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Bill Barry, director of the Bruns- wick Portland Shambala Center, North Pond another Tibetan-tradition group, says meditation “changes your ma- Hermit’s secret: terial wants that most of us have.” He also notes that “most of us are afraid of being alone by ourselves . meditation? . . Someone like (Knight) obviously When asked what he did most of the time while has transcended that fear,” a lesson fhe lived in the woods for the past 27 years, Chris- that can come from meditative real- topher Knight, known worldwide as the “North Pond ization that we are, in fact, always Hermit” or the “Hermit Burglar,” had a simple answer all alone, Barry says. (relayed to the Kennebec Journal by Maine Game War- Other important discoveries den Terry Hughes): “I would read books,” Knight said, have also come from long-term “and I would meditate.” hermit meditators, of which there Knight may not, of course, be the ideal exemplar of a is a strong tradition in south Asia, meditator. “He stole from people,” points out Peter Co- such as learning that “our thoughts mas, a member of Vadra Vidya, a Portland-based Tibet- aren’t real,” Barry observes. an-tradition meditation group. “At its best meditation The exact type of meditation allows one to become more comfortable with oneself Knight practiced is unclear, but and the world . . . Our approach is not to withdraw from there is evidence that different styles the world,” he says. Meditation promotes “a deep sense carry strong benefits. Katie Grose, of ethics, (asking) what does it mean to be a responsible co-director of the Greater Portland person and to be fully aware of the effects of your activi- Transcendental Meditation Center, ties on other people?” says “TM” — a standardized, uniform That said, when practiced regularly over the long method of practice — has repeatedly term, meditation has been shown in scientific studies to been found in peer-reviewed stud- improve concentration and emotional stability, lessen- ies to vastly reduce stress. It also can ing the effects of anxiety and major depression. In other help heal people with post-traumatic words, his practice might have helped Knight with- mind over matter The 2007 documentary The Dhamma Brothers explored stress; some have speculated that stand the mental challenges of the solitude and secret the effects of meditation on prison inmates in Alabama. Knight’s departure for the woods may life he chose. have been related to some trauma suf- fered during his youth. Meditation may have also helped Knight deal with the cold — he reportedly had no regular source of heat, apart from a stove he only used to cook. He used many sleeping bags, but he may also have used his mind. For one thing, Idiot Box _by Matt Bors Barry says, meditation can change a person’s perception of discomfort, allowing greater toleration of harsh cir- cumstances. And then there’s a Tibetan meditation technique called tummo (“inner fire”), which is said to allow even thinly clad people to remain warm outdoors in freezing temperatures. A 1982 article in the scientific journal Nature documented the ability of monks trained in tummo to elevate their body temperatures despite cold surroundings. Herbert Benson, the scientist who conducted that research, also documented in a 1985 study the ability of monks trained in tummo to sleep comfortably on bare rock at 15,000 feet in zero-degree temperatures with just a woolen cloak for insulation. Monks in other studies have been able to slow their metabolisms significantly, and to sit in cold rooms and dry wet sheets with their body heat alone. (A more extreme version is the Japanese practice of taki-shu- gyou, in which a person meditates underneath a waterfall and strives to remain warm and focused without shivering.) If Knight goes to jail for any period of time, meditation might help him there too. The 2007 documentary The Dhamma Brothers explores meditation practice in an Alabama prison; other similar programs have shown success in reducing inmates’ stress in confinement and dealing with often-violent prison culture. Knight, now being held on burglary and theft charges at the Kennebec County Jail, is no doubt already feeling discomfort in the change from living alone outdoors; perhaps his mental skills will help him endure further suffering, if the courts impose it. ^ _Jeff Inglis 121 CENTER ST. | PORTLAND, ME 04102 | 207.772.8274

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_BY AL DIAMON politics + other mistakes one cent’s Worth _BY mArc mewS hAw [email protected] medicare is Old and in the way not broke There’s only one drawback to from all over the state, other coun- to bolster its argument, it cut off fheard the one about medicare going broke? Sure you fgetting rid of county govern- ties have no jail at all, and a few Somerset’s quarterly payments cov- have. it’s an article of faith, one of those tropes grooved ment in Maine. The state would be counties continue doing whatever it ering the costs of inmates sent there into the collective unconscious by sheer repetition. But that overrun with unemployed old coots. was they did before. from other counties. Somerset re- claim is an alarmist canard — yet another example of politi- In the past half-century, women Authority over this revamped net- sponded by refusing to accept those cians playing fast and loose with the facts to further misbe- and young people have become more work was vested in the state Board of inmates, thereby forcing counties gotten agendas. prevalent in every level of politics Corrections. By “authority,” I mean like Franklin, which isn’t allowed medicare encompasses four programs — part A (hospi- — with the notable exception of hardly any. In reality, the coots were to have a jail, to incarcerate its pris- tal insurance), part B (medical insurance), part c (medicare counties. There the power struc- still in control. oners by chaining them to trees in Advantage — private plans for parts A and B), and part d ture is still beholden to the forces Under this setup, the counties are the path of the proposed East-West (prescription drug plans). leaving aside part c, parts B and d of cootism, defined as government supposed to send money to the state, Highway. As a result, Franklin’s are financed on a yearly basis by premiums paid by enrollees, by crotchety male senior citizens which the board then redistributes sheriff has announced plans to which cover about 25 percent of costs. the other 75 percent (and those apprenticing to become to those jails that are housing in- reopen his jail, even though that comes out of general revenues (i.e., taxes). in any conven- CMSCs), who dominate county com- mates from other counties. This would be a violation of the laws he’s tional sense of the word, then, parts B and d will never go missions and the other antiquated ought to save money, but doesn’t, sworn to uphold. bankrupt — because they can’t. offices of this outmoded remnant of because county government, in or- Expect lots of expensive litigation that leaves part A, paid for by the hospital insurance colonial rule. der to protect its fiefdom, refuses to — all of it billed to the taxpayers. trust Fund and payroll taxes. teetering on the brink of insol- Coots remain a potent alliance cooperate. By using the ambiguity The easiest way to clean up this vency? not quite. According to the medicare trustees’ annual because Maine has the oldest popu- built into the organizational chart mess would be to abolish county report released in April 2012, part A “has sufficient reserves to lation in the nation, which is why to muddle up decision making, the government and transfer its duties pay out the full amount of medicare . . . benefits until 2024.” we’re one of the few states where it’s coots made sure any advantages the to state agencies. That would also At that time, the trust Fund will run out — which is not a crime to be a young punk. Also, new system might have had were move the cost of those activities say medicare as we know it will cease to exist. the program our courts can still sentence youth- obliterated. from the regressive property tax to will still draw enough income from payroll taxes to cover 87 ful offenders (defined as anyone un- In spite of that, advocates of the the broad-based taxes that fund the percent of benefits (67 percent by 2050). that shortfall is der 55) to be thrashed soundly with plan claim it has slowed the annual state budget. notable, but it’s a far cry from the inexorable funding disaster a cane wielded by an irate oldster. In increase in jail costs, but even that That might be slightly cheaper. It the right has invoked to propose a slew of harmful policies three northern Maine counties, that modest accomplishment is open to might be somewhat more efficient. (privatization, voucherization, etc.) to “fix” medicare. it’s newfangled Internet is illegal — or it interpretation. What isn’t in doubt But it certainly would be less