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F The Portland Public Library just launched its Bookmobile, a 24-foot vehicle that can house about 1500 books and travel to underserved people around the city, expanding the joy of reading everywhere people go.

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Death penalty sought for Maine prisoner The state of Maine hasn’t had capital punishment for 126 years, but Gary Watland, the self-described genius and convicted murderer who hatched a chilling Maine State Prison escape plan that almost worked, apparently has the distinction of being the first Maine prisoner to face the possibility of being executed in, at least, a long time. “No one I spoke with is aware of any Maine people on death row in the US, who are facing capital trials, or who have been executed in recent times,” said Scott Fish of the state Department of Corrections. (Although they are not Maine prisoners, historian and attorney Paul Mills of Farmington was able to find two Mainers under death sentences: child-killers Malcolm Robbins, formerly of Rockland, on California’s death row for 30 years, and Lyle May, formerly of Brunswick, on North Carolina’s death row since 1999.) In September, Watland will go in front of a jury in Denver on federal charges he killed a fellow inmate in 2008 at the United States penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, by stabbing him multiple times in the neck. The DOC said he is “legally, technically a Maine prisoner.” As a boy he spent four years in Aroostook Country, but spent most of his life in California. In 2004, after moving to Maine only a couple of months previously, he killed a drinking companion in Anson. Although he said he shot his victim to defend his

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facing federal murder charges Maine inmate Gary Watland, now held in solitary confinement in Colorado.

wife, he pleaded guilty against the advice of his attorneys, apparently in great remorse. He wept as he discussed what happened with a Portland Press Herald reporter. It appears he had never before been in trouble with the law. But since he entered the prison world, where he spent time in solitary confinement, he has gotten in a lot more trouble. His mother has told the Phoenix he has a history of mental illness. Following his escape attempt in 2006, to which he also pleaded guilty, he was transferred to the federal system. He has already accumulated enough prison time to be served that, if not executed, he would spend the rest of his life locked up. Watland, 50, is now being held in ADX, the federal solitary-confinement supermax, also in Florence — described by a former warden as “a cleaner version of Hell.” Recently federal prosecutors accused him of threatening the lives of family members of inmates who are potential witnesses in his murder trial. This isn’t the first time that Watland has been accused of wanting to put other prisoners’ family members in harm’s way. His Maine escape attempt was thwarted when his wife was arrested while trying to smuggle a loaded handgun into the Maine prison’s visitors room, where her husband allegedly planned to hold hostages and kill guards and prisoners’ relatives until he was released. His ingenious scheme failed because prison authorities had been tipped off to his plan by an inmate who feared a visitors-room bloodbath. (See “Stabbed in the Back” and “Gifted Felons,” by Lance Tapley, September 14, 2007.) For her role, his wife was sentenced to three years in prison. Watland’s cleverness had been demonstrated in other ways. In California, he had worked on computer networks, and at the Maine prison, using the library’s computers, he had gained access to the prison’s confidential files. In a letter to the Phoenix, Watland said he had for decades been a member of Mensa, the high-IQ association. In the federal case, he is accused of killing Mark Baker with a homemade knife or shank while the victim played cards. A prison video exists, which reputedly shows the act. Sources say Watland’s federally financed attorneys plan a kill-or-be-killed defense. Baker has been described as a member of the Nazi Low Riders gang, an ally of the white-supremacist Aryan Brotherhood. According to court documents, aggravating factors justifying the death penalty include, prosecutors say, Watland’s previous murder conviction, his “continuing danger” to others, “low potential for rehabilitation,” his “lack of remorse,” and an alleged attempt to threaten the lives of “the minor child and other relatives of potential witnesses.” According to the Death Penalty Information Center, in mid-2012 there were 29 federal prisoners awaiting trial or on trial on capital charges, and at the present there are 59 on death row. But since 1963, only three people have been executed by the federal government, including, in 2001, Timothy McVeigh, the right-wing extremist who killed 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma City federal-building bombing.

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Going Green

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Wind poWer attacked

Talk it to death Eliot Cutler is a bigger boob than Paul LePage. LePage, Maine’s Republican governor, throws infantile tantrums and has the political awareness of deepfried hake. Even when he’s right on the issues (and he often is), his haphazard approach usually renders him ineffective and, sometimes, counterproductive. If LePage is on your side, you start at a serious disadvantage. Unless your opponent is Cutler. The millionaire independent from Cape Elizabeth came close to defeating LePage in the 2010 gubernatorial race, not because he offered a credible alternative to the GOP nominee’s bombast and blather, but because the Democratic candidate — whatever her name was — never showed up. Few people cast ballots for Cutler. They were just voting against LePage. Nevertheless, Cutler is again running for governor in 2014 on a platform that consists mostly of not being Paul LePage. He’s right. He’s not. While Cutler is slicker and more articulate than LePage, he differs from the governor in fundamental and important ways. Primarily, the two men can be distinguished from each other thusly: LePage has clear stands on the issues. Cutler has almost none. Let’s take the question of whether Maine’s minimum wage should be increased. LePage is opposed. He’ll veto the bill the Democrats are pushing through the Legislature. No ambiguity. Where does Cutler stand? According to an interview on WGAN radio on March 28, he’s not sure, because the problem “requires a much more strategic and sensible answer than just raising the minimum wage.” That same day, he told the Portland Press Herald he favored “a plan and a strategy that will get more workers back at

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the top of the wage levels instead of focusing on the bottom.” What’s that mean? I suppose Cutler could be advocating for a law requiring fast-food joints to start paying their employees $25 an hour. But I suspect what he’s really saying is he doesn’t want to take a firm stand on a controversial issue, so he’s doing what weasels always do, which is to claim that such a complex matter requires a more comprehensive approach involving a special commission of experts who’ll study the problem long enough so most people making more than minimum wage will forget all about it. This is hardly an isolated example of Cutler’s refusal to choose a side. On the controversy over the debt the state owes to its hospitals for caring for poor people, Cutler told WGAN he wants to make sure hospitals “get paid off in the right way.” What’s that? “I would try to settle it in a very different way [than LePage],” he said. The state needs to “move in the direction of getting it done.” Huh? If you’re confused, take heart. That answer is nowhere near as incomprehensible as one he gave in a 2010 radio interview on how to reform the health care system. “We have to stop paying for procedures,” Cutler said, “and start paying for outcomes.” On education, Cutler is equally elusive. He endorsed LePage’s pick of Stephen Bowen as state commissioner of education, but reverts to vagueness when it comes to Bowen’s policies encouraging virtual charter schools and other alternatives to public education. During his gubernatorial campaign, he told a radio interviewer he supported “massive reforms,” including merit pay for top teachers. He wants a longer school year, but he’s also called for big cuts in spending on education at all lev-

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els, saying the state doesn’t receive enough value for its investment. Even so, he’s against school consolidation — except he’d merge the University of Maine System and the Maine Community Colleges. Like most politicians with something to hide, Cutler ignored repeated requests in 2010 from Project Vote Smart to put his positions on the record. But he’s occasionally been tricked into admitting he’s pro-choice on abortion, in favor of same-sex marriage, opposed to casinos, and generally against gun control. On environmental matters, he’s favored increased regulation of greenhouse gases, but also wanted to abolish the state Board of Environmental Protection. He said he’d address the need for cheaper power in Maine by creating an Energy Finance Authority to look for some. Maybe it could conduct a lengthy study. Pressed by a WGAN interviewer to clarify his stand on the minimum wage, Cutler said, “What we’ve got to focus on in Maine is making our overall economy better.” One way to accomplish that would be to have a comprehensible plan. LePage does. You may disagree with his approach, but it’s readily understandable. In contrast, Cutler has a bunch of simplistic catchphrases, designed to avoid having to take firm positions. He’s a boob. If you buy his hokum, you are, too. COrreCtIONs In last week’s column, I got the number of times Joe Brennan ran unsuccessfully for governor wrong. It was three. Also, Plato Truman’s first failed bid for major office came in 1966, not 1970. Thanks to Paul Mills, historian extraordinaire, for the facts. ^

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wind-power opponents in maine will face a difficult time quashing the wind industry’s continued development in the state. among other things, the episode confirms how vigorously Governor paul lepage’s administration opposes onshore wind farms. last year, the state department of environmental protection (“the department”) issued its first ever rejection of a gridscale wind project in maine: the 14-turbine, $79 million passadumkeag Windpark, proposed for passadumkeag mountain in penobscot county. in its denial, the department claimed that, while it met most of the standards required by the state’s Wind energy act (such as those related to noise), the project would have “an unreasonable adverse effect on the scenic character” on the area and would fit “inharmoniously” into the landscape. the decision focused mostly on the impact on Saponac pond, a small body of water with several camps around it that’s used occasionally for fishing and boating. proponents of the project appealed the denial to the state Board of environmental protection (Bep) — a seven-member citizen body created by the legislature to provide independent decisions on the interpretation, administration, and enforcement of laws relating to environmental protection. they argued that the department was applying the wrong standard, and pointed out that the area was hardly pristine, with two communication towers and logging roads already marring the mountain. and although they agreed that the array of 450-foot-tall wind turbines would surely be visible from the pond — and that some might indeed find that visibility adverse — simply being observable is not a sufficient basis for determining whether or not the effect was unreasonable. “the department’s reasonings for the denial were vague and inappropriate,” said david Farmer of Bernstein Shur, the law firm representing passadumkeag Windpark llc. if wind developers had to take into account the mere fact of visibility, regardless of environmental or scenic significance, “it could have impacted many projects going forward.” in testimony quoted in the Bangor daily news, Bernstein Shur energy and environmental practice attorney Katherine Joyce (sister of phoenix managing editor Jeff inglis) was even more explicit: “it would be precedent-setting,” she said of the initial denial, which she claimed carried “the potential to control the future of wind development in maine. turbines have the potential to impact every landscape in which they’re built. the impact of the turbine would be adverse, no question. But the question is this: is the impact unreasonably adverse?” (according to the department, “there are three other proposed wind developments now under review by dep, including FirstWind’s 18-turbine hancock Wind and 16-turbine Bowers Wind and patriot renewable’s eight-turbine canton mountain project.”) in a defiant move on march 21, after hearing from both sides as well as from concerned citizens, the Bep overturned the department’s denial, ordering the state to write the passadumkeag permit. Unsurprisingly, the administration is pissed. “Sometimes we need to say no,” said department commissioner patricia aho (who previously worked as a lobbyist for the american petroleum institute and dead river co., among other companies) in a statement. “and the board’s vote . . . calls into question whether we can truly do that when it comes to mountaintop wind development.” “While the initial and largely taxpayer-funded investment in wind power projects may be attractive so some, one-of-akind views like the ones from Saponac pond have great value and are long-term drivers of maine’s tourism and natural resource-based economy,” lepage said afterward. “i applaud dep for subjecting wind power projects to the same robust review as other industrial developments. i am deeply disappointed in the Board of environmental protection’s decision.” Fans of renewable energy, on the other hand — not to mention the companies that make money off maine’s wind resources — owe the Bep a thank-you note. ^

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Arts + 2013 Entertainment THE BEST

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Whether you’re looking for a way to spend an evening out, or one at home, Portland has what you need. It also has regular and once-a-year events like none other, infused with the special Portland city spirit, of simple pleasures honestly enjoyed.

Best Front-row seat: Private stage tv

Here at the Phoenix, we’re all about supporting local musicians’ live gigs by going out to clubs around town and plunking down some cash at the door and a bit more at the bar. But every now and again, you’re stuck at home. Maybe you’re sick, or you have to watch your roommate’s dog, or it’s not quite payday yet. In any case, what’s a local-music fan to do? Once you’ve made a new local-only playlist on iTunes and scoured Twitter for the latest gossip, your best bet is to turn to your largest screen — television or computer, whichever. If it’s Saturday or Sunday evening, you can catch Private Stage TV on WPXT — with ’PXT producer/designer/director Dan Seaver talking to and showing short sets from strong local performers (Emilia Dahlin, Anna and the Diggs, Samuel James, Rustic Overtones, Ed DesJardins, and Fogcutters all appeared in the past year). You get to meet the people behind the performers, learn a bit about what they intend to do, and hear for yourself how well they do it. It’s a smoothly edited, relaxing and enjoyable package of great music and good thoughts from the musicians themselves. | Saturday @ 11 pm, Sunday @ 7:30 & 10:30 pm | WPXT (Channel 12 on cable, or 51.1 on digital over-the-air TV) | facebook.com/PrivateStage

Best time warP: asylum

With the Grin DJ reunion party April 20, and Tesla coming on July 1, you could be excused for entering the Asylum and thinking you’re in another dimension. But then you entered with voyeuristic intention, right? Yes, get ready to do the Time Warp again. Sure, there are the local CD-release parties on a regular basis (and the occasional Phoenix event), but much of the Asylum’s wonder is about celebrating the pleasures of ages past but not yet gone. Karaoke Wednesdays and retro DJs

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on Thursday mean a solid jump to the left — or maybe a step to the right — in search of old favorites that never really lost their ability to get you spaced out on sensation. Either way, put your hands on your hips, and head downstairs to Plague night on Fridays, where you’ll find the hottest (by which we mean darkest) Goth and industrial scene the Forest City has to offer. With or without the pelvic thrusts, it’s enough to drive you insa-a-a-a-a-a-a-ane. You’ll want to do it again. | 121 Center St, Portland | 207.772.8274 | portlandasylum.com

Best alternative to ZumBa: Dance Parties

Portland has dance fever. Witness: The perennial popularity of ’80s Night at Bubba’s Sulky Lounge, DJs and dancing on Friday nights at Flask Lounge, once-a-month dance parties at Slainte (with DJs Marieke Vi and Tremendous Cream, who also spun at our Best of Portland shindig). Witness: Dance-inspired workouts like those offered by Bhakti in Motion and Bright Star World

Dance. Witness: likeabowlofsoup.wordpress.com, Portland’s first dedicated dance blog. Witness: The upcoming Maine Island Dance Festival and recent movement-focused acts booked by SPACE Gallery. Spending the evening on the dance floor is sure to release endorphins and burn a ton of calories — just like an energetic bout of Zumba, but without the risk of getting arrested. Probably.

