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If John Baldacci runs for governor in 2014, he will encounter trouble on his left. Last fall the former Democratic governor expressed interest in getting his old job back. He also emerged as cochairman of the Maine branch of a well-financed national group called Fix the Debt. Liberal commentators characterize this outfit as a front for big corporations aiming to slash Social Security and Medicare while preserving their tax advantages in the name of reducing the $16-trillion national debt — a Republican fixation. Fix the Debt’s website (fixthedebt.org) makes it clear that “unsustainable entitlement costs” should be on the chopping block. It’s “unfortunate” Baldacci has allied himself with Fix the Debt, said progressive Maine political columnist Mike Tipping. It’s “not politically smart” to be connected to a group focusing on cuts to Social Security and Medicare, which have support across party lines, instead of “making the broken tax system more fair.” Left-wing activists are becoming exercised by Fix the Debt and Baldacci’s involvement in it. Lew Kingsbury, an Occupy Augusta organizer, promised a future protest, with a possible location the state-capital offices of the Preti Flaherty Beliveau and Pachios law-lobbying firm. While Baldacci actually works for Pierce Atwood, another influential corporate lobbying firm, Preti Flaherty partner Severin Beliveau — the state’s uber-lobbyist, former Baldacci fundraiser, and a member of Fix the Debt’s state steering committee — is an almost-routine target of activists upset with the Democratic Party’s attachment to Big Money. Something needs to be done “to raise the awareness of Baldacci’s involvement” in the “duplicitous” group Fix the Debt, agreed Heidi Brugger, an environmental activist who was prominent at the Occupy-movement-led Alliance for the Common Good rally at the State House in January (see “Aggressive Progressives,” by Lance Tapley, January 18). Both she and Kingsbury called Fix the Debt an “Astroturf” fake-grassroots enterprise. As reported by the New York Times in January, Fix the Debt’s leadership has strong ties to financial and industrial titans such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Honeywell, and General Electric. In an email to the Phoenix, Baldacci made the case that Fix the Debt was nonpartisan, mentioning, among others, independent New York mayor and Wall Street billionaire Michael Bloomberg as one of its national figures. Fix the Debt’s other Maine co-chairman is Rick Bennett, former Republican Senate president and chairman of GMI Ratings, an international corporate consulting firm. Although Baldacci was commonly seen as a pro-corporate governor, he took pains to accentuate his progressive credentials. He was “the first governor in the United States to sign a law allowing same-sex couples to marry,” and he created the state-subsidized Dirigo Health Program. “I also believe that we need to look at ways to make Medicare more sound,” he said. Baldacci implicitly admitted he’s not the strongest candidate, repeating to the Phoenix that he wouldn’t mount a primary challenge to Mike Michaud, the Second District congressman, who has expressed interest in a gubernatorial run; or to First District congresswoman Chellie Pingree, who recently said, according to WCSH 6, she was thinking “carefully” about running. Democrats urgently need to put up a strong candidate. Otherwise, party leaders fear, wealthy independent Eliot Cutler, a former Democrat, might repeat 2010 — taking enough votes from the Dems to elect Republican Paul LePage.

Last week, a man whose determination to embarrass the American government extended to helping US citizens when their own government wouldn’t died, reportedly suffering a heart attack. In 2006, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez made a laughingstock of George W. Bush by taking advantage of climbing oil prices to do something Bush would not. At a time when Bush was refusing to release supplies from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve and Congress was resisting granting additional funds to help poor people with heating costs, Chavez stepped in. Through Citgo, whose owner is the Venezuelan government, Chavez ordered discounted heating oil supplied to needy Americans. At the time, Maine Governor John Baldacci hailed the offer — of a 40-percent discount for 8 million gallons of heating oil to low-income Mainers, Native American tribes, and homeless shelters — as filling a gap left by the federal government’s inaction. According to Citizens Energy, the non-profit led by Joseph P. Kennedy II that has been a US coordinator for Venezuelan oil subsidies to this country,

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Maine has received more than $30 million over the past eight years, including $27 million in heating aid directly to 60,000 households (an amount that is still growing because the heatingseason-long assistance program is still running). Maine shelters have received more than $300,000 in help, and Maine tribes have gotten more than $3 million in assistance. Kennedy issued a statement after Chavez’s death that should have caught more attention in Washington DC than it actually did: “President Chavez cared deeply about the poor of Venezuela and other nations around the world and their abject lack of even basic necessities, while some of the wealthiest people on our planet have more money than they can ever reasonably expect to spend. There are close to two million people in the United States who received free heating assistance, thanks to President Chavez’s leadership. Our prayers go out to President Chavez’s family, the people of Venezuela, and all who were warmed by his generosity.” Whether the program will carry on in the future will depend on the Venezuelan government. It seems likely,

though, that American citizens will continue to require this sort of direct foreign aid — unless Congress suddenly finds the ability to provide for the American people, as opposed to multinational corporations. F In related news, if you want cheap gas, mark your calendar for April 20. And no, this isn’t a US government program; Citgo’s involved again, as is a somewhat higher authority. Next Level Church, an ecumenical Christian church with branches across the country (including at 1053 Forest Avenue), is bringing gas prices down below $3 per gallon on that day, at one gas station: the Citgo Xtra Mart at 865 Brighton Avenue in Portland. It’ll only be for 2500 gallons, but that’s enough to make a big difference. Apparently, starting at 11 am and running until the 2500 gallons are gone, the price at the pump will drop to $2.99, with donations from the church making up the difference between that amount and whatever the current market price is. A similar effort last month in Epping, New Hampshire, resulted in nearly 300 people getting discounted gas.

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out of recycled documents from all those Portland law firms. If they drink, it should only be Maine-made liquor, beer, or wine. Water is also acceptable as long as it doesn’t come in any kind of container. Except, maybe, recycled wood. 2) The ability to attract conservative voters in the 2nd Congressional District. This group includes old-time Democrats, libertarian-leaning Republicans, and cantankerous cranks that no selfrespecting political party would want as members. They may be anti-choice and anti-gay, but they really don’t care much about those issues, since they haven’t had sex since that unfortunate business with the restraining orders. Instead, they demand an end to all forms of government interference in their right to bear arms, a hunting season on endangered species, and the exclusion of all foreign imports — except Canadian Mist. They’re against immigrants (although they don’t know any), ex-urbanites (although they don’t know what that means), and Agenda 21 (something to do with the United Nations setting the drinking age). They want more manufacturing jobs and less welfare, except heating assistance, which they want more of. The one issue on which they agree with their southern Maine counterparts is legalizing pot. But they buy their munchies at Walmart and wish there was one closer to their trailer. Into this contradictory assortment of ignorance, idealism, and self-interest comes US Representative Michaud, who announced last week that he’s “looking at” becoming a gubernatorial candidate. I’m looking at a nice pork chop for dinner. That doesn’t mean I want to become one. Michaud’s positions on social issues — in his last re-election campaign, he officially announced he had no stand on abortion at all — isn’t going to cut it

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You people have got to stop taking me seriously. Last week, purely in jest, I offered suggestions for potential 2014 Democratic nominees for governor. I thought it was clear that I was being deliberately outrageous. But at least one person looked at my list (which included convicted Zumba prostitution promoter Mark Strong Sr., the Portland Whistler, and the Marden’s Lady) and figured, hey, if those unqualified schlubs can run, so can I. No, Mike Michaud, you can’t. I can understand Michaud’s reaction, though, because in addition to my fictional contenders, the actual field of possible candidates includes highly unsuccessful ex-governor John Baldacci and failed US Senate hopeful Steve (I can’t believe nobody’s ever heard of me) Woods. If they’re in, it’s obvious there’s no standard excluding even the most odious of competitors. Sort of like international bicycle racing. Still, would it be too much to ask for a modicum of common sense? For any Democrat to have a chance of capturing the governorship next year, he or she ought to meet at least minimal qualifications. Such as: 1) The ability to attract liberal voters in the 1st Congressional District. This bloc includes not only Dems, but independents and moderate Republicans embarrassed by GOP Governor Paul LePage’s constant tantrums. To win their support, candidates will have to have an unblemished record of backing legal abortion and gay rights. It also wouldn’t hurt if they favored legalizing pot, new restrictions on firearm purchases, and universal health care. They should never have been spotted eating in a chain restaurant or shopping at a big-box store. Their idea of job creation should involve artisanal bakeries, crafters of sea-glass jewelry, and little shops that make adorable handbags and totes

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with left-wing activists in Portland and vicinity. Likely independent candidate Eliot Cutler will use the congressman’s ambivalence to eat his organic, freerange lunch. While Michaud may gain some traction in the north with his anti-freetrade stands, even those who agree with him might eventually notice that opposing those deals doesn’t actually create any jobs. His recent ambivalence on the subject of increased background checks for gun buyers and banning the sale of large ammo clips opens the way for LePage, with his unyielding pro-gun positions, to steal away what had been one of Michaud’s core constituencies. Michaud may claim he’s just trying to find workable solutions to complex problems. But he comes off as being wishy-washy, something that neither of his chief opponents has been accused of. (Cutler has been called deceitful, arrogant, and out of touch, and LePage is branded as immature, inept, and intemperate, but when it comes to the extremes of northern and southern Maine voters, those faults are generally considered minor — even admirable — in comparison to not daring to say whether you’re with us or against us.) In a real fight, something Michaud hasn’t had since he won his seat in Congress the first time in 2002, this matchup bodes ill for Democrats. And this time, I’m being serious. ^

Well, not all that serious. Governor Michaud would be good for a lot of laughs. Inaugural jokes can be emailed to aldiamon@ herniahill.net.

through middle america, tar-sands opponents convened in South portland on Monday night to oppose the transport of that same viscous petroleum product through Maine. Just last month, thousands of people (including several busloads of Mainers) marched in Washington dc, urging president Barack obama to strike down transcanada’s revised Keystone xl proposal, which would pipe up to 830,000 barrels per day of diluted bitumen, a/k/a tar-sands oil or dilbit, from canada to the Gulf coast. “president obama holds in his hand a pen and the power to deliver on his promise of hope for our children,” Sierra club executive director Michael Brune said at the time. “today, we are asking him to use that pen to reject the Keystone xl tar sands pipeline, and ensure that this dirty, dangerous, export pipeline will never be built.” But just a few weeks later, environmentalists were dealt a harsh blow when the US State department, tasked with evaluating the environmental impact of such a project, issued a draft statement that was kinder to tar sands than activists had expected or hoped. the document highlights the economic benefits of building the Keystone pipeline and suggests that while the extraction and processing of tar sands does produce slightly more greenhouse gas emissions than that of conventional oil, the impact is less than critics have claimed. Ultimately, the report reads, “approval or denial of [Keystone xl] is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands, or on the amount of heavy crude oil refined in the Gulf coast area.” in other words, what’s the point of fighting it? on top of that, the canadian energy pipeline association, which represents the operators of more than 68,000 miles of pipelines in canada, is touting a new report by oil and gas consultancy penspen integrity, which claims diluted bitumen is no more corrosive than conventional crude oil: “the corrosion risks associated with dilbit . . . are considered to be no greater than with conventional crude oils in transmission pipelines, and existing integrity management techniques are capable of mitigating these risks.” But local eco-activists aren’t buying it. More than 30 towns in new hampshire, Vermont, and Maine (including Bethel, casco, and Waterford) have recently passed local resolutions stating their opposition to or concerns about tar sands; several more have done so in Quebec. raymond considered one earlier this month, but selectmen rejected it, and portland’s own city council is discussing a similar proposal. these resolutions are a preemptive strike against the prospect that the portland pipe line corporation, which operates two pipelines and a marine terminal in portland harbor, will eventually agree to pump tar sands oil from canada to South portland through its underground lines. they don’t really have any teeth, but they’re symbolic all the same. Monday’s public meeting at the South portland community center was convened to raise awareness and education about tar sands. no direct action or vote was expected to come of it. dylan Voorhees, of the natural resources council of Maine, offered a presentation outlining the potential pitfalls of bringing dilbit through new england, including the danger of spills and leaks. portland pipe line president larry Wilson and new england petroleum council director John Quinn gave counterarguments, pointing to the State department’s report as well as economics (portland pipe line admits it is open to the possibility of transporting tarsands oil if it makes financial sense). about 40 citizens, most of them anti-tar sands, also had the opportunity to speak. (a video from the meeting will be available at southportland.org.) president obama is expected to make the call on Keystone this summer; what he decides will affect us either way. ^

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Portland UndergroUnd Exploring thE hiddEn landscapEs bElow _ by d Eir drE Ful t o n | a l l p h otos by g E r v

I am crouching somewhere off Portland’s peninsula, an inch of water pooled around my winter boots, a dark tunnel of concrete stretching out in front as well as far behind me. To walk deeper into the underground channel requires me to stoop, and so I move, hunched, with the echoes of dripping water and my own footsteps filling the empty space. I’m in the “China Drains,” so dubbed by Nicholas Gervin, a/k/a Gerv, who is also my tour guide and trusted companion on this sub-earth adventure.

into the shadows Maine’s small uE scene means many expeditions are done solo.

