The Portland Daily Sun, Thursday, February 10, 2011

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Setting up for a Showdown

See Bob Higgins’ column on page 4

Who says an (immigration) compact can’t be exciting?

See Curtis Robinson’s column on page 5

The NFL’s public relations problem See Sports, page 16

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Chris Barron with Seacoast Scaffold and Equipment builds a snowboarding structure in Monument Square Wednesday for Friday’s Downtown Showdown, kickoff to the weekend WinteRush winter festival in Portland. For more about the Showdown, see Marty Basch’s ski column on page 7. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Distracted-driving summit features SoPo police officer injured in crash

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A South Portland police officer who narrowly escaped death in a distracted-driving crash on the Casco Bay Bridge last fall will moderate talks with teen drivers next week in Portland.

It’s part of a daylong summit on the topic of distracted driving that’s also a push for proposed legislation that would ban texting while driving in Maine.

Officer Rocco Navarro will moderate a panel discussion with teen drivers at the

Maine Distracted Driving Summit, taking place from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 16 at the Ocean Gateway marine terminal.

Navarro suffered serious injuries when a pickup truck crashed into his cruiser while he was Navarro parked behind a stranded motorist on the Casco Bay Bridge last fall.

Police say the driver who hit the parked

cruiser, David Zografos of South Portland, was talking on his cell phone. Zografos, who was uninjured, was charged with failing to maintain control of a motor vehicle.

Navarro suffered kidney damage, neck and back injuries and a concussion, according to a WMTW News 8 report.

“He’s still not back full duty or full time, he’s working light duty,” South Portland Police Chief Ed Googins said Tuesday in an interview. “He was pretty seriously injured.” see SUMMIT page 6

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A proposed law that would change how wait staff’s tips are divided has some workers’ advocates crying foul.

Sponsored by Sen. Brian Langley, R-Hancock, the bill would remove language from existing state law that prevents restau-

rants from claiming ownership of tips.

The change gives management the right to determine when wait staff should “pool” gratuities.

Supporters say it’s a simple matter of clarifying a process currently governed by both state and federal regulation. Critics say it will shortchange staff and diminish

the state’s hospitality industry.

“We would like to have one set of rules everyone understands, by no means are we asking servers to give up any tips,” said Maine Restaurant Association president and CEO Dick Grotton, whose group has come out in support of LD 207. see TIPS page 3

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Social scientist sees bias within SAN ANTONIO (NY Times) — Some of the world’s pre-eminent experts on bias discovered an unexpected form of it at their annual meeting. Discrimination is always high on the agenda at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s conference, where psychologists discuss their research on racial prejudice, homophobia, sexism, stereotype threat and unconscious bias against minorities.

The most talked-about speech at this year’s meeting, which ended Jan. 30, involved a new “outgroup.”

It was identified by Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia who studies the intuitive foundations of morality and ideology. He polled his audience at the San Antonio Convention Center, starting by asking how many considered themselves politically liberal. Dr. Haidt estimated that liberals made up 80 percent of the 1,000 psychologists in the ballroom. When he asked for centrists and libertarians, he spotted fewer than three dozen hands. And then, when he asked for conservatives, he counted a grand total of three.

“This is a statistically impossible lack of diversity,” Dr. Haidt concluded, noting polls showing that 40 percent of Americans are conservative and 20 percent are liberal.

In his speech and in an interview, Dr. Haidt argued that social psychologists are a “tribal-moral community” united by “sacred values” that hinder research and damage their credibility — and blind them to the hostile climate they’ve created for non-liberals.

“Anywhere in the world that social psychologists see women or minorities underrepresented by a factor of two or three, our minds jump to discrimination as the explanation,” said Dr. Haidt, who called himself a longtime liberal turned centrist.

“But when we find out that conservatives are underrepresented among us by a factor of more than 100, suddenly everyone finds it quite easy to generate alternate explanations.”

Dr. Haidt (pronounced height) told the audience that he had been corresponding with a couple of non-liberal graduate students in social psychology whose experiences reminded him of closeted gay students in the 1980s. He quoted — anonymously — from their e-mails describing how they hid their feelings when colleagues made political small talk and jokes predicated on the assumption that everyone was a liberal.

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Senator Webb will not run for re-election

BY MICHAEL D. SHEAR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Senator Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia, has decided not to run for re-election, avoiding a blockbuster rematch with the man he beat in 2006, George Allen, and giving Senate Republicans another opportunity to help them reclaim the majority.

In a statement, Mr. Webb said that he had “decided to return to the private sector, where I have spent most of my professional life, and will not seek re-election in 2012.”

In a blow to Democrats, Senator Jim Webb, seen in 2009, is not seeking a second term.

The announcement is a disappointment to Democrats and a blow to President Obama and Tim Kaine, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who had urged Mr.

Webb, in his first term, to run again.

There had been rumblings for weeks that Mr. Webb — a former Navy secretary who was once a Republican — would choose not to continue in the Senate.

But Mr. Webb and his staff had remained tight-lipped.

Webb In his statement, Mr. Webb cited his work on a G.I. bill, changes to the criminal justice system and efforts to improve relations with southeast Asia as accomplishments he was proud of.

“Notwithstanding this decision, I have every intention of remaining involved in the issues that affect the well being and the future of our country,” Mr. Webb said.

Mr. Webb defeated Mr. Allen in 2006 in a race perhaps best remembered for an incident in which Mr. Allen, then the incumbent, was caught on videotape calling a young Democratic operative of Indian descent “macaca.”

That controversy helped Mr. Webb win a narrow victory and ended Mr. Allen’s hopes of competing for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. But last month, Mr. Allen announced plans to challenge Mr. Webb to reclaim his seat.

Mr. Allen now faces a challenge from a Tea Party activist, Jamie Radtke, for the Republican nomination.

New York congressman resigns over shirtless photo

BY RAYMOND HERNANDEZ THE NEW YORK TIMES

Representative Chris Lee of New York, caught in the midst of a scandal involving a shirtless photo he reportedly e-mailed to a woman, has stepped down, according to a senior Congressional official.

Mr. Lee, a Republican who is married, notified the Republican Speaker of the House of his decision in a letter he sent this afternoon after the scandal erupted.

Mr. Lee’s office released a statement late Wednesday in which the he asks for forgiveness. “I regret the harm that my actions have caused my family, my staff and my constituents,’’ he said. “I deeply and sincerely apologize to them all. I have made profound mistakes and I promise to work as hard as I can to seek their forgiveness.’’

Mr. Lee won his district, located in the western New York region, in 2008, when he ran in place of Thomas Reynolds, who announced his retirement.

Last year, another New York Congressman, Eric J. Massa, a Democrat, resigned amid accusations that he had groped a male aide.

Mr. Lee’s decision to step down came after a photo of him without a shirt appeared on Gawker along with e-mail exchanges that

Representative Christopher Lee, the Republican from New York, in 2009, and in a photo he sent in response to a Craigslist ad obtained by Gawker. (Left, Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly, via Getty Images; Gawker.com/ New York Times)

reportedly took place between him and a woman who had placed a personal notice in the “women seeking men” section of Craigslist.

In one of the e-mails, Mr. Lee describes himself as a lobbyist who is a “fit fun,

classy guy.”

Mr. Lee also tells the woman that he is divorced.

When the woman asks him if he routinely sends shirtless photos of himself, Mr. Lee responds, “Sorry, it’s all I had.”

Portland explores changes to recycling, heavy item pick-up policies The city might re-launch the popular heavy-item pick up program and implement a pilot recycling program in two neighborhoods in an effort to boost recycling and prevent furniture from languishing on curb sides, the Portland Forecaster is reporting.

These proposals emerged from the city’s Solid Waste Task Force, which is looking at ways to improve trash and recycling services.

The proposal involving heavy-item pick up would have residents call the city to

come get any heavy furniture on trash day, instead of requiring the resident to haul the item to the city’s dump on Riverside Street, the paper said. The city could charge about $5 for that service.

The pilot program involving recycling is modeled closely on program in Portsmouth, N.H., in which multiple apartment units share larger, 96-gallon, recycling bins instead of every unit having its own bins, the Forecaster reported. A city official involved with the task force told the Forecaster that the larger bins could hold more recyclables

and potentially reduce litter by having fewer open bins on the curb each week.

City officials say the recycling program, which would be launched in the West End and Capisic Street neighborhoods, could cost around $192,000. The Forecaster reported that the bins cost $55 each and that about 3,500 would be needed for the trial. These and other policies must still be approved by the city council to take effect, although the Forecaster noted that several issues must still be resolved with both proposals.

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Thursday, February 10, 2011— Page 3

Conservative policy center says Maine turnpike’s budget bloated Maine Heritage Policy Center, a conservative think tank, says wage and benefit increases for employees at the state turnpike authority are increasing much faster than private sector workers.

In a recent report, the think tank says Maine Turnpike Authority’s payroll grew by 72 percent over the past 12 years, and that more than 75 employees at the 470-person agency earned more than $80,000

last year in pay and benefits, the Associated Press reports. That compares with a 46 percent increase in pay and benefits for private sector employees.

A turnpike spokesperson told AP that the figures were misleading, because they also factored in retirement and health benefits. The spokesperson said only 10 people at the agency earned more than $80,000 last year in pay alone.

‘We need one set of rules we obey,’ says Maine Restaurant Association president TIPS from page one

The bill was referred to the House Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development on Feb. 1.

Added in 2007 Maine’s minimum wage law in 2007, the contested language is aimed at preventing restaurant owners from claiming ownership of wait staff gratuities, stating that “a tip is the sole property of the tipped employee.”

“As soon as they see that’s taken out, they freak, but that’s not the whole story. The same language appears in federal law and the average serve is not going to know any difference if this passes or doesn’t pass,” said Grotton.