Best siDeshow that outliveD its main event: PortFringe

With the announcement last month that the Portland Performing Arts Festival was “suspending” (read: canceling) its entire 2013 program — including a kickoff event originally planned for March 27 — the much-ballyhooed, and largely grant-funded, umbrella for a wide range of artistic events in June was no more. We don’t think it was related to the hilariously boastful promo material that last year claimed literally every artistic event happening in Portland during its timespan was somehow

“part” of PPAF — to the chagrin of other creative organizations, who were forced to explain that a PPAF pass wasn’t actually valid for every single venue in town. But that sort of overreach didn’t plague the PortFringe crew. Rather, PortFringe, in the best Maine tradition, took the inspiration of the larger festival grass-roots. Organizers (including a writer here at the Phoenix who had nothing to do with making or writing this choice) underpromised and overdelivered, putting on more individual performances of more varied material than the PPAF itself, thereby setting a solid foundation for the 2013 PortFringe, which is still on. With theater, dance, and other performance art works funded by regular individuals’ donations and fueled by volunteers, last year PortFringe took in more than $13,000 — most of which went directly to the artists involved. It proved there’s no need for a big-ticket, expensive main event: this expansive sideshow is more than enough. | June 26-30 | at venues throughout Portland | portfringe.com

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City Life 2013 THE BEST

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Living in the Forest City is much less of a challenge as the weather warms. But even in the depths of winter, we who know it best find honor in shoveling, pride in postholing, and karma in making it over the snowdrifts to First Friday openings. But some of our very favorite highlights are, until now, lesser known.

Best Warm-Fuzzy Drill sergeants: Dynamics Fitness anD PerFormance

It’s intense and effective and it’ll leave you physically sore, but a workout at Dynamics Fitness and Performance on outer Forest Avenue (or at their new location in Scarborough) won’t leave you feeling mentally defeated. There’s no yelling at Dynamics, no mockery, no underlying edge of criticism or judgment — just genuinely friendly and supportive trainers who love to exercise and want you to love it too. Who believe you can do a pull-up, even if it requires using a resistance band for support. Even if they need to push you halfway up. Which they will do, happily, encouraging you the whole time. And then they’ll tell you to do another one. Offering affordable boot camp classes (no whistle!), personal training, and semi-private, small-group sessions, the Forest Avenue facility is a second home to seasoned athletes and fitness newbies alike, all of whom use diverse tools such as jump ropes, kettle bells, truck tires, and slideboards. Most days, owner and certified trainer and functional movement specialist Joe Schacht is there to greet you with a smile; head to Dynamics’ website to see him and the other trainers demonstrate exercise and stretching tips. We bet you’ll start to see the warm-fuzzy side of working out in no time. | 633 Forest Ave, Portland | 207.807.7578 | 152 US Route 1, Unit 18, Scarborough | 207.612.6511 | dynamicsfitness.com

Best Day triP you never WoulD Have tHougHt oF: gray, maine

So you’ve got a full, free Saturday. The sun is shining, you’ve got gas in the tank and coffee in the cupholder. Where to? How about 30 minutes up the Turnpike to Gray, a/k/a “The Crossroads of Maine” — a sobriquet that refers to the five major routes that meet in the village center (26, 100, 115, 202, and 4). Covering about 46 square miles and home to just 7500 people, Gray flies under the radar as a day-trip destination. From the Exit 63 off-ramp, head straight to the Maine Wildlife Park (56 Game Farm Road, Route 26; maine.gov/ifw/education/wildlifepark), which serves as a permanent home for wildlife that cannot live in the wild due to injuries or human dependence. There, you can see more than 30 species of Maine flora and

fauna (including moose); have some quarters on hand for the feed dispensers that allow you to feed bear(!), deer, ducks, geese, and turkeys. Once you’ve had your fill of nature, head back on Route 26 for a lobster roll or award-winning seafood chowder at the Fishermen’s Net (59 Portland Road; 207.657.3474). Fortified, it’s time for some hiking, either at the Libby Hill Forest Recreation Area (8 miles of trails; libbyhill.org) or at the Pineland Farms Outdoor Center (where you can also tour the cheesemaking creamery; pinelandfarms.org). Or, if golf is your thing, head to the links at Spring Meadows Golf Club, which boasts an 18-hole championship course and a driving range (springmeadowsgolf.com). Make sure you burn enough calories for a comfort-food dinner at Cole Farms (64 Lewiston Rd; 207.657.4714), which, despite its sprawling size, imparts the feeling of a cozy family diner. Order the meatloaf and a piece of pie to go. | graymaine.org

Best PuBlic squaBBle: Baxter acaDemy vs. mike Brennan vs. Paul lePage

There’s been quite a dust-up in Maine over the last few months regarding charter schools, and especially concerning the one proposed for Portland — Baxter Academy for Technology and Science, which hopes to open its doors to students this fall on York Street. Earlier this year, shortly after the school began accepting student applications, Baxter’s top executive (and founder) John Jaques was fired by the Baxter board for allegedly mismanaging finances and human resources. A lawsuit and countersuit have been issued. This public-relations nightmare was

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exacerbated by the subsequent salvos of Portland mayor Michael Brennan (who opposes charter schools) and Maine governor Paul LePage (who supports them). First, in response to Jaques’s ouster, Brennan wrote to state attorney general Janet Mills, asking her office to review the viability of the school as well as the application process by which it was approved. “I am asking you to immediately suspend contract negotiations with Baxter Academy until the review has been completed,” Brennan wrote. Kelli Pryor, chair of the Baxter board of directors, fired a letter back to Brennan: “We acknowledge that Baxter Academy has been undergoing important change and that the school itself is emblematic of a transformation in education statewide,” she wrote. “We believe these changes represent progress.” LePage, true to form, was less tactful. “I am appalled at your constant attacks upon students who simply want to better learn technology and science,” the governor wrote in an open letter to Brennan, who recently launched a citywide education initiative of his own. It’s not hard to tell who’s winning the battle; on Monday, the State Charter School Commission decided that Baxter could move forward with its plans to open in September.

Best PHysical revolution: Justice in tHe BoDy

There’s fitness, and then there’s bodywork. Justice in the Body was nominated by our readers this year as a Best-Kept Secret, and while they didn’t win that somewhat confusingly titled award (is the best best-kept secret actually a poorly kept one?), we couldn’t resist giving them a nod anyway. A ton of people think the extent of physical fitness is following a food

pyramid diet and a dose of cardio before lunch. And if that works for you, great. But the health practitioners at Justice in the Body encourage a concept of wellness and understanding that goes much deeper than that. In their own words, JITB believe “our bodies bear the burden of systemic imbalances,” and we can certainly think of a few: Working overtime to keep up with debt and expenses during a recession. Recovering from addiction, disease, or trauma. Encountering any of the countless prejudices against body type, sexuality, race, or gender. With workshops and a wide range of yoga practices, Justice in the Body makes the bold and necessary link between social issues and the everyday practice of living. | 47 Portland St, 2nd Floor, Portland | 207.939.7699 | justiceinthebody.com

Best cultural tHink tank: lFk

We’re not going to use the H-word here because it’s basically meaningless, but if you need to, go ahead. There might even have been a concerted effort not to have these guys win any of the five awards they were nominated for; just read between the lines. LFK is here to stay, and while that’s a good thing for Portland’s food scene, it’s an even better one for the city’s musicians, artists, theater makers, students, and cultural producers. Before they opened last year, nobody had the guts to make a bar this dark. They make delicious food priced for anyone to eat, and in addition to a full bar and fine selection of wine pours, serve a smart array of beer, both craft and crappy. As a result, a whole lot of interesting people hang out here, which is one of the best reasons to go to a bar in the first place. | 188A State St, Portland | 207.899.3277 | lfkportland.com

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Food + Drink 2013 THE BEST

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We’ve all heard the hype, and it’s pretty much deserved: Portland’s a food town. But what makes it great isn’t just the tables and chefs at the very peak of cuisine. Much more crucial to our daily lives is the steady supply of great eats for little money, with no pretense, and no clamoring crowds. Just food. For us.

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dig in Cocina Dominicana’s stewed codfish and rice.

Best Dinner for Lunch: cocina Dominicana

A large plate of beautifully seasoned meat and rice, with a side dish, and options for empanada appetizers or sweet fried plantains for dessert? Sounds more like a dinner, but not at La Cocina Dominicana, open for just two hours four days a week (from noon to 2 pm; if you want to call in an order, you can do that between 9 and 11 am) upstairs in the Public Market House. Traditional Dominican comfort food is what’s available, with very friendly service and crazy-affordable prices (a small portion runs $7, and is enough for two meals even for a very hungry person). The menu varies daily, depending on what the chef/ owner/server/cashier feels like making, but there’s always great flavor, whether it’s in the stewed codfish with rice, or the barbecued beef ribs. Yes, veggies, you’ll be pleased too: cheese empanadillas and plantain casserole are regular options. It’s tucked in the back — you have to walk past the deliciousness at all the other counters before getting to La Cocina Dominicana, but when you get there, your taste buds and your belly will be glad you made the trip. | Public Market House, 28 Monument Square, second floor, Portland | 207.228.5444 | lacocinadominicana.com

Everything there is to say about pizza has already been written. Here’s a summary: It’s awesome; don’t overdo it. But it’s not necessarily the pies that makes us love Pizza Villa (though they’re delicious and we’d hardly turn them down). It’s that this cozy, family-owned sports bar and pizzeria is kind of a Portland relic. It hasn’t really changed much since 1965, because it hasn’t needed to. The Villa’s tucked away at the foot of Congress Street, so far from the Old Port and the Arts District and all the wine tastings and juice bars and artisanal ice-cream shops and everything else that perks the attention of foodie magazines, and it’s still a perennial favorite for tons of folks to eat, drink, and watch the game on their six hi-def TVs. The pizza’s great. It’s Old World, trend-proof, and does the job. But the reason we love the Villa is because the atmosphere and the people are kind of Old World too, and some nights that’s the most nourishing thing on the menu. | 940 Congress St, Portland | 207.774.1777 | pizzavillaportland.com

Best DesignateD DriVer: maine Brew Bus

“Lenny” (that’s its name) is a short bus you really want to be on. It’s also bright green (designed by Portland artist Tim Clorius) — but it makes sure you won’t turn green yourself. And it’ll get you safely home after a relaxing afternoon of quaffing, tasting, and — perhaps — purchasing some drinkable souvenirs. Running multiple times every weekend, with a variety of tour options (including custom routes for you and a few choice friends), the Maine Brew Bus will load you on board, drive you around scenic parts of Maine (y’know, like I-95 or something), ask you a few homegrown quiz questions during the ride, and deposit you at any of about a dozen southern Maine destinations where brewing occurs — with an emphasis on local craft beer, but liquor, coffee, and kombucha also make the grade on some routes. There are special events and one-off field trips, too, to explore

step right up The Maine Brew Bus will help you discover new beverages from right nearby, and get you home safely.

unique spots farther afield. There’s always a friendly (and knowledgeable, and sober) face at the wheel, and the makers they visit are ready to welcome new friends with open arms and full tasting cups. Tours last between three and six hours, depending on the number of stops and the distance between them. But talking about beer, learning more, meeting the people who create it, and finding new drinking buddies is a fantastic way to spend an afternoon. | $60-$75 per person per tour | 207.200.9111 | themainebrewbus.com

Best Breakfast sanDwich (west): ohno cafe

Used to be merely the neighborhood favorite, but now just about everyone in town has had a morning at OhNo. On the go, they grab a #4 (smoked salmon, cream cheese, spinach, and onion on a bialy) ’cuz it’s tough to make at home. Others get a #6 (hanger steak, Vermont cheddar, and egg on a bagel) after a long workout. And then there are those for whom a #2 (smoked turkey, avocado, tomato, smoked gouda, and egg on an English muffin) is the only cure for a colossal hangover. Whatever your excuse, a sock in the gut from OhNo is an awesome way to start the day. | 87 Brackett St, Portland | 207.774.0773 | ohnocafe.com

Best Breakfast sanDwich (east): katie maDe Bakery

don’t forget your napkin Katie Made’s breakfast sandwich overflows with deliciousness.

