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THis a word for assad maine plays JusT in Matt Bors: UN’s watching | p 4 !At Acorn festival | p 18 André Derain (French, 1880-1954), Bridge over the Riou, 1906, oil on canvas, 32 1/2 x 40 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The William S. Paley Collection

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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer left a pressure cooker on a Boston sidewalk two days this Just in after the marathon. #numbstream

Words off the page Frontline reporting Tales from When silence speaks volumes maraThon On her deathbed, Terry Tem- for whom this book is written to heed, fpest Williams’s mother left her to pay attention. “In a voiced commu- madness daughter three shelves of cloth-bound nity, we all flourish,” she writes. journals. When Williams opened them, While much of Williams’s book Why did Wolf Blitzer’s hoping to find solace as well as perhaps treats voice as a personal and internal fCNN crew leave a pressure some insight into her mother’s soul, all concept, she doesn’t neglect the global cooker on a Boston sidewalk she found was blank pages. Volumes context, which is unsurprising given two days after the bombing? of empty journals, bestowed as a final, her status as a renowned thinker on so- Seek answers here. inscrutable gift that Williams came cial justice and environmental issues. Chris Faraone was a block and a half from the finish to interpret in many ways — as an act “We are engaged in two wars, big line of the Boston Marathon, en route to a bar called Fo- of aggression, as a vessel for her own wars with big costs,” she reminds us. rum on Boylston Street, when the bombs went off. The truths, as a mirror, and as a void. “The only thing quiet about them is day’s shift from carnival to chaos is preserved impeccably In her latest book, released earlier that the conflicts in Afghanistan and on his Twitter feed. this year in paperback, Williams (who Iraq have remained largely hidden, “I’d make fun of all the people going to watch the mara- speaks at Longfellow Books on May 2) Louis Gakumba denied except to those who are fight- hon [sic] in running gear, but I totally did go to see Magic dives from those stark white journal LuMInARY Terry Tempest ing them. This is our national lie, that Mike in my G-string,” he wrote at one point. Soon after, he pages into the stories and revelations Williams is in town this week. somehow these wars exist outside of us. was sending dispatches from a war zone: “Some relatively they call to mind. Woven together, America’s War on Terror has silenced calm, others crying for blocks near Boston marathon finish these meditations comprise When Women us, turned us into sleepwalkers, not line where loud noises were just heard,” “Observer who was Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice (Pica- listen. And here, Williams shows us only unable to speak, but afraid to speak right near Boston Marathon finish line during explosions dor; $15), a surging and lyrical memoir how. Carried on waves of prose, we get out. In times of war we can use our voic- tells me he smelled gun powder,” “FYI to my friends and fam of womanhood as influenced by nature to know Williams as a writer, an activ- es as a stay against those who are suffer- and readers: I’m okay, and for the next few hours will be and nurture. ist, a wife, a daughter, and an adopted ing. In times of war, survival depends writing and processing today’s pandemonium.” A woman hears many voices over the mother; she asks us to join her on a on listening to that suffering.” That last tweet could serve as an epigraph for the e-book course of her life: Her own, one hopes, journey of self-discovery and we do so, _Deirdre Fulton Faraone, a former Boston Phoenix staff writer who covered ev- and that of her mother, also those of her finding our own questions reflected in erything from Occupy protests to the LA rap collective Odd Fu- grandmother and great-grandmother hers. In this book, even what is sound- TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS | Thursday, ture at the bygone paper, released last week called Heartbreak and all the women who came before. less has voice: silence, sorrow, intu- May 2 @ 7 pm | Longfellow Books, One Hell: Searching for Sanity in Boston Through a Week of Tragedy and Terror. Like birdsongs in a forest, these can ition, death. These intangibles speak Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 | Faraone didn’t just spend the hours following the attack be difficult to discern unless you truly loudly, in fact — beseeching the women longfellowbooks.com | coyoteclan.com writing and processing; he has never really stopped. He was interviewing people at the vigil in Boston Common the day after the bombings. Then he was speaking to a gaggle of nurses in town for a medical convention. Then, on Friday — the day Boston literally and figuratively froze with fear — he Idiot Box _by Matt Bors reported from what seemed to be the only open bar in the en- tire city: Biddy Early’s, in the Financial District. Here’s a brief taste of the book, which is available in a free multi-platform storytelling format at heartbreakhell.com:

Wolf Blitzer is broadcasting live outside of the Westin with Governor patrick, who’s fast becoming an international hero. i stop short in my tracks. is that what i think it is!?! Blitzer is actually holding a silver pressure cooker — like the one used in the bombings — and is nearly shov- ing it at deval for a reaction. as people everywhere are finding out, patrick is a shrewd politician; i once saw him engage a homeless guy at Franklin park for 10 minutes, fielding the man’s woes with more attention that most pols give to security briefings. polite by nature, the gov cooly signals that he won’t touch the controversial kitchen item. no one seems to blame him. even Blitzer’s interns are cringing. later on, i pass the cnn truck idling around the cor- ner. passersby are staring incredulously; lo and behold, Blitzer’s producers left the pressure cooker outside, on a folding chair — an insanely boneheaded move considering that their station had identified it as a clone of the silver bullet that sent metal shards and shrapnel into hundreds not far from here. i’m not the only one disgusted by the idiotic display; a passing gas worker laments to a pal over his cell phone: “the whole world is losing its fucking mind because Wolf Blitzer is out here,” he snarls. “this asshole brought a pressure cooker on the set — yeah, that same pressure cooker — then left it out on the street.” ^

