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UPDATES page 2 CALENDAR page 12
WEIRD NEWS page 3 LISTINGS page 14
TALK page 4 SPORT page 19
VIEWS page 6 POOl page 20
COVER pageS CLASSIFIEDS page 21 Forest takes over GreRt Northern. Grandmother for peace. Joe Egg: Fragile humor. STAGE page 11 PUZZLE page 23 See page 2. See page 4. See page 11. • 2 - - Uscc'Bay Wukly
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'.I are Here! ALSO FEATURING MAINE'S LARGEST SELECTION OF JUNIOR SKI WEAR NOW ON SALE
, THE WEEK IN BRIEF: \ Mainers spend bucks on ballot , snow Mainers were in a spending mood as they went to the polls on "~sail Breakfast & Lunch Nov. 7, approving more than $105 million in statewide ~nd ,.- bike S Dana St., Old Port .761-9567 issues and rejecting a proposal to limit gubernatorial campaIgn Fort Andros, Maine SI. 63.fiL spending. . 315 Marginal Way South Portlanders likewise repealed the three percent spend Portland Brunswick 775-5117 725-8930 ing cap they enacted last year. Richard Shinay, of the Committee to save South Portland, said, "People won't have to worry about losing services that were threatened of being cut." The tightest race of the day was the referendum pr~posing to ban testing of nuclear-capable cruise missiles over Maine. Unof ficial returns showed that question passing narrowly. LAKES REGION BOAT STORAGE Only one bond issue was defeated: the $35 million bond t? INDOOR BOAT STORAGE expand the new maximum security prison at Warren. The consti CLEAN, DRY, SAFE-100% INDOORS PIZZA tutional amendment that would allow the state to insure housing SPECIALS loans was also defeated. The passing bond issues were: $14.5 million f~r juvenile jails,$5 SANDWICHES millionfor recycling equipment, $20.2 mIllIon to Improve the cam puses of the Maine Vocational-Technic~ .Institute ~ystem, $4.4 CONVENIENT L0CA110N: CONVENIINT HOURS: million for sewer construction, $21 nulhon for highway and IN TIlE HEART Of CBW/Mont< Paulsen M-TH 7AM-IOPM Earth First! protestor Jamie Sayen struggles with security men outside the Portland harbor improvements, $7 million to help mentally ill ~p~e, $12 TIlE OLD PORT fRl7AM-2AM million to remove asbestos from state buildings, $6 nulhon to 30 MARKET STREIT SAT trAM-2AM offices of Great Northern Nekoosa, the paper company Georgia-Pacific wants to buy. clean up landfills, $15 million to help build affordabl~ h~using 772-7171 SUN 5PM-IOPM and a controversial $1.1 million back-up plan to send Maine s low CALL ------level nuclear waste to Nevada. 846-9771 One-tenth of Maine could be sold DAY or NIGHT Great Northern Nekoosa, the paper company which had been bolted shut minutes before the City may rescue Portland West 75( OFF that owns more than 10 percent of the state of forest arrived. "It's the forest. We've come to see ANY LARGE. SANDWICH OR ANY SIZE PIZZA Maine, has been targeted for hostile takeover by you." The City of Portland has taken the first step toward saving (WITH THIS AD. GOODTHRU t t/30/89) Atlanta-based paper giant Georgia-Pacific. But Portland West Neighborhood Council's Bell Street project. On Crowded into the small elevator foyer, Sayen the $3.18 billion deal, which has drawn fire from Nov. 7, the housing committee unanimously approved giving read statements to the media as security staff ... . $51,584 in services to Portland West to complete the transitional Great Northern shareholders and Maine environ looked on nervously. The protestors, organized ~_ housing project at 98-100 and 102-104 Bell 51. . mentalists, may be cut off at the roots by the U.S. by Maine Earth First!, then returned to One City Supreme Court. Portland West has struggled since 1987 to develop the project Center's cavernous lobby where they paraded but, according to Portland West Executive Director Jim Oliver, CCN is Movinll•• ~ about to the sound of a taped song, "We all are Land sale feared has "run into brick wall after brick wall" financing it. One of those -on- animals." An elk strolled past the Bay Gub. A brick walls has been the Maine State Housing Authority, which The Georgia-Pacific buyout would be the larg handful of birds soared above the fast-food court Nove".ber 15th est consolidation ever in Maine's paper industry in the glass elevator. offered to loan Portland West $175,000 to renovate the buildings and would make Georgia-PaCific the world's larg but won't write the check until it sees the city support the project Your Community Cable Network Meanwhile, Sayen and a handful of the wilder first. est forest products company, with annual salesof creatures returned upstairs. Several scuffles en previously seen on Channel 16 $13 billion. Approval by the housing committee is a good indication that sued between theprotestorsand the security staff, is moving to the city council will commit to the project, said Peter O'Donnell, Great Northern's directors have not yet re including Sayen's airborne ejection from Great who chairs the committee. O'Donnell gives the proposal "a nine Channel 37 sponded to the offer. Nor had they responded to Northern's suite less than a minute after he had any of several suits brought by stockholders al out of 10 chance" of passing when it goes to the city council on in Portland, South Portland, Falmouth, slipped inside. But no one was hurt during the Nov. 20. Cape Elizabeth, and Scarborough. leging that Great Northern's officers were acting demonstration, and the protestors and security to protect their high-paying jobs at the expense of staff bantered jokingly with each other in between shareholders. According to that suit, GreatNorth scuffles. CCN Scbedule ern's top two executives took home $1.1 million State bucks for homeless shelters SALE DATES "We're here to protect the wilderness from FRIDAYS - 7 to 10 p.m. last year. Portland will get some of $500,000 the state is giving to home Nov. 11th, 12th, 13th junk bonds," shouted a young protestor. Sat., Sun. & Mon. 1 to 3 and 7 to 10 p.m. less shelters. Dan Simpson, a spokesperson for the Maine State Great Northern began producing newsprint in "You sound like me 20 years ago," responded Tues., Wed. & Thurs. 9 a.m. to Noon 1900 at a Millinocket mill that was then the largest Housing AuthOrity, said homeless shelters that have applied for One City Center operations manager Frank Thi 345 Fore St.. Portland. ME 51 Ceres St.. Portsmouth. NH . 