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This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Casco Bay Weekly at Portland Public Library Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Casco Bay Weekly (1990) by an authorized administrator of Portland Public Library Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Department of Marine Resources recently distributed regulations under consideration for the ur­ chin fishery in Maine. One possible regulation is a three­ month season, December to March. Another would ban night dragging and limit the size of nets. The proposed legisla tion was designed to enhance the quality of the harvest and protect the average fisherman. But no one has offered any real evidence that it will do either. Perhaps no such evidence exists. In the informa­ tion vacuum that has become the hallmark of the urchin industry, the truth may never be known. After three years of fever-pitch urchin harvestin~ microscopic bits of reality have found their way into the public debate. Rumors of discontent and disaster within the industry stand in sharp contrast to the get-rich-quick stories circulated earlier by journalists. And the sheer volume of the urchin trade has made environmentalists uneasy about the effects that urchin depletion may have on the ecosystem. Unfortunately, the environmental brain trust at the University of Maine knows as much about the 's natural role as the average reporter knows about the commodities market. Earlier this month, Marine Program extension agent Ben Baxter, leafing through the Journal of the Fisheries Research of Canada, was surprised to find a sur­ vey of post-molt that showed sea urchins com­ prise 68.9 percent of the lobsters' stomach contents. Even as Baxter read this, marine "experts" were telling Port­ land audiences that harbor seals, sea and are the urchin's main predators. "It's just so ironic," says Ben Baxter. " ­ men come to informational meetings on urchin harvest­ ing and say, "Yeah, get rid of these things for us. They clog the traps. They deplete the lobster shabitat by eating all the kelp.' What are they going to say now?" Good question. Lobster fishermen harvest an average of 20 million pounds of lobster a year. It may be that the urchin harvest wiJI restore a natural balance. But it is also possible that the urchin harvest will result in a harvest of fewer or smaller lobsters. Nobody knows. Ignorance, more than any other force, has shaped the Maine urchin fishery thus far. And if the Maine urchin industry fails, it wiJI be igno­ rance that kills it.

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VIEWS page 2 STAGE page 14 UPDATES page 4 ART pagelS CVR/ISSUES page 6 SPORT page 16 CVR/ ARTS page 9 CLASSIFIEDS page 17 CALENDAR page 10 ERNIE POOK page 19 page 12 PUZZLE page 19 2 C..,co Bay Weekly MRrch 22, 1990 3 773-1999 CoscoBov VIEWS ~EKLY TOM SELLECK AN Wh'y do fools INNOCENT fall in love?! MAN March 31 - April 1 Beem does "best work while drunk"? Casco Bay Weekly is an instrument CASWllTIES OF I read with some enjoyment Leslie Morison's review of the of community understanding. COUPLES WORKSHOP: "IOxIO" exhibit at our old gallery space on Milk Street. THE DYNAMICS OF LOVE & POWER RAW BAR & GRILL Her comment on Edgar Allen Beem doing his best work while March 22. 1990 Volume 3, Number 12 For registration and more information Restaurant Employee drunk explains a great deal about his writing as well as his art. Now please call 767-2349 I know that when he gets a bit nasty about a show, it's just the bottle AppreCiation Nights! speaking. not the real Edgar. Pub.sher Wednesday and Sunday 9p.m. -Last Call "'''11 Thank. you, Leslie; oh, thank you! Gary Santaniello Present an employee check stub from any Greater Portland restaurant and get 112 Price Appetizers o 11Ik Editor Discounted Drinks ~w.payson Monte Paulsen Mystic Center/"....:..,J ...... Pitchers of Margaritas Hobe , florida AssocIate Editor/News 81 Ocean St. • So.Portland, ME 04106 Andy Newman Ii'! Prizes i'!! Gallery owners have "tunnel vison" Associate Editor/Arts 164 Middle Street Portland • 773-3760 AnnSitomer The 3rd ANNUAL COME SEE THE FINEST WOOD AND FIBERGLASS I find the manner in which Portland gallery owners treat their BOATS BUILT IN THE NORTHEAST! resident artists appalling. My roots are here in Maine, but I've lived MAINE COME MEET THE BUILDERS! Production Manager Sail, Power, , and worked in and New York City throughout my adult life_ BOATBUILDERS Kavaks and Skills and returned to Maine two years ago. Elissa Conger After Day•.. Just The Thing SHOW will displayed. I consider myself a well-seasoned artist of 35 years. Having done Production all phases of art, I've opted for the past 10 years to do abstract Martha Clary PORTLAND COMPANY MARINE COMPLEX ATTITUDE 58 FORE STREET, PORTLAND, MAINE "sculptures on canvas." I've exhibited in Boston, New York City, DHIJrTOK5 INCLUDE: California, North Carolina and many other states. CirculatIon Manager MARCH 23,24,25 ABU MAlIst.l~c.· BEl\lI~'5 Co .• BJUOC['S PoI"i BOATYAIID ADJUSTMENT HOUR DlAcoswow.INc.· E" D STUm, L,(. It's been my experience since moving to Maine, through the Robertlmd HOURS: EVE.' KEEL M.UISE • FlASIClIS CEDAR CASOlS interviews and viewings of my work by gallery owners, that gallery Circulation Friday & Saturday IOAM-6:30 PM G£OFnIY BuaX( BOATlUILDER. CHOCORt:A, NH * ALL YOU CAN EAT! owners have tunnel vision and do not dare deviate from the usual. Elke Rosenberg, Dan Tonini Sunday 11 AM- 4 PM GM MUISE' H" H BoAJWORXS L,c. • IlL'RI GICSOOl, BOATWRICHT K[!\ LlICH BoAr RESTORATION' LANDINC ScHOOL OF BoATlLllDiSC I appreciate all fonus of art, but am terribly bored with Portland's ADMISSION: S? MONDAY TUESDAY T.R. MAY'EI • MAINE BOATS "''''0 HARBORS OffIce Manager Children under 12 wi_dulls FREE. narrow-mindedness. Perhaps if our galleries knew a bit more about MAl" COASTAl NEw" NEW ENClA.'D COASTAL NEWS Robyn Barnes Baked Ham & Beans Steamship Ro~ti~~ef 3-Day Pass $5 what's going on in the art world, more Portland artists would be MICHAEl Potm:R. BOAnUILDER au jus y#( MONHEGAN SKIm' NoKTHERN BAY BOATS recognized. Display Advertising SPECIAL EVENTS: DAVID NUTT, BoATlUILDEJ. • OAt SHOP My observations have been that many gallery owners simply WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Marine Items· Dutch Auction: ORR~ IslA.'D BoAT WORXS • Pur LOWEll Co, L,c. * open a gallery as a ''hobby'' or as a supplemental income tax Rose Greely, Holly Lynn Roast Turkey Seminars and Demonstrations PORTLA.'iD YACHT S£IVJCES,lsc •• PORTS~UTH BoAT Co. Isc. Make Your Own Harbor Cruises on LONGFELLOW R.S. PL:l5IFU • RKL BoATWORXS • RoBERT W. STEVENS WOODEN BOATS deductible item. In reality, when it comes to talking intelligently Tortillas with Cranberry Sauce ROIINHOOO MARlI\'[ CE~rER.. he. about art, they dear their throat for lack of words. Classified Advertising ROCKIORT ArrIDrl'TIC£ SHop· SHEW A~1) BUR.'H4~ The man on the street, the insurance salesman, the plumber or Melissa Johnson FRIDAY CHRIS Sr IL'iU' BOATll11l0El • W.UIJI. POWER PRODUCTS· WClZ WESSEL MARlfIro"E I WESMAC EN TW'l15ES electrician could lease art space if he has the means to pay for it and Five Foot Italian Sandwich NATHA~1El WIlSON, SAllMAkER • WOODE~ BOAT PI,;IUCATIOSS list himself in the Yellow Pages under"Art Galleries." TIris does not Contributing Editors ASD MORE! necessarily mean they have an eye for good art. Tonei'! Harbert/phowgraphy Ladies and gentlemen! Please! Dare to take a chance. You might Toki Oshimtl/illustration Don't forget Thursday is Ladies Night ·; PRESENTED BY: be wonderfully surprised at the way people will react to something tIt-.: Morgan Shepard/s tage No Cover Charge • Dress Code Strictly E~forced fresh and new! _ 1.eslie Morison/art PORTLAND YACHT SERVICES, Inc. Mike Quinn/sport 58 Fore Street, PortlRnd, Maine 04101 774 -1067 ~E~ PatEich Contributors no Portland Lynda Barry, Breruln Chandler, "'! 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Please be brief 772-0531 The Southern Maine Peter DeCrescenzo of the Association of Alternative when you write, and please include a phone number (which will not be Blues Society for bringing 774-1682 Ne'UJSWt'.t!ldies published) so that we can verify your letter. Mail to: VIEWS , Casco Bay the Southern Soul Review Weekly, 187 Clark St., Portland, ME. 04102. to town. March 22, 1990 5 .:.. , iGALLERIES .d UPDATES Tomorrow's Antiques Greyhound strike wags along ~~~~g~8~~~ As .if it weren't bad enough riding the bus, Greyhound riders 343 Forest Ave. • Portland, Maine· (207)773-4715 travelIng to Boston may take abuse from picketing Greyhound workers. Nineteen shootings and 57 bomb threats are counted among the 457 "incidents" reported in the three-week old strike according to Greyhound spokesperson Pete Scarpino. ' Service between Portland and Boston had corne to a standstill when more than 9,000 Greyhound workers - most of them drivers -left the company over wage disputes on Mar. 1. There are now two Greyhounds going to Boston daily. you are invited to visit our new gallery of fine art "I think most days management can look under a rock and pick now fea tu ring works by themselves up a couple scabs," said John Thibodeau, a South P?rtla~der and driver for Greyhound for 21 years who has been Orlando DeAvila pIcketing at the Portland Greyhound station every day. Abby Huntoon ':We will not bargain with these people through acts of intimi­ Barbara Kuci ne datIon and violence," said Scarpino. Only one-third of scheduled Nancy Nevergole EO. BAILEY busses are now ~nning nationwide, but Scarpino said that Grey­ Lois Leonard Stock ANTIQUARIANS ~ound. w~1I contInue to hire "permanent replacement" workers. and others 137.I41 MIDDLE ST. PORTLAND, ME 04101 'TIllS IS Just another event in Greyhound's 76-year history" aa MILK 8TRliiIiT / aa? 772·5ID7111 TEL. (207) 774·1479 PDRTLAND MAIN!! 041 D1 Scarpino said. ' Tree Cafe chopped down by foreclosure Hider wins round In gun battle 18k gold Cumbe~land C?unty District Attorney Paul Aranson angered Club owner fights to keep Tree standing single loop earrings Portland CI ty offICIals when he chose not to press charges against from the Mark HIder, a Portland man accused of carrying a concealed knife American Federal Savings Bank bounced the Russell Turner, owner of Raoul's Roadside MICHAEL GOOD and gun. Hider has waged a battle with Portland Police Chief owner of the Tree Cafe out of his own club and Attraction was also booking bands three years Michael Chitwood since a traffic violation led to his arrest and the changed the lock on the door. On March 12, the fi­ ago. Turner brought acts like The Broken Men, the COLLECTION denial of a concealed gun permit. nancially-troubled American Federal in Sanford I-Tones, and Livingston Taylor to Portland three at "They've got nothing on me. ['m in the clear now," said Hider, foreclosed on the Tree, and that has owner Herb nights a week. T-Birds, a newcomer to Portland's who owns A Bar of Soap in Portland's Old Port. Hider said he had Gideon and local progressive music lovers sing­ club scene, started booking major bands recently. not realized that his concealed gun permit had expired months ing the blues. "Portland has a small pie and people keep before his traffic violation because he wasn't sent a notice by the Gideon said he knew that the bank had "the taking a slice out of it," Gideon said. police deparbnent. ability" to foreclose, but was still jarred to be Even as the pie shrank, the Tree continued to "If the permi t was in effect at the time," said Aranson, "there locked out of the club he started three years ago. bring bands to Portland that had never played would have been no violations." Aranson chose to file the charge "I was ready to go to jail to stop it and fight," he here before and who many Portlanders didn't rather than prosecute it, which means that as long as Hider said, "but I realized it was better to acquiesce ... know. "He might havebeen taking acts that didn't doesn't brea~ the law for a period of up to a year, the charges will and to let them have their way and work it out in really have much of a following," said Turner. dIsappear. HIder, a martial arts teacher, has no criminal record. a peaceful manner." Gideon said he is discussing "Herb took some chances and some of his big But city attorney David Lourie maintains that Hider shouldn't a plan wi th the bank and a "financier" who "could chances