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Amos Libby’s five weeks in the heart of the conflict On June 12, three days after Maine musician Amos Libby arrived for his five-week volunteer stint in Palestine’s West Bank, three Israeli teens were kidnapped, setting off what has become the most violent clash between Hamas and the Israeli government since the Second Intifada, which ran from 2000 through 2005. Libby was just settling in with a host family in Beit Ummar, a village of 16,000. It was about 12 kilometers northwest of Hebron, where he was teaching English in a three-classroom school, run by a small local non-profit that brings in foreign volunteers to teach students of all ages. Suddenly, Libby found himself in the thick of rapidly heightening tension. Israeli defense forces began arresting former Hamas prisoners by raiding homes all around him, blowing in front doors and drilling holes in the roofs of homes that usually house three generations. Clashes broke out on the streets around him at night. Defense forces multiplied. That tension burst when the three teens were found dead in a field in Halhul, the next town over, on June 30. Things escalated again on July 2, when three Israeli teens, according to Israeli prosecutors, grabbed a West Bank Palestinian teen for revenge, taking him to a wooded area of Jerusalem, pouring gasoline down his throat, and setting him aflame. Then came the rockets from Hamas. The Israeli fighter jets dropping bombs on civilian-filled areas. Air-raid sirens and more clashes in the streets at night. Finally, Libby’s stint was up, and he left Palestine to fly back to the United States just a couple days before the ground invasion of Gaza began, arriving home last Wednesday, three days before I interviewed him on Saturday at that cute new Coffee by Design coffee bar down in Bayside. Would he have gone if he had known what would go down? “Absolutely,” he says, “I had every opportunity to leave and I didn’t. Even when I saw the rockets going overhead. Actually, (Israeli) immigration asked me at the airport why I didn’t leave when I could have and I said it was because I felt safe. They told me I was nuts.” I told him it seemed kind of nuts to me, too. “But on the ground it doesn’t feel like that,” Libby says. “It didn’t feel as insane as it might look from the outside. It just felt like life.” The family he was staying with (Libby purposely didn’t give me their name, as he’s worried about drawing attention to them) had a member who had been in an Israeli prison for being outside after curfew, and now can never leave the province again. The town they live in contains a 40-foot gun tower that guards

EMERGENT PERSPECTIVE Okbari’s Amos Libby returns from the horrors of war in Gaza

“It’s the occupation. The economic and social situation robs people of the time to devote to learning to play.” - Amos Libby

the entrance to Highway 60. They’re used to having soldiers around and being in the shadow of automatic weapons. When you want to go somewhere that involves a trip down that central artery, Libby says, you tell the cabbie, “Take me to the tower.” He says the words first in Arabic, seemingly out of habit. Libby speaks Arabic well, having studied with the Middlebury language school in Oakland, California, and having made a study of Arabic arts and culture since he was entranced by the Arabic script on an Egyptian pop-music CD in a now-shuttered music shop down on Fore Street, when he was 14 years old, a teenager from Windham. He has become a well-known oud player, studying with the late Alan Shavarash Bardezbanian, playing in the band Okbari, and teaching Arabic music at Bates and Bowdoin colleges. And so he did what he has trained to do, what he loves to do: Play Arabic music and teach people how to speak English, all the while delivering riveting reports about living in a war zone via Facebook: “A 22-year-old member of my extended host family was just shot with live ammunition by the IDF here in Beit Ummar. He is being taken to the hospital. That’s all the information we have.” Even through the chaos, he admits it was gratifying to be able to not only play for his family, students, and new friends in Palestine, but to actually take requests. “I think there was a certain amount of surprise that this Western guy could do this,” Libby says, “but they just accepted me. They didn’t treat me like I was some sort of attraction. They were just like,

‘Hey, they guy knows his stuff.’ The novelty wore off in about ten seconds when they realized I could really do it.” There was pressure, sure, “but I felt privileged to be able to do this. I felt really fortunate to be able to share this music that I’ve worked really hard to learn.” He played some folk tunes, what he equated with old-time American songs like “You Are My Sunshine,” but he said the majority of what people asked for were songs from what is known as the “Golden Age” of Arabic music, heavily produced combinations of classical and orchestral forms largely recorded and released out of Cairo between the 1920s and 1950s (maybe start your googling with Farid al-Atrash). “And when I would play those songs,” Libby says, “I often got the response that, ‘We love these songs very much, but we haven’t been able to hear them in so many years.’” In fact, “I was the first live oud player the majority of people had ever seen, which was a dramatic statement about the music in one of the cradles of its birth, really. The family I stayed with organized a few interfamily events, and we’d go out into open areas in the fields, and we’d play Arabic songs, and they’d sing along with the ones they knew. And I played a charity event during Ramadan, and played at the school for a few functions as well. And it was received as something remarkable and special, just because it’s rare to see that.” Such is living in what is known in the Palestinian world as “the occupation.” Regardless of your politics, what you think are the root causes, what Libby witnessed in the West Bank is undeniable: There was no time for music. People were focused on making a living, getting educated, keeping safe. There was no money for musical instruments or training, that’s for sure. “It’s just out of the reach of the normal person,” he says. “They have to focus on trying to find a way to feed their families. That was my impression.” “It’s the occupation,” he continues. “The economic situation and the social situation kind of robs people of the time to devote to learning to play. There hasn’t been any kind of lack of interest for the music. So many people said, ‘I would really like to learn to play the oud.’ But when people are living in an economically depressed situation, that’s bolstered by a military occupation, the arts suffer.” Now Libby says he’s itching to get back, that the intimate connections he’s made in Palestine make him feel the rattle of every explosion in his very bones. He shows me a message he received from one of his students via the Viber app: “They’re staging a ground invasion. But what can you do. How are you?” ^

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Allow me a selfish moment. I’ve grown weary of advocating for causes that may be good for society as a whole, but don’t benefit me at all. When some issue I’ve supported in this column finally achieves its moment of victory, I’m often left with an empty feeling because I have no interest in taking advantage of whatever change I’ve helped effect. For instance, marijuana. It was never my drug of choice back in the days when I was choosing among outlawed pharmaceuticals. Now that it’s on the verge of becoming legal—a move I strongly support—I still won’t be inhaling. Likewise, same-sex marriage. I think everybody should be able to marry whomever they like. For me, that would be Meredith Vieira or Emmylou Harris. Or, possibly, Meredith Vieira and Emmylou Harris. Unfortunately, the new law has done nothing to facilitate my efforts. I’m strongly in favor of the right of law-abiding citizens to buy and own guns. But I don’t possess any of my own. The same lifelong lack of eye-hand coordination that prevented me from hitting breaking balls renders me incapable of using a firearm to hit anything smaller than Godzilla. When it comes to abortion, I’m firmly pro-choice. But for obvious reasons, I’ll never have to brave the gauntlet of rabid pro-lifers outside Planned Parenthood’s Portland office to get one. Nor will Meredith or Emmylou. Or my actual wife. I’m resolute in my support of small farmers in their efforts to sell unpasteurized milk and other dairy products on their farms without unnecessary government regulation. But if they ever win this fight, it won’t affect me. It’s not that I’m lactose intolerant. It’s that

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I’m lactose indifferent. My annual consumption of moo juice wouldn’t keep one cow’s teat busy. I’m happy that the courts are finally easing restrictions on political donations, because I think those rules stifle free speech. On the other hand, before I’d give any cash to a candidate, I’d sooner shred it to make litter boxes for wharf rats. And I’ve already disparaged all three gubernatorial candidates, which means the best I can hope for after the November election is to be 33 percent disappointed. So, just this once, I’d like to devote this space to a cause that, if successful, would have a positive impact on me. To that end, I’ve formed a group called the Freedom of Liquor Acquisition and Storage Koalition, also known as F.L.A.S.K. (yeah, I know: Worst. Acronym. Ever.). You might not realize it, but while it’s legal to carry a gun in Maine (either openly or, with a permit, concealed), putting a flask containing an alcoholic beverage in your hip pocket is against the law. The cops consider it to be the same as walking around in public with an open bottle of booze. This ill-considered statute turns a sizable segment of the population into lawbreakers, even though there’s never been a study showing any correlation between flask ownership and criminal activity. There’s even some indication that the opposite may be true. “Using a flask properly is about quiet sophistication and softening the edges of a tough world with stolen moments among friends and reminding yourself that you’re a man who drinks real booze,” wrote Michael A. Lubarsky on the website AskMen.com. F.L.A.S.K. will advocate for returning this noble container to the legal status it has enjoyed

throughout most of human history, when it was considered essential for both travel and leisure. Stone Age people cured animal skins with beeswax to carry wine and mead. Ceramic flasks showed up about 4,000 years ago. Wood, glass and metal versions soon followed, leading to modern vessels made of composites and stainless steel. For centuries, devices for carrying distilled spirits were necessary because the water supply was often befouled with waste products, rendering it undrinkable. Also, having a little hooch handy helped ease tensions in periods when newcomers were usually greeted with suspicion. As Frank Kelly Rich put it in Modern Drunkard magazine (no, I’m not making that up), “[The flask] is a powerful talisman for repelling prudes you shouldn’t waste your time with, and attracting bon vivants you definitely want to know. It provides the grease, clandestinely applied, that lets you slide eel-like through tight, uncomfortable, and tedious situations. It is a discrete source of strength when you’re under the yoke and a great yawp of joy when you’re running free.” After all these years of supporting conservatives (gun rights, campaign donations), liberals (women’s rights, marriage equality), libertarians (pot, germ-laden milk) and other fanatics (whichever of the gubernatorial candidates you hate the most), I think it’s reasonable to ask these disparate factions to unite in helping F.L.A.S.K. Support my right to lawfully carry a little something to get me through legislative hearings, candidate news conferences, and encounters with verbose nutters. If you do, I might even share. ^

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PPH publisher. as of July 1, the Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, and Morning Sentinel no longer offer unlimited free online content; after you’ve exhausted a 10-article-per-month limit, you’ll need to subscribe to read any more. Subscription packages run from $8 per month (for Sunday print delivery plus full online access) to $17.99 per month (for 7-day delivery), and some content remains free and accessible— obituaries, blogs, photo and video features, and mainetoday.com, the company’s rah-rah arts and entertainment site. (in addition, savvy readers have discovered a loophole: the 10-article limit applies separately to each device and even each browser that you use; if you access the site from Firefox, Safari, and chrome on your phone, tablet, and laptop, you could read dozens of article without hitting the paywall.) “We’re very encouraged,” she says, noting that as of last thursday night, the PPH (along with its sister papers) had 1500 new subscribers, with about half of those having selected some combination of print and digital access. these numbers “exceeded projections,” deSisto says, and are a reflection of the pricing structure—it’s cheaper to get the Sunday paper and digital access than to select the digital-only subscription. that’s because, as deSisto confessed in her “letter from the publisher” announcing the changes, “We really want you to get our Sunday paper delivered to your home! the Maine Sunday Telegram continues to carry the majority of our advertising with that healthy pile of retail inserts. our pricing has been structured to encourage readers to get the Sunday paper.” in a highly critical blog post, maine pr guy dennis Bailey wrote: “this effort to force people to take Sunday delivery of the actual newspaper for the sake of their advertisers (and the accompanying revenue) is unlikely to reverse that [downward] trend and completely ignores how a growing number of people prefer to get their news today. it’s yet another attempt by ‘big journalism’ to cling to its glorious, ink-stained past rather than fully face the online future that awaits. they need to give it up.” newspapers and old-school print journalists need to completely reconsider how people consume news and content today, Bailey writes. “a la carte is the new content model, and not just on netflix but on apple tV, hBo Go (another provider with a paywall that’s easily compromised), amazon Fire and more.” among his prescriptions, Bailey tells the Press Herald to “end weekday print editions of the newspaper and go to a Sunday only edition.” i asked deSisto if the mainetoday team had or would consider such an option. her response is vehement: “We are a long way from that.”

F and hey, at least the Press Herald still has a statehouse bureau.

a new report released earlier this month found a “substantial decline” in statehouse reporters over the past decade, with less than a third of uS newspapers assigning any kind of reporter (full- or parttime) to cover affairs at the capitol building (including legislative activity, the governor’s office, or the work of state agencies). there are 1,592 journalists who cover state government around the country in some capacity, according to the pew research center’s “america’s Shifting Statehouse press,” published July 10. Fewer than half work cover the statehouse full time, “raising concerns about the depth and quality of news coverage about state government.” another troubling finding: a whopping 86 percent of local tV news stations do not assign even one reporter—full- or part-time—to the statehouse. the report tallied 13 statehouse reporters in maine; eight who are stationed there full-time, three part-time, and two who cover only the legislative session. it also reveals that maine is one of four states (along with connecticut, oklahoma, and oregon) with no television reporters at the statehouse. this is not good, the report authors note, given that “previous pew studies show that local television is the primary place americans go for news.” (and don’t blame our small population for the lack. the study found that Vermont, the second-smallest state in terms of population, has 13 full-time statehouse reporters—more than 25 other states—and 18 total.) With so many important and directly relevant policy decisions being made in statehouses across the country and in maine (see: medicare expansion, municipal revenue-sharing, infrastructure bonds, and much more just in the most recent legislative session), this coverage is critical for informed civic engagement. maybe instead of devoting still-more resources to food reviews, maine’s leading news organizations should spend money on keeping better tabs on augusta. ^

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CLOSING THE GAP IS PORTLAND READY FOR A $15 PER HOUR MINIMUM WAGE? _B Y Z A CK AN C H O R S

The Mayor wants to give low-wage workers a raise, but will it be a modest boost or a Seattle-style jump? A few months after Portland’s mayor, Michael Brennan, announced last January that he wanted to raise the city’s minimum wage, Seattle passed a law to raise its citywide minimum wage to $15 per hour. That figure—$15—was big enough to captivate the minds of workers across the country and spread alarm among business owners. A $15 minimum wage is more than double the current federal minimum wage of $7.25, and it dwarfs the increase to $10.10 that President Obama and other Democratic leaders have supported at the federal and state levels. What’s more, the organizations and activists behind Seattle’s fight for $15 have made it clear their campaign is part of a broader nationwide movement, and similar efforts to significantly spike the minimum wage at a local level are moving forward in several other big cities, including San Francisco, San Diego, and Chicago. If the movement racks up a few more victories, it’s conceivable that the Fight for 15 movement could accomplish what the Occupy movement never managed: mobilize workers to fight for a specific policy that would dramatically improve their economic status and reduce inequality. Brennan didn’t have $15 in mind when he announced his intent to raise wages in Portland. And a proposed increase that high would face fierce opposition from businesses, especially Maine’s powerful restaurant and hospitality industries, which tend to pay the state’s lowest wages. But regardless of how high the mayor aims when he makes his proposal this fall, his call for increasing the

minimum wage has opened the door to a broader local debate over what actually constitutes reasonable, fair wages, and how aggressively the city should push businesses to pay them. Part of that debate involves the thorny matter of whether the city should require tipped workers—plentiful in Portland—to be paid more than 50 percent of the minimum wage. Another question is whether the city should push to require a living wage, which would be based on how much a person in Portland actually needs to live outside of poverty. And the increasingly steep cost of living in Portland underlies the whole issue of fair wages. As pricey condos pop up in every neighborhood and the local economy booms, the scarcity of affordable housing leaves many low-wage workers wondering if they can continue to call the city home. “The conversation about the minimum wage should really be about how to make Portland a city that working class people can afford,” says Drew Joy of the Southern Maine Worker’s Center. “What can we do to ensure that our restaurant workers can actually live here?”’