Both sides of town deserve a breakfast sandwich no-brainer, and Katie Made serves up that order for the East End. Recently settled into a new spot on Congress Street, this purveyor of cakes and cookies boasts several savory treats as part its repertoire. Munjoy Hill peeps love the brilliant, messy, fully loaded egg sandwich, with caramelized onions, mushrooms, cheese, scrambled egg, your choice of breakfast meat, and — intriguingly — a sharp tease of mustard. Just like the side of town it calls home, this sandwich is unassuming and beautiful at the same time. | 181 Congress St, Portland | 207.771.0994 | katiemadebakery.com

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What you need is what’s for sale. It’s actually relatively easy to find what you want in Portland, a city whose center does not suffer from a lack of options for staples and larks alike. Heading a bit out of town can set you up to land even better catches, filled with treasure for yourself or a loved one.

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Best Morally aMBiguous retail Destination: Maine state Prison showrooM

The state’s prison industries program has been in place since the early 1800s, when the Maine State Prison was constructed in Thomaston. Back then, inmates toiled in the prison workshop, constructing wooden wagons, wheelbarrows, sleighs, buggies, and tack for horses. Later on, when automobiles began to make such tools of transport obsolete, the industrial program shifted to furniture construction; in the 1930s, the line expanded to include novelty items and crafts. That’s mostly what you’ll find today at the Maine State Prison Showroom, still located in Thomaston (though the state prison is now sited in nearby Warren), a unique retail establishment that has — as many retail establishments do — philosophical implications to consider. It’s true that the handcrafted cutting boards and rocking horses and bird feeders are wellmade and priced to sell (a lovely 14”x7” wooden cheese board is just $9.95). And, as the state Department of Corrections tells us, “the industries program provides inmates with a means of learning valuable marketable job skills, work ethics and responsibility — all necessary tools for the transition into the workforce upon release.” But of course it’s more complicated than that. As writers in The Nation warned in 2011, “the use of inmate labor [is] contributing to lost jobs, unemployment and decreased wages among workers — while corporate profits soar.” Unsurprisingly, the folks at the insidious American Legislative Exchange Council have been behind several attempts over the past decade to expand prison-labor programs. So, go ahead and purchase that $229 Shakerstyle cupboard at the Thomaston showroom. Just make sure you think about who made it, and the system that perpetuates this particular “industry.” | 358 Main St (Route 1), Thomaston | 207.354.9237

Best source for father’s Day Presents: Maine historical society’s Vintage Maine iMages weBsite

Developed as a way to increase revenue for Maine’s historical societies, libraries, archives, and museums, the Vintage Maine Images website is a great gift resource for the history buffs in your life. Featuring more than 11,000 highresolution historical images — mostly photos, but also maps, letters, and more — VMI sells digital files and archival photographic prints on high-quality paper, perfect for framing. If your

SOOthING LIGht Regardless of their mystical abilities, salt lamps are lovely to look at.

fathers are anything like ours — obsessed with all things old — this is a gold mine. A baseball fanatic will appreciate the photo of Bud “Hard” Knox, catcher for Portland’s professional minor-league team in 1927; a politics enthusiast will delight over a sepia-toned print of President Theodore Roosevelt visiting Portland in 1902. For my father, who devours anything Civil War-related, I’d choose a broadside aimed at Scarborough residents, encouraging the “Sons of Maine” to join the 12th Maine Regiment in the fall of 1861: “To Arms! Citizens! Our Country Calls! . . . Now is the Time!” Prices ranging from $15 to $40 and an easy-to-use online ordering system make it simple to bestow a slice of our state’s history. | vintagemaineimages.com

Best grown-uP laVa laMP: salt cellar

Like something out of a fantasy novel, the salt lamp sits there and glows, cycling through a rainbow of colors. A hand-carved Himalayan salt crystal, pouring positive energy into the room. Supposedly. Among the purported benefits associated with salt lamps: reduced electromagnetic smog (i.e., the build-up of anxiety-provoking vibrations from our myriad electronic devices) and ionization of the air (the salt lamp releases negative ions, which help clear the air of allergens and pollutants). Okay, we admit that it may ultimately have the same health effects as that lava lamp you kept on your shelf in high school (none), but the salt lamp sure is lovely to look at. Even if beauty is its only benefit, that’s enough for us. | 172 Middle St, Portland | 207.761.2122 | 7 Commercial Alley, Portsmouth, NH | 603.766.1616 | portsmouthsaltcellar.com

Best triP to the ’60s: freak street iMPorts

Back in the ’60s and early ’70s, when Western hippies were fanning out across Asia in search of new wisdom, new substances, and new adventures, the Nepali epicenter was Jhochhen Road, leading south from Basantapur Durbar Square (home to kajillions of temple-adorning carvings of acrobatically erotic acts). Its nickname, thanks to the carnival of characters found there, was Freak Street. The clothes, bags, jewelry, and other items sold there are still being handmade by Nepali artisans, and they’re still being sold on Portland’s equivalent of Freak Street: Exchange. In a space previously occupied by a hookah bar and then a pizzeria, Freak Street Imports is crammed with the colors, fabrics, and smells of Eastern wonder that called to the children of America’s vanilla-and-off-white ’50s. Thanks to connections with relatives in Thamel (Kathmandu’s backpacker district), Freak Street owner Pramod Shrestha can vouch for the authenticity, quality, and non-exploitative nature of all his products. With an aim to discourage child labor, pay workers reasonable wages, use natural products to support environmental protection, and fund education and home care for Nepali orphans, this version of Freak Street is every bit the idealistic utopia dreamed of by the denizens of its namesake decades ago. Visiting is a great trip back to those heady days when the East was new, the West was strong, and we all could live in peace. | 10 Exchange St, Portland | 207.77.FREAK | freakstreetimports.com

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man the helm, while the dazzling electropop duo ContrApposto join for a set. Also featuring the year’s Best Street Performer as voted in our readers’ poll, the 90-Minute Blonde. 9 pm in the back room of Styxx, 3 Spring St. 207.828.0822.

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f BellA Morte, at Asylum, in Portland on April 12. thursday 11 MOUNTAIN REGGAE | All sorts of music is better suited for warm weather, but some more than others. That’s right: It’s reggae season. The eight-piece ensemble John Brown’s Body, a reggae electrofusion group from Boston and New York who head up to Sugarloaf for a festival this weekend (see our concert listings), play a prelude at the University of New Hampshire, with the All Good Feel Good ColleCtive and duBBest at the campus Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St. in Durham, NH. 603.862.2600. EARTHLY DELIGHTS | The nationally recognized Maine poet and director of the Stonecoast creative writing program Annie FinCh explores themes of love, spirituality, and her own back catalogue with a reading of Spells: New and Selected Poems, at Longfellow Books. 7 pm, 1 Monument Way. 207.772.4045.

friday 12 PAINT IT BLACK | Though they

hold court every Friday night in Asylum’s dark chambers, tonight

Plague, Portland’s eminent goth night, goes into beast mode with full sets by cultishly popular darkwave rock band BellA Morte, who release records on the genre’s flagship labels Cleopatra and Metropolis. They’re joined by inertiA, a goth band formed in the ’90s who nurture that century’s industrial and metal obsessions. 9 pm, $10-12 at the Asylum, 121 Center St. 207.772.8274. THE PRODUCT | The Seattle rap/ production duo MACkleMore And ryAn lewis have one of the most popular songs in the world right now in “Thrift Shop,” a slick, sexed-up ode to the badassery of shopping vintage, which merges a horn sample hook with Macklemore’s swaggery, electrifying flow. The duo are getting attention from all corners of the world, so it’s certainly notable to find them turning up in Waterville, where they play Colby College’s Wadsworth Gymnasium at 8 pm. With Iggy Azalea. Call 207.859.4000. FROM THE FRENCH | The gypsy jazz violinist dAisy CAstro started playing her instrument at the age of six. That’s not to make you feel inferior about how long you might have played your own instrument, but to testify to how long she’s been immersed in the moody and passionate throes of her genre.

Still a teenager, the music she makes is a cross between classical jazz, old French influence, and the dreamier, more adventurous affect of present-day folk and rock. She plays with her Gypsy Moth QuArtet at One Longfellow Square at 8 pm. $15-20, 181 State St., 207.761.1757. THE NEW DARK | Splintered from the colossal prog-metal group Conifer a couple years ago, the bands the CoAlsACk And Crux and AwAAs are two of our city’s most remarkable rock acts. Coalsack play a sort of hellfire country-blues with such energy, guitar scorch, and obsessiveness as to belie how well-written their songs are, while Awaas, formerly a post-rock duo, have fattened their grimly anthemic sound into a four-piece that flirts with such genres as witch house. Despite an ever-growing distance in sound, the two are frequently associated and paired, and play tonight with the new and filthy unit of rock nihilism GiMMe GoldAr at Geno’s. 9 pm, $5 at 625 Congress St. 207.221.2382. STILL SICK | Tonight also marks the return of “Lovesick,” the monthly spectacle of vibrant house music, outlandish dance floors, and a suspension of all the boring elements of contemporary city life. DJs Che ros and BAry JuiCy

GUESS WHO’S COMIN’ | Without question, the evening’s biggest entertainment coup is dJ shAdow. Nothing tops the perfect storm of genre-fusion-at-the-dawn-of-theInternet-age of his 1996 record Endtroducing..., famously the first record to consist exclusively of samples, and which helped thrust DJ production techniques into the world of mainstream pop. Having released that masterwork at the tender age of 24, Shadow’s had a long and illustrious career. His last record, 2011’s The Less You Know, The Better, augments the moody collection of soul and R&B samples with invigorating clips of modern guitar rock and breakbeat. He performs at Port City Music Hall with local producer oF the trees at 8 pm. $20, 504 Congress St. 207.899.4990. HAMM DINNER | The surly, acerbic comedy of local personality GeorGe hAMM, one of the leaders of the new wave of Mainah comics, plays an intimate set at the Portland Eagles club. Hamm was a fixture at the Comedy Connec-

tion, so his fans will have to get down with some new rooms. No word on an opener; 7:30 pm, $10 at 184 St. John St. 207.773.9448. Elsewhere, a couple non-winning nominees from this year’s Best Comedian category (Joe Timmins and Will Green) perform with their newfound laugh consortium the portlAnd CoMedy Co-op at Mayo Street Arts. 8 pm, $8 at 10 Mayo St. 207.615.3609. FRONTLINES | Party rock band pArAnoid soCiAl CluB, the harder-edged rock project of Rustic Overtones frontman Dave Gutter since 2002, split the difference between the arena-friendly power-pop of the Foo Fighters and the funked-out bro-rock of bands like Sugar Ray. It seems to have been a winning formula. The group tour constantly and their songs get a terrific amount of national airplay for a band from Maine. They play a set at the Big Easy with the london souls, a Zeppelin-owing rock band from New York formed from a gimmick: they played their first show without having ever met. 9 pm at the Big Easy, 55 Market St., 207.775.2266. THROWING LIMBS AROUND | For the ambitious, able, and angry: the first of two brutal Maine metalcore shows gets unwrapped today at the Kave in Bucksport. The most notorious on the five-band bill is in the kinGdoM oF niGhtMAres, a five-piece from Piscataquis County. See the rest in our clubs section;

f MACkleMore & ryAn lewis, at Colby College, in Waterville on April 12.