paid off," said Bennie Green, editor and have been let off the hook, especially for carrying the knife. "We put the whole deal together" and replant the Tree. publisher of Face, a Portland music magazine. abacus Overall, "Herb was less likely to book popular American Crafts are very disappointed with the actions of the D.A.," Lourie said. "There is no way the issuance of a gun permit warranted the "We're not tavern owners" bands," than Raoul's and other Portland clubs, 44 Exchange Street. Portland, ME 04101 carrying of a throwing knife." American Federal foreclosed on the Tree be­ Green said. 772-4880 cause Gideon wasn't making the mortgage pay­ But risk-taking proved as much a liability as an ~~~Q~8~~~ ments. Not getting mortgage payments from a asset when musie fans didn't fork over the cover Water District fights rate freeze borrower is bad news for any bank. But it's even charge for bands they didn't recognize. "My place 773-4715 The Portland Water District is seeking to move ahead with a worse for American Federal, which couldn't meet didn't melt the heart of traditional types and rate increase even after South Portland resident Mark Usinger regulatory requirements and was taken over by conservative types," said Gideon. "I don't knowif collected the 1,000 ratepayer signatures required by the Public the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) in Janu­ this community can support the ambitious pro­ Ut~i!ies Commission (PUC) to intervene in the increase. USinger ary. grams the Tree tried to present." EKONESS petItioned to draw attentIon to water conservation issues. The rate The RTC is a federal agency created by Presi­ "I don't think Portland is less progreSSive than Memories dent Bush last year to bailout troubled savings any other city of its size," commented Green. "I increase was postponed from Mar. 15 to June 15. STRESSLESS of warm winter nights But on Mar. 20, the PUC received a request from the water and loan institutions. Fred Cobb, the federal offi­ don't think you can point to a group of people and district that suspension of the rate date be rescinded. Michael T. cial overseeing American Federal, said that the say 'It's your fault because you listen to too much Leather Reclining Healy, an attorney for the water district, said that currently the RTC has acquired "about 350" banks nationally. It crap on the radio.'" a~n~al expenses. for the water district exceed revenue by $1.8 has restructured and resold 50 of them. Chair and onoman Gathered 'round the fire at a ski lodge millIon. Healy saId that the water district has applied for an $8.6 "My job is to downsize (American Federal), to ReplantIng the Tree? or Lounging by the pool in a tropical paradise. million bond from the Maine bond bank, but the water district's try to sell off loans ... and put it in a posi tion to be Rather, Gideon lost a "numbers game," Green Starting "rates as of April 20 must be sufficient to handle expenses and pay more attracti ve to acquire," said Cobb. Dropping said, where he booked bands "four or five nights as low as back the loan." At the present rates, the water district won't be borrowers who can't make payments makes the a week" but had "too many nights" where the eligible for the loan. When the rates increase in June, ratepayers bank more attractive. Gideon owes $210,000 on cover charges didn't cover the cost of the band. Pictures bring it home. will face even higher rates if the "water district had to go to Wall his mortgage and "stopped making payments" "Hopefully (Gideon) laid the groundwork for $495.°0 Street" for a higher-interest loan. on it, said Cobb, who didn't know how late Gid­ someone to do a more efficient job." V"5~_- eon was in making the payments. That someone may be Gideon himself. · · · · · · · · · · · ~ · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · The feds took over the bank because the bank "The last chapter in the the Tree has not been r TI1I .~t your JlemonesBDS PlIOTlV E'Vp'DDSS 30 City Center, Portlalld • 772·7296 Inn by the Sea snags tax break wasn't solvent enough; then the bank took over written," said Gideon, who added thatthechances WIth the Pros at £" I .I.. • A. .I..l.n. 7J US RI. J, Scarborough • 883·7363 I the Tree because the tree wasn't solvent enough. are "strong" that a deal will crystallize between I • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Cape EI!~beth ~~s reduced it's valuation of the Inn by the Sea by $1.8 millIon, gIVing developer and owner Pritham Singh a But the bank isn't going to keep the Tree open and an investor, the bank and himself. Thedeal mayor $25,643 property tax break next year. Cape Elizabeth tax assessor try tonurseit back to life like the fedsaredoing for may not keep Gideon at the Tree, and the news Gerald Daigle said that the Inn was recently reassessed, atSingh's the bank. While that could earn money for the may come soon. "The next two weeks are going to request, to reflect Inn vacancies and seasonal variabilities. Daigle bank while making the Tree more saleable, Cobb be very telling," Gideon said. Planting the tree said he allowed the Inn an "economic depreciation akin to half of said that banks - especially those under the wing again in Portland could mean many changes, Ilt wasn't a loud Pizza ... a shoppi~g center being vacant," adding that "if there was an of the federal government - don't mix well with including sprucing up the outside of the building But it always knew UpSWIng In the economy where they would be renting more cocktails. As opposed to a "car dealer or hotel," and revising booking, marketing and organiza­ rooms" the town would tag the Inn at a higher value. Singh Cobb said he "didn't feel it was appropriate for tional strategies. that one day, somehow, recently replaced the management team at the Inn. this bank to get into the bar business. We're not If the bank and Gideon don't put a deal to­ someway, it would make tavern owners, we're bankers." gether, the Tree will be auctioned at the end of a difference in the world. April. The bank would settle for the $210,000 WEIRD NEWS The roots of the Tree owed to it and may even take less. "If someone bid Merchandise may vary Gideon bought the 45 Danforth St. building very close, and there are no other bids, we might from illustration. orJapan's national police force uses several thousand inani­ tha t houses the Tree 17 years ago and started the take a little hit on it," said Cobb. The RTC hopes to The Good mate ~gures of ~affic cops standing by the roadside to keep Tree three years ago. He said he's poured more sell American Federal within a few months. Egg Pizzeria. motonsts on their best behavior. The stand-ins include three­ than $500,000 into the club, which shimmers with The 18 people who prepared food, mixed di~~sional plastic f~gures, two-dimensional figures covered by tile, a spiral staircase, funky padded booths and drinks, and balanced trays for Herb Gideon at the Hours: Mon. - Fri. 10-8, Sal. 10 - 6, Sun. 12 - 6 o?:p\,. a lIfe s~ze photoand.slmple wooden figures. Besides intimidating other art-deco flourishes. The bands that have Tree got bounced too. They're job hunting. While 11 ~;...... '" m~tonsts: the ~oadsld.edumrnies also serve as memorials to police appeared at the Tree in its three years have been they're filling out applications, a man who works ...... kIlled In the hne of duty and feature boxes for offerings. local, national and international. They've run the for the bank is taking inventory at the Tree - ~'\ .... '" Open office~s ,,~~ orThe Kroger supermarket chain, inspired by the success of a gamut of blues, rock, R&B, reggae, acoustic and scribbling down the equipment, the fixtures and A ... . friendly place in ,",G~u... "" Evenmgs similar plan in London, is testing six-foot cardboard cutouts of world beat. the booze that the bank owns, for now. WEO-SAT an unfriendly world. CO.)...... police officers in several of its Dallas stores to deter shoplifters. "Bringing top talent to a small club" in Port­ Andy Newman 5-10:30 0")...... The cutouts portray officers in uniform in natural poses. land was a "formula that began at the Tree," ... J,.~ 705 Congress St. ·773-0801 Roland Sweet/AlterNet Gideon said. 6 Coseo Bay Wukly Mm-ch 22, 1990 7 highest quality roe - resplendent in the bright yellow the the dollar, air transport costs between Japanese regard as a celebration color - can cost mega­ urchin beds and Japan, once severely prohibitive, soon yen. Mega-yen converted means more than $350 a pound." became so reasonable that those paying the fare merely Ignore, for the moment, Ms. Levine's creative pseudo­ screamed. It was time, thought the Japanese, to extend calculus and consider the purple tone of the above pas­ the urchin trade. sage. The response Ms. Levine attempts to elicit from her readers is a shout of "We eat tonight!" followed by a The rush for Black Gold general plunge into the briney deep. In 1986, Japanese seafood merchants arrived in Maine And why not? Unlike the lottery, this is a sure thing. with a gargantuan bankroll and a small request: the Just throw your mask and fins into the dory and head out reproductive organs of the humble green sea urchin, into Casco Bay. Nothing to it. Right? Strongylocentrotus Droebachiensis, make an excellent Well ... not really. Like many things in the real world, garnish for seaweed-wrapped Sushi. Please send what it ain't that simple. you can. Few Mainers jumped to the call. Two, to be precise: Continued from front page Widely misunderstood facts Lloyd Covens and his son Bill. The Japanese began to import Californian sea urchins "We were the very first people to go down, get an Lloyd Covens, sometimes known as the Urchin Mer­ in the late 1970s whendernand for domestic uni exceeded urchin, and ship it to Japan," says Lloyd. "We started the chant, floatsBuddha-likeona cloud of cigarette smoke in supply. The Japanese urchin fishery, rigidly and exten­ industry. Four years ago, you know how many urchin his office on the Maine Wharf in Portland. A caricature sively regulated along local political lines, could no divers there were in Maine? Two: him (Bill} and me. That portrait of Lloyd wearing a crown of urchins, entitled longer keep pace with an increasingly prosperous na­ was it. I had to talk my heart out in order to hire the third "King of Urchins in Mourning," hangs behind him on the tion's mania for delicacies. The California urchin fishery, one." wall. The acerbity of the caricature captures Lloyd's all but nonexistent before this, was utterly unregulated. The urchin fishery grew exponentially in the years current mood very well. It could be that Lloyd is not Greed-driven scuba divers could harvest Californian that followed. According to figures supplied by the thrilled by the prospect of yet another interview. urchins in quantities sufficient to make shipping them National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Not without reason. across the Pacific Ocean profitable. For more than 10 (NOAA), in 1987, the first year in which such records "Newspaper coverage has been unbelievably bad," he years they did just that. were kept, Maine fishermen harvested 1.5 million pounds says. "I talked to a lot of reporters from a lot of different However, several factors eventually contributed to a of urchin. The total harvest was worth $236,391 dollars. papers. And no matter what I said, it didn't mean a decline of the Californian urchin harvest. EI Nino, a Fishermen received an average of 16 cents a pound for tinker's damn to them. They ignored any facts that I warm-water current that inexplicably moves further up their trouble. In 1989, the urchin harvest totaled 8.5 could give, that I could document, that would violate the every year, rendered more and more of the million pounds and fetched $3.2 million at an average what they intended to write." Californian coast uninhabitable to the sea urchin, a cold­ cost of 38 cents a pound. The urchin business boomed Lloyd rummages through his 'In/Out'' basket and water animal. The dramatic resurgence of the sea otter in and the sound turned heads from Kittery to Eastport. extracts a potential Puli tzer prize winner in the "General Californian waters further depleted the urchin popula­ Media response to this phenomenon was typically Hysteria" category, an article written by Susan Levine tion, since sea otters and Japanese gourmets have similar overblown. Lurid descriptions