coot- also worth noting that since medicare’s inception, the trust would be if they had phone lines and is that administration of the system contaminated. Fund’s solvency projection has ranged on average 11.3 years. electricity. In two others, texting has devolved into a power struggle One more cOrrectION to my So there goes the myth of medicare “going broke.” But must be done in cursive. between the coots and the BOC. column two weeks ago about politi- what about the more subjective claim that medicare in its Nowhere is the retrograde influ- This is most evident in Somerset cians who’ve lost races for all three current form is “unsustainable?” ence of retired guys more noticeable County (motto: America’s Cootiest major offices in Maine. Political Whatever your politics, there’s no denying that the 8000 than in the administration of county County), where control of the jail junky Kevin Lamoreau noted the boomers who’ll be hitting medicare eligibility age every day jails. In 2008, somebody noticed that and its funding is in legal limbo. omission of Republican David Emery for the next 18 years will test the financial resources of social allowing each county to run its own Somerset is supposed to be one of from my list. Emery served in the US welfare, as the ratio of retirees to workers paying into the jail was inefficient. Some of those those places that takes inmates from House of Representatives from 1974 system increases. if the status quo holds, the congressional facilities were suffering from over- other jails, because it has a large, to 1982, but then went on an impres- Budget office projects medicare expenditures as a share of crowding. Others had empty cells. modern facility built shortly before sive losing streak, dropping a race Gdp would grow from 3.7 percent today to 5.6 percent in A plan was devised to shift con- the jail-consolidation deal went for US Senate in ‘84, an attempted 2035. trol of the jails to the state, but the down. The county had planned to return to the House in 1990, and an that’s a whopping increase to what is already, thanks to coot coalition, realizing this was a pay for its new hoosegow with mon- ill-considered try for governor in demographics and out-of-control medical prices, the largest dangerous incursion into its sphere ey it got from housing inmates from 2006. He joins Plato Truman and single driver of the national debt. But much of medicare’s of influence, used its clout to di- elsewhere in the state, but under the Libby Mitchell in the pantheon of costliness flows from its (correctible) open-endedness. Un- lute the bill. Regulation of the jails revised setup, those payments are triple-crown losers. ^ like Social Security, which represents a fixed expense based would be shared. too small to cover the costs. So, the on a benefits formula, medicare embodies a commitment by In practical terms, that meant local coots offered to rent space for this is about coots, not cooties, the government to foot the bill for the majority of medical nobody would be in charge. federal prisoners and have been us- so don’t be nitpicking in your com- services consumed by the elderly, whatever the price. And if Under this system, some counties ing that cash to pay off the bonds. ments emailed to me at aldiamon@ prices go up, the budget expands accordingly. (even so, medi- have large jails that host inmates The state says that’s illegal, and herniahill.net. care benefits from economies of scale that make it far more effective at checking spiraling health-care costs than private insurance.) rectifying all this won’t be easy, but it’s a matter of _BY DAVID KISh tweaks, not fundamental restructuring. For starters, implementing more stringent controls over what and how much the program is willing to pay for, as obama proposed in his 2013 budget (not to be confused with the nonstarter issued last week) could substantially curb costs. Also helpful would be moving away from the fee-for-service model — which incentivizes doctors and hospitals to order costly tests and treatments — and towards one that stresses and rewards preventative care. medicare’s overlords are failing to avail themselves of one other potent cost-cutting tool: their bargaining power over drug prices. 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Brown Bird are not a folk Band The Warren duo cranks iT up and geTs cerebral on Fits oF Reason

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Brown Bird’s David Lamb and Mor- Brown Bird’s nationwide tour kicked tour and asked them to join him; The Devil f ganEve Swain challenge themselves off last month, and the duo will stop by Dancing (2009) was their first team effort (and anyone who still insists on calling One Longfellow Square for a two-show (Jeremy and Jerusha Robinson also appear them a folk band) on their stunning new night on Saturday. on that disc). The current formation is a album, Fits of Reason (via local label Supply Here’s their backstory: Lamb began full-time duo, with occasional guests like & Demand). The devil still dances all over writing and recording under the name Swain’s brother, violinist Spencer. Lamb’s lyrics, though this time around Brown Bird in 2003 while living in Seattle. “Having just the two of us in the band he’s mingling with modern-day Western The moniker was inspired by his dog at is both limiting and freeing at the same thinkers and 18th-century authors whose the time, a brown Shar-Pei named Bird. time,” Swain told me. “We can’t layer views and writings have clearly inspired “I just figured the name was simple a lot of different things if the two of us his intellectual wordplay. and ambiguous. I didn’t want it to imply can’t reproduce it live.” The foot-stomping/clip-clopping struc- any particular genre, but rather left wide Lamb and Swain rolled the dice and tures and Swain’s cello and fiddle remain open for interpretation” Lamb said when left their full-time jobs (at a shipyard and steeped in American roots, bluegrass, and we spoke over the phone earlier this week, coffee shop, respectively) in 2011 right jazz, and the duo’s penchant for incorporat- just before heading for the first show in before the release of Salt for Salt. Momen- ing Middle Eastern and European rhythms Thomaston, Maine. He released Bottom of tum had been building steadily: they ac- is fully intact. But it’s the addition of electric the Sea in 2008 and met Swain (born and cepted an invite to support local friends guitar and bass that lends yet another layer raised in Newtown, Connecticut) and local the Low Anthem on a European tour in to Brown Bird’s distinctive sound. guitarist Mike Samos here while on a solo continued on p 10

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Salt for Salt was the duo’s breakout album; national publications such as Paste, Magnet, and Under the Radar took notice, and NPR deemed it one of the best folk albums of 2011 — though Swain will be the first to inform/remind us that “Brown Bird is not a folk band.” That disclaimer is reinforced by Fits of Reason’s adventurous sonic palette; Lamb and Swain stated in separate phone in- terviews that they strive for innovation during the album’s writing and recording process. “We are always trying to push ourselves beyond our own abilities, to keep things interesting and challenging,” said Lamb. The duo self-produced the new album at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket, Rhode Island; Lamb praised Keith Souza and his staff: “Keith and those guys are the best kind of engineers, in that they don’t interfere with the creative process, but they will push you to the limit in order to get the very best take possible.” Hitting tHe books Leaving your day job behind in favor of a musical career obviously has its benefits, including one advantage Lamb has applied to his craft-— reading. And lots of it, particularly during those long drives between shows. The Fits of Reason press notes cites lyrical influences ranging from philosophers such as Plato and Omar Khayyam to modern-day British-American author Christopher Hitchens. “I really appreciate the luxury of having more time to read now,” Lamb said. “When I would come home from working at the shipyard, I wasn’t really reading because I was always exhausted.” MorganEve cited the literary presence in the new work: “[David] was totally immersed in reading different philoso- phies and religious teachings,” she said. “It dominated all of our conversations, and he would incorporate some of that into the lyrics, so it was sort of all- encompassing.” Lamb and Swain share an apartment looking laconic While they’re relaxing here, brown bird’s live show is getting attention for its power, energy, and motion. in Warren, Rhode Island, which includes a small “music room” where the songs are usually fleshed out. Lamb’s consumption Skim through the lyrics on any Brown snake-charmer riff on “Nine Eyes” won’t of the written word is trumped only by Bird album and it should come as no sur- leave my