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treMendous CreAM And MArieke vi, who killed it at our Best of Portland dance party at the Port City Music Hall (I’ll take it on faith; as of this writing the event hasn’t happened yet). They return to their usual haunts at Slainte, where they roast the dance floor with soul, R&B, and post-punk burners. 9 pm, 24 Preble St. 207.828.0800.

sunday 14 NO SOUL DOUBT | If it’s an especially soulful weekend, follow local mod-rocker kurt BAker to the Press Room in New Hampshire, where he acts in a DJ capacity with Clintron for something called “Sunday Night Soul Church,” which sounds wild. 9 pm at the jazzy night club, 77 Daniel St. in Portsmouth, NH. 603.431.5186. PSYCHIC WARFARE | Might be a difficult thematic undertaking for a lazy Sunday, but Frontier Café screens the film War Witch, a drama about a 12-year-old girl who gets captured by rebels in Sub-Saharan Africa and forced into the life of a soldier, a horrific transformation of which the film doesn’t spare details. A product of Canada, War Witch has won multiple awards from international academies. Screening all weekend at Frontier, including at 2, 6, and 8 pm today. 14 Maine St. in the Fort Andross Mill. 207.725.5222.

monday 15 OLD FORMS | The Dallas/Fort Worth band not hAlF BAd are a throwback to the breezy, carefree antagonism of ’90s punk rock. They play with Maine’s deep woods, who are faster, more exuberant, and have more embedded melodies. At Flask Lounge and free, 8 pm. 117 Spring St. 207.722.3122. PICKIN’ MACHINE | By way of Boston, the Aroostook County folk musician ellis pAul makes an appearance at the popular Hallowell restaurant Slates. Paul was newly elected into the Presque Isle High School Athletic Hall of

Fame, so there’s that. But more on topic to his performance tonight, his is one of the signature sounds of Boston folk, which means, among other things, that it was composed indoors where it’s warm. 8 pm, $15 at 169 Water St. in Hallowell. 207.622.4104.

tuEsday 16 ON THE OUTS | No. That’s the name of a new film by Pablo Larrain, which focuses on an interesting angle in the 1988 overthrow of the brutal military dictatorship of Chilean President General Augusto Pinochet. Facing international pressure after more than 3200 people were put to death, the far-right Pinochet regime gave its citizens a vote: Yes to keep him in power, No to have him step down. Larrain’s film tells the story as a triumph of advertising, that perverse union of capitalism and democracy, and stars Gael Garcia Bernal as Rene Saavedra, an apolitical adman who joins the No campaign (it is, after all, the highest stakes account in the country). Like Argo, No is not a documentary, and so in its dramatization likely oversimplifies, as Affleck’s film does, an ugly and complicated era. Yet from a cinematic perspective, it’s received high marks, and dodges what might have been a forgettable work of agitprop. Playing at the Strand Theatre all week, and at 7 pm tonight. 345 Main St. in Rockland, 207.594.0070. BEYOND EQUALITY | The Supreme Court hearings on gay marriage (and all the subsequent Facebook image-doctoring) had the marvelous, if inadvertent, effect of spotlighting the struggle of queer, trans, and all other marginalized identities also getting overlooked for state benefits. Any debate about where the line falls and who gets to be inside it will naturally cast a light on all those who don’t, and so in a roundabout way, one hopes that all the red solidarity signs will have a positive effect for the queer community that isn’t interested in assimilating into a marital union, yet still deserve benefits. And while we’re at it, we might hope for a similar backlash to Arizona’s odious new bill, which prosecutes transgender people for using a public restroom if their appearance doesn’t match the sign on the door. Likely its impe-

tus, the bill will surely be one of the issues discussed at a UNH lecture today, titled “trAnsGender

inClusion in AthletiCs: FroM poliCy to prACtiCe,” at 4 pm in

the school’s Memorial Union Building. 83 Main St., Durham, NH. 603.862.2600.

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WEdnEsday 17 BLUES DREAM | The Nashville guitar player williAM tyler plays his instrument very well. A young guy, he’s in the fine lineage of country blues guitarists of the American folk primitive. Naturally, associations with the music of John Fahey are present, but Tyler steeps his compositions in atmospheric dimensions that only a studio could provide, and augments them with a range of orchestral timbres for a unique and satisfying experience. His is a highly recommended performance at SPACE Gallery, where he plays with the inimitable local songwriter AleriC nez and Christopher pulsoni. 8:30 pm, $10 at 538 Congress St. 207.828.5600. DO U PARTY HARD? | Amazingly, the hard-chargin’ pop-metal rocker Andrew wk plays Studio 250 tonight. His songs are the experience you think you’re getting when you sign up to sing Meatloaf’s “Paradise By the Dashboard Light” at the karaoke bar. Does it even matter whom he’s playing with? 6 pm at 250 Read St. $12-15. 207.899.1771. COLONIZE THIS | And then there’s the dirty proJeCtors, one of the biggest indie-rock bands in the country. Their Zep-meets-WestAfrican rock songs are paired with deliCAte steve, who plays a wildly psychedelic and lyrical guitar. 8 pm, $22 at the Port City Music Hall.

thursday 18 SHARK ATTACK | Next week,

the venerable Dramatic Repertory Company open SWimmiNg iN the ShalloWS, a play about the dynamics of couplehood with a cast of characters that includes a shark as a love interest. Through the 28th at the Portland Stage Company Studio Theater. Also: old time folker leo kottke plays the intimate Stone Mountain Arts Center, while country bumpkin Chris younG hits the State Theatre.

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Medieval towns, towers and turrets, flocks of birds, and blazing fires could easily be the subjects of fairytales or kitsch. Not so in the hands of Dozier Bell, who has plunged deeply into her imagination and masterfully realized what she found there in visual terms. “Dozier Bell: Mind’s Eye” at the Bates College Museum of Art assembles 16 charcoal drawings on Mylar executed between 2007 and 2012. The works are diminutive, some not even three inches tall. This scale does what miniatures generally do at first glance: disarm viewers’ fears (how could such a small thing feel overpowering?), and instill a sense of preciousness. But make no mistake about it: the impact of Bell’s little black-and-white images is powerful. For starters, awe is not an inappropriate term for the feeling generated by her drawing skills. Through extremely nuanced handling of her medium, Bell not only describes her subjects on a miniscule scale, but also suggests the textures and even temperatures of elemental forces, including water, clouds, and haze. “Smoking,” an image of fire and smoke emanating from choppy waters, is rendered in an almost photographic monochrome realism. The source of the conflagration remains unexplained and similar mysteries envelope most of Bell’s imagery. Is the horizontal stretch of light caused by fire? Is it merely the lights of a city? Or the rising sun? The dark, cloudy night skies instill a yearning for light, clarity, and certainty that Bell’s drawings do not offer. One has to admire Bell’s daring for using conventionally sentimental and romantic subjects. She knows, however, how to insert emotional distance by employing a monochrome palette, small scale, and resultant lack of detail, shrouding the imagery in mystery and timelessness. It is actually difficult to write about Bell’s work as it so much depends on intuition for its conception and interpretation, like a true descendant of 19th-century Romantics. The dark sil-

houettes of castles and towers become basic expressions of hostility and fear, but also act as markers of the past prevailing into the present. The few drawings that portray nature untouched by humans are often dominated by ominous flocks of birds, suspended in mid-air. Time and movement are stilled. The only source of animation is light. The source of that light is unambiguously revealed as the sun breaking through cloud cover in “Roofline,” reviving notions of the divine force as redemptive light. Similarly, the cross hairs, which were so pervasive in much of Bell’s earlier work, surface again in “Navigation 5” as an emblem of the search of the clouded sky for a presence, for meaning. Maybe the best way to describe Bell’s drawings is in theatrical terms, as stage sets for battles between light and darkness. While this may sound corny, it is not. Much seems at stake here and Bell is too smart to present any one overt reading. We may substitute all sorts of interpretations for those two opposites: reason and intellect versus irrational fear and faith, for instance. No easy either/or is offered by Bell’s scenes, but an uneasy and complex coexistence of forces; elemental forces beyond our reckoning and control that the world, and us in it, remains subject to. The very making of the drawings embodies conflicting tendencies as the emotional exuberance of the subjects is contrasted with the utmost restraint and control of execution. The solemnity of Bell’s images seems to belong to another era and another mindset than the contemporary hyper-stimulated one. But they are also intensely complex and too skeptical not to belong to our present. Bell’s profound artistic vision and integrity transforms these little things into propositions of great magnitude. ^

“DOZIER BELL: MIND’S EYE” | through May 25 | at the Bates College Museum of Art, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St, Lewiston | 207. 786.6158 | bates.edu/museum

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Speaking out of Silence CarolyN gage’s New short plays give woMeN voiCe _by Mega N g ruM b l iNg Women’s experience of slavery, genocide, and cultural oppression, says playwright Carolyn Gage, is very different than men’s: Sexual violence and women’s ability to give birth makes them subject to a particularly penetrating form of colonization. And even the best-intentioned histories, she adds, often try to “disappear” that difference. A feminist lesbian activist, performer, and writer, Gage explores women’s distinct, sexualized experience of oppression, along with contrasting views of how to contend with it, in two short plays: Little Sister and Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist. They appear together in a joint production of Acorn Productions and Cauldron and Labrys Productions, at the Acorn Studio Theater in Westbrook, under the direction of Stephanie Ross. In Little Sister, which receives its worldpremiere production, Jess (Beth Somerville) lives with her partner Theresa (Beth Chasse) on the reservation where Theresa grew up. Both are Native, and inheritors of that legacy of oppression, but as lesbians, they also experience it on the reservation, even with Theresa’s own family. Plus, Theresa, a tribal police officer, gets regular calls about the abuse of the man married to her sister Marie (Carolyn Ezzy), which Marie routinely denies — even at the expense of the safety of her own daughter, Onawah (Angela Moline). This is part of a cycle of trauma, the play asserts, that goes hidden or accommodated for the sake of shame or family loyalty. While Theresa deals with the res’s legacy of trauma with external rules and laws, Jess battles with her own trauma and challenges paradigms intrinsic to her culture, by working on a graphic novel about a Native Two-Spirit warrior, who embodies qualities of both a man and a woman. Inspired in part by a 2010 Amnesty International report on the disproportionate rate of sexual violence against indigenous

American women, Little Sister underscores the confounding intergenerational chain of violence, shame, and silence. Chasse is sensitive and wise as the loving but emotionally exhausted Theresa, and as her niece, Moline’s knowing quiet is haunting. The show also features wrenching performances by Somerville, as Jess’s normally even temper spirals into her own post-traumatic stress disorder, and by Ezzy, as Marie instructs her abused daughter why she’s to stay silent. Gage allows her characters and their crisis no easy resolutions, giving equal and conflicting voice to Marie’s loyalty to family, Theresa’s to the law, and Jess’s to radical imagination. Harriet, too, contrasts motivations for radical activism with those for the accommodation of oppression. It is set in a therapist’s office in “another dimension in space-time” — one in which Harriet’s master also owns a psychologist (Gwira Kabirigi), who helps him gauge the emotional states of potential escapees like Harriet (Alfine Nathalie). Harriet’s been acting dangerously reckless lately, and so the well-meaning therapist sets about persuading her — first with reasoned argument and then, harrowingly, with hypnosis — to forget her radical dreams and to simply make the most of her life on the plantation. Harriet, which won the 2011 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival, has the distillation and the lyric intensity of poetry. Harriet’s rejoinders to the therapist jump between sullen, enraged, and reelingly comedic, and Nathalie’s performance is breathtaking: Her Harriet is fierce, vertiginous, and eerily self-possessed. Kabirigi’s therapist soars in the hypnosis scene, as she unleashes dogs upon Harriet’s subconscious, and the beautiful blaze of Harriet’s resistance is a visionary triumph. In both Harriet and Little Sister, Gage notes, characters manage to sustain or cultivate their indigenous spiritual practices, and it’s this that lets them achieve liberation despite physical or cultural colonization. These two one-acts are unflinching yet affirming explorations of how several oppressed women keep the colonization from their spirits. ^

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And the horSe they rode In on arborea erect fortificationS of light and darkneSS Arborea’s Buck and Shanti Curran asked me if they could listen to the test vinyl pressings of their new album, Fortress of the Sun, at my house. They’d heard the record player for themselves. And they didn’t actually have one, in-house. Well, yeah. I couldn’t leave well enough alone, though, and tried to rig something up through my folks’ old tube-filled receiver, which turned out to have a shot left channel . . . Anyway, receiver number three — my trusty Pioneer from college — ended up doing the trick, hooked up to a Technic table. Good thing. There was something special about watching the care with which they listened. Was that a bent note? Or just a truck tearing by on Route 202? It was the truck. The listening experience stood right up to Ray LaMontagne’s Gossip in the Grain, and he issued that 10-song album as a double disc on 180-gram vinyl, just so the grooves could have some room to breathe. The record-listening party was a bit of a tease, though, wasn’t it? It’s not like they left me a test copy. Was it different to hear it ripple through my 140-plus-year-old house, vibrating the still-settling frame for the ultimate analog experience? It sure was. But digital tracks and a good set of headphones work, too. The listening experience is just so vital to enjoyment of their music. Don’t half-ass it. Every note is gently placed, as though on a velvet cushion. That may sound like it could be too precious, but the Currans are fully invested. You can’t

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imagine disbelief. Which is probably why, like their metal mirror image Ocean, they are particularly critically acclaimed and have caught highly favorable mentions in the New York Times and Rolling Stone. Their tour stops read like a posh travel magazine’s table of contents. There’s a reason the new album is being released by ESP-Disk’, home to albums by the likes of Sun Ra and Billie Holliday. However, as of late the mainstream culture has shifted considerably acoustic and may ram right into Arborea if they don’t watch out. “After the Flood only Love Remains” is stop-in-your-tracks beautiful, and what passes for a single for them. If you can slow yourself down to their pace, see the world in half-time for a bit (which is almost impossible when you try to keep up with the pace of things like the Internet), it becomes incredibly catchy, a sing-along. Reimagined as a straight-up bluegrass song with fiddle and banjo, this would be what they’d call in Maine a “crowd please-ah.” It’s not quite as catchy as “Alligator,” on their most-recent House of Sticks, but it’s also less of an outlier. Michael Krapovicky provides some electric bass to ground Shanti’s ethereal vocals and Buck’s layers of acoustic guitar and languid electric, which gives it some forward momentum and hints at Neil Young and Crazy Horse. On peyote. It’s an equine album, indeed. “Pale Horse Phantasm” comes out of the gate like a warm spring wind, Shanti’s barest vibrato

in the chorus allowing for the possibility of vulnerability and putting the song right on the fulcrum of narrative and lament. Late song, Buck provides a subtle backing vocal of just a few well placed words. The dynamics in Arborea’s songs are slight adjustments, degrees to the left and right of center, but no less dramatic in their way than emo’s roller coasters. In “Rider,” Buck takes on lead vocals, with a tasteful acoustic blues riff introducing a gravelly baritone with a lilt, “Hey now rider, do you know why you run?” It calls to mind the iconic “Know You Rider,” with their own version of the cowboy experience, evoking the wide-open expanse of the West, the too-bright sun and the wind that bites at the tips of the ears. There is the smell of the

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F everyone’s bored with acoustic folk, but most of those people haven’t heard BIlly CARR’s new ep, Family planning. it’s an expressive little romp full of delights and experimentation, and only about 20 minutes long. Billy’s a former member of pamola and the Waldos, so there’s a ton of jazzy-technical acumen being tossed about in these songs, but all its adventurous noodling is justified by the songwriting, which relies on free associative lyrics and unique, tumbling passages. hot stuff; reminds us of tim Kinsella jams without all the pretense. check out billycarr. bandcamp.com.

fInDInG GReAt ACClAIM With a tour calendar like a travel magazine, arborea’s buck and Shanti curran are transmitting their timeless aesthetic worldwide.

