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F A champion contemporary poet slams into Portland. Rachel McKibbens, a national and world poetry-slam champion who is known for her dark, candid, no-holds-barred verse, stops by Bull Feeney’s Tuesday.

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It will be recalled as the most famous line from President Barack Obama’s second inaugural address delivered January 21: “We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths — that all of us are created equal — is the star that guides us still, just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall, just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone, to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.” In the New Yorker, Hendrick Hertzberg said this “thrilling” section of the speech would be remembered for decades to come; in the New York Times, David Brooks said Obama’s “unapologetically liberal speech” was a “strong argument for modern liberalism.” It was the first time in history that gay rights were mentioned in an inaugural address. That Obama chose to highlight three fundamental moments in American civil-rights history signaled his solidarity with those who have been, and those who continue to be, oppressed. Three experts will speak to the significance of the “Seneca-Selma-Stonewall” speech on Friday, March 8 — International Woman’s Day, incidentally — as part of the University of Southern Maine’s annual Women’s History Month celebration. Each of them will address one of the events that Obama name-checked in his speech. Priscilla Murolo, a history professor at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, will talk about the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention — the country’s first women’s rights gathering, at which a group of about 200 women and 100 men (almost all of them abolitionists) issued a “Declaration of Sentiments” listing grievances perpetrated against women by men (100 attendees — 68 women and 32 men — actually signed the document). “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her,” the writers declared in the document’s opening paragraphs. Among other things, the Declaration of Sentiments lamented women’s limited (or nonexistent) access to education, property, voting rights, and participation in church affairs. Murolo believes there are lessons we can still learn from Seneca Falls. For one thing, she notes that “the convention took place halfway through a year of revolutions” across the globe (1848 was a year of unrest in Italy, France,

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Portland chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Rachel Talbot Ross, will discuss “Selma” — a series of protest marches that took place in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. The bloody demonstrations, organized in support of voting rights for African Americans, helped to make the rest of the country aware of the deep-seated racism that plagued the South, and propelled forward the civil rights movement in general and the 1965 Voting Rights Act in particular. BEAMING IN author Kate bornstein’s next book The third event comes out in May. mentioned in Obama’s address will be tackled by queer writer and activist Kate BornBrazil, and Sri Lanka, among other stein, author of several books including places) and that “the women at Seneca Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest Falls were quite aware of those.” Tapof Us (Routledge) and Hello, Cruel World: ping into worldwide sentiment can be 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and useful, if only to boost morale. Other Outlaws (Seven Stories Press). BornSecondly, Murolo appreciates that stein will be unable to attend in-person the women at Seneca Falls embraced the concept of “the personal is political” due to health problems, but will be beamed in remotely to offer her portion long before it became a feminist slogan of the program, which will discuss the in the late 1960s and 1970s. She points Stonewall riots of 1969, a seminal event specifically to this complaint from the in the history of gay rights. Declaration of Sentiments: “[Man] has When Obama mentioned Stoneendeavored, in every way that he could, wall, he was referring to a series of to destroy her confidence in her own New York City demonstrations durpowers, to lessen her self-respect, and ing which gays and lesbians finally to make her willing to lead a dependent fought back against government and and abject life.” law enforcement attempts to stifle “That sounds more like a quarrel across a breakfast table than something and suppress them. The catalyst was a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay you’d read in a manifesto,” Murolo bar located in Greenwich Village; the says. But that doesn’t mean it should rebellion led to the creation of the Gay be overlooked. Self-confidence and independence make it possible for women Activist Alliance. While the causes embraced at to participate fully in the affairs of the Seneca and Selma have been adday, and in this way, such “personal” dressed (which isn’t to say, not by a grievances are in fact very relevant to long shot, that we live in some sort the generation of political and social of post-feminist, post-racist society), movements. the GLBT fight for equality is still ragLastly, Murolo stresses the overlap ing. Obama’s mention of Stonewall at that existed at the time of the Seneca his inauguration (as well as his more Falls Convention between women’s explicit call for equality, one sentence rights activists and abolitionists. The later) was a strong indication that the fight for female equality “grew out of president sees gay rights as a defining the desire for women to play a larger issue of our time. role in the movement against slavery,” she says. The lesson to be learned here, _Deirdre Fulton Murolo advises, is “that the most effective way to nurture feminism is to USM Women and Gender Studies annual foster women’s activism around all of Women’s History Month Celebration: the great issues of the day, whether or “Seneca, Selma, Stonewall, Social Change” not their easily identified as women’s | March 8 @ 7 pm | Hannaford Hall, Univerissues.” sity of Southern Maine, Portland | Free | Also on Friday, the president of the 207.780.4289

Although prisoners and their advocates say rough treatment by guards of inmates — amounting to criminal assault — is not uncommon, Maine State Prison guard Captain David Cutler, 54, of Appleton, is apparently the only officer at the prison since 2005 to be charged with assaulting an inmate — and only the second in at least 20 years. The NAACP sees the alleged assault as a possible racial incident. The man named as the victim, Renardo Williams, 35, serving 15 years for drug trafficking, is African American. The case highlights “the perceived patterns and practices of institutionalized racism at the Maine State Prison,” Rachel Talbot Ross, president of the Portland branch of the national civil-rights organization, emailed the Phoenix. “The NAACP and Maine Department of Corrections have agreed to work collaboratively to address this and other related issues in a timely manner.” She added that incidents of racism “are definitely real and known,” but have not yet been proven. The Corrections department said it had “no comment” on the Cutler case except to say it had agreed “to work collaboratively with the NAACP on issues.” On February 20, Geoffrey Rushlau, Knox County’s district attorney, charged Cutler with knocking the legs out from under an unthreatening Williams on Christmas Eve while he was handcuffed — because Williams disobeyed his order to sit down. Out on bail and his employment “ended,” in the department’s phrasing, Cutler has an appearance scheduled for April 8 in Rockland’s district court. The 2005 assault case was dismissed, and, according to Rushlau, it’s the only other assault charge brought against a Warren prison correctional officer he can recall in the 20 years he has served as DA. The prison lies within his jurisdiction. When prisoners are charged with assaulting a guard — not a rare occurrence — the law requires a felony charge, potentially bringing a prison sentence of up to five years, but Cutler was charged only with misdemeanor assault, punishable by up to a year in jail. The affidavit supporting Cutler’s arrest, made out by Corrections Department investigator Joseph Fagone, supports Williams’s description of the incident, first made public by the Phoenix (see “Why the Prison Warden Got Fired,” by Lance Tapley, January 25). The affidavit depicts Cutler’s action as arbitrary and unnecessary. Cutler’s arrest took place in an atmosphere of great change at the prison, as Commissioner Joseph Ponte continues his two-year-old reform program. In January he fired Warden Patricia Barnhart and appointed reform-minded Rodney Bouffard, head of the Long Creek juvenile detention center, in South Portland, as acting warden. The Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition and other prisoner advocates see some guards at the prison as trying to sabotage Ponte’s reforms. Cutler had long been criticized by MPAC for his allegedly callous ways with inmates. “He’s not alone,” MPAC’s Judy Garvey told the Phoenix. Ponte has admitted that change has been difficult for prison staff. The principal union representing guards, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, has criticized him for firing Barnhart and for reducing overtime available to guards. All over the country, AFSCME has resisted prison reforms if they appeared to jeopardize guard jobs or the ability of guards to treat inmates as they wish. As a national movement to reduce solitary confinement gathers force — with Ponte and Maine in the lead — unions have opposed it.

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Rogues gallery Time to get your crazy on. I don’t mean crazy in the sense of let’s dig up Libby Mitchell, hook her corpse to lightning rods, let the bolts of electricity revive her, and run her for governor again. That would be wrong in so many ways, mostly involving the running-her-forgovernor part. No, there are adequate outlets for crazy that don’t involve a zombified version of the Democrats’ 2010 gubernatorial nominee. Even folks who are flat-out nuts can recognize the inadvisability of resurrecting a candidate who wants to eat your brain and couldn’t muster even 20 percent of the vote. And that was against Paul LePage. Who had his crazy at full throttle. Come to think of it, he still does. Likewise, there’s no need to disturb the cryogenic chamber where Cynthia Dill has been frozen since garnering a mere 13 percent of the vote last year as the Democrats’ best hope of capturing a US Senate seat. Dill should be allowed to sleep in peace until a future time that’s more suited to her personality. Probably something that resembles a J.J. Abrams-directed version of Hello Kitty Meets The Hangover, Part 3, starring Melissa McCarthy, Mel Gibson, and a computer-generated tiger who turns out to be not really there. (It was the booze talking.) The kind of crazy I’m looking for is the think-outside-the-box sort that might produce some fresh ideas for 2014 candidates for governor. Somebody who’s a bit out of the ordinary. Somebody the Dems can rally around. Somebody whose percentage of the vote will look less like an Olympic gymnastics score. Somebody like:

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But consider his advantages. Some of which ended up displayed in an online video. Strong has excellent hair. Way better than LePage’s. He has the endurance needed for an arduous campaign. Again, it’s clearly demonstrated in that video. He knows how to hire competent people — such as his lawyer, Dan Lilley — even if he can’t afford to pay them. And he has . . . um . . . intimate experience in helping a small business prosper. As for the possibility he might be serving a prison sentence in the near future, he’d likely do so in Windham or Warren, which means that, unlike LePage, he wouldn’t be taking off for vacations in Florida or the Caribbean every time things in Augusta got heated.

rOBert SMIth That name may not be familiar to you, but you’ve probably heard of the Whistler, the man who wanders Portland’s streets for hours at a time whistling in a manner that resembles the back-up warning beeper on a garbage truck. He’s been cited for disorderly conduct and warned to keep moving whenever he decides to pucker up. He seems like the perfect poster boy for free spiritedness and free speech, both core Democratic values (unless your free spirit wants to smoke; ride a motorcycle without a helmet; or eat fatty, sugar-laden foods wrapped in petroleum-based packaging). On the negative side, Smith wears a Yankees hat and thinks his whistling comes from God, two characteristics sure to offend Red Sox fans, atheists, and those who believe their deity has better musical taste.

ANY cANDIDAte NAMeD MILLS Maine’s Constitution requires that all elections include at least one person with that surname. Peter, the head of the Maine Turnpike Authority, is a Republican, so he’s of no use this time

around. But Karen (no relation), who recently announced her resignation as head of the federal Small Business Administration, is available. She says stuff like “next-generation technologies” and “cutting-edge technologies” a lot, so you know she’s not some stuffy old bureaucrat. Also, Janet, Peter’s sister and the current attorney general, wants to run. Her language is somewhat earthier than Karen’s, and in a steel-cage death match (a far better way to choose nominees than boring primaries), my money’s on her. There’s also somebody claiming to be “Cynthia Mill,” but that’s just Dill on defrost.

tOM SAvIeLLO The GOP state senator from Wilton used to be a Democrat, so there’s no good reason why he couldn’t be one again. Saviello, known for his maverick ways, is high on LePage’s list of politicians he can’t stand. That could be because he’s one of the shrinking minority of men who can carry off wearing a bowtie, something LePage does about as well as crafting a budget the Legislature would approve without radical changes. Even though Saviello isn’t particularly influential, he gets his face in the news more than most other legislators, including members of leadership. And he possesses the uncanny ability to make you think he agrees with you — even when he doesn’t. Sort of a Libby Mitchell in reverse.

kArMO SANDerS You know her as Birdie Googins, the Marden’s Lady. How cool would it be to watch LePage, the former CEO of the discount chain, debating his excompany’s spokeswoman? Well, not very, actually. ^

