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Sound waves: Summer concert series hit two Portland waterfront venues

BY MATT DODGE

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In the summer of 2009 Joshua Gass took some time out from helping to organize Bangor’s debut indie music festival and trekked down to the Portland waterfront to watch Wilco play the Maine State Pier.

“One of things that struck me were the ferries going in and out during the show and the Old Port skyline,” said Gass. “When the weather is perfect, I don’t think there’s anything that really beats it. Being outdoors, enjoying good music — the atmosphere is extremely unique,” he said.

A month later, Gass and a team of eastern Maine indie music compatriots held the first KahBang Music, Art & Film Festival on the Bangor waterfront. Now entering it’s third summer and expanding into a week-long event, KahBang has carved out a niche in Maine’s summer musical festival scene.

But that one Wilco show still stood out for the KahBang crew.

“We thought it was such a perfect venue for Portland, so we looked into it and decided to George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic play the Maine State Pier on June 4, 2011. Hosted by the organizer’s of Bangor’s annual KahBnag Arts, Music & Film see MUSIC page 10

Festival, the show was the first in a series to be held this summer at the State Pier. The State Theatre is also getting in on the waterfront fun, with two shows this summer to be held outside the Ocean Gateway. (PHOTO COURTESY OF JOSH COUTURIER/KAHBANG MUSIC, ART & FILM FESTIVAL)

Subsidy cap in question for Cincy’s city manager said to visit Thompson’s Point project Portland next week to vet Craig

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BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

There seems to be little doubt that city councilors will approve tax breaks worth an estimated $31 million for the developers of a convention center project at Thompson’s Point during Monday’s council meeting.

But the question of whether councilors will set a cap limiting total public subsidy for the $100 million project is far from settled.

Developers have argued that setting a cap on the total benefit of the tax breaks would create a disincentive for new investment at the 25-acre site.

Some city councilors see things differently.

Thompson’s Point Development Co. has proposed building a convention center, office park, hotel and concert venue on Thompson’s Point, in the city’s Libbysee CAP page 11

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Cincinnati city manager Milton Dohoney is said to be visiting Portland early next week to continue vetting Police Chief James Craig, who is one of four finalists for a vacant police chief job in Cincinnati.

Craig, 54, was hired as Portland’s chief two years ago after more than two decades with the Los Angeles Police Department.

He has twice traveled to Cincinnati in the past two months for interviews, including a meeting last week with Dohoney.

In an email yesterday, Craig declined to comment on the rumors that Cincinnati’s

top administrative official was planning a visit.

“I can only say that I am still in contention for the position. I anticipate additional conversations with the manager,” Craig said.

Dohoney’s spokeswoman in Cincinnati would neither confirm nor deny rumors about a possible trip to Portland.

“I’m not able to comment on his plans,” said the spokeswoman, Meg Olberding.

“He is doing his due diligence on the candidates.”

Even so, the visit is said to be an open see CRAIG page 8

Welcome to Summer

Paying off your mortgage early?

Q&A with Maine labor mural artist Judy Taylor

See Curtis Robinson’s column, page 4

See page 7

See the New York Times interview, page 8

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Phil Campbells gather in town of same name PHIL CAMPBELL, Ala. (NY Times) — Phil Campbell, a writer from Brooklyn, is in love with this little three-stoplight town. So is Phil Campbell from Wisconsin. And Phil Campbell from England.

There are 18 Phil Campbells here this weekend. No Phyllis Campbells, though, a frustration to the organizers who have been planning for months to descend on Phil Campbell as it celebrates its centennial.

The whole idea started as a joke, really — a weekend romp to rural northern Alabama for people who share a name and, clearly, a sense of humor.

Then, on April 27, one of the strongest tornadoes on record tore though town. It killed 26 people. That’s a lot of death to absorb, but even more so when a community had only 1,100 people to begin with.

Overnight, the Phil Campbell convention became a relief effort. Word went out to the 190 Phil and Phyllis Campbells on the Facebook page Brooklyn Phil started, in an age when the marriage between narcissism and technology has become everyday. Twitter accounts were established. Money was raised. The “I’m with Phil” campaign was born.

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BEIRUT (NY Times) — Thousands of protesters poured into the streets of the capital’s suburbs and three of Syria’s five largest cities Friday, in a weekly show of defiance that came days before President Bashar al-Assad was expected to address Syrians for the first time in two months. Activists said at least 19 people were killed and dozens wounded.

Security forces fired on pro-

testers in Homs, one of Syria’s most restive locales, and the police and protesters fought in Deir al-Zour, a large city in the east. But thousands were permitted to demonstrate in Kiswa, a town south of Damascus, where demonstrators carried banners that read, “Leave!” and “The people want the fall of the regime.”

Some opposition figures had speculated that the govern-

ment might try to bring down a death toll that surged past 100 on one Friday in anticipation of Mr. Assad’s speech, which may come as early as Sunday.

Syrian officials have portrayed the address as significant, though many in the opposition said their expectations were low.

As the day wore on, the toll approached 22, the number killed last Friday.

Memory implant gives rats sharper recollection (NY Times) — Scientists have designed a brain implant that restored lost memory function and strengthened recall of new information in laboratory rats — a crucial first step in the development of so-called neuroprosthetic devices to repair deficits from dementia, stroke and other brain injuries in humans.

Though still a long way from being tested in humans, the implant demonstrates for the first time that a cognitive function can be improved with a device that mimics the firing patterns of neurons. In recent years neuroscientists have developed implants that allow paralyzed people to

move prosthetic limbs or a computer cursor, using their thoughts to activate the machines. In the new work, being published Friday, researchers at Wake Forest University and the University of Southern California used some of the same techniques to read neural activity. But they translated those signals internally, to improve brain function rather than to activate outside appendages.

“It’s technically very impressive to pull something like this off, given our current level of technology,” said Daryl Kipke, a professor of bioengineering at the University of Michigan who was not involved in the experiment.

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AARP official says group open to future Social Security benefit cuts

BY ERIC LICHTBLAU THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON — AARP, the powerful lobby for older Americans that has been seen as one of the leading opponents of Social Security benefit cuts, said on Friday that it was open to modest reductions in benefits for future recipients.

“Our goal is to limit any changes in benefits,” John Rother, the group’s policy chief, said in a telephone interview, “but we also want to see the system made solvent.”

Mr. Rother said that the group’s stance on possible cuts, which was first reported in The Wall Street Journal in Friday’s editions, should be seen less as a major change in position than as a reflection of the political and financial realities facing the Social Security system and the country as a whole.

“You have to look at all the tradeoffs,” Mr. Rother said, “and what we’re trying to do is engage the Amer-

ican public in that debate.”

Nonetheless, the group’s openness to the possibility of unspecified cuts was seen as a significant development by people on all sides of the Social Security question, because of AARP’s powerful voice on federal policies affecting older Americans, including Medicare, prescription drugs and many more.

Third Way, a moderate Democratic group in Washington that has favored possible reductions in benefits, called AARP’s position “a watershed moment” in the debate over Social Security. “Now that they have opened the door to reform, it is time for lawmakers to walk through it,” said Jonathan Cowan, president of Third Way. But other advocacy groups that are pushing to preserve Social Security benefits accused AARP of effectively abandoning its core constituency.

Doug Henwood, the Brooklyn editor of a liberal business blog and Internet radio program who has written on Social Security, said AARP’s will-

Market rises on developments in Greece; first weekly gain since April Stocks stabilized on Friday and the euro was higher after developments emerged in Europe over a possible bailout for Greece, giving financial markets their first weekly gain since April.

Financial markets have been unsettled amid concerns about political stability in Greece and the fate of a second bailout for the country, sending investors into less risky assets.

On Friday, Germany agreed under pressure from France not to force private investors to take on some of the burden of a new bailout package for Greece. The announcement in Berlin meant Germany was backing away from a sticking point with the European Central Bank on the issue.

While the stock market was higher for most of the day after the announcement, the market pared gains less than an hour from the close after Moody’s Investors Service said it put Italy’s government bond ratings on review for possible downgrade. It cited growth challenges, a likely rise in interest rates and risks posed by changing funding conditions in Europe as among the reasons for the review.

The Dow Jones industrial average was up 42.84 points, or 0.36 percent, to 12,004.36. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index was up 3.86 points, or 0.30 percent, to 1,271.50. After early gains, the Nasdaq composite index fell 7.22 points, or 0.28 percent, to

2,616.48, recording its fifth consecutive weekly loss.

The euro was buffeted by developments, starting with the announcement by Chancellor Angela Merkel about Greece on Friday.

“That is when the euro popped” to $1.4240 within about 15 minutes, said Brian Dolan, the chief currency strategist for Forex.com. By the time of the Moody’s announcement about Italy, the euro was at $1.4310, and it then dipped to $1.4280.

“It highlights the sovereign debt overhang that continues to plague the euro zone,” Mr. Dolan said. “You get a short-term rebound in the euro but the long-term issues are still there, and that is going to prevent the euro from a sustained recovery.”

In European stocks, the CAC-40 was up 31.43 points, or 0.83 percent, at 3,823.74. The DAX in Germany was up 53.85 points, or 0.76 percent, at 7,164.05 and the FTSE in Britain rose 16.13 points or 0.28 percent, to 5,714.94.

Bruce McCain, chief investment strategist of Key Private Bank, said the market had become oversold because of concerns related to the euro zone debt problems. As a result, investors have taken down some of their exposure to equities.

Now, Mr. McCain said, “it has the opportunity to rally a bit.”

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ingness to consider cuts in benefits “reads like a sign that this former lobby for the interest of older Americans has now transformed itself completely into an insurance company.”

He continued, “Surely they can’t be persuaded by the merits of the arguments, since the alleged Social Security crisis is a phantom that can’t survive a serious round of fact-checking.”

The most recent estimates from the Social Security Administration, issued last month, indicate that under currrent law the program’s trust funds will be exhausted by 2036, and that $6.5 trillion in additional money will be needed over a 75-year period to pay all scheduled benefits.

Mr. Rother said that AARP expects to hear criticism from some of its members over the new position.

“We have such a broad membership, Mr. Rother said. “I’m sure there will be some who will not be happy, but others will be eager to see the program put on a stronger footing finan-

cial for the long-term.”

He made clear in an interview that the group’s willingness to discuss cuts comes with conditions: Reductions in benefits should be “minimal,” they should not affect current recipients and instead should be directed “far off in the future,” and they should be offset by increases in revenue.

While AARP has not issued specific recommendations or figures on how benefit reductions might be carried out, the group’s recent discussions with its public constituencies signal support for using increased revenue to fill two-thirds of the projected gap and benefits reductions for one-third.

Though AARP’s position is likely to shift the debate in Washington somewhat, its insistence that benefit cuts be pushed down the road will probably not sit well with many Republicans, who are demanding earlier reductions as a key part of their plans to address the nation’s overall budget deficit problem.

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How’s the Weather?

Lately, the Sun has been behaving a bit strangely. In 2008 and 2009, it showed the least surface activity in nearly a century. Solar flare activity stopped cold and weeks and months went by without any sunspots, or areas of intense magnetism. Quiet spells are normal for the Sun, but researchers alive today had never seen anything like that two-year hibernation.

