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Some of Maine’s small colleges (and their students) are leaders in the global movement to divest from fossil fuels. HAPPY HOUR: Mon-Fri. 4-7pm this Just in $2.50 Domestics • $3.50 Micros • $5 Nachos Wed. $7 Domestic Pitchers • 2 Cheeseburgers & Fries $6.99 Thur. 50¢ Wings • $7 Bud Light Pitchers $5 Burritos • $4 Cuervo Margaritas Serial Fiction at the Summit Fri. Thursday Night is Hockey Night...and Beer! Where are the leaders BRUINS V. BLACKHAWKS @ 7PM Enter the world of Feliz YZ on climate change? Our hi-def screens, full bar & killer fSet your alarms: this Monday, with the fears and hopes of a young has been posted online will contain menu will make you feel like March 24, at 5:31 pm, Felix Yz boy than with gender issues; over additional art and content. Maine’s leaders “just don’t believe scientifically what’s you're at all your favorite games. the course of the month, readers f will make his grand debut. “One of the things I’ve always happening to us” in terms of climate change, said Laurie Voted #1 Wings in Portland! The brainchild of local author will follow as Felix falls in love, hated about writing is that it’s so Lachance — a radical statement for the president of Water- CATCH ALL OF and WMPG program director Lisa grapples with family dynamics, solitary,” Bunker confesses. “This ville’s conservative, business-oriented Thomas College. Bunker, Felix is the 15-year-old copes with a bully at school, and is delightfully multimedia. It’s not Speaking at the Climate Solutions Expo and Summit at BLACK & protagonist of a new interactive invents a new life philosophy. just me and my story anymore.” the Augusta Civic Center on March 12 — sponsored by a dozen THE online serial, The ZeroDay Countdown “I find Felix effortless to write,” organizations from 350 Maine to the Penobscot Nation — La- of Felix Yz, which will appear in blog Bunker says, adding that she _Deirdre Fulton chance came across as one Maine leader who understands YELLOW ACTION installments over the course of 31 hopes “some lonely and confused what needs to happen. days at felixyz.com. Illustrated by kid somewhere will love and draw It’s only practical for the state’s business leaders, she said, AND ENJOY OUR Bunker’s 21-year-old child, Cyrus, strength” from Felix’s adventures. to pay attention to “sustainability” if they “want to attract the story unfolds in the month Felix and a few of his friends (as young folks” to their companies. (The S-word resounded AWARD-WINNING before Felix undergoes a risky well as his sister, at right) already throughout the gathering.) procedure to separate him from have Facebook pages, which She and four other Maine small-college presidents spoke on WINGS! the fourth-dimensional alien, will help fans keep up to a panel that bucked the stereotype of higher-ed administrators Zyx, with whom he was acciden- date with the latest post- focused more on raising money from the One Percent than on tally and sub-atomically fused as a ings. The penultimate solving society’s problems. 121 Center St. Portland • 207-772-8274 child. Zyx, who Bunker describes as — and most climactic Two presidents of tiny, ecologically minded institutions OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK: 11:30am to 1am a “playful Zen master,” communi- — installment of the told how they were leading the country in divesting their cates using Felix’s fingers to type. serial will be posted in (relatively small) endowments from fossil-fuel companies. WWW.PORTLANDASYLUM.COM “I lived for a very long time as a audio drama format Darron Collins, the College of the Atlantic chief, credited the man with a sense of another being (thanks to a collabora- divestment impetus to students at his Bar Harbor campus. His

inside me,” says Bunker, a trans- tion with local radio- Cyrus Bunker counterpart at Unity College, Stephen Mulkey, was proud that gender writer, talking about how dramatist Fred Green- his college was the first in the country to divest — and that its the novel could be read as a “meta- halgh). The e-book $15-million fund has since done well in the stock market. phor for the trans experience.” that will be available The campus CEOs also described how their institutions I’ve But the story has more to do once the entire novel were trying to lead the state in climate-change activism. Uni- versity of Maine at Farmington president Kathryn Foster pro- claimed: “We can be a green leader in society.” been “Our job is to be educators-in-chief,” which includes educating policy-makers, said Richard Hopper, of Kennebec Idiot Box _by Matt Bors Valley Community College, in Fairfield. KVCC recently ex- panded to the former Good Will-Hinckley School, inheriting an organic farm that prompted the creation of a sustainable- DUSTED! agriculture curriculum. The conference was held in March despite the risk of a snowstorm because its organizers wanted “to reach the Legis- lature while it’s in session,” co-coordinator Fred Horch said. Legislators, however, weren’t reached; in fact, none of those alleged leaders was spotted. Two Democrats, Mark Eves, House speaker, and Justin Alfond, Senate president, were scheduled to speak at the conference’s final session, but the feared late-winter storm materialized and caused the afternoon to be cut short. De- spite the storm, more than 750 people attended, organizers said. Horch, a Green Independent state Senate candidate in Brunswick, regretted that “we’re not making any progress” with green legislation. The “feed-in tariff” bill, which would PORQUI have made electric utilities pay people who produce electrical energy at their homes or business (such as by solar cells), was The NOSH defeated in this session; Horch suggested it may be resurrected BACON DUST as a citizens’-initiated referendum measure. FAIRY One noteworthy politician did attend: Shenna Bellows, the Democratic candidate running against Republican United 2.05 CARAT OVAL CUT States Senator Susan Collins. Climate change is one of the BLUE SAPPHIRE WITH .65 CARAT TW OF DIAMONDS SET IN 14KT WHITE GOLD $3,900 three pillars of Bellows’s campaign, the others being economic inequality and civil liberties. Although the expo was free, 90 participants paid $25 each to draw up plans for the state to progress toward green goals by 2020. The plans will be found at climatesolutionsme.org. But unless the state’s non-leading leaders are reached or re- placed, it’s hard to see how many goals will be achieved. RSHD2524 NOSH KITCHEN BAR WORLD-FAMOUS Even divestment at more Maine colleges may be tough to accomplish. At one of state’s rich liberal-arts institutions, BACON DUSTED FRENCH FRIESTM Colby, in Waterville, students who pushed the college to dump fossil-fuel stock were rebuffed by trustees in 2013. Colby’s www.daysjewelers.com 551 Congress Street • (207.553-2227 board is full of corporate leaders. _Lance Tapley AUBURN ● BANGOR ● BRUNSWICK ● SO.PORTLAND ● WATERVILLE ● MANCHESTER,NH www.noshkitchenbar.com 6 March 21, 2014 | the portland phoenix | portland.t hephoenix.coM

_BY AL DIAMON politics + other Mistakes one Cent’s worth _BY zAcK AnchorS [email protected] Celebrating 25 Years The Legend Continues war on the poor Friends from other planets outside of augusta, it’s become increasingly difficult to find According to a group called the the rest of Maine. I noted that in seems to have visited Portland and fanyone willing to rally behind the War on drugs. Forty three f years after president richard nixon launched that war, it’s not Mutual UFO Network (motto: the 2nd Congressional District, the Brunswick. No mention of anyplace Largest Portions Sorta Like The Syfy Channel, Only Democrat’s campaign was almost north of Augusta, where the candi- hard to see that incarcerating millions and spending $50 billion a Less Credible), Maine has more nonexistent. I mentioned how Col- date hasn’t caused a ripple. year has amounted to a failed crusade. But the mountains of evi- sightings of unidentified flying lins remained popular in rural parts CNN and The Hill both made some dence supporting that perspective don’t sway Governor paul lep- in PortLand! objects than any states except Wash- of the state. effort to balance their stories, with age, who announced last week that he’s ramping up Maine’s War ington (where marijuana is legal), I thought the visitor would be the former saying that “conventional on drugs with an additional $2 million in state spending for drug Montana (where common loons and grateful for these insights, but that political wisdom” would argue for enforcement (as opposed to prevention or addiction treatment). uncommon nuts both thrive), and wasn’t the case. “No one else is tell- an easy Collins win and the latter Meanwhile, lepage appears eager to surrender another Vermont (home of something called ing me that,” he said. “I don’t think noting the incumbent’s popularity battle: the War on poverty, launched 50 years ago by president $1.50 draft sPeciaLs “snow golf,” which combines the you have a good perspective.” before claiming, “in a small state lyndon Johnson with the creation of programs like Medicare, worst aspects of two terrible ideas: He then vanished back through like Maine, the grassroots engage- Medicaid, Job corps, and head Start. conservatives across everyday winter and golf). whatever space warp brought him ment can make all the difference.” the country have used the 50th anniversary of this “war” as a Unlike residents of those states, here and wrote a story in which he Nothing about how, in most of the chance to declare it a failure, but it’s an undeniable fact that Mainers who’ve spotted flying sau- claimed Pingree “has Collins looking 2nd District, Bellows has no engage- these programs have lifted millions of americans out of poverty cers are not necessarily stoned or over her shoulder” and that “a gust ment, grassroots or otherwise. every year since their creation, while sharply reducing infant weird. Many are normal people, who of Maine populism, merging with Nevertheless, Daily Kos claims Bel- mortality, vastly increasing access to health care, providing job really did see something strange the corporate accountability zeit- lows is “all over the news,” citing sto- training for millions, and generally giving poor people in ameri- come out of the sky. Namely: geist, could catch Chellie’s sails and ries in magazines such as U.S. News and ca a chance at a decent life. Reporters from the national carry her to Washington.” Time, neither of which makes it appear Medicaid may be the most successful of these programs, news media. A month later, Collins beat Pin- she has a real chance of winning. and its current expansion under the affordable care act is es- I myself have had contact with gree by 19 percentage points. The This media onslaught isn’t actu- sential to fighting one of the major causes of poverty: costly these alien life forms. One autumn Democrat won in Portland and North ally about beating Collins in 2014. It’s health care. But instead of rallying to the cause, lepage is bat- afternoon in 2002, I was busily ob- Haven, but almost nowhere else. focused on the future. Democrats, tling to obstruct low-income Mainers from receiving health care serving the US Senate race between I mention this not to demonstrate who have a very thin bench (Pin- through the expansion of Mainecare, Maine’s version of Medic- incumbent Republican Susan Collins how locked into the state’s political gree’s daughter Hannah and … um aid. last week he called Medicaid expansion “sinful.” and Democratic challenger Chellie pulse I am (if I were, Ethan Strimling … is Joe Brennan still alive?), need like his declaration of a war on drugs, though, lepage’s Pingree by taking a nap on the would be a congressman, and Mike Bellows to emerge from this race in capitulation to poverty is behind the times. ronald reagan led 772-5656 couch. Suddenly I was interrupted by Michaud would be driving a forklift). passable shape, so she can, like Pin- the way long ago, telling reporters in 1987 that “in the sixties an unearthly ringing. It turned out I bring it up because a dozen years gree, run for major office again. To we waged a war on poverty, and poverty won.” the truth is that to be the telephone. after that alien invasion, it’s hap- make that possible, she’s got to avoid the War on poverty was undermined by other wars as soon as The caller was a journalist from pening again. The night skies over a landslide loss this year. The goal of it began, first by the mounting costs of the conflict in Vietnam, a liberal magazine. He’d landed in Maine are alight with glowing ob- the visiting ETs is to boost her within then by the conservative assault on the role of government in Maine and set out to do a story on jects bringing in big-shot reporters, 20 points of her opponent. public life that began in the 1970s, and later by a War on drugs how Pingree had a good chance of this time to inform earthlings that To date, Bellows has gotten light that placed poor people in its crosshairs. upsetting Collins. Democrat Shenna Bellows has a real years worth of mileage from rais- considering that we essentially gave up on defeating poverty “Why on earth – if you’ll pardon chance of knocking off Collins. ing significant early money (with- decades ago, it shouldn’t be surprising that the “total victory” Goodwill works. the expression – do you think that?” Set your phasers to stun. out it being mentioned that early Johnson called for in 1964 never came. about 46 million ameri- I asked. “This year’s [Democratic Party] money is the easiest to raise) and cans live in poverty today, including 148,000 Mainers and one “I’ve seen the grassroots support caucuses saw record turnout,” MS- for being dubbed by the Progressive in four Maine children younger than age six. newer anti-poverty NEW! for her candidacy,” he said. “It’s all NBC reported, “with party members Change Campaign Committee as the programs like the earned income tax credit have lifted millions over the state.” gathering in town halls and school “Elizabeth Warren of civil liberties.” more out of poverty, but social safety-net programs (beyond “Really?” I said. “Where in Maine gyms for a chance to meet Bellows Which is probably a lot like being the health insurance) have accounted for just 12 percent of the fed- have you been?” and other members of the ticket.” Flash Gordon of positive soundbites. eral budget in recent years, compared to 19 percent for national “Portland,” he said. “And North Record turnout? Maybe in an al- That stuff means something in security alone. as these programs have become more focused Haven.” ternate dimension. In this one, the the remote galaxy inside the Beltway. on working families, they have gotten weaker for the poorest, Now I understood what planet he showing was about average for an Around here, it’s just more crop causing an increase in extreme poverty. recent cuts to programs was coming from. North Haven is off-year election, which is far below circles. ^ like food stamps are trimming the safety net even further. where Pingree lived. attendance in presidential years. lepage, reagan, and countless other critics of that social I tried to explain that Portland’s In arriving at her assessment that Transmissions from you will be received at safety net argue that War on poverty programs are intended political makeup isn’t typical of Bellows “makes waves,” the reporter [email protected]. to provide handouts to the poor as opposed to incentives to work. the truth is that the 1960s architects of the war were adamantly opposed to welfare and went to great lengths to design programs that incentivized poor people to pursue edu- cation and jobs. Since then, any approach perceived to depart THIS WICKEDLY SMOOTH BEER REFRESHES YEAR ‘ROUND _BY DAVID KISh from that focus or significantly expand anti-poverty measures hasn’t gotten far. take president nixon’s 1969 proposal to provide a guaran- Smooth, malty lager with a teed annual income to poor families. Such a program — then or AVAILABLE NOW now — really could strike a serious blow to economic distress, crisp American Hop finish. but nixon’s plan was shot down in the US Senate in 1970 after Enjoyed by the San Francisco passing in the house and was soon forgotten. prospectors of yesteryear. We work hard to get people, like Troy, back on their feet. the case for a guaranteed annual income came to light Every year, over 10,000 Mainers experience brain injury, again recently, though, due to a widely-discussed atlantic arti- cle last fall. the authors pointed out that poverty in the United ranging from mild concussions to more serious brain trauma. States could be instantly reduced in half if the government cut a $3,000 check to every american and eliminated other social Our NeuroRehab Services provide comprehensive teams of specialists safety-net spending. who assist in the redevelopment of physical mobility, memory, self-care, if we actually were engaged in a fight against poverty, communication and other skills. rather than a retreat, far-reaching anti-poverty proposals like on that would actually be taken seriously by policymakers — as To learn more contact us at: they were in the 1960s. But as long as lots of americans are convinced our half-hearted attempts to fight poverty have Portland 800.341.4516 or Lewiston 800.352.9547 failed, all that can be done is to defend and moderately expand or visit goodwillnne.org/services the programs created 50 years ago, during a historical moment when poverty was the enemy — not poor people. ^ Goodwill. 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Beneath the deep rifts of disagree- goals, Maine’s largest city has of late suf- ings about these projects. DDL L D fment about how Portland should fered a gigantic split, between City Hall It’s that the involvement comes too grow, change, and develop, there lies one and the people themselves. And most of late in the process to really make a big Fabulous food for 22 years! underlying point of concord: The city is these conflicts are similar in one root ele- difference. Planning Board member Jack increasingly attractive to a wide range ment: This city, which all agree is lucky Soley puts it best: “At the eleventh hour Monday & Tuesday 4 - 8 p.m. of people and businesses, and therefore to have so many options, has leaders who it’s difficult to give public testimony as is uniquely poised to have options about do not behave as if they have any choice at much weight as it is earlier in the proj- how its future will be built. And there’s all. 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BEER & WINE swirl, and the future of the standards set by the City Portland gets decided not _christian milneil Council’s ordinances. proceeds To benefIT besT frIends anImal socIeTy through a participatory pro- While citizen input is “A LOT OF ITALIAN FOR NOT MUCH AMERICAN!” cess ending with a major- always welcome, earlier ity vote, but in adversarial is better. Projects can take courtroom hearings before a judge who months to move through the Planning restaurant.brewery.distillery will make a decision alone. Board, during which time the board has The most notable issues exemplifying typically requested — and received — this pattern are the potential sale of Con- many changes from the developer. By the gress Square Plaza, the repurposing of end of the process, the members can find “in’Finiti turns the former Williston-West Church, and themselves in a bind if new public objec- the massive Federated “Midtown” hous- tions arise, or if citizens ask for additional One! JOin us ing development in Bayside (see sidebar, changes to aspects of the project the board “Timelines”). All three have been sub- has already addressed. FOr Our Grand jected to long, contentious hearings be- “To a developer, it might cost a tre- fore the City Council and the Plan- mendous amount of time, money, and OpeninG events, ning Board, as well as sev- resources to make those changes,” after eral lawsuits, which the the company has typically invested a One year late... city has a track record great deal already. The end is “a really dif- of losing (see “Le- ficult time to go backwards,” Soley says. gally Blind,” by “There’s a point at which it’s unfair.” Al Diamon, Feb- Which leaves one last option, where Wednesday March 19th: We Match Wednesday ruary 28). the Midtown project has ended up: “At - we’ll match 50% of your check with a gift The the eleventh hour the only way to stop [a card to be used at a later date. (ex. spend projects project] is litigation,” he says. are differ- Mayor Michael Brennan agrees with $50 and we give you a $25 gift card. Wait, ent in their Soley about getting citizens involved up who’s birthday is it?...) details, but front, and notes his surprise at the anti- looking at Midtown outcry after more than a decade their pro- of discussions about Bayside. “If there thursday March 20th: thirsty thursday - $2 cesses is were some type of opposition you would tacos and rotating $2 draft beer reveal- have expected it long before” the very end ing, and wor- of the process, he says. rying. There are However, if the Planning Board’s Friday March 21st: 4c’s for $8 Friday - $8 interdependent attitude in this regard seems to favor de- cocktails, $8 ceviche, $8 cheeseboard and $8 problems, and velopers over public concerns, that may charcuterie even if they are be by design. Board members are appoint- solved, the three ed by the City Council, who are “very projects at the center developer-friendly,” says Frank Turek, saturday March 22nd: Grand Opening Bash - of the current storms are a leader of Friends of Congress Square Brewery and distillery tours with tastings likely lost to litigation forever. Park, which leads him to ask (rhetorical- until 9pm, $8 specials on cocktails & food That said, a closer look at what ails Port- ly) of the Planning Board “a basic philo- land could help us avoid future maladies. sophical question: What do you do that’s items, 2 for $8 drafts all day featuring Diagnosis #1: BaD timing best for the people?” a huge line-up of house beers, and at 10pm, Soley counters that the Planning Board something else happens....” The first, and perhaps truly the big- works hard to fix, not kill, flawed projects, gest, underlying problem is not a lack of but ultimately when faced with imperfec- citizen involvement. Ask anyone — board tion, must “make our best judgement for 250 commercial st. | 207-221-8889 member, citizen, or reporter — who was what makes sense for the city of Portland.” www.infinitimaine.com at any of the multi-hour municipal meet- Continued on p 10 10 March 21, 2014 | the portland phoenix | portland.t hephoenix.coM