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_BY AL DIAMON politics + other Mistakes Press Releases _BY Jeff InglIS [email protected] Can I get a The price you pay wItness? Want to pay less in taxes? Start little extra to make up for Culpepper Maine Heritage Policy Center. fremember when public appearances by elected officials fby paying more. and me cutting corners. If everyone was as honest as were things daily-newspaper reporters went to? times I know, that reads like a line If we all acted in strict accordance those suckers who paid, the state have changed. on april 16, republican Governor paul lepage from the Democratic Party’s state with the state’s tax laws, the gov- treasury would, according to a couple spoke at a public gathering in Skowhegan, a town whose platform, but it’s not. In fact, it’s a ernment would take in so much ad- of studies, be fatter to the tune of commercial interests have had a rocky dispute with the guv concept supported by, among others, ditional income there’d be no budget somewhere between $15 million over his reluctance to issue a bond for investment there. de- Republican Governor Paul LePage. shortfall, no need to cut off revenue and $28 million. (Since these studies spite the almost certainty of newsworthy (or at least amaz- Right there, the idea runs into sharing to cities and towns, no were conducted by the sorts of econo- ingly quotable) utterances, no media bothered to attend. trouble, because as far as lots of plans to shift education costs to local mists who regularly miscalculate So no reporter was present to protest the request from Mainers are concerned, if LePage is school districts, no problem paying the state budget, I assume the ac- lepage’s office to bar recording equipment. Since taking in favor of it, they’re against it. So let back the debt owed to hospitals, and tual amount is going to be more like office he’s been famously wary of having his words trans- me hasten to add that this proposal no reason not to expand Medicaid. $609.34, but that’s still twice what mitted to the public at large. nevertheless, no reporter was is also backed by independent US In other words, those piffle-headed we take in now.) present, even to take notes, when lepage again demon- Senator Angus King, Democratic US excuses for noxious bacteria that run Universal compliance with the strated why that wariness might be justified. Representative Chellie Pingree, and Augusta would spend every penny of use-tax law could have another posi- the people of Maine got lucky, no thanks to profes- large segments of the business com- it. And more. tive economic benefit, namely that sional journalists. only by the purest non-journalistic munity. In fact, the only ones oppos- By paying more in taxes, we’d end if there’s no significant difference chance did we learn even more about the troubling ways in ing it are the Maine Heritage Policy up paying . . . more. Because nobody, between the price at your local store which the governor’s mind works. Center (motto: No — To Everything), except possibly LePage, would actu- and that of the online retailer, you he made the laughable claim (laughing was the re- some New Hampshire politicians ally advocate using that extra money might be more inclined to make the sponse of the UMpi spokeswoman when she heard about (motto: Live Free — Off Out-Of-State to lower income-tax rates or reduce purchase in the real world, thereby it) that there’s a “little electric motor” inside a wind turbine Liquor Sales) and my friend Culpep- the percentage we pay in sales tax. keeping the profits in Maine. on the UMaine-presque isle campus, turning the blades per (motto: Screw That). As we should have known, there’s The problem with that argu- even when there’s no wind — “so that they can show The policy center’s position is easy no cash reward for being more hon- ment is that those of us in rural people wind power works.” to understand. It believes more taxes est. And if there were, it would be parts of the state have few shopping at least one intrepid regular person captured lepage’s — on anything, for any reason — are taxed. options (the general store, Culpep- audio and leaked it not to a reporter but to a progressive bad. Period. Which brings us back to the idea I per), which is why we were doing so activist who also blogs for the Bangor Daily News and New Hampshire’s stand is consis- hinted at above. Congress is currently much online purchasing in the first writes a commentary column for the Kennebec Journal. tent with its opposition to any tax considering a bill that would require place. But even if we were willing to the incident has gotten national attention, and again except an excessive one on property. online retailers who do at least $1 drive an hour or more to patronize a confirms for lepage-watchers that our governor has a And Culpepper (a real person, but million in business annually to col- bricks-and-mortar shopping center, dangerously distant relationship with the truth. not a real name) isn’t buying into lect sales taxes from all their custom- we’d likely end up sending the dol- it should also confirm for Mainers that our traditional this deal, because, as a small busi- ers. If it passes, it means that every lars we would have squandered at press corps has a dangerously distant relationship with nessman in rural Maine, he’s spent time you buy something from Ama- BestBuy.com or VictoriasSecret.com covering our elected officials. years figuring out ways not to pay the zon.com or eBay, you’ll be charged at a big box Best Buy or a Victoria’s taxes he owes. the same 5 percent tax you’d have to Secret in a mall. Which would make F even when official faults crop up cLOse TO The Which makes him part of the pay if you bought the identical item an imperceptible difference in the NewsrOOM, reporters aren’t always on top of things. But problem. at a store in Maine. local economy. in a rare example of airing of its dirty corporate laundry, the Culpepper and the rest of the Currently, state law requires all And reduce taxes not at all. Portland Press Herald last week ran a sizeable story head- state’s cash-only, underground of us to pay that fee on online sales Even though Culpepper does most lined “Press Herald parent accuses former ceo of misusing economy don’t contribute their share — it’s called a “use tax,” for reasons of his business on a cash or barter ba- more than $530,000.” of sales and income taxes, so the rest that escape me — and there’s space sis, he remains staunchly opposed to the richard connor era at the PPH was previously most of us have to pay more. By the rest of on the state income-tax form to in- taxing Internet transactions. When I notable for its claims of wonderful profitability to the pub- us, I don’t actually mean me, because clude it with your annual payment. asked him why, he looked at me like lic — followed by claims of dropping revenue and outright I regularly buy taxable stuff from Cul- According to documents I haven’t I was crazy. poverty to its employees (who collectively own a portion of pepper on which no tax is charged. bothered to review, last year approxi- “Porn,” he said. “It would make the company), resulting in, among other things, massive He in turn neglects to include that mately 11 people complied with that porn 5 percent more expensive.” ^ tensions when it came time for talking about raises. transaction on his income tax form. statute, sending in $304.67. the legacy of connor, who left in late 2011, is in its final And everybody’s happy. Except for Needless to say, Culpepper wasn’t Tax your brain (and my patience) by death throes, now that the Press Herald’s employee-theft those of you who have to cough up a one of them. I’m not sure about the emailing me at [email protected]. insurance policy has validated claims connor misused $537,988.68 in company funds. the man himself steadfast- ly — almost trumpishly, now that we think of it — denies any wrongdoing and claims the PPH and its insurance company, _BY DAVID KISh travelers casualty and Surety, have everything all wrong and that he did not, in fact, do anything untoward. of course that hasn’t stopped him from admitting doing at least some of the things travelers determined he shouldn’t have, telling reporters for the Press Herald and the Bangor Daily News that he did indeed spend company funds for personal dental work, to buy an SUV for his son’s use, and on camden vacation rentals while he was looking for a residence shortly after arriving on the scene in 2009. it’s just, he claims, those expenses were genuinely company-related — so it wasn’t theft. he might actually believe that: connor always had a flair for grandiosity. he treated the newspaper like his personal journal, writing bizarre columns about astrological readings and exercising a very heavy hand in news coverage decisions. now we learn he used the paper as his personal bank, too, putting $90,000 in personal expenses on company credit cards and using a further $70,000 in company funds to pay his personal credit card, as well as giving himself “$287,224.78 in unauthorized salary increases and bo- nuses,” according to an accounting released by the Press Herald. now that’s grandiose. ^ THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD!

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Unions in Maine Laborers may have a bright future _by DeirD re fuLton

fEven as the organized-labor move- ers who receive state subsidies. And the ment continues to falter on the na- Maine Education Association, the state’s tional level, union leaders here in Maine teachers’ union, is currently engaged in Contractors are optimistic about a potential resur- a full-scale battle with LePage over the gence — or if not that, at least a stanch- administration’s education proposals, who wish to ing of the bleeding and an opportunity including efforts to make towns contrib- to prove that pro-union policies are best ute to teachers’ retirement funds and an bid on the for local workers and communities. initiative that will give schools across The positive signs have come in vari- Maine A-through-F letter grades based on Summit job ous forms. Just last week, the state legis- performance. lature killed a so-called “right-to-work” A mere 11.5 percent of Maine workers must abide by bill, which would have prohibited “a per- (64,000) belonged to unions in 2012, son from being required to join a labor or- according to the US Bureau of La- various union ganization or pay any labor organization bor Statistics — some of whom dues or fees as a condition of employment may be unemployed, given standards. or continuation of employment.” Some that “industries with high 24 states have enacted such legislation, rates of union member- mostly in the South and Midwest (none ship have generally had in New England). Right-to-work pro- some of the largest job ponents (like Governor Paul LePage and losses . . . paper mills, most Republicans) say the bill, similar to for example,” says Ju- one voted down in the last legislative ses- lie Rabinowitz, direc- for the state Department of Labor. Still, sion, would make Maine more attractive tor of communication it’s clear that organized labor is flexing its to businesses; opponents (mostly Demo- muscles in the Pine Tree State. crats) say right-to-work laws lead to lower wages and are essentially an attempt to Project Labor Disagreement bust unions. Perhaps the brightest development came Meanwhile, in March, 250 lobstermen toward the end of March, when Summit signed up to join the newly formed Maine Natural Gas, a subsidiary of the Colorado- Lobstering Union, an offshoot of the In- based Summit Utilities, announced it ternational Association of Machin- would use a Project Labor Agreement ists and Aerospace Workers. Last (PLA) for its Kennebec Natural Gas project month, medical marijuana dis- — an 88-mile steel transmission pipeline, pensary employees held a small plus more than 1600 miles of plastic rally in Longfellow Square that distribution pipes, running through 17 called attention to their own central Maine communities. attempts to unionize. Day- The PLA — modeled on the National care workers in Maine Pipe Line Agreement, itself a sort of PLA have been divided for used nationwide — will apply only to the years over the pros 88-mile section of pipeline and requires and cons of collec- contractors who wish to bid on a portion tive bargaining of the job to adhere to union standards rights for private for work conditions, wages, and benefits. child-care Local representatives of the Labor- provid- ers International Union of North America (LIUNA), who encour- aged Summit to make such an agreement, say the PLA locks in good wages (about $17 an hour — as opposed to the $10-12 earned by a typi- cal day laborer), plus benefits Continued on p 10 LIVE ENTERTAINMENT REAL PUB FOOD Where Rock-N-Roll Never Forgets! 35 Blake Rd. Standish, ME 207.642.3363 memorylanemusichall.com