Now that the Sun is approaching the peak of its magnetic cycle, when solar storms — blasts of electrically charged magnetic clouds — are most likely to occur, no one can predict how it will behave. Will solar activity Madhulika continue to be sluggish, or will solar storms rage with renewed Guhathakurta vigor? and Luckily, policy makers are paying attention to space Daniel N. weather. Late last month, PresiBanker dent Obama and the British ––––– prime minister David Cameron announced that the United The New York States and Britain will work Times together to create “a fully operational global space weather warning system.” And just last week, the United Nations pledged to upgrade its space weather forecasts.

But most people have never heard of space weather, which is a problem, because both high and low solar activity have serious effects on life on Earth.

Modern society depends on a variety of technologies that are susceptible to the extremes of space weather.

Spectacular explosions on the Sun’s surface produce solar storms of intense magnetism and radiation.

These events can disrupt the operation of power grids, see SOLAR page 5

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Welcome to summer, but tread carefully Summer officially arrives this week, having something to do with the length of days and position of the earth although we know the real, final sign of the season: fresh pedestrians.

Clearly, today’s legislative environment won’t allow for a real solution. That would be to widen crosswalks and improve signage while making crossing the street outside those areas a free-fire zone. That’s right, the “pedistrian had the right of way” era has run its course, and it’s time to come to grips with that fact.

This is the time for such change.

During winter, crossing the street is treated with the respect it deserves. Traction is likely at a premium, both for walkers and drivers. Hoods limit vision of the pediestrians and who knows if the driver has cleared the windshield..

Besides, as we use our “winter shuffle” walking style, everything happens in slo-mo. Plenty of time to react. (This is different from the “tourist shuffle,” which is similar but happens for no good reason at all.)

Every true motorist has their favorite sort of on-foot pest. Nearly all of us bemoan the rash of Froggers this time of year, the street walkers named for the old-school video game invoving crossing the car-filled road until you get squished.

There are other sub-types. The stare-and-walk is the person convinced that their x-ray vision can

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Usually Reserved actually stop an oncoming vehicle going 25 miles an hour. There’s the Optimist, who clearly thinks that the traffic light is going to last longer than their last three jobs.

And there’s the Drunk. They are called that because they are drunk. They were long believed to be nocturnal, but evolution has moved them into the daylight in increasing numbers.

That’s a challenge, because if you’re inching along Fore Street at 1 a.m. on a Saturday night, that guy on his cell phone waving his free arm in wild circles is cause for attention. Any misstep brings focus. And we understand that anyone can stagger into the street at any time.

But it’s different at 10 a.m. on a Thursday when we’re late for a meeting. That sudden movement can seem particularly abrupt.

Oddly, many of them also possess car-stopping stares.

Among those we have to admit, and indeed let this be a public service announcement agagainst the practice, the most hated is the Close Stander.

This is the person who stands at the crosswalk with body language

that says “about to cross.” Given current state laws, common courtesy and the risk of legal entanglement should disaster ensue, many of us stop for such folks. Many times, at least this time of year, we find the person waving us along.

Look, it’s simple: if you’re not going to cross the street, step away from the crosswalk.

This was bad enough for decades.

But why is it that any practice we hate in others becomes so much worse when a cell phone is involved.

Look, people cut us off in traffic for years before cellphones. But it makes it worse when the person is texting or talking – that’s mostly becasue of the disregard it shows but also because we typically hate it when the unwritten rules are broken. If we have to focus when we’re doing quarterly reports or playing video games in traffic, so should everyone else.

Granted, this important public policy debate will probably play second fiddle to the governor’s public art decision and the new budget or even getting legal pot to people who suffer without it. But still, as we once again adjust from the slo-mo of winter to fast times at crosswalks, let’s at least acknowledge the change.

Summer is here, let the games begin.

Curtis Robinson was founding editor of the Portland Daily Sun. His column appears here on Saturdays.

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Planning 2011 ‘Pride’ events no easy task, writer says To the editor, As someone who coordinated this year’s Southern Maine Pride, I am responding to Ashley Lenartson’s Pride-bashing letter to the Sun on June 17, one day before the deemed “disastrous” event.

First, I did not know that Ashley was psychic. Second, in his rant, he failed to mention he was a Portland musician/ songwriter/entertainer. Sounds like a touch of resentment there as a nonperformer at 2011 Pride (through no fault but his own). Pride happens the same week in June every year, therefore it should come as no surprise that each year several weeks prior, we reach out to local (& past entertainers) to perform free at Pride. No one is hired here. Actually, all organizers, coordinators and entertainers work for free, many of whom also hold down fulltime jobs. Entertainers typically reach out to Pride, whether from Maine or away, and organizers schedule them first-come-first-serve to perform based on what the majority of people at Pride would enjoy hearing: upbeat, fun & clean performances to put on a good, family-friendly show. We also strive to have a variety of qualified talent, this year’s line up being a good example, of comedians, musicians/bands, dancers, drag queen & king performers from Maine and New England.

We are not a proclaimed “gallant” team of producers — we are a mix of hard-working people who simply want to help put on a good Pride event for the Maine community — with little help or resources. I suppose only event & wedding planners will truly underSOLAR from page 4

railway signaling, magnetic surveying and drilling for oil and gas. Magnetic storms also heat the upper atmosphere, changing its density and composition and disrupting radio communications and GPS units. The storms’ charged particles can be a hazard to the health of astronauts and passengers on high altitude flights.

Severe storms in 1989 and 2003 caused blackouts in Canada and Sweden. In 1859, a solar super storm sparked fires in telegraph offices. Such storms are predicted every century or so, and perhaps we’re overdue. According to a 2008 National Academies report, a once-in-a-century solar storm could cause the financial damage of 20 Hurricane Katrinas.

A quiet Sun causes its own problems.

During the two-year quiet spell, our upper atmosphere, normally heated and inflated by the Sun’s extreme ultraviolet radiation, cooled off and shrank. This altered the propagation of GPS signals and slowed the rate of decay of space debris in low Earth orbit. In addition, the cosmic rays that are normally pushed out to the fringes of the solar system by solar explosions instead surged around Earth, threatening astronauts and satellites with unusually high levels of radiation.

The more we know about solar activity, the better we can protect ourselves.

The Sun is surrounded by a fleet of spacecraft that can see sunspots forming, flares crackling and a solar storm about 30 minutes before it hits Earth.

NASA and the National Science Foundation have also developed sophisticated models to predict where solar

stand this, but event planning for a citywide event is no easy feat. It’s not like planning a picnic in the park. This one-day event (forget a 3-day event!) takes months of coordinating: submitting paperwork & obtaining the correct city permits, hounding people to commit as early as possible to be listed sponsors, become vendors and volunteer, plus sending out a media blitz of press releases and flyers. It seriously feels like pulling teeth, and criticism with no real suggestion of improvement doesn’t help.

Ashley, there were several erroneous statements in your letter about Pride: No one is paid or hired, we do not purposely choose entertainers from away — they are the cooperative ones to who reach out to us early to offer to participate (for free), vendor money goes into such things as paying for permits & event advertising (believe us, no one gets rich off this thing!), and we feel that Pride definitely has a “positive feel.” Bringing together thousands of community members to celebrate being gay or supporting the local gay community is a huge accomplishment.

We would certainly welcome more help, volunteers & donations (both in time and money) to improve Pride in any way we logistically can. Like so many, Pride is a local nonprofit run by volunteers that each year tackle putting on a decent show. As with anything, there is room for improvement, and we’ll look for your name on the sign-up sheet (early) as a committed volunteer for next year’s Southern Maine Pride.

Lauren Johnson Portland, Maine storms will go once they leave the Sun, akin to National Weather Service programs that track hurricanes and tornadoes on Earth. Thanks to these sentries, it is increasingly difficult for the Sun to take us by surprise.

If alerted, Internet server hubs, telecommunications centers and financial institutions can prepare for disruptions and power plant operators can disconnect transformers.

But what good are space weather alerts if people don’t understand them and won’t react to them? Consider the following: If anyone should be familiar with the risks of space weather, it’s a pilot. During solar storms, transpolar flights are routinely diverted because the storms can disrupt the planes’ communications equipment. And yet a space weather forecaster we know at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration often tells a story of a conversation he had with a pilot: Pilot: “What do you do for a living?”

Forecaster: “I forecast space weather.”

Pilot: “Really? What’s that?”

The point of the story is to highlight how far the scientific community and the government have to go to raise awareness about space weather and its effects.

With the sun waking up, trans-Atlantic cooperation comes at just the right time. Let us hope it is only the beginning of a worldwide effort to forecast and understand space weather.

Madhulika Guhathakurta is a solar physicist at NASA. Daniel N. Baker is the director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado. These views are their own.

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Long memory or short, Boston Bruins fans savoring success

BY KATE ZEZIMA THE NEW YORK TIMES

BOSTON — To Brittany Shepard, life without a Boston sports championship every year or two is like the days before text messages and Twitter: a bygone era she simply cannot fathom.

“No, I don’t remember,” Shepard, 19, said about that time before championship trophies were taken on tours of New England’s old mill cities and bucolic towns, and championship banners hung from rafters.

“Boston sports have had an amazing dominance and it’s always been that way to me. It’s kind of like a way of life.”

That way of life is a relatively new concept here. For decades, New England fans sported a collective identity as losers — the timeworn phrase had been “long-suffering losers” — while the Red Sox, the Bruins and the Patriots delivered many calamities, but zero championships.

But this city has ridden an unprecedented wave of success over the past decade: the Bruins’ victory in the Stanley Cup finals on Wednesday night made Boston the first city to win championships in all four major sports within a 10-year span.

With the Patriots’ Super Bowl victories in 2002, 2004 and 2005; the Red Sox’ World Series titles in 2004 and 2007; the Celtics’ N.B.A. title in 2008; and now the Bruins’ triumph, Boston has gone from Loserville to Titletown, just like that.

“This is sort of a golden age, isn’t it, of sports here,” said Richard Johnson, curator of the Sports Museum of New

England.

Perhaps the golden age is sweeter for those who predate it — those New Englanders who might not consider a major sports title a birthright on the order of Yankees fans and Duke basketball fans.

“For older generations, it has a greater importance,” Shepard said. “It’s amazing to see, but we just don’t have that history behind it. I always had to listen to what my mom said, which is to take it all in, because you don’t know how long it’s going to be until you win the next one.”

Rooting for Boston teams was ingrained in Shepard while growing up in Cheshire, Mass., a town of about 3,500 in the Berkshires. Her mother is a fervent Red Sox fan, and Shepard became one as well, a passion matched only by her love for the Bruins. She also follows the Celtics and the Patriots, but to a lesser extent. On Wednesday night, she said, everything came together for her Boston sports fandom.

“I was in my apartment hysterically crying for 25 minutes before running into the streets of Boston, screaming,” said Shepard, who will be a sophomore at Boston University.

She said she spent Wednesday afternoon in a Bruins jersey, trying to recruit incoming freshmen to join the university band (she plays clarinet). Later she and her friends were running through Kenmore Square, where revelers gathered, and continued for about two miles to Boston Common, where she took a victory lap.

“It’s unbelievable that it’s been so long,” Shepard said of the Bruins’ last

Fans at Hurricane O’Reilly’s during Game 7. The Bruins joined the Patriots, Red Sox and Celtics as champions in the past decade (New York Times Photo)

Stanley Cup victory, 39 years ago.

Since the Patriots opened the floodgates in 2002, championships have been like the New England weather: if you want something different, just wait a little while. And while Shepard revels in it, there’s one thing she doesn’t like: fans who jump on the bandwagon, only to fall off when the trophy has to depart for another city.