Continued from p 8 Diagnosis #2: insecurity The developer came in with a proposal But what city leaders think is best and that became the plan.” can differ significantly from what (Former councilor John Anton, who residents believe. Charles Remmel, was the only person to vote against one of the plaintiffs in the Williston- both the Williston-West and Congress Timelines West case, and the first president of Square decisions, declined to com- Williston-West church the Western Prom Neighborhood As- ment for this story, saying he left Summer 2011 Williston-West church merges with immanuel Baptist church and moves worship to sociation when it was founded in the public office “to get my life back” and high Street. the beautiful, historic Williston-West church is sold to Frank Monsour, an australian 1970s, says city leaders should “have didn’t want to get involved in current businessman who proposes converting the parish house into residential space and office space for up a little more faith in how the city issues, nor revisit old ones.) to 14 of his employees; a future concept is to convert the sanctuary into either a community hall or a will develop,” rather than thinking But MilNeil says the Midtown performing-arts venue. “if they don’t do [a proposed project] project was different, the result of a may 2012 the planning Board hears nine hours of public testimony, and entered into the record right now, it’s the end and we’ll never 15-year planning process. “You can’t 97 letters and a 140-signature petition opposing the idea, according to the Forecaster’s report of that get another chance.” really blame the developers for fol- meeting. objections relate to the city’s comprehensive plan, which protects the residential character “Portland has enough vibrancy” to lowing the city’s plan,” he says. “The of the West end neighborhood (and other parts of the city). putting a business in the middle of an up- attract good development, Remmel developers really were proposing scale residential area seems to run counter to the overall plan. says, citing the city’s thriving food something that was faithful to the June 2012 Fifty people, about half in favor and half opposed, speak and entertainment scene, which he city’s vision,” a development with an to the city council during a two-and-a-half-hour public hearing, the says has flourished “in spite of” city active street level, retail shops, and Portland Press Herald reports. the council votes 6-3 to approve the officials’ efforts. lots of housing. plan, which involves a zoning change to allow the business (op- When faced with these developers’ posing were John anton, John coyne, and cheryl leeman). ideas, “Portland’s insecurities come Diagnosis #3: July 2012 twelve neighbors sue Monsour and the city, ask- into play,” Remmel says. City lead- resistance to change ing a Superior court judge if the city went too far in changing the ers often are “so insecure” that they Brennan says those are the city’s property’s zoning. approve the first thing that comes goals — his particular focus is “initia- DeCember 2013 the ruling is that the rezoning did violate along. “They don’t have enough faith tives and proposals that are going the comprehensive plan, and that the building did not need a in themselves.” to bring people to the downtown, specially brokered deal to protect it, given the city’s strong historic- Regarding Williston-West specifi- galvanize the downtown, revitalize preservation ordinance. the city is planning to appeal that ruling to cally, he says city officials were so the downtown” — and says officials the Maine Supreme court. worried about the future of the build- are balancing “a number of compet- ing if it lay dormant for too long that ing objectives,” including the city’s FeDerateD’s miDtoWn project they eagerly embraced “the first guy historic feel and overall aesthetics. 2000 the city issues the Bayside Vision, calling for more housing and larger, taller buildings in the who comes in,” even though that Citizens who have risen up to op- area, including the former railyard in the center of the neighborhood. the plan also recognizes a re- meant offices and a performance pose some of these developments have lated need for a city-funded parking garage. space in the middle of residences, “different objectives,” he says. July 2011 the city agrees to sell 3.25 acres, the former railyard, to the Federated companies for and despite a lack of parking. (He When asked why some projects got $2.3 million, with an agreement that any development would include a parking garage paid for in part says any parallels between fears for a green light with barely a whisper, with $9 million in federal money passed through the city. Williston-West and the St. Lawrence and others ignited firestorms, Bren- Fall 2012 Federated unveils a $150-million plan to build 675 apart- Church on Munjoy Hill, which did nan as much as throws up his hands. ments in four 15-story towers, plus two parking garages with more lay vacant and ultimately deteriorat- “You get to a point where you’ve than 1000 spaces, and more than 90,000 square feet of retail space. ed until it needed to be demolished, tried to compromise,” he says. “You Fall 2013 after nearly a year of hearings before the planning are weak at best, because of different just get to a point where you funda- Board and city council, including ordinance changes allowing build- neighborhood environments.) mentally have disagreements.” ings to be as tall as 165 feet throughout the parcel, public opposition With Congress Square, he says, the Remmel agrees with that assess- arose (see “curb appeal,” by deirdre Fulton, november 22, 2013). city was afraid it would never have the ment: “Planning means to me you January 2014 the planning Board approves the project. money or the civic interest to improve have a long-term idea” rather than two members of the board, Jack Soley and Bill hall, say they don’t it, so when a developer proposed the being “focused on project approvals,” like aspects of it, but vote in favor because it meets the city’s ordi- idea that involved selling off public he says, arguing that city officials nance requirements. land in the heart of the Arts District, “are basically project-oriented. I don’t February 2014 Keep portland livable sues the city, saying the pro- officials leapt at the chance. think they think in the same way the cess did not properly respect the city’s own planning documents. And with Midtown, the official neighborhoods do.” thought line was, “We’re afraid if we “A lot of these arguments are really congress square plaza don’t approve this, we’ll never get an about disruptive effects in a neighbor- 2008 city council creates the congress Square redesign Study Group. after about three years of opportunity like this ever again,” Rem- hood,” Remmel notes. He admits, meetings, the 15-member body was no closer to an idea than they had been at the start. mel says. So the city raised the allow- though, that what might count as november 2011 rockBridge capital, the new owner of the eastland park hotel (now renovated and able building height in that area, and disruption for him is fine for others, reopened as the Westin portland harborview) proposes buying the plaza to erect an event center (see, made other changes to accommodate and vice-versa. He is confident, for among other coverage, “congress Square’s controversial Facelift,” by deirdre Fulton, May 24, 2013). the plan, rather than, for example, example, that the Williston-West may 2013 the city parks commission says the council should consider not just the status quo turning it down and waiting for one building could easily be converted into and the frequently revised rockBridge proposal but other ideas “such as a re-designed park in the that made more sense for Portland. high-end residences by a developer same space, a fully designed smaller plaza, and other building or architecture options.” (See “Getting Housing advocate and urban-issues who would protect the building’s his- (congress) Square to Work,” by Jeff inglis, august 16, 2013, and “reimagining portland,” by calvin blogger Christian MilNeil says the toric facade. But Portland Landmarks, dunwoody, august 24, 2012.) Congress Square situation and the which protects the city’s architectural September 6, 2013 Friends of congress Square, which had objected to the proposed sale for Williston-West proposal are similar: heritage, is against splitting up the months, asks the city to allow the circulation of a petition for a citizen initiative to amend the city’s “Those were really developer-driven. Continued on p 12 land bank, making protected land harder to sell, and adding 35 parcels to the land Bank list, including congress Square. September 13, 2013 the city refused to issue petitions, arguing that the ordinance it proposed conflicted with city ordinance and state law barring initiatives and referenda on administrative and financial issues. September 16, 2013 the city council votes 6-3 (John anton, Kevin donoghue, and david Marshall opposed) to sell 9500 square feet, about two-thirds of congress Square plaza, to rockBridge capital for $524,000. September 25, 2013 Friends of congress Square park sues the city to force it to issue the petitions. november 2013 a judge orders the city to issue petitions, which were finally released for circula- For more information on our tion the day before election day. While the city planned to appeal, the Friends collected signatures at the polls, ultimately turning in 4250, far organic growing programs, more than the required 1500. marCh 2014 the city council approved the petition’s question visit www.sfntc.com for the June ballot, but also moved to enact a slightly different ordinance that would add almost exactly the same properties to the protected land Bank (with the notable exception of congress Square), but with more modest protections against their poten- tial sale. april 2014 the Maine Supreme court will hear the city’s petition-issuing appeal in early april, and is expected to rule shortly CIGARETTES thereafter, in time to allow or block the June election. © SFNTC 1 2014 (in)DeCent propoSal? rockbridge capital’s rendering of the proposed congress _ji square event center and open space.

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Continued from p 10 MilNeil says, on top of the relatively fixed beautiful interior of the sanctuary. remediation costs for cleaning up the “It’s not a church anymore,” Remmel former railyard. With fewer tenants avail- THURSDAY says. He’s right, but that statement alone able to cover those costs, rents go higher doesn’t directly suggest any single course — which is the opposite of MilNeil’s goal. of action. For Brennan, the suits boil down to MARCH 20TH And that’s where MilNeil, a commis- the city’s sovereignty. Particularly with sioner of the Portland Housing Author- regard to the Congress Square petition and ity, comes in. First, he observes, “cities upcoming vote, he asks, “Is everything change. It’s pretty much the definition that the City Council does subject to a pe- of a city.” And second, he posits a clear tition drive or a referendum?” dichotomy: “If the city doesn’t change ar- For Turek, it’s about taking on prob- chitecturally, we’re going to change lems head-on. “All over the country cities demographically.” are realizing that if we invest directly in He’s speaking of the proposed Midtown public parks, we’ll get a lot more econom- towers, but the point is just as valid about ic benefit” than selling the space and hop- putting a business in the residential West ing development spreads, he says. End: Either we have more and denser And for Monro, the effort is about hold- housing of all kinds, or the city prices out ing back City Hall’s eagerness to grow. lower-income residents. “They want population and tax base,” he For his part, MilNeil puts social val- says. “They’re looking for as many Empire ues over aesthetic ones. “I’d much rather State Buildings as they can get.” preserve our city’s egalitarianism and em- lying Dormant the future of the Williston-West church is up in the air. Diagnosis #6: brace changes to our skyline,” he says. Being overWhelmeD Diagnosis #4: class conFlict It is possible that at least some of the While on the one hand, MilNeil says, “it’s at the wrong problem. Observing Monro’s quoted Monro saying. “The power to delay popular resistance is because many areas great that we’ve become such a successful West End residence and the fact that other is the power to destroy.” of Portland are changing rapidly at the city,” with merchants, restaurants, and a plaintiffs in the anti-Midtown suit live in Monro vigorously denies the charge, same time. vibe that’s attractive to wealthy people; upscale housing too, he is blunt: “They’re saying “we’re in it to change that proj- Brennan calls this period in Portland’s on the other hand he wonders, “Where homeowners so they’re not really aware of ect,” and rattling off several very specific history one of “unprecedented develop- are we going to put all the rich people Portland’s housing shortage . . . and they changes he would like to see in the Mid- ment and development opportunities in who are going to move here?” don’t see it in their neighborhoods.” town project (a lower parking garage al- the city,” saying there is “a lot of pent-up And with housing in short supply, and As a result, he says, their opposition lowing a wider, lower residential tower, demand due to the recession” that started prices on the rise, where will the people rises from a lack of an appropriate sense for example). “This is not about delay.” in 2008 and kept bankers and builders lay- the newcomers displace live? of urgency about an issue the city has Ensuring the city followed the proper ing low, waiting for better times. Now, “The rich people are just going to crowd been working on for more than a decade. legal process is indeed important; Monro he observes, projects are being proposed out the working-class and middle-class “In their privilege they think they have observes that the recent court rulings throughout the city, including on High people,” MilNeil predicts, unless the city the right to overturn 15 years of neighbor- suggest that’s not a strength at City Hall. Street and India Street, as well as the Cumberland County CiviC Center undertakes major efforts to “make room hood-planning efforts,” he says. Noting that the courts must weigh heav- working waterfront. Fri., april 4 – 7:30 p.m. for the people who want to live here and Now, he says, because of Monro and ily the fact that the city has the right to “There seems to be development every TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT WWW.TICKETWEB.COM & LOCALLY AT THE ASYLUM BOX OFFICE need to live here.” his allies — and their lawyers — “this govern itself, Monro sees Portland’s re- place we turn,” he says. 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Rather than building Part of the conflict does boil down to law- Brennan — see as part of the checks-and- on.” With a tone of wonder audible in his downtown housing and an industrial park yers, of course. “If you can hire enough balances system, others, such as MilNeil, voice, he says, “this is one of the most on the outskirts of the city, he says the lawyers and kill any project you want,” see as elitist. “As a city we should not be spectacular periods of development in the city should have “good paying jobs at the which makes it harder for all developers, resolving all these contentious debates by history of Portland.” heart of it,” which will in turn encour- MilNeil says — including the Portland lawsuit,” he says. “It’s not democratic.” And that era is only continuing. The re- age spin-off developments to house those Housing Authority and Avesta, a non- The only people who get to sue if they development of Franklin Street could open workers and cater to their shopping needs profit developing affordable housing. see an outcome they don’t like are rich peo- many acres of developable land in the heart and desires. In fact, MilNeil questions Monro’s ple who can afford to hire lawyers, he says. of the city, which could be worth as much His perspective is, he readily admits, claims of pure motives. “I don’t think “A courtroom is not a public process. It’s as $1 million per acre, a real-estate analyst that of an urban designer who lives in a his- they’re out to win the lawsuit, actually,” rich people fighting against each other.” told the Portland Press Herald. toric-landmark home in a historic neigh- MilNeil says, citing a Press Herald opinion In the balance hang more than a few As we plot that area’s future, we hope borhood district in the West End. He has a column from November 2013, in which important questions. these lessons help Portlanders — both specific vision for how development should Monro was quoted saying it didn’t matter For MilNeil, the key is renters’ fu- in and out of City Hall — reflect on one occur in Portland, and says the city does if he won the case in the end. tures. If Midtown’s developers have to question, as Brennan posed it: “Is this too, in its zoning and planning ordinances. “We think the delay may be a deal modify their project to make it smaller or development reflective of where we want ^ MilNeil, though, says Monro is looking breaker (for the developer),” the paper shorter, those changes will cost money, to go as a city?”

