamadou + Lonewolf James | 9 pm | $8-10

Continued on p 24

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2/20 @8 Open Mic / @10 Scott Girouard 2/21 5th Annual 6th Monty Python

Night FT: Pete Witham & The Cozmic Zombies

2/22 @9 Cognizant Sound’s Reggae Facebook.com/SlainteWineBar Twitter.com/SlainteME

Open 5PM to 1AM Great new menu served until 12:30 am every night

Party

HARLOW’S PUB | Peterborough | Celtic music night MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | karaoke PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | jazz jam with Larry Garland | 5:30 pm | “Hoot,” open mic | 9 pm STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | bluegrass jam with Dave Talmage | 9 pm THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | Portsmouth | open mic | 8 pm

MIKE KOUTROBIS + ROB STEEN | 8

Portsmouth | Gorilla Finger Dub

WEDNESDAY 27

OPEN MIC | 8 pm | Slainte, 24 Preble

WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | Beneath

mic | 8:30 pm

Listings Continued from p 23 THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | Band | 9 pm

2/23 @9 Matt Brown’s Soul

BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth | open

Dance Party (Free)

the Sheets + For the Record + Harvey Uncouth | 9 pm | $10

Freedom

2/24 @ Walking Dead Party

SATURDAY 23

raoke

String Theory

mouth | open mic | 8 pm

2/26 @9 DJ Ponyfarm’s

Karaoke Party

2012

103 RESTAURANT | Rochester |

BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth | McKinley’s Mood | 9 pm CAFE NOSTIMO | Portsmouth | Chuck & Ross | 8:30 pm CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | Drama Squad DJs | 9 pm CHOP SHOP PUB | Seabrook | Drop Zone DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Portsmouth | karaoke | 9 pm DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Joint Chiefs | 9 pm FAT BELLY’S | Portsmouth | DJ Provo | 7 pm FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | Dusty Gray HARLOW’S PUB | Peterborough | Adeem + Hi Fidelity Soundsystem | 9:30 pm THE HOLY GRAIL | Epping | Wooden Nickels | 8:30 pm KELLEY’S ROW | Dover | Gazpacho KJ’S SPORTS BAR | Newmarket | karaoke | 9 pm LILAC CITY GRILLE | Rochester | American Mock THE OAR HOUSE | Portsmouth | Don Severance | 8 pm PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Portsmouth | DJ Koko P | 9 pm | grill: Dave Clark | 9:30 pm | pub: Tony Santesse | 10 pm PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Larry Garland & Friends | 1 pm | Donkilo!

Afro Funk Orkestra | 9 pm | $5 THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Datacet | 9 pm RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Without Paris | 10 pm STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Todo Bien + Old Abode | 9 pm | $5-7 THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | Portsmouth | Old Bastards | 9 pm WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | Diezel

SUNDAY 24

DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

mouth | karaoke | 9 pm

DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | kara-

oke with DJ Erich Kruger | 8 pm MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | karaoke PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Spirit Family Reunion | 8 pm | $10 THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Green Lion Crew | 9 pm | $5 STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | open mic with Dave Ogden | 7 pm WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | Rob Benton | 9 pm

MONDAY 25

CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | karaoke

with Davey K | 9 pm MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | karaoke PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Nick Goumas Trio | 8 pm THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | “Hush Hush Sweet Harlot,” with Guy Capacelatro III + Craig Werth + Mara Flynn | 8 pm | $5-10 RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Oran Mor | 7 pm SPRING HILL TAVERN | Portsmouth | Old School | 9 pm

TUESDAY 26

103 RESTAURANT | Rochester | ka-

raoke | 8 pm

BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth |

“Honky Tonk Tuesdays,” with Seldom Playwrights | 7:30 pm CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | karaoke with Nick Papps | 10 pm

COUSIN SAM’S PIZZERIA AND BREW | Rochester | Tony Santesse | 5 pm

DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Tom

Ferry & Friends | 9 pm

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

pm | O’Brien Events Center, 375 Main St, Waterville | 207.873.0111 OPEN MIC | Mesa Verde, 618 Congress St, Portland | 207.774.6089

SUNDAY 24

”OFFBEAT COMEDY,” OPEN MIC | 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

THURSDAY 28

St, Portland | 207.828.0900

CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | DJ Bobby CHOP SHOP PUB | Seabrook | kaDANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

CONCERTS

DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Ben

CLASSICAL

FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | A

SATURDAY 23

Cook | 9 pm

Minor Revolution HARLOW’S PUB | Peterborough | open mic | 9:30 pm MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | karaoke PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Joel Glenn Wixon | 9 pm THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Evaredy | 9 pm RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Josh Cramoy | 8 pm RUDI’S | Portsmouth | Dimitri Yiannicopulus | 6 pm THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | Portsmouth | Dave & Steve Play Dead | 8 pm WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | “Hip Hop Wednesdays,” with DJ Provo + Hustle Simmons | 9 pm

THURSDAY 28

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 | 6gig + Action Blast + Flood This Earth + Taproot | 9 pm | $15 FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | Erin’s Guild HARLOW’S PUB | Peterborough | open bluegrass jam THE HOLY GRAIL | Epping | grill: Brooks Hubbard | 8:30 pm LILAC CITY GRILLE | Rochester | Hopeless Duo | Matt Gelinas PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Seasmoke | 9 pm THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Christine Hayward + Shiksa | 8 pm RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Matt Koelsch | 8 pm STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Irish session | 6 pm | DJ Harlock | 9 pm | $3-5 THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | Portsmouth | Rob Benton | 9 pm

COMEDY THURSDAY 21

”6TH ANNUAL MONTY PYTHON NIGHT” | 8 pm | Slainte, 24 Preble St,

Portland | 207.828.0900 BOB MARLEY | 6:30; 8:30 pm | Shipyard Brew Haus, White Cap Base Lodge, Sunday River, Newry | $24 | 207.824.5138 ERIN JACKSON | 7 pm | Colby College, Cotter Union, Pugh Center, Waterville | 207.859.4000

FRIDAY 22

”COMEDY NIGHT” | 6 pm | The Holy

Grail, 64 Main St, Epping, NH | $15 | 603.679.9559 ”COMEDY NIGHT” | 9 pm | Water Street Grill, 463 Water St, Gardiner | 207.582.9464 DAVE RATTIGAN | 8 pm | Gold Room, 510 Warren Ave, Portland | $10 | 207.221.2343

IAN STUART + TROY PENNELL + RANDY WYNN + LUE AVENT | 8 pm | Club Texas, 150 Center St, Auburn | $7 | 207.784.7785

SATURDAY 23

JOE YANNETTY + JIM LAULETTA + ROBBIE PRINTZ + JIM COLLITON + JIM MCCUE + BOB SEIBEL | 8 pm

| The Portsmouth Pearl, 45 Pearl St, Portsmouth, NH | $15 | 603.431.0148 or portsmouthpearl.com

PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: “A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES” | Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 2:30 pm | Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | $26-71 | 207.842.0800

SUNDAY 24

JENNIFER KOH: “BACH & BEYOND” | 3 pm | Collins Center for the Arts, Minsky Recital Hall, University of Maine - Orono, Orono | $33 | 207.581.1755

PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: “A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES” | See listing for Sat

TUESDAY 26

UNH CONCERT BAND + UNH WIND SYMPHONY | 8 pm | University of

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

THURSDAY 28

UNH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | 8

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

POPULAR THURSDAY 21

ANGELIQUE KIDJO | 7:30 pm | Strand Theatre, 345 Main St, Rockland | $55 | 207.594.0070 ROB DUQUETTE | 10:30 am | Thomas Memorial Library, 6 Scott Dyer Rd, Cape Elizabeth | 207.799.1720 STEVE KIMOCK | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $30 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com

FRIDAY 22

DAVE & SAEKO | 7 pm | The Inn on Peaks, 33 Island Ave, Peaks Island | 207.776.5100 or innonpeaks.com MAX CREEK | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $20 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com MONKEY JUNK | 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $16 | 207.935.7292 MOTOR BOOTY AFFAIR | 7 pm | Rockport Opera House, Central St, Rockport | 207.706.6040 or camdenoperahouse.com/calendar.cfm PARDON ME, DOUG [PHISH TRIBUTE] | 8 pm | Franco-American Heri-

tage Center, 46 Cedar St, Lewiston | $5 | 207.689.2000 REVERIE MACHINE | 7:30 pm | Zero Station, 222 Anderson St, Portland | 207.347.7000.