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Cold feet, hot heads on guns f after an initially outstanding statewide public-records last month, the Bangor Daily News lost its courage

request for information on who holds permits to carry concealed weapons in Maine. Made of every police agency in the state that issues such permits, the BDN request was part of the paper’s ongoing effort to reveal the impact of domestic violence, sexual assault, and drug abuse in Maine. all are newsworthy topics, and firearm accessibility — legal and illegal — is relevant to understanding them. But when the paper asked for the information the backlash went national — even though several police chiefs acknowledged it was public, and despite the BDN’s assurances it was not going to publish a directory of permit holders’ names and addresses. instead of standing its ground on the basis of free information and newsworthiness, the BDN retracted its request the day after issuing it, bowing to the pressure while lamenting its existence, and simultaneously abdicating its journalistic role. in announcing its decision to exit the debate over public access to government record about guns, BDN news director tony ronzio wrote: “it’s clear that as a state, and as a nation, we still have much to do to generate light in this debate, instead of heat.” it’s extremely disappointing that the BDN melted, allowing the darkness to continue. and continue it will: lawmakers in both parties, with the support of republican Governor paul lepage, passed an “emergency” bill making concealed-weapons permits, which have been public records for more than three decades, secret for two months. of course, the secrecy doesn’t extent to hunting licenses or moose-lottery applications, which are also public government records relating to gun ownership. the stated hope was that cooler heads might prevail over time, bringing light and not just heat to the debate. there has been the distracting suggestion by George Smith that the permit requirement should be abolished. Smith, the former head of the Sportsman’s alliance of Maine, is now a columnist for the Kennebec Journal, may well have a point. But that’s a very different debate than whether government records should be open to the public. arguing they should be secret because they shouldn’t exist sounds positively nixonian. and then there’s the hypocrisy. the Portland Press Herald and Gawker (separately) got information that there have been several other requests from state officials for this information. Gawker reported that most of the requests in Maine and around the country are from political-consulting and data-mining firms, including some companies acting on behalf of the national rifle association, which has vehemently opposed the release of that same information to the media. Missing, of course, is the cool-headed result of a 2010 study presented at harvard University’s Workshop on the economics of information Security. turns out publishing names, ages, and home Zip codes of permit holders causes crime to drop in their neighborhoods. F the court ruling saying robert Smith, a/k/a the Whistler, cANNOt whIStLe whILe StANDINg StILL (he can whistle, but only while walking) is an outrageous frontal assault on the First amendment. the slope this ruling inclines toward is likely to slip out beneath buskers, street artists, panhandlers, the preacher, the peace folks in Monument Square (and sign-holding protesters anywhere in town), the very idea of “occupy,” the protesters (and counter-protesters) outside planned parenthood, and anybody else who wants to say or do anything in public spaces. on the thin premise that someone expressing himself (even obnoxiously) in a nearby public area somehow “hurts” private businesses — which remain empowered to bar objectionable people from their actual property — government power has been directed at quashing free public expression. i don’t think the guy is any more tuneful than you do — or than i would be — but it’s not right for the government to determine the value, quality, location, or movement of his speech. ^

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Has Portland lost its sense of Humor? The fuTure of Maine coMedy _b y L is a b u n k e r Last October the Comedy Connection, for nearly twenty years the nexus of Maine comedy, closed. It’s the club where Bob Marley, arguably Maine’s most successful comedian, got his start. The immediate reason was a failed health inspection, but the owner, Oliver Keithly, also cited the economic downturn. The closure cut the number of full-time comedy clubs in town from one to zero, which seems like it ought to have had a drastic impact on the local scene. It hasn’t. “Comedy goes through cycles,” says Tim Ferrell, the guru of Maine comedy if there is one. A workshop he teaches in Portland has fast-tracked local wannabes including Karen Morgan and Ian Harvie toward the big, or at least the medium-sized, time. Ferrell continues, “I think comedy, especially live comedy, if it’s done right, becomes perpetual motion.” There is still a lot going on. Clubs are only one of many outlets for comedic talent. The post-Connection Maine comedy landscape features an established generation of local luminaries working other avenues, a new generation of young talents determined to find a way, and the rumor of plans for a new club in downtown Portland. Ways to do comedy without a club include the theater circuit and corporate comedy, both areas where Karen Morgan has found success. Originally from the south, Morgan is a trial attorney who stopped practicing law to raise babies. When she enrolled in Ferrell’s class in 2004 she was just looking for a way to get out of the house one night a week, but she quickly fell in love with the process of writing comedy. She took the class a second time, then entered the Portland’s Funniest Professional competition at the Connection, reaching the finals. At the same time Nick at Nite was looking for America’s Funniest Mom, and Ferrell submitted her graduation tape. She was selected to compete, eventually making it to the final seven out of more than a thousand entrants. That could perhaps have been the start of a meteoric career, but Morgan isn’t interested in the endless road hours that would entail, or a move to Los Angeles. Family comes first, she says, and she just works when she wants, booking into theaters rather than clubs. She also gets corporate work when she wants it, she says, because of her legal background. “People can hire me; they know that I’m not going to stand up there and do blowjob jokes in the middle of their wellness seminar.” Another on-going strain of comedy in Maine is benefit work. George Hamm has toured with Bob Marley and shows up consistently on other Maine comics’ lists of comics they like. Hamm drives a cab parttime while he puts together a show here and there. Recent gigs included a benefit

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at the Freeport Performing Arts Center, raising money to send middle-schoolers to Space Camp. Hamm hosted and pulled in some cronies to be the acts, giving them the challenge of toning down their X-rated material and purging their profanity for a room full of 15-year-olds. The night was well attended, so Hamm clearly has draw, but he acknowledges he’s never going to get rich doing this. He still does it simply because he loves it. “There’s just something about it. You get up there, and you get kinda lost. I don’t worry about anything when I’m up there. You can have a really shitty day, and go up and do a 15-minute set, 10-minute set, throw in a new joke and it kills . . . It changes everything.” There are also a few venues around the state that do occasional comedy and market it as an opportunity for fund-raising — the Gold Room in Portland for one, and Laughing Matters Comedy Club at the Fireside Inn in Auburn for another.

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And then there are open mics. On a frigid windy night in January a small, mostly young, all hip-looking crowd gathers in the cozy shoebox of Mama’s CrowBar on the lower Munjoy part of Congress for the weekly open mic put on by the recently formed Portland Comedy Co-op. Mama’s is beer-only/cash-only, with an emphasis on local brews. Clusters of tiny colored holiday lights and dozens of paper snowflakes, some with actual six-fold symmetry, festoon the ceiling, giving the place a cheery feel. At a nod from Travis Curran, tonight’s MC, Jimmy behind the bar mutes the iPod, and the show begins. It’s classic open-mic format. The MC does a short set, then assumes the timehonored semi-ironic hyper-pumped enthusiasm and calls the first comic to the front. They signed up earlier, picking their spots in the lineup on a sheet with an admonition at the top: “No dark rapey womenbashing.” A lot of comics have signed up, so the number of minutes available for each has shrunk to about five. Their sets run long, but what little anxiety there seems to be in the room about finishing on time has no bite. The classic-ness also means the comics are not performing hard; rather, they’re trying new bits and breaking the fourth wall routinely to comment. The material inevitably includes sex and sexuality, but the treatment is light — the guys seem to have taken the signup sheet admonition to heart. (It is all male comics tonight, though this is not always true; see sidebar.) And, the room is friendly. The audience is paying attention, and laughing. “I guess the best way to describe [our intended audience] is by what they consume. People who consume local beer are

The comedy at Slainte skews darker and edgier than at Mama’s, which has an easier layout and a more friendly crowd.

definitely in that demographic. We do a show at Coffee By Design, where there are people who want to consume local coffee. I think people who care about that stuff also want to consume local art, local comedy,” says Will Green, one of the Co-op members. So are they strictly local comics? No dreams of the big time? “I think most of us, we want to do a really good job here. I think there are some of us who want to go different places, but ultimately the common goal is that we want to put on good shows in Portland.” The Co-op, Green says, coalesced out of a group who originally tried to get an open mic going in South Portland. It fell apart, but the Co-op members liked each other and found Mama’s. They also meet weekly to bounce ideas off each other. One thing they have in common is an idea about the tone of the comedy they do. “Our unofficial rule is be funny, but also, don’t be a dick. That’s what brought us together — we’re all nice guys, guys who don’t want to be dicks.” Many of the Co-op comics also appear at what is currently Portland’s longestrunning comedy open mic, at Slainte, downtown on Thursday nights. Compared to Mama’s this is a cluttered and dark room, with impeded sight lines. A large Irish flag hangs from the ceiling, rows of dusty bottles line the wall-tops, and the TVs behind the bar continue to play while the comics work. Slainte is a tougher room, in part because of staging. The performance area is just an open patch of floor at the far end of the room from the bar, and only recently has any sort of platform been set up on which to perform. But the physical layout is only half the challenge. The other half is the vibe, which is not at all friendly or encouraging. If you fail in the first 15 seconds of your set to earn the crowd’s respect — a crowd heavy with other comics — most everyone turns away, the hum of conversation rises, and you become some person with an underpowered microphone making pointless noise over in the corner. “That is a real study in intestinal fortitude, that place,” says Ferrell. “If you can go in there and nobody knows you, and you can grab them and at least get a couple laughs out, then you know you’ve done something.” The comedy at Slainte also skews darker and edgier than at Mama’s, especially if you remember back to 2011 when Brian Brinegar was the host. Brinegar set a tone strong on the profanity and one-up grossouts, with an undercurrent of misogyny. He’s no longer hosting, but the comics here still tend toward vacuum-cleaner blowjob routines, colon cancer bits, and the like. Or maybe it’s not so much the material — the Co-op comics are doing the same stuff

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dueling SceneS Mama’s crowbar (left) and slainte (with Troy pennell on stage) have distinct shows that share elements, and performers. continued from p 9

in both rooms — but how hard the comics push. In the sink-or-swim atmosphere of the place, they seem to feel they have to resort to shock value in order to make an impression. The third major comedy track is the one that leads out of town, toward the bright lights. Ian Harvie has moved to the other coast and is trying to make a go of it in LA. He is working hard and getting some breaks: he has tour dates booked this spring all over the country, recently filmed a one-hour special for TV, and opens occasionally for Margaret Cho. Harvie sees both bad and good in the closing of the Comedy Connection. On the one hand, he liked the feeling of fraternity. “What made that club for me was all the comics I came up with,” he says. People were supportive and “at times competitive, but trying not to be douchey to each other.” On the other hand, “It was a little old school, sort of mafioso comedy club . . . if you worked at the Comedy Connection, you weren’t allowed to work in the Portland area at another comedy-like club for money on a competing night.” Comics would be banned if they did, he says, though that allegation was challenged by owner Keithly. (See “Banned?” by Jeff Inglis, March 31, 2006.) Harvie adds, “It’s probably time for

some new comedy business blood in that town anyway, if it can be supported by the community and have people come out to it.”

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So is there room in Portland for a new club? Sarah Dearing thinks so. She managed the Comedy Connection for 15 years and now has a booking website at spotlight-solutions.com. “There’s definitely a hole in the comedy community” with the closing of the Connection, she says, adding that the Connection “did end up growing a comedy-goer” in Portland, meaning someone who goes out on purpose to see comedy, rather than just someone out for drinks. She sees potential both for an audience for national acts coming through and for local talent eager for stage time. There’s certainly not a lot of competition. The Gold Room out on Warren Avenue has comedy only one night a week, with, according to owner Jim Grattelo, no plans to add more nights. Also, Grattelo says, the Gold Room is a different deal: night-club style seating, with candles and tablecloths. It’s mostly couples, he says, who come — well-fed suburban couples, if a night with Karen Morgan headlining last fall is typical. And although he books the occasional local act, most of his comics seem to come from down Boston way or even further off.

And there is a brand-new weekly Friday Comedy show at Club Texas in Auburn — the first show was February 22 — which is slated to feature touring professional comedians, hosted by local up-and-comer Ian Stuart; other venues in town, such as Geno’s and the Asylum, have occasional comedy. But even taken all together it’s still a scattershot scene. A comedy club does need major investment up front if it wants to succeed, says Ferrell, who mentions the example sum of half a million dollars. Morgan, an Old Port small-business owner herself (Captain Sam’s Ice Cream on Commercial Street), says, “I think it would be pretty difficult to have a club that is a seven-night-a-week club, to support a staff, to support insurance, to support all the things you have to support as a small business owner, and have enough people coming in, and to pay quality entertainers enough to come in and support that club.” Nonetheless, several people interviewed for this story spoke of hearing rumors of a new club opening downtown sometime in spring or early summer — an upstairs and downstairs two-room place with some serious money behind it, to be specific, which might feature comedy Thursday through Sunday, with music the other nights. If the rumors are true, could the people who

Women’s words Will the future of Maine coMedy include More of a feMale presence than in the past?