From the Womb to the tomb

F the youth rock camps of MAMM get all the attention, but we’re almost more charmed by their programs for adults. Very little is more heartwarming than a dude in his 50s finally getting his chops together and throwing down some rock sauce over a weekend. A video documentary from a SAlt InStItute student captures one such session — watch claire Jeffers’s From the Womb to the Tomb at Salt’s Vimeo page (vimeo. com/storytellah). consider enrolling for a mature rock fantasy of your own this weekend at the Breakwater School, 856 Brighton Avenue in portland, as mAmm hosts another big-kid jam.

horse underneath, its bulk and power, its beating heart. And then there is “When I Was on Horseback,” an Old English folk song that might have been pulled from the pages of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Team that with the haunting whispers of “Ghost,” a Shanti solo piece with a banjo that rises from the fog, orderly at first and then losing form and dissipating. Joined by a harmonium, her delivery — with lyrics echoing that kind of faerie place that isn’t all flower petals and rainbows at all — might remind you of PJ Harvey’s “little fish, swimming in the water.” Gearheads might take some pleasure, too, in the fact they help create this timeless aesthetic with the help of an EBow, which bows guitar strings with an energy field (introduced in 1978; first customer was Jerry Garcia; probably last seen locally at the State Theatre being used by Built to Spill’s Jim Roth). On “Daughters of Maine,” Buck pairs it with Greg Boardman’s bowed bass (I checked the liner notes; it’s not a cello, like it was on that Rural Ghosts song where I got it wrong) and it knifes through the crispness of the fingerstyle acoustic guitar in the kind of solo I’m not sure is ever completely repeatable. “Cast out your hands,” Shanti implores repeatedly into the finish. Her last breath of sibilance at the end is a flash of light. Cast out your cares and let this album wash over you. Don’t plan on having anything else to do. ^

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207.798.4141

LILAC CITY GRILLE | Rochester | Hope-

BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth | “Hon-

oke | 8 pm

WITH JORDAN HANDREN-SEAVEY + JOE TIMMINS + WILL GREEN + AHARON HEBERT + TRAVIS CURRAN + JAMES SPIZUOCO | 8 pm | Mayo

SELF IMPROVMENT | 8 pm | Slainte, 24 Preble St, Portland | 207.828.0900 ”OFFBEAT COMEDY,” OPEN MIC | 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

bluegrass jam

$76 Per/Mo.

103 RESTAURANT | Rochester | kara-

Theriault | 9 pm

117 MPG!

Center St, Auburn | $7 | 207.784.7785

versity of Southern Maine - Gorham, Brooks Student Center, Gorham

SATURDAY 13

GEORGE HAMM | 7:30 pm | Portland

Eagles, 184 Saint John St, Portland | $10 | 207.773.9448 or portlandeagles. com

BRAD MASTRANGELO + GRAIG MURPHY | 8 pm | The Portsmouth

Pearl, 45 Pearl St, Portsmouth, NH | $15 | 603.431.0148 or portsmouthpearl.com OPEN MIC | Mesa Verde, 618 Congress St, Portland | 207.774.6089

”PORTLAND COMEDY CO-OP,”

CONCERTS CLASSICAL THURSDAY 11

USM YOUTH ENSEMBLES | 7 pm | Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | 207.842.0800

FRIDAY 12

CHIHARU NARUSE & DEAN STEIN: “BEETHOVEN FOR VIOLIN & PIANO” | 7:30 pm | Bates College, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St, Lewiston | $10 | 207.786.6135

”USM GRADUATE SHOWCASE RECITAL” | 8 pm | University of

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

SUNDAY 14

BANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: “DVORAK’S STABAT METER” | 3 pm | Collins Center for the Arts, University of Maine, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono | $19-43 | 207.581.1110

BOWDOIN COLLEGE CONCERT BAND | 2 pm | Bowdoin College, Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium, 3900 College Station, Brunswick |

”DECOMPRESSION CHAMBER MUSIC: SEASON FIVE/CONCERT #4” | 6

THURSDAY 11

CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS | 7:30

IONIA + NEARLY DEADS + LAKEVIEW DRIVE + BLIND COMMISSIONER + DIVE THE TOWER + CALL MY NAME + EMERGE FROM SILENCE | 6 pm | Studio 250, 250 Read St, Portland | $10 | 207.899.1771 or 250portland.com

JOHN BROWN’S BODY + ALL GOOD :: FEEL GOOD COLLECTIVE + DUBBEST

| 7 pm | University of New Hampshire, Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH | $10, $5 students | 603.862.2600 or unhmub.com TANNAHILL WEAVERS | 7 pm | Unity College, Centre For the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St, Unity | $20 | 207.948.6549

FRIDAY 12

CHRISTIAN MCNEILL & SEA MONSTERS | 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts

MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS + IGGY AZALEA | 8 pm | Colby College,

Wadsworth Gymnasium, 4180 Mayflower Dr, Waterville | 207.859.4000 OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | 7:30 pm | Pleasant Note Coffeehouse, First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St, Auburn | 207.783.0461

OUR LAST NIGHT + TOO LATE THE HERO + IT LIVES, IT BREATHES + WE’VE BEEN DECEIVED + LEVELER + CRISIS AD + FATES LAST FIGHT + SOCIAL AT A DISTANCE | 5 pm | Stu-

$96 Per/Mo. Free DeliVerY to PortlanD area

SPRING SERVICE SPECIAL 3/25 - 4/25

OILMetro + FILtER ChANGE - $29.99 - ruckus - PcX • W/ THIS COUPON

Includes Pickup + Delivery in Portland Area + Tax

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Rt. 202 • 4 Miles West Of Gorham • Open Evenings Until 7PM Closed Sundays • www.reynoldsmotorsports.com

1-800-433-6641 or 207-839-5522

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dio 250, 250 Read St, Portland | $12-15 | 207.899.1771 or 250portland.com WILLY PORTER | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $25 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com

SATURDAY 13

AMERICA + LISA BOUCHELLE | 8 pm |

Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $26-46 | 603.929.4100

CALL MY NAME + GRIZZLED + TAXICAB DISMEMBERMENT + TOO LATE THE HERO + UNREST IN TRANSIT + FLOOD THIS EARTH + BEGAT THE NEPHILIM + HATE ASHLEY + EMINOR EMINUS | 4 pm | Rochester

Opera House, 31 Wakefield St, Rochester, NH | $10 | 603.335.1992 COLBY JAZZ BAND | 7:30 pm | Colby College, Given Auditorium, 4000 Mayflower Hill, Waterville | 207.859.4000 MATT COSTA | 12:30 pm | Bull Moose Music/Scarborough, 456 Payne Rd, Scarborough | 207.885.9553 or bullmoose.com PEPPINO D’AGOSTINO | 8 pm | Boothbay Harbor Opera House, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | $15-20 | 207.633.6855

FOREVER, FRANK [FRANK SINATRA TRIBUTE] | 7:30 pm | Franco-

American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St, Lewiston | $18 | 207.689.2000 GIMME GOLDAR | 8 pm | Darkmouth Castle, Portland MATT COSTA | 7 pm | Inn On the Blues, 7 Ocean Ave, York Beach | $1520 | 207.776.5100 SORCHA + ERIC OTT | 7 pm | Engine, 265 Main St, Biddeford | $6-8 | 207.229.3560 or feedtheengine.org

DEREK WILKINSON + KALIE SHORR + COME BACK PLUTO + JUSTIN KING + BEACONS + WE ARE WAITING + WAYWARD DREAMER | 6 pm | Stu-

dio 250, 250 Read St, Portland | $10-12 | 207.899.1771 or 250portland.com

SUNDAY 14

ALTERNATE ROUTES + SARAH BLACKER | 7 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | sold out | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com

BEAT 4 + JAM PATROL + POO POO PLATTERS + DELIGHTFUL ABODE + THEN THERE’S US | 3 pm | Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St, Rochester, NH | $5 | 603.335.1992

CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS

| Sun-Mon Sun-Mon 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $30 | 207.935.7292 HEATHER MALONEY | 6:30 pm | Aryakola Buddhist Center, 14 Heartwood Circle, Newmarket, NH | 603.659.5456

MONDAY 15

CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS | See listing for Sun

USM JAZZ COMBOS | 7 pm | Portland

Public Market, 28 Monument Sq, Portland | 207.228.2056 or publicmarkethouse.com/mission.html

WEDNESDAY 17

ANDREW WK + MOTOR CREEPS + PECAN SANDIES + ENCORE + BREEDING STRENGTH | 6 pm | Studio

250, 250 Read St, Portland | $12-15 | 207.899.1771 or 250portland.com

DIRTY PROJECTORS + DELICATE STEVE | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609

Congress St, Portland | $20-22 | 207.956.6000 or portcitymusichall. com

”MAINE TARTAN DAY,” WITH MAINE HIGHLAND FIDDLERS + GEORGE PULKKINEN | 7 pm | Skye

Theatre, 2 Highland Dr, Carthage | $15 | 207.562.4445 THREE DAYS GRACE + POP EVIL | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $30-35 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland.com

THURSDAY 18

ROB DUQUETTE | 10:30 am | Thomas Memorial Library, 6 Scott Dyer Rd, Cape Elizabeth | 207.799.1720 HYSSONGS | 7 pm | Camden Opera House, 29 Elm St, Camden | 207.236.7963 or camdenoperahouse. com LEO KOTTKE | 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $50 | 207.935.7292 ANA POPOVIC | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $25 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllondonderry.com ”PMAC: YOUTH & TEEN ROUND ROBIN,” STUDENT SINGER-SONGWRITERS | 4 pm | The Music Hall

Loft, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $5 | 603.436.2400 CHRIS YOUNG | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $25-30 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland. com

PERFORMANCE SUNDAY 14

THURSDAY 18

NATALIE JOHNSON: “AGEN: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN DANCE” | 7 pm | Bowdoin College, Wish Theater, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3253

THEATER & DANCE NEW WORKS FESTIVAL | Colby College, Strider

Theater, Runnals Building, 4520 Mayflower Hill, Waterville | 207.859.4520

VIVID MOTION: “THE SEVEN VOYAGES OF SINBAD” | 7:30 pm | St Law-

rence Arts & Community Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | $12, $6 youth 12 & under | 207.775.5568 | www.stlawrencearts.org

EVENTS FRIDAY 12

USM WOMEN & GENDER STUDIES ANNUAL AWARDS | 4 pm | Univer-

sity of Southern Maine - Portland, Wishcamper Center, 44 Bedford St, Portland | 207.780.4141

SATURDAY 13

MAINE ROLLER DERBY: CALAMITY JANES VS. SHORELINE ROLLER DERBY | 5 pm | Happy Wheels, 331

MONDAY 15

SHRINER’S CIRCUS | Mon + Wed

DANCE PARTICIPATORY FRIDAY 12

LATIN DANCE SOCIAL WITH DJ NICANOR | 8:30 pm | The Dance

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

SATURDAY 13

2 & 7 pm; Tues 9:30 am, 2 & 7 pm | Cumberland County Civic Center, 45 Spring St, Portland | 207.775.3458 or | theciviccenter.com

TUESDAY 16

SHRINER’S CIRCUS | See listing for Mon

WEDNESDAY 17

SHRINER’S CIRCUS | See listing for Mon

CONTRA DANCE | 8 pm | Wescustugo Hall, Rte 115, North Yarmouth | $10, $7 seniors/students | 207.712.2837

SUNDAY 14

ECSTATIC DANCE | 10 am | Ecstatic

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

FAIRS & FESTIVALS

Ogunquit, Ogunquit | www.ogunquit.org/

SATURDAY 13

OGUNQUIT PATRIOTS DAY CELEBRATION | See listing for Fri

SUNDAY 14

OGUNQUIT PATRIOTS DAY CELEBRATION | See listing for Fri

FOOD THURSDAY 11

WINE TASTING | 4 pm | Rosemont Market and Bakery, 559 Brighton Ave, Portland | 207.774.8129

