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Noam Chomsky, who has been incisive in his critiques of the corporatization of public universities, issued a note of support this Just in to the movement.

#Umainefuture Global perspective WITH WORRIED WELL us interests in ukraine A cross-campus coalition rallies, and syria linked by Friday, April 4th winning allies and modest gains pipeline politics It’s been a loud fcouple of weeks As Dmitry Yarosh, leader of the Ukrainian ul- at the University of ftranationalist group Right Sector, calls for the Southern Maine , destruction of Russian pipelines in Ukraine, two rival as slated faculty Islamic groups position themselves to provide Europe and department cuts with natural gas from the largest natural gas reserve TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT WWW.TICKETWEB.COM have put the school in the world. Iran and Qatar both share portions of under a magnifying this enormous reserve, however, each country relies on & LOCALLY AT THE ASYLUM BOX OFFICE glass as a national pipeline routes to Europe through Syria, who is in the 121 CENTER STREET • PORTLAND, ME • 207.772.8274 case study in the aus- midst of a civil war. terity measures affect- The Shia pipeline, as proposed by Iran, would run ing public universities from the Iranian South Pars gas fields through Iraq and (see “Crisis at USM,” Syria, under the Mediterranean, to Greece. In 2010, an our feature story in agreement was signed by the participating countries to last week’s issue). move forward with the venture. But the civil war in Syr- Last Tuesday, a ia, Al Qaeda-led violence in northern Iraq, and economic group of USM students sanctions in Syria and Iran continue to make investment drafted an emergency in and construction of the pipeline impossible. bill, which proposed The Sunni pipeline, as proposed by Qatar and Saudi to study the distribu- Arabia, would start at the Qatari North Dome gas fields tion of funding within and cross Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria to Turkey. the UMaine system as Syria’s Assad refused to sign on to the project. With fund- well as place a year- ing through Saudi security minister Bandar Bush, the Al long moratorium on Qaeda wing of the Syrian rebels seek to control land along program and depart- the envisioned Sunni pipeline corridor in northern Syria. ment cuts, retroac- legislative channels Maine Representative Ben Chipman (I-Portland) and #UMainefuture It should come as no surprise that Russia and the tive to March 1, 2014 coalition members present LR 2883 at the State House last Wednesday. The bill was voted down. United States are supporting their respective allies as through March 1, well as their own national interests in the conflict. Rus- 2015. But the bill (LR sia has established a naval base in the Syrian port city of 2883), sponsored by Representa- The recent proceedings have also “victory for the protests.” Tartous. By partnering with Iran and Syria, Russia will tive Ben Chipman (I-Portland), prompted the New England Ameri- Yet #USMfuture (and its larger still control the price of natural gas to Europe if the Shia was voted down 6-4 by a legislative can Studies Association, a regional faction, #UMainefuture) are con- pipeline is built. The Sunni pipeline offers the EU price council in Augusta on Thursday, chapter of the American Studies As- tinuing to apply pressure, believing competition and reduces Turkey’s dependence on Irani- preventing it from being further sociation, to issue a public statement the events to be part of a “national an gas. This makes the conflict in Ukraine all the more considered by the Maine legislature opposing the elimination of USM’s corporate war on higher education” fortuitous. If Russian pipelines in Ukraine are disrupted this session. Yet the group appears American and New England Stud- (so posted on their organizational by the Right Sector, interrupting the flow of natural gas unbowed. In a press release, Orono ies (one of three entire departments Facebook page). Bolstered by voices of to Europe, NATO support for an invasion and partition student and #UMainefuture orga- proposed for cuts last week, along local and national support, the coali- of Syria will be inevitable. nizer Shannon Brennan said, “If with Geosciences and Recreation and tion of faculty, staff, and community So who exactly is the Right Sector — whose decisions they don’t want to make it a legis- Leisure Studies), stating “as the only members opposing the austerity impact international energy security? News reports call lative issue, then we’ll make it an humanities-based graduate program measures in the University of Maine them members of UNA-UNSO, a far-right nationalist election issue.” north of Boston focusing specifically System are advancing numerous Ukrainian group. Comprised of approximately 1,500 The scenario has caught the at- on regional concerns, the loss of this simultaneous efforts, from collect- extremist European radicals, the Right Sector employed tention of national outlets, as sev- program will undermine cultural ing signatures for an open letter to paramilitary tactics while inciting Ukrainian violence, eral have weighed in on the budget programs throughout the state of Maine citizens (and legislators) to leading to the overthrow of the pro-Russian Ukrainian cuts. Paul Krugman blogged in the Maine” while noting that “these cuts assembling testimonies from former government. Rumored to be linked with NATO Special New York Times that the adminis- disproportionately impact women students in support of departments Forces, they have turned up in various anti-Russian tration “seems eager to downsize and minorities. 85% of students in and faculty slated for elimination campaigns since the fall of the Soviet Union. They have liberal arts and social sciences for the ANES program are women, and to holding public rallies for solidar- also been linked to German neo-Nazi extremist groups. reasons that go beyond money,” 90% of the positions cut at USM are ity with USM faculty — including a Victoria Nuland (of “Fuck the EU” fame) from the US while Claire Potter, writing in her held by women and minorities.” march planned for Tuesday, April 8th State Department and Arizona Senator John McCain met Chronicle of Higher Education blog, The ongoing resistance efforts at noon at Portland’s City Hall (rain with various members of UNA-UNSO’s leadership in called the USM administration’s (and, doubtless, the widespread date April 10th), and another all day advance of President Barack Obama’s meeting with the response “truly scary, both in its publicity) have had a modest effect. Friday, April 11th, at the Maine State Ukrainian interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, willingness to accept scarcity logic On Thursday, the USM Office of House in Augusta. also a UNA-UNSO member. as the educational status quo and Public Affairs announced that a “col- They’ve got the city’s attention It is clear that Russia’s dominance in the European its desire to impose faculty and laborative faculty and staff process” too. Just before the Phoenix went to natural gas markets has forced western powers to take staff reductions by intimidation.” resulted in a plan to “save” degree press, Portland mayor Michael Bren- provocative measures. It remains to be seen if the west Even the likes of public intellectual programs within the Recreation nan announced a press conference really wants to provoke Russia into taking additional Noam Chomsky, who has been in- and Leisure Studies department by discussing “the state of the Univer- military action in Ukraine, in support of Middle Eastern cisive in his critiques of the corpo- integrating them into the university of Southern Maine as it relates financial interests and at the expense of the European ratization of public universities and sity’s Nursing department, at least to...organizations and the city as a economic recovery. their dismantling of tenure-track temporarily. In a public statement, whole” at City Hall on Wednesday, _Lew Kingsbury positions, issued a note of support USM student body vice president April 2 at 1:15 pm. to the movement. Marpheen Chann has declared that a _Nick Schroeder Lew Kingsbury is a retired defense sector contractor living in Maine. 6 April 4, 2014 | the portlA nd phoenix | portlA nd.thephoenix.com *No Cover g _BY AL DIAMON allin o You C Wh ool?! politics + other mistakes Press releases April F _BY DeIrDre fulton [email protected]

