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MAKING MIGRATION VISIBLE Asylum seekers, border politics, and migrant life in Maine art By Francis Flisiuk

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“We still have a gap in achievement for students of color and those who are learning to speak English,” trevorrow said.

uring last Monday's city council meeting, students in pre-K through 12th grade, and Dthe chairwoman of the Portland Board 4,000 adult education students. of Education pressed the council to adopt a “We must figure out how to not only aine regulators are not going to make designated roads through the scenic forest universal pre-K program while lamenting support our current level of education but Ma decision on Central Maine Power’s and mountains of western Maine. the “very real financial challenges” the city’s to improve it, while at the same time be- controversial power line project this year as Several environmental groups, including school system faces. ing cognizant of Portland originally planned. the Natural Resources Council of Maine, At the annual “State of taxpayers,” said Trevorrow. On Monday, the Maine Department of are opposed to the power line project, citing the Schools” address, Anna “The message from our com- Environmental Protection notified CMP that concerns that it could negatively impact the Trevorrow recalled the “long munity is consistent and its application to build a 145-mile long trans- environment and wildlife, as well as tourism and challenging” FY 2019 clear: Portlanders want good mission line through the state is still “insuf- in an area known for its pristine wilderness. budget process that took schools and are willing to ficient” and “incomplete,” pushing back the The line would also have to cross under the place earlier this year, during invest in them.” review and public comment of the project Kennebec River gorge, which has some folks which it became clear that Trevorrow also encour- into next year. concerned about pollution and damage to Portland Public Schools will aged City Council to engage In a letter to CMP, regional licensing and fish habitats. Opponents are also not con- most likely continue to face in a conversation about compliance manager for the DEP James Bey- vinced that the project will lower rates for reductions in state funding. adopting a universal pre-K er wrote that they need more information Maine’s CMP customers, and say that they In June, Portland voters program, arguing that it about the project’s impact on “scenic resourc- hope the PUC uses the extra time to thor- approved the City Council’s would help Portland Public es,” and the people who use those resources. oughly evaluate the project’s impacts. budget of $110.6 million, Schools reach their five-year Beyer also asked for more information about “CMP’s attempt to ram this flawed proj- which was a reduction of Chairwoman of the Portland equity target of a 50-per- the size and population of the invasive buck- ect through the state permitting process $3 million from Portland Board of Education Anna cent reduction in academic thorn plant and how CMP plans to clear the is backfiring as officials uncover missing School Superintendent Xavi- Trevorrow. achievement and opportu- plant from the proposed corridor. information about the project’s real impacts er Botana's initial request. nity gaps. According to Trev- This is the second time in recent months on Maine,” said Sue Ely, a clean energy at- According to Trevorrow, those cuts resulted orrow, data from the city’s schools show that that CMP has failed to provide the necessary torney with the Natural Resources Council of in a reduction in student attendance by two financially disadvantaged students continue information to review their project, and Maine. “The only way for Maine regulators days, fewer electives in middle schools, reduc- to not have “positive outcomes” in the system because of it, the Maine Public Utilities Com- to evaluate this project is for CMP to provide tion in pay for some staff, and a reduction of and universal pre-K program could boost permission won’t be able to conduct a full review all of the required information to decision more than $1 million in administrative sup- formance. of the project until March 2019. This pushes makers, something that CMP has so far failed port. “We still have a gap in achievement for the timeline for the first public hearings on to do. We are encouraged that the DEP is To prepare for future budget processes, students of color and those who are learning the issue into next year as well. doing such a thorough review of CMP’s ap- Portland Public Schools launched a new En- to speak English,” she said. “That gap is stark CMP applied for permits earlier this year plication.” rollment and Facility Study last month, in an and standardized test score results released to build an electrical transmission line from CMP could not be reached for comment, effort to gather information before potentially just today evidence no measurable improve- Quebec to Lewiston and eventually on to but in past press releases they have contended having to make any more cuts or consolidation ment. It is essential that we invest strategi- Massachusetts in order to deliver hydro- that their power line project will produce for the sake of “efficiency.” cally to improve student outcomes to make power to their customers there. The project nearly $1 billion in economic benefits to In light of these budget woes, Trevorrow progress toward realizing our Equity goal. would cost $950 million and install 53 miles Maine, and will adhere to state and federal stressed the need for public investment in the One of the ways we can do that is through of lines with towers and about 15 miles of environmental regulations.  cities school system, which serves nearly 6,800 universal pre-kindergarten.”  NICKELODEON PATRIOTPATRIOT CINEMAS 1-6 Temple/Middle St. CINEMASCINEMAS Near The Old Port 772-9751 $ 00 SUPER Tuesdays $700 Bargain Matinees 5 5 Children & Seniors All Day, All Shows DAILY BARGAIN MATINEES - ALL SEATS $7.00 UNTIL 6PM Week of Friday, Dec. 15, 2017 through Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017

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What They Leave Behind Photography and artifacts from the border illuminate the realities of migrant life by F r a nc i s F l i s i u k

Top: Jason De León + Michael Wells + Lucy Cahill, Hostile Terrain, multimedia installation, 2018 Left: Eric Gottesman, Reinstallation of Rana’s Memory in Damage Caused by War, pigment print, 27” x 29”, 2007

or over a decade, California-based artist since 2009, and involves the work of dozens partly seeks to show how the U.S. immigra- Although only a small part of the UMP’s ex- FMichael Wells has been photographing of students and researchers from the Institute tion enforcement strategy known as Preven- haustive catalog of media on this topic, Wells’s and archiving objects left behind by migrants of Field Research, an academic organization tion Through Deterrence has failed to deter photos can tell us quite a bit about the intense crossing remote areas of the Sonoran Desert that connects students from around the world migration but succeeded in shifting migration conditions migrants and asylum seekers face while on their way to the U.S./Mexico border. with archaeological projects. The project lives patterns to more geographically hostile areas, while attempting to reach the U.S. Wells is part of the Undocumented Mi- online in various forms — videos and photos often with deadly consequences. Starting Some of these photos are on display at grant Project, a long-term scientific study on its main website, as well as at least seven in 1990, the U.S. government massively in- the ICA at MECA as part of "Making Migra- spearheaded by University of Michigan an- academic papers in journals like American creased security at popular border crossings tion Visible" exhibition at the ICA at MECA thropology professor Jason De León, which Anthropologist and International Migration, and and urban points of entry, a move which UMP through December 14. The exhibition is part seeks to use ethnography, archaeology and one book titled the Land of Open Graves, all of and advocacy groups say altered migration of a larger effort of the same title, a consor- forensic science to transcend political talking which De León served as the head writer. patterns and contributed to the deaths of thou- tium of many Maine-based artists, organiza- points and better understand this clandestine Together, the UMP’s collection of inter- sands of migrants in the desert due to dehydra- tions, and community groups to put on 70 social process. This project has been ongoing views, videos, writing, and physical artifacts tion and exposure. Continue on P. 8  8