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January 30 - April 27, 2014 art theater Explore exceptional drawings and sketchbooks from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned collection of American art, including rarely seen works by Marsden Hartley, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and John Singer Sargent. $5 surcharge; free for PMA members PRIME MERIDIAN MusINgs harnessing the tides KENTRIDGE COLLABORATES ON CONCEPT OF TIME at good theater, an honest look at dementia (207) 775-6148 | portlandmuseum.org _BY MARIAH BERGERON _BY deirdre fulton The exhibition is organized by the Brooklyn Museum. Generously supported by Lila Hunt, The Roy A. Hunt Foundation. Foundation support: Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust. Media sponsors: WCSH 6, Maine magazine, and Maine Home+Design. The British Empire’s For the first few moments of The Jack isn’t too keen on it either — they’re J. Carroll Beckwith (United States, 1852-1917), Portrait of Minnie Clark (detail), circa 1890s, fcreation and subsequent fOutgoing Tide, Bruce Graham’s decep- both upset by the depressing assisted-care charcoal and pastel on blue- bered, medium-weight, moderately textured laid paper, 22 3/8 x 18 1/4 inches (sheet). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of J. Carroll Beckwith, 17.127 implementation of standard tively simple play on stage now at Good wing. Ultimately, the family will have to time zones crowned Greenwich Theater, it is easy to think you’re observ- grapple with past wounds and future un- the true noon, then dictated ing two strangers interacting for the first certainties before considering an unortho- that the rest of the world’s (and probably last) time. The younger dox resolution. longitudes take note and reset man, straight from the suburbs with As Gunner Concannon, dwindling yet their late-19th-century watches. his rumpled dress shirt and cell phone, intractable patriarch, Will Rhys employs The pulse of England was then doesn’t fish, he doesn’t have a boat — he malleable facial muscles and energetic pumped into its distant colo- doesn’t fit in on this Chesapeake Bay gesticulations to suggest that cruel joke of nies, restructuring cultures and beach, where the older man has clearly time — that as people age, they often revert climates for the sake of conve- settled in for the long haul. But then, just back to childhood either by choice or neces- nience and control. South Afri- before their small-talk comes to its seem- sity. Whether he’s throwing a tantrum, can artist William Kentridge’s ingly inevitable conclusion, we learn that charming his wife of 50 years, or struggling draws from this historical im- these men are not strangers at all. Far to maintain his mental faculties, Rhys perialism and expands into a from it; they are father and son, one fast channels the raw sentiment of youth by, at wide-reaching ode to time and losing his grip on reality, the other forced different points, pounding his fists against

our inability to harness its pow- ENNARD to recognize the mental decline of a man his head in frustration, smiling impishly, er, in an exhibit at the Institute he always sought to please. or coming up with outlandish solutions to OHN K Portland location for Contemporary Art in Boston. J Under the smooth direction of Brian family problems. As with a child, it makes The Refusal of Time 865 Forest avenue is a collab- ‘ThE REFUSAL OF TIME’ by William Kentridge with P. Allen, three Equity actors delicately his character simultaneously infuriating orative audio-video-sculptural Philip Miller, Catherine Meyburgh, and Peter Galison. tackle the terrors of dementia, aging, and and vulnerable. 207.747.5068 installation confronting the his- Five-channel video with sound; 2012. loss in this New England premiere. While Lacey’s Peg is every bit the practi- torical standardization of time by the play deals in particular with the end cal wife, complete with boxy jacket and way of British colonization, the of life, its underlying questions address errand-running purse and no-nonsense And in Biddeford 500 MAriners WAy 207.282.6324 invention of cinema, astrophysics, apart- time: celestial observations, methods of everything leading up to that universal ponytail. In fact, her level-headedness can heid, and the theory of relativity. Working time calibration, even the making of a bomb conclusion: How well do we know those be disarming, which serves to underscore with two fellow South Africans, filmmaker purportedly meant to destroy Royal Observa- who are closest to us? What are our obli- how even the scariest reality can become Catherine Meyburgh and composer Philip tory. These pastiches, reminiscent of films by gations to family, both emotionally and routine. We see her take Gunner’s gaffes Miller, as well as Harvard University history Méliès or Gondry, mimic the hand-cranked financially? And maybe, even, what is in stride, even though we know she’s of science professor Peter Galison, Kentridge speed of early silent films, a choice both his- worth remembering? silently tallying them. When she finally grapples with a variety of relationships to torical and thematically in homage to a more In short scenes set in and around the offers an impassioned avowal — “I’m not time, both scientific and subjective, and the biorhythmic sense of speed. beachfront cottage of Gunner and Peg ready to lose my husband” — one feels elastic perceptions therein. The deft and de- The work as collaboration and collage is Concannon (set designer Stephen Un- grateful that Peg has permitted herself liberate tornado of those sentiments whirled in keeping with Kentridge’s aim: to reject derwood and scenic artist Cheryl Dolan a moment of honest emotion, and that into one mesmerizing 30-minute experience any entity’s oppressive manipulation of time have successfully recreated the casual she’s done so in front of her son. is absolutely a staggering achievement. by dismantling a single proprietary voice. dune-side beauty of such a property, “Don’t tell your mother,” Gunner tells Viewing The Refusal of Time requires enter- Apartheid is presented in this same tone. complemented by Iain Odlin’s subtly shift- Jack again and again, both in flashbacks ing the darkest back room of Boston’s ICA. A Kentridge casts himself as the sole white ac- ing light scheme, all sunset pinks and that serve to flesh out the family’s rela- scattering of simple chairs surround a large tor in a cast of black performers, a self-aware seaside purples), we learn that Gunner’s tionships, and in present time. “Don’t and quietly churning kinetic machine, an characterization of the effects of his colonial illness is getting increasingly worse. He tell your father,” Peg says, equally eager eight-foot Shaker-esque wooden contraption bloodline. In one of the work’s most empa- tries to use a remote control to turn on the to do things her own way. In this way, cranking a steady loom-like motion under thetically engrossing vignettes, a parade of microwave; he often forgets basic words. the audience is shown a source of Jack’s stygian low-wattage light. The installation dancing musicians in life-sized silhouette Peg (the lovely Florence Lacey, primarily inner conflicts, which Guimont mani- begins as five projectors transform three full festively circle around and around the room. known for her musical theater roles but fests physically — in contrast with Rhys, museum walls into a panoramic wide screen The celebration builds with people, but doing a fine job with this meaty material) he is quite tightly wound — and behav- intentionally too large to take in from any also with domestic objects. The procession wants to move Gunner into a retirement iorally. As an only child grappling with one vantage point. The massive videos begin becomes a migration, the music turns a facility. She has finally acknowledged that his father’s illness and the fallout from with five metronomes slowly ticking out of dirge, as the characters slouch under these she needs help, and she wants her visit- his own divorce, Jack feels wholly, to- sync to the strident surround-sound blare of weights strapped burdensomely to their ing son, Jack (a troubled JP Guimont), to tally alone. The metaphor here is that of percussive brass horns, bass drums, vocal backs. When the final lap shows the crowd help her make the case to Gunner. Gunner tides, and how their ebb and flow mim- wailing, and unintelligible whispers. This bound in shackles, it leaves the viewer won- is strongly opposed to such a move, and ics the pull of memory. But perhaps as hynoptic introduction gives a mild warning dering “how did that happen?” apt a comparison of the erratic sensory blitz about to unfold. The Refusal of Time creates a narrative un- would be to is- Edited at a dizzying tempo, viewers able to be observed from a single vantage lands, and must rubberneck in oscillating fits, cran- point, or understood from a single screen- how each of us ing to catch what has already come and ing. Precisely this impossibility is the es- is our own. ^ gone from the screens just in periphery. sential victory of the piece — a favoring of Engineers’ drawings turn to constellations, the subjective empirical over the theoretic THE OUTGOING which turn to player piano scrolls that swirl imperial. Take that one step further and TIDE | by Bruce into black holes. Even from the cool back of consider that this very installation is not Graham | Directed the room, no single viewing can absorb the the sovereign article — three other identical by Brian P. Allen | onslaught of disparate plot trajectories or museum editions are currently on exhibit Produced by Good hear each percussive layer. in New York, Kyoto, and Perth. No indi- Theater | at the Kentridge employs both his recognizable vidual experience can claim authority on St. Lawrence Arts animation drawing style as well as his back- the perception of time and its measurement Center, 76 Con- ground in theater and mime, blending stop- — Kentridge’s included. ^ gress St, Portland | motion with live-action. His smudgy char- through March 30 coal and scribbled handwriting turn texts on ‘REFUSAL OF TIME’ through May 4 | at the | 207.885.5883 | history and physics into palimpsests, black Boston ICA, 100 Northern Ave, Boston | goodtheater.com and white academia corrected in anarchic 617.478.3100 | icaboston.org reds. Another chapter crafts diorama-like Deirdre Fulton can be Mariah Bergeron can be reached at AS DEEP AS THE OCEANS the love between gunner (Will rhys) reached at dfulton@ vaudevilles of various moments in the British and Peg (florence lacey) is as complex as it is abiding. Empire’s acquisition of global standardized [email protected]. phx.com. 18 March 21, 2014 | the portland phoenix | portland.t hephoenix.coM portLand.thephoenix.com | the portL and phoenix | march 21, 2014 1 9

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But if you’re young, can get down to anything, SEASONS GRILLE | Portland | DJ Chuck ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland | grass night & open mic APRIL 3RD: SEBAGO BREWING CO. SHOWCASE, 5-8PM ticipatory cover of “i hold her Up,” the disarming, just endlessly shouting your band’s upcoming F like the long-lusted-after dream of america’s and wanna explore some new terrain, see what Igo | 5 pm Winchester Local & Carley Howard MARK’S PLACE | Portland | DJ Ti- SILVER HOUSE TAVERN Portland MJ’S WINE BAR Portland melancholic lovers’ ballad off Metal FeatHeRs’ projects into a fathomless social media void? deep South, the basement of Binga’s Stadium Basslines has to offer. | | | | open jazz nydancer 678 Roosevelt Trail, At the Light in Naples, ME • (207) 693-6806 • www.braysbrewpub.com karaoke | 9 pm jam | 7 pm Continued on p 20 20 m arch 21, 2014 | the portL and phoenix | portL and.thephoenix.com portLand.thephoenix.com | the portL and phoenix | march 21, 2014 2 1