of untold wealth at the for the Knight-Ridder Newspapers. The editorial thrust tastes in seafood. Last but not least, a decade of high­ bottom of the ocean spread Hke an alga bloom from of Ms. Levine's article, ("Sea Urchins are a Rich Roe to volume harvesting on a mere 1,348 miles of coastline small town dailies to large metropolitan newspapers. "A Hoe"), is that the Japanese, otherwise sober and shrewd caused a measurable drop in productivity. To protect the Miracle in Maine," proclaimed a 1988 page-one story in .. business people, become drooling imbeciles in the pres­ industry, the Californian legislature passed laws that the Wall Street Journal. "Sea Urchin is Turned Into Gold en .. ence of Maine urchins. limited into the field and Significantly reduced the Uni." People who never gave urchins a thought now saw "Consider," writes Ms. Levine, "that an ounce of size of the harvest. them in their dreams: American dreams of plenty. urchin roe, (the edible portion of the urchin) or uni, is Bu t the Japanese appetite for imported uni continued Thereafter a Beverly Hillbillies epiphany spread often twice as expensive as an ounceof silver,and that the to grow. As the value of the Yen continued to rise against through the fishing community. "Why, thatain'tmuck in your back forty, Jed. That there's Black Gold." Lobster CBWphotos/Tonee Harbert fishermen who once collected unemployment in the off­ Richard Harris helps urchins up a conveyor belt at Urchin Merchant. season suddenly became full-time, year-round fisher­ men, harvesting urchin in the winter and lobster the rest fish market. But the self-interest of an enlightened merchant can The possibility of over-harvesting urchins in the Gulf of the year. Maine fishermen listened to the whistle of ap­ '''There are a whole lot of people that went into the constrain itself to a market ecology. Lloyd Covens calls of Maine has caused considerable consternation here but proaching prosperity with great expectation. urchin business who don't know what they're doing," the Maine urchin harvester an endangered species. "I can has yet to inspire anyone to look into the matter formally. But, formanypeople, thewhistle thatfilled the wharves says Lloyd Covens. "And they literally did this: they got prove to you that anything approaching (the recently Many see the decline of the Californian urchin popula­ was not the siren of approaching prosperity but was, in divers to go out and get urchins and bring them in. And proposed December 1 to March 1 season) will destroy the tion as an ominous precedent, but do not take into fact, the whoosh of something big falling fast. they shipped them over to Japan without a customer, industry," he says. account the dissimilarity of local conditions. Maine has Blinded by the sensationalistic, P.T. Barnum-Hkeearly without an order, without an agreed-on quality or an According to Lloyd, the season limit came out of a no correlative "EI Nino" ecological condition to under­ season news coverage and wholly unaware of the com­ agreed-on price. I can't believe that people would do this, questionnaire distributed by the Maine Department of mine the urchin's habitat. Maine has three times the modity market's true nature, fishermen and dealers, but it was done by the millions of tons." Marine Resources at a recent meeting held Downeast; a actual coastline of California, a fact which suggests that aided and abetted by Japanese consignment dealers, Fallout from the October crash left people on both meeting attended by a grand total of 28 people, many of Maine supports a larger urchin population. But Maine rushed to ship the contents of Casco Bay to Japan. Con­ sidesof the Pacific with the feeling that Something Should whom Lloyd suspects knew very little about urchin has only a fraction of the population of California and sequently in October of 1989, when the Tokyo market Be Done. The Japanese began to demand higher quality harvesting. But the December 1 date nevertheless proves therefore only a fraction of possible urchin harvesters. became glutted with urchins, many importers, exporters, from the Maine fishery, while Mainers, dimly aware that that most of the people at the meeting knew something Many Mainers are now calling for regulation. They packers and fishermen were smashed flat by the falling something had gone wrong in California, regarded the about harvesting urchins under local conditions. believe that prudence would be better served byregulat­ price of uni. Lacking practical information and, in some ever greater quantities of urchin shipped to Japan with Downeasterners drag for urchins because the currents ing the industry before the facts are known. This is the cases, good sense, people involved in every phase of the some apprehension. associated with the local 22-foot tide schedule prevent "leap before you look" theory. urchin fishery found themselves washed up on corpo­ What should be done? divers from harvesting safely. But fishermen cannot drag Butto err on the side of caution is still to err. The best rate beaches. Stung by a fundamental ignorance, they The local consensus has been that the fishery should for urchins until the lobster season closes - what a coin­ policy is one where the state spends what it can afford to began to fill the by asking questions. First: what the be regulated. But this is largely the consensus of the cidence - on December 1. spend on an investigation of the issues mentioned above. hell happened? Second and more important: what the people who have been in the industry the shortest time Aside from being an obvious attemptto secure a larger (If the urchin trade continues to bring in an average of hell is going to happen? and have the least knowledge of the urchin and the market share, this attempt of Downeast fishermen to $3.5 million dollars for the next five years as predicted, market. In the opinion of the people who have been in the influence legislation in their favor represents a serious then the state should be able to afford something, Yes?) Market roulette industry the longest, like Lloyd Covens of Portland and threat to the industry itself. If the proposed three-month When the state or its scientific representative finally Dallas Pyle and his crew of hand-picked urchin pick­ Don Robinson of Steuben, any regulation generated out limit somehow sticks, Japanese importers, accustomed looks into the water and sees what Lloyd Covens calls ers have temporarily taken over Uncle Billy's Bar-B-Q in of a blind urge to haul off and regulate something has the to making money 12 months out of the year, wiII need to "the end of the army," the last viable urchin, miles from South Portland. They recall the horrors and highlights of potential of strangling the Maine urchin fishery in its look elsewhere fiII their urchin quotas. The same forces the shore and years from its destination in the Tokyo fish Lloyd Covens, at his Commercial Street business. a more-or-Iess successful first season of urchin harvest­ infancy. that brought the Japanese to Maine wiII bring them to market, then regulation of the urchin fishery makes ingover steaming plates of ribs and chicken. Dallas, alter Canada. If Japan promises Canada a significant market sense. Until then, Maine is acting out of a profound ego of the Songo Trading Company, has been Coincidental ignorance share, the Canadian government will cheerfully subsi­ ignorance. exporting shoes and fish to Japan for five years and has Tonight's "Sea Urchin Harvesting: Threat or Opportu­ dize the industry to the extent that Canadian prices will lately decided to get into the urchin trade. As he dis­ nity?" confab at S.M.V.T.I. has drawn fishermen, would­ undercut the Maine market. The only thing holding the cusses the intricacies of dealing with the Japanese, one be fishermen and environmentalists in fairly equal num­ Canadians at bay is the fact that it is currently cheaper to Mr. Cutlip is a freelance writer who lives on Peaks Island, where hears the unmistakable turning of wheels within wheels. bers. Given the title, it could hardly fail to do so. ship urchins from Maine than it is to ship them from he eats fish twice a week. "I keep hearing stories from Japan that people are The organizers of the round-table discussion have Nova Scotia. How long this will hold true is anybody's "They got divers to go out and get urchins and bring losing money (on the Maine urchin trade}," says Dallas. brought in Ben Baxter to discuss "Regulatory Options to guess. "No one believes me. A lot of the time I doubt it myself Achieve Sustainable Yields" and so perhaps cover the because the thing just keeps rolling along." Dallas, like "threat" angle of the urchin harvest. But - a first for the A profound ignorance them in. They shipped them over to Japan without a most exporters, believes that the approach local dealers industry - Mr. Baxter is disinclined to discuss something And so the urchin biz has come to this: The dealers and fisherman take to providing a quality product has a he knows nothing about. most familiar with the urchin trade claim to have no customer, without an order, without an agreed-on quality direct impact on the market as a whole. Unlike some "I really feel best qualified to talk to you about some trouble shipping qual ity urchins from September to May. dealers, however, he is not inclined to blame Maine details of urchin biology and what we reallyreally know," Logic suggests that thequality-<:onscious Japanese would fisherman. '''The culprit is the Japanese (importer), not he says. '''The regulatory options question is up in the air not allow them to do so if this were not the case. But no or an agreed-on price. I can't believe that people would the fisherman, because the Japanese keep buying. One right now. I'd like to give you some real, solid material independent-agent - not to say the state government - guy loses, steps out, and someone steps in and keeps and then let you know where our knowledge ends so that has actually looked into this. Everyone agrees that differ­ buying, no matter what the quality. Until all the potential we know how much decision making we've got to do." ent urchin beds come into season at different times, but do this, but it was done by the millions of tons. /I losers have stepped up to the plate and struck out, the Ben Baxter's revolutionary approach to the industry­ many people seem ~culiarly unwilling to reason from problem is never going to be corrected." that of proceeding from the facts - conceivably repre­ this point on. sents the best hope for the urchin fishery. Where does Mr. Most people assume that the long-time, large-volume Lloyd Covens, the "Urchin Merchant" If the urchin trade is too tricky for Japanese dealers Masa Ota Inspects urchin roe. already somewhat familiar with the system, it must be Baxter suggest we find those facts? '''The people in the dealers are responsible for the poor quality urchins that doubly dangerous for the uninitiated American new­ industry are the people who know more than a lot of us. arrive in the Tokyo market and let it go at that. Limit the comer. The greatest damage done to the industry so far We should listen to them." season to the period when even the most rank amateur has been the unfortunate unification of misinformed From an environmental point of view, the notion that has a chance of harvesting a decent urchin and all will be American exporters and reckless Japanese importers. It an industry can be trusted to regulate itself is like think­ well, they say. This position assumes that poor quality was this confluence of local ignorance and distant stu­ ing a child can be safely held accountable for the contents urchins are only harvested early or late in the season. In pidity that produced the October uni crash in the Tokyo of a cookie jar. Greed knows no limit. . fact, quality is a year-round issue with the Japanese. • C4ISCO &y Weekly