77 3-7784 in the world. But "the Northern," as the company boutot. assistance will find checks for $3,000 in their mailboxes in early December. Since "most homeless shelters operate on a shoe is called in central Maine, has laid off hundreds of Great Northern remained faceless throughout Public Cable string," the funds are meant to help with added costs and volume workers at its aging Millinocket and East Milli the two-hour protest, refusing to send out even a during the winter, Simpson said. Inaddition to the$3,000,monthly A T MOVIES 3[8 nocket mills during recent years. And financial public relations person from behind the locked THE analysts predict that after the takeover, debt-rid doors. "reimbursement" checks will be distributed to the shelters ac den Georgia-Pacific would be unlikely to up cording to traffic. grade those mills. New law awaits test What Georgia-Pacific would be likely to do, as But those doors couldn't muffle the sound of Big Brothers/Big Sisters return the Wall Street "junk bond" market crumbles, is timber falling on Nov. 6 when the U.s. Supreme to sell off Great Northernassets in order to finance Big Brothers/Big Sisters, which ran out of money and had to Court unanimously upheld a Wisconsin anti close four months ago, has opened again. Local "matches" of 87 the huge deal. Of all Great Northern's assets, its takeover law. If a similar Maine law is also up kids with grown-ups should be revived soon with rec~nt grants 2.1 million acres of timberland could be most held, the Georgia-Pacific bid may topple. easily converted into cash. and donations: the federal government gave $60,000 whIch wIll be Congress Street, Although Great Northern is headquartered in doled outover the next two years, an anonymous do-gooder gave But the prospect of selling off vast areas of Connecticut, it is incorporated in Maine and is 772-3932 timberland has Mainers worried. Developers $5,000 and will give $5,000 more to match others' donations,. the th{'refore subject to a anti-takeover la w passed by Maine Department of Human Services gave $5,000 and the UnIted Our jewelry is already half the cost of retail... would likeiy pay higher prices for that property the Maine legislature in March 1988. That law But now all Gold and Diamonds are 25% om than would other forest harvesters. On Friday, Way is expected to give up to $50,000. . . would require Georgia-Pacific to wait five years Cathy Arentsen is the only staffer at the reborn organIzation. • Stereos • TVs • Musical Instruments Nov.3,stateAttorneyGeneralJimTierneywarned after purchasing Great Northern before assuming Tools • Antiques • Guns • VCRs the state, "Northern Maine is on the selling block." Diocesan Human Relations Services Inc. will act as a "parent" control - unless the board of directors approves organization. Arentsen hopes that the "new" Big Brothers/Big the transaction before the acquisition. Portland office protested Sisters can get the staff, bucks, and volunteer "bigs" to handle 125 The same day it announced the takeover bid, matches. NOW OPEN SUNDAYS 11 - 3 That same day, Jamie Sayen's face slammed Georgia-Pacific filed a suit in federal court in Mon. - Fri. 9 - 5:30, Sat. 9 - 4 into the butcher-block floor of the hallway lead Portland challenging the constitutionality of the ing to Great Northern's officesin One City Center. 4 STORES TO SERVE YOU anti-takeover law. The shareholders suing Great Sayen was one of 16 protestors who, dressed as 498 Congress Street, Portland • 330 Lisbon Street, Lewiston Northern's directors also filed suits aimed at the WEIRD NEWS: trees and wild animals, attempted a "hostile take Maine law. ISS Front Street, Bath • I8S Water Street, Augusta --A band playing at a bar mitzvah in Brooklyn, New York, over" of Great Northern's Portland offices "by the For now, all sides are waiting to hear from creatures of the forest." invited a friend of theirs to singa song. Police say one of theguests, uWe buy anything worth buying" Great Northern -and listening to the noise of trees Victor Zachracv, objected to the music. A fight broke out, and the "Hello! Is anybody home?" yelled Sayen being felled in the Maine forest. BUY • SELL • TRADE throughGreatNorthern'smassivewoodendoors, singer went outside, got a gun, came back and shot Zachracv four Mont< Paulsen times, killing him. Broadcast Premiere! Wednesday Roland Sweet/AlterNtt Viewer Discretion Advised 8:00pm November 9, 1989 ..
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Above "Early Bird" Specials served with Cup of Soup, And you also have to be a great negotiator, too. Potato, Vegetable, Bread and Butter. You're by nature a peace activist. == Anyway, on a Good Friday, I went with four other people and we knelt down in the street in front of that base and we stopped the traffic. And we were arrested. ~~~ \el\llal1'~ Two Boiled Lobsters What did your grandchildren think of With Lemon and Drawn Butter 9.95 your arrest? The media went crazy when it happened. A ~CJ • Prime Rib Dinner YOUR CHOICE couple hundred miles away one of my little grand With Potato or Pasta and Salad son's was in his living room, watching the television 1990'S ARE HERE! 7 95 coverage. Right after that his fathers secretary • Baked Sluffed Shrimp • 10-15% OFF With Potato or Pasta and Salad called, and in typical five-year-old fashion he said, EVERY 1989 ''My grandmother loves us so much that she's going ~ .BICYCLE IN STOCK Happy Hour Monday-Friday 4-8 PM to jail to save us." When I got out of jail five days ~IJ TREK" later I decided to form the organization. Free Appetizers in our Lounge • 99~ Drink Specials - WINTER CLOTHING How do the roles of "peace activist" and • ALL MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED • -INDOOR TRAINERS • NO RESERVATIONS NEEDED· PLENTY OF FREE PARKING· "grandmother" relate to one another? - SKATE SHARPENING I CBW/Tonee Harbert The world is a real safe place in Grandma's arms. - SERVICE It's almost And children trust their grandmothers to fi x things Christmas and all the time. We're grandmas who take on the big issues say that, "Your world is going to be safe we haven't LONGFELLOW SQUARE • 774-2933. Me • VISA because I'm going to make sure thatit is." Believe thought about me, even little children understand nuclear weapons ~S~~ gifts for the A conversation with and they're very concerned. And my grandchildren family. say, don't worry about it, my grandmother and her . CRUISE THE STEAMBOAT ROUTES Barbara Wiedner friends are going to fix it. Did you feel Intimidated when you met the ABOARD LONGFELLOWn Gorbachevs? Barbara Wiedner Is the founder of Grandparents are grandparents. It's the human Give Your Family the Grandmothers for Peace, an International touch, the human element, and it brings out the CHEM-FREE group with members across the U.S. and In humanity in people when you start talking about the 30 other countries. Barbara, a California real issues, which are yOUT children and grandchil Gift of a Lifetime resident, visited Portland recently to try to dren. I've seen it happen over and over again in DANCES establish a local Grandmothers for Peace country after country. It makes no difference if you group. The group started In California In '82, Every Friday & Saturday talk the same language, if you're the same color or For Only after Barbara's first non-violent civil nationality. When you start talking about the future Special D.l. each night disobedience protest at a nuclear weapon of your families, you talk the same language. test site. That protest got her arrested for Tickets $6.50 the first time and she's been arrested 15 • Do "Grandmothers for Peace" work times to date. That's once