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Continued from P. 8  events on the subject I was always interested in land use and of migration through- how people use space. I was very fascinated out the state. with the landscape, and this section of [the Besides De León Sonoran] desert, that has been popular for mi- and Wells (with gration, and how it wasn’t quite being seen. whom Lucy Cahill No picture you can take is neutral, but I collaborates in the try to make mine as neutral as possible. This ICA exhibition), project is about creating neutral data that "Making Migration people can look at and make informed deci- Visible" features the sions about what is happening in this space. works of a number It’s important to document mass migrations of of diverse artists, any kind and we felt that wasn’t being done on many of whom have the U.S./Mexico border. Why wouldn’t you personal migration document this one? experiences. Those What kinds of things have you been pho- include Mohamad tographing? Hafez, whose Desper- Initially, the artifacts found in the Arizona ate Cargo, a floating desert. All sorts of personal items — clothing, sculpture of an inflat- lots of shoes and toothbrushes, things anybody able capsized dinghy would carry with them on a long journey. The replicates the vessel project looks at them through archaeological that his brother-in- means to investigate how these migrations are law had taken to leave happening over time. Michael Wells, Migrant artifacts. Sonora Desert, Arizona, photograph, 2010-2013 Damascus. María Pa- And then there’s the bodies and the human tricia Tinajero trans- remains. forms paper pulp into objects of displacement You personally found human remains? like suitcases and blankets and Edwige Charlot Yeah, we found some remains of a person When a Jewish-American (MECA ’10), a Portland artist of Haitian who was unidentifiable. They were part of the war photographer feels heritage raised in France, fuses textile work 1,000 unidentified people found in the desert compelled to assist a young with birch ply as an exploration of the chal- overall since 2000 [according to U.S. Border refugee who steps in front of her camera, she calls an lenge of connecting to personal heritage after Patrol data], many of them in Arizona on U.S. old friend to translate, but diaspora. With Portland virtual reality firm, soil. Our field school also found a woman in hesitates to reveal why she artist Daniel Quintanilla makes an interactive 2010 and extradited her remains to Ecuador. is so drawn to the boy. This poetic, decade-spanning film about immigrant life in Maine. Ahmed Are you able to tell who is making these drama explores how we Alsoudani's paintings sublimate his memories kinds of journeys based on the objects? each define and find our of Iraq war into vividly colorful paintings. There’s all sorts of things you find, but it’s own malja (refuge) Yu-Wen Yu's Leavings/Belongings collects a hard to say. If you find a small backpack, you colorful bundle of cloth-wrapped items in a can assume it’s a child’s backpack, but can you cluster in the center of the room, a reminder of really say that? How long has it been there? If migrants' pared-down travel necessities that, you find women’s stuff, or children’s stuff, or absent their owners, conjures a stark sense of other gendered materials, we can make some separation. Caroline Bergvall, Eric Gottesman, kind of judgement about who these people Romuald Hazoumè, and Ranu Mukherjee's are. Archaeological techniques can start to works each bring unique scenes, materials, and give you some information, but it’s tough to be Join Rush35 for a $15.00 ticket perspectives. completely concrete about it. if you are age 35 or under! After seeing "Making Migration Visible" But we do know from other sources of in- in person, the Phoenix spoke on the phone formation that families are indeed making with Wells about his photography, the Un- these crossings, right? 207.774.0465 documented Migrant Project, and the current Definitely. We found women’s underwear, www.portlandstage.org Located in the Heart of the Arts political discourse of migration. baby bottles, sanitary napkins, children’s toys. District at 25A Forest Ave What drew you to to work on the Un- On a journey like this you wouldn’t carry documented Migration Project? things like this unless you needed them. 9

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What do your photos show about easy targets. People will always say that the I get it — it’s a political statement. But it’s the conditions these migrants face? reason you don’t have your job is because of not like migrants weren't let in before. Are The pictures are showing the artifacts this other group. the troops going to come in and help with on the ground, but also the climates and Trump recently responded to the lat- their asylum paperwork? Trump is trying the geography that people are moving est migrant caravan, urging those in it to prove some kind of point, some kind of through. They show what the desert is to turn around and go back where they dog whistle to whoever is energized by these like and how harsh it can be. came from. Is that even feasible for these kind of statements. Undocumented migration has migrants? What have you learned over these past happened for decades, but every Well, they can go back and die. I’ve talked 10 years on this project? once in a while the issue flares up as to several people coming from Honduras I live in California and I’ve realized that a political hot topic. What do you and Central America. One woman I’ll al- I live in a bubble. I’ve learned how angry think about that? ways remember, she had been shot in the people can be on this topic. I witnessed the As far as the political climate, I can’t face and survived. She was trying to get to rise of people using it as a political point. keep up. I don’t hear it. There was a the border and request asylum because this People are so angry about these people try- caravan last year. All I know is what’s gang in her town was after her. Her family ing to find a better life. I’ve learned that happening on the ground. There are so was dead. I don’t understand what more she migrants are coming from so many different many aspects to it; it’s such a complex needs to happen to her for her to be con- places, not just from Mexico. It’s so much issue — I’ve been observing it for 10 sidered an asylum seeker. Not all of these more complicated than that and there are so years and don’t even consider myself migrants are simply economic migrants. In many reasons why people are leaving. an expert so when people talk about it a lot of cases, it’s a lot worse. like they’re experts, I’m suspicious. Trump also said he’s sending some Nick Schroeder contributed reporting to this story. The topic comes up when politi- 5,000 troops to the border to counter the "Making Migration Visible," mixed media cians need a group to scapegoat. It’s migrant caravan. Do you think that’s an group exhibition | Through December 14 | easy to paint people who can’t defend appropriate response to this issue? ICA at MECA, 522 Congress St, Portland | Yu-Wen Wu, Currents, mixed media on Duralar, 158” x 120”, 2018 themselves as the enemy. They are No. I don’t really understand it. I mean, www.meca.edu 

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Business accelerator nonprofit PROPEL is hosting their second TASTE THE WORLD 1. BETTER TO REIGN IN event at Fork Food Lab on Thursday night, HELL at which attendees can try traditional dishes from new Mainers and enjoy conversation Do you ever wake up in a cold sweat, having and community. The event’s proceeds to go to had a nightmare about the fall of mankind in Propel’s New Mainer Culinary Entrepreneur which a horrible villain from the depths of Scholarship, which provides funding for new- hell ascends to a seat of absolute power and comer recipients to begin and sustain their corrupts the entire world through misogyny, food-based businesses. | Nov 8 | Thu 5:30 pm fear mongering and an insatiable lust for | Fork Food Lab, 72 Parris St, Portland | supremacy? You might as well be dreaming $15 | All Ages | propelportland.org about America careening headlong into the midterms under a Trump White House, but you may very well be enjoying the psycho- 3. I’M THE PRIZE IN logical remnants of having read John Milton’s YOUR CRACKERJACK PARADISE LOST, the original and ultimate Rap Night is a Portland institution that man- epic about corruption and consequence. aged to make the leap from the Asylum to STAGE RAGE, a young experimental theater its current incarnation Aura relatively intact. group, will bring Milton’s narrative poem to For 11 years now, they’ve hosted the annual life at Mayo Street Arts with a four-night RUCKUS CUP, the longest-running free- run from Thursday to Sunday. All local and style MC battle in New England. This year, eager to carve a fresh take out of the classic Ill by Instinct and DJ Myth host the open- works they perform, Stage Rage’s productions forum cypher, at which dozens of MCs sign embrace tragedy, satire and a biting relevance up on the night of the event to compete for to current events.| Nov 8-11 | Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 4 pm | Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo $1000 and, of course, bragging rights — this St, Portland | $15 | mayostreetarts.com is hip hop after all, there has to be some beef and competition to give it that classic vibe of MAKE ME A PLATE self-aggrandizement through lyrical narra- 2. tive. Rappers can sign up to compete between Food is a really great point of inflection for 8 and 9 pm, and the show will also feature sets overcoming differences between cultures. from New England hip hop artists, DJs, break Everyone needs to eat at some point, and it dancers and street artists. | Nov 9 | Fri 8 pm can be easy to feel the love put into a meal | Aura, 121 Center St, Portland | $15 | 18+ when it makes you feel comforted and satis- | auramaine.com 5. FESTIVAL OF THE UNKNOWN Nov 10-18 | Fri-Sat 7 pm, Sun 3 pm | First Parish Church | $15 fied — feeding someone is an act of caring. Continue on P. 12  11

