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At thePhoenix.com F A champion contemporary poet slams into Portland. Ra- chel McKibbens, a national and world poetry-slam champion this Just in who is known for her dark, candid, no-holds-barred verse, stops by Bull Feeney’s Tuesday.

Making history prison assault rAre: guArd is chArged Examining ‘Seneca, Selma, and Stonewall’ fAlthough prisoners and their advocates say rough fIt will be recalled as the most Portland chapter of the treatment by guards of inmates — amounting to crimi- famous line from President Barack National Association nal assault — is not uncommon, Maine State Prison guard Obama’s second inaugural address for the Advancement of Captain David Cutler, 54, of Appleton, is apparently the only delivered January 21: Colored People, Rachel officer at the prison since 2005 to be charged with assault- “We, the people, declare today that the most Talbot Ross, will discuss ing an inmate — and only the second in at least 20 years. evident of truths — that all of us are created equal “Selma” — a series of The NAACP sees the alleged assault as a possible racial in- — is the star that guides us still, just as it guided protest marches that cident. The man named as the victim, Renardo Williams, 35, our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, took place in Selma, serving 15 years for drug trafficking, is African American. and Stonewall, just as it guided all those men and Alabama, in 1965. The The case highlights “the perceived patterns and prac- women, sung and unsung, who left footprints bloody demonstrations, tices of institutionalized racism at the Maine State Prison,” along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that organized in support of Rachel Talbot Ross, president of the Portland branch of we cannot walk alone, to hear a King proclaim voting rights for African the national civil-rights organization, emailed the Phoenix. that our individual freedom is inextricably bound Americans, helped to “The NAACP and Maine Department of Corrections have to the freedom of every soul on Earth.” make the rest of the agreed to work collaboratively to address this and other re- In the New Yorker, Hendrick Hertz- country aware of the lated issues in a timely manner.” berg said this “thrilling” section of deep-seated racism that She added that incidents of racism “are definitely real and the speech would be remembered for plagued the South, and known,” but have not yet been proven. The Corrections de- decades to come; in the New York Times, propelled forward the partment said it had “no comment” on the Cutler case except David Brooks said Obama’s “unapolo- civil rights movement to say it had agreed “to work collaboratively with the NAACP getically liberal speech” was a “strong in general and the 1965 on issues.” argument for modern liberalism.” It barbara carre LL as Voting Rights Act in On February 20, Geoffrey Rushlau, Knox County’s district was the first time in history that gay BEAMING IN author Kate bornstein’s next book particular. attorney, charged Cutler with knocking the legs out from rights were mentioned in an inaugural comes out in May. The third event under an unthreatening Williams on Christmas Eve while address. That Obama chose to high- mentioned in Obama’s he was handcuffed — because Williams disobeyed his order light three fundamental moments in address will be tackled to sit down. Out on bail and his employment “ended,” in the American civil-rights history signaled Brazil, and Sri Lanka, among other by queer writer and activist Kate Born- department’s phrasing, Cutler has an appearance scheduled his solidarity with those who have places) and that “the women at Seneca stein, author of several books including for April 8 in Rockland’s district court. been, and those who continue to be, Falls were quite aware of those.” Tap- Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest The 2005 assault case was dismissed, and, according to oppressed. ping into worldwide sentiment can be of Us (Routledge) and Hello, Cruel World: Rushlau, it’s the only other assault charge brought against a Three experts will speak to the sig- useful, if only to boost morale. 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Warren prison correctional officer he can recall in the 20 years nificance of the “Seneca-Selma-Stone- Secondly, Murolo appreciates that Other Outlaws (Seven Stories Press). Born- he has served as DA. The prison lies within his jurisdiction. wall” speech on Friday, March 8 — In- the women at Seneca Falls embraced stein will be unable to attend in-person When prisoners are charged with assaulting a guard — ternational Woman’s Day, incidentally the concept of “the personal is political” due to health problems, but will be not a rare occurrence — the law requires a felony charge, — as part of the University of Southern long before it became a feminist slogan beamed in remotely to offer her portion potentially bringing a prison sentence of up to five years, but Maine’s annual Women’s History in the late 1960s and 1970s. She points of the program, which will discuss the Cutler was charged only with misdemeanor assault, punish- Month celebration. Each of them will specifically to this complaint from the Stonewall riots of 1969, a seminal event able by up to a year in jail. address one of the events that Obama Declaration of Sentiments: “[Man] has in the history of gay rights. The affidavit supporting Cutler’s arrest, made out by Cor- name-checked in his speech. endeavored, in every way that he could, When Obama mentioned Stone- rections Department investigator Joseph Fagone, supports Priscilla Murolo, a history profes- to destroy her confidence in her own wall, he was referring to a series of Williams’s description of the incident, first made public by sor at Sarah Lawrence College in New powers, to lessen her self-respect, and New York City demonstrations dur- the Phoenix (see “Why the Prison Warden Got Fired,” by Lance York, will talk about the 1848 Seneca to make her willing to lead a dependent ing which gays and lesbians finally Tapley, January 25). The affidavit depicts Cutler’s action as Falls Convention — the country’s first and abject life.” fought back against government and arbitrary and unnecessary. women’s rights gathering, at which “That sounds more like a quarrel law enforcement attempts to stifle Cutler’s arrest took place in an atmosphere of great a group of about 200 women and 100 across a breakfast table than something and suppress them. The catalyst was a change at the prison, as Commissioner Joseph Ponte con- men (almost all of them abolitionists) you’d read in a manifesto,” Murolo police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay tinues his two-year-old reform program. In January he fired issued a “Declaration of Sentiments” says. But that doesn’t mean it should bar located in Greenwich Village; the Warden Patricia Barnhart and appointed reform-minded listing grievances perpetrated against be overlooked. Self-confidence and in- rebellion led to the creation of the Gay Rodney Bouffard, head of the Long Creek juvenile detention women by men (100 attendees — 68 dependence make it possible for women Activist Alliance. center, in South Portland, as acting warden. women and 32 men — actually signed to participate fully in the affairs of the While the causes embraced at The Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition and other prisoner the document). day, and in this way, such “personal” Seneca and Selma have been ad- advocates see some guards at the prison as trying to sabotage “The history of mankind is a history grievances are in fact very relevant to dressed (which isn’t to say, not by a Ponte’s reforms. Cutler had long been criticized by MPAC for of repeated injuries and usurpations the generation of political and social long shot, that we live in some sort his allegedly callous ways with inmates. “He’s not alone,” on the part of man toward woman, movements. of post-feminist, post-racist society), MPAC’s Judy Garvey told the Phoenix. having in direct object the establish- Lastly, Murolo stresses the overlap the GLBT fight for equality is still rag- Ponte has admitted that change has been difficult for ment of an absolute tyranny over her,” that existed at the time of the Seneca ing. Obama’s mention of Stonewall at prison staff. The principal union representing guards, the the writers declared in the document’s Falls Convention between women’s his inauguration (as well as his more American Federation of State, County and Municipal Em- opening paragraphs. Among other rights activists and abolitionists. The explicit call for equality, one sentence ployees, has criticized him for firing Barnhart and for reduc- things, the Declaration of Sentiments fight for female equality “grew out of later) was a strong indication that the ing overtime available to guards. lamented women’s limited (or non- the desire for women to play a larger president sees gay rights as a defining All over the country, AFSCME has resisted prison reforms existent) access to education, property, role in the movement against slavery,” issue of our time. if they appeared to jeopardize guard jobs or the ability of voting rights, and participation in she says. The lesson to be learned here, _Deirdre Fulton guards to treat inmates as they wish. As a national move- church affairs. Murolo advises, is “that the most ef- ment to reduce solitary confinement gathers force — with Murolo believes there are lessons we fective way to nurture feminism is to USM Women and Gender Studies annual Ponte and Maine in the lead — unions have opposed it. can still learn from Seneca Falls. For foster women’s activism around all of Women’s History Month Celebration: _Lance Tapley one thing, she notes that “the conven- the great issues of the day, whether or “Seneca, Selma, Stonewall, Social Change” tion took place halfway through a year not their easily identified as women’s | March 8 @ 7 pm | Hannaford Hall, Univer- For more on union opposition to humanitarian reform, see “Solidar- of revolutions” across the globe (1848 issues.” sity of Southern Maine, Portland | Free | ity and Solitary: When Unions Clash with Prison Reform,” by James was a year of unrest in Italy, France, Also on Friday, the president of the 207.780.4289 Ridgeway and Jean Casella, February 21, at solitarywatch.com. with incite / lody Kong / dead season