SPARKS THE RESCUE + ROOKIE OF THE YEAR + JIMMY DEEGHAN + KALIE SHORR + NATE & BEN + TIDEWATER + DEREK WILKINSON

| 5 pm | Studio 250, 250 Read St, Portland | $10-12 | 207.899.1771 or 250portland.com

SUMNER MCKANE: “IN THE BLOOD,” SCREENING & LIVE SCORE | 7:30 pm | Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center, 280 Water St, Gardiner | $10 | 207.582.7144 or sumnermckane. com

TIESTO + TOMMY TRASH & QUINTINO + JOE BERMUDEZ | 7:30 pm |

University of New Hampshire, Whittemore Center Arena, 128 Main St, Durham, NH | $30 | 603.862.4000 or bit.ly/tiestotixunh

SATURDAY 23

BRAIN KILLER + GROKE + PINKO &

THE ACTION BOYS + ATHABASCA | 7 pm | St John St, Portland | $5

INDIGO GIRLS | 8 pm | Music Hall,

131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $32-40 | 603.436.2400 or themusichall.org/tickets/index.asp MIKE DOUGHTY | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | sold out | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com STEVE GROVER SEXTET | 8 pm | Portland Conservatory of Music, 202 Woodfords St, Portland | 207.775.3356 or portlandconservatory.net VICTORY SWING BAND | 6 pm | Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St, Lewiston | $22-24 | 207.689.2000

ZEDS DEAD + ALVIN RISK + JEFF BUJAK | 7:30 pm | State Theatre, 609

Congress St, Portland | $31.50-36.50 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland.com

SUNDAY 24

DEVONSQUARE + SCHOONER FARE | 3 pm | Landing At Pine Point,

353 Pine Point Rd, Scarborough | $22 | 207.774.4527 JAMES HUNTER + JESSE DEE | 7 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $35-40 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com

MONDAY 25

INDIGO GIRLS | 8 pm | Stone Moun-

tain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $95 | 207.935.7292 SOFFERMAN PERSPECTIVE | 8 pm | University of New Hampshire, Johnson Theatre, 30 College Rd, Durham, NH | 603.862.2404 or unh.edu/ theatre-dance/productions.html

TUESDAY 26

TALL HEIGHTS | 8 pm | College of the Atlantic, Turrets Great Hall, 105 Eden St, Bar Harbor | $10 | 207.288.5015

WEDNESDAY 27

RICHARD WOOD | 7 pm | Skye Theatre, 2 Highland Dr, Carthage | $15 | 207.562.4445 UNH JAZZ BANDS | 8 pm | University of New Hampshire, Johnson Theatre, 30 College Rd, Durham, NH | 603.862.2404 or unh.edu/ theatre-dance/productions.html

THURSDAY 28

ROD PICOTT | 6 pm | St Lawrence

Arts & Community Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | $50 (house concert at 44 Monument St.) | 207.775.5568 or stlawrencearts.org

SWAATH + AWAAS + BUTCHER BOY + ALLELE | 7:30 pm | Dark-

mouth Castle, Portland | by donation WISHBONE ASH: “ARGUS” | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $30 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com

DANCE PARTICIPATORY SUNDAY 24

ECSTATIC DANCE | 10 am | Ecstatic

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

PERFORMANCE SATURDAY 23

”BALLROOM DANCE PARTY” | 8

pm | The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | $7 | 207.439.0114 SELCOUTH | belly dance | 7 pm | Local Sprouts Cooperative, 649 Congress St, Portland | 207.899.3529 | localsproutscooperative.com

WEDNESDAY 27

LIGHT OF THE MIND | 4:45 & 5:45

pm | Colby College, Strider Theater, Runnals Building, 4520 Mayflower Hill, Waterville | 207.859.4520

THURSDAY 28

FLAMENCO VIVO | 7:30 pm | Lewis-

ton Middle School, 75 Central Ave, Lewiston | $27, $15 seniors/students | 207.782.7228

SACHIYO ITO: “AN ENCHANTED

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EVENING WITH THE SPIRITS OF JAPANESE DANCE & ART” |

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

EVENTS FRIDAY 22

”CAMDEN CONFERENCE: THE MIDDLE EAST - WHAT NEXT? |

The Grand, 165 Main St, Ellsworth | $142/$50 per day | 207.667.9500 or grandonline.org/events/camdenconference/

SATURDAY 23

”CAMDEN CONFERENCE: THE MIDDLE EAST - WHAT NEXT? | See

listing for Fri

”LOCAL WRITERS” | prose & poetry

readings | 4 pm | Local Buzz, 327 Ocean House Rd, Cape Elizabeth | 207.541.9024 ”WOMEN OF THE WORLD” | poetry readings & showcase with Vineicia Princess Jones, et al. | 7 pm | Dobra Tea, 151 Middle St, Portland | 207.370.1890

”WOMEN OF THE WORLD,” POETRY EXHIBITION & SILENT AUCTION | benefit | 2 pm | Dobra Tea, 151 Middle St, Portland | 207.370.1890

SUNDAY 24

DANA PEARSON | discusses his novel Two Birds | 2 pm | Louis T. Graves Public Library, 18 Maine St, Kennebunk | 207.967.2778 ”RHYTHMIC CYPHER” OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | with Casey

Rocheteau & Greg McKillop | 7 pm | Dobra Tea, 151 Middle St, Portland | 207.370.1890

Room, Ketchum Library, 11 Hills Beach Rd, Biddeford | 207.602.2709

FRIDAY 22

”CLEARING THE PATH: RESISTING REPRESSION & BUILDING SOLIDARITY IN MEXICO” | with Claudia

Torres | 4 pm | College of the Atlantic, McCormick Lecture Hall, 105 Eden St, Bar Harbor | 207.288.9500 or coa. edu ”MUSIC IN TANZANIA” | performances & discussion | 3:30 pm | University of New Hampshire, Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH | 603.862.2600 or unhmub.com

SUNDAY 24

| 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

”TEDXCOLBY COLLEGE: ON FAILING” | 10 am | Colby College, Dia-

”CAMDEN CONFERENCE: THE MIDDLE EAST - WHAT NEXT? | See

listing for Fri

”SUPER LUCHA EXPLOSIVA,” PRO WRESTLING | 4 pm | Jimmy

The Greek’s/Old Orchard Beach, 215 Saco Ave, Old Orchard Beach | 207.934.7499

TUESDAY 26

”BUSINESS AFTER HOURS,” WITH DOWNEAST PRIDE ALLIANCE |

5:30 pm | Spread, 100 Commercial St, Portland

WEDNESDAY 27

WINTER BIRD WALK | with Anna

Stunkel | 1 pm | College of the Atlantic, Dorr Museum, 105 Eden St, Bar Harbor | 207.288.5395

THURSDAY 28

”RIPPLEFFECT GALA” | 6:30 pm

| SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | $50 | 207.828.5600 or | space538.org

FOOD SATURDAY 23

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 26

OPEN MIC POETRY WITH PORT VERITAS | with Robin Merrill | 9:30

pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | 207.773.7210

POETRY SLAM WITH PORT VERITAS | 7 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore

St, Portland | 207.773.7210 RICHARD BLANCO | reads & discusses his poetry | 7 pm | Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | sold out | 207.842.0800

WEDNESDAY 27

DAVID & NIKE SPELTZ | discuss

Jennifer Vandebes’s novel Easter Island | 7 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore. com