It’s unlikely that anyone who wasn’t involved in its construction has ever navigated the inner workings of this particular stormwater drain, and that’s part of what appeals to Gerv. Every time this urban explorer discovers new terrain, he feels a little like Vasco da Gama or Neil Armstrong. “Nothing quite beats the feeling of being the first to explore something virgin, never before documented,” he writes on his blog, Gerv. com. “It’s hard to explain, but the feeling is a bit like Christmas morning as a kid.”

Gerv, 31, lives in Portland and is part of an international movement (if you can call localized, diffuse, secretive cells of hobbyists a “movement”): Urban Exploration, the act — and art — of infiltrating underground, abandoned, obscure, or otherwise unseen man-made structures. UrbEx (or “UE”) enthusiasts investigate and document everything from drains and bridges to disused asylums and industrial sites to underground tunnel and subway Continued on p 10

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systems. There are active UE scenes in places as diverse as London, Paris, Australia, Russia, Las Vegas, and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Photography is considered by many to be an important component of urban exploration, and the resulting images are often eerie reminders of the layered landscapes we inhabit daily. Like this one. The China Drains traverse an underground river just below the surface in suburban Portland (Gerv likes to keep his specific locations secret to ensure they don’t become overrun). We get to it by traipsing through an empty lot and scrabbling down a rocky embankment. The human-sized concrete pipe comprises one section of the city’s 133 miles of storm drain lines (which are in addition to 62 miles of separated sewer and another 133 miles of combined sewer/storm drains that are in the process of being updated). We step into it on a weekday night before Blizzard Nemo hit Maine; had we waited, it probably would have been impassable, filled with melted run-off. Gerv describes Portland’s maze of wastewater drains as a “huge, gigantic, monster underneath the city.” Exploring the infrastructure gives him a better appreciation for the operating system as a whole, as well as some historic perspective, a reminder of what goes into building an urban environment. “I enjoy going places that not many people have been to,” he says, “seeing things that have not been seen in years, feeling the forgotten history of our cities and to get away from the norm. There’s a whole other world out there that lies just beneath the surface, once your eye are open to it, it’s hard to ignore.” In fact, UE fanatics are often portrayed as guerilla historians, intimately familiar with pieces of the past and committed to documenting them. The Discovery Channel television show Urban Explorers, which aired in 2005 and 2006, billed itself as “an adventure into the past: four trekkers entering into dangerous terrain to uncover secrets about some of America’s greatest cities . . . [offering] a unique insight into this nation’s meteoric growth. But look quick — these secrets are fast being eroded and it is up to the Urban Explorers to find them before it is too late.” While it makes sense to liken urban explorers to historians, another apt comparison is to the more counterculture hacker persona. Both sets seek routes around, through, and under often-arbitrary barriers; both groups seek to access spaces (real or virtual) that have been declared off-limits. While trespassing isn’t a requirement or a rule of UrbEx, it does happen frequently, meaning that explorers are wary of those who enforce the law. The language of UrbEx — infiltration, dismantling, invasion — frames it as a dangerous, nonconformist activity much like computer hacking. Consider this passage from the article “Hacker Practice,” written by New York University professor E. Gabriella Coleman and Alex Golub, of the University of Hawaii, and published in a 2008 issue of the academic journal Anthropological Theory: “[T]he hacker underground enacts its political critique primarily through transgression. This group envisages hacking as a constant arms race between those with the knowledge and power to erect barriers and those with the equal power, knowledge and especially desire, to disarm them,” they write. “The underground seeks to remind those in power that there are individuals in an unknown, cavernous ‘out-there’ who can and always will unsettle, Continued on p 12

no longer there a 1948 map of the downtown (right) shows a bowling alley where the portland Museum of art is today.

Underground downtown looking beneath the streets

For years, many people have heard rumors about secret spaces beneath our feet on the portland peninsula. now the Portland Phoenix can reveal

the truth about several of these. We have three categories: places i’ve been and seen myself; places that exist as confirmed by historical records F or accounts of people i’ve spoken with; and places whose existence is third-hand at best (even if the details are startlingly specific) and must therefore remain somehow in question. this is obviously in addition to the tunnels, such as those related to liquor-smuggling during prohibition or helping slaves escape to canada, that once existed in portland, but whose locations have been lost to time, development, or commercial street’s construction. “there are a lot of tunnels in portland’s history,” says local historian Michelle souliere. “the question is how many of those still exist in some form or another.” if you have any information about any of these things, please send me an email at jinglis@phx.com and let me know!

Places I’ve been the first place i’ve actually been is also the most commonly known, and least interesting: the tunnel under Congress street built in 1966 between the former Portland Press Herald building at 390 congress street and the paper’s former printing plant across the street, next to city hall. i’ve been in it, as have many Press Herald staffers over the years. it looks exactly like the hallways in your junior high school classroom, and is about as exciting. the tunnel allowed workers to go from one building to the other without going outside or dodging traffic; also, a conveyor belt carried heavy lead printing plates from the stereotype room in the main building to the printing plant across the street. as built, it was 154 feet long, 13 feet wide, and 10 feet high, according to a Press Herald report of its construction. “the tunnel, with its average five to seven feet of gravel, the concrete slab and the paving overhead, makes an ideal bomb shelter,” says the report, now available on the Press Herald’s website (see above). it will be sealed off, according to plans for renovating the main building into a hotel. i have also been to the spaCe underneath the portland star MatCh building on West commercial street; formerly the bunkers for the sulfur and other chemicals used to make the matches (and you thought Waterville had the monopoly on making trees into tiny bits of wood!), the cellars are very tunnel-like, and have several caves with thick brick walls, and a climate that might be excellent for storing wine.

locatIons that exIst (or dId) the old bowlodroMe bowling alley underneath the Forest avenue parking lot next to portland stage company and behind the old strand theater building on congress street. Vin Veroneau, president of Jb brown and company, a major downtown property owner, recalls bowling there as a child. harold pachios, one of the owners of the building, believes something is still there: “i understand that there’s the remains of a bowling alley,” though he was unsure what might be left after more than 50 years of disuse. (gerv says the bowling alley is “real and quite beautiful.”) another bowling alley, also on Forest avenue, in the basement of a building across from the portland stage company building, as shown in a map of the city’s downtown from 1954. a third bowling alley, this in the basement of the portland YMca on Forest avenue (yes, indeed!) and reported by the Evening Express as one of several activities at a 1965 Y “family night.” Michelle souliere, owner of the green hand bookshop and curator/publisher of the strange Maine blog and its associated Gazette zine, recalls taking gymnastics lessons down there in the ’80s: “We did pommel horse stuff on the lanes.” a fourth bowling alley, the bowlaway, on the site of the portland Museum of art. though it’s very clearly on 1948 and 1954 maps of portland, museum spokeswoman kristen levesque says she had never heard of such a thing. the arCade/Mall on the ground floor of the tiMe and teMp building extends downstairs, with old long-abandoned shops and bathrooms with marble countertops; Veroneau says the space hearkens back to the Dick Tracy era. underground briCk arChways near the corner of india and commercial streets. perhaps the source of the persistent “unfinished subway system” rumors — which remain unsubstantiated — they were the remains of an old “interim train station that served the atlantic and st. lawrence railroad back in the 1840s,” former portland transportation director Jeff Monroe told Portland Magazine in 2008. sets of sliding doors in the baseMent of the Maine college of art that connect it with two neighboring buildings to the east. (though several downtown buildings have connecting basements, a rumored tunnel connecting the oak street student housing with the old porteous building does not exist, according to Meca president don tuski.) spaCes direCtly beneath the sidewalks on several areas of congress street. according to Veroneau and tuski, the state theatre, the old porteous building, and the Mechanics hall all have basements that extend beyond their buildings, reaching underneath the sidewalks but stopping around the point the actual street begins. it’s not unreasonable to think other buildings are similarly equipped, but those are the three i have specifics on. a tunnel between the old portland hall building and geno’s rock club. christian Matzke, a former portland hall resident assistant has spent time in both buildings’ basements, and says “without a doubt there’s a tunnel,” though it’s blocked off by rubble at both ends. there also appears to have been a tunnel heading across the street, Matzke says, though that’s also filled in. a tunnel in bayside underneath the a building at the corner of oxford and preble streets that once housed an office of congressman tom allen. Matzke, who once worked as an intern for allen, recalls finding a door locked from the outside that served as storage, but also contained something else: “there’s a hole in the floor larger than a manhole cover, with a large piece of metal put across it.” With another intern, Matzke removed the metal and descended to a chamber that had a mattress in one corner, and was obviously an intersection of several tunnels coming from other locations.

rumor-only tunnels connected to the foundation of the MasoniC hall. a tunnel ConneCting the MClellan house to the CuMberland Club; its existence was simultaneously posited and denied by pMa spokeswoman kristen levesque. an entrance to the tunnels in one of the buildings off MonuMent square. the len’s Market tunnel. “the story went that there was a tunnel that connected len’s Market to the eastland” hotel, Matzke says. souliere has also heard tell of this tunnel, from a descendant of the original len; a parking lot is now on the site, leading her to expect that the tunnel has been filled or collapsed. Which leads us to the most-rumored tale: the tunnels starting at the eastland park hotel that “used to run out into different points in the city,” says souliere. after initially being very responsive to an inquiry and inviting me to an in-person meeting a few days away, Jeff cappellieri of the Westin portland harborview called to cancel just three hours before the interview was to happen, and was not able to reschedule before deadline. We’ll have to leave that in the “rumors” column — for now. _Jeff inglis

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priVate tour urban exploring offers a front-row seat to the city’s inner workings.

Continued from p 10

even if only temporarily, the purported absolute power of ‘the establishment’. The morality encoded in this form of hacker practice thus values the process of piercing through locks, disarming security, accessing the inaccessible, eliminating barriers, and reaching the pot of gold behind the locked door — knowing full well that barriers will always come back in some form.” The description could just as easily apply to many UrbEx-ers. Certainly it applies to Gerv, who believes not only that “exploring is a basic human instinct,” but also that this sort of landscape hacking makes “a deeper underlying statement about the way our own society is structured” — and the desire to circumvent those structures.

scratchIng the surface

Gerv spent much of his youth, from adolescence until his mid-20s, living slightly outside the lines. He bounced around between Maine and Massachusetts, often using a disposable point-and-shoot camera to snap photos of graffiti — on rail cars, behind fences, high above or down below. “Graffiti seems to live in places that are obscure,” he notes, and this was one of his points of entry into shadowy locations. Another was his affinity for skateboarding, which he says encouraged him to “interact with urban environments in an unusual way.” On top of these pursuits, however, he was also drinking and doing drugs and partying — hard. Old hobbies eventually fell by the wayside. By the time he was living in Boston toward the end of the last decade, “I was in the worst shape I’ve ever been in,” he recalls. Then, in 2008, Gerv hit rock bottom after being jumped and assaulted on the street in Boston; the attack resulted in a traumatic brain injury and post-concussion syndrome (historically called shell shock). He experienced disabling headaches, tinnitus, and depression. Of those days, he says starkly: “I thought it was the end of my life.” His rebirth (he’s been clean and sober for four years now) came when he rediscovered his love for photography. “I guess you could say that picking up my camera again and starting to explore was the catalyst for my recovery,” he says. Armed with a better camera (and a chip on his shoulder), he began to document his surroundings, calling on his past experiences with graffiti and skateboarding to guide him to remote