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Newmarket | blue- MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | Dave 8 pm WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | Hemen- grass jam | 9 pm Mello | 6 pm | open blues jam | 9 pm OLD MILL PUB | Skowhegan | Jim ways | 9 pm THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | Ports- Nominate your favorite Take summer classes MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | Wool- Whitman mouth | open mic | 8 pm wich | open mic | 7 pm THE RACK | Carabassett | Turner SATURDAY 22 PADDY MURPHY’S | Bangor | open mic Templeton | 6 pm BRITISH BEER COMPANY | Ports- WEDNESDAY 26 | 9:30 pm ROOSTER’S | Augusta | Mike Krapo- mouth | Mugsy BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth | open ROOSTER’S Augusta CENTRAL WAVE Dover PORTLAND @ SMCC | | Christine Poul- vicky | | Drama mic | 8:30 pm Business son & Steve Jones RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Saco | Squad DJs CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | karaoke RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Saco | Hotel Cocktails | 8 pm CHOP SHOP PUB | Seabrook | Guzzle DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports- open mic | 8 pm SEA DOG BREWING/BANGOR | Ban- DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports- mouth | open mic | 8 pm SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville gor | karaoke | 9 pm mouth | karaoke DOLPHIN STRIKER | Portsmouth | Jim Why? | karaoke SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville | DOLPHIN STRIKER | Portsmouth | Dozet | 8 pm TRAIN’S TAVERN | Lebanon | open Travis James Humphrey | 7 pm Power Money Cake FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | mic | 7 pm SKIP’S LOUNGE | Buxton | open mic FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | Harsh Armadillo Classes start WATER STREET GRILL | Gardiner | | 7 pm When Particles Collide + Aloud | 9 pm HARLOW’S PUB | Peterborough | open THE open mic SUDS PUB | Bethel | Denny Breau | GARY’S RESTAURANT & SPORTS mic | 8 pm 9 pm LOUNGE | Rochester | Saxx Roxx PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | B-Cap WEDNESDAY 26 TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | Gray | open HARLOW’S PUB | Peterborough | Z3 | $8 RADLOFF’S ON THE ROX LOUNGE | May 27 BLUE MOON LOUNGE | Skowhegan | mic | 8 pm THE HOLY GRAIL | Epping | Dr. Pepper Rochester | Tony Santesse | 8 pm karaoke | 8 pm TORCHES GRILL HOUSE | Kennebunk | KELLEY’S ROW | Dover | Third Man THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Evaredy THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE GRILLE open mic | 7 pm High | 9 pm | Old Orchard Beach | open mic | 7 pm TRAIN’S TAVERN | Lebanon | karaoke MARTINGALE WHARF | Portsmouth | RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Biddeford with DJ Dick Wingnuts | 9 pm Great Bay Sailor | 7 pm Get Study on Learn | Travis James Humphrey | 9 pm WATER STREET GRILL | Gardiner | DJ THE OAR HOUSE | Portsmouth | Don RUDI’S | Portsmouth | Dimitri Yian- CHARLAMAGNE’S | Augusta | open Roger Collins Severance | 7 pm nicopulus | 6 pm For more information and to mic with John Hasnip | 7:30 pm PORTSMOUTH BOOK AND BAR | SONNY’S TAVERN | Dover | Comma COLE FARMS Gray NEW HAMPSHIRE Portsmouth ahead the beach something | | open mic | Session Americana | 9 | 9 pm visit EASY STREET LOUNGE | Hallowell | pm | $10 STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | “Wor- open mic | 8 pm THURSDAY 20 PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Ports- mtown 2014 Battle of the Bands” BEST new register now FATBOY’S SALOON | Biddeford | acous- CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT | mouth | Corey Brackett THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | Ports- 2014 www.smccME.edu/summer tic open mic | 8 pm Dover | bluegrass jam with Steve Roy PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Dubbest mouth | Turbine | 8 pm FREEDOM CAFE | Naples | karaoke | 9 pm | 9 pm | $5 WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | DJ Provo FRONT STREET PUBLIC HOUSE | Bath CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | Ken Ormes RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | | 7 pm THEPHOENIX.COM/THEBEST #PORTPHX #TheBestMaine | open mic Trio Complaints | 10 pm Continued on p 22 22 m arch 21, 2014 | the portL and phoenix | portL and.thephoenix.com portLand.thephoenix.com | the portL and phoenix | march 21, 2014 2 3

OPEN MIC | 9 pm | Mama’s Crow- TRICKY BRITCHES + MOONSHINE Circle, Bangor | $12 adults, $8 kids | bar, 189 Congress St, Portland | RAMBLERS | 8 pm | Biddeford City 207.941.7051 207.773.9230 Hall, 205 Main Street, Biddeford | $10 | CLUB DIRECTORY CHARLAMAGNE’S | 207.242.2711 | 228 LAST CALL | 207.934.9082 | 4 1st St, Old ROYAL BEAN | 207.846.1009 | 18 Yar- 207.284.9313 WEDNESDAY 26 Water St, Augusta Orchard Beach mouth Crossing Dr, Yarmouth Listings WHITE HINTERLAND PORTLAND YOUTH DANCE: “THE HIP 302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN CHOP SHOP PUB LFK RUDI’S WEDNESDAY 26 | 8:30 pm | Buoy | | 603.760.7706 | 920 | 207.899.3277 | 188A State St, | 603.430.7834 | 20 High St, ”COMEDY NIGHT,” WITH JAY Gallery, 2 Government St, Kittery | by HOP PROJECT” | 3:15 pm | Casco Bay 207.935.3021 | 636 Main St, Fryeburg Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH Portland Portsmouth, NH GROVE | 9 pm | Cara Irish Pub & donation | 207.450.2402 Movers Dance Studio, 517 Forest Ave, 317 MAIN ST MUSIC CENTER CLUB 737 | 207.442.0748 | 737 Washing- THE LIBERAL CUP | 207.623.2739 | 115 RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Restaurant, 11 Fourth St, Dover, NH | Portland | 207.871.1013 | www.casco- CAFE | 207.846.9559 | 317 Main St, ton St, Bath Water St, Hallowell 207.571.9648 | 100 Main St, Saco Is- 603.343.4390 SUNDAY 23 baymovers.com Yarmouth CLUB TEXAS | 207.784.7785 | 150 Cen- LILAC CITY GRILLE | 603.332.3984 | 45 land, Saco Continued from p 21 OPEN MIC | 6 pm | Union House Pub & ENTER THE HAGGIS | Tupelo Music UNH DANCE COMPANY: “PETER & 51 WHARF | 207.774.1151 | 51 Wharf ter St, Auburn N Main St, Rochester, NH SALVAGE BBQ & SMOKEHOUSE | | Pizza, North Dam Mill, 2 Main St, 18- Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH THE WOLF” + “ALICE IN WONDER- St, Portland COLE FARMS | 207.657.4714 | 64 Lewis- LION’S PRIDE | 207.373.1840 | 112 Pleas- 919 Congress St, Portland THURSDAY 27 230, Biddeford | 207.590.4825 | $22 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllon- LAND” | Wed-Thurs 7 pm | University ACOUSTIC ARTISANS | ton Rd, Gray ant St, Brunswick SEA DOG BREWING/SOUTH PORT-

thephoenix.com BRITISH BEER COMPANY | Ports- ”PORTLAND COMEDY SHOWCASE,” donderry.com of New Hampshire, Johnson Theatre, 207.671.6029 | 594 Congress St, CREMA COFFEE COMPANY | | 9 Com- LITTLE TAP HOUSE | 207.518.9283 | 106 LAND | 207.871.7000 | 125 Western mouth | Drew Yount | 9 pm PERFORMERS TBA | 8 pm | Bull KEB’ MO’ | 7:30 pm | Waterville Opera 30 College Rd, Durham, NH | $7 | Portland mercial St, Portland High St, Portland Ave, South Portland CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT | Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | $5 | House, 1 Common St, Waterville | $40- 603.862.2404 | www.unh.edu/theatre- ADAMS STREET PUB | DANIEL STREET TAVERN | 603.430. LOCAL 188 | 207.761.7909 | 685 Con- SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM | Dover | Andrea Szirbik | 7 pm | bluegrass 207.773.7210 50 | 207.873.7000 dance/productions.html 207.283.4992 | 5 Adams St, Bid- 1011 | 111 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH gress St, Portland 207.725.0162 | 1 Maine St, Great Mill jam with Steve Roy | 9 pm deford DAVIS ISLAND GRILL | 207.687.2190 | LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Island, Topsham CENTRAL WAVE | Dover | Ken Ormes THURSDAY 27 MONDAY 24 THURSDAY 27 ALISSON’S RESTAURANT | 318 Eddy Rd, Edgecomb 207.899.3529 | 649 Congress St, Port- SEA40 | 207.795.6888 | 40 East Ave, Trio ”COMEDYPALOOZA SHOWCASE” EXCISION + DIRTY PHONICS + UNH DANCE COMPANY: “PETER & 207.967.4841 | 5 Dock Sq, Ken- DOBRA TEA | 207.370.1890 | 151 Middle land Lewiston CHOP SHOP PUB | Seabrook | karaoke WITH TIM HOFMANN, ET AL | See ILL GATES | 8 pm | State Theatre, THE WOLF” + “ALICE IN WONDER- nebunkport St, Portland MAINE STREET | 207.646.5101 | 195 SEASONS GRILLE | 207.775.6538 | 155 | 8 pm listing for Thurs 609 Congress St, Portland | $25-30 | LAND” | See listing for Wed ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | Maine St, Ogunquit Riverside St, Portland DOLPHIN STRIKER | Portsmouth | Mi- 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland. 207.874.2639 | 94 Commercial St, 207.772.5483 | 128 Free St, Portland MAINELY BREWS | 207.873.2457 | 1 SERENITY MARKET & CAFE | chael Troy & Craig Tramack | 9 pm com Portland DOGFISH CAFE | 207.253.5400 | 953 Post Office Sq, Waterville 603.319.1671 | 25 Sagamore Rd, Rye, DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Dan LUISA MAITA | 8 pm | One Longfellow ANNIE’S IRISH PUB | 207.251.4335 | Congress St, Portland MAMA’S CABARET | 207.777.1050 | 16 NH Walker | 9 pm CONCERTS Square, 181 State St, Portland | $15-20 | EVENTS 369 Main St, Ogunquit EASY DAY | 207.200.2226 | 725 Broad- Park St, Lewiston SHEEPSCOT GENERAL | 207.549.5185 | FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | 207.761.1757 ASYLUM | 207.772.8274 | 121 Center way, South Portland MAMA’S CROWBAR | 207.773.9230 | 98 Townhouse Rd, Whitefield Erin’s Guild PIANO GUYS | Music Hall, 131 Con- St, Portland EASY STREET LOUNGE | 207.622.3360 189 Congress St, Portland SHENANIGANS | 207.213.4105 | 349 GARY’S RESTAURANT & SPORTS CLASSICAL gress St, Portsmouth, NH | $68, $60, THURSDAY 20 BACK BURNER TAVERN | | 7 Front St, Hallowell MARK’S PLACE | 207.899.3333 | 416 Water St, Augusta LOUNGE | Rochester | Ron Jones | 8 pm $35 | 603.436.2400 or themusichall. ”BIZ AFTER HOURS” | a discussion 207.935.4444 | 109 Main St, Brown- ELEMENTS: BOOKS COFFEE BEER | Fore St, Portland SILVER HOUSE TAVERN | GOVERNOR’S INN | Rochester | Well- THURSDAY 20 org/tickets/index.asp on how cultural tourism economi- field 207.710.2011 | 265 Main St, Biddeford MATHEW’S PUB | 207.253.1812 | 133 207.772.9885 | 123 Commercial St, fleet DAPONTE STRING QUARTET: “WIN- cally benefits Western Maine | 5 pm | BACKSTREET GRILL | 207.324.1011 | EMPIRE | 207.879.8988 | 575 Congress Free St, Portland Portland MARTINGALE WHARF | Portsmouth | TER VOICES III” | 7:30 pm | St John’s TUESDAY 25 Mahoosuc Arts, 45 Church St, Bethel | 16 School St, Sanford St, Portland MATTERHORN | 207.824.6836 | 292 SILVER SPUR | 207.345.3211 | 272 Lew- Josh Cramoy | 9 pm Episcopal Church, 200 Main St, ARBOREA + CHRISTOPHER PAUL 207.824.3575 BASSLINES | 207.347.6072 | Binga’s FATBOY’S SALOON | 207.766.8862 | 65 Sunday River Rd, Newry iston St, Mechanic Falls MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | Nor- Thomaston | $20 | 207.354.8734 STELLING | 8 pm | One Longfellow ”DEATH & TAXES 2014” | freelanc- Stadium, 77 Free St, Portland Main St, Biddeford MAXWELL’S PUB | 207.646.2345 | 243 SILVER STREET TAVERN | man Bishop Square, 181 State St, Portland | $10-12 | ers’ tax-prep event | 6 pm | Peloton BAYSIDE BOWL | 207.791.2695 | 58 FEDERAL JACK’S | 207.967.4322 | 8 Main St, Ogunquit 207.680.2163 | 2 Silver St, Waterville PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Natalie FRIDAY 21 207.761.1757 Labs, 795 Congress St, Portland | Alder St, Portland Western Ave, Kennebunk MAYO STREET ARTS | 207.615.3609 | SKIP’S LOUNGE | 207.929.9985 | 299 Cressman | 9 pm | $10 ALESSIO BAX | 7 pm | University of CAPTAIN HOLLOW + AFRAID + 207.210.6595 BEACHFIRE BAR AND GRILLE FEILE IRISH RESTAURANT AND PUB 10 Mayo St, Portland Narragansett Trail, Buxton RADLOFF’S ON THE ROX LOUNGE | Maine - Orono, Collins Center for the SWERLY BIRD | 7:30 pm | Bangor | 207.646.8998 | 658 Main St., | 207.251.4065 | 1619 Post Rd, Wells MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | SKYBOX BAR AND GRILL | Rochester | Brian McDewell Arts, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Opera House, 131 Main St, Bangor | $5 FRIDAY 21 Ogunquit FLASK LOUNGE | 207.772.3122 | 117 207.642.3363 | 35 Blake Rd, Standish 207.854.9012 | 212 Brown St, West- THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Bed- Orono | $30 | 207.581.1755 | 207.942.3333 ”CELEBRATE YOUR INNER DIVA” | BEBE’S BURRITOS | 207.283.4222 | Spring St, Portland MILLBROOK TAVERN & GRILLE | brook room Eyes + Super Dude + Flatswamp DAPONTE STRING QUARTET: “WIN- JAKE SHIMABUKURO | 7:30 pm | State gala with food, cocktails, & door prizes 140 Main St, Biddeford FOG BAR & CAFE | 207.593.9371 | 328 207.824.2175 | Bethel Inn, On the Com- SLAINTE | 207.828.0900 | 24 Preble St, Italian Heritage Center RUDI’S | Portsmouth | Dimitri & the TER VOICES III” | 7:30 pm | Lincoln Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | | 6 pm | Maine State Music Theater BENCHWARMERS | 207.729.4800 | Main St, Rockland mon, Bethel Portland 40 Westland Avenue Wolfe | 6 pm Theater, 2 Theater St, Damariscotta | $25-35 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatre- Dance Studio, 22 Elm St, Brunswick | 212 Maine St, Brunswick THE FOGGY GOGGLE | 207.824.5056 MJ’S WINE BAR | 207.653.6278 | 1 City SLIDERS RESTAURANT | SONNY’S TAVERN Dover portland.com $25 | 207.729.9131 BIG EASY Portland, ME 04102-2418 | | Koffin $20 | 207.563.3424 | 207.894.0633 | 55 Market | South Ridge Lodge, Sunday River, Center, Portland 207.824.5300 | Jordan Grand Resort Pride Portland! 2014 will be June 20–22. Kats | 9 pm USM SCHOOL OF MUSIC: “GRADU- St, Portland Newry MR. GOODBAR | 207.934.9100 | 8B Hotel, Sunday River, Newry STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Jordan ATE SHOWCASE CONCERT” | 8 pm | WEDNESDAY 26 SATURDAY 22 BILLY’S TAVERN | 207.354.1177 | 1 FREEDOM CAFE | 207.693.3700 | 923 West Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach SOLO BISTRO | 207.443.3378 | 128 Front Join us for Pride Portland! Fundraising Events. Tirrell Wysocki & Jim Predergast | 6 pm University of Southern Maine - Gor- PAUL MCKENNA BAND | 7 pm | Skye ”CIVIC CENTER PUBLIC GRAND Starr St, Thomaston Roosevelt Trail, Naples MYRTLE STREET TAVERN | St, Bath THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | Ports- ham, Corthell Concert Hall, 37 Col- Theatre, 2 Highland Dr, Carthage | $15 OPENING” | tours with live music BLACK ANCHOR VILLAGE PUB | FROG AND TURTLE | 207.591.4185 | 3 207.596.6250 | 12 Myrtle St, Rockland SONNY’S | 207.772.7774 | 83 Exchange mouth | Aqueous + String Theory | 7 pm lege Ave, Gorham | 207.780.5256 | 207.562.4445 provided by area college & high school 207.374.7012 | 50 Main St, Blue Hill Bridge St, Westbrook NARAL’S EXPERIENCE ARABIA | St, Portland bands | 10 am | Cumberland County BLACK BEAR CAFE | 207.693.4770 | FRONT STREET PUBLIC HOUSE | 207.344.3201 | 34 Court St, Auburn SONNY’S TAVERN | 603.343.4332 | 328 SATURDAY 22 THURSDAY 27 Civic Center, 48 Free St, 1st Floor, 215 Roosevelt Trail, Naples 207.442.6700 | 102 Front St, Bath NEWCASTLE PUBLICK HOUSE | Central Ave, Dover, NH Port land’s Finest DAPONTE STRING QUARTET: “WIN- ”EXPERIENCE HENDRIX,” WITH BLOOMFIELD’S CAFE AND BAR FRONTIER CAFE SOUTHSIDE TAVERN Portland | 207.775.3458 or | thecivic- | | 207.725.5222 | Fort 207.563.3434 | 52 Main St, Newcastle | 207.474.6073 | 1 3 Spring Street • Portland, Maine • 207.828-0822 • www.styxxportland.com TER VOICES III” | 7:30 pm | Portland BILLY COX + BUDDY GUY + JONNY center.com 207.474.8844 | 40 Water St, Skow- Andross, 14 Maine St, Brunswick NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | Waterville Rd, Skowhegan COMEDY Styxx All-Stars Benefit for Pride Portland! We SpecializeEvent Center in Weddings Public Library, 5 Monument Sq, Port- LANG + DWEEZIL ZAPPA + KENNY hegan FUSION | 207.330.3775 | 490 Pleasant 207.907.4380 | 56 Main St, Bangor SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Wednesday, March 19 • 7pm – 1 am land | 207.871.1700 WAYNE SHEPHERD | 8 pm | Hampton SUNDAY 23 BLUE | 207.774.4111 | 650A Congress St, Lewiston THE OAK AND THE AX | | 140 Main St, Congress St, Portland Pride Portland organizers, Chris O’Connor and Jill Barkley, behind the bar. THURSDAY 20 ”PIANO SERIES” WITH DUNCAN Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS | Cum- St, Portland GATHER | 207.847.3250 | 189 Main St, Ste 107-Back Alley, Biddeford THE SPAGHETTI STAIN | 603.343.5257 Amazing Packages Dancing all night with DJ Cherry Lemonade. ”A NIGHT OF STAND UP COMEDY,” CUMMING + HILARIO DURAN | Blvd, Hampton, NH | call for tickets | berland County Civic Center, 48 BRAY’S BREWPUB | 207.693.6806 | Yarmouth OASIS | 207.370.9048 | 42 Wharf St, | 421 Central Ave, Dover, NH Special performances by Shaunna Rai and Vanila Honey-Bush. WITH SAMUEL BENNETT, ET AL. | 7:30 pm | Franco-American Heritage 603.929.4100 Free St, 1st Floor, Portland | $18-$83 | Rte 302 and Rte 35, Naples GENO’S ROCK CLUB | 207.221.2382 | Portland SPARE TIME | 207.878.2695 | City Rooms Accommodate Groups From 50 to 500 All tips and 15% of bar proceeds donated to Pride Portland! 