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What happened in Seattle came as a shock to much of the nation following the repeated failures of Congress and state legislatures to raise the minimum wage even moderately. Just a few months ago, the idea that a major city would raise the minimum wage to $15 seemed far-fetched. The improbable success of activists in Seattle makes it natural for Portland residents to wonder: Could it happen here? Some believe it could. Activists from 15 Now, one of the main organizations driving the fight for $15 in Seattle, recently visited Portland to plant the seeds for a campaign here.

Toya Chester, who was on the ground during the campaign in Seattle and now works for 15 Now Boston, explained to a small group gathered at the Meg Perry Center on July 5 the advantages of choosing a $15 minimum wage as the focus of a grassroots campaign. “This is something that is tangible and that could really change working people’s lives,” Chester said. “And ‘15 now’ is such a simple message—one that people can easily grasp and identify with.” Since that meeting, a small cadre of activists have created 15 Now Maine. The group has been demonstrating and gathering signatures outside the Deering Oaks farmers’ market on Saturdays with signs reading “Maine Deserves a Raise” and “15 Now: Because the Rent Can’t Wait.” One active supporter of 15 Now Maine, Tom Macmillan, also serves on Mayor Brennan’s Minimum Wage Advisory Council, which was created in February to help the mayor develop a proposal for a citywide minimum wage. “A major increase in the minimum wage is only going to happen if workers demand it,” he says. “The mayor is going to propose an increase, but it won’t be what’s needed if he doesn’t really hear the voices of workers.” If activists in Portland are going to ignite a movement like the one in Seattle, though, it will be difficult for them to replicate the unique circumstances that helped activists in that city succeed. Seattle’s fight fed off the momentum of the fast food worker strikes that spread across the country in 2013 and received a boost when voters in SeaTac, a neighboring city, approved a ballot initiative to enact a $15 per hour minimum wage. During the same election cycle, two candidates who championed the fight for $15 won seats in the Seattle government: Kshama Sawant, a Socialist Alternative candidate running for city council, and Democrat Ed Murray, who challenged the incumbent mayor from the left. Those developments allowed a $15 minimum wage law to move Continued on p 10

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through the city council, but only after business interests succeeded in winning numerous carve-outs and exceptions and a three-year phased implementation. In Maine, striking workers haven’t triggered a fight for $15 and the minimum wage has not emerged as a major issue in the state’s upcoming elections. 15 Now Maine, along with labor activists and others, intends to change that, but up until recently the push for a higher minimum wage in Portland has come mainly from the city’s Democratic mayor rather than grassroots activists.

CitieS take the lead

It’s traditionally been the federal government rather than states and cities that determine the minimum wage. But since Republicans in Congress have successfully derailed any attempts to heighten it in recent years, supporters of a higher minimum wage are using state and city governments as an alternative route. Since lots of states, like Maine, are controlled by Republican legislatures and governors, cities are often considered the only avenue left. And Seattle isn’t alone among major cities. More than 120 cities and counties have passed local minimum wage laws, according to the National Employment Law Project. Among these are Washington D.C., San Diego, and San Jose, each of which recently boosted their minimum wage. In both San Diego and D.C., it will gradually rise over a few years to $11.50, while San Jose’s increase to $10.15 has already been implemented. Support for a citywide increase is growing rapidly in Chicago, Los Angeles, and several other cities. In Chicago last week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Minimum Wage Working Group recommended raising that city’s figure to $13 an hour. With so many other cities leading the way, there’s nothing especially unusual or radical about Portland following the same path. But whether Portland’s proposal is truly bold will depend on how high the city aims.

iS $10.10 high or low?

President Obama, along with Democratic leaders in Maine and across the country, is now pushing for a $10.10 minimum wage, and he signed an executive order in February that will require federal contractors to pay that much. But since the president first cited that number in his 2013 inaugural address, it has been shot down in both Congress and in the Maine legislature. Mayor Brennan plans to propose his own number to the Portland City Council in the next few months and it appears likely it will be somewhere in the same range as the president’s. At his advisory council’s July 16 meeting, he said he was leaning toward a citywide minimum wage that was about 50 to 60 percent of the local median wage, which would place it somewhere in the $9 to $11 range. The mayor currently envisions the increase being phased in over time, with an initial bump to $9.50 in 2015 and another to $10.68 in 2017. Following that year, he would like to tie the minimum wage to the rate of inflation, so that wages will increase in line with prices. A raise of just a few bucks would affect lots of workers. If the federal minimum wage was boosted to $10.10, as the president proposed, almost 29 million workers would see higher wages, according the Economic Policy Institute. Making the same change at the state level in

Maine would give about one in five Mainers a raise, says Garrett Martin, director of the Maine Economic Policy Institute. Martin says it’s difficult to determine how many Portland residents would be directly affected, but there’s no doubt that a large percentage of workers in the city’s servicefocused economy earn less than $10.10. Last year the median wage for local foodservice workers, which account for more than 9 percent of the Greater Portland region’s workforce, was $9.43 according to an annual survey of wages conducted by the US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. And that number is skewed high by head cooks, who average more than $20 per hour. From the perspective of many small businesses with tight budgets, a $10.10 minimum wage seems high. But a worker earning that much at a full-time job barely makes enough to cover the bare bones expenses needed to live in Portland. A “living wage calculator” created by economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology estimates that an adult living alone in Portland needs $20,868 to cover basic costs. That’s equivalent to $10.03 per hour for someone working 40 hours per week every week of the year. Of course, many workers in today’s economy are “underemployed,” meaning they work less than full-time. And a worker with a child making $10.10 at a full-time job will earn far less than what’s needed for the basic necessities. “One you take into account the actual cost of living, a $15 minimum wage, which is equal to $30,000 a year, doesn’t seem to most people like that much,” says 15 Now’s Chester.

what about waitStaff?

The other big question—besides how high to push the minimum wage—that the mayor’s advisory council has tackled is what to do about workers who rely on tips. In Maine, these workers can be paid 50 percent of minimum wage, which amounts to $3.75 plus tips. If they don’t make enough in tips to reach the minimum wage than employers are required to make up the difference. Although some servers at the most reputed and busy restaurants earn a lot, the median wage of front-of-

The case for a higher minimum wage proponents of raising the minimum wage often make their case by pointing out a simple fact: the lowest-earning workers in the uS make less today than at any time since 1968. in that year the minimum wage was $1.60. if the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation since then, it would be roughly $10.94 today. another argument in favor of higher wages involves the increasing productivity of american workers. despite the fact that the average worker has been producing a greater amount of goods and services per hour of work, the wages they receive for that work has largely stagnated in recent decades. this has been a major contributor to rising inequality. it’s not all about numbers, though. Garrett martin, director of the maine center for economic policy says that the basic premise behind a higher minimum wage is simply that people who are working full-time should be able to provide for their families without struggling. “a system in which they cannot do that has some real flaws,” he says. But martin also claims that when low-earning workers get a raise, there are indirect benefits for the broader community. “most folks don’t recognize that substandard wages lead to added costs for rest of us,” he says. “people who are working at minimum wage and living in poverty tend to rely on various forms of public assistance, and those costs get shifted onto the rest of us.” _ZA

the-house waitstaff in the Greater Portland region is just $8.99 including tips. Considering the growing importance of restaurants to the local economy, and the intense work involved in waiting tables, some believe the city should require that tipped workers be paid an hourly rate that’s closer to the minimum wage. Townsend, who supports bringing the minimum wage for tipped workers closer in line with the minimum wage, told the mayor’s committee that 13 percent of American workers who rely on tips live at or below the poverty level. And Drew Joy, of the Southern Maine Worker’s Center, told the mayor’s advisory council that regardless of the rate at which tipped workers are paid, the city should have a means of enforcing the law. “Wage theft is a reality and I can’t say how important it is to ensure that workers are getting paid what they are legally entitled to,” she said. “Tipped workers are especially vulnerable to being exploited because of the tip credit.” But Greg Dugal, head of both the Maine Restaurants Association and the Maine Innkeeper’s Association, says that the importance of restaurant and hospitality jobs to the state’s economy is all the more reason to be careful about making drastic changes to the pay structure for tipped workers. “If there’s a small increase to the minimum wage, most businesses probably wouldn’t have a big problem with that,” he says. “But if there was a steep rise, or tipped workers had to be paid at full minimum wage, that would have a major impact on businesses I represent.”

the toll on buSineSSeS

NATIONAL MOMENTUM The 15 NOW movement takes a grassroots, city-by-city approach

The two most common arguments against raising the minimum wage involve the threat to small business and the potential for widespread job losses. Peter Gore, vice-president of advocacy for the Maine State Chamber of Commerce, says many Maine businesses are simply not in a position to deal with a major uptick in labor costs. “It would be especially difficult in light of other rising costs like worker insurance and healthcare,” he says. “They’d have to find way to absorb that cost and that might involve the number of people they employ, the number of hours employees work, the benefits provided, or the price consumers pay for products.” The jobs argument is especially relevant in a state in which the job market lags behind the nation. A report from the Congressional Budget Office last year

found that raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 would result in a loss of $500,000 jobs nationwide, and there are many businesses owners who claim that the strain of higher wages would lead them to lay off employees or forego hiring. On the other hand, there’s ample evidence that many local business owners support a higher minimum wage. Portland Buy Local conducted a survey of its 480 members (with 14 percent responding) and found that more than 70 percent of respondents supported a citywide minimum wage of $8.50 or higher, and more than 48 percent supported an increase above $10. Just as there’s mixed opinions among business owners over the effects of raising the minimum wage, there’s also significant debate among economists. But some compelling data has emerged just recently suggesting that the broader economic impact is either negligible or positive. A report released by the Department of Labor in July showed that the 13 states that raised their minimum wages at the beginning of the year have added jobs at a faster pace than those that did not. And a recent study by UC Berkeley economists that examined the impact of existing local wage laws on employment found little overall impact. The study found that businesses benefited from decreased staff turnover, which produced savings that offset increased wages.

hearing from the workerS

So far the voice of business has been well represented in the mayor’s advisory council. What’s been missing is the perspectives of low wage workers. The mayor invited workers to speak at the council’s July meeting, but only one showed up. Both Macmillan and Eliza Townsend, executive director of the Maine Women’s Lobby and a member of the mayor’s advisory council, tried to recruit others, but they both found them reluctant to offend employers and attract attention. But workers will have another chance to speak soon. The mayor scheduled a public meeting about the citywide minimum wage on August 20th from 5:30 to 7:30 with the intention of giving the public, and especially workers and business owners, the chance to address the general outlines of the minimum wage proposal that is taking shape. Activists with 15 Now Maine say they intend to use the meeting as an opportunity to tell the mayor that a gradual raise of just a couple bucks over a few years won’t be enough to stem a fight for 15. ^

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Week by week makING the most of the rest of the summer _by PhoeNIx staff

t’s been a magical summer, and we have no doubt all your remaining available moments over the next six weeks have been claimed—or at the very least bid for. But we’d be remiss if we didn’t point out the most alluring, unmissable concerts, arts shows, dance parties, and dramatic spectacles that await us on this summer calendar. For this week’s goingson, see “8 Days a Week” on page 24. For the rest of the summer, here are a selection of items remaining before the chill comes that you should squeeze in, no matter how quickly your calendar is filling up.

July 31-Aug 7

If it’s August already and you still haven’t gotten more than 10 minutes out of the city, you’re doing it wrong. There are certain destinations in Maine that Portlanders are more or less required to visit once per summer—Bar Harbor, Damariscotta, Belfast, even Old Orchard Beach. But it’s getting harder to skip over Denmark, especially while the Denmark Arts Center (think of it as that region’s SPACE Gallery) keeps growing the Dam Jam festival. This year’s event (on Aug 2) they’re offering a set by Montreal’s THEE SILVER MT. ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA, the despairing, post-rock/chamber-doom outfit which emerged from members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor about a dozen or so years ago. A set from them on the fringes of Maine urban life seems like pull enough, yet those who make the trek will also be treated to West African drumming group AKWAABA ENSEMBLE, Portland pop troupe SUNSET HEARTS, outsider-folk experimentalists BUTCHER BOY, post-punk weirdos Deerhoof, and more. 4 pm at Denmark’s Bicentennial Park—low-mobility Port-

landers can board the bus outside SPACE Gallery at 3 pm for a round-trip cost of $25. (Get there yourself and pay $14 at the gate.) Visit thedamjam.com for more info. If the last few years of access to Netflix and a limitless archive of recorded music have saturated your tastes for entertainment media, you might consider turning toward the simpler times this weekend, letting the MAINE COMEDY FESTIVAL in pastoral Bethel take you back to the days where people entertained one another simply by lying, grossly contorting their faces, and making fun of the stupider things in the world. Now in its fourth year, the three-day event (July 31 through Aug 3) boasts 14 comics from near and far—Johnny Ater, Kate Ghiloni, Jeff Young, Bill Santiago, and many more. And they know well enough to bolster the program with additional perks like a golf tournament, spa offerings, and lavish dinners. Tickets for individual shows run around $20-25, while weekend passes— four shows worth of comedy—are a mere $40. Anything goes in Oxford county; odds are you’ll meet a weirdo just like yourself. Visit mainecomedyfest.com.

He’s been at it a couple decades now, but Maine musician TOM KOVACEVIC (often known simply as Tom K.) may be in his finest hour. The multi-instrumentalist has been a fixture in bands Cerberus Shoal, Tarpigh, Olas, and Fire on Fire, each of whom did their part to push the scope of Maine music beyond the limits of easy comprehension. This summer, Kovacevic released a solo album of his own, the luminous and adventurous Universe Thin as Skin, a collection of outer-folk compositions Kovacevic wrote and performed on the oud, nay flute, and djembe and led by his earnest, ever-seeking voice. The man plays a record release show Aug 2 at Biddeford’s Oak and the Ax with contemporary songsmith MICAH BLUE SMALDONE, a former Portlander who has lately been honing his trenchant, long-form blues songs in northern Maine. A must for those who still believe folk music can be a conduit for human connection. 8 pm; $8. The latest in his annual stop through Southern Maine, the D.C. post-punk provocateur and public intellectual Ian Svenonius brings CHAIN AND THE GANG back to SPACE Gallery Aug 3. The ideologically driven, soul-revival rock ‘n’ roll group was given a whole lotta new energy a couple years ago with the addition of Katie Alice Greer (also of the fierce punk band Priests), who does incredible work playing foil to Svenonius’s weird, silly-smart swagger. They lead the band through selections from their new record, Minimum Rock and Roll, at SPACE Gallery on Aug 3, with Baltimore’s thunderous duo ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT and noise pranksters (NEW ENGLAND) PATRIOTS.