It’s not hard to understand the addictive nature of UE. I, too, wanted to keep going and going. settings. He soon discovered an international online community of like-minded risk-takers who shared location information, safety procedures (respirators are necessary for sewer expeditions; ropes are required for descents to the bottoms of underground chambers), and pictures as well as photography techniques. “Taking photographs in some of the locations I find myself exploring can be very challenging,” Gerv explains, due to low (or no) light and tight spaces. He’s learned to never leave home without his wireless shutter remote, a tripod, and a high-powered flashlight, all of which aid in the art of “light painting,” a skill we practiced in the China Drains that involves using a flashlight to “paint” the walls during a long exposure (look for an upcoming exhibition of some of Gerv’s beautiful UE photos at the Urban Farm Fermentory’s Bay One space). It’s not hard to understand the addictive nature of UE. Gerv is always wondering: “What’s down the manhole? What’s around the next corner? What does that sunset look like from that rooftop?” And as we made our way through the China Drains, I too wanted to keep going and going — to reach the end, to see where the winding pathway would take us. (Ultimately we stopped about a thousand feet in; both of our backs ached from not being able to fully stand inside the drain.) For Gerv, who often explores on his own, the satisfaction of answering those questions makes the occasional danger or discomfort worthwhile. Despite the existence of web forums and

the occasional offline gathering of UrbEx enthusiasts, “I saw an absence — nobody was documenting this subculture,” he says, at least not in a comprehensive way, and certainly not in print. Thus the Urban Exploration magazine was born (available both in hard copy and online at uemag. com), a celebration of worldwide explores. “By documenting it, I’m trying to contribute to the overall understanding of what’s going on.” As the editor, Gerv must reach out to and secure the trust of a traditionally secretive group. “Gaining respect from other explorers is difficult,” Gerv admits, and to that end he is always conscious to remind me that he speaks just for himself and not for the UrbEx community as a whole. He seems to have done okay so far. The

three existing issues of UE magazine are breathtaking compilations of photos and interviews, touching on explores of an extremely creepy abandoned sanitarium, crumbling theaters, overgrown industrial sites, decaying homes and buildings, an abandoned power plant in Hungary, a peeling spiral staircase in Italy, the heights of a construction crane in Toronto. The fourth issue is due out soon, and with summer around the corner, now is the time to be inspired. “I want people to go out and have adventures,” Gerv says. “To be somewhere and do something that no one else is doing.” But always remember this motto, coined originally by an Aussie UE crew: When it rains, no drains. ^

Peering deeper Want to wallow in the nostalgic, decaying beauty of that which lies below the surface

or behind crumbling walls? My research led me to this maze of Ue websites, run by F urban explorers with a wide range of specific interests and areas of expertise:

F uemag.com F gervs.com (gerv’s personal website, with Ue pics and narratives) F caveclan.org (representing australia’s active Ue community) F placehacking.co.uk (an academic perspective on urban exploration) F sleepycity.net (“the haphazard and incremental growth of our cities merged with economic rise and fall has left a scarred urban landscape packed with explorable pock marks and craters.”) F silentuk.com (check out the amazing “atlantic ghost Fleet” post on abandoned warships) F shaneperez.com (featuring naked women in Urbex environments!) F sub-urban.com (on london’s sewage and drainage systems) F lastly, be sure to check out the short Crack the Surface documentaries available for free on several websites. (Made in collaboration with several of the sites listed above.)

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K E E W A S Y A 8D s k ic r e iM l e l b a t o n f a round-up o d n o y e b d n a d n a l in port

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ROSIE RIMJOB: “QUEERLY SHAKESPEAREAN” | 8 pm

| The Oak and the Ax, 140 Main St, Ste 107, Biddeford | $10-12 | theoakandtheax.com

SUCKED UP | Three groups that people find investable make rock music not easily digestible. Their fans are agog, for this well-polished prog, while heavier roots are often suggestible. MINUS THE BEAR + CIRCA SURVIVE + NOW, NOW | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $20-25 | 207.956.6000 SHARP TUMS | Why sit glumly in front of your tellies, while a church shakes with dozens of bellies? It is hardly a sin, to witness such skin dancing raqs sharqi or chiftetelli.

“A GLITZY GALA: AN EVENING OF BELLY DANCE,” WITH CAIT CAPALDI + HYBRID BELLY DANCE + HEATHER POWERS + JESSANI BELLY DANCE + ROSA NOREEN + SARAH JEZEBEL WOOD + SHRI RAJULI | 8 pm | Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St, Portland | $10-12 | 207.615.3609

sunday 17 PRO STOUT | So there’s bagpipes and dancing at Boru,

f MINUS THE BEAR, at State Theatre, in Portland on March 16. thursday 14 S&D&R&R | What’s erotic about plugged-in blues? These dudes evidently have clues. Should they fail to provide, Then stoner rock’s your ride. And if they suck there’s always the booze.

EROTIC CITY ELECTRIC BLUES BAND + BLACK NORSE + DREAM WARRIOR | 8 pm | Red Door, 107 State St,

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LAST CALL | In this elegy of romantic confusion

where marriage is a foregone conclusion, an old chap reveals amid his wife’s appeals that his life has been built on illusion. A SONG AT TWILIGHT | 2 & 7:30 pm | Portland Stage Company, 25A Forest Ave, Portland | $34-44 | 207.774.4065

BLARNEY DAYS | Day Lewis’s man hit a bother; Brits thought Conlon an IRA bomber So they put him away, Though innocence he prayed. See the tale In the Name of the Father. IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER | 7 pm | Winter Street Center, 880 Washington St, Bath | $5 | 207.253.0288

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BEAT HORIZON + GORILLA FINGER DUB BAND + JOJO CAVALERA | 9 pm | Empire Dine and Dance, 575 Congress St, Portland | $6 | 207.879.8988

STAY MIS | Though its themes are a little downbeat And Anne’s performance is hard to beat, this Midcoast theater co. revives some Hugo, which could nudge the film version backseat. LES MISERABLES | 7:30 pm | Theater Project, 14 School St, Brunswick | pay-what-you-want | 207.729.8584 STILL WANDERING | Back again with acoustic guitar

Is the folk star known simply as Dar. She’s been through many phases, and each received praises; she’s complex. I mean, most people are. DAR WILLIAMS | 8 pm | Boothbay Harbor Opera House, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | $25-30 | 207.253.0288

saturday 16 A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME | Traditionalists are so

friday 15 CARRY ON | While they’ve been on a bit of a break these peaceniks once again partake

and at Ri Ra, the same, plus funk too. Other bars await (just remember, hydrate), but really, dude, it’s up to you. IRISH FOLK MUSIC | 7 am | BAGPIPES | 11 am | IRISH DANCERS | noon | IRISH SESSION | 3 pm | IRISH POETRY & PROSE READINGS | 10 am | Brian Boru, 57 Center St, Portland | 207.780.1506 | BAGPIPES | 11 am | SLY-CHI | noon | JOYCE ANDERSEN | 1 pm | NORTH OF NASHVILLE | 3 pm | HELLO NEWMAN | 5 pm | CAT HAUS | 9:30 pm | Ri Ra, 72 Commercial St, Portland | 207.761.4446

often scarred when anyone screws with the Bard. That’s just one reason, dear, folks turn Shakespeare queer: Convention’s so boring to guard.

f DAR WILLIAMS, at Boothbay Harbor Opera House, in Boothbay Harbor on March 15.

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on the rarefied subject of dance as the superb memorial, and ballet pictorial you missed; here’s another chance. PINA | 2 pm | PMA Movies, 7 Congress Sq, Portland | $7 | 207.775.6148

RELIC | One thing to never outgrow is love for a fast hardcore show. Punk’s better when speedy, and if by dusk you’re needy for drink, this club’s Irish. A propos!

CREEM + GRAVEL + SPECIAL B + BELLY UP + LACES OUT | 8 pm | Slainte, 24 Preble St, Portland | $5 | 207.828.0900

monday 18 THE AFTERGLOW | A traditional Old Port pub is becoming a bit of a hub for the well-spoken word, this show’s monthly recurred featuring tales from this French-Irish bub.

“SEANACHIE NIGHTS,” WITH MICHAEL PARENT & LYNNE CULLEN | 7 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland |

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HIGH FALUTIN’ | And you apparently can still watch

what the Academy found to be top-notch. I still think it’s funny it made so much money; and when Affleck, abs rippling, drinks scotch. ARGO | 4 & 9:25 pm | Nickelodeon, 1 Temple St, Portland | $5-8 | 207.772.9751

WHIPSMART | If the limitless world of sex

is one of your favorite subjects, I advise, with a wink, that if you don’t mind some kink, you look into this woman’s projects. DANIELLE J. LINDEMANN | discusses her book Dominatrix: Gender, Eroticism, & Power in the Dungeon | 6 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Wishcamper Center, 44 Bedford St | free | 207.780.4862

wednesday 20 DARK NIGHT | There’s no reason to get distraught

and hand dubstep another cheap shot. It can be a fixation but I’ll resist the temptation — I mean, hey, it’s better than Slipknot. ExCISION + PAPER DIAMOND + VASKI | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $25-30 | 207.956.6000

WORD UP | The ICA might’ve struck gold

giving Wednesdays to the young and the bold. The decision took balls, but art’s not just on walls nor made only by those soundly enrolled. “PHANTASM,” MUSIC & POETRY ExHIBITION | 8 pm | ICA at MECA, 522 Congress St, Portland | free | 207.879.5742

AN OLD JOKE | And then there’s good old Slavoj

and his indefatigable will to destroy the safe roads to pleasure. He’s really a treasure, despite how he complicates joy. THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY | 7:30 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | $7 | 207.828.5600

tuesday 19 KEEP YOUR DIFFERENCES | A doc on Franco tradition tracks how culture goes into remission, when it’s mixed up with Yankees. Some have broken out hankies at this film’s heartwarming position.

RéVEIL: THE REPRESSION & RENAISSANCE OF THE FRENCH IN NEW ENGLAND | 7 pm | Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St, Portland | free | 207.774.1822

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‘UNTITLED’ By Hilary irons

Having it all

Exploring nEW and old landscapEs _B y Br itta K onau The nature-inspired work of Lydia Baddots that occupy the geometric shapes are ger, Hilary Irons, and Erik Weisenburgnot painted as mechanically as one would er, on display at Rose Contemporary under assume at first glance. The stage-like space the name “The New Landscape,” is undoubtthey generate does not supply the anticipaedly new — powerfully conceived, refreshtory look toward the future that the Russian ingly innovative, and scrupulously executed avant-garde of the early 20th century aimed — but the three are also happy to be part of a for, and which has served as an inspiration long tradition. As a whole, the show evokes for Irons. Instead, the patterns and strucmultiple references to past art, art-historical tures act like residues of actions having just concepts, and tropes (one of the latter betaken place. Thus Irons’s work succinctly ing the notion that art works successfully elucidates the conventional dependency of displayed together can speak to each other). art on stylistic vocabularies and narrative This bunch is definitely having a conversaconstructions. tion, reminiscing about what a landscape Badger’s exquisite constructions forepainting used to be and musing about its ground the artifice of representation even future look. But as conversations go, they more. Referencing museum display techmay all move in the same general direction niques like dioramas, miniaturization, but arrive there from different angles. and simulation, her wall-mounted “Root Threads that tie the work of Badger, Cellars” are small facsimiles of patches of Irons, and Weisenburger together, beyond ground pierced by open hatches and ladders the obvious formal ones generated by their to access subterranean territory. Mining shared subject, are an engagement in abshafts and private hideouts come to mind, straction, an openness to narrative, and a distinctly not comforting experiences of navaguely post-apocalyptic atmosphere. All ture. Badger’s “Core Samples” mimic bits of three artists also highlight artifice, in landearth that support barren, defeated trunks of scape in particular, and by inference, in birch trees. Representation here has become representation in general. reproduction with an attendant fakeness. Weisenburger is indebted in technique, Badger, Irons, and Weisenburger engage subject, even framing, to centuries of landin a cultural expression of simultaneity by scape masters before him. Albert Pinkham occupying more than one position. While Ryder comes to mind when considering the displaying an honest affinity toward and dark moodiness of small paintings like “The appreciation of nature and its representaLast of the Red Squirrel” or “Lupine.” “Ram tion, they also take good-natured stabs at Island Light” is a Brueghel-esque winter it. Highlighting the artifice of landscape scene of a red-berried shrub and flock of birds painting, they move beyond any experience atop a leafless tree that is depicted against of it as a restrictive practice, irreverently a hazy blue sky and very low horizon. Oh, and intelligently updating it in the process. and it’s round. Weisenburger deliberately Their work wittily proposes that contempoand skillfully uses all the tricks of the trade, rary art does not have to choose. ^ including how to lead the eye around a composition. But there’s something dystopian “THE NEW LANDSCAPE: LYDIA BADGER, going on that’s hard to articulate. Maybe it’s HILARY IRONS, ERIK WEISENBURGER” | the absence of people, the congregation of a through April 20 | at Rose Contemporary, 492 fox, squirrel, and crows around a dead tree Congress St, Portland | 207. 780.0700 | under a subdued sun in “Lost Limb.” rosecontemporary.com Irons does not look to represent landscape with an implicit eye toward abstract shapes and rhythms like a modernist painter would do, but layers colorfully patterned geometric shapes over renditions of natural scenes that are painted with a lively, abbreviating brush. The effect is manifold. Space around the interrupting shapes appears distorted. Two contrasting pictorial conventions of seeing, representing, and narrating collide within the same space like slippages of lan‘RAM ISLAND LIGHT’ By Erik Weisenburger guage. The lines of