In committee testimony documents, former director of the department’s Labor Standards Bureau William Peabody said that the department had been in the position of suing restaurant owners for withholding tips, suggesting that the 2007 amendment would help the department enforce federal regulations.

“Someone in the Maine legislature went a little overboard [in 2007].

They toyed with this bill and just made it more difficult for operators,” said Steve DiMillo, owner of DiMillo’s Floating Restaurant on Long Wharf.

DiMillo supports LD 207, saying that a clarification in the law is long overdue.

“I support it because it puts us in line with federal laws governing tips and there has been so much confusion in our industry over service charges and tips,” he said.

Grotton, whose MRA lobbied lawmakers on the 2007 amendment, said the bill is aimed at clarifying the doling out of tips for restaurant owners often find themselves caught in the legal grey area between federal and state regulations.

“The issue is a legal one. Do we obey federal law or do we obey state law?

The laws are in direct conflict and it causes great confusion,” he said. “At any time, half of Maine restaurants are in violation of state law, and half are in violation of federal law,” said Grotton.

Currently Maine law allows wait staff to decide collectively whether they want to pool tips, but Grotton said the system is fraught with problems. “It means we must have signed

statements from every employee saying they abide a voluntary tip pool.

The problem is that what’s voluntary for someone right now, they get upset and two weeks from now you have no program,” he said.

“We need consistency, we need one set of rules we obey and this is a duplication of federal law,” said Grotton.

But District 120 Rep. Diane Russell said sponsors of the bill are cutting too wide of a legislative swath with their proposed text amendment. “I’m not opposed to clarifying the language, but I don’t think clarifying involves doing away with it,” said Russell.

“They could have gone in and prescriptively addressed the issue, but instead they went right after minimum wage laws. If we need clarity let’s get clarity, but what they did was throw a hatchet at the job and told us they carved it out with a scalpel,” said Russell, who penned an editorial on the issue for the Huffington Post on Wednesday.

There exists a delicate balance in restaurants between owners and wait staff, said Russell, one which the legislature should not disrupt if Portland hopes to continue garnering it’s recent “foodiest city” accolades.

“There is a magical balance for Portland being a foodie’s city, that’s not just about cuisine, but also servers who take great pride in the food and build an experience for people “Chef, owners, front of the house, it all needs to balance. When you shift the balance they’re just going to earn minimum wage – it’s not going to incentivize good work or make them want to provide exceptional service,” she said.

As the face of the business, restaurant would be wise to keep their wait staff happy, said Russell. “Servers are the backbone of industry. You go to a place like five fifty-five and those servers are on top of everything, it’s like a dance, my wine glass was never empty and I never remember them filling it,” she said.

Russell said she is concerned about a bill that would affect a workforce which typically doesn’t make minimum wage and depends on tips for a portion of their earnings.

“What does this say to our restaurant workforce? That we’re not willing to stand up for their rights? That doesn’t hold water, or wine for that matter,” she said.

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Ideology vs. the national interest When a nation fights for its life, ideology goes by the board.

Gen. Washington danced a jig when he heard King Louis XVI had become a fighting ally in our Revolutionary War against the Mother of Parliaments.

In our Civil War, Abraham Lincoln made himself a dictator, closing newspapers, suspending habeas corpus, and locking up editors and legislators.

Woodrow Wilson went to war to “to make the world safe for democracy” alongside five of the most rapacious empires on earth: the British, French, Russian, Italian and Japanese.

During World War II, our ally that did most of the fighting and dying was the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin.

––––– During the Cold War, America Creators welcomed as allies Chiang KaiSyndicate shek, Salazar, Franco, Diem, Somoza, the Shah, Suharto, Syngman Rhee, Korean generals, Greek colonels, militarists in Brazil, Argentina, Turkey and Pakistan, and Marcos and Pinochet.

But with the end of the Cold War and the coming of George W. Bush, America set aside a national interest-based foreign policy for a policy rooted in ideology, political religion. Not until the world is

Pat Buchanan

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Burn notice on fireworks You have to hand it to the Maine Legislature some times.

Occasionally, they show good timing on issues of social import.

Unfortunately, this week was not one of those times.

With a sense of comedic timing second only to Mel Brooks and the entire cast of Monty Python combined into one funny superentity, the Maine Legislature decided to take up an “Emergency” bill to legalize fireworks in Maine.

The logic behind emergency legislation is simple. We need to pass this particular law now, in order to have an effect in time for some other thing that is happening down the road. The Legislature wants to pass new rules legalizing certain fireworks here in Maine, just in time so they can be sold for July 4th by all the various and sundry tourist traps across this fair state.

One Portland firefighter got more than a little warm when he heard about it this week. This just happens to be ... wait for it ... wait for it ... the Portland Firefighters Children’s Burn Foundation “Burn Awareness Week.”

Dave Petrucelli, an old friend of mine, is a member of the department and of the foundation. When he had heard that

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist there were hearings scheduled this week, he started a slow burn of his own. On hearing that the governor had decided to “ask” (translate that into “TELL”) the State Fire Marshal not to attend and give testimony to the Legislature, the reaction was something similar to that found in certain New Mexico atomic testing sites.

“I might have this wrong but ... the legislature’s rationale for legalizing fireworks now means that if some of my friends decide to play kickball in the passing lane on the turnpike, it’s okay for me to play too!!!”

The State Fire Marshal could have provided valuable information. According to information published by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, 40 percent of the fireworks accidents involved children under the age of 15. There were 1,400 Finger Injuries, 1,000 eye injuries, and 900 leg injuries.

That is a lot of people, far too many to hold the nickname “Lefty.”

But instead, the fire marshal’s voice was muted in the name of commerce. Our Legislators didn’t need to hear all that scary stuff, they just needed to hear about the financial impact passing this emergency legislation would have.

The bill’s sponsor, Bangor Rep. Douglas Damon, pointed out that the same kinds of fireworks that are illegal here in Maine are sold just across the border in New Hampshire. Accounting for over $8 million in sales last year, he pointed out that Maine was missing out on a source of potential revenue.

So let’s get out the sharp pencil and break it down. Maine’s sales tax is 5 percent. That comes to about $400,000 in potential revenue, one quarter of which must go directly into the general fund.

That’s $100,000 to you and me.

And what of the other $300K? The ball goes over the fence, the crowd goes wild, and nobody ever bothered to ask about it. Gotta love our legislative sensibility, and the consideration of getting more bang for the buck. see HIGGINS page 5

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Who says an (immigration) compact can’t be exciting?

Hey, just like those Super Bowl ads asked: Who says a compact can’t be exciting?

Well, brace yourself because the “Utah Compact” pro-immigration movement is headed to Maine.

The Maine Civil Liberties Union and several high-profile business leaders are planning a morning press conference today for announcing signatures on the “Maine Compact,” modeled after a Utah project that was seen as countering Arizona’s law engaging local police in citizenship issues.

A key to the Utah Compact approach is that it “removes” local police from the immigration issue, nearly entirely.

Instead, supporters of the approach argue, immigration is a federal issue and should be handed by national law enforcement officers.

While the “compact” has been copied across the country in various forms, it’s not exactly the stuff of headlinegrabbing video.

But the New York Times, in an editorial last December, said that “... a clearer expression of good sense and sanity than Utah’s would be hard to find. It [the Utah Compact] says immi-

Curtis Robinson ––––– Usually Reserved gration is an issue between the federal government and other countries — ‘not Utah and other countries.’ It says local police agencies should focus on fighting crime, ‘not civil violations of federal code.’ Because ‘strong families are the foundation of successful communities,’ it opposes policies that unnecessarily separate them. It recognizes immigrants’ value as workers and taxpayers.”

That’s a strong endorsement from the nation’s paper of record, although it’s easy to cringe when an editorial praising gentle expression identifies supporters of the opposing view as engaging in “xenophobic radicalism.”

The Compact movement gained support in Utah, with the NYT reporting that its 6,000 or so signers include the mayors of Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County, the state attorney gen-

eral, two Republican former governors, a former United States senator, and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, the Chamber of Commerce and a host of other civic groups and citizens. The prominent and powerful Mormon Church did not sign on but issued a “statement of support.”

There is little doubt that Maine’s immigration debate will eventually be carried out with a dignity usually reserved for WWF Cage Matches. Any such doubt may have been erased when newly elected Gov. Paul LePage immediately switched a state rule that agencies could not inquire about residency status in connection with benefits.

In announcing the press conference today, the state Civil Liberties Union said that the business leaders “... have jointly signed a ‘Maine Compact’ calling on fellow business leaders to join them in promoting a different approach to the immigration debate.”

Some of the businessmen signing the document were identified as Barber Foods President and CEO David Barber, Adam Lee of Lee Auto Malls, Dr. Jacob Gerritsen and John

M.R. Paterson, an attorney at the Bernstein Shur law firm who was recently elected president of the Maine Civil Liberties Union. Not a bad smattering, especially when you consider the longtime involvement of the Lee family in progressive politics.

It’s a significant milestone in the state immigration debate, and Maine will add to the national discussion. As a newly discovered “swing state,” it’s a sure bet that activists will make sure to inject their points into the discussion.

But it’s worth remembering that the Utah Compact is described as focusing on five points, including “leaving immigration reform to the federal government; recognizing the impact illegal immigration has on families, society and the economy; and keeping local law enforcement out of the equation.”

The middle issues are easy, the first and last are fighting words among many.

(Curtis Robinson is editor of The Portland Daily Sun. Contact him at curtis@portlanddailysun.me.)

Egypt may become more supportive of Iran, not the U.S. BUCHANAN from page 4

democratic, said Bush, can America be secure. We must “end tyranny in our world.”

“The requirements of freedom apply fully to the entire Islamic world,” said Bush in 2002. At the National Endowment for Democracy, he listed the “essential principles common to every successful society, in every culture.”

“Successful societies limit the power of the state and the power of the military — so that governments respond to the will of the people, and not the will of an elite.”