sunnier outlook AVEC WALTER-WEIGHT SATURDAY APRIL 5TH @8PM Folly of youth fthe pew research center’s Journalism project released We now know what’s to blame “hurting us in the long haul.” of New Gloucester doesn’t list her age its annual State of the News Media report last week, and @BAYSIDE BOWL ffor the decrepit condition of I’m not one of those given to knee- on her website, but the second-term its outlook on the journalism landscape is decidedly less bleak Maine’s economy. jerk criticism of every ridiculous legislator doesn’t look old enough to than the one published a year ago. C’EST It’s not taxes, energy prices, statement LePage makes. Some- remember rotary phones. Likewise, “even as challenges of the past several years continue Joyeux Poisson GRATUIT!!! * unions, welfare or our forefathers’ times, among the mangled syntax, state Representative Stacey Guerin of and new ones emerge, the activities this year have created lack of forethought in locating the muddled facts, and thoughtless Glenburn, state Representative Aar- a new sense of optimism — or perhaps hope — for the future D’Avril, Ronnie!! state in a remote corner of the nation smears, he makes valid points that on Libby of North Waterboro, state of American journalism,” the 2014 report reads. “[t]he level far from financial, industrial, and can, with the proper equipment em- Representative Matthew Pouliot of of new activity this past year is creating a perception that cultural centers. ployed by trained professionals, be Augusta, state Representative Corey something important, perhaps even game-changing, is You’d think they’d have realized extracted from the wreckage. Wilson of Augusta, and state Senator going on.” how difficult that was going to make For all I knew, his claim about Michael Thibodeau of Winterport are contrast that to this passage, from the 2013 study, which it for their descendants to get high- “young people” could be true. I de- all on the south side of 50, and all are described the news industry as: “undermanned and unprepared speed Internet. cided to check it out. Republicans. In fact, Thibodeau is to uncover stories, dig deep into emerging ones or to question No matter. Such errors in judg- I didn’t have to look far to find a the GOP leader in the Senate. information put into its hands.” ment are of little consequence when youthful legislator who meets LeP- It’s to LePage’s credit that he’s this year’s report (the 11th of its kind) highlights the compared to our real problem. For- age’s criteria. A mere 25 years old exposed these wet-behind-the-ears expansion of “digital native sites” that are infusing new tunately, Republican Governor Paul this week, he has established an subversives before they do more dam- money, energy, and tech-savviness into the business of news- LePage has identified the culprit. agenda every bit as firm as LePage’s age. Of course, without them in the gathering. While print newsrooms continue to slash jobs (a On March 20, LePage was the key- faith in his inept commissioner State House, Democrats would run depressing 16,200 newspaper positions were lost between note speaker at the Environmental of the dysfunctional Department rampant, but that’s a small price to 2003-2012), more than 5,000 journalists now hold full-time and Energy Technology Council of of Health and Human Services. So pay for freeing ourselves from the editorial jobs at almost 500 digital news outlets, the report Maine’s convention in Hallowell. Ac- committed is this fellow to his plat- “firm agendas” of adolescence and says, pointing to sites like BuzzFeed (which has a news staff of cording to news reports, the governor form that his colleagues made him their long-term consequences. 170), propublica, mashable, and Vox media. one notable area said a couple of sensible things — the youngest member of legislative Actually, it’s remarkable there are of digital-only investment is in international reportage, which and I write those words without the leadership in the country. so many young Republicans in office, “comes amid pullbacks in global coverage from mainstream FETEZ LES ANNIVERSAIRES DE slightest hint of irony. His name is Alexander Willette of since among voters 18 to 25 years old, media.” Vice media has 35 overseas bureaus, for example. He reiterated his belief that wind Mapleton, and he’s the assistant Re- just 19 percent are registered in the Online news video is another area experiencing growth, RONNIE LANE ET SERGE power is driving up electricity costs publican leader in the Maine House. GOP, while 33 percent signed on with though it’s unclear how this trend will develop over time. of the GAINSBOURG AVEC BRITTA in the state, both because produc- Oddly enough, Willette — who, the Dems. Given LePage’s attitude, I 63 percent of Americans who watch videos online, 36 percent ET LES ing energy from huge turbines on by virtue of being barely out of his don’t imagine the Republican figure watch online news videos, many of them young people. Vice, formerly pristine mountaintops is in- formative years, must be “hurting us will be seeing much improvement in nBc, and the huffington post all invested in digital news video PETITS VISAGES herently inefficient, and also because in the long haul” — agrees with LeP- the near future. production in 2013. of the big subsidies the developers of age on virtually every major issue. Just to be fair (for once), I should “But a closer look suggests that digital news video does not these projects always require. OK, maybe that’s not who the consider an alternative possibility. necessarily have a clear or simple path to becoming a major LePage also explained why legisla- governor had in mind. Perhaps the trouble with Maine form of news in the future,” the report’s authors add, citing tive term limits — forcing members Let’s check out state Senator isn’t young people, but rather rigid the high cost of producing good-quality video (not to mention Our eyeglasses are of the state House and Senate to call Garrett Mason of Lisbon Falls. This ideologues of any age. As one critic streaming it) as a major challenge. ANTHONY’S it quits after eight consecutive years misbegotten young person has yet of the current system put it, “Maine many Americans still get their news from local television, a in office — have created a gridlocked to see his 30th birthday, and his keeps doing the same thing over sector that saw its audiences increase in 2013 for the first time fashionable... and affordable! Legislature filled with clunkheads ratings from special interest groups and over again, expecting different in five years, with viewership increasing in every key time slot. Fabulous with no institutional memory. have been remarkably consistent results. Let’s do something differ- that’s cool, but the picture isn’t entirely rosy. In both cases, the governor was (100 percent from the National ent this time.” “Almost 300 full-power local tV stations changed hands dead right. But, as has so often Federation of Independent Busi- That’s from an op-ed written ear- in 2013, at a cost [of] more than $8 billion,” the report says, Food for happened, LePage’s brief interac- nesses, 0 percent from the Maine lier this year by the aforementioned putting more stations in the hands of a few large owners. this Yes, we carry the top designer tion with accuracy was followed by State Employees Association), so he Alexander Willette. happened locally last october when the Sinclair Broadcast Group, eyeglass frames. another of his attempts to drive the probably totes around one of those Indeed, young whippersnapper, a maryland-headquartered company that owns the largest 22 Years! train where nobody has bothered to “firm agendas.” lead on. ^ number of local television stations in the country, acquired the But, we also have a full range of lay any tracks. Which is the same one LePage assets of WpFo-portland (a/k/a myFox23) for $13.6 million. If we replaced all the young people “one measurable impact” of the trend “has been fewer eyeglasses—frames and lenses— According to the governor, the has. No surprise, since Mason is a perfect for all budgets. Legislature is riddled with “young member of the GOP’s Tea Party wing. with old coots, wouldn’t the Legisla- stations originating local news content;” another is the Homemade Cooking from Naples, Italy people with firm agendas,” who are State Representative Ellie Espling ture smell funny? Email answers to increasingly common practice of sharing news content among stations as well as with other media such as radio or The best doesn’t have to be expensive. $ .99 newspapers. 