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theater Distance in time good TheaTer’s odd-couple age draMa _by Megan gr u Mbling It’s been a rough journey that brought 21-year-old Leo (Erik Moody), on a bicycle, all the way from Washington state to the Manhattan apartment of his grandma Vera (Alma Cuervo). Leo has finished his bike trip despite a terrible loss en route, and though he’s finally hit the other coast, some part of his journey seems yet to be completed, in Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles. And though elderly Vera is an unlikely roommate for Leo, a free-spirited bike hippie, their hilarity, feuds, and communion together just might help him arrive. Stephen Underwood directs an alternately sweet and salty production of this feel-good odd-couple drama for Good Theater, at the St. Lawrence Arts Center. Despite their difference in age, Vera and Leo actually have a lot in common: She’s a feisty old Greenwich Village lefty (a cardcarrying communist, as Leo brags) whose general political bent often jives pretty well with Leo’s. Leo’s mother, on the other hand, disappoints both of them with her conventionality, and it’s a big test of Vera’s loyalties that Leo refuses to communicate with his mother, despite her worry. Vera and Leo share a refreshing, sometimes disarmingly candid rapport — not even sexual matters or f-bombs are off the table — as their tensions well and ebb between them over money, family, and how long he will agree to stay. As Vera, Cuervo, a Broadway import, doesn’t seem the full age of the woman she’s portraying — 91! — but she slows the woman’s body nicely as if with age. Her Vera is sassy in a measured way; she’s candid with Leo but sometimes cautious, too, of how he might react. But she erupts sometimes; she has more personality than her rather placid apartment décor (beige and a bit anonymous, though the molding over the doorways perfectly evokes the inside of a brownstone).

As her grandson, lanky Moody has an excellent look for Leo; his jittery, boyish movements and diction evoke a sharp young man who still has one foot — or maybe more than just a foot — in adolescence. His mix of snarky rolled eyes and earnest stares conveys Leo’s complicated relationship with irony, and while Moody makes clear Leo’s affection for Vera, he gives perhaps even freer rein to the young man’s impatience and sometimes petulance. Particularly as young women enter the apartment and Leo and Vera’s relationship — his maybe ex-girlfriend Bec (Casey Turner) and a would-be one-night paramour (Ruiqi Tang, doing a great drunk girl material girl) — Herzog’s script gives everyone’s banter lots of edges, leaps, and fizzles. This playwright’s dialogue revels in the almost-said, the badly said, the interrupted, the failure of words or us failing at words: We hear Leo and Bec suffuse their otherwise intelligent banter with “like” and “I mean” as they strive to communicate; we watch the fiercely smart Vera’s frustrations at having to resort to “whaddayacallit” for word after word, at one point even for “key.” Underwood’s actors have a good grasp of these fraught and often very funny foibles with language, though sometimes the pacing could be tighter, to maximize their tensions and the complicated emotions beneath. It’s only once these emotions come to the surface that Leo is finally able to edge a little closer to his own healing. And it’s only as he watches Vera edge ever closer to the far end of the journey that he becomes better able to complete this so very early leg of his own. ^

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The album feels like an indulgence from the very first notes, like whiskey before noon or a quickie in a bathroom stall.

RetURnIng fRoM exILe aS SPring arriveS, So do the Sun godS

There’s something in rock and roll that’s tied up with those hetero-stereo male traits of bravado, carnal sexuality, and toughness, from Elvis’s hips to Jimmy Page’s tight pants to Lemmy Kilmister’s grizzled face. It’s not surprising that as those traits have gone out of fashion, so has rock and roll, replaced and fractured by the teenage-bounce of pop-punk, introspection of emo, irony of indie, and the feel-good sensitivity of the string band revolution. Look at the sensitive James Bond we have now. McDreamy is a doctor, not a lawman. All the quarterbacks wear Italian suits nowadays. Find a rock band on the radio. Christ, I think it’s illegal to show chest hair on major-network television now. If any musical genre carries the masculine torch it’s hip-hop (all the metal guys are math nerds now), but even bitches-andhoes hip-hop is giving way to ironic underground rappers and dance-pop Timberlake. That’s why Sun Gods in Exile feel like an indulgence from the very first notes, a grimy electric rhythm guitar solely in the right channel, of Thanks for the Silver. Like whiskey before noon or a quickie in a bathroom stall. Done this well, maybe it will catch on. Heavy guy-ness is making something of a comeback, after all, in current touchstones like the downright bestial Game of Thrones and the every-man-for-himself (even the women) of the Walking Dead. Heck, even Kevin Spacey gets sex scenes in House of Cards.

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“I know I’m not a young man,” sings frontman Adam Hitchcock in the 7:35 title track, “but I’ve never felt old before.” Maybe the best part of realizing you’re not young anymore is the discovery that there’s no need to try to be something you’re not, or be in such a goddamn hurry all the time. Sun Gods are comfortable in their skin and never in hurry. On this ballad, Tony D’Agostino (a/k/a Tony Vegas) brings us a reserved solo, with a paucity of extended notes, and Hitchcock is all optimism for his discovery: “It’s been a long, cold winter/ Thought that it would never thaw.” Winter is a common theme, threatening long nights and promising trouble, but always on the defensive from an onslaught of repeating riffs. Sun Gods haven’t played a hometown gig since they released the record last year, either, so here’s hoping their return signals and end to all this snow and a quickly arriving summer. What better time for fast cars (“Hammer Down”), tough living (“Broken Bones”), and the type of rock and roll where you can’t necessarily make out the words, but you get the general idea (“Moonshine”). The last is full of Alex Lifeson guitar run-ups and a wah-drenched lead from D’Agostino that he hints at early and then full-on jams for about two minutes into the finish. I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say, in fact, that D’Agostino has emerged as an important guitar player, with great taste and some inventiveness. Sure, the songs as a whole are going to bring to mind ev-

“Writing’s On The Wall,” where John Lennon’s bass gets your right foot heavy right out of the gate and Chris Neal’s keyboard provides the rising action. Like the Van Halen version of “Dancing in the Streets,” this is a flamethrower and a hell of a lot of fun. There wouldn’t be much point if it weren’t. There’s nothing didactic or mysterious here. But neither is it a throwaway. This is an album with substance and grit and, yeah, plenty of silver linings. ^

erything from “Dream On” Aerosmith (“Smoke and Fire,” especially) to “Jealous Again” Black Crowes (“Climb Down”), but there’s nothing by-the-numbers here and “Since I’ve Been Home” is a first-tier song, with a huge singalong as a close out that just goes and goes until you wish it would never stop. Underneath, drummer John Kennedy has some room for fills that drive what would be a terrific gig closer, and there is some punctuating rhythm guitar early that might remind of the Hold Steady — a band Sun Gods in Exile may hate, truth be told — and leads into a fucking epic (not sure how else to describe it) classic rock guitar solo. My personal jam here, though, is

to Tongue, as its pleasantly unpredictable buzz will echo your mounting coffee high. around lunch, open The Saurus in a different browser entirely. You don’t want to confuse its themes with the newer stuff (it’s a far cheerier record than either), and its more traditional song structures will aid digestion. after dusk, turn off your mobile device, stretch out on the divan and revisit the richly melancholic eps. perhaps you’d vacillate between Dark Stretch’s “painted Face” and “teknikolor horses,” the combination of which will ease you into a fever dream of paralytic sadness (not as bad as you think!). or maybe you’d linger on Tongue’s “the Beast,” a swirling, 14-minute purgatorial raga. But it’s important to wind down with “Song for liza,” a heartcrushing seven-minute acoustic ditty that will reacquaint you with your life’s most minor notes. excited to have this guy back — visit these recordings at tannerolinsmith.bandcamp.

com and laminatedcatmusic.bandcamp.com, see him with Theodore Treehouse and frequent collaborator Jeff Beam at Mayo Street arts, March 22. F rso covered the entirety of Flipper’s 1983 record Generic, one of the world’s filthiest and most enduringly beautiful documents, and threw it up on bandcamp via the dirigimus label. a totally suitable undertaking for the blues-soaked, one-man sludge feast. hear it at dirigimus.bandcamp.com. F a few tracks from that John popper/chris Barron weekend have surfaced on the web; keep your eyes out for more. souTh addison PicTure comPany, a film team with a channel on the local production network enTerTainmenT exPerimenT, is compiling a video “bootleg” series, which should feature a good chunk of the jam singers’ recent collaborations with the fogcuTTers and others at port city Music hall. More info at southaddisonpix.com.

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F how lovely it is to find LaminaTed caT turn up at our doorstep! the on-again/off-again project headed by Tanner oLin smiTh resurfaced last month to unveil three recordings of manic, drippy, and totally intimate psych-schtuff. We don’t know where this guy has been, but wherever it was must’ve had an attic and a decent bathtub. over two eps recently slapped up on Bandcamp (Dark Stretch (Demos) and Tongue part one under his gov’t name) and one long-player (The Saurus part 1, a recording with aJ Griffin from 2009 just released under the lc moniker), Smith has shared some very compelling sonic expressions, and his tunes definitely beg to be reckoned with. here’s how: the next drab, sunless morning you open your computer, bring up both eps on separate browser tabs and randomly select from each while reading the morning news. pay particular attention

guys’ guys Sun gods in exile.

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FRIDAY 15

”COMEDY NIGHT,” WITH ROB STEEN, ET AL | Rob Steen | 8 pm | 49

24 IRISH WHISKIES 8 IRISH BEERS

Franklin, 49 Franklin St, Rumford | $12-15 | 207.369.0129 RYAN GARTLEY + JOHN ATER | 7 pm | Portsmouth Gas Light, 64 Market St, Portsmouth, NH | $5 | 603.430.9122

portland’s pub

HIGH REGISTER SEAN + BRETT GROH | 8 pm | Club Texas, 150 Cen-

ter St, Auburn | $7 | 207.784.7785

SATURDAY 16

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

Day Camps • Overnight Camps • Wilderness Expeditions • Leadership Programs

SUNDAY 17

SWAATH + ATHABASCA + MISS MALLORY | benefit | 7 pm | Cross-

ExpEriEncE thE magic of cow island in 2013!

THURSDAY 14

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES | 9 pm | Music Hall, 131

Mesa Verde

Sea Kayaking • Climbing Wall • Zip Line

Come join the adventure! Ages 8-18 | www.rippleffect.net | 207-791-7870

375 FORE STREET IN THE HEART OF THE OLD PORT 773.7210 FACEBOOK.COM/BULLFEENEYS @BULLFEENEYS

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Listings Continued from p 25 Portland | $15 | 207.775.5568 or stlawrencearts.org

WEDNESDAY 20

MATT CRANITCH & JACKIE DALY | 8 pm | University of New Hampshire, Murkland Hall, 105 Main St, Durham, NH | 603.862.1234

EXCISION + PAPER DIAMOND + VASKI | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609

Congress St, Portland | $25-30 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland.com

THURSDAY 21

ROB DUQUETTE | 10:30 am | Thom-

Friday

andi Fawcett & Jenny Haley Saturday JeFF entin & BoB Blum Sunday

guinneSS (wHo elSe, it’S St. PatrickS day)

as Memorial Library, 6 Scott Dyer Rd, Cape Elizabeth | 207.799.1720

JASON MACDONALD, ANITA MACDONALD, & ADAM YOUNG: “CAPE BRETON KITCHEN PARTY” | 7 pm

| Unity College, Centre For the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St, Unity | $15 | 207.562.4445

DANCE PARTICIPATORY FRIDAY 15

”MILONGA DEL ESTE,” WITH DJ ADIRA | 8 pm | Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St, Portland | 207.615.3609

SUNDAY 17 94 Commercial Street, Portland, Maine 207 874.2639

Serving extraordinary pub fare & pizza from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. daily

ECSTATIC DANCE | 10 am | Ecstatic

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

PERFORMANCE THURSDAY 14

Get Caught Being Hair | Waxing | Bridal | Facial & Cosmetic | Massage

Welcoming Stylist Liz Pelletier!