Comes now the acid test of democratist ideology.

Hosni Mubarak has been a loyal ally. He kept the peace with Israel and helped keep weapons out of Gaza. He fought beside us in Desert Storm and stands with us in the War on Terror. But he is also an autocrat who rules a regime where state and army are virtually one and where the opposition is squelched, when it is not imprisoned.

If a democratic Egypt is America’s goal, we will push for the removal of Mubarak, for the army to go back to the barracks, and for parliamentary and presidential elections where all parties participate.

But before we do this, we should be on notice what a democratic Egypt, where the government reflects the will of the people, may look like. According to the most recent Pew Research Center poll.

• Twice as many Egyptians identify themselves as Muslim fundamentalists as identify themselves

as “modernizers.”

• By 95 to 2, Egyptians believe Islam should play a large role in Egyptian politics.

• While 48 percent of Egyptians say suicide bombings are never justified, 32 percent say “rarely,” 12 percent say “sometimes,” and 8 percent say suicide bombings are “often” justified. Half the people of Egypt believe there are times a suicide bomb is the right answer.

• Half of all Egyptians have a favorable view of Hamas, and one in five has a favorable view of alQaida.

• Three in four Egyptians believe cutting off the hand of a thief is proper punishment. Four in five favor stoning adulterers to death. And 84 percent favor executing Muslim converts to Christianity.

• Eighty-two percent of Egyptians regard the United States unfavorably, and 48 percent rate America “very unfavorably.”

• In a Zogby poll in 2010, 90 percent of Egyptians named the United States and Israel as threats, 86 percent said Iran had a right to pursue nuclear weapons, and 77 percent thought it would be a good thing if Tehran got the bomb.

Thus, if free and fair elections are held and the new government of Egypt, in Bush’s words, responds “to the will of the people, and not the will of an elite,” Egypt will become more Islamic, more hostile to us and Israel, and more supportive of Iran.

If that is a likely result of free and fair elections in Egypt, why does the U.S. government favor free

and fair elections in Egypt? And if democracy in the Middle East could get us kicked out of the Middle East, why do U.S. policy-makers favor democracy in the Middle East?

Does the U.S. government believe what it professes to believe?

Would we support a “million man march” in Riyadh, as President Obama did in Cairo? Will we call for elections in Bahrain, where a Sunni king rules a Shia-majority statelet and the U.S. Fifth Fleet is anchored?

Not one of our Arab allies is a democracy. Should they all, as Mubarak has been told by Obama to do, prepare for a “transition”?

Across the Middle East in the last decade, we lost 6,000 soldiers and spent hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet we have never been more disliked, more reviled, more hated in that part of the world.

If the advancement of our democratic ideals imperils what the U.S. government says are our vital interests, is there not something fundamentally wrong with our Middle East policy?

Why keep borrowing untold billions from China, putting America’s children eternally in debt, to pursue a policy in the Arab world that has made this once-admired nation thoroughly detested across the Arab world?

(To find out more about Patrick Buchanan, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators. com.)

Let’s crunch the numbers on what this law would save Maine HIGGINS from page 4

Proponents of the bill claim that this is about business and regulation, that we should be as free in Maine to do what some other knuckle-headed legislature does. I like the freedom angle; it has a nice beat and you can dance to it. Municipalities under the new bill would have the right to pass local ordinances to prohibit sales of fireworks, but by the time that gets done we’ll all be looking for long parkas and shovels again.

Initially, in a response to this news that came

from a report by MPBN, I suggested that the governor take that leftover $300k and visit the hospital bed of the first kid who is blinded or has a finger or hand blown off. He should calmly explain to the parents that “hey, this is Maine, and we are open for business.” That the missing appendage was superfluous, kind of like a vestigial tail, and the kid would probably be better off without it.

Though I wouldn’t really suggest that, unless I knew that the hospital had a spare bed available.

People who say such things to parents in shock tend to get punched in the snoot a lot.

A lot of the argument for fireworks is nonsensical at best. If properly used under adult supervision, fireworks are no more dangerous than sparklers.

But everybody forgets that last part about adult supervision.

Adults have a hard enough time supervising themselves in this state, evidence being on the weekly police blotter. Let’s not add to the number of folks nicknamed “Lefty.”

(Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun.)

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Police seize 135 pot plants from South Portland home Suspect reported four marijuana plants worth $15,000 were stolen from his yard

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A 37-year-old South Portland man faces a felony drug charge after police allegedly found more than 100 marijuana plants at his Harborview Avenue home yesterday, police said.

Brendann McGann was charged yesterday after officers executed a search warrant at his home, where they reported finding 135 marijuana plants, 2.1 pounds of processed marijuana, drug related food products, and records related to apparent drug transactions, South Portland police said in a news release.

McGann was summonsed for felony cultivation of marijuana and misdemeanor trafficking in marijuana. He is due in court in April, police said.

Police said they learned that McGann was growing marijuana at his home in October, when he reported four marijuana plants worth $15,000 were stolen from his backyard. At the time, he escaped arrest by telling South Portland police that he was a registered “primary caregiver” under the state’s medical marijuana laws — a designation that would have allowed him to grow marijuana legally.

No charges were ever brought in connection with that theft, police said, but during the course of that investigation officers witnessed “numerous” pot plants and harvested marijuana in McGann’s basement, the press release said. Police said it took until recently to determine that McGann was not a registered caregiver and therefore not allowed to grow pot.

“Based upon some of the issues and ambiguities the new (medical marijuana) law has raised in terms of enforcement, and after consultation with the prosecutor’s office and the Department of Health and

Human Services (DHHS), it was determined that no further action would be taken against McGann (related to his October report of missing marijuana plants),” Lt. Frank Clark said in a news release.

“The final DHHS rules related to the medical use of marijuana in Maine have since gone into effect.

During the course of this investigation, McGann was determined to not be a registered primary caregiver, ultimately allowing for the enforcement action taken today,” Clark continued.

Under the revised rules for medical marijuana in Maine, registered medical marijuana patients who do not designate a caregiver can possess up to 2.5 ounces of prepared pot and grow up to six plants for personal use. Registered primary caregivers can grow up to six plants for five registered patients that have name them as a primary caregiver, police said.

Clark said South Portland police will respect the new medical marijuana rules but will continue to investigate any possible drug activity.

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“I am a huge advocate of one day getting a cell phone law like other states have acquired,” Navarro wrote in an email message to The Portland Daily Sun. “I guess the message we are trying to send is that ‘no text message is worth another person’s life.’

I could have just as easily been killed because of a cell phone and our department is trying to reach as many people as possible. I plan on speaking at a few high schools about the incident to help spread the

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— Rocco Navarro, South Portland police officer awareness. As far as my well being, it’s been a long road, and has been the biggest setback in my life.

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Navarro’s damaged car was displayed at the intersection of Broadway and the Casco Bay Bridge and also was sent to Portland High School and South Portland High School as an educational tool, Googins said. The cruiser, which was totaled in the crash, has since been crushed, Googins said.

The idea to display the car stemmed from an effort to reinforce the message that texting or calling while driving can lead to tragedy, Googins said.

“This was nearly a fatal crash involving one of our guys, so we felt it was important to put it out there,” Googins said.

Nationally 6,000 people die annually and over 500,000 injuries occur from distracted driving, according to figures from District 12 Maine Sen. Bill Diamond, D-Windham.

Diamond, who organized next week’s summit with AAA Northern New England, is sponsoring legislation that would ban texting while driving in Maine.

He will highlight his proposed ban during the summit, according to Pat Moody, director of public affairs for AAA Northern New England.

“We’ve got two things, obviously we’re concerned about distracted driving and the impacts it has on Maine motorists, but it’s also going to be an opportunity for Sen. Diamond to highlight some of the changes he’s seeking in the legislature,” Moody said of the summit.

“The goal of the Maine Distracted Driving Summit is to increase public awareness of the dangers of distracted driving,” Moody added in a press statement. “Unlike the social stigma surrounding drinking and driving, driving while texting, emailing or surfing the web aren’t perceived as blatant behaviors despite overwhelming scientific evidence of the serious crash risk these behaviors pose.”

Diamond attended the National Distracted Driving Summit last fall in Washington, D.C., and reported that more states are taking action against distracted drivers.

“At last year’s conference, only seven states had adopted bans on texting while driving. Now, 30 states have banned texting while driving,” he reported.

An estimated 100 people are expected at next week’s summit in Portland, which Moody described as the first of its kind for the state.

Googins said distracted driving deserves attention.

“Distracted driving is something that is impacting far too many people in a negative way; it doesn’t take a whole lot of effort to realize if you’re not paying attention to your driving, the consequences can be very tragic, as we saw that day when Officer Rocco was struck,” he said.

To help raise awareness about his legislation, Diamond has launched a Facebook page titled, “Ban Texting While Driving in Maine.”

More information on the issue also can be found at www.distraction.gov.

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Mt. Abram goes way back to the future

BY MARTY BASCH SPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Time travel is possible.

First, consider the ticket. It comes with a metal wicket.

A skier or snowboarder then peels the adhesive back off the lift ticket, slips the wicket through the eye of a zipper on pants or jacket and then securely fastens the ticket to the wicket. Look at that ticket again. The date is scrawled in by hand with a retro black Magic Marker.