”STONECOAST READING SERIES: BLACK HISTORY MONTH” | with

Lady Zen | 7 pm | Local Sprouts Cooperative, 649 Congress St, Portland | 207.899.3529 or localsproutscooperative.com

THURSDAY 28

”MAINE POETRY EXPRESS” | readings with Wesley McNair | 7 pm | Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St, Bath | 207.443.5141 or patten.lib. me.us

MARY JOHNSON & KRISTEN RINGMAN | discuss their novels An Unquenchable Thirst & Makara | 7 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore.com

WEDNESDAY 27

CUMBERLAND FARMERS’ MARKET | 10 am | Allen, Sterling, &

Lothrop, 191 US Rte 1, Falmouth

POETRY & PROSE THURSDAY 21

JOHN BUBAR + FRANK COOK + KATHERINE FAST + PEGGY MCFARLAND + PAMELA A. OBERG | discuss Best New England Crime Stories 2013: Blood Moon | 7 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore.com

”LIVING LIFE WITH PASSION & COMPASSION” | storytelling circle

with Deena Weinstein | 6:30 pm | Maine Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St, Portland | 207.329.9854 or treeoflifemuseum.org

”BEAT NIGHT,” JAZZ & POETRY

| 7 pm | Press Room, 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.5186

FRIDAY 22

RICK HALPERN | discusses No

Cure for the Past | noon | Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq, Portland | 207.871.1758 or portlandlibrary.com

SATURDAY 23

CORY DOCTOROW | discusses

Homeland | 7 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore. com

TALKS

”COMMON GROUND: MAINE’S CLIMATE FUTURE” | with George

Jacobson | noon | University of Maine - Farmington, Roberts Learning Center, 111 South St, Farmington | 207.778.7463

”SILENCE & THE SHORT STORY”

MONDAY 25

OPEN MIC POETRY NIGHT WITH PORT VERITAS | with Robin Merrill

WEDNESDAY 27

Greg Marley | 1:15 pm | Camden Public Library, 55 Main St, Camden | 207.236.3440

”MAINE LAW COLLOQUIUM: LOCAL FOOD/GLOBAL FOOD” | 8:30 am | Portland High School, 284 Cumberland Ave, Portland | 207.772.9671

mond Building, 4000 Mayflower Hill, Waterville | 207.859.4000

MONDAY 25

”DISCOVERING & SHARING THE MAINE FRENCH HERITAGE LANGUAGE PROGRAM” | with Alex-

andre Dauge-Roth | noon | Bates College, 161-163 Wood St, Lewiston | 207.786.6202

”PHYSICAL & BIOLOGICAL DRIVERS OF RESOURCE PROVISIONING IN COASTAL MARINE ECOSYSTEMS” | with James Leichter | 4 pm | Bowdoin College, Druckenmiller Hall, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3567

”SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS FOR THE SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION OF OCEAN FOODS” | with

Barry Costa-Pierce | noon | University of New England - Biddeford, Marcil Hall, 11 Hills Beach Rd, Biddeford | 207.602.2440

”SOUTHERN EUROPE: A JOURNEY FROM PARIS TO CANNES, SPAIN, CROATIA, GREECE, & ISTANBUL”

| multimedia talk by Marlin Darrah | 7:30 pm | Catherine Mcauley High School, 631 Stevens Ave, Portland | $5 | 207.797.3802 or mcauleyhs.org

TUESDAY 26

”THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES” | with Theodora Kalikow +

James Page + Robert Louden | 5 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Law Building, 246 Deering Ave, Portland | 207.780.4258

”GETTING THINGS DONE: COLLABORATING IN THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT” | with Eliot Cutler

| 7 am | Clarion Hotel, 1230 Congress

From boots to hats, coats to mittens Goodwill has whatever your winter needs may be. Even better, shopping at Goodwill stores creates jobs, reduces landfills and puts clothes on your neighbor’s back.

lana Peshkova | 12:30 pm | University of New Hampshire, Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH | 603.862.2600 or unhmub.com

”ESSENTIALS OF COLLEGE PLANNING” | 10 am | Lewiston Career-

RALLY IN SUPPORT OF BRADLEY MANNING | noon | Congress Square,

Corner of Congress and High Sts, Portland | 207.542.7119

”ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN POSTSOVIET CENTRAL ASIA” | with Svet-

SATURDAY 23

”IDENTIFICATION OF THE BOLETE MUSHROOM IN MAINE” | with

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St, Portland | $25 | 207.773.3254 or civicleadership.org/programs-services/ breakfast-series/

In fact, Goodwill has been reducing, recycling, repurposing and retraining for over 100 years.

Center, 5 Mollison Way, Lewiston | 207.753.9000 or mainecareercenter. com/careercenters/lewiston.shtml

| with Colm Toibin | 7:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.775.3321

Now that’s a lot of whatever’s creating a healthy, sustainable community where nothing goes to waste. Not a shirt.

Not a shoe. Not a person.

”TOWARD AN ADEQUATE APPROACH TO RELIGIOUS PLURALISM” | with Derek Michaud | 4:30

pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Luther Bonney Auditorium, 92 Bedford St, Portland | 207.780.4141

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THURSDAY 28

”THE ART OF PLAY” | MECA lecture

with Adam Degrandis | 12:30 pm | 12:30 pm | Maine College of Art, Osher Hall, 522 Congress St, Portland | 800.699.1509

”ISLAM & STATE SOVEREIGNTY IN CENTRAL ASIA” | with Eric

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McGlinchey | 7:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Hubbard Hall, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

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”SETTING & SENSE IN THE TREATMENT OF ELECTRA’S STORY” | with Hanna Roisman | 4:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3617

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| Wish Theater, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | Feb 28-March 2: Quake | Thurs 7 pm

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THURSDAY 21

”AN ADVENTUROUS & INSPIRING EVENING ALONG THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL IN MAINE” |

with Carey Kish | 6:30 pm | Frontier Cafe, Fort Andross, 14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222 or explorefrontier.com

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”ARTS, ADVOCACY, & ACTION: ACTING AS IF OUR LIVES DEPENDED ON IT” | with Cathy Plourde |

noon | Lewiston Public Library, 200 Lisbon St, Lewiston | 207.784.0135 or lplonline.org

”DIGITAL PORTSMOUTH: THE ART OF MAKING” | 5:30 pm | The Music

155 Brackett St. Portland 774-7250

Hall Loft, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.436.2400

”OUR KIND WILL BE THE FIRST TO BLAZE A TRAIL INTO A NEW LIFE”

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| with Ben Severns | 12:30 pm | 12:30 pm | Maine College of Art, Osher Hall, 522 Congress St, Portland | 800.699.1509

Mon-Fri 8-7 • Sat 9-7 • Sun 9-5

”REPRODUCTION FOR/AGAINST THE STATE: FAMILY PLANNING, STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE & CLASS IN CHINESE WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE EXPERIENCES” | with

Junjie Chen | 12:30 pm | University of New Hampshire, Murkland Hall, 105 Main St, Durham, NH | 603.862.1234

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ROCHESTER OPERA HOUSE |

Listings Continued from p 25 CITY THEATER | 207.282.0849 | citytheater.org | 205 Main St, Biddeford | Feb 22-24: Ordinary Days | Fri-Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | $20 COLBY COLLEGE | 207.859.4520 |

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

27: Lynne Conner & Jon Hallstrom: “Light of the Mind,” multimedia performance | 4 & 5 pm COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC | 207.288.5015 | Mount Desert Island

YWCA, 36 Mount Desert St, Bar Harbor | Feb 22: The Vagina Monologues | 7 pm

THE FOGGY GOGGLE | 207.824.5056 | South Ridge Lodge, Sunday River, Newry | Feb 21: Soviet Bloc Party | 7:45 pm FRYEBURG ACADEMY | 207.935.9232 | fryeburgacademy.org |