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

SATURDAY 16

”A GLITZY GALA: AN EVENING OF BELLY DANCE” | with Cait Capaldi + Hybrid Belly Dance + Heather Powers + Jessani Belly Dance + Rosa Noreen + Sarah Jezebel Wood + Shri Rajuli | 8 pm | Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St, Portland | $10-12 | 207.615.3609

ROSIE RIMJOB: “QUEERLY SHAKESPEAREAN” | 8 pm | The Oak and

The Ax, 140 Main St, Ste 107-Back Alley, Biddeford | $10-12 | theoakandtheax.blogspot.com

THURSDAY 21

THE JOFFREY BALLET | 7:30 pm |

305 COMMERCIAL STREET #6 | PORTLAND MAINE 04101-4668 info@knaughtyhair.com | 207.874.0929

Portland Ovations, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | $51-66 | 207.842.0800

EVENTS FRIDAY 15

”FUEL THE ARTS,” TATTOO CONVENTION | Ramada Inn Conference Center, 490 Pleasant St, Lewiston | $20, $12 per day | 207.364.1550 or | fuelthearts.com

Go Happy Go Healthy Go Berry 399 Fore St Portland, ME 04101 www.goberryme.com Fresh tart frozen yogurt made Locally with skim milk & Low-fat yogurt from Maine’s own Smiling Hill Farm Vote for us in the best dessert category

”INSIDE AFRICA,” FASHION SHOW | 8 pm | Bates College, Olin

Arts Center, 75 Russell St, Lewiston | 207.786.6135

SATURDAY 16

”FUEL THE ARTS,” TATTOO CONVENTION | See listing for Fri ”SHAMROCK SPRINT,” 5K RUN | 9 am | downtown Bath, Bath | visitbath.com/events/bath-blarneydays/

SUNDAY 17

”FUEL THE ARTS,” TATTOO CONVENTION | See listing for Fri ”MARY’S WALK,” 5K WALK | med-

ical benefit | noon | Kerrymen Pub, 512 Main St, Saco | 207.773.2533

FAIRS & FESTIVALS THURSDAY 14

”RHYTHMIC CYPHER” OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | with Lady Essence

+ RC WOW + Vineicia Princess Jones | 7 pm | Dobra Tea, 151 Middle St, Portland | 207.370.1890

BATH BLARNEY DAYS | downtown

MONDAY 18

FRIDAY 15

Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther | 7 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore. com

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

BATH BLARNEY DAYS | See listing for Thurs

SATURDAY 16

BATH BLARNEY DAYS | See listing for Thurs

SUNDAY 17

BATH BLARNEY DAYS | See listing for Thurs

CLASSICS BOOK GROUP | discusses

OPEN MIC POETRY NIGHT WITH PORT VERITAS | with Robin Merrill | 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

”SEANACHIE NIGHTS,” MUSICAL STORYTELLING WITH MICHAEL PARENT | 7 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375

Fore St, Portland | 207.773.7210

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FOOD THURSDAY 14

DAVID BUCHANAN | discusses Taste, Memory: Forgotten Foods, Local Flavors, & Why They Matter | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks.com

”PARTICIPATORY EDIBLE EXHIBITION” | 6 pm | Museum of African

Culture, 13 Brown St, Portland | $50 | 207.871.7188 or museumafricanculture.org

SATURDAY 16

9 Hannaford Dr, York | 207.363.0376

WEDNESDAY 20

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

Lothrop, 191 US Rte 1, Falmouth

POETRY & PROSE THURSDAY 14

DAVID BUCHANAN | discusses Taste, Memory: Forgotten Foods, Local Flavors, & Why They Matter | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks.com

FRIDAY 15

BO BIGELOW | discusses Conces-

sions | noon | Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq, Portland | 207.871.1758 or portlandlibrary.com

”MORE THAN BLARNEY,” IRISH CULTURAL EVENT | 5 pm | Bath

City Hall Auditorium, 55 Front St, Bath | 207.443.8330

DANIELLE LINDEMANN | discusses her book Dominatrix: Gender, Eroticism, & Power | 6 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Wishcamper Center, 44 Bedford St, Portland | 207.780.4862

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

375 Fore St, Portland | 207.773.7210

PEN CENTRAL IN-STORE WRITING WORKSHOPS: POETRY | 7 pm

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

St, Portland | 207.773.7210

”ZION HILL POETRY,” OPEN MIC

| 6:30 pm | Stone Church, 5 Granite St, Newmarket, NH | 603.659.6321

WEDNESDAY 20

THURSDAY 21

JEREMIAH CONWAY | discusses

The Alchemy of Teaching | 5:30 pm | University of Southern Maine Portland, Bookstore, 35 Bedford St, Portland PETER SCOTT STRINGHAM | discusses Unlock the Power of You: 12 Steps to Health, Happiness, & Success | 7 pm | RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.2100 or riverrunbookstore. com

UPSTAIRS: “BEAT NIGHT,” JAZZ & POETRY | 7 pm | Press Room, 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.431.5186

SATURDAY 16

Company, Bangor Opera House, 131 Main St, Bangor | free; tickets required | 207.942.3333 or penobscottheatre.org

SUNDAY 17

IRISH POETRY & PROSE READINGS | 10 am | Brian Boru, 57 Center St, Portland | 207.780.1506 or brianboruportland.com

TALKS THURSDAY 14

”AMERICANS WHO TELL THE TRUTH: INSPIRING CITIZENSHIP & STUDENT PERFORMANCE” |

FRIDAY 15

”CITY, NEIGHBORHOOD, & SOCIETY -- PART 2” | with Amin Gha-

ziani | 7:15 pm | Bates College, New Commons Building, 136 Central Ave, Lewiston | 207.786.8296

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”HOW EARTH’S SURFACE REFLECTIVITY AFFECTS CLIMATE CHANGE” | with Rachel Carson | 7 pm | York Public Library, 15 Long Sands Rd, York | 207.363.2818

SUNDAY 17

”MARKING THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE US INVASION OF IRAQ” | 3 pm | Brunswick Mall,

St, Durham, NH | 603.862.2600 or unhmub.com

”PECHA KUCHA,” 20-MINUTE TALKS | 7 pm | Portsmouth Gas

Light, 64 Market St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.430.9122 ”THE PENINSULA SCHOOL” | See listing for Thurs

Maine St, Brunswick | 207.729.0023

MONDAY 18

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

THEATER BATES COLLEGE | Schaeffer Black

Center, 185 Lancaster St, Portland | 207.775.5891

Box Theater, 329 College St, Lewiston

4:15 pm | Bates College, Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Rd, Lewiston | 207.786.8296

Pettigrew Hall, 305 College St, Lewiston | March 21-24: The Swaggering

”SEXUAL HEALTH AS BUZZWORD” | with Steven Epstein |

TUESDAY 19

ARTIST TALK WITH CHIE FUEKI |

10:30 am | 10:30 am | Maine College of Art, Osher Hall, 522 Congress St, Portland | 800.699.1509

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

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

”HOW MANY GENDERS IN THE BIBLICAL CREATION STORY?” |

with Rabbi Sarra Lev | noon | University of New Hampshire, Huddleston Ballroom, Durham, NH | 603.862.4088

”LIVING IN THE SHADOWS OF THE PAST: THE OLYMPICS AFTER EIGHT CENTURIES” | with Stephen

”WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH LEADERSHIP PANEL” | 7 pm | Bates

College, Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Rd, Lewiston | 860.335.0731

WEDNESDAY 20

“CHILDREN’S & YOUNG ADULTS’ HEALTH INSURANCE THROUGH THE GREAT RECESSION: FOUR YEARS OF NATIONAL GROWTH” | with Michael Staley | noon | University of New Hampshire, Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH | 603.862.2600 or unhmub.com

CURATO’S TALK WITH EMILY ZILBER | noon | noon | Maine College of Art, Osher Hall, 522 Congress St, Portland | 800.699.1509

”ESSENTIALS OF COLLEGE PLANNING” | 10 am | Portland Adult Education, 57 Douglass St., Portland | 207.775.5891

THURSDAY 21

”#BATES2SAUDI” | with Lor-

ing Danforth | 4:15 pm | Bates College, Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave, Lewiston | 207.786.6066

”RACHEL CARSON: A SENSE OF WONDER” | with Susan Yorston |

7 pm | York Public Library, 15 Long Sands Rd, York | 207.363.2818

”CONSTELLATION: A GROUP OR CLUSTER OF RELATED THINGS”

| with Aaron Patrick Decker | 12:30 pm | 12:30 pm | Maine College of Art, Osher Hall, 522 Congress St, Portland | 800.699.1509

”THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION: IS IT A GOOD MODEL?” | with Theo Kalikow | 7 pm | Southworth Planetarium, USM, 96 Falmouth St, Portland | 207.780.4249 or usm. maine.edu/planet

”FROM BOWDOINHAM TO BANGLADESH...AND BACK: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE” | with David Whittlesey | noon | Lewiston Public Library, 200 Lisbon St, Lewiston | 207.784.0135 or lplonline.org

”PANEL DISCUSSION ON SCHOOL VIOLENCE” | with Todd DeMitchell

+ Russ Conte + Debra Livingston + Steven Temperino | 12:30 pm | University of New Hampshire, Memorial Union Building, 83 Main

| March 21-24: “Nearly Beloved: Two One-Act Comedies” | 9 pm | free; tickets requiredGannett Theater, Damsel | 7:30 pm

CAMDEN OPERA HOUSE |

207.236.7963 | camdenoperahouse. com | 29 Elm St, Camden | March 18-

GARRISON PLAYERS ARTS CENTER | 603.516.4919 | 650 Portland

Ave, Rollinsford, NH | March 15-24:

PENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY

| 207.942.3333 | penobscottheatre. org | Bangor Opera House, 131 Main St, Bangor | Through March 31: Wit

SNOWLION REPERTORY COMPANY | 207.518.9305 | snowlionrep.org

| University of New England - Ludcke Auditorium, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland | March 15-24: A Child’s Guide

Loft, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | March 18: dramatic reading of

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - GORHAM | 207.780.4141

ART GALLERIES AARHUS GALLERY | 207.338.0001

| 50 Main St, Belfast | aarhusgallery. com | Thurs-Sun 11 am-5:30 pm | Through March 31: “44N 69W: Radius Belfast,” mixed media group exhibition

ARTSTREAM STUDIO GALLERY

| 603.330.0333 | 56 North Main St, Rochester, NH | Mon-Fri noon-6 pm;

CHOCOLATE CHURCH ARTS CENTER | 207.442.8455 | 804 Washing-

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

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

COLEMAN BURKE GALLERY/ BRUNSWICK | 207.725.5222 | Fort Andross, 14 Maine St, Brunswick

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

COLEMAN BURKE GALLERY/ PORTLAND | 207.725.3761 | 504

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

CONSTELLATION ART GALLERY

GALLERY AT 100 MARKET STREET

| 603.436.4559 | 100 Market St, Portsmouth, NH | Floors One & Two 8 am-8 pm; Floors Three & Four 9-11 am & 2-4 pm | Through April 26: “Un-Themed & Varied: the Winter 2013 Exhibit,” mixed media group exhibition

GALLERY AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND | 207.221.2288 | 443 Congress

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

GLEASON FINE ART/BOOTHBAY HARBOR | 207.633.6849 | 31

Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | gleasonfineart.com | Call for hours |

Through April 27: “Spring,” paintings by Anne Ireland + Henry Isaacs + Andrea Peters + sculpture by Carole Hanson GLEASON FINE ART/PORTLAND | 207.699.5599 | 545 Congress St, Portland | gleasonfineart.com | Wed-Fri 11

INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN ART | 45 Smith St, #1, Portland |