With the pass, it is time for the lift ride. As the dreamy classic rock band Pink Floyd Mt. Abram’s whimsical trail names add to its unassuming and sang on its’ epic “Dark Side retro air. (Marty Basch photo) of the Moon” record, “Welcome to the Machine.” The priced at $49. Mt. Abram also has a snug double chairlift is also a throwhealthy assortment of options and back as it takes its time up the face deals. Thursdays are two-for-one and of the 44-trail mountain with its gloriFridays are $75 a carload. It’s free ous western Maine vistas. It is aptly if you’re new (5 and under) or wellnamed “The Way Back Machine,” seasoned (80-plus). The $30 Westside an intentional reference to the time only pass is a boon for those wanting machine used by bespectacled cartoon to take it easy. characters Mr. Peabody (a white dog) Mt. Abram might not appeal to and Sherman (his youthful boy comthose who need buffed super highpanion) in “The Rocky and Bullwinkle ways of snow or fast-flying high-speed Show.” detachable lift service. When the Greenwood’s 50-year-old Mt. Abram snow’s blissful, the sun’s shining and oozes nostalgia with an unassuming the sky’s a brilliant blue, who wants air. There are narrow winding trails to ride a slow lift? A high speed at Mt. linking spacious groomers. No high Abram is probably a waste of money speed lifts are found, but a t-bar is. anyway. It doesn’t need it.

The trails are named after those carKids though, no matter the age, will toon characters: Bullwinkle, Dudley find a home at Mt. Abram. The small Do Right, Boris Badenov, etc. base lodge with cafeteria food service But Mt. Abram is also a very realand a retail shop also contains the istic and somewhat progressive place.

Loose Boots Lounge with live music Kind of a fearless leader. Except on the weekends and friendly folks during holiday periods, it operates on from both home and away. a Thursday through Sunday schedAfter all, why travel if you’re not ule — a nod to the fact that non-holgoing to have a good time. iday early midweek is a quiet time in ••• the snow business. Olympian Julie Monument Square will be hopParisien and long-time high school ping with rails and more during the and college coach Tim LaVallee (Telthird annual Downtown Showdown star High saw four Maine state chamFriday night hosted by Sunday River pionships under his tutelage way back and Sugarloaf. The event starts at in the ‘70s) are leading a race program 5 p.m. with an hour-long final jam at the mountain. The sequestered starting at 6 p.m.

Westside area with its three ways Sunday’s third annual Maine Huts down is a welcome respite for lower Classic Marathon Tour and Race has skilled skiers and riders looking to skiers in the Carrabassett Valley skiing learn in a welcoming neighborhood. distances of 20, 40 or 60 kilometers.

On the other end of the spectrum, if Think you can make a love connecyou see it you can ski it as the hill tion during an eight-minute chairlift has a boundary to boundary policy for ride? Saddleback is hosting chairlift those who like to venture beyond corspeed dating on Valentine’s Day when duroy of the family-centric ski area. for a $25 lift ticket single women And on Wednesdays, free-heelers can and men ride the double chair to see skin up select portions of the mounif they are compatible. Saturday is tain for free. the 7-mile, 1,800-vertical-feet third There’s more to the 1,150 verticalannual Saddleback Mountain Chaldrop mountain than what is apparent. lenge where skiers free-heel up from a Both black diamond Fearless Leader marathon start to race down. and Boris have respectable steep Friday is Ladies Day at Shawpitches while Dudley’s sports a wide nee Peak with $34 lift tickets for the open section before handing off to the ladies. Squeeze together on Valenterrain park. Mellow out by combintine’s Day and take advantage of the ing Upper and Lower Easy Rider but $79 Carload Day. pick it up for the short but sweet alleylike expert Lallypalooza off Sweeper.

(Marty Basch can be reached Plus the lift tickets are reasonably through www.onetankaway.com.)

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Love In The SUN

Out of tragedy, couple cultivates happiness

BY JEFFREY S. SPOFFORD SPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The promotion team behind the Rebel Roots series of music festivals and other Portland area rock shows were almost destined to become

slaves of the cubicle under the glow of fluorescent lights, working for a greeting card company, until they were asked by Nancy Chalmers at Chicky’s in Westbrook to help promote a rock show. Due in large part to their efforts,

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They first came together on Myspace.

“I used to go boyfriend shopping,” says Olivia. She was looking for someone with similar interests and “If it happened to be a cute boy, then, okay!”

She found Graham’s profile and after a brief messaging period met at the old Casco Bay Coffee Shop. Graham had to leave after only a short time for work, and poised to give Olivia a high five, to which Olivia thought “What!,” and kissed him instead.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

There’s a tricky balance between being a soft touch, an overall nice and sweet person, and being a pushover who can’t get respect. You achieve that balance today.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You are so comfortable in your own skin now that you may choose to wear something that gives your physical presence more magnetism. You’ll get attention for this and will enjoy every bit of it.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 10).

You attract a multitude of pleasant circumstances this year. New friends and colleagues come into your world in the next seven weeks. Lofty goals become realistic as you create a solid plan in March. April brings the resolution of an ongoing matter and a financial bonus, too. You’ll travel in July. Aries and Leo people will be an uplifting presence.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Some of the people around you are stressed but not unhappy. Some kinds of stress actually help your situation. Look deeper and you’ll find that everything is not what it seems.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There are still a few changes you’d like to make around your domestic realm. You can’t take it all on at once, but if you make a list, prioritize and focus on one thing at a time, you will make progress by the end of the day.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You are happy to answer any question people want to ask you, as long as it’s not about you. You’re in a private mood, and the mysterious aura around you makes someone want to know you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There are plenty of people who offer up possible solutions. Be careful who you listen to.

Do not take advice from anyone who hasn’t actually accomplished the thing you want to accomplish.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You have the gift of gab. Furthermore, you know how to fit in with people with whom you have very little in common.

You will skillfully schmooze your way into a sweet situation.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Thursday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2011. There are 324 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 10, 1949, Arthur Miller’s play “Death of a Salesman” opened at Broadway’s Morosco Theater with Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman.

On this date: In 1763, Britain, Spain and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years’ War. In 1841, Upper Canada and Lower Canada were proclaimed united under an Act of Union passed by the British Parliament.

In 1942, the former French liner Normandie capsized in New York Harbor a day after it caught fire while being refitted for the U.S. Navy.

In 1959, a major tornado tore through the St. Louis, Mo., area, killing 21 people and causing heavy damage.

In 1962, the Soviet Union exchanged captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.

In 1967, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, was ratified as Minnesota and Nevada adopted it.

In 1968, U.S. figure skater Peggy Fleming won America’s only gold medal of the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France.

In 1981, eight people were killed when a fire set by a busboy broke out at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino.

In 2005, playwright Arthur Miller died in Roxbury, Conn., at age 89 on the 56th anniversary of the Broadway opening of his “Death of a Salesman.”

One year ago: Shuttle Endeavour arrived to a warm welcome at the International Space Station, delivering a new room and observation deck.

Today’s Birthdays: Opera singer Leontyne Price is 84. Actor Robert Wagner is 81.

Rock musician Don Wilson (The Ventures) is 78. Singer Roberta Flack is 74. Singer Jimmy Merchant (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers) is 71. Rock musician Bob Spalding (The Ventures) is 64. Olympic gold-medal swimmer Mark Spitz is 61. Walt Disney Co. president and chief executive Robert Iger is 60. World Golf Hall of Famer Greg Norman is 56. Country singer Lionel Cartwright is 51. Movie director Alexander Payne is 50.

ABC News correspondent George Stephanopoulos is 50. Political commentator Glenn Beck is 47. Actress Laura Dern is 44.

Country singer Dude Mowrey is 39. Actress Elizabeth Banks is 37. Pop singer Rosanna Taverez (Eden’s Crush) is 34. Country musician Jeremy Baxter (Carolina Rain) is 31.

Rock singer Eric Dill is 29. Rock musician Ben Romans (The Click Five) is 29. Actress Emma Roberts is 20. Actress Makenzie Vega is 17. Actress Chloe Moretz is 14.

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Man found dead in local apartment Authorities say a man was found dead in a Congress Street apartment yesterday afternoon, but that there were no immediate signs of foul play, the Portland Press Herald reports.

Portland police were called to the apartment, located near Bramhall Square, at about 3 p.m. yesterday, the paper said. Information about possible cause of death and the man’s identity were not immediately available.

Police ID man found dead in Bayside Authorities say the man found dead Monday morning on Oxford Street in Portland’s Bayside neighborhood was 39-year-old David S. Ring, the Portland Press Herald is reporting.

The paper says an autopsy conducted Tuesday

came back inconclusive for a cause of death, and that the State Medical Examiner’s office is awaiting the results of a blood test.

Investigators say there are no signs of foul play, the paper reported.

Body found at site of Readfield fire READFIELD — A Maine state police spokesman says authorities found a dead body in the rubble of a house fire early this morning in Readfield, a community of 2,500 people roughly 12 miles from Augusta.

Steve McCausland said fire investigators found the body late this morning while searching the burnt out two-story home on Church Road. McCausland said a neighbor reported the fire, which drew firefighters from six communities, yesterday morning at about 3:30 a.m.

State police officers were on scene yesterday

afternoon to help firefighters examine the rubble.

McCausland said the house was occupied by five people and that as of yesterday afternoon only two had been accounted for.

Anyone with information about the fire or the occupants of the house are asked to call State Police in Augusta at 624-7076.

‘Maine Compact’ to be unveiled today A group of Maine business leaders will call today for a “more sensible and civil approach to immigration policy” during a press event at the Cumberland Club, 116 High St., organizers reported.

At 11 a.m., the business leaders will announce they have jointly signed a “Maine Compact” calling on fellow business leaders to join them in promoting a different approach to the immigration debate. The Compact is modeled after a Utah effort.

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“Justin” lied about completing his college education and was unemployed for the first six months we were together.

He told me he was applying for jobs, but in reality, he spent his days playing video games and eating junk food. Justin finally found part-time minimum-wage employment, but I still do the cleaning, bill-paying and cooking despite working 50 hours a week compared to his 20. I have asked, begged and nagged him to help more, but he refuses to lift a finger. When I insist, he whines and takes an hour to do a 20-minute task.

