The Portland Daily Sun, Saturday, January 15, 2011

Astrological identity crisis See Bob Higgins on page 4

SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 2011 VOL. 2 NO. 246

LePage being LePage driving Portlanders to protest See Curtis Robinson’s column on page 4

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BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN want to come talk to me about race cards they’re not invited.”

Governor Paul LePage set off a During the interview with political fi restorm Friday when MPBN’s Josie Huang, LePage he rebuffed invitations from the continued, “This is nothing but a Maine NAACP to attend Martin political race card and tell ‘em to Luther King Jr. Day events this get over themselves. I’ll send my weekend and told a TV reporter, son, who happens to be a “Tell ‘em to kiss my black kid, to talk to ‘em.” butt.”

Paul’s son, Devon RayIt’s not the fi rst time mond, is from Jamaica, LePage and the NAACP according to a LePage have crossed swords, but press statement. this time LePage ignited The controversy began a furor with his pointed after an interview on rebuff of the civil rights WGME-TV when LePage, organization, on the eve responding to a reporter’s of the Martin Luther question, said of the Maine King Jr. Day weekend.

NAACP, “Tell ‘em to kiss LePage is breaking LePage my butt. If they want to gubernatop play the race rial tradition ccard, come to by not attendd dinner and my ing Martin sson will talk to Luther King tthem.”

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The raw video weekend schediis available on uled in PortChannel13WGM Channel 13 WGME’s website at s land and Bangor.Thegovernorha The governor has www.wgme.com. personal commitments on Sunday By the end of Friday, the LePage and he is attending the funeral of comments were being widely a state trooper on Monday, accordreported nationally, carried on ing to a press statement from Dan Demeritt, LePage’s director of see GOVERNOR page 3 communications.

“I am the governor for 1.3 milRIGHT: Robert Shetterly’s portrait of the Rev. lion people. I am not governor for a special interest, for a small group,” Martin Luther King Jr. hangs in the Portland Public Library, part of the “Americans Who LePage told Maine Public BroadTell the Truth” portrait exhibit. The quote casting Network (www.mpbn.net). on the painting reads: “Non-violence is a “They are part of Maine. If they powerful and just weapon which cuts withwant to come talk to me about out wounding and ennobles the man who being a Maine resident, a Maine wields it.” (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Internet reacts to LePage comments

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Computer hall of fame MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.

(NY Times) — Silicon Valley’s shrine to the computer has fi nally upgraded to version 2.0.

The museum, which moved to Silicon Valley in 1996 and occupied makeshift sites, has undergone a $19 million renovation.

On Thursday, the 35-year-old Computer History Museum unveiled a $19 million overhaul, making this small city some 40 miles south of San Francisco a destination for anyone interested in the evolution from the abacus to the iPhone.

“We are living through the time of transition, from there being no computers anywhere to there being computers in everything that we touch,” said Leonard J. Shustek, a venture capitalist and chairman of the museum’s board. “We owe it to the future to preserve the artifacts and stories of how that happened.”

Housed for two decades in Boston, the immense and growing collection of hardware, tech trinkets and ephemera was moved in 1996 to Silicon Valley, where it occupied various makeshift locations and served as a go-to place for technology insiders to reminisce about the heady, built-in-the-garage computer era.

Much of that history is refl ected in a new exhibit, “Revolution: The First 2,000 Years of Computing,” which includes items like the fi rst disk drive, I.B.M.’s hulking Ramac from 1956, Apple’s early personal computers like the Apple II, robots, the fi rst arcade video games, a stack of Google’s earliest computer servers and even a table-size computer sold by Neiman Marcus in 1969 to store recipes for busy housewives.

The museum curators generally stick to a 10-year rule, meaning they wait a decade to determine what items were pivotal enough to warrant a place in the history of computing. “It’s always very diffi cult when you’re in the moment to know what’s going to be important and signifi cant,” Mr. Shustek said. While the museum already owns items like the iPad, and monitors social media spaces like Twitter and Facebook, it is waiting for the dust to settle before it tells the defi nitive story of technology in the fi rst decade of the 21st century.

The revamped home here is fi nanced by donations from technology heavyweights like Bill Gates, Hewlett-Packard and the computer chip maker Intel.

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U.S. Border Patrol agents after attending the funeral of Judge John M. Roll, just a day after the funeral for 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Tucson, Ariz., on Friday. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Services held for federal judge slain in Arizona TUCSON, Ariz. (McClatchy) — Nearly a week after the deadly shooting spree that claimed six lives, Tucson on Friday mourned a federal judge, the second funeral of a victim of the attack that has rocked the nation.

Federal District Court Judge John M. Roll, a devout Roman Catholic who was killed after attending a morning Mass, was remembered at a service at the same church where a day earlier a funeral was held for the youngest victim, Christina-Taylor Green.

Security was especially tight for the

judge’s service because many of his judicial colleagues and other dignitaries were attending. Traffi c clogged the streets leading to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church. Thousands of mourners were in the church after they were screened by deputies and federal officials. Security was so tight that some were turned away.

Patrick McGrath, a bailiff with the state Supreme Court, said he drove from Phoenix to pay his respects to the judge, with whom he played golf and sometimes had lunch.

Timothy J. Rosario, 31, of Gorham was arrested Thursday and charged with eluding a police offi cer (Class-C), criminal speed; operating after suspension; operating an unregistered motor vehicle; and violation of conditional release, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office.

On Thursday, Rosario agreed to meet with sheriff’s offi ce investigators to discuss a Jan. 5 incident in Standish and was arrested afterward, according to Captain Jeff Davis.

On Wednesday evening, Jan. 5, at approximately 8:35 p.m., Cumberland County Sheriff’s deputies Rosario attempted to stop a vehicle for erratic operation in the area of the Standish Neck Road, in the town of Standish. The operator, who was later identified as Rosario, failed to stop for a deputy and accelerated to speeds in excess of 80 mile per hour, the sheriff’s office reported.

The pursuit continued for a distance of 5.1 miles and for approximately 15 minutes, traveling through rural areas of Standish and Windham before the pursuit was stopped due to public safety concerns, Davis reported. The vehicle involved was identified as a 2009 GMC van, which was located unoccupied the following day in a parking lot, in the city of Westbrook, Davis reported. The van was towed and impounded pending further investigation.

The violation of conditional release charge was a result of Rosario being released on “deferred disposition” on a prior OUI charge, Davis reported.

Jets keep up the word play against Patriots

BY RODERICK BOONE NEWSDAY

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (McClatchy) — Rex Ryan strolled up to Antonio Cromartie during practice on Wednesday, glad to know his cornerback has unseated him as Public Enemy No. 1 in Patriots country.

“He said, ‘You know what? I’m not the most hated guy in New England anymore,’’’ Cromartie said. “But it goes with the territory.”

Dangerous territory, when you call Tom Brady a few choice words.

In a story in Wednesday’s New York Daily News, Cromartie ripped the Patriots’ quarterback, using two vulgarities. He refused to back down one iota on Wednesday, injecting more fuel into a raging fi re leading up to Sunday’s AFC divisional game at Gillette Stadium.

“Why would I regret them?” Cromartie

said. “Nah, that’s my opinion and that’s how I feel about it. There’s no reason for me to sit back and take anything back I said about him, and I’m not.

“My opinion is never going to change about Brady. I hate him, he hates me, he hates the Jets. Who cares?”

Brady, as Bill Belichick did Monday after Ryan called this game “personal” between the Patriots coach and himself, tried to play along and have a little fun with the sudden dustup.

“I’ve been called worse,” Brady said Wednesday. “Belichick has called me that, my offensive coordinator has called me that, and I know they like me. So maybe he likes me because there are people who have called me that a few times.”

Ryan had no problem with Cromartie’s slippery, foul-mouthed tongue.

“I think that language is a little salty for

me,” Ryan deadpanned with a laugh.

“You shouldn’t like who you are going up against right now. This is the playoffs. I can tell you our whole team respects Brady and the Patriots. But hey, we don’t like any of them right now. You shouldn’t. Danny Woodhead is a great kid, but I can’t stand Danny Woodhead right now.

“I think that’s just part of it, and trust me, the feeling is mutual.”

Cromartie has had a severe dislike for Brady ever since the 2006 season, when the cornerback was with the Chargers. After their playoff win over San Diego, the Patriots danced on the Chargers’ midfi eld logo, which irked Cromartie. But what really gets his blood boiling is when Brady points at the opposing sideline after a touchdown, which the Jets say Brady did to them after his 1-yard TD pass in the fourth quarter of the Patriots’ 45-3 runaway Dec. 6.

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Adams: ‘Governor’s comments were ill timed’ GOVERNOR from page one

both conservative websites The Drudge Report and news networks such as CNN. Herb Adams, a former Portland legislator and guest speaker for Monday’s MLK Day event in Portland, the MLK March for Justice, said, “No matter how carefully or not carefully you prepare yourself, life has a way of surprising you, with tragedy or inspiration. Large events sometimes leave you fumbling for the right words.”

“The governor’s comment on MLK weekend is a small but also tragic event,” Adams continued.

“Remember, words pack punches. The governor’s comments were ill timed, and maybe ill tempered and certainly tone deaf. It’s tempting to respond in kind. But Dr. King would not have wanted that this weekend of all weekends while remembering Dr. King’s birthday and mourning the Tucson tragedy,” Adams said Friday, alluding to the fatal shooting in Arizona last Saturday.

Adams concluded, “Instead, in these tough times, I recommend the governor and all of us reread Dr. King’s great words at the very beginning of his ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail,’ 1963, about the interrelatedness in America of justice and injustice everywhere that he calls ‘the inescapable network of mutuality’ in which we live and that in America ‘whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.’

Those are the good words to chew on for a weekend of mourning and remembrance. Perhaps by Tuesday, the governor may think differently.”

At 1 p.m. Monday, marchers will walk from Preble Street Resource Center to the steps of Portland City Hall, where a large copy of MLK’s Bill of Economic Rights and proposed Community Compact for Justice will be displayed and officials will speak.

Governor LePage’s offi cial media release on the NAACP controversy stated, “This is not about race — Paul has a black son. This is about a special interest group taking issue with the Governor for not making time for them and the Governor dismissing their complaints in the direct manner people have come to expect from Paul LePage.

“The Muskie Community Center in Waterville has held Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfasts

for the past twenty years according to Carmen Bedard,” the release continued. “Bedard helps organize events at the Center including the annual MLK breakfast. According to the Center’s records, Governor LePage, then Mayor of Waterville, attended numerous MLK breakfasts. ‘Mayor LePage gave the welcome address in 2004, 2005, 2006,’ says Bedard. ‘He also Adams gave the welcome in 2008, and it looks like he’s attended most, if not all the breakfasts in the past eight years on the MLK holiday.’”