Aug 7-14 Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra

It cannot be denied: KahBang has moved operations from Bangor to Portland. (We’d

say “KahPort” lacks a certain something, though.) The announcement in midJuly—pretty close call for a major festival—but we imagine the seasoned crews at the State Theatre and Port City Music Hall are well-equipped to make it happen (as well as the film component, which looks like it’ll wind up at One Longfellow Square). This year’s music lineup features ST. VINCENT (a strong contender for biggest indie act in the US right now), DMX (a strong contender for biggest hip hop act in the US fifteen years ago), the stillkickin’ WHEATUS (who you may remember from the mainstream alt-rock charts of the early 2000s), up-and-comer rapper DIZZY WRIGHT, a whole slew of Brooklynish rock bands, and a few electronic jam bands to round things out. Should be a real hoot, and interesting to see how it gets stretched over three days (Aug 8-10) in Portland. Single ticket and weekend passes available; visit kahbang.com for more info. If you haven’t caught Fenix Theatre Company’s version of AS YOU LIKE IT yet, this weekend is your last chance. The venerable Shakespeare-in-the-Park summer company takes on one of the Bard’s liveliest, gender-bendiest plays of the canon, spreading out its production over four spots within Deering Oaks Park. Theater like this blurs the line between public service, public spectacle, and picnic spot. It’s a great place to spend an evening even if you have no idea what’s going on— though Fenix’s band of merry actors have the acting chops (and lung capacities) to ensure you’re right there with them. Best experienced with snacks, pets, and good friends. Shows Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 6:30 pm; by donation. The bluesman SAMUEL JAMES has been one of our most dedicated, accomplished local songwriters for quite some time now. A former street player, James has never been one to withhold his performances in some effort to artificially pump up demand. Dude plays a lot, and the city’s better for it (and when he’s not here, he’s usually touring western Europe, a part of the world that can’t get enough of him, we’re told). James plays a solo set with the brooding Massachusetts roots musician JAMES KEYES at One Longfellow Square on Aug 14. 8 pm; $10-12.

Aug 14-21

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ous concerts cruises so far this summer, but none have the glitz we’d expect for Aug 21, when several of the city’s more progressive, youthful DJs take the helm for something called “BOOTY TRAP BOAT PARTY.” Yes, trap music will be played. 7 pm; $15-18 leaving from the Portland Harbor Tour dock at 18 Custom House Wharf. Call 207.831.1324. Long, long ago in the distant land of Phoenix, Arizona, two brothers formed a weird, unpredictable, mystically obsessive, and paranormally-charged experimental-rock group called the Sun City Girls. When they finally called it quits in 2007 (after the death of drummer Charles Gocher), Richard and Alan Bishop had played together for 26 years, over which time each of them had cultivated their own place in the pantheon of avant-garde American music. Richard would compose long-form ragas which nodded to Ravi Shankar, while Alan Bishop founded the found-sound record label Sublime Frequencies and played filthy, blues-inspired guitar improvisations under the name ALVARIUS B. (the first of several self-titled albums he released, from 1994, is a monster; we hear super things about 2013’s Fuck You and the Horse You Rode in On as well). Bishop has revived the alias again recently, and under it he appears at Empire on Aug 18. Bishop plays with Montreal’s SAM SHALABI, from the psych-rock outfit Shalabi Effect, at 9 pm. Do it. It’s mid-August, mid-week in America—hell yeah we wanna drive to Bangor. THE ARCADE FIRE, whose ambitious double album Reflektor turned a ton of heads last year (in many directions, actually; their influence is huge enough to inspire commentary from all pockets of music culture), make a scene at the Darling Waterfront Pavilion Aug 20. With Antibalas and Dan Deacon. $25.60.

Aug 21-28

We all think you should go to the PICNIC MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL. It’s super easy to find, doesn’t cost anything to browse, has plenty of great bands, and it’s all outdoors. Pick up a piece of unique Portland kitsch for a relative or bestie, or get some local art to put on that empty wall. It’s simple as a dream and you’ll be giving money to someone who probably goes to the same coffee place as you. When someone asks, “where did you get this?” you can reply, “I got it at Picnic,” and they will either a) not know what you are talking about (and therefore be impressed) or b) be amazed at how connected to the cool side of Portland you are. Win win. This year’s gala features live music from a new wave of weird: English Muffins, Box Tiger, Babe, Fur, and more. Aug 23 in

Lincoln Park at the corner of Congress & Pearl Sts, Portland; picnicportland.com. We could really go for an energy drink, perhaps the kind a star of rock ‘n’ roll might chug before bounding up the steps to emerge before a screaming horde of thousands of adoring fans, all the while thinking, “there goes my knee, acting up again, I need to play it cool until I can have my doctor check it out” or “is it time to finally dye my goatee?” The point is, GODSMACK is old, but admittedly they are still rocking harder than most. The boys from Boston, (whose self-titled album might still be somewhere in our car) are playing the “Uproar Festival” at Meadowbrook with BUCKCHERRY, dapper-dressers SKILLET, and a whole bunch of other alt-metal bands (or whatever you kids are calling it these days). $30-50; Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook, 72 Meadowbrook Lane, Gilford, NH. 603.293.4700. Legendary bluesman TAJ MAHAL is coming to the Asylum. Considering that around a month prior Taj was playing in London to a crowd of around 2,500 people, it is a treat to have venues that manage to bring artists like these to intimate spaces. The summer is the perfect time for blues, so stomp and holler along to a charging rendition of “Diving Duck Blues” while throwing back a few well drinks and let the evening stretch out before you. 121 Center St. in Portland.

Aug 28-Sep 4 (Labor Day)

The rugged and demanding oyster of summer once again opens to offer up a pearl of incredible beauty. Once a grain of irritating sand, it has been worked and polished until revealing itself as a marvel of the natural world. This pearl we will call STEELY DAN, and the magical luminescence of their tightly-crafted, studio-perfect, live sound can be found at 7:30 pm on Darling’s Waterfront Pavillion, 1 Railroad St, Bangor. Seats run $38 to $115. Don’t lose the following number: 207.358.9327. (Perhaps you might send it off in a letter to yourself.) No metaphor needed here: TOM PETTY plays the Civic Center. Maine dads (and classic rock fans of all ages/genders) rejoice. Impressively, Mr. Petty and his band are on their way to release their thirteenth studio album Hypnotic Eye, which is already generating some good press. Doubtless, he will mix some new tunes in with all of the classics. Skip the simulacra and crappy seating of Fenway and come see him in our own freaking town (!!!). $76.50$136.50; show begins at 7:30 pm; Cross Insurance Arena, 1 Civic Center Sq, Portland 207.775.3458.

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ENGINE | 207.229.3560 | 265 Main St, Biddeford | feedtheengine.org | Tues-Fri noon-6 pm; Sat 9 am-noon Through Sep 20: “The Diptych Project II,” group encaustic exhibition

Through Aug 31: “Stories of the Land & its People,” mixed media student show Through Sep 28: “Coloring Vision: From Impressionism to Modernism,” paintings Through Nov 9: “Andrew Wyeth: Portrait Studies,” mixed media Through Dec 31: “Ideals of Beauty: The Nude,” mixed media + “The Wyeths, Maine, & the Sea,” paintings & works on paper Through Jan 14: “The Shakers: From Mount Lebanon to the World,” mixed media

GREENHUT GALLERIES | 207.772.2693 | 146 Middle St, Portland | greenhutgalleries.com | MonFri 10 am-5:30 pm; Sat 10 am-5 pm Aug 7-30: paintings by Sarah Knock

Sept 4-27: paintings by Tom Paiement

HARLOW GALLERY | 207.622.3813 | 160 Water St, Portland | harlowgallery.org | Wed-Sat noon-6 pm Through Aug 2: “Summer Members’ Show,” mixed media group exhibition Aug 8-30: “Estey, Garde, & Florance,” paintings Sep 5-27: “Apparent Contradictions,” drawings by James Chute

ICA AT MECA | 207.879.5742 | 522 Congress St, Portland | Wed-Sun 11 am-5 pm; Thurs 11 am-7 pm

Through Aug 3: “Rehearsal Space: Dance & Conversation,” performance & multiform installation by Marc Swanson & Jack Ferver + Michelle Mola + Jacob Slominski Through Aug 31: “Sound Art Closet: Robert Beatty Soundtracks for Takeshi Murata” Through June 30, 2016: “We Are What We Hide,” long-running exhibit in- & outside gallery walls

ICON CONTEMPORARY ART | 207.725.8157 | 19 Mason St, Brunswick | harlowgallery.org | Mon-Fri 1-5 pm; Sat 1-4 pm Through Aug 2: “Emily Brown: Inland,” works on paper

JUNE FITZPATRICK GALLERY | 207.699.5083 | 522 Congress St, Portland

Through July 31: “Remembering Dorothy Schwartz,” works on paper retrospective

MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | 207.774.1822 | 489 Congress St,

Portland | mainehistory.org | MonSat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm Through Aug 31: “Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland” + “Snapshots of Portland, 1924: The Tax Man Cometh”

MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM | 207.329.9854 | 267 Congress St, Portland | treeoflifemuseum.org | Mon-Fri 10 am-2 pm Through Aug 29: “Vessels,” sculpture & prints by Lin Lisberger

MONKITREE GALLERY | 207.512.4679 | 263 Water Ave, Gardiner | monkitree.com | Tues-Fri 10 am-6 pm; Sat noon-6 pm

Modernist Menagerie: Works From The Permanent Collection,” Sculptures, Paintings & Works On Paper + “A Modernist Menagerie: Works From The Permanent Collection,” Sculptures, Paintings, & Works On Paper

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Through Aug 3: “George Daniell: Picturing Monhegan Island,” photographs & drawings Through Aug 24: “Andrea Sulzer: throughoutsideways,” drawings & prints Through Sep 7: “Richard Estes’ Realism,” paintings Sep 6-Jan 4: “Aaron T. Stephan: To Borrow, Cut, Copy, & Steal,” sculptural installation

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Through July 31: “Contexture”, mixed media works by Kathy Goddu + Priscilla Nicholson + Susan Perrine + Jill Snyder Wallace + Susan Walker

OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF ART | 207.646.4909 | 543 Shore Rd, Ogunquit | ogunquitmuseum.org | Mon-Sat 10:30 am- 5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm

Through Aug 31: “Alexandra de Steigeur: Small Island, Big Picture,” photography + “Richard Brown Lethem: Figure <=> Abstraction,” paintings Through Oct 31: “Henry Strater: Arizona Winters,” paintings + “Andrew Wyeth: The Linda L. Bean Collection” + “Tradition & Excellence: The OMAA Permanent Collection” Sep 4-Oct 31: “Amy Stacey Curtis: Drawings” + “A

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July 29: “Artists Of Tomorrow” | 7:30 Pm July 30: “Wednesday Upbeat: Bach, Mozart, Saariaho” | 7:30 Pm July 26: “Festival Fridays: Ravel, Faure, Saint-Saens” | 7:30 Pm Aug 1: “Artists Of Tomorrow” | 1:30 Pm Aug 1: “Festival Fridays: Ravel, Schubert, Currier” | 1 & 6:30 Pm Aug 3: “Artists Of Tomorrow” | 1:30 Pm Aug 4: “Monday Beethoven: Beethoven String Quartets” | 7:30 Pm Aug 5: “Artists Of Tomorrow” | 1 & 6:30 Pm Aug 6: “Wednesday Upbeat: Bloch, Glinka, Fung” | 7:30 Pm Aug 7: “Artists Of Tomorrow” | 12:30 & 6:30 Pm Aug 8: “Artists Of Tomorrow” | 11:30 Am Aug 8: “Festival Fridays: AllBrahms Program” | 7:30 Pm

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‘Five Blue Notes,’ by David Driskell, 1980 from “Convergence,” at Bates College Museum of Art RIVER TREE ARTS | 207.967.9120 | 35 Western Ave, kennebunk | rivertreearts.org | Mon-Fri 10 am-4 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 4-7 pm July 31-Aug 29: “Metal. Rust. Wood. Paint.”, mixed media works by Rusty Theriault + Nathan Nicholls + Annie Hiedel + Meredith Radford + Dave Allen + Paul Bonneau

SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland | space538.org | Tues-Sat noon-6 pm

Through Sep 5: “Face Off,” installation by Katie Bell Through Sep 6: “Staying Put,” mixed media installation by Adam John Manley Through Aug 29: “Inter Lithics,” window installation by Miles Templeton

SUSAN MAASCH FINE ART | 207.478.4087 | 4 City Center, Portland | susanmaaschfineart.com | Tues-Sat 11 am-5 pm

Through July 31: “Penelope Jones: New Paintings + “Cole Caswell: Photography” July 29-Aug 30: “Brenton Hamilton: New Calotype Works” + “Kiki Gaffney: New Paintings”

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND BIDDEFORD | 207.284.6397 | 11 Hills Beach Rd, Biddeford | une.edu/ artgallery | Wed 1-4 pm; Thurs 1-7 pm; Fri-Sun 1-4 pm Through Sep 28: “Making a New Whole: The Art of Collage” mixed media group exhibition

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND - PORTLAND | 207.221.4499 | Art Gallery, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland | une.edu/artgallery | Wed 1-4 pm; Thurs 1-7 pm; Fri-Sun 1-4 pm Through Sep 28: “Making a New Whole: The Art of Collage” mixed media group exhibition

WATERFALL ARTS | 207.388.2222 | 256 High St, Belfast | Tues-Fri 10 am-5 pm; by appointment

Aug 1-29: “Living in These Bodies, Part II: Future Mothers Tent,” installation by Elizabeth Jabar + Colleen Kinsella

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Aug 14: Alessio Bax & Lucille Chung (9 Pm) Aug 15: “A Program Of French Music” (Noon) Aug 15: “Eleanor Sokoloff Tribute Gala Concert” (6 Pm) Aug 15: “Candlelit Baroque” (9 Pm) Aug 16: One Silken Thread (6 Pm) Aug 16: “Contrasts,” Chamber Ensembles (9 Pm) Aug 16: Parker Quartet & Friends Aug 17: New Music Brunch: Paola Prestini, John Zorn, Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt” (Noon) Aug 17: “Telemine’s Opera: Pimpinone” (6 Pm) Aug 21: “Beethoven, Dohnanyi” Aug 22: “Sherlock Jr.,” Chamber Ensemble (9 Pm)

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July 31: Robin Spielberg | 7:30 Pm, $15-20, $10 Youth 18 & Under Aug 14: Portland Symphony Ensemble Quartet | 7:30 Pm, $20-25, $10 Youth 18 & Under

KNEISEL HALL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL | 137 Pleasant St, Blue Hill | 207.374.2203 | kneisel.org | ThursFri 7:30 pm; Sat 4 pm

July 25 & 27: “Program Five: Beethoven, Ravel, Brahms” Aug 1 & 3: “Program Six: Schubert, Poulenc, Berlioz, Chausson, Massenet, Schumann “ Aug 8 & 10: “Program Seven: Mendelssohn, Hindesmith, Dvorak” Aug 15 & 17: “Program Eight: Tba, Bartok, Faure” Aug 22 & 24: “Program Nine: Brahms, Schumann” Aug 29 & 31: “Program Ten: Biber, Mozart, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky”

PORTLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL | university of Southern Maine - Portland, Abromson Community Education Center, 88 Bedford St, Portland | $30, $25 seniors | 207.780.5900 Aug 14: “Stravinsky, Harold Meltzer, Tchaikovsky” | 8 Pm Aug 16: “Bridget Kibbey & Friends” | 8 Pm Aug 17: “Children’s Concert” | Noon Aug 21: “Honoring The Legacy Of Cellist Marc Johnson” | 8 Pm Aug 23: “Season Finale: Vivaldi, Josh Newton, Brahms” | 8 Pm

SEBAGO-LONG LAKE MUSIC FESTIVAL | Deertrees Theatre, Deertrees Rd, Harrison | $22, $18 youth 14 & under | 207.583.6747 | sllmf.org | all shows at 7:30 pm July 29: “The Demon: John Corigliano, Hindemith, Dvorak” Aug 5: “Classics: Mozart, Mendelssohn, Beethoven” Aug 12: “Circus: Mozart, Phil Salathe, Morton Gould, Prokofiev, Korngold”