Justin suffers from depression. Whenever I bring up the idea of an amicable separation, he either becomes enraged and throws the furniture, or dissolves into a sobbing mess and threatens suicide. I, too, have fought and won my own battle with depression through therapy, medication and a wonderful support network. I feel the need to provide a stable environment for Justin, but he refuses to seek treatment.

If I leave him, I am terrified he will harm himself. Justin’s parents are less than sympathetic, and he cannot support himself. I have moved into the second bedroom, and we haven’t had sex for months. Justin insists we are married and everything is fine. Our friends and family have no clue that it’s not legal and our relationship is in shambles. We live in a small religious community. A messy breakup could cost me my career.

Please help. -- Cornered in Kansas Dear Kansas: As much as you want to help Justin, you are not responsible for his mental health or his unwillingness to seek treatment. At some point, his dependence is self-destructive to both of you. You could tell him you will consider staying if he gets therapy immediately. But also talk to your local

clergyperson about your “marriage.” Kansas recognizes common-law marriages, and you could, in fact, be legally bound to Justin. If walking out is not possible, you may need to file the legal paperwork and then get an actual divorce or have the marriage annulled.

Dear Annie: I am a divorced mother of two college-age girls.

Over the years, their father hasn’t bothered to have much contact with them.

The problem is, in the past two years, we have received a picture at Christmas of his four little girls by his second wife.

This really hurts my daughters’ feelings and just makes me mad. It’s like he is throwing his new family in our faces. It even says “Merry Christmas from the family.” Do you think this is right? -- Disgusted in Penn.

Dear Disgusted: It is extremely insensitive, but we don’t believe Dad is trying to be deliberately hurtful. And his wife is likely the one who is doing a mass mailing without considering the recipients. Let your ex know that you appreciate his effort to stay in touch with his children, but ask that he please not send the photograph because it makes them terribly unhappy. We hope he cares enough to do something about it.

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I followed your readers’ suggestions. I bought zinc supplements and immediately started taking them. It didn’t seem to help, and then I saw a later column and tried apple cider vinegar. There were days the vinegar stung so severely that I gave up that plan in less than a week. However, by that time, the zinc had taken effect. I am now a very happy camper. Sincere thanks to you and your readers for solving an embarrassing problem when my dermatologist could not. -- Smelling Better Dear Better: Thanks for letting us know. We love the way our readers look out for one another.

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Thursday, Feb. 10 A City Life with Joe Gray 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Portland City Manager Joe Gray will be retiring after over 40 years of public service and the last 10 years as City Manager. He will reflect on the significant changes made during his tenure and outline the most difficult challenges Portland will face in the future; at Eggs and Issues, by the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce. Networking: 7 a.m. Breakfast 7:30 a.m. Program at 8 a.m. Holiday Inn By the Bay, Portland; $17 members/$27 non-members; call 772-2811. www.portlandregion.com

Wisdom At Work Series noon to 1 p.m. Portland Public Library is hosting a four-part series on work each Thursday in February in Rines Auditorium. The series is sponsored by Heart At Work Career Counseling and Amy Wood, Success Strategist. The second in the series is titled “Boost Your Emotional Intelligence to Attract Success,” presented by Amy Wood, PsyD. The public is invited to this free series. Heart At Work Career Counseling, Outplacement Services & Second Half of Life Planning, 25 Middle St. 775-6400.

‘My Israel — Revisiting the Trilogy’ 7 p.m. College of the Atlantic will be screening Yulie Cohen’s most recent film, “My Israel — Revisiting the Trilogy,” in the college’s Gates Community Center.

The 78-minute film will be followed by a talk by the director, who will be present. “In 1978 Yulie Cohen was an El Al crewmember on her first flight. Upon arriving in Britain, she boarded an El Al bus along with her colleagues and headed for London-only to be ambushed by two Palestinians. A crewmember died; others were seriously injured. Shrapnel flew into Cohen’s arm. One of the Palestinians also died; the other received four concurrent life sentences. The attack propelled Cohen into reflection, reconsideration, and a life of filmmaking.” Gates Community Center at College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor, nandrews@coa.edu or 2885015. Free.

generations are drawn together by their patriarch, played by Academy Award Nominee Robert Loggia.

With endearing moments of humor and uplifting spirit, Harvest is a portrait of a family awkwardly yet delicately hanging on to what was, what now is, and to one another. A superb ensemble cast, including Tony Winner Victoria Clark, Arye Gross, newcomer Jack Carpenter, and featuring Academy Award Nominee Barbara Barrie tugs on heartstrings and reminds us of a love that can weather all storms in this poignant yet amusing story.

Harvest brings to mind how we all come of age, in our own stumbling yet loving ways, often again and again.”

Art with Heart Hootenanny 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Art with Heart Hootenanny — Silent Auction benefit for Mayo Street Arts. Over 100 items of art, goods, and services up for auction. Live music

by The Hi-Tides. Snow date Feb. 12.

‘Topkapi’ 7 p.m. St. Mary’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 43 Foreside Road, Falmouth. St. Mary’s invites all its neighbors to view selected film classics on the big screen in the Parish Hall on the second Friday of each month at 7 p.m., directly following the free “Souper Supper” that evening. The feature of the evening will be “Topkapi” (1964). “A small time con-man with passport problem gets mixed up with a gang of world-class jewelry thieves plotting to rob the Topkapi museum in Istanbul. Starring Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov, and Robert Morley.”

Admission is free. FMI: 781-3366.

Fun-A-Day art show

7 p.m. The Apohadion, 107 Hanover St., Portland, presents this free art display. “Participants choose a project and produce one piece of artwork every day for the entire month of January. The 31 resulting pieces create a narrative outlining each artist’s journey through the first month of the year. Projects vary from lighthearted to serious, high-brow to low-brow.

This year’s list of mediums includes photos, drawings, haircuts, comics, dances and more!” The Fun-A-Day show will be held at The Apohadion, 107 Hanover St. in Portland. (note: participants in the show can drop their work off at the Apohadion during designated hours the week of the show--see www.artclash.com Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mousetrap’ at PHS 7 p.m. “Despite all of the budget cuts, especially Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be routine. Just stay away from the death rays. New for exact times.) The show is free and all-ages and will in the Arts, a dedicated group of students is staging Valentine design by Alternate Histories! featured at The Green Hand bookstore, 661 feature performances on opening night.

Congress St. Art by Matthew Buchholz.

(COURTESY IMAGE) Portland High School’s 2011 play.” Thursday, Feb. 10 Open Mic/Poetry Slam in Auburn and Friday, Feb. 11 at Portland High School Theater/ 7:15 p.m. The Pleasant Note Coffeehouse presents Jim McCue performs at Comedy Connection Auditorium. “It is quite unusual for the school’s annual play to Open Mic/Poetry Slam at the First Universalist Church of 8:30 p.m. Half-price showcase hosted by weekend headbe student directed. Their choice this year is the world’s lonAuburn. “For almost five years, this free monthly event liner Jim McCue at the Portland Comedy Connection, 16 gest continously running professionally staged production (in draws people of all ages from the L/A community to share Custom House Wharf. Reservations: 774-5554. $7.50.

London since 1952). ... Everything is being done by the Drama the spirituality of song, music, spoken word and dance.

Schedule and information: www.mainecomedy.com. Box Club members.” Tickets: adults, $5; students and seniors, $3.

Refreshments and children’s room available.” First Univeroffice open Thurs.-Sat., noon to 10 p.m. salist Church is located at 169 Pleasant St. (enter on Spring Disney on Ice presents Princess Classics Street, across from Dairy Joy). Accessible. 783-0461 or www.

7 p.m. Disney on Ice. February 10 to Feb. 13, Thursday auburnuu.org.

Friday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m.; Friday at 7 p.m.; Saturday at 11:30 a.m., 3 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.; and Sunday at 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Germany’s Auryn Quartet at Bates Tickets: $55 (Front Row), $45 (VIP seats), $23.50, $18.50 Portland’s WinteRush kicks off 7:30 p.m. Germany’s Auryn Quartet, whose recordings of and $12.50. All seats reserved. Cumberland County Civic 5 p.m. The second annual WinteRush winter festival in the complete Beethoven string quartets were called “the Center. Opening night tickets $12 (excluding Front Row and Portland starts with the Downtown Showdown in Monuset to beat” by a reviewer for Gramophone, returns to Bates VIP seats). 775-3481, ext. 348 for details. www.theciviccenCollege to finish its three-year survey of the Beethoven ment Square. For a full schedule, visit www.winterush.com. ter.com/events cycle in performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Maine Children’s Cancer Program benefit Feb. 11-12, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 13, in the Olin Arts Thom Pain (based on nothing) by Will Eno 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. The Kiwanis Club of Scarborough is Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The ensemble also 7:30 p.m. Thom Pain (based on nothing) by Will Eno. Feb. selling tickets to its 12th annual fundraiser for the Maine offers an open rehearsal followed by a reception at 11:30 10-20. Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays at 8 Children’s Cancer Program. The event will take place at the a.m. on Feb. 12. Tickets for the performances cost $10/$4 p.m. and Sunday nights at 7 p.m. at Lucid Stage. Starring Pulse Ballroom Dance Studio in Scarborough on, from The and are available at www.batestickets.com. Attendance at James Hoban; directed by Adam Gutgsell. “Will Eno is a benefit is organized by Kiwanis each year and made possithe rehearsal is open to the public at no cost, but seating Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation ... To sum ble through voluntary donations from local businesses and is very limited and must be reserved by calling 786-6163. up the more or less indescribable: Thom Pain is at bottom ticket sales to the public. All net proceeds are donated to a surreal meditation on the empty promises life makes, the the Maine Children’s Cancer Program, organizers reported.