7:30 pm | Players’ Ring, 105 Marcy St, Center, 46 Cedar St, Lewiston | $16 | SLIGHTLY STOOPID + MARIACHI EL 207.775.3458 or | theciviccenter.com BRIAN BORU | 207.780.1506 | 57 625 Congress St, Portland OLD GOAT | 207.737.4628 | 33 Main St, Sports Grille, 867 Riverside St, Port- Portsmouth, NH | $12, $10 seniors | 207.689.2000 BRONX | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609 Center St, Portland GFB SCOTTISH PUB | 207.934.8432 | 32 Richmond land Corporate - Social - Wedding 603.436.8123 or www.playersring.org Congress St, Portland | $22.50-25 | THURSDAY 27 BRIDGE STREET TAVERN | Old Orchard St, Old Orchard Beach OLD MILL PUB | 207.474.6627 | 39 Wa- SPEAKEASY | 207.596.6661 | 2 Park ”COMEDY ON THE SQUARE,” WITH SUNDAY 23 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland. ”GLITTERATI: A SPARKLING LITER- 207.623.8561 | 18 Bridge St, Augusta THE GIN MILL | 207.620.9200 | 302 ter St, Skowhegan Dr, Rockland IAN STUART + MARK TURCOTTE DAPONTE STRING QUARTET: “WIN- com ARY BALL” with the Telling Room | 6 THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE Water St, Augusta OLD PORT TAVERN | 207.774.0444 | 11 SPRING HILL TAVERN | 603.431.5222 + LUKE HANBURY + PAUL HUNT TER VOICES III” PETER WOLF GRILLE GINGKO BLUE BLACKSTONES Italian Heritage Center | 3 pm | Midcoast | 8 pm | Tupelo Music pm | Grace, 15 Chestnut St, Portland | | 207.934.2171 | 39 West | 207.541.9190 | 455 Fore Moulton St, Portland | Dolphin Striker, 15 Bow St, Ports- 6 Pine Street Portland Maine 207-775-2885 www.blackstones.com + BRIAN BRINEGAR OTTO | 7:30 pm | Presbyterian Church, 84 Main St, Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $75 | 207.828.4422 Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach St, Portland | 207.773.7099 | 574-6 Congress mouth, NH Blackstones Fundraiser Fridays 40 Westland Avenue Spire 29, 29 School St, Gorham | $5 | Topsham | $20 | 207.729.3193 or mcp- sold out | 603.437.5100 or tupelohall- BUBBA’S SULKY LOUNGE | GINZA TOWN | 207.878.9993 | 1053 St, Portland SPRING POINT TAVERN | PEARL Fridays, March 21, April 18, May 23 during Happy Hour. 207.222.2068 conline.org londonderry.com 207.828.0549 | 92 Portland St, Forest Ave, Portland | 207.653.8486 | 444 Fore St, 207.733.2245 | 175 Pickett St, South Vanila Honey-Bush and Patrick Afthim bring you Beauty and the Bear Portland, ME 04102 ”COMEDYPALOOZA SHOWCASE,” PORTSMOUTH SYMPHONY OR- Portland GOVERNOR’S INN | 603.332.0107 | 78 Portland Portland WITH TIM HOFMANN + JOSH DAY CHESTRA BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/FREEPORT PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON STONE CHURCH Proceeds from Shipyard Draft Specials will benefit Pride Portland! Tel. (207) 772 2500 | 3 pm | Music Hall, 131 Con- FOOD | Wakefield St, Rochester, NH | | 603.659.6321 | 5 Prizes • Special Drinks • Fun • Music • Laughs • Surprises + MIKE HOWLETT + MATT BARRY gress St, Portsmouth, NH | $24, $20 207.865.0600 | 581 Rte 1, Freeport GRITTY MCDUFF’S | 207.772.2739 | 396 207.783.6200 | 134 Main St, Lewiston Granite St, Newmarket, NH Fax (207) 780-8505 + FRANCIS BIRCH + BILL GRAY + seniors, $16 students | 603.436.2400 DANCE BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/PORTLAND | Fore St, Portland PEDRO’S | 207.967.5544 | 181 Port Rd, STUDIO BISTRO AND BAR | CONNOR MCGRATH + STEPHANIE SATURDAY 22 | 50 Wharf St, Portland GRITTY MCDUFF’S/AUBURN | Kennebunk 207.824.3241 | Mill Hill Inn, 24 Mill ANNE DOYLE + KYRON HOBDY | 8 pm POPULAR ”GRAND OPENING BASH” | with BULL FEENEY’S | 207.773.7210 | 375 207.782.7228 | 68 Main St, Auburn PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | Hill Rd, Bethel | Big Easy, 55 Market St, Portland | $3 PARTICIPATORY tours and tastings | noon | In’Finiti, Fore St, Portland GUTHRIE’S | 207.376.3344 | 115 Middle 207.941.8805 | 14 Larkin St, Bangor STYXX | 207.828.0822 | 3 Spring St, | 207.894.0633 or www.bigeasyport- THURSDAY 20 250 Commercial St, Portland | BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | St, Lewiston PHOENIX HOUSE & WELL | Portland land.com JOE HEDGLIN + FAREWELL DRUGS THURSDAY 20 207.221.8889 or infinitimaine.com 207.443.6776 | 98 Center St, Bath HANNA’S TAVERN | 207.490.5122 | 324 207.824.2222 | 9 Timberline Dr, Newry SUDS PUB | 207.824.6558 | Sudbury BOB MARLEY | 7 pm | Fryeburg | with art by Cole Gove | 7 pm | Ghost SALSA DANCING WITH DJ BRAULIO | SACO RIVER MARKET | 9 am | Mills at BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK Country Club Rd, Sanford PLEASANT NOTE COFFEEHOUSE | Inn Main St, Bethel Academy, Eastman Performing Arts Mill Studio, 1 Washington St, 4th 8 pm | Pearl, 444 Fore St, Portland | $5 | Saco Island, Saco Island, 110 Main St, | 207.729.9400 | 16 Station Ave, HARLOW’S PUB | 603.924.6365 | 3 207.783.0461 | First Universalist Church SWIG ‘N SMELT PUB | 207.864.5671 Center, 745 Main St, Fryeburg | $20 | Floor, Portland | 207.252.0385 207.653.8486 Saco | 207.229.3560 or sacorivermarket. Brunswick School St, Peterborough, NH of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St, Auburn | 976 Saddleback Mountain Rd, 207.935.9232 or fryeburgacademy.org PORTLAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA | 8 pm com THE CAGE | 207.783.0668 | 97 Ash HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEEHOUSE PORT CITY MUSIC HALL | Rangeley OPEN MIC | 8 pm | Flask Lounge, 117 | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, FRIDAY 21 WINTER FARMERS’ MARKET | 9 am St, Lewiston AND TAVERN | 207.621.1234 | 119 Wa- 207.899.4990 | 504 Congress St, Port- TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | 207.657.7973 Spring St, Portland | 207.772.3122 Portland | $9, $5 seniors/students | INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE | 6:30 | Urban Farm Fermentory, 200 Ander- CAMPFIRE GRILLE | 207.803.2255 | ter St, Hallowell land | 61 Portland Rd, Gray 207.761.1757 pm | People Plus/Brunswick, 35 Union son St, Bay 1, Portland | 207.773.8331 or 656 North High St, Bridgton HIGHLANDS COFFEE HOUSE | PORTHOLE RESTAURANT | THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE | FRIDAY 21 ”TURNSTILE THURSDAY,” FREE- St, Brunswick | $8, $5 seniors/students urbanfarmfermentory.com CAPTAIN & PATTY’S RESTAU- 207.354.4162 | 189 Main St, Thomaston 207.773.4653 | 20 Custom House Wharf, 603.427.8645 | 21 Congress St, Ports- ANTHONY JESELNIK | 8 pm | State FORM OPEN MIC | 7 pm | Community | 207.700.7577 RANT | 207.439.3655 | 90 Pepperrell HILTON GARDEN INN/PORTS- Portland mouth, NH Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | Television Network Theater, 516 Con- WEDNESDAY 26 Rd, Kittery Point MOUTH | 603.431.1499 | 100 High St, PORTLAND EAGLES | 207.773.9448 | THE THIRSTY PIG | 207.773.2469 | 37 $20-30 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatre- gress St, Portland | 207.775.2900 WEDNESDAY 26 PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET | 7 CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN | Portsmouth, NH 184 Saint John St, Portland Exchange St, Portland portland.com WEDNESDAY NIGHT STOMP WITH am | Monument Square, Congress St, 207.336.2126 | 371 Turner St, Buck- THE HIVE | 207.985.0006 | 84 Main St, PORTLAND LOBSTER CO | 207.775.2112 TIME OUT PUB | 207.593.9336 | 275 ”COMEDY AT CAMELOT,” WITH FRIDAY 21 PORTLAND SWING PROJECT | 7:30 Portland | 207.774.9979 field Kennebunk | 180 Commercial St, Portland Main St, Rockland CHRIS PENNIE + MARK SCALIA | The JOHN EDDIE | 8 pm | Tupelo Music pm | Acoustic Artisans, 594 Congress CAPTAIN DANIEL STONE INN | THE HOLY GRAIL | 603.679.9559 | 64 PROFENNO’S | 207.856.0011 | 934 Main TORCHES GRILL HOUSE | Holy Grail, 64 Main St, Epping, NH | Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH St, Portland | $5-10 sugg. donation | 207.373.1824 | 10 Water St, Bruns- Main St, Epping, NH St, Westbrook 207.467.3288 | 102 York St, Kennebunk 603.679.9559 | $25 | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllon- 207.671.6029 | acousticartisans.com POETRY wick IPANEMA BAR & GRILL | THE RACK | 207.237.2211 | 5016 Access TOWNHOUSE PUB | 207.284.7411 | 5 GEORGE HAMM + MIKE PRIOR | 8 pm donderry.com CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT 207.942.5180 | 10 Broad St, Bangor Rd, Carabassett Storer St, Saco | The Portsmouth Pearl, 45 Pearl St, GRAND SLAMBOVIANS | 8 pm | One PERFORMANCE & PROSE | 603.343.4390 | 11 Fourth St, Do- IRISH TWINS PUB | 207.376.3088 | 743 RAVEN’S ROOST | 207.406.2359 | 103 TRAIN’S TAVERN | 207.457.6032 | 249 Portsmouth, NH | $15 | 603.431.0148 or Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Port- ver, NH Main St, Lewiston Pleasant St, Brunswick Carl Broggi Hwy, Lebanon portsmouthpearl.com land | $20-25 | 207.761.1757 FRIDAY 21 THURSDAY 20 CARMEN VERANDAH | IRON TAILS SALOON | 207.850.1142 | READFIELD EMPORIUM | 207.685.7348 TUCKER’S PUB | 207.739.2200 | 290 BOB MARLEY | 8:30 pm | Taste of APPARITION | Maine dancers per- ”BEAT NIGHT,” MUSIC & POETRY | 7 207.288.2766 | 119 Main St, Bar 559 Rte 109, Acton | 1146 Main St, Readfield Main St, Norway Maine, 161 Main St, Woolwich | call SATURDAY 22 forming a piece by La Alternativa | pm | Press Room, 77 Daniel St, Ports- Harbor JIMMY THE GREEK’S/OLD ORCHARD THE RED DOOR | 603.373.6827 | 107 TUG’S PUB | 207.633.3830 | Robinson for tickets | 207.443.4554 FUGUE MILL | 7:30 pm | The Dance 8 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress mouth, NH | 603.431.5186 CARTELLI’S BAR AND GRILL | BEACH | 207.934.7499 | 215 Saco Ave, State St, Portsmouth, NH Wharf, Southport HARRISON STEBBINS | Gold Room, Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | $15 | St, Portland | $8-10 | 207.828.5600 | CAROLYN GELLAND + CHANDLER 603.750.4002 | 446 Central Ave, Old Orchard Beach RI RA/PORTLAND | 207.761.4446 | 72 UNION HOUSE PUB & PIZZA | 510 Warren Ave, Portland | $10 | 207.439.0114 space538.org KANOZAK | 6:30 pm | Lithgow Public Dover, NH JONATHAN’S | 207.646.4777 | 92 Commercial St, Portland 207.590.4825 | North Dam Mill, 2 207.221.2343 ED KOWALCZYK | Tupelo Music Hall, DOWNEAST COUNTRY DANCE FES- Library, 45 Winthrop St, Augusta | CASA DEL LUNA | 207.241.0711 | Bourne Ln, Ogunquit RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | 603.319.1680 | Main St, 18-230, Biddeford 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | sold TIVAL | Fri 5 pm; Sat 10 am | Orion 207.626.2415 or lib.me.us Lewiston Mall, Lewiston KELLEY’S ROW | 603.750.7081 | 421 22 Market St, Portsmouth, NH UNION STATION BILLIARDS | SATURDAY 22 out | 603.437.5100 or tupelohalllon- Performing Arts Center, 66 Republic CARL HOFFMAN | Discusses Sav- CENTRAL WAVE | 603.742.9283 | Central Ave, Dover, NH THE ROOST | 207.799.1232 | 62 Chicopee 207.899.3693 | 272 St John St, Portland BOB MARLEY | 8 pm | Skowhegan Op- donderry.com Ave, Topsham | 207.729.3891 age Harvest | 7 pm | Longfellow 368 Central Ave, Dover, NH THE KENNEBEC WHARF | Rd, Buxton WATER STREET GRILL | 207.582.9464 era House, 225 Water St, Skowhegan | KOBO TOWN | Music Hall, 131 Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | 207.622.9290 | 1 Wharf St, Hallowell ROOSTER’S | 207.622.2625 | 110 Com- | 463 Water St, Gardiner $24 | 207.756.0196 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $16 | SATURDAY 22 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks.com 207.282.7900 | 15 Thornton St, KERRYMEN PUB | 207.282.7425 | 512 munity Dr, Augusta THE WHALER | 207.934.9853 | 20 603.436.2400 or themusichall.org/ DOWNEAST COUNTRY DANCE FESTI- Biddeford Main St, Saco ROUND TOP COFFEEHOUSE | Staples St, Old Orchard Beach SUNDAY 23 tickets/index.asp VAL | See listing for Fri FRIDAY 21 CHAPS SALOON | 207.347.1101 | KJ’S SPORTS BAR | 603.659.2329 | 207.677.2354 | Round Top Farm, Main ZACKERY’S | 207.774.5601 | Fireside CRAIG FERGUSON | 8 pm | State SHASHASHA + FORGET, FORGET + JOANNE CONMAN | reads & discusses 1301 Long Plains Rd, Buxton North Main St, Newmarket, NH St, Damariscotta Inn & Suites, 81 Riverside St, Portland Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | THEODORE TREEHOUSE | 8 pm | One SUNDAY 23 her novel Ancient Egyptian Sky Lore: $30-55 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatre- Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Port- ”TITANIA’S DREAM” | ballet | Husson Rethinking the Conventional Wisdom portland.com land | 207.761.1757 University, Gracie Theatre, 1 College Continued on p 24 24 m arch 21, 2014 | the portL and phoenix | portL and.thephoenix.com portLand.thephoenix.com | the portL and phoenix | march 21, 2014 2 5