Tim ferrell “the club scene itself, it’s still a boys’ club. Men own the clubs. it’s part

of the scene, it really is. right now even in this town there are some terrifically talF ented women, and they have to fight just a little bit harder sometimes to get the attention, or get the stage time, or get the minutes, or get the respect.” Karen morgan “the number of women in comedy is increasing. the number of women that wanna go see comedy is increasing. But at the end of the day, yeah, still a good ol’ boys’ club, in terms of material sometimes. i don’t really wanna hear about buttholes and, you know, certain things. i’m like, really? you know, you’re a grown man — that’s what my 10-year-old said this morning. But, there’s a seat for every fanny, and i don’t judge it.” Will green “standing up in front of people and thinking you’re important has definitely over history been more of a male job, for whatever reason. hopefully it will change.” phoebe angle “i would say it’s just like any other male-dominated field. you know, you just kind of have to prove yourself a little more. it’s like, do i want to be cute, or do i want to be funny? you don’t want to be more cute than funny if you want to be taken seriously. you have to treat it like a job, and you have to be good at your job, just like everyone else.” _Lb

ran the Comedy Connection be involved? Says Dearing flatly, “I have no comment on that.” Nothing suggestive in the way of permitting has shown up on a city council agenda, so if anything is going on it seems likely to be still in the planning and negotiation stages. If there’s one thing everyone agrees on, it’s that there’s no replacement for seeing comics live. Harvie’s take: “There’s nothing like it. You can watch them on YouTube, you can watch them on their webpages or listen to an audio file download, but truly the best way to see comedy is live, because there are things you will lose and never have. My friend John Eder will make a face for a solid 30 seconds, and people will be cracking up, and you’d never be able to have that translated, not even on YouTube, you know? You just can’t capture that.” Hamm concurs. You might see one of his jokes on YouTube, he says, but if you go to the club, “something funny might happen live, interacting with the audience, that will never happen again, and you could say you were there the night it happened.” It seemed hardly fair to grill all these people about their work and art without stepping up myself, and I’ve always had a secret yen, so on a frigid windy night in February I put my name down on the sheet at Mama’s CrowBar. It was my third time ever doing standup. The second time was 10 minutes of crickets at Slainte in late 2011 which it had taken me until now to get over. I did eight minutes for about 18 people, felt comfortable on stage for the first time ever, and got some solid laughs and some nice compliments after. It was a rush. Two of the other comics who performed the same evening, Phoebe Angle and Shawn Carter, actually drove up from Boston to perform at this chummy open mic. “Because Portland,” Carter says, “they just have the best crowds. This is Sunday night, and this place was awesome tonight. I’ve never been in this bar before . . . small little bar . . . but the people in here are all listening and ready to laugh. It’s great.” What’s Boston like, in comparison? He glowers. “Competitive.” Lucas O’Neil, another of the Co-op members, also did a set. Asked afterwards for his take on the Portland comedy scene, he thinks for a moment, perhaps searching for a way to express his enthusiasm in keeping with his sardonic persona. “It’s better than you think. It’s better than you think.” ^

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at Geno’s — presumably from their vast catalog of originals. With thrash vets PiNko aNd the actioN boyS, the tuneful garagepunk group the rattleSNakeS, and the toM SaVaGe exPloSioN. Way cheap at $3. 625 Congress St., 207.625.2382.

Mouth, thunder thIghs, a onewoman vaudeville act about the complicated mind-body relationship. Both shows $15. 25A Forest Ave., call 207.774.0465. THE DOC IS IN | Two powerful sociology docs screen at off-the-radar Portland locations today. The first, titled Park

avenue: Money, PoWer, and the aMerIcan dreaM, is the latest by

saturday 9 BACK ON THE MAP | The char-

f Mary Gauthier, at One Longfellow Square, in Portland on March 7. thursday 7 ROUGH EDGES | Since she

started playing at age 35, the gritty, smoky-voiced American troubadour singer Mary Gauthier ’s blend of personal, topical folk songs and the cultural intonations of the region have become a signature cultural export of New Orleans. Gauthier, who turns 51 Monday, is one of the renegades of her genre, who can support the weight of her songs with real-life experience, and she plays at One Longfellow Square with Scott NolaN , 8 pm, $20-25. 181 State St., 207.761.1757. CUBAN LINKS | The afrocubaN all StarS , an orchestral group of revolving-door players spreading appreciation for modern and traditional Cuban street music (and closely related to the Buena Vista Social Club, whom the guitarist Ry Cooder helped explode this genre in America 15 years ago), perform at Bowdoin College’s Pickard Theater at 7:30. Call 207.725.8769 for tickets.

friday 8 OVER THE PLAIN | The rock group PhaNtoM buffalo formed in the late ’90s as the Ponys. Since then, their fanciful, playful, subtly complex rock songs have made them one of the city’s most venerated rock institutions. Their most ambitious — some have said greatest — record to date is Tadaloora, an album that arrives with a conceptual fantasyland to support its themes, and the band present it formally at SPACE Gallery. With the electrifying new rock group aN aNderSoN (featuring former members of Cuss, Honey Clouds, and Huak) and Video NaStieS, a dark disco venture from Strange Maine alum. 8:30 pm; $8 at 538 Congress St., 207.828.5600. KEEP PUSHING | March being Women’s History Month, USM’s impressive Gender Studies program has readied an in-depth convention and panel discussion of the history of gendered civil rights. “SeNeca, SelMa, StoNewall, Social chaNGe” collects trans activist and author Kate Bornstein, NAACP Portland

ismatic Roxbury, Massachusetts, rapper Moufy, who in a very short time has climbed very far up the (admittedly short) ladder of Boston hip hop, joins up with Maine artists caM GroVeS and trailS. Moufy’s arguably the biggest name in that scene since Mr. Lif, and the first rapper to sing about Boston pride maybe ever. The rhyme showcase goes down at the Port City Music Hall, 7 pm, $13. 504 Congress St. 207.899.4990. REPPING IT | It’s the last weekend of a month-long series of plays at Portland Stage’s Studio Rep, for which three radically different productions have been sharing the institution’s black box theater. Staged today is the final production of Lorem Ipsum’s If We Were BIrds, a modern adaptation of a harrowing myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (in which this writer, a company member, plays a role) at 3; while at 8, Bess Welden stages the final reprisal of her original play BIg

Academy Award winning director Alex Gibney (2005’s Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and last year’s devastating look at Catholicism’s ongoing scandal, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God). That’s at 1:30 in USM’s Glickman Library, seventh floor. In the second, the sneakily important and immeasurably interdisciplinary field of urban planning is explored at the Meg Perry Center. urBanIzed, a feature-length doc, explores the wealth of strategies on the table for designers, architects, and policymakers. An evercrucial subject — for Portland as everywhere — as economic uncertainty pushes more and more people into cities. 5 pm at 644 Congress St. FUNNY COUNTRY | The Burlington, Vermont, act wayloN SPeed, who play country songs with a filthy, hard rock edge that sometimes approaches metal, seem tailor-made for the stage and Empire Dine and Dance. They hit it up with thiS old GhoSt at 9 pm for $6 (575 Congress St., 207.879.8988), while across the street, speed-punk

President Rachel Talbot Ross, historian Priscilla Murolo, and others. Read Deirdre Fulton’s full preview on page 4 — the event happens at USM’s Hannaford Hall, 88 Bedford St. in Portland. 207.780.4289. GUYS GO NORTH | Several local comics such as those in our feature article this week (see page 8) appear at a new Friday night venture in Auburn. At the dynamic venue Club Texas: find briaN briNeGar, luke haNbury, Paul huNt, keViN NealeS, Joe tiMMiNS, and Mark turcotte taking turns in front of the microphone. 8 pm, $7 at 150 Center St., 207.784.7785. HALF A BOY/HALF A MAN | Let there be no doubt: GeorGe

thoroGood aNd the deStroyerS will play at the State Theatre, endlessly perpetuating their obsession with unhinged, alcohol-soaked, strangely alluring guitar-blues. With the Slide brotherS at 8 pm, $35-40. 609 Congress St., 207.956.6000. RECOVERED | Perhaps motivated by their recent dissection of a Dead Milkmen album at the Big Easy’s Cover to Cover night, the cultish deathpunk band coVered iN beeS headline a set

f old ’97S, at State Theatre, in Portland on March 9.

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f Moufy, at Port City Music Hall, in Portland on March 9. fantasy metal group waraNiMal host their semi-annual “Winter Beach Ball” with SuPerorder, a proggish space-metal act currently immersed in the production of 9-part cyber-opera. 9 pm, $8. SERIOUS COUNTRY | At the State, two far more mainstream acts boast the fusion of country songs with the hard stuff. Songwriter/heartthrob Rhett Miller’s old ’97S, a rowdy, punkish consort with the sort of tortured, metaphor-driven lyrics typically belonging to noisy indie-rock, play with the driVe-by truckerS, an alt-country band who’ve functioned as a more thoroughly Southern version of Wilco. 8 pm, $25-30.

the local stand-up scene has witnessed a ton of splinter factions. The latest comes from Connor McGrath, who debuts a weekly talk and variety show he calls “SGt. coNNor’S loNely

heartS club baNd’S SiNGleS NiGht” at Slainte. 9 pm, 24

Preble St., 207.828.0900. REAL FOLK | The Maine-born Boston folk artist audrey ryaN typically fills out her emotionally complicated pop songs with a flurry of unusual instruments and arrangements. It’s evident on her 2012 record, Sirens, and she brings it to the Red Door in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, tonight at 8, with the dark-pop songwriter JeNee halStead, who came to Boston via the Northwest. 107 State St., 603.373.6827.

sunday 10 SAVED | Depending on what

sort of house you kept in the ’90s, you might be familiar with the household-name artists Max Cavalera, who founded the Brazilian thrash-metal band Sepultura when he was 15, and Jewel, who famously endured a life of teenage destitution to produce a multiplatinum record when she was 21. They might never have more closely collaborated than they do tonight, when the former, now with his far more spiritual yet still pummeling metal group Soulfly, play the Asylum (9 pm, $20, 121 Center St.), while Jewel, on a greatest hits tour, hits the Merrill Auditorium (7:30, $41-108, 20 Myrtle St.).

monday 11 WHY NOT | Since the Comedy Connection closed in October,

tuEsday 12 WELLING UP | In the rarefied,

transient world of slam poetry, the extraordinarily powerful rachel MckibbeNS is about as real as it gets. A New Yorker, she has been a mentor for Urban Word NYC and an eight-time member of the National Poetry Slam team. The sort of performer whose work one random YouTube view can leave you in tears, she’s a magnificent draw for local poet consortium Port Veritas, and is the headliner at their weekly residency at Bull Feeney’s. 7:30 pm, $15 ($10 students). Call 207.357.7678. THE OLDEST ART | If you’re going for it with the McKibbens show, you might sharpen your tools with a provocative lecture at USM. Kathleen Wininger, one of the school’s philosophy professors and an expert on Friedrich Nietzsche, unpacks the sex life of the Übermensch with a lecture titled “the PiNNacle

of hiS SPirit: NietzSche aNd the erotic,” at 4 pm. Luther Bonney Auditorium, 92 Bedford St., 207.780.4141.

WEdnEsday 13 MAGICAL BIDDEFORD | Branch-

ing out from their usual fare of outré-folk, the Oak and the Ax host a night of avant-garde theater courtesy of Donna Oblongata, a punk vaudeville performer who wrote an outlandishly original work called the 7-Person chaIr PyraMId hIgh WIre act, which she and another perform; with the fearlessly original art-rock act PaNda baNditS. 8 pm, $7 at 140 Main St. in Biddeford. YOU CAN’T TAPE IT | In an unrelated-yet-inspiring chain of events, the artists Pilar Nadal and Anne Buckwalter are the latest to host an unconventional public conversation about art production (see page 14 for an interview with another). They debut(?) a program titled “N-Pilar liVe: a fraNk

coNVerSatioN about MakiNG thiNGS,” (not accessible anywhere

else, incidentally), 6 pm at SPACE Gallery.

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day, the MaiNe JewiSh filM feStiVal has its biggest day of screenings, with films screening at the Nickelodeon, Maine Historical Society, Frontier Café (in Brunswick), and Colby College. Check our film listings for the full schedule. Elsewhere, One Longfellow Square delimits the cultural celebration with a party called “beSt of both worldS,” which collects stories and performances from Portland’s immigrant student population of Deering High School youth. 6:30, $2-4.

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_by NICholAS S Chr oed er In another look at Portland’s growing number of atypical studies within the art world, we spoke to Southern Maine Community College art history professor Christopher Stiegler, founder of the Institute for American Art, a curatorial space he runs from his home on Smith Street in Bayside. This is an edited excerpt; read the full transcript at Portland.thePhoenix.com.

Is there somethIng specIfIc to portland that made thIs Idea necessary or was It somethIng you’ve been sIttIng on awhIle? It’s something I’ve been sit-

ting on. I’d been thinking a lot about how museums operate and I’d always liked the model of the apartment showroom. When we moved to Maine I saw a good opportunity to present the curatorial perspective. In New York there’s just a din. There is enough of a creative community within this city that’s excited about new ideas. For our first opening party we had about 40 to 50 people come through the space, a lot of people from the art world, and it was very nice to see that turnout. Portland’s just worked very well for it, and I know that this project is going to be following me for, well, maybe forever.