Slant Series — Session 2 at SPACE way experience never lives up to the weird and awesome A contribution of $25 per person or $175 for a table of eight 7:30 p.m. “Who, what, when, how, and why have you fact of being. But it is also, in its odd, bewitching beauty, includes an evening complete with live dance music by the longed for someone or something? On Friday, February an affirmation of life’s worth.” — Charles Isherwood, New Tony Boffa Band, showcase dancing, dance lessons, hors 11th, in honor of Valentine’s Day, The Telling Room will York Times. Ticket prices are $12 for adults and $10 for stud’ oeuvres and desserts along with a silent auction. Kiwanis try to answer that question as a series of writers, artists, dents/seniors. Purchase tickets online at www.LucidStage. of Scarborough continues its support for the MCCP, a and notable community members tell ten-minute stories com or by calling 899-3993. modern facility in Scarborough under the umbrella of the about longing to a live audience without notes or props.

Maine Medical Center and the Barbara Bush Children’s ... Storytellers will include Oscar Mokeme, the founder of Visiting Writers Series at UMF Hospital. Entering its 22nd year with over 800 children as the Museum of African Culture; Karen Morgan, a come7:30 p.m. University of Maine at Farmington’s notable part of its family, the MCCP continues to provide compredian who was a finalist for the Funniest Mom in AmerBachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program preshensive, clinical research-based medical care and support ica; Samuel James, a blues musician; Seth Rigoletti, a ents 2009 National Poetry Series winner Erika Meitner as to children with cancer throughout the state of Maine and former teacher and communication consultant; Taffy the first reader in its spring Visiting Writers Series. This free eastern New Hampshire. Tickets can be purchased at the Field, a writer, longtime teacher, and frequent contribuand open-to-the-public event will take place in The Landfollowing businesses: Ron Forest & Sons Fence Company, tor to Maine Public Radio and Monitor Radio; and Jefing in UMF’s Olsen Student Center, and will be followed by 354 Payne Road, Scarborough; Biddeford Savings Bank, frey Thomson, an award-winning poet and professor at a signing by the author. Recognized as “the new voice of 360 U.S. Route 1, Scarborough; and Pulse Dance Studio, the University of Maine at Farmington. The Slant Series intelligent and emotional poems,” Meitner was chosen as a 865 Spring St., Westbrook. Purchase tickets online at www. is inspired by The Moth, a live storytelling organization winner for the 2009 National Poetry Series for her second mmc.org/mccpdance. established in New York City in 1997 and featured on published work, “Ideal Cities” (HarperCollins, 2010). Her Maine Public Radio. A podcast of stories from the first first book, “Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore” (Anhinga ‘Harvest’ at the PMA Slant is available at www.tellingroom.org.” SPACE GalPress, 2003), won the 2002 Anhinga Prize for Poetry and 6:30 p.m. Portland Museum of Art Movies at the Museum lery. Free and open to all ages. was a finalist for the 2004 Paterson Poetry Prize. “Makeshift series features “Harvest” on Friday, Feb. 11, 6:30 p.m.; Instructions for Vigilant Girls,” her third book, will be out in Saturday, Feb. 12, 2 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 13, 2 p.m. NR. see next page February 2011.

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‘The Vagina Monologues’ at Bates College 7:30 p.m. For the 11th year, Bates College students are supporting efforts to reduce domestic violence with a production of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues,” in performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday through Sunday, Feb. 11-13, in Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall, 305 College St., Lewiston. Tickets are $5 and available at the door. Proceeds will go to Safe Voices, an Auburn nonprofit that supports victims of domestic violence. Formerly known as the Abused Women’s Advocacy Project, the organization changed its name to emphasize its gender-neutral mission. The play is produced by the Robinson Players, a student-run theater group. This year’s show debuts the directing skills of Marketa Ort ‘13 of New York City. Ort has done much acting at Bates, including the 2010 production of “Vagina Monologues” and theater department productions of “All the World’s a Grave” and “Fuddy Meers.” For more information about this production, please contact srooth@bates.edu.

‘Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love’ 8 p.m. “Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love” an adult comedy about love, sex and relationships. February 11-27, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m.

All seats $15. Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St. Box Office 773-0333, oldportplayhouse.com.

tion Weston: Leaves of Grass, join four distinctly different poets in the galleries at the Portland Museum of Art as they read their favorite Whitman poem from “Leaves of Grass,” paired with their own contemporary poems. Portland’s Poet Laureate Steve Lutrell, along with Russ Sargent, Meagan Grumbling and Michael MacKlin, will each read from this epic celebration of American life. The art exhibit runs from Dec. 30, 2010 through March 13, 2011. “In early 1941, Edward Weston was approached by the Limited Editions Club of New York and invited to make photographs to illustrate its deluxe edition of Walt Whitman’s epic poem ‘Leaves of Grass.’ Although he balked at the suggestion, the opportunity the project offered to travel cross-country and visit parts of the U.S. that were new to him convinced Weston to undertake it. This exhibition of 53 photographs

by Weston follows the route of his cross-country trip. The Whitman photographs, mostly made with a large 8x10 format camera, are exceptionally wide-ranging with particular emphasis on the man-altered landscape rather than images of untouched nature. The exhibition will feature images from the West, the South, the Mid-Atlantic and New England, including two images from Maine.” www.portlandmuseum.org

Improvisation workshop with Davis Robinson

8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Natural beekeeping class in Top Bar Hives. Two full days, Sat. and Sun., 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. Freeport Middle School, 19 Kendall Lane, Freeport. Gold Star Honeybees, 449-1121. Enroll online at www.goldstarhoneybees.com/shopdisplayproducts. asp?id=20&cat=Classes

1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Presented by Celebration Barn Theater at Lucid Stage. “This workshop will provide a sampling of the exciting and energetic improvisational work that Celebration Barn is famous for. Drawing on exercises from Tony Montanaro, Keith Johnstone, Jacque Lecoq, and his own work over the past 25 years with his company Beau Jest, Davis will help participants develop their own unique way of playing with props, places, and other people. Learn to be more spontaneous and confident while developing material in a supportive and creative atmosphere. Davis Robinson is an associate professor of theater at Bowdoin College, and former head of actor training at Emerson College in Boston. His book ‘The Physical Comedy Handbook’ was published by Heineman Press in 1999. He helps people develop their comic skills in colleges, repertory theaters, Motionfest, the Big Apple Circus Clown Care unit, and right here in Maine each summer.” Cost: $50. For More Info: www.CelebrationBarn.com. To register, call: (207) 743-8452 or email: Mandy@CelebrationBarn.com.

Spindleworks at Brunswick’s Winter Farmer’s Market

‘Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love’

Jim McCue and friends at the Comedy Connection 8:30 p.m. Founder of the Boston Comedy Festival Jim McCue with Carolyn Plummer & Kate Ghiloni. Tickets $15.

Portland Comedy Connection, 16 Custom House Wharf.

Also Saturday. Reservations: 774-5554. $7.50. Schedule and information: www.mainecomedy.com. Box office open Thurs.-Sat., noon to 10 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 12 Natural beekeeping class

9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Fort Andross, 14 Maine Street, Brunswick. “Spindleworks will be adding to the color and festivities of the day. Local artist and staff member Catherine Worthington will be at the Spindleworks booth with several of our artists and a selection of artwork from our center on Lincoln Street. We hope this will be the first of many occasions where we can bring a sampling from our store to this weekend venue. Stay tuned to our website (www.spindleworks.org) for more information on our Farmer’s Market appearances!”

Portland’s WinteRush PolarBear 5K 9 a.m. The second annual WinteRush winter festival in Portland moves to Deering Oaks Park for a number of fun activities for people of all ages to enjoy outdoors. The day begins with the PolarBear 5K sponsored by Tri-Maine at the East End Community School at 9 a.m. At 11 a.m., the Deering Oaks Park events will open to the public and at noon, those ready to brave the water will take the Maine Polar Plunge at the East End Beach to benefit Camp Sunshine. Families can try their hands at snow fort building, snow painting, and snowball fights with Portland Recreation and Healthy Portland staff. Kids can don a pair of snowshoes and walk through the pages of Snow Day! (illustrated by local artist Scott Nash) and for those more interested in spectator sports, attendees can vote for the best snowman for the 2nd Annual Neighborhood Organization Snowman Contest or check out teams as they create art out of snow for the Maine Snow Sculpting Contest. For a full schedule, visit www.winterush.com.

Third annual Valentine’s Brunch at the Parsonsfield Seminary 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Treat your Valentine to an elegant brunch at Parsonsfield Seminary (Snow date Sunday) $10-$5 (10 and under), 504 North Road Parsonsfield. FMI: (603) 539-5233 or 793-8519.

Valentine Tea and Book Sale

2 p.m. and 8 p.m. “Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love” an adult comedy about love, sex and relationships. February 11-27, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. All seats $15. Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St. Box Office 773-0333, oldportplayhouse.com.

Church of All God’s Children potluck supper 4:30 p.m. Church of All God’s Children potluck supper, Washington Gardens Community Hall, 66 Churchill St., Portland. $4 admission.

Roller Derby: Port Authorities vs. Queen City Roller Girls 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Happy Wheels; Hate the Love AfterParty at 9 p.m. at Empire Dine and Dance. Maine Roller Derby announces the 2011 Spring Season. Maine Roller Derby is excited to announce the 2011 Season, the league’s fifth season since inception in 2006. In the past, the season has been split (April-June and Aug-Oct). This year, the league is jamming seven home bouts into one season (Feb-June) at two locations: the Portland Expo and Happy Wheels. Both teams — the Port Authorities and the Calamity Janes — take on opponents from all over New England and, well, the world. The Port Authorities play teams from Montreal, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington DC and Connecticut. The Calamity Janes play teams from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island. The season opens with the Port Authorities, MRD’s all-star team, taking on the Lake Effect Furies, Queen City Roller Girls’ all-star team. Currently, the Port Authorities are ranked No. 11 in the WFTDA Eastern Region, while the Lake Effect Furies are unranked. The team, based in Buffalo, N.Y., was recently accepted as a WFTDA member and was not eligible to be ranked in the last quarter. (For more information on team ranking, go to www.wftda.com.)