Johnson, the museum curator, said the resurgence of Boston sports teams coincides with the advent of social media, creating a group of young fans who not only watch their favorite athletes play sports, but read their thoughts on the Internet and even pretend to be them in video games.

“The relationship between the fans

and the teams has grown closer even as it has grown farther” in the age of multimillion-dollar contracts, Johnson said.

That is especially true in Boston, where athletes like Shaquille O’Neal inspired legions of Twitter followers to meet him in public, and thousands pack the stands at smaller sporting events like New England Revolution soccer games or Boston Cannons lacrosse.

“Boston is the Hollywood of sports,” he said. “Sports matter here. Lots of teams, not just the big four, have an audience and a constituency.

“This has always been the greatest sports city in the country, in my estimation. This just underscores it.”

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left of the green. He walked off the course with a double bogey, which put a sour note on the end of an otherwise magnificent day.

“Naturally you’re going to be disappointed after walking away with a 6,” McIlroy said. “But if I look at the overall picture of the two days, it’s pretty good. I’m playing the best golf I’ve ever played.”

McIlroy left the course with an astounding score, 11 under par. His two-round total of 131 was the lowest score ever after two rounds of the Open.

At midafternoon, he was six shots clear of everyone else in the field. Y. E. Yang of South Korea used birdies on Nos. 7 and 9 to reach five under through 10 holes of his afternoon round.

That round was interrupted by about a 30-minute delay when a thunderstorm rolled through. Play resumed at about 4:40 p.m.

No one among the early golfers could mount any kind of a challenge to McIlroy, every small surge quickly matched by a dip. In the afternoon, only Yang and Heath Slocum were making anything resembling a move. Slocum was two under through 10 holes.

Zach Johnson used an eagle and some birdies to reach four under in the morning, but soon found himself sliding backward. He shot a 69 to settle in at two under par, alongside Robert Garrigus, Brandt Snedeker and Sergio García of Spain.

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BETHESDA, Md. — For 35 holes, Rory McIlroy strolled around Congressional Country Club as if he was in his own golfing universe. He was bludgeoning the field in the United States Open with huge drives and pinpoint approach shots, reaching an astonishing 13 under par in the second round on Friday. This was on a punishing, hilly course with greens that can develop the consistency of a parking lot and deep rough that can swallow a round.

McIlroy’s amazing round included an eagle on a par 4 and missing another by a hair on a par 5. When his eagle rolled into the hole at No. 8 — on an approach shot from the fairway that bounced softly and rolled 30 feet into the hole as if McIlroy steered it by remote control — he celebrated with a boyish smile and an amused look.

Even though he is only 22, he knows how fleeting triumph in a major tournament can be. He held a four-shot lead in the final round of the Masters in April, only to have it disappear in two disastrous holes. He shot a 63 in the British Open last year, only to follow it with an 80.

So it was a familiar feeling here when McIlroy found golf disaster waiting for him on the 18th hole. A wayward drive left turned into a wayward approach from the rough that made a splash landing in the water

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BY MARYANN HAGGERTY Just because you own a home doesn’t mean you have to keep carrying a mortgage — about a third of American homeowners don’t, according to the Federal Reserve.

Assuming you have the cash — perhaps in a savings account or certificate of deposit earning less than 1 percent interest — should you pay off your mortgage early?

It’s a question that has both financial and psychological components.

“It’s a slam-dunk to tell someone to pay off a credit card or pay off a car loan or pay off a line of credit,” said Gary Schatsky, the president of New York financial planning firm ObjectiveAdvice.com, but paying off long-term debt like a mortgage is more complex.

First, do you really have the cash?

“The overriding issue has to do with the sum of money you’re not going to need for a prolonged period of time,” Mr. Schatsky said. If you ever needed the money again, it could cost you hundreds, even thousands of dollars to borrow it back, assuming you could even get a new loan, he said. “Will I regret giving up liquidity in exchange for a longterm debt reduction?”

And would you really want to forgo a low mortgage rate? “Even though it feels good, you’re probably never going to get a better

rate to borrow at in your life,” said Robert B. Walsh, a principal of Lighthouse Financial Advisors In Red Bank, N.J. Clients who have a major chunk of income — from an inheritance or the sale of a business, for instance — will often ask about paying off the mortgage, said Timothy Parker, a financial adviser at Regency Wealth Management in Midland Park, N.J. Usually, he said, “it’s the wife who says, I just want to get the mortgage done.”

He said, “When there’s plenty of money left over, that’s a fine thing to do.” But make sure adequate cash remains. “Being house-poor is not always the best thing to do.”

Don’t neglect other financial priorities, either, Mr. Walsh said. “Are you maxing out all your other savings?” That includes individual retirement accounts, 401(k) plans and education savings plans. “You have to make sure you have all those buckets filled before you look at paying it down.”

Is this the best investment for you? From a financial standpoint, the thinking should be, “I’ll pay off the mortgage if I can do better paying it off than I can do in the markets,” said Lewis J. Altfest of Altfest Personal Wealth Management in New York City. A borrower paying 6 percent interest on a mortgage and earning just half a percent on a certificate of deposit

Baruch Hertzfeld, a landlord in Brooklyn, sometimes finds himself unsure about a potential tenant.

Because his buildings are in neighborhoods like Bushwick and BedfordStuyvesant, which are frequented by artistic and creative workers, a number of his applicants have questionable credit or spotty incomes.

But rather than reject them out of hand, Mr. Herzfeld sometimes refers them to Joan Baker, a freelance property manager and superintendent who conducts as part of her services what she calls “psychic credit checks” — interviews in which she tries to intuit whether a tenant will be reliable.

Mr. Herzfeld hired Ms. Baker as a superintendent in 2006. She also manages properties for other landlords, primarily working out of her Bed-Stuy apartment.

“I’ve never had a problem with anyone she’s checked into,” Mr. Herzfeld said. “I don’t know what part is psychic, what part is luck and what part is interpersonal skill. But I know she’s effective.”

Ms. Baker, 33, said she based her assessments on personal interaction and a close reading of a potential tenant’s application. She admits that “anyone can tell if someone’s crazy,” but says most applicants require a more sensitive reading.

“It’s more than just a hunch about somebody,” she said. “It’s a physical reaction you get, where you can almost

see what’s going to happen once they move in.”

Ms. Baker maintains a total of seven properties in Bushwick, Bed-Stuy and South Williamsburg, and estimates that she has interviewed 60 to 70 potential tenants. She has been wrong only twice, she said, and one of those times it was a sublessor who disappeared without paying the last month’s rent, not the tenant she had approved.

She describes herself as a “devout skeptic.” Born and raised in New Orleans, she said she was descended from a line of Cajun “dreamers,” an expression she uses to describe people who have eerily prophetic dreams. And although she does not possess the same ability, she lays claim to a form of extrasensory perception — saying she first discovered it as a teenager.

Tenants and co-workers attest to her powers of intuition.

“If anybody’s psychic, she is,” said Bob Hain, a graphic artist who has lived in one of Ms. Baker’s buildings in Bushwick for three years. “She’s always predicting when things go wrong in our apartment.”

Still, Baker occasionally finds herself unsure about a prospective tenant. At such times, she calls her friend Nancy Faith Anello, a nanny and stand-up comedian who has been studying astrology for 20 years.

“We call ourselves the psychic credit chicks,” Baker said.

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Some N.Y.C. landlords relying on psychics to vet prospective tenants

might be in this category, he said.

Taxes play a role as well. The interest paid on first- and secondhome mortgages up to $1.1 million is deductible, in effect cutting the interest rate paid. A homeowner in New York City could be paying 40 percent in city, state and federal taxes. A 4.5 percent mortgage would typically be equivalent to a 2.7 percent rate on any other debt, according to calculations from Ray Mignone of the New York financial planning firm Ray Mignone & Associates. In other words, very cheap debt.

If someone is in a lower tax bracket, and has a higher-rate mortgage, “it would make sense to pay it off,” Mr. Mignone said.

But the mortgage decision isn’t all about money. “There’s a big psy-

chological benefit for some people who just want to pay off their mortgage,” Mr. Mignone said.

Mr. Altfest agreed. “Many conservative people feel more comfortable when they pay off their mortgage,” he said. “It makes them feel their cost of living is lower.”

In his experience, these people won’t give themselves permission to do anything else major with their money until their mortgage is gone.

“This is one of the most common things I see with conservative people,” Mr. Altfest said, “especially among people who are ready to retire.”

Mr. Parker added, “It all depends on each individual’s situation — their income, their assets, and what keeps them up at night.”

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secret at Portland Police Department. One source confirmed yesterday that Donohey is due to arrive in Portland early next week.

While in town, Dohoney is expected to meet with former city manager Joe Gray, who hired Craig in 2009, along with other police and city officials.

City Councilor Dave Marshall, who sits on the council’s Public Safety Committee, said he was not aware of Dohoney’s visit. But even if he were hired away tomorrow, Marshall said Craig would leave the department much better off than he found it.

“I’d still feel that he has done an excellent job for the city and helped raise the department to a higher level of professionalism and effectiveness,” Marshall said.

All told, 43 people applied for the Cincinnati chief’s job, which became vacant earlier this year when former chief Tom Streicher retired.

Other finalists for the job include two assistant chiefs from Cincinnati Police Department and an assistant chief from the Washington, D.C. Metro police department.

According to Olberding, the city has no time line in place to find Streicher’s replacement. “It will take what it takes,” she said.

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Q. How did you win the commission to paint the mural?

A. I responded to a call from the Maine Arts Commission to conceive a history of labor in Maine. So I sent in my credentials and samples of my work. I did some research because I really wanted this work.

When I became one of the three finalists, I prepared studies and a Power Point and we each gave a presentation to a commission for an hour and a half.

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A. There was a warm, positive response. There was nothing but positive response. It is true that a lot more people have seen the mural now than they had in 2008. The whole intent was to bring some heart into the Department of Labor, to bring some warmth to this old industrial building the Department of Labor had moved into.

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A. No. [She laughs.] I do portraits and landscapes, but I also do large narrative works too. I am very pulled toward workers.

Q. What do you think about the governor ordering your work removed and the debate it has engendered?

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The Maine State Pier is just one Portland waterfront venue that will host a summer concert series this summer including performances by G. Love & Special Sauce and Wiz Khalifa. The parking lanes adjacent to the Ocean Gateway terminal will host a concert series organized by the State Theatre, including shows by Ra Ra Riot and Guster. (PHOTO COURTESY OF JOSH COUTURIER/KAHBANG MUSIC, ART & FILM FESTIVAL) MUSIC from page one

throw handful of shows on the Portland waterfront,” Gass said.

The summer concert series dubbed KahBang’s Presents Maine State Pier debuted two weeks ago as funk all-stars George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic and continued last night as country music star Rodney Atkins welcomed summer to Casco Bay. The series continues into July and August as hip-hop blues act G. Love & Special Sauce and rapper Wiz Khalifa play the pier, which can accommodate about 3,000 people.

But KahBang isn’t the only concert crew to recognize the unique performance opportunities offered by Portland’s waterfront venues.

On Sunday, Michael Franti & Spearhead will bring their funk/jazz/folk/rock-influenced hip-hop stylings to Casco Bay’s newest ad-hoc venue as the State Theatre kicks off their own summer concert series.

While the series is being billed as Concerts on the Waterfront at Ocean Gateway, the shows will actually take place in the fenced-in asphalt parking lanes adjacent to the city-owned, $20.7 million terminal built in 2008 to accommodate cruise ships and the now-defunct Cat ferry to Nova Scotia.