head. The duo get rocking on the his consumption of coffee while work- prise to learn that Lamb was the son of a instrumental “Iblis” (an Islamic reference ing from home, while Swain prefers the minister; he left his home and the Catho- to the devil), while “Hitchens” opens up nighttime setting accompanied by a glass lic Church behind following high school. with Swain’s jazzy bass line before Lamb or two of whiskey. “My dad’s background has been in- comes in with a subtly ominous riff. The aforementioned Fits of Reason press grained in me, but I also never stropped MorganEve shines on “Bow For Blade,” release opens with a quote from 18th-cen- seeking out my own beliefs and exploring singing like the Andrews Sisters while tury author Thomas Paine (who penned different ideologies,” Lamb told me. delivering the lines, “Toil cheek to cheek Common Sense in 1776), which led to the And that makes a song like “Barren and bow for blade/Braced in flame and album title: “Reason obeys itself; and Lakes” that much more intriguing, when souls to keep/desire won’t let the monster ignorance submits to whatever is dictated Lamb sings, “We’ll bathe in the blood of sleep/We burn bright and broil in our to it.” The notes state that Paine directly salvation’s name/fast and feast upon its crusade.” Swain’s voice floats perfectly inspired the “flurry of cerebral themes” flesh and prey.” alongside Lamb’s on the hellbent waltz of and that the album “grapples with the turning it up “Wayward Daughter” as well as the hyp- human condition in a smooth but un- ‘The seventh notic closing track “Caves.” apologetic departure from the band’s pre- Both Swain and Lamb noted the heavier The Fits of Reason disc will be available at vious release.” hell inside . . . music they were listening to while record- the show (a vinyl release is forthcoming) The remarkably different approach ing Fits of Reason, from Middle Eastern and is available for download at iTunes is immediately apparent. Salt for Salt scatters our psych-rock bands of the ’60s and ’70s to and brownbird.bandcamp.com. Get ready opens with “Fingers To the Bone,” Metallica and Mastodon, and Lamb and I to feed off the energy Brown Bird bring clearly depicting Lamb’s exhausted state skin with enthusiastically praised the first Queens to the stage, with Swain thumping away of mind: “I’ve worked my fingers to the of the Stone Age album as one of the and Lamb in constant motion. Their live bone, not a pretty little penny have I got the seed/Of greatest rock records of the last 20 years. show is quickly becoming the stuff of to show/I ain’t looking for much, just a That led me to referencing Fits of Reason as legend. The duo’s recent shows have been little bit of rest by the side of the road.” our deeds perhaps Brown Bird’s “Desert Sessions,” sold out and downright bananas, so get But Fits of Reason leads with loftier concerns which got a hearty chuckle from Lamb, there early. ^ on “Seven Hells”: “The seventh hell inside devoured.’ while Swain declared, “I don’t know if I impales and divides us/And scatters our would call this our ‘loud’ record, because Brown BirD + Viro/Mire + MilkMan’S skin with the seed/Of our deeds devoured, the next one may be louder!” Lamb’s Union | Saturday, april 20 @ 7 & 10 pm | of other worlds showered/As our demon six-string keeps pace with the galloping one longfellow Square, portland | $20 | celestials bleed.” tambourine on “Seven Hells,” and his 207.761.1757 | brownbird.net

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across the country this spring CHIRP AT ME | As you might starting with a set at Jonathan’s have gathered from the cover, the in Ogunquit tonight. 8 pm, $23; Providence band Brown BirD are 92 Bourne Lane, 207.646.4777. plenty worth crowing about this week. Their new record Fits of Rea- son explodes the folk of seclusion by which they made their name f great Big sea into rich and newly expressive , at State Theatre, in Portland saturday 20 territories. They play two sets at on April 24. One Longfellow Square: the first with Eliot Lipp FRIDAY, APRIL 19 WAX ON | Today, among other with fellow off-gridders vio/Mire holidays of social distinction, and the second with the Milk- is Record Store Day. Founded by Man’s union, recrudesced after Bull Moose’s Chris Brown in a short-lived bust. 7 and 10 pm; FEELIN’ SO FREE | Kind of amaz- 2007 (semi-officially of course, tickets cost $15-20 at 181 State St., sunday 21 ing that an electronic group can WEdnEsday 24 the idea defies intellectual prop- 207.761.1757. be prepping a hotly anticipated erty), its popularity has grown IN A LAND BEFORE RED BULL HOW’S HE DOIN? | A sober, com- new album on one continent and PERSONAL:POLITICAL | Most exponentially since, now operat- | Depending on who you ask, plicated study on the controversial still have a tribute act playing studies on US incarceration ing almost metonymically as a Portland had a vibrant rave scene late mayor Ed Koch screens at the capacity-2000 theaters in another, rates and the ethics of solitary cultural celebration of music. some 20 years ago. (That’s a bit PMA. Koch passed in February, but that’s 2013 for you. Eight years confinement don’t translate well It’s only right that Bull Moose of a hedge: others could surely and amid the numerous hagiogra- since the rather disappointing to an evening of entertainment. go all out for the holiday, and think of different adjectives.) phies that emerged in the weeks Human After All, it makes some sense That’s a huge point in the favor indeed they do, equipping each These days, while several local DJ to follow, few could easily recon- that the French duo Daft Punk of hErmAN’s hOusE, a lyrical of their stores with performances nights prove as exceptions, you cile his chief failure: an inability might have been taken for dead. documentary by Angad Singh by notable local acts. While the could argue that nobody dances to to recognize and respond to the Thus: one More tiMe, a triBute to Balla. The film tracks the re- with Mat Hires SATURDAY, APRIL 20 full roster is worth your perusal, songs they don’t know anymore. AIDS crisis in the early ‘80s. KOch, DaFt punk, was born. Unburdened markable, obsessive dedication of it’s too extensive to list here — at This makes — from a historical a film by Neil Barsky, doesn’t skirt by the factors to threaten most visual artist Jackie Sumell, whose least beyond local rock legends perspective at the very least — to- the issue, yet still appears wholly rock cover acts — things like vocal epistolary friendship with Her- pHantoM BuFFalo at the Port- night’s reunion of “Grin” a special more enthralled with the mayor grain, guitar style, or personal man Wallace, incarcerated in a land store (6 pm, 151 Middle St.) one. It’s hosted by the DJs Marcus as a character study, a light under identity (Daft Punk are costumed) 6’ x 9’ cell in Louisiana for more and pop artists spencer alBee caine anD cHris gautHer, staples which the career public figure — this might be the most convinc- than 40 years, inspires her to and worrieD well at the new of the present-day house night (and publicity hound) holds up ing cover show you’ve ever seen. construct a dream house guided one in Mill Creek Plaza (4 pm, “Home,” who cut their teeth very well. Screening all weekend 8 pm, $18-20 at the State Theatre, by his vision that he might never 219 Waterman Dr., South Port- behind the decks at Zootz so long and at 2 pm today. 7 Congress 609 Congress St., 207.956.6000. see. Screening at 7:30 pm; $7 at land). Weird discounts, specials, ago. They’re joined by the produc- Square, 207.775.6148. SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., and bizarre behavior are occur- ers caseroc and DJ overloaD, THEY STARTED IT | Before dark, 207.828.5600. ring anyplace that sells music, spinning house classics and old- tortured imagery was a pre-requi- MAJOR FUSION | It often strange however. That includes school breaks (and probably not site for all types of heavy music, takes a lot of floundering to A Full, Live Recreation of the Daft Punk Experience Maine (8 pm, 578 Congress St.), the happy hardcore/gabba/jungle there was the groundbreaking tuEsday 23 find your harbor. Before Alan APRIL 22 f living colour where a set by electroacoustic stuff that made some rave nights hard rock band living colour, Doyle formed the Newfoundland , at Asylum, in Portland on April 21. Oakland musician HoraFlora undanceable, if not unbearable). widely cited as one of the early GETTING TESTY | Ever thought hybrid band great Big sea 20 is buttressed by several local 9 pm, $3; upstairs at the Asylum, giants of funk-metal. Fronted by about going back to school for years ago, he played in bands audionauts. 121 Center St., 207.772.8274. the dynamic Corey Glover and Masculine Studies? You’re not whose calling cards were Celtic given life by the expressionistic riff alone. At yet another profitable rock fusion, separatist politics, patterns of guitarist Vernon Reid, USM talk on identity and its politi- and rockabilly. Over their career, Farmer Assurance Provision class MacHine, a raw and snarl- it didn’t take long for the band’s cal dimensions, a panel riffs on a the trio have pulled from those thursday 18 — known disparagingly as the ing two-piece. 