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Saterial, magician | 2 & 7 pm | $8, $4 seniors GOOD THEATER | 207.885.5883 | goodtheater.com | St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | Through Feb 24: Death by Design | Thurs 7 pm; Fri 7:30 pm; Sat 3 & 7:30 pm; Sun 2 pm | $15-25 LYRIC MUSIC THEATER | 207.799.1421 | lyricmusictheater.com | 176 Sawyer St, South Portland | Feb 22-March 3: Once Upon a Mattress | Fri-Sat 8 pm; Sun 2:30 pm | $22 MASQUE AND GOWN | 207.725.3375 | Bowdoin College, Pickard Hall, 1 Bath Rd, Brunswick | Feb 21-23: Den of Thieves | Thurs-Sat 7 pm | $3 PLAYERS’ RING | 603.436.8123 | playersring.org | 105 Marcy St, Portsmouth, NH | Feb 22-March 3: Book of Snow | Fri-Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | $15, $12 seniors/students PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY | 207.774.0465 | portlandstage.com | 25A Forest Ave, Portland | Feb 26-March 17: A Song at Twilight | Tues-Thurs 7:30 pm | $34-44

PORTLAND STAGE STUDIO REP SERIES | 207.774.0465 |

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Studio+Rep | Portland Stage Company Studio Theater, 25A Forest Ave, Portland | Feb 21-March 9: Lorem

Ipsum: If We Were Birds | Thurs + Sat 8 pm | $15 | Feb 22-March 9: Bess Welden: Big Mouth Thunder Thighs | Fri + Wed 8 pm; Sun 3 pm | $15 | Through March 10: Horn & Ivory Productions: For the Lulz | Sat 3 pm; Thurs 8 pm | $15

603.335.1992 | 31 Wakefield St, Rochester, NH | Feb 22-23: The Vagina Monologues | Fri-Sat 8 pm | $2031 Wakefield St, Rochester, NH | Feb

28-March 9: To Kill a Mockingbird | 7:30 pm | $16, $14 seniors/students THE SEEING SPACE | | facebook. com/TheSeeingSpacePortland |

Portland Stage Company Studio Theater, 25A Forest Ave, Portland |

Feb 25-March 5: Chicago + Antigona Furiosa | Mon-Tues 8 pm | $5 sugg. donation STAGE FORCE | 207.439.5769 | harborlightstage.org | Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | Feb 25: dramatic reading of The Violet Hour | 7:30 pm | $12 STUDIO THEATRE OF BATH | 207.442.8455 | Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington Ave, Bath | Feb 22-24: Sex, Lies, & the Devil Inside | Fri-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 2 pm | call for tickets THEATRE UNMASKED | 207.358.9887 | theatreunmasked.com | t.u MillSpace, 1 Washington St, Dover, NH | Feb 22-24: As You Like It | Fri-Sat 7 pm; Sun 1 pm | $17, $12 seniors/students

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND PORTLAND | 207.221.4950 | une.edu

| Ludcke Auditorium, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland | Feb 23: “Six Billion Utopias: A Collaborative Performance About Gender & Mental Health” | 7 pm

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

| 603.862.2404 | unh.edu/theatredance/productions.html | Johnson

Theatre, 30 College Rd, Durham, NH |

Through Feb 24: Spring Awakening | Thurs-Sat 7 pm; Sun 2 pm | $18, $15 seniors WATERVILLE OPERA HOUSE | 207.873.7000 | 1 Common St, Waterville | Feb 23: Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs | 2 pm WEST END STUDIO THEATRE | 603.373.6803 | 959 Islington St, Portsmouth, NH | Feb 22-24: Duck & Cover | Fri-Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | $18, $15 seniors/students YORK READERS THEATER | | yorkreaderstheater.org | York Public Library, 15 Long Sands Rd, York | Feb 22-23: Red | Fri-Sat 7:30 pm

ART GALLERIES 3 FISH GALLERY | 772.342.6467 | 377 Cumberland Ave, Portland | 3fishgallery.com | Thurs-Sat 1-4 pm & by ap-

pointment | Through Feb 28: “Touch Me, Wash Me,” video works by Jessica Lauren Lipton 3S ARTSPACE STORE GALLERY | 603.766.3330 | 319 Vaughan St, Portsmouth, NH | Thurs noon-6 pm; Fri

11 am-8 pm; Sat 11 am-6 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through Feb 24: “Derelict Dispatches,” photography by Amy Marie Regan + Devin Swett + “Not Yet,” interactive installation

by Erin Smith AARHUS GALLERY | 207.338.0001 | 50 Main St, Belfast | aarhusgallery. com | Thurs-Sun 11 am-5:30 pm | Through Feb 24: “Heart,” mixed media group exhibition | Feb 28-March 31: “44N 69W: Radius Belfast,” mixed media group exhibition | reception March 1 5-8 pm 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 BASE CAMP STUDIOS | | 193 Presumpscot St, Portland | Feb 21: open studio group exhibition | with set by DJ Hiduke | 7 pm CELLARDOOR VILLA | 207.263.2654 | 47 West St, Rockport | Thurs-Sun noon-5 pm | Feb 28-March 31: paintings by Abbie Williams | reception Feb 28 6-7:30 pm

CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART | 207.236.2875 | 162

Russell Ave, Rockport | artsmaine.org

| Through Feb 23: “The Recycled Menagerie,” works by Joel Glassman

CHOCOLATE CHURCH ARTS CENTER | 207.442.8455 | 804 Washing-

ton St, Bath | chocolatechurcharts. org | Tues-Wed 10 am-4 pm; Thurs

noon-7 pm; Fri 10 am-4 pm; Sat noon-4 pm | Through March 16: “Winter Wonderland,” mixed media group exhibition

COLEMAN BURKE GALLERY/ BRUNSWICK | 207.725.5222 | Fort

Andross, 14 Maine St, Brunswick

| Mon-Sat 10 am-7 pm | Through March 16: “Standing Navigation on End of a Needle,” installation by Cynthia Davis

COLEMAN BURKE GALLERY/ PORTLAND | 207.725.3761 | 504

Congress St, Port City Music Hall Window, Portland | Through March 24:

“Looking In | Looking Out,” installation by Amy Jorgenson COMMON STREET ARTS | 207.749.4368 | 20 Common St, Waterville | commonstreetarts.com | Wed-Sat noon-6 pm | Through Feb 28: “Memento,” mixed media group show

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 | Feb 22-March 26: “Constellation Vacation,” mixed media works by Ann Tracy + Stephen V. Beckett + David Marshall + Whitley Newman + Kifah Abdulla + Frank Gruber | reception March 1 5-8 pm DOBRA TEA | 207.370.1890 | 151 Middle St, Portland | Mon-Thurs 11

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am-10 pm; Fri-Sat 11 am-11 pm; Sun 11 am-6 pm | Through Feb 28: “The Vivid Works of Nick Rofe,” acrylics DOO HAIR SALON | 207.439.4009 | 25 Government St, Kittery | Tues-Sat 10 am-6 pm | Through April 15: drawings by Bess Cutler 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 ENGINE | 207.229.3560 | 265 Main St, Biddeford | feedtheengine.org | TuesFri noon-6 pm; Sat 9 am-noon | Feb 22-March 4: “The Rumpus! An Egalitarian Art Show,” mixed media group exhibition | reception Feb 22 5-8 pm FRANKLIN GALLERY | 603.332.2227 | 60 Wakefield St, Rochester, NH | MonFri 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 | Fort Andross, 14 Maine St, Brunswick | 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