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Celebrating 25 Years locking up the mentally ill The Legend Continues the merger of the prison and mental-health systems continues Mon-Fri | 11AM-2pM _By lance tapley Cup oF Soup As I finished writing this article, viewed him through a Plexiglas window. & fMichael called me from Riverview. He had been put into solitary, he said, for “I couldn’t stand it no more,” he said in threatening to kill himself. 1/2 SAndwiCh an anguished voice. “I kept asking them, His fellow Supermax inmates believed $5.50 but they friggin’ wouldn’t talk to me, Michael held the record — five in one so I cut an artery — the same place, in day — for “cell extractions,” which were, my arm. They took me to the emergency in essence, officially approved beatings Cup oF Soup room. I had to have forty stitches.” inflicted by a SWAT-like team on disobedi- Michael said he now had someone to ent prisoners. They were pepper-sprayed, & talk with all the time, one-on-one. yanked from their cells, stripped naked, Side SAlAd Michael James is a very mentally ill and strapped into the “restraint chair,” man whom the Riverview Psychiatric Cen- where they might remain for many hours. $6.50 ter wants to send back to the Maine State Joseph Ponte, who became Corrections Prison, where he still has to serve nine commissioner in 2011 and sharply reduced years for burglary, robbery, and assault. solitary confinement, also showed that The director of the State Forensic Service, these extractions were unnecessary. He a psychologist, says Michael’s fundamen- all but banned them, and chaos did not tal problem is that he makes bad choices, result. Ponte was recently chosen to insti- so he can’t be treated. tute similar reforms as head of New York Deeply scarred on his left arm and on City’s jails. — and inside — his head, Michael vividly In his solitary cell, Michael cut him- illustrates in one man the inhumane fail- self, smashed his head against the wall, ure in Maine and the nation of both the and threw feces at guards — typical public mental-health and the prison sys- symptoms of human beings forced into tems, which over 35 years have merged in long-term isolation. By 2005 the prison 772-5656 their role of containing the unruly poor. had charged him with 10 feces assaults on Michael, 31, has spent most of his life in guards — felonies — and hauled him into the custody of one or the other system. court. Fifty years could have been added It’s universally accepted that legis- michael james a recent mugshot from Kennebec county Jail. to his sentence. latures and Congress never provided But his lawyer — Joseph Steinberger, of adequate funding for community men- Rockland — convinced a jury in 2006 that tal-health care, which was supposed to the century progressed, Dorothea Dix, of Michael was not criminally responsible replace the old “snake pit” mental hospi- Hampden, Maine, became internationally because of insanity. As required, the judge tals. Instead, prodigious funding was pro- famous for separating out care for the in- committed him to Riverview’s forensic The vided for prisons and jails as their inmates sane and for treating them as mentally ill. section, which confines mental patients skyrocketed in numbers, many of them But American society has been return- involved with the criminal-justice system. mentally ill. The Maine Department of ing to the old system. In Mount Auburn State officials were shocked by this ver- Corrections once said 40 percent of prison- Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, dict — the first of its kind — and refused Higher 543 Congress St. Portland ers took psychotropic medicine and 85 per- Dorothea Dix is turning over and over in to send him to the hospital until he had cent were mentally ill or drug addicts. her grave. finished his sentence. A long legal battle The trend continues: the Legislature is took place. The Maine Supreme Judicial DAY’S JEWELER’S 8TH ANNUAL now considering a nearly-$5-million cut Michael the Most tortured Court finally said Michael had to go to 518-9720 in funds for community mental-health I met Michael James in late 2005 in the Riverview, but his time there wouldn’t Concept agencies. The state’s chief mental hospi- Maine State Prison, in Warren. A fierce- count against his sentence. He could be tal, Riverview, in Augusta, operated by looking but blue-eyed, hand- sent back to prison, the court said, if he Wedding Band Weekend the Department of Health and Human some young man, he was was cured of violent tendencies or found Artist-owned; we specialize th th Services (DHHS), saw its budget shrink doing time for petty robbery “not amenable to treatment.” Saturday & Sunday April 5 & 6 by $2 million from 2009 to 2012. And then In Mount and burglary (a 12-year Even though a Riverview psychiatrist in local glass art, plus all the last fall it lost $20 million a year in federal sentence) and assaults on testified in a court hearing in 2011 that More than 3,200 rings on display funding — half its budget — because of in- Auburn prison guards (three years). Michael was a “garden-variety” patient, adequacies in patient treatment and staff I was beginning what and even though the state admits his ac- accessories you’ll need. Let our custom designers re-create your ring and patient safety. cemetery in turned into a long-running tions “have improved significantly in the Special pricing - 2 days only Now the criminalization of the indi- investigative series on hospital setting,” the state is now argu- gent mentally ill in the county jails (those Cambridge, prison abuse in Maine and ing that he should be returned to prison who can’t make bail) has gone so far that elsewhere (120 articles so because he has incurable “antisocial they can be sent directly to prison, if they Dorothea Dix far). I focused first on the personality disorder” — among his many act out enough, even before being con- long-term solitary confine- other diagnoses. victed of a crime. Last year the Legislature is turning over ment in the Maine prison’s Michael and his court-appointed at- expanded the state prison’s Mental Health usually-full, 100-cell Special torney, Hank Hainke, are fighting the Unit to receive this population and others in her grave. Management Unit or “Su- state’s petition. They and his foster par- who create jail disturbances. permax.” Mind-destroying, ents believe that putting him back in And in the current legislative session, lengthy isolation was — and prison would be very bad for him — and several Democratic leaders even spon- still is — common in prison dangerous for people at the prison. If he Day’s Jewelers South Portland, Maine Only sored a bill that would have allowed the systems all over the country. Prolonged is allowed to stay at Riverview, he hopes state to send “civil” mentally ill people solitary I described as torture, which somehow, at some point, to receive a — in no way involved with the criminal- increasingly is the word used for it by commutation of his sentence. Even if that justice system — to a jail mental-health human-rights groups and the United Na- happened, he couldn’t be released from ward. It was killed after an outcry from tions. (For my Phoenix prison series, go to: DHHS custody until a judge agreed. civil-liberties advocates. thephoenix.com/maine-prisons.) In the past state experts have expressed In the early 1800s and for centuries ear- Other prisoners told me Michael was fears about what would happen if Michael lier, asylums and prisons were undiffer- the Supermax’s most-tortured inmate. were returned to prison — such as Ann entiated. They contained a hideous mix of Hard-bitten felons practically begged me LeBlanc, the forensic service director (“In criminals, the