9 pm, $5 at 625 catalogue to become canonized serious topic with a camped-up influences and more. Their Monsanto Protection Act — Congress St., 207.221.2382. in the progress of American rock. name. “sissy Boys, sluts, anD tHe sonorous, pop-minded folk rock DANCE, DANCE, DANCE | while the country was fixated on BEST OF BOTH WORLDS | There That’s especially true for the early rest oF us: conFronting genDer is haunted by Celtic specters and Around here, a thirst for con- the Supreme Court hearing on are many inroads to OrlANdO, stuff, and the band tour playing stereotypes anD violence in tHe buoyed by a sober populist hope. temporary dance can be hard to gay marriage. The bill prohibits so let’s review: One is Virginia 1988’s Vivid, their debut, in its MeDia” will contain stances from Celebrating the release of XX, quench. There’s the Bates Dance federal courts from halting the Woolf herself, who wrote the entirety. With 6gig, Portland’s criminologist, author, and gender their career-spanning retrospec- Festival, the occasional one-off sale or planting of genetically genderbendy novel in 1928. greatest funk-metal export of the researcher Jim Messerschmidt tive double album, the band APRIL 24 at SPACE or some such, but not engineered seeds — basically There’s Sarah Ruhl, the vener- 21st century, at the Asylum. 9 pm, and includes a screening of the play at the State Theatre at 7:30. a ton else. It’s this dilemma Monsanto’s bread and butter — ated hyperrealist playwright who $29. film The Bro Code: How Contemporary $32.50-46.50. that steers us toward Bowdoin regardless of whatever health is- adapted it in 2003. Plus there’s Culture Creates Sexist Men. Noon at the MGMT REBELUTION KUROMA APRIL 30 J BOOG, HOT RAIN MAY 2 tonight, where student dancer/ sues may arise. (It may not come always Tilda Swinton, who was Wishcamper Center, Bedford St. in choreographer Natalie Johnson as a shock to learn that the bill’s fairly astonishing in her depic- Portland. 207.228.8096. CLUTCH SILVERSUN PICKUPS stages the crop of her indepen- language was reportedly written tion of the nobleman in the 1992 I WOULD UNDERSTAND | It with THE SWORD and LIONIZE SAT MAY 4 BAD BOOKS MAY 7 dent study “AGEN,” an experi- in collusion with the biotech film version. If any of these help monday 22 was always a worthy line of self- thursday 25 mental and intimate group piece megacorp itself.) It’s distressing. you navigate your way to USM’s questioning to decide whether JOSH RITTER & the ROYAL CITY BAND SPANK! THE FELICE BROTHERS MAY 8 The Fifty Shades Parody MAY 9 in the college’s Wish Theater. A public discussion titled “let compelling mount of this pro- USING JUSTICE POSITIVELY | As a fondness for ’90s rock band ANOTHER LAUNCH | 7 pm and free in Brunswick. If Me DeciDe: Make ge laBeling tHe duction, all the better, but the in- conversations about equality and Third Eye Blind should induce Next week marks the launch law Maine IRON & WINE BLOC PARTY you’d prefer to keep your dance ,” part of a national effort to vestment might be worth making justice as they relate to both health a feeling of shame. (And really, of Acorn’s annual THE SECRET SISTERS SAT MAY 18 BEAR MOUNTAIN JUNE 4 appreciation hovering around discuss the bill and its ramifica- on spec alone. Through April 28th care and gender identity continue the jury’s still out.) Ever heard playwrigHt’s Festival at the the theoretical, a discussion by tions, occurs at Local Sprouts at the Gorham campus’s Russell nationwide, a cross-section of stu- “Anything,” the amazing opener St. Lawrence Arts Center. Thurs- THE MOTH: MAINSTAGE EDWARD SHARPE and the Magenetic Zeros art historian luminary James Collective, the café and art house Hall, Orlando opens tonight at 7:30. dents in USM’s Nursing and Wom- of their otherwise totally flat day’s feature is a staged reading JUNE 6 JUNE 9 Smalls covers the life of Feral who do their part. 7 pm, 649 Tickets $8-15. Call 207.780.5151. en and Gender Studies programs sophomore effort Blue? Uhm...me of local Cullen McGough’s MAKING ARRANGEMENTS WANt/NOt LAMB OF GOD DAVID BYRNE / Benga, a Senegalese dancer and Congress St., 207.899.3529. | have the smart idea to tackle the either. On the other hand, it’s at 7:30. Otherwise, THE ACACIA STRAIN, DECAPITATED JUNE 16 ST VINCENT FRI, JUNE 21 gender radical who did for male Now in his ’60s, the fiddler Darol two at once. In a panel tonight, a safe to say the world would be a a big stand-up fandango gets homosexuality what Josephine Anger has long been a polestar of group of LGBTQ-identified activists far better place had it not been on its feet at Local Buzz, where MELISSA TEGAN and SARA Baker did otherwise. Smalls’s the New England string-music discuss how modern medical care bestowed with the do-doo-doo kate gHiloni, karen Morgan, ETHERIDGE SAT JUNE 22 SAT JULY 27 “Feral Benga: an aFrican Muse circuit. On a sort of hiatus from providers can minister safe, quality part in “Semi-Charmed Life.” stepHanie Doyle, DaviD swan- oF HoMo-utopia” begins at 4:30 friday 19 his Republic of Strings project, health care options to those who For this week’s “Cover to Cover,” Der JacoBs, and lucas o’neil JULY 31 in the Visual Arts Center, Beam Anger’s formed a new group with are too often bracketed out from local rock outfit the DeliBerates tell jokes at 7:30. Then there’s BEACH HOUSE Classroom. Call 207.725.3000 for A PUMMELER | An evening of a strong cast of players from the the concept. “caring For tHe invis- clearly have some feelings on the a wild one at SPACE, where Bar Get tickets online at statetheatreportland.com, in person at the Cumberland more info on either. dirty, dirgy rock ‘n’ roll is on bluegrass and Americana scene: f HerMan’s House iBle patient: How proviDers can subject. See if they square with Harbor’s coke weeD play tracks WEIRD SEEDS | In a move that Geno’s dancecard: the swelter- Emy Phelps, Rushad Eggleston, , at SPACE Gallery, in aDvance lgBtQ HealtH Justice” yours at the Big Easy, where they from their upcoming record County Civic Center Box Office and charge by phone at 800-745-3000. Tickets arcane kindled the cynicisms of thou- ing swamp blues of duo and Maeve and Sharon Gilchrest begins at 6 pm in the campus’s cover the entirety of 3EB’s debut with the Americana-punk band available at the State Theatre Box Office on night of show one hour before doors. sands of Americans, President lore play with burly metal trio comprise Darol anger anD tHe Portland on April 24. Masterson Hall. Call 207.780.4141 from 1997. 9 pm, $5 at 55 Market o’DeatH, who celebrate 10 years Obama famously signed the cryptic overcast and Belfast’s Furies, who make their way for info. St. 207.775.2266. of life together. 14 April 19, 2013 | the portlA nd phoenix | portlA nd.thephoenix.com

‘fRAM,’ 1983, oil on canvas. louisiana Museum of Modern art, Art humlebaek, denmark stop making sense the iMplied Narratives of per kirkeBY _BY keN GreeNleaf

The current show by the highly- imagery, but the presence of an overarch- George Maciunas. Kirkeby understands, In the later paintings the ironic atmo- facclaimed Danish artist Per Kirkeby ing body of ideas that display his insight as perhaps only an artist can, that Cè- sphere of collapse and restoration is trans- at the Bowdoin College Museum of into the subjective nature of human expe- zanne went to great trouble over years of formed toward a formal sincerity. The Art is a broad survey of his work, with rience. Art, or language, or philosophy, work to produce a method that posited a subversion of expectations has evolved examples of his paintings and sculpture and even science become not so much truth about his experience. The radical into a mood of engagement with the pro- from the 1960s up to a few years ago. The an expression of the world as it exists, or nature of his results were more a matter cess of the apprehension. Their disorder exhibition was organized at the Phillips even as we see it, but as a construct we of personal imperative than of theory. is a conceptual cousin of the disorder of Collection in Washington, D.C., where can build, revealing both the limitations In the catalog essay, exhibition cura- nature — that is to say, the sense of chaos it appeared last year. It provides a broad of our ability to directly know what is real tor Klaus Ottmann says that Kirkeby was only lasts until we accept that there is no view of the intellectual and poetic range and the sometimes arbitrary conceptual under the spell of Wittgenstein, especially disorder at all. Kirkeby continuously re- of this truly significant artist. order that we impose on nature. his assertion that “thoughts and proposi- quires that we reexamine that which we There is a philosophical consideration The earliest paintings in this show, tions are pictures: ‘The picture is a model thought we knew. in physics called the anthropic principle from the mid-1960s, reveal an admixture of reality.’” The big ‘Earthquake.’ (1983) is a good that states that the way we understand of folk art with Pop ironies and fractured George Maciunas, a founder and cen- example. An earthquake is one of nature’s the parameters of the universe is in fact geological imagery combined in the ser- tral figure in the Fluxus group, delighted ways of shifting from an unsustainable the only way we, as humans, are constitu- vice of an implied narrative. In ‘Regicide in breaking the boundaries between art, state of order to a new and more stable one. tionally equipped to comprehend it, at Finderup Barn’ (1967), the silhouetted performance, and music, and even more The large painting (154 inches wide by 78 given the limitations of our conscious- figure of a warrior with axe stands above in collapsing peoples’ expectations around high) seems to gather itself into coherence. ness. The great physicist Richard Feyn- a snow-laden log dwelling, while outlines art (or, for that matter, anything else). Another large painting, ‘Untitled” man cautioned that our awareness of of a large bird and a building, perhaps a That anarchic sense of breaking apart (2009), depicts three horses, recalling nature was not nature itself, but a human cathedral or palace, drift unmoored on the ordinary order of things to create a Degas and perhaps the Chauvet cave paint- model of it. the surface. There is a story to be inferred new coherence is observable in Kirkeby’s ings. It is not, of course, about horses, Kirkeby is an artist, poet, essayist, here, historical or perhaps legendary, but work in this show. It comes up in a mate- whose presence in the work is at most filmmaker, and novelist, but his earliest it is firmly positioned in the art-historical rial sense in Kirkeby’s work in chalk and an evocation of the experience of nature, training was as a scientist, a geologist. He and philosophical context of the period chalkboard paint on Masonite. These are without need for a narrative. did field work in the Arctic, including in when the piece was made. subject to erasure and are by their nature There is no apparent captive in ‘The northern Greenland, and his sense of the The essay in the accompanying catalog temporary — it’s the opposite of our ex- Prisoner of the Holy Agony,’ but the under- chaotic order of geological ebb and flow cites a number of influences on Kirkeby’s pectation that a work will endure past the lying presence of such a condition exists permeates this whole body of work. What thinking, from which I choose three: lifetime of its maker. It was the kind represents a more frightening prospect than makes it interesting is not simple mimetic Paul Cèzanne, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and versal of the normal that Maciunas loved. any number of the self-flagellating images so beloved of early and medieval Christians and modern conceptual performances. Kirkeby’s fascination with mining the history of art and restructuring it into his own thinking (as well as, indeed, his own identity) also informs the bronze sculp- tures included in this exhibit. The gesture implicit in Rodin’s best work is present in the ‘Large Head’ (1984) and again in ‘Arm and Head’ (1984). The proportions of the small ‘Gate’ (1981) are sufficiently close to Rodin’s monumental ‘Gates of Hell’ to bring it immediately to mind. Meanwhile, ‘Inventory XX’ (2002) recalls Matisse’s ‘Backs.’ Yet this is not appropria- tion, nor even quotation. It is analogous, perhaps, to a modern composer including a baroque fugue structure in a thoroughly contemporary work. It is something we recognize and appreciate as an included reference, but the final result is Kirkeby’s alone. We are given context, but as a matter of guiding principle for our own experience, rather than as an imposition by others. This is how science works best: by giving us tools to understand not necessarily how things really are, but how we can interpret them. The conceptual detachment that Kirkeby applies to his method results in a profound and very personal humanism. Kirkeby is, I believe, not only aware of this apparent paradox, he intends to evoke it. ^ “PeR KiRKeBY: PAintinGS And SCulP- tuRe” | through July 14 | at Bowdoin Col- lege Museum of Art, 9400 College Station, ‘untitled,’ 2009, tempera on canvas. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Berlin Brunswick | 207.725.3124 | bowdoin.edu/ art-museum

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The paradoxes in fBrenda, the rock band of three (or some- w/ Gone for Days times four) members & 13 High split geographically between Portland and Saturday, April 27 THURSDAY, MAY 9 New York, are hard to iron out. Their new record, Fix Your Eyes, is at once too complex, cerebral, and downerish to appeal to the masses; too catchy and musically inclined to work for the punks; and too obsessed with classic rock to impress the art-school kids. They’re a hard group c0Unt thE SIdES to pin down, and that Brenda reshapes rron Arter has every bit to do their sound on Fix All Ages A C All Ages with their appeal. Your Eyes. FRIDAY, JUNE 6 SATURDAY, JUNE 29 Contrasted with Silver Tower, the TICKETS AVAILABLE AT PORTLANDASYLUM.COMAron & TICKETWEB.COMArter group’s 2010 debut, A C these songs are marked by Peet Chamberlain’s move from a somewhat lackluster recording from bass guitar to keys and combo or- of “Boxy Music.” The song’s a climax gan. Chamberlain handles more melo- of their live show (watch them slay dies now than he did on bass, and his a live studio version online at Break- bright, swirling keys can better support thru Radio’s Serious Business in New the brassy, impressionistic vocals of York), so it’s disappointing to find the frontman Josh Loring. And while Lor- version captured here, a/k/a the one ing’s guitar work is one of the band’s I’d play all summer, low-volume and strengths, it’s always been more colorful comparatively tepid. But the offense and expressive than skeletal. Keyboards pales to those committed in the title can tease from both of those instruments track, which foists onto us a smirky more harmonies than bass ever could, organ lead over five tiresome minutes and Fix Your Eyes is a sort of grand declara- as ironic and mind-numbingly confec- tion of that discovery. tionary as something Weezer would As a whole far richer and more adven- write. A band’s willingness to change turous than Silver Tower, Brenda’s latest is their elements is always commendable, also a lot more brooding. As if by design, but a good bassline pummels the echo some sections drag, yet the truly excel- chambers of my gut more than the fat, lent songs carry such propulsive kinetic bright, manic timbre of an organ ever energy as to bore a hole into the skull. could, and tracks like “Fix Your Eyes” “Boxy Music” is such a gem: a fast-paced suggest Brenda have made a question- and cerebral pop song whose brilliant able concession. surging melodies are like horses whipped But here’s the liberal view, to which into motion by the adroit drumming of I would — in my head at least — like to D.J. Moore. Tracks like this and the rol- ascribe: this is a smart, courageous, re- licking “Hard Pleaser” are the album’s markably cohesive collection of songs, major highs, triumphs of the pop formu- impressive given that the differing las they started the journey with in the sensibilities of Chamberlain, Loring, first place. and Moore (and Oscar Romero, brought A spacious back half lacks for singles, on for second guitar) are more evident but it’s also where Brenda get more than ever. And about the organ: what- comfortable. “House of Grain” steeps in ever. As any of the countless fans of dual keyboard lines before popping into Steely Dan, the Murder City Devils, a buoyant, R.E.M.-y chorus, though the or the effing Doors would attest, it’s formula works less well applied to the largely a matter of personal taste. Deal nimble acoustic ballad “What To Do,” with it. which holds off a syrupy coda just long Fix Your Eyes is a fine record, and enough to work. Two Chamberlain-sung though it’s no game-changer, it doesn’t songs startle the first time through — take much squinting to recognize it’s almost a different band — but their Brenda emerging as one of the most pop-ballad arrangements help cut the interesting types of rock bands, who album’s densities, particularly “(franklin can invigorate and inspire when wit- tower)”, which transforms a sardonic nessed live yet are also worth studying theme on par with Warren Zevon into a at home. ^ dizzying lullabye. My glowing opinion of the track not- FIX YOUR EYES | released by Brenda | teen- withstanding, Fix Your Eyes oddly suffers arenarecords.com wow Friday night ShannaShanna UnderwoodUnderwood SatUrday night beambeam && FinkFink Served up with some of the best food & drink on the waterfront.