for each of her 15 beside other peace groups or do you $15 7:30 -10:00 grandchildren, she points out proudly. Her have your own agenda? peace work hilS taken her to the Soviet Union Who needs to reinvent the wheel? Every peace per day* twice, where she met with President group should have a resident granny, because it's Gorbachev and his wife, Ralsa. hard to throw stones at grandmothers. You get message across better. Buy Them a Showcase Home for Christmas. Why are you so Interested In peace and • A $500 gift certificate/deposit will • Call for your free home the nuclear arms race? Don't people expect grandmothers to be guarantee spring construction planning kit Now Bookinl We also process and I gave birth to 10 children and I have 15 grand more conservative? children. So I have a great stake in the future. for C orporat~ print all types of At home baking their cookies and knitting? I still • Showcase will match your $500 1-800-344-6552 black & white film. bake cookies, I still knit on occasion, and I still make How did you get started? with an additional $500 gift Christmas Parties on And we can convert family dinners. Of course there's that image. But against the cost of your home to black & white from I first started declaring myself a grandmother for your image of grandparents and grandmothers is Heated Lower Deck your color originals. peace at the gates of an Air Force base outside of something that must change. It's a new world. Sacramento, Calif., about 15 minutes from my house. There were 150 nuclear weapons out there. I had What does your group hope to accomplish? JUS J been a homemaker most of my life and trusted that We look to the day where children can have the the government knew what it was doing and was kind of childhood that I had - and probably my doing a good job. But when I really took a good look ~~ generation was the last to have one that was free of • Building lots available statewide at things, I was a bit distressed. Especially because I nuclear weapons. They talk about the old days. Well, • Five models to choose from SHOWCASE HOMES,INC.[B had been volunteering with people who were the old days were when nuclear weapons were not a • Homes as low as $39,950 homeless and hungry and here were all these threat over our head. • Financing and full contracting expensive weapons. Locations: Rte. 4, Turner Plaza, Turner Rte. 302, Naples, E. of Rte 135 54 YORK ST. I started vigiling with a small group at the base on 761-5861 Fridays. I'd never protested before in my life and at Andy Nauman has neve thrown a stone at a grand t/Wther. i ' ''' ·' 'I! ., . t' ,J ',. NOTJembn 9, 1989 7 ,- - Qz.u:oJI'W Wt:klr ______. I' ,... r
%----- Never GET THE When in OfliJ !POf$XJPE has color Portland I ----~S1f()PP£ looked better! can always be found at A Fabulous Kaleidoscope I BOOKS of silky ETC. separates -OscarWUde from This space is for opinions. Your EILEEN YOURS: views are here, and sometimes ours. Please be brief when you write, and FISHER. please include a phone number Soft and flowing, Above the law to protect the law (which will not be published) so that we can verify your /etter. to mix and Linda Lee objects to what she considers the they go to take their breaks. Send your VIEWS to: VIEWS, match scofflawry of police who park in no-parking areas Furthennore, several blocks to their cars might Casco Bay Weekly, 187 Clark St., for magical Featuring New Releases By: 38 Exchange St. Old Port when they do personal errands. 1here are at least provide just too great a temptation to goose-step (cf Portland, ME . 04102 . two reasons to be forgiving of this practice. First, it days and Katie Webster, Magic. Sam, (207) 774-0626 3 Wharf St•• Old Port letter of Laurence Kelley). 871-0035 seems every neighborhood in Portland would like evenings, Cephas &.. Wiggins and more! more police coverage. If we are already short of and only at police, then we probably have better ways for our police to use their time than looking for parking. Michael N. Ambler US: OF SURPLUS MILITARY CLOTHING Second, and much more important, it does not Portland Amaryllis. sound like a good idea for on-duty police officers to CASCO lAY WEEKLY AMADEUS be required -or even pennitted - to leave their cars The Unda Lee who wrote the letter mentioned above November 9, 1989 NAVY BLUE several blocks away, as Ms. Lee suggests, when JUST PEA COATS is not the Unda Lee of Unda Lee Advertising Volume 2, Number 45 MUSIC only PUIUSHER Gary Santaniello uncommon C.D.'s, records and tapes IN- $12.95 EDITOI Monte Paulsen While supplies last! Who should pay for artistic freedom? AlTS & ENTERTAINMENT In the Old Port • 332 Fore Street • Portland • 772-8416 Ann Sitomer There is a strange idea of artistic freedom that idea. ,Swiss Pea Coats • German Wool Jackets • NEWS & UPDATES would force taxpayers to support works they find I don't think anyone should be forced to subsi : Bomber Jackets • Spy Coats • Swedish Wool AndyN=man grossly offensive, which works in many cases are dize Mozart, let alone Mapplethorpe. The Mapple PHOTOGUPHS We have a few Overcoats • Ike Jackets •• Plus Canvas meant to offend, on the antique principle of the thorpe controversy merely illustrates the extreme Tonet! Harber! tables for two ... avant-garde. presumption the self-styled "artistic community" ~/~''f-/~ Packs • Cargo Pants • Sailor Hats • Naval IllUSTUnONS or take it on the fiy at Freedom works both ways. The right to free has gone in its demand for special treatment It Ship Gaps • Sweatshirts • Sweaters & more! TokiOshima AMARYLLIS speech doesn't include an obligation to listen. On complains that it isn't free unless it'~ privileged. the contrary, freedom means both the right to PlODUCnON MANAGER Black Tie. speak and the right to ignore the speaker. Theartist /k., £c...... ,J· Amaryllis Clothing Co. Elissa Conger 41 Exchange Street, PorUand, Maine 04101 is free to make his pictures, but the rest of us are free Betty Stevens Dai~ Entrees & Soup SpeCIals PIODUCnON (207) 77 2-4439 k ... i IIlIijl.,,...M 799-7119 to give hirna pass. Forcing us to pay isn't quite the Portland 4SHipWRECK&~CARG. Sally Brophy Specialty WInes. and M·F I 0-6 • SAT 8·2 much morel 870 • 5 Portland 8 Moulton St., Portl.and • 775-3057 • Mon-8aI9-5, Sun 11-5 CllCULAnoN MAMAGER Diane DesMarais CIRCULATION Lori Austill, Elke Rosenberg, Local efforts for worldwide freedom Dan Tonini, PA Trisha "Portlanders write for the right to speak out" year after Jen Schiel was arrested trying to do the Sala Thai (CBW 10/12/89) oughtto make many Portlanders same. So it seems that his only crime was that of DISPlAY ADVnnSING Thai Restaurant & Lounge realize how serious and threatening the attempts of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. These Suzanne Delorme, 5ue Lessard, 1363 Washington Ave. • Northgate • Portlald • 797-0871 censorship are in Maine. The report of numerous days in Eastern Europe, the winds of change have Annie Lewis, Holly Lynn attempts of censorship in Maine schools should finally started to blow, pushing aside the clouds of CWSlfllD ADVERTISING make all of us fearful of a return of the dark days of political deception and corruption. Already in a Mark Kelleher Special Hours broken pens and burnt books. As much as some of few East European countries, the difficult path Mon.