Rachel Talbot Ross, in an WMPG interview, said, “First and foremost, the issue is not that the governor declined the invitation to both the Bangor and Portland branch NAACP to join us for Martin Luther King celebrations. That was not the point.

We certainly can understand that the governor was busy. The point was that over a period of time, all of the invitations that the NAACP has extended have been declined, and we were merely asking in a respectful way for him to explain and for him to articulate when the NAACP and other groups would be able to meet with him.

Talbot Ross said the NAACP seeks “a relationship that is based on respect and civility.”

“We will not engage in divisive political banter, we will not engage in race-based banter,” she told WMPG. “We are not a special interest group, we did not play any race card and we at no point in time would ever think or use the language or impart any action that suggested that we wanted to hold him hostage.”

But nationally the NAACP and tea party organizers clashed last year after the NAACP condemned the conservative movement, a key backer of LePage in his race for governor, as “racist” in a resolution passed in July. The NAACP accused the tea party movement of providing a platform for “anti-Semites, racists and bigots.”

As a primary-election candidate, LePage took exception to the NAACP’s resolution, according to a July 28, 2010 story in the Lincoln County News

in Damariscotta.

When Republican 1st District Congressional candidate Dean Scontras joined LePage on the Maine Eastern Railroad for a four-town whistle stop tour July 24, LePage “compared the Tea Party movement to the Nixon’s ‘Silent Majority’ of the 1970s and criticized the NCAAP for their allegations of racism against the Tea Party,’” the paper reported.

LePage’s first significant act as governor was issuing an order aimed at discouraging state services to illegal immigrants. He ended a Gov. John Baldacciinstituted state policy of not asking people about their immigration status when they are applying for state benefits.

Rosemont Market and Bakery on Friday criticized LePage’s immigration stance, urging the public to join Monday’s march in Portland to protest LePage’s executive order. For details, visit http://rosemontmarket.wordpress.com.

Anger at LePage’s immigration order and his NAACP remarks sparked sharp comments online.

“It’s obvious LePage is riding his high horse playing a newer version John Wayne ... you would think with his background he’d be more appreciative of the less fortunate, and the groups who support them,” wrote Allen Francis Foley, poet and author from Augusta. “This sounds to me like racism, pure and simple, setting himself up as a bad example if what needs to be done, rather than a bad ass attitude!”

Shalom Odokara of Portland wrote on Facebook, “This is so sad. I guess this is the new Maine.”

But some cheered LePage’s remarks, including Dave Bouchard of Fort Kent, who wrote in an email to The Portland Daily Sun: “GO LEPAGE ... fi nally someone that speaks his mind and is not always politically correct. He is not hypocrite tells it like it is lol.”

Karen Bartlett Knox wrote to The Portland Daily Sun: “I think the governor is being himself and not an image created by political spin doctors. It is unfortunate that the dems are making his not attending the NAACP breakfast a political issue. The governor has a funeral to attend and was committed to attending. It isn’t political or racist. It is simply a conflict. Maybe LePage could be more articulate or politically correct. But I like seeing a real person reacting the way so many of us would.”

Internet reacts to LePage comments, NAACP flap THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Some commenters speculated that the incident will likely make juicy fodder for comedy news programs like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update segment.

“Maine governor, LePage doing

everything he can to get himself on The Daily Show wrote Mark Stevens on his Twitter account.

“Forget The Daily Show, SNL is going to have a weekly “What Stupid Thing Did LePage Say” segment,” said Elisa Doucette through Twitter.

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back seat to the general lack of civility shown by LePage in his comments to the reporter.

“This whole fl ap is not about race, never was — it’s about inclusiveness and setting an example. If LePage insists on breaking the precedent set by other Maine governors by not attending MLK ceremonies, he could at least send a representative. His failure to do so and his use of a coarse expression (‘Kiss my butt’) is not only unseemly and inappropriate, but also and shows a lack of civility and good judgment,” said Don Loprieno on the PPH site.

Even some of those who are sympathetic to LePage’s stance on the NAACP argued that his phrasing was less than professional.

“I have problems w/the NAACP, but LePage’s comments were very rude given his position,” said Angelia N. Levy via Twitter.

Others said that the governor’s refusal to “be held hostage by special interests” seemed to run against his perceived pandering to the Maine business community.

“Will somebody in the media please ask LePage: Why are business leaders NOT a “’special interest group’?,” asked Colin Kelley on Twitter.

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Governor Paul LePage’s statement to the Maine NAACP (story, page 1) garnered a swift and disparate reaction from Internet commenters yesterday, with messages ranging from support and solidarity to disgust and disappointment.

The story went viral nationally, quickly appearing on the infl uential conservative website The Drudge Report and from there to Fox News, CNN and a variety of blogger posts.

Some felt that LePage’s designation of the NAACP as a special interest group was a fairly progressive characterization.

“Governor LePage is one who does what other people pretend to be or just talk about. He doesn’t look at people as members of races or ethnic groups,” wrote commenter Mike Coleman on The Portland Press Herald website.

“To him and his supporters, people are people. We aren’t hyphenated Americans. Isn’t that really where we want our society? Wasn’t that Dr. King’s dream? Do we want to keep dividing people by race or ethnicity?

Shouldn’t we just be Americans first?” said Coleman.

Some said the issue of race takes a

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LePage being LePage driving Portlanders to protest Granted, it’s not widespread, but who the heck labeled me some sort of Gov. LePage apologist?

After the new governor continued his gaff-a-rama by telling the NAACP to “kiss his butt,” on the eve of the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend — on-camera, no less — my cellphone lights up with “how do you like your governor now?”

By mid-afternoon, the LePage controversy had gone viral, bouncing off the Drudge Report and onto the Glenn Beck website, and calls were coming from around the country.

The story has legs. Wings, really.

And the governor is about to learn the difference between being a candidate and one of 50 U.S. governors.

Also, we’ll see the difference in saying something dumb in front of print reporters vs. on-camera.

As for “my” governor? you gotta be kidding me – not that it matters, but I actually lean so far left I meet Libertarians on their way around from the Dark Side. Although, come to think of it, some of those folks are LePage fans, but it’s a murky political community at best.

And while often guilty of praising LePage’s background — come on, from homeless to governor is a great

Curtis Robinson –––––

Usually Reserved comeback story — it’s a bit much to mistake that for fan-hood. This misunderstanding goes back to being one of the few media outlets that gave LePage any chance waaaaay back in the GOP primary, and it’s widely held that this was the only column to predict his victory.

That’s not really accurate. In the days before that primary I merely noted that “... in a field of well-spoken, fairly center-leaning, fairly well-qualified candidates, LePage is an unapologetic, constitution-quoting, Heritage Foundation loving, NRA-supporting, flat-tax advocating, pro-life affi rming, traditional marriage preaching, Republican’s Republican ... [so] those poll numbers showing him still in the running, this late in the game, have to be good news for LePage supporters.”

It just seemed like he had momentum. Which it turns out he did. But predicting an outcome is not the same as advocating for that outcome ... like,

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you might think that the Patriots could lose to the Jets this weekend, but that doesn’t make you a New York fan, just somebody stunningly ignorant of the physics of football.

Hey, nobody who supported LePage can really claim surprise that we’re about to challenge South Carolina for the Jerry Springer Honorary

Hometown championship. The former mayor virtually campaigned on his rough-hewn ways and there were plenty of warning signs. Now the stage is just larger.

Because these stories take off and begin to chase their own tails when they have three things going for them. see ROBINSON page 6

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Astrological identity crisis I’m putting my foot down. This revisionism must stop.

For those who missed it this week, a group of astrologers have announced a “new” astrological symbol to fi t in with changes in the ever-expanding universe. It seems that, for the past 3,000 years, somebody messed up on the whole geometry thing.

See, it seems the sun now passes through yet another region of the sky that it barely touched on all those years ago, and a new astrological sign was needed.

Experts settled on “Ophiuchus” but might as well have settled on “Umpa Loompa.” In the ensuing shake-up, many folks read the news this week with the usual quick glimpse that astrology merits. Suddenly, a whole bunch of people who thought they identified with one sign now fi nd themselves recategorized.

It’s all phooey and hokum. In the history of those who were born under the sign Scorpio, I seriously doubt there has been a person who more identifi ed with common Scorpio traits as myself.

I’m a writer, and a drunken curmudgeon. I’m the last person who

Bob Higgins –––––

Daily Sun Columnist you want to anger, unless you can run faster than me. Like all writers, I should be interrupted only at mealtimes, and fed through the bars of a cage by dangling rare meat at the end of a pointy stick.

Suddenly, due to the shifting of dates, I am now classifi ed as a Libra. Upon reading of the change, I wondered if that reclassification came with a matching set of Birkenstocks and patchouli oil.

The pseudoscience of astrology has gone too far. To introduce a new sign, modeled after a dude holding a snake (which became the symbol for the doctors symbol, the caduceus) in the middle of all the other goats, scales, fishes and such is just too alarming. You have to lead up to this kind of thing, letting people get used to

the idea for a few generations.

Throwing it at us all higgledypigglety like this just smacks of somebody with a book to sell, and ensuing brewing controversy.

Though a pseudo-science, I have noticed over the course of time that people born in certain times of year share certain traits.

Yonder editor, himself a Capricorn with double Scorpio, claims my views make me an “originalist,” but I’ve always thought that what time of year you were born had little to do with it.

I’ve always thought that the time of year of the original horizontal hokey-pokey had more to do with your character traits than anything else.

Were you conceived on top of the huge pile of coats, while everyone else was off in the living room waiting for Thanksgiving dinner?

Was it during one of the rare cool breezes during the hot sweaty summer nights of August? In the spring, when the warming rays of the sun cause people to shed some of their clothing and show off all the hard work of dieting see HIGGINS page 5

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Arizona shootings should change our political rhetoric As the father of a 13-month-old girl, what really struck my core in the wake of the Arizona Safeway shooting on Saturday was the fact that a nineyear-old American girl – a member of the student council in her elementary school and the only female player on her Little League team — showed an interest in meeting her local congresswoman in order to “see how Democracy works” and then was literally shot and killed by doing so.

From now on, if an American child asks his or her parents whether they can meet their Washington representative at a local event, the parents will no doubt think of the little girl who was gunned down.

Stricter gun laws could’ve prevented this, as the gunman was known to be mentally ill before the FBI decided he was fi t to own a semi-automatic weapon. There is a reason that previous assassination attempts in the United States — from the assassinations of Lincoln, JFK and RFK to the failed attempt to shoot Ronald Reagan — ended with one casualty or less: a semi-automatic weapon was not involved.