This summer’s Concerts on the Waterfront at Ocean Gateway kicks off with a Father’s Day performance this Sunday from Franti.

“He’s such a fun artist and he appeals to a lot of people. It’s a show you won’t be afraid to bring family too,” said Lauren Wayne, general manager of the State Theatre.

The series continues in August as Guster take the stage along with indie rockers Ra Ra Riot.

No stranger to the city’s historic venue, Guster released a live DVD shot at the State in 2004 — the same year guitarist Adam Gardner founded eco-touring non-profit Reverb in Portland.

“Guster has always done well here,” said Wayne, who said the State is almost a de-facto stop for the band. “We obviously try to make it as much of a given as we can,” she said.

While there is a history of concerts at the Maine State Pier, this is the first year that any concerts have been hosted at Ocean Gateway, according to city spokesperson Nicole Clegg. “You’ve got some concert promoters who have identified a level of interest in the city,” she said.

“We think the Ocean Gateway is a beautiful site,” Wayne said. “It’s attractive because it’s in town,

on the peninsula and within walking distance. We have a very short window here in Maine where we can do outside events, so we wanted to develop a site that would be a perfect place to see a show and showcase the beauty of Portland.”

With an a third of KahBang attendees traveling from outside of the state, Gass said it’s clear that the waterfront is a big draw for some music fans.

“So many people want to travel to Maine and enjoy what is a naturally beautiful states and have an outdoor festival experience. I think we’re in a really unique position to offer that,” he said.

KahBang in Bangor was conceived as a way to lure music fans to the eastern reaches of Maine, organizers say. “KahBang is an all volunteer organization. It’s basically just a group of people who grew up in Bangor area who decided to give back to the community,” Gass said.

In organizing concerts on the Portland waterfront, the KahBang team is capitalizing on the enthusiasm and allure of the city while sticking to the ethos that has served the event well in it’s first three years.

“The arts and culture scene has really exploded in Portland. It’s really amazing to see some of the amazing musicians traveling to that city,” he said.

“KahBang has always been about exhibiting upcoming and ‘next’ acts,” Gass said. “With Portland the attitude was similar, but we also wanted to bring in diverse acts and things others wouldn’t necessarily be bringing in.”

Friday’s Atkins show was booked with that spirit of musical diversity in mind. “We’ve never done country before, but I run into country fans all over the place. ” Gass said.

July’s concert featuring G. Love & Special Sauce is “a bit of a throwback show for us,” said Gass, who remembers listening to the funky, blues-influenced hip-hop act during his high school days.

Later in the month, rappers Wiz Khalifa, Big Sean and Chevy Woods will take the stage to carry on the KahBang tradition of highlighting new and emerging acts. “That was a little more designed to go after the youth crowd, he is really trending more than any of the other artists right now,” said Gass.

Early June’s George Clinton show saw an encouraging turnout for the KahBang team, who said that walk-up attendees went a long way in filling out the crowd. “I think the Old Port serves that so well. People see the show and Pier is right there, so we get a lot of people walking up and wondering what’s going on,” he said.

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town neighborhood. The project would also include a 3,500-seat arena for the Maine Red Claws minor league basketball team.

Negotiations between the city and the developers have yielded a tentative agreement on a tax-increment financing (TIF) plan to subsidize the project over 30 years.

In its current form, the TIF agreement would let developers keep 54 percent of any new property tax revenue generated from the project. The city would keep 46 percent of that new tax revenue, estimated at $58 million over 30 years.

In real numbers, developers would keep an estimated $31.4 million, to the city’s $26.4 million. The city is expected to set aside 3 percent of that new revenue each year into a fund for transportation improvements.

But those figures are just estimates, and could change based on how valuable the property becomes.

If the project is a huge success and the property value increases more than projected, developers’ tax breaks could be worth much more than $31.4 million.

A cap would limit the amount developers’ could receive in TIF support during the 30-year agreement.

With a cap, the city and developers would continue to split the tax proceeds until the developers’ share reached that the cap. If the developers’ share of tax revenues never reached that threshold, it wouldn’t impact the project or the TIF agreement.

Developers have argued against adding a cap to the TIF agreement, saying it would stifle future improvements at the site.

“To cap it at a number, I think, creates almost a disincentive to work hard ourselves and work with our users to find ways to add value,” Chris Thompson, a partner in the development, told city councilors during Monday’s special meeting.

The special meeting was called for the sole purpose of advancing the TIF request, something no city councilor or city official could recall happening before. Mayor Nick Mavodones said he called the special meeting because developers wanted an answer on the TIF request by the end of June.

There is at least some support for the cap among city councilors.

‘I’d like to see an absolute dollar cap on the TIF, as we’ve had on other recent TIFs such as Pierce Atwood, to hedge against over-subsidizing the project if it is more successful than the developer projects,” Councilor John Anton said Friday in an email.

Councilor Dave Marshall said he believes the pending tax-increment financing deal should provide enough support to ensure the project moves ahead.

“Developers have been very clear as to what they need at the very minimum

to go forward and that’s what our agreement should reflect,” Marshall said, “For a developer to say the project can’t go forward if there is a cap, I am just having a hard time understanding how that meets our policy threshold (for granting a TIF),” he continued.

City rules require developers to prove that a project cannot move forward “but for” the creation of a TIF. To be sure, developers An artist’s rendering of the proposed $100 million development on Thompson’s Point on the Fore River. have said since the proj- (COURTESY IMAGE) ect was publicly introrequest. duced in April that they planned to seek tax breaks.

In general, TIFs are used as collateral for bank Jon Jennings, a partner in the development, says loans against a project and to pay down debt. the project will become a true destination for the Jennings also said this week that the entire projcity similar to L.A. Live, the event center in Los ect could fall apart if the city council didn’t approve Angeles that includes the Staples Center, hotels the tax breaks before the end of June. and restaurants.

Privately, several city councilors said the TIF Jennings and other partners have cited higherrequest was almost certain to pass by a wide than-normal construction costs and unusual inframargin.

The city council meets Monday at 6 p.m. structure needs as the primary reasons for the TIF

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By Holiday Mathis easier for you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Social cues may work for some people, but there are those who won’t get the message unless you spell it out. Don’t be shy. You deserve to be heard, even by those who are figuratively hard of hearing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

You are slow to commit because you take your commitments so seriously.

You’d like to keep your responsibilities to a minimum, and there are definite benefits to doing so now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

You sense where you’re welcome, and that’s where you go. If you’re not met with open arms, there is likely a reason that has nothing to do with you personally. Go where the love is flowing.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You sometimes choose leisure activities that feel more like obligation than an entertaining release. If you’re going to dance, dance because it feels liberating and playful -- not because the music is forcing you against your will.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). If you don’t know the purpose of an activity, even potentially fun activities could be pushed back to an unspecified time.

Knowing why you want to do something will be the key to overcoming procrastination.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (June 18).

You’ll make new friends and gain followers over the next six weeks. In your adventurous mindset, you won’t feel the least bit interested in security, but there’s someone who loves you rock steady anyway. In August, a new job or business takes off. October brings the purchase of property. You share a special connection with Aquarius and Pisces people. Your lucky numbers are: 12, 14, 39, 4 and 19.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Today’s job may tax your powers of focus. So make a list of the benefits, rewards and positive feelings you’ll experience by completing a project, and read it whenever you lose sight of the goal.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). It’s been said that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. However, that’s not always true, and it’s certainly not true for you today. You’re open to what comes, and ultimately, it will surpass anything you could have planned.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You know you’re smart. You are also spiritually, intellectually and emotionally stronger than you usually give yourself credit for being. Today’s events will prove the point.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Though you attract houseguests, you don’t always want them. But can you blame them for plotting to stay with you? Your home is cozy and well imagined, and others feel immediately comfortable in the environment you’ve created.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Whatever happens, you are determined to get the most learning and fun you can possibly draw from the experience. Life may seem to favor you, but only because you are creating the right circumstances with your lucky attitude.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). In order to have a productive day, you’ll have to be very specific about your expectations. If the outcome you want is vague, it will be difficult to convey and even more challenging to get others to focus on it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’ll need to keep records, but you won’t be in the mood to spend your whole day doing this. Figure out what needs to be tracked and how. Get a system in place, and life becomes immediately

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, June 18, the 169th day of 2011. There are 196 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On June 18, 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride became America’s first woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

On this date: In 1778, American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew during the Revolutionary War. In 1812, the United States declared war against Britain.

In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte met his Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated the French in Belgium.

In 1873, suffragist Susan B. Anthony was found guilty by a judge in Canandaigua, N.Y., of breaking the law by casting a vote in the 1872 presidential election. (The judge fined Anthony $100, but she never paid the penalty.)

In 1908, William Howard Taft was nominated for president by the Republican national convention in Chicago.

In 1940, during World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to conduct themselves in a manner that would prompt future generations to say, “This was their finest hour.”

In 1945, William Joyce, known as “Lord Haw-Haw,” was charged in London with high treason for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio.

In 1971, Southwest Airlines began operations, with flights between Dallas and San Antonio, and Dallas and Houston.

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.

In 1981, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart announced his retirement; his departure paved the way for Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female associate justice.

One year ago: Death row inmate Ronnie Lee Gardner died in a barrage of bullets as Utah carried out its first firing squad execution in 14 years.

Today’s Birthdays: Columnist Tom Wicker is 85. Rock singer-composer-musician Sir Paul McCartney is 69. Movie critic Roger Ebert is 69. Actress Constance McCashin is 64. Actress Linda Thorson is 64. Rock musician John Evans (The Box Tops) is 63.

Actress Isabella Rossellini is 59. Actress Carol Kane is 59. Actor Brian Benben is 55.

Actress Andrea Evans is 54. Rock singer Alison Moyet is 50. Country singer-musician Tim Hunt is 44. Rock singer-musician Sice (The Boo Radleys) is 42. Rhythm-and-blues singer Nathan Morris (Boyz II Men) is 40.

Actress Mara Hobel is 40. Rapper Silkk the Shocker is 36. Actress Alana de la Garza is 35. Country singer Blake Shelton is 35.

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Dear Annie: I’ve seen a lot of comments about how annoying it is to be in a public place when someone next to you starts up a conversation on their cellphone. I would like to comment on how annoying it is to be the recipient of that phone call.

This morning, a friend called while she was grocery shopping. As we talked, she greeted other shoppers, commented on the price of items and then chatted with the cashier at the checkout. A couple of times, I tried to end the call, and each time, she exclaimed that we had not talked in ages and she valued our friendship, etc. I suggested we meet for lunch, and she promised to check her calendar. Meanwhile, she had to keep asking me to repeat my last sentence because she didn’t catch it, and several times I neglected to respond because I assumed she was still talking to the checkout clerk.

We did not really engage in a true conversation between friends. I felt my name was on a to-do list to be checked off.

-- A Real Person on the Other End Dear Real Person: Cellphones have created all kinds of rudenesses and embarrassments. If you have text messaging capabilities, we recommend using that in noisy places. And recipients of such phone calls should have no qualms about saying, “I’ll talk to you when you’re less busy,” and then disconnect immediately.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Michigan,” a mom of boys who was told that only daughters stay close after leaving the nest. She should not be discouraged.