insane, the homeless poor, to do something about the cruelty Mi- prison he wouldn’t do well”). Now she www.daysjewelers.com prostitutes, and the otherwise deviant. As chael suffered. He had spent three and a is among those lining up to support the half years in isolation by the time I inter- continued on p 10 10 April 4, 2014 | the portlA nd phoenix | portlA nd.thephoenix.com MERRILL AUDITORIUM continued from p 8 incarceration is in the interests of public state’s petition at a Kennebec County No place but prisoN safety and overrides all of the other factors Superior Court hearing on April 10. By all accounts, Michael’s youth in the this court has in considering sentence.” And, while she had previously written many institutions that held him was a In an unsuccessful appeal scrawled in about Michael’s numerous, unprovoked nightmare — for him and for those tak- pencil, Michael pathetically wrote the rages, in a report supporting the petition ing care of him. court, in a world-class understatement: “I she concludes that he chooses to be dif- Besides Jackson Brook, he spent time have not had a very good childhood.” ficult. “He can assess and control his own at Spurwink in Brunswick, a residential behavior,” she writes. treatment center. Reports say he ran back aNd forth away, broke windows, and assaulted a When he was delivered to Riverview in childhood of sorrows staff person — the latter act sending him mid-2007 from the torment of the Super- When Michael was very young, social to the Maine Youth Center for a stretch. max, Michael seemed almost ecstatic. But workers received many allegations that He spent several years at a Massa- he did not stay happy. his biological mother, Robin James, chusetts home for severely disturbed In December, 2007, his assertive voice physically abused him. She had given youngsters, where he reportedly broke a on my answering machine wanted me to birth to him when she was 18; they staff person’s nose, but he also did well report on “the abuse that we receive in lived alone; his father was never in the in school, a “model for his peers,” as a here and the negativity and the trauma picture. DHHS took Michael away from report reads. At 17, he was at a mental- that some of us go through on a regular Robin at two years old and placed him in health center in New Hampshire, where basis. Thank you and have a great holi- a foster home. he is reported to have punched and bit day season.” Robin Dearborn (she has kept the name staff members and experienced “intense The hospital’s records (which Michael of her divorced second husband) lives in sadness, anger.” gave me access to) show that he often a worn house on a Lewiston back street. In 2000 he left a Spring Harbor stay threatened others and threatened to Now 49, she has deep lines under her eyes for the Labontes, after being taken off commit suicide. They also note his head An Evening With and a strident voice. From behind an ash- all his medications, he told me in one of banging and diagnoses of intermittent tray overflowing with cigarette butts, she michael’s biological our talks at Riverview. On December 29, explosive disorder and antisocial person- described her own hard young life alone mom robin dearborn, of when he turned 18, he was free of DHHS ality disorder. Between 2008 and 2010 he with a mother who drank heavily. She lewiston. custody. In January he asked Robin if he spent several periods of months at a time Robert Klein & Robert Wuhl had periods in a foster home and at the could visit her. “But he never came back in jail and prison stemming from assaults Presented by WORX LIGHT in association with ALLIANCE TALENT INTERNATIONAL Sweetser school for troubled kids in Saco. after that,” Judy said. and property destruction. “I don’t even with support from High Output & Beverly Cooperative Bank As an adult she worked in group homes for He quickly got in with a small-time- know why I hit the staff I did,” he told me the mentally ill, but now is unemployed. criminal, druggie crowd on the streets at one point. THE BOX OFFICE AT In an interview at her apartment, Rob- of Lewiston. He told me he didn’t know The notes on Michael also reveal him in denied harming Michael. She said the “how to survive in society.” It only took to be — mixed with his fierce demands SERVING FOOD UNTIL 12:30AM EVERY DAY, th drugs and alcohol mentioned in the DHHS weeks before he was arrested for snatch- — open, polite, well-spoken, and even “jo- WEEKEND BRUNCH FROM 10AM Saturday May 10 , 2014 reports never “interfered” with her care ing a purse, helping other youths break vial.” In 2011, he acted much better under of him. She had to give him up, she said, into a car, and robbing a $55 check from a the influence of Clozaril, an antipsychotic 188A State Street, Portland, Maine 8:00pm - Doors 7:15pm for financial reasons — she lost parental mentally disabled man, using a cigarette drug. He successfully petitioned the court 20 Myrtle Street rights when he was eight. “My whole life lighter shaped like a gun. The victim to leave Riverview to go on supervised 207.899.3277 find us on facebook Tix 5.00 more after May 8th, 2014. ” Portland, Maine 04101 was falling apart, she said. 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continued from p 10 “My only way to deal with stress is Creek Youth Development Center after big and now newly appointed as acting com- to hurt myself,” he said. But when he budget cuts saw staff numbers reduced. $ missioner of the Corrections Department, stabbed himself 60 times with a pen that As for Riverview, in December its st mentioned the “massive influx” of men- he got from a guard, his destination was patient advocate, Jay Harper, told the 1,000 1 Thurs. tally ill people into Maine’s prisons. solitary confinement, “which makes Health and Human Services Committee of Not only has this national trend mani- things worse.” (The Corrections Depart- that violent incidents there resulted from fested itself in Maine because of the in- ment didn’t reply by deadline to a request not enough staff and under-trained staff. AMATEUR Every adequacy of community mental-health for comments on Miles’s criticisms.) Harper became acting Riverview super- treatment, but also because of the widely The IMHU is, of course, set within a intendent in March when Mary Louise recognized inadequacy — the small size, prison. “People who should be in a hospi- McEwen was fired after she wasn’t able Month the staff shortages and turnover, the mis- tal should be in a hospital,” commented to regain the $20 million the feds pulled. management — of Riverview. It has only Zach Heiden, of the American Civil Liber- (Harper recently told me that the problem NIGHT 92 beds, half for forensic patients. ties Union of Maine, on prison mental- of under-trained staff had been solved by

Photo: DigitalDesire.com Photo: COME WATCH SEXY LOCAL LADIES COMPETE For more than two decades, after a health care, in an interview last fall. Sena- the hiring of “acuity specialists.”) suit brought by AMHI patients, the courts tor Margaret Craven, the Democrat who FOR ONE OF NEW ENGLAND’S LARGEST PRIZES have tried to force the state to improve chairs the Health and Human Services GaMes with public safety its mental-health care — without, critics Committee, said in a recent email that In the 2001 court testimony, statements ST would say, much success. Now federal people with personality disorders should were made by all sides that prison was a 1 - $500 authorities are trying to force the state to be treated at a psychiatric hospital. bad choice for Michael. But he was sent ND clean up its act at Riverview by withhold- The IMHU is not even technically a hos- there, and it turned out to be a terrible 2 - $300 ing the $20 million, which Maine taxpay- pital. A spokesperson for the federal Cen- choice. Torture awaited him. ers would have to make up. ters for Medicare & Medicaid Services — the So here’s what could be the biggest ab- RD And state inadequacy is blatantly be- outfit that defunded Riverview — told me surdity in this story: let’s say Michael goes 3 - $200 hind the request to send Michael back to CMS wouldn’t monitor the treatment of pa- back to prison and survives his sentence. HEALTHY, FUN ADULT ENTERTAINMENT prison. As Michael put it, “They wanted a tients