The type of fi rearm 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner used in his attempt to kill Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday is a weapon unfit for hunting and unfi t for mere self-defense. A Glock 9, in truth, is useful only if one wants to shoot a lot of people in a very short amount of time, and unfortunately that’s what Loughner was able to do. I see no reason why anyone should be allowed to carry such a weapon into a grocery store or other public establishment.

More importantly, however, I see no reason why any sane person would be interested in owning such a weapon in the first place. Still, even Rep. Giffords also owns a Glock, and that is her constitutional right.

Loughner shot 19 people and killed six. Even in the face of such despi-

Adam Perry –––––

Guest Columnist cable recent comments as Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s suggestion that his constituents place former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in “the fi ring line,” is not yet clear whether a conscious toning-down of expressly violent political rhetoric in the face of such despicable comments could have prevented Saturday’s shooting. Just as we may never know if the ridiculous map Sarah Palin distributed last year, which placed crosshairs over the regions where Democratic offi cials were up for re-election (including Giffords’), helped incite Loughner to act on his desire to kill his congresswoman – and we may also never know if it didn’t.

But that’s not the point.

There’s no use in waiting to decide whether a new, more considerate approach to campaigning would prevent future attacks on government offi cials – instead, both Steele and Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic Party, should denounce violence-laden campaign language immediately on the basis that it is unnecessary, unethical and un-American, period.

Right-wing outlets such as Fox News, along with the Republican offi cials they unconditionally support, were quick to condemn those who say that the kind of violent political rhetoric spewed 24 hours a day on American television and radio stations had absolutely nothing to do with Loughner’s attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. see PERRY page 7

Astrology may be entirely bogus, but I know I’m not one of those ‘Libras’ HIGGINS from page 4

they have done since New Year’s Day? During a ski-weekend when the snow was coming down at a rate that kept you stuck in the lodge with little else to do?

Everybody has gone back in time to their birthday and looked up the events of the day in their daily newspaper. It is a snapshot of what was going on here on the big blue ball on the day you arrived here. But how many have taken that same journey back those months BEFORE they were born?

In the grand scheme of things, wouldn’t the events of those days have a lot more to do with you life? Going back and looking at the events of January and February of 1967 led me to a few that made me smirk.

The “Tonight Show” went from 105

to 90 minutes. PBS began as a network. The Rolling Stones were on Ed Sullivan, and released “Let’s Spend The Night Together.” Our nation was in the grip of disaster, when the Apollo 1 capsule burned three astronauts to death before ever leaving the pad.

There is less to this astrology thing than meets the eye, but the irritation of an astrological identity crisis in the wake of pronouncements from dubious self-pronounced experts leads me to want to stop reading the daily horoscope.

Wait. Libras are supposedly dedicated to being fair, and keeping everything in balance. I’ll keep on considering myself a Scorpio.

It just fits better.

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

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The only element lacking — a missing blonde ROBINSON from page 4

First, true national dervish stories, and this has potential, begin when pundits can respond to the response of others, like the conservative pundits will to any liberal reaction. And the fact that the governor made quick reference to his adopted son being black will only allow the dervish to spin faster, giving a nice twist.

Secondly, there’s video. The LePage on-camera deal means it’s a TV story.

Look for a new state mandate that the governor can only be pictured via courtroom sketch artists.

Third, you never know, but it’s shaping up like a slow news weekend. And every single bored news producer in the country, looking to spice up coverage of MLK Day events, has been handed some pepper. What better way to tackle the national conversation about race than introduce a “kiss my butt” statement by a white governor with a black, adopted son?

Fourth is a trump card: any story involving the disappearance of a

blond white female is a dervish story.

Thankfully, this story lacks that component.

In Portland, of course, the governor’s actions were already prompting a movement to join with Peaks Island and leave not the city but the state of Maine – not via political secession, but by actually blasting the shoreline away from the mainland and somehow fl oating away.

How bad is it? When you manage to turn the neighborhood food market email circulars radical, it’s getting bad.

The Rosemont Market email circular this week, fi rst noting that “... it’s not usually in a business’s best interests to discuss politics publicly,” — blasted the governor’s immigration policy.

“Who does LePage think does an ever-increasing amount of the farm work in Maine?” asks Rosemont. “How are these people to appreciate the full benefits of a citizenship they aspire to if they’re too scared to show up at public events (everything from town council meetings to farmers’ markets) and participate in Maine’s culture? How is our

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“Ask Arizona,” it continued, “to paraphrase Sarah Palin, how their hopeless-strangey thing (draconian

interrogation strategies and all the rest) is ‘workin’ out for ya’ — for their tourism industry, for their economy, for their international image and sense of pride.”

In a follow-up email, Rosemont actually apologized and said the forum might have been a poor choice given their desire to welcome the entire community. So they moved the scathing editorial to a blog supporting a march against the LePage policy on Monday at 1 p.m. from Preble Street Resource Center to City Hall.

Goodness. If food market circulars are openly calling for people to march in the streets, The Bollard is likely to explode into pure energy, becoming the Obi Wan Kenobi of LePage critics.

But here’s the thing folks: Paul LePage comes as advertised, and you might as well become accustomed to this sort of thing.

After all, it’s still his first month.

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

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Rockin’ the scene with Dominic LaVoie of The Lucid It’s funny, when I talk in those places discover to Dominic Lavoie about music? What do they trips his band The Lucid do with the music they makes back up north to make?

Fort Kent to play shows, There’s no typical he never seems to be venues close to a Bull bummed about the long Moose like we have down road ahead. here in reality-land. How That drive is a trip and do they eat? How do they a half let’s face it folks. sleep? How do they ... live!

Yet Dominic is always Well, they do just fi ne pumped to run home to and I should realize that play with his band once folks north of Bangor are or twice a year. It then people too who actually makes me wonder; how do know a heck of a lot of ––––– The Circle Push what’s going on. There’s bands from an area pretty disconnected to normal plenty of talented people cities with normal hapup that way, like Dominic penings as we know them (and conand The Lucid (who are known as just sider them normal) - how do people The Lucid now). This is a band that in

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five years and on the eve of their third album (self titled due in February), which is their most intense record to date has infi ltrated Portland with timeless tunes a wonderful attitude and great humor. They are a band, a crew, a good gang.

They’re a band pretty much every other band in town knows somehow and are friends with to some extent.

Their music gets around. Their live shows are almost like special gatherings of people who just get it. You see The Lucid isn’t rocket science. It’s just a great band with great tunes.

Dominic is the leader of the pack and his spirit is a strong, important force in the music scene. He also wrote a song called, “Be In Love,” our editor Curtis Robinson’s favorite song in

recent years.

YOU’RE FROM WAY UP. LIKE THE FURTHEST NORTH POSSIBLE. LET’S FACE IT, YOU’RE PRETTY MUCH CANADIAN, DOM, AND ODDLY ENOUGH A LOT OF LOCAL MUSICIANS ARE FROM YOUR AREA, TOO. TALK ABOUT LIFE GROWING UP AND GROWING INTO THE WORLD OF MUSIC FROM MADAWASKA. I was born in New Brunswick to the northwest of Fort Kent, in Madawaska. It’s a mill town, where twothirds of the people make paper. Both my grandfathers worked on potato farms. My family was always really into the outdoors. Most everyone up there is highly creative, one way or see CURDO page 8

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Nothing positive can come from gun metaphors and violent rhetoric PERRY from page 5

Additionally, so-called “conservative” commentators on American TV and radio have repeatedly engaged in distracting tattle-tale-ism (“Democrats say cruel things, too,” a former Republican congressman said on NPR) and outright silliness (“in the early 1800s, rhetoric was much more violent,” a Republican aide said on CSPAN).

First of all, precedent is not justifi cation. And during heated presidential races in the 18th Century, political fanatics did not have access to semiautomatic weapons. Nor did they have the 24-hour news cycle or elevated hate-mongers such Bill O’Reilly—who calls people who don’t agree with him “loonies” and yells at them to “shut up!” — and Glenn Beck — who regularly compares President Barack Obama, a Democrat whose minimally progressive policies virtually mirror those supported by the Republican party before Christian extremists hijacked it in the early 1980s, with Adolf Hitler, a book-burning ethnic cleanser that WWII-era Americans were right to fear, loathe and take up arms against.

After the health care bill was passed early last year, Beck told his massive conservative audience, “The war is just beginning.” No thanks, Mr. Beck — we’re already entrenched in two real wars, although one almost never hears the words “Iraq” or “Afghanistan” used by the American media anymore.

Second, Democratic legislators and left-leaning talking heads do use inflamed rhetoric when speaking out against Republican offi cials and policies. They repeatedly called George W. Bush a liar, a thief, an idiot and a war criminal, for instance. While the United Nations confi rmed that the Bush administration’s unilateral invasion of Iraq represented an illegal war, a better use of the Democratic party’s time would’ve been to use the United Nation’s judgment on Iraq as evidence in a war crimes case against the previous administration, rather than hurling petty insults on talk shows. However, I challenge right-

wingers to fi nd an instance in which a Democratic offi cial urged his or her constituents to be “armed and dangerous,” as Republican star Rep. Michele Bachman said last year.

Likewise, I challenge readers to list a moment when a Democratic leader publicly referred to Republicans as “domestic enemies,” as popular Senatorial candidate Sharron Angle said of some liberal members of Congress a few months ago. Timothy Egan of the New York Times called “domestic enemies” code for “treasonous agents, deserving of death,” and that’s no doubt what Angle meant — she also ruminated on whether disgruntled right-wingers should use “Second Amendment remedies” to help win elections. Even if she meant it in jest, when you put yourself in the mind of a feverishly overzealous and/or deranged political mind, it’s easy to translate Angle’s comment as, “To help us win, fi nd out where Democratic offi cials are making public appearances and then go shoot them.”

I can’t imagine the outcry from Republicans if a Democratic offi cial had distributed a map with crosshairs over the district presided over by a Republican congresswoman and just a few months later the congresswoman was shot in the head. And I hope we never find out.

Alas, at the end of the day, six people in Arizona were killed at a Safeway on Saturday morning because a terribly ill young man focused his warped anger on a congresswoman whose views differed from his own.

That same day, Tucson Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told an audience of millions that “the anger, the hatred and the bigotry that goes on in this country…the violent rhetoric we hear from people in the radio business and some people in the TV business” was partly to blame and defi nitely needs to stop.

Whether specifi c irresponsibly pomposity, such as Palin’s vitriolic “crosshairs” map, helped drive Jarred Lee Loughner to shoot his congresswoman may never be known — but there certainly isn’t anything positive that can come from gun metaphors and rampant incitements of hatred.

People whose views differ from ours are still people, and using violent rhetoric in talking about them or to them is wrong in every case.