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_BY AL DIAMON politics + other Mistakes Press Releases _BY Jeff InglIS [email protected] Cold feet, hot Rogues gallery heads on guns Time to get your crazy on. But consider his advantages. Some of around. But Karen (no relation), who f last month, the Bangor Daily News lost its courage I don’t mean crazy in the which ended up displayed in an on- recently announced her resignation f sense of let’s dig up Libby Mitchell, line video. Strong has excellent hair. as head of the federal Small Business after an initially outstanding statewide public-records hook her corpse to lightning rods, Way better than LePage’s. He has the Administration, is available. She says request for information on who holds permits to carry con- let the bolts of electricity revive her, endurance needed for an arduous cam- stuff like “next-generation technolo- cealed weapons in Maine. and run her for governor again. That paign. Again, it’s clearly demonstrat- gies” and “cutting-edge technologies” Made of every police agency in the state that issues such would be wrong in so many ways, ed in that video. He knows how to hire a lot, so you know she’s not some permits, the BDN request was part of the paper’s ongoing mostly involving the running-her-for- competent people — such as his law- stuffy old bureaucrat. Also, Janet, effort to reveal the impact of domestic violence, sexual as- governor part. yer, Dan Lilley — even if he can’t af- Peter’s sister and the current attorney sault, and drug abuse in Maine. all are newsworthy topics, No, there are adequate outlets for ford to pay them. And he has . . . um general, wants to run. Her language is and firearm accessibility — legal and illegal — is relevant to crazy that don’t involve a zombified . . . intimate experience in helping a somewhat earthier than Karen’s, and understanding them. version of the Democrats’ 2010 guber- small business prosper. As for the pos- in a steel-cage death match (a far bet- But when the paper asked for the information the back- natorial nominee. Even folks who are sibility he might be serving a prison ter way to choose nominees than bor- lash went national — even though several police chiefs ac- flat-out nuts can recognize the inadvis- sentence in the near future, he’d ing primaries), my money’s on her. knowledged it was public, and despite the BDN’s assurances ability of resurrecting a candidate who likely do so in Windham or Warren, There’s also somebody claiming to be it was not going to publish a directory of permit holders’ wants to eat your brain and couldn’t which means that, unlike LePage, he “Cynthia Mill,” but that’s just Dill on names and addresses. muster even 20 percent of the vote. wouldn’t be taking off for vacations defrost. instead of standing its ground on the basis of free And that was against Paul LePage. in Florida or the Caribbean every time information and newsworthiness, the BDN retracted its Who had his crazy at full throttle. things in Augusta got heated. tOM SAvIeLLO request the day after issuing it, bowing to the pressure while Come to think of it, he still does. The GOP state senator from Wilton lamenting its existence, and simultaneously abdicating its Likewise, there’s no need to disturb rOBert SMIth used to be a Democrat, so there’s no journalistic role. in announcing its decision to exit the debate the cryogenic chamber where Cynthia That name may not be familiar to good reason why he couldn’t be one over public access to government record about guns, BDN Dill has been frozen since garnering you, but you’ve probably heard of the again. Saviello, known for his mav- news director tony ronzio wrote: “it’s clear that as a state, a mere 13 percent of the vote last year Whistler, the man who wanders Port- erick ways, is high on LePage’s list of and as a nation, we still have much to do to generate light as the Democrats’ best hope of cap- land’s streets for hours at a time whis- politicians he can’t stand. That could in this debate, instead of heat.” it’s extremely disappointing turing a US Senate seat. Dill should tling in a manner that resembles the be because he’s one of the shrinking that the BDN melted, allowing the darkness to continue. be allowed to sleep in peace until a back-up warning beeper on a garbage minority of men who can carry off and continue it will: lawmakers in both parties, with future time that’s more suited to her truck. He’s been cited for disorderly wearing a bowtie, something LePage the support of republican Governor paul lepage, passed personality. Probably something that conduct and warned to keep moving does about as well as crafting a budget an “emergency” bill making concealed-weapons permits, resembles a J.J. Abrams-directed ver- whenever he decides to pucker up. the Legislature would approve without which have been public records for more than three decades, sion of Hello Kitty Meets The Hangover, Part He seems like the perfect poster boy radical changes. Even though Saviello secret for two months. of course, the secrecy doesn’t extent 3, starring Melissa McCarthy, Mel Gib- for free spiritedness and free speech, isn’t particularly influential, he gets to hunting licenses or moose-lottery applications, which are son, and a computer-generated tiger both core Democratic values (unless his face in the news more than most also public government records relating to gun ownership. who turns out to be not really there. (It your free spirit wants to smoke; ride other legislators, including members the stated hope was that cooler heads might prevail over was the booze talking.) a motorcycle without a helmet; or eat of leadership. And he possesses the time, bringing light and not just heat to the debate. The kind of crazy I’m looking for fatty, sugar-laden foods wrapped in uncanny ability to make you think there has been the distracting suggestion by George is the think-outside-the-box sort that petroleum-based packaging). On the he agrees with you — even when he Smith that the permit requirement should be abolished. might produce some fresh ideas for negative side, Smith wears a Yankees doesn’t. Sort of a Libby Mitchell in Smith, the former head of the Sportsman’s alliance of 2014 candidates for governor. Some- hat and thinks his whistling comes reverse. Maine, is now a columnist for the Kennebec Journal, may body who’s a bit out of the ordinary. from God, two characteristics sure well have a point. But that’s a very different debate than Somebody the Dems can rally around. to offend Red Sox fans, atheists, and kArMO SANDerS whether government records should be open to the public. Somebody whose percentage of the those who believe their deity has bet- You know her as Birdie Googins, the arguing they should be secret because they shouldn’t exist vote will look less like an Olympic ter musical taste. Marden’s Lady. How cool would it be sounds positively nixonian. gymnastics score. to watch LePage, the former CEO of and then there’s the hypocrisy. the Portland Press Herald Somebody like: ANY cANDIDAte NAMeD MILLS the discount chain, debating his ex- and Gawker (separately) got information that there have Maine’s Constitution requires that all company’s spokeswoman? been several other requests from state officials for this infor- MArk StrONg Sr. elections include at least one person Well, not very, actually. ^ mation. Gawker reported that most of the requests in Maine The private eye accused of master- with that surname. Peter, the head and around the country are from political-consulting and minding the Kennebunk prostitution of the Maine Turnpike Authority, is a got your own ideas? go nuts by emailing data-mining firms, including some companies acting on be- scandal may seem like an odd choice. Republican, so he’s of no use this time them to me at [email protected]. half of the national rifle association, which has vehemently opposed the release of that same information to the media. Missing, of course, is the cool-headed result of a 2010 study presented at harvard University’s Workshop on the _BY DAVID KISh economics of information Security. turns out publishing names, ages, and home Zip codes of permit holders causes crime to drop in their neighborhoods. F the court ruling saying robert Smith, a/k/a the Whistler, cANNOt whIStLe whILe StANDINg StILL (he can whistle, but only while walking) is an outrageous frontal assault on the First amendment. the slope this ruling inclines toward is likely to slip out beneath buskers, street artists, panhandlers, the preacher, the peace folks in Monument Square (and sign-holding protesters anywhere in town), the very idea of “occupy,” the protesters (and coun- ter-protesters) outside planned parenthood, and anybody else who wants to say or do anything in public spaces. on the thin premise that someone expressing himself (even obnoxiously) in a nearby public area somehow “hurts” private businesses — which remain empowered to bar ob- jectionable people from their actual property — government power has been directed at quashing free public expression. i don’t think the guy is any more tuneful than you do — or than i would be — but it’s not right for the government to determine the value, quality, location, or movement of his speech. ^ nominees announced! »voting extended through march 15! vote for your favorites portland’s best the »thephoenix.com/thebest best2013 8 March 8, 2013 | the portland phoenix | portland.t hephoenix.coM

Has Portland lost its sense of Humor? The fuTure of Maine coMedy _by Lisa bunker

Last October the Comedy Connec- ftion, for nearly twenty years the nexus of Maine comedy, closed. It’s the club where Bob Marley, arguably Maine’s most successful comedian, got his start. a face of experience The immediate reason was a failed health Longtime southern Maine inspection, but the owner, Oliver Keithly, comedian Tim hofmann also cited the economic downturn. on stage at slainte. The closure cut the number of full-time comedy clubs in town from one to zero, which seems like it ought to have had a drastic impact on the local scene. It hasn’t. “Comedy goes through cycles,” says Tim Ferrell, the guru of Maine comedy if there is one. A workshop he teaches in Portland has fast-tracked local wannabes including Karen Morgan and Ian Harvie toward the big, or at least the medium-sized, time. Ferrell continues, “I think comedy, especially live comedy, if it’s done right, becomes perpetual motion.” There is still a lot going on. Clubs are only one of many outlets for comedic talent. The post-Connection Maine comedy landscape features an established generation of local luminaries working other avenues, a new generation of young talents determined to find a way, and the rumor of plans for a new club in downtown Portland. Ways to do comedy without a club include the theater circuit and corporate comedy, both areas where Karen Morgan has found success. Originally from the south, Morgan is a trial attorney who stopped practicing law to raise babies. When she enrolled in Ferrell’s class in 2004 she was just looking for a way to get out of the house one night a week, but she quick- ly fell in love with the process of writing comedy. She took the class a second time, then entered the Portland’s Funniest Pro- fessional competition at the Connection, reaching the finals. At the same time Nick at Nite was looking for America’s Funniest Mom, and Ferrell submitted her gradu- ation tape. She was selected to compete, eventually making it to the final seven out

of more than a thousand entrants. s That could perhaps have been the start icho L n

of a meteoric career, but Morgan isn’t . s interested in the endless road hours that would entail, or a move to Los Angeles. Family comes first, she says, and she just works when she wants, booking into the-