SATURDAY 13

WINTER FARMERS’ MARKET | 9 am | Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St, Portland | 207.780.0118 or maineirish.com

now open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner 11:30 am - 1 am 250 commercial st www.infinitimaine.com

WEDNESDAY 17

Sat. 4/20 Oxbow presents:

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

Farmhouse Funkadelic

POETRY & PROSE THURSDAY 11

of Exile | 7 pm | Walker Memorial Library, 800 Main St, Westbrook | 207.854.0630

”WORDS & IMAGES RELEASE PARTY” | with readings & musical

FRIDAY 12

performance by If & It | 6:30 pm | Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St, Portland | 207.615.3609

ments, craft show, etc. | downtown

Continued on p 24

OGUNQUIT PATRIOTS DAY CELEBRATION | with colonial re-enact-

restaurant•brewery•distillery

Entrance through alley-way on lower exchange st at key bank sign. Horas: Mon-Thu 4-1 Fri 3-1 Sat & Sun 12-1

featuring 15 + Oxbow brews and other special goodies.

www.novareresbiercafe.com

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT REAL PUB FOOD Where Rock-N-Roll Never Forgets! 35 Blake Rd. Standish, ME 207.642.3363 memorylanemusichall.com

4/12:

4/13:

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4/19: OcD 4/20: MOTOr BOOTy AffAir

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2013 MAINE PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL World premiere plays by local playwrights

April 25 to May 5 St. Lawrence Arts Ctr, Portland

www.acorn-productions.org 854-0065

Listings

DAVID W. JOHNSON & CAROLYN HUTTON | discuss Lonesome Melo-

Continued from p 23

FRIDAY 12

of Maine - Augusta, Katz Library, 46 University Dr, Augusta | 207.621.3447

SATURDAY 13

ZACH OVINGTON | reads & discusses

comfort food draft beer malt whiskey live music live wires

his poetry | 11 am | Local Sprouts Cooperative, 649 Congress St, Portland | 207.899.3529 or localsproutscooperative.com

SUNDAY 14

”NEW HAMPSHIRE AUTHORS SERIES” | Rebecca Rule interviews

Willem Lange | 2 pm | University of New Hampshire, Dimond Library, 18 Library Way, Durham, NH | 603.862.1535

BACON & CHEESE Happy Hour

Hello Newman $1.50 PBR & Bud Pounders Friday 9:30p: The Dappered Gents upstairs Saturday 9:30p: Preheat upstairs Thursday 9:30p:

Dave Rowe downstairs

Sunday 6p: Monday 7p: Tuesday 7p: Tuesday 9:30p: Wednesday 8-11p:

Paint Nite Storytelling Poetry Slam Open Mic Squid Jiggers

$3 Baxter Stowaway/Seasonal Drafts

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

THURSDAY 18

GIBSON FAY-LEBLANC + CHRISTOPHER LOCKE + CHRISTIAN BARTER | discuss their respective

UPSTAIRS: “BEAT NIGHT,” JAZZ & POETRY | with David Amram | 7

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

”RHYTHMIC CYPHER” OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | semi finals | 7 pm | Dobra Tea, 151 Middle St, Portland | 207.370.1890

MONDAY 15

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

”SEANACHIE NIGHTS: BAWDY ITALIANS & IRISH THIEVES” | 7 pm | Bull

Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | by donation | 207.773.7210

Sunday - Friday 4 - 7p: All Drafts $3 100+ Whiskies 20% off Thursday & Friday 5 - 6p:

TUESDAY 16

TONY IRONS | discusses Hoover’s

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

OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM WITH PORT VERITAS | with Bruce Spang |

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

WEDNESDAY 17

”BENIGN SYNTAX ABUSE” |

poetry & prose readings with Transient Vanity Press | 7:30 pm |

TALKS THURSDAY 11

”PLACE, HOPE, & CONSERVATION” | with Hank Lentfer | 6:30

pm | Frontier Cafe, Fort Andross, 14 Maine St, Brunswick | $2 | 207.725.5222 or explorefrontier.com

”PROSUMPTION: EVOLUTION, REVOLUTION, OR ETERNAL RETURN OF THE SAME?” | with

George Ritzer | 4 pm | Bowdoin College, Moulton Union, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3375

”ROMANI MUSICAL HERITAGE IN VALVEJO, SERBIA” | with Matthew Schreiber | 7 pm | University of Maine - Augusta, Klahr Center, 46 University Dr, Augusta | 207.621.3530

”VLADIMIR PUTIN & HIS RUSSIA: DOMESTIC DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN POLICY” | with Allen Lynch | 7

pm | Colby College, Schair-SwensonWatson Alumni Center, 4000 Mayflower Dr, Waterville | 207.859.4000

FRIDAY 12

”BEIJING: HISTORY & CULTURE” |

THURSDAY 18

”BEATRIX FARRAND: PRIVATE GARDENS, PUBLIC LANDSCAPES” | with Judith Tankard | 7 pm | Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St, Portland | 207.774.1822 or mainehistory.org

”BEHAVIORAL & ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF RARE & COMMON SEABIRDS IN NEW ZEALAND” | with

Mark E. Hauber | 4 pm | Bowdoin College, Druckenmiller Hall, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3567

”BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE DICTION IN CLASSICAL SINGING” | with Jenni Cook | 12:30 pm | University of New Hampshire, Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH | 603.862.2600 or unhmub.com

3:30 pm | University of New Hampshire, Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH | 603.862.2600 or unhmub.com

”FERAL BENGA: AN AFRICAN MUSE OF HOMO-UTOPIA” | with James

with Jennifer Earl + Nicole Ellison + Peter Gloor + George Ritzer | 8:45 am | Bowdoin College, Moulton Union, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

”FRANCES PERKINS: LESSONS FROM A MAINE RESIDENT & NEW DEAL LEADER” | with Laura A. Fort-

”COLLABORATIVE ORGANIZATIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA” | symposium

”MATHEMATICS & THE MELTING POLAR ICE CAPS” | with Kenneth

TUESDAY 16

Center, 185 Lancaster St, Portland | 207.775.5891

”HAMACAS, MILPAS, Y COCA COLAS: LEARNING TO PRACTICE HUMAN ECOLOGY IN THE YUCUTAN” | student

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

”TRANSGENDER INCLUSION IN ATHLETICS: FROM POLICY TO PRACTICE” | with Erin E. Buzuvis | 4 pm | University of New Hampshire, Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH | 603.862.2600 or unhmub.com

”UNVEIL THE MYSTERIOUS TIBET THROUGH A CANDID LENS” | with

Kuo-ming Sung | 4 pm | Bowdoin College, Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.775.3321

WEDNESDAY 17

”A BRIEF HISTORY OF JAZZ IN THE SEACOAST” | with the Seacoast Jazz

Society | 7 pm | Portsmouth Public Library, 175 Parrott Ave, Portsmouth, NH | 603.427.1540

”COLBY WARRIORS, COLBY MISSIONARIES” | with Carter Stevens |

7 pm | Colby College, Miller Library, 5100 Mayflower Hill, Waterville | 207.859.5100

”COYOTE: AMERICA’S SONGDOG”

| with Geri Vistein | 6:30 pm | Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Rd, Falmouth | 207.781.2351 or falmouth. lib.me.us

”ESSENTIALS OF COLLEGE PLANNING” | 10 am | Portland Adult Edu-

cation, 57 Douglass St., Portland | 207.775.5891

”HISTORY THROUGH THE KEYHOLE” | with Amanda Vickery | 7:30

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

”THE NEW LOMBARD STREET: MODERN MONEY & THE FINANCIAL CRISIS” | 7:30 pm | Bowdoin College,

Searles Science Building, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3567

”SUPPORTED HOUSING FOR ADULTS WITH PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITIES & HISTORIES OF HOMELESSNESS” | with Eleanor M. Jaffee |

noon | University of New Hampshire, Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH | 603.862.2600 or unhmub.com

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

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

”THE KALEIDOSCOPE OF ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC” | with Paul Christiansen | 7 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Wishcamper Center, 44 Bedford St, Portland | 207.780.4141

”THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF OCEAN USE PLANNING: THE LAST WILD WEST” | with Susan Farady | noon | University of New England Biddeford, Marine Science Center, Biddeford | 207.602.2440

”PER KIRKEBY’S HEAVY METAL”

| with Sarah K. Rich | 7 pm | 7 pm | Bowdoin College, Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3567 PILAR NADAL: “UP UNTIL NOW” | 12:30 pm | 12:30 pm | Maine College of Art, Osher Hall, 522 Congress St, Portland | 800.699.1509

”SLOW FOOD & ITS HEALTH BENEFITS” | noon | University of Maine

- Augusta, Randall Student Center, 46 University Dr, Augusta | 207.621.3000 ”THE PENINSULA SCHOOL” | See listing for Thurs

THEATER ARTS@UNE | City Theater, 205 Main St, Biddeford | April 12-14: Once On

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM & THEATRE OF MAINE | 207.828.1234 | kitetails.

Strider Theater, Runnals Building, 4520 Mayflower Hill, Waterville | April 18-21: “New Works Festival” | 7:30 pmStrider Theater, Runnals Building, 4520 Mayflower Hill, Waterville | April 18-21: Theater & Dance New Works Festival

COMMUNITY LITTLE THEATRE |

207.783.0958 | laclt.com | Great Falls Auditorium, Great Falls School, 30 Academy St, Auburn | April 12-21: Nun-

sense | Fri-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 2 pm | call for tickets

DRAMATIC REPERTORY COMPANY

| 800.838.3006 | dramaticrep.org | Port-

land Stage Company Studio Theater, 25A Forest Ave, Portland | April 18-28:

Swimming in the Shallows | 7:30 pm | $10-20

EVERYMAN REPERTORY THEATRE

FREEPORT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | 207.829.4013 | freeportpac.

org | Freeport High School, 30 Holbrook St, Freeport | April 11-21: Cinderella | Thurs-Fri 7:30 pm; Sat 2 & 7:30 pm; Sun 2 pm | $10, $5 students

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3rd Floor, Portland | April 11: “Speak

MAD HORSE THEATRE COMPANY

15: dramatic reading of Sixty Miles to Silver Lake | 7:30 pm | $12

THEATER PROJECT’S YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATER | 207.729.8584

AUDITIONS

DANIE CONNOLLY | danieconnolly@

yahoo.com | 207.985.8888 | Acorn Productions, 90 Bridge St, Westbrook |

April 12: auditions for THE UNREAL HOUSEWIVES OF DOWNEAST MAINE | Fri 6-9 pm

ART GALLERIES AARHUS GALLERY | 207.338.0001 |

50 Main St, Belfast | aarhusgallery.com

CENTRAL MAINE ARTS GALLERY

| 207.858.0797 | 72 W Front St, Skowhegan | call for hours | Through April

30: works by Bernie Beckman + John Bozin

CHOCOLATE CHURCH ARTS CEN-

TER | 207.442.8455 | 804 Washington St, Bath | chocolatechurcharts.org |

Tues-Wed 10 am-4 pm; Thurs noon-7 pm; Fri 10 am-4 pm; Sat noon-4 pm | Through May 11: “Fiddleheads & Springtime Pleasures,” mixed media group exhibition

COLEMAN BURKE GALLERY/PORTLAND | 207.725.3761 | 504 Congress St,

Port City Music Hall Window, Portland

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

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 GREEN HAND BOOKSHOP |

Mesa Verde

207.450.6695 | 661 Congress St, Portland | greenhandbooks.blogspot.com |

Hour 2 to 6 pm D y p p a m Thur Hapen 10 pm tiocy1ahouse isndfauy ~ Saturday ily

sed T sp eq and y t a c T o i s 5 . , 2 $ 2 Dr uilas~ ru s: $ e F u a ~ T .5 Drafts and 50¢ fts 1 d: $ argarita Pit Wings che We hur: $8 M rs T O

ss St 207~77 4~ ngre o 60 Open on C 89 8 1 Sunday at 12, Monday at 5 6 Tuesday ~Saturday at 11:30

4/10 @8 Open Mic 4/11 @8 Open Mic Comedy @10 Hang The DJ

4/12 @9 Electroshock (no cover) 4/13 @9 Matt Brown’s Soul Dance Party (no cover) Facebook.com/SlainteWineBar Twitter.com/SlainteME

4/14 @8 Self-Improvement 4/15

@8 Singles Night w/ Connor McGrath Open 5PM to 1AM Great new menu served until 12:30 am every night

4/16

2012

@9 DJ Ponyfarm’s Karaoke Party

MAINELY FRAMES AND GALLERY

| 207.828.0031 | 541 Congress St, Portland | Mon-Wed 10 am-6 pm; Thurs-Fri 10 am-8 pm; Sat 10 am-6 pm; Sun 1-4 pm | Through April 30: “Bill Paxton’s 20th Century Scenes: Locomotives, Ships, War Aircraft, & Maine Landscapes,” watercolor, acrylics, & oils

MERRYMEETING ARTS CENTER

| 207.710.0349 | Cathance Landing, 9 Main St, Bowdoinham | Sat 10 am-1 pm & by appointment | Through April

Continued on p 26

Illustration by Daniel Minter

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

A series of funny and sad love stories – some gone wrong and others gone right – exploring the complications of romance in the suburban jungle. From a bride-to-be whose literally cold feet are holding up her marriage, to a career-minded couple who forgot to have a baby, this world premiere production is a romantic comedy for imperfect lovers and dreamers. A new play from Maine playwright and award-winning actor, John Cariani, author of Last Gas and Almost, Maine. Sponsored by: L.L.Bean | Maine Home + Design | maine | Acadia Insurance United Insurance | Migis Hotel Group | MPBN | Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram

PROFESSIONAL THEATER MADE IN MAINE

Supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Art Works.