GALLERY AT 100 MARKET STREET

| 603.436.4559 | 100 Market St, Portsmouth, NH | Floors One & Two 8 am-8 pm; Floors Three & Four 9-11 am & 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 Feb 28: “Afterthoughts: a Visual Narrative of No Takebacks,” multimedia prints by Kalaisha Watrous GREENHUT GALLERIES | 207.772.2693 | 146 Middle St, Portland | greenhutgalleries.com | Mon-Fri 10 am-5:30 pm; Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through Feb 23: “ArtMaine 2013,” mixed media group exhibition HARLOW GALLERY | 207.622.3813 | 160 Water St, Hallowell | harlowgallery. org | Wed-Sat noon-6 pm; Sun-Tues by appointment | Feb 23-March 9: “Young at Art,” student art show | Through April 15: paintings by Harlow Tuesday Group HARMON & BARTON’S | 207.650.3437 | 584 Congress St, Portland | harmonsbartons.com | 8 am-5:30 pm | Through Feb 28: “All Things Pastel,” pastel on paper by Janalee Welch

JUNE FITZPATRICK GALLERY AT MECA | 207.699.5083 | 522 Congress St, Portland | junefitzpatrickgallery. com | Wed-Sat noon-5 pm | Feb

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KENNEDY GALLERY | 603.436.7007 | 41 Market St, Portsmouth, NH | Mon-

Tues 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 28: mixed media by Annie Stenhouse + encaustic photographs by Susie Goodwin KITTERY ART ASSOCIATION | 207.967.0049 | 8 Coleman Ave, Kittery | kitteryartassociation.org | Sat noon-6 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Feb 23-March 17: “Photography & Digital Art,” member exhibition LOCAL 188 | 207.761.7909 | 685 Congress St, Portland | local188.com | MonFri 5:30 pm-1 am; Sat-Sun 9 am-2 pm & 5:30 pm-1 am | Through March 31: charcoal & ink works by Wyatt Barr LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | 207.899.3529 | 649 Congress St, Portland | localsproutscooperative.com | Mon-Sat 8 am-10 pm; Sun 8 am-4 pm | Through Feb 28: “Fruitful Darkness & Other Adventures,” mixed media group exhibition LYCEUM GALLERY | 207.576.4805 | 49 Lisbon St, Portland | lyceumgallery. com | Wed-Sat 5-8 pm | Feb 22-March 31: “New Works by Richard Field,” trompe l’oeil works & paintings | reception Feb 22 5-7 pm

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| 207.338.6575 | 97 Main St, Belfast | Through Feb 28: “CSA: Community Supporting Arts,” mixed media group exhibition 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 Feb 28: “William Harrison: Cityscapes,” pen & ink MAYO STREET ARTS | 207.615.3609 | 10 Mayo St, Portland | call for hours | Through Feb 28: works by Pat Corrigan + Jennifer Gardiner MEG PERRY CENTER | 207.772.0680 | 644 Congress St, Portland | megperrycenter.com | Mon-Fri 1-4 pm | Through Feb 28: “Sensory Circus,” mixed media group exhibition MONKITREE GALLERY | 207.512.4679 | 263 Water St, Gardiner | Tues-Fri 10 am6 pm;Sat noon-6 pm | Through March 30: “Double Vision,” photography by Jim & Fran Townsend PHOPA GALLERY | 207.317.6721 | 132 Washington Ave, Portland | Wed-Sat noon-5 pm | Through March 30: “Bad Ass,” photography by Melonie Bennett PORTLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY | 207.871.1700 | Lewis Art Gallery, 5 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” ROSE CONTEMPORARY | 207.780.0700 | 492 Congress St, Portland | Wed-Sat 1-6 pm | Through Feb

23: Tetra Projects: “Esta Tierra Plana / This Flat Earth,” mixed media traveling group show | reception Feb 22 6-8 pm ROSEMONT PRODUCE COMPANY | 207.699.4560 | 5 Commercial St, Portland | rosemontproducecompany.com | Mon-Fri 8 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-6 pm; Sun 9 am-4 pm | Through Feb 28: “The Work of Ally Hagar,” mixed media

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| Through March 2: “Up Close & Personal,” juried art exhibition SOO RYE ART GALLERY | 603.319.1578 | 11 Sagamore Rd, Rye, NH | soorye.com | Tues-Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat 11 am-3 pm | Through Feb 28: “Pure Flight 2013,” mixed media group exhibition SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland | space538.org | Wed-Sat noon-6 pm; by appointment | Through March 22: “World Banksters: a Selection of Recent On-Going Banksters,” postcards by Natasha Mayers | Through March 29: “Gone Along Are the Animals,” works by Anne Buckwalter 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 THOS. MOSER SHOWROOM | 207.865.4519 | 149 Main St, Freeport | Mon-Sat 10 am-6 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm | Through April 15: “Paintings & Prints,” by Laurie Hadlock + Carrie Lonsdale 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

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

BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.725.3275 | Bowdoin College,

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| Through March 22: paintings by Dorine Gross + Wendy Turner ICA AT MECA | 207.879.5742 | 522 Congress St, Portland | Wed-Sun 11 am-5 pm; Thurs 11 am-7 pm | Through April 7: “Ander Mikalson: Score for Two Dinosaurs” + “Dan Dendanto & Frank Dendanto: Bump,” installation MAINE COLLEGE OF ART | 800.699.1509 | Osher Hall, 522 Congress St, Portland | Feb 21: “Our Kind Will Be the First to Blaze a Trail Into a New Life” with Ben Severns | 12:30 pm | Feb 28: “The Art of Play” with Adam Degrandis | 12:30 pm MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM | 207.329.9854 | 267 Congress St, Portland | treeoflifemuseum.org | Through Feb 25: “Dorothy Schwartz: Evolution of a Printmaker” PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY | 603.777.3461 | Lamont Gallery, Frederick

R Mayer Art Center, Tan Ln, Exeter, NH | exeter.edu/art/visit_Lamont.html |

Mon 1-5 pm; Tues-Sat 9 am-5 pm | Free admission | Through March 2: “Pop Paradise,” works by Dave Lefner + Kelly Reemtsen + Robert Townsend PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | 207.775.6148 | 7 Congress Square, Portland | portlandmuseum.org | TuesThurs + 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 April 7: Lois Dodd: “Catching the Light,” plein-air painting retrospective | Through May 19: “Voices of Design: 25 Years of Architalx,” interactive exhibition

Main St, Farmington | Tues-Sun noon-4

pm | Through March 7: “Beauty & the Political Body,” works by Harriet Casdin-Silver UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - ORONO | 207.581.3245 | Lord Hall Gallery, 5743 Lord Hall, Orono | Mon-Fri 9 am-4:30 pm | Through March 15: “Print Portfolio,” student exhibition

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.561.3350 | Norumbega

Hall, 40 Harlow St, Bangor | umma. umaine.edu | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm |

Free admission | Through March 21: “Michael Crouser: Dog Run,” print photography + “Robert Rivers: The Promised Land,” drawings + “Candice Ivy: Honey from the Belly of the Lion,” installation | Ongoing: “Selections from the Permanent Collection”

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND BIDDEFORD | 207.283.0171 | Campus

Center, 11 Hills Beach Rd, Biddeford | une.edu/studentlife/campuscenter |

Mon-Fri 8 am-7 pm | Through March 2: paintings by Arlee Woodworth

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND PORTLAND | 207.221.4499 | Art Gallery, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland | une.edu/ artgallery | Wed 1-4 pm; Thurs 1-7 pm;

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

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

| 603.862.1535 | Dimond Library, 18 Library Way, Durham, NH | call for hours |

Through March 22: “Embellishments: Constructing Victorian Detail”

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MUSEUM OF ART | 603.862.3712 | Paul

Creative Arts Center, Durham, NH | unh. edu/moa | Mon-Wed 10 am-4 pm;

Thurs 10 am-8 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | Free admission | Through March 28: “California Impressionism: Paintings from the Irvine Museum” + “Sacred Landscapes of Peru: the Photographs of Carl Austin Hyatt”

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 by Astrid Bowlby

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 | Through March 23: “Area Artists 2013,” open juried biennial exhibit

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - PORTLAND | 207.780.5008 | Area Gallery, Woodbury Campus Center, Bedford St, Portland | Mon-Fri 7 am-10 pm | Through April 3: “USM Art Faculty Exhibition,” mixed media