STONINGTON OPERA HOUSE | Main St, Stonington | 207.967.2788 | all shows at 7 pm

July 29: Cello Monologue Project + Vasily Popov Aug 12: Trio Nuevo + Leah Zenick Aug 26: Baroque Orchestra Of Maine

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Aug 7: Spirit Family Reunion + Ghost Of Paul Revere

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July 25: Natalie Stovall & The Drive July 26: Winger July 31: Tom Keifer Aug 9: Josh Thompson Aug 17: Powerman 5000 + (Hed) P.E. + Eyes Set To Kill Aug 22: Gaelic Storm Aug 23: Taj Mahal

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July 26: Ludacris + Juicy J + Oxymorrons Aug 3: Band Perry + Eric Paslay Aug 7: Alan Jackson + Craig Campbell Aug 14: Moody Blues + Ten Foot Polecats Aug 16-17: Zac Brown Band Aug 19: Bob Weir & Ratdog + Chris Robinson Brotherhood Aug 21: Goo Goo Dolls + Daughtry + Skyler Aug 26: Kings Of Leon + Young The Giant + Kongos Aug 27: “Uproar Festival,” With Godsmack + Seether + Skillet + Buckcherry + Popevil, Etc. Aug 28: Train + Wallflowers Aug 30: Steely Dan Aug 31: Lady Antebellum + Billy Currington + Joe Nichols Sep 13: Darius Rucker + Cassadee Pope + Joel Crouse

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BRICK CHURCH FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | 502 Christian Hill Rd, Lovell | 207.925.1500 Aug 14: Junco Aug 28: Birds On A Wire

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July 27: Box Tiger Aug 3: Hello Newman Aug 10: Northern Groove Aug 14: Captain Bangaroo Aug 17: North Of Nashville Aug 21: “Booty Trap Boat Party,” With Che Ros + Don Damiani Aug 23: Cover Tones Aug 24: “Big Fun On A Boat,” With Awaas + Mount Sharp + Mouth Washington + Dream Reaper Aug 30: One Creation Aug 31: Riot Act Sep 7: Stolen Mojo

CONGRESS SQUARE PARK | corner of High St & Congress St, Portland | 207.831.1324 | congresssquarepark. org July 27: Animal Hospital + Drab Pony (4 pm) Aug 21: Cdr (Christopher David Ryan) (6 pm) Aug 31: Casco Bay Tummlers (2 pm)

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July 30: Skrillex + Gta + What So Not + Milo & Otis Aug 31: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers + Steve Winwood Sep 30: Five Finger Death Punch + Volbeat + Hellyeah + Nothing More

DAM JAM 2014 | Bicentennial Park, 62 East Main St, Denmark | thedamjam.com | 3 pm | $12-14

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Aug 2: Forget, Forget + Volcano Rabbit Aug 18: Alvarius B. + Sam Shalabi Sep 12: Bahamas

GREAT WATERS MUSIC FESTIVAL | Inn on Main, 200 n Main St, Wolfeboro, nH | 603.569.1335 July 25: New England Brass Band Aug 2: Lori Mckenna Aug 8: 1964 [Beatles Tribute] Aug 15: Gavin Hope Aug 22: Ben Vereen Aug 29: North Shore Acapella

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July 25: Quiet Riot + Faster Pussycat + Bulletboys + Gilby Clarke July 26: Get The Led Out [Led Zeppelin Tribute] July 28: Old Crow Medicine Show + Hurray For The Riff Raff July 30: Sammy Hagar + Michael Anthony + Jason Bonham & Vic Johnson: “A Journey Through The History Of Rock” Aug 1: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes + John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band Aug 2: 3 Doors Down + Amy Lavere Aug 8: Umphrey’s Mcgee Aug 9: Buddy Guy + Quinn Sullivan Aug 12: Tesla + American Dog Aug 13: Josh Turner + Drew Baldridge Aug 14: Gov’t Mule Aug 15: Beach Boys Aug 17: Gavin Degraw & Matt Nathanson + Andrew Mcmahon Aug 22: Alanis Morisette Aug 24: Kc & The Sunshine Band Aug 29: Chris Isaak Aug 30: Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Sep 11: Blackberry Smoke Sep 19: Chris Young + Courtney Cole

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Aug 8: Ben Taylor Aug 9: Dwight & Nicole Aug 15: Howie Day Aug 16: Jimmy Keys Aug 22: Tom Rush Aug 23: Hilton Park Aug 29: Tierney Sutton: “After Blue - The Joni Mitchell Project” Aug 30: Melissa Ferrick Sep 9: John Mayall Sep 19: John Hammond Sep 20: Judy Collins Sep 26: Melanie

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MERRILL AUDITORIUM | 20 Myrtle St, Portland | 207.842.0800 Aug 17: Jackson Browne

MUSIC HALL | 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, nH | $25-35 | 603.436.2400 | themusichall.org

July 25: Jeff Tweedy July 29: Mikaela Davis July 30: Patrick Dorow’s Piano Room Aug 1: Kara Dioguardi Aug 6: Jackie Evancho Aug 8: Taylor O’Donnell Aug 15: James Montgomery Sep 1: Colbie Caillat Sep 6: M. Ward Sep 18: Aaron Neville Sep 26: Mirah

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July 25: Shashasha July 26: Tumbling Bones + Spuyten Duyvil July 29: Eric Bettencourt + Chris Ross July 26: Frank Vignola & Vinny Raniolo Aug 1: Slaid Cleaves Aug 5: Line Of Force & Sorcha & The Clearing Aug 8: Thinkin’ Big Aug 10: Liz Longley + Barnaby Bright Aug 12: Kenya Hall + Tonekings Aug 14: Samuel James + James Keyes Aug 15: “Sock It To Me: A Celebration Of The Music Of Muscle Shoals,” With Amy Black & Sarah Borges Aug 19: “Songwriters In The Round Showcase” Aug 22: Roberto Morbioli Aug 23: Keelan Donovan + Mamadear Aug 28: Portland Jazz Orchestra Sep 10: Sleepy Labeef Sep 12: Adam Ezra Group Sep 17: Steve Forbert Sep 18: La Vent Du Nord Sep 19: Charlie Hunter & Scott Amendola Sep 20: Tarbox Ramblers Sep 24: Elijah Ocean + Dominic Lavoie Sep 26: Geoff Muldaur

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July 25: Randy Kaplan July 26: Noel Paul Stookey Aug 6: Jeffery Broussard & The Creole Cowboys Aug 7: Ben Taylor

Aug 8: Novel Jazz Septet Aug 13: Rebirth Brass Band Aug 16: Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars Aug 21: Bob Milne Aug 8: Bill Harley Aug 22: Tartan Terrors Aug 23: Blue Highway Aug 30: Wailin’ Jennys Sep 11: Boneheads + Holy Mackerels Sep 19: John Doyle + Nuala Kennedy + Eamon O’leary

PICNIC MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL | Aug 23 | with local arts vendors, food, yeti, & live music by English Muffins + Service + Tall Horse + Hyena + Fur + Box Tiger + Babe + Boyfriends + Sunrunner | Lincoln Park, Congress & Pearl Sts, Portland | picnicportland.com PORT CITY MUSIC HALL | 504 Congress St, Portland | 207.899.4990 | portcitymusichall. com July 24: Milk Carton Kids July 25: Model Airplane July 26: Old 97’S + Tommy Stinson July 27: Against Me! + Jenny Owen Youngs + Creepoid July 28: Orgone + Nth Power

Aug 1: Dead Sessions [Grateful Dead Tribute] Aug 6: Chris Webby + Jitta On The Track Aug 8: Fogcutters Aug 13: Red Wanting Blue + Alternate Routes Aug 16: Nothing More + Sleepwave + Dead Season Aug 19: Titus Andronicus Aug 21: Kishi Bashi + Bombadil + Heidemann Aug 22: Model Airplane Aug 23: “Mash It Up Ska Fest,” With Bim Skala Bim + Beat Horizon + King Hammond + El Grande + Roots, Rhythm, & Dub Aug 28: Les Claypool’s Duo De Twang + Reformed Whores Sep 4: Future Islands + Operators Sep 5: M. Ward + Jennifer Castle Sep 9: New Mastersounds + Tauk Sep 10: Astronautalis + Sarah Jaffe + Endless Jags + Transit Sep 11: Rubblebucket + Body Language Sep 18: Sun Kil Moon Sep 22: Billy Bragg Sep 23: Kevin Drew Sep 27: Black Lips + King Kahn & Bbq Show

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STATE THEATRE | 609 Congress St, Portland | 207.956.6000 | statetheatreportland.com July 24: Gogol Bordello + Man Man July 28: Asking Alexandria + Miss May I + Upon A Burning Body July 30: Band Of Horses + Midlake Aug 1: Ingrid Michaelson + Neulore Aug 8: St. Vincent + Dmx + Dizzy Wright + Nice Places + Roz Raskin & The Rice Cakes + Jaw-Ko + Stargroves Aug 9: Wick-It + Sound Remedy + Wheatus + Late Cambrian + Brave Baby + Brite Lite Brite + Wild Ones + Box Tiger + Seven Story Fall Aug 10: Dopapod + Twiddle + Dirty Gems + Skastitutes + Motherhood + B. Aull + Weirdo Click + Kyle Bent + Chamberlain + Roman Counterpart Aug 19: Jonny Lang + Rich Robinson Sep 3: Chevelle + Kyng

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HAMPTON BEACH CASINO BALLROOM | 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, nH | 603.929.4100 | prices vary; call for tickets Aug 7: Nick Swardson Aug 16: Bill Cosby (4 & 8 Pm) Aug 21: Jim Jefferies Aug 28: Amy Schumer

JONATHAN’S | 92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit | 207.646.4777 | jonathansrestaurant.com Aug 28: Bob Marley

MAINE COMEDY FESTIVAL | with performances by Johnny Ater + Mark Turcotte + Andrea Henry + Josh Day + Bill Santiago + Jaye

THE MUSIC HALL | 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, nh | 603.436.2400 Aug 24: Miss Richfield 1981: “Play With My Poodle” Sep 5: Lewis Black

STONE MOUNTAIN ARTS CENTER | 695 Dug Way, Brownfield | 207.935.7292 Aug 7: Bob Marley

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE – AUGUSTA | 695 Dug Way, Brownfield | 207.935.7292 Aug 7: Tim Hofmann + Emma Willmann

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Aug 1-2: Vincent Mantsoe | Yin Mei Aug 5: “Moving In The Moment,” student dancers (free) Aug 7-8: Different Voices Aug 9: “Festival Finale”

CROSS INSURANCE ARENA | 48 Free St, Portland | 207.775.3458 | theciviccenter.com | $37-138 Sep 3-7: Cirque Du Soleil: “Varekai”

ICA AT MECA | 522 Congress St, Portland | 207.879.5742 | meca. edu/meca-life/ica

Aug 1-3: Jack Ferver, Michelle Mola, & Jacob Slominski: Chambre

MAINE STATE BALLET | 348 Rte 1, Falmouth | 207.781.7672 | mainestateballet.org | $17-23 Aug 8-16: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

THE MUSIC HALL | 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, nH | 603.436.2400 | themusichall.org Aug 23: Lady Luck Burlesque: “Time of the Season”

ST LAWRENCE ARTS & COMMUNITY CENTER | 207.775.0568 | deertreestheatre.org | Deertrees Rd, Harrison | $22, $18 youth 14 & under

Aug 7-9: Vivid Motion: “Thug” Sep 12: “Steamy Nights,” burlesque performance with Vivid Motion + Grace Glamour + Pixie Bust + Paris Green + Saphire Rain, etc.

Theater ARUNDEL BARN PLAYHOUSE 207.985.5552 | 53 Old Post Rd, kennebunk | $35-42

CITY THEATER | 207.282.0849 | citytheater.org | 205 Main St, Biddeford | $20 Through July 27: The Full Monty Aug 22-31: Bingo! The Winning Musical

DEERTREES NEW REPERTORY COMPANY | 207.583.6747 | deertreestheatre.org | Deertrees Rd, Harrison | $22, $18 youth 14 & under

Through July 31: The Selfish Shellfish Through Aug 2: Heroes July 26-15: The Grand O’Neal

Through July 26: Skin Flick July 31-Aug 9: Big, the Musical Aug 14-23: Figaro Aug 28-Sep 6: The Fall of the House of Usher Sep 11-20: Don’t Dress for Dinner

SEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE | 603.433.4472 | seacoastrep.org | 125 Bow St, Portsmouth, nH | $24-35

Aug 14-24: Cabaret

STONINGTON OPERA HOUSE | 207.367.2788 | operahousearts.org |

MAD HORSE THEATRE COMPANY | 207.730.2389 | Mad Horse Theater, 24 Mosher St, South Portland | $20, $15 seniors/students

PRESCOTT PARK | prescottpark.org | Marcy St, Portsmouth, nH Through Aug 24: Shrek, the Musical

July 24-Aug 30: 8-Track: The Sounds of the 70’s Sep 4-27: Godspell

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EVERYMAN REPERTORY THEATRE | 207.236.7963 | Camden Opera House, 29 Elm St, Camden | call for tickets Sep 6-21: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Through July 26: My Fair Lady Aug 5-16: Legally Blonde Aug 19-30: The Marvelous Wonderettes

BATH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | 207.854.8882 | Liberty Park, 33 Summer St, Bath | by donation Through Aug 2: As You Like It

BOOTHBAY PLAYHOUSE | 207.633.3379 | boothbayplayhouse. com | 275 Wiscasset Rd, Boothbay | $23, $19 youth 17 & under Through Aug 1: Into the Woods Aug 7-17: Children of Eden

BRICK CHURCH FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | 207.925.1500 | 502 Christian Hill Rd, Lovell | $10, $5 youth 15 & underr July 31: “Chicken Fried Sushi: Stories to Nourish Your Soul”

CELEBRATION BARN | 207.743.8452 | 190 Stock Farm Rd, South Paris | $14, $12 seniors, $8 students

July 26: “The Big Barn Spectacular,” experimental theater performances Aug 2: “The Early Evening Show,” with Mike Miclon Aug 9: Amanda Huotari: The Soiree Aug 16: Happenstance: “Pinot & Augustine” Aug 23: Michael Menes: “Egadz” Aug 30: “Celebration Summer Finale”

FENIX THEATRE COMPANY | 207.400.6223 | Deering Oaks Park, Portland | by donation Through Aug 9: As You Like It

FOOTLIGHTS IN FALMOUTH | 207.747.5434 | thefootlightsinfalmouth.com | 190 uS Rte 1, Falmouth | $10 Aug 14-17: Open Casket

FREEPORT PLAYERS | 207.865.2220 | fcponline.org | 53 Depot St, Freeport | $10, $5 youth 17 & under Through July 27: The Wizard of Oz Sep 11-21: Almost, Maine

GASLIGHT THEATER | 207.626.3698 | gaslighttheater.org | Hallowell City Hall Auditorium, 1 Winthrop St, Hallowell | $12, $10 seniors/students July 31-Aug 9: Venus in Fur

HACKMATACK PLAYHOUSE | 207.698.1807 | hackmatack.org | 538 School St, Beaver Dam, Berwick | $25, $23 seniors, $10 youth 20 & under

Through July 26: The Music Man July 30-Aug 16: Monty Python’s Spamalot Aug 20-Sept 6: The Trip to Bountiful

HEARTWOOD REGIONAL THEATER COMPANY | 207.563.1373 | Parker B. Poe Theater, Lincoln Academy, 81 Academy Hill, newcastle | $20-22, $12 students 18 & under July 24-Aug 2: The Legend of Jim Cullen

LAKEWOOD THEATRE | 207.474.7176 | lakewoodtheater.org | 76 Theater Rd, Madison | $21-37, $19 youth

MAINE STATE MUSIC THEATRE | 207.725.8769 | msmt.org | Bowdoin College, Pickard Theater, Brunswick | $42-63 Through Aug 2: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Aug 6-23: Footloose Aug 18: The Little Mermaid

OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE | 207.646.5511 | ogunquitplayhouse. org | 10 Main St, Ogunquit | $39-79 Through July 26: Billy Elliot the Musical July 30-Aug 30: Mary Poppins Sep 3-27: The Witches of Eastwick

THE ORIGINALS | 207.929.6472 | sacorivertheatre.org | Saco River Theatre, 29 Salmon Falls Rd

Through July 26: Snake in the Grass

PLAYERS’ RING | 603.436.8123 | playersring.org | 105 Marcy St, Portsmouth, nH | $15, $12 seniors/ students Through July 27: Myth of the Father Aug 1-10: The Fire Giant Aug 15-24: The Interview Sep 19-Oct 5: Missing: Wynter

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THEATER AT MONMOUTH | 207.933.9999 | theateratmonmouth.org | Cumston Hall, Rte 132, Monmouth | $10-28 | all shows in repertory; call for precise times Through Aug 21: Tales from the Blue Fairy Book Through Aug 23: As You Like It Through Aug 23: A Woman of No Importance July 24-Aug 24: Romeo & Juliet July 31-Aug 22: What the Butler Saw Aug 21: Legends: The Music of Judy Garland Sep 18-28: The Sorcerer

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of bands that have shaped (or are shaping) Portland’s sound: The Lucid, Cambiata, Model Airplane, KGFREEZE, Sea Level, and Penny Arcade. Before they were many, tonight they are one (though you might get a chance to hear echoes of their other projects). And if they plan on getting “too intimate,” let’s hope they at least bring some candles. One Longfellow Square; 9 pm show, $8, 207.761.1757.