aters rather than clubs. She also gets cor- hers by Michae L porate work when she wants it, she says, T because of her legal background. “People can hire me; they know that I’m not going to stand up there and do blowjob jokes in the middle of their wellness seminar.” Another on-going strain of comedy in Maine is benefit work. George Hamm has

toured with Bob Marley and shows up con- o by janice checchio a LL o sistently on other Maine comics’ lists of comics they like. Hamm drives a cab part- time while he puts together a show here and there. Recent gigs included a benefit chicken pho T portland.thephoenix.coM | the portland phoenix | March 8, 2013 9

at the Freeport Performing Arts Center, definitely in that raising money to send middle-schoolers to demographic. We do Space Camp. Hamm hosted and pulled in a show at Coffee By Design, some cronies to be the acts, giving them where there are people who want to the challenge of toning down their X-rated consume local coffee. I think people who material and purging their profanity for a care about that stuff also want to consume room full of 15-year-olds. local art, local comedy,” says Will Green, The night was well attended, so Hamm one of the Co-op members. So are they clearly has draw, but he acknowledges strictly local comics? No dreams of the big he’s never going to get rich doing this. time? “I think most of us, we want to do a He still does it simply because he loves it. really good job here. I think there are some “There’s just something about it. You get of us who want to go different places, but up there, and you get kinda lost. I don’t ultimately the common goal is that we worry about anything when I’m up there. want to put on good shows in Portland.” You can have a really shitty day, and go The Co-op, Green says, coalesced out of up and do a 15-minute set, 10-minute a group who originally tried to get an open set, throw in a new joke and it kills . . . It mic going in South Portland. It fell apart, changes everything.” but the Co-op members liked each other There are also a few venues around the and found Mama’s. They also meet weekly state that do occasional comedy and market to bounce ideas off each other. One thing it as an opportunity for fund-raising — the they have in common is an idea about the Gold Room in Portland for one, and Laugh- tone of the comedy they do. “Our unof- ing Matters Comedy Club at the Fireside ficial rule is be funny, but also, don’t be a Inn in Auburn for another. dick. That’s what brought us together — we’re all nice guys, guys who don’t want The regulars to be dicks.” And then there are open mics. On a frigid Many of the Co-op comics also appear windy night in January a small, mostly at what is currently Portland’s longest- young, all hip-looking crowd gathers in running comedy open mic, at Slainte, the cozy shoebox of Mama’s CrowBar on downtown on Thursday nights. Compared the lower Munjoy part of Congress for the to Mama’s this is a cluttered and dark weekly open mic put on by the recently room, with impeded sight lines. A large formed Portland Comedy Co-op. Mama’s is Irish flag hangs from the ceiling, rows of beer-only/cash-only, with an emphasis on dusty bottles line the wall-tops, and the local brews. Clusters of tiny colored holiday TVs behind the bar continue to play while lights and dozens of paper snowflakes, the comics work. some with actual six-fold symmetry, fes- Slainte is a tougher room, in part be- toon the ceiling, giving the place a cheery cause of staging. The performance area is feel. At a nod from Travis Curran, tonight’s just an open patch of floor at the far end of MC, Jimmy behind the bar mutes the iPod, the room from the bar, and only recently and the show begins. has any sort of platform been set up on It’s classic open-mic format. The MC which to perform. But the physical layout does a short set, then assumes the time- is only half the challenge. The other half honored semi-ironic hyper-pumped enthu- is the vibe, which is not at all friendly siasm and calls the first comic to the front. or encouraging. If you fail in the first 15 They signed up earlier, picking their spots seconds of your set to earn the crowd’s re- in the lineup on a sheet with an admoni- The comedy at spect — a crowd heavy with other comics tion at the top: “No dark rapey women- — most everyone turns away, the hum of bashing.” A lot of comics have signed up, Slainte skews conversation rises, and you become some so the number of minutes available for person with an underpowered microphone each has shrunk to about five. Their sets darker and making pointless noise over in the corner. run long, but what little anxiety there “That is a real study in intestinal forti- seems to be in the room about finishing on edgier than tude, that place,” says Ferrell. “If you can time has no bite. at Mama’s, go in there and nobody knows you, and The classic-ness also means the comics you can grab them and at least get a couple are not performing hard; rather, they’re which has an laughs out, then you know you’ve done trying new bits and breaking the fourth something.” wall routinely to comment. The material easier layout The comedy at Slainte also skews darker inevitably includes sex and sexuality, but and edgier than at Mama’s, especially if the treatment is light — the guys seem to and a more you remember back to 2011 when Brian have taken the signup sheet admonition Brinegar was the host. Brinegar set a tone to heart. (It is all male comics tonight, friendly crowd. strong on the profanity and one-up gross- though this is not always true; see side- outs, with an undercurrent of misogyny. bar.) And, the room is friendly. The audi- He’s no longer hosting, but the comics here ence is paying attention, and laughing. still tend toward vacuum-cleaner blowjob “I guess the best way to describe [our routines, colon cancer bits, and the like. intended audience] is by what they con- Or maybe it’s not so much the material — sume. People who consume local beer are the Co-op comics are doing the same stuff 10 March 8, 2013 | the portland phoenix | portland.t hephoenix.coM

ran the Comedy Connection be involved? Says Dearing flatly, “I have no comment on that.” Nothing suggestive in the way of permitting has shown up on a city council agenda, so if anything is going on it seems likely to be still in the planning and nego- tiation stages. If there’s one thing everyone agrees on, it’s that there’s no replacement for seeing comics live. Harvie’s take: “There’s nothing like it. You can watch them on You- Tube, you can watch them on their web- pages or listen to an audio file download, but truly the best way to see comedy is live, because there are things you will lose and never have. My friend John Eder will make a face for a solid 30 seconds, and people will be cracking up, and you’d never be able to have that translated, not even on YouTube, you know? You just can’t capture that.” Hamm concurs. You might see one of his jokes on YouTube, he says, but if you go to the club, “something funny might happen live, interacting with the audience, that will never happen again, and you could say you were there the night it dueling SceneS Mama’s crowbar (left) and slainte (with Troy pennell on stage) have distinct shows that share elements, and performers. happened.” It seemed hardly fair to grill all these people about their work and art without continued from p 9 some new comedy business blood in that And there is a brand-new weekly Friday stepping up myself, and I’ve always had in both rooms — but how hard the comics town anyway, if it can be supported by the Comedy show at Club Texas in Auburn — a secret yen, so on a frigid windy night push. In the sink-or-swim atmosphere of community and have people come out to it.” the first show was February 22 — which in February I put my name down on the the place, they seem to feel they have to is slated to feature touring professional sheet at Mama’s CrowBar. It was my third resort to shock value in order to make an a newcomer? comedians, hosted by local up-and-comer time ever doing standup. The second time impression. So is there room in Portland for a new Ian Stuart; other venues in town, such as was 10 minutes of crickets at Slainte in The third major comedy track is the club? Sarah Dearing thinks so. She man- Geno’s and the Asylum, have occasional late 2011 which it had taken me until now one that leads out of town, toward the aged the Comedy Connection for 15 years comedy. But even taken all together it’s to get over. I did eight minutes for about bright lights. Ian Harvie has moved to the and now has a booking website at spot- still a scattershot scene. 18 people, felt comfortable on stage for the other coast and is trying to make a go of light-solutions.com. “There’s definitely a A comedy club does need major invest- first time ever, and got some solid laughs it in LA. He is working hard and getting hole in the comedy community” with the ment up front if it wants to succeed, says and some nice compliments after. It was some breaks: he has tour dates booked this closing of the Connection, she says, adding Ferrell, who mentions the example sum a rush. spring all over the country, recently filmed that the Connection “did end up grow- of half a million dollars. Morgan, an Old Two of the other comics who performed a one-hour special for TV, and opens occa- ing a comedy-goer” in Portland, meaning Port small-business owner herself (Captain the same evening, Phoebe Angle and sionally for Margaret Cho. someone who goes out on purpose to see Sam’s Ice Cream on Commercial Street), Shawn Carter, actually drove up from Bos- Harvie sees both bad and good in the comedy, rather than just someone out for says, “I think it would be pretty difficult ton to perform at this chummy open mic. closing of the Comedy Connection. On the drinks. She sees potential both for an audi- to have a club that is a seven-night-a-week “Because Portland,” Carter says, “they just one hand, he liked the feeling of fraternity. ence for national acts coming through and club, to support a staff, to support insur- have the best crowds. This is Sunday night, “What made that club for me was all the for local talent eager for stage time. ance, to support all the things you have and this place was awesome tonight. I’ve comics I came up with,” he says. People There’s certainly not a lot of competi- to support as a small business owner, and never been in this bar before . . . small were supportive and “at times competitive, tion. The Gold Room out on Warren Avenue have enough people coming in, and to pay little bar . . . but the people in here are all but trying not to be douchey to each other.” has comedy only one night a week, with, quality entertainers enough to come in and listening and ready to laugh. It’s great.” On the other hand, “It was a little old according to owner Jim Grattelo, no plans support that club.” What’s Boston like, in comparison? He school, sort of mafioso comedy club . . . if to add more nights. Also, Grattelo says, the Nonetheless, several people interviewed glowers. “Competitive.” you worked at the Comedy Connection, you Gold Room is a different deal: night-club for this story spoke of hearing rumors of a Lucas O’Neil, another of the Co-op weren’t allowed to work in the Portland style seating, with candles and tablecloths. new club opening downtown sometime in members, also did a set. Asked afterwards area at another comedy-like club for money It’s mostly couples, he says, who come — spring or early summer — an upstairs and for his take on the Portland comedy scene, on a competing night.” Comics would be well-fed suburban couples, if a night with downstairs two-room place with some seri- he thinks for a moment, perhaps search- banned if they did, he says, though that al- Karen Morgan headlining last fall is typi- ous money behind it, to be specific, which ing for a way to express his enthusiasm in legation was challenged by owner Keithly. cal. And although he books the occasional might feature comedy Thursday through keeping with his sardonic persona. “It’s (See “Banned?” by Jeff Inglis, March 31, local act, most of his comics seem to come Sunday, with music the other nights. If better than you think. It’s better than you 2006.) Harvie adds, “It’s probably time for from down Boston way or even further off. the rumors are true, could the people who think.” ^

Women’sWill the future of Mainewords coMedy include More of a feMale presence than in the past?