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Friends of Feral Felines will hold a Valentine Tea and Book Sale. Stop in to browse the books and Thrifty Kitty shop, enjoy a cup of tea and sweets and support the TNR (trap, neuter, return) work of this volunteer group who assists the neediest of cats in Cumberland and York counties. The Thrifty Kitty is located at 651 Forest Ave. in the Woodfords area, Odd Fellows Block.

FMI call 797-3014.

Lincoln Club 126th annual banquet

Maine Poets Read: Beyond ‘Leaves of Grass’

7 p.m. to 11 p.m. The Portland Club, 156 State St., is hosting a Sweetheart’s Valentine Soiree in the grand ballroom

11 a.m. to noon. To celebrate poetry and the exhibi-

6 p.m. The Lincoln Club 126th annual banquet at the Italian Heritage Center, dinner of baked haddock or prime rib. Social hour, dinner at 7 p.m. Colby Colllege featured speaker. For tickets, call officers of the club, including Halsey Frank, 772-6949; G. Phil Stanwood, 571-4049; Glenna Carter, 883-2826.

Portland Club Sweetheart’s Valentine Soiree

to benefit the preservation of the 1805 Hunnewell-Shepley mansion that is home to the Portland Club. “Classic Americana to contempory music for your listening and dancing pleasure by Laurence Kelly and Flash Allen with the Love Train Express.” $20 per person, free parking, cash bar, jacket and tie. Tel: 761-4477, amarcoux@aol.com, or pay at the door.

Romantic songs at Anthony’s Dinner Theater 7 p.m. Kelly Caufield performs romantic songs at Anthony’s Dinner Theater. Free rose to every lady all month. $39.95 per person. Feb. 12, 19 and 26. Call for Reservations. 2212267. www.anthonysdinnertheater.com

‘The Foremost Good Fortune’ 7 p.m. Susan Conley will celebrate the launch of her debut memoir, “The Foremost Good Fortune,” at Longfellow Books. “Chosen as one of the top 10 reads for February 2011 by O, The Oprah Magazine, ‘The Foremost Good Fortune’ is already poised for bestseller status. In her breakthrough memoir, Maine author Susan Conley chronicles her family’s move from Portland, Maine to China where they spend two years learning the ways of their new home.

Conley gives her readers an honest, complex glimpse into her own experience of China, navigating the world of parenting in a foreign land.”

‘A Romantic Night of Songs’ 7 p.m. Anthony’s Dinner Theater presents “A Romantic Night of Songs” starring Kelly Caufield, star of the “Magic of Christmas,” Best of Broadway at Merrill Auditorium, and “The Life of Judy Garland.” Caufield is a native of Gorham and a graduate of the University of Southern Maine School of Music. Caufield recently won first place in the musical theatre division in the Boston chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing competition. She also won in the same division in Maine. Caufield is known to Maine audiences through her sining with the Portland Symphony Orchestra and performance with the Good Theatre in Portland. Anthony’s offers a five-course dinner, plus show for $39.95, free rose to every lady all month. 221-2267. Feb. 12, 19 and 26.

Women in Harmony Valentine’s Day dance 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Women in Harmony, a Portlandbased chorus, presents Hearts for Harmony, a Valentine’s Day fundraising dance, at the Italian Heritage Center, 40 Westland Ave., Portland. Dance to your favorite tunes played by the Deejay Thunder and to the music of the Blueberry Pancakes steel drum band. There will be a cash bar and light snacks. The suggested donation is $15. For more information and tickets, please call 441-2507.

Franco-American Heritage dance concert 7:30 p.m. The Franco-American Heritage Center and Bates College dance program are partnering to offer the sixth annual F.A.B. dance concert at the FAHC, 46 Cedar St., Lewiston. Tickets are $14 for general admission and $12 for students and seniors. To learn more and order tickets, please visit the center’s website: www.francoamericanheritage.org

PSO POPS! The Golden Age of Motown 7:30 p.m. Join the Portland Symphony Orchestra and special guests for a musical celebration, steeped in good oldfashioned soul and rhythm and blues, marking the 50th anniversary of the Motown record label. Merrill Auditorium.

Saturday at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Serving the city of Portland, the state of Maine, and northern New England, the PSO is the largest performing arts organization in Maine. www.portlandsymphony.org

Sunday, Feb. 13 Lucid’s Valentines Bazaar 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Do your last minute Valentines shopping at Lucid’s Valentines Bazaar. “We’ll have arts and crafts vendors selling romantic gifts. We’ll have a children’s area for face-painting, balloon animals, and photo op’s with Cupid! We’ll have live music, a magic show with The Magic of The Steelgraves, and family friendly stand-up comedy!” www.lucidstage.com

Farewell Open House for Clifford School 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The Nathan Clifford Elementary School staff and Parent Teacher Organization will host a Farewell Open House for the Clifford community and alumni at the school, located at 180 Falmouth St., Portland. Clifford students and staff will move to the new Ocean Avenue Elementary School after February vacation. Those attending the open house will be invited to add a photo and/or favorite memory to a large commemorative banner. Portland Superintendent James C. Morse, Sr. and Paul Stevens, grandson of the school’s architect, John Calvin Stevens, will attend the event along with other honored guests. Refreshments will be served. For more information, please call 874-8180. see next page

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‘Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love’ 2 p.m. “Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love” an adult comedy about love, sex and relationships. February 11-27, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m.

All seats $15. Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St. Box Office 773-0333, oldportplayhouse.com.

International Appalachian Trail: Maine to Morocco 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Take a breathtaking visual trip along the International Appalachian Trail at a presentation sponsored

by Friends of the Eastern Promenade and Portland Trails.

“The International Appalachian Trail: Maine to Morocco” will be presented at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. in Portland. Richard Anderson and Don Hudson, two of the people behind the International Appalachian Trail, along with Walter Anderson, Chief Geologist of the IAT Council, will lead the program. Free for members of Friends of Eastern Promenade & Portland Trails, $5 for non-members.

“The history and development of the trail will be detailed in stunning pictures of the mountainous landscape between Maine and Morocco. Attendees will be swept along on a journey from Maine’s Mount Katahdin through northern Maine, New Brunswick, Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The presentation will explore how plate tectonics affected the breakup of the original mountains. The International Appalachian Trail was proposed on Earth Day 1994 by Gov. Joe Brennan, Dick Anderson and Don Hudson. The three envisioned a hiking trail extending northward from Mount Katahdin — the northern end of the famous Appalachian Trail — along the Appalachian Mountains through Maine and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec. Buoyed by worldwide publicity, supporters hope to extend the trail throughout the original Appalachian Mountains that existed 300 million years ago during the age of the super-continent Pangaea.

Plans are under way to continue the trail southward to France, Spain and Portugal and ultimately to the geological end of the original Appalachians in the AntiAtlas Mountains in Morocco.

Beyond the United States and Canada, IAT chapters now exist in Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and England. The program is free for members of Friends of the Eastern Promenade and Portland Trails and $5 for non-members. For more information, visit friendsofeasternpromenade.org.

V-Day First Parish Portland 7 p.m. V-Day First Parish Portland will present a one-night only benefit reading of Eve Ensler’s award wining play “The Vagina Monologues” at The First Parish Church, Portland, Unitarian Universalist, 425 Congress St. “Last year over

5,400 V-Day benefits were held around the world raising funds and awareness towards ending violence against women. These highly successful events raised over $4 million through performance of Eve Ensler’s awardwinning play, ‘The Vagina Monologues,’ readings from V-Day’s A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer and Any One Of Us: Words From Prison and screenings of V-Day’s documentary Until The Violence Stops. First Parish Church has joined this global movement as part of the V-Day 2011 First Parish Portland Campaign. Tickets are a suggested donation of $5-$20 “Pay What You Can” and may be purchased an hour before the performance the evening of the event at the door. The ‘V’ in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina. To learn more about V-Day First Parish Portland, call 807-7812 or e-mail at grayshoal@gwi.net. To learn more about V-Day and its campaigns visit www.vday.org.

Monday, Feb. 14 Series about memory loss and dementia 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Creative Conversations Series about memory loss and dementia, with the topic, “Changing roles and relationships in caring for someone with dementia.” First Congregational Church, Meeting House Hill, 301 Cottage Road, South Portland. Facilitated

by Brenda Hamilton, LCSW, Senior Care Consultant, Alzheimer’s Association, Maine Chapter. The Conversation Series is an informal opportunity for caregivers to join together to discuss topics of mutual interest. The program includes an educational topic but allows for plenty of time for participants to discuss concerns and ask questions. There is no fee for this program. Preregistration is not required. The Alzheimer’s Association, Maine Chapter, an affiliate of the National Alzheimer’s Association, provides educational programs, in-home care consultation services, and support group facilitation concerning Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias for the state of Maine. The chapter is fully funded by businesses, individuals, and granting agencies. Funds raised support the programs and services offered in Maine as well as advancing research. Contact the Maine Chapter office at 772.0115 or www.alz.org/maine.

‘Popular Music and Mobile Technologies’ 7:15 p.m. Continuing a Bates College series exploring the impacts of technology on concepts of race, Alexander Weheliye, an authority on African American culture at Northwestern University, offers the lecture “Ring Ring Ring: Popular Music and Mobile Technologies” in Pettengill Hall’s Keck Classroom (G52), 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).

Weheliye’s talk is the second public presentation in the

series “Race in a Post-Human World,” which explores the collapse of social categories caused by advances in technology. Sponsored by the Bates College Lectures Committee, the series will include one more lecture and a dance performance, all open to the public at no cost. Weheliye is associate professor of English African American studies at Northwestern. He teaches courses in African American and African diaspora literature and culture, critical theory and popular culture. He is the author of the book “Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity” (Duke University Press, 2005). For more information, please contact dbegin@bates.edu.