John M. Roll, the federal judge who was killed alongside fi ve other Arizonans on Saturday, required security recently, after receiving a pile of death threats following a talk-radio station’s hate-filled rant against his decision to allow the state’s harsh immigration law to be questioned in court.

Such vitriol, and its consequences

— which Rep. Giffords herself warned of last fall — does not have to continue in America. Let’s recognize the tragedy in Arizona not as a time to choose sides or win political points but as a chance to temper future disagreements—in print, online, on television, on the radio, in the halls of Congress and even simply between friends – with honesty, compassion and understanding.

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THE GREAT THING ABOUT THE LUCID IS IT’S TOUGH TO PUT A FINGER ON YOU, GENRE WISE. THAT’S ALWAYS REFRESHING. IT’S CLASSIC ROCK AS MUCH AS IT’S INDIE AS MUCH AS IT’S JAM ROCK AT TIMES. TALK ABOUT THE FREEDOM OF THAT VERSATILITY, LIVE AND IN STUDIO. We’re never talking about trying to sound a certain way, beyond trying to get an idea across. We’ll call a part, “Charlie Watts,” cause that’s what it sounds like, but the sound was already there and we have to call it something. As a band, when we’re writing, we know what our song needs and doesn’t. Live is a whole different thing, I’m starting to feel that we play off the crowd more then I realized years ago.

I CAN TELL THAT THIS BAND WILL ALWAYS BE CRAFTING ITS SOUND. NOT OUT OF DISCONTENT, BUT TO EXPLORE SOUND MORE AND WHAT’S POSSIBLE AS THE LUCID. I hope so. I feel that way, always.

We’ll always have another record that sounds different. I think people who like our music realize Dominic Lavoie that.

TALK A BIT ABOUT YOUR Our first record was a collection of songs I’d writOTHER DAY JOB, NIGHTS ON ten before and at the beginning of The Lucid. It’s all THE LEGENDARY WBLM. over the place. We’re always into pushing a different It’s my greatest job of all time: I get paid to talk sound. I might write a lot of poppy songs in a row, about music [that] I talk about when I don’t get about love, growing older, friends. We got our friends, paid. There is a no-BS honesty to everyone who sisters and girlfriends together and recorded Season works there that is totally one of a kind. I’m grateful. of The Sun, our second record. It’s always around a WHO ARE SOME OF THE LOCAL BANDS year spent together, writing, growing and I think YOU ENJOY THE MOST THESE DAYS? where we are as people comes across on the records.

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If it feels like it’s real, then I love it.

YOUR VOICE IS DEFINITELY A LOCAL WHAT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU’VE LEARNED OVER THESE RECENT IF IT’S N O T H E RE TO DAY,W E ’LL H AV E IT TO M O RROW !

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12 STEP RECOVERY ITEMS, LAMPS THERE’S ALWAYS A SENSE OF PEACE AND POSITIVITY IN YOUR MUSIC AND I BELIEVE IT’S A MAJOR REASON WHY IT’S APPEAL” Po rtlan d P ress H er ING TO SO MANY. EVEN IN THE SADDEST ald LUCID SONG, YOU FEEL LIGHT BEAMING “ SOMEWHERE NOT SO FAR OFF, PROMISING BETTER THINGS. Thanks.

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another. My dad bought a used guitar when I was 13, and I started writing tunes with Tim, from The Lucid around then.

TALK ABOUT THE CULTURE SHOCK OF MOVING TO PORTLAND AND THE EXCITEMENT OF BEING APART OF A THRIVING MUSIC COMMUNITY. I was living in Gorham and borrowed a car with a goal to visit a friend on Munjoy Hill. It took me two-and-a-half hours. I felt like it’d gone 30 years into the future, where nothing really made sense. To some degree Portland still seems like the alternate universe in Back to The Future II, but it’s too beautiful and fi lled with amazing people. Musically, I think of it as the bottom of a funnel; maybe Portland’s catching all the great people and musicians from above it.

WERE THERE ANY LOCAL BANDS OR ARTISTS THAT INSPIRED YOU EARLY ON? I moved down here to be around — and play with — bands like Strange Pleasure and Frank Hopkins. They were part of a scene rooted in Northern Maine, who didn’t take anything but music, politics and life seriously. I love that, and still strive for it.

TALK ABOUT THE MUSICIANS AND THE SOUND OF THE LUCID. Nate Cyr and Chuck Gagne have been a bass and drum combo from Fort Kent, since they were eleven. When we were a three piece, it was my songs, their groove.

It’s always been easy and fun. A few years ago, Tim Beaulieu starting playing with us. I’ve been playing music with him since I was thirteen. That’s about half our lives we’ve all been playing together.

We don’t really have to explain anything musically. There are the parts that make sense and things that rub us the wrong way. We don’t talk about it, just play it, or don’t. Now, Scott Mohler is playing guitar and keys. He just fi ts that mix. He gets it.

WITH EACH RECORD, THERE’S BEEN SLIGHT CHANGES. SUBTLE CHANGES. THE RESULT IS STILL ALWAYS YOU IN THE END, BUT WITH A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT SHADE. TALK ABOUT YOUR PROGRESS AS A BAND OVER THE PAST FIVE-PLUS YEARS.

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PISCES (Feb. 19 -March 20). Just because a person has power does not mean that he or she has greatness. You are keenly aware of your leaders and will come to understand their character as you continue to observe.

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Change is in the air. You like not knowing precisely what the year will bring, though you have an inkling it’s going to be good! You’ll be proud of how you are able to help your family this month.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2011. There are 350 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 15, 1961, a U.S. Air Force radar tower off the New Jersey coast collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean during a severe storm, killing all 28 men aboard. (The structure was known as “Texas Tower 4” because of its resemblance to an oil platform.)

On this date: In 1559, England’s Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

In 1777, the people of New Connecticut declared their independence. (The tiny republic later became the state of Vermont.)

In 1844, the University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.

In 1929, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta.

In 1943, work was completed on the Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Department of War (now Defense).

In 1947, the mutilated remains of 22-yearold Elizabeth Short, who came to be known as the “Black Dahlia,” were found in a vacant Los Angeles lot; her slaying remains unsolved.

In 1967, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League 35-10 in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game, retroactively known as Super Bowl I. In 1971, the recently completed Aswan High Dam in Egypt was dedicated during a ceremony attended by President Anwar Sadat and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny.

In 1981, the police drama series “Hill Street Blues” premiered on NBC. In 2009, US Airways Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger ditched his Airbus 320 in the Hudson River after a flock of birds disabled both the plane’s engines; all 155 people aboard survived.

One year ago: United Nations humanitarian chief John Holmes appealed for more than $560 million to help three million victims of the earthquake in Haiti, calling it “a huge and a horrifying catastrophe.” Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas pleaded guilty to carrying a pistol without a license in the District of Columbia, a felony. (Arenas was sentenced to a month in a halfway house and suspended until the end of the season by the NBA.) Today’s Birthdays: Actress Margaret O’Brien is 74. Actress Andrea Martin is 64.

Actor-director Mario Van Peebles is 54. Actor James Nesbitt is 46. Singer Lisa Lisa (Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam) is 44. Actor Chad Lowe is 43. Alt-country singer Will Oldham (aka “Bonnie Prince Billy”) is 41. Actress Regina King is 40. Actor Eddie Cahill is 33. Rapper/ reggaeton artist Pitbull is 30.

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––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– THE REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. HOLIDAY EVENTS–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– of city hall to give voice to our commitment and solidarity in addressrights activist, author, former state legislator and three-term NAACP “From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther ing poverty in our community. A large copy of MLK’s Bill of Economic Portland Branch president Gerald E. Talbot. This portrait will join 21 King, Jr., and the Demand for Economic Justice” Rights and proposed Community Compact for Justice will be disothers from the series for a month-long exhibit at the library.

30th Annual Celebration Dinner played. Key business leaders, antipoverty leaders, tribal representaCost: Free When: Sunday, Jan. 16 Reception: 5 p.m.

Dinner: 6 p.m.

Where: Holiday Inn by the Bay, Portland About: The dinner includes a keynote address, recognition of exceptional community leadership, and an interactive dinner exercise to glean specific ways in which we can take action in the fight against poverty. Two high school senior students will serve as MC’s of the program in order to encourage youth participation and leadership in the human rights movement.

Cost: $75

Profiles in Courage: Americans Who Tell the Truth Gallery show

When: Jan. 7 – 31 Where: Portland Public Library, Lewis Gallery About: Renowned artist Robert Shetterly recently unveiled the latest portrait in his series Americans Who Tell the Truth of local civil

MLK Community Conversations: Opening the Doors to the Beloved Community

When: Jan. 14–16 Where: Various Houses of Worship About: Clergy representing diverse traditions in the greater Portland area will “open their doors” during their services to the public and preach about MLK’s Beloved Community and our collective responsibility to work on economic justice. The message will carry over to the King Holiday on Monday, Jan.17 for an open community conversation at Preble Street Resource Center beginning at 1 p.m.

Cost: Free

MLK March for Justice

When: Monday, Jan. 17 Where: Preble Street Resource Center to the steps of City Hall About: Following the community conversation from 1-2 p.m., marchers will walk from Preble Street Resource Center to the steps

tives and human rights advocates will briefly speak.

MLK Family Programs at the Children’s Museum Monday, Jan. 17 The Children’s Museum & Theater of Maine About: The Children’s Museum & Theater of Maine will offer a variety of activities and programs dedicated to teaching about Martin Luther King, Jr. throughout the day. Families who sign up through the NAACP will be able to visit at no charge.

Cost: Free

Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates Monday, January 17 9:30 a.m.

Bates College, Lewiston The college’s theme for its 2011 King Day programming is “Get Up, Stand Up: The Fierce Urgency of Now.” Speakers include the Rev. James Lawson, a definitive figure in the civil rights movement.

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I know she reads your column, so maybe if she sees it in black and white, she will do better. -- Tired of Being Around the Funk Dear Tired: When was the last time Mom had a complete physical and an evaluation? It is not unusual for people her age to lose some sense of smell, and we suspect Mom does not realize there is an odor. She also may fear slipping in the bathtub, so be sure yours has grab bars and non-slip mats. If she is not seeing a geriatrician, make an appointment for her, and alert the doctor to check for these problems.

Dear Annie: I smiled when I read the letter from “Losing It in Canada,” the parents of two small boys who do not have great table manners despite their parents’ best efforts.

When my son was young, we went through the same thing.

Then one day, he was invited to a girl’s house for dinner. I wanted him to make a nice impression, so I started reviewing table manners with him. He looked at me and said, “Mom, you have been telling me about manners for years. I know what to do. I just choose to ignore you most of the time.”