JUNE FITZPATRICK GALLERY AT MECA | 207.699.5083 | 522 Congress

St, Portland | junefitzpatrickgallery. com | Wed-Sat noon-5 pm | Through

KITTERY COMMUNITY CENTER

LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE

MAINELY FRAMES AND GALLERY

| 207.828.0031 | 541 Congress St, Portland | Mon-Wed 10 am-6 pm;

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3S ARTSPACE STORE GALLERY

Listings Continued from p 27 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

| Cultural Center, 5 Monument Sq, Portland | Mon-Thurs 10 am-7 pm; Fri 10 am-6 pm; Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through June 13: “The Sea Within Us: Iconically Maritime in Fashion & Design” RICHARD BOYD GALLERY | 207.792.1097 | Island Ave. & Epps St., Peaks Island | Thurs-Sun 10 am-5 pm | Through March 30: “Ongoing: a Multi Media Exhibit” RIVER ARTS | 207.563.1507 | 241 Rte 1, Damariscotta | Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through April 4: “Figures & Faces,” mixed media group exhibition ROSE CONTEMPORARY | 207.780.0700 | 492 Congress St, Portland | Wed-Sat 1-6 pm | Through April 20: “The New Landscape: Lydia Badger, Hilary Irons, Erik Weisenberger,” mixed media

ROSEMONT PRODUCE COMPANY

SANCTUARY TATTOO & ART GALLERY | 207.828.8866 | 31

Forest Ave, Portland | sanctuarytattoo.com | Tues-Sat 11 am-7 pm

SEACOAST ARTIST ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 603.778.8856 | 225 Water

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 | reception March 21 5-8 pm

COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

| 207.859.5600 | 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr, Waterville | colby.edu/museum | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Free admission | Through March 30: “Alex Katz: a Matter of 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 14: sculpture by Phinn Owens | 12:30 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 | Through April 20: “RSU 23 Student Art Show” FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM | 207.596.6457 | Wyeth Center, Union St, Rockland | Mon-Tues 10 am-5 pm; Wed 10 am-8 pm; Thurs-Sun 10 am-5 pm | 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

GREAT BAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | 603.427 | Gateway Gallery,

320 Corporate Dr, Portsmouth, NH |

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

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - AUGUSTA | 207.621.3530 | Klahr Center,

46 University Dr, Augusta | Mon-Fri

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.561.3350 | Norumbega

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

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

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND BIDDEFORD | 207.283.0171 | Campus Center, 11 Hills Beach Rd, Biddeford | une.edu/studentlife/campuscenter |

Mon-Fri 8 am-7 pm | Through April 2: paintings by Charles Thompson + photography by Bistra Nikiforova

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND PORTLAND | 207.221.4499 | Art Gal-

lery, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland | une. edu/artgallery | Wed 1-4 pm; Thurs 1-7 pm; Fri-Sun 1-4 pm | Through May 12: “Maine Women Pioneers III: Worldview” | Ongoing: paintings & photography by Maine artists + labyrinth installation

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | 603.862.1535 | Dimond

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

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MUSEUM OF ART |

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

| Mon-Wed 10 am-4 pm; Thurs 10 am-8 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | Free admission | Through March 28: “California Impressionism: Paintings from the Irvine Museum” + “Sacred Landscapes of Peru: the Photographs of Carl Austin Hyatt”

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - GORHAM | 207.780.5008 |

Art Gallery, USM Campus, Gorham | usm.maine.edu/~gallery | Tues-Fri 11 am-4 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | Through April 3: juried student exhibition | reception March 14 6-8 pm

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - LEWISTON | 207.753.6500

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

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CHILDREN’S MUSEUM & THEATRE OF MAINE | 207.828.1234 |

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; DollarGo-Round 3:30 pm | March 8: Egg Science 10:30 am; Touch Tank 11:30 am; Dominoes Deluxe 3:30 pm | March 14: Tiny Tots: Balloon Ball 10:30 am; Star Show 11:30 am; Dollar-Go-Round 3:30 pm |

March 15: Fire Safety Friday 10:30 am; Touch Tank 11:30 am; Cloud Dough 3:30 pm | March 16: Visitor Appreciation Day 10 am-5 pm; Pets & More 10:30 am; Camera Obscura Presentation noon; Kids on the Block 1 pm; Open Art Studio 2-3 pm; DIY Perfume Workshop 3:30 pm ($8) | March 17: St Patrick’s Day Celebration 2:30-4 pm | March 19: Eating Healthy: Carrot Oatmeal Cookies 11 am; Marine Mammal Exploration 3:30 pm | March 20: Open Art Studio 11 am-noon; Let’s Play: Repeat After Me 3:30 pm | March 21: Welcome Spring 10 am-5 pm; Tiny Tots: Mud Pies 10:30 am; Animal Fun 11:30 am; Tin Can Herb Pots 3:30 pm ($4)

MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

| 207.774.1822 | 489 Congress St, Portland | mainehistory.org | Tues-

Sat 10 am-5 pm | $8, $7 seniors/ students, $2 children, kids under 6 free | Through May 26: “Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine,” historical exhibit MAINE MARITIME MUSEUM | 207.443.1316 | 243 Washington St, Bath | mainemaritimemuseum.org | Daily 9:30 am-5 pm | Admission $10, $9 seniors, $7 for children seven through 17, free for children six and under | Through May 26: “Ahead Full at Fifty: 50 Years of Collecting at Maine Maritime Museum” | Through Oct 25: “Honing the Edge: the Apprenticeshop at 40” | Ongoing: “A Maritime History of Maine” + “A Shipyard in Maine: Percy & Small & the Great Schooners” + “Snow Squall: Last of the American Clipper Ships” + “The Sea Within Us: Iconically Maritime in Fashion & Design” MAINE STATE MUSEUM | 207.287.2301 | 83 State House Stn, Augusta | mainestatemuseum.org | Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-4 pm | Admission $2, $1 for seniors and children ages 6-18, under 6 free | Through May 18: “Malaga Island, Fragmented Lives” | Ongoing: 12,000-plus years of Maine’s history, in homes, nature, shops, mills, ships, & factories MUSEUM L-A | 207.333.3881 |

Bates Mill Complex 1, 35 Canal St, Lewiston | museumla.org | Mon-

Sat 10 am-4 pm | Admission $5, students and seniors $4 | Through March 22: Fransje Killaars: “Color at the Center,” textile installation | Through May 4: “The Way We Worked,” Smithsonian traveling exhibit | Ongoing: “Portraits & Voices: Shoemaking Skills of Generations”

PEARY-MACMILLAN ARCTIC MUSEUM | 207.725.3416 |

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

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

SKYLINE FARM CARRIAGE MUSEUM | 207.846.9559 | 95 The Lane,

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

15: Eight Planets & Counting 7 pm; IBEX: The Search for the Edge of the Solar System 8:30 pm | March 16: Rusty Rocket 3 pm; Night of Eire 6:30 pm | March 17: Two Small Pieces of Glass 3 pm

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CLUB DIRECTORY 103 RESTAURANT | 603.332.7790 | 103 N Main St, Rochester, NH 302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN | 207.935.3021 | 636 Main St, Fryeburg 302 SPORTS BAR & GRILLE | 207.894.5730 | 765 Roosevelt Trail, Windham 51 WHARF | 207.774.1151 | 51 Wharf St, Portland ALISSON’S RESTAURANT | 207.967.4841 | 5 Dock Sq, Kennebunkport ALL AMERICAN TAVERN | 207.674.3800 | 64 Bethel Rd, West Paris ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | 207.874.2639 | 94 Commercial St, Portland ASYLUM | 207.772.8274 | 121 Center St, Portland BACK BURNER TAVERN | 207.935.4444 | 109 Main St, Brownfield BARLEY PUB | 603.742.4226 | 328 Central Ave, Dover, NH BAYSIDE BOWL | 207.791.2695 | 58 Alder St, Portland BEACHFIRE BAR AND GRILLE

| 207.646.8998 | 658 Main St., Ogunquit BEAR BREW PUB | 207.866.2739 | 36 Main St, Orono BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | 207.564.8733 | 73 North St, Dover Foxcroft BEBE’S BURRITOS | 207.283.4222 | 140 Main St, Biddeford BIG EASY | 207.775.2266 | 55 Market St, Portland BIG EASY LOUNGE | 207.992.2820 | Charles Inn, 20 Broad St, Bangor BILLY’S TAVERN | 207.354.1177 | 1 Starr St, Thomaston BINGA’S STADIUM | 207.347.6072 | 77 Free St, Portland BLACK BEAR CAFE | 207.693.4770 | 215 Roosevelt Trail, Naples BLUE | 207.774.4111 | 650A Congress St, Portland BLUE MERMAID | 603.427.2583 | 409 The Hill, Portsmouth, NH BRAY’S BREWPUB | 207.693.6806 | Rte 302 and Rte 35, Naples BRIAN BORU | 207.780.1506 | 57 Center St, Portland BRIDGE STREET TAVERN | 207.623.8561 | 18 Bridge St, Augusta

THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE GRILLE | 207.934.2171 | 39 West

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

BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/FREEPORT | 207.865.0600 | 581 Rte 1, Freeport

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

BULL MOOSE LOUNGE |

207.924.7286 | Moosehead Trail Motor Lodge, 300 Corrina Rd, Dexter BUXTON TAVERN | 207.929.8668 | 1301 Rte 22, Buxton BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | 207.443.6776 | 98 Center St, Bath

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| 207.729.9400 | 16 Station Ave, Brunswick THE CAGE | 207.783.0668 | 97 Ash St, Lewiston CAMPFIRE GRILLE | 207.803.2255 | 656 North High St, Bridgton CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN | 207.336.2126 | 371 Turner St, Buckfield

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

CARTELLI’S BAR AND GRILL | 603.750.4002 |

446 Central Ave, Dover, NH CENTRAL WAVE | 603.742.9283 | 368 Central Ave, Dover, NH CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | 207.282.7900 | 15 Thornton St, Biddeford CHARLAMAGNE’S | 207.242.2711 | 228 Water St, Augusta CHOP SHOP PUB | 603.760.7706 | 920 Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH CLUB TEXAS | 207.784.7785 | 150 Center St, Auburn

DAVIS ISLAND GRILL | 207.687.2190 |

318 Eddy Rd, Edgecomb DEER RUN TAVERN | 207.846.9555 | 365 Main St, Yarmouth DOBRA TEA | 207.370.1890 | 151 Middle St, Portland THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | 207.772.5483 | 128 Free St, Portland DOGFISH CAFE | 207.253.5400 | 953 Congress St, Portland DOOBIE’S BAR & GRILL | 207.623.7625 | 349 Water St, Augusta DOVER BRICK HOUSE | 603.749.3838 | 2 Orchard St, Dover, NH EASY STREET LOUNGE | 207.622.3360 | 7 Front St, Hallowell EMPIRE DINE AND DANCE | 207.879.8988 | 575 Congress St, Portland THE END ZONE | 207.861.4435 | 26 Elm St, Waterville THE FARM BAR & GRILLE | 603.516.3276 | 25A Portland Ave, Dover, NH FAST BREAKS | 207.782.3305 | 1465 Lisbon St, Lewiston FAT BELLY’S | 603.610.4227 | 2 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH FEDERAL JACK’S | 207.967.4322 | 8 Western Ave, Kennebunk

FEILE IRISH RESTAURANT AND PUB | 207.251.4065 |

1619 Post Rd, Wells

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Broad St, Auburn FLASK LOUNGE | 207.772.3122 | 117 Spring St, Portland THE FOGGY GOGGLE | 207.824.5056 | South Ridge Lodge, Sunday River, Newry FORE PLAY | 207.780.1111 | 436 Fore St, Portland FRESH | 207.236.7005 | 1 Bay View Landing, Camden FROG AND TURTLE | 207.591.4185 | 3 Bridge St, Westbrook FRONT STREET PUBLIC HOUSE | 207.442.6700 | 102 Front St, Bath THE FUNKY RED BARN | 207.824.3003 | 19 Summer St, Bethel FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | 603.617.3633 | 1 Washington St, Dover, NH FUSION | 207.330.3775 | 490 Pleasant St, Lewiston