In the short tIme that the InstItute has exhIbIted (sInce november), how have you selected what to show? I started off

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with New York because it was a comfort zone for me, and then I had this idea that I would go regional. At this point, I’m just going for projects that I think are fun and engaging and I’m excited about. Because I need to think that I’m getting something out of it in order for me to really sell it to the community and be as enthusiastic as I think you need to be to run a project that’s outside of people’s comfort zones. The next project is focusing on queer cultural production through looking at zines, small magazines, and publications. I contacted the editor of a magazine called Straight to Hell, which is one of the longest running queer magazines around. I asked him for a selection of his private bookshelf because I wanted to kind of trace the influence and see what he’s looking at as a way of examining the development of these projects. And so he’s sending up some books, and then the goal is some sort of publication that I’ll produce with the community in mind. It’s sort of like the film series (“Normative Narratives,” last fall) at SPACE (Gallery): an examination of the queer community in town.

way to cordon off my scope, and (it helped to decide) that I was just going to deal with the United States of America. I’m an American; let’s look at American cultural production. A lot of people think that I’m being hokey, and I’m not. I firmly think that I’m going to be doing this for the next 40 years.

what sort of food and drInk do you serve? It’s usually BYO. When I have

snacks, it’s usually pretzels or beer. Since opening this space I’ve had conversations about artist-run spaces in Chicago and Baltimore and they really put a lot of this at ease for me. That polish I thought I needed to have was washed away when I showed up to this really well-regarded space in Chicago and it was just, like, a cooler of beer and seven people. I was like, okay, phew, I don’t need to have 40 people at everything, I can have seven. And I don’t need to have some presentation of beautiful food because that’s not what I’m going for. I’m going for making people focus on the artwork; that’s why there’s only one piece that’s ever going to be on view, because it’s about looking at that thing. Art seems to be relegated to a plus-one status in culture. Most places art seems to be shown in they’re either selling it, or else it’s a food place. One of the things I really wanted to do with this space was not to have a bunch of other noise around. I don’t want to have somebody playing music in here while we’re having an opening. I don’t want somebody making really nice cocktails. That’s not what the project is. That shit can come later, but the thing that I’m focusing on is the work. ^

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theater Just-so stories Coward’s quieT play aT porTland sTage _by Megan gr u Mbling The name of Noël Coward is fairly synonymous with the biting, devastating verbal wit of his farces like Blithe Spirit, in which well-off Brits behave badly, having at each other with verbal razors. But audiences have the chance to experience a quite different Coward in his A Song at Twilight, written in 1966, more than 20 years after Blithe Spirit and only a few years before the playwright’s death. In this bracingly candid drama, the cleverness is softened; the show’s greater concern is the quieter ambivalence of the human heart. A Song at Twilight receives a sensitive, beautiful production at Portland Stage Company, under the direction of Paul Mullins, interwoven with performances of Coward’s own songs. In fact, the production opens with “You Were There,” happily sung and played on a gorgeous antique baby grand by a spotlighted young man (Harrison M. Beck, admirably recreating Coward’s own phrasing). This is Felix, a waiter in the elegant hotel that is home to elderly playwright Sir Hugo Latymer (Edmond Genest) and his personal assistant-cum-wife Hilde (Maureen Butler). In this high-ceilinged suite (luxurious set design by Brittany Vasta), Felix returns often to the piano in Hugo’s presence, and in doing so, he poses a poignant younger counterpoint to the older man, whose younger passions are at the center of this show: When a former lover, Carlotta (Carol Halstead) visits for dinner, she has more than nostalgia in mind, having brought along decades-old letters that Hugo would rather forget. Carlotta is an immediate wrench in the works of Hugo’s carefully manicured life; as she herself remarks, she is as “rude” as he is “pompous:” Impulsive and proudly lacking refinement, Halstead’s Carlotta stretches provocatively, snaps the salad tongs at him, eats caviar from the serving bowl (doing a little delicious-happy-dance in her chair as she does), and flirts with the waiter. (Beck’s Felix is delicious, tempering his waiter’s

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pleasant servility with lingering smiles and backwards looks at the older woman fawning over him.) And most importantly, Halstead makes clear that Carlotta knows exactly how to goad Hugo in ways he finds most uncomfortable and thus infuriating. Hugo, in the hands of Genest (who appeared at PSC last season in Heroes), treats Carlotta with uncompromising rigidity and unveiled distaste. He convincingly presents a man who has not only calcified in his just-so ways, through a life of success and coddling, but who has grown a disdain and meanness for the world because of it. Halstead’s Carlotta sees this in him and more, and is a great foil for it. Her character has an interesting series of turns to reveal; she shifts nicely from wry teasing to her more serious concerns, though I’d like to see her bare her own stakes a little more starkly. As the current woman in Hugo’s life, Butler’s merry, maternal Hilde is a delight. She warmly and with great subtlety conveys how her character’s substantial wisdom, affection, and good humor manage to contain decades of ambivalence in her relationship with Hugo, whose rote cruelty to her she calls him on but still takes in stride. Butler is especially luminous in Act Two, once Hilde has come home pleasantly tipsy and forthcoming from a few stingers. Her most candid monologue to Hugo is met with what Genest’s posture makes clear is a soulwrenching devastation. It is uncommonly moving to watch Genest’s Hugo from that point through the end, as the once-callous wit falls away to reveal a quiet, naked grief — and it is all the more arresting to watch him letting Hilde see it. In their final, fraught moment of mutual acknowledgement, nearly no words are said, but the emotional complexity between them is worth thousands of them. ^

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This week, Providencebased comic Ray Harrington released his first CD, The Worst Is Over, on respected comedy label Stand Up! Records. Recorded over two nights in September at the Comedy Connection, the disc is a sort of eulogy for the wharf-tucked club, a favorite of Harrington’s that the Bangor native personally selected for this recording. Less than a month later, the club closed its doors, though you’d never know it from the packed house captured here. (It might help to know that this writer, who interviewed Harrington the week prior, was in attendance.) While an assessment of stand-up comedy may feel like an uncomfortable critique of someone’s thoughts, it’s more accurately to say it’s a survey of one’s performance of character. By this rubric, Harrington’s a smart guy, and it’s refreshing to find someone who can hit such high notes without pretending otherwise. His act seldom trades in failed recognition humor, that blunt tool in most comics’ toolboxes, but this hardly means he’s heady; rather, his material has a context that extends beyond the stage. Indeed, often as thoughtfully and progressively as Louis C.K. plays the aggrieved working-class American male, Harrington performs the persona of the educated, socially liberal, misfit rural Yankee. He doesn’t insult nor attempt to educate his audience, but merely brings them along for the ride. Harrington isn’t a physical comic, per se, but a significant part of his material’s heft can be derived from his size. It naturally manifests in his set, though some of its magnitude is naturally lost on a recording. And there’s a nifty juxtaposition with one of his most recurring voices: a lispy, genial delivery that Harrington uses not only for female voices, but his own weird interior narratives. Where a lesser comic might use it to tease out some vacant sexuality humor, Harrington uses it as part of his marvelous riffs, to help keep differing trains of thought separate. In an interview last fall, he told the Phoenix that he begins each set with about 15 minutes’ worth of straight-up, unpremeditated riffing, a practice he’s cultivated to the point it clearly yields some of the night’s biggest laughs. Three of them occur in “Hello,” basically an intro track, in which Harrington rather masterfully segues an awkward location nod into some whipsmart moments of crowd banter.

This may appear to listeners as simple crowdwork, like his ongoing supplications to separate throngs of bachelorette parties or his uncomfortable exchange with the older gentleman in the front row whose off-note commentary — while falling far short of heckles — would’ve surely unnerved many others. But this ad hoc chatter will often find its way into other jokes and asides, keeping the set from ever getting too rigid. The Worst is Over takes on the language of marriage (in a hilarious extended contemplation of the classic “would-you-stilllove-me-if” hypothetical), international contrast (Did you know that when you’re in England, you’re not fat, you’re just American?), or regional dystopia (If you haven’t been to Nebraska, here’s the deal: Get a brick, smash yourself in the face with it, and then have somebody say ‘We don’t have iced coffee, faggot.’ — that last bit a real-life road-trip quote, he attests). We hit a couple odd notes — though perhaps necessary ones — in “The Prison Wood Store,” where Maine becomes the butt of the jokes. But he totally nails fantasy football (in the voice of one of his “bro dudes,” defensively): It’s not weird! Fantasy football isn’t weird at all! It’s just my dream team of men that do whatever I tell ’em to do, and I think about ’em all day at work!). Not to worry: there are dick jokes, too, of many shapes and sizes. But they’re a rite of passage of sorts; Harrington just doesn’t seem that interested in offending for offense’s sake. The Worst is Over is a very good introduction to a unique comic who may be entering his prime, and a rather poignant last laugh for an institution of Portland comedy. ^

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Nice Places would have been the perfect local opener for the Minus the Bear/Circa Survive show at the State Theatre coming up on March 16. Except Now, Now are actually opening. So forget it. That’s more perfect. But if you know those bands, you get the idea. Nice Places, who released their first full-length, Invacuo, a couple weeks back, after a promising three-song EP about 18 months ago, have that contemporary prog-rock thing going on, with stuttering and staccato guitar chords, swirling digital flourishes, and plenty of deviations from the standard 4/4 rock time signature. They even include three instrumentals, increasingly long as the album moves forward and culminating in the five-minuteplus “Untitled,” which might remind you of Dead Man’s Clothes’ Ice Is War disc. It’s a lonely and desolate kind of song, with digital whirs becoming ear-piercing and leaving the audible spectrum, engines of music cycling down and warming up. Another instrumental, “Traps,” might be named after that old jazz term for drums, as Brendan Shea (also in Old Soul) dominates the open with phrasing like everything falling down at once before guitars enter like they’re drowning in maple syrup. Nice Places aren’t as heavy as the

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Baltic Sea, but the share an affinity for controlled chaos. It’s rare to have a “lead” instrument. Instead, (usually) Samuel Belanger’s lead vocals provide the majority of the melody, while everything else cycles and repeats to blend into a background wash. The songs can run together. There isn’t a stand-out here, or a lot of big-popping choruses, although the post-chorus in the opening “Dance with Me” — sharing a title with a classic Leftovers tune — does have a great punch, following a songstopping stutter. The lyrical phrases repeat and recycle as much as the riffs. Here it’s “I’ve just got one thing to say/Only wanted to be there for you/All I wanted to say was...” In “Oh, Lordy,” it’s a series of split personalities: “I will tear you down ... I will lift you up.” This one’s a serious head-nodder, especially after the 3:30 mark, and the mixing leaves you wondering whether those are wordless vocals or a keyboard. The high hat in seven-note bunches is hard to ignore. This is an album that’s less about individual moments, though, and more about overall touch and feel. It can be uncomfortable, accusatory, sneering. Then it opens right up and welcomes you in. “On a Train” has a breakneck pace, with a White Stripes guitar and plenty of

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F is music a type of theology? Generally not, we’d say, but now and again, a group like the Waldos come along and we start to wonder. not that the weird, complex, jazzy math-rock they churn out on Sans gets us any closer to the man or woman upstairs — or down below, for that matter. not at all. But think how most groups are preoccupied with the anxious questions of their own existence, and fashion a sort of aesthetic or essential image with which to address the world outside their members. this might take the form of a hunky frontman, an infectious 4/4 beat, or a shithot synth line. like chants of the druids of yore, we might come to view these musical characteristics as attempts to get beyond their own world, to send a message to a distant, unknowable, and transcendent force: We are here. listen to us. and like a stained-glass window, this is where the light shines through. it often appears as a viral single, a full audience at the show, or a

punk ethos. The vocals are lower down, breathy: “You wanna do it, but you know that you’ll never follow through it,” they repeat. The beat is skittering in transition to a straight-rock sound with rolling drums into the finish. “The Morning Off” is sun-shiney in comparison, languid with vocals that ride single syllables. They’re a bit nasally, and perhaps drag things out overly long, but the phrasing turns something like “think about all the ways we could spend the day together” into something much less mundane. Sometimes the vocals are buried too much in the mix for you to make out much. In “Bliss,” with Emily Harvey de-

livering keyboards like churchbells, they’re heavy and dramatic, with Dream Theater echoes, everything hanging all the way out, but it’s nearly impossible to make out lyrics. Maybe they don’t matter much, serving mostly as placeholders. Maybe the mix could be refined a touch. Michael Whitmore’s bass gets more attention late in album, holding the melody together in the “Nice Places” instrumental (I have a soft spot for bands with theme songs of sorts) and staying active through “Wider Smiles.” There seems to be two drum parts here, but maybe it’s just great work from Shea in mixing up the time-keeping and the lyricism. It pulls and tugs at you, getting at more of those unsettled feelings. Nice Places? Perhaps that’s all in the perspective. One man’s impenetrable snow-swept expanse is another’s playground. ^

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simple “you guys rock,” but it all feels like confirmation from beyond. the Waldos, a four-piece group in portland, do no such thing. their songs are so tightly woven and intricate, so suffused with energy, and yet so completely devoid of any such face or aesthetic (just look at that cover!) that their music cannot be thought of as a supplication to the beyond. it’s as if theirs is a church with no windows, as it were. in rock-formal terms, they make us think of chicago’s Ghosts and Vodka, or Boston’s cancer conspiracy, or several other such groups to have sunned on the beaches of rock obscurity past. But the Waldos exist today, in an era where every rock fan possesses the omniscient eye of the internet. Undaunted, they are musicians in pure conversation with one another, ignoring the hidebound strictures for practitioners of rock music and existing on their own terms

alone. out of respect — and because to do so would only serve to negate our portrait of them — we’ll withhold our usual stream of descriptors and adjectives and simply praise the makers of this uniquely triumphant rock record, merely noting that it’s as if, transcendentalism be damned, the only force they obey is what passes between them. Find Sans, their anti-gospel, at the-waldos.bandcamp.com. F and now for some practical knowledge: both the EmpirE dinE and dancE and port city music Hall have been sold in the last few weeks. it’s too early to tell how that might affect their entertainment schedules (or halt them completely?), but we’re eager to see how it might. that’s a lot of upheaval for the city’s midcapacity rock rooms. F old pal putnam smitH, whose last record We Could Be Beekeepers was a major player on the national folk dJ charts, is preparing a new record, titled Kitchen, Love..., for May.