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Actual Size Deadline ' hopeless obsession and dignified detennina­ March 30, 1990 tion that is the essence of 'You Keep Me Pop Life Delivery in Greater Portland Hangin' On: And topping it off with that • Lee Atwater's fellow bodybuilders at the Open Monday - Saturday 8-8, Sunday 11 - 3 incredibly tough, 'And there ain't nothing I can Washin~on YMCA are fed up with the GOP WE'VE massage do about it.' chairman's insistence on be\lowing out his "And, most importantly for me, a moment favorite r&b tunes while he works out. Accord­ GOT 24 City Center. Portland, Maine . 828-2000 Congress Street STRESSED OUT? TRY in September 1966, at three o'clock in the Counseling ing to the New Republic, Atwater has also lHERAPlIT1C MASSAGE morning, driving down the Mass_Turnpike demanded that the Y staff play tapes of his Afro­ Jane Doe, M.A. from a sen.sitive,experienced, with my best friend, listening to WRKO and caring therapist jams with B.B. 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For me, it was a demotion and the international embarassment Africa, seething with tension and Portland, ME 04102 Card No.: - - --Exp. Date moment like no other and the memory of it the bureau received from its clumsy foray into sexual frustration, as seen through helps me explain what I want to do here right the eyes of a young European girl. Preferred Heading '----- rap music as a victory. The FBI wanted to send • now. Which is to say to three men I've never a message to the music business and the spi­ met, Brian, Lamont and Eddie, thank you for nelessness of the industry in the wake of the songs, thank you for the inspiration, thank REEN MOUNTAfN growing censorship shows they heard the you for the moments:' word, loud and clear. • "I'm a parent and I resent the efforts of C"FFEE­ The three Rs, plus one those people who would manipulate the music Arthur J. Katzman, chair of the New York industry this way. I hope the rest of the OASTERS City Council's education committee, recently country - the often silent, but real majority­ told an interviewer that, in contrast to "chil· will begin raising their voices against censor­ ~O~ dren of European-born" parents, "there ship... My morals come from the Bible, not the 0'" appears to be no liking of learning" among Bible Belt." - Donny Osmond _AMADEUS­ Black and Hispanic children. Jet magazine responded with a cover story /' MUSIC 7' Dave Marsh never runs out of things to about music. uncommon records, tapes & C.D.'s • that asked "Could Students Learn More if say Excerpted from Rock & Roll Confidrntial. Subscriptions Taught With Rap Music?" The answer was an In the Old Port • 332 Fore Street e Portland e 772-8416 aTe $24 a year from Box 15052, Long Beach, CA 90815. 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Portland's celebration of the performance at 7 p.m. at the Ursala Baier in "Catastrophe,"a play written by Earth, and WCLZ are hosting a Masters of the Steel String Portland Public Library. To­ iiiil"f:'lht... her lecture "Old Samuel Beckett for Havel while Earth Celebration Concert to Guitar. Four of the six night's storytelling performance "".. W"., Rural Houses: he was in prison, and excerpts benefit Earth Day 1990. Do'ah featured guitarists, from features Ashley Bryan, who How They from Havel's "Letters to Olga" and Devonsquare perform at 8 left to right, John Cephas, combines readings of poetry by Changed and will be performed tonight Jerry Douglas, Albert Lee, black Americans with story­ through Saturday at The Artists and Tal Farrow. telling and spirituals. The per­ ll~~~~~:G~:re~;w."lecture The is Studio Building, 536 Congress formance is free, but advance the first in a St., Portland; Thursday and tickets must be picked up at the spring series of Friday at 7 and 9 p.m.; and • The mod and maudlin library. For more information on programs Saturday at 8, 10 and 12 mid­ sounds of country music fill the tickets or the daytime work­ Fund. The event begins at 4 p.m. offered by night. Seating is limi ted and res­ afternoon at a benefit for the shops (the official registration at Zootz and Alberta's Restau­ ervations are suggested. For Kidney Foundation of Maine. deadline was Mar. 20), call the rant on Forest Ave., Portland. more information, call 774-4004. The 1990 WPOR Country Music library at 871-1700, ext. 707. For more on what's going down, • The man with the blue be asking which way to the . Festival features Big Al Down­ • A tale from the middle ages: see page 14. Tickets are $8 in postmodern fragmented neo­ Eiffel Tower. Alliance Francaise ing, Malinda Liberty and The 12th-century musical tale, advance and $10 at the door. traditionalist guitar, Peter Case, sponsors a program of tradi­ Streamliner in concert.at 2 p.m. "Lady Odivere," is being per­ • PAUSICA's annual dance-a­ is in town for a show at Raoul's, tional French music performed at the Sonesta Hotel Ballroom in formed by folk musician Gordon thon to raise money for medical 865 Forest Ave., Portland. by Jean-Paul Poulain. The Portland. Tickets are $8, avail­ Bok and other musicians at 7:30 aid to EI Salvador starts moving Jerry Douglas plays the Dobro p.m. in the First Parish Church, program includes songs by able at Recordland, Cumberland p.m. at 88 String Guitar, 100 tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Raoul's, guitar, the obscure guitar of 425 Congress St., Portland. Charles Aznavour, Jacques Brei Electronics and Westbrook Pool Front St., Bath. Bok translated 865 Forest Ave., Portland. The bluegrass music. Ledward Do'ah combines the western and Edith Piaf at 7:30 p.m. in « Spa. For more information, this ancient Orkney legend - a music of Darien Brahms & the Kaapana is a Hawaiian guitarist, sounds of classical and jazz with Catherine MacAuley High call 772-7270. poem of love, manipulation and Soul Miners, Too Much Truth who accompanies himself as he other world musics using more School Auditorium, Stevens • Bach's choral narrative of betrayal - and set the story to and The Cowlix supplies the sings traditional Hawaiian than 70 authentic and hand­ Avenue, Portland. Tickets are $8 the Crucifixion, "The Passion original music. Bok plays the beat. It's not too late to get your vocals. Appalachian guitarist made instruments from around at the door. According to St. John," is being role of 'Cellamba. Flutist Ann pledge card filled. Admission is • Six steel string guitarists are Wayne Henderson rounds out the world. And the more • The Cest Si Bon Dance Band performed by The Choral Art Mayo Muir plays Lady Odivere free for pledge dancers and $5 coming to town under the the selection of styles. The familiar, folky sounds of De­ presents ballroom dancing from Society at 7 p.m. at the Cathe­ and Euclid Hanbury is Knight for all others. For more informa­ auspices of the National Council "Masters of The Steel String vonsquare entertain those 8 p.m.-12 midnight at Maine dral of the Immaculate Concep­ Odivere. Tickets for this unique tion, call 773-7873. for the Traditional Arts. Several Guitar" are in town for one whose tastes might not relish the Ballroom Dance, 614 Congress tion in Portland, preceded by a performance are $10, available genres of music will be repre- performance at 8 p.m. in the eclectic. Tickets are $12, avail­ St., Portland. Admission is $10. lecture on the Passion at 6: 15 at Buckdancer's Choice in Port­ sented. Albert Lee is a British First Parish Church, 425 Con- able at Record Exchange in For more information, call m- p.m. Tickets are $12 ($8 for land, MacBean's in Brunswick rocker, who has played with gress St., Portland. Tickets are Portland. For more information, 0002. students and seniors), available and The Grainery in Bath. For Eric Ciapton, Emmylou Harris $15, available at Amadeus call 772-200l. at Amadeus Music and Gallery more information, call 443-9603. and Joe Cocker. Tal Farrow is a Music, Buckdancer's Choice, • Peter Re's Quartet No.3 Music in Portland or ordered by master of jazz guitar. John Jonathan Cooper Violinmaker was commissioned especially for phone by calling 781-3567. Cephas, who played last year's and Enterprise Records. For the Portland String Quartet and • Jazz musidan Bill Street • Arts Education in the '90s is Maine Festival, plays Missis- more information, call 774-8818. tonight Re and Portland audi­ presents a concert in celebration the topic of a panel discussion sippi delta slide style guitar. :t.t\\ ences will hear the piece per­ of the 150th birthday of the organized by the Portland formed at 8 p.m. at Immanuel saxophone at 8 p.m. in Corthell Symphony Orchestra from 1- Artists perform to Baptist Church, 156 High St., • A day of reflection and Concert Hall, USM Gorham. The 2:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn by raise money for ~ ~t~ Portland. The PSQ also performs celebration: Gary Anderson, concert is free and open to the • Women's music for the Bay, 88 Spring St., Portland. people living Haydn's String Quartet, Opus executive director of the Preble public. For more information, women's causes: Judy Gorman­ The panelists include violinist with 76, No. 3 and Schoenberg's Street Resource Center in call 780-5256. Jacobs presents a concert to Stephanie Chase, currently in AIDS. Quartet Opus 7. Tickets are $11 Portland, talks about homeless­ benefit the Rape Crisis Center at reSidency with the PSO; PSO See March general admission, $5 for ness and why it's happening 8 p.m. in Luther Bonney Audito­ artistic director Toshiyuki 29. students and seniors. For more here. Noon at the First Parish rium, USM Portland. Donations Shimada; Lisa DiFranza, associ­ information, call 761-1522. Church, 425 Congress St., are $5 for the public, $3 for ate director of Portland Stage; • Chekhov and chicken Portland. For more information, students. Gorman-Jacobs will William Doughty, director of breast: A weekend of dinner call 775-{)712. also be conducting a free public curriculum development of the theater is being presented by the • A 10-kilometer walk for workshop on women and music Portland Public Schools; Joanna Portland's parks starts off at 1 Moore, execu ti ve director of the ~J:;;~~~~~ Vintage Repertory Company at • The local chapter of Com­ from 3-5 p.m. in Room 1, Payson The Portland Club, 156 State St., p.m. The walk begins at King puter Professionals for Social Smith Hall. For more informa­ Maine Alliance of Arts Educa­ . Portland. Anton Chekhov's School on Munjoy Hill and Responsibility meets today at tion, call 874-6593. tion; Eugenia O'Brien, artistic "The Marriage Proposal" is continues through Portland's 5:30 p.m. in Room 340 at development of the Portland being performed with Neil five historic parks - Deering PRVTC, 196 Allen Ave., Port­ Ballet Co.; Allison Perkins, cura­ Simon's "The Good Doc­ , Baxter Boulevard, the land. CPSR is a national organi­ tor of education at the Portland tor," which is based on Eastern Prom, Lincoln Park and zation of computer professionals Museum of Art; and David stories by Chekhov. the Western Prom - returning to and others who share their Webster, executive director of Cocktails are at 6, the King School. A ceremony to concerns about the socially Very Special Arts. Admission is dinner at 7 and theater mark the acceptance of these responsible use of computers. $5. For more information, call at 8 p.m. through five parks on the Register of For more information on the • Politically proper partying: 773-8191. Sunday. Tickets are Historic Places happens at 4 group or tonight's public Alternative Mediums 1990 is an $27.50 each or p.m. All are welcome to partici­ evening of visual and perform­ $200 for a table of pate. The event is free. For more ance art to raise money for The eight, available information, call 772-3695. AIDS Project Patient Support