Tim ferrell “the club scene itself, it’s still a boys’ club. Men own the clubs. it’s part F of the scene, it really is. right now even in this town there are some terrifically tal- ented women, and they have to fight just a little bit harder sometimes to get the attention, or get the stage time, or get the minutes, or get the respect.” Karen morgan “the number of women in comedy is increasing. the number of women that wanna go see comedy is increasing. But at the end of the day, yeah, still a good ol’ boys’ club, in terms of material sometimes. i don’t really wanna hear about buttholes and, you know, certain things. i’m like, really? you know, you’re a grown man — that’s what my 10-year-old said this morning. But, there’s a seat for every fanny, and i don’t judge it.” Will green “standing up in front of people and thinking you’re important has definitely over history been more of a male job, for whatever reason. hopefully it will change.” phoebe angle “i would say it’s just like any other male-dominated field. you know, you just kind of have to prove yourself a little more. it’s like, do i want to be cute, or do i want to be funny? you don’t want to be more cute than funny if you want to be taken seriously. you have to treat it like a job, and you have to be good at your job, just like everyone else.” _Lb 94.9 WHOM presents Return to Life Concert Series

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at Geno’s — presumably from Mouth, thunder thIghs, a one- their vast catalog of originals. woman vaudeville act about the With thrash vets PiNko aNd the complicated mind-body relation- actioN boyS, the tuneful garage- ship. Both shows $15. 25A Forest punk group the rattleSNakeS, Ave., call 207.774.0465. and the toM SaVaGe exPloSioN. THE DOC IS IN | Two power- Way cheap at $3. 625 Congress ful sociology docs screen at St., 207.625.2382. off-the-radar Portland locations ON SALE FRIDAY 10AM APRIL 30 today. The first, titled Park avenue: Money, PoWer, and the aMerIcan dreaM, is the latest by Academy Award winning direc- saturday 9 tor Alex Gibney (2005’s Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and BACK ON THE MAP | The char- last year’s devastating look at ismatic Roxbury, Massachusetts, Catholicism’s ongoing scandal, rapper Moufy, who in a very Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the short time has climbed very far House of God). That’s at 1:30 in up the (admittedly short) ladder USM’s Glickman Library, seventh f Moufy, of Boston hip hop, joins up with floor. In the second, the sneakily at Port City Music Hall, in Portland on Maine artists caM GroVeS and important and immeasurably trailS. Moufy’s arguably the interdisciplinary field of urban March 9. biggest name in that scene since planning is explored at the Mr. Lif, and the first rapper to Meg Perry Center. urBanIzed, sing about Boston pride maybe a feature-length doc, explores ever. The rhyme showcase goes the wealth of strategies on the fantasy metal group waraNiMal the local stand-up scene has of hiS SPirit: NietzSche aNd the down at the Port City Music table for designers, architects, host their semi-annual “Winter witnessed a ton of splinter erotic,” at 4 pm. Luther Bon- Hall, 7 pm, $13. 504 Congress St. and policymakers. An ever- Beach Ball” with SuPeror- factions. The latest comes from ney Auditorium, 92 Bedford St., 207.899.4990. crucial subject — for Portland der, a proggish space-metal Connor McGrath, who debuts 207.780.4141. REPPING IT | It’s the last week- as everywhere — as economic act currently immersed in the a weekly talk and variety show end of a month-long series of uncertainty pushes more and production of 9-part cyber-opera. he calls “SGt. coNNor’S loNely plays at Portland Stage’s Studio more people into cities. 5 pm at 9 pm, $8. heartS club baNd’S SiNGleS Rep, for which three radically 644 Congress St. SERIOUS COUNTRY | At the NiGht” at Slainte. 9 pm, 24 WEdnEsday 13 FUNNY COUNTRY different productions have been | The Bur- State, two far more mainstream Preble St., 207.828.0900. ON SALE FRIDAY 10AM sharing the institution’s black lington, Vermont, act wayloN acts boast the fusion of country REAL FOLK | The Maine-born MAGICAL BIDDEFORD | Branch- MAY 7 box theater. Staged today is the SPeed, who play country songs songs with the hard stuff. Song- Boston folk artist audrey ing out from their usual fare of final production of Lorem Ip- with a filthy, hard rock edge that writer/heartthrob Rhett Miller’s ryaN typically fills out her outré-folk, the Oak and the Ax sum’s If We Were BIrds, a mod- sometimes approaches metal, old ’97S, a rowdy, punkish emotionally complicated pop host a night of avant-garde the- ern adaptation of a harrowing seem tailor-made for the stage consort with the sort of tortured, songs with a flurry of unusual ater courtesy of Donna Oblongata, f Mary Gauthier myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Empire Dine and Dance. metaphor-driven lyrics typically instruments and arrangements. a punk vaudeville performer who , at One Longfellow Square, in Portland on (in which this writer, a company They hit it up with thiS old belonging to noisy indie-rock, It’s evident on her 2012 record, wrote an outlandishly original member, plays a role) at 3; while GhoSt at 9 pm for $6 (575 Con- play with the driVe-by truck- Sirens, and she brings it to the work called the 7-Person chaIr March 7. at 8, Bess Welden stages the final gress St., 207.879.8988), while erS, an alt-country band who’ve Red Door in Portsmouth, New PyraMId hIgh WIre act, which reprisal of her original play BIg across the street, speed-punk functioned as a more thoroughly Hampshire, tonight at 8, with she and another perform; with Southern version of Wilco. 8 pm, the dark-pop songwriter JeNee the fearlessly original art-rock act halStead PaNda baNditS $25-30. , who came to Boston . 8 pm, $7 at 140 with the Slide Brothers President Rachel Talbot Ross, via the Northwest. 107 State St., Main St. in Biddeford. historian Priscilla Murolo, and 603.373.6827. YOU CAN’T TAPE IT | In an THIS FRI, MARCH 8 THIS SAT, MARCH 9 thursday 7 friday 8 others. Read Deirdre Fulton’s full unrelated-yet-inspiring chain of preview on page 4 — the event events, the artists Pilar Nadal and CIRCA SURVIVE/ MINUS THE BEAR ROUGH EDGES | Since she OVER THE PLAIN | The rock happens at USM’s Hannaford Anne Buckwalter are the latest EXCISION sunday 10 NOW NOW SAT MAR 16 PAPER DIAMOND, VASKI MARCH 20 started playing at age 35, the group PhaNtoM buffalo formed Hall, 88 Bedford St. in Portland. to host an unconventional public gritty, smoky-voiced Ameri- in the late ’90s as the Ponys. 207.780.4289. SAVED | Depending on what tuEsday 12 conversation about art production Mary GUYS GO NORTH BAD RELIGION STONE SOUR can troubadour singer Since then, their fanciful, play- | Several lo- sort of house you kept in the (see page 14 for an interview with AGAINST ME!, POLAR BEAR CLUB FRI MAR 29 IN THIS MOMENT, HELL OR HIGHWATER APRIL 2 Gauthier’s blend of personal, ful, subtly complex rock songs cal comics such as those in our ’90s, you might be familiar with WELLING UP | In the rarefied, another). They debut(?) a program topical folk songs and the have made them one of the city’s feature article this week (see the household-name artists transient world of slam poetry, titled “N-Pilar liVe: a fraNk coNVerSatioN about MakiNG PENTATONIX THREE DAYS GRACE cultural intonations of the most venerated rock institutions. page 8) appear at a new Friday Max Cavalera, who founded the the extraordinarily powerful APRIL 7 POP EVIL APRIL 17 region have become a signa- Their most ambitious — some night venture in Auburn. At the Brazilian thrash-metal band rachel MckibbeNS is about as thiNGS,” (not accessible anywhere ture cultural export of New have said greatest — record dynamic venue Club Texas: find Sepultura when he was 15, and real as it gets. A New Yorker, she else, incidentally), 6 pm at SPACE CHRIS YOUNG STS9 Orleans. Gauthier, who turns to date is Tadaloora, an album briaN briNeGar, luke haNbury, Jewel, who famously endured has been a mentor for Urban Gallery. APRIL 18 FRI APRIL 19 51 Monday, is one of the that arrives with a concep- Paul huNt, keViN NealeS, Joe a life of teenage destitution to Word NYC and an eight-time renegades of her genre, who tual fantasyland to support its tiMMiNS, and Mark turcotte produce a multiplatinum record member of the National Poetry ONE MORE TIME GREAT BIG SEA can support the weight of her themes, and the band present it taking turns in front of the mi- when she was 21. They might Slam team. The sort of per- A TRIBUTE TO DAFT PUNK APRIL 22 APRIL 24 songs with real-life experi- formally at SPACE Gallery. With crophone. 8 pm, $7 at 150 Center never have more closely col- former whose work one random thursday 14 ence, and she plays at One the electrifying new rock group St., 207.784.7785. laborated than they do tonight, YouTube view can leave you in REBELUTION CLUTCH with THE SWORD and LIONIZE Longfellow Square with Scott aN aNderSoN (featuring former HALF A BOY/HALF A MAN | when the former, now with his tears, she’s a magnificent draw CULTURAL DISPLAYS | Thurs- MAY 2 MAY 4 NolaN, 8 pm, $20-25. 181 State members of Cuss, Honey Clouds, Let there be no doubt: GeorGe far more spiritual yet still pum- for local poet consortium Port day, the MaiNe JewiSh filM St., 207.761.1757. and Huak) and Video NaStieS, a thoroGood aNd the deStroyerS meling metal group Soulfly, Veritas, and is the headliner at feStiVal has its biggest day of JOSH RITTER & the ROYAL CITY BAND IRON & WINE THE FELICE BROTHERS MAY 8 THE SECRET SISTERS SAT MAY 18 CUBAN LINKS | The afro- dark disco venture from Strange will play at the State Theatre, play the Asylum (9 pm, $20, 121 their weekly residency at Bull screenings, with films screen- cubaN all StarS Jewel , an orches- Maine alum. 8:30 pm; $8 at 538 endlessly perpetuating their Center St.), while , on a Feeney’s. 7:30 pm, $15 ($10 stu- ing at the Nickelodeon, Maine BLOC PARTY THE MOTH: MAINSTAGE tral group of revolving-door Congress St., 207.828.5600. obsession with unhinged, greatest hits tour, hits the Mer- dents). Call 207.357.7678. Historical Society, Frontier Café BEAR MOUNTAIN JUNE 4 JUNE 6 players spreading appreciation KEEP PUSHING | March being alcohol-soaked, strangely allur- rill Auditorium (7:30, $41-108, THE OLDEST ART | If you’re (in Brunswick), and Colby College. for modern and traditional Cu- Women’s History Month, USM’s ing guitar-blues. With the Slide 20 Myrtle St.). going for it with the McKibbens Check our film listings for the full DAVID BYRNE / ST VINCENT MELISSA ETHERIDGE ban street music (and closely impressive Gender Studies brotherS at 8 pm, $35-40. 609 show, you might sharpen your schedule. Elsewhere, One Longfel- FRI, JUNE 21 SAT JUNE 22 related to the Buena Vista program has readied an in-depth Congress St., 207.956.6000. tools with a provocative lecture low Square delimits the cultural Social Club, whom the guitar- convention and panel discus- RECOVERED | Perhaps moti- at USM. Kathleen Wininger, celebration with a party called Get tickets online at statetheatreportland.com, in person at the Cumberland ist Ry Cooder helped explode sion of the history of gendered vated by their recent dissection f old ’97S, one of the school’s philosophy “beSt of both worldS,” which this genre in America 15 years civil rights. “SeNeca, SelMa, of a Dead Milkmen album at the at State Theatre, in Portland on monday 11 professors and an expert on collects stories and performances County Civic Center Box Office and charge by phone at 800-745-3000. Tickets StoNewall, Social chaNGe ago), perform at Bowdoin Col- ” Big Easy’s Cover to Cover night, Friedrich Nietzsche, unpacks the from Portland’s immigrant stu- available at the State Theatre Box Office on night of show one hour before doors. lege’s Pickard Theater at 7:30. collects trans activist and author the cultish deathpunk band March 9. WHY NOT | Since the Comedy sex life of the Übermensch with dent population of Deering High Call 207.725.8769 for tickets. Kate Bornstein, NAACP Portland coVered iN beeS headline a set Connection closed in October, a lecture titled “the PiNNacle School youth. 6:30, $2-4. 14 March 8, 2013 | the portland phoenix | portland.t hephoenix.coM