-Thurs .• llam-4pm Mon.-Thurs. o llam-10pm us like to imagine that censorship only affects the toward democracy has been started. The pro-de CONTRIBUTORS Lynda Barry, Fri. & Sat. l1am-l1pm people in the public squares of China, dusty ba mocracy movement, secretly active all these years, lVlthy Caron, Brenda Chandler, Peanut Chicken wi Sun. 4pm-10pm Choice of Soup zaars in Iran and black townships of South Africa, is back by popular demand. It seems that the Ion;; Barbara Hill, Hannah Holmes, Tom Yam Gal (hall) Take Oul the reality is that censorship might come to exist in years of the Cold War, like any other war, has Sherry Miller, Kelly Nelson, or and our schools, libraries and galleries. produced an exodus of men, women and children. Mike Quinn , Don Rubin, Tom Khar Gal Calering However, this letter is not meant to deal with Watching those eager faces of the East German Morgan Shepard, Thomas Verde $4. 95 Available censorship, but to share with your readers the story refuge..-s, escaping desolation at home, in search of w~h this ad Free of some ordinary folks from Portland, who have a safe refuge should make all of us respect the CASCO lAY WEEKLY .. .' ..:.. " '~---'" expires 1 taken the stand to protect human rights in other human will to live in liberty and dignity in reality. is an instrument of community -- Parking ' " ~.~- - ~ lands, and are trying to reach out and make a East Germans are not only voting for the return of untIerstJlnding. Every Thursday, . ..;>~...(;;::S difference in the lives of people who they do not democracy with theirfeet, but in essence, are walk Casco Bay Weekly distributes know. These folks, the Portland members of ing in protest for the sake of their children and 20,000 papers free of charge - ""''"' Amnesty International, having "adopted" a politi generations to come. Theiryoungand smiling faces limited to one copy per reader. A Mexican Restaurant cal prisoner in East Gennany, are asking the gov are infectious too, for once more a large group of No person may take more than one ernment of East Germany for his immediate re people, by their heroic escape to other countries, of each issue withoutt~ pennis lease. The prisoner, a young engineer, is impris are giving a vote of no confidence to yet another Watering• Hole sion of Casco Bay Weekly . oned for "illegal crossing of border." Jen Schiel, a authoritarian system. In this era of political changes Union Station Plaza 25-year-old East German citizen had a dream, like in Eastern Europe, there are challenges awaiting us ADDnlONAL COPIES of the current so many of his countrymen and women, to move to in the West too; the pro-democracy movement issue and/or some back issues may Fabulous Food • Mar2aritas the West in search of freedom, happiness or better needs our understanding and support. As the walls be purchased for $1 each at the from south of the border from out Mthis world of differences and fear separating countries are life. Casco Bay Weekly office. OPEN 7 DAYS 4 PM - Happy Hour Mon. to Fri. Hisdreamwastumedintoanightmarewhenhe removed, we, the people, could also start disband Domestic subscriptions are mailed 242 St. lohn St., Union Sta. Portland 874-6444 was arrested in Hungary for trying to cross the ing the walls of indifference, built during the Cold 3rd class and are $36/year, payable War years, and extend our support Those of us, Hungarian border into Austria. The Hungarian in advance. • TID Juan's C~CORD, NH • Margarita's ORONO, ME lnspirational Clothing for authorities returned Jen Schiel to East Germany, working in behalf of Jen Schiel, know that despite the Adventurous Woman! where he has been sentenced to imprisonment. all the freedom trains and the joyful celebration of MOGUL MEDIA, INC. publishes Amnesty International, the London-based human embracing freedom, our young friend is still in Casco Bay Weekly . Entire contents rights organization, has declared Jen Schiel a "pris prison. It is for all those courageous men and ..- ~ " . - • • •• 9 ,.November < !!-, 198/l ism. The town, he says, just lacks the size and stamina to sustain those elements of big-city urban life that just n case you hadn't noticed, Portland has gusta. For years afterwards, Portland repeatedly tried Smith in 1970. might make the ostentation endurable. become an exceedingly hip place to live. to steal the capital back. In 1907 John Calvin Stevens This "us versus them" attitude also helped solidify Portland does'have city-like features - $3.50 art was even commissioned to design a capitol complex the strong sense of state pride (some might say chau "Imagine a city too good to be true," museums and $6.50 movies and $1.20 cups of coffee effused New England Monthly during the for the Western Prom in anticipation of its move. This vinism) that Maine has often demonstrated, unifying but critical Mainers say it lacks the urban buzz and the early days of the Portland boom (and coining last attempt to upstage Augusta failed by just a few small villages with the bigger towns. constant, chaotic motion in the arts that define a Ng a phrase that was soon appropriated by the votes. Shortly thereafter, the state constitution was (What other state could support a 'game show based city and sustain its inflated economies. Chamber of Commerce). Outside magazine, amended to kill further attempts to filch the capital. on state trivia questions? "So You Think You Know And it's not just Portland's outward appearances The top ten reasons: the national arbiter of lycra chic, then featured "04104" But Portland's grabby image endured. Indiana?" Unlikely.) in its 1987 list of the country's "Ten hippest zip codes." The hostility could also be sibling rivalry, plain and Until recently, Portland shared Maine's common that rankle. "As far as I'm concerned, Portland Monthly has its ("Nautical lawyers, round-the-clock shopping at L.L. Simple. After all, The Big City gets dumped on in a lot mistrust of Boston and other urban areas. But in the finger right on the pulse of Portland," says a Camden Bean," was their capsule description.) of states. It's a venerable tradition. Upstate New York last few years Portland has embraced its erstwhile area colleague. "I rest my case." American Demographies magazine jumped on the hates New York City. Southern Illinois hates Chicago. enemy. Mainers chanre that Portland has become the local bandwagon in mid-1988 with a portrait of a vibrant Northern florida hates Miami. California hates Los "Portland's just like a small Boston," say Portland's distributor for the Whole Urban Attitude. Armed with Developers with big hair Portland. In an oddly utopian vision of worker har Angeles. Maine hatl"s Portland. What could be more most ardent enthusiasts. their new attitude, Portlanders have become their own mony, the magazine noted "venture capitalists line up natural, healthy, or predictable? "Portland's just like a small Boston," complain the worst diplomats when traveling aroun~ the stat~, own everything. for coffee behind carpenters. On the streets, Saabs and But as in most cases of sibling rivalry, it's never that critics from Maine's smaller villages and towns. 