GARY’S RESTAURANT & SPORTS LOUNGE | 603.335.4279 |

38 Milton Rd, Rochester, NH GENO’S | 207.221.2382 | 625 Congress St, Portland THE GIN MILL | 207.620.9200 | 302 Water St, Augusta GINGKO BLUE | 207.541.9190 | 2 Portland Sq, Portland THE GREEN ROOM | 207.490.5798 | 898 Main St, Sanford GRITTY MCDUFF’S | 207.772.2739 | 396 Fore St, Portland GRITTY MCDUFF’S/AUBURN | 207.782.7228 | 68 Main St, Auburn GUTHRIE’S | 207.376.3344 | 115 Middle St, Lewiston HANNA’S TAVERN | 207.490.5122 | 324 Country Club Rd, Sanford HARLOW’S PUB | 603.924.6365 | 3 School St, Peterborough, NH

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

HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | 877.779.7771 | 500 Main St, Bangor

THE HOLY GRAIL | 603.679.9559 | 64 Main St, Epping, NH

HOLY GROUNDS COFFEEHOUSE | 207.874.9779 | 1047 Congress St, Portland HONEY POT BAR & LOUNGE | 603.760.2013 | 920 Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH HOOLIGAN’S IRISH PUB | 207.934.4063 | 2 Old Orchard Rd, Old Orchard Beach HOXTER’S BAR & BISTRO | 207.629.5363 | 122 Water St, Hallowell IPANEMA BAR & GRILL | 207.942.5180 | 10 Broad St, Bangor IRISH TWINS PUB | 207.376.3088 | 743 Main St, Lewiston IRON TAILS SALOON | 207.850.1142 | 559 Rte 109, Acton JACK’S PLACE | 207.797.7344 | 597 Bridgton Rd, Westbrook

JIMMY THE GREEK’S/OLD ORCHARD BEACH | 207.934.7499 | 215 Saco Ave, Old Orchard Beach

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

JIMMY THE GREEK’S/ SOUTH PORTLAND | 207.774.7335 |

CURVA ULTRA LOUNGE | 207.866.3600 | 103 Park St, Orono DANIEL STREET TAVERN | 603.430.1011 | 111 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH DAVINCI’S EATERY | 207.782.2088 | 150 Mill St, Lewiston

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207.699.5559 | 420 Fore St, Portland JONATHAN’S | 207.646.4777 | 92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit

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

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THE KAVE | 207.469.6473 |

177 Silver Lake Rd, Bucksport KELLEY’S ROW | 603.750.7081 | 421 Central Ave, Dover, NH THE KENNEBEC WHARF | 207.622.9290 | 1 Wharf St, Hallowell KERRYMEN PUB | 207.282.7425 | 512 Main St, Saco KJ’S SPORTS BAR | 603.659.2329 | North Main St, Newmarket, NH LEGENDS RESTAURANT | 207.824.3500 | Grand Summit Resort Hotel, 97 Summit Dr, Newry LILAC CITY GRILLE | 603.332.3984 | 45 N Main St, Rochester, NH LOCAL 188 | 207.761.7909 | 685 Congress St, Portland LOCAL BUZZ | 207.541.9024 | 327 Ocean House Rd, Cape Elizabeth LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | 207.899.3529 | 649 Congress St, Portland THE LOFT | 207.541.9045 | 865 Forest Ave, Portland MAINE STREET | 207.646.5101 | 195 Maine St, Ogunquit MAMA’S CROWBAR | 207.773.9230 | 189 Congress St, Portland MARGARITA’S/AUBURN | 207.782.6036 | 180 Center St, Auburn MARK’S PLACE | 207.899.3333 | 416 Fore St, Portland MARTINGALE WHARF | 603.431.0091 | 99 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH MATHEW’S | 207.253.1812 | 133 Free St, Portland MAXWELL’S PUB | 207.646.2345 | 243 Main St, Ogunquit MAYO STREET ARTS | 207.615.3609 | 10 Mayo St, Portland MCSEAGULL’S | 207.633.5900 | Gulf Dock, Boothbay Harbor MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | 207.642.3363 | 35 Blake Rd, Standish MILLBROOK TAVERN & GRILLE | 207.824.2175 | Bethel Inn, On the Common, Bethel MILLIE’S TAVERN | 603.967.4777 | 17 L St, Hampton, NH MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | 207.443.6563 | Rte 1, Woolwich MY TIE LOUNGE | 207.406.2574 | 94 Maine St, Brunswick MYRTLE STREET TAVERN | 207.596.6250 | 12 Myrtle St, Rockland NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | 207.907.4380 | 56 Main St, Bangor NONANTUM RESORT | 207.967.4050 | 95 Ocean Ave, Kennebunkport THE OAK AND THE AX | 140 Main St, Ste 107-Back Alley, Biddeford THE OAR HOUSE | 603.436.4025 | 55 Ceres St, Portsmouth, NH OASIS | 207.370.9048 | 42 Wharf St, Portland OLD GOAT | 207.737.4628 | 33 Main St, Richmond OLD PORT TAVERN | 207.774.0444 | 11 Moulton St, Portland THE OLDE MILL TAVERN | 207.583.9077 | 56 Main St, Harrison ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | 207.761.1757 | 181 State St, Portland THE PAGE | 603.436.0004 | 172 Hanover St, Portsmouth, NH PEARL | 207.653.8486 | 444 Fore St, Portland PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | 207.783.6200 | 134 Main St, Lewiston PEDRO’S | 207.967.5544 | 181 Port Rd, Kennebunk PHOENIX HOUSE & WELL | 207.824.2222 | 9 Timberline Dr, Newry PORT CITY MUSIC HALL | 207.899.4990 | 504 Congress St, Portland PORTLAND EAGLES | 207.773.9448 | 184 Saint John St, Portland PORTLAND LOBSTER CO | 207.775.2112 | 180 Commercial St, Portland

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OAKS | 207.871.8000 | 200 Sable Oaks Dr, South Portland PORTSMOUTH BOOK AND BAR | 617.908.8277 | 40 Pleasant St, Portsmouth, NH PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | 603.430.9122 | 64 Market St, Portsmouth, NH POST ROAD TAVERN | 207.641.0640 | 705 Main St, Ogunquit PRESS ROOM | 603.431.5186 | 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH PROFENNO’S | 207.856.0011 | 934 Main St, Westbrook PUB 33 | 207.786.4808 | 33 Sabattus St, Lewiston THE RACK | 207.237.2211 | Sugarloaf Mountain A, Kingfield RAVEN’S ROOST | 207.406.2359 | 103 Pleasant St, Brunswick THE RED DOOR | 603.373.6827 | 107 State St, Portsmouth, NH RI RA/PORTLAND | 207.761.4446 | 72 Commercial St, Portland

RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | 603.319.1680 | 22 Market St, Portsmouth, NH RJ’S BAR AND GRILL | 83 Washington St, Dover, NH ROCK CITY ROASTERS & CAFE | 207.594.4123 | 316 Main St, Rockland THE ROOST | 207.799.1232 | 62 Chicopee Rd, Buxton ROUND TOP COFFEEHOUSE | 207.677.2354 | Round Top Farm, Main St, Damariscotta RUDI’S | 603.430.7834 | 20 High St, Portsmouth, NH RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | 207.571.9648 | 100 Main St, Saco Island, Saco RUSTY HAMMER | 603.436.9289 | 49 Pleasant St, Portsmouth, NH RYAN’S IRISH PUB/OGUNQUIT | 207.251.4335 | 369 Main St, Ogunquit SCHEMENGEES BAR AND GRILL | 207.777.1155 | 551 Lincoln St, Lewiston SEA 40 | 207.795.6888 | 40 East Ave, Lewiston SEA DOG BREWING/ SOUTH PORTLAND | 207.871.7000 | 125 Western Ave, South Portland

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

SEBAGO BREW PUB/ KENNEBUNK | 207.467.8107 |

67 Portland Rd, Kennebunk SHEEPSCOT GENERAL | 207.549.5185 | 98 Townhouse Rd, Whitefield SHENANIGANS | 207.213.4105 | 349 Water St, Augusta

SHOOTERS BILLIARDS BAR & GRILL | 207.794.8585 |

222B West Broadway, Lincoln

SILVER HOUSE TAVERN | 207.772.9885

SLATES RESTAURANT AND BAKERY | 207.622.4104 | 169 Water St, Hallowell

SLIDERS RESTAURANT |

207.824.5300 | Jordan Grand Resort Hotel, Sunday River, Newry

SMILIN’ MOOSE PUBLYK HOUSE AND TAVERN | 207.739.6006 | 10 Market Sq, South Paris

SOLO BISTRO | 207.443.3378 | 128 Front St, Bath

SONNY’S | 207.772.7774 |

83 Exchange St, Portland SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland SPARE TIME | 207.878.2695 | City Sports Grille, 867 Riverside St, Portland SPECTATORS | 207.324.9658 | Rte 4, Sanford SPLITTERS | 207.621.1710 | 2246 N Belfast Ave, Augusta SPRING HILL TAVERN | 603.431.5222 | Dolphin Striker, 15 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH SPRING POINT TAVERN | 207.733.2245 | 175 Pickett St, South Portland STONE CHURCH | 603.659.6321 | 5 Granite St, Newmarket, NH STUDIO BISTRO AND BAR | 207.824.3241 | Mill Hill Inn, 24 Mill Hill Rd, Bethel STYXX | 207.828.0822 | 3 Spring St, Portland SUDS PUB | 207.824.6558 | Sudbury Inn Main St, Bethel TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | 207.657.7973 | 61 Portland Rd, Gray TANTRUM | 207.404.4300 | 193 Broad St, Bangor THATCHER’S PUB | 207.887.3582 | 10 Cumberland St, Westbrook THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | 603.427.8645 | 21 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH THE THIRSTY PIG | 207.773.2469 | 37 Exchange St, Portland TORTILLA FLAT | 207.797.8729 | 1871 Forest Ave, Portland TOZIER’S 2 | 207.469.6603 | Rte 1, Bucksport TUG’S PUB | 207.633.3830 | Robinson Wharf, Southport UNION STATION BILLIARDS | 207.899.3693 | 272 St. John St, Portland VACANCY PUB | 207.934.9653 | Ocean Park Rd, Old Orchard Beach WALLY’S PUB | 603.926.6954 | 144 Ashworth Ave, Hampton, NH WATER STREET GRILL | 207.582.9464 | 463 Water St, Gardiner WIDOWMAKER LOUNGE | 207.237.6845 | Sugarloaf Mtn, Kingfield ZACKERY’S | 207.774.5601 | Fireside Inn & Suites, 81 Riverside St, Portland

WA-KEEN! For lack of any more compelling ideas, I was going to list a few little-known facts about Joaquin Phoenix, who’s in this week’s “The Master”, but I got hung up on the first bit of trivia I learned: His dad’s middle name is Bottom! Ha ha ha! Anyway, I didn’t end up learning any other Joaquin Phoenix facts because I was too busy chuckling heartily at bottoms, but I’m sure you could find out any number of compelling factoids about him from Wikipedia. He’s in the following movies (Joaquin is, I mean, not Daddy Bottom) that I halfheartedly urge you to briefly consider. Ladder 49 – For some reason there aren’t many firefighter movies. Whenever one does come along, people tend to be all “Oh, that’s just trying to be Backdraft” and the movie is roundly ignored. Why there is only room in moviegoers’ cold, shriveled hearts for one (admittedly awesome) firefighter movie is up for debate, but if you like watching dudes emote loudly while being routinely engulfed in flames, “Ladder 49” is perfectly entertaining Sunday afternoon fare. Spacecamp – The funny thing about being a child of the ‘80s is a need to own items from that particular era regardless of whether you enjoy them anymore or not. Even bad 80’s material at least whisks you away to a comforting time of heartfelt if mawkish overkill filtered through primitive electronics . I didn’t really like “Spacecamp” that much when it was new, and like it even less now, but I own both the DVD (it helps that it’s a double feature with “Wargames”), some stickers, and the novelization, all of which are displayed proudly on my shelves. Yet my refrigerator is bare and I’ve lost my child’s insurance card. Anyway, Joaquin is very young in this, and his name was Leaf back then. Apparently either you were either named after nature or asses in the Phoenix family. I wonder if there was a Soil Phoenix. That’s kinda nice.