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Continued from p 8 and health-care, for pipeline construction workers. Individual laborers need not become union members to earn the agreement’s prevailing wage, but they will not receive benefits if they don’t. In BehindHanging (and aBove) the StoughceneS at iatSe local 114 order to bid on the job, contractors and subcontractors must “sign on” to the PLA, agreeing to abide by certain rules for the F Besides bargaining for higher wages and health-care options, one general manager, lauren Wayne, was not available to talk to the Phoenix duration of this specific project. of the primary concerns of unions is worker safety. according to the by our deadline) voted in February on whether to become represented by Used throughout history on massive US department of labor’s occupational Safety and health administration iatSe. the workers voted against it 13-9. While he voted in favor, ander- projects like the Hoover Dam and Disney (oSha), some of the leading causes of workplace death in private indus- son isn’t disappointed by the outcome. “i think these things function when World, PLAs are one way for organized tries are falls, electrocutions, being struck by an object, and getting caught the workers want them. i don’t like the idea of us forcing anyone who labor to make piecemeal inroads without between objects. doesn’t want to be represented.” launching a full-scale public awareness this makes a compelling argument for the necessity of unions like after going years without admitting new members — which anderson campaign. Companies who use PLAs Maine’s iatSe local 114, part of the international alliance of theatrical attributes to a fear among older members of losing work — the iatSe has typically expect access to a pool of skilled Stage employees. the union’s portland chapter consists of about 60 active lately begun to induct a steady stream of twenty and thirtysomethings, laborers who get the job done quickly and members whose jobs include loading heavy equipment, rigging light dis- which gives the group hope for the future. efficiently. plays at great heights, and operating electrical boards at the city’s numer- or as Born put it, in work as in entertainment: “the show must go on.” With natural gas expected to thrive ous arts venues. in a city like portland where culture plays a vital economic _nicholas schroeder here in Maine — Cumberland, Falmouth, role, local 114 serves as a safeguard for those working in a skilled profes- and Yarmouth recently agreed to a pro- sion that can be as irregular, fast-paced, and dangerous as any in the arts. posal to expand distribution through doug Born, 51, has been a member of iatSe since 2000. he notes that those three towns — the precedents set by while any industry comes with a certain amount of physical risk, the psy- a PLA could mean good-paying jobs for the chological benefit of having union support is significant: “Union employees long haul. “Maine is going to be booming are empowered employees. Simple as that.” with gas line infrastructure over the next Born speaks from experience. in 2003, he fell 26 feet while working a 10 to 15 years,” says Chris Tucker, a union nonunion contract at a phish concert in limestone, suffering numerous in- member and LIUNA organizer. “We’re try- juries that required him to be airlifted to the hospital. “ti wasn’t the crew’s ing to give [laborers] a career. The workers fault,” he says. “it was an unsafe worksite. oSha took one look at it the are tired of working for nothing.” next morning and deemed it unsafe.” the event has served as a dire il- In his State of the State address, LePage lustration of the intrinsic dangers of his trade. vowed to “fast-track” natural gas expan- corey anderson, 32, works as a rigger and lighting technician for sion. But the governor’s enthusiasm for the State theatre, Merrill auditorium, and elsewhere in Greater port- the industry in general and for Summit’s land under union and nonunion contracts. When he joined iatSe in $300 million project in particular didn’t 2009, he admits having practical concerns, about either being passed keep him from publicly chastising the over for nonunion jobs or losing money on the ones he did work by company for choosing to operate under a having the union take an assessment (which is a cut of pay for non- PLA. union jobs). “While I appreciate Summit’s commit- “that has never happened. What was made clear to me from the ment and investment in Maine to help get-go is that 114 is not interested at all in making it harder for stage- reduce our cost of energy, I am extremely hands to work. it’s counterproductive. So when i work for the State (or disappointed that they have chosen to other non-organized venues), there’s no assessment taken out.” implement a PLA on this project,” LePage despite this, anderson still sees a “massive discrepancy” in the said in a statement issued March 21. “This wages of union and nonunion contracts. “i make $19 an hour working action not only increases the cost of the as a stagehand at Merrill auditorium (a union-organized venue). at the project, but more importantly, it shuts State theatre (which isn’t organized), it’s about $12.50.” out Maine’s construction workers and the Merrill has a four-hour minimum, so anderson’s work there earns their families from good job opportuni- at least $76 per event, and more if it takes longer. the State, by contrast, ties.” pays anderson a flat $50 per job, regardless of its duration. Most jobs When asked for clarification, the there are under four hours, but they could conceivably go as long as eight — governor’s office referred the Phoenix to with no extra money for the longer job. Associated General Contractors of Maine, if the pay often works out about the same and local workers aren’t as- which, along with the Associated Build- sessed fees working nonunion contracts, why the need for a union at all? ers and Contractors of Maine, represent “i believe in unions,” anderson says. “there are a number of industries a combined 375 construction companies, in this country where workers still need the kind of protection that can general contractors, and subcontractors only happen from being in a union, and the music industry is one of them. — many of which could potentially bid on What i do is dangerous. obviously we try as hard as we can to mitigate the pipeline project. These organizations that danger, but it’s undeniable. and those dangers are magnified expo- also oppose the PLA, claiming it will drive nentially when you have people who care more about money than their up labor costs, restrict competition by fa- workers. it’s useful to have a system in place to ensure that doesn’t hap- voring union contractors, and ensure that pen.” work is awarded to out-of-state entities. anderson says that the 22 employees at the State theatre (whose (LePage’s current deputy chief of staff and legislative director is Kathleen Newman, who formerly served as president and CEO of the Associated Builders and Contractors of Maine.) interested in making a political statement doing so. Companies who sign onto the “We are glad that Summit has chosen through business policy. Michael Duguay, PLA do so for this project only and are free to do business here in Maine, but we are Summit’s vice president of business devel- to remain “open shop” elsewhere. (The firm in our commitment to educate the opment, told the conservative Maine Heri- bidding process is currently on-going; public about the negative impact that tage Policy Center: “We want the most Summit expects to announce its awards their project labor agreement will have on Despite opting qualified workers. They can be union or very soon.) Maine’s construction industry,” said Hope non-union. We’re looking for what’s best Both LePage and the contractors orga- Perkins, who now serves as president and for the PLA, for Maine and Maine communities.” Rep- nizations have reiterated one salient, but CEO of the Associated Builders and Con- resentatives from Summit did not respond perhaps specious, statistic: “Because 98.6 tractors of Maine, in a statement. Summit has to requests for comment from the Phoenix. percent of Maine’s construction workforce Maine Natural Gas, another company Contractors and subcontractors were chooses not to belong to a union,” LePage installing a natural gas distribution system distanced shocked by Summit’s decision to use a said, “the PLA would discriminate against in and around Augusta, publicly announced PLA, says Matthew Marks, CEO of Associ- almost all of Maine’s construction workers that it does not use PLAs “because they itself from ated General Contractors of Maine. “We and would most certainly require out-of- don’t fit in with our philosophy.” were all kind of caught off guard,” he state workers to do the work.” For its part, despite making the con- appearing too says. “The PLA will limit the scope of peo- Not true, LIUNA counters, taking is- troversial choice to use a PLA in the first ple who can actually bid on the project.” sue specifically with LePage’s language. place, Summit has distanced itself from pro-union. This is a questionable — if not down- While it is accurate that Maine has low discussions of the labor agreement, point- right false — claim. While the PLA may union membership in the construction ing out in news reports that the larger limit the number of contractors and industry, that doesn’t necessarily indicate portion of their project — the 1600 miles subcontractors who choose to bid on the preference. of plastic piping — will not be governed project, it doesn’t outright exclude anyone “How can they speak for 90 percent of by a PLA. 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Continued from p 10 money builders that hiring union workers, the workforce in Maine?” Tucker wonders. paying solid wages, and observing stan- “[The workers] have never been asked!” It’s dard safety protocols amounts to smart true, he admits, that much of the work business practice. The “organizing” arm performed in Maine today is non-union, of organized labor seems to be more ener- “but that doesn’t reflect desire.” Many gized than in the recent past. workers don’t even know that the power to For example, LIUNA organizer Devin organize is in their hands, he says. Mayo has his sights set on the new high- In addition, Tucker points out that the rise apartment complex recently approved Summit PLA includes a clause guarantee- for Bayside — by implementing a Commu- ing that at least 50 percent of pipeline nity Benefit Workforce Agreement (much workers are from Maine, and the laborer’s like a PLA, ensuring that local laborers are Anthony’s Dinner union uses member dues to provide free hired to work on a large local project), the training for prospective workers so that developer could “put people to work build- they are properly qualified for the work ing their own housing.” (It would also, in- Theater & Cabaret to come. (Because pipeline construction cidentally, help the union expand its scope “Remembering -One requires certain skills — skills that out-of- into a minority neighborhood.) Good Time & Having staters may possess in But achieving such Another is what this spades — it’s important lofty goals could be dif- show is all about “ to make sure Maine work- ficult in the current -Portland Press Herald ers measure up in terms climate. Despite a pro-la- Mother’s Day of performance and skill- Labor leaders bor, majority-Democrat with level so that hiring stays legislature, anti-union local.) are loking to forces still wield influ- Opposition to PLAs ence. Consider LePage’s is based on one thing, the future, recent promise, caught union reps say: Greed. during the Skowhegan “They’re against unions seeking new Chamber of Commerce th because right now their awards dinner and re- Saturday, May 11 7pm workers are at-will em- members and ported by political activ- ployees,” Tucker says. ist Mike Tipping at his “When workers have a promoting Tipping Point blog, to voice, employers lose “be the next Scott Walk- Course control.” union workers er” during the 2014 elec- tion— a reference to the Dinner Work it out as good value. controversial Wisconsin & Show On a hazy spring after- governor who sparked 5 noon, a 22-year-old roofer massive protests and named Jacob walks into a failed recall attempt the Local 327 union hall when he attempted to in Augusta and starts strip public employees of Beer & Wine filling out paperwork. He’s a roofer look- their collective bargaining rights. ing for a better job and better pay, he says, Chris Quint, executive director of the Reservations and a friend turned him on to the pipeline Maine State Employees Association, scoffs project. The prospect of finding steady, at LePage’s remark. “We would hope the 221-2267 safe, sustainable employment is enticing. governor would put aside the divisive Tucker says to him what he says to all rhetoric, and hostile agenda of divide and Maine workers: “You’re all done working conquer, and get to work to create eco- Free Parking for nothing.” In this case, “nothing” was nomic prosperity for all Maine families,” low wages (Jacob said he earns about $12 an he says. hour as a roofer, with no bennys or health That would indeed be nice. But in the 151 Middle Street, Portland insurance), and no job security. absence of such a marked alteration of tem- That’s the hope, at least. Buoyed by perament, we predict organized labor will 221-2267 for reservations the Summit success, labor organizers are continue to broadcast its pro-worker mes- looking toward the future, eager to acquire sage to the public, project by project, in a www.anthonysdinnertheater.com new members and to convince other big- renewed attempt to remain relevant. ^ HAPPY HOUR: Mon-Fri. 4-7pm $2.50 Domestics • $3.50 Micros • $5 Nachos Wed. $7 Domestic Pitchers • 2 Cheeseburgers & Fries $6.99 Thur. 50¢ Wings • $7 Bud Light Pitchers Fri. $5 Burritos • $4 Cuervo Margaritas Catch all the Celtics Playoff action! Our hi-def screens, full bar & killer menu will make NBA you feel like you're at all your favorite games. PLAYOFFS Voted #1 Wings in Portland! CONTINUE! STOP IN FOR GREAT SPECIALS DURING THE GAMES 121 Center St. Portland • 207-772-8274 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK: 11:30am to 1am WWW.PORTLANDASYLUM.COM 14 May 3, 2013 | the portland phoenix | portland.t hephoenix.coM 8 days a WEEK