6 sowing ill-will wherever they slow their expenSIVe Volvos mix agreeably with rusting Toyotas and Subarus." new cars. You've probably met New Yorkers who summer Most recently, the October issue of New England here and say, yes, Maine is so very beautiful and so Travel magazine called Portland the "cultural mecca of very nice, but they have smiles that say but what do the north." Even the reports abroad have been good. people do here? Portlanders increasingly display the "Portland has experienced a renaissance that makes same attitude when they're out and about in the state. even Boston look tawdry," said Britian's Economist Even when they're impressed by outback Maine, a Magazine in August 1987. subtle, urban condescension seeps through. Take All across the country, Portland seems to have taken Aroostook County. Haven't you heard Portlanders on mythical proportions as a Great Place to Live. Just Exchange Street. say, "It's beautiful- it's a lot like the Midwest." ~ut giving a Portland address to a 1-800 operator in one of does anyone ever say anything nice about the Mid those distant vowel states can lead to breathy inquisi west? No. It's like saying of a friend, yes, he's very tions on what it's like to live here. A clerk at a Boston handsome, he looks a lot like Ed Koch. This attitude store, who asked where I was from, detained me for 15 gets noticed. minutes in order that I could recount my astonishing What also tends to irk Maine is that Portland has tales of available parking and affordable rents. Her become so obsessed with measuring up elsewhere. rapture would have been no less had I described the Why can't it just be Maine? "Portland always w~ts t.o appearance of the Blessed Virgin over Widgery's be something else. It's so comical," says an associate In Wharf. Belfast. "Nobody in Bangor talks about it being like anything else. Bangor has much more class than Portland, and they don't even try. Which is probably ut as Portland is finding out, it's why it has so much more class." City Infatuated with some easy to be popular with kids in the Parking spaces too classroom down the hall. It's the guy and his six dogs. kids in the homeroom - the ones small for full-size 7 who see us day in and day out 2 ill Portland and pickup truck. who are harder to impress. We may Bangor eventually go be stars beyond Kittery, but we're to war over one's nobody's favorite in Maine. inalienable right to Levels of loathing are tough to get a handle on. As Essay by Wayne Curtis brunch unmolested by far as I know, no public opinion polls have been cigarette smoke? Not conducted by college kids with sharp pencils and lllustrations by Toki Oshima likely. magenta socks, so no statistics conclusively prove that In fact, Portland could go right ahead being self the majority of Mainers dislike Portland. But traveling consciously urbane and Mainers would probably learn out and about, you needn't be The Amazing Kreskin to to ignore it. In large part, they already do. "Maine's big discover that many Mainers aren't terribly fond of us. enough," says a Downeast friend. "We don't need "Boy, does Portland ever suck," says one Camden Maine's largest city discovers Portland." resident (who, like almost every Mainer interviewed But rather than brush it off, Portland might learn for this story, refused to let his name be printed). something by paying attention to the growing animos "Portland? It's the Whore of Babylon," said a ity. For right in Portland there are plenty of people Police chief wants Jackman acquaintance. the perils of being chic. who are worried about what we've become and where "Portland sucks," .said a former Portlander now in we're headed. They dislike the new Portland just as Portland stole to take guns away. North Haven. much as the outlanders do. Recent graffiti on the side the Maine Festival. Others Mainers might be less vocal than those cited of a glitzy Moulton Street office building sums up the 3 above, but more likely than not they share the senti rebellion within: "This place is a yuppie fu-hole." ment. If you reveal your provenance at a convenience plain or that simple. In this case, Portland's changed a In short, Portland has come to stand for everything "There's a great insecurity about what the city is store Down East or up toward Greenville you're likely lot in the last few years. Our rivalry with Maine that the rest of Maine has traditionally distrusted and and who we are," says Herb Adams. And that's to be the target of a comment about "damn Yuppies" involves a sib who's gone away and come back detested: conspicuous consumption, overpriced autos, something that needs to be worked out in the future as or the proliferation of too-cute boutiques. Or you'll radically different. bars with cute names, men with shiny foreign shoes, Portland lurches toward the next century. Are we Labor-intensive hear muttering about all the urban problems we're Imagine growing up with a brother who's sort of and women with overelaborate bouffants best meas ready to be a small city? Or should we settle for being /l1li bringing to Maine. Or - from traditional Mainers who gangly and self-conscious. You know him well. (You ured by the cubic yard. a big town? Are we trying to lead New England, or "". whole-bean coffee. were taught to say nothing at all if they have nothing once caught him picking hi~ose and putting his One shining example of why Maine think.ort should we blaze a trail for Maine? Is Boston our 9 nice to say (unless their names are not being used) - boogers in an unseeinly place.) You know all about his land's gone wrong is One City Center. You know the model, or should we strike out on a new path? you'll get the wry, little Dan-Ratner-like smiles that faults and failings. building. It's the big, boxy one across from Green While considering its future, Portland might belie a heartfelt insincerity when they say, "Portland. Then he goes off to Yale. He comes back wearing an Mountain Coffee Roasters. In the building's atrium, profitably recall one of the first experiments to import Yuppies breed there, Self-righteously hlp Nice town." ascot, drinking imported beer, reading the New York lavished with more marblized stone than Donald a bit of Boston to Maine. In the early 19th century, "Maine's relationship with Portland is a love-hate Times, and expressing shock and dismay that you Trump's bathroom, you'll find what Herb Adams calls General Henry Knox established Montpelier at Tho like wet sneakers 10 alternative newspaper. relationship, sometimes heavy on the hate," says don't understand