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Continued from P. 10  4. DON’T STAND THERE Rogers’s own hot cheeseball take on the latter notwithstanding. WATCHING, FOLLOW ME EAST SIDE, BEAST SIDE SHOOTER JENNINGS, the musical son of country legends 7. Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, has upped the ante on what It seems like our culture will forever have an ostensible civil When will we reach critical mass when it comes to breweries outlaw country means today. His prophetic 2009 album Black war boiling over those who don’t conform to the crusty old in Maine? Consumption as culture is not a new phenomenon Ribbons predicted an authoritarian dystopia in which our coun- rules the white Christian patriarchy has set up. Some people by any means — one need only look to the wine snobbery craze try struggles under a regime of fascism — you don’t see a lot really, really hate anyone who hasn’t lived their lives exactly that gripped post-depression boomers in the ‘70s and ‘80s to of that kind of content in country music today, and excuse us as they would choose to live, and while the violence and eco- see that we love our booze in this country. Knowledge of what if it offends you to say that Jennings might be one of the last nomic oppression that marginalized groups experience has to makes a good beer makes us feel like we’re in a club with a tolerable mainstream country artists in the sea of conservative, end, there is a tiny silver lining: people who are othered will certain set of barriers to entry (in this case, probably drink- white-centric pablum that characterizes the genre as it stands always find a way to create, build community, and fight against ing a lot of beer, but what do I know, I like those boozy fruity today. He’s a real hoot as a performer too, though, bringing his the pressures against them in the best way they know how. To seltzer drinks). BUNKER BREWING, however, has always dad’s swagger and ego-as-belt-buckle style to the stage. Mary- wit, THE CIRCUS HAUS offers an LGBTQIA+ donation-based been at the forefront of coolness and ‘the scene,’ occupying the land country artist JOSH MORNINGSTAR and Portlander movement class every second Friday in their safer space created vacuum left when the Bissell Brothers sold out to the tourists JOEL THETFORD open, which makes us love Jennings even specifically to serve the queer community. Attendees will learn and moved up to Thompson’s Point — someone has to carry more for supporting local artists on his tours. | Nov 11 | Sun 8 varying techniques from partner acroyoga, aerial arts, physical the west side torch alongside Oxbow’s east side reign of power. pm | Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $25 comedy, dance or a number of other circus arts disciplines. The They celebrate their 6.7 year anniversary with the release of a | 18+ | portcitymusichall.com fee of $10 is a suggested donation (and cheap for a 90-minute 6.7 percent alcohol brew, debuting to the sweet sounds of Hi class) but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. | Nov 9 Duke and Mosart212, and complemented with food offered up THERE’S HONOR IN LOSS | Fri 6 pm | The Circus Haus, 40 Main St, Biddeford | $10 | by Mr. Tuna. Close out Portland Beer Week with this celebra- 9. 18+ | thecircushaus.com tion of one of the best breweries in town. | Nov 10 | Sat 5 pm I’m the last person who would ever suggest that someone attend | Bunker Brewing, 17 Westfield St, Portland | Free | 21+ | a church service, but there are times when it seems like the good 5. GO DEEPER bunkerbrewingco.com and right thing to do. For those of us who have lost someone, the holidays can be particularly hard. Many of us stress ourselves FESTIVAL OF THE UNKNOWN, a show comprised of four out feigning joy or isolate ourselves to shield our raw, grieving short(er) experimental theater pieces, makes its debut Satur- emotional states from the pressures of the family-oriented win- day in the basement of the First Parish Church, a space that ter holidays. Even the zeitgeist-y grief of the current administra- festival organizers “transformed” to accommodate these four tion and the state of world affairs can be tougher at this time of new original works of undefinable theater. (The air of mystery year. Every second Sunday, the PORTLAND NEW CHURCH about this thing probably isn’t harmed by having to access the offers a service geared toward offering support for those who are basement from an alleyway on the side of the building.) The grieving during the holidays, and their interfaith practices can performances include works from 60 Grit Theatre Company, be appealing for those who feel repelled by a dogmatic spiritual Bare Portland, 2 Sheets Theater Company and solo performer practice. Song, fellowship and the presence of others to whom Courtney Pomerleau. Walking the line between immersive and you don’t feel beholden to “act cheerful” can be a huge help in traditional theater, the space is cozy and seating is limited, so navigating these dark days. | Nov 11 | Sun 11:30 am | Portland tickets in advance are recommended. | Nov 10-18 | Fri-Sat 7 New Church, 302 Stevens Ave, Portland | Free | All Ages | pm, Sun 3 pm | First Parish Church, 425 Congress St, Port- theportlandnewchurch.com land | $15 | 60grit.org TRAAAAIIIIINNNNNNNNN!!!! 6. HAVE A BALL JUST WAITING IN 10. THE PARLOR Notorious for being the film that ended up throwing a monkey wrench into Buster Keaton’s formerly burgeoning career, THE The dark vaudeville crew DARK FOLLIES often performs GENERAL didn’t make back its budget when it was released street theater-style variety shows in Post Office Square on First in 1926 and cost Keaton some creative freedom in his studio Friday, and in the winter you can find them in various small contract. Now considered a masterpiece of physical comedy and theaters throughout Southern Maine. Dance, music, comedy, 8. SHOOTER JENNINGS Nov 11 | Sun 8 pm | silent film, Keaton’s story of an outcast train engineer embroiled Port City Music Hall | $25 | 18+ theater and experimental performance characterize the troupe’s in the throes of the Civil War has entertained millions over the offerings, and now that the days are getting shorter and our years with its legendarily dangerous stunts (that he’d perform seasonal affective disorders are getting more all-encompassing, himself) and its iconic crash scene. Keaton is seen as the origi- the group will offer an intimate PARLOR SHOW to ease our nal master of modern physical comedy, and anyone pursuing sorrows. A spooky cabaret that explores the shadow sides of 8. AND THEN THE RADIO GOES performance should take notes when watching him scramble, life, the show is adults only and demands your focused atten- DEAD galumph and meander his remarkably expressive face and body tion — seating is limited to 30 people and once doors close at 8, through the film. Screening at St. Lawrence Arts on Monday, no one comes in or out. Whether this is intense or intriguing Back in ‘the day,’ as the insolent Twitter youth might say, out- the film will be accompanied by live piano music from Carolyn is entirely in the eye of the beholder. | Nov 10 | Sat 7 pm | law country as a genre was about breaking the law, breaking Swartz, and is brought to the screen via Portland underground Flourish-Arts as Sacred Healing, 140 Main St, Biddeford | the hearts of good women who could handle their whiskey, film collective Kinonik. | Nov 12 | Mon 7 pm | St. Lawrence $15 | 21+ | darkfollies.com and of course being a rambler and, perhaps, a gambler, Kenny Arts, 76 Congress St, Portland | $8 | All Ages | kinonik.org 13