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THIrSTY MooSE TaPHoUSE | Ports-

mouth | open mic | 8 pm

WEDnESDaY 13

BLUE MErMaID | Portsmouth | open

mic | 8:30 pm

CEnTraL WaVE | Dover | DJ Bobby

MonDaY 11

”SGT. Connor’S LonELY HEarTS CLUB BanD’S SInGLES nIGHT,” MUSIC & CoMEDY VarIETY SHoW WITH Connor MCGraTH | 8 pm | Slainte, 24 Preble St, Portland | 207.828.0900

Freedom

WEDnESDaY 13

mouth | open mic | 8 pm

School, 400 Broadway, Rockland | 207.596.2010

Wheel of Awesome

THUrSDaY 14

mic | 9:30 pm

MILLIE’S TaVErn | Hampton | karaoke THE rED Door | Portsmouth | Evaredy

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”oFFBEaT CoMEDY,” oPEn MIC | 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

BoB MarLEY | 7 pm | Oceanside High

Meet portland’s

Captain JiM

BoB MarLEY | Cheverus High School, 267 Ocean Ave, Portland | 207.774.6238 oPEn MIC | See listing for Thurs

| 9 pm

rI ra/PorTSMoUTH | Portsmouth | Josh Cramoy | 8 pm

rUDI’S | Portsmouth | Dimitri Yiannicopulus | 6 pm

SPrInG HILL TaVErn | Portsmouth |

Lex & Joe | 8 pm

THIrSTY MooSE TaPHoUSE | Ports-

mouth | Jimkata | 9 pm WaLLY’S PUB | Hampton | “Hip Hop

Wednesdays,” with DJ Provo + Hustle Simmons | 9 pm

THUrSDaY 14

BarLEY PUB | Dover | bluegrass jam with Steve Roy | 9 pm

CEnTraL WaVE | Dover | Ken Ormes

Trio

FUrY’S PUBLICK HoUSE | Dover | Erin’s Guild

ConCErTS CLaSSICaL FrIDaY 8

SaTUrDaY 9

BaTES CoLLEGE orCHESTra | 7:30

bluegrass jam

pm | Bates College, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St, Lewiston | free; tickets required | 207.786.6135

less Duo

SUnDaY 10

PoPULar

CoMEDY THUrSDaY 7

”KnoCK KnoCK: CoMEDY nIGHT” | 8

pm | The Red Door, 107 State St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.373.6827 or www. reddoorportsmouth.com oPEn MIC | 8 pm | Slainte, 24 Preble St, Portland | 207.828.0900

”STanD UP or SIT DoWn,” STUDEnT CoMEDY SHoWCaSE | 8 pm |

University of Maine - Farmington, Olsen Student Center, 111 South St, Farmington | 207.778.7346 or 207.778.7347

FrIDaY 8

aUDIoBoDY | Fri 7:30 pm; Sat 2 &

7:30 pm | Freeport Theater of Awesome, 5 Depot St, Freeport | $12-20 | 800.838.3006 or awesometheater.com

BrIan BrInEGar + LUKE HanBUrY + KEVIn nEaLES + PaUL HUnT + MarK TUrCoTTE + JoE TIMMInS | 8 pm | Club Texas, 150 Center St, Auburn | $7 | 207.784.7785

sundays at andy’s

PorTLanD SYMPHonY orCHESTra: “KInDErKonZErT” | 9:30

THUrSDaY 7

aFro-CUBan aLL STarS | 7:30 pm

6 to 9:30

Join Capt. Jim Harkins and his Portland, Maine based crew for the next 7 weeks as we watch his deep sea fishing series Atlantic Adventures. n

Live music begins at 5

Capt. Jim will narrate the story behind the “Adventure” and share some deep sea tips

Shipyard Export & cocktail specials

Appetizer specials

Weekly giveaways

Saltwater rod & reel from Cabela’s, drawing on final week

P.M.

FrIDaY 8

DErVISH | 7:30 pm | Strand The-

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3/6 @8 Open Mic

Listings

@10 Hang The DJ

3/8 @9 Clara Berry, Zach Zaitlin,

Gunther Brown (Free)

Continued from p 23

3/9 @9 Electroshock (Free)

PAUL RISHELL & ANNIE RAINES |

8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $15 | 207.935.7292 SESSION AMERICANA | 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $17 | 207.935.7292

3/10 @8 Walking Dead Party 3/11 @8 Sgt. Connor’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’s Singles Night

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

2012

3/12 @9 DJ Ponyfarm’s

SATURDAY 9

SUNDAY 10

custugo Hall, Rte 115, North Yarmouth | $10, $7 seniors/students | 207.712.2837

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

Hall, Route 9, Pownal | 207.688.2293

3/7 @8 Open Mic Comedy

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ZEMYA | 7:30 pm | Pownal Town

Karaoke Party

GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS + SLIDE BROTHERS | 8

pm | State Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $35-40 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland.com WAYLON SPEED | 8 pm | Unity College, Centre For the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St, Unity | $10 | 207.948.6549

SATURDAY 9

JEFF BEAM + MARA FLYNN | 8 pm |

Engine, 265 Main St, Biddeford | $6-8 | 207.229.3560 or feedtheengine.org ROSEANNE CASH | 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $85 | 207.935.7292 DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS + OLD 97’S | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $25-30 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland.com

”IN EARS ‘N’ EYES,” VISUAL ART & MUSIC PERFORMANCE | 7 pm | $12 | 7

Ski & Stay

$69

pm | The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | $12 | 207.439.0114 JAMES MCMURTRY + BOW THAYER | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $25 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com NATIVES ARE RESTLESS | See listing for Fri NIKKI HUNT BAND | Harmony Hall, 383 Gray St, North Yarmouth | 207.832.6272 CHRIS TRAPPER | 8 pm | The Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $24 | 603.436.2400

CHRIS KLAXTON TRIO | 1 pm |

Engine, 265 Main St, Biddeford | 207.229.3560 or feedtheengine.org FIGHTING JAMESONS | 7 pm | Music Hall, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $18-22 | 603.436.2400 or themusichall.org/tickets/index.asp FLASHBACKS | 7 pm | Harmony Hall, 383 Gray St, North Yarmouth | call for tickets; BYOB | 207.657.4300 JEWEL + HOLLY WILLIAMS | 7:30 pm | Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | $41-108 | 207.842.0800

TUESDAY 12

GOITSE | 7 pm | St Lawrence Arts & Community Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | $15 | 207.775.5568 or stlawrencearts.org

WEDNESDAY 13

FRYEBURG ACADEMY JAZZ CABARET | 7:30 pm | Fryeburg Academy,

Eastman Performing Arts Center, 745 Main St, Fryeburg | $8, $5 seniors | 207.935.9232 or fryeburgacademy.org

THURSDAY 14

JONATHAN EDWARDS | 7:30 pm | Bates College, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St, Lewiston | $20-25 | 207.786.6135

CONTRA DANCE | 8 pm | Wes-

SUNDAY 10

PERFORMANCE

FRIDAY 8

CONTRA DANCE WITH ANADAMA | 7:30 pm | Bates College, Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave, Lewiston | $5 | 207.753.6933

LATIN DANCE SOCIAL WITH DJ NICANOR | 8 pm | The Dance

Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | $7-10 | 207.439.0114

KARIM NAGI: “ARABIQA” | 10 am | The Grand, 165 Main St, Ellsworth | $3 | 207.667.9500 | grandonline.org

SATURDAY 9

ELEPHANT JANE DANCE | 7:30 pm |

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

TUESDAY 12

SELCOUTH + SOLANGE + DARK FOLLIES | 6 pm | Gorham Grind, 18

South St, Gorham | 207.839.3003

THURSDAY 14

CELTIC NIGHTS | 7 pm | Collins Center for the Arts, University of Maine, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono | $33-43 | 207.581.1755

EVENTS FRIDAY 8

”INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY CELEBRATION,” WITH WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD | with food,

music, & fashion show | 6 pm | Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St, Portland | $15 | 207.780.0118

SATURDAY 9

Center, 40 Westland Ave, Portland | $10-12 | 207.441.2507

”PORT AUTHORITIES VS. ROCK COAST ROLLERS,” BOUT | 5 pm | Happy Wheels, 331 Warren Ave, Portland | $7-8, $6 youth | 207.797.8207

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POETRY & PROSE THURSDAY 7

MICHELLE ALBION | discusses The

SUNDAY 10

”RHYTHMIC CYPHER” OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | with Sam Mercer

+ Shane Hall | 7 pm | Dobra Tea, 151 Middle St, Portland | 207.370.1890

TUESDAY 12

SUNDAY 10

”STARS ON ICE” | 4 pm | Cumberland County Civic Center, 45 Spring St, Portland | $25-130 | 207.775.3458 or | theciviccenter.com

MONDAY 11

WEDNESDAY 13

Bath, Bath | 207.442.7291 | visitbath. com/events/bath-blarney-days/

Maine Community Action, 34 Wing Farm Pkwy, Bath | 207.442.7963

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FRIDAY 8

”MEDLEY,” CHARITY BALL & SALSA DANCE | 8 pm | Italian Heritage

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FRIDAY 8

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TUESDAY 12

BATH BLARNEY DAYS | See listing for Mon

WEDNESDAY 13

BATH BLARNEY DAYS | See listing for Mon

”REAL SCHOOL: SPRING INTO ACTION,” MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE & AUCTION | benefit | 5 pm

THURSDAY 14

BATH BLARNEY DAYS | See listing for Mon

FOOD THURSDAY 7

LAYNE WITHERELL | discusses Wine Maniacs: Life in the Wine Biz | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks.com

TODD MCLEISH | discusses Narwhals:

THURSDAY 14

TALKS THURSDAY 7

”THE ART OF COPYRIGHTS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS & THE ART YOU CREATE” | 12:30 pm | University of

New Hampshire, Paul Creative Arts Center, 30 College Rd, Durham, NH | 603.862.3712 or unh.edu

”CENTERING THE GENOME: MOLECULAR CONTROL OF MITOTIC CHROMOSOME MOVEMENT” |

with Jason Stumpff | 4 pm | Bowdoin College, Druckenmiller Hall,

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3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3582

”CREATING A HEALTHY WORK CULTURE” | 5:30 pm | The Music

Hall Loft, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $5 | 603.436.2400

”DOWN BY THE RIVER: PHOTOGRAPHING AMERICAN WATERWAYS 40 YEARS AFTER THE CLEAN WATER ACT” | with Mi-

chael Kolster | 12:30 pm | 12:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Moulton Union, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3567

”NURTURING CREATIVITY IN YOUR CHILD: ART, MUSIC, & CREATIVE THINKING” | panel discussion

with Kim Bentley + Janna Civittolo + Adam Soosman + Malley Weber | 6 pm | Harlow Gallery, 160 Water St, Hallowell | 207.622.3813 or harlowgallery.org ”ON THE IN-BETWEEN” | with Toni Jo Coppa | 10:30 am | 10:30 am | Maine College of Art, Osher Hall, 522 Congress St, Portland | 800.699.1509

”ORGANIZING AT THE SPEED OF LOVE: SECURING THE RIGHTS OF THOSE WHO CARE FOR LOVED ONES” | with Ai-jen Poo | 5 pm |

”A PLEA FOR HUMAN NATURE”

| with Edouard Machery | 6 pm | University of New England - Biddeford, St Francis Room, Ketchum Library, 11 Hills Beach Rd, Biddeford | 207.602.2237