or even enjoy abstract expression "the world's only four-story glass elevator." From its 4 maston, constructing an elaborate mansion based on Portland's Herb Adams, a state representative who ism. He wanders around with his chin aimed skyward, lily pad launch site amidst a burbling fountain, it goes the plans of one he admired in a wealthy suburb of breed fungus. considers himself a "'resident outsider" due to the time expressing a snotty contempt for all that you hold dear up, slowly, and then comes down, slowly. Four floors. Boston. A replica of Montpelier, owned by the state, he now spends in Augusta. -like deer hunting, snowmobiling, and driving fast in With a commanding view of the take-out food court. can be seen today just off Route 1 near Thomaston's Lawyers breed Just why does Maine hold our fair city in such low a pick-up truck with a cold Budweiser between your Not that this elevator is Single-handedly responSible cement factory. It looks more out of place than One esteem? A few theories: legs. for Portland's poor reputation. Not that most of Maine City Center. S there, etc. First, there's simple economics. Southern Maine has That's sort of how Maine sees Portland. has ever seen this elevator, or even heard of it, for that Knox's efforts to clone a sophisticated community in prospered more than the rest of the state in recent matter. But it's a symbol of sorts. A symbol that says, the wilderness failed utterly. The house proved yearE, and Portland has spawned more than its share "Yeah, we're sophisticated." About as sophisticated as unsuited for winter, and Maine proved unsuited for of real estate millionaires. Inequity breeds contempt. a pink tuxedo. Knox and his Boston ideas. Everybody hates the rich kid on the block who owns These sophisticated Portlanders are living off what Portland might learn from Knox's miscalculation, as all ~he new toys, and Portland is the indisputable toy little background helps put this Adams calls the "rampant Yuppie economy." We brew well as from Maine's more recent feelings of betrayal. box of Maine. in perspective. Maine has his our own ales by the vat and bake our own brownies by If anyone knows Portland, it's Maine. And for the last Then there's the New Jersey Turnpike Phenomenon. torically displayed an on-again the acre - but try buying an odd-sized wrench down year or two, Maine has been saying: Portland, we People driving through the Garden State come away off-again contempt for cities in town. This new economy had left The New Portland know who you are. Stop trying to fool us. Why don't with the perception that it's nothing more than one general and Boston in particular. caught in the never-never land between a small city you just come back home. very large and very smelly oil refinery. Portland, with Portland was an outpost of and a big town. all its office buildings emblazoned with the names of Boston until 1820 - "a colony's colony" - and t~is sub No one can define exactly when a town becomes a banks, gives a similarly faulty first impression. Visitors servience bred a loathing for our southern neighbor city, but - like art - people seem to know it when they to Portland may come away with the idea that we're that echoed Boston's loathing of Mother England. Our see it. And in Portland's case, they haven't yet seen a Wayne Curtis lives on Peaks Island, which consUkrs itself populated solely by bankers and lawyers (along with animosity to the south an·d west could just as well full-fledged city. Never forget that Portland's popula part of Portland only when it applies for ferry Sflbsidies. waiters to serve them), a concept so unnerving that it have been incorporated in our state seal. "In fact, this tion is one-fifth that of Toledo, Ohio. Toki Oshima lives in the woods, up north. makes oil refineries an inviting alternative. ambivalence - toward Boston, toward cities, toward One Mainer points out that Portland offers the There's also history. 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N01JCIIber 9,1989 15 1 4 Casco Bay WuklV Tribe (rock) Tree Cafe, 45 Danforth SI., Portland. n4-1441. Greg Geisler Tonto'. Big Idea (rock) Old Port Tav em, 11 Moulton St., Portland. 774- Invites you to experience 0444. Boy. 0' Summ.r (rock) T-Bird's, 126 the recording studio that works N. Boyd, Portland. 773-8040. :CON Carol .nd the Charme... (rock) ,0"1) Spring Point Cafe, 175 Pickett St., S. Portland. 767-4627. ~ t> your schedule Shady Cha... ct.... (rock) Manor lounge, John Martin's Manor, Rt. I, S. Portland. 775-5642. P.J. &: Cousens (blues/jazZiLatin) Sneakers, Tennis of Maine, 196 US RI. CERTS I, Falmouth. 781-2671. THURSDAY+ FRIDAY+ VI.dlmlr F.lt.... an (classical piano) Our state-of-the-art 8-track equipment with digitai Compiled by Ann Sitomer Program includes Bach's Chaconne in effects will give you the results you want. The J.zz Butcher and Li'. In B .. D minor, Mozart's Sonata No. 8 in A LI.tlng. must b. rec.iv.d In wriling by 12 noon the Frld.y prior to publication. tw•• n (rock) Tree Cafe, 45 Danforth minor and Listz's Sonata in B minor. Flexible hours mean that we can work with you Ann Sito...... C ••co B.y W ••kly. 187 CI.rk St...... Portland 04102 St., Portland. 774-1441 . Performance is 7:30 p.m. in Portland anytime, day or night. Plus. we have professionai Kopt.rz (rock) Raoul's, 865 Forest City Hall Auditorium . l1ckets are $9- production assistance available. Ave., Portland. 773-6886. $25. For more information, call 772- The Boyz (rock) Moose Alley, 46 Mar 8630. ket St., Portland. 774-5246. At just $12 per hour, it's the Two S.lnt., The Brood and Boom FRio NOV.10th Shank. (rock) Geno's, 13 Brown St., best deal in town! Portland. 761-2506. Look Who'. Talking John Travolta Th. Navlgalor: An Ody••• y Tonto'. Big Idea (rock) Old Port Tav ·FRIDAY+ 32 Danforth Street· Suite 12. Portland. Maine 04101 makes a comeback in this movie. He Aero•• Ti.... A nine-year old seer ern, 11 Moulton St., Portland. 774- Planl.t Yvar IIlltha.hoff (avant JAZ~eFt plays a cabbie who is a candidate for leads a small band of people from a 0444. garde) 7:30 pm, Kresge Auditorium, (207) 879-1531 dad of Kirstie Ailey'S baby. The baby's 14th-<:entury English mining villalle Ch.rli. Brown Org.nlzatlon (r&bl Visual Arts Center, Bowdoin College, U1e sawy sensibilities are communicated through time into the 20th century In swing) Dry Dock, 84 Commercial St., Brunswick. Admission is $4 for the e Bruce Willis' voice. order to escape the approaching Portland. 774-3550. \Jeneral publiC, $2 for seniors. For more Plague. LIFE IN BETWEEN ScoH Oakl.y Trio (jazz) Little Wil Information. call 725-3151. , . SILVER Rom.ro This movie raises questions lies, 36 MarketSt., Portland. 773-4500. about the opposition and death Salva R.d Light R.v... (r&b) EI Mirador, 50 SAT. NOV 11th What's Where dorian archbishop Oscar Romero, who Wharf St., Portland. 811-0050. Noel ('f~J}Jpa§t2okey was assassinated in 1980 on orders of W.vebre.ke... (rocklr&b) Spring Point SATURDAY+ ROCKIN'VIBRATION the military junta. Raul Julia is stirring in Cafe, 175 PicketrSt., S. Portland. 