shire, Memorial Union Building, 83 NEW ENGLAND ARCHIVISTS’ AN- | Bowdoin College, Kresge Auditorium, 27: “Innerscape: The World Inside,” MAINE COLLEGE OF ART | Main St, Durham, NH | 603.862.2600 NUAL MEETING | See listing for Thurs Visual Arts Center, 3900 College Sta- mixed media group exhibition 800.699.1509 | Artists at Work Gallery or unhmub.com tion, Brunswick | 207.775.3321 ART SANCTUARY TATTOO & ART GAL- Project Window, 522 Congress St, Port- ”BIOTECHNOLOGY & AGRICULTURE: SATURDAY 22 ”STORIES OF SPECIATION: SPERM LERY | 207.828.88665600 | 31 Forest land | Through April 18: “Melt,” win- Listings CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR JORDAN ”CREATING & SUSTAINING VIBRANT INVASION, DEFECTIVE MALES, AND Ave, Portland sanctuarytattoo.com | | dow installation by Reenie Charriere & KAZAKHSTAN” | with Subhash LOCAL ECONOMIES IN MAINE” | 9 HYPERDIVERSITY” | Bowdoin College, GALLERIES Tues-Sat 11 am-7 pm | Through March | 522 Congress St, Portland | Through Minocha | 12:30 pm | University of am | University of Maine - Augusta, Druckenmiller Hall, 3900 College Sta- 31: “Crypto-Faune, Chimera-Flora,” June 4: paintings by Anne Ireland New Hampshire, Memorial Union Randall Student Center, 46 University tion, Brunswick | 207.725.3567 3 FISH GALLERY | 207.773.4773 | 377 mixed media group exhibition PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH | Dr, Augusta | 207.621.3000 or mainelo- ”UNCANNY RETURNS: LITERARY Cumberland Ave, Portland | 3fishgal- SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 207.775.6148 | 7 Congress Square, Continued from p 22 603.862.2600 or unhmub.com caleconomies.org ZIONISM & MODERNISM” | 7 pm | lery.com | Thurs-Sat 1-4 pm & by Congress St, Portland | space538.org | Portland | portlandmuseum.org | | noon | Portland Public Library, 5 ”THE BITCOIN SYMPOSIUM” | 5:30 NEW ENGLAND ARCHIVISTS’ AN- Bowdoin College, Massachusetts Hall, appointment | Through March 31: Wed-Sat noon-6 pm | Through April Tues-Thurs + Sat-Sun 10 am-5 pm; Monument Sq, Portland | 207.871.1700 pm | Music Hall, 131 Congress St, NUAL MEETING | See listing for Thurs 3900 College Station, Brunswick | “Color Journey,” oil & fabric works by 25: “Last Place Ever,” mixed media Fri 10 am-9 pm | Admission $12; $10 or portlandlibrary.com Portsmouth, NH | $5 | 603.436.2400 or 207.725.3000 Gretchen Langer works by Pat Falco | Through May 2: students/seniors; $6 youth 13-17; free themusichall.org/tickets/index.asp SUNDAY 23 ”WYATT EARP: A VIGILANTE LIFE” | AARHUS GALLERY | 207.338.0001 | “Let Our Love Guide You From This for youth 12 & under and for all Fri SATURDAY 22 ”CHEMICALS IN THE ENVIRON- ”TITLE IX BEHIND THE CAMERA: with Andrew C. Isenberg | 7 pm | Bow- 50 Main St, Belfast | aarhusgallery.com World to the Next,” window installa- 5-9 pm | Through April 6: “Youth Art ”LIT: READINGS & LIBATIONS” MENT” | with Cory Theberge | 7 pm | WOMEN IN MEDIA” | call for time | doin College, Hubbard Hall, 3900 Col- | Tues-Sun 11 am-5:30 pm | Through tion by Cooper Holoweski Month,” student works | Through | with R.J. Keller + T.L. Manning University of Southern Maine - Port- Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress lege Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000 March 30: “6th Annual ‘44N 69W: SUSAN MAASCH FINE ART | April 27: “Fine Lines: American Draw- + Meg North + Danielle Bannister land, Southworth Planetarium, 96 Square, Portland | 207.871.1700 or port- Radius Belfast’ 2014,” mixed media 207.478.4087 | 4 City Center, Portland | ings from the Brooklyn Museum” | + Kate Cone + E.J. Fechenda | 5:30 Falmouth St, Portland | 207.780.4249 landmuseum.org group exhibition susanmaaschfineart.com | Tues-Sat 11 Through July 27: “PMA Family Space: pm | Slainte, 24 Preble St, Portland | or usm.maine.edu/planet AUCOCISCO GALLERIES | am-5 pm | Through March 31: paint- Clint Fulkerson,” drawings | Through 207.828.0900 ”COMEDY, ECONOMICS, & CLIMATE MONDAY 24 THEATER 207.775.2222 | 89 Exchange St, Portland ings by Lynda Schlosberg + “Portrait Aug 3: “George Daniell: Picturing CHANGE” | with Yoram Bauman | 4:15 ”THE ABUNDANT LIFE” | artist talk | aucocisco.com | Thurs-Sat 9 am-5 Photography,” by Melonie Bennett + Monhegan Island,” photographs & SUNDAY 23 pm | Bates College, Pettengill Hall, 4 with James Aponovich | 4 pm | Bow- pm | Through April 5: “Abstract Cole Caswell + Denise Froelich + Sean drawings| March 22-June 15: “Preserv- ”RHYTHMIC CYPHER,” POETRY Andrews Rd, Lewiston | 207.786.8376 doin College, Visual Arts Center, Beam ACORN PRODUCTIONS’ FAIRY TALE Personalities,” works by Kate Russo Harris + Julee Holcome + Jack Mont- ing Creative Spaces: The Historic OPEN MIC | with Rhythm & Regalia ”THE FATE OF PHARMACOLOGI- Classroom, 3900 College Station, PLAYERS | 207.854.0065 | Acorn Studio + “Reconstruction,” works by Ellie gomery + DM Witman Artists’ Homes & Studios Program,” | 6:30 pm | Dobra Tea, 151 Middle St, CALLY ACTIVE CHEMICALS IN THE Brunswick | 207.725.3000 Theatre, Dana Warp Mill, 90 Bridge St, Porta Barnet THINK TANK/PORTLAND | documentary installation Portland | 207.370.1890 ENVIRONMENT” | with Cory The- ”POWER AND SURVIVAL: THE Westbrook | March 22-30: Aladdin & the COMMON STREET ARTS | 207.619.3660 | 533 Congress St, Port- SALT INSTITUTE FOR DOCUMEN- berge | 7 pm | University of Southern UNTOLD STORY OF SLAVE DRIVERS Magic Lamp | Sat 11 am; Sun 2 pm 207.749.4368 | 20 Common St, Water- land | call for hours | Through March TARY STUDIES | 207.761.0660 | 561 MONDAY 24 Maine - Portland, Southworth Plan- IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN” | with ADD VERB PRODUCTIONS | ville | commonstreetarts.com | Wed-Sat 31: “Photographic Anthology ‘89-’99: Congress St, Portland | salt.edu | Tues- ”POETRY ON TAP” | open mic & fea- etarium, 96 Falmouth St, Portland Randy Browne | 4:30 pm | Bowdoin 207.871.1700 | Portland Public Library, noon-6 pm | Through April 26: “Colby Dublin, New York, Portland,” by Fri noon-4:30 pm | Through March 21: tured poets | 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar, | 207.780.4249 or usm.maine.edu/ College, Moulton Union, 3900 College 5 Monument Sq, Portland | March 27: on Common,” mixed media group Colin Malakie “Flash Forward,” student photogra- 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230 planet Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3225 “Out & Allied: The Performance” | exhibition phy exhibit local beer ”SEANACHIE NIGHTS: IRISH TALES ”FILMING RWANDA WITH OR- 3:30 pm CONSTELLATION ART GALLERY | MUSEUMS UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - AUGUSTA OF WIT & HUMOR” | spoken word & PHANS OF THE GENOCIDE: A TUESDAY 25 AIRE (AMERICAN IRISH REPERTORY 207.409.6617 | 511 Congress St, Portland | 207.621.3243 | Danforth Gallery, Jewett musical performances by Lynne Cullen DOUBLE-LENS APPROACH & CON- ”CONTESTING & CELEBRATING ENSEMBLE) | 207.799.5327 | Portland | constellationgallery.webs.com | Mon- AFRICAN CENTER FOR THE SA- Hall, 46 University Dr, Augusta | Mon- + Janet Lynch + Kurt Kish + Katy Rydell VERSATION” | with Alex Dauge-Roth CITIZENSHIP: COMMEMORATING Stage Studio Theater, 25A Forest Ave, Thurs noon-4 pm; Fri noon-4 pm & CRED ARTS AT THE MUSEUM OF Thurs 8:30 am-7 pm; Fri 8:30 am-5 live music | 7 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Port- | noon | Bates College, New Commons THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964” | Portland | March 20-April 6: Da | Thurs- 6-8 pm; Sat 2-8 pm | Through March AFRICAN CULTURE | 207.871.7188 | 13 pm | Through March 28: “UMA Archi- land | $9 donation | 207.773.7210 Building, 136 Central Ave, Lewiston | panel discussion with Eileen Eagan + Fri 7:30 pm; Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | $20, 25: “Patterns, Pixels, & Pastels,” Brown St, Portland | museumafrican- tecture Exhibit,” juried exhibition | 207.786.6330 Eric Blanchard + Ida Gammon-Wilson $15 seniors mixed media group exhibition culture.org | Tues-Fri 10:30 am-4 pm; Through April 4: “Sum & Parts: Docu- TUESDAY 25 NEW ENGLAND ARCHIVISTS’ ANNU- + Leroy Rowe | 5 pm | University of COMMUNITY LITTLE THEATRE | DOBRA TEA | 207.370.1890 | 151 Middle Sat noon-4 pm | $5 suggested dona- mentary Sculpture & Photographs” comedy ”MELT: A SPRINGTIME EROTIC AL MEETING | with workshops, pan- Southern Maine - Portland, Glickman 207.783.0958 | laclt.com | Great Falls Au- St, Portland | Mon-Thurs 11 am-10 pm; tion | Through April 14: “The Spirits | Through April 5: “Higher Forms of READING” | 7 pm | Slainte, 24 Preble els, & keynote lecture by Ian MacKaye Family Library, 5th Floor, 314 Forest ditorium, Great Falls School, 30 Academy Fri-Sat 11 am-11 pm; Sun 11 am-6 pm | of the Grassland” | Ongoing: “An Art,” mixed media student exhibition St, Portland | 207.828.0900 | Thurs-Sat | Sheraton Harborside Ave, Portland | 207.780.4270 St, Auburn | March 21-30: Beau Jest | Fri- Through March 31: “Aspens,” acrylics Exhibition of Bronze” UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - FARMING- OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | with Portsmouth, 250 Market St, Ports- ”INSIGHT: A DISCUSSION WITH Sat + Thurs 7:30 pm; Sun 2 pm | $18, by Colleen Edwards BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART TON | 207.778.7072 | Art Gallery, 246 painting Port Veritas & featured poets | 7 pm | mouth, NH | 603.431.2300 or http: SCHWA FIRE CREATOR MICHAEL $15 seniors, $12 youth EDWARD T. POLLACK FINE ARTS | | 207.786.6158 | 75 Russell St, Olin Arts Main St, Farmington | Tues-Sun noon-4 Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | ”THE SCIENCE OF CHARACTER” | ERARD” | 5:30 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 DRAMATIC REPERTORY COMPANY | 617.610.7173 | 25 Forest Ave, Portland Center, Lewiston | bates.edu/museum- pm | Through March 27: “Process,” $2.50-3 | 207.773.7210 film screening & discussion | noon | Congress St, Portland | 207.828.5600 or 800.838.3006 | University of Maine - Au- | Wed-Sat 11 am-6 pm | March 27-30: about.xml | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm | works by Sarah Bouchard Portland Public Library, Rines Audito- space538.org gusta, Klahr Center, 46 University Dr, Au- “AD 20/21 & Boston Print Fair” Through March 21: “How to Make the UNIVERSITY OF MAINE MUSEUM poetry WEDNESDAY 26 rium, 5 Monument Sq, Portland gusta | March 21-23: My Name is Rachel EL CENTRO LATINO DE MAINE | Universe Right: The Art of the Sha- OF ART | 207.561.3350 | Norumbega MATTHEW JUDE BARKER | discusses ”SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE CURRICU- WEDNESDAY 26 Corrie | Fri 7 pm; Sat-Sun 2 pm | $17-20 207.749.8823 | 68 Washington St, man in Vietnam & Southern China” + Hall, 40 Harlow St, Bangor | umma. The Irish of Portland, Maine | noon | LUM” | with Emily Kane | noon | Bates ”FANTASTIC SPACES: VISUAL IMAGI- GASLIGHT THEATER | 207.626.3698 | Portland | Through March 31: “The “Remix: Selections from the Interna- umaine.edu | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm | Portland Public Library, Rines Audi- College, New Commons Building, 136 NATION IN CHINESE ARCHITEC- gaslighttheater.org | Hallowell City Hall Streets of Cuba,” photography by tional Collage Center,” mixed media Free admission | Through March 22: TURAL PAINTING” Auditorium, 1 Winthrop St, Hallowell BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF pub quiz torium, 5 Monument Sq, Portland | Central Ave, Lewiston | 207.786.6330 | with Zoe Kwok | | Karen Miller “Time’s Wife,” paintings by Hannah 207.780.0118 ”VETERANS ISSUES: FROM THE 4:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Visual Arts March 21-29: Mornings at Seven | Fri- ENGINE | 207.229.3560 | 265 Main St, ART | 207.725.3275 | 245 Maine St, Cole | Ongoing: “Selections from the WALTER KIRN | reads his novel CIVIL WAR TO TODAY” | with Mike Center, Beam Classroom, 3900 College Sat + Thurs 7:30 pm; Sun 2 pm | $12, Biddeford | feedtheengine.org | Tues- Brunswick | bowdoin.edu/art-museum Permanent Collection” Blood Will Out | 7 pm | Music Hall, 131 Michaud + Donald Beattie + Ryan Lilly Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000 $10 seniors/students Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 11 am-4 pm | Through | Tues-Wed + Fri-Sat 10 am-5 pm; UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND - Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $40 | + Amy Marcotte | Maine Historical ”POSTCOLONIAL DELUSIONS: THE GOOD THEATER | 207.885.5883 | good- March 22: “The Rumpus Redux,” Thurs 10 am-8:30 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | PORTLAND | 207.221.4499 | Art Gallery, 603.436.2400 or themusichall.org/ Society, 489 Congress St, Portland | CARIBBEAN & GLOBAL DISSOLU- theater.com | St. Lawrence Arts Center, mixed media group exhibition Free admission; donations welcome 716 Stevens Ave, Portland | une.edu/ tickets/index.asp 207.774.1822 or mainehistory.org TION” | with Mayra Santos-Febres | 7 76 Congress St, Portland | March 20-30: GLEASON FINE ART/BOOTHBAY | Through June 1: “Surrealism in artgallery | Wed 1-4 pm; Thurs 1-7 pm; pm | Bowdoin College, Kresge Audito- The Outgoing Tide | Thurs 7 pm; Fri HARBOR | 207.633.6849 | 31 Townsend Motion,” short films + “The Object Fri-Sun 1-4 pm | Through June 14: FRIDAY 21 rium, Visual Arts Center, 3900 College 7:30 pm; Sat 3 & 7:30 pm; Sun 2 pm Ave, Boothbay Harbor | gleasonfineart. Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin Collec- “The Painting of John Calvin Stevens” ”ART & THE ECOSYSTEM: HOW Station, Brunswick | 207.775.3357 | $20-30 com | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun tions” + “Under the Surface: Surreal- | Through June 15: “Recent Acquisi- Sunday - Friday 4 - 7p: TALKS PORTLAND IS GROWING & SUP- MAD HORSE THEATRE COMPANY 11 am-4 pm | Through March 29: ist Photography” | Ongoing: “Ameri- tions & Selections from the Perma- PORTING THE CREATIVE ECONOMY” THURSDAY 27 | 207.747.4148 | Mad Horse Theater, 24 “Winter Color,” paintings by Andrea can Artists at Work, 1840-1950” + nent Collection,” mixed media | All Drafts $3 All Whiskies 20% off ”BEING HUMAN -- CONVERSATIONS Mosher St, South Portland EW HAPPYUST OT APPIER HOU | with Jennifer Hutchins | noon | | March 20- Peters + Tom Curry + Kevin Beers + “Contemporary Masters, 1950 to the Ongoing: paintings & photography by N J G H R THURSDAY 20 Lewiston Public Library, 200 Lisbon THAT MATTER: AUTHORITY” | panel 30: Orphans | Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun Mitch Billis + Phil Barter Present” + “Lovers & Saints: Art of Maine artists + labyrinth installation Thursday & Friday 5 - 6p: ARTIST TALK WITH DAN MICHAEL- St, Lewiston | 207.784.0135 or lplon- discussion with George Mason + Pious 2 pm | $20, $15 seniors/students (Thurs GREENHUT GALLERIES | the Italian Renaissance” UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE SON 207.772.2693 146 Middle St, Portland COLBY COLLEGE 207.859.5600 - GORHAM 207.780.5008 Art Gallery, BACON & CHEESE Happy Hour ON AT UNDAY | 12:30 pm | Maine College of Art, line.org Ali | 7 pm | Maine Jewish Museum, 267 pay-what-you-can) | | | | | | M .–S . S Osher Hall, 522 Congress St, Portland | ”CONVERSATIONS WITH THE CAN- Congress St, Portland | 207.329.9854 or PENOBSCOT THEATRE COMPANY | greenhutgalleries.com | Mon-Fri 10 am- Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill USM Campus, Gorham | usm.maine. 4 PM–8PM 11PM–1AM 207.775.3042 DIDATES: MAINE’S NEXT GOVER- treeoflifemuseum.org 207.942.3333 | penobscottheatre.org | 5:30 pm; Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through Dr, Waterville | colby.edu/museum | edu/~gallery | Tues-Fri 11 am-4 pm; Thursday 9:30p: Hello Newman ”BEING QUEER, LATINA/O & BILIN- NOR” | with Mike Michaud | 11:45 am ”SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE CURRICU- Bangor Opera House, 131 Main St, Bangor March 29: “Marching Forth,” mixed Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | Through April 6: GUAL: LANGUAGE, IDENTITIES & | University of Southern Maine - Port- LUM” | See listing for Thurs | Through March 30: God of Carnage | media group exhibition pm | Free admission | Through June “USM Juried Student Exhibition,” $1.50 PBR & Bud 16oz Cans Healthy, Fun Adult Entertainment | 207.772.8033 | 200 Riverside St. | PTsShowclub.com INTERACTION” ”STILL LIFE: AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF KITTERY ART ASSOCIATION MODELS USED FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES ONLY | with Holly Cashman land, Luther Bonney Hall, Bedford St, Thurs + Wed 7 pm; Fri-Sat 8 pm; Sun | 8: “American Weathervanes from a mixed media | 3:30 pm | University of New Hamp- Portland | 207.780.4200 STONE” | with Hugh Raffles | 7:30 pm 3 pm | $24-37 207.967.0049 | 8 Coleman Ave, Kittery Distinguished Maine Collection” + UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE Friday 9:30p: Kilcollins PLAYERS’ RING | 603.436.8123 | play- | kitteryartassociation.org | Sat noon-6 “Histories of Now: Six Artists from - PORTLAND | 207.780.5008 | Area upstairs ersring.org | 105 Marcy St, Portsmouth, pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Through March Cairo,” video works + “Julianne Gallery, Woodbury Campus Center, NH | March 21-23: Next to Normal | Fri- 23: “Truth/Consequences,” student Swartz: Affirmation,” sound instal- Bedford St, Portland | Mon-Fri 7 am-10 Saturday 9:30p: Skösh Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm | $12, $10 seniors exhibition | March 27-April 20: “Re- lation + “Spaces & Places: Chinese Art pm | Through March 28: “Transitions: upstairs PORTLAND OVATIONS | 207.842.0800 cycle, Refurbish, Reclaim,” mixed from the Lunder-Colville Collection & USM Juried Art Alumni,” mixed me- Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St, Port- Dave Rowe | media group exhibition the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” + dia | Through May 1: “Al-Mutanabbi downstairs Dating land | March 22: Man of La Mancha | 2 & MAINELY FRAMES AND GALLERY “The Lunder Collection: A Gift of Art Street Starts Here,” traveling exhibi- made 207.828.0031 541 Congress St, Port- Northern Lights 8 pm | $45-70 | | to Colby College” | Ongoing: “Process tion | Through May 31: “Rescued, Monday 7p: WARNING PORTLAND PLAYERS | 207.799.7337 land | Mon-Wed 10 am-6 pm; Thurs- & Place: Exploring the Design Evolu- Redeemed, Revived,” book arts Seanachie Night The BeST selection of hookahs & accessories | 420 Cottage Rd, Portland | March Fri 10 am-8 pm; Sat 10 am-6 pm; Sun tion of the Alfond-Lunder Family Easy 21-April 6: Private Lives | Fri-Sat 7:30 1-4 pm | Through March 31: drawings Pavilion” + “Alex Katz Collection” OTHER MUSEUMS Monday 8p: Geeks Who Drink including Fantasia Shisha HOT GUYS! 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How easy is it to be self-satisfied for Vinland’s pontifications become white f eating local? So easy that last week US noise, which fades away as you appreciate Representative Bill Huizenga, a Republican the food and its distinctive coherence of from Michigan, congratulated himself on flavors and textures — the Nordic, astrin- the passage of the Farm Bill by remind- gent, piney, ascetic goodness of it all. ing reporters that “there is nothing hotter Vinland’s extreme localism has led to than farm-to-table.” Seen that viral video a mastery of the dried and the fermented of Mitch McConnell and wondered why he — starting with the amuse-bouche of an is smiling so much? He is pleased about earthy beet chip topped with a dollop of foraging his own nettles, of course! tangy yogurt and a bit of bitter radish. A In offering cuisine made entirely with gimlet cocktail gets its sour from yogurt ingredients from Maine, the new restau- whey instead of citrus, which smoothed rant Vinland seeks to perfect a trend at out the gin’s bite and harmonized with the moment it has become banal — like Al the mint of pine syrup. A rum cocktail BEST Green did with soul music or the Flamboy- uses the same whey, as well as ginger, to 2014 ants did with gothic architecture. create an appealing fruitless tropicality. hAVe IT your whey tangy yogurt provides the base for vinland’s turnip soup. This is not necessarily bad. Sure, the Yogurt also provides the base for the Flamboyants lacked elegance, but thank turnip soup — white and silky with a god for Green’s mid-career repertoire. sort of pleasant probiotic tang. The tur- is prepared sous-vide (sealed in an airtight seems utterly entwined with its resource- THEPHOENIX.COM/THEBEST #PORTPHX #TheBestMaine Whether we should be thankful for Vin- nip deepens the bitterness and gives the bag and cooked in a water bath) at Vinland ful response to the limitations of Maine land depends on how they pull off the soup some heft, while fermented carrot and seared in herb butter. The pale and winters. Vinland seems to thrive among conceit. It is hard to swallow sanctimony, and greens provide sharpness. Even bet- tender result has a subtle ham-like flavor. limitations, and one wonders if it will lose especially regarding a cliché. And in its ter was the oat polenta — creamier than A red cabbage kraut was so lightly ferment- some of its Nordic appeal in the relative self-promotion Vinland has shown a pre- most corn versions, and less sweet. The ed it was almost fresh, and the pine cheese abundance of summer. 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And the restaurant lets a different restriction, one requirement IT COULD BE YOURS. whole thing at vinland.me): they “hope distinctive strength in the ingenious po- that happen — the menu and the service scared him most: “Not a fucking cartoon!” to honor the indigenous and the myriad tato risotto that was the foundation of the offer few hints of the righteousness that But the resulting animation was beautiful. Sign up at cascobayeye.com non-humans who have been so grievously dish — much lighter and less oily than has become Vinland’s public persona. The Maybe there is something cartoonish in to join our eblast list. harmed by Western culture. We hope to most rice versions. The barely seared scal- handsome room is spare and well lit, the Vinland’s radical experiment with local- We’ll draw the name of one We think you’ll enjoy connecting earn their welcome….” Too late, I fear! lops, from the sea that afternoon we were better to appreciate the presentation of ism, but the result is also lovely. ^ lucky iPad mini with us. Look forward to receiving And too little, if what you are offering is told, tasted of it. A broth infused with the cuisine — which remained true to its ™ $$$ winner! expensive meals. mushroom and seaweed brought some astringent-aesthetic from that beet chip VINLAND | 593 Congress St, eblasts once a month or so with So it’s a pleasant surprise that dinner subtle funkiness, roasted carrots added beginning to a delicious dried-parsnip Portland | Tuesday-Saturday, 5:30-close; news about what’s happening here at Vinland feels neither too overtly eco- sweetness, and spirals of dried beet offered crumble for dessert. Sunday brunch 9:30-1:30 | Visa/MC/Amex | “On a swaying bridge between two worlds.” at Casco Bay EyeCare: sales and friendly nor too ego-friendly. Perhaps texture. Pork capocollo — usually cured — What is most appealing about Vinland 207.653.8617 Contest to end 4/30/14. Casco Bay EyeCare special offers, designer frame lines employees and their immediate families are not we’re adding, updates about how to eligible. *16 GB iPad mini™ best use your insurance coverage for vision care, and tips about eye and A family is forced to reconsider their relationship and how they contact lens health. 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The cascobayeye.com 2002 novel The Double, but its brUnswick + nordica + aUbUrn + verbal wit is fairly weak this lewiston + oxford premise — an introverted his- time around, though as in the “...succeeds in escorting us into a world Michael Anastasio, OD • Robert Banglmaier, OD tory teacher meets a small-time previous film there’s an end- Kyle Benner, OD • Steven Goldstein, OD actor who is his double, and Jim Henson never liked the idea less succession of three-second that few of us know.” Timothy Kearins, OD • Sian Liem, OD drives both the actor and himself of Disney getting its hands on star cameos, and a subplot Francis Robbins, OD • Timothy Tolford, OD nuts — is the sort of Kafkaesque the Muppets, but that’s where confining Kermit the Frog to a “...explores issues of communication, self-expression nightmare that’s difficult to they wound up in 2004, when Russian gulag offers the bizarre 152 Middle St. 770 Congress St. Ten Q St. film. 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With Jake Muppet movies produced by directed; with Tina Fey, Ty 781-5580 883-2809 than Canadian director Denis comes out stilted more often Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, and Disney both dwell on nefarious Burrell, and Celine Dion 0214 Villeneuve (Incendies, Prisoners) can than not. This is best enjoyed Isabella Rossellini. showbiz deals: in the franchise duetting with Miss Piggy. PORTLANDSTAGE Tickets: 774.0465 provide. This is fitfully success- for the wordless sequences in relaunch The Muppets (2011), an where great theater lives www.portlandstage.org ful as a mood piece, though the which Villeneuve and cinema- _Ben sachs oil tycoon schemes to buy the _Jr Jones 28 March 21, 2014 | the portland phoenix | portland.t hephoenix.coM

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| Wed: 4 3:35, 7:15 5:30, 8:15 3:30, 6:45, 9:45 | Sun: noon, 3:30, 6:45 | 300: rISE oF an EMPIrE | 1:20, EdIE & tHEa: a VErY lonG En- BAXTER DRINK PMa MoVIES MUPPEtS MoSt WantEd | 1, 4, 6:45 tHE MonUMEntS MEn | Fri-Mon: Mon-Thu: 3:30, 6:30 4:20, 7:20 GaGEMEnt | Sun: 8 7 Congress Square, Portland | nEEd For SPEEd | 12:50, 3:50, 7:10 5:30, 8:15 non-StoP | Fri-Sat: 12:30, 3:45, 7:15, 300: rISE oF an EMPIrE 3d | Fri- EPIloGUE | Wed: 1 207.775.6148 non-StoP | 1:40, 4:35, 7:25 10 | Sun: 12:30, 3:45, 7:15 | Mon-Thu: 4, 7 Sat: 9:35 FIll tHE VoId | Mon: 8 SPECIALS orCHEStra oF EXIlES | Fri: 6:30 roBoCoP | 7:40 rEGal BrUnSWICK 10 SnoW WHItE & tHE SEVEn 12 YEarS a SlaVE | Fri-Sat: 12:10, tHE GatEKEEPErS | Sun: 5:30 | Sat: 2 Son oF God | 12:35, 3:30, 6:40 19 Gurnet Rd, Brunswick | dWarFS | Wed: 11:30 am 3:20, 6:40, 9:30 | Sun-Thu: 12:10, 3:20, HarBoUr oF HoPE | Mon: 5:30 300: rISE oF an EMPIrE | 1:30, 207.798.3996 300: rISE oF an EMPIrE | Fri-Sat: 6:40 HollYWood & HItlEr | Tue: 6 WEStBrooK 4:30, 7:30 dIVErGEnt | 12:15, 12:45, 3:30, 4:10, 7:15, 10 | Sun: 7:15 | Mon-Thu: 7 tHE JEWISH CardInal | Sat: 8 CInEMaGIC 6:40, 7:20, 8, 9:15, 9:45 KaddISH For a FrIEnd | Mon: 10 183 County Rd, Westbrook | tHE MaGIC lantErn tHE lEGo MoVIE | 12:10, 2:40, 5:05, SMIttY’S CInEMa- lola | Thu: 10:10 207.774.3456 9 Depot St, Bridgton | 207.647.5065 7:30, 10 SanFord nEW HaMPSHIrE MEltInG aWaY | Thu: 6 aMErICan HUStlE | 12:10, 3:20, 7:20 dIVErGEnt | Fri: 4:15, 7:30 | Sat-Sun: tHE MonUMEntS MEn | 6:30, 9:30 1364 Main St, Sanford | 207.490.0000 MY aUStralIa | Sun: 2:30 GIVEAWAYS dIVErGEnt | noon, 12:20, 3:10, 3:30, 12:45, 4, 7:15 | Tue-Thu: 4:15, 7:30 Mr. PEaBodY & SHErMan | 12:40, BladE | Wed: 7 oUt In tHE darK | Tue: 8:30 6:30, 6:45, 9:30, 9:50 Mr. PEaBodY & SHErMan | Fri: 4:20, 6:45, 10:20 dIVErGEnt | Fri-Sat: noon, 3:30, 7, 10 | tHE MUSIC Hall QUalItY BallS | Sun: 10 | Tue: 4 FroZEn | 12:20, 3:20 4:30, 7:15 | Sat-Sun: 1:15, 4:30, 7 | Tue- Mr. PEaBodY & SHErMan 3d | Sun: noon, 3:30, 7 | Mon-Thu: 3:30, 7 28 Chestnut St, Portsmouth | SlEEPInG WItH tHE FISHES | Wed: tHE lEGo MoVIE | 11:50 am, 2:10, Thu: 4:30, 7:15 noon, 2:25 tHE lEGo MoVIE | Fri-Sun: 12:30, 4 | 603.436.9900 7:30 4:30, 7, 9:20 MUPPEtS MoSt WantEd | Fri: 4, 7 | MUPPEtS MoSt WantEd | noon, 1, Mon-Thu: 4 BEttIE PaGE rEVEalS all | Fri: 7 | tHE WondErS | Wed: 10 lonE SUrVIVor | 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Sun: 1:30, 4:15, 7:30 | Tue-Thu: 4, 7 2:35, 3:45, 5:10, 7, 9:40 Mr. PEaBodY & SHErMan | Fri-Sat: Sun: 4 | Tue: 7 | Thu: 7 DOORS @ 8 tHE MonUMEntS MEn | 12:30, 3:30, nEEd For SPEEd | 12:20, 6:50 12:30, 3:45, 6:30, 9:45 | Sun: 12:30, 3:45, tHE BroKEn CIrClE BrEaKdoWn PMa MoVIES 6:30, 9:10 narroW GaUGE nEEd For SPEEd 3d | 3:45, 9:45 6:30 | Mon-Thu: 3:45, 6:30 | Fri-Sun: 7 | Tue-Wed: 7 7 Congress Square, Portland | Mr. PEaBodY & SHErMan | 11:50 CInEMaS non-StoP | 12:30, 4, 7:10, 9:50 MUPPEtS MoSt WantEd | Fri-Sat: lIVE BroadCaSt oF War HorSE 207.775.6148 | mjff.org am, noon, 2:10, 2:20, 4:30, 4:40, 7, 9:20 15 Front St, Farmington | 207.778.4877 Son oF God | 4:50 noon, 12:30, 3:30, 4, 6:45, 9:45 | Sun: BY tHE natIonal tHEatrE oF aHEad oF tIME | Thu: 1:30 SHOW @ 8:30 MUPPEtS MoSt WantEd | 12:10, Call for shows & times. 