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cleansers, mostly bAngerS And MISh-MASh in the form of short instrumental tunes firSt thing with the engliSh breakfaSt that show he’s got an appreciation for The order of operations used to be in the left and right channel and in starkly pretty things fyou played a bunch of shows, then harmony with one another. Suddenly, and resonator guitar. you released an album. Now it’s often though, it’s all over at 1:31. Is this a song Defying the risk of the other way around. When the English or an idea for a song? sounding scattered, Breakfast played Slainte last weekend, it Much more fully realized is “We’ll these brief interludes was their Portland live debut. Yet their Make Good Compost,” another strong give Shining Seas debut album, Shifting Seas, has been mari- tune that makes you care about the more leeway with nating on Bandcamp since March 1 — a answers to questions like “who’s we?” and the listener, some 15-track affair, no less. “for whom?” As is a trait of the album, breathing room. They Why not? the electric guitar tone here is excellent, make a dense song like Largely the brainchild of Ira Sterling, crisp, and immediate, and the recurring “Lucy,” full of digital who recorded much of the album by insistence in the title isn’t the only thing fireflies flittering in and himself, with drums from Bill Mead that might remind you of Perry Farrell’s out of riffing guitar, a and mandolin by Evan Chase, the prediction that we’d make great pets. welcome head-nodder, English Breakfast has jelled into a five- It’s an eclectic album, though, and fronted by Sterling’s piece, swapping in the multi-talented there are times when you’d be forgiven for sister Meghan with Evan Casas on drums, plus bassist Sam wondering if, to use an English phrase, a captivating falsetto Higgins (with Chase, they also make Sterling is taking the piss. “Better Plan” turn. up Silent Sam and the Evans) and Joe has nice phrasing in the guitar and some Those instrumental Siviski, who dabbles with keys and light cymbal work before going full-on pieces are dynamic otherwise. pop rock, like the Kinks with all the dials contrast with the If they can consistently pull off what turned to 11 and a recorder melody line British Invasion rock Sterling’s captured digitally, it ought that demands attention. There’s so much of “Good Man,” too, to be pretty interesting. At its best, as going on it’s hard to know what to listen where Sterling sounds with the opening “To the Spring,” Shining for. like Damon Albarn at Seas can deliver the skittering energy of Same with the title track, where his sneeringest and Radiohead’s recent work, forward-leaning there’s egg shaker, tambourine, there’s energy like the and desperate. There are layers to unpack, drumming with wild abandon from Who. too, with toy-like percussion used as Mead, and Sterling’s heavily distorted Yes, there’s a lot to foundation for a song with hard-charging vocals that you can barely make out discover. And you’re guitars and plenty of digital wash in the through the guitar wash. But scratch FIRST IMpRESSIoNS ira Sterling, pictured here with a furry just getting to know finish, so that you can’t tell if it’s coming that — here comes a pretty mandolin part friend, recorded much of shifting seas himself. this band. But be from the vocals or keyboards. and a Casio keyboard line. And because patient, they’re also “Rise and Shine” has it, too, with all of the instruments are mixed to give just getting started. ^ a shrill whistle in the right channel, them dimension, it’s like musical chairs to Wing,” what with the dramatic vocals and active bass, and vocals like a guy deciding what to focus on. that lead to something more closely mic’d SHIFTING SEAS | Released by the English mimicking a cartoon vampire. Then we There’s definitely a prog element here, and full of mouth noises. Breakfast | http://theenglishbreakfast. get classic-rock solos on different guitars too, like Nursery Crime-era Genesis in “Hand But Sterling provides plenty of palate bandcamp.com/album/shifting-sea

F WAX TAbLeT [email protected] Heatseekers’ guide F received some new buzz on local songwriter met awesome musicians, and seen a pile of simple and dark jangles lyrically coerced into marriage to the guy (as some have), perhaps ERIc BETTENcouRT, he of VElouRoSAuRuS killer bands since arriving here last december. grim, paranoiac conclusions, many of which a better way to make sense of the sorceries (winner of last year’s Best house Band award in in truth i’m already looking forward to moving are indexed by nods to irish traditionals. out within such a marginal lifestyle is via music. the phoenix’s Best music poll) and possessor of back.” While maine winters no doubt summon now on the region’s venerably weird TuRNEd So goes the opinion of TRoy BENNETT of the that unique smoke-and-honey voice. he returns glorious springs of inspiration for the modern WoRd REcoRdS, irons’s record hits the public Squid Jiggers, who got the ball rolling last week home next month from Austin, a city he says songwriter, this type of lifestyle is still a dream midway through his european tour with coun- with a song he debuted on rachel Flehinger’s glowing things about in a recent press release, for many people, musicians or otherwise, and tryman MIcAH BluE SMAldoNE, the balladeer morning show on country station Wpor (and with two albums worth of new material and it’s refreshing to see someone living it. whose own new release The Ring of the Rise captured online on the songwriter’s Bangor Daily a renewed interest in his hardworking cover F the Belfast psych-folk songwriter ASA shows him expanding into the spare folk- News blog, Bennett there done that). the tone group. Good news for sure. But music yums IRoNS has released the long-awaited Knife Gift rock arrangements of neil Young and richard is cheeky for sure, but his tune’s ultimately a aside, we’re especially excited to see a transcon- Debt this week, a myth-rich document of rural thompson. hear Knife Gift Debt at asairons. faithful one, immersed in reflections about a tinental model working for an unsigned musi- meditations, hints of violence, and fractured bandcamp.com/ and visit turned Word at lifestyle many of us regard with some still-set- cian in 2013. though he’s a mainer for the sum- cultural affiliation. irons is a former member of turnedword.com. tling combination of fascination, anxiety, horror, mer, Bettencourt indicates that dual-residency the psych-rock band Feathers as well as doom F haven’t dug much of the north pond hermit and envy. Surely more songs grappling with this in texas is a semi-permanent choice, writing: groups Witch (with J mascis) and taboo, yet the coverage — i mean, leave the dude alone, right? phenomenon are on the way, but this most lit- “i have stumbled on some great opportunities, songs he practices here are far more austere: — but instead of calling him in jail or proposing eral take is a fine benchmark.^ portLand.thephoenix.com | the portL and phoenix | apriL 19, 2013 1 9

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“Play,” mixed media group exhibition 603.766.3330 | 319 Vaughan St, Ports- Shoemaking Skills of Generations” INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN ART | mouth, NH | Thurs noon-6 pm; Fri MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CULTURE | Ages 8-18 | www.rippleffect.net | 207-791-7870 45 Smith St, #1, Portland | institute- 11 am-8 pm; Sat 11 am-6 pm; Sun 207.871.7188 | 13 Brown St, Portland | [email protected] | Sat 4-8 noon-4 pm | Through April 28: “Vani- museumafricanculture.org | Tues-Fri pm | Through April 27: “Project C: tas: The Meaningless & Futility of 10:30 am-4 pm; Sat noon-4 pm | $5 Bookshelf to Publication,” reference Conspicuous Consumption,” mixed suggested donation | Through June library of queer print media media group exhibition 28: “Lines Converge, Colors Dance,” JUNE FITZPATRICK GALLERY TIDEMARK GALLERY | 207.832.5109 multimedia works by Ashley Bryan + | 207.699.5083 | 522 Congress St, | 902 Main St, Waldoboro | Wed-Sat 10 Daniel Minter + Rohan Henry | Ongo- Portland | junefitzpatrickgallery.com | am-5 pm | Through April 27: “Tide- ing: “An Exhibition of Bronze” Wed-Sat noon-5 pm | Through April mark Artists Group Show,” mixed PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | 26: “Spring Salon,” paintings by Mi- media 207.775.6148 | 7 Congress Square, chael Walek WATERFALL ARTS | 207.388.2222 | Portland | portlandmuseum.org | KENNEBUNK FREE LIBRARY | 256 High St, Belfast | Tues-Fri 10 am-5 Tues-Thurs + Sat-Sun 10 am-5 pm; 207.985.2173 | 112 Main St, Kennebunk pm; by appointment | Through May Fri 10 am-9 pm | Admission $12; $10 Northern Lights kennebunklibrary.org | | Mon-Tues 24: “Earth,” mixed media group students, seniors; $6 youth 13-17; THE BEST selection of hookahs & accessories 9:30 am-8 pm; Wed 12:30-8 pm; exhibition free for youth 12 & under and for all Thurs-Sat 9:30 am-5 pm | Through Fri 5-9 pm | Through May 19: “Blue- including Fantasia Shisha April 30: “Celebrate,” works by Marie MUSEUMS berry Rakers,” photography by David Wilson-Lago Brooks Stess + “Voices of Design: LINCOLN LEVY GALLERY | BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART 25 Years of Architalx,” interactive THE LARGEST selection of vaporizers 603.431.4230 | 136 State St, Ports- | 207.786.6158 | 75 Russell St, Olin Arts exhibition | April 18: “Maximum (including parts and accessories) mouth, NH | nhartassociation.org | Center, Lewiston | bates.edu/museum- Use-Re-Use” | Architalx lecture with Wed-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-4 about.xml | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm | Janna Levitt | 6 pm | $10 | April 25: Enter to win pm | Through April 26: “27th Annual Through May 25: “Selections from “Personality” | Architalx lecture with our monthly Water pipes from Illadelph, HBG, MGW, Omer T. 