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HAPPY HOUR: Mon-Fri. 4-7pm $2.50 Domestics • $3.50 Micros • $5 Nachos Looking cLoseLy Wed. $7 Domestic Pitchers • 2 Cheeseburgers & Fries $6.99 INStItutIoNAlIzINg SINgle workS At IFAA 50¢ Wings $7 Bud Light Pitchers Thur. • _by NICholAS S Chroeder Fri. $5 Burritos • $4 Cuervo Margaritas In another look at Portland’s grow- way to cordon off my scope, and (it helped fing number of atypical studies to decide) that I was just going to deal Thursday Night is Hockey Night...and Beer! within the art world, we spoke to South- with the United States of America. I’m an BRUINS V. MAPLES LEAFS @ 7:00PM ern Maine Community College art history American; let’s look at American cultural professor Christopher Stiegler, founder of production. A lot of people think that I’m Our hi-def screens, full bar & killer the Institute for American Art, a curatori- being hokey, and I’m not. I firmly think menu will make you feel like al space he runs from his home on Smith that I’m going to be doing this for the next Street in Bayside. This is an edited excerpt; read 40 years. you're at all your favorite games. the full transcript at Portland.thePhoenix.com. CATCH ALL OF Voted #1 Wings in Portland! what sort of food and drInk do you Is there somethIng specIfIc to port- serve? It’s usually BYO. When I have THE BLACK & land that made thIs Idea necessary or snacks, it’s usually pretzels or beer. Since was It somethIng you’ve been sIttIng opening this space I’ve had conversations YELLOW ACTION on awhIle? It’s something I’ve been sit- about artist-run spaces in Chicago and ting on. I’d been thinking a lot about how Baltimore and they really put a lot of this museums operate and I’d always liked at ease for me. That polish I thought I AND ENJOY OUR the model of the apartment showroom. needed to have was washed away when When we moved to Maine I saw a good I showed up to this really well-regarded AWARD-WINNING opportunity to present the curatorial per- space in Chicago and it was just, like, a WINGS! spective. In New York there’s just a din. cooler of beer and seven people. I was like, There is enough of a creative community okay, phew, I don’t need to have 40 people within this city that’s excited about new at everything, I can have seven. And I 121 Center St. Portland • 207-772-8274 ideas. For our first opening party we had don’t need to have some presentation of OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK: 11:30am to 1am about 40 to 50 people come through the beautiful food because that’s not what I’m space, a lot of people from the art world, going for. WWW.PORTLANDASYLUM.COM and it was very nice to see that turnout. I’m going for making people focus on Portland’s just worked very well for it, and the artwork; that’s why there’s only one I know that this project is going to be fol- piece that’s ever going to be on view, be- lowing me for, well, maybe forever. cause it’s about looking at that thing. Art seems to be relegated to a plus-one status In the short tIme that the InstItute has in culture. Most places art seems to be exhIbIted (sInce november), how have shown in they’re either selling it, or else you selected what to show? I started off it’s a food place. One of the things I re- with New York because it was a comfort ally wanted to do with this space was not zone for me, and then I had this idea that to have a bunch of other noise around. I I would go regional. At this point, I’m just don’t want to have somebody playing mu- going for projects that I think are fun and sic in here while we’re having an open- engaging and I’m excited about. Because I ing. I don’t want somebody making really need to think that I’m getting something nice cocktails. That’s not what the project out of it in order for me to really sell it to is. That shit can come later, but the thing the community and be as enthusiastic as I that I’m focusing on is the work. ^ think you need to be to run a project that’s outside of people’s comfort zones. “project c: bookshelf to publication,” small The next project is focusing on queer reference library of queer cultural production cultural production through looking at | Institute for american art, 45 smith st, zines, small magazines, and publications. portland | through april 27, saturdays 4-8 I contacted the editor of a magazine called pm | reception march 8 @ 8 pm VOTE Straight to Hell , which is one of the longest running queer maga- BEsT Bar zines around. 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theater