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Thursday Nov. 8 Saturday Nov. 17 Fourth Annual Beer Week SLAPsgiving, The Return of The Battle of the Brewery Bands SLAP presented by Superhero Lady Armwrestlers of Portland 12. Y LA BAMBA Nov 13 | Tue 8 pm | SPACE Gallery, Portland | $12 | 18+ Friday Nov. 9 7th Annual Winter Kids Sunday Nov. 18 License to Chill The Weight featuring members of The Band and The Levon Helm Band WELCOME TO THUNDERDOME Saturday Nov. 10 11. ican roots, Mendoza also effortlessly embraces the notoriously Wednesday Nov. 21 Strange Machines w/ Skosh THE GREAT OPEN MIC CHALLENGE is wrapping its 2018 quirky vibe of her current city, sporting the purple hair, pierc- Maine Dead Project and Hollowell Sunday Nov. 11 friends presents The Last Waltz Evanoff w/ Harry Jay season with a grande finale show that pits the ten winners of the ings, tattoos and vintage dresses Portlandia has taught us all to Friday Nov. 23 previous weeks’ challenges against each other for industry-sav- roll our eyes at, but that feel genuine on the striking artist with Tuesday Nov. 13 Model Airplane (Night 1) vy prizes like a day of recording at Acadia Recording Company, a that theatrical, vintage vibrato. Joining her will be local scene A Company of Girls Empow(her) 2018 Saturday Nov. 24 song on WBLM’s Greetings from Area Code 207, or $100 to spend newcomers DEAD GOWNS and beloved local weirdo crooner Wednesday Nov. 14 Model Airplane (Night 2) Marilyn Melons present Tits and Thursday Nov. 29 at Buckdancer’s Choice. Empire’s comedy nights, along with VINNY MOUSA. | Nov 13 | Tue 8 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Giggles Hayley Jane & The Primates this often-packed Monday night, has helped characterize the Congress St, Portland | $12 | 18+ | space538.org Thursday Nov. 15 Friday Nov. 30 typically-musical club’s bread and butter in recent months. In Carolyn Cotter and Jenny Van West The Shakes, The Boneheads, its second year, the Great Open Mic Challenge manages to bring WRITE DRUNK, EDIT SOBER Friday Nov. 16 Patchen and Friends 13. 94.3 WCYY presents Xander Nelson Saturday Dec. 1 serious new musicians out of the woodwork to compete for CD Release Raging Brass w/ El Malo more than just your languid, half-bored claps, which gives the Whether it’s an actual trend or simply wishful thinking, a lot of event a vitality that feels special in this cynical musical climate. media outlets have been giving attention to the idea that print Monday Nights Versificator - Electro Funk Dance Party As is the routine, comedy open mic will begin immediately after media is making somewhat of a comeback. While the internet 25 TEMPLE STREET the show at 9:30pm. | Nov 12 | Mon 6 pm | Empire, 575 Con- might have killed the long-form journalism star, books seem to Tickets available at gress St, Portland | Free | 21+ | venue.portlandempire.com be enjoying a certain tenacity as humanity makes a slow swing back toward a desire for tangible objects and a certain slowness. PortlandHouseOfMusic.com UNA CHICA CHIDA PRINT: A BOOKSTORE summons all budding writers to their 12. “HOW AN IDEA BECOMES A BOOK” workshop, during Fresh from the other Portland (you know, the Portland that which a panel of industry experts talk shop and answer ques- only has river ports, those big losers, like, figure it out and get tions about how to get your life’s works published, and beyond The best way to an ocean already), Y LA BAMBA (Luz Elena Mendoza) will that, how to get a job in publishing. Cosponsored by nonprofit start your day— descend upon the superior Portland (yeah, you heard me) with young peoples’ literacy project The Telling Room, the workshop in print, online and mobile! her arsenal of melodic, Latin strings-infused indie rock sung in will also feature some of the organization’s young alumni. | Nov both English and Spanish. Lauded for her unique and powerful 14 | Wed 5:30 pm | PRINT: A Bookstore, 273 Congress St,

Make Mine Mammoth Enigmatic three-piece Bully Mammoth drop a great album’s worth of EPs By N i c k s C h r o e d e r

he three-piece Bully Mammoth have been ing those discrete elements into a sound that ter. EP5 opens with "Loose Tooth," a nine-and- For my money and time, EP6 is where Bully Tone of Portland's more mercurial rock acts listeners will find a lot more accessible, but re- a-half minute journey that sounds like a sev- Mammoth hit their stride — three songs at for years now, hurtling between noise, cathar- tains the energy and experimentalism they’ve eral fuzzed-out, high-compression post-punk six minutes apiece, each textured and huge. tic drone, fuzzed-out college rock, and weird shown before. burners collapsed into an orchestral post-rock While guitar solos and squalls on previous ef- freakouts weaving in and out of pop conven- They're also a vibe band, that vibe be- epic. Later, the 18-minute moodboard "Cali- forts sometimes pulled the listener from the tions. Amassing several years’ recording out- ing consistently dark, moody, and driving. fornia King" is a now-trademark cathartic epic songs’ emotional content, here it drives it. On put, including last year’s ambitious noise-rock (It's not Daydream Nation territory, but it's (like Let It Bully's nine-minute "Couch"). opener "Sugar of Lead," a slide guitar becomes odyssey Let It Bully, the group have been a wild ballpark.) EP6's "Frost Heave" invokes The As he does with many of their tracks, Gi- ride. But most wild rides slow down, and this National’s early works — not the dad-rock of erhan's percussion allows the emotional fold song's main engine, coasting for a ecstatically one has gotten better as it has. late, but the discordantly melodic anthems of "Salty" to open up. His skittering rhythm downward six-and-a-half minutes. Both subse- Over two EPs of seven total tracks released from 15 years ago. Matt Berninger's trademark provides ballast between Rich and McPhee’s quent tracks carry the torch forward, the most this summer (the band’s fifth and sixth EPs sing-speak mumble has always been one of the tension and spaciousness, letting the song cohesive and satisfying of Bully Mammoth's in total — they’re fans of the format), Bully more inexplicably satisfying vocals in indie- tumble out as a seasick loner dirge. Rich's halt- standalone releases. Mammoth have crossed some sort of thresh- rock, and here, singer Sam Rich's vocals are ing, often whispered vocals feel like they live Taken together, these two EPs constitute a old. Is it accessibility? Maybe. Sam Rich, in the same vein, never straying outside the somewhere inside the psyche of the listener 54-minute album, more accessible and engag- Kevin McPheee, and Derek Gierhan have pocket of the song, an introvert's dream, while rather than transmitted by a songwriter — a ing without sacrificing mystery. They may not been interesting since the beginning, but their the lumbering rhythms and heart-scraping haunting effect. His vocals often follow the be as loud, but they’re no less huge. music has occasionally seemed like the sort of melodies pile up around him. rhythmic patterns of his guitar, occasionally band that comes with a caveat. You’ll mostly like While song ideas are smoothed out, the making it difficult to get inside his lyrics, but EP5 + EP6 | by Bully Mammoth | https://bully- them. Here, they’re much more cohesive, fus- forms the band present them in are still off-kil- here he sounds closer to the listener than ever. mammoth.bandcamp.com  The Portland phoenix | portlandphoenix.me | November 8, 2018 Music Listings | 15