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in praise of privacy entering the cluB at 91 south _By Bria n DuFF There was a time when private clubs existed to meet a pressing need: maybe as a way to keep out parvenus, or to discreetly get into some gay stuff. Now the disappearance of class mobility means there is no such thing as a parvenu, and gay bars (and gay stuff) are so popular that straight people swarm them. So while I would have loved to report that 91 South — a private dinner club at the Pine Crest Inn in Gorham — is a hot spot for the super-rich or fellas on the down-low, it is in fact only a very pleasant little restaurant that has created a club status to accommodate some niggling government regulation or another. Membership costs a dollar. That is a good deal. Thanks to a talented young chef, and a proprietor who loves to share his affection for affordable wines, 91 South is a find. And the private club status is not a mere label, but extends to the look and feel of the place. You enter through a side door into a domestic sort of kitchen. It is quiet in there and the laid-back chef looks calm. The back-porch dining room is neither polished nor shabby — more like comfortable with a touch of elegant. The walls of painted wood planks make you feel close to the outdoors. A sunken bar lines one wall, and pretty little lamps hang over

the white clothed tables. The wine list is a point of pride at 91 South. The owner searches for affordable bottles from out-of-the-way vineyards — and sells them at a very modest mark-up. The result is the area’s best list under $30. We asked for something red, dry, and earthy, and got it in the form of a French blend with some nice tannin and a touch of astringency. The wine list has a good mix from around the globe, and so does the cuisine. The menu is international in an understated way that avoids the common problem where the jack of all trades is the master of none — starting with the house focaccia, which is served with some savory dukka and a tiny ramekin of olive oil. The dearth of oil left more bread to use sopping up the terrific broth from an appetizer of mussels with cream sauce. The big tender mussels were covered in chopped fennel and red onion that had stewed long enough to lose their bite but not their subtler flavors. It all soaked in a pleasantly complex sauce: creamy and herby, with a hint of sherry and a touch of curry heat. A shaved brussels sprout salad mixed the bitter of the sprouts with a touch of sweet honey, the salt-tart of pecorino and parmesan, and the salt-sweet of pancetta and toasted walnuts.

An entrée of buttermilk chicken schnitzel seamlessly merged the brightness of Greek and Italian flavors (spinach, tomato, young green olives, a lemony caper EuROpEAn MERgER german substance with greek and italian flavor sauce) with the in the buttermilk chicken schnitzel. substantiality of German and established private club, in modest, cuisine — a metaphor for the EU’s current unpretentious Gorham. We have lost the bailout project. Even the spaetzle in this dish art of restrained sharing in the privacy of a seemed light. small group with a meaningful connection. Another entrée’s duck breast, crusted These days we are either alone with our selfwith herbs, might have cooked a touch too disgust, or we are projecting ourselves to long. But it had great flavor, and sat on a the world with Instagram pics of our meals creamy risotto that had just the right barelyat secret spots. Privacy itself is a novel idea firm texture. The same could be said for the now that sociality and intimacy require our Creole rice in the shrimp étouffée. The rice inner selves to be constantly on display. 91 was drenched in a Cajun sauce marked by South will let you inside, but not quite so a simple, subtle heat, and an undertone of easily as your Facebook friends. It’s gonna vegetal flavors. It was spotted with plenty of cost a buck. ^ fat, sweet little shrimp. Given the already-almost played out craze for pop-up this and underground $$ 91 SOuTH | 91 South St, gorham | Thursthat, it is refreshing to visit this dignified Sat 5:30-9 pm | Visa/MC/Amex | 207.839.2495

Model behavior the saD worlD oF teenage exploitation _By D eir Dre Ful t o n The opening shot of Girl Model, the 2011 documentary exposing the exploitative modeling industry in Russia and Japan, scans a gray and cold Siberian cityscape. The rest of the movie takes its cues from this first impression, leaving the viewer with a dreary and decidedly unglamorous perspective on the global business of beauty. If you ever had any doubts about the cynicism, emptiness, or vulgarity of the modeling world, this film will eliminate those completely. Girl Model, by filmmakers David Redmon and Ashley Sabin (whose 2012 doc, Downeast, tells the story of post-industrial rural Maine), follows two main characters: Nadya, a sweet and soulful 13-year-old from Siberia, and Ashley, a former model who now works as a model scout, touring the Russian countryside to identify the next fresh face. She sends the girls she likes to Japan, where clients want girls who look cute, young, and innocent (“prepubescent,” Ashley admits at one point) for fashion campaigns and magazine photo shoots. Nadya, all lithe and blue-eyed and snub-nosed, fits the bill. So she’s shipped by plane to Tokyo, not

much different than a product in plastic packaging, leaving her family behind in favor of dingy dorm-room style living quarters (shared with another young Russian girl, Madlen) and a hectic schedule of seemingly fruitless casting calls. The system appears to be designed to break adolescent females like Nadya and Madlen. Their contracts are Byzantine and absurd — they are warned not to gain even one centimeter on their waist or hips; the wording is liable to change “on a day-to-day basis.” They are promised at least two booked jobs and $8000 but (surprise!) these rewards never materialize. They have trouble communicating with family back home. They have no money. Meanwhile, we are afforded a fastforward glimpse at the industry’s long-term effects, in the form of Ashley’s ambivalent reflections on her own life. “The business of modeling is not something I feel necessarily passionate about,” she says, staring out the window of the Trans-Siberian railroad. “Because it really has no weight . . . it’s based on nothing.” At her glossy Connecticut home, where

lining up to have their dreams shattered, young, far from home, and out of money. she lives alone, we are introduced to Ashley’s two naked baby dolls, which she places gently on the couch (no further explanation is offered for these bizarre talismans). She shows the cameramen her strange collection of photographs, disjointed images of body parts, hands, and feet. These moments are interspersed with footage from Ashley’s past, camcorder recordings of her own experience as an 18-year-old model in Japan. The girl in these scenes is depressed, scared, angry. When she was entrenched in it, she “hated this business more than anyone,” Ashley

says. Then why is she still a cog in the machine? On many levels, this is a movie about delusions. Nadya and Madlen are deluded into thinking they will make it big in Japan, just as their family believe their daughters will be able to lift them out of poverty. The man who runs the scouting agency that discovers Nadya fancies himself to be something of a savior. “I am trying to save all these young girls,” he says with a perfectly straight face, right after telling Ashley that he sometimes takes the models to a St. Petersburg morgue in order to impress upon them the dangers of drug abuse. And Ashley herself seems to fight an ongoing battle to become more delusional, to not see or to ignore the truths of the industry she supports and feeds. And as for all of us, we are forced to examine our own fantasies of beauty and perfection. Those faces we see in magazines, those bird-like bodies we watch coming down runways — those are real people, real women, real girls. The gloss of the camera and bright lights often obscures tear-stained faces and ugly realities. ^

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_by syMbo line Da i For those who follow the stars, this week signifies the final week of the zodiacal year, as the sun moves into Aries on the spring equinox, March 20. With a waxing moon moving through the first quarter, it is definitely time to move projects from first to third gear, and to continue to look for new contacts, romance, opportunities and occupations. Spring fever hits folks in different ways, and my readers are reporting an eagerness for things to be “faster.” However, if you’re in the fast lane, being passed by people on your right, figure out what speed is right for you. For more astrology, and information on readings, visit moonsigns.net.

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“that’s a tough one” — Actually, a tough two.

Big Fat Whale

Across 1 “Welcome Back, Kotter” star Kaplan 5 Unpleasant atmosphere 11 he hosted a reality show called “i pity the Fool” 14 Vows sometimes rushed in comedies 15 “the other ___ Girl” (2008 natalie portman movie) 16 “Star-Spangled Banner” contraction 17 Five on a dude’s foot? 19 clay, later 20 passover dinner 21 “put Your head on My Shoulder” singer paul 22 “Kilroy Was here” band 23 co-star of Morgan and Baldwin 25 chunky milkshake ingredient 27 Words before “fire” or “emergency” 32 BFFs 35 “are we there yet?” answer, maybe 36 time off from the group? 40 Former nhl star robitaille 41 thorny trees

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42 co. whose mascot is nipper 43 the right amount to be serendipitous? 45 “Win, lose or draw” host convy 46 herb that’s also a name 47 old-school fastener at the roller disco 49 hit for ZZ top 52 Bread for a reuben 53 Madcap 56 Sitcom starring a singer 59 Big name in handbags 63 Vexation 64 ad line that caused a Muppet to answer “You bet me do!”? 66 turn down 67 More level 68 “So Big” author Ferber 69 nyan ___ (internet meme) 70 nissan model 71 awestruck response

thursday march 14

Friday march 15

Waxing moon in aries. the ides of March will be fortunate for some (fire signs). it’s also an excellent day to give up habits, once and for all. or, perhaps you feel like acting like a child? You’re in tune with the moon, and aries, leo, Sagittarius, taurus, Virgo, Gemini, aquarius, pisces and Scorpio may do anything to get their own way. capricorn, cancer and libra: risk-taking could backfire. Be conservative in your actions. 5

saturday march 16

Down 1 Band events 2 “For two,” on sheet music 3 Woody’s last name on “cheers” 4 Miami Sound Machine surname 5 two-year degree type (hidden in reMeMBer) 6 new rochelle, new York college 7 actor tudyk of “Suburgatory” 8 timex competitor 9 Birthday balloon material 10 Ques. counterpart 11 drawbridge site 12 Bank (on) 13 cereal that rarely got eaten by its mascot 18 You can dig ‘em 22 like some gummy candy 24 “that smells horrible” reaction 26 recessions 27 Spot in the water 28 Mad libs category 29 apres-ski drink 30 Spoken 31 Make it really clear? 33 Jeter at short 34 “___ bleu!” 37 candle end 38 Senegal’s capital 39 Singer perry 41 “a death in the Family” playwright James 44 like some truth 45 party item with a tap 48 What this glue has 50 Where oranges are grown 51 Movie with the line “What’s in the box?” 53 Stuff in lozenges 54 opera highlight 55 “Friday after ___” 57 like paperclips 58 rival of dell 60 opera set in egypt 61 reading rooms 62 posthaste 64 primus leader claypool 65 “... ___ mouse?”

Waxing moon in aries, with the moon void-of-course until 3:08 pm, when it moves into taurus. a great day to be competitive, or to begin projects that finish quickly. risk-taking may be an appealing activity for aries, leo, Sagittarius, libra, Gemini, and aquarius. if capricorn, Virgo, taurus, pisces, Scorpio and cancer have been procrastinating — today and tomorrow may find you dancing on hot coals.

Waxing moon in taurus, moon void-of-course 7:11 pm until 2:09 am Sunday. Get some beauty into your life — a craving for aesthetic home decor or artistic experiences is perfectly nature. also, it’s a weekend of acquiring items for some — my money is on taurus, Virgo, capricorn, Scorpio, pisces and cancer. too much won’t be enough for you folks. aries, Sagittarius, leo, libra, Gemini and aquarius could be impatient with the slowpokes. 6

sunday march 17

Waxing moon in Gemini, while Mercury moves direct. after three weeks of Mercury retrograde and compromised communication, everything seems more clear and straightforward. Make a list, check it twice, and get together with as many folks as you can. Most social: Gemini, libra, aquarius, aries, leo, taurus, capricorn, cancer and Scorpio. overwhelmed by too much business: Virgo, pisces, and Sagittarius. 7

monday march 18

Waxing moon in Gemini. another day of socializing and communication. if you don’t hear what you want, move onto the next person. take some time for writing or updating a diary, and don’t expect others to have a long attention span. Gemini, libra, aquarius, aries, leo, taurus, capricorn, cancer and Scorpio: follow your instincts, no matter how fleeting. romantic misunderstandings could be the story for Virgo, pisces and Sagittarius. 8

tuesday march 19

First quarter moon in Gemini, moon void-of-course from 1:27 pM until 2:55 pm, when it moves into cancer. a turning point for events that began around March 11. is everything moving as it should? if not, evaluate options in the morning, and make changes in the afternoon. that’s also a fine time for deepening relationships or working on a project with a long completion time. doubting their instincts: pisces, aries, Sagittarius, capricorn. Going with the flow: Gemini, cancer, leo, libra, Virgo, aquarius Scorpio, and taurus. 9

Wednesday march 20

Waxing moon in cancer, spring equinox (at laSt!). can you hear a sigh? that’s the sound of domestic bliss. the moon in cancer prompts feelings of conjugal happiness and fierce defensiveness. however, aries, capricorn and libra may “overdo” some aspect of interaction (too defensive, not clear about needs, etc.). cancer, Scorpio, pisces, leo, Virgo, taurus, Gemini, aquarius and Sagittarius: don’t rush things. You’ll get more (and learn more) by letting a process unfold naturally. 10

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.