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consensus on the genus of cannibus has certainly come a long way. Tonight, ROGER ROFFMAN reads from (and will apply his signature to your copy of) his book, Marijuana Nation: One Man’s Chronicle of America Getting High: From Vietnam to Legalization. Roffman is a Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Washington and has been part of a federally-funded twenty-five year study/counseling initiative for marijuana dependent teens and adults, and thus has the credit to back up a book that attempts to objectively rise above the punditry that typically comes with talking about this issue. If that fails to impress you, you may still want to pick up a copy for when your kids have to do a history report on what it was like back when pot was still illegal. 7:30 pm at Longfellow Books, One Monument Way 207.772.4045. MALA GOES PURA | Let’s avoid the rabbit-hole of cultural appropriation and the over-romanticizing of a marginalized culture:

“gypsy punk” forefathers GOGOL BORDELLO are like a hermit crab, picking up styles of world music and attaching them to a shell of bouncing, energetic, and undeniably danceable punk and reggae songwriting. They team up with Philly’s equally eclectic (and far more interesting, in my opinion) MAN MAN for an evening of music that will inevitably triumph over my opening attempt at a snarky, intellectual buzzkill. Tickets run between $25-30; State Theatre, 609 Congress St 207.956.6000. SPOILER ALERT | If you like your teenagers either dead or hopelessly in love with one another, the Theater at Monmouth’s current production of ROMEO & JULIET is probably already on your radar. Artistic Director Dawn McAndrews has staged a crisp, fast-moving cut of the script, filled with all your favorite bits: swordfights, babbling Mabbery, the leaping of orchard walls, the fie-ing of old bones, more swordfights, banishment, and… well, you can probably guess the rest. (Performed in repertory, so check listings for dates.) Tickets run $10 to $30; Cumston Hall, Rte 132 in Monmouth. 207.933.9999.

ker Brewing is going to be blissedout on some serious laser-raga computer rock this fair eve. JAW GEMS, HERBCRAFT, ALTERED GEE, and CONTRAPPOSTO will be cracking open fuzzy diamonds to show you the truth inside. It’s all in a brewery too, so while you’re listening you can attempt to harness the mystical power of beer. All this comes into existence under a new moon at 8 pm, with a $5 cover; 122 Anderson St 207.450.5014. SEX ROOMS | Self-avowed fantasy expert LUDACRIS graces the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook with JUICY J and OXYMORRONS. While Luda’ hasn’t exactly been churning out the hits lately, he still possesses one of the most elegantly loquacious vocabularies of the dirty south R&B crowd. If smoothly articulated explanations of hypothetical sexual acts place

you firmly in the bone zone then you’ll certainly not mind the $30$50 ticket fee. 72 Meadowbrook Lane, Gilford, NH. 603.293.4700. SPICE OF LIFE | Today might be the perfect day to head out into the Oxford Hills. The CELEBRATION BARN hits its peak every summer with the “Big Barn Family Show” with off-the-beaten-path entertainment for kids and their adults at 2 pm. Later on in the evening, they’ll be weaving humor with surprise (and poignancy) into their “Big Barn Spectacular” variety show at 8 pm. The acts are varied and a welcoming sense of community permeates the whole darn place. $10; 190 Stock Farm Rd in South Paris, call 207.743.8452 for details.

sunday 27 CIRCLE THE SQUARE | The effort to revitalize (or simply find a use for) Congress Square Park keeps making interesting strides. SPACE Gallery brings ANIMAL HOSPITAL ENSEMBLE and Biddeford’s DRAB PONY in for a free concert at 4 pm. More than just your run-of-themill outdoor concert, Animal Hospital Ensemble alters each person’s listening experience by situating the audience in the center of the space encircled by dozens of guitarists, drummers, and other musicians. Come see how they utilize the unique layout

friday 25 PUNK MOVEMENT | Here’s a multi-disciplinary night of ekphrasis for you: DAVID DORFMAN DANCE places a lens on the 90’s underground, using the music of punk legend and queer activist Benjamin Smoke, and “godmother of Punk” Patti Smith as a springboard for their choreography. Frenetic and eerily fluid dance, combined with live music, video, and a set by Brooklyn-based sculptor Jonah Emerson-Bell, make for an enticing and lively collision of the arts. Entitled “Come, and Back Again,” the piece is part of the Bates Dance Festival. Performances are $12-30, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm; Schaeffer Theater, 305 College St, Lewiston 207.786.6381. A LITTLE CLOSER | Anyone who has tried dating in the Forest City can tell you that there’s no such thing as a complete stranger. “An Almost Too Intimate Evening with SHASHASHA” at One Longfellow proves that is at least partially true in the music scene. The venerable musicians of ShaShaSha hail from a number

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Individuality is the trait praised above all others in the folklore of New England, even beyond heroism, piety, or intelligence. Vermont filmmaker Jay Craven seems to know that fact very well. His latest work NORTHERN BORDER is a coming of age story set in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom circa a very lonely and isolated 1956. Bruce Dern (Nebraska) heads a cast of notable actors, in a film, which was (amazingly) shot in the very place in which it is set. Today at noon & 4:30 pm; Railroad Square Cinema, 17 Railroad Square, Waterville, call 207.873.6526 for more times.

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tuEsday 29 MAKING IT ALL UP | Keeping things interesting in the Midcoast, the CELLO MONOLOGUE PROJECT and VASILY POPOV present works by Bach, Dutilleux and more. The evening progresses with improvisation on themes from the audience and an ongoing conversation with the artist. (If you can’t think of anything to talk of, maybe you can ask him how he likes living in DC.) With live music and improv, the event is sure to be one-of-akind. Begins at 7 pm. Burnt Cove Church, 17 Airport Rd, Stonington 207.367.2788. TWO NOW MELT | Do you have bee dreams? Engine hosts a collaboration between the New England WAX and FusedChicago art collectives, featuring works from 38 encaustic artists. The show, DIPTYCH PROJECT II, creates a conversation between two artists, with one half of each piece being a direct response to a theme, element, or composition choice of the first piece. Watch two distant communities take one step closer to creating a hive mind. Hours are Tuesday through Friday, 1 pm to 6 pm and Saturday 11 am to 4 pm at 265 Main St. in Biddeford. 207.370.9130.

the far-off land of Providence, RI, for a night of delicate, austere and emotionally vast tunes. Paired with them are Kennebunk-based DEATH VESSEL, and slow-folk, song-weavers PLAINS (who should have their new album Confirm Reservation out soon, right guys?). Show them how you would welcome a stranger into your home, at 538 Congress St. $8-$10, show starts at 9 pm, 207.828.5600. IT’S A MYSTERY | Tonight the Meg Perry Center hosts a TRU07 punk show, featuring pop-punk group COTTONTAIL (from Durham, NC), Vermont’s ALLISON APPLE, and HE’S LYING, KILL HIM, a lo-fi punk group from around here. This very DIY group of bicycle-focused, femi- EXTRACURRICULAR KING | It’s time we put everything in our lives nist queers will probably be your

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RiCHARD TUTTLE’S EXPERiMEnTS in PRinTMAkinG _BY BR iTTA k onAU Richard Tuttle, who spends part of the year on Mount Desert Island, made his first important mark in the art world in 1967 with his “Octagonals”— shaped and dyed unstretched canvases. Since then, he has integrated painting, sculpture, drawing, artists’ books, sitespecific installations, as well as other media, such as textiles and ceramics, into a highly varied, slightly eccentric, body of work. His pieces advance philosophical inquiries into the nature of art, specifically, the expressive and conceptual potential of an abstract language. “Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective,” at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, marks the first in-depth exploration of the role printmaking has played in the artist’s production. Spanning four decades and including over 100 works it is a sharp looking show that gives ample space to each portfolio and grouping. Sometimes it even gets a little playful, in keeping with the experimental and colorful tone of the work, like running a wall label around a corner. Tuttle’s other major contribution to the canon of contemporary art is his series of “Wire Pieces” from the early 1970s, of which a few pieces are in the show. Drawing a graphite line on the wall and attaching an irregularly bent wire to its end points, light supplies the third line in this composition as shadow. Already then, Tuttle explores delineation of space, and the creation of space becomes a recurring theme throughout his print oeuvre as well. But let’s be clear—Tuttle is not a printmaker. Not in the sense most of us understand the term. He always works with professional printers to realize his vision, their role varying from executors to collaborators. Given the usual self-referential nature of Tuttle’s work, it comes as no surprise that the subjects of his prints are the defining characteristics of printmaking. Employing its potential for multiples, for interlacing processes, the use of a matrix in whatever form, the use of pressure for the transfer of an image, the role of paper—Tuttle’s experiments appear endless. The exhibition is laid out in roughly chronological order, which allows for the

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PASTORALIA Monmouth’s James Noel Hoban gives an exuberant turn as Amiens, a lord attending Duke Senior in the Forest of Arden When three theater companies, all within a one-hour drive of Portland, choose to present the same Shakespeare play on overlapping dates, you have to wonder what about that particular show resonates with this particular moment. In the case of As You Like It, being presented now by the Bath Shakespeare Festival (through August 2), Theater at Monmouth (through August 23), and Fenix Theatre Company in Portland (through August 9), there are several possibilities. Is it the idea of transformation that appeals to today’s audiences, who are still holding out hope that miserly fat cats or uptight corporate types can change for the better? Or perhaps it’s the play’s exploration of genderfluidity and upheaval of traditional norms that taps into growing acceptance for LGBTQ rights. Many people will appreciate how the comedy skewers traditional rom-com tropes and delivers a message of girl power. And for summer theatergoers, all bronzed from a day in the sun, it’s not hard to imagine that the elevation of “country life” over “city life”—of simplicity, tolerance, and happiness over cutthroat politics and practiced courtship rituals—strikes a chord. When we meet young Orlando at the top of the show, he is frustrated, having been kept in poverty by his brother Oliver since the death of their father, Sir Rowland deBoys. From the outset, Orlando is a sympathetic hero, at turns strident (as portrayed in Monmouth, by Michael Dix Thomas), hapless (in the hands of PJ Tighe in Bath), and passive-aggressive (Dave Register, in Deering Oaks). Meanwhile, Duke Frederick has usurped his brother, Duke Senior, from power (in all three productions, the Dukes are played by the same actor, highlighting the dichotomy of good and evil). Rosalind, the exiled Duke’s daughter, has stayed at court on account of her close relationship with her cousin (Frederick’s daughter), Celia. The

young women share an uncommonly close bond, especially evident in the Monmouth production, where Erica Murphy (Rosalind) and Lindsay Tornquist (Celia) quickly establish a warm, girlish sisterhood. Orlando decides to wrestle for his fortune at Frederick’s court, which is where he meets and falls in love with Rosalind. The companies approach the pivotal wrestling scene with varying degrees of earnest physicality and cartoonish glee—Fenix’s Rob Cameron, as Orlando’s opponent Charles the wrestler, gets the crowd going with greasy bravado and a Lucha Libre mask. Almost immediately, however, the lovers are separated; Orlando must run away to escape the machinations of his brother. But they’ll not be apart for long. When the ever-capricious Duke Frederick banishes Rosalind to the Forest of Arden, Celia insists on accompanying her along with Touchstone, the court fool. The girls decide to disguise themselves for safety: Celia as the shepherdess “Aliena” and Rosalind as the boy “Ganymede.” And such is how Rosalind and Orlando meet again in the woods, where “Ganymede” helpfully offers to school Orlando in the ways of wooing. All this is complicated, of course, by the affairs of others in the countryside, including lovestruck farm boy Silvius and stuck-up farm girl Phoebe, whose affections end up falling unsolicited on “Ganymede.” The drum beats to a different rhythm in the Forest of Arden. “Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,” Duke Senior says to his companions there. “Hath not old custom made this life more sweet / Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods / More free from peril than the envious court?” That sense of freedom is most deliciously illustrated in Bath, where Duke Senior’s band of exiles have formed something of a commune, offering ethereal and polished renditions of late-‘60s hits like The Zombies’ “Time of the Season” and “Crystal Blue

Persuasion” by Tommy James and the Shondells. It’s true that As You Like It was known as a musical comedy—it contains more songs than any other Shakespeare play—and these interludes, beautifully tossed off by Kristen DiMercurio (who also portrays Phoebe), Carolyn Glaude (who also plays country girl Audrey), Christopher Trindade (double-cast as Oliver), and other ensemble members, set a decisive peace, love, and happiness vibe for the show. When they work to advance the plot, so much the better. Disguised as Ganymede, Rosalind has the opportunity to approach Orlando and talk to him as a “saucy lackey”—which she does with ease and confidence in the hands of all three actresses. As Rosalind and Orlando’s courtship-by-proxy proceeds, the stakes grow higher and Rosalind’s role as mastermind grows. Ultimately, this headstrong heroine saves the day and delivers a happy ending, dropping bits of wisdom about love and infatuation along the way. In Bath, Kerry Ipema’s sitcom-ish facial expressions and comic timing underscore Rosalind’s biting wit. Murphy’s depiction of Rosalind was endearing and intelligent, though I wished for a crisper delineation when she went into Rosalind-as-Ganymede mode. And in Deering Oaks, Kat Moraros’s heroine is plucky and persistent, like a tomboy teasing the boy she has a crush on. In the hands of three capable, energetic ensembles, all three As You Like Its are solid crowd-pleasers, each offering their own charms. The version in Monmouth, directed by Catherine Weidner, is the most classic and the most nuanced of the three. Set in the 1940s, it features costumes from that era and boasts small but amusing touches: a harpsichord trill accompanies realizations of love; Orlando carries a teddy bear that reminds us of his gentle nature. Mark S. Cartier’s Duke Frederick and Duke Senior are like night and day, one volatile and cruel, the other measured and kind. Wendy Way gives a moving interpretation of Adam, Orlando’s loyal servant. (David Whittlesey, in Bath, and Seth Berner, in Portland, also do a nice job with their takes on this supporting character.) And as Rosalind and Orlando, Murphy and Thomas are self-aware, exhibiting growth over the course of their story arcs (though the sloppy make-out at the curtain call hits a strange note). One of the central themes of As You Like It is the contrast between life in the city and the country. That divergence is clearest in Bath’s outdoor production, directed by Stephen Legawiec (of Ziggurat Theatre Ensemble). Costumes (designed by Anne Collins) shift from a black-and-white mod motif at court to a colorful, tie-dyed palette in the forest, where the actors have a good time singing and dancing on the grass. David