”SHOULD THE USA TRY TO INFLUENCE THE EVENTS GOING ON TODAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST?” |

Let’s Talk America forum with Sam Kelley | 6:30 pm | Scarborough Public Library, 48 Gorham Rd, Scarborough | 207.883.4723

FRIDAY 8

”THE FUTURE OF NEUROTROPHIC FACTORS” | with Moses V. Chao

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

STONEWALL, SOCIAL CHANGE”| with Priscilla Murolo + Rachel Talbot Ross + Kate Bornstein | 7 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Abromson Community Education Center, 88 Bedford St, Portland | 207.780.4289

MONDAY 11

”ESSENTIALS OF COLLEGE PLANNING” | 9 am | Portland Career-

Center, 185 Lancaster St, Portland | 207.775.5891

”THERE GOES THE GAYBORHOOD?: SEXUALITY & THE CITY IN A POSTGAY ERA” | with Amin Ghaziani | 7:15 pm | Bates College, New Commons Building, 136 Central Ave, Lewiston | 207.786.8296

”WILDLIFE OF YELLOWSTONE”

TUESDAY 12

”LAB COAT SOLDIERS--CITIZEN SCIENTISTS ARE ON A MISSION TO SAVE THE WORLD” | with David Munson | 4 pm | College of the Atlantic, McCormick Lecture Hall, 105 Eden St, Bar Harbor | 207.288.5015 or coa.edu

”THE PINNACLE OF HIS SPIRIT: NIETZSCHE & THE EROTIC” | with Kathleen Wininger | 4 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Luther Bonney Auditorium, 92 Bedford St, Portland | 207.780.4141

”STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: ON THE INTERSECTIONS OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY & QUEER THEORY” |

with Patrick Cheng | 7 pm | Bates College, Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave, Lewiston | 207.786.8272

”WATER & PLANTING IN THE HOME LANDSCAPE FOR BEAUTY & CONSERVATION” | 6:30 pm | Belfast Free Library, 106 High St, Belfast | 207.338.9125 or belfast.lib.me.us

WEDNESDAY 13

MUSIC HALL | 603.436.2400 |

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

”FROM THE STUDIO TO THE TREATMENT ROOM” | 6 am |

Engine, 265 Main St, Biddeford | 207.229.3560 or feedtheengine.org ”HUNGER IN MAINE” | panel discussion with Naomi Schalit + Dean LaChance + Craig Hickman + Mark Lapping | noon | University of Maine - Augusta, Klahr Center, 46 University Dr, Augusta | 207.621.3530

”MARKETING BASICS FOR ARTISTS: WEBSITES & BLOGGING, PART 3” | with Creative Portland |

6 pm | Maine College of Art, Osher Hall, 522 Congress St, Portland | $10 | 800.699.1509

NPILAR LIVE: “A FRANK CONVERSATION ABOUT MAKING THINGS” | with Pilar Nadal & Anne Buckwalter | 6 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | 207.828.5600 or space538.org

THURSDAY 14

”AMERICANS WHO TELL THE TRUTH: INSPIRING CITIZENSHIP & STUDENT PERFORMANCE” | with Robert Shetterly + Connie Carter + Karen MacDonald + Natasha Mayers | 3:30 pm | 3:30 pm | University of Southern Maine - Lewiston, Room 170, 51 Westminster St, Lewiston | 207.326.8459 or usm. maine.edu/lac ”THE PENINSULA SCHOOL” | See listing for Thurs

THEATER AQUA CITY ACTOR’S THEATRE

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - GORHAM | 207.780.4141 |

themusichall.org | 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | March 12: Guess How

PENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY

PONTINE THEATRE | 603.436.6660

ART

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& by appointment | Through March 31: “AW@3Fish,” pop-up exhibition of Addison Woolley artists

PORTLAND STAGE STUDIO REP SERIES | 207.774.0465 | portlandstage.

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| 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 March 31: “Without Recourse,” installation by Annie Campbell + Kaitlyn Coppola AARHUS GALLERY | 207.338.0001 | 50 Main St, Belfast | aarhusgallery. com | Thurs-Sun 11 am-5:30 pm | 2 Through March 31: “44N 69W: tsunami_bollard_quarterpg_ad.indd Radius Belfast,” mixed media group exhibition

org/Page.168.Studio+Rep | Portland Stage Company Studio Theater, 25A Forest Ave, Portland | March 7-9: Bess

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

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| 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 26: “Un-Themed & Varied: the Winter 2013 Exhibit,” mixed media group exhibition

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St, 3rd Floor, Portland | call for hours | Through March 31: “Toni Jo Coppa & Karen Merritt: Healing Works,” painting & photography

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Thurs-Fri 10 am-8 pm; Sat 10 am-6 pm; Sun 1-4 pm | Through March 31: paintings by Darren Connors MaYo STrEET arTS | 207.615.3609 | 10 Mayo St, Portland | call for hours | Through March 31: “Made at Mayo,” mixed media works by Amalia Guettinger + Alex Bettigole + Martha Fournier + Ryan Fitzgerald + Leslie Anderson MonKITrEE GaLLErY | 207.512.4679 | 263 Water St, Gardiner | Tues-Fri 10 am-6 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 | artist talk March 17 2 pm PorTLanD PUBLIC LIBrarY | |

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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 | Through April 6: “XRay (SPACE),” window installation by Carly Glovinski | March 13: NPilar Live: “A Frank Conversation About Making Things,” with Anne Buckwalter | 6 pm SPaCE GaLLErY annEX | 207.828.5600 | 534 Congress St, Portland | space538.org | Wed-Sat noon-6 pm | Through March 29: “Moon Moves (So Slowly),” works by Tara Pelletier + Jeffrey Kurosaki TEaToTaLLEr TEa HoUSE | 603.692.0220 | 109 Main St, Somersworth, NH | 10 am-5 pm | Through March 31: paintings by Kyle Dezi 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 TIDEMarK GaLLErY | 207.832.5109 | 902 Main St, Waldoboro | Wed-Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through March 30: monotypes by Annie Wooster YorK PUBLIC LIBrarY | 207.363.2818 | 15 Long Sands Rd, York | Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat 10 am-1 pm; Mon-Tues + Thurs 10 am-6 pm; Wed noon-8 pm | Through March 26: “Alumni Show,” mixed media group exhibition

MUSEUMS BaTES CoLLEGE MUSEUM oF arT | 207.786.6158 | 75 Russell St, Olin Arts Center, Lewiston | bates.edu/ museum-about.xml | Tues-Sat 10

am-5 pm | Through March 22: Fransje Killaars: “Color at the Center,” textile installation + “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,

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

Wed + Fri-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Thurs 10 am-8:30 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Free admission; donations welcome | Through March 10: “A Printmaking ABC: In Memorium David P. Becker” | Ongoing: “The Renaissance & the Revival of Classical Antiquity” + “In Dialogue: Art from Bowdoin & Colgate Collections” + “In a New Light: American & European Masters” + “Simply Divine: Gods & Demigods in the Ancient Mediterranean”

Light,” paintings | Through March 31: “Rediscoveries 4: Comedy, Seriously” | Ongoing: “Process & Place: Exploring the Design Evolution of the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion” + “Alex Katz Collection” CoLLEGE oF THE aTLanTIC | 207.801.5733 | Blum Gallery, 105 Eden St, Bar Harbor | Tues-Sat 11 am-4 pm | March 7, 12 & 14: sculpture by Phinn Owens | 12:30-3 pm DYEr LIBrarY/SaCo MUSEUM | 207.283.3861 | 371 Main St, Saco | sacomuseum.org | Tues-Thurs noon-4 pm; Fri noon-8 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | March 8-April 20: “RSU 23 Student Art Show” | reception March 8 5:30-7:30 pm FarnSWorTH arT MUSEUM | 207.596.6457 | 16 Museum St, Rockland | farnsworthmuseum.org | 10 am-5 pm, open until 8 pm with free admission Wed | $12, seniors & students $10; under 17 free and Rockland residents free | Admission $12; $10 seniors and students; free for youth under 17 and Rockland residents | Through March 10: “Recent Acquisitions” | Through April 7: “Andrew Wyeth: Pencil Drawings & Watercolor Sketches” | Through Sept 22: “Decorating the Everyday: Popular Art from the Farnsworth” | Through Dec 29: “American Treasures: Small Treasures,” sculpture

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| 603.427 | Gateway Gallery, 320 Corporate Dr, Portsmouth, NH | call for hours | 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,” multimedia installation | March 7 & 14: “The Peninsula School” | student-led art discussions | 1-2 pm MaInE CoLLEGE oF arT | 800.699.1509 | Osher Hall, 522 Congress St, Portland | March 7: “On the In-Between” | with Toni Jo Coppa | 10:30 am | Through March 31: “Break Down the House/Build the House” + “Map Project 15,” student works + “Nothing Major,” student exhibition PorTLanD MUSEUM oF arT | 207.775.6148 | 7 Congress Square, Portland | portlandmuseum.org | Tues-Thurs + Sat-Sun 10 am-5 pm; Fri 10 am-9 pm | Admission $12; $10 students, seniors; $6 youth 13-17; free for youth 12 & under and for all Fri 5-9 pm | Through March 31: “Youth Art Month,” student works | Through April 7: Lois Dodd: “Catching the Light,” plein-air painting retrospective | Through May 19: “Voices of Design: 25 Years of Architalx,” interactive exhibition

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Continued from p 27 UnIVErSITY oF MaInE - aUGUSTa | 207.621.3530 | Klahr Center, 46 University Dr, Augusta | Mon-Fri

9 am-4 pm | Through May 31: “Toward Greater Awareness,” installation by Mitch Lewis

UnIVErSITY oF MaInE - FarMInGTon | 207.778.7072 | Art Gallery,

246 Main St, Farmington | Tues-

Sun noon-4 pm | Through March 7: “Beauty & the Political Body,” works by Harriet Casdin-Silver

UnIVErSITY oF MaInE - orono |

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

1-7 pm; Fri-Sun 1-4 pm | March 12May 12: “Maine Women Pioneers III: Worldview” | reception March 12 5-7 pm | Ongoing: paintings & photography by Maine artists + labyrinth installation

UnIVErSITY oF nEW HaMPSHIrE

UnIVErSITY oF nEW HaMPSHIrE MUSEUM oF arT | 603.862.3712 | 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” | Through March 28: “Sacred Landscapes of Peru: the Photographs of Carl Austin Hyatt”

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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”

CHILDrEn’S MUSEUM & THEaTrE oF MaInE | 207.828.1234

Portsmouth, NH | portsmouthhistory. org | 10 am-5 pm | Through March

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”

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| 603.862.1535 | Dimond Library, 18 Library Way, Durham, NH | call for hours | Through March 22: “Embellishments: Constructing Victorian Detail”

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pm | Through April 3: “USM Art Faculty Exhibition,” mixed media

| 142 Free St, Portland | kitetails. com | Tues-Sat 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 | March 7: Tiny Tots: Table Painting 10:30 am; Star Show 11:30 am; Dollar-Go-Round 3:30 pm | March 8: Egg Science 10:30 am; Touch Tank 11:30 am; Dominoes Deluxe 3:30 pm | March 9: Kitchen Chemistry Day 10 am-5 pm; Ice Cube Experiment 10:30 am; Hot Ice 11 am; Slime Time 11:30 am ($4); Elephant Toothpaste 11:30 am & 2:30 pm; Camera Obscura Presentation noon; Tie-Dye Shaving Cream Painting noon & 3 pm; Ice Cube Experiment 1:30 & 3:30 pm; Open Art Studio 2-3 pm | March 10: We Dig Dirt 1 pm; Persian Spring Celebration: Nowruz 2:30 pm | March 12: Let’s Play: I’ve Got Rhythm 11:30 am; Marine Mammal Exploration 3:30 pm | March 13: Open Art Studio 11 am-noon; Cocoa Storytime: Thanks to the Animals 3:30 pm | March 14: Tiny Tots: Balloon Ball 10:30 am; Star Show 11:30 am; Dollar-Go-Round 3:30 pm

pm | Through March 15: “Print Portfolio,” student exhibition

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DISCoVEr PorTSMoUTH CEnTEr | 603.436.8420 | 10 Middle St,

31: “Nancy Lyon: Weaving the New Hampshire Landscape,” textiles

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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”

PEarY-MaCMILLan arCTIC MUSEUM | 207.725.3416 | Bowdoin

College, Hubbard Hall, 5 College St, Brunswick | bowdoin.edu/arcticmuseum/index.shtml | Tues-Sat