OTHER MUSEUMS ABBE MUSEUM | 207.288.3519 | 26 Mount Desert St, Bar Harbor | abbemuseum.org | Thurs-Sat 10 am-4 pm |

Through Oct 31: “N’tolonapemk: Our Relatives’ Place” | Through Dec 31: “Wabanaki Guides” | Ongoing: “Layers of Time: Archaeology at the Abbe Museum” + “Dr. Abbe’s Museum”

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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 | Feb 21-22: Peter Pan Day 10 am-5 pm; Animal Fun 11:30 am; Cocoa Storytime: Umbrella 3:30 pm | Feb 22: Kitchen Chemistry Day 10 am-5 pm; Ice Cube Experiment 10:30 am & 1:30 pm; Hot Ice 11 am & 2 pm; Elephant Toothpaste 11:30 am & 2:30 pm; Sparks Ark Live Animal Show 11:30 am ($3); Tie-Dye Shaving Cream Painting noon & 3 pm; Slime Time 3 pm ($4) | Feb 23: Tuneful Tots Preview 10:30 am; Rhythm Rangers Preview 11 am; Camera Obscura Presentation noon; Open Art Studio 2-3 pm | Feb 24: Super Secret Agent School 1 pm | Feb 25: Human Day 10 am-5 pm | Feb 26:

Eating Healthy: Homemade Energy Bars 11 am; Cloud Dough 3:30 pm | Feb 27: Open Art Studio 11 am-noon; Let’s Play: High & Low 3:30 pm | Feb 28: Tiny Tots: Baby Bowling 10:30 am; Star Show 11:30 am; Dollar-GoRound 3:30 pm

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | 603.742.2002 | 6 Wash-

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

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| 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 | Tues-Sat 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 | Through March 22: Fransje Killaars: “Color at the Center,” textile installation | Through May 4: “The Way We Worked,” Smithsonian traveling exhibit | Ongoing: “Portraits & Voices: Shoemaking Skills of Generations” OSHER MAP LIBRARY | 207.780.4850 | University of Southern 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 | Feb 23: “Horns, Hooves, Flippers, & Fins: Family Day at the Arctic Museum” | 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” | Through April 30: “Going to Blazes,” historical exhibit

SKYLINE FARM CARRIAGE MUSEUM | 207.846.9559 | 95 The Lane,

North Yarmouth | skylinefarm.org | Sun 1-4 pm; by appointment | by donation | Through March 31: “Amazing Sleighs,” horse-drawn sleigh exhibit SOUTHWORTH PLANETARIUM | 207.780.4249 | Science Building, 70

Falmouth St, University of Southern Maine - Portland, | usm.maine.edu/ planet | call for hours | free | Feb 14:

“Close Encounters of the Asteroid Kind,” lecture with Julie Ziffer 7 pm | Through Feb 24: Laseropolloza | call for individual shows | Feb 21: Rusty Rocket 11 am; Two Small Pieces of Glass 1 pm | Feb 22: Full Dome: The Little Star That Could 11 am; Eight Planets & Counting 1 pm

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| 207.251.4065 | 1619 Post Rd, Wells FIRE HOUSE GRILLE | 207.376.4959 | 47 Broad St, Auburn FLASK LOUNGE | 207.772.3122 | 117 Spring St, Portland 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 FROG AND TURTLE | 207.591.4185 | 3 Bridge St, Westbrook 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 GENO’S | 207.221.2382 | 625 Congress St, Portland

GILBERT’S CHOWDER HOUSE/ WINDHAM | 207.893.0700 |

61 Tanberg Trail, Windham THE GIN MILL | 207.620.9200 | 302 Water St, Augusta GINGKO BLUE | 207.541.9190 | 2 Portland Sq, 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

HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEEHOUSE AND TAVERN | 207.621.1234 |

119 Water St, Hallowell HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | 877.779.7771 | 500 Main St, Bangor THE HOLY GRAIL | 603.679.9559 | 64 Main St, Epping, NH HOOLIGAN’S IRISH PUB | 207.934.4063 | 2 Old Orchard Rd, Old Orchard Beach HOXTER’S BAR & BISTRO | 207.629.5363 | 122 Water St, Hallowell INN AT BRUNSWICK STATION | 207.837.6565 | 4 Noble St, Brunswick 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

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 KING EIDER’S PUB | 207.563.6008 | 2 Elm St, Damariscotta 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 LILAC CITY GRILLE | 603.332.3984 | 45 N Main St, Rochester, NH 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 THE LOFT AT STRAFFORD FARMS | 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 NOSTALGIA TAVERN | 207.265.2559 | 13 Commercial St, Kingfield 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 PEARL | 207.653.8486 | 444 Fore St, Portland PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | 207.783.6200 | 134 Main St, Lewiston PEDRO’S | 207.967.5544 | 181 Port Rd, Kennebunk PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | 207.941.8805 | 14 Larkin St, Bangor PHOENIX HOUSE & WELL | 207.824.2222 | 9 Timberline Dr, Newry PHOENIX PUB | 207.404.4184 | 123 Franklin St, Bangor POMODORO’S BISTRO | 207.225.2323 | 868 Auburn Rd, Turner 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 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 RI RA/PORTLAND | 207.761.4446 | 72 Commercial St, Portland RI RA/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

ROUND TOP COFFEEHOUSE |

207.677.2354 | Round Top Farm, Main St, Damariscotta RUDI’S | 603.430.7834 | 20 High St, Portsmouth, NH RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | 207.571.9648 | 100 Main St, Saco Island, Saco 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 SEA DOG BREWING/BANGOR | 207.947.8009 | 26 Front St, Bangor

SEA DOG BREWING/SOUTH PORTLAND | 207.871.7000 |

125 Western Ave, South Portland

SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM |

207.725.0162 | 1 Maine St, Great Mill Island, Topsham SEASONS GRILLE | 207.775.6538 | 155 Riverside St, Portland

SEBAGO BREW PUB/KENNEBUNK |

207.467.8107 | 67 Portland Rd, Kennebunk

SHOOTERS BILLIARDS BAR & GRILL |

207.794.8585 | 222B West Broadway, Lincoln SILVER HOUSE TAVERN | 207.772.9885 | 123 Commercial St, Portland SILVER SPUR | 207.345.3211 | 272 Lewiston St, Mechanic Falls SILVER STREET TAVERN | 207.680.2163 | 2 Silver St, Waterville SLAINTE | 207.828.0900 | 24 Preble St, Portland SLATES RESTAURANT AND BAKERY | 207.622.4104 | 169 Water St, Hallowell SLIDERS RESTAURANT | 207.824.5300 | Jordan Grand Resort Hotel, Sunday River, Newry SOLO BISTRO | 207.443.3378 | 128 Front St, Bath SONNY’S | 207.772.7774 | 83 Exchange St, Portland SOUTHSIDE TAVERN | 207.474.6073 | 1 Waterville Rd, Skowhegan SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland SPARE TIME | 207.878.2695 | City Sports Grille, 867 Riverside St, Portland SPECTATORS | 207.324.9658 | Rte 4, Sanford SPLITTERS | 207.621.1710 | 2246 N Belfast Ave, Augusta SPRING HILL TAVERN | 603.431.5222 | Dolphin Striker, 15 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH SPRING POINT TAVERN | 207.733.2245 | 175 Pickett St, South Portland STONE CHURCH | 603.659.6321 | 5 Granite St, Newmarket, NH STUDIO BISTRO AND BAR | 207.824.3241 | Mill Hill Inn, 24 Mill Hill Rd, Bethel STYXX | 207.828.0822 | 3 Spring St, Portland SUDS PUB | 207.824.6558 | Sudbury Inn Main St, Bethel TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | 207.657.7973 | 61 Portland Rd, Gray T&B’S OUTBACK TAVERN | 207.877.7338 | 6 Jefferson St, Waterville TANTRUM | 207.404.4300 | 193 Broad St, Bangor THATCHER’S PUB | 207.887.3582 | 10 Cumberland St, Westbrook THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | 603.427.8645 | 21 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH THE THIRSTY PIG | 207.773.2469 | 37 Exchange St, Portland THE TIME OUT BAR & GRILL | 207.907.4992 | 30 Clisham Rd, Brewer TIME OUT PUB | 207.593.9336 | 275 Main St, Rockland TORTILLA FLAT | 207.797.8729 | 1871 Forest Ave, Portland UNION STATION BILLIARDS | 207.899.3693 | 272 St. John St, Portland VACANCY PUB | 207.934.9653 | Ocean Park Rd, Old Orchard Beach WALLY’S PUB | 603.926.6954 | 144 Ashworth Ave, Hampton, NH WATER STREET GRILL | 207.582.9464 | 463 Water St, Gardiner WIDOWMAKER LOUNGE | 207.237.6845 | Sugarloaf Mtn, Kingfield WOODMAN’S BAR & GRILL | 207.866.4040 | 31 Main St, Orono YORK HARBOR INN | 800.343.3869 | Rte 1A, York Harbor ZACKERY’S | 207.774.5601 | Fireside Inn & Suites, 81 Riverside St, Portland