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PO-Ri'i.AND DONAHY-PAUL KOZAK WITH: onions, Qreen peppers, mushrooms, **sT,\GE** TIX: eggplant, ZUcchlni broccoli, spinich, garlic, Center for The BARS 'COMPANY olIVes, green chi lis , jalapenos, artichoke nee ~J:l:.IS YOcrIMBO &~:::::~. ZOOTZ, AMADEUS MUSIC, ENTERPRISE Performa RECOROS. BAD HABITS, PAFFLES hearts, fresh lomaloes, pineapple, clams, Studies WED 9 pepperoni, hambur~ , ham, bacon, salamr, FRI 6:45 Tuesdays: ladies NIght WIth R96live Remotes SAT 3:30 []]iJmmJ 774-0465 - caPICOIa ... 774-2776 Happy Hour, Mon.·Sat. 4·1 Free Pool & 90~ Domestic Beer Produced by Moine Savings Bonk & 166 Cumberland Ave - Portland Cover Shearson Lehman Hutton 36M ARK E T ST. • PO R TLAN 0 • 7 73 - 4 5 0 0 Ca II 774-7414 10 31 FOREST AVENUE • PORTLAND • 773-8187 12 Casco Bay Weekly Much 22, 1990 I ~ . Weapons of the Spirit is about French resistance to the Nazis. The in­ habitants of La Chambon-sur-Ugnon MONDAY 3.28 SATURDAY 3.24 were exhorted by pacifist and Protes­ Musician .lam ....Ion All ages, Maine Siale Inelrumenl.1 High tanl minisler Andre Trocme to neither free admission at Raoul's, 865 Forest School .Iazz F_llval About 60 CBW LISTINGS takes arms against the occupying Nazi Ave., Portland. 775-2454. groups will periorm and compete with army, nor to tum in Jews to the Nazis, Moo Coo and lhe Guy Pan (rock) the lop three chosen in each division (I. t~~.~C11irif.C1 Llsllngs must be ,.celved In writing by 12 noon lhe Friday prior 10 publlcallon, since the Huguenot villagers had a ,",0 ..() oltemotive footwear for men ond women Old Port Tavern. 11 Moulton St, Port­ II, III) competing for the State Champi­ b 0 Ann Sltomer, Casco Bay W_kly, 187 Clark SI... t, Portland 04102 history of religious persecution in land. 774-0444. onship. Competition is held all day at Roman Calholic France. The docu· Westbrook Junior High School and mentary·s director, Pierre Sauvage. Congin School gyms. Finals for State \0- (Ug1- 2,.,' was one of the Jews saved by the Champions begin at 7 pm in the junior '1> b'"> people 01 le Chambon. His parents TUESDAY 3.27 ~ 1'~ high school gym. Tickets are $4 all day, ~. 11 never Iold him about the circumslances 04J01 7.0 . Fried Bologna Improv(comedy)UttIe $3 evening only. For more information. of his birth, or even that hewas Jewish. Willies, 36 Market St., Portland. 773- call 854-2582. Some people call them a until Sauvage was 18 years old. In fact, 4500. Tom Rush (folk) 7 and 9 pm at the Lcalfskin boot made in portugal in black and brown - $56 ____.... walking miracle. his parents didn·t want him to finish the Center for the Arts at the Chocolate Dodes 'ka·denis Kurosawa·s first color Glory Morgan Freeman and Denzel Darien B ..hms (acoustic) Gritty Whatever you call them, film when Sauvage started the work on McDuff"s. 396 Fore St.. Portland. 772- Church. 804 Washington St., Brun­ movie (1970). The story is about a Washington star in this movie about "Weapons of the Spirir back in 1980. swick. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 if you knew what they group of slum dwellers in Tokyo. who the troop of black soldiers who fought 2739. The movie is both a personal search Magazine (rock) Old Port Tavem, 11 for seniors and children. Reception lor felt like, you'd be fight reality with their imaginations and for the Union during the Civil War. into the director's past and an exami­ Tom Rush will be held at 6 pm . Admis­ fantasy . Sweeping battle scenes convey the MoUlton St., Portland. 774-0444. wearing them now. nation of a side of human nature often sion is $5 in addition to the ticket price. Driving MI.. Daisy Bruce Beresford·s war's horror. overlooked when recounting the Holo­ For more information, call 442-8455. Bi.kendo_k· ('Breaker Morant") version of Alfred Henry V Kenneth Branaugh·s "Henry caust. Handel's ''M_lah" (classical) Parts SILVER Uhry's prize-winning play stars Mor­ V" is packed with virility. When King WEDNESDAY 3.28 II and III will be periormed by the Bates gan Freeman and Jessica Tandy. The Henry decides togo to war with France, College Choir al 8 pm in the Olin Arts story is about the evolving relationship Branaugh takes us into Henry·s council Red Llghl Revue (r&b) Raoul·s. 865 Center Concert Hall. Bates College. between a Jewish widow and her black chamber. On one side sit the young Forest Ave. , Portland. 77a.Q886. lewiston. Free and open to the public. chauffeur. The movie is a metaphor for men. virile and ready for anything. On Hammerhead (metal) Geno·s, 13 For more information, call 786-6330. old age: slow and beautiful. sharp but the other are the more restrained elder Brown SI., Portland. 772-7891 . 337 Forest Ave .• Portland, Maine • 207-773-6601 not all there. The film's beautiful pho­ voices of reason and good council. As Magazine (rock) Old Port Tavem . 11 Huge inventory. ED:pert fitting, mallorder nationwide. complete repair .ervlce. SCREEN Moulton St., Portland. 774-0444. tography compensates for the pieces council speaks. Brannaugh·s camera "Simply the best place to buy Birkenstock footwear· that are less than engaging. savors the virility . The arguments for SUNDAY 3.25 Eneml_, A Love Siory Paul Ma­ taki ng France are inconsequential ; Bad influences Block Ensemble (classical) Wood­ zursky's ("Moscow on the Hudson" and these young men are ready to fight. Vincent Camby wrote that "Bad CLUBS wind quintel pertorms flowers and ani­ "Down and Out in Beverly Hills") adap­ Henry's speech to his troops before UPCOMING Influence" is a "refreshing exercise mals, induding "Waltz of the Flowers" tation of Isaac Beshevis Singe(s novel battle is awe inspiring. Anyone would Maria Muldaur Mar 30 Raoul·s, 865 in glossy decadence." Local film critic focuses on the life and loves of Her­ THURSDAY 3.22 by Tchaikovsky and "Chrysanthemum follow him into battle - with or without Forest Ave., Portland. 77a.Q886. Marty Meltz claimed "its atmosphere man. a Holocaust survivor living in New Rao" by Scott Joplin. Showtime is 10:30 good reason. Fried Bologna Improv (comedy) Uttle The Dambuilde.. and Pluck Thea· am at the Portland Museum of Art. is so dark and foreboding, its mo­ York in the late ·40s. He's married to House P.rt, Warrington and Regi­ Willtes, 36 Marl<.et SI., Portland. 773- ler (rock) Mar 31 , Geno·s. 13 Brown Congress Square. Coffee, juice and tives so contorted and compelling, the gentile Polish woman who hid him nald Hudlin directed this comedy about 4500.3 SI. . Portland. 772-7891 . bagels will be served. Ticketsare $4 for during the war and he·s having an affair as to make art out of evil." They a teenager who goes to a party he Peler ea.e (rock) Raoul·s, 865 Forest museum members, $6 for non-mem­ with another Holocaust survivor. As must have seen another movie. The wasn·t supposed to go to . lots of fun Ave., Portland. 773-6886. bers and $2 for children. For more in­ Herman is juggling the two women in "Bad Influence" I saw wasn't deca­ rap music. The Killing Time (rock) Geno's, 13 formation . call 775-6148. his life. his first wife whom he pre­ DANCING dent or dark. lkiru A dying man in post-war Japan Brown SI., Portland. 772-7891 . Counlry Mu.lc Festlv.1 (country) , .. ~~~ sumed dead shows up. Ron Silver·s must learn what it means to live. After The Sen_ (rock) Alley, 46 Zootz, 31 Forest, Portland. Thu: house 1990 WPOR Country Music Festival Alex (Rob Lowe) plays a pretty Herman is more attractive than Singer·s tasting drunken debauchery, he turns Market SI. . Portland. 774-5246. music and new music; Fri: Post Mod­ features Big AI Downing. Malinda Ub­ drifter. Michael Games Spader) is a character. There·s no mystery why any ~ his efforts toward helping to build a Tonto's Big Idea (rock) Old Port ern - all ages; Sat: latest dance music; erty and Streamliner at 2 pm at the financial analyst, who has more woman would want him . But Mazursky playground for children . Tavem . 11 Moulton St. Portland. 774- Sun: request night; Tue : Hip House- all Sonesta Hotel Ballroom, High SI., money than any 30 year old should and his actors slowly reveal the char­ A Mexican Restaurant Hunl For Red October is a reminder 0444. ages. 773-8t87. Portland. Tickets are $6, available at acters· fears and desires in a way that have and wants only two things: to that the puerile conception of U.S. for­ Richard Ma.. le .. (big band music) The Moon, 425 Fore St., Portland. Recordland, Cumberland Electronics does justice to the novel. Angelica & beat his co-worker Patterson to a eign poltcy promulgated by Reagan Holy Ghost, 29 Exchange, Portland. Open nigh~y , 8 pm on ... No cover. and Westbrook Pool & Spa. Proceeds Huston and MargaretSophie Stein play promotion and to dump his fiance. and his cronies lives on. Using com· 773'()300. 871'()663. benefitthe Kidney Foundation of Maine. the women in Herman's life. Watering Hole But Michael is a spineless wimp and mies as bad guys doesn·t make a bad Corne.. lone (rock) Spirits at the Salule •. 20 Milk SI., Portland. Open For more information, call 772-7270 . The Fourth War Roy Scheider and movie. but there needs to be some needs the help of a real bad boy to Manor, 700 Main SI., S. Portland. 774- nlgh~y until 1 am. No cover. 774-4200. USM Concert Band (classical) Con­ JOrgen Prochnow play hostile Ameri­ action . character and suspense . 'The Union Station Plaza get what he wants. Alex, who is ei­ 6151 . Bounty. 200 Riverside St.. Portland. cert features the music of Ron Nelson. can and Soviet border control officers Hunt For Red October' had none of Synchroniclly (rock) Spring Point ther bad or crazy (I couldn't tell Fridays, 18+. Open until 1 am . 772· Hindemith, Sousa, Vaughn Williams CBS Recording Artists at the West Germany-Czechoslovak these; it is insipid. Even the submarine Cafe. 175 Pickett SI. . S. Portland. 767- which), helps Michael find the nec­ 8033. and Shostakovich and William Schu­ border in 1988. chases - which are the whole story - 4627. man·s "George Washington Bridge' at Fabulous Food • Man!aritas essary evil in his soul to do the dirty from south of the border from out ()F this world are dull. Sylvester Stallone could have Blockheads (rock) Shelley·s, 12 Un­ 3 pm in Corthell Concert Hall, USM work of his yuppie existence. done better. coin St. Biddeford. 284-9283. Gorham. Admission IS $31$1 . For more OPEN 7 DAYS 4 PM - Happy Hour Mon. to Fri. .1_ Ve.. us the Volcano Meg Ryan o Alex and Michael meet in a wa­ informati on . call 78(}'5256. 242 St. John St" Union Sta, Portland 874-6444 terfront bar, where Alex saves Mi­ What's Where and Tom Hanks star In th is comedy Saxophene Celeb.. tlon (classical/ chael from a brawny, blond thug about a terminally ill man who travels jazz) Bill Street presents a concert in half way around the world to FRIDAY 3.23 and then steals his wallet. Ofcourse, General Cinemas celebration of the 150th birthday of the • TiD Juan's CONCORD, NH • Margarita's ORONO, ME himself for tropical natives. POSITIVE Michael is too innocent to ever sus­ Maine Mall Mr, Thing and the Prof_slonal saxophone at 8 pm in Corthell Concert MaIne Malt Road, S Portland Lambada IS the forbidden dance. but Human Beings (r&b) Raoul"s. 865 Hall, USM Gorham. Free and open to pectthatthe man who saved his face n-4· 1022 irs not the movie "Forbidden Dance ." wit. IUCIIIIIUII might have taken his wallet and ...... Preview. Forest Ave .• Portland. 773-6886. the public. For more information. call Opportuntty Knocks Bad timing haunts thIS Latintzed ver­ Roy F ..z .. (jazz) Uttle Willies, 36 780-5256. when the two meet again they be­ Fri -Sat at 7-:30 sion of "Dirty Dancing' THE BROADCASTERS Nun. on ttt. Run Market St. . Portland. 773-4500. Passion According 10 51, John come buddies. Salal 7 Lord of lhe Flies Harry Hook·s ad­ Two Saints and True Non-Bellev­ (classical) The Choral Art Society per­ LwnNdalPG. venture is based on Sir William Gold­ But Alex isn't bad, the movie is. 12:45. 3;05.520, 7:40, 10 .... (rock) Geno·s. 13 Brown St, Port­ forms Bach·s choral narrative of the Alex is a bad boy, not an evil man. (no 7;40 show Mar 23·24) ing·s novel about a group of school­ crucifixion at 7 pm at the Cathedral of p,.tty Wom.n (A) land. 772-7891. He likes to have sex (sometimes with boys who leam to survive after a plane Tonlo's Big Idea (rock) Old Port CON the Immaculate Conception in Port­ 12. 2:30. 5, 7:30 10 (opens Mar 23) J .. VeNUe The Volcano (PO) crash. land. (Pre-<:oncert lecture offered ar more than one woman) and the 1.3;05.5;05.7:20.9:25 Tavem, f 1 Moulton SI. , Portland. 774- movie's plot has shadows of Lowe's Hunt For Red Dctob... (PC) 0444. 6:15 pm .) Tickets are $12 ($8 for stu­ Happy lIour 4-6 Mon,-Fri, 1:30,4:20. 7:10, 10 The Sen_ (rock) Moose Alley, 46 dents and seniors). For tickets call 781- reaJlifevideo escapades with a teen­ Mud To Kill IRI 3567. on the waterfront age girl. Alexisa bully. He threatens 1.3;05. 5:10. 7:20.9:35 Market St, Portland. 774-5246. Drtvlng III.. Daley (POt Corne.. lone (rock) Spirits at the in the Old Port people and take their toys. There is 12:45.2:50.5. 7:25.9:35 aOln .... the Fourth of July CAl Manor. 700 Main St. , S. Portland. 774- CERTS 84 Commercial Street nothing seedy about his underworld 1. ... 7.11:50 6151 . of warehouse lofts and chic Los (no 7 show Mar 2.) Portland, ME • 774-3550 ..ollalRI Synchronicity (rock) Spring Point TUESDAY 3.27 Angeles parties. 3;05. 5:25. 7:35. 9;55 (Ihrough Mar 22) Cafe, 175 PickettSt., S. Portland. 