10 am-5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm | Free | Through April 6: “Animal Allies: Inuit Views of the Natural World” | Through April 16: “In a State of Becoming: Inuit Art from the Collection of Rabbi Harry Sky” | Ongoing: “Chilling Discoveries About Global Warming” + “The Roosevelt: a Model of Strength” + “The North Pole” + “Permanent Collection” PorTSMoUTH aTHEnaEUM | 603.431.2538 | 9 Market Sq, Portsmouth, NH | Tues, Thurs, & Sat 1-4 pm | Through April 30: “Going to Blazes,” historical exhibit

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Hot stuff How mucH spice is Humanly possiBle? _By lin ds a y st e rl in g Sudha’s display of spices looked like a painter’s palette of India: yellow turmeric, brown cloves, white salt, brilliant orange-red chili powder — not the maroon stuff you find at the supermarket. Sudha and her husband, Venu, were teaching me how to make their favorite dish: chicken biryani. It’s a mixture of spiced rice, bone-in chicken, sauce, and cashews, baked together and served with raw sliced onion, lime wedges, hardboiled eggs, and a cooling yogurt sauce called raita. “Usually, if I prepare biryani, my friends will come over,” Said Sudha. Venu added, “When I’m home and Sudha’s cooking, by the time it’s done, half is gone. She knows this. She adds more chicken now from the start.” When the couple was giving me a lesson on tandoori chicken for a story last fall (see “A Wing-Lover’s Fantasy,” by Lindsay Sterling, October 19, 2012) I couldn’t believe my eyes when they put a whole quarter-cup of spices into a bowl of 12 drumsticks. Here they were again, adding more spice than I thought reasonable for a meal. Half a cup of ground spices

went into the biryani marinade, including salt, red chili, dried plums with pits, fenugreek seeds, dill seeds, turmeric, cinnamon, black pepper, cumin, nigella seeds, bay leaf, fennel, brown cardamom, ginger, garlic, clove, black cumin, and dried papaya powder. Then they proceeded to add 14 fresh super-hot green chilis in the cooking process. I’m still trying to figure out what species these chilis were. I’m guessing they’re birds-eye chilis, which are 20 times hotter than a jalapeno. They also might be green Guntur Sannam chilis, which are native to Sudha and Venu’s home state of Andhra Pradesh. Sudha insisted that they’re just called “green chilis.” Then they added another quarter-cup of whole dried spices: bay leaves, black cardamom pods, black cumin, cinnamon bark pieces, green cardamom pods, star anise, cloves, and mace. Mace is the dried casing of the nutmeg nut. Each piece looks like a thumb-sized dried jellyfish. Part of me doesn’t know why my eyes were popping out of my head. Everyone

knows Indian food is spicy. Duh, there are a lot of spices in it. But when cooking this dish at home, I had to physically force my hand to put in as much spice fILLed wITh spIce chicken biryani, the traditional indian way as Sudha had. Put. In. The spice, of sweat, and tears? Lindsay. Put it in. Do it. What was I scared of? The chicken biryani they served me was Pain? Death? Extreme flavor? awesome: spicy, yet balanced, invigoratOne research study in 1980 found that ing, exciting, right on the verge of pain. three pounds of dried really spicy chili Perfect! But then I asked them for the powder eaten at once by one 150-pound truth. Sheepishly, not wanting to hurt person can be deadly. Well, there was my feelings, they gave it to me. If I hadn’t nowhere near that amount in the birybeen their guest, they would have used 25 ani, so imminent death wasn’t the issue. green chilis instead of just 14. Even though Sudha and Venu said while we were eatI told them I like five-star spicy? Even so. ing that they like spiciness of the food to After all, I was American. ^ bring them to “the verge of pain.” “I do, too,” I said. But here was my fear: what if the same amount of spice could send an Learn how to cook this dish in a March 8 Indian to the blissful verge of pain but an cooking class. The recipe and class info is at American over the edge to writhe in a pool ImmigrantKitchens.com.

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xxxx hOly MOtORs directed and written by leos carax | with denis lavant, edith scob, eva Mendez, Kylie Minogue, and Michel piccoli | French and english | indoMina releasing | 116 Minutes pMa MovIes

Rivaling The Master in the weirdness of its opening scene, Leos Carax’s first film since Pola X (1999) begins with a long take of an audience staring out at the audience watching the movie. A snippet of a 19th-century Eadweard Muybridge zoopraxiscope motion study follows, and then a man awakens in a big bed next to a dog. He stumbles about, finds a door in a wall, and walks into a movie theater where a baby toddles toward the screen. Now you’re ready to meet Mr. Oscar (Denis Lavant) and experience the most brilliant and exhilarating film of the year. Who is Mr. Oscar? The Academy Award ring of his name might be a clue — not to mention that it’s a partial anagram for “Leos Carax.” A chameleonic blank page,

chaMeLeon mr. oscar (denis lavant) shapeshifts through Holy Motors. he’s a funnier version of the stiff financier in Cosmopolis, riding about in a limo driven by a trusted chauffeur (Edith Scob, whose

performance in Franju’s Eyes Without a Face is one of many allusions). Mr. Oscar has nine appointments on

his schedule, each involving a different character, scenario, and movie genre. These he prepares for with the costumes, wigs, props, and prosthetics cluttering the makeshift dressing room in the back of the car. His guises range from a billionaire banker to a gypsy crone, from a dad driving his daughter home to a Chaplin-esque satyr abducting a supermodel from a fashion shoot. Seamlessly and abruptly, his evening drive bursts into mini-movies that take place for cameras that can’t be seen and for an audience that might not be there. Lavant delivers a tour-de-force performance that’s on a par with Carax’s. As for the director, he’s accumulated a lot of wacky material in the dozen fallow years since Pola X. He’s also nurtured a sense of humor and deepened his wisdom. But at the heart of this plenitude is loss and foreboding. Speaking of his desperate craft, Mr. Oscar says he misses the old days when the machines that produced cinema, the holy motors, were larger and visible, and paradoxically made the artifice seem real. Now they have faded into the cloud of a new technology that is virtually solipsistic, a new medium so real it ceases to exist. ^

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dinner + Movie Portland ClarKS Pond CInEMaGIC Grand

333 Clarks Pond Parkway, South Portland | 207.772.6023

darK SKIES | 9:45 ESCaPE FroM PlanEt EartH | 11:40 am, 2, 4:10, 7:10

IdEntItY tHIEF | 11:30 am, 2:15, 4:50,

IdEntItY tHIEF | 4:05, 7:20 JaCK tHE GIant SlaYEr | 12:20, 6:50 JaCK tHE GIant SlaYEr 3d | 3:40,

oZ tHE GrEat & PoWErFUl | noon, oZ tHE GrEat & PoWErFUl 3d | 1,

EVEnInGStar CInEMa

QUartEt | 11:50 am, 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:30 SaFE HaVEn | 11:50 am, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50

SIlVEr lInInGS PlaYBooK | 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30

21 & oVEr | noon, 2:15, 4:30, 7, 9:30

nICKElodEon CInEMaS 1 Temple St, Portland | 207.772.9751 | see MJFF listings below

darK SKIES | 3:40, 10 dEad Man doWn | noon, 3:10, 7:20, 10 dJanGo UnCHaInEd | 12:10, 6:30 ESCaPE FroM PlanEt EartH | 11:50 am, 2, 4:20, 7

a Good daY to dIE Hard | 3:30, 9:50 IdEntItY tHIEF | 12:20, 3:10, 6:50, 9:20 JaCK tHE GIant SlaYEr | 12:30, 7:10 JaCK tHE GIant SlaYEr 3d | 3:30,

ParK aVEnUE: MonEY, PoWEr, & tHE aMErICan drEaM | Sat: 1:30

YorK PUBlIC lIBrarY

2013 oSCar noMInatEd SHortS: anIMatIon | Fri: 2 | Sat-Sun: 2, 6, 8 rUSt & BonE | Tue-Wed: 2, 5, 8 | Thu: 2

1:40, 4:10

183 County Rd, Westbrook | 207.774.3456

Glickman Library, 314 Forest Ave, 7th Floor, Portland | 207.330.4606

14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222 | see MJFF schedule below

12:45, 2, 3:30, 5, 6:30, 8, 9:20 | Sat: 12:45, 2, 3:30, 5, 6:30, 9:20 | Sun: 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 | Mon-Tue: 12:45, 2, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 | Wed-Thu: 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 PHantoM | Sun: 10 | Tue: 10 | Thu: 10 QUartEt | 1:30, 4:30, 7, 9:20 SIdE EFFECtS | 1:15, 8:50 SIlVEr lInInGS PlaYBooK | 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15

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HolY MotorS | Fri: 7 | Sat: 2, 7 | Sun: 2

MISS rEPrESEntatIon | Fri: 1:30

Sun-Thu: 1:30, 4, 6:30

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7 Congress Square, Portland | 207.775.6148

Klahr Center, 46 University Dr, Augusta | 207.621.3530

QUartEt | Fri-Sat: 1:30, 4, 6:30, 8:30 |

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Tontine Mall, 149 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.729.5486

aMoUr | 1, 6:20 arGo | 3:40, 9 JaCK tHE GIant SlaYEr | 1:20, 4,

oZ tHE GrEat & PoWErFUl | Fri:

CHaSInG ICE | Thu: 6 HEllo I MUSt BE GoInG | Sat: 2

4, 7, 9:50

6:30

noon, 9:30

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

3, 6:45, 9:30

am, 9:45

oZ tHE GrEat & PoWErFUl 3d |

UnItY CollEGE

4:25, 7:25, 9:25

3:30, 6:40, 9:05 SnItCH | 12:40, 9:40 21 & oVEr | 1:20, 4:20, 7:05, 9:05

15 Long Sands Rd, York | 207.363.2818

HotEl tranSYlVanIa | Sat: 6:30 MotHEr CarInG For 7 BIllIon | Fri: 7

ZEro StatIon

855 Lisbon St, Lewiston | 207.777.5010

dEad Man doWn | Fri-Sat: 1:10, 4, 7,

222 Anderson St, Portland | zerostation.com

ESCaPE FroM PlanEt EartH |

narroW GaUGE CInEMaS

tHE MaGnIFICEnt PIGtaIl SHadoW | Sat: 7 QUartEt | Fri: 2:40, 4:50, 7, 9 | Sat:

oZ tHE GrEat & PoWErFUl | Fri-

12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7, 9 | Sun: 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7 | Mon-Thu: 2:40, 4:50, 7 SIlVEr lInInGS PlaYBooK | Fri: 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:25 | Sat: noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:25 | Sun: noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10 | Mon-Thu: 2:20, 4:40, 7:10

Sun: noon, 12:30, 6:30, 7 | Mon-Thu: 3:30, 7

rEGal BrUnSWICK 10 19 Gurnet Rd, Brunswick | 207.798.3996 Call for shows & times.