‘The Soiree’ at Lucid Stage 7:30 p.m. Lucid Stage presents an evening of romantic music and theater featuring Jake Brooks on piano, and “The Soiree,” a play written and performed by Amanda Huotari, and directed by Avner Eisenberg. Tickets $10. 29 Baxter Boulevard.

The Flying Donkey Cabaret 8 p.m. Mayo Street Arts presents The Flying Donkey Cabaret, an evening of music and puppetry for adults featuring entertainers from Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater, Bologna, Italy, NYC, and Portland Maine. The cabaret is a traveling roadshow featuring life-sized dancing donkeys, and a trombone, drum, and fiddle ensemble. The Valentine’s Day show at Mayo Street Arts kicks off the cabaret’s East coast tour. Participants and recent Portland transplants Adam Cook and Lindsay McCaw (often billed as The Dolly Wagglers) are former members of Bread and Puppet Theater, and now work and live out of the Nu-Penny Toy Store building on Parris Street in Portland. McCaw, Cook, and other puppeteers and musicians from Bread and Puppet, Bologna, and NYC have joined forces as The Old Reliable Amusement Company to put together this special cabaret, debuing on Valentine’s night at Mayo Street Arts. “this is hands-down the best Valentine’s show in town,” says MSA director Blainor McGough, “what’s more fun for a romantic date than a night of wild puppetry, brass, and innuendo?”

The performance is part of MSA’s Performing Arts and Culture Series, a series that highlights artistic diversity and builds community in East Bayside by engaging neighborhood communities in arts performances. Accompanying the roadshow is an itinerant Cheap Art exhibit and Store. The Cheap Art movement was launched in 1982 by the Bread and Puppet Theater in direct response to the business of art and its growing appropriation by the corporate sector. Bread and Puppet Theater (often known simply as Bread and Puppet) is a politically radical puppet theater, active since the 1960s, currently based in Vermont. Tickets are available for $10 in advance at brown paper tickets, www.brownpapertickets.com/event/154240.

FMI visit www.mayostreetarts.org.

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Thursday, Feb. 10 Christina Chute, cellist, at First Parish 12:15 p.m. Christina Chute, cellist, is featured in a noonday concert at the First Parish. Free Noonday Concerts feature faculty members from the Portland Conservatory of Music, organists from the area and guest artists. There are soloists, chamber ensembles, choral groups and jazz musicians included in the Noonday concert series. “As we begin our 15th year of presenting free, quality concerts in the heart of Portland’s business district, we that you for being a spirited and responsive audience.” FMI: First Parish, 773.5747 or www.firstparishportland.org.

Jazz singer Gretchen Parlato visits Bates College 7:30 p.m. A fast-rising star called by one critic “the most original jazz singer in a generation,” Gretchen Parlato visits Bates College to perform in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St., Lewiston. Admission is $12 for the general public and $6 for seniors, children and students. Tickets are available at www.batestickets.com. Reviewing her performance at the 2010 Newport Jazz Festival, The Boston Globe’s Steve Greenlee wrote: “Working in a style that drew from bop, bossa nova and strains of world jazz, Parlato delivered her vocals in a breathy manner, nearly whispering her lyrics. . . . The evidence is piling up that young 786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu. Visit the Bates College website at www. bates.edu/.

The Portland Jazz Orchestra at One Longfellow 8 p.m. Dr. Chris Oberholtzer and his 18 piece ensemble perform an evening of big band swing! $5, all ages.

Friday, Feb. 11 Mason Jennings at Port City Music Hall 8 p.m. Mason Jennings is an American pop-folk singersongwriter. He is well known for his simple yet catchy

melodies, intimate lyrics, literary and historical themes, and distinctive voice. In early 2008 Mason signed with Jack Johnson’s record label, Brushfire Records, and his music has been featured in the surf film “Shelter” and the Bob Dylan biopic “I’m Not There”. $15 adv/ $18 day-of / $30 VIP, 21 plus.

Johnny A. at One Longfellow 8 p.m. A veteran of long years on the Boston club scene and a stint as sideman to former J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf, guitarist Johnny A. originally self-released this masterful, tasteful solo record to much local acclaim, and then guitar ace Steve Vai added the musician to the roster of his label. Proving that the term “guitar god” has too often been misapplied in the post-Van Halen era of diddly-squeak school of soloing, Johnny A. draws on a more classic pantheon of American fret deity for inspiration, including Chet Atkins, Scotty Moore, James Burton, Nokie Edwards, and Wes Montgomery. One Longfellow Square.

Saturday, Feb. 12 Mindy Smith at One Longfellow 8 p.m. With an angelic voice and songs full of faith, grace and vulnerability, Mindy Smith has been embraced by critics and fans alike with each recording she unveils. With her fourth release, Stupid Love on Vanguard Records, Mindy takes another step forward both lyrically and musically. Stupid Love finds Mindy co-producing along with Ian Fitchuk and Justin Loucks. $25, all ages. One Longfellow Square.

Tributes to John Prine 7:30 p.m. Matt Newberg and his band of Maine musicians (including Steve Jones, Jeff Glidden, Stu MacDonald, Laura Piela and Gregg Hoover) will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of John Prine’s debut album by performing the songs in the order they appeared on the ground-breaking

record. Preview this concert before it gets to the SPACE Gallery in Portland on Friday, Feb. 18, at 7:30 p.m. Signed Prine merchandise will be for sale on site. Tickets: $10 in advance; $12 night of show. Available by calling 470-7066, and at the door. http://camdenoperahouse.com

Sunday, Feb. 13 B. Dolan presents the Church of Love & Ruin / What Cheer? Brigade / Dirty Dishes Burlesque 7:30 p.m. In celebration of the New Year and symbolic burial of 2010, Providence’s master showman and Strange Famous Records emcee B. Dolan has put together a Valentine’s Extravaganza years in the making. Vaudeville, HipHop, New Orleans Bounce, Marching Band & Burlesque culture come together for the “Church of Love & Ruin,” featuring DJ Beesknees and Vockah Redu & The Cru both representing New Orleans), 16 piece freakout marching band What Cheer? Brigade, and B. Dolan headlining with a cast of special guests. Hosted by Jamie & Sissy DeWolfe (of Oakland’s “Tourettes Without Regrets” showcase) and also featuring performances from Boston Drag Queen Ms. Nicholle Pride and Portland’s own Dirty Dishes Burlesque Review. Best of all, in the spirit of the holiday, you can save money and bring your honey. Couples discount on tickets at the door! $10 advance/$12 day of show/$18 for couples!

— 18 plus.

Frontier Ruckus at One Longfellow 8 p.m. Frontier Ruckus is an American folk-rock band from Michigan. The project is centered on the lyrically intensive songs of Matthew Milia, and was formed by Milia and banjo player David Winston Jones while living in Metro Detroit.

The band released its debut full-length record, The Orion Songbook, through Quite Scientific Records in November, 2008. In February, 2009, it was announced that Frontier Ruckus had joined North Carolina-based label Ramseur Records. $10.

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Maybe you thought that Volkswagen Super Bowl ad with the child desperately trying to use the Force was only cute, but it was actually a glimpse into the N.F.L.’s public relations strategy.

Sweetness and light are passé. The Dark Side is where to be.

Witness the N.F.L. itself, in Day 3 of scrambling to make its seating debacle seem palatable to the general public (Hey, it doesn’t have to be next year’s Super Bowl, pick another!) but not actually making it palatable. Now, unsurprisingly, the displaced fans are suing the league. As LeCharles Bentley writes on Fanhouse.com, the entire Super Bowl experience has become a slap in the face to the average fan.

In Nashville, the Titans’ new head coach, Mike Munchak, headed straight for the scorched-earth public relations manual in his second day on the job, firing the cancer-stricken offensive coordinator, Mike Heimerdinger. This, Munchak explained, should not make your stomach drop because “he is feeling good.” Never mind that aggressive treatment he’s undergoing for what the Titans have described as a rare form of cancer. Clearly, as David Climer writes in The Tennessean, Munchak’s first order of business is not making fans feel better about this franchise.

This gets competition in the Dark Side category from the Saints, who have announced they are perfectly comfortable with Coach Sean Payton moving his family to Dallas, even though Saints fans feel as if Payton just turned a fire hose on them. This from a man who titled his book, “Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life.” The little known subtitle apparently was, “But I’m moving my family out as

soon as I can.”

The image problems elsewhere in sports pale in comparison, but college basketball has a few minor conflagrations to douse. Tennessee Coach Bruce Pearl returned from his eightgame conference suspension, only to have his team routed by Kentucky (coached by the noted public relations fireball John Calipari), while North Carolina tries to dig itself out of some uncharacteristic chaos, writes David Steele on Fanhouse.com. The biggest blow was Larry Drew walking out on the team, which Seth Davis of SI.com described as disgraceful.

For a more inspiring story, you need to head over to Division III basketball and read about how the LaRoche College team is thriving while dedicating its efforts to its head coach, who died on the court in December.

That sure beats most news swirling around baseball, which is mostly about Albert Pujols’s contract demands. Or you can wander into Alex Rodriguez’s world and find out why the Yankees’ diva was angry about being caught on camera at the Super Bowl with Cameron Diaz feeding him popcorn.

The N.H.L. has its share of silliness, mostly emanating from Canada’s obsession with the Sidney Crosby concussion watch, which has spiraled to the ridiculous rumor stage.

Back in Pittsburgh, the Penguins are left with the one-man wrecking crew Matt Cooke, well on his way to being the most disliked player in the league with a lowlight reel of hits like his latest on Columbus defenseman Fedor Tyutin. The most misfortune, however, continues to fall on those wearing Islanders uniforms, with the latest goalie foibles confirming all suspicions that the team is cursed.

Let’s hope they don’t pick up any public relations pointers from the N.F.L.