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_by Megan gruMbling

The name of Noël Coward is fairly pleasant servility with lingering smiles fsynonymous with the biting, dev- and backwards looks at the older woman astating verbal wit of his farces like Blithe fawning over him.) And most importantly, Spirit, in which well-off Brits behave badly, Halstead makes clear that Carlotta knows having at each other with verbal razors. But exactly how to goad Hugo in ways he finds audiences have the chance to experience a most uncomfortable and thus infuriating. quite different Coward in his A Song at Twi- Hugo, in the hands of Genest (who ap- light, written in 1966, more than 20 years peared at PSC last season in Heroes), treats after Blithe Spirit and only a few years before Carlotta with uncompromising rigidity and the playwright’s death. In this bracingly unveiled distaste. He convincingly presents candid drama, the cleverness is softened; a man who has not only calcified in his the show’s greater concern is the quieter just-so ways, through a life of success and ambivalence of the human heart. A Song at coddling, but who has grown a disdain and Twilight receives a sensitive, beautiful pro- meanness for the world because of it. Hal- duction at Portland Stage Company, under stead’s Carlotta sees this in him and more, the direction of Paul Mullins, interwoven and is a great foil for it. Her character has with performances of Coward’s own songs. an interesting series of turns to reveal; she In fact, the production opens with “You shifts nicely from wry teasing to her more Were There,” happily sung and played on a serious concerns, though I’d like to see her gorgeous antique baby grand by a spotlight- bare her own stakes a little more starkly. ed young man (Harrison M. Beck, admi- As the current woman in Hugo’s life, rably recreating Coward’s own phrasing). Butler’s merry, maternal Hilde is a delight. This is Felix, a waiter in the elegant hotel She warmly and with great subtlety conveys that is home to elderly playwright Sir Hugo how her character’s substantial wisdom, af- Latymer (Edmond Genest) and his personal fection, and good humor manage to contain assistant-cum-wife Hilde (Maureen Butler). decades of ambivalence in her relationship In this high-ceilinged suite (luxurious set with Hugo, whose rote cruelty to her she design by Brittany Vasta), Felix returns calls him on but still takes in stride. Butler often to the piano in Hugo’s presence, and is especially luminous in Act Two, once in doing so, he poses a poignant younger Hilde has come home pleasantly tipsy and counterpoint to the older man, whose forthcoming from a few stingers. Her most younger passions are at the center of this candid monologue to Hugo is met with show: When a former lover, Carlotta (Carol what Genest’s posture makes clear is a soul- Halstead) visits for dinner, she has more wrenching devastation. than nostalgia in mind, having brought It is uncommonly moving to watch Gen- along decades-old letters that Hugo would est’s Hugo from that point through the end, rather forget. as the once-callous wit falls away to reveal Carlotta is an immediate wrench in the a quiet, naked grief — and it is all the more works of Hugo’s carefully manicured life; as arresting to watch him letting Hilde see it. she herself remarks, she is as “rude” as he is In their final, fraught moment of mutual “pompous:” Impulsive and proudly lacking acknowledgement, nearly no words are refinement, Halstead’s Carlotta stretches said, but the emotional complexity between provocatively, snaps the salad tongs at him, them is worth thousands of them. ^ eats caviar from the serving bowl (doing a little delicious-happy-dance in her chair as A Song At twilight | by Noël Coward | Direct- she does), and flirts with the waiter. (Beck’s ed by Paul Mullins | Produced by Portland Stage Felix is delicious, tempering his waiter’s Company | through March 17 | 207.774.0465 la CK e aaron F

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comedy

First (and last) laugh harriNgtoN’s debut is coNNectioN’s fiNale

_by Nicholas schroeder

Vote for the thrift store that creates jobs. This week, fProvidence- Vote for the thrift store that reduces landfills. based comic Ray Vote for the thrift store that puts clothes on your neighbor’s back. Harrington released his first CD, The Worst Is Over, on Vote for Goodwill - Portland’s Best Thrift Store. respected comedy label Stand Up! Records. Recorded Sure, we have lots of great finds at amazingly low prices, over two nights in but with your support, we’re also creating a healthy, sustainable September at the Comedy Connec- community where nothing goes to waste. tion, the disc is a sort of eulogy for Not a shirt. Not a shoe. Not a person. the wharf-tucked club, a favorite of Goodwill. Seeking solutions that work. Join us. Harrington’s that the Bangor native personally selected for this recording. Less than a month later, the club For those who voted for us in past years - thanks, you rock. closed its doors, Now go and vote, again. http://contests.thephoenix.com/thebest though you’d never know it from the packed house captured here. (It might help to know that this writer, who interviewed Harrington the week prior, was in attendance.) While an assessment of stand-up com- This may appear to listeners as simple edy may feel like an uncomfortable cri- crowdwork, like his ongoing supplica- tique of someone’s thoughts, it’s more ac- tions to separate throngs of bachelorette curately to say it’s a survey of one’s perfor- parties or his uncomfortable exchange mance of character. By this rubric, Har- with the older gentleman in the front row rington’s a smart guy, and it’s refreshing whose off-note commentary — while fall- to find someone who can hit such high ing far short of heckles — would’ve surely notes without pretending otherwise. His unnerved many others. But this ad hoc act seldom trades in failed recognition hu- chatter will often find its way into other mor, that blunt tool in most comics’ tool- jokes and asides, keeping the set from boxes, but this hardly means he’s heady; ever getting too rigid. rather, his material has a context that The Worst is Over takes on the language extends beyond the stage. Indeed, often of marriage (in a hilarious extended con- as thoughtfully and progressively as Louis templation of the classic “would-you-still- C.K. plays the aggrieved working-class love-me-if” hypothetical), international American male, Harrington performs the contrast (Did you know that when you’re in persona of the educated, socially liberal, England, you’re not fat, you’re just American?), or misfit rural Yankee. He doesn’t insult regional dystopia (If you haven’t been to Ne- nor attempt to educate his audience, but braska, here’s the deal: Get a brick, smash yourself merely brings them along for the ride. in the face with it, and then have somebody say ‘We Harrington isn’t a physical comic, per don’t have iced coffee, faggot.’ — that last bit a se, but a significant part of his material’s real-life road-trip quote, he attests). We heft can be derived from his size. It natu- hit a couple odd notes — though perhaps rally manifests in his set, though some necessary ones — in “The Prison Wood of its magnitude is naturally lost on a re- Store,” where Maine becomes the butt cording. And there’s a nifty juxtaposition of the jokes. But he totally nails fantasy That’s right. We now have a 0% downpayment option. And you with one of his most recurring voices: a football (in the voice of one of his “bro lispy, genial delivery that Harrington uses dudes,” defensively): It’s not weird! Fantasy still get our guarantees: guaranteed closing date, guaranteed not only for female voices, but his own football isn’t weird at all! It’s just my dream team weird interior narratives. Where a lesser of men that do whatever I tell ’em to do, and I think same-day loan decision, and guaranteed local servicing. comic might use it to tease out some va- about ’em all day at work!). cant sexuality humor, Harrington uses it Not to worry: there are dick jokes, too, as part of his marvelous riffs, to help keep of many shapes and sizes. But they’re a differing trains of thought separate. rite of passage of sorts; Harrington just In an interview last fall, he told the doesn’t seem that interested in offending 877.505.9555 Phoenix that he begins each set with about for offense’s sake. 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[email protected] _by Sam Pfeifle This is an album that’s less about LfCAL individual moments and more MUSIC about overall touch and feel.

CAUght In theIr trApS ThiS iS why we can have nice PlaceS

Nice Places would have been the Baltic Sea, but the share an affinity for livering keyboards like fperfect local opener for the Minus controlled chaos. It’s rare to have a “lead” churchbells, they’re the Bear/Circa Survive show at the State instrument. Instead, (usually) Samuel heavy and dramatic, Theatre coming up on March 16. Except Belanger’s lead vocals provide the major- with Dream Theater Now, Now are actually opening. So forget ity of the melody, while everything else echoes, everything it. That’s more perfect. cycles and repeats to blend into a back- hanging all the way But if you know those bands, you get ground wash. out, but it’s nearly the idea. Nice Places, who released their The songs can run together. There isn’t impossible to make first full-length, Invacuo, a couple weeks a stand-out here, or a lot of big-popping out lyrics. Maybe they back, after a promising three-song EP choruses, although the post-chorus in the don’t matter much, about 18 months ago, have that contem- opening “Dance with Me” — sharing a serving mostly as porary prog-rock thing going on, with title with a classic Leftovers tune — does placeholders. Maybe stuttering and staccato guitar chords, have a great punch, following a song- the mix could be re- swirling digital flourishes, and plenty stopping stutter. fined a touch. of deviations from the standard 4/4 rock The lyrical phrases repeat and recycle Michael Whit- time signature. as much as the riffs. Here it’s “I’ve just more’s bass gets more They even include three instrumentals, got one thing to say/Only wanted to be punk ethos. The vocals are lower down, attention late in album, holding the increasingly long as the album moves for- there for you/All I wanted to say was...” breathy: “You wanna do it, but you know melody together in the “Nice Places” in- ward and culminating in the five-minute- In “Oh, Lordy,” it’s a series of split that you’ll never follow through it,” they strumental (I have a soft spot for bands plus “Untitled,” which might remind you personalities: “I will tear you down ... repeat. The beat is skittering in transi- with theme songs of sorts) and staying ac- of Dead Man’s Clothes’ Ice Is War disc. It’s I will lift you up.” This one’s a serious tion to a straight-rock sound with rolling tive through “Wider Smiles.” There seems a lonely and desolate kind of song, with head-nodder, especially after the 3:30 drums into the finish. to be two drum parts here, but maybe digital whirs becoming ear-piercing and mark, and the mixing leaves you wonder- “The Morning Off” is sun-shiney in it’s just great work from Shea in mixing leaving the audible spectrum, engines ing whether those are wordless vocals or comparison, languid with vocals that ride up the time-keeping and the lyricism. It of music cycling down and warming up. a keyboard. The high hat in seven-note single syllables. They’re a bit nasally, and pulls and tugs at you, getting at more of Another instrumental, “Traps,” might be bunches is hard to ignore. perhaps drag things out overly long, but those unsettled feelings. named after that old jazz term for drums, This is an album that’s less about in- the phrasing turns something like “think Nice Places? Perhaps that’s all in the as Brendan Shea (also in Old Soul) domi- dividual moments, though, and more about all the ways we could spend the perspective. One man’s impenetrable nates the open with phrasing like every- about overall touch and feel. It can be day together” into something much less snow-swept expanse is another’s play- thing falling down at once before guitars uncomfortable, accusatory, sneering. mundane. ground. ^ enter like they’re drowning in maple Then it opens right up and welcomes you Sometimes the vocals are buried too syrup. in. “On a Train” has a breakneck pace, much in the mix for you to make out INVACUO | released by nice places | Nice Places aren’t as heavy as the with a White Stripes guitar and plenty of much. In “Bliss,” with Emily Harvey de- niceplaces.bandcamp.com