He went to his friend’s house and displayed excellent manners because those years of teaching had obviously sunk in.

Tell those parents not to give up. Their boys are learning. -Mom in Connecticut

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Now my husband wants nothing to do with Martina, and our oldest daughter won’t speak to her sister. Our son doesn’t approve of Martina, but hasn’t cut her off. I have seen Martina a few times since our fi ght. I have told her that I love her but will never accept the relationship.

Martina wants to come to our house for a visit. My husband says if she comes home, he will leave. But, Annie, I miss her terribly and don’t want to choose between my husband and my child. When I was young, my parents divorced, and I had to choose which one to invite for birthdays and holidays.

It was awful. What can I do? -- Torn Mom Dear Torn: Martina is an adult, and she is not always going to make decisions that you will like. But you must allow her to make her own choices, even when you disagree, and even when there are unpleasant consequences -- such as your husband’s refusal to welcome her home.

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Saturday, Jan. 15 Trash and recycling collected

6:30 a.m. The Department of Public Services Solid Waste crews will not collect trash or recycling on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 17, the city reminds residents. Those residents who normally receive collection services on Monday will have their trash and recycling collected this Saturday, Jan. 15. All items should be out by 6:30 a.m. to ensure collection. If residents have further questions about their trash/ recycling collection, they can contact the Recycling Hotline at 756-8189. The Riverside Recycling Facility will be closed on MLK Day as well, and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, Jan. 18, from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Fore River Sanctuary walk

8:45 a.m. to 10 a.m. Portland Trails is excited to announce a 2011 Winter Walk series. This free series, made possible by a grant from Healthy Portland, is for adults and families with children who are making an effort to get more exercise, but are stymied when it comes to winter recreation. Participants are reminded to wear warm clothing, hats and gloves and bring snowshoes if there is adequate snow on the ground. Portland Trails has snow shoes available (free for members, $5/non-members) which can be reserved ahead of time. Please register for any walk by emailing info@trails. org or calling 775-2411. For more information or to check cancellations due to the weather go to www.trails.org.

Trail Foreman Charlie Baldwin will lead a walk through the Fore River Sanctuary. Expect birds, hills, a bridge over the marsh, a beautiful waterfall and historic kiosks explaining the C&O Canal. Meet at the Udder Place, 428 Brighton Ave.

Portland Winter Farmers’ Market

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Portland Winter Farmers’ Market. Shop with 15-plus Maine farmers every week! Located at the Maine Irish Heritage Center, formerly St. Dominic’s church on State Street and Gray Street. Every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. until April 23. For more information: www.PortlandMaineWinterMarket.com or fi nd the market on Facebook under Portland Maine Winter Market.

Laughter Training for Professionals

9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Laughter Training for Professionals.

Become a Laughter Professional with Katie West. $295 for Saturday and Sunday. Sadhana, the Meditation Center, 100 Brickhill Ave., South Portland. FMI: www.SadhanaMe.com.

Draw-a-Thon III to Bring Our War $$ Home

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Draw-a-Thon III to Bring Our War $$ Home. Held in conjunction with Robert Shetterly’s exhibit, “Americans Who Tell the Truth: A Collection of Portraits & Quotes. Paintings by Robert Shetterly,” CODEPINK Maine and The Union of Maine Visual. “Artists are co-sponsoring this opportunity for artists to work with images created at previous Draw-a-Thons, to help the public connect the dots between war spending and budget cuts at home.” Portland Public Library, Monument Square.

Portland Conservatory of Music open house

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Open house, instrument demos, classical, rock, jazz. Try out an instrument or have a mini lesson.

Door prizes, free popcorn. Portland Conservatory of Music, 202 Woodfords St., (Woodfords Church) 10 to 1. Free. Five percent off new student tuition. 775-3356 or 318-7465.

Using the Circle Symbol for Art and Healing

11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Using the Circle Symbol for Art and Healing with Suzanne Liller & Brady Nickerson. “Circles give us an experience of wholeness amid the chaos of every day life, making the ‘sacred circle,’ one of the very coolest art therapy interventions for both soothing the soul and meeting oneself. Join us for this two-hour art immersion experience; no formal art training/skills are required. Free; pre-registration required. Phone: 774-2200; Email: info@CancerCommunityCenter.org; Web: www.cancercommunitycenter.org/ calendar. Visit 778 Main St. (Rte 1), South Portland.

Ice Seal Response Training Workshop

1 p.m. to 5 p.m. College of the Atlantic’s marine mammal research center, Allied Whale, is also the authorized group for handling rescues and recoveries of marine mammals from Rockland to the Canadian border. To cover this area for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Northeast Region Marine Mammal Stranding Network, the college relies on numerous trained volunteers. Allied Whale will be hosting its annual Ice Seal Response Training Workshop in the college’s McCormick Lecture Hall. At the training, volunteers will learn how to conduct marine mammal assessments, how to relay that information to the veterinarian, and how to aid in the collection and transport of the animals to a rehabilitation facility. Rosemary Seton, Marine Mammal Stranding Coordinator, 288-5644, 801-5682, or rseton@coa.edu.

Church of All God’s Children potluck supper

5 p.m. The Church of All God’s Children will host a potluck supper at the Washington Gardens Community Hall on 66 Churchill St. Cost is $4.

Balé Folclórico da Bahia brings thrilling choreography, joyous rhythms, and a feisty, sensual exuberance to every performance.

The troupe will perform in Portland on Wednesday, Jan. 19. (COURTESY PHOTO)

‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Old Port Playhouse

2 p.m. “The Wizard of Oz,” the sell-out hit musical returns to Old Port Playhouse with Gina Pardi returning as “Dorothy Gale.” “Full of special effects, colorful costumes and all your favorite characters, this show sold out before it opened last season. Because of the intimate space within this 70 seat theater, kids of all ages not only see OZ, they experience it!

Due to the demand for tickets, OZ will play for four weeks beginning Jan. 14. And to make it affordable for everyone, the Playhouse has priced all tickets at only $15.” Fridays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. To make a reservation or for more information, call 773-0333 or go to oldportplayhouse.com.

Self-help author Steff Deschenes at the Scarborough Bull Moose store

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. S elf-help author Steff Deschenes will visit the Bull Moose Scarborough store, 456 Payne Road, for a book signing. Deschenes examines life through a humorous review of the parallels between human personalities and ice cream fl avors in her newest book, The Ice Cream Theory. The book brings together anecdotes from Deschenes’ own adventures with broader-reaching social commentary to help others recognize the wisdom and joy inherent in a beloved dessert. Deschenes, suffering from a broken heart, realized that people’s likes and dislikes change. Ice cream, with its many flavors and combinations, can be compared to the individual personalities of people. Deschenes’ tongue-in-cheek Theory was called “Charming and humorous, The Ice Cream Theory is an intriguing and highly recommended read that shouldn’t be missed,” by the Midwest Book Review and earned several Readers Favorite awards in the SelfHelp category. Deschenes is from Lewiston.

‘The Juke Box Boys’

7 p.m. “The Juke Box Boys,” Tribute to Do-Wop; $39 .9 5 p/p fi ve-course dinner, beer and wine available. Free parking. January 15, 22 and 29 at Anthony’s Dinner Theater, 151 Middle St., Portland. Call for reservations. 221-2267.

‘Crying at Movies’

7:30 p.m. Acorn Productions presents the third play in the company’s inaugural Studio Series when “Crying at Movies,” a new John Manderino play based on his well-received memoir by the same name, premieres in the Acorn Studio Theater. In the piece, Tony recollects how his experiences watching leading ladies in movies as he matured affected his relationships with women. The play is as a tour-de-force for two actors, one of whom serves as narrator and remains on stage the entire play, while the other takes on the roles of more than a dozen women in his life. Acorn’s production is directed by Producing

Director Michael Levine, and features Naked Shakespeare’s Paul Haley and former Acorn Shakespeare Ensemble member Kerry Rasor. Featuring references to well-known movies such as “La Dolce Vita,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kinds,” and “The Graduate,” the play serves up a feast of memories for movie fans through a series of comic scenes featuring romantic mishaps. “Crying at Movies” performs Jan. 14 through 30, with shows Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 5 p.m. Tickets are $10, $8 for students and seniors, and may be purchased online at www.acorn-productions.org or by calling 854-0065.

Sunday, Jan. 16 Great Northeast Radio Rally

9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Blunt Youth Radio Project announced the fi rst-ever Great Northeast Radio Rally to be held at University of Southern Maine. The Rally invites audio producers (and aspiring producers) of all ages and stripes to mingle and talk shop while getting new ideas and inspiration for their craft. The Rally will feature workshops on a variety of audio-related topics, including oral history, telling stories through sound, covering elections for radio, pitching stories to NPR, and creating compelling multimedia. Rally workshop presenter Colin Kelley, a former Blunt member and current Digital Media Specialist at Bates College says, “We’re deluged with this idea that media-making is something that everyone can do. Buzz-words people in my fi eld use include: citizen journalist, digital native, multimedia storyteller. Yet, access and training to the tools is limited.

Small, radio-centric conferences like the Radio Rally open up the idea that radio really is for everyone.” The Rally runs 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at the Wishcamper Center on the campus of the University of Southern Maine, and concludes in the evening with what may be the world’s fi rst Audio Slam, a friendly but serious competition at Space Gallery in downtown Portland. The Slam starts at 7 p.m., and it is free and open to all ages. The Audio Slam is similar to a poetry slam with a few twists: Audio producers enter 4 minutes of produced audio, and these entries are played and judged live at the Slam in a series of one-minute rounds. The winning prize is $500. Also, all entries will air on Blunt, the weekly show of Blunt Youth Radio on WMPG, Greater Portland Community Radio. Entries are being accepted until Jan. 10 at 5 p.m. More information, competition guidelines, and registration details for the Great Northeast Radio Rally may be found at bluntradio.org. This event is funded through the Maine Arts Commission. see next page

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‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Old Port Playhouse

2 p.m. “The Wizard of Oz,” the sell-out hit musical returns to Old Port Playhouse with Gina Pardi returning as “Dorothy Gale.” “Full of special effects, colorful costumes and all your favorite characters, this show sold out before it opened last season. Because of the intimate space within this 70 seat theater, kids of all ages not only see OZ, they experience it!

Due to the demand for tickets, OZ will play for four weeks beginning Jan. 14. And to make it affordable for everyone, the Playhouse has priced all tickets at only $15.” Fridays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. To make a reservation or for more information, call 773-0333 or go to oldportplayhouse.com.