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TasTing whaT’s lefT these fish really are delicious, if scarce _By Bria n duf f Every culture has its totemic animal, anthropologists suggest, and ours here in Maine might just be the groundfish.

These fish are not only important to our economy, but as our totem they represent our spirit. So it is appropriate that back when cod and other groundfish ran thick on our coast we New Englanders dazzled the world, and now as these fish populations collapse, we Mainers have receded as well. In times of struggle the totem is often sacrificed and eaten, so its powers might be incorporated. So I sampled the groundfish on offer in Portland’s restaurants — in its classic forms, in newer applications, and in fine dining.

Old-fashioned fried seafood is the central idea behind the new 3Buoys Seafood Shanty, housed in a colorful little building that sits askew at the busy intersection of Cumberland and Washington avenues. The fish fry is a good one, with several huge pieces of haddock — a fish whose meatiness stands up well to the oil and heat. Along with a big pile of thick-cut fries, and a little bit of slaw, it’s a lot of food. The breading has a good crunch without getting too crisp, and a hint of nutty flavor. The frying is done with some restraint, so things don’t get too greasy and the fish is left with some of its native sweetness and tenderness. The fish chowder features

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the same haddock and little else. The stock, texture, and flavors are all fish and subtle seasoning — with no potatoes or other additions to get in the way. The broth is thick with pieces of the disintegrating haddock, and the rich flavor has a pleasant touch of sour.

The fish taco gives our native cuisine an international spin, and I tried a few. At the new Taqueria Tequila, on St. John Street, they are using haddock. The fish seems baked and chipped rather than fried, which is a touch unusual. The spices imbue the flesh, giving it a slight orange hue, and bring out some of the fish’s sour flavors.

Their simple approach highlights the fish, with just some cilantro and diced tomato, and a splash of lime. A squeeze of green salsa added some creamy warmth. At $2.25 this is a fine fish taco (but the truth is their other tacos for $2 are even better).

At Taco Escobarr they give seasoned pieces of firm pollock a very light fry. A white sauce adds just a touch of tang, some slaw lends a bit of sour, and thin slices of radish give some bitterness. At three for $10 they run a bit more money, but you get them on house-made corn tortillas — which have good flavor but could use a touch more sear on the grill.

At the Old Port Sea Grill several huge fish are painted on the back wall, looking anxious

or angry. I would be angry too, seeing all the ways they serve up groundfish. Their panseared flounder represents the epicurean take on the traditional fish fry, especially when served with fried fingerling potatoes.

This fish’s delicate flesh HADDOCK MEXICANO taqueria tequila’s fish tacos. and subtle flavors respond best to a flash of Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?” Let the heat and a bit of butter. The Sea Grill’s expert groundfish be our paradigm. White of flesh, preparation preserves the tender texture, and mild to the point of blandness, passively adds some buttery hazelnut for crunch. The lurking among the dregs to snatch up scraps fish stays warm under thin slices of potato, from more active specimen: what is the conand some crunchy green beans. temporary Mainer but a Ground-Fish? ^ Melville demonstrated that there is little about humanity one cannot illuminate by considering the fish. One great test of our $ 3Buoys Seafood Shanty & Grille | 111 Cumberhumanity in coming years is whether we land Ave, Portland | 207.619.7565 can show the forethought and restraint to limit our catches and preserve these species $ Taqueria Tequila | 249 St John St, Portland | of fish. The caught (fast) fish and the free 207.774.7773 (loose) fish, to Melville, were paradigmatic.

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argo’s golden fleece _By pet e r ke o ug h The situation may reshuffle by the Oscar broadcast on February 24, but I doubt it. After being snubbed in the Best Director category, Argo has won every award since. A bunch of Golden Globes, the Producers Guild, the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild, BAFTA — the winning streak should continue through Oscar night, with Argo winning Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, perhaps Best Supporting Actor. That more-controversial CIA thriller, Zero Dark Thirty, will have to settle for Best Original Screenplay.

On the other hand, if Argo does win, it would be the first time since Driving Miss Daisy in 1990 that a movie wins Best Picture without the director even being nominated.

Nonetheless, it’s the ideal candidate. The Oscars exist to promote Hollywood’s image of itself. So when you have a film in which Hollywood defeats Islamist extremists — well, if Argo loses, it means the terrorists have won.

With no Affleck, who wins Best Director? Not Ang Lee, Michael Haneke, or Benh Zeitlin. Steven Spielberg might draw on Lincoln’s waning momentum and win.

But Silver Linings Playbook director David O.

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Best Picture: Argo Best Director: Steven Spielberg (Lincoln) Best Actor: daniel day-lewis (Lincoln) Best Actress: Jennifer lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) Best Supporting Actor: robert de niro (Silver Linings Playbook) Best Supporting Actress: anne hathaway Lincoln (Les Misérables)

Extra Credit

Best Adapted Screenplay: chris terrio (Argo) Best Original Screenplay: mark boal (Zero Dark Thirty) Best Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski (Lincoln) Best Foreign Language Film: Amour

Jennifer Lawrence

Russell has a chance.

Playbook is a Weinstein film. They could give Karl Rove pointers on how to run a campaign.

But I’ll go with Spielberg, and Daniel Day-Lewis for Best Actor. By the way, isn’t it ironic that Lincoln was shot by an actor?

Actually, Lincoln was shot

by Janusz Kaminski, who might win for Best NOT NOMINATED Ben affleck got snubbed for Best director.

Cinematography.

As always, the supporting categories are a headache. dream girl. What about Jessica Chastain in Everyone says Anne Hathaway will get Zero? Playing a woman who hunts down the Best Supporting Actress for Les Misérables. world’s most wanted fugitive might intimiWho am I to argue? She sings, she suffers, date a group that is 75 percent white males she dies — give it to her. As for Supporting over 62. And I’m not referring to the College Actor, which grumpy old fart do you prefer? of Cardinals. It’s bad enough that Kathryn BiAlan Arkin in Argo? Robert De Niro in Silver gelow succeeds in the male-dominated world Linings? Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln? I’ll go of Hollywood, but when her heroine does the with De Niro. same in the CIA, that’s pushing it. And not just for the Academy: could the Zero backlash Speaking of Silver Linings, Jennifer Lawrence have some misogyny behind it? ^ will get Best Actress. She’s the manic pixie

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Sat: 12:30, 2:35, 4:40, 6:55, 8:55 | Sun: 12:30, 2:35, 4:40, 6:55 | Mon-Thu: 2:35, 4:40, 6:55 SIlVEr lInInGS PlaYBooK | Fri: 2:15, 4:30, 7:05, 9:20 | Sat: noon, 2:15, 4:30, 7:05, 9:20 | Sun: noon, 2:15, 4:30, 7:05 | Mon-Thu: 2:15, 4:30, 7:05 Stand UP GUYS | Fri: 4:50, 9:15 | Sat: 12:20, 4:50, 9:15 | Sun: 12:20, 4:50 | MonThu: 4:50 trIStana | Sat-Sun: 10 am