Greenham’s mob boss Duke Ferdinand gives way to a smiling, magnanimous, tunicwearing Duke Senior, easy to believe as the leader of a hippie movement. Of the three, this adaptation seems to most fully embrace the play’s message of happiness and love, and Ipema’s Rosalind is incandescent as she steps into—and owns—the epilogue. Given its forest setting, As You Like It lends itself to outdoor productions like the ones in Bath and Portland; Fenix takes the conceit one step further by having the audience actually move to several locations within the park over the course of the show. Actors roam through the audience, around trees, and over rocks, and these interactive elements, combined with the fact that the script has been trimmed to a brisk 90 minutes by director Peter Brown, are boons—the show feels pared down to its fun and digestible essentials. The mostly young cast is clearly having a good time, and this free, in-motion production is perfect for its demographic. In a play full of witty repartee and swooning romance, the character of Jaques stands out. “Melanchony Jaques” cares not for happiness or heartsongs; his role is as a foil and a cynic. While the show belongs to Rosalind, Jaques is an important player, delivering some of Shakespeare’s most famous lines (“All the world’s a stage…”) and lending weight to the otherwise airy narrative. Along with Touchstone, the court fool, Jaques’ observations are insightful, if somewhat abstruse. In a play that turns gender expectations on their head, to see Jaques and Touchstone played by women in the Fenix production (Abbie Killeen and Karen Ball, respectively) is both welcome and relevant. Ball’s Touchstone is ribald, while Killeen’s Jaques is sensitive and introspective, embracing the role of Devil’s Advocate and turning a critical eye on the joys that others invite and celebrate. “The worst fault you have is to be in love,” Jaques tells Orlando. But in these three successful renditions, we’ve been given a happy ending. So we just smile, shake our heads, and say, Oh Jaques, you fool. ^

AS YOu LIke IT by William Shakespeare | Produced by Bath Shakespeare Festival, at Library Park, in Bath | Thursdays at 6 pm and Saturdays at 5 pm, July 24-Aug 2 | $20; $15 seniors/ students | 207.854.8882 or bathshakespeare.org Produced by Theater at Monmouth, Cumston Hall, Monmouth | in rep through August 23 | $30; $27 seniors; $20 students | 207.933.9999 or theateratmonmouth.org Produced by Fenix Theatre Company, at Deering Oaks Park, in Portland | Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 6:30 pm (no show Saturday, July 26—Sunday instead) through August 9 | free | fenixtheatre.com

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ya tonight / If you allow the pretty lady to stay a little later, let me in your Brushy Mountain Conjugal trailer / I’m knockin’, boy.” Personally, I’m okay with throwing back to a not-quitereal country and making up stories, but that makes me feel icky. But damn if that dobro don’t the ShoW MuSt Go oN old crow expand to a septet sound excellent, and the bass thumps on a “flop-eared mule,” but it’s somehow righteously. That harmonica? Hot. not too cliché to enjoy. And other times, Old Crow’s postulatSuch is Old Crow’s magic. They make ing is right on point, as with their anti-war brand-new songs sound like traditionals piece here, “Dearly Departed Friend,” a and traditionals sound like songs you’ve welcome companion to pieces like “Levi” (a never heard before. Every album has somehugely under-rated song from Carry Me Back, thing you can’t wait to hear live, even if about a fan who lost his life fighting overa new song sounds a lot like an old song. seas, unfortunately overshadowed by the The Lumineers might land a hit with the Hootie cover) and “Big Time in the Jungle,” greatest song they ever wrote as part of one off O.C.M.S. It’s a conversational piece by nine-song release, and Mumford might Secor, playing banjo, where he’s not afraid have earned themselves a spot on that to admit he’d rather it have been his friend’s Grammy show thanks to two releases in mother’s new boyfriend who died instead. six years, but Old Crow is the standard the It’s honest, accessible, and perfectly real. string-band revolution should be judged Same with “Cumberland River,” which by, and they aren’t nearly done making is a close cousin to John Hartford’s “Long great songs. Not nearly. ^ Hot Summer Days” (Sara Watkins’s version is so hot), and somehow manages to be remarkable while being utterly within the REMEDY | Released by old Crow Medicine Show genre. Or “Tennessee Bound.” Last album, | with hurray for the Riff Raff | at hampton they wanted you to carry them back to VirBeach Casino Ballroom, in hampton Beach, Nh | ginia, now they’re coming into Tennessee July 28 | crowmedicine.com andre a be hre ndS

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SUNDAY 27

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8B West Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach | 207.934.9100 OPEN MIC | 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

WEDNESDAY 30

”COMEDY SHOW,” WITH JAY GROVE, ET AL. | 9 pm | Cara Irish

”PORTLAND COMEDY SHOWCASE” PERFORMERS TBA | 8 pm |

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CONTEST,” COMICS TBA | 8 pm |

Leavitt Theatre, 259 Main St, Ogunquit | call for tickets | 207.646.3123

CONCERTS CLASSICAL THURSDAY 24

CURTIS ON TOUR ENSEMBLE: “THE FOUR SEASONS -- MARY CURTIS BOK ZIMBALIST CONCERT” | 7:30 pm | Bay Chamber Concerts, Rockport Opera House, 6 Central St, Rockport | $10-45 | 207.236.2823 or baychamberconcerts.org

FRIDAY 25

”FESTIVAL CONCERT PROGRAM 5: BEETHOVEN, RAVEL, BRAHMS” |

SATURDAY 26

GIANNI SCHICCHI | 7:30 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | $15 | 207.828.5600 or space538.org

SUNDAY 27

”FESTIVAL CONCERT PROGRAM 5: BEETHOVEN, RAVEL, BRAHMS” |

See listing for Fri

MONDAY 28

”MONDAY BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTETS” | 7:30 pm | Bowdoin In-

ternational Music Festival, Crooker Theater, Brunswick High School, Maquoit Rd, Brunswick

TUESDAY 29

CELLO MONOLOGUE PROJECT + VASILY POPOV | 7 pm | Stonington

Opera House, Burnt Cove Church, 17 Airport Rd, Stonington | 207.367.2788 or operahousearts.org

WEDNESDAY 30

”WEDNESDAY UPBEAT” | 7:30 pm | Bowdoin International Music Festival, Studzinski Recital Hall, Bowdoin College, Brunswick | 207.725.3895 or summermusic.org

THURSDAY 31

ROBIN SPIELBERG | 7:30 pm | Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | $15-20 | 207.633.6855

”ROMANTIC MUSIC FOR CLARINET & PIANO” | 7:30 pm | Bay Chamber

Concerts, Rockport Opera House, 6 Central St, Rockport | $10-45 | 207.236.2823 or baychamberconcerts. org

POPULAR THURSDAY 24

AGES & AGES | 8 pm | Stone Moun-

tain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | 207.935.7292 AMERICA | 8 pm | Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $33-55 | 603.929.4100

BRETT ELDREDGE + JERROD NEIMANN + KEITH URBAN + RYAN BROOKS KELLY | 7:30 pm | Bank of

New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook, 72 Meadowbrook Ln, Lake Winnipesaukee, Gilford, NH | $40-116 | 603.436.2700 or meadowbrook.net GOGOL BORDELLO + MAN MAN | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $25-30 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland.com

”MIDCOAST MUSIC FEST,” WITH MALLETT BROTHERS BAND + AMY & THE ENGINE + JOE GALLANT & THE TRANSIT | 6:30 pm | Darrows

FRIDAY 25

8 pm | Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $27 | 603.929.4100 SHASHASHA | 9 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | $8 | 207.761.1757 SPUYTEN DUYVIL | 8 pm | The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | $12-15 | 207.439.0114

NOEL PAUL STOOKEY | 8 pm | Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $35 | 207.935.7292 WAVELENGTH | Casco Bay Lines Music on the Bay, 56 Commercial St, Portland | $16-20 | 207.774.7871 or cascobaylines.com WONDERTWINS | 8 pm | The Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $25 | 603.436.2400 WOOD BROTHERS + SHAKEY GRAVES | 7 pm | Prescott Park,

Marcy St, Portsmouth, NH | $8-10 sugg. donation

SATURDAY 26

GET THE LED OUT [LED ZEPPELIN TRIBUTE] | 8 pm | Hampton Beach

Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $27.75 | 603.929.4100 HI TIGER + RYAN TAPIA | 8:30 pm | Zero Station, 222 Anderson St, Portland | 207.347.7000

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LUDACRIS + JUICY J + OXYMORRONS | 8 pm | Bank of New Hamp-

shire Pavilion at Meadowbrook, 72 Meadowbrook Ln, Lake Winnipesaukee, Gilford, NH | $30-50 | 603.293.4700 or meadowbrook.net OLD 97’S + TOMMY STINSON | 7 pm | Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $20-22 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall.com SALTWATER HILLBILLY | 6 pm | Bath Waterfront Park, Bath NOEL PAUL STOOKEY | 8 pm | Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | $25-30 | 207.633.6855 JEFF TWEEDY | 7:30 pm | L.L. Bean, Discovery Park, Freeport | 800.441.5713

”UPLIFT MUSIC FESTIVAL,” WITH ADEEM + ROOTS OF CREATION + GHOST DINNER BAND + OL’ FACTORY + YOUNGEST SUN + HUG THE DOG + BLACK ESKIMO + MODERN FOOLS | Oak Park, 791 Forrest Rd,

Greenfield, NH | $17-25 | upliftmusicfest.org

UTE GFRERER: “FROM AUSTRIA, WITH LOVE” | 8 pm | The Music Hall

Loft, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $43.50 | 603.436.2400

SUNDAY 27

AGAINST ME! + JENNY OWEN YOUNGS + CREEPOID | 8 pm | Port

City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $18-20 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall.com

ANIMAL HOSPITAL + DRAB PONY |

MONDAY 28

ASKING ALEXANDRIA + MISS MAY I + UPON A BURNING BODY | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $20-25 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland.com

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Listings Continued from p 33 OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW + HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF | 8

pm | Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $44 | 603.929.4100 ORGONE + NTH POWER | 8:30 pm | Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $12-15 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall.com

TUESDAY 29

MIKAELA DAVIS | 7:30 pm | The Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $19 | 603.436.2400

WEDNESDAY 30

BAND OF HORSES + MIDLAKE | 8

pm | State Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $25-30 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland.com

BATES DANCE FESTIVAL MUSICIAN CONCERT | 7:30 pm | Franco-

American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St, Lewiston | $15, $10 seniors, $7 students | 207.689.2000

PATRICK DOROW’S PIANO ROOM

| 8 pm | The Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $19 | 603.436.2400

SAMMY HAGAR + MICHAEL ANTHONY + JASON BONHAM & VIC JOHNSON: “A JOURNEY THROUGH THE HISTORY OF ROCK” | 8 pm |

Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | sold out | 603.929.4100

SKRILLEX + WHAT SO NOT + MILO & OTIS | 6:30 pm | Cross Insurance Arena, 48 Free St, 1st Floor, Portland | $45-50 | 800.745.3000 or theciviccenter.com

OUTDOORS SATURDAY 26

GUIDED CANOE TOURS | Sat-Mon 10 am | Scarborough Marsh Audubon Center, Pine Point Rd (Rte 9), Scarborough | $9/$12 | 207.883.5100

SUNDAY 27

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ing for Sat

MONDAY 28

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ing for Sat

FAIRS & FESTIVALS THURSDAY 24

OSSIPEE VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL | with performances by Wood Brothers + Willie Watson + Dirty Beggars + Bagboys + Once + Barefoot Movement + 23 String Band + Haas, Kowart, Trice + Aoife O’Donovan + Lomax Project + Carper Family + Mustered Courage + Stray Birds + Ryan Shupe & the Rubber Band + Lonely Heartstring Band + more | Ossipee Valley Fairgrounds, 291 South Hiram Rd, off Rte 25, Cornish | $25-55 per day; camping extra

FRIDAY 25

OSSIPEE VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL | See listing for Thurs

SATURDAY 26

OSSIPEE VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL | See listing for Thurs

tain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $30 | 207.935.7292 FIXX | 8 pm | Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH | $40-55 | 617.868.0004 or tupelohalllondonderry.com HOLMES BROTHERS | 6:30 pm | Bates College, Quad, 2 Andrews Rd, Lewiston | 207.786.6400

DANCE PARTICIPATORY FRIDAY 25

SATURDAY 26

”BALLROOM NIGHT WITH THE DON ALTOBELLO BAND” | 7:30 pm | Rock-

ingham Ballroom, 22 Ash Swamp Rd, Newmarket, NH | 603.659.4410

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<z7.5>L STREET DANCE THEATER: Once Upon a Summer Night: Dances from the Front (and Back) Seat | 7:30 pm | Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St, Portland | $15 | 207.615.3609

ROSA NOREEN & FRIENDS + OKBARI MIDDLE EASTERN ENSEMBLE | 5 pm | Monument Square, Congress St, Portland | 207.774.9979

FRIDAY 25

BOSSOV BALLET: “A MEDLEY OF CLASSICAL BALLET FEATURING PAQUITA” | Fri 7 pm; Sat 2 pm | Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St, Waterville | $15, $10 seniors/youth | 207.873.7000

SATURDAY 26

BOSSOV BALLET: “A MEDLEY OF CLASSICAL BALLET FEATURING PAQUITA” | See listing for Fri

FRIDAY 25

SUNDAY 27

”RHYTHMIC CYPHER,” POETRY SLAM & OPEN MIC | 7 pm | Meg

Perry Center, 36 Market St, Portland | 207.619.4206 or megperrycenter. com

MONDAY 28

”POETRY ON TAP,” OPEN MIC & FEATURED POETS | 9 pm | Mama’s

Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

TUESDAY 29

OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | with Port Veritas | 7 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | $2.50-3 | 207.773.7210

THURSDAY 31

SUNDAY 27

OSSIPEE VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL | See listing for Thurs

THURSDAY 31

IRIS DEMENT | 8 pm | Stone Moun-

FOOD SATURDAY 26

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WEDNESDAY 30

PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET |

7 am | Monument Square, Congress St, Portland | 207.774.9979

POETRY & PROSE THURSDAY 24

ROGER ROFFMAN | Marijuana Nation | 7 pm | Longfellow Books,

THEATER ARTS IN MOTION THEATER |

207.935.9232 | artsinmotiontheater. com | Fryeburg Academy, Eastman Performing Arts Center, 18 Bradley St, Fryeburg | July 25-Aug 1: TheaterRific | 7 pm