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Photo ID required. Emerging Artists,” mixed media stu- ranean” + “Transformative Gestures: pm | Through May 3: “University of dent exhibition Paintings of the Renaissance” + Maine Department of Art Student MONKITREE GALLERY | 207.512.4679 “Unity & Fragmentation: Selections Exhibition,” mixed media | 263 Water St, Gardiner | Tues-Fri 10 from the Permanent Collection” | UNIVERSITY OF MAINE MUSEUM am-6 pm;Sat noon-6 pm | Through Through July 14: “Per Kirkeby: Paint- OF ART | 207.561.3350 | Norumbega May 25: “Lost Maps of Norumbega,” ings & Sculpture” Hall, 40 Harlow St, Bangor | umma. works by Ken Gross COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC | umaine.edu | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm NAHCOTTA | 603.433.1705 | 110 Con- 207.801.5733 | Blum Gallery, 105 Eden | Free admission | Through June 8: gress St, Portsmouth, NH | nahcotta. St, Bar Harbor | Tues-Sat 11 am-4 pm “I-95 Triennial 2013,” mixed media com | Mon-Wed 10 am-6 pm; Thurs- | Through April 19: “The Basics of group exhibition | Through June 8: Dating Sat 10 am-8 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm | Material Production,” student instal- John Bailly: “Piece of Mind,” mixed made Through April 28: works by Jessica lation media | Ongoing: “Selections from WARNING Alpern + Allison May Kiphuth + DYER LIBRARY/SACO MUSEUM | the Permanent Collection” Helen Musselwhite 207.283.3861 | 371 Main St, Saco | saco- UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND Easy PERIMETER GALLERY | museum.org | Tues-Thurs noon-4 pm; — PORTLAND | 207.221.4499 | Art Gal- HOT GUYS! 207.338.0968 | 96 Main St, Belfast | Fri noon-8 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun lery, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland | une. Tues-Sat 7 am-5 pm; Sun 8 am-2 pm noon-4 pm | Through April 20: “RSU edu/artgallery | Wed 1-4 pm; Thurs | Through May 12: “Big Top,” sculp- 23 Student Art Show” 1-7 pm; Fri-Sun 1-4 pm | Through Portland ture by Paul Oberst FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM | May 12: “Maine Women Pioneers III: PHOPA GALLERY | 207.317.6721 | 207.596.6457 | 16 Museum St, Rock- Worldview” | Ongoing: paintings & Portland 132 Washington Ave, Portland | Wed- land | farnsworthmuseum.org | 10 photography by Maine artists + laby- 207.253.5200 Sat noon-5 pm | Through May 4: am-5 pm, open until 8 pm with free rinth installation “Timothy Whelan: Photographer as admission Wed | $12, seniors & stu- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE Collector,” photography | artist talk dents $10; under 17 free and Rock- — GORHAM | 207.780.5008 | Art Gal- ( ) lery, USM Campus, Gorham usm. 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Nietzsche thought that “however the work of a third brother, it turns out). fvigorously a man may seem to One of the proprietors greets you at the leap over from one thing into its oppo- door, or at least stops by your table. They site, closer observation will nonetheless are warm and good talkers in the old New discover the dovetailing where the new York style, sort of like Regis Philbin; the building grows out of the old.” So it is tables themselves are great looking but at the North Point, a new Old Port res- tiny, like Kelly Ripa. This is not a problem taurant and drinking spot run by a until you start ordering food — especially transplanted New York restaurateur as the menu encourages sharing from and his brother. The siblings came to several plates. It’s a menu that says: my Portland to escape the rat-race and try kitchen is tiny but I care about food — an something different. But despite bohe- experience familiar to many New York- mian touches, the North Point retains ers. There are lots of cold meats in the some the feel of New York — not con- form of patés and charcuterie, and a nice diVerSe PorTfolio charcuterie stars on the north point menu. temporary Brooklyn-hip but old-school selection of cheeses. A pheasant paté was Manhattan business culture. quite good — sweet but peppery with some And there is nothing wrong with that. gaminess, with a texture more meaty varieties of fungi. Their flavor stood up to In essence North Point offers us an In fact North Point offers us a chance to than creamy. Even better was a trio of the sweetness of thick slices of fresh moz- escape from the unconventional, a safe re-appreciate our own Maine corporate juicy sausages — a spicy-smoky andouille, zarella topped with a schmear of blueberry haven for the settled and self-assured. It culture. With its slower pace, friendlier a sweet and fatty kielbasa, and a peppery puree. Bits of feta added some welcome is nice that Portland could offer a refuge tone, and relative lack of rapaciousness, rabbit — served with four sauces. saltiness. Another sandwich made with for these brothers, but it is also nice for it’s like New York 50 years ago. At North The menu also features a number of brie, apples, and pears plus a touch of us that they brought a taste of traditional Point, instead of beards and skinny flatbread sandwiches on tenur from the peach chutney and honey was somewhat New York culture along with them. Sure, jeans, patrons are mostly well-coiffed terrific Iraqi bakery Tandoor Bread and less successful. The flavors got lost in a corporations have screwed us all. But in button-down shirts and slacks or a Restaurant on Forest Avenue. The sand- single note of sweet. businesspeople in Maine, who just trying little black dress. They can afford a semi- wiches are grilled, but preserve what is Taking up a bit of precious table space to make a buck, are not the real problem. pricey cocktail if it is thoughtful and well best about this flatbread — its wheaty is North Point’s thoughtful and afford- If find some of these well-dressed folks crafted, as it is at North Point. And they flavor, soft but chewy texture, and appeal- able wine list, printed on an empty bottle. next to you at their own tiny table, chat like to snack and imbibe in a handsome ingly crisp exterior. North Point stuffs it The Punto Final malbec is dry and earthy, them up. You just might find you have space, which North Point has created with any number of fillings, from salmon and a Byerskloof pinotage is appealingly similar tastes. ^ from what used to be a hair salon. The to mushrooms to cured meats to brie, quirky, with raspberry flavors. They also brick walls are decorated with huge mir- all mostly to good effect. A version made have a good selection of beers on draft, in- The NorTh PoiNT | 35 Silver St. | Mon. — rors and an appealingly eclectic group of with local mushrooms was stuffed with cluding local favorites as well as some less Sat. 11am-1am, Sunday 3pm-12am | Visa/ paintings and photographs (much of it is thick slices of several dark, juicy, funky familiar choices. MC/Amex | 207-899-3778

F movie reviews in brief Short Takes xxx stunning debut feature, Zero Day (adapted from a 2001 TV movie of THe PLACe BeYOnD THe (2003), deserves a much wider the same name) begins with the PineS audience. sort of ludicrous premise that Fritz 140 MINUTES | R | NIckElodEoN + Lang or Otto Preminger might have wESTbRook cINEMagIc _J.r. Jones xxx tackled in the late 1940s. An art A motorcycle stunt rider (Ryan auctioneer (James McAvoy) hides a Gosling) discovers that the woman 42 valuable painting during a heist but he loved and left a year earlier (Eva 128 MINUTES | Pg-13 | NIckElodEoN gets amnesia and forgets where he Mendes) has given birth to a son Like many Hollywood sports put it; improbably the chic gangster by him, and his half-baked deci- movies, this Jackie Robinson bi- (Vincent Cassel) who organized the sion to become a better father ends opic seems to be pitched at high The Place crime sends him to a hypnothera- tragically. This naturalistic drama schoolers, but writer-director Beyond the pist (Rosario Dawson) to recover the is ambitious to the point of being Brian Helgeland still manages a Pines memory. An exacting filmmaker unwieldy, and after a while it pretty absorbing account of Robin- like Lang or Preminger might have begins trotting out familiar char- son’s rookie year as the first black given weight to the story’s psycho- acters (Ray Liotta as a dirty cop) player in major league baseball. logical elements, but Boyle’s fran- and situations (an execution in the Chadwick Boseman is appropri- manager Branch Rickey. At 70, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Mel- tic, hodgepodge approach provides woods, a la Miller’s Crossing). But ately anguished as Robinson, who Ford has finally grown into his oni, Alan Tudyk, and John C. Mc- only fleeting pleasures. He seems once the story has advanced from struggles to control his rage as he curmudgeonly persona, and he Ginley (as sportscaster Red Barber). to regard the project as little more one generation to the next and its absorbs a torrent of abuse from digs into the role of Rickey, recon- than a stylistic exercise, trying out _J.r. Jones thematic sweep has become appar- white fans, players, and officials. ciling the deep feeling of Christian xx lots of cinematic devices without ent, these flaws seem much more But ironically, the most valuable brotherhood and naked profes- establishing a unifying perspective tolerable. Derek Cianfrance (Blue player here is Harrison Ford, giv- sional ambition that motivated TRAnCe on the material. Valentine) directed a script he ing one of the best performances him to give Robinson a shot. The 101 MINUTES | R | NIckElodEoN cowrote with Ben Coccio, whose of his career as Brooklyn Dodgers strong supporting cast includes Danny Boyle’s twisty noir thriller _Ben sachs portland.thephoenix.com | the portland phoenix | april 19, 2013 2 9

Unless otherwise noted, all film listings movie TheaT er lisT ings this week are for Friday, April 19 through Thursday, April 25. Times can and do change without notice, so do call the theater before heading out. For up-to-date film-schedule dinner + movie information, check the Portland Phoenix Web site at thePhoenix.com.