I am blessed with a continuing close bond with both of my grown sons. It does not happen without some effort. She should initiate some get-together time, even if only for short visits. Find some mutual interests to share so you remain part of their lives. And I am also blessed with a lovely daughter-inlaw, which helps a great deal. -- Another Michigan Mom

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to: anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.

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PAINTING/ light carpentry- 30 years experience, reasonable prices, references, insured. Call William (207)772-1983, (207)671-8664.

Yard Sale FINAL YARD SALE: 494 Stevens Ave., Portland, Sat., June 18th, 8am-12 noon, everything must go!

SOUTH Paris Coin/ Marble Show- 6/18/11, American Legion Post 72, 12 Church St, 8-2pm.

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Dear Annie: I’m so confused. I have been married for 15 years and have five kids. Our married life started out great, but for the past several years, it has been dwindling to the point where I don’t know if I want to stay.

My husband will tell me in the morning that he hates me, and by lunch, he is hugging and groping me and saying he loves me. I used to think he was bipolar, but now I’m not sure.

Whatever the discussion, he is always right. He has a list of demands for me, ranging from how polite I must be to the way I sigh. He has threatened suicide, even doing so in front of the kids.

He calls me nasty names and tells me he can’t stand the sight of me and that I smell like a urinal. He will scream that I am stupid. He tells the kids not to listen to me. Last year, he almost convinced me that I was hallucinating and hearing voices. After eye and hearing exams, it turned out he was muttering under his breath.

I am tired of crying myself to sleep. It has started to affect my health. Defending myself only makes the situation escalate. The kids can hear us fighting, and for this, I am sorry.

I have no family, and friends have distanced themselves. I am so alone. I feel like I am not being a good mother. I have suggested counseling, but he doesn’t believe in it. When the anxiety attacks began to affect my everyday functioning, I started therapy, but it hasn’t helped. Unfortunately, my insurance doesn’t allow me to go to another therapist. What can I do? -- Going Crazy Dear Crazy: Regardless of your husband’s mental health issues, he is being abusive, damaging you emotionally and psychologically, and creating an unhealthy environment for your children. Please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline (thehotline.org) at 1-800-799-SAFE (1-800-799-7233) and ask for guidance.

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Saturday, June 18 Aroostook State Park Birding Festival

5 a.m. to 1 p.m. The third annual Aroostook State Park Birding Festival is at Aroostook State Park, Presque Isle; fees — $2 for adults, $1 for children 5-11, seniors and children under 5, free. Aroostook State Park, the first state park to be established in Maine, is known as the home to more than 100 species of birds, including waterfowl and shore birds who inhabit the park’s Echo Lake; raptors, owls, flycatchers, thrushes, vireos and sparrows. It also is known for its woodpeckers, including hairy, downy, pileated, three-toed and blackback species, located in the park. During the first festival, held in June 2009, participants actually viewed the rare sight of a female hummingbird sitting on its nest.

Last year, 53 different species were seen throughout the day, including a rare flock of plastic flamingos that graced the lake’s water edge. Sponsored by Wicked Joe Coffee, Hannaford, Katahdin Trust, Northern Maine Development Commission, Citadel Communication, Poland Springs, Star Herald and the Maine National Guard.

PeaksFest on Peaks Island

8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. The 10th year of Peaksfesting features another great island celebration with many favorite events, like the kickoff Schmoozefest community cocktail party, Bingo, the pie eating and dessert making contests, concerts, dances, jam sessions, huge community yard sale, puppet show, House Island & Fort Scammel tours, Dock Day expo, bake sale, art walk, nature walk, raffles, kayak safety seminars, police and fire department open houses, face painting for kids, Common Hound Fair dog show, PeaksFest Costume Parade, movies, and plenty o’food! www.peaksfest.com

book called Deering: A social and architectural history. Written by William David Barry and the late Patricia McGraw Anderson, the 216 page, illustrated book tells the story of the buildings, people and places that shaped the evolution of Portland’s off peninsula areas from Stroudwater to the town lines of Westbrook and Falmouth.

The tour centers on the Deering Highlands and Coyle Park neighborhoods of Portland. Advance Ticket sales at Greater Portland Landmarks, www.portlandlandmarks.org 93 High St., 7745561 ext 102. Day of Tour ticket sales at Woodford’s Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St. Tour begins and maps provided at Woodford’s Church. Advance sales $30 for Greater Portland Landmarks members $35 for non-members, available from Greater Portland Landmarks.

Day of tour ticket sales: $40 for members, $45 for non-members at Woodford’s Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St., Portland. Tour proceeds benefit Greater Portland Landmarks educational programs. Reservation Information and Advance Ticket Sales: Greater Portland Landmarks www.portlandlandmarks.org, 93 High St. 774-5561, ext. 102

Wolfe’s Neck Farm Art Fest

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sixth annual Wolfe’s Neck Farm Art Fest. Admission is free. The works of over 50 New England artists will be featured — painters, fiber artists, jewelers, potters, photographers, glass makers, and many more. There will be live music, artist demonstrations, a plein air auction, children’s activities, and the Snack Shack will be serving food. Free admission. 184 Burnett Road, Freeport.

Maine Roller Derby Gay Pride

12:30 p.m. The women of Maine Roller Derby join this year’s Gay Pride festivities, skating in the 8 a.m. A “garage sale” on a massive scale that benDyke March and the Pride Parade and hosting a efits the environment, community organizations and “big, gay roller derby bout!” he Pride Parade will countless satisfied shoppers, Bates College’s Clean occur on Saturday, June 18, at 12:30 p.m. “We Sweep returns for the 11th year at Underhill Arena, A duck pond at Evergreen Cemetery. Friends of Evergreen plan to conduct an annual will skate up Congress Street, then down High 145 Russell St., Lewiston. “As students pack up to meeting on Wednesday, June 22. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) Street to Deering Oaks Park, where the Pride Fesleave Bates at the end of the school year, they donate tival will be held from 1-5 p.m. Roller Derby Bout; to Clean Sweep all kinds of still-valuable possesfor four years to create Civil War reenactments in Portland. after the festival, MRD hosts a bout with the Port sions — electronics and toys, household goods and small History is important, but it should also be fun. Having reenAuthorities playing against the Long Island Roller Rebels. furnishings, bikes and books, sporting goods and more. actors attack a train, seize military property, and send the Derby offering a $3 discount off door tickets to adults wearFaculty, staff and the college itself also donate items. The train on its way happened during the Civil War. 2011 is the ing a rainbow.” annual sale keeps these perfectly worthy items out of the 150th anniversary of the first year of the Civil War and we Southern Maine Pride Parade & Festival landfill, and the proceeds go to local nonprofits.” To learn will give our visitors an enjoyable and educational experi12:30 p.m. The 25th annual Southern Maine Pride event more, please call 786-6207. ence. Our trains will have Union soldiers as guards and will will take place the week of June 12-19, with the Parade be attacked by Confederate troops. Sometimes the North Limington Extension Yard Sales & Festival happening on Saturday, June 18, organizers wins, and sometimes the South.” The Maine Narrow Gauge 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Every dry Saturday in June, 8 a.m. to 1 announced. The theme is “Alive with Pride at 25” in celRailroad Co. & Museum is open seven days a week from p.m., 476 Sand Pond Road, Limington. Used and new ebration of its 25th year. The parade will start at 12:30 p.m.

10 a.m. to 4 p.m., until the end of October. Train trips along items. Bug sprays, yard foggers and ant products for $2. at Monument Square in Portland and kick off a host of pride scenic Casco Bay daily on the hour at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., New gallons of paint, shoes and jeans $2. Napkins, paper events that will be happening around the city. Grand Marnoon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. The railroad is located at 58 plates & envelopes 25 cents. Hundreds of 25 cent items. shals for this year’s event are Mayor Nick Mavadones and Fore Street in Portland, on the water at the foot of Munjoy Benefits BEHS scholarships. 692-2989.

Police Chief James E. Craig. Comedian Khris Francis will Hill. www.mainenarrowgauge.org or call 828-0814. again act as Master of Ceremonies. The parade will progClose to The Coast 5k & 10K Art is Community II — Gallery Exhibition in Bar Mills ress west on Congress Street, turn north on High Street and 9 a.m. This year the Close to The Coast race marks its 16th 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Friday through Sunday, June 17-19, in the arrive at Deering Oaks Park at approximately 12:45 p.m. anniversary. The course is run on quiet roads and forest Old White Church, 15 Salmon Falls Road, Bar Mills, next to the Sponsors to date for this year’s event include: TD Bank, trails along the ocean in beautiful Winslow Park in Freeport, Saco River Grange Hall, “Art is Community II” — Juried Show Prime Auto Group, Home Depot, DownEast Pride Allithe home of the Lobsterman Triathlon. Registration is from and Sale of fine arts. “Back by popular demand, by both the ance, Proactive Resources, LIFE Ogunquit & LIFE Portland, 7:15 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. with the race starting at 9 a.m. The artists and viewers, after last year’s spectacular success, this Maine AIDS Alliance and West End Legal, LLC. The festival Race is part of the Winslow Park Family Fun Day, a great juried show and sale of regional artists and fine crafts includes in Deering Oaks is scheduled for 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. It’s “a time for families with all the events free of charge. Enjoy paintings, prints, sculptures, and interactive art-making for family-friendly event that includes live music, dance enterfree entrance to the park for the day, hotdogs, ice cream, visitors during the opening weekend. Last year’s turn- out of tainment, comedians, arts and crafts vendors, food vendors games, swimming, activities, playground and a moon creative children and parents was very exciting. This year the and more.” Live entertainment will include music by Gypsy bounce house. Oceanside camping is available for those show will remain hanging through July 17, to be viewed by Tailwind, Vanessa Torres, Kristen Ford Band, MeCa, and wanting to stay over night. Registration is $15 with guaranaudiences at the cello concert and other events.” For more performances by Atomic Trash! burlesque, 5G drag kings, teed t-shirt through June 10 and $15 with possible t-shirt information please call Pat at 929-6472 or Susan Orfant at Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue and comedian Erin Cyr. through race day. There will be a 1K Kids Fun Run after the 642-4219. Gallery hours: Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Sunday, main race which requires no application or fees and chil‘Winter in Wartime’ at the PMA 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment. Admission is free. dren’s prizes provided by Wilbur’s of Maine. Race proceeds 2 p.m. Portland Museum of Art presents “Winter in WarSabbathday Lake Shaker Village nature hikes support the Freeport Rotary Club Scholarship program and time” as part of its Movies at the Museum series. Satur10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Guided nature hikes will be offered other local charitable projects. Visit www.freeport-rotary.org day, June 18, 2 p.m.; Sunday, June 19, 2 p.m. Rated R. at 10 a.m. and again at 1:30 p.m. at the Sabbathday Lake for more information.

“Nazi-occupied Holland, 1945. In a snow-covered village, Shaker Village, Route 26, New Gloucester.

Hikers will cover 13-year-old Michiel is drawn into the Resistance when he Friends of Feral Felines used book, DVD sale an area of flora and fauna extending from the historic village aids a wounded British paratrooper. Michiel‘s boyish sense 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friends of Feral Felines is holding its through the Shaker fields and woods to Loon’s Point on of defiance and adventure soon turns to danger and desannual used book and DVD sale at Williston West Church, the lake and then across the footbridge that crosses Aureperation, as Michiel is forced to act without knowing whom 32 Thomas St. in Portland. A very large selection of books. lia’s Cascade. Carol Beyna, a trained naturalist, will be the to trust among the adults and townspeople around him.