767- General Cinemas his role as Romero, a man driven to 4627. Different Sho•• (folk) 8 pm, luther DANCE HALL & Bodyworks Maine Mall martyrdom by his opposition to the Sh.dy Ch.r.ct.... (rock) Manor Bonney Auditorium, USM Portland. Presented in concert by AnimationSCREEN C.1.bnItlon Just in time Maine MaU Road, S Portland government. lounge, John Martin'S Manor, Rt. I, S. l1ckets are $8 in advance, $6 at the for the Great American Smokeout Nov. 774-1022 Portland. 775-5642. door, available at Amadeus Music, Dod (POI Buckdancer's Choice and Gallery The Root Cellar & 16 ... 'Twenty-Five Ways to OuitSmok 1:30.4,7.9:30 (opens Nov 10) P.J. & Cou•• n. (blues/jazz/Latin) LI~t:;' ing" is one of the two dozen animated .toyl". Togethor [III Sneakers, Tennisof Maine, 196 US Rt. Music in Portland. For more informa 11..'" ,,100 films featured in this collection. These 1,3,5.7:15,9:25 (opens ~ov 10) 1, Falmouth. 781-2671. tion, call 773-9549. Second S"'ht (POI La Bottina Souriant. and D.L. to benefit the Rooi'Cellar* shorts were selected from entries in 1:15.3:15,5:10.7, 9 Port & St.rblrd (pop) Shawmut Inn, two international competitions and Q,... An.tomy (PG·13) Kennebunkport. 967-3931. M.nard and the Loul.lana Ac•• 1.3:10.5:15,7:25,9:40 (Cajun/Acadian music) 8 pm, althe Le THE RED LIGHT REVUE include pieces incorporating everything Th. F..... rou. "'kor Bop (III Saturday, Nov. 11 • 8:00PM from hand-drawn cel animation to wiston Junior High School. Tickets are NOVEMBER 10 & 11 1:15.4.7:15,9:40 $101$8. For more information , call 782- . complex computer graphics. An Innocent M.n (II) Portland City Hall Auditorium The B_r An orphaned bear cub and a 1:45.4:15.7.9:30 SATURDAY+ 7228 . SPECIAL DINNER-DANCE WEEKEND ".ot Loft (R, Viola. (classical) Variety of viola en Tickets $12· Available at: wounded male bear struggle to survive 1 :45. 4:15. 7. 9:30 in the wilds of British Columbia. The Wonh W.. n .. g (III Wln.ton Grenn.n B.nd (reggae) sembles including the Portland Sym AT BRUNO'S RESTAURANT, PORTlAND The Family Bookstore All Ticketron Logos Bookstore bears' ordeal increases when a couple " ~:10, 5:15, 7:25, 9:40 (1hrough Nov 9) Raoul's, 865 Forest Ave. , Portland. phony viola section, a Bates student can Bruno's for Dinner Reservations • 773-3530 aleck 110" (III 773-6886. staff viola quartet and a 50-piece Maine 669 Forest Ave. Locations 152 US Rte. 1 of hunters cross their paths. The hunt 1 :30. 4:15,720.10 (through Nov 9) Listen to WMGXfor more information! Portland· 773-3226 1-800-382-8080 Scarboro. 883-4401 ers must use some cuss words, be Rockln' Vlb ...tlon(reggae) Tree Cafe, Viola Congress Choir perform a pro 45 Danforth St., Portland. 774-1441. gram of chamber works at 3:30 pm at • Root Cell~ ~inistri~s, 35 Lafayette St ..Portland is a non-profit, privately cause the movie is rated PG. Nov. 16 Raoul's Dance Party Nov,22 Raoul's Dance Parry Crime. and MI.deme.no... Martin Nickelodeon Charll. Brown Organization (r&b! Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Bates funded orgaruzatlOn which operates a drop m center for Munjoy Hill teens. All T8fTl)18 and Middle, Portland WED. NOV 15th Landau plays aprominentophthalmolo swing) Dry Dock, 84 Commercial St., College, lewiston. Admission is $21$1 . Nov, 17 &18 Eagle Mountain House Nov. 23 Raoul's Thanksgiving Partyl proceeds of the concert will be used for its operation. Root Cellar Ministries 772-9751 gist who arranges the murder of his First show Frl-Sun only Portland. 774-3550. For more information, call 786-6330. Jackson, NH Country Rock Kick-Off provides life-changing options for the community's young people. These mistress \Angelica Huston), because The Navigator (PG-f 3) S.a Lov. is a ouddle 01 a thriller, but Shotgun and Urb.n Cre.ps (rock) 1.4:35, 7:20.9:40 (opens Nov 10) 0' Geno's, 13 Brown St., Portland. 761- youngsters face a socIety marred by rebellion, sensuality. violence and drugs. he can't ace admitting his indiscre Erik The Vlk"g (PC:"'I is filled with great characters nonethe Every Wednesday Night is Ladies Night at Raoul's with the Red Light Revue - 2506. COON CATS The Root Cellar staff seeks to reach out to unchurched youth wi the living tions to his wife. Woody Allen plays a 1:20,4:20, 7:'0. 9:15 (opens Nov 10) less. Pacino plays a drunken cop In Ladies Admitted Free! gospel of ChrISt. Thank you for any help you can give to these minlslIies. May documentary film maker, who wants to Crime. and Mlad...... non CPG.13) vestigating the murder of men who Tonto'. Big Idea (rock) Old Port Tav SUNDAY+ 4:25,7:15,9:35 (through Nov 9) em, 11 Moulton St., Portland. 774- Now booking wedding-; and corporate parties for fall & winter. God Bless You! )fyou have any questions, need information, or have a special cheat on hi.; wife and he doesn't care if , ;15. 4:35. 7:15. 9:35 (from NO'll 10) have all placed personal ads in the 0444 B·52. (rock) 7:30 pm, Cumberland THURS. NOV. 16th servIce to offer the Root Cellar, please call or write: his wife finds out. Allen takes infidelity •••• II.. and ",kle.tape (III) paper. He falls for the prime suspect, County Civic Center. Portland. Trekets Specializing in Weddings, Corporate & Private Functions and Nightclubs . and uses it as a sounding board for a 1 :40.7:30.9:20 (reopens Nov 10) played by Ellen Barkin. Pacino's per The Boyz (rock) Moose Alley, 46 Mar a e irec '774- 1 7· Ho e: 77 _ St." "a9noU•• ket St. , Portland. 774-5246. are $16.50, available at the box office, CALL 883-2802 variety of points of views about ethics Preview Sat .• Nov 11 at 9:30 formance is great; hiS character has l1cketron outlets and through Teletron , and, of course, plenty of apt one-liners. Phantom ., the Oper. 'R) the depth it takes to sustain the plot. Red Light R.vue (r&b) EI Mirador, 50 4:15,7:30.9:30 "hrovgh Nov 9) Wharf St. , Portland. 811-0050. 800-383-8080. It's refreshing to see a movie by a Barkin'S performance, on the other An Aft.rnoon In Brlt.ln (British brass Little V.. O (III hand, is vacant rather than mysterious. Wav.b... k .... (rock/r&b) Spring Point director who clearly knows what he'S 4:30, 7:20,9:20 (through Nov 9) band music) Benefit for the Southern doing. ShockerlA) But once you know whodunit, the movie Cafe, t75 PickenSt., S. Portland. 767- 9:40 (through Noy 9) 4627. Maine MusicAcademy atUSM's Schol Dad Jack lemmon plays a father who becomes a fascinating study of what arship Fund at 3 pm in Corthell Concert T ...... (PGI makes a relationship between two Sh.dy Ch.r.ct.... (rock) Manor grows closer to his san (Ted Danson) 4. 7:05. 9:40 (through Nov 9) Hall, USM Gorham. Following the during a family Crisis. . 1:30,4.7;05.9:10 (from Nov 10) people click lounge, John Martin's Manor, Rt. 1, S. Im.... dl.t. F.mIIV IPG.f3J Portland. 