at the prison unit since “uncertified He then faces two years of probation; if 207.772.8033 · 200 RIVERSIDE ST. · PTSSHOWCLUB.COM bed” freed up. facilities fall outside the scope of CMS.” he hasn’t improved a great deal, he’ll A letter to the court from Assistant At- quickly violate it and serve two more years torney General Katherine Greason states: it’s always MoNey in prison. If he survives that, he’ll then “Every patient who unnecessarily remains The Labontes imagine the ideal environ- be on the street, on his own, completely. at Riverview represents a defendant ment for Michael: a guarded working If prison turns him into a monster, he’ll whose time in jail is extended as he or she farm. “If you had a chore, he’d do it,” have free reign to act like one. waits for a hospital bed to become avail- Judy said. He also needs “normal people” Case in point: at the Supermax, Mi- able.” As the county sheriffs constantly around him, she added. chael’s cell was across the corridor from complain, the jails are bursting with At Michael’s 2001 sentencing, Judy told that of Michael Woodbury, another men- mentally ill inmates. the judge, “He came home to me and there tally ill man who spent a long time in If Riverview can get rid of its most dis- michael as a child in home photos provided to the Phoenix. was just no program available, and that, solitary confinement. In 2007, soon after ruptive patients, it would be easier for the I think, is the problem.” At that hearing, Woodbury’s release from prison, he shot state to tell the feds the hospital is doing Michael testified that he wanted to be in a and killed three men in a bungled New better — and, please, give us the $20 mil- reduce prisoner mental-health care. That control himself — occasional violent out- program “where I can actually learn how Hampshire robbery. Before his release he lion back. Deficient care in the ward for is part of a “diagnosis game,” said Alan bursts, many threats of violence, bullying to be in society.” had given a “manifesto,” as he called it, to difficult forensic patients was a big cause Mills, an attorney at the Uptown People’s — would not go over well with prisoners Programs? They cost money. a prison mental-health worker, predicting of the loss of funds. That’s where Michael Law Center in Chicago and, nationally, a or guards. After his return to Riverview A lot of state money has been spent he “was going to crack like this.” thephoenix.com spends much of his time. leading prisoner advocate. from a period in the prison, a psychiatric on prisons, but mostly for buildings and The Corrections Department and then- In a hearing last November, Justice Here’s an example of what could be assessment notes: “His stay there was tu- guards, not much on therapeutic, educa- Governor John Baldacci’s office washed Marden, who was the trial judge when called a diagnosis game: the law estab- multuous and included episodes of self-in- tional, and vocational programs, as high their hands of responsibility. In so many Michael was found not criminally respon- lishing Maine’s expanded state-prison jurious behavior, suicidality, and periods recidivism rates bear witness. And now words, the governor’s office said Wood- sible for the assaults on prison guards, Mental Health Unit — now 32 cells, up of time on both the Mental Health Unit even prison budgets are being slashed. The bury had made bad choices. found a contradiction, a circular logic, in from 16 — was designed to take from the and in administrative segregation.” Maine State Prison’s budget was cut by Donald Beauchene, a thoughtful fo- what the state said in 2006 about Michael county jails their most-disruptive men- Larry Labonte warned, “If he has to go $9.6 million from 2009 to 2012. Recently, rensic patient at Riverview, worries that I’ve and what it’s saying now. tally ill inmates. But the law specifically back to prison he will die there.” He be- violence rose at South Portland’s Long the prison IMHU “will strengthen in the Eight years ago the state argued that, excludes from the unit people who have lieved Michael will either kill himself or public the percep- before getting psychiatric care, Michael personality disorders. his outbursts will get him killed — or he’ll tion of the mentally been should complete his sentence at the pris- Joseph Fitzpatrick told me this is to en- kill somebody, Judy feared. ill as criminals.” But on because it could always send him to sure that these numerous inmates won’t Despite the new Mental Health Unit’s the public may have Riverview on an emergency take up all the space. The drafters of the reluctance to deal with personality disor- already regained that basis. But now, Marden bill, he said, wanted the unit’s beds re- ders, Michael could be put into it. Now nineteenth-century noted, “Riverview is say- served for patients who could be more eas- called the Intensive Mental Health Unit or perception. Few are DUSTED! ing he’s not amenable” to Do corrections ily treated with drugs. IMHU, it’s a big step up from the old unit, protesting the crimi- treatment, so he should what Michael faces corrections officials say. nalization of the men- go to the prison. The judge systems use Fitzpatrick wowed a congratulatory tally ill. adjourned the hearing un- If Michael is sent back to prison because legislative Forensic Mental Health Ser- “At his core there’s til he could hear, he said, personality- Riverview doesn’t want to treat his per- vices Oversight Committee in February a decent person try- how Michael would be dealt sonality disorder, and if the prison Mental when he described its “therapeutic” at- ing to cope with this with at the prison. disorder Health Unit prefers not to treat personal- mosphere, with a staff of 16, including mental illness,” said A personality disor- ity disorders, his fate in prison would not five mental-health technicians, a psy- Joe Steinberger, Mi- der, which the state says diagnoses to be promising. chiatrist, a psychologist, and three social chael’s former lawyer, Michael has, is usually The Maine State Prison is dangerous. workers. “The people who struggle with adding: “Mike James deeply ingrained, often deny mental- Two inmates have been killed in the last mental illness are excited about it,” he needs what the world demonstrated by disruptive year. One murder was of a man in the told legislators. is least likely to give behavior, and — within and health care? Mental Health Unit by another inmate-pa- But Charlie Miles, a Riverview patient him: love. Without PORQUI without the psychiatric pro- tient. He allegedly had assaulted another who recently spent a couple of weeks at that he will not sur- fession — controversial. But patient in the unit a few months before. the new unit, is not excited about its abil- vive. The state is not a The NOSH the profession recognizes Here’s more game-playing: last year ity to provide actual treatment. According very good deliverer of BACON DUST that personality disorders Corrections covered up the fact that that to Miles, the mental-health technicians that commodity.” FAIRY are serious mental illnesses and that they murder had taken place in the Mental are not qualified mental-health workers, Love may be too can be amenable to treatment. Health Unit, even keeping it from Crimi- so “they can’t give you advice.” There’s much to ask from the “We treat people with personality dis- nal Justice Committee members weighing not much group therapy — just card state — from the pub- orders who are probably as ill as anyone the bill that the Legislature overwhelm- games, movies, and the like. No trips out- lic, from us. But is it we have,” said Robert Anderson, a psy- ingly approved to expand the unit. (See side for shopping, ball games, and muse- too much to ask for chiatrist at Kennebec Behavioral Health, a “Legislators kept in dark about Mental ums, as provided at Riverview. It’s much humane, even gener- community mental-health agency, at the Health Unit murder,” by Lance Tapley, more restrictive than Riverview, he said ous care? Maybe that Augusta forum last fall. November 14, 2013.) in a telephone interview. would be enough to Personality disorders, though, are not In the most recent prison homicide, in A big problem, he said, is that if save Michael, enough easily responsive