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Sam Pfeifle last week when boasts film, music, shadowplay, he favorably reviewed their and illusions courtesy of new disc Land as a community Heartwood Regional Theater redeemer in the wake of the Company. 7:30 pm, $22 at Boston Marathon bombings. If the Parker B. Poe Theater, 81 you missed their record release Academy Hill Rd in Newcastle. party — or want to relive it 207.563.1373. — the group play with JT loCk- SOME FOR EVERYONE | Wood at the Dover Brick House keller WIllIams — the jangle- at 9 pm. 2 Orchard St. in Dover, folker not the real-estate agency NH. 603.749.3838. — brings his live-looped “one- MILKING THE SPOOKY | Spring man jam band” act to Port City has arrived, yet deathpunk band Music Hall. Seeing how his last Covered In Bees aim to plunge record consisted of piano covers all into darkness with a “Half- of Grateful Dead songs, he could way to Halloween” spectacular go that route. 8 pm, $25 at 504 at the Asylum. With local metal Congress St. 207.499.8990. dogs hessIan, dark doo-wop HULKING UP | While at group Johnny CremaIns, and Mayo Street, the tradition of Crash CoBra. 8 pm, $5 at 121 Lady Armwrestlers is only a Center St. 207.772.8274. year or two old, but it seems quintessentially Portland nonetheless. A new SLAP (“su- perhero lady armWresTlers oF porTland”) tournament saturday 4 happens tonight, with local luminaries going arm-to-arm PLAINS, TRAINS & AUTOS | to benefit venerable youth the- The banjo group sTeep Canyon ater organization A Company rangers — sans Steve Martin — of Girls. 7:30 pm, $7 at 10 Mayo play the Strand Theatre in Rock- St. 207.615.3609. land tonight. Their 2012 effort Nobody Knows You won a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album, and there might be no such group better at fusing complicated pop sunday 5 harmonies and fingerpicking rhythms. 7:30 pm, $22-25 at 345 DEVOTIONALS | Oh, to be a Main St. 207.594.0070. rock band in America in 1994. In MAC ATTACK f ImanI WInds | Several Portland 1994, a group of expat English- , at USM’s Hannaford Hall, in Portland on May 2. actors are on stage and screen men living in squalor in New for a conceptual multimedia York City formed spaCehog, an performance of Macbeth, which extravagant fusion of riff-wor-

as employed by US intelligence thursday 2 friday 3 here and internationally. His talk, titled “ChoosIng a proper WIND UP AND PITCH | There GALA HUMOR | These sum- response To duBIous InForma- is no circuit too large for quin- mer art walks are exceedingly TIon From your unCle sam,” tet ImanI WInds, who merge navigable, but you’ll need a airs at USM’s Talbot Lecture Au- chamber classical with musical plan to hit the following spots: ditorium at 7:30. If you’re chill, traditions around the globe. porTland Flea-For-all, which the haunted blissouts of off- They’ve made albums reprising hosts a local artisanal food kilter folk acts rural ghosTs Astor Piazzola, Paquito D’rivera, showcase (meaning free food) and greg JamIe are balanced by and the slow burn of ’20s Pari- called “Flea Bites” and as well the revenant flamenco revival sian jazz, and play a set at the as the “Portland Record Party,” of olas, captained by former USM’s Hannaford Hall tonight vinyl sale. That’s from 5 to 8 at Cerberus Shoal-er and student of at 7:30. $40 ($10 students) at 93 125 Kennebec St. The Coffee By the duende Chriss Sutherland. Bedford St. on the Portland cam- Design on India Street gets a jolt 8 pm, $10 at Acoustic Artisans, pus. 207.842.0800. More music of laughter from emerging local 594 Congress St. 207.671.6029. transcending its boundaries is comics from the porTland Com- SNARL | A set from the electri- on display at Mayo Street Arts, edy Co-op as well as bluegrass fying indie rock band the Box where notable trumpeter mark music from TrICky BrITChes. 6 TIger is matched with one by TIpTon plays South American pm at 67 India St. And Aucocisco WorrIed Well (see their new folk tunes with the help of Galleries, situated in the heart record Luck reviewed by Sam friends. 7 pm, $7-10 at 10 Mayo of the commercial Old Port, Pfeifle on page 20) and the local St. 207.615.3609. shows a reception for new works indie/chamber-folk septet For- PRIVATIONS | Whether you by respected expressionist paint- geT, ForgeT; the latter of whom want to arm yourself for the er rIChard BroWn leThem and launched a massive $6000 next ideological scrum or merely the meditative, ethereal color Kickstarter effort this week to learn talking points for the next canvases of raChel easTman. 5 get their debut record mixed time you bump into a cutie at pm at 89 Exchange St. and mastered at some of the top Greendrinks, you might bring GET A DEBRIEFING | As it studios on the continent. 9 pm yourself to an evening discus- winds down, check your mood. at the Big Easy, 55 Market St. sion on “CharTer sChools, Are you fired up? Then consider 207.775.2266. sChool FundIng, and TeaCher attending a lecture by former LAND HO | The malleTT f anna and elIZaBeTh evaluaTIons” at Bowdoin Col- CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who BroThers Band, fast becom- , at Acoustic Artisans, in lege’s Visual Arts Center. The discusses emerging surveillance ing one of Maine’s most visible issue is not going away. 7 pm, tactics, drone warfare, torture, cultural products, struck some Portland on May 6. 207.725.3000. and Constitutional oversights resonant notes in the heart of portland.thephoenix.coM | the portland phoenix | May 3, 2013 1 5 8 days a WEEK