F WAX tABLet [email protected] Rock of pure substance F is music a type of theology? Generally not, simple “you guys rock,” but it all feels like alone. out of respect — and because to do so we’d say, but now and again, a group like the confirmation from beyond. would only serve to negate our portrait of them Waldos come along and we start to wonder. the Waldos, a four-piece group in port- — we’ll withhold our usual stream of descriptors not that the weird, complex, jazzy math-rock land, do no such thing. their songs are so and adjectives and simply praise the makers of they churn out on Sans gets us any closer to tightly woven and intricate, so suffused this uniquely triumphant rock record, merely not- the man or woman upstairs — or down below, with energy, and yet so completely devoid ing that it’s as if, transcendentalism be damned, for that matter. not at all. But think how most of any such face or aesthetic (just look at the only force they obey is what passes between groups are preoccupied with the anxious ques- that cover!) that their music cannot be them. Find Sans, their anti-gospel, at the-wal- tions of their own existence, and fashion a sort thought of as a supplication to the beyond. dos.bandcamp.com. of aesthetic or essential image with which to it’s as if theirs is a church with no windows, F and now for some practical knowledge: both address the world outside their members. this as it were. in rock-formal terms, they make the EmpirE dinE and dancE and port city might take the form of a hunky frontman, an us think of chicago’s Ghosts and Vodka, or music Hall have been sold in the last few infectious 4/4 beat, or a shithot synth line. Boston’s cancer conspiracy, or several other weeks. it’s too early to tell how that might af- like chants of the druids of yore, we might such groups to have sunned on the beaches fect their entertainment schedules (or halt them come to view these musical characteristics as of rock obscurity past. But the Waldos exist completely?), but we’re eager to see how it attempts to get beyond their own world, to constructEd today, in an era where every rock fan pos- might. that’s a lot of upheaval for the city’s mid- FacE from the send a message to a distant, unknowable, and waldos. sesses the omniscient eye of the internet. capacity rock rooms. transcendent force: We are here. listen to us. Undaunted, they are musicians in pure F old pal putnam smitH, whose last record and like a stained-glass window, this is where conversation with one another, ignoring the We Could Be Beekeepers was a major player on the light shines through. it often appears as hidebound strictures for practitioners of the national folk dJ charts, is preparing a new a viral single, a full audience at the show, or a rock music and existing on their own terms record, titled Kitchen, Love..., for May. portLand.thephoenix.com | the portL and phoenix | march 8, 2013 2 1

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Hot stuff How mucH spice is Humanly possiBle? _By lindsay sterling

Sudha’s display of spices looked like went into the biryani marinade, includ- knows Indian fa painter’s palette of India: yellow ing salt, red chili, dried plums with pits, food is spicy. turmeric, brown cloves, white salt, bril- fenugreek seeds, dill seeds, turmeric, Duh, there are liant orange-red chili powder — not the cinnamon, black pepper, cumin, nigella a lot of spices maroon stuff you find at the supermar- seeds, bay leaf, fennel, brown cardamom, in it. But when ket. Sudha and her husband, Venu, were ginger, garlic, clove, black cumin, and cooking this teaching me how to make their favorite dried papaya powder. dish at home, dish: chicken biryani. It’s a mixture of Then they proceeded to add 14 fresh I had to physi- spiced rice, bone-in chicken, sauce, and super-hot green chilis in the cook- cally force my cashews, baked together and served with ing process. I’m still trying to figure hand to put in raw sliced onion, lime wedges, hard- out what species these chilis were. as much spice fILLed wITh spIce chicken biryani, the traditional indian way boiled eggs, and a cooling yogurt sauce I’m guessing they’re birds-eye chilis, as Sudha had. called raita. which are 20 times hotter than a jala- Put. In. The spice, “Usually, if I prepare biryani, my peno. They also might be green Guntur Lindsay. Put it in. Do it. What was I scared of? of sweat, and tears? friends will come over,” Said Sudha. Venu Sannam chilis, which are native to Pain? Death? Extreme flavor? The chicken biryani they served me was added, “When I’m home and Sudha’s Sudha and Venu’s home state of Andhra One research study in 1980 found that awesome: spicy, yet balanced, invigorat- cooking, by the time it’s done, half is Pradesh. Sudha insisted that they’re just three pounds of dried really spicy chili ing, exciting, right on the verge of pain. gone. She knows this. She adds more called “green chilis.” powder eaten at once by one 150-pound Perfect! But then I asked them for the chicken now from the start.” Then they added another quarter-cup person can be deadly. Well, there was truth. Sheepishly, not wanting to hurt When the couple was giving me a les- of whole dried spices: bay leaves, black nowhere near that amount in the biry- my feelings, they gave it to me. If I hadn’t son on tandoori chicken for a story last fall cardamom pods, black cumin, cinna- ani, so imminent death wasn’t the issue. been their guest, they would have used 25 (see “A Wing-Lover’s Fantasy,” by Lind- mon bark pieces, green cardamom pods, Sudha and Venu said while we were eat- green chilis instead of just 14. Even though say Sterling, October 19, 2012) I couldn’t star anise, cloves, and mace. Mace is ing that they like spiciness of the food to I told them I like five-star spicy? Even so. believe my eyes when they put a whole the dried casing of the nutmeg nut. bring them to “the verge of pain.” “I do, After all, I was American. ^ quarter-cup of spices into a bowl of 12 Each piece looks like a thumb-sized too,” I said. But here was my fear: what drumsticks. Here they were again, add- dried jellyfish. if the same amount of spice could send an Learn how to cook this dish in a March 8 ing more spice than I thought reasonable Part of me doesn’t know why my eyes Indian to the blissful verge of pain but an cooking class. The recipe and class info is at for a meal. Half a cup of ground spices were popping out of my head. Everyone American over the edge to writhe in a pool ImmigrantKitchens.com.

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his schedule, each involving a different xxxx character, scenario, and movie genre. These he prepares for with the costumes, hOly MOtORs wigs, props, and prosthetics cluttering directed and written by leos carax | with the makeshift dressing room in the denis lavant, edith scob, eva Mendez, Kylie Minogue, and Michel piccoli | French and back of the car. His guises range from english | indoMina releasing | 116 Minutes a billionaire banker to a gypsy crone, from a dad driving his daughter home pMa MovIes to a Chaplin-esque satyr abducting a supermodel from a fashion shoot. Seamlessly and abruptly, his evening Rivaling The Master in the weirdness drive bursts into mini-movies that take of its opening scene, Leos Carax’s first place for cameras that can’t be seen and film since Pola X (1999) begins with a for an audience that might not be there. long take of an audience staring out Lavant delivers a tour-de-force perfor- at the audience watching the movie. mance that’s on a par with Carax’s. As A snippet of a 19th-century Eadweard for the director, he’s accumulated a lot of Muybridge zoopraxiscope motion study wacky material in the dozen fallow years follows, and then a man awakens in a since Pola X. He’s also nurtured a sense of big bed next to a dog. He stumbles about, humor and deepened his wisdom. But at finds a door in a wall, and walks into the heart of this plenitude is loss and fore- a movie theater where a baby toddles boding. Speaking of his desperate craft, toward the screen. Now you’re ready to Mr. Oscar says he misses the old days meet Mr. Oscar (Denis Lavant) and expe- when the machines that produced cin- rience the most brilliant and exhilarat- chaMeLeon mr. oscar (denis lavant) shapeshifts through Holy Motors. ema, the holy motors, were larger and vis- ing film of the year. ible, and paradoxically made the artifice Who is Mr. Oscar? The Academy Award seem real. Now they have faded into the ring of his name might be a clue — not to he’s a funnier version of the stiff financier performance in Franju’s Eyes Without a Face cloud of a new technology that is virtually mention that it’s a partial anagram for in Cosmopolis, riding about in a limo driven is one of many allusions). solipsistic, a new medium so real it ceases “Leos Carax.” A chameleonic blank page, by a trusted chauffeur (Edith Scob, whose Mr. Oscar has nine appointments on to exist. ^ healing arTs, sTaTemenT Jewelry, local crafT