to drugs. And if treat- February, a mentally ill inmate in a regu- there’s trouble in the adjacent admin- to protect us from NOSH KITCHEN BAR WORLD-FAMOUS ment works, it often includes a lot of psy- lar cellblock was accused of beating and istrative-segregation section — solitary him, and enough chotherapy. In other words, personality repeatedly stabbing another inmate, and confinement — IMHU inmates are locked to give us back some ^ BACON DUSTED FRENCH FRIESTM disorders are expensive illnesses to treat. he was able to take his time doing so. The into their cells. Their staff has to be sent humanity. Prisoner advocates say that, because typical prison supervision ratio is one cor- next door to tackle the trouble. And when 551 Congress Street • (207.553-2227 of the expense, corrections systems use rectional officer to 80 prisoners. medications are passed out three times a michael james at riverview photo by lance tapley. Lance Tapley can be reached at www.noshkitchenbar.com personality-disorder diagnoses to deny or To put it mildly, Michael’s inability to day, he said, lock-downs also occur. [email protected] 14 April 4, 2014 | the portlA nd phoenix | portlA nd.thephoenix.com portlAnd.thephoenix.com | the portlA nd phoenix | April 4, 2014 1 5

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Though deaf from birth, Billy (Gar- beth West), would-be opera singer sister ful, and understands Billy in a way his rela- profanities, and then, at Dan’s behest, a frett Zuercher) has been raised by his Ruth (Portland’s own fine comic actress Kat tives cannot. But family difficulties ensue. breathtaking translation of a poem. hearing family as a man without a handi- Moraros), and not-quite academic brother Chris is adamantly against signing, and Subtle multi-media elements in Tribes cap. His parents were adamant that he Dan (Matthew Stuart Jackson) — all of Dan, recently dumped, is at once jealous of offer a thoughtful sense of the differences neither learn to sign nor identify as “deaf,” whom are living in one house. They stomp his brother’s romantic happiness and pro- in how these characters communicate. and now he’s a bang-up lip-reader. But he around their spacious kitchen (Rohit Ka- tective, lest Billy be taken from their family Supertitles projected above the stage fre- becomes less sure about who he is, and poor’s elegant design) yelling epithets about and its ways. Thus, Billy comes to rethink quently display translations of Sylvia’s to whom he belongs, when he falls for a circumcision, opera, porn, the critical worth his own role in the tribe that raised him. signing, of Billy’s voice, and — most woman who’s growing deaf, herself. The of Ruth’s writer crush, and who is or isn’t a That family’s bellicose ways are drawn disarmingly — of what has been commu- vicissitudes of identity and community cunt or sucking cocks. As all this comes to big, but they ring true. Moraros and Jack- nicated when neither character has said are difficult negotiations in Nina Raine’s a crescendo of voices, our focus shifts cin- son, both a delight in their snarky sibling anything in any formal language. drama Tribes, dynamically directed by ematically to Billy at the end of the table, comedy, also convincingly convey the As turns out, no language is truly Christopher Grabowski for Portland Stage reading, peacefully outside this defining complicated blend of love, competition and enough. Raine’s script covers an impressive Company. This vivid, sometimes profanely verbal element of his family’s identity. possessiveness that consumes them as sib- amount of ground on some of our most fun- comedic drama concerns not just the tribe In contrast, Billy’s first meeting with lings. Jackson’s haunted Dan is especially damental questions about the nature and of the deaf, but the tribal instincts of family Sylvia (Kate Finch), in the chic anteroom of hamstrung by the complex impulse at once value of language, and how we are defined itself, and the sentiments that can, no mat- a deaf community event reception, is quiet, to define and be defined by his brother. by those we are given or choose. Ultimately, ter the language, be lost in translation. sensitive, and simpatico. Their chemistry Finch’s clarion, kind Sylvia provides a this beautiful production of Tribes is a wise The high-decibel dissonance of a tun- is immediate in the hands of Zuercher and striking catalyst for Billy and his family, and uncommon exploration of how we try, ing orchestra prefaces our first look at the Finch, who navigate with wit and sympa- and her physical grace offers a contrast fail, and can learn to hear each other. ^ rancorous dynamics of Billy’s intellectual thy as they communicate in a mix of sign- both to their histrionics and to what they British family: conversations are breakneck, ing, Billy’s indistinct, consonant-stricken think they know about language. When TRIBES | by Nina Raine | directed by Christo- combative, and usually shouted between speech, and outright silences. Though sar- Chris baits Sylvia about the linguistic in- pher Grabowski | produced by Portland Stage his critic father Christopher (Michael Sean castic like his family, Sylvia is — has to be, feriority of signing, she is challenged into Company, through April 13 | 207.774.0465 or McGuinness), novelist mother Beth (Eliza- on account of her deafness — more watch- some remarkable signings of idiomatic portlandstage.org the Passions oF PRIVATE LIVES Battle of the eXes at Portland PlaYers _BY megan grumBling

Ah, our first loves — how passion- Cole’s Amanda delivers both repartee and moments of happiness are supremely fate, how rash, how infuriating. Good lies with flashing eyes and a shrug. As for sensual and familiar, entwined on a thing we move on into mature, responsible the men, Schwartz’s taut build and uptight loveseat in an intimate silken tangle. How relationships. But oh, if only these later carriage speak the world of difference could Sybil and Victor stand a chance? romances had quite the chemistry of the between him and Cole’s Elyot, with his Production designers, too, have put first. Noël Coward puts his characteristical- caddish floppiness of hair, suit, and limbs a lot of energy into drawing the contrast ly cynical spin on what happens when two and the snarky set of his mouth. Is it any between the couples. Not only do the two exes happen upon each other anew — dur- wonder that Amanda and Elyot make out locales differ greatly on the color wheel — ing their honeymoons with new spouses right there on the terrace? the soft greys and greens of the hotel terrace — in a very winning community theater Rebecca Cole and Charlie Cole are against the clementine-red of Amanda’s production of the farce Private Lives. Claudia married in real life, and their chemistry flat — but the lighting shifts drastically, Hughes directs a vibrant production as part is at once ardent and comfortable, with from cool blue gels to an almost surreally of the 83rd season of The Portland Players. verisimilitude in a lot of nuances that orange warmth. Costumes are stunning On tastefully appointed terraces in the acted couples often overdramatize. The throughout; Amanda, particularly, looks south of France, Elyot (Charlie Cole) and tension of their first reunion is blessedly drop-dead gorgeous in her glittering cream Amanda (Rebecca Cole) are all maturity free of physical histrionics — the most and black dressing gown and robe; and and measure with their new spouses: visible sign of their affliction is troubled Elyot’s silk PJs are a louche Brit’s dream. Elyot with his young, insecure Sibyl (Katie breathing. Later, alone in Amanda’s Paris The one production area that needs a Lynn Mcdowell) and Amanda with her flat (a beautiful, breezily bohemian set), tweak is sound (the amplified orchestral milquetoast Victor (Jaimie Schwartz). Blasé they show a satisfying understanding of refrains often overpower the actors), and worldly, they humor curiosity about how spousal hellfire can spiral from petty but overwhelmingly this play and its their disastrous former marriage, and how moments of boredom, and they do an performers are lovely to look at. it compares to the new. “I love you much love/HATe charlie and rebecca cole, excellent job navigating each arc of the That its