767- THURSDAY 3.22 Darien B ..hnw andlhe Soul Min­ The movie is so shallow that I 4627. e .. (acoustic/rock) 5-7 pm in the Col­ laughed when I was supposed to be Nickelodeon Blockhead. (rock) Shelley·s. 12 Un­ USM Percussion Eneemble (clas­ T8fT1lI8 and Middle. Portland lege Room of the USM Portland Cam­ horrified. But if it were only a bad m -97S1 coin St, Biddeford. 284-9283. sical) The ensemble directed by Nancy pus Center, Portland. Free and open to Matinees Sat-Sun only Smllh performs at 8 pm in Corthell movie, I wouldn't be offended. The Th. Fourth W.r (AI the public. For more information, call movie is blatantly sexist. The only 1 :10,7:15, 9:30 (opens Mar 23) Concert Hall, USM Gorham. Free and 780-4812. Hou.. p_rty CA) open to the public. For more informa­ Planisl Horaclo Gulie.,.z (classi­ women in Michael's world of high­ 1:20. 720. 9:20 (opens Mar 23) SATURDAY 3.24 finance world are seated behind L...... r 'ho File. IRI tion . call 780-5256. cal) Performance includes Men ­ ONE CLUB. 1:30. 7:20, 9:35 Mr, Thing and lhe Prof.. slonal Solol.I's Rocllal (dassical) Members delssohn·s 'Variations serieuses in 0 office dividers, coming out only to Blu. St •• 1 CRt 1. 7;05. 9:20 My Left Foot transcends mush Human Beings (r&b) Raoul·s, 865 of the Por~and Symphony Orchestra·s minor," Schumann's "Davidsbunderl­ deliver messages to their male the a.dlnnu.-wce(RI that usually characterizes movies about Forest Ave ., Portland. 77a.Q886. youth ensembles perform at 7:30 pm at ertanze: and Beethoven·s Sonata No. bosses. Michael's success-happy 1:05. 7.9:15 My Lott Foo' IRI someone overcoming a handicap and Barry·Arvln Young Band (rock) Immanuel Baptist Church . 156 High 29 in B-Flat major. Op. 106 at 7:30 pm fiance is the daughter of a rich man. 1 :15, 7:10, 9:20 ONE NUMBER. paints a striking portrait of a man strug­ Geno·s. 13 Brown St. . Portland. 772· St. . Portland. Free and open to the at Portland City Hall Auditorium. Tick­ IEnem ••, A Lov. Story CAl What is most offensive is the use of 7:15, 9:30 (through Mar 22) gling with his relationships. with crea­ 7891. public. For more Information. call 773- ets are $20, $16, $12 and $8, available domestic violence as a decorative F_ldd... D.neo IPC-131 tivity and his own sense of worth. The Tonlo's Big Idea (rock) Old Port 8191. from the Portland Concert Association 7:20. 9:25 (lhlQUgh Mar 22) touch. movie is based on the a.utobiography Tavern. 1 t Moulton SI. . Portland. 774- at 772-8630. "Bad Influence" doesn't have a The Movies of the Irish painter and writer Christy 0444. 775·2494 10 E.C~~O" l and clue what evil is, but it excels at Brown. who had cerebral palsy and The Sen_ (rock) Moose Alley, 46 FRIDAY 3.23 upholding values that are not bad, A T.~~~~c:nlln only had use of his left foot to create. Market St. , Portland. 774-5246 . Both Hugh O·Connor (as the young Roy F .. (jazz) little Willies, 36 UPCOMING Thu-Fri at 7. 9 :1 5; z_ Portland SIring Quartel (classical) but wrong. Sat mat at 1. Christy) and Daniel Day lewis are Market St. . Portland. 773-4500. Periormance of Haydn·s String Quar­ Ann Sitomer W ..pone 01 the ...lttt Old Time Country .lam (country, Mar 24-27 superlative in their roles. We identify Swinging Hoi (jau vocal group) The tet, Opus 76, No. 3; Schoenberg·s bluegrass, folk. blues) Benefit for the Sat mat at 3:15; with Christy. rather than look down on Reindeer Room. upstairs from Hushang Quartet Opus 7 and Peter Re·s Quartet Portland FolkClub and WMPG Mar31 , Sun mat at 1. 2:45; Blue 51_I Jamie lee Curtis and Ron Sat-Tue 817. 8:45. him or pity him. 2, 11 Brown SI., Portland. 874-9002 . No. 3. a piece commission especially 8 pm in luther Bonney Auditorium. Silver star in Kathryn Bigelow's movie All .... Kuro•• w. Serl•• Prelty Woman Julia Roberts and Rich­ Come.. lone (rock) Spirits at the for the PSO Concert is at 8 p.m. at USM Portland. Tickets are $81$10. For about cops. guns and serial murder­ Mar 28-31 Manor. 700 Main St. S. Portland. 774- Yojlmbo ard Gare star in the Pygmalian-type Immanuel Baptist Church, 56 High SI., more information. call 773-9549. ers. Bigelow doesn't belit~e guns in Wed. Sat at 7; story about a wealthy businessman 6151 Portland. Tickets are $ t 1 general Island Siring Quartel this cop thriller. In fact, guns are the Thu-Fri at 9:15. Stevie & the Blackouts (rock)Spring Iklru who ptcks up a prostitute and dresses admiSSIOn , $5 for students and sen ­ (jazz.wor1d music} Contemporary music focal point, poweriul , seductive and the Wed at 9; Fri at 6:45; her up pretty. Before Disney bought POInt Cafe. 175 Pickett SI. . S. Port­ iors. For more information, call 761 - played by a traditional string quartet object of Silver's psychotic characte(s Sat at 3:30. the film it was a dark movie about land. 767-4627 1522. Dod •• "'• .den play Mar 31,8 pm in Hutchins Concert fetish. The movie plays upon fears of Thu at 6:45; Sal at 1,9 prostitution. The result is a romantic Blockheads (rock) Shelley·s, 12 Un­ DOah and Devon.qua,. (new age/ Hall. Maine Center for the Arts, Orono bedding with strangers, as do movies comedy directed by Garry Marshall coin SI. , Biddeford. 284-9283. acoustic) 8 pm. First Parish Church. For more information, call 581 -1755. like 'Sea of love' and 'looking for Mr. Cinema City ("The Flamingo Kid'). 425 Congress St., Portland Proceeds Surry Ope.. Company (Russian and Goodbar." Silver doesn't come off as WeQbrook Ptaza to benefit Earth Day 1990. Tickets are Georgian music) (opera) Surry Opera 854-9116 A Taxing Woman Japan is a country sick enough. Pedro Almodovar ('Mata­ of tax evaders and Juzo Itami·s movie $12 available at Record Exchange in Company performs Apr 7, 8 pm in the All limes thr~h Thursday; call ahead SUNDAY 3.25 dor" and "Women on the Verge of a tor Friday's changes looks at the Japanese obsession with Portland. For more information. call First Parish Church, 425 Congress St. Nervous Breakdown') might have had ClorylRI 7:15, 9:15. weekend mats at 1 :15, 3:15 money. Ryoko is a female tax agent Lazy Llghlnlng (acoustic) 4 pm . Gritty 772-2001 . Po~and . Tickets are $12 ($ 10 for stu· fun with his fetish. But the movie is Forbidden Danee CPG-t3) who hunts down on tax evader Gonda, McDuff"s , 396 Fore St., Portland. 772· Handel's ''Me.. lah" (claSSical) Parts dents and seniors). available at Whole beautifully shot and it certainly leaves 7:15. _rid mal all :15 II and III will be performed by the Bates ..41 Int...... IAI the proprietor 01 a chain of 'adult ho­ 2739. Grocer. Amadeus Musicand the Maine you tense. 9:15, weekend mat at 3:15 leis.' Acousllc Blues .lam (blues) 7 pm at College Choir at 8 pm in the Olin Arts Peace Campaign in Portland or by call­ 80m on lhe Fourth of .lui, Oliver L_ Who'. T...... IPG·t31 7.9, mat. at 1, 3 Yojlmbo Kurosawa·s 1962 movie paro­ Unde Billy·s, 60 Ocean SI., S. Port­ Center Concert Hall, Bates College. ing 773-1782. Stone·s movie is about a young man ...... _11·1 dies the American Western, but has land. 767-7119. lewiston. Free and open to the public. Michelle Shocked (acoustIc/POP) from long Island. who loses faith after 7. 9, weekend mals at I, 3 For more information, call 786-6330. L...... -' tho File. IA) been described as the most devastat­ Who Knows (patio music) Wahrfs End. May 4, 8 pm in Portland City Hall he retums from the Vietnam war para­ 7,9. weekend mals at 1. 3 ing comedy ever made. The movie has Whari SI. , Portland. 773-0093. Song Swap Singers and instrumental· Auditorium. Tickets are $ f8.501$16.50, lyzed. The movie is based on Ron also been called a satire of the Cold Comedy Nlghl (stand-up) 8:30 pm at ists are invited to share songs at 7:30 availables at Strawberries, Record Kovic·s book about his experience. The Evening Star War between the US and the USSR. T-Blrd's, 126 N. Boyd SI., Portland. pm in the Kennebunkport Community Exchange. TlCketron and Teletron most powerful imagery in the movie Tontine MalI.'Brunswick Two evil clans fight it out in a frontier 773-8040. House. For more information , call 985- evokes the contrast between how 729·5486 town and destroy one another. There is Moo Coo and the Guy Pan (rock) 4343. midde America viewed the war and •••11a (PC.'31 7. 9 ~hrou9h Mar 22) lots of violent bone crushing in this one. Old Port Tavem. 11 Moulton St. , Port­ what was actually happening in Viet­ Monrt V land. 774-0444. continued on page 14 nam and Washington. (opens Mar 23) L..,."':''''''1111 ...... ___ Ticket Info.~ 773·6886 ___ •~ Entertainment ______Hotline 775·2494--'':''--L '' I 4 Ozsco &y Weekly March 22, 1990 I S continued from 1"'gt 13 Portl.nd School of Art Auction Portlend WI_ & Che_, 8 Forest P_try R ..dlngs Series begins with Preview Items to be auctioned at the Ave., Portland. 'New Color and Con­ a reading by Kendall Merriam. Stephen Apr 3 event are on exhibit Mar 26-Apr U tacts: photographs by Arthur Fink Petroff. Betsy Scholl and Pam Smith 2 at Thomas Meser Cabinetmakers through April. Hours: Mon-Sat 10 am- Mar 31 . 7:30 pm at the Theater Project. Showroom, 415 Cumberland Ave., 5 pm. 774-3465. 14 School St., BrunSWick. Open to the Jay York Portland. Preview reception Mar 30,5- Right Banq... Cef., 225 Federal St., public. Donation. For more informa­ 7pm. Hours: Mon-Sat9am-5 pm . 775- Portland. Assorted works by Jack Big­ tion. call 729-5083. AffORDABLE 3052. gar through April. 774-3074. Desklop Publl.hlng Work.hop HELP 51.1. Sireel G.n.ry, 97 State St, Smok... Anonymou. meets thurs­ STAGE Sell• .,. Art G.n.ry. 27 Wharf St.. conducted on Macintosh Computers is Driving Mias D.I.y Pulitzer Prize Gorham. Artwork by larry Plass, Binni days. 5-S pm in the People's Building, PHOTO Portland. 'Rajastan: Past and Pres­ a hands-on introduction to the Page­ winning play about the relationship be­ lashin, Dwight laughlin, Patricia White 155 Brackett St. . Portland. For more in­ ent.· photographs by Ralph DaVis, maker desktop publishing program tween a Jewish widow and her black and Brett Morrison. Grand opening Mar formation, call 773-1782. Elvira lavell. Carol Strickman and con­ offered Mar 31 , 9 am-4 pm at the Maine SS federal Street chauffeur set in the American South is M.I_ He.d Injury Found.llon 30, 1-4 pm . Hours: Mon-Sat 11 am-5 temporary miniature paintings through Writers Center. 190 Mason St., Brun­ being produced by the Portland Stage pm, Sun 12-4 pm . 839-4902. Monthly support group meets Mar 23, Portland 04101 Apr 30. Hours: Mon-Fri 10 am-S pm. swick. Cost is $80 for Maine Writers G6T ! fR6&' Company th rough Apr 1. Performances Sat 12-S pm. 761-0303. 7 pm at Goodwill. Cumberland Ave .• are Tue-Thu at 7:30 pm. Fri at 8 pm , and Publishers Alliance. $1000 for Portland. For more information. call SI.ln G.II.ry Conl.mpor.ry others. Registration is limited. For more MOV/€ ReNTAL Sat at 5 and 9 pm and Sun at 2 pm at Marsha at 774.s323. For other loca­ GI•••• 20 Milk St. . Portland. Blown information. call 729.s333. 207.773.3434 the Portland Performing Arts Center. AROUND TOWN and sandcasted vessels and organic tions, call 626-0022. f15 Anlnull Rlghls: Th. Mov..... nl, New Engl.nd E.llng DI.orde.. WITH fACH 25A Forest Ave., Portland. For more Portlend Mus.umofArtSeven Con­ forms by Neil Drobnis through Apr 15. information. call 774-0465. The I ...... Ingrid Newkirk. national Program Monthly support group meets Artists' Portfolios gress Square, Portland. Hours: Tue­ Hours : Mon-Sat 11 am-5:30 pm; closed director of People for the Ethical Treat­ M()SIC PURCJfASe.' Ancho...... n Blues opera by Chicago Tue and Sun. 772-9072. Mar 27. 7:30 pm at Westbrook Com­ $30 an hour Sat, 10-5; Sun. 12-5; Free on Thursday Clifford Blanch.rd's dr.ftlng table .nd ch.lr. ment of Animals. speaks at the Maine munity Hospital. 40 Park Rd .• playwright Paul Carter Harrison with evenings. 5-9. ' Flora Portrayed: Clas­ music composed by Julius Hemphill of Animal Coalition meeting Mar 31 , 7 pm Westbrook. This month·s topic is $18 for 36 exposures sics of Botanical Art from the Hunt at the First Parish Church. 425 Con­ the World Saxophone Quartet Mar 23- Useful art and art from utility 'Growth to Recovery.' Free and open Ektachrome. Collection' (through May 13); 'Serial gress. Portland. Admission is $2 at the to the public. For more information. call 24 at 8 pm; Mar 18 and 25 at 2 pm at Imagery in Prints' and 'Color Photo­ OUT OF TOWN processing InclUded Shaeffer Theatre. Bates College, Useful objects are not often not created for this show. door to cover expenses. For more in­ 854-8464. graphs: Recent Acquisitions' (through Bowdoin Colleg. Mus.um of Art. considered art. Paintings and Painter Chuck Thompson's formation, call 874-2837. Adult Chlld.. n of Alcoholic. lewiston. Admission is $41$2. For res­ Apr 15). 