Tickets: 207.774.0465 | www.portlandstage.org

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St, Bar Harbor | Tues-Sat 11 am-4 pm

| Through April 30: “Dimensions of Daisy,” paintings by Daisy Greene

SEACOAST ARTIST ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 603.778.8856 | 225 Water

Listings

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Continued from p 25

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MUSEUMS BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.786.6158 | 75 Russell St, Olin Arts Center, Lewiston | bates.edu/museumabout.xml | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through May 25: “Selections from the Permanent Collection: Recent Acquisitions” | Through May 25: “Senior Exhibition 2013,” mixed media student works + “The Mind’s Eye,” graphite drawings by Dozier Bell

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DON COSCARELLI! You could give Don Coscarelli five bucks, a dead Pomeranian, and a half-eaten thing of SweeTarts and he could make an entertaining movie out of it. Though less widely renowned than like-minded peers George Romero and John Carpenter, Coscarelli has slowly but steadily garnered a cult following, B-movie fans who favor creativity and heart over big budgets and state-ofthe-art effects. This week’s “John Dies at the End” is his latest low-budget trashterpiece, but his back catalog contains even stronger work than this. I apologize none of this is in any way amusing but I really love Don Cascarelli, so you’ll simply have to read this article in a Charles Nelson Reilly voice to make it funnier. That’s all can I suggest. Phantasm – Coscarelli has been making movies since the mid-to-late 70’s, but he’s isn’t really that old, and released his first film (“Jim the World’s Greatest”, about which I know exactly nothing) at the tender, juicy age of nineteen. “Phantasm” came shortly thereafter, a little nightmare of a movie about an enormous man throwing deadly spheres at people’s heads that made its paltry budget back several trillion times over and spawned three sequels. I’m pretty sure I still believed that gelflings were real when I was nineteen. The Beastmaster – If you had cable at any point in the 80’s or 90’s, trust me, you’ve seen “The Beastmaster”. Whether you remember it or not, it was on, and you watched it. Probably more than once. It’s about the guy from “V: The Final Battle” teaming up with the dad from “Good Times” and telepathically communicating with a pair of ferrets to fight Rip Torn. You loved it. Bubba Ho-Tep – Bruce Campbell plays elderly Elvis, Ossie Davis plays elderly JFK, and they fight a mummy. And somewhere along the way, I was genuinely moved to tears. It’s career-best work from both Campbell and Coscarelli, so if you watch only one of his film for some misguided reason, make it this.

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pm | April 12-May 1: “Juried Student Selections,” mixed media

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

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 | Through Aug 31: “Show & Tell Gallery: Artwork by Youth With Autisum Spectrum Disorder” | April 11: Winnie the Pooh Picnic 10:30 am; Star Show 11:30 am; Mousey DressUp 3:30 pm | April 12: Grossology: Our Silly Sneezes 10:30 am; Touch Tank 11:30 am; Mousey Dress-Up 3:30 pm | April 13: Camera Obscura noon; Open Art Studio 2-3 pm | April 14: National Poetry Month: Dr. Seuss 2 pm | April 15: National Poetry Month: Shel Silverstein 11:30 am; Spring Paper Flowers 2:30 pm; The Circus is in Town 3 pm | April 16: Cube Necklace & Keychain Workshop 10:30 am ($6); What is a Box? Day 10:30 am-4 pm | April 16-17 Movie Makers: Two Day Stop-Motion Animation Workshop 2-4 pm | April 17: Open Art Studio 11 am | April 18: Tiny Tots: Sticky Salt Dough 10:30 am; Animal Fun 11 am; Just Sew Stories Hmong Story Cloths 3:30 pm

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

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 MUSEUM OF ART | 603.862.3712 | Paul Creative Arts Center, Durham, NH | unh.edu/moa | Mon-Wed 10

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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - PORTLAND | 207.780.5008 | Area

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UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND - PORTLAND | 207.221.4499 | Art Gal-

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pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | April 12-May 3: “Department of Art BFA Exhibition,” mixed media

SALT INSTITUTE FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES | 207.761.0660 | 561

| Free admission | Through June 8: “I-95 Triennial 2013,” mixed media group exhibition + John Bailly: “Piece of Mind,” mixed media | Ongoing: “Selections from the Permanent Collection”

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

ington St, Dover, NH | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Admission $7, seniors $6 | Through May 27: “Mosaic: Our Multicultural Neighborhood,” mixed media

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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 April 30: “Maine Things: Recent Museum Acquisitions” | 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 June 14: “The Sea Within Us: Iconically Maritime in Fashion & Design” | 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” 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

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, 2014: “Animal Allies: Inuit Views of the Natural World” | Through April 16, 2014: “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 SOUTHWORTH PLANETARIUM | 207.780.4249 | Science Building, 70 Fal-

mouth St, University of Southern Maine - Portland, | usm.maine.edu/planet |

call for hours | free | April 12: Electrolaze 7 pm; Laser Show: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon 8:30 pm | April 13: Laser Orion 1 pm; Laser Persues & Andromeda 3 pm; Laser Beatles 7 pm; Laser: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon 8 pm | April 14: Laser Perseus & Andromeda 1 pm; Laser Orion 3 pm VILES ARBORETUM | 207.626.7989 | 153 Hospital St, Augusta | Through April 30: “The Sculpture & Nature Project,” installation by Andreas von Huene

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A beAutiful blend Kushiya BenKay finds lovely harmony _By Bria n d uf f

old wooden beams, which add a touch of weathered Japanese beauty to the room. Hanging down are a few spectacular spaceage chandeliers. The miso soup is modestly appealing — tofu-free, with strong flavors of scallion and seaweed. An avocado salad served the fruit at just the right creamy-textured ripeness. It was served with a thick miso sauce, which might have been too sweet if you couldn’t mix in some of the salty/chewy pile of wakame seaweed. A pile of thinly sliced cucumber added crunchy texture. Kushiyaki skewers are traditionally prepared over a super-hot ceramic grill with a particular binchotan charcoal, lending the meat a distinctive smokiness and char. But Benkay grills its skewers with a relatively light touch, and the char did not overwhelm the meat’s natural flavors. Dark meat chicken was pleasantly fatty and tender, with a nice aroma of scallion. The terrific short rib was nearly as tender, and had a bit more char. It was less chewy than the version around the corner at Miyake. A little tray of dipping sauces featured more of the sweet miso sauce, as well as a spicy/ sweet red sauce that was a complex blend of peppers and sugars. There is a bit of pale green salt, made with tea. The breaded Kushikatsu skewers look

like a bit like children’s food, but they can offer some more sophisticated pleasures. The breading is light, and the fry is quick, which allows the underlying ingredients FANCIFUL SKEWERS the izakaya trend comes to portland. to shine. The scallops were like a massive and realistically volcanic fried just enough, so they kept their saltyvolcano roll. And the Izakaya-skewer thing sea taste and just-chewy texture. A variety is a bit of a trend right now. But just as it of fried veggies kept their juiciness and is common for a Japanese family to engage some crunchy snap. in a Buddhist ritual in the morning and The sushi side of the menu is straighta Shinto ritual in the afternoon, and not forward, and precisely what you would worry about conflicting doctrines in the expect from the folks at Benkay — good least, Kushiya Benkay manages to engage fresh sushi and nothing too flashy. The in a bit of trendiness and a bit of silliness, hamachi, for example, had a nice creamy without becoming trendy or silly. In fact at texture and a subtle briny flavor. The rolls Kushiya Benkay the essentials of Japanese feature some thoughtful mixing of flavors dining — warm service, a handsome space, and textures — a bit of crunchy/salty roe and simple cuisine — blend together modhere, or a sprig of bitter herbs there. estly and seamlessly. ^ There is a bit of silliness and flashiness at Kushiya Benkay — there are loopy drinks (some of which will soon be avail$ KUSHIYA BENKAY | 653 Congress St, Portable in huge bowls for sharing until 2 am land | Sun-Wed 11:30 am-9:30 pm; Thurs-Sat on weekends), and some gimmicky dishes 11:30 am-2 am | Visa/MC/Disc | 207.619.7505 re gi na duff je nKi ns

It is easy to think of Japanese people in terms of their taste for the extreme. Yes, their TV shows are crazy hyperkinetic, their robots crazy cute, their gardens crazy simple, their pornography crazy weird. But the true Japanese genius is their affinity for blending such disparate impulses together into something compelling, harmonious, and often quite modest. Think of Bashô’s perfect poem about the old pond and the leaping frog, or Yasujiro Ozu’s perfect film Tokyo Story about massive intergenerational conflict negotiated with deference and near silence. At their best the Japanese make harmony out of dissonance. So what is most pleasing about Kushiya Benkay, a sort of skewer-pub from the folks at Benkay Sushi, is the way it brings together several impulses without going too crazy about any particular one. They recreate the feel of a traditional Izakaya-style Japanese pub, but they don’t obsess over authenticity. The menu focuses on skewers of meat and vegetables, both breaded (Kushikatsu) and unbreaded (Kushiyaki), avoids getting too purist about it, and diversifies with plenty of familiar sushi restaurant standards. The square space is handsome in a familiar Portland restaurant brick-wall and tin-ceiling way. But it also features an interior frame of

life during wArtime survival is just the Beginning of lore _By pete r K e o ug h

xxx lORe directed by cAte ShortlAnd | Written by cAte ShortlAnd And robin mukherjee bASed on the novel the dArk room by rAchel Seiffert | With SASkiA roSendAhl, kAi mAlinA, urSinA lArdi, hAnS-jochen WAgner, mikA Seidel, André frid, And evA-mAriA hAgen | muSic box filmS | 108 minuteS | germAn PMA MOVIES

Although set in Germany in the last days of World War II, Australian director Cate Shortland’s harsh and poetic survival tale recalls the dreamlike allegory of Nicholas Roeg’s Outback-set Walkabout (1971). The parents in both films — in Walkabout a suicidal bourgeois, in Lore a fugitive Nazi war-criminal and his wife — abandon their children to a hostile wasteland. In both, an older sister dutifully takes charge but must begrudgingly accept the help of an alien

“inferior” — in Walkabout an Aboriginal boy, and in Lore a Jew who has escaped from a concentration camp. Shortland also evokes the visionary vistas of Roeg’s film, with the fairy-tale landscapes of Bavaria occasionally marred by a burnt-out tank, bombed-out town, solitary corpse, or a line of refugees. Unfortunately, like Roeg, after subtly depicting the initiation from innocence to experience, from illusion to reality, Shortland concludes her film with a homily. Until then, though, the story proceeds with shocking, haunting authenticity. When her sweating father drives off with as much of his plunder as he can fit into his staff car and her mother, after being brutally raped, marches down the same picturesque road to surrender to the Allies, Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) hangs on to her Aryan pride, until the food runs out. When her younger brother steals from the neighbors, they must hit the road, where the sinister Thomas (Kai Malina) first stalks and then helps them — employing

FROM INNOCENCE TO ExPERIENCE lore puts horror and absurdity in poignant perspective. ruthlessness, cunning, and his Jewish identity card. At first repugnant to Lore as the despised Other, Thomas becomes increasingly attractive — perhaps for the same reason. Rosendahl puts the onslaught of hor-

ror and absurdity in poignant perspective with her limpid depiction of her character’s growing resourcefulness and awareness. Shortland, though, is less confident, leaving Lore and the viewer with a familiar lesson that was never in doubt.

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Unless otherwise noted, all film listings this week are for Friday, April 12 through Thursday, April 18. Times can and do change without notice, so do call the theater before heading out. For up-to-date film-schedule information, check the Portland Phoenix Web site at thePhoenix.com.