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f PAT BENATAR nICole raBaTa, at Blue, in Portland on May 8. NEIL GIRALDO ON SALE FRI at 10am AUGUST 25 ship, Bowie theatrics, McCurdy and a rotating cast of and glammy ’80s panache. characters. It’s not too far off from As the ’90s alt-rock bubble monday 6 Deer Tick, who are the benchmark reached its zenith, they took for this sort of stuff in that area. flight on the ubiquity of the ESCAPING THE ERA | Immersed With the irrepressible traveler dan FM single “In the Meantime” — deep in the study and practice of Blakeslee at the Oak and the Ax, one of those songs you can traditional Appalachian music is 107 Main St. in Biddeford. Visit hop up and down to and never the Southwest Virginia duo anna theoakandtheax.com. lose the rhythm. A household and elIZaBeTh, whose stage shows name, they spent the next two include storytelling, shadow pup- records becoming a better and pets, and a narrative storyboard MAY 2 more thoughtful band, which of illustrations called a crankie. evidently the masses did not They play with the Irish ballad duo WEdnEsday 8 appreciate one bit. Twelve years the murphy Beds; one of whom, later all is forgotten; the band Jefferson Hamer, currently tours KEEP LOOSE | I have it on author- tour on the strength of a new with the popular folk singer Anais ity that the new ghosTFaCe kIllah record, As It Is On Earth, which Mitchell. An educational and record demands attention. A con- proves them every bit as ambi- possibly restorative Monday night cept record based on a comic book tious and Bowie-worshipful engagement at Acoustic Artisans. written by collaborator adrIan as ever. With spenCer alBee, 8 pm, $10 at 594 Congress St., younge, Twelve Reasons to Die is a SATURDAY, MAY 4 a pop-rock songwriter whose 207.671.6029. serious return to form. Possessor recent project Space vs. Speed SO TO SPEAK | If you missed the of some of the most distinct style covered similar terrain. 10 pm reading last week by writer (and and cadence in hip hop and argu- at the Big Easy, 55 Market St., former Longfellow Books worker) ably a funnier dude than his late 207.774.2266. Imogen BInnIe, she reads from Wu-Tang brother Ol’ Dirty Bastard, FINDING THE FIRE Nevada | The her novel at the monthly Tony Starks plays with Younge at with Minneapolis rapper and lit soiree Word porTland, with 8 pm at the Port City Music Hall. BAD BOOKS singer dessa, part of that poets ryan mClellan and JeFFrey $20. city’s trailblazing Doomtree Thompson at LFK. 9 pm at 188A VANILLA BEAN | Sure, all-Amer- MAY 7 Collective, made a huge splash State St; visit wordportland.word- ican boy Josh rITTer plays with the last time she played Port- press.com. his Royal City Band at the State, land, exhibiting work from and he’s a fine songwriter and all, her lounge-inflected, conscious but the possibility exists that you hip hop records. All early signs might really set your soul on fire if suggest that her third, titled you get in a room with nICole ra- Parts of Speech and set to be re- tuEsday 7 BaTa, the Maine Irish flutist and leased in June, raises the stakes. chamber musician whose com- MAY 8 On its first single, “Warsaw,” RICH PAGEANTRY | The songs positions tell every bit the story we hear Dessa with a gloves- of sIlversun pICkups are some without being so damn literal. She off urgency absent from her of the most epically constructed plays a set with instrumentalist Jr. SPANK! IRON & WINE The Fifty Shades Parody MAY 9 THE SECRET SISTERS SAT MAY 18 other solo work, and it stands you’ll find in popular indie-rock. sTevens (of local groups the Press to reason that this is how hard Taking cues from ’90s shoegaze, Gang and Sylvain’s Acadian Aces), BLOC PARTY THE MOTH: MAINSTAGE she comes tonight when she Midwestern emo, and dark Ameri- 7:30 at Blue. 650A Congress St. BEAR MOUNTAIN JUNE 4 JUNE 6 plays SPACE Gallery with the can arena rock, the band aimed 207.774.4111. EDWARD SHARPE LAMB OF GOD Jersey-based indie-rock/hip to take a major step toward the and the Magenetic Zeros JUNE 9 THE ACACIA STRAIN, DECAPITATED JUNE 16 hop act BrICk+morTar. 8:30 mainstream with 2012’s Neck of the pm; $13 at 538 Congress St., Woods, introducing electronics and JIM JAMES DAVID BYRNE / JUNE 20 207.828.5600. slicker production and smoothing ST VINCENT FRI, JUNE 21 POST-THATCHERISTS | Punk, out some of the jagged urgency of thursday 9 MELISSA ANIMAL COLLECTIVE never more dead, suffers a sneak some of their early material. Some ETHERIDGE SAT JUNE 22 JULY 11 attack by literary-cum-reality have called them this generation’s NOT G’N’R | Next week, the an- dead Trend BaTes Folk FesTIval TEGAN and SARA BEACH HOUSE hardcore band this Smashing Pumpkins. Fair. With nual gets into SAT JULY 27 JULY 31 week (read more about their Bad Books, who sound like a swing with sets by several local debut full-length False Positive on cheerier version of Elliott Smith’s grassies. Utterly forgettable ’90s STRANGEFOLK ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA ORIGINAL LINEUP page 20). The group revive the pop phase. 8 pm, $25-30 at the hard rock act JaCkyl show off their SAT SEPT 28 NOV 1 sound of dirty, raw, ’80s punk State Theatre, 609 Congress St., chainsaw fetish at the Asylum, rock intransigence with a set at 207.956.6000. and the dancer-illusionist en- • STATETHEATREPORTLAND.COM Mathew’s, with sets from old GRIT & GRIZZLE | Bluesy, semble momIx, a sort of conceptual • THE CIVIC CENTER BOX OFFICE nIghT ouTFITs , the , and Vegas’s surly, folk-rock is the métier of sister act to Cirque du Soleil, bring BUY TICKETS • 800-745-3000 CoasTWesT unresT. 5 pm, $3 at Providence-based group vudu sIs- their latest and most multimedial 133 Free St., 207.253.1812. Ter, the alias of songwriter Keith show “Botanica” to the Merrill. 16 May 3, 2013 | the portland phoenix | portland.t hephoenix.coM