Sales help to support efforts of caring for feral and abanguide. Fee: $5, adults; $2, children; under 6, free.

Wartime’s harsh reality encroaches on childhood innocence doned cats in southern Maine. FMI call 797-3014 or visit as Michiel confronts good and evil, courage and duplicity, Old Orchard Beach Cub Scout car wash, bottle drive http://feralfelines.net and his own burden of responsibility. Winter in Wartime is 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Old Orchard Beach Cub Scout Pack 350 Confederate forces take on railroad based on the award-winning semi-autobiographical novel — Car Wash and Bottle Drive Fundraiser, O.O.B. Fire Sta10 a.m. “Leaderless ruffians claiming to be the 15th Alaof the same name by Dutch author Jan Terlouw, who expetion. Donation Basis, Bottle Drive. Bring recyclables with bama Regiment have been reported in Cumberland County. rienced five years under German occupation and whose you to the car wash for a donation. http://pack350oldorUnion Army sources were unable to confirm whether these vicar father was twice arrested and threatened with execuchardbeach.ScoutLander.com are regular Confederate troops or irregular partisans seektion. In Dutch, German, and English with English subtitles.”

Deering Neighborhood Historic House Tour ing only to pillage.” Museum Director Allison Tevsh Zittel http://www.portlandmuseum.org/events/movies.php 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The tour celebrates a neighborhood feaissued a statement saying: “The Maine Narrow Gauge see next page tured in Greater Portland Landmarks’ recently published Railroad has partnered with the 15th Alabama Regiment

Bates College’s Clean Sweep sale

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Kids Open Studios: Portrait Printing

2 p.m. SPACE Gallery. “Bring a friend and come make printed portraits with us! This open studio workshop will be led by local art teacher Ashley Shoukimas. We will be experimenting with relief and hand burnishing printing techniques while using Acrylic inks to create colorful, textural portraits.

This workshop is fun, easy and you get to bring home your printing plate to continue experimenting as much as you like. Suggested age is 3 and up.” Ends at 4 p.m., $5/free for members. www.space538.org/events.php

Excelsior Cornet Band at Peaks

4 p.m. Peaks Island is the site of a couple of Father’s Day weekend concerts which also coincides with Peaks Fest and Civil War Day Sesquicentennial Commemoration programs at the 5th and 8th Maine Regiment Memorial Buildings. The Excelsior Cornet Band, Civil War Re-enacting Band Concert; Peaks Island, $10 per person, $15 per family. “The Excelsior Cornet Band is New York State’s only authentic Civil War Brass Band. Founded in 2001, the band consists of a group of Syracuse-area musicians dedicated to the performance of original Civil War era music on actual instruments of the period. Leading the band is one of Central New York’s premier brass players, Jeff Stockham. After consulting with several of the leading experts in the field of Civil War music and brass bands, he formed the Excelsior Cornet Band so that the music of that pivotal period in American history could be once again heard and enjoyed.” 8thMaine.org; 766-5086

STYXX Block Party

5 p.m. STYXX on 3 Spring St. in Portland. Ages 18 plus only. FMI: www.styxxportland.com

Old Fashioned Bean Supper

5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, 45 Seashore Ave., Peaks Island. “Bring your family and friends for a delicious meal featuring Stan’s famous beans (baked and vegetarian), ham, and all the fixin’s. A great meal at a great price. Reservations recommended. For tickets call 766-5514.”

Two seatings: 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. $8 per adult; $5 per child under 10. Call 766-5514 to reserve. For more information, call 766-3330 or email fifthmaine@juno.com.

Event with Bruce Spang, poet laureate

7 p.m. “Join us to celebrate the inauguration of Portland’s third poet laureate. Free admission; donations suggested.

Refreshments will be served.” Mayo Street Arts Center, 10 Mayo St. Spang was named the new Portland Poet Laureate. Spang, who is a teacher and book reviewer in addition to being a poet, will serve in the postition from 2011 to 2013. Spang lives in Falmouth with his partner and son.

Birdie Googins in Freeport

7:30 p.m. Birdie Googins a.k.a. the Marden’s Lady at Freeport Factory Stage. “The last thing in the world Birdie expected was becoming a supermodel. In Southern Maine the press calls her a phenomenon; in Northern Maine she’s proclaimed an Icon. The status of a super model has its challenges: Keeping her mascara from running while racing from the paparrazzi being just one of them. No matter what region she’s appearing in, she’s regarded as hilarious.” Performances are Friday, June 17 and Saturday, June 18 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $22.50/$17.50 seniors and students. Visit www. freeportfactory.com or call 865-5505. 5 Depot St., downtown Freeport, one block east of L.L. Bean.

‘The Marvelous Wonderettes’ in Brunswick

tan School of Music, the University of Illinois under Nathan Rosen, then to a full-time post with the Austin Texas Philharmonic Symphony. Through Maine fiddle maker Jon Cooper, he acquired an antique (1850) cello which has become the centerpiece of his career. “In 1985, MPBN broadcast his performance in St. Luke’s Cathedral celebrating J.S Bach’s 300th anniversary. Please help us welcome Charles back to Maine. For reservations please call 929-6472.” Adults $14, students and seniors $12 or by affordable donation. Children 12 and under are free.

Comedy at the St. Lawrence

7:30 p.m. Comedy at the St. Lawrence Arts Center. “Don’t miss comedians Auggie Smith and Dax Jordan as they pit-stop here in Portland for one night only at the St. Lawrence! This is part of the Subway Eat Fresh Comedy Tour.

After wowing America on NBC’s Last Comic Standing and Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham, Auggie Smith then made history in 2009 by becoming the first to win both the Seattle and San Francisco comedy competitions in the same year.

Dax Jordan Is a comedic everyman who has an upcoming Comedy Central half hour special in the works. His wit and charisma woo only moments before experiencing a punch right to the funny bone.” Tickets $25 and available now through Brown Paper Tickets as well as at any Bull Moose Music location. (http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/180483)

‘The Blue Moon Chronicles’

8 p.m. Pearwater Productions brings to Lucid Stage “The Blue Moon Chronicles,” “a wonderfully funny and critically acclaimed, Gay romantic-comedy for its Maine Premiere. ‘The Blue Moon Chronicles’ is a humorous look at gay life. Portland resident Jeffrey KaganMcCann wrote the plays. The first installment of the Chronicles, ‘Once In A Blue Moon,’ first premiered in workshop in Hartford, Conn. Then the show premiered in Seattle, Wash., two years later, then two years later he added its farcical companion piece, ‘My Gay Son’s Wedding.’ Both plays were instant hits and played to sold out houses. In 2002, he premiered both plays together under the new title, ‘The Blue Moon Chronicles.’ The play centers on Eric Callahan, a young, ambitious, uptight, Jewish-Catholic, gay Lawyer from New Haven, Conn., who’s searching for the meaning of love, happiness and acceptance.” Playing in June.

At 2 p.m. Sunday. Visit www.lucidstage.com/events for showtimes.

Maine AIDS Alliance nightlife event

8 p.m. to 1 a.m. In conjunction with Southern Maine Pride, The Maine AIDS Alliance will produce two nightlife events.

Both dubbed “Life,” the first event will be held at MaineStreet bar in Ogunquit on Friday, June 17, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., featuring DJ Randy Bettis, with the second event scheduled for Saturday, June 18 at Port City Music Hall in Portland from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., where DJ Rich Ladue will join local DJs, drag performers and dancers. http://www. southernmainepride.org

Sunday, June 19 PeaksFest on Peaks Island

8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The 10th year of Peaksfesting features another great island celebration with many favorite events, like the kickoff Schmoozefest community cocktail party, Bingo, the pie eating and dessert making contests, concerts, dances, jam sessions, huge community yard sale, puppet show, House Island & Fort Scammel tours, Dock Day expo, bake sale, art walk, nature walk, raffles, kayak safety seminars, police and fire department open houses, face painting for kids, Common Hound Fair dog show, PeaksFest Costume Parade, movies, and plenty o’food! www.peaksfest.com

7:30 p.m. Maine State Music Theatre opens its 53rd season with an Off-Broadway musical comedy hit, “The Marvelous Wonderettes,” which runs from June 8 through June 25 at the Pickard Theater in Brunswick. “‘The Marvelous Wonderettes’ stars four talented actresses: Brittany Morello, Lara Seibert, Morgan Smith, and Danielle Erin Rhodes. MSMT’s presentation is directed by Chan Harris and choreographed

by Jacob Toth. The show’s creator, Roger Bean, served as a consultant to Harris and Toth during the early rehearsal process. The musical highlights four young women at their high school prom in 1958 and again at their 10-year reunion in 1968 as they discuss their lives through pop hits from the ‘50s and ‘60s. For tickets, contact the MSMT box office at 725-8769, visit the box office window in person at The Pickard Theater or purchase online at www.msmt.org. The show runs until June 25. Matinees are at 2 p.m. and evening shows are at 7:30 p.m. For specific dates and availability, please contact the box office or visit the website. The Pickard Theater is located at 1 Bath Road in Brunswick, on the campus of Bowdoin College.

10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Unity Center for Sacred Living, “an open, interfaith, Oneness oriented Spiritual Community ... here to evolve consciousness through what we call The New Spirituality,” is holding services. “We know that the essence of Spirit is within each and every one of us, and our aim is to create a safe and sacred space for each person to explore their own perception of Spirituality. UCSL offers weekly gatherings that are informative, creative, interactive, and sometimes ceremonial followed by fellowship.

We hope you will come join us for our alternative services known as Sacred Living Gatherings.” Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Williston-West Church, Memorial Hall (2nd floor), 32 Thomas St. Portland. For more information call 221-0727 or email centerforsacredliving@gmail.com.

7:30 p.m. In the Old White Church, 15 Salmon Falls Road, Bar Mills, next to the Saco River Grange Hall. Concert coincides with Art Show. Charles Prewitt, cellist plays the Six Bach Suites. Prewitt’s extensive history as a professional cellist began as a student with the prestigious Portland String Quartet. He continued his studies at the Manhat-

11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Third Annual Maine DEMS Have Pride Champagne Brunch at Grace Restaurant on 15 Chestnut St. in Portland. Special guest Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Ray Buckley. Please RSVP. Please call Rick at 207.622.6233 x114 with questions. Please visit www. mainedems.org/pride for more information.

Charles Prewitt, cellist, in Bar Mills

Unity Center for Sacred Living

Maine DEMS Have Pride Champagne Brunch

‘The Blue Moon Chronicles’

2 p.m. Pearwater Productions brings to Lucid Stage “The Blue Moon Chronicles.”

LIFE Bowling

5 p.m. LIFE Bowling at Bayside Bowl, 58 Alder St. in Portland. Part of 25th Annual Southern Maine Pride. FMI: www. mainelifeevents.org

Monday, June 20 ‘Usually Reserved’ on CTN

7:30 p.m. “‘Usually Reserved’ is the most recent addition to the programing at CTN. Watch Monday nights at 7:30, as Curtis Robinson interviews people about the issues he writes about in the Portland Daily Sun!” The Daily Sun’s columnist and founding editor interviews graffiti artist Tim Clorius in the opening installment. http://www.facebook. com/ctn5me

Tuesday, June 21 Summer Chowdering Parties

noon. Maine Charitable Mechanic Association will host a Tea and Talk by historian Dr. C.P. Outwin, on the first day of summer. He will speak on the “Summer Chowdering Parties” held in Colonial Falmouth and Casco Bay. He is a lively and knowledgeable speaker that all will enjoy. Tea and dessert will be provided. The public is encouraged to attend.