SaCo CInEMaGIC & IMaX

2:30, 4:40, 7:40, 9:45 lIFE oF PI | 12:05, 3, 7:45

3:10, 3:25, 6:45, 9:40, 9:50

ESCaPE FroM PlanEt EartH |

oZ tHE GrEat & PoWErFUl 3d | 12:10, 12:30, 3:40, 7, 7:15, 10

MaInE alaMo tHEatrE

85 Main St, Bucksport | 207.469.0924

tHE IMPoSSIBlE | Fri-Sat: 6:30 | Sun: 2

aUBUrn FlaGSHIP 10

746 Center St, Auburn | 207.786.8605

darK SKIES | 6:55, 9 dEad Man doWn | 12:50, 4:10, 7:15, 9:45

ESCaPE FroM PlanEt EartH |

1:25, 3:40

oXFord FlaGSHIP 7

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

raIlroad SQUarE 17 Railroad Sq, Waterville | 207.873.6526

CaFÉ dE FlorE | Sat-Sun: 10 am lorE | 2:50, 6:50 a PlaCE at tHE taBlE | Fri: 5, 8:55 | Sat: 1, 5, 8:55 | Sun: 1, 5 | Mon-Thu: 5

SMIttY’S CInEMaSanFord

1364 Main St, Sanford | 207.490.0000 Call for shows & times.

Strand tHEatrE

nordICa tHEatrE

oZ tHE GrEat & PoWErFUl | noon,

Mon-Thu: 7:15 21 & oVEr | Fri-Sat: noon, 3:30, 7:30, 10 | Sun: noon, 3:30, 7:30 | Mon-Thu: 3:30, 6:45

12:05, 2:15, 4:30, 7

2:10, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30 lInColn | 12:20, 3:40, 7:10

1 Freeport Village Station, Suite 125, Freeport | 207.865.9000

Fri-Sat: 4, 10 | Sun-Thu: 4

SaFE HaVEn | Fri-Sun: 12:30, 7:15 |

SPotlIGHt CInEMaS

arGo | 12:10, 7:45 darK SKIES | 9:45 ESCaPE FroM PlanEt EartH |

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

tHE laSt EXorCISM Part 2 | noon,

oZ tHE GrEat & PoWErFUl 3d |

783 Portland Rd, Rte 1, Saco | 207.282.6234

a Good daY to dIE Hard | 2:45, 5 IdEntItY tHIEF | 12:20, 3, 7:05, 9:40 JaCK tHE GIant SlaYEr | noon, 3, 7 tHE laSt EXorCISM Part 2 | 12:10,

9:50

11 Frances Bell Dr, Bridgton | 207.783.4663

tHE InVISIBlE War | Mon: 6:30

tHE laSt EXorCISM Part 2 | 1:30,

SaFE HaVEn | 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 9:35 SIlVEr lInInGS PlaYBooK | 12:10,

oZ tHE GrEat & PoWErFUl | 3:30,

Yossi

9:15

7:20, 9:50

JaCK tHE GIant SlaYEr | 2, 4:40, 7:15 JaCK tHE GIant SlaYEr 3d | 11:30

StEPHEnS BrooK ElEMEntarY

1:10, 4:15

oZ tHE GrEat & PoWErFUl | noon, 3, 6:30, 9:05, 9:30

oZ tHE GrEat & PoWErFUl 3d IMaX | 1, 4, 7, 10 SIlVEr lInInGS PlaYBooK | 12:15,

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

345 Main St, Rockland | 207.594.0070

HaPPY PEoPlE: a YEar In tHE taIGa | Sat: 3, 5:30 | Sun: 1, 6 | MonThu: 7

lEVIatHan | Sat: 8 | Sun: 3:30

tHoMaSton FlaGSHIP 10

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

nEW HaMPSHIrE tHE MUSIC Hall

ColBY CollEGE

aMoUr | Fri: 7 | Tue-Thu: 7

JEWISH SoldIErS In BlUE & GraY

28 Chestnut St, Portsmouth | 603.436.9900

rEGal FoX rUn StadIUM 15

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

FIlM SPECIalS BanGor PUBlIC lIBrarY 145 Harlow St, Bangor | 207.330.4606

ParK aVEnUE: MonEY, PoWEr, & tHE aMErICan drEaM | Sat: 3

BatES CollEGE

Olin Arts Center, Lewiston | 207.786.6255

2:50, 7:20, 9:45 SnItCH | 12:20, 3, 7:05, 9:40 21 & oVEr | noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7:30, 9:45

WEllS FIVE Star CInEMa

lInColn | Fri: 7:30 | Sat: 2, 7:30 | Sun: 2 | Mon: 4:30

SMIttY’S CInEMaBIddEFord

dEad Man doWn | Fri: 4:20, 7:10, 9:40

CollInS CEntEr For tHE artS

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

ESCaPE FroM PlanEt EartH | FriSat: noon, 3:30, 6:30 | Sun: noon, 3:30 | Mon-Thu: 3:30

IndIana JonES & tHE laSt CrUSadE | Wed: 7 IdEntItY tHIEF | Fri-Sat: noon, 4, 7, 10

75 Wells Plaza, Rte 1, Wells | 207.646.0500

| Sat: 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 | Sun: 1:20, 4:20, 7:10 | Mon-Thu: 4:20, 7:10 IdEntItY tHIEF | Fri: 4:15, 7:05, 9:35 | Sat: 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 9:35 | Sun: 1:15, 4:15, 7:05 | Mon-Thu: 4:15, 7:05 JaCK tHE GIant SlaYEr | Fri: 4:05, 6:55, 9:30 | Sat: 1:05, 4:05, 6:55, 9:30 | Sun: 1:05, 4:05, 6:55 | Mon-Thu: 4:05, 6:55 lInColn | Fri: 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 | Sat: 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 | Sun: 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 | Mon-Thu: 3:30, 6:30 oZ tHE GrEat & PoWErFUl | Fri: 4, 6:50, 9:25 | Sat: 1, 4, 6:50, 9:25 | Sun: 1, 4, 6:50 | Mon-Thu: 4, 6:50 SIlVEr lInInGS PlaYBooK | Fri: 4:10, 7, 9:30 | Sat: 1:10, 4:10, 7, 9:30 | Sun: 1:10, 4:10, 7 | Mon-Thu: 4:10, 7 21 & oVEr | Fri: 4:25, 7:15, 9:45 | Sat: 1:25, 4:25, 7:15, 9:45 | Sun: 1:25, 4:25, 7:15 | Mon-Thu: 4:25, 7:15

MaInE JEWISH FIlM FEStIVal

5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono | 207.581.1755

EnCorE BroadCaSt oF ParSIFal BY tHE MEtroPolItan oPEra | Sat: noon

EXEtEr toWn Hall

9 Front St, Exeter, NH | 603.236.9237

tHE CaMEraMan + SHErloCK, Jr. | Sat: 7:30

loCal SProUtS CooPEratIVE

649 Congress St, Portland | 207.899.3529

tHE rHYtHM oF rUtlEGE | Thu: 7

MEG PErrY CEntEr 644 Congress St, Portland | 207.772.0680

UrBanIZEd | Sat: 5

4000 Mayflower Hill Dr, Waterville | 207.859.4000 | mjff.org

| Thu: 7

FrontIEr CaFE

14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222 | mjff.org

BroadWaY MUSICalS: a JEWISH lEGaCY | Thu: 6

MaInE HIStorICal SoCIEtY 489 Congress St, Portland | 207.774.1822 | mjff.org

In raQUEl’S FootStEPS | Thu: 5:15 JEWISH SoldIErS In BlUE & GraY | Thu: 3

nICKElodEon CInEMaS 1 Temple St, Portland | 207.772.9751 | mjff.org

a BottlE In tHE GaZa SEa | Sun: 3:30

BroadWaY MUSICalS: a JEWISH lEGaCY | Wed: 8 dECEPtIVE PraCtICES: tHE MYStErIES & MEntorS oF rICKY JaY | Sun: 1

dorFMan In loVE | Sat: 8 400 MIlES to FrEEdoM | Mon: 5:30 In darKnESS | Wed: 5:30 tHE laSt WHItE KnIGHt | Tue: 5:30

tHIS MUSt BE tHE PlaCE | Sat: 10 | Mon: 10 | Wed: 10

YoSSI & JaGGEr + YoSSI | Thu: 7:15

UnIVErSItY oF SoUtHErn MaInE - Portland Abromson Community Education Center, 88 Bedford St, Portland | 207.780.4141 | mjff.org

BroadWaY MUSICalS: a JEWISH lEGaCY | Wed: 1

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done Waiting For Patient saFety As an employee in downtown Portland as well as a resident, I’ve been exposed to a climate of escalating hostility surrounding the entrance to the Planned Parenthood of Northern New England offices. An increasing presence of vocal and aggressive protestors has created palpable tension for patients and pedestrians alike. While the protestors absolutely have the right to free speech, these rights are not inclusive of targeted intimidation tactics that infringe upon other constitutionally protected rights, such as access to healthcare services. This issue has been apparent for months, and is not being treated like the time-sensitive issue that it is. We have met have met with city councilors and have been in contact with the mayor and they do not seem to understand how pressing the implementation of a patient safety zone is. As of recent months, I have been working with Planned Parenthood and a team of volunteers to enact a “patient safety buffer zone,” which would ensure that all protest activity would occur 35 feet from the building.

In my work gathering petition signatures and canvassing for this measure, I’ve noted an overwhelmingly positive response and heard the stories of many Portland residents affected by the protestor tactics. One visibly pregnant woman (who had no intention of entering the building) relayed her experience of being obstructed by a protestor holding a sign depicting graphic fetal remains. These signs, which are intended to frighten and shame women entering the health center for services, have the effect of causing discomfort to everyone who passes them. The protestors have transformed a sidewalk into a harrowing gauntlet. Merely walking to my workplace requires passing through it. Increased police presence has provided no solace. The protestors are still highly vocal. I find myself forced to quicken my pace while walking the stretch of sidewalk they’ve claimed as their own. I can only imagine how much more painful and frightening their tactics would be if I were a patient. People are being harassed and intimidated on public sidewalks every Friday and Saturday and it is unacceptable. “Wait and see” just won’t cut it. maria sedler portland

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Down 1 Stuffed doll material 2 therefore 3 conjunctions seen with a slash 4 honk the horn 5 Simon in South american history 6 With a high BMi 7 ___ pit 8 category for daniel day-lewis 9 Sound purchase? 10 after-dinner wine 11 Krabappel of “the Simpsons” 12 ___ to rest 13 Soapmaking caustic 21 california/nevada lake 22 Makes new friends? 26 hill of the clarence thomas scandal 27 Secondary study 28 not in any way 29 having ___ hair day 30 Super-long ride 31 two, in toulouse 32 pop singer anthony 33 “Moral ___” (cartoon network show) 34 Way back when 35 exhausted 39 Market divisions? 41 Maritime patrol gp. 42 club on the fairway 44 option given by howie Mandel 47 Wesley Snipes title role 48 pumbaa’s cartoon buddy 49 rickman, in the “harry potter” films 50 terms and conditions option 51 Snipe or thrush 52 line on a graph 53 pleasant 54 it may be spliced 55 Monkees member peter 56 Wallace of “e.t.” 10

thursday march 7 13

Waning moon in capricorn; moon void-of-course from 4:14 pm until 10:01 pm, when it moves into aquarius. do you feel like starting something gigantic and complicated? oh, please, don’t. projects begun will not follow through, particularly for aries, libra, cancer, capricorn, Scorpio, taurus and leo. Much better to be vague and unreliable — a natural fit for Gemini, aquarius, Virgo, pisces, and Sagittarius. 29

Friday march 8 14

Waning moon in aquarius; moon void-of-course from 5:08 pm until 1:19 am on Sunday (yes, a two-day void-of-course, stay loose). look for the unusual person, the quirky idea, or the eccentric notion. this is an excellent weekend for socializing, but not so good for sticking to routine (listen up, leo, taurus and Scorpio). Fantasy — especially about the potential of new relationships — is alluring, particularly for aquarius, libra, Gemini, aries, capricorn, pisces, cancer, Virgo and Sagittarius. 30

saturday march 9 15

Waning moon in aquarius; still in that two-day void-of-course moon until 1:19 am Sunday. novelty appeals, but nothing is finished. it will be easy to get excited by something that is, upon reflection, unremarkable. the long void-of-course moon will stir up the easily agitated, and leo, taurus and Scorpio could be ill-tempered. however, excellent potential for romance if you’re aquarius, libra, Gemini, aries, capricorn, pisces, or Sagittarius. 31

sunday march 10 16

dark of the moon in pisces, daylight Saving time begins. this is a hugely sensitive time, particularly for the fast-twitch folks. Your intuition — also your pessimism — is intense, particularly about hidden matters concerning close friends or family. this is a fine day for confessions, but decisions made today will not last. Wait until the moon is in aries to make declarations, particularly pisces, Scorpio, cancer, taurus, aries, aquarius, capricorn, leo, and libra. Virgo, Sagittarius and Gemini: avoid- self-destructive impulses. 32

monday march 11

new moon in pisces; moon void-of-course from 3:51 pm until 7:17 tuesday morning. as yesterday, decisions made today will not hold — but interruptions should be noted. What are you supposed to learn by traveling down this unexpected path? take others along for the ride, particularly aries, leo, Sagittarius, libra, Gemini, and aquarius, who may feel social, and awkward if too long alone. capricorn, taurus, Virgo, Scorpio, cancer and pisces: make space for “aha!” moments. 1

tuesday march 12 1

Waxing moon in aries; moon void-of-course in pisces until 7:17 am; Mars moves into aries. aries is about being fiery, intense and easily excited. So expect steam in relationships between cancer, Scorpio, pisces, aries, leo, and Sagittarius (or any combination). pisces, cancer, Virgo, and taurus, may feel vulnerable and as if others are noticing what you’re doing (they’re not). capricorn, libra, Gemini, and aquarius: the best ideas make you uncomfortable. 2

Wednesday march 13 1

Waxing moon in aries; moon void-of-course from 4:02 am until 3:08 pm thursday. “i saw an old moon drink the sun. Still my friends say, Fight your thirst. and i do what i can: i drink” (anacreon). even though the moon is “young,” old Man Winter still resides. and if you’re a young blood, feeling the weight of authority is disapproving — give the old guy a push. easy to do for aries, leo, Sagittarius, Gemini, aquarius, libra, Virgo, taurus, Scorpio and pisces. capricorn and cancer: hold your fire. 3

moon Keys

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

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