art

Leaping off the waLL James marshall escapes flatness at icon

_by nicholas schroeder

In the first show fof the season at the always engaging Icon Contemporary Art, James Marshall’s collection of new works breathes life into the paper bag. Literally. Consisting of dark, stony figurations of graphite-covered bags and the more traditional gestural drawings that helped conceive them, the show — Marshall’s first solo — is a touchstone for a distinct and ho- listic artistic process. To arrive at its present form, this work had to go through a peculiar evolution. As a personal challenge years ago, ‘DYNAMIC he rejected the straight COMPOSITION II’ line. The restraint Graphite, plaster, pVa steered him to making on paper by James marshall. thick graphite drawings of ovoid patterns on white paper. He would apply the graphite so from both painting and drawing — the bags thickly that it would warp the paper, giving adopt a rigid pliability. From there the work it the three-dimensional qualities of sculp- becomes compositional and sculptural. And ture, like reliefs. Some of these appear here it fundamentally cannot be rushed. — untitled, elliptical, and slightly illusory It’s all well and good that Marshall is — and while they’re recent iterations, they able to nod toward personal influences usefully display the conceptual origins of across three different media, but from a Marshall’s mature works: the bags. critical perspective, it’s somewhat radical to Arranged in various poses on pedestals see an everyday object given such a qualita- throughout the gallery, each of these pos- tive makeover. Nearly all the formal traits sesses nuanced expressive distinction. of the paper bag have been altered — color, “Bridge and Recline” conjoins four medium- texture, stickiness, flatness — and yet sized bags in a classic figurative repose, one they’re still very much what they are. It’s of them arching up from three more supine like plastic surgery at its best. others. “The Water Carrier,” a tall, nearly Laid out over two floors, the show at freestanding figure upon which graphite Icon contains several outliers suggesting is glossed with milk paint for a lighter feel, the process isn’t yet fully evolved. Three conjures the matriarchal persona of its title. large sheets of paper revive Marshall’s And “Deconstructing Donald,” a boxy stack heavy ovoid drawings using walnut ink of bags set sideways with mouths open instead of (primarily) graphite, replacing toward the viewer, is Marshall’s homage some of the heaviness with more natural, to Donald Judd, conjuring the minimalist earthy texture. And bags are put away sculptor’s run fashioning industrial wall in favor of other objects on three occa- boxes in the 1970s. sions, most effectively in “The Length The deployment of paper bags as a pri- of Memory,” a cluster of ribbony paper mary unit of vocabulary may seem whimsi- shards that Marshall hand-kneaded using cal at first, but eventually they make sense. graphite-coated gloves, stacked in pile like Quite literally, Marshall is playing with and kindling, or discarded letters. reshaping cultural history. Paper bags have Essentially, this is sculpture, but seen all the same material properties as drawing another way, Marshall’s pieces are quite paper, yet few, if any, of the associations ac- a bit more. They’re drawings stripped of quired through social engagement. They’re their linearity, paintings removed from functional; Western. As Marshall noted in opticality. And rarely does figurative conversation, each bag comes stamped with sculpture this abstract point to a world the name of the worker who made it. outside its own form. This show is a quiet In other words, they have a certain triumph. Ruminative, process-oriented, amount of character even in raw form, and subtly socially engaged, they proudly and the artist’s painstaking process nurses represent a very unique Maine artist com- even more. First, he uses a brush to layer ing into form. ^ each side with several thick coats of a compound of plaster, PVA glue, graphite, “GRAPHITE/PAPER/2D/3D” | drawings and water, and various hardeners. After weeks sculptures by James Marshall | through May of coating and drying — a process some- 25 | Icon Contemporary Art, 19 Mason St, what obliquely incorporating elements Brunswick | 207.725.8157 That’s right. We now have a 0% downpayment option. And you still get our guarantees: guaranteed closing date, guaranteed same-day loan decision, and guaranteed local servicing.

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theater

Homegrown dozen Twelve Maine plays in acorn’s fesTival

_by Megan gruMbling

It’s time once again for Acorn Mike’s kid is the starting quarterback; the fProductions’ annual celebration of two grown men quibble not only over coach- the playwrights living among us. As in ing strategies, but also the deep past. The previous years, the Twelfth Annual Maine characters both have depth and a banter that Saturday, May 4, 2pm Playwrights Festival features two evening degenerates nicely, and though the plotline programs of short plays, this year num- gets a little cluttered, Pratt’s is an interesting ON THE UPPER DECK bering twelve. Last weekend also saw the conceit: how adolescence brings itself to bear WATCH THE LIVE RACE ON OUR HUGE SCREEN staged reading of one full-length play, Cul- on the dynamics of ostensible grownups. len McGough’s Want/Not; and an evening Halo, by Hal Cohen, is a monologue fea- called Take Two, in which short monologues turing Patricia Mew (who is excellent here) are presented twice, with different actors as a Physician at a podium, narrating a har- and directors. The festival will wrap up rowing experience treating an asthmatic on May 5 with an array of theater artists child. The story launches with some inter- under the gun for the all-night adventure esting narrative leaps, and is richly detailed of the 24-Hour Theater Project. (with perhaps even a surplus of medical mint juleps, seersucker, and the fancy Program A, which runs for one more procedurals). The doctor initially presents night on Sunday, bears the header “Beating some interesting asides of rude arrogance the Odds” (and features alarmingly loud that would be compelling to follow up on, topical pop songs between plays). It opens as would be the actual circumstances fram- with Michael Tooher’s Rope Trick, in which ing her telling of the tale. a He (Tristan Rolfe) and She (Elizabeth Lar- Finally, David Susman’s Zeno’s Arrow PLUS: THE 2ND ANNUAL PARKING LOT DOG RACE die), bedecked in camo, tug on a brazenly is a light, clever little riff on the ancient allegorical rope. The dialogue between Greek’s theory of ever more infinitesimal, ENJOY BIG PRIZES & GIVE-AWAYS them, abbreviated and childlike, moves ultimately unachievable distances between perhaps a bit too slowly to the entrance of bodies: Zeno’s Arrow (Kara Haupt) can 57 CENTER STREET, PORTLAND BRIANBORUPORTLAND.COM 207.780.1506 the Writer (Evadne Bryan-Perkins, in a very never entirely become one with her Target funny send-up), who informs them that (Tristan Rolfe). Susman’s writing is brisk they are her “constructs.” What happens and punchy, remains whimsically allegori- from there feels a little timeworn, but is, in cal, has a deftly sketched arc, and certainly the same sense, a classic device. makes a good point. Holly Belle, by Sarah Paget, is a local-color Program B of short plays, billed as The drama set on a Maine island. Holly Belle Perils of Company, includes another six plays: is the name both of a young divorcee (Kara Megan Tripaldi’s Cat Scratch; Date Night at Al’s Haupt) and the boat that belonged to her Bar and Grill by Dan Hadley; Delvyn Case Jr.’s dead father, still mourned by her mother, Delestage; Michael Kimball’s Janey Succumbs to Nadine (Pamela Chabora). The boat has Polar Madness; Charlie Cole’s Stel; and Carolyn been sold to a young widower lobster- Gage’s Radicals. ^ man, Lucas Eaton (Josh Brassard), much to Nadine’s distress, but the three find The 2013 Maine PlaywrighTs FesTival | unexpected connection. Paget draws Na- Produced by Acorn Productions | at the St. Law- dine’s stubborn grief lyrically and sympa- rence Arts Center in Portland | through May 5 | thetically, and the play maintains a tone of acorn-productions.org wistful optimism, though her dead lobsterman’s character is revealed through somewhat weighty exposition. In Roger Clark Van Deusen’s Slunkerfish, the fishing has considerably less verisimili- tude. Angston (Cory King) and Hewitt (Randall Tuttle) are fishing on the Portland pier (though Tuttle’s Hewitt seems more Bayou than Peninsula) when Angston catches the om- inous titular fish. Things de- volve from there for poor Angs- ton, paralleled by the oblivious Hewitt’s ichthyic folklore. The story is slight by nature, and sometimes the creative profan- ity feels a little forced, but at its best, the dialogue leaps enter- tainingly as the men talk past each other, and King’s antics are great. Memories of Paradise, by Bruce Pratt, is a more serious two- hander, launching from the interesting conceit of high school football buddies Alex (Randall Tuttle) and Mike (Josh Brassard). Alex is now the high GOING LITERAL Rope Trick’s metaphor is pretty obvious. school’s football coach, and

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It’s fun, with rawness that LfCAL keeps it from getting glossy. MUSIC They’re accessible, even goofy.