ARUNDEL BARN PLAYHOUSE |

207.985.5552 | 53 Old Post Rd, Kennebunk | Through July 26: My Fair

Lady | Thurs + Sat 8 pm; Fri 2 & 8 pm | $35-40

BRICK CHURCH FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | 207.925.1500 |

502 Christian Hill Rd, Lovell | July 31:

DEERTREES NEW REPERTORY COMPANY | 207.583.6747 | Deertrees Theatre, 156 Deertrees Rd, Harrison

FREEPORT THEATER OF AWESOME | 800.838.3006 | 5 Depot St,

HACKMATACK PLAYHOUSE |

207.698.1807 | hackmatack.org | 538 School St, Beaver Dam, Berwick |

HEARTWOOD REGIONAL THEATER COMPANY | 207.563.1373 |

Parker B. Poe Theater, Lincoln Academy, 81 Academy Hill, Newcastle | July

24-Aug 2: The Legend of Jim Cullen | Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 3 pm

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Portland | aucocisco.com | Thurs-Sat 9 am-5 pm | Through Aug 16: “Summer Salon,” mixed media group exhibition

CHOCOLATE CHURCH ARTS CENTER | 207.442.8455 | 804 Washington

SEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE

SEVEN STAGES SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | 603.828.1337 | 7sta-

gesshakespeare.org | Prescott Park, Portsmouth, NH | July 27-Aug 17: The

Comedy of Errors | 3 pm

TEN BUCKS THEATRE COMPANY | 207.884.1030 | tenbuckstheatre.org | Indian Trail Park, Brewer | July 24-27:

sacorivergrangehall.org/theoriginals. htm | Saco River Theatre, 29 Salmon Falls Rd, Bar Mills | July 24-26: Snake

in the Grass | Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm | $5 THEATER AT MONMOUTH | 207.933.9999 | theateratmonmouth. org | Cumston Hall, Rte 132, Monmouth | July 24-Aug 24: Romeo & Juliet | Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm | $10-30 | July 26-Aug 21: Tales from the Blue Fairy Book | 1 pm | $10-30 | July 27Aug 23: As You Like It | 1 pm | $10-30 | Through Aug 23: A Woman of No Importance | 7 pm | $10-30 | July 31-Aug 22: What the Butler Saw | 7:30 pm

ART GALLERIES 3 FISH GALLERY | 207.773.4773 | 377

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CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART | 207.236.2875 | 162

Russell Ave, Rockport | artsmaine.org |

Through July 26: “Art to Collect Now: 37th Annual Art Auction Exhibition”

St, Bath | chocolatechurcharts.org |

Tues-Wed 10 am-4 pm; Thurs noon-7 pm; Fri 10 am-4 pm; Sat noon-4 pm | Through July 31: “The View Beyond,” works by Elizabeth Newman + David Costello + Rebecca Kuprowicz + kdb

COFFEE BY DESIGN/CONGRESS ST | 207.772.5533 | 620 Congress St,

Portland | Mon-Wed 6:30 am-8 pm;

FIREHOUSE CENTER FOR THE FALCON FOUNDATION |

207.563.8104 | 5 Bristol Rd, Damariscotta | Fri-Sun 1-5 pm | Through

Sept 27: “The Rock Paintings: Joseph Fiore, The Geological Works, 1978-2001,” paintings, pastels, & watercolors GEM GALLERY | 207.766.5600 | 62 Island Ave, Peaks Island | Fri 10 am-7 pm; Tues-Thurs & Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through July 30: “Walking the Dog: Through the Seasons,” mixed media works by Jane Banquer + Claudia Whitman + Norm Proulx

GLEASON FINE ART/BOOTHBAY HARBOR | 207.633.6849 | 31

Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | gleasonfineart.com | Mon-Sat 10 am-

Recent Oil Paintings,” by Sarah Faragher | Through Sept 7: “By-Gone Boats,” clay sculptures by David Riley Peterson + “Maine’s Light,” paintings by Bjorn Runquist

MAINELY FRAMES AND GALLERY | 207.828.0031 | 541 Congress St, Portland | Mon-Wed 10 am-6

pm; Thurs-Fri 10 am-8 pm; Sat 10 am-6 pm; Sun 1-4 pm | Through July 31: “Darren Connors: Maine Contemporary Artist,” oil & acrylic paintings MARK WENTWORTH | 603.436.0169 | 346 Pleasant St, Portsmouth, NH | Through Aug 31: oil paintings by Jeannette Matatics + Steve Matatics MAYO STREET ARTS | 207.615.3609 | 10 Mayo St, Portland | call for hours | Through Aug 31: “Contemporary Fort,” drawings, prints, & installation by Anne Buckwalter + Pilar Nadal MONKITREE GALLERY | 207.512.4679 | 263 Water St, Gardiner | Tues-Fri 10 am-6 pm;Sat noon-6 pm | Through Aug 30: “Contexture” mixed media works by Kathy Goddu + Priscilla Nicholson + Susan Perrine + Jill Snyder Wallace + Susan Walker OAK STREET LOFTS GALLERY | 207.553.7780 | 72 Oak St, Portland | call for hours | Through July 31: “Passages,” mixed media by Yes Art Works artists PERIMETER GALLERY | 207.338.0968 | 96 Main St, Belfast | Tues-Sat 7 am-5 pm; Sun 8 am-2 pm | Through Aug 24: “Standard” fabric banners by Karen Gelardi PHOPA GALLERY | 207.317.6721 | 132 Washington Ave, Portland | Wed-Sat noon-5 pm | Through Aug 2: “2 Generations: Paul & John Paul Caponigro,” process photography RICHARD BOYD ART GALLERY | 207.712.1097 | 15 Epps St, Peaks Island | richardboydartgallery.com | 10 am-5 pm | Through July 31: “Water 2014,” paintings by Jeanne O’Toole Hayman RIVER ARTS | 207.563.1507 | 241 Rte 1, Damariscotta | Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through July 24: “Members Show,” mixed media group exhibition RIVER TREE ARTS | 207.967.9120 | 35 Western Ave, Kennebunk | rivertreearts.org | Mon-Fri 10 am-6 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm | July 31-Aug 29: “Metal. Rust. Wood. Paint.”, mixed media works by Rusty Theriault + Nathan Nicholls + Annie Hiedel + Meredith Radford + Dave Allen + Paul Bonneau

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Making a New Whole: the Art of Collage Twenty six extraordinary artists strut their stuff and burst open the boundaries about what collage can be!

Through September 28!

BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.725.3275 | 245 Maine St,

Brunswick | bowdoin.edu/art-museum | Tues-Wed + Fri-Sat 10 am-5

Listings Continued from p 35 SANCTUARY TATTOO & ART GALLERY | 207.828.8866 | 31 Forest Ave, Portland | sanctuarytattoo.com

| Tues-Sat 11 am-7 pm | Through July 31: “Eye Candy,” paintings by Pete Gorski

SEACOAST ARTIST ASSOCIATION GALLERY | 603.778.8856 | 225

UNE Portland Campus • 716 Stevens Ave Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun 1–4 p.m. • Thurs 1–7 p.m. (207) 221-4499 • www.une.edu/artgallery

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Water St, Exeter, NH | Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through July 26: “Surf’s Up,” mixed media group exhibition | July 26-Aug 30: “How Does Your Garden Grow?”, mixed media group exhibition SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland | space538. org | Wed-Sat noon-6 pm | Through Aug 29: “Inter Lithics,” window installation by Miles Templeton | Through Sept 5: “Face Off,” installation by Katie Bell | Through Sept 6: “Staying Put,” mixed media installation by Adam John Manley SPINDLEWORKS | 207.725.8820 | 7 Lincoln St, Brunswick | spindleworks. org | Mon-Sat 6:30 am-6 pm; Sun 7 am-6 pm | Through July 31: “Monochrome,” mixed media group exhibition SUSAN MAASCH FINE ART | 207.478.4087 | 4 City Center, Portland | susanmaaschfineart.com | Tues-Sat 11 am-5 pm | Through July 31: “Penelope Jones: New Paintings,” + “Cole Caswell: Photography” THE SALT EXCHANGE | 207.347.5687 | 245 Commercial St, Portland | 5-10 pm | Through Aug 31: “Monhegan V Perspectives,” paintings by Betty Heselton + Sally Loughridge + Joyce Greenfield + Marlene Loznicka WATERFALL ARTS | 207.388.2222 | 256 High St, Belfast | Tues-Fri 10 am-5 pm; by appointment | Through July 25: “Living in These Bodies, Part I,” mixed media works by Angela Lorenz + Peggy McKenna + Jessica Straus | Through Sept 12: “Living Wall Installation,” vertical garden

MUSEUMS BATES COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.786.6158 | 75 Russell St,

Olin Arts Center, Lewiston | bates. edu/museum-about.xml | Tues-Sat

10 am-5 pm | Through Oct 12: “Encountering Maine,” mixed media group exhibition | Through Dec 13: “Convergence: Jazz, Films, & the Visual Arts”

pm; Thurs 10 am-8:30 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Free admission | Through Sept 14: “Is This What You Do With What You View?: Selections from the Dorothy & Herbert Vogel Collection,” mixed media + “On 52nd Streeet: The Jazz Photography of William P. Gottlieb” | Through Oct 19: “Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective” | Ongoing: “American Artists at Work, 1840-1950” + “Contemporary Masters, 1950 to the Present” + “Lovers & Saints: Art of the Italian Renaissance” COLBY COLLEGE | 207.859.5600 |

Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr, Waterville | colby.edu/museum |

Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Free admission | Through Aug 31: “Lois Dodd: Cultivating Vision,” works on paper | Through Jan 4: “Bernard Langlais,” paintings | Ongoing: “Process & Place: Exploring the Design Evolution of the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion” + “Alex Katz Collection”

FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM

| 207.596.6457 | 16 Museum St, Rockland | farnsworthmuseum.org | 10 am-5 pm, open until 8 pm with free admission Wed | $12, seniors & students $10; under 17 free & Rockland residents free | Admission $12; $10 seniors and students; free for youth under 17 and Rockland residents | Through Sept 28: “Coloring Vision: From Impressionism to Modernism,” paintings | Through Dec 31: “Ideals of Beauty: The Nude,” mixed media + “The Wyeths, Maine, & the Sea,” paintings & works on paper | Through Jan 4: “The Shakers: From Mount Lebanon to the World,” mixed media ICA AT MECA | 207.879.5742 | 522 Congress St, Portland | Wed-Sun 11 am-5 pm; Thurs 11 am-7 pm | Through Aug 3: “Rehearsal Space: Dance & Conversation,” performances, films, & installation by Jack Ferver + Marc Swanson | Through March 31, 2016: “We Are What We Hide,” long-running exhibit in- & outside gallery walls MAINE COLLEGE OF ART | 207.699.5010 | Charles C. Thomas

Gallery, 522 Congress St, Portland

| Through Aug 29: “Wednesday Mornings: Recent Work by the Mill Painters”

OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF ART

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The Linda L. Bean Collection” + “Henry Strater: Arizona Winters, 1933-1938,” paintings | Through Oct 31: “Tradition & Excellence: The OMAA Permanent Collection”

PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY

| 603.777.3461 | Lamont Gallery,

Frederick R Mayer Art Center, Tan Ln, Exeter, NH | exeter.edu/art/ visit_Lamont.html | Mon 1-5 pm;

Tues-Sat 9 am-5 pm | Free admission | Through July 31: “Justice: Faces of the Human Rights Revolution,” photography PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | 207.775.6148 | 7 Congress Square, Portland | portlandmuseum.org | Tues-Thurs + Sat-Sun 10 am-5 pm; Fri 10 am-9 pm | Admission $12; $10 students/seniors; $6 youth 13-17; free for youth 12 & under and for all Fri 5-9 pm | Through July 27: “PMA Family Space: Clint Fulkerson,” drawings | Through Aug 3: “George Daniell: Picturing Monhegan Island,” photographs & drawings | Through Aug 24: “Andrea Sulzer: throughoutsideways,” drawings & prints | Through Sept 7: “Richard Estes’ Realism,” paintings

SALT INSTITUTE FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES | 207.761.0660 | 561

Congress St, Portland | salt.edu | Tues-Fri noon-4:30 pm | Through Aug 8: “In the Shadows: Urban Refugee Children in Africa,” photography by Amy Toensing

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - FARMINGTON | 207.778.7292 | Emery

Community Arts Center, 111 South St, Farmington | Through Sept 7: “William Wegman: Way Up in Maine,” mixed media works

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND PORTLAND | 207.221.4499 | Art Gal-

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| Osher Map Library, Glickman Family Library, 314 Forest Ave, Portland | usm.maine.edu/maps | Tues-Thurs 1-4 pm; Sat 10:30 am-2:30 pm | Free admission | Through Aug 14: “Charting an Empire: The Atlantic Neptune,” cartographic exhibition

OTHER MUSEUMS ABBE MUSEUM | 207.288.3519 | 26

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pm | Through Dec 31: “Twisted Path III: Questions of Balance” | Ongoing: “Layers of Time: Archaeology at the Abbe Museum” + “Dr. Abbe’s Museum”

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am-5 pm | Through Sept 30: “Pollinators,” sculptural show curated by June Lacombe | Through Oct 31: “Powerful Pollinators!”, student art exhibit

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ARGENTINIAN FAMILY SECRET hand-held pies _By lin ds a y s t e rl in g with her usual quiet but sturdy affection, waved Valy in and showed her how to make the hand-held, savory pies that everybody loved. Cooking with Aunt Nina was about as much fun as anything could be. Valy recalls, “Cooking is a little bit like making art. You never know how it’s going to come out. It’s always interesting, a little different every time—and then you get to share it. And it was always such a challenge to make something edible.” Under Aunt Nina’s instruction, Valy smashed soft lard into the bowl of flour, and kneaded in water and a little beer until the dough would stretch without cracking. Then she rolled it out into a flat sheet and used an overturned bowl to cut it into discs. Aunt Nina brought over a steaming pot of filling that she’d made out of sautéed onions, red pepper, ground beef, tomatoes, paprika, oregano, fresh parsley, hardboiled egg, green olives, and a small handful of raisins. Nina showed Valy how CLosInG CereMonIes these pie-makers know their boundaries much of the filling

Growing up in Argentina, Valy Steverlynck came from a family of not-so-great cooks. “At dinner,” she explains, “the meal would be set up with an announcement that the named family member who cooked it actually produced something that was edible.” Aunt Nina was the exception. She was the only one who could really cook. Once, when Valy (pronounced like “volley”) was seven or eight years old, she smelled heaven coming from the kitchen. She descended the stairway and saw Aunt Nina in her white cotton apron making one of the family’s favorite foods: beef empanadas. Aunt Nina,

FShort Takes x THiRD PeRSOn 136 minutes | r | railroad square Trust is essential to any love relationship, writer-director Paul Haggis wants us to know, though he trusts us so little to grasp this theme ourselves that he makes his alter ego here, a world-weary novelist played by Liam Neeson, spell it out on his laptop. Well, Paul, I’m leaving you. It’s been good between us for a long time (Crash, In the Valley of Elah, The Next Three Days), but you’re smothering me and I need to move on. Three loosely connected romances play out in Paris, Rome, and New York City (though Neeson’s story line, transpiring mostly in a gleaming hotel room and featuring a naked Olivia Wilde, seems to be set in the Republic of Male Menopause).

to spoon onto every piece of dough. Valy went on copying her as best she could. She wet the edge of the disc to make it sticky, folded the dough in half over the mound of filling, and pressed the two sides together to seal the filling inside a half-moon-shaped packet. Twisting the edges of the packet into the pretty repulgue pattern took practice. Aunt Nina’s decoration was perfect and beautiful, looking like a smooth halfbraid around the edge of the pie. Empanada after empanada, Valy improved her repulgue skills, proudly pricking the top of each completed packet with a fork when she was done. (The steam vent prevented all their neat work from bursting in the heat of the oven.) Finally, Valy watched the oven do its trick, making all the pretty pies turn golden and irresistible. Valy ended up going to college in the United States, marrying an American, and moving to his hometown in Maine. When Argentina was vying for the World Cup, she threw a party to watch the game with friends on TV. In Argentina, where there’s a party, there are empanadas, so she got cooking. Valy showed me how to make empanadas like Aunt Nina had showed her. There are all different kinds. Empanadas de carne, the ones we were making, are filled with ground beef; empanadas de pollo, with pulled chicken; empanadas de pescado, with tuna fish and red peppers; empanadas de humita, with corn and cheese; and empanadas de jambon y queso, with ham and cheese.

no tears here valy steverlynck preparing the empanadas This time Valy’s parents and brothers and sisters weren’t there to make the usual announcement: “Hey everyone, Valy has made something edible!” However, the wideness of her own kids’ eyes upon seeing the golden pies come out of the oven did indicate that the family tradition of surprised gratitude lives on. I think one thing is true for all cooks, good and bad, the world over: the arrival of good food always feels like a bit of a miracle. ^

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With Mila Kunis, Moran Atias, Loan Chabanol, James Franco, Adrien Brody, Maria Bello, and Kim Basinger.