775-5642. concert a complimentary English tea D.y o'Wrath Carl Dreyerdirected this S.cond Sight John larroquelle (the will be served featuring tea, scones story about a young women who mar 4:20.7,'0 (Ihrough Nov 0) sleazoid lawyer from "Night Court) plays P.J. & Cous.n. (blues!jazZiLatin) 4;30 (from Noy 10) Sneakers, Tennis of Maine, 196 US Rt. and crumpets. Tickets are $5. Formore ries a preacher but falls in love with his Look Who'. Tolkl". [PG.UI a private eye with a psychic gimmick. information, call 780-5256. son. The tale is set in a Danish village 4:10. 7. 9:25 (lhrou9h Nov 91 .nd vldeotap. The first I, Falmouth. 781-2671. 1:10,4:10.7.9:30 (frOm Nov 10) "•. Ii.. Port & St.rbird (pop) Shawmut Inn. feature film of writer-director Steven in 1623, based on the play 'Anne (No 9:30 show on Sal., Nov. 11) Peelers dotter" by Wiers Jenson. Soderbergh has a simplicity that re Kennebunkport. 967-3931 . Death In V.nlc. The incomparable sults from its small cast and narrow Dirk Bogarde stars as a moribund artist The Movies focus. The four characters - Ann, her TUESDAY+ 10 Exchange, Ponland vacationing in Venice, who becomes m-9600 husband John, her sister Cynthia, and Cathedral Chamb.r Sing.... (cho obsessed with the beauty and youth of Four Adventu.... of John's old college friend Graham - SUNDAY+ FRIDAY 11110 ral music) 7:30 pm, SI. luke'S Cathe a boy he finds there. The movie is Reln.tt•• nd MIr __ U. have one thing on their mind: sex. The NovS.12 Tre. Ho.... and Hot Ch.rry PI. dral, 143 State SI., Portland. Program FROM BOSTON, based on the short story by Thomas Wed-Fri at 7. 9 greatness behind the movie rests not (rock) Tree Cafe, 45 Danforth St. , includes works by Scarlatti, Gibbons, TWO SAINTS Mann and is directed by luchino Vis Sat-Sun at 1, 9 only in the film itself, but more so in Portland. 774-1441. Pachelbel, as well as English and conti. Volc•• of Saraflna! what happens to those who view it aiter American folk songs arranged by Holst, SUN. NOV 19th with THE BROOD Nov 11-14 Bre.kdown (rock) Old Port Tavern, 11 Erik The Viking is a comedy about Sat-Sun a13, 7:15 they leave the theater. It encourages Moulton St .. Portland. 774-0444. Willcocks and Rutter. Tickets are $7 (60'S ALL-GIRL GARAGE BAND) younQ Nordic warrior starring 11m Mon-Tue aI7:15. 9 honest dialogue gently - without big D.nl Trl ...... n (reggae) Raoul's, and $5 for students and senior citizens . JUDY Robbins, John Cleese, Eartha Kill Animation Celebration issues, gaudy special effects or a cast 865 Forest Ave ., POrtland. 773-6886. For more information, call 767-6110. Fri. & Sat. and BOOM SHANKA Mickey Rooney and Monty Python Nov 15-21 of thousands. Wed-Tue at 7, 9 Uptown Jazz (jazz trio) 8 pm, The Top Nov. 110. 11 Rock 'N Roll regular Terry Jones. Sat-Sun mal all. 3 Shock.r Capital punishment isn't a so of the East lounge, Sonesta Hotel , MOWATT The Fabulous B.k.r Boy. Jeff and lution in this movie about a convicted 157 High St., Portland. 775-5411. andR&B SHOT GUN Beau Bridges play two brothers with a Cinema City mass murderer who continues to kill UPCOMING+ with Portland's newest sensation nightclub act, whose lives are turned Westbrook Plaza alter he'S been executed in the electric WAVEBREAKERS~~m upside down with the arrival of a singer 854-9116 chair. Krono. Quartet (new music) Nov 16, URBAN CREEPS played by Michelle Pfeiffer. The movie All 11 __ Ihrqugh Thursday; cal! 1111_ Staying Together Tim Quill, Dermont 8 pm, Hutchins Concert hall, Maine SATURDAY, NOV. 18 for Friday's changes MONDAY+ IS a sultry throwback to the ·40s. _k.. (111 Mulroney and Sean Astin play three Center forthe Arts, UniverSity of Maine, Four Adv.nture. 0' R.lneH. and 7,9, weekend mat 1. 3 brothers in this drama set In a small South.rn M.in. BI.... Soci.ty Orono. Forticket information, call 581 - MI... beli. Eric Rohmer ('My Night at -.. MorlY lI.t "My (III town in South Carolina. (blues) Meeting and jam session be 1755. 7:15,9:15, weekend mals at f :15, 3:15 Vole•• Saratin.! A documentary Pi.nl.t Laur. K.rgul (classical) Nov Maud's" and 'Boyfriends and Girl Look Who'. Tolklng (PO.UI 0' gins at 7 pm, Raoul's, 865 Forest Ave ., friends,) directed this film about the 7, 9, weekend mats at 1. 3 about the players in thjl musical 'Saraf Portland. 773-6886. 17, 8 pm, Corthell Concert hall, USM difficulty of human relationships. Mira Phantom or the Opera (RI ina," which has been playing on Broad J.ff Col. (acoustic) Old Port Tavern, Gorham. AII -Ustz program includes the 7;15,9:15 weekend mats al 1:15. ~:15 way since 1987. The musical is about 'Sonata In B Minor, selections from belle is a city girl. Reinette is her friend Immed.t. Family CPG.13) 11 Moulton St., Portland. 774-0444. from the country, who comes to stay 7:15.9:15, weekend mats at 1:15. 3:15 the protest by Zulu-speaking school Comedy Stop .t the Top (comedy 'Anees de Pelerinage: a transcription with Mirabelle in Paris while she stud children in South Africa who demon contest) Adrian Walker and local com of Schubert's song ' Die Forelle \The ies art. Rohmer plays two gir1s ' charac strated against a government decision Trout)" and a paraphrase of Bel ini's POl'tl.ncI Muse.... or Art edy contest with cash prizes for best ters off each other as Reinelle be Congress Square forCing to learn the lessons in Afri audience comedians. No cover, 8 pm , opera "Norma." Tickets are $71$4 . For comes adjusted to life in Paris. Day orW,..th kaans (also the subject of the recent Top of the East Lounge, Sonesta Ho more information, call 780-5555. Gross AnalomyMatthew Medine stars Noy9.7pm movie 'A Dry White Season"). The tel, 157 High St, Portland. 775-5411 Igor Kipni. (classical) Kipnis performs D.ath In V.nlc. musical is unique in that it uses a works by Mozart, Haydn, Dussek, in this romantic comedy about first Noy 16, 7pm Perfonnanc. Art. Stag. (open FRI. NOV. 24th year medical students. Modine is a laid troupe of teenagers from the slums of mike) Tree Cafe, 45 Danforth St., Port Schubert, C.P.E. Bach and Beethoven LOOKING back student among anxious class South Africa The documentary com land 774-1441. Nov 17, 7:30 pm in the Chapel at Welcome Home mates. Daphne Zunilla is his lab part Evening Star bines excerpts from the musical with Bowdoin College, Brunswick. Tickets ner, who lusts after him but holds back Schedule sub)eCt 10 change Interviews with the players, who tell are $8. For more Information, call 725- THE WALKERS Tonllne Mall, Brunswick 3321 until aiter finals. The best performance 729-5486 about their own sufferings in South Af is by Christine lahti as the anatomy Fat Man and Lltt" .oy rrca. TUESDAY+ Portland Siring Quartet (classical) R The Moxie Men Offer exptres 12115/89 professor, who prods Mldine until he'S 7, 9:25 "hrov9h Nov 9) Nov 17, 8 pm at the Immanual Baptist II...... & Introducing serious about medicine. (opens Nov to) Donav.n Foundation (r<,ggae) Church , 156 High St. , Portland Pianist Immedlat. Family James Woods and Tree Cafe. 45 Danforth St., Portland. Paul Posnak joins the quartet for a Rachel Tanguay Glenn Close playa yuppie couple who Bowdoin College 774-1441 performance of Ernest Bloch'S Piano SAT. NOV. 25th can't have a child. 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