characters behave in such a more calmly,” Rebecca indulges Victor, married in real life, portray rancor on stage. couple’s incessant, extreme reversals of deliciously unlovely manner is the pleasure with only a whiff of boredom. affection. This is especially fun to watch of Coward, and Portland Players allows us In Hughes’s well cast production, the in their self-imposed two-minute silences plenty of merry, vicarious venom. ^ jaded exes pose entertaining contrasts to of-fact flippancy and her unconventional to restore the peace, which showcase great their new partners. McDowell’s needy beauty, with her hair done in close golden physical work, in lovely little compositions PRIVATE LIVES | by Noël Coward | directed by Maine Claudia Hughes | produced by The Portland HUMANITIES innocence, girlish good looks, and self- waves and her withering Bette Davis eyes. of crossings and turnings toward and COUNCIL righteously clear smile are the essence of Where McDowell’s Sibyl spills her heart’s away each other, which finally soften Players, in South Portland, through April 6 vanilla against Amanda’s deadpan, matter- truth with high-pitched candor, Rebecca into relenting laughter. And the couple’s |207.799.7337 or portlandplayers.org 18 April 4, 2014 | the portlA nd phoenix | portlA nd.thephoenix.com portLand.thephoenix.com | the portL and phoenix | apriL 4, 2014 1 9

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Mon-Thu: 3:30, 6:30, 7 3:30, 7 FIlM SPECIalS noaH | Fri: 5:20, 8:05 | Sat: 1:30, 5:20, tHE lEGo MoVIE | Fri-Sun: 12:30, 3:30 Retail value $240 - PMa MoVIES 8:05 | Sun: 6:45 | Wed: 4:20, 7:05 | Thu: raIlroad SQUarE | Mon-Thu: 4 SPotlIGHt CInEMaS BUY IT NOW FOR ONLY $120! 7 Congress Square, Portland | 6:45 CInEMa Mr. PEaBodY & SHErMan | Fri-Sun: 6 Stillwater Ave, Orono | 207.827.7411 CEntEr tHEatrE 207.775.6148 17 Railroad Sq, Waterville | 12:30, 3:30 | Mon-Thu: 4 Call for shows & times. 20 East Main St, Dover-Foxcroft | CHIld’S PoSE | Fri: 6:30 | Sat-Sun: 2 EVEnInGStar CInEMa 207.873.6526 MUPPEtS MoSt WantEd | Fri-Sat: 207.564.8943 Tontine Mall, 149 Maine St, Bruns- tHE BIG lEBoWSKI | Sat: 9:30 noon, 3:15, 6:15, 10 | Sun: noon, 3:15, 6:15 | Strand tHEatrE “FoXtrot aCadEMY FIlM FEStI- WEStBrooK wick | 207.729.5486 tHE FaCE oF loVE | Fri: 3, 5, 7, 9 | Sat: Mon-Thu: 3:30, 6:30 345 Main St, Rockland | 207.594.0070 Val” | Fri: 7 CInEMaGIC Call for shows & times. 1, 3, 5, 7 | Sun: 1, 3, 5 | Mon: 3, 5, 7 | Tue: 3, noaH | Fri-Sat: noon, 3, 6:15, 9:30 | Sun: tHE FaCE oF loVE | Fri: 5:30 | Sat: tHE HEaltHCarE MoVIE | Sat: 4 183 County Rd, Westbrook | 5 | Wed-Thu: 3, 5, 7 noon, 3, 6:15 | Mon-Thu: 3:30, 6:45 5:30, 8 | Sun: 3, 5:30 | Mon: 7 | Tue: 1, 7 Nickelodeon Theater - A Landmark FrontIEr CInEMa tHE Grand BUdaPESt HotEl | Fri: non-StoP | Fri-Sat: 7:15, 10 | Sun: 7:15 | Wed: 7 FrYEBUrG aCadEMY 207.774.3456 in Downtown Portland, ME. Bad WordS | 11:50 am, 2:10, 4:40, 14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222 2:40, 4:45, 6:50, 8:55 | Sat: 12:35, 2:40, | Mon-Thu: 7 IS tHE Man WHo IS tall HaPPY? Eastman Performing Arts Center, 745 7:10, 9:40 ElaInE StrItCH: SHoot ME | Tue: 2, 4:45, 6:50, 8:55 | Sun: 12:35, 2:40, 4:45, SaBotaGE | Fri-Sat: 12:30, 3:45, 7:15, 10 | Fri: 8 Main St, Fryeburg | 207.935.9232 CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr 6, 8 | Wed: 2, 6 | Thu: 2, 6, 8 6:50, 8:55 | Mon-Thu: 2:40, 4:45, 6:50, | Sun: 12:30, 3:45, 7:15 | Mon-Thu: 4, 6:30 EnCorE BroadCaSt oF War lIVE BroadCaSt oF la BoHEME Promotes local film makers and SoldIEr | noon, 12:15, 3:10, 3:30, 6:50, tHE GEnIUS oF MarIan | Sun: 2 8:55 HorSE BY tHE natIonal tHEatrE BY tHE MEtroPolItan oPEra | artists. 7:10, 9:45, 10 laSt drEaMS | Sun: 5 HoUSEHold: FoUr StorIES oF SMIttY’S CInEMa- oF london | Thu: 2, 7 Sat: 12:55 CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr rISInG FroM aSHES | Fri-Sat: 2, 6, 8 KInSHIP & CUrIoSItY | Tue: 7 SanFord Up for auctoin: Four pack of SoldIEr 3d | 12:30, 3:45, 7:20 MEEK’S CUtoFF | Sun: 7 1364 Main St, Sanford | 207.490.0000 tHoMaSton dIVErGEnt | noon, 12:20, 3:10, 3:30, lEWISton FlaGSHIP 10 lE WEEK-End | Fri: 3:10, 5:10, 7:10, 9:10 BaCK to tHE FUtUrE | Wed: 7 FlaGSHIP 10 SPaCE GallErY admission tickets! 6:40, 6:50, 9:40, 9:50 855 Lisbon St, Lewiston | 207.777.5010 | Sat: 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:10, 9:10 | Sun: 1:10, CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr 9 Moody Dr, Thomaston | 207.594.2100 538 Congress St, Portland | Retail Value: $34 nickelodeon theater God’S not dEad | 12:10, 3, 7, 9:45 CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr 3:10, 5:10, 7:10 | Mon-Thu: 3:10, 5:10, 7:10 SoldIEr | Fri: 12:15, 3:45, 7:30, 7:45, CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr 207.828.5600 tHE lEGo MoVIE | 11:50 am, 2:10, 4:30 SoldIEr | 12:35, 3:30, 7:15 9:30 | Sat: 12:15, 3:45, 4:15, 7:30, 7:45, SoldIEr | Fri-Sat: 12:30, 3:20, 6:40, 9:25 KataBaSIS | Fri: 7:30 BUY IT NOW FOR ONLY $17 Portland, Me lonE SUrVIVor | 7:10, 9:50 dIVErGEnt | 12:30, 3:45, 7 rEEl PIZZa CInEraMa 9:30 | Sun: 12:15, 3:45, 4:15, 7:15 | Mon- | Sun-Thu: 12:30, 3:20, 6:40 WadJda | Sun: 3 tHE MonUMEntS MEn | 12:30, 9:30 FroZEn | 1:25, 4:20 33 Kennebec Place, Bar Harbor | Thu: 3:30, 7 CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr Mr. PEaBodY & SHErMan | 11:50 tHE lEGo MoVIE | 1:10, 4:05, 6:30 207.288.3828 CarS | Wed: 11:30 am SoldIEr 3d | 1:20, 4:10, 7:25 am, 2:10, 4:30, 7, 9:20 tHE MonUMEntS MEn | 12:45, 3:35, CaPtaIn aMErICa: tHE WIntEr dIVErGEnt | Fri-Sat: noon, 4, 7:30, 9:45 dIVErGEnt | Fri-Sat: 12:20, 3:30, 7, 9:20 YorK PUBlIC lIBrarY MUPPEtS MoSt WantEd | 12:30, 7:40 SoldIEr | 5:30, 8:15 | Sun: noon, 3:45, 7 | Mon-Thu: 3:45, 7 | Sun-Thu: 12:20, 3:30, 7 15 Long Sands Rd, York | 207.363.2818 3:45, 7:10, 9:45 Mr. PEaBodY & SHErMan | 1:15, non-StoP | Fri-Mon: 6:30, 8:30 draFt daY | Thu: 8 God’S not dEad | Fri-Sat: 1:10, 3:55, tHE MaltESE FalCon | Fri: 7 nEEd For SPEEd | 3:35, 6:45 4:15, 6:55 tIM’S VErMEEr | Tue-Thu: 6, 8 Seacoast Snow Park is open for snow noaH | noon, 12:20, 3, 3:20, 6:40, 6:50, MUPPEtS MoSt WantEd | 1, 4, 6:45 tubing on weekends and holidays. 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This waxing moon cycle should bring ftwists and turns to projects that may Back page have seemed simple a month ago. As the earth thaws, and the sun’s rays work their magic, even the most discouraged Eeyore-like reader may feel invigorated. So what to do and where to start? The first-quarter lunar cycle means you go faster as well as being more deliberate Jonesin’ _by Matt Jones about your direction. This is the time when others may try to deflect you — so be on-guard, particularly Libra who are having their “half- “I know It forward and backward” birthday” cycle (and are cheerfully changeable — letters in alphabetical order, that is anyway). For more, visit moonsigns.net. 19 First name in talks 60 cake laced with rum 31 A ___ called Quest thursday april 3 20 dandling place 61 lewd look 32 Fitness program Waxing moon in Gemini (moon void-of-course 2:43 am until 7:48 am). excuses, excuses — the more creative the Wilder’s “Silver despotic based1 on 2l atin 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 21 62 better. Gemini moons favor enterprises involving words, so if Streak” costar 63 roswell sightings dancing you’re in the business of persuasion, the sky’s the limit. Social 22 carries out orders 64 Bread heels 33 ___ lama butterflies: Gemini, taurus, cancer, Aquarius, and libra. Grub- 24 Without exception 65 meets a bet 37 Annual17 non-athletic 18 19 20 stage: 21 l eo, 22 Scorpio, 23 and 24 c apricorn. 25 Grudge 26 stage: 27 Virgo,28 pisces, 29 30 31 32 26 Ford or rollins 66 recipe part sports event and Sagittarius. 28 put forth 38 Billy ___ Williams 29 draw upon Down 39 QB gains Friday april 4 Waxing moon in Gemini. this lunar phase encourages Accord 30 Still able to stay 1 41 Van trailer? elaborate social gatherings with — perhaps — a multitude awake for a few 2 Sunblock ingredient 421 eye 2 up 3 4 5 of 6locales. 7 Virgo, 8p isces, 9and Sagittarius 10 11 could12 be in a 13 combat 14- 15 16 more minutes? 3 “Sorry about that” 43 not wobbly ive mood, so take politics and religion off the conversational ta- 34 disposition 4 Ballpoint fluid 44 Sorkin who voiced ble (diplomacy should be a goal for capricorn, Scorpio, and leo). 