30th Annual MLK Celebration Dinner

6 p.m. From Civil Rights To Human Rights: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Demand for Economic Justice. Reception: 5 p.m.; dinner: 6 p.m. Holiday Inn by the Bay, Portland. “In order to acknowledge our historic milestone of 30 years, the traditional breakfast program will take place as a dinner on the night before the King Holiday allowing for the holiday to be utilized for a community conversation on poverty, a March for Justice, and family activities aimed at developing healthy minds, bodies and souls. The dinner includes a keynote address, recognition of exceptional community leadership, and an interactive dinner exercise to glean specific ways in which we can take action in the fi ght against poverty. Two high school senior students will serve as MC’s of the program in order to encourage youth participation and leadership in the human rights movement.” www.portlandmlk.net/

Monday, Jan. 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates

9 :30 a.m. Two generations of prominent social activists — one of them described by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as “the greatest teacher of nonviolence in America” — offer keynote addresses during Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Lewiston’s Bates College on Monday, Jan. 17. The college’s theme for its 2011 King Day programming is “Get Up, Stand Up: The Fierce Urgency of Now.” The speakers are the Rev. James Lawson, a defi nitive fi gure in the civil rights movement of the 19 50s and ‘60s, and Asher Kolieboi, co-director of an organization that works against campus violence toward members of the lesbiangay-bisexual-transgender community. All MLK Day events at Bates are open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 786-6400 or visit the college website at www.bates.edu.

Debbie and Friends at One Longfellow

11 a.m. Debbie and Friends at One Longfellow Square.

These concerts are fun for the whole family. Parents and kids join in this interactive “variety show,” which includes a diverse array of styles including rock, pop, country, reggae, and Broadway-esque tunes. You’ll become the Big Bad Wolf and blow the house down, fi x Rosie’s wrong rhymes, test your skills with the Simon Sez Song, and share a special moment with your loved ones singing “Love Is a Family.” $8 adv/$10 door, Kids 2 and under get in free! www.debbieandfriends.net

MLK March for Justice

2 p.m. Preble Street Resource Center to Portland City Hall.

An open community conversation will be held at Preble Street Resource Center beginning at 1 p.m. “Following the community conversation from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., marchers will walk from Preble Street Resource Center to the steps of city hall to give voice to our commitment and solidarity in addressing poverty in our community. A large copy of MLK’s Bill of Economic Rights and proposed Community Compact for Justice will be displayed. Key business leaders, antipoverty leaders, tribal representatives and human rights advocates will briefly speak.” www.portlandmlk.net

‘Sudanese in Maine and Beyond’

7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Hour Exchange Portland, The Southern Sudanese Communities, and Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center of Maine), “From My Eyes: Sudanese in Maine and Beyond” at CTN/Hour Exchange Portland Offi ce, 516 Congress St., Portland. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Hour Exchange Portland, The Southern Sudanese Communities, and Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center of Maine) present “From My Eyes: Sudanese in Maine and Beyond,” an evening of multicultural education featuring speakers from Darfur and Southern Sudan at the CTN/Hour Exchange offi ces at 516 Congress St. Speakers will share stories from their experiences migrating to the United States, and information about the current political climate in Sudan. Following the presentations, the audience is encouraged to engage in a Question and Answer session with the speakers. This event is open to the public, and international refreshments will be

provided. Donations are requested to support local organizations such as Fur Cultural Revival. For further information, please contact Sarah Davis at 207-653-1750 or at sdavis@ ccmaine.org, or El-Fadel Arbab at 207-221-5197 or at elfadelfcr@gmail.com .

Midnight Metaphysical Society

7 p.m. The Midnight Metaphysical Society will conduct its first discussion group meeting at the Southworth Planetarium in Portland. Even though the group is called the “Midnight Metaphysical Society,” each month’s group begins at 7 p.m., the planetarium notes. “The word ‘midnight’ pertains to the location: the planetarium’s night dome.” “We are very pleased to work with the Southworth Planetarium as a venue in exploring the more eclectic questions regarding the nature of reality and existence,” said Natalie Angela organizer and facilitator of The Midnight Metaphysical Society. “In these turbulent times as we are bombarded by an onslaught of one disaster after another the need to explore and understand the deeper meaning of existence becomes ever more urgent and timely. Exploration and practical application is the focus of MMS,” the group noted. “While MMS is grounded in classical metaphysics, we are a catalyst for the integration of the philosophy of existence with the practical reality of living in the world ... what good is this knowledge if you don’t apply it to bring peace of mind, help and healing to yourself and others ... especially now? said Angela. The Midnight Metaphysical Society is open to the public. All are invited to attend. For more information please contact Natalie Angela via email at natalie@abcacim.org or the Southworth Planetarium at 780-4249.

Tuesday, Jan. 18 Succession Planning for Businesses

4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Peter Plumb, co-founder and senior director of Murray, Plumb & Murray, will host a free seminar, “Succession Planning for Businesses and Family Real Estate” at the fi rm’s offi ce at 75 Pearl St. in Portland. This seminar will lead attendees through the often confusing and diffi cult questions of succession planning for businesses and family real estate. Owners of small businesses nearing retirement frequently struggle with decisions about whether to sell their business and on what terms. Families that own property together face diffi cult questions of how to use, maintain, govern and ultimately transfer ownership. This presentation will provide attendees with principles that will guide them through this process and increase the chances of a favorable outcome. The seminar is free but registration is required. To reserve a seat, contact Kathy Willette at 523-8243 or at kwillette@mpmlaw. com. Refreshments will be provided.

Supplements in Integrative Cancer Care

6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Nutritional & Herbal Supplements in Integrative Cancer Care with Colleen Tetzlaff. “Integrative cancer care and the role of nutritional supplements, including immunonutrition and herbal medicine, which can extend the quantity and quality of life for cancer patients. A personalized, systemic and targeted approach to treating the patient.” Free; pre-registration required. Phone: 774-2200; Email: info@CancerCommunityCenter.org; Web: www.cancercommunitycenter.org/calendar. Visit 778 Main St. (Rte 1), South Portland.

Wednesday, Jan. 19 Film on Creativity with Filmmakers

6 p.m. The fi lm “M.C. Richards: The Fire Within” will be screened at the Maine College of Art, Osher Hall, 522 Congress St. The movie “is a love poet’s journey into discovering the delicate links between creativity and the imagination.

In rare documentary footage about this pivotal fi gure in the New York avant garde, we witness Mary Caroline Richards (19 16-19 9 9 ) engage in contemplative questioning regarding the nature of art, imagination, wholeness, and community. Known for her infl uential book ‘CENTERING,’ M.C. was head of faculty at the experimental Black Mountain College (19 49 -51) serving with Robert Rauschenberg, Willem deKooning, Arthur Penn, Buckminster Fuller, Merce Cunningham, and John Cage among others. This fi lm has been selected for nine international fi lm festivals and won Best Film in the 2010 Image Gazer Film Festival. Filmmakers Richard Kane and Melody Lewis-Kane will present the film at MECA’s Osher Hall, 522 Congress St., Portland.

Admission free.” Sponsored by Maine College of Art. www. kanelewis.com

Capoeira: From Africa to Brazil to Maine

6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Merrill Auditorium Rehearsal Hall. Portland’s capoeira Mestre Joao Bordallo lectures on the religious, historical, and contemporary vitality of capoeira, a martial art form created by African slaves in Brazil over 400 years ago. http://portlandovations.org

Exhibit of Antonio Guerrero

7 p.m. Glickman Library (seventh fl oor) at University of

Southern Maine, 314 Forest Ave., Portland. Reception marking the exhibition (on fi fth fl oor) of prison paintings by Antonio Guerrero. “Vinie Burrows will speak, dedicating the evening to the late Rev. Lucius Walker. She calls for Antonio’s freedom and that of four other Cuban men serving unjust sentences in U.S. prisons.” http://usm.maine.edu/ gallery/cal.html or www.peaceactionme.org

Balé Folclórico da Bahia

7:30 p.m. Balé Folclórico da Bahia brings thrilling choreography, joyous rhythms, and a feisty, sensual exuberance to every performance. The 38-member troupe of dancers, instrumentalists, and singers performs a repertory based on Bahian folkloric dances of African origin including slave dances; capoeira, a form of martial arts; samba de roda and the lively traditions celebrating Carnival. The centerpiece of the evening, Sacred Heritage, is a work rooted in the AfroBrazilian religion of Candomblé, created for the 20th anniversary of the company, and seen in the U.S. for the fi rst time on this tour. $44; $38; $32. Members: $40; $34; $29.

Students: $15. Merrill Auditorium.

48th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival

7:30 p.m. Film event: Traveling tour of the 48th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival; Program 1: Wednesday, Jan. 19; Program 2: Wednesday, Jan. 26. SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland. Doors open at 7 p.m. Film begins at 7:30 p.m.

Admission $7, $5 for SPACE members and MECA students.

Co-presented by the ICA at The Maine College of Art. The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America, established in 19 63. Internationally recognized as a premiere forum for independent fi lmmakers and artists, each year’s festival engages audiences with remarkable cinematic experiences. The AAFF is a pioneer of the traveling fi lm festival tour and each year presents short fi lms programs at more than 30 theaters, universities, museums and art house cinemas throughout the world.

Thursday, Jan. 20 Labyrinth Walk

4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Trinity Episcopal Church’s 28-foot Chartres-style indoor labyrinth will be open between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. for meditative walks. All are welcome. Trinity is located at the corner of 580 Forest Avenue in Portland.

Walkers should allow approximately 30 minutes for their walk. FMI: 772-7421.

Rebekah Raye reads at Lyseth School

5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.Rebekah Raye, a Maine writer and artist known for her bird and animal paintings and sculptures, will read one of her stories and talk about her work at Portland’s Lyseth Elementary School. The public is invited to attend the free event, sponsored by the Lyseth School Parent Teacher Association Enrichment Committee. The reading will take place in the library of the school, located at 175 Auburn St. Raye will read her storybook, “The Very Best Bed,” which tells about a gray squirrel searching for a place to spend the night. After the reading, she will sign books.

Children are encouraged to wear pajamas and bring their favorite stuffed animal to the event. Animal crackers and chocolate milk will be served. Raye won a 2010 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award in the category of environmental issues. She wrote and illustrated “Bear-ly There,” a book inspired partly by a visit by a bear to her studio and home in East Blue Hill. She also illustrated “Thanks to the Animals,” a book by Allen Sockabasin.