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Old Port Tavern | 10 Moult- Blue | 650A Congress St | Irish Yarmouth History Center Pizza Time | 185 U.S. Rte Monday 12 Tuesday 13 on St | karaoke with DJ Mike Session | 9pm | 118 East Elm St Yarmouth | 1 Scarborough | open mic | Mahoney | 9pm English Country Dancing | 6pm Blue | 650A Congress St | The 9pm | Free Greater Portland Greater Portland Olin Arts Center | 75 Shank Painters | 5pm Maine + Beyond Port City Music Hall | Russell Street Lewiston | Olin Bull Feeney’s | 375 Fore St | 504 Congress St | The Weeks Blue | 650A Congress St | GA- Corthell Concert Hall Concert Series: The Bad Plus | farnsworth arts museum | University of Southern Maine, Dave Rowe | 8pm | Free | 8pm | $12 DADU | 6pm 7:30pm | 16 Museum St., Rockland | Or- 37 College Ave Gorham | Vocal Empire | 575 Congress St | Gen- lando Cela, flute and George Lo- Jazz Ensemble Taylor O’Donnell portland house of music portland house of mu- Byrnes’ Irish Pub | 38 Centre tle Temper + Emily & Jake + Ju- pez, piano | 12 pm | $10 Director | 7:30pm and events | 25 Temple St., sic and events | 25 Temple St. Bath | Live Music: Irish Ses- niper Ginger | 8:30pm | $10 - $12 Portland | A Company of Girls: o’reily’s cure | 264 Rte 1, St., Portland | Caroline Cotter + sion | 7pm Curtis Memorial Library | Empow{h}er 2018 | 5:30 pm | $25 Frontier Theater | 14 Maine Scarborough | Don Campbell | 6 23 Pleasant St Brunswick | Mid- Jenny Van West | 7 pm | $15 St. Mill 3 Fort Andross Brunswick pm | Free Empire | 575 Congress St | “The coast Senior College presents SPACE Gallery | 538 Con- | The Richard Nelson Imaginary Portland Public Library Great Open Mic” | 6pm The DaPonte String Quartet | gress St | Y La Bamba with the press room | 77 Daniel Ensemble | 7:30pm | Free 12:15pm | Free Dead Gowns and Mousa | 8pm St., Portsmouth | The Bad Plus | | 5 Monument Square | Poetry flatbread | 72 Commer- | $10 - $12 Merrill Auditorium | 20 8 pm | $35 reading & performance by Kifah Empire | 575 Congress St | It cial St., Por tland | Chad Myrtle Street | USM Youth En- Abdullah, Emma Flores & Devin Lives, It Breathes + Awake At Sea Dog Brewing Company the frog and turtle | 3 Haynes | 6 pm sembles Fall Instrumental Con- Colella | 6:30pm | 125 Western Ave South Port- Bridge St., Westbrook | Matt Last | 8:30pm | $10 - $12 cert | 7pm OceanView at Falmouth | land | Weekly Tuesday open mic Brunner & Friends | 7 pm | Free portland public library First Parish Church | night at the Sea Dog Brewery in 3 Marrion Way Falmouth | Op- state theatre | 609 Con- | 5 Monument Sq., Portland 425 Congress Street | Portland SoPo | 8pm | Free gress St., Portland | A Drag era Maine Presents Jorell Wil- Thursday 15 | Noonday Concert Series, Maine Weekly Sacred Harp Sing- Queen Christmas, The Naughty liams in Concert at OceanView ing | 7pm Maine + Beyond Tour | 8 pm | $50 ScheckMate | 12 pm | Free | 2pm | Free Greater Portland First Parish UU Church maine arts academy | 8 Old Port Tavern | 10 Moult- Riverton Branch | 1600 For- | 425 Congress St | Portland Old Port Tavern | 10 Moult- Goldenrod Ln., Sidney | Raja Rah- on St | DJ Corey | 9pm Aura | 121 Center Street | Red est Avenue | Noonday Concert Maine Weekly Sacred Harp Sing- on St | karaoke with DJ Marc man in Concert | 6:30 pm | $10 Sun Rising w/ Spirit Animal and Series - ScheckMate | 12pm Beatham | 9pm ing | 7pm | Free Oxbow blending and bot- Five of the Eyes | 8pm | $15 school of music at the tling | Live Music Wednesdays: Space Gallery | 538 Con- Freeport Community Li- Aura | 121 Center St | “Retro Pepperell Center | 40 Main university of southern Treason Quartet | 6:30 pm | Free brary | 10 Library Dr Freeport gress St | Searching for Home maine | Corthell Hall, Gorham Night,” with DJ Jon | 9pm | Free St., 2nd Floor Biddeford | Begin- | IS STORY TIME!! | 10:30am spring point tavern | 175 (with Portland Chamber Music | Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Taylor ner Swing Dance Classes | 6pm Benjamin Pickett St., South B.good | 15 exchange st | Open Festival) | 7:30pm | $13 - $18 O’Donnell, Director | 7:30 pm | $8 | $10 - $12 Gritty McDuff’s - Port- Portland | Karaoke Night | 8:30 mic night | 7pm | Free land | 396 Fore Street | Travis pm | Free Spring Point Tavern | Blue | 650A Congress St | happy Maine + Beyond James Humphrey | 9pm | Free Wednesday 14 175 Benjamin W. Pickett St. Port City Music Hall | 504 hour with Rexy Dinosaur | 5pm Local 188 | 685 Congress St | Congress St | Keller Williams South Portland | open mic | Byrnes’ Irish Pub | 38 Centre o’reillys cure | 264 U.S. Rt. 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Film The Past Isn’t Through With Us Documentary film Bisbee ‘17 tells haunting tale of labor abuse and group therapy at the border By N i c k s C h r o e d e r