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 35 Kolkata currency 5 Bench wear harley Quinn in the Gemini, libra, Aquarius, taurus, and Gemini are more focused 36 Boy in “toy Story” 6 Feel sore Batman animated on alternatives than staying the course. 40 Why there’s now 7 p, on a frat house series saturday april 5 only a huge pile of 8 musical knack 45 overate, with “out” Waxing moon in Gemini, moon void-of-course 10:55 am banana peels left? 9 contempt 49 Figure skating until 5:40 pm when it moves into cancer. Venus moves 43 tree gunk 10 Favor asker’s opening1 2 event 3 4 5 6 into 7 pisces. 8 the planet 9 of 10 l ove and11 the12 moon 13are at odds, 14 so 15 16 46 “dear” advice giver 11 labor forces 50 “___ alive!” “strange bedfellows” is this week’s leitmotif. if you’re attracted 47 Some winds 12 order from above 51 national gemstone to someone totally outside your comfort zone, you’re in tune 17 18 19 20 21 22 with 23 the moon. 24 m 25 ost vulnerable: 26 27 Virgo,28 Sagittarius, 29 c 30apricorn, 31 32 48 not quite in the 14 loads of Australia and Scorpio. ©2014 Jonesin’ CrossworD s | eD [email protected] majors 18 Bender 53 School supplies 50 “do me a ___” 20 Janitor’s pocketful list item sunday april 6 Across 14 coffee ice cream flavor 52 tank buildup 23 Bucking beast 55 double reed Waxing moon in cancer. A fine day for fishing and plant- 1 Big ___ (david ortiz’s 15 mr. peanut accessory 53 Be slack-jawed 24 dice instrument ing, as well as baking and domestic wizardry. cancer, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 nickname) 16 Bubbly popper 54 column’s counterpart 25 lopsided 56 nesting insect Scorpio, pisces, taurus, Virgo, Gemini, and leo have ingenious 5 one in a million, e.g. 17 Stick with mario (and 57 robot dance call- 26 it may be cured 58 Some notebooks insights into others, while libra, Aries, Aquarius, Sagittarius, and capricorn are looking for emotional turmoil (guys, get out 9 desert Storm missile not that dreadful er’s instruction to 27 Bulldog, schoolwise17 18 59 19 m iner’s 20 quarry 21 22 23 of 24the house). 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 13 robin thicke’s dad hedgehog instead)? folk dance? 28 opium origin 60 Student driver? Monday april 7 First quarter moon in cancer, moon void-of-course 2:14 pm until 5:50 am tuesday. mercury moves into Aries. A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 turning 9 point 10 for 11 events 12 that began 13 at 14 the end 15 of m arch. 16 today and tomorrow, the moon is at odds with mercury, the planet of short messages and journeys. Be skeptical about “the best laid letters _write us at portlanD [email protected] 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 plans” 25 (especially 26 27 libra,2 Aries,8 Aquarius,29 30 and 31c apricorn). 32 cancer, Scorpio, pisces, taurus, Virgo, Gemini, and leo: say it twice. the Will oF the people tuesday april 8 Waxing moon in leo. Joy in the morning! leo moons en- In “City Hall vs its People?” (see “Port- 7-tower concept was unveiled in the fall of only by profit. If in doubt, watch what courage childlike wonder, tantrums and entertainment. land vs Her People,” by Jeff Inglis, March 2012 and within a week of the unveiling of comes1 2 out of 3 City 4 Hall — 5 in negotiation 6 7 be 8 - 9 t hose 10 in sales 11 should12 push 13 themselves 14 15 until next 16 tuesday’s full 21) why didn’t the Phoenix record that: the four-tower concept in January 2013? hind closed doors now — for the Portland moon. confident and creative: Gemini, leo, cancer, Virgo, libra, The Planning Board approved Mid- You bought into stories fabricated by a Company buildings, in lack of respect for Aries, and Sagittarius. inclined to hissy fits: taurus, Scorpio, 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 town with solid walls taller than almost developer whose profits we taxpayers are existing structures and rules about height Aquarius, pisces, and capricorn. any building in Bayside (83 feet and 92 subsidizing and by the city officials who and scale. It’s gonna be a doozie. feet tall) as “minimal intrusions” in have their own preconceived, unalterable Longer term, and already underway Wednesday april 9 Waxing moon in leo. i hate the term “hump day” but view corridors specified in the city’s ideas about what is best for the rest of us. the threat is coming from climate disrup- leo moons definitely help push a project that needed Comprehensive Plan and the land use I thought you were trying to report how1 2tion, 3which 4 is already 5 straining6 7 our 8 in - 9 10 some 11 oomph12 (or 13 a defender) 14 over 15 the 16edge. change your coif- ordinances. That alone demonstrates the out of touch City Hall is with the needs frastructure, our budgets, and our way of fure, or buy something red and flaunt it. leo moons aren’t for Planning Board is more than cynical in and hopes of the city at large as demon- life. For us to adapt as needed to weather the shy. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 maintaining it did not have to the tools strated by an unprecedented level of op- the coming storms, literal and meta- to deny the project. position, in City Hall and in the Courts, to phorical, we will need to work together as Moon Keys Or that the Bayside Neighborhood what they are trying to do. a whole community. We need a City Hall This horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. Association officially and lines of per- Finally, why did you quote, unfiltered, that works with all of us — actually lis- Simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | When the moon is in sons at the microphones and in the a young ideologue who represents no tens and responds — and we need media your sun sign, you are beginning a new 28-day emotional cycle, press unofficially opposed the height in- known constituency and whose ideas are that are serious about not just the issues, and you can expect increased insight and emotionality. When creases the City Council (and its own dis- also contradicted by the facts. When I but the underlying facts. the moon moves into the sun sign opposite yours (see below), trict councilor) granted last April to the was his age I didn’t trust anyone over 40 And we need both officials and media expect to have difficulties dealing with the opposite sex, family, or authority figures; social or romantic activities will not be at project. That demonstrates the Council either, but class war? Really? Based on my to promote respectful disagreements — their best. | When the moon is in Aries, it opposes Libra, and disregards the will of the people and af- owning the smallest house in the most not personal attacks — that allow public vice versa. Other oppositions are Taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagit- fected neighborhoods. diversified neighborhood in Portland and conversations to continue and grow to tarius, Cancer/Capricorn, Leo/Aquarius, and Virgo/Pisces. The On the other hand, why did the my colleague in a fourth-floor walkup in shape a resilient future that we shall so moon stays in each sign approximately two and a half days. | As the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void Phoenix mistakenly report that opposi- the Old Port? Is this what passes for re- desperately need. Phoenix of course,” making no major angles to planets. Consider this a tion to the project began last fall, a year porting in the ? As Tom Paine said so wisely and so null time and try to avoid making or implementing decisions after the hue and cry against it actually Big picture? Our community is going pertinently not so long ago, “If we don’t if you can. But it’s great for brainstorming. | For Symboline began? Why did the Phoenix allow paid to face some of the toughest times it has all hang together, we shall surely all Dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, visit our Web site at thePhoenix.com. Symboline Dai can be reached at sally@ shills for the developer to say that op- ever seen in the coming few decades. The hang separately.” Please contribute to our moonsigns.net. ponents “came late in the process” when immediate future will be threatened by hanging together. opposition began the moment the City’s outsized development schemes driven peter Monro, portland