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The waning of the moon brings simplifica- ftion. Complicated relationships or projects Back page suddenly smooth out, and the urgent phone calls cease. Or perhaps you stop caring. For some, this is the time to stare up at the dark ceiling, and gather strength for the coming lunar phase. Don’t try to make something work that isn’t working — the moon’s waning phase emphasizes distance as clamoring fades away, and landscape recedes into Jonesin’ _by Matt Jones the horizon. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 thursday 13 14 15 march 16 7 Across 39 SeaWorld star attraction Waning moon in capricorn; moon void-of-course from 4:14 pm “nuclear disasters” until 10:01 pm, when it moves into aquarius. do you feel like 17c ool, in18 1990s 19 rap 20 21 22 Geometric 23 24 shape: 25 abbr. 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 1 40 starting something gigantic and complicated? oh, please, don’t. proj- — stuck in the middle with...ewww. parlance 41 outside the box ects begun will not follow through, particularly for aries, libra, cancer, 5 disaster, like the four 43 comet, for example capricorn, Scorpio, taurus and leo. Much better to be vague and unreli- movies in the theme 45 “i’m amazed!” able — a natural fit for Gemini, aquarius, Virgo, pisces, and Sagittarius. entries 46 columbus day’s mo. 1 9 2 hide words 3 from4 the 5 6 7 47 d izzy8 Gillespie 9 10 genre 11 12 13 Friday 14 15 march 16 8 kids, maybe 48 Gp. that regulates Waning moon in aquarius; moon void-of-course from 5:08 pm until 1:19 am on Sunday (yes, a two-day void-of-course, stay loose). 17 14 18 h ost with19 rumors 20 21of 22 23 carry-on 24 25 luggage 26 27 28 29 l ook 30 for the 31 unusual 32 person, the quirky idea, or the eccentric notion. this retiring in 2014 51 itinerary collected by a is an excellent weekend for socializing, but not so good for sticking to rou- 15 one woodwind rock historian tine (listen up, leo, taurus and Scorpio). Fantasy — especially about the 16 the present 56 the South potential of new relationships — is alluring, particularly for aquarius, libra, 17 “edit” menu option 57 “___ Window” Gemini, aries, capricorn, pisces, cancer, Virgo and Sagittarius.

1 2 18 3 it may 4 be more 5 6 7 8 58 Vizquel 9 10 of baseball 11 12 13 14 15 16 19 orange Muppet 59 “Fanny” author Jong saturday march 9 Waning moon in aquarius; still in that two-day void-of-course 20 pattern for highland 60 prefix meaning “within” moon until 1:19 am Sunday. novelty appeals, but nothing is fin- 17 18 19families 20 21 22 23 24 61 c 25lue weapon 26 27 28 29 30 ished. 31 i t will 32 be easy to get excited by something that is, upon reflec- 23 ___ Majesty 62 Ford’s famous flop tion, unremarkable. the long void-of-course moon will stir up the eas- 24 Mass ___ (Boston 63 tV chef paula ily agitated, and leo, taurus and Scorpio could be ill-tempered. how- thoroughfare, to locals) 64 Scrape spot ever, excellent potential for romance if you’re aquarius, libra, Gemini, aries, capricorn, pisces, or Sagittarius. 25 Word after Gator or power 1 2 3 26 4 “ n ow 5i see!” 6 7 8 9 Down 10 11 12 13 14 15 s unday 16 march 10 27 richard or Maurice of 1 Stuffed doll material dark of the moon in pisces, daylight Saving time begins. this is 1940s fast food 2 therefore a hugely sensitive time, particularly for the fast-twitch folks. 17 18 19 32 20 t rips 21around 22 the earth 23 24 25 3 c 26onjunctions 27 seen28 with 29 30 31 Your 32 intuition — also your pessimism — is intense, particularly about 36 Village Voice award a slash hidden matters concerning close friends or family. this is a fine day 37 Golfer palmer 4 honk the horn for confessions, but decisions made today will not last. Wait until the moon is in aries to make declarations, particularly pisces, Scorpio, ©2013 Jonesin’ CrossworD s | eD [email protected] 38 Yoko of “dear Yoko” 5 Simon in South american cancer, taurus, aries, aquarius, capricorn, leo, and libra. Virgo, Sagit- history tarius and Gemini: avoid- self-destructive impulses. 6 With a high BMi 7 ___ pit monday march 11 8 category for daniel new moon in pisces; moon void-of-course from 3:51 pm until 7:17 tuesday morning. as yesterday, decisions made today will not d ay-lewis 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 9 Sound purchase? hold — but interruptions should be noted. What are you supposed to learn by traveling down this unexpected path? take others along for the letters _write us at portlanD [email protected] 10 after-dinner wine ride, particularly aries, leo, Sagittarius, libra, Gemini, and aquarius, 11 Krabappel of “the who17 may 18feel social, 19 and 20 awkward 21 if too 22 long alone. 23 c apricorn, 24 25 t aurus, 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Simpsons” Virgo, Scorpio, cancer and pisces: make space for “aha!” moments. done Waiting For 12 ___ to rest In my work gathering petition signatures tuesday march 12 Patient saFety and canvassing for this measure, I’ve noted 13 Soapmaking caustic 21 california/nevada lake Waxing moon in aries; moon void-of-course in pisces until 7:17 As an employee in downtown Portland an overwhelmingly positive response and am; Mars moves into aries. aries is about being fiery, intense as well as a resident, I’ve been exposed heard the stories of many Portland residents 22 Makes new friends? 1 and 2 easily 3 excited. 4 So expect 5 steam 6 in relationships7 8 between 9 10 c ancer, 11 12 13 14 15 16 to a climate of escalating hostility sur- affected by the protestor tactics. One visibly 26 hill of the clarence Scorpio, pisces, aries, leo, and Sagittarius (or any combination). pi- t homas scandal sces, cancer, Virgo, and taurus, may feel vulnerable and as if others rounding the entrance to the Planned pregnant woman (who had no intention of 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Parenthood of Northern New England entering the building) relayed her experi- 27 Secondary study are noticing what you’re doing (they’re not). capricorn, libra, Gemini, and aquarius: the best ideas make you uncomfortable. offices. An increasing presence of vocal and ence of being obstructed by a protestor hold- 28 not in any way aggressive protestors has created palpable ing a sign depicting graphic fetal remains. 29 having ___ hair day 30 Super-long ride Wednesday march 13 tension for patients and pedestrians alike. These signs, which are intended to frighten Waxing moon in aries; moon void-of-course from 4:02 am until While the protestors absolutely have the and shame women entering the health cen- 31 two, in toulouse 3:08 pm thursday. “i saw an old moon drink the sun. Still my right to free speech, these rights are not ter for services, have the effect of causing 32 pop singer anthony 1 2 friends 3 say, 4 Fight 5 your thirst. 6 and 7 i do what 8 i can: 9 i drink” 10 ( a nacreon). 11 12 13 14 15 16 inclusive of targeted intimidation tactics discomfort to everyone who passes them. 33 “Moral ___” (cartoon even though the moon is “young,” old Man Winter still resides. and if n etwork show) you’re a young blood, feeling the weight of authority is disapproving — that infringe upon other constitutionally The protestors have transformed a side- 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 give the old guy a push. easy to do for aries, leo, Sagittarius, Gemini, protected rights, such as access to health- walk into a harrowing gauntlet. Merely 34 Way back when 35 exhausted aquarius, libra, Virgo, taurus, Scorpio and pisces. capricorn and can- care services. This issue has been apparent walking to my workplace requires passing cer: hold your fire. for months, and is not being treated like through it. Increased police presence has 39 Market divisions? the time-sensitive issue that it is. We have provided no solace. The protestors are still 41 Maritime patrol gp. met have met with city councilors and highly vocal. I find myself forced to quicken 42 club on the fairway moon Keys have been in contact with the mayor and my pace while walking the stretch of side- 44 option given by howie This horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. Simply they do not seem to understand how press- walk they’ve claimed as their own. I can Mandel read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | When the moon is in your sun sign, ing the implementation of a patient safety only imagine how much more painful and 47 Wesley Snipes title role 48 pumbaa’s cartoon you are beginning a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect zone is. frightening their tactics increased insight and emotionality. When the moon moves into the As of recent would be if I were a buddy sun sign opposite yours (see below), expect to have difficulties dealing months, I have been patient. 49 rickman, in the “harry with the opposite sex, family, or authority figures; social or romantic activities will not be at their best. | When the moon is in Aries, it working with Planned People are being p otter” films 50 terms and conditions opposes Libra, and vice versa. Other oppositions are Taurus/Scorpio, Parenthood and a harassed and intimi- Gemini/Sagittarius, Cancer/Capricorn, Leo/Aquarius, and Virgo/Pisces. team of volunteers dated on public sidewalks option The moon stays in each sign approximately two and a half days. | As to enact a “patient every Friday and Satur- 51 Snipe or thrush the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of course,” making no major angles to planets. Consider this a null time safety buffer zone,” day and it is unaccept- 52 line on a graph 53 pleasant and try to avoid making or implementing decisions if you can. But it’s which would ensure able. “Wait and see” great for brainstorming. | For Symboline Dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and that all protest ac- just won’t cut it. 54 it may be spliced advice column, visit our Web site at thePhoenix.com. 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