300: rISE oF an EMPIrE 3d | 12:35, noon, 12:30, 3:30, 4, 6:30 | Mon-Thu: london | Sat: 1 an aPartMEnt In BErlIn | Sun: 12:30, 3:10, 3:30, 6:50, 7:10, 9:30, 9:45 3:50, 7:45, 10:15 3:30, 4, 6:30 12:30 nEEd For SPEEd | noon, 3:30, 6:45, nordICa tHEatrE nEEd For SPEEd | Fri-Sat: noon, 3:30, rEGal FoX rUn do YoU BElIEVE In loVE? | Tue: 2 9:50 1 Freeport Village Station, Suite 125, SaCo CInEMaGIC 6:45, 9:45 | Sun: noon, 3:30, 6:45 | Mon- StadIUM 15 Jon IMBEr’S lEFt Hand | Sun: 3:30 non-StoP | 12:20, 3, 7:20, 9:50 Freeport | 207.865.9000 & IMaX Thu: 3:30, 6:45 45 Gosling Rd, Portsmouth | rIdE alonG | 7:20, 9:40 dIVErGEnt | Fri-Sat: 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 783 Portland Rd, Rte 1, Saco | noaH | Thu: 7 603.431.6116 raIlroad SQUarE $ Son oF God | 12:10, 9:30 9:40 | Sun-Thu: 12:40, 3:40, 6:40 207.282.6234 non-StoP | Fri-Sat: 7:30, 10 | Sun- Call for shows & times. CInEMa 5 IN ADVANCE 3 daYS to KIll | 3:20, 6:50 tHE lEGo MoVIE | 1:10, 4:05 aMErICan HUStlE | 1, 4, 8 Thu: 7 17 Railroad Sq, Waterville | 300: rISE oF an EMPIrE | 12:10, 3:10, Mr. PEaBodY & SHErMan | 1:15, 4 dIVErGEnt | noon, 3, 6:30, 9:30 300: rISE oF an EMPIrE | Fri-Sat: 207.873.6526 | mjff.org 6:40, 9:10 MUPPEtS MoSt WantEd | Fri-Sat: 1, dIVErGEnt - IMaX | 1, 4, 7, 10 7:15, 10 | Sun-Thu: 7 an aPartMEnt In BErlIn | Sun: $ tYlEr PErrY’S tHE SInGlE MoM’S 3:30, 7, 9:30 | Sun-Thu: 1, 3:30, 7 tHE lEGo MoVIE | noon, 2:20, 4:40, FIlM SPECIalS 12:30 8 @ THE DOOR ClUB | 12:20, 3, 7:10, 9:40 nEEd For SPEEd | Fri-Sat: 7:05, 9:50 | 7, 9:20 SMIttY’S CInEMa- aWaKE ZIon | Sun: 7:30 tHE WolF oF Wall StrEEt | noon, Sun-Thu: 7:05 lonE SUrVIVor | 7, 9:40 WIndHaM EPIloGUE | Sun: 5:30 Smooth, malty TICKETS AT (207) 772-8274, 3:40, 7:30 non-StoP | 1:30, 7:10 tHE MonUMEntS MEn | 1, 4, 7, 9:40 795 Roosevelt Trail, Windham | BatES CollEGE tHE JEWISH CardInal | Sat: 8 12 YEarS a SlaVE | Fri-Sat: 12:30, Mr. PEaBodY & SHErMan | 1, 2:55, 207.892.7000 Olin Arts Center, 2 Andrews Rd, MY aUStralIa | Sun: 3 lager with a crisp 3:35, 6:30, 9:25 | Sun-Thu: 12:30, 3:35, 4, 5:10, 6:50, 9:10 Call for shows & times. Lewiston | 207.786.6255 IN PERSON AT 121 CENTER ST., 6:30 MUPPEtS MoSt WantEd | noon, anCHorMan 2: tHE lEGEnd Con- Salt InStItUtE American Hop finish. MaInE 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10 SPotlIGHt CInEMaS tInUES | Fri: 7:30 | Sat: 2, 7:30 | Sun: For doCUMEntarY OR PORTLANDASYLUM.COM oXFord FlaGSHIP 7 nEEd For SPEEd | 12:30, 3:20, 7, 9:40 6 Stillwater Ave, Orono | 207.827.7411 2, 4:30 StUdIES Enjoyed by the 1570 Main Street, Oxford | non-StoP | 12:30, 3:30, 7:10, 9:50 Call for shows & times. 561 Congress St, Portland | alaMo tHEatrE 207.743.2219 rIdE alonG | 12:40, 3, 7:30, 9:40 tHE Grand 207.761.0660 | mjff.org San Francisco 85 Main St, Bucksport | 207.469.0924 Call for shows & times. Son oF God | noon, 8 tHoMaSton 165 Main St, Ellsworth | 207.667.9500 aWaKE ZIon | Thu: 6 tHE lEGo MoVIE | Fri-Sat: 6:30 | 3 daYS to KIll | 1, 4 FlaGSHIP 10 BEttIE PaGE rEVEalS all | Tue: Jon IMBEr’S lEFt Hand | Wed: 6 prospectors Sun: 2 raIlroad SQUarE 300: rISE oF an EMPIrE | 12:30, 3, 9 Moody Dr, Thomaston | 7:30 CInEMa 7:30, 9:50 207.594.2100 Strand tHEatrE of yesteryear. aUBUrn FlaGSHIP 10 17 Railroad Sq, Waterville | dIVErGEnt | Fri-Sat: 12:30, 3:40, 7, HUSSon UnIVErSItY 345 Main St, Rockland | 207.594.0070 746 Center St, Auburn | 207.786.8605 207.873.6526 SMIttY’S CInEMa- 9:15 | Sun-Thu: 12:30, 3:40, 7 Gracie Theatre, 1 College Circle, Ban- | mjff.org dIVErGEnt | Fri-Sat: 12:30, 3:45, tHE art oF tHE StEal | Fri-Sat: BIddEFord FroZEn | 1:10, 4:15 gor | 207.941.7051 aFtErMatH | Wed: 1 6:50, 9:05, 9:50 | Sun-Thu: 12:30, 3:45, 2:40, 7:10, 9:05 | Sun-Thu: 2:40, 7:10 420 Alfred St, Five Points Shopping tHE lEGo MoVIE | 1, 4:10, 6:55 CEntral ParK FIVE | Thu: 7 an aPartMEnt In BErlIn | Mon: 1 6:50, 9:05 tHE artISt & tHE ModEl | Sat: 10 Center, Biddeford | 207.282.2224 tHE MonUMEntS MEn | Fri-Sat: 7:15, tHE JEWISH CardInal | Sat: 8 tHE lEGo MoVIE | 1:10, 4:10, 6:45 am, 12:15 BladE | Wed: 7 9:50 | Sun-Thu: 7:15 SPaCE GallErY Mr. PEaBodY & SHErMan | noon, tIM’S VErMEEr | Fri: 2:20, 4:25, 6:10, dIVErGEnt | Fri-Sat: noon, 12:15, 3, Mr. PEaBodY & SHErMan | noon, 538 Congress St, Portland | UnIVErSItY oF 2:15, 4:30, 6:55, 9:10 7:55, 9:40 | Sat: 2:20, 4:25, 6:10, 9:40 | 3:15, 6:15, 6:30, 9:30, 9:45 | Sun: noon, 2:15, 6:50 207.828.5600 MaInE - aUGUSta MUPPEtS MoSt WantEd | 1, 4, Sun-Thu: 2:20, 4:25, 6:10, 7:55 12:15, 3, 3:15, 6:15, 6:30 | Mon-Thu: 3:30, Mr. PEaBodY & SHErMan | Fri-Sat: FoUnd FootaGE FEStIVal | Sat: Klahr Center, 46 University Dr, Au- 7:05, 9:35 12 YEarS a SlaVE | Fri: 4:35 | Sat- 4, 6:30, 7 noon, 2:15, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 | Sun-Thu: 7:30 gusta | 207.621.3530 | mjff.org BAXTERBREWING.COM | FACEBOOK.COM/BAXTERBREWING | @BAXTERBREWING nEEd For SPEEd | 12:40, 7:10 Sun: 12:05, 4:35 | Mon-Thu: 4:35 tHE lEGo MoVIE | Fri-Sun: 12:30, 3:45 noon, 2:15, 4:30, 6:50 IF YoU BUIld It | Wed: 7:30 HarBoUr oF HoPE | Mon: 1 30 March 21, 2014 | the portland phoenix | portland.t hephoenix.coM

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This week, the moon is waning and will be at fthe last quarter. Work on projects that have Back page already been established, or that need to be sim- plified. “Taking things away” is a theme (spring cleaning?) and look for ways to communicate ar- tistically — perhaps singing your request versus an email. Even if you’re not a troubadour, this is a fine week for brainstorming or “thinking outside the box.” Crazy ideas go over better, so if you’re a “seat Jonesin’ _by Matt Jones of the pants” worker, this is your golden hour. 1 2 3 4 5 thursday 6 7 8 March 9 10 20 11 12 13 14 15 16 Across 40 Food label units that Waning moon in Scorpio, moon void-of-course until 11:12 pm. “It’s really nothIng” Spring equinox, Sun enters aries. happy new year! at least as- casino features don’t 17mind 18waiting 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 1 trologically. the vernal equinox is the most significant of the year and — and nothing can stop you! 5 pacific coast salmon around? if you feel you’ve been dragging a lead weight since the winter sol- 9 King novel about a 45 Get retribution for stice, give yourself a pat on the back for surviving. For all 12 signs, rabid dog 46 Sour, as a stomach please make the following lists today: What you want to do and 13 Feeling regret 47 icelandic band Sigur ___ where you want to go in the next three months.

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Good 17 commend highly 54 17Burp after18 drinking 19 20 too 21 22 day 23 for sales 24 calls, 25 instructing 26 others27 or28 planning 29 a lengthy 30 journey. 31 32 18 inbox item many colas? those who will resist lessons include Virgo, pisces, and Gemini. leo, 19 expensive Japanese beef 57 Beloved honey lover aries, Sagittarius, libra, and aquarius could find the humor in the 20 amount of time before 60 change of address, to a darndest things, while cancer, capricorn, Scorpio, and taurus are wait- you stop reading inflam- realtor ing for the other shoe to drop. matory Web comments? 1 61 2 Barracks 3 barker, 4 briefly 5 6 7 s aturday8 9 10 March 11 12 22 13 14 15 16 23 laughingstock 62 neighbor of hank hill Waning moon in Sagittarius, over-excitability may prevail. pay- 24 Glitch 63 risk territory ing too much, or getting over-excited could bring trouble for Vir- 25 cincinnati-to-detroit dir. 17 64 18 Wrath 19 20 21 22 23 go, 24 pisces, 25 Gemini, 26 and 27 c ancer.2 8For Sagittarius, 29 30 a ries, 31 l eo, and 32 capri- 26 $ fractions, for short 65 Several corn it’s no-holds-barred. You folks will want to be very clear about 29 did hayfield work 66 Good, to Giuseppe your needs — it is not the time for vagueness. Scorpio, libra, aquarius, and pisces will be impatient with the status quo. You folks will need 31 Wonder-ful count? 67 Word appearing before to keep traveling, especially if a “geographic cure” keeps you from 33 Force that i’m certain will or after each word in the dwelling on what-can’t-be. pull you back to earth? long theme entries 37 “let the rabbit eat ___”1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 s unday 9 10 March 11 12 23 13 14 15 16 (mail-in 1976 cereal contest) Down last quarter moon in moon void-of-course 6:40 am until 4:03 38 hosp. area for critical cases 1 Moda center, e.g. pm when it moves into capricorn. projects begun around March 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 39 reese’s “legally Blonde” 2 Garb for groomsmen 1 develop further. home improvements (the unglamorous ones) beck- on. a great day for kicking bad habits to the curb. and kicking in gen- ©2014 Jonesin’ CrossworD s | eD [email protected] role 3 catchers wear them eral — capricorn rules the knees and skin. a day of accomplishment for 4 ___-nosed kid capricorn, taurus, Virgo, pisces, and Scorpio (but will they recognize 5 1978 debut solo album this and do something out of the ordinary for Saturday?). libra, aries, by rick James and cancer are touchy — give ‘em space. 6 abbr. on a phone dial 1 2 3 7 4c astle 5 Grayskull 6 hero 7 8 9 Monday 10 11 March12 13 24 14 15 16 _by J en sorensen 8 “nothing compares 2 U” Waning moon in capricorn. earth sign moons on a Monday are toon time great for those who thrive on routine and predictability. So aries, 17 18 19 20 singer 21 22 23 24 25 l ibra, 26 Gemini, 27 and28 leo could 29 be 30frustrated, 31 and 32 then uninspired. do ev- 9 Blue Velvet, for one erything slowly, and get to the bottom of something, rather than waft- 10 roswell crasher ing from project to project. capricorn, taurus, Virgo, pisces, and Scorpio 11 MMa move get into the groove, but libra, aries, and cancer resist inclusion. 12 Mined set? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 comprehensive tuesday March 25 Waning moon in capricorn, moon void-of-course 8:35 am until 21 “to Sir With love” singer 6:39 pm when it moves into aquarius. reboot, reprogram and 17 18 19 20 22 21 John of 22 the WW 23 e 24 25 26 remember 27 28 that talk 29 is cheap 30 (unless 31 you’re 32 sitting in a psychiatrist’s 26 cook-off food office: this is a fine day for that). aquarius, libra, Gemini, aries, Sagit- 27 “her,” “She” or “it” tarius should be full-steam ahead on projects and relationships, par- 28 eye nuisances ticularly if an end is in sight. leo, taurus, cancer, and Scorpio may 29 confine have difficulty “reading the signals.” capricorn, Virgo, and pisces: you don’t have all the information. 30 record label named for 1 2 3 4 5 6an asian 7 capital 8 9 10 11 Wednesday12 13 14 March 15 16 26 32 each’s partner Waning moon in aquarius. Good day for weird news and ob- 33 Face-valued, as stocks scure characters to emerge. Fantastical ideas reach a receptive 17 18 19 20 21 34 22“ top c 23hef” network 24 25 26 27 audience,28 29 particularly 30 if 31brought 32 forward by aquarius, libra, Gemini, 35 Focus of traffic reports? aries, and Sagittarius. Some folks (leo, taurus, and Scorpio) may 36 holy food? come off as more pushy than they intended. this is forgivable, and perhaps entertaining, but keep it simple, and give them room! 41 round toaster brand 42 tension reliever 43 “i Shot andy Warhol” star Moon Keys taylor This horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. Simply 44 “Battleship potemkin” read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves locale through the signs of the zodiac. | When the moon is in your sun sign, 49 Big name in farm you are beginning a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect increased insight and emotionality. When the moon moves into the equipment sun sign opposite yours (see below), expect to have difficulties dealing 51 Funeral lament with the opposite sex, family, or authority figures; social or romantic 52 rival of rafael and novak activities will not be at their best. | When the moon is in Aries, it 53 January in Juarez opposes Libra, and vice versa. Other oppositions are Taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, Cancer/Capricorn, Leo/Aquarius, and Virgo/Pisces. 54 Use your jaw The moon stays in each sign approximately two and a half days. | As 55 dash and splash the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of 56 horatio who played aaron course,” making no major angles to planets. Consider this a null time neville on “Snl” and try to avoid making or implementing decisions if you can. But it’s great for brainstorming. | For Symboline Dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and 57 Kissing in public, e.g. advice column, visit our Web site at thePhoenix.com. Symboline Dai 58 lummox can be reached at [email protected]. 59 “nicely done!”