FMI, call 773-8396.

Bicycle Coalition of Maine pizza party

5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Bicycle Coalition of Maine’s annual pizza party and fundraiser will take place at Flatbread Pizza Co., 72 Commercial St., Portland. Flatbread will donate a portion of the proceeds from every pizza sold during the evening (including takeout orders) to the coalition, and Shipyard Brewing Co. will donate $1 for every beer sold.

Proceeds will support the coalition’s work to improve bicycling in Maine. For more information, please visit www.

BikeMaine.org or call 623-4511.

Jimmy Buffett Night at Hadlock

7 p.m. The Portland Sea Dogs, Double-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, will welcome summer by hosting Jimmy Buffett Night at Hadlock Field when the Sea Dogs take on the Trenton Thunder (Yankees). Presented by Big Hits Y100.9 FM, National Distributors and Margaritaville Tea and Lemonade. Fans who purchase tickets either online at www.seadogs.com or by phone at 879-9500 for the June 21 Jimmy Buffett Night game between May 19 and June 10 will be automatically entered into a drawing for a pair of tickets to see Jimmy Buffett in concert on June 18 when he performs at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, Mass. The winner will be notified by phone on June 11. Tom Watt, “The Buffettman,” will be performing a selection of Jimmy Buffett songs throughout the June 21 game. Tickets are available for all 2011 Sea Dogs’ home games. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Sea Dogs Ticket Office at 879-9500 or online at www.seadogs.com. see next page

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East Bayside Neighborhood Organization meeting

7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Every month on the third Tuesday, the East Bayside Neighborhood Organization meets. The Root Cellar, 94 Washington Ave. “Come to EBNO’s monthly meeting to find out what’s going on in the neighborhood, offer input, air concerns, address issues, and meet your neighbors. Everyone is welcome!”

Wednesday, June 22 U.S. Cellular smartphone workshop

5 p.m. to 7 p.m. With a recent study showing a nearly 80 percent increase in smartphone shipments from a year ago, there are plenty of first-time smartphone users who may want a little help figuring out everything their advanced phones have to offer. U.S. Cellular is hosting a free workshop at 494 Congress St. in Portland to guide attendees through all of the functions and features of Android-powered devices, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile smartphones. 772-7740

Buy Local mixer at Lucid Stage

5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Mark your calendars for the June Buy Local Member Mixer taking place Wednesday, June 22 at Lucid Stage, a nonprofit arts organization. Lucid Stage provides performance and rehearsal space for artists of various genres, as well as space for classes and community events, educational programs, and visual art.” Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard.

Friends of Evergreen 2011 Annual Meeting

6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. “The public is invite to join us for our 2011 Annual Meeting where we will welcome Tom Desjardins, Chief Historian for the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands. Mr. Desjardins will speak on, ‘Civil War Heros and Heroines Buried in Evergreen Cemetery.’ Light refreshments, a discussion and a brief annual business meeting will follow the lecture. This event will take place at Wilde Memorial Chapel in Evergreen Cemetery, 672 Stevens Avenue, Portland. Parking is available on Stevens Avenue.”

‘Ida’s Having a Yard Sale’

7:30 p.m. Ida Leclair, “the funniest woman in Maine,” is having a yard sale. From crocheted toilet paper covers to the complete Box Car Willy record collection and plenty of gossip going around Mahoosuc Mills. Performances are June 22 through July 2, Wednesday through Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sundays at 5 p.m.

Tickets are $22.50/ $17.50 for seniors and students, and are available through Brown Paper Tickets, www.freeportfactory. com 865-5505. The Freeport Factory Stage is located at 5 Depot St., downtown Freeport, one block east of L.L. Bean.

‘Summer of Love’ at Ogunquit Playhouse

8 p.m. The Ogunquit Playhouse, Route 1, Ogunquit. Box Office 1-800-982-2787 or go online ogunquitplayhouse.org for online ticketing and more information. June 22 through July 16, “Summer of Love.” With a 2:30 p.m. preview. “Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair for the east coast premier of ‘Summer of Love,’ a groovy new musical by Roger Bean, the creator of The Marvelous Wonderettes and The Andrews Brothers, with choreography by Lee Martino. When a runaway bride discovers the countercultural revolution of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, with a little help from the hippies and dropouts of Golden Gate Park, she comes to realize she has to make her own kind of music! This hippie, trippy musical features the powerful music of the late 1960s, by some of the most influential artists of the love generation: The Mamas and the Papas, Donovan, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane and many more.”

Next on stage: “The Music Man,” July 20-Aug. 20; “Legally Blonde” starring Sally Struthers, Aug.24-Sept. 17; and “Miss Saigon,” Sept. 21-Oct. 23.

Thursday, June 23 Pinta and the Nina replicas in Portland

9 a.m. to 6 p.m. “On Thursday, June 23, the ‘Pinta and the ‘Nina,’ replicas of Columbus ships, will open in South Portland. The ships will be docked at the South Port Marina, 14 Ocean St., until their departure early Tuesday morning June 28. The ‘Nina’ was built completely by hand and without the use of power tools. Archaeology magazine called the ship ‘the most historically correct Columbus replica ever built.’

The ‘Pinta’ was recently built in Brazil to accompany the Nina on all of her travels. She is a larger version of the archetypal caravel. Historians consider the caravel the Space Shuttle of the fifteenth century. Both ships tour together as a new and enhanced ‘sailing museum’ for the purpose of educating the public and school children on the ‘caravel,’ a Portuguese ship used by Columbus and many early explorers used to discover the world. While in port, the general public are invited to visit the ships for a walk-aboard, self-guided tour.”

PeaksFest is this weekend on Peaks Island. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) Admission charges are $8 for adults, $ 7 for seniors, and $6 for students 5-16. Children 4 and under are free. The ships are open every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. No reservations necessary. Teachers or organizations wishing to schedule a 30-minute guided tour with a crew member should call (787) 672-2152. Minimum of 15. $4 per person. No maximum. www.thenina.com

Rally for Peace in Sudan

noon to 1 p.m. Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center of Maine) presents a Rally for Peace in Sudan at Monument Square on Congress Street in Portland. This event is free, and the public is encouraged to attend. Speakers will include El-Fadel Arbab, as well as local activists and members of the Sudanese refugee communities, including speakers from Abyei, Nuba Mountains, and Darfur. If it rains, the rally will be held at The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St. in Portland, at 7 p.m. “Since 2003, more than 400,000 people have been killed in Darfur, Sudan. More than 2.7 million people have been displaced. Currently, there is an ongoing crisis in the Abyei region of Sudan. Thousands of citizens have been displaced in the South Kurdofan and Nuba Mountain regions. Southern Maine now boasts the largest organized Sudanese refugee community in the United States.

Although Sudanese President Al-Bashir is now wanted by

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Yappy Hour & Lyme Disease Seminar

5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Yappy Hour & Lyme Disease Seminar with Joyce Belcher from Herbs For Life at The Planet Dog Company Store located at 211 Marginal Way in Portland.

This is a free event for dog lovers and their canine companions 5:30-6 p.m., mingle, grab some snacks, treats, and a drink; 6-6:45 p.m., presentation; 6:45 p.m., Q&A discussion.

A Light on the Point

5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. A seaside celebration of leadership, entrepreneurship and partnership in support of higher education; the event is in honor of retiring Southern Maine Community College President Jim Ortiz and his 10 years of leadership at SMCC. On the SMCC campus. To RSVP or for more information, call Joyce Schmitt at 741-5559 or email jschmitt@smccME.edu.

‘Killer Stuff and Tons of Money’

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Film: ‘13 Assassins’ at SPACE

7:30 p.m. “13 Assassins” at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland. Doors open at 7 p.m. Admission $7/$5 for SPACE members. “Cult director Takeshi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer, Visitor Q) delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan’s feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future. The film is a remake of Eichi Kudo’s 1963 black-and-white movie of the same name, Jûsan-nin no shikaku.” www.13assassins.com

Friday, June 24 Hands-On Historic Gardening

9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Hands-On Historic Gardening: A Workshop. Maine Historical Society. Presenter: Jeff O’Donal, Owner, O’Donal’s Nursery. “Join us for a hands-on exploration of the issues and opportunities in maintaining or recreating an historic garden. Using the Longfellow Garden as a laboratory, participants will be introduced to a variety of locally-available plantings, consider which plant varieties are appropriate in a variety of settings, and identify specific plant varieties to introduce at home. This program is free but registration is required. This event is held in partnership with the Longfellow Garden Club.”

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5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Victoria Mansion, in partnership with Allagash Brewing, announced the sixth annual Allagash Victoria Ale Premiere, which will take place at Victoria Mansion, 109 Danforth St., Portland. The event celebrates the release of Allagash Brewing’s 2011 Victoria Ale. The first ale in Allagash’s popular Tribute Series, Victoria Ale is a unique beer brewed with Vidal Blanc grapes. The beer will be available in stores in early May, with one dollar from each bottle brewed benefitting Victoria Mansion’s historic preservation and education programs. The Allagash Victoria Ale Premiere will feature a live outdoor performance by the Pete Kilpatrick Band, recent winners of the 2011 USAA Garageband Music Competition, as well as self-guided tours of Victoria Mansion, tastings of Victoria Ale, samples of Maine Mead Works’ Honeymaker Mead, and light supper generously catered by Blue Elephant Catering. Advance tickets are $15 for Victoria Mansion members or $20 for non-members. All tickets are $25 at the door.

MECA Master of Fine Arts lectures

6:30 p.m. Each summer, the Master of Fine Arts program at Maine College of Art invites guest artists, curators and scholars to participate in the curriculum. All visiting artists deliver a free public lecture in Osher Hall at 6:30 p.m. June 24: Allan McCollum; McCollum’s work focuses on the relationship between labor and art, with an emphasis on mass production. June 27: Elllie Ga; Ga’s projects explore the limits of photographic documentation and span a variety of media, often incorporating her exploratory writing and culminating in performative lectures, videos and installations.

July 5: Juan Logan; Logan’s paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations and videos address the interconnections of race, place and power. July 11: Sina Najafi; Najafi is the Editor of Cabinet Magazine. July 18: Anne West; West is a writer, theorist, and independent curator. She teaches in the graduate program at RISD. July 25: Lee Boroson; Boroson’s airy sculptures give viewers the chance to experience the ineffable impossibilities of the world. Aug. 1: Hamish Fulton; Since the early 1970s, Fulton has been labeled as a sculptor, photographer, conceptual artist andland artist. Fulton, however, characterises himself as a “walking artist.” Aug. 8: Lisi Raskin; Raskin handcrafts whimsical recreations of military command centers. This summer the MFA’s Moth Press is also releasing Mapping the Intelligence of Artistic Work; An Explorative Guide to Making, Thinking, and Writing

by Anne West. Her lecture on July 18 will be followed by a book signing. West is an educator, writer, and independent curator. She teaches in the Division of Graduate Studies at Rhode Island School of Design, where she supports students across disciplines in conceptualizing and writing their master’s thesis. http://www.meca.edu/mfa

‘Beautiful Darling’

6:30 p.m. Portland Museum of Art presents “Beautiful Darling” as part of its Movies at the Museum series. Friday, June 24, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, June 25, 2 p.m.; Sunday, June 26, 2 p.m. NR. “‘Beautiful Darling’ chronicles the short but influ-

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7 p.m. Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St. “Seated By The Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, And Its Irish Longshoremen” by Michael C. Connolly, Professor of History, Saint Joseph’s College. “Join us at the Maine Irish Heritage Center for a book launch and signing by Michael Connolly (Dept. of History, Saint Joseph’s College of Maine) for the newly released paperback edition of ‘Seated by the Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Longshoremen’ (University Press of Florida, 2011).” A power point presentation and lecture on the Portland waterfront and its connection to the Irish community of Portland will be held in the upstairs hall followed by the sale and signing of books downstairs together with musical entertainment.