Boston artist E.S. Finney at UMF

5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The University of Maine at Farmington Art Gallery kicks off the New Year with an exhibit of vast sculptural works by Boston artist E.S. Finney. Dramatic in its subject and scale, this free and open-to-the-public exhibition runs from Jan. 20–Feb. 20, with an opening reception at the gallery from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 20. Active in the Boston arts community, Finney constructs exciting sculptural works that are as imposing and mysterious as they are evocative. His work is built of massive wooden beams, motors, mirrors and found objects of every description. Like the pieces included in this exhibit, his art explores the qualities of weight and weightlessness, darkness and light. Finney’s “Vehicle Intended for Fluid Movement” is the exhibit’s featured work. A unique timbered construction of a wooden sailing boat on a grand scale, it occupies both the first and second gallery levels. Also included in the installation is “Cornerstone,” an intriguingly antiquated construction that tracks the passage of the sun. The UMF Art Gallery is located at 246 Main St. in Farmington, immediately behind the Admissions Offi ce. The gallery is open noon to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday, during the UMF academic year and by appointment. For more information, or to make special arrangements, please call 207-778-7002, or email Elizabeth Olbert, director of the UMF Art Gallery, at elizabeth.olbert@maine.edu. see next page

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Social Security Disability

6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Social Security Disability with Henri and Anna Benoit. “Social Security Disability Benefi ts including: application process and appeals, evaluation, the role of healthcare providers and attorneys in the process.

Designed with special consideration for cancer patients.”

Free; pre-registration required. Phone: 774-2200; Email: info@CancerCommunityCenter.org; Web: www.cancercommunitycenter.org/calendar. Visit 778 Main St. (Rte 1), South Portland.

New Gloucester Historical Society

6:30 p.m. The January 2011 meeting of the New Gloucester Historical Society will be in the New Gloucester Meetinghouse, Intervale Road (Route 231), next to the Town Hall.

The program will be presented by a history class from GrayNew Gloucester Middle School that has just completed field trips and projects related to local history. The public is invited. Refreshments will be served. The program will be followed by the society’s annual meeting.

Chuchito Valdes at The Landing

7 p.m. Chuchito Valdes, following in the footsteps of his famed father Chucho Valdes and grandfather Bebo Valdes, continues the legacy of great piano players from Cuba. With infl uences of Caribbean rhythms and jazz, Chuchito creates an exciting and energetic blend of spicy music that drives audiences wild.

Don’t miss ChuChito and his dynamic band on stage at The Landing at Pine Point. 353 Pine Point Road Scarborough.

Edward Albee’s ‘The Goat’

7:30 p.m. “The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?” through Feb. 6 at Lucid Stage. “Martin — a hugely successful architect who has just turned fi fty — leads an ostensibly ideal life with his loving wife and gay teenage son. But when he confides to his best friend that he is also in love with a goat (named Sylvia), he sets in motion events that will destroy his family and leave his life in tatters. Albee’s most provocative, daring, and controversial play since ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’.” Mad Horse Theatre Company is a resident, professional theatre ensemble based at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard. www.madhorse.com

Friday, Jan. 21 Richard Boyd Pottery Studio & Art Gallery

10 a.m. Richard Boyd Pottery Studio & Art Gallery, 15 Epps St., Peaks Island, presents “Serenity,” a group show from Jan. 21 through Feb. 20. The exhibit features recent works in porcelain by gallery artists, potters Rick Boyd and Pamela Williamson. For more information contact the Art Gallery by phone 712.1097, email: williamson955@aol.com or visit www.richardboydpottery.com. Richard Boyd Gallery is located at the corner of Island Ave. and Epps St. on Peaks Island, first building on the right.

2011 Sea Dogs Hot Stove Dinner

5:30 p.m. The Portland Sea Dogs, Double-A affi liate of the Boston Red Sox, have announced that Red Sox prospects Tim Federowicz and Will Middlebrooks have been added to the list of guests for the 2011 Sea Dogs Hot Stove Dinner and Silent Auction, presented by Hannaford Supermarkets.

The event takes places at the Marriott Hotel at Sable Oaks in South Portland. Additionally, new Sea Dogs’ manager Kevin Boles will be formally introduced at the event. Highlighting the event are Red Sox outfi elder and former Sea Dog Ryan Kalish and Maine native and Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Mark Rogers. All proceeds from the dinner and silent auction will benefi t the Strike Out Cancer in Kids Program. Tickets can be ordered by phone at 879 -9 500 or online at www.seadogs.com. Individual tickets are $50 each; reserved tables of 10 are also available for $500.

Everyone who attends will receive a signed 8 X 10 photo of Ryan Kalish and Mark Rogers.

‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Old Port Playhouse

7:30 p.m. “The Wizard of Oz,” the sell-out hit musical returns to Old Port Playhouse with Gina Pardi returning as “Dorothy Gale.” Fridays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. To make a reservation or for more information, call 773-0333 or go to oldportplayhouse.com.

Saturday, Jan. 22 ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Old Port Playhouse

2 p.m. “The Wizard of Oz,” the sell-out hit musical returns to Old Port Playhouse with Gina Pardi returning as “Dorothy Gale.” Fridays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. To make a reservation or for more information, call 773-0333 or go to oldportplayhouse.com.

‘Fiddler on the Roof’

2 p.m. and 7 p.m. National Broadway Tour presented by

Portland Ovations. “The Tony Award winning musical that has captured the hearts of people all over the world with its universal appeal comes to Portland. Based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ has been lauded by critics again and again. Filled with a rousing, heartwarming score, which includes ‘Tradition,’ ‘Matchmaker, Matchmaker,’ ‘If I Were A Rich Man’ and ‘Sunrise, Sunset,’ ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ is a timeless classic. No other musical has so magically woven music, dance, poignancy and laughter into such an electrifying and unforgettable experience. Merrill Auditorium. Pre-concert lecture: In City Hall, conference room 24 (entrance on Myrtle Street to the left of the Merrill Auditorium doors).

Soup and Stew Cook-off

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Soup and Stew Cook-off, Westbrook Eagles No. 29 77, 89 Saco St., Westbrook. To enter, call Maggie at 310-8510. Entry fee is $5. To come to taste and vote: $5.

‘Best of Women in Harmony’

7 p.m. Women in Harmony presents “Best of Women in Harmony,” a choral concert featuring songs about women’s experiences and work for social justice, on Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. and Jan. 23 at 4 p.m. at Woodfords Congregational Church, 202 Woodford Street, Portland. Tickets are available at the Women in Harmony Web site (www.wihmaine.org). They also may be purchased at Longfellow Books and Starbird Music in Portland, Nonesuch Books in South Portland and at the door. Ticket prices are $12 in advance, $15 at the door and $10 for seniors and students. Children under 12 are free.

‘The Juke Box Boys’

7 p.m. “The Juke Box Boys,” Tribute to Do-Wop; $39 .9 5 p/p fi ve-course dinner, beer and wine available. Free parking. January 15, 22 and 29 at Anthony’s Dinner Theater, 151 Middle St., Portland. Call for reservations. 221-2267.

Sunday, Jan. 23 The Maine Jewish Museum presents ‘The Thinking Heart — the Life and Loves of Etty Hillesum’

2 p.m. “The Thinking Heart—the Life and Loves of Etty Hillesum,” an ensemble performance work in two voices, with cello, based on the journal and letters of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch woman who opposed Nazism with compassion and love, will be presented at The Maine Jewish Museum, Etz Chaim Synagogue, 267 Congress St., Portland on Sunday, Jan. 23, at 2 p.m. (Snow date Sunday, Jan. 30, at 2 p.m.) Admission is free.

Fur Cultural Revival peace rally

7 p.m. to 9 p.m. A Peace Rally for Darfur featuring the fi lm, “Violence Against Women and The Darfur Genocide” is planned at The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St. Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center of Maine) presents a Peace Rally for Darfur, featuring a showing of the documentary fi lm, “Violence Against Women and the Darfur Genocide.” This rally will feature guest speakers from the local Darfuri community, including El-Fadel Arbab, lecturer for Fur Cultural Revival, and area activists. Also, the documentary fi lm, “Violence Against Women and The Darfur Genocide,” will be shown. “Violence Against Women and The Darfur Genocide” is a short documentary fi lm produced by The Save Darfur Coalition. This fi lm provides a background on the genocide in Darfur and details the use of rape as a weapon of war. Since 2003, more than 400,000 people have died in Darfur, Sudan. More than 2.7 million people have been displaced. Southern Maine boasts the largest organized Darfuri refugee population in The United States. Although Sudanese President Al-Bashir is now wanted by the international courts for war crimes, the genocide in Darfur continues. This rally is intended to demonstrate support for the people of Darfur both here in The United States and throughout the Darfuri diaspora. It is free, and the public is encouraged to attend.

For further information, please contact El-Fadel Arbab at 221-5197 or at elfadelfcr@gmail.com or visit www.furculturalrevival.org.

Monday, Jan. 24

Environmental Health Strategy Center fundraiser

4 p.m. to 10 p.m.

The Environmental Health Strategy Center will be holding a fundraiser at Bayside Bowl located at 58 Alder St. in Portland. Five percent of all proceeds will go to EHSC. There will be a raffle to win a free Bayside Bowl cheese pizza at 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. for everyone who is out bowling to support EHSC. The Environmental Health Strategy Center is a Maine based nonprofi t that works to reduce cancer and learning disabilities by eliminating exposure to toxic chemicals in everyday products and create new safe alternatives such as plastic made from Maine potatoes.

Assessment of national healthcare reform

4:15 p.m. Joseph Newhouse, a professor of health policy and management at Harvard University and founding director of the university’s doctoral program in that fi eld, visits Bates College in Lewiston to offer an assessment of the national healthcare reform enacted last year. “An economist known worldwide for his work on health and health insurance issues, Newhouse is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management, director of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education, chair of the Committee on Higher Degrees in Health Policy and director of the Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy. He is a member of the faculties of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health and the faculty of arts and sciences, as well as a faculty research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.” This talk will take place in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk). The talk is sponsored by the Bates economics department and is open to the public free of charge. For more information, please call 786-6490.

Tuesday, Jan. 25 DownEast Pride Alliance event

5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. “Business After Hours” Networking Event by the DownEast Pride Alliance at Yankee Lanes, 867 Riverside St., Portland. Snacks, cash bar and reserved bowling lanes will be provided. “The DownEast Pride Alliance (DEPA) is a GLBTQ business networking group in Southern Maine meeting monthly at local establishments for ‘Business After Hours’ events that provide a safe forum for, and help strengthen, the local gay & gay-friendly business community. Bring business cards to share on our Media Table. No fees or RSVP to attend. All in the community are welcome to come for ‘cocktails & conversation.’”

FMI www.depabusiness.com

Portland Trails’ 20th anniversary

5:30 p.m. Portland Trails kicks off its 20th anniversary year with its annual meeting at the Portland Public Library.