isbee, Arizona is a haunted city. Once a other business tycoons) rallied pro-company This feels demonstrably insufficient, so candid interviews, a narrativized surrogate for Bprosperous copper mining region, the stockholders and deputized its citizens to form Greene probes the story deeper, scripting, cast- the workers’ resistance (played by the young community of 6,000 a few miles from the a militia of roughly 2,000 men. The next morning, and staging a re-enactment of the morn- Fernando Serrano, whose arc begins apoliti- Mexico border has lived for generations with ing, they rounded up the striking workers from ing of the deportation and rousing hundreds cally), and varyingly awkward portraits of the memory of one of the greatest humanitar- their beds, corralled them in a baseball field and of Bisbee residents to participate. citizen-actors preparing for their roles. When ian abuses in U.S. history occurring on its soil. demanded they abandon the strike. Some did, As with his earlier films, Greene is less con- they don’t speak to their allegiances, biases, Bisbee ‘17, a remarkable documentary by Robert Greene screening this week at SPACE, tells the ghost story coursing through the city’s history. Taking place a hundred years ago, Greene brings the story much closer at hand, blurring the boundaries of documentary film with practices of historical re-enactment, psy- chodrama, cosplay, and group therapy. During a copper boom in Arizona around World War I, wealthy mining companies essentially ran Bisbee, reaping incredible profits. Unions were strong — stronger than today anyway — but company power was stronger, emboldened by the justifications afforded by the war effort. In the summer of 1917, wages paid to Bisbee’s copper miners had stagnated, Fernando Serrano in Bisbee ‘17 while inflation tied to the war had increased (Dir: Robert Greene) the cost of living. Meanwhile, working conditions were becoming increasingly more dangerous with ramped-up production demands. With the guidance of the International Work- but the rest — more than 1,100 citizens — were cerned here with rigorously documentating an and collective grief, we see them play out in ers of the World (I.W.W.), who’d been particu- put onto boxcars and shipped 150 miles into event or personality. He’s more interested in the gestures of their re-enactments. larly helpful to Bisbee’s lower-wage workers the New Mexico desert where they were aban- the transformational shift within them, or the “Cities that are haunted…seem to straddle (disproportionately immigrants of Mexican and doned and left to die, never allowed to return. nebulous interior space between authenticity past and present, as though two versions of the southern European descent), the miners of Bis- Robert Greene, a professor at the University and performance. In prior films, where his city are overlaid on top of each other,” flashes bee organized. They wanted a flat wage system of Missouri (whose wife’s family has ties to subject’s been a single individual, that’s had an epigram at the beginning of the film. It’s to replace sliding sales tied to the copper market, Bisbee), often takes what might be called an mixed results, but it’s a brilliant tool to explore a chilling sensation to see people attempt the and an end to discrimination against members of activist approach to documentary filmmaking. the anxious group dynamics of Bisbee’s cul- task of dramatizing the same abuses against labor organizations and the unequal treatment of His prior films are sprinkled with rulebreak tural memory. its neighbors as their ancestors did. Screening foreign and minority workers. (Actress, Kate Plays Christine, Fake It So Real, As many residents can trace their family in another of the most aggressively politicized The company refused. By June 27, nearly Kati With an I), occasionally deploying nar- lineage to foremen or upper-managers of the anti-immigrant and anti-worker moments in 1,200 workers — roughly half of the workforce rative elements and staged events. The tactic former mining company, the opinions of American history, it’s not difficult to see Bis- of Bisbee — went on strike. is useful here — at the beginning of the film, Bisbee’s citizens skew apologist. (Recall that bee’s sad story as an allegory for our own. The mining company’s response was un- Bisbee’s residents gather in public settings to the descendants of the victims of the Bisbee conscionable. Overnight, Bisbee’s sheriff (with discuss the city’s uneasy history in ambivalent, Deportation are essentially absent). The film Bisbee ‘17 | Nov 14 | Wed 7 pm | SPACE, 538 the help of the mining company owners and anxious tones in public settings. captures this tension incredibly well, weaving Congress St, Portland | $8 | www.space538.org  20 | Theater November 8, 2018 | the Portland phoenix | portlandphoenix.me

Mary (Amy Torrey), Elder Thomas (Gus LaRou), Liz (Amanda Eaton) and Charlie (Burke Brimmer) Photos by Craig Robinson The true Size of Loss Mad Horse summons the deep with moving and meditative ‘The Whale’ By M e g a n G r u m b l i n g

harlie (Burke Brimmer) Just getting through two hours under rage at his rapid decline, calling him a “fat almost saint-like. And his unearthly stoicism Cis a shut-in, weighs 600 the lights in such a getup must be challenge fuck” and “worthless”; and finally to her own makes all the more poignant his rare moments pounds, and is dying. His one enough, and the nuance of Brimmer’s physi- self-loathing for having said it. Eaton makes of physical intimacy. In a quiet, remarkable friend, Liz (Amanda Eaton), cal work is stupendous. He physicalizes the heartbreakingly clear that Liz’s cruelties are a scene, his estranged ex-wife Mary (Amy Tor- a nurse, enables his obesity largely immobile Charlie’s wide range of feel- demonstration of her need, her desperation to rey, in a strong and exceptionally well-modu- even as she tries to save him. ing almost entirely in his eyes: Reacting to save a friend who is refusing to save himself. lated performance) rests her head on Charlie’s And his only other contact with the outside Eaton’s (excellent) brash, foul-mouthed Liz, Unlike Liz, Ellie is coolly, deliberately stomach — at first gingerly, but then relaxing, world is through the lessons he broadcasts out Charlie rolls his eyes around in a sort of ironic cruel to Charlie, and Briman is spot-on with relenting her body into closeness with his. It is (sans camera) to his online writing students. “Ok, ok.” When Elder Thomas asks if he wants the teenager’s flat, derisive affect, the “fuck”- the most acute physical tenderness we see on- But just as Charlie’s prognosis worsens, his to hear about the Word, Charlie’s eyes dart inflected disdain and level, deadly gaze. “Just stage, and they hold the moment as if they’ve life suddenly intersects with a random young from side to side and up, as if in calculation, being around you is disgusting” is the least been desperately thirsting for it. Mormon (Gus LaRou) and his own estranged before he responds. And as he tries to keep a of what she says to her father. She’s a jerk to And what are we to make of the mar- teenage daughter, Ellie (Ella Briman). Every- conversation going with unreceptive Ellie, his everyone else, too. She first opens the door to tyrdom Charlie is heading toward with the one is contending with a loss, pain, or sense eyes flit upward again and again, like a little Elder Thomas with a blunt, scornful “What,” monomania of a certain whaling captain? The of not belonging, in Samuel D. Hunter’s lapping wave, as if gently nudging her along. then constantly goads the teenage Mormon, plot’s revelations (and whale allusions) are The Whale, an odd and poignant dark-comic When Charlie does move his body, Brimmer whose animated movements and enthusiasms, sometimes intriguing, sometimes a little pat; drama on stage now at Mad Horse, directed by takes pains to show us how monumental are in LaRou’s hands, contrast well against bored its resolutions are both simple and ambigu- Christine Louise Marshall. the weight and the effort, shaking violently Ellie. Her fuck-off lines become a little relent- ous. But the show’s eye is unflinching and its Charlie’s bulk is literally center stage for as he pulls himself off the couch to his walker, less, but Briman manages to convey how with empathy deep. This Mad Horse production is much of the show; Brimmer wears it as a staggering his way across the room with excru- each truth she shares, however reluctantly, she a moving, sometimes harrowing meditation huge, shocking, cushiony prosthesis, darkened ciating slowness. is a little more present in the room. on both what we swallow and what we allow with grease stains on the legs (a fine, cringe- Charlie endures it all with a gracious ac- As The Whale tracks Charlie’s health and to swallow us. worthy touch). Within this body, Charlie ceptance, as if he has long since internalized relationships, the plot also hangs interest- barely moves. He sits, eats, and teaches in a his self-loathing and the sight he knows he ingly on the significance of a certain student The Whale | By Samuel D. Hunter; directed by living room that’s squalid and haunted: cans Christine Louise Marshall | Mad Horse The- makes — a sight that others insult with breath- essay about Moby Dick; we hear fragments of and food wrappers litter the floor, and on the atre Company, 24 Mosher St, South Portland | taking directness. Eaton’s strident Liz veers it reverently recited by Charlie. The equanim- putty-colored walls float the white ghosts of Through November 18 | Thu-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 2 where photographs once hung. wildly in her moods: from giddiness, as she ity it inspires in him, as he receives everyone’s pm | $23 ($20 seniors/students) | brings him some new medical panacea; to her strife, hurt, and ugliness, is nearly mystical, www.madhorse.com ¤ The Portland phoenix | portlandphoenix.me | November 8, 2018 Theater | 21 Conjuring Home at Portland Stage ’جلم *Maine playwright and company dazzle with ambitious ‘Refuge *Malja By M e g a n G r u m b l i n g