The cost of the paperback book is $30 (less than half that of the hard cover edition) and proceeds from the sales go entirely to benefit the MIHC. It should be a great night for remembering and honoring this important group of mainly Irish laborers.”

‘E.B. White’s Eccentric Life in Nature’

7 p.m. Michael Sims will read from “The Story of Charlotte’s Web: E.B. White’s Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic” at Longfellow Books. Longfellow Books events are open to the public and always free to attend.

“Fusing information from White’s correspondence with the likes of Ursula Nordstrom, James Thurber, and Harold Ross, the E. B. White papers at Cornell, and the archives of HarperCollins and the New Yorker with his own elegant narrative, Sims brings to life the shy boy whose animal stories, both real and imaginary, won him a permanent spot in the hearts of families around the world.”

Saturday, June 25 Limington Extension Yard Sales

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Trot for Tots 5K Run /Walk

8:30 a.m. Youth and Family Outreach (YFO) is having its first Trot for Tots 5K Run/Walk at Back Cove in Portland. “All proceeds will benefit YFO which has been providing quality early care and education for low-income families in the Portland area for 25 years.” 874-1073. active.com.

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4 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Awake Collective, a co-working collective, will be hosting its grand opening event at 509 Forest Ave. The Awake Collective is a new multi-use space providing massage and a variety of alternative healing arts services; yoga, dance, meditation, classes, and workshops in support of awakening. “I’m so excited to get the word out about this new space that is open to the greater Portland community,” said Becca Demers, founder and director of the Awake Collective. “What has been missing in Portland is an accessible, affordable, all-ages space for healing arts and movement that makes it possible for people to receive

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6 p.m. The 2011 Annual New Gloucester Strawberry Festival will be held at the Congo Vestry, 19 Gloucester Hill Road, New Gloucester (just off Route 231). The festival features native New Gloucester berries with homemade biscuits and Hodgman’s Frozen Custard. “The Berry, Berry Good Band will play musical favorites. There will be a Bake Sale and a History Table selling memorabilia. Join your friends, neighbors and family-it doesn’t get any better than this!”

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Saturday, June 18 The Duke Robillard Band

8 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents. “Guitarist.

Bandleader. Songwriter. Singer. Producer. Session musician. And a one-man cheering section for the blues, in all its forms and permutations. And every one of those names has shared recording studio space or stage time with a man who is a legend in the blues community. The Blues Music Awards (formerly W.C. Handy Awards) have named Duke Robillard ‘Best Blues Guitarist’ four years out of five (2000, 2001, 2003, 2004) making him the second most honored guitarist for that award! He was also nominated in that category in 2005, 2007 and 2008. In 2007 Duke received a Grammy nomination for his Guitar Groove-a-rama CD and was also honored with the prestigious Rhode Island Pell Award for ‘excellence in the arts’ along with actress Olympia Dukakis, actor Bob Colonna, and R.I. Choreographer/ Festival Ballet director Mihailo ‘Misha’ Djuric.”

BRZOWSKI abum release with Prayers for Atheists, Doll Fight!, H.W. and Ill By Instinct

9 p.m. After five years of touring throughout five countries, over 600 performances, two mixtapes, two ep’s, one 7” single, countless featured appearances, and performing live with a venerable who’s-who of the independent (progressive) hiphop, Portland’s own BRZOWSKI returns with his sophomore solo release. “A Fitful Sleep” finds our narrator moving away from the thick veil of funereal affectations of his debut, and now speaks from a soapbox steeped in the culture of independent artistry and on top of a widely broadened palette of production sounds, even if the punk/ metal/gothic/outlaw aesthetics remain on the skin. This is your first chance to grab the album and see the songs live (Backed by Moshe and Emoh Betta). Described by CMJ as “[the sound of] Public Enemy bum rushing a basement hardcore matinee,”Prayers For Atheists return to SPACE from their homebase in Providence. Doll Fight! joins the fray from Burlington with Riot Grrrl roots and power-packed songs.

Emcees H.W. and Ill By Instinct each offer a short set to get the night humming. $8, 18 plus. www.space538.org

Sunday, June 19 Michael Franti & Spearhead at Concerts On The Waterfront

6 p.m. State Theatre Presents at Concerts On The Waterfront At Ocean Gateway: Michael Franti & Spearhead, Blue King Brown. Michael Franti is a very big man who has always dared to say very big things through his joyous and passionate music during an unusually diverse and highly impressive career. Yet for all the wide-ranging, yet consistent excellence of his body of work, what’s most impressive about Michael Franti as a recording artist and live performer is his ability to inspire. Ultimately, the heartfelt music that Franti makes and his dedication to greater understanding on a global level, are not two aspects of his life, but very much one and the same. Blue King Brown, Australia’s premier Urban roots crew, are Comin’ to conquer! Concerts on the Waterfront at Ocean Gateway. $35 advance/$40 day of show. http://www.statetheatreportland.com/event/39649/

Monday, June 20 Dinosaur Jr. at Port City

7 p.m. Port City Music Hall. Having recently signed with

Jagjaguwar, Dinosaur Jr plans to release a new album, “Farm,” on June 23. The band will be setting out in April to road test new material in cozier settings than you might expect. For the fortunate fans who score tickets to these select shows, they will also receive a limited edition, tour-only 7” or a digital download code with the purchase of a ticket. Advance: $25; door: $30. VIP: $40. Plus Henry Rollins interviews Dinosaur Jr. live on stage! 18 plus.

Tuesday, June 21 Alina Simone Reading and Music

7 p.m. Alina Simone, at SPACE Gallery, reading from her new book of essays, “You Must Go And Win,” and performing songs from her new album, “Make Your Own Danger.” “Alina Simone — a critically acclaimed singer who was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, and now lives in Brooklyn — returns to SPACE, where she previously played songs from her last record, a tribute to Russian postpunk cult icon Yanka Dyagileva.

Her music has been everywhere from BBC’s The World, NPR, Spin, and Billboard to The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal. This month she celebrates the release of her first collection of essays, You Must Go And Win, described by best-selling author Neil Gaiman as ‘music, religion, Russia and family conjured and dissected with warm humor and sharp eyes’ as well as a new fulllength record, ‘Make Your Own Danger.’” Longfellow Books will be on hand to sell copies of the book. www.space538.org

Anni Clark & Rachel Griffin: Sweet Sounds of Summer

7:30 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents. “Anni Clark was recently nominated for “Female Vocalist BB King himself has called Duke Robillard “one of the great players,” and The Houston Post of the Year” in the Texas Music called him “one of God’s guitarists.” He will perform tonight at One Longfellow Square. (COURAwards, based on her newest CD TESY PHOTO) Anni Clark LIVE. Recorded at the and released 43 songs in her brief two-year career as a rustic and intimate Deertrees Theatre in Harrison ME one singer/songwriter. There is no doubt that she is exceptionhot summer’s eve, the disc showcases 15 of Anni’s most ally prolific, and her vocal abilities continue to progress to requested songs. With over two decades of full time touring the point where, on pure vocal talent (range, delivery, proand seven successful recordings under her belt, this Maine jection) she’s likely among the top five local female singers, native’s passion for communication through music continwith people like Carol Noonan and Sara Cox. If she were ues to build a widespread and loyal audience. Anni supports her strong melodic vocals with both six and twelve string see next page guitars to create infectious performances that blend ‘folk, pop, & blues with a dash of Maine hue-mah.’ Rachel Griffin has composed, recorded,

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Wednesday, June 22 The Johnny Childs Band

8 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents: “What makes for a great bluesman? What is that special formula; the blend of factors that elevates the average blues player to above average greatness? Is it talent? Is it soul? What about life experience, hunger and determination? The fact of the matter is that a combination of any of these qualities has the ability to result in some fine blues music, but what about those rare occasions when all of these qualities come together in one artist? Well, if you’re looking for a contemporary example, you need not look any further than Johnny Childs.” www. onelongfellowsquare.com

Soul Clap Dance Party at Space Gallery

9 p.m. 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. SOUL CLAP has become notorious in New York and all over the world for bringing together wild raucous crowds of folks young and old who want to dance and prove that they know how to shake their thing. Come show us what you’ve got. $5, 21 plus.

Thursday, June 23 The Deadly Gentlemen

8 p.m. One Longfellow Square. The Deadly Gentlemen (l to r): Mike Barnett, Dominick Leslie, Sam Grisman, Stash Wyslouch, and Greg Liszt. There are five band members: Greg Liszt, banjo and vocals; Stash Wyslouch, guitar and

vocals; Mike Barnett, fiddle and vocals; Dominick Leslie, mandolin and vocals; and Sam Grisman, double bass and vocals. http://www.onelongfellowsquare.com

Friday, June 24 Jabon and Dada Trash Collage

7 p.m. Jabon and Dada Trash Collage, East Coast Summer Tour, The Apohadian Theater, Portland. “Jabon is the solo music project of Scott Colburn. While Colburn is not well known for playing music, his production skills for recording music are, with albums from artists such as Sun City Girls, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire and more to his credit, including his tour mates Dada Trash Collage. Jabon is an attempt to present musical ideas, sounds, image and performance that is designed to entertain. Jabon is dark ambient avant garde disco comedy.

Jabon is most like The Residents. Dada Trash Collage is a duo from Minneapolis, Minn., consisting of Billy Freed and Richard Bell. Their relentless output in just a few short years shows that there is much music in the duo. Their fascinating blend of drums, keyboards, samples and vocals create a sound nearly 10 times and big as the two members. Dada Trash Collage is most like Animal Collective.”

Jeff Beam withThe Lucid,Laminated Cat

9 p.m. Returning to Maine after a brief stint in New York, Jeff Beam returns to Portland with their 60’s psych and British invasion-inspired experimental rock. Beam combines catchy, oddball melodies with obscure but cohesive chord changes, matched with existential and surrealistic lyrical content. Woah, sounds trippy. The Lucid return to SPACE with their epic pop-rock, evinced on this year’s self-titled album. Maine-to-Athens, Georgia transplants Laminated Cat open with a set of Elephant 6-style far-out pop. $8, 18

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Saturday, June 25 Pianist Christian Saunders in Bar Mills

7:30 p.m. In the Old White Church, 15 Salmon Falls Road, Bar Mills, next door to the Saco River Grange Hall. “Once again Saco River Grange Hall is pleased to collaborate with the Portland Conservatory of Music’s International Piano Festival, presenting another young celebrity from Eastern Europe. At 23 Christian has won numerous international competitions and has performed throughout Europe. He is now preparing for his final examination in the Prins Claus Conservatory in Groningen. We hope to introduce the festival’s founder, Tamara Poddubnaya, one of Russia’s foremost pianists, who holds countless awards throughout Europe for her passionate love for the piano and for her devotion to her students.” Old White Church (15 Salmon Falls Road in Bar Mills.) FMI and reservations please call

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