The evening starts at 5:30 p.m. in the Lewis Gallery with a reception for Portland Trails Members and Volunteers with special guests, Portland Trails’ founders Tom Jewell, Nathan Smith, and Dick Spencer. Directly after the reception a presentation in the Rines Auditorium, “20 Years and Building: Stories from the Trail,” will be followed by special announcements, proclamations and an unveiling of the new 20th Anniversary Edition Portland Trails Map and Guide. To RSVP (required) email info@trails.org or call 775-2511. The Portland Public Library is located at 5 Monument Square in Portland.

Rosemont crime watch meeting

7 p.m. Portland City Councilor Ed Suslovic and members of the Portland Police Department will host a meeting to help members of the Rosemont neighborhood establish a crime watch for the area. Senior Lead Officer for the neighborhood, Tim Farris, will present various strategies that can be used to establish a crime watch and help guide the neighborhood as they develop a program that best meets their needs and concerns. “This meeting is a great first step toward improving the safety of the Rosemont neighborhood and reducing crime,” said Councilor Suslovic. “When you organize the eyes and ears of a community, it not only allows the residents to feel safer and more in control of their neighborhood but it also brings people together to form a more close knit community. For more information about the meeting or crime watch efforts, contact Officer Tim Farris at 650-8763 or timf@portlandmaine.gov. St. Ansgar’s Church, 515 Woodford St.

The Art of Delegating with Jim Millken

7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Seminar — The Art of Delegating with Jim Millken. Chamber Offi ces, 60 Pearl Street, Portland.

Free to Chamber members; $10 for nonmembers. Jim Milliken is a consultant who specializes in helping individuals and organizations become more productive. He works on-site with executives and managers to improve the processes and structures of organizations, and to provide customized skill-building training. He also presents classroom training, with workplace-based designs that emphasize practical skills in Project Management, Communication and Personal Productivity. Few things in the workplace are as difficult as delegation – or as important.”

Effective Caregiving with Michael Brescia

6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Effective Caregiving with Michael Brescia.

“Michael’s wife, Grace, passed away at age 46 in 2006 after a courageous battle with breast cancer. What he learned about caregiving for his wife and children during the course of her illness. Most relevant for husbands and partners of women who have cancer; useful for anyone providing support to a loved one with cancer.” Free; pre-registration required. Phone: 7742200; Web: www.cancercommunitycenter.org/calendar. Visit 778 Main St. (Rte 1), South Portland.

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Saturday, Jan. 15 Ramblin’ Red CD release at Mayo St. Arts

8 p.m. Inspired by the crashing of the ocean, the creak of the back porch, the crunch of homemade tacos, and the wonders of wine, Portland Maine based quartet Ramblin’ Red takes you down original folk roads with old-time twists and bluegrass turns, in funky dance-off shoes. Celebrating the release of The Acorn EP, Ramblin Red plays with guests Monique Barret and FEN. From Beatles covers to the traditions such as songs from The Seldom Scene and Bill Monroe Fen mixes a variety of styles, arrangements, and instruments to produce an entirely new and unique style of bluegrass. Driving accompaniment from banjo, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, bass and piano complement strong vocals and four part harmonies creating a whole new live experience. $8 advance, $10 day-of.

Tuesday, Jan. 18 TWO: Sasquatch & The Sick-a-Billys / The Outsiders

8 p.m. Port City Music Hall presents: Sasquatch & The Sicka-Billys, who bring psychobilly, rockabilly, blues, metal, punk, country, and rock-n-roll! Providence, Rhode Island’s powertrio Sasquatch & The Sick-a-Billys cover all genres. Their live shows are full of high gear, powerhouse entertainment. It is on musical onslaught to not only your ears, but also your eyes. http://www.sickabilly.com/. Hailing from southern Maine, The Outsiders are driven by a love for rock n roll and a constant discontent for authority and whiny emo kids. The Outsiders (THE PUNKABILLY REBELS) have been knocking unexpecting audiences senseless up and down the New England states since 2002. The Outsiders have come to destroy all who oppose them! http://www.myspace.com/theoutsiders. $2, 21 plus.

Thursday, Jan. 20 Noonday Concert at First Parish

noon. 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. Featuring the Portland String Quartet. FMI: First Parish 773.5747 or www.firstparishportland.org

Soul Clap! Dance-off at SPACE

9 p.m. You’ve heard of emcee battles, you’ve heard of air guitar competitions but are you ready for a dance-off? New York maximum rock and roll party machine DJ Jonathan Toubin returns to SPACE after repeatedly bringing us the best dance parties we’ve ever had. SOUL CLAP is making it’s way across the nation where everyone is welcome to get down to classic 45s from Etta James to James Brown.

You can move your feet to your favorites AND get your mind blown by Toubin’s crate of obscure soul gems. Later in the evening, the bravest, boldest, and baddest can choose to compete in the dance-off, grab a number, and compete for a $100 cash prize (and some serious clout). The competition winner is determined by a panel of local judges, a celebrity smorgasbord of some of your favorite faces in town. $5, 18 plus.

Friday, Jan. 21 Robot Party at Mayo Street Arts

8 p.m. ID M Theft able, Power Lines and Computer at Sea invade Mayo Street Arts for an electro-robot dance party!

ID M Theft able: Portland based audio performance artist.

Valentine’sDinner, C om edy N ight, and D ance $25.00 The Portlan d Eagles Sa tu rday,Febru ary 12th 6pm Din n er Bu ffet •7pm Com edy Show 9pm En tertain m en t by Reggie Con ohan M em bers& Gu estsofM em bers

184 St.Joh n St.,Portland •773-9448

Local quartet Ramblin’ Red takes you down original folk roads with old-time twists and bluegrass turns, in funky dance-off shoe s. Celebrating the release of The Acorn EP, Ramblin Red plays with guests Monique Barret and FEN. From Beatles covers to the traditions such as songs from The Seldom Scene and Bill Monroe Fen mixes a variety of styles, arrangements, and instruments to produce an entir ely new and unique style of bluegrass. Driving accompaniment from banjo, guitar, ddle, fi mandolin, bass and piano complement strong vocals and four part harmonies creating a whole new live experience. $8 advance, $10 day-of, Mayo St. Arts. (COURTESY PHOTO) Power Lines: Portland based instrumental/electronic duo.

Computer at Sea: Portland based live electronics act. $5 for humans, free for robots.

Bayside Fuzz Fest at Bayside Bowl

8:30 p.m. The Outsiders, Jonny Earthquake Band and Whistlebait Burlesque. 21 plus.

Country Night at Mayo St. Arts

8 p.m. A showcase of country music to include old time, barn dance, western swing, hillbilly, cowboy, blue grass, hee-haw, honky tonk, appalachian, nashville, texas, outlaw, and truck driving tunes performed by local artists. Master of Ceremony: Tom Whitehead. Performances by: Mezcalitos, Steve Tesh, Kelly Nesbitt, Kate Cox, Matt Rock, Over a Cardboard Sea, Dave Noyes, Aleric Vince Nez, The Moonrakers, Jon Cooper, Jenny Van West, Troy Scott, Jack Marrie, Mackenzie Marrie, Jessica Townes George, Brad Strause, Burd, Tim Findlen, Phil Hoose, Sandi St.George, The Buckle Shiners. $5, 18 plus.

Tuesday, Jan. 25 ‘From Russia With Love’

7:30 p.m. “From Russia With Love” Tuesday Classical in Merrill Auditorium. This concert opens with the world premiere of Elliott Schwartz’s Diamond Jubilee, co-commissioned by the PSO for the composer’s 75th birthday. Guest pianist Andrew von Oeyen will then join the orchestra for Prokofi ev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. The Los Angeles Times declared von Oeyen possessed of “indisputable gifts [and] an extravagantly thorough and effortless technique.” The evening will conclude with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5, the politically charged composition with hidden messages underneath the crowd-pleasing lyricism. A Concert Conversation will be held at 6:15 p.m. Following the concert patrons are

Every Tue. Night is Benefit Night at Flatbread Join us from 5 - 9

Tuesday, Jan. 18th $3.50 will be donated for every pizza sold.

Benefit:

YES Artworks 72 Commercial St., Portland, ME Open Sun. thru Thurs 11:30am–9:00pm, Fri. & Sat. 11:30am–10:00pm

invited to a PostConcert Q&A with the artists and then to Restaurant Grace for an Afterglow cocktail reception. www.portlandsymphony.org.

Friday, Jan. 28 Dead of Winter 5 - Death of D.O.W.

8:30 p.m. Five years ago, soon-to-be SPACE Programmer Ian Paige and not-quite-yet Brenda frontman Joshua Loring had a good idea: Create an event that helps Portland musicians and audiences get through these darkest days of winter with hot toddies, cozy candlelight, and intimate performances from a cross-section of our city’s finest musicians. All good things must come to an end, however, and Josh and Ian are going to see this wildly successful series out with a bang. They’ll be joined by a boatload of Portland celebrities visiting the stage as your hosts sit by the fake fire in their armchairs, snifters in hand, guiding you through performances by Tyler Jackson (Foam Castles), Samuel James, Aleric Nez, Dave Noyes and Kelly Nesbitt, Sean Morin, Leif Sherman-Curtis (AOK Suicide Forest), JD Walker and Sontiago, Emily Dix Thomas, and more! 14-year-old wunderkind Leander Johnson dj’s the night with the sound of snowfl akes falling and expect a ton of surprises from the likes of Joe Ricchio (Portland Food Coma), Crank Sturgeon, Mayor Nick Mavodones, TJ Metcalfe (Dead Man’s Clothes) and Sean Wilkinson on one of our favorite nights of the year! $6, 18 plus.

Saturday, Jan. 29 Monster Energy Music as a Weapon V at the Cumberland County Civic Center

7 p.m. Monster Energy Music as a Weapon V, featuring Disturbed and Korn at the Cumberland County Civic Center.

Tickets: $39 .75 general admission. Multi-platinum Chicago quartet Disturbed’s new album, “Asylum,” will be released Aug. 31. Over the course of eight full-length releases, Korn have sold in excess of 30 million albums, played countless sold-out shows worldwide and won two Grammys. www.theciviccenter.com

Waranimal’s Winter Beach Ball

9 p.m. SPACE Gallery is going to crank the heat and dance up a sweat so wear your shorts and hawaiian shirt under your snowsuit when you come to Waranimal’s Winter Beach Ball!

Everyone gets lei-ed at the door! Grab a lawn chair and an adult sno-cone with your sunglasses on as you enjoy the ceremonial headbanging and beer tornados of local boys done bad-ass,Waranimal (featuring Dethbot). Boston’s Razormaze holds down the long hair, pointy guitars and ripping solos and Corpse Pose, the new supergroup featuring members of Conifer, Cult Maze and LANTVRN, makes their SPACE debut.

Think Weekend at Bernie’s meets Bauhaus. Dj Kurt Baker spins vinyl all through the night so you don’t have to put your coat on till last call! $7, 18 plus.