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dinner + movie Portland ClarKS Pond CInEMaGIC Grand

JUraSSIC ParK 3d | 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30

olYMPUS HaS FallEn | 1:20, 4:05, 7:05, 9:35

raIlroad SQUarE 17 Railroad Sq, Waterville | 207.873.6526

adMISSIon | Fri-Sun: 4:40, 6:50 | Mon-

oZ tHE GrEat & PoWErFUl 3d |

Thu: 6:50

333 Clarks Pond Parkway, South Portland | 207.772.6023

12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:20 SCarY MoVIE 5 | 12:10, 2:20, 4:20, 7:15, 9:15

Sun: 4:30, 7:10 | Mon-Thu: 7:10

7:10, 9:30

EVEnInGStar CInEMa

tHE CroodS | 11:40 am, 2:10, 4:40,

EMPEror | 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 EVIl dEad | 11:30 am, 2:10, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 42 | 1, 4, 6:50, 9:40

Tontine Mall, 149 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.729.5486

tHE PlaCE BEYond tHE PInES | Fri-Sat: 1:30, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 | Sun-Thu: 1, 3:45, 6:30

tHE PlaCE BEYond tHE PInES | Fri-

rEEl PIZZa CInEraMa 33 Kennebec Place, Bar Harbor | 207.288.3828 Call for shows & times.

rEGal BrUnSWICK 10

19 Gurnet Rd, Brunswick | 207.798.3996

14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222

War WItCH | Fri: 2, 6, 8 | Sat: 2 | Sun:

adMISSIon | 1:05, 4, 7:10, 10 tHE CroodS | 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:25, 9:45 EVIl dEad | 12:25, 12:50, 2:45, 5:05,

SMIttY’S CInEMaBIddEFord

4, 6:50

2, 6, 8

7:20, 7:40, 9:40

CloUdY WItH a CHanCE oF MEatBallS | Tue: noon, 3 | Thu:

7:15, 9:45

lEWISton FlaGSHIP 10

6:55, 9:30

tHE CroodS | Fri-Sat: 12:30, 3:30,

tHE CroodS | Fri-Sat: 1:30, 4:10, 6:55,

7:15, 9:55

G.I. JoE: rEtalIatIon | 11:30 am, 9:45 JUraSSIC ParK 3d | 1, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 olYMPUS HaS FallEn | 1, 4, 6:50, 9:40

oZ tHE GrEat & PoWErFUl | 1, SCarY MoVIE 5 | 11:40 am, 2, 4:20,

nICKElodEon CInEMaS 1 Temple St, Portland | 207.772.9751

tHE PlaCE BEYond tHE PInES | 1, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30

SPrInG BrEaKErS | 9:45 tranCE | 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35

PMa MoVIES

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lorE | Fri: 6:30 | Sat-Sun: 2

WEStBrooK CInEMaGIC

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tHE Call | 11:50 am, 2, 4:20, 7:15, 9:40 tHE CroodS | 11:50 am, 2:10, 4:30, 7, 9:20

MaInE alaMo tHEatrE

85 Main St, Bucksport | 207.469.0924

ESCaPE FroM PlanEt EartH | Fri: 6:30 | Sat-Sun: 2

aUBUrn FlaGSHIP 10

746 Center St, Auburn | 207.786.8605

adMISSIon | 1:30, 6:45 tHE Call | 4:15, 9:05 tHE CroodS | noon, 2:15, 4:30, 6:55, 9:10

FrontIEr CInEMa

855 Lisbon St, Lewiston | 207.777.5010

7, 9:45

oZ tHE GrEat & PoWErFUl | 12:45, 6:45

oZ tHE GrEat & PoWErFUl 3d | 3:50, 9:40

SPrInG BrEaKErS | 3, 5:15, 10

SaCo CInEMaGIC & IMaX

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adMISSIon | 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 tHE CroodS | 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:25, 9:40

EVIl dEad | 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 7:50, 10 42 | 12:30, 3:50, 7, 9:50 G.I. JoE: rEtalIatIon | 1, 4, 7, 9:30

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

noon, 3

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1364 Main St, Sanford | 207.490.0000

tHE CroodS | Fri-Sat: 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:45 | Sun-Thu: 12:30, 3:30, 6:30

daYS oF tHUndEr | Wed: 7 EVIl dEad | Fri-Sat: 12:30, 4, 7:30, 10 | Sun-Thu: 12:30, 4, 7:30

SPotlIGHt CInEMaS

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

Strand tHEatrE

345 Main St, Rockland | 207.594.0070

FroM UP on PoPPY HIll | Sat: 3 |

tHE CroodS | Fri: 4, 6:45, 9:15 | Sat: 1, 4, 6:45, 9:15 | Sun: 1, 4, 6:45 | Mon-Thu: 4, 6:45 EVIl dEad | Fri: 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 | Sat: 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 | Sun: 1:20, 4:20, 7:10 | Mon-Thu: 4:20, 7:10 G.I. JoE: rEtalIatIon | Fri: 4:15, 7:05, 9:35 | Sat: 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 9:35 | Sun: 1:15, 4:15, 7:05 | Mon-Thu: 4:15, 7:05 olYMPUS HaS FallEn | Fri: 4:25, 7:15, 9:45 | Sat: 1:30, 4:25, 7:15, 9:45 | Sun: 1:30, 4:25, 7:15 | Mon-Thu: 4:25, 7:15 oZ tHE GrEat & PoWErFUl | Fri: 4:05, 6:50, 9:25 | Sat: 1:05, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25 | Sun: 1:05, 4:05, 6:50 | Mon-Thu: 4:05, 6:50 SCarY MoVIE 5 | Fri: 4:10, 6:55, 9:25 | Sat: 1:10, 4:10, 6:55, 9:25 | Sun: 1:10, 4:10, 6:55 | Mon-Thu: 4:10, 6:55

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no | Fri: 5:30, 8 | Sat: 5:30, 8 | Mon-

daVId | Sun: 5:30 dISoBEdIEnCE: tHE SoUSa MEndES StorY | Sun: 7:30 tHE GatEKEEPErS | Fri-Sat: 7 | Sun: 3,

Thu: 7

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rEGal FoX rUn StadIUM 15

Sun: 1 | Tue: 1

ManEt: PortraYInG lIFE | Sun: 3:30 | Wed: 10 am

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

75 Wells Plaza, Rte 1, Wells | 207.646.0500

adMISSIon | Fri: 4:10, 7, 9:30 | Sat: 1:05, 4:10, 7, 9:30 | Sun: 1:05, 4:10, 7 | MonThu: 4:10, 7

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Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

Wed: 2, 7

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tHE Grand

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tHE loraX | Mon-Thu: 1:30

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tHE CroodS | Fri-Sat: 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9 |

tHE StorY oF StUFF | Sat: 5

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

EVIl dEad | Fri-Sat: 1:15, 3:40, 7:15, 9:40

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_by syMbo line Da i If you know the name of a good coffeehouse that would welcome an astrologer doing a book tour, email me at sally@moonsigns. net. Initiating projects is exactly what you want to be doing in this first waxing moon phase of the new zodiacal year. Build up projects that are new — take chances now. There’s plenty of time to “perfect” something down the road.

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Across 1 open ___ night 4 rice side 9 make fit 14 Smoker’s leavings 15 counting everything 16 electrical inventor nikola 17 line from 1989’s “dead pesto Society” about grabbing ten cents? 19 Get darker outside 20 “Absolutely” 21 total jerk 23 pain in the neck 24 in ___ (at heart) 26 With 32-across, line from 1983’s “carsface” about an early GpS system? 29 detoxifying site 30 river biter 31 Very, to Valdez 32 See 26-across 38 “love Story” author Segal 39 one Url ending 40 impede, as with “the works” 42 line from 1999’s “the Sixth essen” about visiting miami?

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protesters bar access to care During a street interview published in the Bangor Daily News January 21, prolife demonstrator and organizer Donna Hebert said that when she was 15 “and scared,” she had a legal abortion and later, some more. In hindsight she lamented, “No one was there for me.” She now believes she would have made a different choice. And yet she seeks to interfere with women in similar straights by attempting to deny them guidance and counseling so that they might make a more reasoned and healthy choice at a critical time in their lives! Demonstrators focus on Fridays and Saturdays because they say this is when abortions happen. But they don’t focus on individuals, choosing instead to do a broad sweep of any reproductive age female who happens to be walking in the direction of Planned Parenthood, which ups the commotion, which is good for intimidation and press. Demonstrators control tempo because of proximity to those targeted. It can become a carnival atmosphere with women seeking healthcare services and others, having to run a gauntlet. In 1944 and pregnant with my younger brother, my mother suffered a massive, paralyzing stroke. She was 23 and my father, 26. I was 2 and my sister, 1. We

were Catholic and born in St. Francis Hospital. My parents sought counseling and changed hospitals should termination become necessary. My parents wanted that third child, but Dad chose not to be widowed. And Mom didn’t want him widowed! With the guidance of wise counsel and TLC, I did gain a brother. But we were now a (Catholic) family of choice. We do not consider this an oxymoron. My brother, in retrospect, agrees with the decision that my mother’s life had to come first. Ms. Hebert, on the other hand, limited her options. Had she been better able to take advantage of services such as those provided through Planned Parenthood, her outcome(s) could have been different. I don’t know her age, but certainly there were guidance and referral services available through religious and civil organizations during her pregnancies. There would have been somebody there for her. Fortunately, those women who are seeking competent, professional advice on their reproductive health on Congress Street these days are following the same pathway as my mother’s so long ago. But unlike Ms. Hebert’s, their decisions will have been made with their good health in mind. robert Fritsch dexter

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Friday april 12

Waxing moon in taurus, pluto retrogrades. need to hear some tunes? look at some pretty pictures? or just succumb to acquisitiveness. Some will be high-function (taurus, Virgo, and capricorn will be their usual über-reliable selves). others will be dogmatic for no damn good reason (pisces, cancer, Aries, Sagittarius, libra, Gemini). But you folks can find an opportunity to admire beauty in someone or something, while leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius could be a little touchy. 3

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Down 1 it’s not pc? 2 “love ___ Battlefield” (pat Benatar) 3 pre-butterfly creature 4 Slapstick ammo 5 neither dem. nor rep. 6 china’s chou en-___ 7 lancome competitor 8 it may be peddled 9 Biggest city in Ga. 10 two that are trouble 11 houston player 12 cloth fold 13 dance like an Argentine 18 ___-wee herman 22 Big rig 24 mr. hoggett’s wife, in “Babe” 25 “heidi” author Johanna 26 Fast plane, for short 27 make ___ for mercy 28 moved forward quickly 30 Goddess of wisdom 33 Arctic drama 34 Announcer hall 35 tierra del ___ 36 place to save game progress, on some cartridges 37 had free reign of 41 Brazilian soccer legend 43 Woodworking groove 44 Apiece 48 cold storage? 49 Signified 50 dry heave 51 delish 52 Fast food fixture 53 Style-conscious 56 dance with a story 58 “cover ___ Face” (p.d. James book) 60 B-F connectors 61 mighty tree 62 the night before christmas, say 63 marching band instrument

Waxing moon in taurus. Sometimes spring fever brings that urge to shop ’til you drop (way too much money). With the moon in taurus, good luck getting through the day without buying something. earth sign moons are also superb for dealing with finances, or getting expertise on money matters. Keep moving projects along that have already started if you’re pisces, Aries, taurus, Gemini, cancer, Virgo, Sagittarius, libra, capricorn. discomfort could afflict Scorpio, leo, and Aquarius. 2

Waxing moon in Gemini (moon void-of-course in taurus 8:30 am to 10:13 am), mercury moves into Aries. communication is facilitated, particularly for Aries, taurus, Aquarius, leo, cancer, Gemini, capricorn, libra, and Scorpio. impulse control challenges pisces, Sagittarius, and Virgo. You folks may have a case of the “blurts” (with those who really don’t need to know anything). 4

sunday april 14

Waxing moon in Gemini. the moon is in a harmonious position for those who love to talk. the moon is working against those who like to plan, wait, measure, or evaluate. today, it’s an improviser’s game, and Aquarius, Gemini, libra, Aries, Sagittarius, and leo will be quick to respond (or to anger). Virgo, taurus, capricorn, pisces, cancer, and Scorpio: don’t think you’re getting the whole story today. Skepticism will be helpful. 6

Monday april 15

Waxing moon in Gemini, moon void-of-course 3:41 pm until 10:48 pm when it moves into cancer. Venus moves into taurus. An afternoon Voc moon means you’ll want to double-proof your comments, copy, or contracts. it will be easy to “misunderestimate” crucial details. (i’m so glad he’s not president anymore, but i did enjoy W’s neologisms). Willing to take a chance: Aquarius, Gemini, libra, Aries, Sagittarius, and leo. Vacillating vehemently: Virgo, taurus, capricorn, pisces, cancer, and Scorpio. 6

tuesday april 16

Waxing moon in cancer. A home-centered day, or one in which one’s impulse is to make everything cozy. this could lead to security issues for capricorn, libra, or Aries. however, cancer, Scorpio, pisces, Virgo, taurus, Sagittarius, leo, Gemini, and Aquarius may find emotions are riding high. Are you feeling more passionately about an issue or person than you thought? 7

Wednesday april 17

Waxing moon in cancer. cancer moons can bring out a feeling of privacy — all of a sudden, the exhibitionist at the party turns into a shrinking violet. But if you’re someone who has an inclination to cocoon, you’ll be in your comfort zone. Also, a fine day for baking or getting a massage. in tune with the moon: cancer, Scorpio, pisces, Virgo, taurus, Sagittarius, leo, Gemini, and Aquarius. Unexpectedly defensive: Aries, capricorn, and libra. 8

Moon Keys

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

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