775-S148. Brunswick. 'Marsden Hartley in Bav­ ervations. call 786.s161. sculptures have little usefulness. "Heavenly Departure-Comeon V.rmouth HI.loric.1 Socl.ty Two Friends Care, a groupat USM for people $48 for 36 slides. Albert.'s C .... 21 Pleasant St.. Port­ aria' and"American Modernism , 1900- exhibits for Women's History Month The DI.ry of An_ Frank City Thea­ But some artists have been able to Down" depicts a contemporary recovering from substance abuse. is color and density land. 'Six Showing/Mixed Media," fea­ 1940' through Apr 14 and 'Paper 'Yarmouth·s Village Improvement So­ ter's production is being performed Mar combine the two. Alexander cityscape within an architectural, offering a series of lectures. Recovery/ corrected turing pieces by Joyce Dolley. Marcella Horses: Popular Chinese Woodcuts' ciety: Public Service through the Years' spirituality is the topic Mar 28, 7 pm in 23-Apr 8 at City Theater, 205 Main St., Calder, artist and inventor of the antique alter-like facade affixed Manoogen. Valerie McCaffery, Bonnie through Apr 29. Hours: Tue-Sat 10 arn- and 'Women and the Constitution' the USM Portland Campus Center Biddeford. Perlormances are Fri-Sat Nason, Abigail Spring and Tom mobile, is perhaps the best 4 pm. Sun 2-5 pm. 725-3275. with Christ imagery. It is a medi­ through Apr 27 at the Museum of Yar­ Amphitheater on Bedford Street. The at8 pm . Sun at 2 pm. Tickets are $10/ Stenquist through Apr 30. For more Chri.lln.'. C.II.ry, 24 US Route 1, known. His passionate, if not cine chest. $7.50. For more information. call 282- mouth History. Merrill Memorial Ubrary. lecturer is Steven Andrews. a consult­ information about this show call 775- Yarmouth. "Fall Into Winter," pastel manic, reworkings of "junk" into 0849. But not all the works can be Main Street, Yarmouth. Hours: Men­ and trainer in the field of alcoholism 1514. landscape drawings by Phyllis Wolf useful, artistic objects - beautiful considered "usefu!." Marjorie Sat 10 am-5 pm. Tue-Thu. 5-8 pm. and drug abuse. Free and open to the Midsummer'. Nighl D... m King Art C.II.ry al Six Deering. Port­ Alfred's College TOUring Company from Wilkins through Mar 31. Hours: Men­ jewelry made of old silverware, Moore's" Annette's Stable" uses Free and open to the public. For more public. For more information. call 874- land. Exhibit of oil paintings by prize­ Sat 10 am-6 pm. 846-6128. Winchester. England performs silV2rwaretnadeofoldcoffeecans information, call 846.s259. 6595. winning artist Jonathan Hotz. Show Elements Gallery. 56 MaineSt., Brun­ the gallery owner's shoes. The Shakespeare's comedy Mar 23 at 8 pm - are works of genius. Dlvorc. P... pecllv •• Program for PI continues through Mar 24 . Hours by swick. "Metal Message.' a group show heels of the pumps have been divorced men and women designed to at luther Bonney Auditorium, USM appointment 772-9605. Barridoff Galleries has em­ lopped off, and heels in the shape of sculpture. jewelry and objects in provide assistance and support with Portland and Mar 26, 8 pm in Russell B.rr1doH Galleries. 26 Free St. . Port­ braced this idea in a unique and of a horses hind leg have been iron. steel and other metals through the adjustment process in 're-ilntry· week af 3I23~1 Hall, USM Gorham . Admission is $5/ land. 'Utiliti ," useful objects by gallery funky show, "UTI LlTI," in which Apr 26. Hours: Tue-Sat 10 am-6 pm . put in their place. The shoes and and beyond. meetings are Wednesday $3. For more information, call 780- artists through Mar 31 . Hours : Mon-Fri 729-1108. many of the artists represented 5480. shoe boxes have been painted to at 7:30 pm at Woodfords Congrega­ 10 am-4 pm, Sat 12-4 pm. 772-5011 . Hobe Sound C.II.ri•• North. 58 All My Sons Arthur Miller's drama is by the gallery have turned their represent horses; gray, brown, tional Church, 202 Woodfords St. B.yvl.w C.llery. 75 Market St. Port­ MaineSt., Brunswick. 'Coastto Coast," presented by the Portland Players Mar creativity in a new and different black and white. All restonabed Portland. "letting Go' is the topic of the Theater Thoughts: land. Recent work by Helen St. Clair recent work by five contemporary art­ 23-Apr 7 at 420 Cottage Rd .• S. Port­ direction. of hay. Rather than making Mar 28 meeting. Meeting is open to all Driving Miss Daisy (112 hr.) through Mar 31 Hours: Mon-Sat 10 ists from los Angeles , New York and land. Performances are Fri-Sat at 8 Eric Hopkins transformed his useful objects, Moore has made WELL people considering or facing the prob­ Living Tapestries; am-6 pm. 773-3007. Maine through Apr 7. Featured are pm. Mar 25 at 2:30 pm , Apr 1 at 7 pm. lems of a divorce. Donation $1.50. For Cong.... Sq..... Gall.ry. 594 Con­ Susan Webster. Katarina Weslin , Chris recognizable, Simplistic styleinto useful objects into art. It is suc­ Physical Fitness for For more information. call 797-7337. more information. call 774-HElP. gress St. . Portland. 'Color," featuring Duncan . Hoon Kwak and Francine Ma­ four plates that are bright and cessful as a whole rather than for Older Persons (R) (1/2 hr.) .Jovl.1 .John Edgerton presents a Recov.ry from Co-Depend.nc. Henry Isaacs' pastels and oils. and tarazzo. Hours: Tue-Sat 10 am-5 pm . lively. He also created a bird its individual pieces . USM Closeups: performance of storytelling, songs, old­ .nd Addiction Presentation about Poet, Ken Rosen (112 hr.) - Meg Brown Payson's oils and oil pastel 725-4191 . feeder, plant holder and tablel time country humor and a splash of Sculptor Clifford Blanchard the natural process for becoming emo­ through Apr 2. 774-3369. Icon, 19 Mason St. . Brunswick. Two­ Futures on Track: magic Mar 24. 7:30 pm at the School­ stool constructed of and captures the essence of the show. tionally healthy Mar 28, 7 pm at Mercy D ••n V.I.nlp. G.II.ry. 60 Hamp­ man show features the work of sculptor wood. Although they possess the Known for his steel and granite NESS SMTC Graduates (R) (112 hr.) house Arts Center at Sebago lake. Hospital lower Auditorium. Portland. shire St.. Portland. New work by Larry Deane Wood and painter Robert An­ Iy.ngar Styl. Voga Free yoga class Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for chil­ same organic qualities his paint­ constructions, the artist has trans­ Discussion focuses on inner drive for The Music 01 Things That Are Done: Hayden and Dean Nimmer through druilli through Apr4. Hours: Mon-Fri 1- to introduce newcomers to Iyengar style Take out also available dren. For reservations and more infor­ ings do, the useful objects are an formed his style into a phenome­ wholeness. consciousness and feel­ Community Development Apr 16. Hours : Thu 5-9 pm, Sat-Sun 5 pm. and by appointment. 725-8157. yoga Mar 22, 5:30-7 pm at Portland mation. call 642-3743. interesting departure. ing, how successful change occurs. in the West of Ireland (R) (112 hr.) Sunday - Thursday 4 pm - 12 pm 12-5 pm. 772-2042. Saint .Jo ••ph'. Colleg., Wellehan nal drafting table and chair. Yoga Studio. 616 Congress St. Port­ The .J_on Projecl Modem dance Ev.ns C.IIery. 8 Pleasant St. . Port­ library. Standish. 'Student/Faculty In­ Sigmund Abeles' series of Most of the artists have em­ land. Spring session of classes begins gaining access to blocked feelings. what & performance by Judith Jameson's recovery looks like. etc. Presented by Friday Saturday 4 pm - 1 am land. 'Desert Cantos' and 'The Pir by vitational Art Show' includes paintings. three etched and litho envelopes braced the theme. Others like Mar. 27. For more information. call Programs premiere Fri. 7-1 Opm. company Mar 24. 8 pm at lewiston Maurice Harter and sponsored by 46 Veranda St. Portland Richard Misrach through Mar 24. Hours: drawings, photography and sculpture are too beautiful to post. And "Paperweight or Executive Toy," 797-5684. and are repeated Sal. - Mon. Junior High School. Jameson was Tu.rFri 10 am-S pm. Sat 11 am-5 pm . through Apr 15. 892-S766. Abeles' toaster, a wedding pres­ Medll.llon .nd SeIf·Dlscov.ry CODA. Donation is $3. For more infor­ 1-4 & 7-10pm and Tues .• Wed .• recently named artistic director of the a plexi-glass picture holder pur­ mation. call 773-0847. 879-0042. USM Art Gall.ry, Gorham. Paintings Techniques for gaining inner peace & Thurs. gam-noon. Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. Tickets are ent to the artist from his first chased by artist John Gable and M.I_ .Juv.nil. Rheumatoid A ... P.y.on G.II.ry of Art, Westbrook and drawings by Sigmund Abeles and and personal and spiritual growth $12 and $10. available through LA mother-in-law which he reo filled with small sketches by the Cable Channel 37 in Portland, So. Port­ College , 716 Stevens Ave .• Portland. Richard Lethemthrough Mar 29. Hours: through heart-<:entered meditation of­ thrill. Support Group meets Mar Arts, 36 St., Lewiston or call 782- worked with liquid aluminum, is artistratherthan photos, seems a land. Cape Elizabeth. Falmouth. &Scar­ 774-2222 'Alice Schille : View from North Africa' Sun-Thu. 12-4 pm 780-5409. fered by the Sri Chinmoy Centre Mar 29. 7 pm at Woodfords Congregational a masterpiece. [t is a beautiful . Channel varies in Gorham. 7228 for information. through Apr 1. Hours : Tu.rFri 10 am-4 bit of a cop out. 22 and 29, 7 pm at the Williston-West Church, 202 Woodfords St.. Portland. A_ Hulchlnson, '5"·'843Ann pm (Thu until 9); Sat-Sun 1-5 pm. 797- relief called "Life Cycle." The "UT[UTI" continucsthrough Church. 32 Thomas St., Portland. Free The group is still in the organizational Foskett presents a one-woman show 9546. toaster, completed in 1%0, was Mar. 31. and open to the public. For more infor­ stages; new members and sugges­ on Hutchinson, who helped establish The Pholo G.n.ry. Portland School OTHER us/ ie Morison mation, call 729-5825. tions are welcome. For more informa­ • • • • •••• free speech and religious freedom in Ordl.,.ry Magic, Th. Art of B.lng tion, call 767-3421 or the Maine Chap­ . of Art. 619 Congress St. . Portland. A.I.n Art F.lr Waynflete School and 1HERFDUGHTREVUE the New World. Mar 25. 4 pm at The 'Boxers and Brokers: Photographs by Hurnen Shambhala training level one ter of the Arthritis Foundation at 726- How To Trim Theater Project. 14 School St.. Brun­ Portland Public School System are -weekend seminar of talks. interviews, 4453. larry Fink' through Mar 31 . 'Re-ilx­ sponsoring a show of Asian art Mar 23- Flullu.: Inn... nc •• , connuenc_ swick. The performance will be fol ­ ploring the American West: Photo­ Third Wortd Anna a.za.r: D ..... discussions and meditation practice Chemical Dependency .nd lhe Your Budget lowed by a discussion. For information 24, 9 am-5 pm at Waynflete School .nd timely .Ilperi.nc_ Artist I.r for S.I.? Peter Spotts. national Mar 23-25 at 123 Main St. . Yarmouth . Older Adull ActionNista program, graphs by Mark Klett' Apr 2-May 2. Gymnasium. 360 Spring St.. Portland. larry Miller gives an illustrated lecture ~ and reservations. call 729-8584. Hours: Mon-Thu 8 am-9:30 pm. Fri 8 news editor of The Christian Science Cost is $100, Friday night introductory 'It's Never Too late: promotes com­ Without Cutting featuring Wh.n You ComIn aeck, Red Ry· Exhibit includes art and handicrafts on the Ruxus art movement Mar 29. Monitor, speaks on the increasing mili­ talk at 8 pm is free and open to the munity awareness. early intervention am-5 pm, Sun 11 am-4 pm. 775-3052. donated by local residents. as well as 7:30 pm in The Baxter Building, 619 King cadillac & der Mark Medoffs play takes place in Portl.nd Public Llbr.ry, Monument tarization of the Third World Mar 26 , public. For more information. call Peter and outreach for chemically depen­ The Essentials the New Mexico desert where a dnug­ art produced by people from Asia who Congress St. Portland. Free and open 7:30 pm at Temple Beth-EI. 400 Deer­ Comas at 871-0586. denct older adults. For information The Eldorado Horns Square, Portland. 'landscapes and have settled in Portland. Proceeds from to the public. For more information. call smuggling Vietnam vet holds hostages Seascapes of New England," photo­ ing St. , Portland. Cost is $6 for the Recov.ring lrom Co-D.... ndency about the program. contact Mary Mat. 21 R>ool's Dance Pany in a diner. Mad Horse Theatre Com­ sales will go toward a trip to Washing­ 775-3052. public. $3 for Wortd Affairs Council . $1 Caron Foundation's Ann Smith speaks Thurston at the Southem Maine Area Maine graphs by John Bailey through March. ton, D.C. for local students who have Mat. 23-24 Bruno·s. Portland pany production Mar 29-Apr 22 at Mad Flull Conc.rt Compositions. works for students. For more information, call at a lecture for the general public. which Agency on Aging at 773-S503. All calls in a Rich Curry with a Hours: Mon. Wed. Fri 9 arn-S pm; Tue. recently immigrated to the U.S. and events of Fluxus and related art­ Mat.28 RaouI's Dance Pany Horse Theatre. 