glossy. They’re accessible. BAroqUe Me, AMAdeUS Worried Well can be goofy, even. Their video a vibrant and forward worried well for “Sickly Honest” is a fun take-off on OK Go’s first The way Worried Well’s Daniel James himself in the elder’s shoes: “Growing old video breakthrough, and fdoes emo will remind you of Death is aching all the time,” he sings among ele- the song itself has an open Cab and plenty of other genre stalwarts, but ments repeating in unpredictable counts and close that feature gui- he likes it tarnished, fingerprints on the and interesting rhythms. tars like sound effects. The lenses of the binoculars he uses to view the Drummer Cam Jones helps with that. A song’s center, though, is world. Rather than making him tentative, songwriter in his own right, Jones seems to banged-out pop rock, with though, this muddying of the waters gives enjoy supporting James and keeping things a huge chorus (“She knows him fuel to go bigger, creating a vibrant orderly. The way he gets out of the chorus me well enough not to be- and-too bright world. back into the spare verse on the opening lieve me/I’m never strong There’s something baroque, something “She’s Got Something to Say” is especially enough to no deceive you, emotional and primal, vivid and stark crisp, with the tambourine disappearing you see”) and a bridge that about Luck, the band’s first proper full- for a bit before the full kit enters for the ramps up further with gang length release. Subtlety was not a baroque full-band finish that takes long enough to vocals. “You’re Doing Fine” touchstone value, by any means. They liked develop that you forget it’s a possibility. It’s is almost Billy Joel in its pop things big and loud and raucous back then a graduated climb that manages to have big and struts in the verse, with — but all in exaltation of their devotion to dynamics. sword strokes of attacking their newly entrenched Christian god. “Give ’Em Hell Kid” does something chords. Maturation is on Well, James is of the mind that you similar, with an opening featuring a James’s mind again, as he “Find Your Own God,” as he outlines in a descending guitar line and super-close vo- points to “children of the song that opens like an old soul track full cals, distorted like James is on the phone ’80s going gray with age.” of organ, but then goes sideways. Were the (i.e., right in your ear). And, then, kapow: Like the Hold Steady or the Isley Brothers emo before it was a thing? I’m “So now they say you’re depressed/But Weakerthans, his brand of sure they would have approved of putting a I’m pretty sure they lied.” Eventually they nostalgia can be biting, and gal on a pedestal, as James does: “I suppose find a middle ground and then modulate they sound like both bands then that I believe in your kindness, in your up for a bridge that gives way to a con- gRoWing uP the biting nostalgia of worried well. with the organ-filled play beauty/If I were made to choose for myself, tinuing call and response, except the call out. a deity/Then I’d pray to the face that I dream is mixed to the back. Yes, James — who’s now of every day, anyway.” Most everything here fits a verse-chorus- features a touch of screamo contrasted with moved in local bands from ska to pop punk There’s an interlude presented by guest bridge archetype, and the choruses gener- some delicate piano before James closes with to emo to something more like good, old- vocalist Amanda Gervasi, buffeted by tor- ally deliver the goods. The best punch comes the stark realization that “I smiled when I fashioned rock and roll — seems to be telling rents of James. If you’re into dense and plen- in “I Couldn’t Make Stairs,” which opens should have shown no teeth.” us he’s all grown up. Look for the next al- tiful lyrics, this is your band. James turns as a lament for “my very own patch of dirt” Like the new Shouting Matches album, bum to ring in his mid-life crisis. ^ smart phrases and is thought-provoking. (reminiscent of the Mallett Brothers’ new engineer TJ Swan has left the production His “Paul’s Time with Wm. James” is a record, reviewed here last week), but turns spare and inviting to emphasize that Luck | Released by Worried Well | with the Box hyper-personal affair, a narrative about his into an act of defiance: “When they bribed starkness. It’s fun, but there’s a rawness Tiger + Forget, Forget | at the Big Easy, in Port- father. James seems like he can finally put me I respectfully declined.” The finish even to it that keeps everything from getting to land | May 3 | worriedwell.bandcamp.com

F WAX TABLeT [email protected] Crossing state lines F remember when we reported that WEs HARTlEy that they’re officially booking shows at PoRT CiTy, Mathew’s on May 5. these dudes are interesting: was leaving portland forever? the impulse wasn’t Dead and portland’s unquestionably back on the roadmap they were first conceived as a fictitious band in wrong, per se, but thankfully that sad fate was quickly Trend for buzzworthy touring music. Meanwhile, though drummer Mike Fournier’s novel Hidden Wheel (three reversed. the dude did leave for the other coast awhile the AsyluM has always brought some surprising rooms press, 2011). then they were real, a band in late 2011 — likely taking whatever potential for leg- acts to their venue, their summer schedule is curious making music pitched to sound like it’s from base- end of the then-newly released Splendora colt record indeed, with appearances by the psychedelic Furs, ments in the ’80s (some of them are old enough to Hoods on the Water tower with him — but he’s been tesla, aaron carter, and ’90s alt-rock group Fuel. the have been teenagers then). they’ve got the manner- back in town since last spring. one of the city’s finest scuttlebutt there is that alex Gray of Bangor’s Wa- ism down: False Positive sounds unironically, unself- and most genuine songwriters, hartley’s been play- terfront concerts is tossing them some acts. that’s consciously poached in the reagan era; covering work ing scattered solo shows here and there, but we were the only feasible explanation for the upcoming port- woes, political disaffection, and symptoms of refusal thrilled to see surface some new recordings for the land visit by ted nugent, who has the worst politics about as snarly and vile as S.o.a. or early negative indie-country troubadour, a homemade cd-r titled in rock hands down. approach. twenty-one songs in 28 minutes sug- convenient Repairs featuring original hand-drawn F Big week of announcements for the sTATE THE- F Watch out for the DiRigiMus CollECTivE tour- gests a blistering pace, and yeah it’s fierce, but we covers. haven’t heard this doozy yet, but if there’s one ATRE, huh? We get another chance to answer the ing the art Walk in a roving van this Friday. you’ll don’t see why there can’t be a few more discharge- thing we know about Wah it’s that he puts total heart eternal question of whether animal collective’s mu- probably hear them before you see them. style thrashers mixed in. all midtempo rants and we and soul into his songs, to a disarming degree. and if sic holds up live. plus, Beck slides into the major-pop- F DEAD TREnD, an ’80s hardcore punk throwback get the spirit but lose the feeling. a refreshing way we learned anything from Hoods, there’s no correla- star midsummer slot that Fiona apple occupied last group, slap down their debut record False Posi- to “get at” punk and an unusual band for sure, hear tion between formality and quality. dig this up. year, which seems like a pretty decent formula. add tive this week, and make it official with a show at False Positive at deadtrend.bandcamp.com. portLand.thephoenix.com | the portL and phoenix | may 3, 2013 2 1