Waleed (Anwer Ali) and Mother (Shauna Bloom)

Jamie (Brooke Parks) and Waleed (Anwer Ali) Photos by Aaron Flacke

hen Jewish-American photojournal- on a large screen help us range geographically they lament earnestly), but their rapport is shoes, olives, shoes, boats, wolf — the flavor of Wist Jamie (Brooke Parks) meets a between Greece and Israel, displaying now Ja- quirky and sensual, and the fine Salama brings these scenes is richly imagined and their stage- shoeless Syrian boy on the island of Lesvos, mie’s photographs of refugees, now the World depth, agility, and humor to his portrayal of craft strikingly realized. she feels compelled to shelter him. But she Holocaust Remembrance Center, where she Ibrahim, a satisfyingly complex character. He As with its imagery, Refuge covers a lot of hasn’t thought through what to do next, traces the fate of her grandfather. The stage is also a poet, and the verse Welden writes for ground in its themes — motherhood and fam- and her compulsion to help the boy, Waleed itself presents a wide stretch of Lesvos sand, him, with its lines about olives brined in tears, ily; the ethics of crisis journalism; the liminal (local actors Mohammad Adam, Hussein vast and stark, punctuated by an iconic pile of is rich and evocative. spaces of geography, culture, and religion; and Al-Mshakheel, and Anwer Ali, in rotation), orange life vests that never leaves the stage. Jamie, who has run away from people the dynamics of home and of displacement, is complicated. Seeking advice from a former Here, language is both a barrier and a in her life, is in some ways hard to know. whether forced or self-imposed. At times, it lover, the journalist Ibrahim (Amro Salama), bridge, as Jamie befriends Waleed and as, in In Parks’ hands, she is curious, proud, and feels like a lot for one story. But it certainly Jamie revisits a history of relationships and affectingly simple scenes, they photograph restless; she resists being known, even as she gives us much to consider, especially as it be- choices. Moving back and forth in time, across shoes and backpacks and their own heads, seems to lament that she is misunderstood. comes clear that whatever selflessness spurs continents, and between external and interior then teach each other the words for them. These qualities keep us at some distance from Jamie to help Waleed, the act also serves her worlds, we follow Jamie’s reckonings with Soon, Waleed (played plainly and endearingly our stakes in Jamie’s secrets, which we circle. own needs and holes; that it is, on some level, language, commitment, and home, in the by Hussein Al-Mshakheel last Friday) finds Mothers are a strong motif of the play — however well-intentioned and welcomed, also Written by local increasing pleasure and comfort in the game, Waleed’s absent one, Ibrahim’s mute one, and a selfish act. In this way, Refuge also functions .أجلم * lyrical Refuge * Malja playwright and performer Bess Welden, Refuge and in Jamie. her own sick one — around which Parks’ Jamie as an examination of a particular American is the latest in Portland Stage’s season of shows Meanwhile, the narrative shifts back and moves with visible tentativeness. Interestingly, m.o. in the world. Regardless of the personal about borders and boundaries, and is on stage forth in time, a bit relentlessly, reconstruct- she seems most forthcoming, self-aware, and circumstances, displacements, and refuges that now, under the direction of New York City- ing Jamie’s relationship with Ibrahim. As a happy as she tells Ibrahim about her “wolf” have led her here, Jamie must reckon with the based director Kareem Fahmy. Princeton-educated Palestinian Israeli (who — a sort of imaginary advisor or conscience. fact that that at any time, for any reason, big Malja is the Arabic word for refuge, and is dating a lapsed American Jew), Ibrahim This wolf is part of the show’s frequently or small – unlike Waleed — she can go home Welden brought in a translator, Ali Al- lives in what he calls “gray areas” of identity, expressionist imagery of dreams and percep- again, and she probably will. Mshakheel, to provide the play’s substantial culture, and home, liminal spaces that the tions: shoes are suspended over the stage; a bed By Bess Welden; directed | أجلم * Arabic dialogue — some with English trans- absolute-minded Jamie doesn’t understand becomes a boat awash in sea-smoke; a projec- Refuge * Malja by Kareen Fahmy | Portland Stage, 25A Forest lation, much without. It’s one of several and has had the privilege to not have to learn. tion of green grass glows with the yellow eyes Ave | Through November 18 | Thu-Fri 7:30 pm; thoughtful choices that decenter us from a Sometimes the pair’s dialogue feels a little of Jamie’s wolf. Though the show sometimes Sat 4 & 8 pm; Sun 2 pm; Wed 7:30 pm; Thu 2 & white American perspective. Images projected stock (“We’re not as young as we used to be,” reels in its abundance of symbols and motifs — 7:30 pm | $21-41 | portlandstage.org ¤ 22

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November 9, 10, 16, 17 & 18 Timeline Directed by Laura Sacks Morris Follow the odyssey of a middle-aged woman as she explores, with her Written by therapist, childhood memories, Deborah Anderson & Roland H Robinson adult-related milestones, and the inevitability of death. Produced by Mark Anderson Witness the humor, Featuring vulnerability and an Holly Brown exploration of Nathan Sylvester pathways Tracey Hall to healing. Portland Ballet Studio Theater 517 Forest Ave, Portland