955 Forest Ave .• Port­ Thu 12-9 pm; Sat 9 am-5 pm. 871- the Wor1d Affairs Council at USM, 780- is part of a IWo-day conference, 'Co­ are handled confidentially. Lime-Coconut Chutney ists performed by larry Miller and 4551. Mat.36-31 WU·XAN Sam, foonerly Flanagans land. Performances are Thu-Sat at 8 1700. Dependency and the Recovery Proc­ Inf.nt P ...nting CI ..... are being Served with a small salad and April 4 RaouI's Dance Pany pm, Sun at 7 pm. TICkets are $10-$14. Portland School of Art students Mar Sovl.1 Prof••• o.. In Mal_: A ess: Changing Dysfunctional Family offered to Portland residents. Meet 31 , 7 pm at the Portland Museum of Art saffron brown rice or Apra 7 No. Conway Private available at the theater and Stein Glass Personal VI.w Professor Boris Pattems.· Smith speaks Mar 29, 6;30 other parents, share ideas and frustra­ roasted red potatoes. Apra 11 RaoU's Dance Pany Gallery. 20 Milk St. Portland. For more Art giving life auditorium. Congress Square .. Port­ Kolodyazhny from Kharkov State Uni­ pm at Mercy Hospital. 144 State St., tions, and learn how to raise happy. Apra IH4Mr. Goodbors. 0.0.8. infonmation, call 797-7338. land Free and open to the public. For versity in the Soviet Union; Sergei Portland. COSI is $10. For more infor­ healthy children . For more information. $8,95 Apra 18 Rao~'s Dance Pany Llv. From Siudio I Acclaimed New According to the organizers Elie Weise!. more information, call 775-3052 . Potimkov, a broadcast journalist from mation. call Smith House at 772-8822. call 874-8784. ApriI20 BedfOld, NH. J'iY.lle York-based dancer/choreographer De­ of Alternative Mediums 1990, the Several performance a rt pieces the Soviet Union; Virginia Wallace­ S."·Def.n•• Work. hop Rape Cri­ H.O.P.E. Sell-help support groups with One of ten new entrees under $10 ,\prO 21 Poniand dub, J'ivale borah Gladstein presents improvisa­ inetent of this art and perform­ arealsoscheduled: "A Seduction" Whitaker. University of Maine journal­ sis Center hosts a self-defense work­ facilitators meet weekly to help heal Apra 27·21 Bruno's, Poniand tionally based dances Mar 31 at 8 pm. ance happeningis to raise money by Chris Blackadan and Leah ism professor and MPBN'sJohn Green­ shop Mar 31. 1-5 pm. The program will the emotional pain associated with TilE Apra 29 MUSOlIar Dysllophy Cruise Apr 1 at 7 pm at Ram Island Dance, forTheAIDSProjectand provide Murchin; "Video Incorporated" man will discuss the University of include an information session and dis­ serious diseases. Meetings are at Unity 25A Forest Ave .• Portland. Improvisa­ Scotia Pri~e local artists with a space, an by Nelson Lowry and Joe Dellea; Maine-Kharkov State pairing project. cussion of sexual assault awareness, Church, 16 Columbia Rd.. Portland. tional Dance Workshop will be held Apr as well as explore the Soviet view of Tuesdays 2-4 pm. 5-7:30 pm and WEQT Wednesday Night is Ladies Night opportunity and a reason to dis­ "8 mm Archives" by Dan Han· personal safety and risk reduction . 's with the Red Ught Revue - 1. 1-4 pm ($20). Tickets for the per­ education and dramatic world events Thursdays 10 am-12 noon. There are play or perform their work. This draham and Owen O'Toole; and Hands-on workshop will focus on prac­ Ladies Admitted Free! formance are $6. For more informa­ of recent months. Show airs Mar 28 at tical self-defense and breakaway tech­ also support groups for the family and . eJIDE Now booking weddings and corporate tion, call 773-2562. event is a chance to heighten "Condoms are Cool" by Michael 8:30 pm on MPBN television (channels friends of the ill which meet Thursdays. RtAr.'\URAN'I' parties for spring &; summer. niques. Regislration is $15 and a lim­ Cenl., for Perform.nc. Studl_ public awareness about AIDS Danaby. 26 and 10). ited number of scholarships are avail­ 7-9 pm . For more information, call 1- CALL 883-2802 Spring session of classes begin Apr 9 and, at the same time, celebrate. A local artist, Abi Spring, is SENSE gothic Archllectu.. In 11e-cJe. able. To pre-ragister. call 774-3613. 800-339-HOPE. at the Portland Performing Art Center, Alternative Mediums 1990 the founder of Alternative Medi­ Affordable Housing Portland Area Franc. Slide lecture given by Dr. Medicinal Herb Workshops Two one­ T.1l H.1p Walk-in assistance Mon-Fri. 58 Pine Street 773-8223 25A Forest Ave.. Portland. Adult will take place Thursday, Mar. ums, which was first held in 1988. league of Women Voters sponsors a Beaupre. professor atUniversity of New day workshops on using medicinal 8:30 am-4:3O pm at Mall Plaza. S. classes include Acting for Ordinary 29. Allartworkcontributed to Al­ Now she is witnessing the fruits forum on affordable housing Mar 22. England. on Gothic architecture in herbs will be offered in Bridgton by Portland. Phone help: State Income 6:30 pm at the Holiday Inn by the Bay , People through advanced classes. ternative Mediums 1990 will be of a labor which for her began as Paris. and in particular on a sculptural COrinne Martin. Herbs for female health Tax. 1-800-452-1983; Federal Income voice , Shakespeare and games. For 88 Spring St., Portland. Registration mot~, 'Green Man: found in many Tax, 1-800-424-1040. exhibited for sale, beginning at 4 a very personal one. Abi's friend Mar31 ; herbs for kids focuses on simple more information, call 774-2776. for the forum is $4. For more informa­ Parisian churches. lecture is Mar 29. Pe.. na. Anonymous is a self-help p.m. at the Alberta's Restaurant John died of AIDSin 1989. Watch­ medicinal herbstokeepchildren heathy tion, call 774-3289. 7:30 pm at the York Institute Museum. Apr 1. For more information, call 647- program for parents undergoing daily SPRING space adjoining Zootz on Forest ing John live with AIDS changed 51 .... Club G ....ral Me.tlng Ann 371 Main St. . Saco. For more informa­ stress with their children and who are 1~1·~ 2724. INTO Avenue. Included in the exhibit her life. "He lost his job because Munch, former Maine Group Sierra Club tion. call 282-3031. St.. tch .nd To_ Workout cho­ seeking help to develop better parent­ are works by glass sculptor Joyce he had AIDS." Abi b ecame a chairperson. speaks on przewalski G ...I.r Portland L.ndmark. reographed to the rhythms of jazz Tues­ ing skills. You can contact PA in Port­ ~BOOKS Roessler, whose work is in the witness to the devastating, dehu­ horses. the ancestor to the modem day Architectural Lectu... 'Homes day and Thursday moming, 8:15-9:15 land at 871-7411 . All meetings are 146 Ocean St., South Portland permanent collection at the Port­ manizing effects of AIDS on a horse. and the efforts to return them to in Transition: The Impact of 19th Cen­ at the Portland School of Ballet. 341 free. confidential and informal. Tel. 799-SAVE FITNESS! the wild Mar 22, 7:30 pm in the Public tury Technology· Mar 29, 7 pm at St. land Museum of Art. Other local human life. She watched while Cumberland Ave .• Portland. For more AA M_tlng. Inl.rp.. led for the Used & OUI-of-Print Books Safety Building, 109 Middle St. . Port­ luke's Cathedral Parish Hall, Park information, call Karen Marino at 871- H ••ring Imp.lred First Monday of artists and crafts-people exhibit­ the community seemed uncon­ land. We buy books, too. ing w orks are printmaker Leah cerned. Street. Portland. For more information, 7093. month at Remember When Group. 8 The .Joy of L ..mlng .nd the call 774-5561 . Grear, painter Andres Verzosa, The financial support to AIDS H ••lth Screenlnge Health Promo­ pm in the Mercy Hospital auditorium, R.form of Education Professor of PI.n.t E.rth: How II Work•• nd Portland; third Friday of month Cape 6 ~R~~~r!,~1 99 ART and glass jewelry-maker Laura patients from the event will pro­ tion Program of Community Health No Initiation Fee ... Ever! Education Willard D. Callender Jr. How to Seve II Ecology activist Services sponsors adult health screen­ Elizabeth GrouP. 8 pm at St. Alban 's -. Preshong. vide food, clothing and shelter speaks on restructuring education so Harvey Wasserman presents a multi­ ing for diabetes. anemia. colorectal Church, 885 Shore Rd .• Cape Eliza­ ....IIIIIIIIMIII_ OPENING At8p.m. Zootz will host eclec­ forthosea fflicted with AIDS. And that children are given the opportunity media lecture program Mar 29, 7 pm in cancer, high blood pressure and cho­ beth; third Monday of month Keep tic Sights and unusual sounds of artists and performers have a to understand what they leam Mar 22. luther Bonney Auditorium. USM Port­ Coming Back Group. 8 pm at the Zion Frost Gully Gall.ry. 25 Forest Ave .• lesterol. Donation. Date. time and loca­ at least "alternative" perform­ chance to express themselves 4:30 pm in luther Bonney Auditorium, land. Free and open to the public. For Church, 46 Sheridan St., Portland; Portland. New work by Marcia Wislin 10 tions are as follows: Mar 26, 1-3 pm at USM Portland. Free and open to the more information. call 780-4812. fourth Wednesday of month Double Carner, DeWitt Hardy and Chris Hunt­ ances. Singers Lorna Ashe and publicly. Town Hall in Scarborough; Mar 28, public. For more information, call 780- Picturing Will by Ann Beattie Char­ Dozen Group, 7:30 pm at the Clark ington Mar 22-Apr 23. Opening recep­ Don Crosby sing "Musical Notes" As an artist, Abi Spring has al­ 9:30-11:30 am at St. Anne's Church in 4440. lotte Brenner. assistant professor of Meth. Church. Pleasant and Forest tion Mar 22. 4-8 pm. Hours: Mon-Fri a cappella. Tim Ferrell and Bolo­ ways heard that art imitates life. Gorham. For more information. call Portl.nd Sufi Ord.r Public English at Westbrook College. leads a Ave., Portland; second Tuesday of 12-7 pm . 773-2555. gna lmprov perform comedy. "But," she says, "in the case of 775-7231 ext 551. Cla._ 'The Unity of Religious Ide­ discussion on Beattie's book Mar 29. 7 month Falmouth Group, 8 pm at St. MILLARD DOW The aaxt.r Gall.ry. Portland School Women'. Volc_ Work Cholc_ Lambada is danced by Junior Alternative Mediums, art is im­ als' (Satiya) Mar 25, 6:30-8 pm at 232 pm in the Community Room of Thomas Mary's Church. Rt. 88 Falmouth. Fal­ of Portland of Art. 629 Congress St. . POrtland. Workshop empowering women to cre­ Rocha and Nina Hovermall and proving life for some. And, hope­ St. John St.. (use back door). Portland. Memorial library, 6 Scott Dyer Rd., mouth. Call 774-3034 for more infor­ winner of las, week's 'FlUXUS: Selections from the Gilbert ate the work life they need and want Portland Regency there will be two dramatic pres­ fully italso breaks down people's For mora information, can Mufti Jac­ Cape Elizabeth. For more information, Apr 7. 9:30 am-4:3O pm at the Maine mation. $25 gift certifICate and Uia Silverman Collection' Mar 26- entations: "Catastrophe" by personal barriers... AIDS is a carino at 874-2938 or Hayat Schecter call 799-1720. May 4. Public reception Mar 25, 5-7 Women Writer's Collective at Samuel Beckett and dialogues reality we all have to deal with." at 657-2605. Stop in for a few minutes HEALTH CLUB pm. Hours: Mon-Fri 10 am-5 pm (Thu Westbrook College, Stevens Ave., until 7). Sun 11 am-4 pm. 775-3052. from "A Generation After" by Roberf St. John Portland. Fee is $75. 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More wheels Japan A ....rlca Society is looking employment 8 70 Broadw ay • S Portland than 4Oboatbuilders from the North­ entertainment for hire yard sale for host families for exchange students east and Canada will exhibit sail­ flea markets real estate. for sale from Rissho University of Tokyo for boats, powerboats, kayaks, canoes, gigs real estate. for rent weekends from July 28 to Aug 20. Many cultural activities planned, as and rowing boats. The show is well as an intensive orientation pro­ unique because of the requirement deadline: noon Monday use coupon below or call Melissa Johnson at 775·6601 UNCLE ~A:ftILL V'S Sports quotes gram for students and host families. that the boatbuilders participate. For more information, call 774-4014. 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