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This is the last week of this lunar cycle, so com- fpleting tasks should be your focus. Beware of Back page those who are excited about new ideas on Wednesday — disaffection is likely sooner rather than later. Good days for gardening include the weekend, and Tuesday and Wednesday. Good days for dealing with new ideas, responsibilities, or quirks and whims will be Monday. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 thursday 10 11 12 may 13 2 14 15 16 _by Matt Jones last quarter moon in aquarius. look at your calendar. today Jonesin’ should mark a turning point for events that got really heavy 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 around 26 a pril 27 25, or28 that began 29 around 30 a pril 31 10. a 32quarius, Gemini, libra, Sagittarius, capricorn, pisces, aries: if your imagination runs wild, please Across 47 Mining find tell me you’re having a good time. a feeling of resistance to being “crowd- “gonna crack” 1 they’re not as busy in May 48 nuremberg number ed” or “steered” could make taurus, leo, Virgo, cancer, and Scorpio feisty. — but you’ll figure it out. 5 planned to rob 50 eagle’s nest 10 Jimmy of shoes1 2 3 4 55 Big 5 trouble 6 7 8 9 10 Friday 11 12 may3 13 14 15 16 14 Square footage, say 61 Vulcan mind ___ Waning moon in aquarius, moon void-of-course 12:24 pm until 2:25 pm when it moves into pisces. excellent for communicating 15 “i want to play17 ___” 18 (line 19 20 64 o 21ld pantyhose 22 23 brand 24 with 25 26 with 27 faraway28 friends 29 or using 30 new 31 technology. 32 a mid-day void-of-course from “Saw”) a famous Joe namath ad moon prompts the “hail Mary” pass for the risk-takers, which could in- 16 Good thing to check 65 Berry variety clude aquarius, Gemini, libra, aries, and Sagittarius. capricorn, Virgo, Snopes.com for 66 pocahontas’ husband John ___ cancer, and pisces could be tickled by the flightier folks in their circle, 17 Superman’s city 67 oaxaca water while taurus, leo, and Scorpio should hold back on decision-making. 19 like squid spray 68 What the four circled 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 20 awaiting a court date answers “crack” saturday may 4 Waning moon in pisces. the truth will out — in a roundabout 22 Slow mover 69 outdo way. pisces moons bring out the artistic sensitivity, as well as 23 astley17 who 18gets rolled 19 20 21 70 Bestselling 22 23 16-bit 24 console, 25 26 27 any28 proclivity 29 to get30 really, 31 really 32 trashed. (hey, forewarned is fore- 26 it’s north of afr. briefly armed, and get your designated driver in place.) Gemini, Virgo, and 29 they’ll come before U Sagittarius: it will be easy to commit to something — or someone — 31 “dexter” actor c.S. ___ Down you can’t follow through on. no need to speak up. But for those born under capricorn, aquarius, pisces, aries, taurus, cancer, Scorpio, libra, 33 it may have a five-point 1 pitches a tent and leo: you’ll be vulnerable to folks who need a helping hand. harness 2 Get grooming 39 1 comes 2 up short 3 4 5 6 3 insurer 7 8based 9in h artford 10 11 12 s unday 13 14 may 15 5 16 40 Subside 4 Manhattan restaurateur Waning moon in pisces, moon void-of-course noon until 9:09 pm 41 Sir topham ___ (“thomas Vincent when it moves into aries. an all-day Vc moon makes for excellent 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 the tank engine” manager) 5 rank on a cereal box circumstances for creating unexpected art, or for digging in the garden 42 Going way back? 6 Wide-eyed and finding a treasure. looking beneath the surface is advised for pisces, cancer, Scorpio, taurus, and capricorn. Gemini, Sagittarius, and Virgo 45 author referenced in 7 Bad substance for could over-react to something minor. libra, aquarius, leo, and aries: keep “the Following” a 22-across your sense of humor, as someone could not fulfill a commitment, through 46 Brit. reference that added 8 Mideastern ruler sheer “spaciness” (yes, a medical condition i’m told...).

©2013 Jonesin’ CrossworD s | eD [email protected] “uplink” in 2013 9 South asian 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 i t’s 8 rated 9 with 10 alarms 11 12 13 m 14onday 15 may 16 6 11 pet name Waning moon in aries. From now through thursday’s new moon, the astrological transits are urging completion, revision, 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 12 c 24harter 25 ___ (tree 26 on 27 28 29 30 31 32 or surrender. aries moons prompt new projects. if you can complete a connecticut’s state quarter) task quickly, go for it, but beware of any bright young or old thing 13 acne-fighting brand coming forward with the solution to your problem. aquarius, pisces, 18 Fixed a squeak aries, taurus, Gemini, leo, Sagittarius, Virgo, and Scorpio: embrace letters _write us at portlanD [email protected] 21 Bohemian whims — as much as is in your nature. libra, cancer, and capricorn: to- 24 Word used with day and tomorrow won’t be comfortable, but you’ll get at the truth. defibrillators 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 t uesday 15 16 may 7 no choice and doom. Maine ranks lowest in un-em- 25 he wrote “endymion” Waning moon in aries, moon void-of-course 8:40 am until 6:09 Kudos to the Penobscot County Commis- ployment in the nation, one of the best track and “hyperion” am Wednesday. We’re close to the new moon so “sure things” 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 sioners for hosting an informational public records for recycling, lowest nation levels of 27 Grammarian’s concern could seem iffy. on the plus side, one’s appetite for spice is enhanced forum concerning the proposed East West mercury in our ground and water, and some 28 overzealous — consider a new barbecue sauce. aries moons are all about kids, or childlike behavior. aries, leo, Sagittarius, aquarius, and Gemini may Utility Corridor. They graciously allowed the of the highest growth rates for organic agri- 29 nostalgia-evoking 30 take the helm need to speak up (wicked loud!) to be heard. taurus, Virgo, Scorpio, public to ask questions and voice concerns culture in the past eight years. That sounds and pisces: find the laughs, and if you’re feeling “rushed,” you’re in alongside their own about this private proj- like a good quality of life to me, my children 32 Suffix after rock or raisin tune with the moon. libra, capricorn, and cancer: expect some fuzzi- ect. Peter Vigue, CEO of Cianbro Corporation, and grandchildren. The East West Corridor is 33 provide freebies ness about matters hitherto decided. was yet again evasive about the location of promoted as an economic engine, a connec- 34 tinseltown, in old headlines 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 a route. tion with “global markets.” 35 “did ___ tell you about Wednesday may 8 dark of the moon in taurus. a good day for cleaning up and throw- Information regarding proponents in- Thought it may provide some short term the time...” 36 california-based ing out, particularly material made of ceramic or stone. and get rid cluding towns, businesses, individuals, and employment,17 18 19 its sole 20 purpose 21 seems22 23 to be 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 semiconductor company of items (particularly clothing) that doesn’t fit your current lifestyle. lose investors was not forthcoming. I am weary the extraction and export of Maine resources the corporate job? lose the suits. Bargain-hunters love this moon, but it of rhetoric about poverty and quality of life. and a conduit for the export of Canadian founded in 1981 (hidden in takes time for the hunt. Sharp-eyed: capricorn, pisces, aries, taurus, Mr. Vigue has us practically dragging our energy, leaving Enbridge and the Irving boys FalSiFy) Gemini, cancer, and Virgo. needlessly stubborn, yet amusing: libra and knuckles in the dirt as we eke out a “hand to breathless with anticipation. With all of Mr. 37 Follower Sagittarius. hard to please: Scorpio, leo, and aquarius. mouth” existence in the “hollow middle” of Vigue’s assurances that 38 that boat our state. Now, that’s just rude. If “quality his first priority is the 43 Film ___ of life” is a super corridor defiling the last safety, health, and pros- 44 immature, like some meat moon Keys vestige of pristine wilderness on the east perity of our communi- 49 one of the Munsters This horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. Simply coast, I say “no thanks!” If “poverty” ties, I’m still scratching 51 Watson and thompson read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | When the moon is in your sun sign, means cleaner air and water, safe my head. If that were 52 take to the throne 53 problem you are beginning a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect communities, loving friends true, wouldn’t he have increased insight and emotionality. When the moon moves into the and neighbors, bring it on. approached us first for 54 you are, in the yucatan sun sign opposite yours (see below), expect to have difficulties dealing I wonder how the good input to see if this was 56 river through catalonia with the opposite sex, family, or authority figures; social or romantic activities will not be at their best. | When the moon is in Aries, it people of Eastport feel about the direction we wished 57 “___ Flux” (futuristic MtV cartoon) opposes Libra, and vice versa. Other oppositions are Taurus/Scorpio, Mr. Vigue’s commitment to take? Gemini/Sagittarius, Cancer/Capricorn, Leo/Aquarius, and Virgo/Pisces. to relegate their pictur- Once the land is 58 carnegie or chihuly The moon stays in each sign approximately two and a half days. | As esque village to a concrete purchased, the permits 59 ___ Berry (Jones Soda flavor) the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of course,” making no major angles to planets. Consider this a null time wasteland of a deepwa- granted and politicians 60 Sch. near the US-Mexico border and try to avoid making or implementing decisions if you can. But it’s ter cargo port. I tire of placated, there is no great for brainstorming. | For Symboline Dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and his statistics from choice. 61 it’s un-pc advice column, visit our Web site at thePhoenix.com. Symboline Dai Forbes magazine. lisa laser 62 earth day prefix can be reached at [email protected]. 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