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ortland Beer Week is upon us (November ate the delicious beers we have in Maine. Check your ABV. Start your evening with aromas of Maine beers. Meet people. Tell sto- P4-10), billed as “a series of events celebrat- Keep portion sizes down. With hundreds lower alcohol beers like milds, browns, and ries. Take time to sip and savor! ing the craft beer industry in Maine.” With of varieties of beers in every conceivable style, other “session” beers. Maximize aroma. Much of what we call nearly 100 events, there are no shortage of there's little point in pounding them by the Mind your IBU. Hops are a leading culprit taste is actually smell. Our nose plays an out- opportunities to bypass the “celebrating” and pint. If they are available, try to get smaller in creating palate fatigue. Start by enjoying sized role in our appreciation of flavors, so give end up stumbling drunk, issuing a stream of servings. You'll be able to sample more variet- darker beers (many of which emphasize malty it the best conditions possible. First, ensure single-hopped grisette from your digestive ies of beer, and have a better chance at staying flavors) early in the evening, and then advanc- your glass isn't filled to the rim. This head tract into the gutter. vertical. ing to pale ales, IPA and double IPA later on. space gives the volatile compounds in a beer Want to enjoy PBW with a modicum of Start low, go high. “Palate fatigue” and Find things to munch on. Hitting a time to build up, so you can inhale their deli- class and a minimum of puke? Tear out this “olfactory adaptation” are two of the biggest barleywine tasting on an empty tummy is a cious aroma. Second, wrap your hands around handy survival guide and keep it handy during threats to a good beer week. Simply, these are rookie mistake, and a surefire ticket to the your beer to warm it slightly. Third, give the the festivities. what happens when your tongue and your vomitorium. I'll have a modest meal before Hydrate. My rule is to drink a serving of nose become desensitized to flavors and aro- heading to a tasting, and will snack liberally beer a gentle swirl to hep suspend the aromas. water (that's an 8 oz. glass) for every serving mas over time. A fatigued palate can't tell one during. I find pretzels are an ideal snack for a Last, take a deep huff of that delightful aroma. of beer to help minimize potential hangovers. IPA from another, and a fatigued nose can't tasting. They're light and tasty, and the abun- Ride safely. There's no excuse to drive Besides, having a glass of water on-hand keeps pick out the differences between beers after dant salt resets the palate between sips. impaired. Use a ride app, call a taxi, designate me from sipping beer reflexively, or out of a few sniffs. One strategy to defeat these is to Take your time. Save your chugging game a driver — whatever it takes. Beer week should sheer boredom. Better, water keeps your pal- start the evening drinking milder beers, and for any other week. Beer week is a time to slow be an occasion of joy and celebration, so let's ate clean and supple, so you can better appreci- turn up the heat as the tasting goes on. down, and appreciate the unique flavors and not mar it with a preventable accident.  16

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he rapid growth characterizing the dining scene in bit vanilla on paper compared to the rest of the menu, but The TPortland these past few years has been met with mixed Farm exudes a deep range of flavors that I haven’t found else- opinion. For every major market listicle gushing about where where on pizza in Maine. If you order just one pie, let this be it. you should be downing oysters this month, there are at least The only prep I’ve tried that hasn’t hit the mark for me has a handful of disenfranchised Portlanders lamenting the days been the Ocean, which is essentially Bonobo’s take on white when a sandwich and a beer didn’t cost $22 or require a two- clam pizza. More akin to a clam version of shrimp toast in its hour wait to enjoy. And they’d be right to feel this way — these minimalism, it’s not distasteful, but does border on dry and places are disappearing not just here, but in cities across the generally feels as if it’s missing “something.” Suffice to say, there country similarly propped up by the latest dining trends and are plenty of other options to choose from. flavors of the week. For the decision-weary, an extra dollar yields the option to This is one of many reasons to be grateful for the persistence combine two specialty pizzas in the form of one ½ and ½ pizza. of Bonobo. Now in its 11th year, the West End staple on the It’s a great way to work through the relatively extensive menu, corner of Pine and Brackett still churns out an impressive array and paired with a clean and simple house salad of romaine, of wood-fired pizzas seven nights a week, with a cozy neighbor- arugula, spinach and endive leaves with sweet pickled cukes hood atmosphere and an approachable price point to boot. It is, and lemon vinaigrette, it makes for a truly satisfying, surpris- in a way, a reminder of what things used to be like around here. Ocean (left half) and Gruyere (right half) pizzas ingly inexpensive meal for two. A rib-sticking French onion That’s not to say Bonobo offers a benchmark dining experi- soup to start and cioccolata with house-made whipped cream ence you’ll hang onto for the rest of your life. You might, though the outlandish. Certain examples in the latter category stand for dessert will round things out for the ultra-hungry — you can — perhaps in the form of a casual first date that leads to a long out as being what makes Bonobo unique and are not to be always bring home leftovers. partnership (there are few spots in town better suited to “date missed. Jerk chicken on a pizza (The Marley) may sound like a night”). Bonobo instead provides a warm, convivial space in reason to get up and leave, but with a glass of the house Barbera Bonobo has recently changed hands after being sold earlier which to catch up with a friend or neighbor over what is still on me says it’s one of the tastiest bites you’ll find around town. this year to new owners Dominique Gonzalez and Justin Grey, some of the better pizza available in Southern Maine. The Gruyere drops potatoes, spinach, leeks and prosciutto atop who — in a letter of intent to the city from May of this year — Let’s talk about that pizza. Fired in a wood oven at lower a gooey quagmire of gruyere and parm, rounded out with a rich stated an aim to continue operations as usual for a seamless temperatures than the standard 700-800°F range, the dough and potent garlic butter. It is a kaleidoscope of colors, textures transition. To their testament, you’d never know anything has gets a bit more time to set before exiting the heat, resulting in a and flavors that’ll have you wondering where this particular changed without asking. Bonobo continues to provide a pure thin, slightly chewy and pleasantly sweet crust with just a touch breed of pizza has been all your life. and unpretentious dining experience accentuated by excellent of smoke and sourness to it. Perhaps most akin to the end prod- Assertive dairy also takes center-stage on The Taleggio, value. It’s a glimpse ever so slightly back in time, and one in uct served at Lazzari, the pizza at Bonobo — more restrained in combining the eponymous cheese with smoked tomatoes, leeks which those who miss the “old” Portland will no doubt find toppings and thus lighter in feel — is unique to itself and with- and a crown of fresh arugula for a deeply satisfying balance of some comfort. out any true analogs in the area smoke and salt. My personal favorite pie at Bonobo, though — There are 17 different preparations to choose from on any The Farm — happens to be more on the traditional side. Pork Bonobo | 46 Pine St, Portland | Mon-Thu 4-9:30 pm; Fri-Sat 11:30 given day, ranging from the expected to what some might call sausage, roasted onions, oregano and red sauce may sound a am-9:30 pm; Sun 11:30 am-9 pm | www.bonobopizza.com ¤ The Portland phoenix | portlandphoenix.me | November 8, 2018 31 Tweet Of The Week Jonesin’ “Ride Share” an inconvenient place to park. by Matt Jones

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