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arGo | 12:50, 3:40, 6:45, 9:30 BEaUtIFUl CrEatUrES | 12:45, 3:30, 6:50, 9:35

darK SKIES | 1:15, 4:10, 7:30, 9:50 ESCaPE FroM PlanEt EartH | 12:10, 2:30, 7:05

ESCaPE FroM PlanEt EartH 3d | 4:45, 9:25

a Good daY to dIE Hard | noon,

2:20, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 IdEntItY tHIEF | 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 SaFE HaVEn | 1, 3:50, 7, 9:40 SIlVEr lInInGS PlaYBooK | 1:20, 4, 6:40, 9:20 SnItCH | 1:30, 4:30, 7:35, 9:55 WarM BodIES | 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 9:40

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BEaUtIFUl CrEatUrES | Fri-Sat: noon, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 | Sun: noon, 3:30, 6:30 | Mon-Thu: 3:30, 6:30 ESCaPE FroM PlanEt EartH | FriSat: 12:30, 6:30, 9:30 | Sunl 12:30, 6:30 | Mon-Thu: 6:30

ESCaPE FroM PlanEt EartH 3d | 4 a Good daY to dIE Hard | Fri-Sat: 12:30, 3:30, 7:15, 9:45 | Sun: 12:30, 4, 7 | Wed: 12:30, 4, 6:30 | Thu: 12:30, 4, 7 IdEntItY tHIEF | Fri-Sat: noon, 4, 7, 9:45 | Sun: noon, 3:30, 7 | Mon-Thu: 3:30, 7 tHE PrInCESS & tHE FroG | Wed: 11:30 am SaFE HaVEn | Fri-Sat: noon, 3:30, 7, 9:45 | Sun: noon, 3:30, 6:30 | Mon-Thu: 3:30, 6:30 tErMInator 2 | Wed: 7 WarM BodIES | Fri-Sat: 12:30, 4, 7:30, 9:45 | Sun: 12:30, 4, 7 | Mon-Thu: 4, 7

SPotlIGHt CInEMaS

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Strand tHEatrE 345 Main St, Rockland | 207.594.0070

lIVE BroadCaSt oF don QUIXotE BY tHE BallEt oPEra dE ParIS | Wed: 7

lIFE oF PI | Sat: 5:30, 8 | Sun: 3:30 | Mon-Tue: 7 | Thu: 7

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HItCHCoCK | Fri: 7 | Sun: 3, 7 | TueThu: 7

PSYCHo | Tue: 7

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FIlM SPECIalS

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SPaCE GallErY

538 Congress St, Portland | 207.828.5600

HoMElESS YoUtH In lEWISton |

3S artSPaCE GallErY

Hubbard Hall, Conference Room West, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

Mon: 6:30 Visual Arts Center, Brunswick | 207.725.3357

CUrlInG | Fri: 7 lE HaVrE | Sat: 7 nEnEttE | Sat: 5 17 FIllES (17 GIrlS) | Sat: 4

CollInS CEntEr For tHE artS

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EnCorE BroadCaSt oF rIGolEtto BY tHE MEtroPolItan oPEra |

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JoHnSon Hall PErForMInG artS CEntEr

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In tHE Blood | Fri: 7:30

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PortSMoUtH PUBlIC lIBrarY

2013 oSCar noMInatEd SHortS: lIVE aCtIon | Fri: 7:30 tV SHoW: EPISodE 5 | Tue: 1, 7:30

tHoMaSton FlaGSHIP 10

tHE MUSIC Hall

aMonGSt WHItE CloUdS | Sat: 7

BoWdoIn CollEGE

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nEW HaMPSHIrE

Sacred Heart/St Dominic Parish Church, 65 Mellen St | 207.671.7714

tHE UntoUCHaBlES | Sat: 2

5746 Collins Center for the Arts, UMaine Orono | 207.581.1755

75 Wells Plaza, Rte 1, Wells | 207.646.0500 Call for shows & times.

MaInE BUddHISt GatHErInG

loCal SProUtS CooPEratIVE

649 Congress St, Portland | 207.899.3529

YoU WantEd to BE a FarMEr + a QUEStIon oF SCalE | Mon: 7

319 Vaughan St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.766.3330

“PortSMoUtH SHort FIlM nIGHt” | Sun: 7:30

UnIVErSItY oF nEW EnGland - BIddEFord

Alfond Hall, 11 Hills Beach Rd, Biddeford | 207.602.2237

WaKE UP darKnESS | Tue: 6

UnIVErSItY oF nEW HaMPSHIrE

Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH | 603.862.2600

CraIGSlISt JoE | Wed: 7 FlIGHt | Fri-Sun: 6:45, 9:30 tHE Man WItH tHE Iron FIStS | Fri-Sun: 7:15

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tHE rUlES oF tHE GaME | Mon: 7

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_by syMbo line Da i This week’s waxing moon goes from first quarter to full, and my experience says that this is the week you go from first to fourth gear in what seems like an instant. Everything intensifies, and with Venus moving into Pisces, and Mercury retrograde, romance is about to get passive-aggressive, particularly for Virgo, Gemini, Sagittarius, Scorpio, and Cancer (Pisces, you’re in there too, need we remind you?). After Saturday, hold off on tune-ups, upgrades, reboots, and other technical improvements till later in March. For more, visit moonsigns.net.

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32 Seemingly endless pit 33 they usually weren’t hits 35 ___ taylor loFt 36 bobby, to hank hill 37 track star Jones 38 israeli statesman abba 39 moorish fortress in Spain 43 ___-roman wrestling 44 Symbols called “snails” in some languages 48 dress 49 Shakespearean title city 50 Feuder with moby 52 city where Van Gogh painted 54 positive vote 56 Gp. for baby boomers 57 hot wings cheese 58 out-of-control situation 60 channel with the slogan “Very funny” 61 labor org. based in detroit 62 Sandwich that’s now a potato chip flavor 63 it’s settled when settling up 25

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Waxing moon in leo, mercury retrogrades until march 17. an excellent weekend for working with small children or getting in touch with your childish needs (aries, Gemini, leo, Virgo, libra, Sagittarius, capricorn, pisces). or being persuaded by advertising (taurus, Scorpio and aquarius). yes, mercury is retrograde, but for some folks (those born when mercury is retrograde, approximately 17 percent of all birthdays), you’ll hit cruising altitude.

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Waxing moon in leo, moon void of course 11:50 pm until monday, 1:52 am. if you’re completely exhausted, having partied beyond anticipation, you’re in tune with this moon, which is nearly full.

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Waning moon in Virgo, moon void of course 1:33 pm until 6:02 am Wednesday. excellent for shopping and cleaning (glamorously! boutique grocerias and designer abrasives!). also super for getting clothes altered or looking at a product with a finer grade of lens. pisces, Sagittarius, and Gemini: if you’re feeling neurotic, you’re in tune with the moon. cancer, leo, Virgo, libra, Scorpio, capricorn, taurus, aquarius, and aries: don’t let others rush you.

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Waning moon in libra. Firmly held decisions wobble, and compromise is more likely today than it was last week. So is a fleeting desire for something gorgeous to wear. if you’re an aries, capricorn, or cancer: weigh the decision, but don’t make it yet. if you’re a leo, Virgo, libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, aquarius, pisces, taurus, or Gemini: give in to that rare feeling — total commitment!

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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.

The moon stays in each sign approximately two and a half days. | As the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of course,” making no major angles to planets. Consider this a null time and try to avoid making or implementing decisions if you can. But it’s great for brainstorming. | For Symboline Dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, visit our Web site at thePhoenix.com. Symboline Dai can be reached at sally@moonsigns.net.

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