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This period of quarter moon to full moon is the fbest time to take projects and relationships to Back page the next level. Couple that with spring fever, and if the allergies don’t get you, figure more progress will be made now than at any other time of the month. Since the sun is moving into Taurus, the sign of finance, security, and pretty objects, bigger payoffs are in the works. Feel like gardening? Me too. Days for planting include Thursday, Sunday, and Monday. Jonesin’ _by Matt Jones But any day is fine for buying seeds. thursday april 18 Across 40 melinda’s husband First quarter moon in cancer. moon void-of-course 8:31 am to “freestylin” 11:13 am when it moves into leo. A turning point for decisions it’s about two weeks into1 2 Self-made 3 4 leader 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 1 41 made or executed around last Wednesday’s new moon. cancer moons — No theme for you! the month 43 System where A = 4 bring a craving for comfort (food, furniture), and leo moons help 5 1959 post-apocalyptic 44 Fairy tale figures shine a spotlight. So a confusing time for Aries, taurus, Aquarius, and classic 17 18 45 Fred 19 in 20 the oldest 21 22 23 24 c apricorn, 25 26 but full 27 of positive28 momentum 29 30 for 31Scorpio, 32 cancer, pisces, 15 Fine covering surviving motion picture leo, Virgo, Sagittarius, libra, and Gemini. 16 Sweltering, perhaps 46 ___ quam videri 17 Box a bit 47 turn in front of traffic, Friday april 19 Waxing moon in leo, moon void-of-course 5:06 pm until 8:08 pm 18 Bold evening wear maybe Saturday. Sun moves into taurus. We’re in the middle of spring, 19 one of the oasis 1 2 3 49 t 4wisted 5 Sister 6 frontman 7 8 9 and 10 l eo moons 11 bring12 out 13the urge 14 to party 15 long 16and hard into the night. brothers Snider or to act like a child. this should be right in the comfort zone for Aries, 21 non-professional 51 ___ occasion (never) Sagittarius, leo, libra, Aquarius, Gemini, Virgo, capricorn, pisces, and 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 22 celeb who tweeted 52 Street View’s program cancer. taurus, Aquarius, and Scorpio: look before you leap. about hemp oil for 59 Seymour Skinner’s love cancer treatment interest, once saturday april 20 Waning moon in leo, moon void-of-course until 8:08 pm when 27 Struggle in ancient 61 lacking substantiation it moves into Virgo. An all-day void-of-course moon makes for Greek drama1 2 3 4 62 Folk 5 singer 6 phillips 7 8 9 10 unexpected 11 12 company, 13 surprising 14 15 pleasures, 16 and unasked for gaity. not 31 “te ___” (Valentine’s 63 they hold a fun for the anchorites, but excellent for extroverts and Aries, Sagittar- card phrase) biker’s stuff ius, leo, libra, Aquarius, Gemini, Virgo, capricorn, pisces, and cancer. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 32 microseism 64 Silents star ___ negri impatience could be a theme for taurus, Aquarius, and Scorpio. that, or a crazy haircut. 33 Acronym that triggered protest blackouts in 2012 Down sunday april 21 34 Willie mays’ first wife 1 contacts, in a way Waxing moon in Virgo. Great day for family gatherings, but please 36 two fives for ___ 2 tactful affairs watch for being “picky,” particularly if you’re Virgo, Aries, pisces, 37 palm with1 berries 2 3 4 5 3 Actor 6 from 7 “c aprica” 8 9 10 11 Sagittarius,12 13 Gemini, 14 or Aquarius. 15 16cleaning is a theme. So is upgrading a 38 Suffix meaning “form of and “nYpd Blue” health program. or buying a bunch of vitamins you really don’t need. ef- government” 4 Winning coach in Super ficiency and order could be a pleasure for libra, leo, taurus, capricorn, 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 and28 Virgo. 29 you folks 30 could 31 also have 32 your acquisitive impulses activated. ©2013 Jonesin’ CrossworD s | eD [email protected] 39 like some minimums Bowl iV 5 Word before town or Monday april 22 Gang Waxing moon in Virgo, moon void-of-course 2:02 am until 3:25 6 compass pt. am Wednesday. earth day. earth sign moons on a monday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 n 7ot yet 8known: 9 abbr. 10 11 12 prompt 13 long-term 14 15 thinking. 16 So, as you try to recycle that paper earth 8 rapcore band ___ pe day coffee cup a third time, work on projects that will unfold slowly and deliberately. this is no time to rush — you hear me Sagittarius, pi- _by b rian M c FaDD17 en 18 19 20 21 22 9 d 23rink flavored 24 25 with 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Big Fat Whale sces, and Gemini? cancer, leo, Virgo, libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, capri- bergamot orange rind corn, Aquarius, Aries, and taurus: beauty consoles. Be your least 10 orange county city noodgy and most gracious self. 11 Simple 12 crunch targets tuesday april 23 13 the indians, on Waxing moon in libra, moon void-of-course 12:56 a.m. to 9:06 scoreboards a.m. Seeing both sides isn’t easy except when the moon is in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 l ibra. 14 it’s a15 fine day 16 for evaluating a partnership and finding areas of 14 Fellows improvement. capricorn, Aries, and cancer could grumble if asked to 20 debunked idea do something outside of what they understand is their “zone.” much 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 22 e asily24 broken 25 26 27 28 29 more 30 flexible 31 are 32leo, Virgo, libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Aquarius, 23 Frosting ingredient Gemini, pisces, and taurus. 24 mxpx vocalist mike 25 o Wednesday april 24 26 What the rich need, Waxing moon in libra, moon void-of-course 8:12 am until 6:25 am thursday. excellent for a utilitarian hair-cut, deep cleaning, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 according 9 10 to the 11 riddle12 13 14 and 15 taking 16 that fine-toothed comb to text or numbers. tomorrow is 28 Stopped procrastinating the full moon, so you may find others bubbling over with energy that on is — shall we say — completely bonkers? cancer, Aries, and capricorn — 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 29 r 25unning 26 27 28 29 30 others 31 may 32 think you’re bonkers. You may just think you’re “getting 30 Sid’s comedy partner on on with things.” leo, Virgo, libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Aquarius, Gem- “caesar’s hour” ini, pisces, and taurus: watch those scales tip and tip again. 35 like some Bible pages 42 city where 60-down was formed Moon Keys 48 Winning, but not This horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. Simply by much read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves 50 Airline that translates as through the signs of the zodiac. | When the moon is in your sun sign, “skywards” you are beginning a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect increased insight and emotionality. When the moon moves into the 52 Gloomy sort sun sign opposite yours (see below), expect to have difficulties dealing 53 ___ whim with the opposite sex, family, or authority figures; social or romantic 54 Former california activities will not be at their best. | When the moon is in Aries, it military base opposes Libra, and vice versa. Other oppositions are Taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, Cancer/Capricorn, Leo/Aquarius, and Virgo/Pisces. 55 the 100, in “1 vs. 100” The moon stays in each sign approximately two and a half days. | As 56 chris’s “Suburgatory” the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of co-star course,” making no major angles to planets. Consider this a null time 57 identify and try to avoid making or implementing decisions if you can. But it’s great for brainstorming. | For Symboline Dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and 58 campus protest gp. advice column, visit our Web site at thePhoenix.com. Symboline Dai restarted in 2006 can be reached at [email protected]. 60 “take on me” group

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