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w AnD SO iT gOeS 94 minutes | pG-13 | clarKs pond cinemaGic + auburn flaGship + saco cinemaGic Old people still go out to movie theaters, God bless them, though the meaty fare they enjoyed back in the 70s has given way to soft foods like The Bucket List, Last Vegas, and this senior-citizen rom-com by Rob Reiner. Diane Keaton (Looking for Mr. Goodbar) and Michael Douglas (The China Syndrome) star as next-door neighbors, each of them grieving for a recently deceased spouse; she’s warm and caring,

he’s an unrepentant dick, and only the strictest formula can account for the fact that they wind up in each other’s arms. Mark Andrus (Georgia Rule) wrote the script, whose subplot about the Keaton character’s rise as a professional singer demonstrates his feeble grasp of music, reality, and everything in between.

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State (2004), TV actor Zach Braff returns with his second feature, a huggy story about a failed actor (Braff) trying to get closure with his disappointed father (Mandy

Patinkin) before the old man succumbs to cancer. The earlier, comedic scenes work a lot better than the later, dramatic ones, thanks mainly to Braff’s wideeyed, deadpan performance and good supporting work from Kate Hudson as the hero’s frustrated wife and Josh Gad as his noaccount brother. This often plays like a younger, hipper version of a Rob Reiner comedy, which isn’t really a compliment unless you consider younger and hipper to be inherently complimentary; the movie was largely bankrolled by a Kickstarter campaign that collected more than $3 million, and the result is agreeable enough that none of the 46,520 contributors is likely to feel gypped.

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Unless otherwise noted, all film listings this week are for Friday, July 25 through Thursday, July 31. Times can and do change without notice, so do call the theater before heading out. For up-to-date film-schedule information, check the Portland Phoenix Web site at thePhoenix.com.

movie Th e a T e r l is T ing s

dinner + movie Venus in Fur

Portland

aPES | 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:45 EartH to ECHo | noon HErCUlES | 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:10 HErCUlES 3d | 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:25,

CInEMaGIC Grand

9:45

aMErICa: IMaGInE tHE World WItHoUt HEr | 11:10 am, 1:45, 4:15,

lUCY | 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:40 PlanES: FIrE and rESCUE | 12:10,

333 Clarks Pond Parkway, South Portland | 207.772.6023

7:15, 9:45

HoW to traIn YoUr draGon 2 | 1:10, 3:50

2:20, 4:35, 6:55, 9:05

and So It GoES | 11:15 am, 1:30, 4,

tHE PUrGE: anarCHY | 1, 4, 7:10,

7:10, 9:30

9:35

daWn oF tHE PlanEt oF tHE aPES | noon, 3:45, 6:50, 9:40 HErCUlES | 11:20 am, 1:40, 4:10, 7:20, 9:50

SEX taPE | 1:10, 4:20, 7:15, 9:25 taMMY | 2:10, 4:25, 7:05, 9:20 tranSForMErS: aGE oF EXtInCtIon | 3, 7:20

1:50, 4:30, 7, 9:20

BrIdGton tWIn drIVE-In tHEatrE

lUCY | 11:30 am, 2, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 PlanES: FIrE & rESCUE | 11:30 am, tHE PUrGE: anarCHY | 11:10 am, 1:40, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 SEX taPE | 11:20 am, 1:50, 4:20, 7, 9:30

383 Portland rd, Bridgton | 207.647.8666 lUCY + tHE PUrGE: anarCHY | FriMon: 8:30 | Wed-Thurs: 8:30

1 Temple St, Portland | 207.772.4022

PlanES: FIrE and rESCUE + daWn oF tHE PlanEt oF tHE aPES | Fri-Mon: 8:30 | Wed-Thurs:

7:15, 9:35 CHEF | 1, 6:30

PrInCESS BrIdE + raIdErS oF tHE loSt arK | Tue: 8:30

nICKElodEon CInEMaS BEGIn aGaIn | 12:30, 2:45. 5:00.

daWn oF tHE PlanEt oF tHE aPES | 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 lUCY | 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:30, 9:40 SnoWPIErCEr | 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30

VEnUS In FUr | 1:45, 4:15, 7, 9:15 WISH I WaS HErE | 1:30, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30

PMa MoVIES

8:30

EVEnInGStar CInEMa

Tontine Mall, 149 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.729.5486

BEGIn aGaIn | TBA

FrontIEr CInEMa

14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222

oBVIoUS CHIld | Tue: 2, 6, 8 | Wed: 2, 6

WalKInG tHE CaMIno | Fri: 2, 6, 8 |

7 Congress Square, Portland | 207.775.6148

Sat: 2 | Sun: 2, 6, 8

Sun: 2

HarBor tHEatrE

a SUMMEr’S talE | Fri: 6:30; Sat-

WEStBrooK CInEMaGIC

183 County Rd, Westbrook | 207.774.3456 Call for shows & times.

venus in Fur

185 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | 207.633.0438

HoW to traIn YoUr draGon 2 | Sun: 3, 7 | Mon-Wed: 7

lEWISton FlaGSHIP 10 855 Lisbon St, Lewiston | 207.777.5010

SEX taPE | 2, 4:30, 7:45 taMMY | 4:15, 7:40 tranSForMErS: aGE oF EXtInCtIon | 2:05, 6:45

lInColn tHEatEr 2 Theater St, Damariscotta | 207.563.3424

Ida | Fri-Sun: 7 | Tue-Wed: 7 | Thu: 2

nordICa tHEatrE

1 Freeport Village Station, Suite 125, Freeport | 207.865.9000

aUBUrn FlaGSHIP 10

and So It GoES | 12:50, 3:50, 7, 9:15 daWn oF tHE PlanEt oF tHE

3, 5, 7:10

tHE PUrGE: anarCHY | 12:15,

3:45, 7:25

2:30, 4:45, 7:25, 9:50 SEX taPE | 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:55

MaInE alaMo tHEatrE

85 Main St, Bucksport | 207.469.0924

aMErICan GraFFItI | Fri: 9

746 Center St, Auburn | 207.786.8605

tHE PUrGE: anarCHY | 1:20,

daWn oF tHE PlanEt oF tHE aPES | 12:25, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30

HErCUlES | 3:15, 6:50 HErCUlES 3d | 12:25, 9:35 lUCY | 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:45, 9:40 PlanES: FIrE and rESCUE | noon, 2, 4, 6:45, 8:50

lucy

PrIdES CornEr drIVE-In tHEatrE

BEGIn aGaIn | 11:40 am, 2:10, 4:40, 7, 9:30

651 Bridgton Rd, Westbrook | 207.797.3154

MalEFICEnt + tHE aMaZInG SPIdEr-Man 2 | 8

daWn oF tHE PlanEt oF tHE aPES | 12:30, 3:30, 7:20, 10 EartH to ECHo | 11:40 am, 4:30 HErCUlES | 11:30 am, 1:50, 4:10,

rEEl PIZZa CInEraMa

HErCUlES 3d | noon, 2:20, 4:40,

7, 9:20

33 Kennebec Place, Bar Harbor | 207.288.3828

7:30, 9:20

| 5:30, 8

JErSEY BoYS | noon, 3, 6:50, 9:45 MalEFICEnt | 2 PlanES: FIrE and rESCUE | 11:30

HoW to traIn YoUr draGon 2 taMMY | 6, 8:15

rEGal BrUnSWICK 10 19 Gurnet Rd, Brunswick | 207.798.3996 Call for shows & times.

SaCo CInEMaGIC & IMaX

HoW to traIn YoUr draGon 2 | noon, 2:20

am, 2, 4:10, 6:50, 9:00

tHE PUrGE: anarCHY | noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10

SEX taPE | 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:30, 9:50

783 Portland Rd, Rte 1, Saco | 207.282.6234

and So It GoES | 11:40 am, 2:10, 4:40,

taMMY | noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:50 tranSForMErS: aGE oF EXtInCtIon | 11:50 am, 3, 8 22 JUMP StrEEt | 11:30 am, 2:10,

7, 9:30

4:40, 7:20, 10

SaCo drIVE-In tHEatEr

969 Portland Rd, Saco | 207.284.1016

daWn oF tHE PlanEt oF tHE aPES + taMMY | 8:20

SMIttY’S CInEMaBIddEFord

420 Alfred St, Five Points Shopping Center, Biddeford | 207.282.2224 Call for shows & times.

SMIttY’S CInEMaSanFord 1364 Main St, Sanford | 207.490.0000 Call for shows & times.

SMIttY’S CInEMaWIndHaM

795 Roosevelt Trail, Windham | 207.892.7000 Call for shows & times.

Strand tHEatrE

345 Main St, Rockland | 207.594.0070

tHE IMMIGrant | Fri: 8 | Sat: 5:30, 8 | Sun: 3 | Mon-Thu: 7 WordS and PICtUrES | Thu: 7 | Fri: 5:30 | Sat: 3 | Sun: 5:30

nEW HaMPSHIrE tHE MUSIC Hall

28 Chestnut St, Portsmouth | 603.436.9900

tHE IMMIGrant | Sat-Sun: 7 | Tue-Thu: 7

FIlM SPECIalS BaYSIdE BoWl

58 Alder St, Portland | 207.791.2695

rUSHMorE | Sun: 7

tHE Grand

165 Main Street, Ellsworth | 207.667.9500

tHE MonUMEntS MEn | Tue: 7:30

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_by s yMbo line Da i This week’s waxing moon is all about tentative new beginnings, with a new moon on Saturday. Since the moon moves into Leo over the weekend, plan your social gatherings to be on a larger scale than anticipated, since many folks are in a mood to party hearty (as we used to say in the 1970s, back when driving drunk was considered a test of fortitude rather than the complete idiocy it is). On a personal note, I can’t believe the month of July has galloped by, and my hope is that all of you who are under a financial strain or caught in a work-crisis can get some clarity now that the sun is also in Libra. More at moonsigns.net, for those who want to get a squint at the bigger picture.

_ by M a t t J o n es

“FROM MILK”

— we derive these new phrases.

toon time

_ by Je n s o r en s e n

Across 1 type of garden with rocks 4 the Good Witch from “the Wizard of oz” 10 ___ de mer 13 Get better, maybe 14 tell on 15 She plays liz on “30 rock” 16 chew toy on Batman’s utility belt? 18 mit grad, maybe 19 Sportscaster dick 20 like screwball comedies 21 System with paddles and a joystick 24 explorer Juan ponce ___ 25 “arrested development” narrator howard 26 Fish served in filets 31 mad scientist who is the enemy of action man 32 prof’s admission that someone’s helping him temporarily? 35 Soul great redding 36 Swear like a sailor 37 pulls a heist on 40 halloween costume that includes big ears, dark clothing and a bunch of charts? 3

43 digital camera variety, for short 45 they’ll help serve your earl Grey 46 ___ hill (r&B group) 47 container for stir-fried vegetables? 49 ___ lateef of jazz 51 Get the engine humming 52 takes more time? 56 pG&e opponent Brockovich 57 Visit Vancouver, say? 61 Grub 62 Fill with passion 63 put a spell on 64 porker’s pad 65 raptor’s grabbers 66 Wonder 9

Down 1 turn sharply 2 driving force 3 paycheck line 4 Semi-frozen drink similar to an italian ice 5 petting zoo critter 6 “let ___” 7 Widow of King hussein 8 manure 9 ending for emir 10 Spoke indirectly 11 ___ Wat (cambodian temple) 12 Voice box 15 Blue-green shade 17 that girl 20 take a baby off the bottle 21 Jason’s ship 22 car horn noise 23 like some sci-fi boots 24 in the most desperate way 27 tended to a scratch 28 She came between hillary and michelle 29 dos that get picked out 30 Backup group 33 Spicy General on a menu 34 raw metal source 38 dull person 39 double-___ (oreos variety) 41 type of convertible 42 uses of mentally-based propaganda, in cia-speak 43 Shopping binges 44 Give a good staredown (not!) 48 Groan-inducing jokes 50 ensign’s org. 52 novelist Jaffe 53 list-ending abbr. 54 pitcher hideo 55 Bernanke subj. 57 “___ Smart” (like you, if you solve this puzzle?) 58 “now i see” 59 “do the ___” (soft drink ad phrase) 60 double-bladed weapon

thursday July 24 15

Waning moon in cancer. today and tomorrow are home-based days, so prying yourself out of the den could be impossible. cancer is a water sign, and so emotions run high, particularly with Saturday’s new moon. confessions come easily, and pisces, Scorpio, cancer, leo, Gemini, Virgo, and taurus, could hear the most in-n-n-teresting news. libra, capricorn, aquarius, Sagittarius, and aries could come off too strong. 31

Friday July 25 16

dark of the moon in cancer, moon void-of-course 9:53 am until 10:55 am Saturday, Venus moves into Scorpio in the evening. of all the days of the lunar month, this one is ideal for reflection and redemption. think about the past month—what’s gone right? What’s been disappointing? insight into making alternative moves in the future comes easily to all, but particularly taurus, Gemini, cancer, leo, Virgo, Scorpio, and pisces. 32

saturday July 26

new moon in leo (moon void-of-course in cancer, until 10:55 am). a great weekend for parties and get-togethers. Sales calls could be profitable also, although taurus, Scorpio, pisces, capricorn, and aquarius could “overdo” some aspect of their busy lives. Gemini, cancer, leo, Virgo, libra, Sagittarius, and aries: go the “extra mile” and be aware that socializing will pay dividends. 1

sunday July 27

Waxing moon in leo, moon void-of-course 8:37 pm until 11:37 pm monday night. ramadan ends. another good day for a fresh start and a super day for acting childishly—and being charming, since a twoday Voc moon will jeezle everyone’s sensibility. move forward on new ideas, even those that others aren’t quite convinced will “fly.” Gemini, cancer, leo, Virgo, libra, Sagittarius, and aries: be the lion and pounce. Scorpio, aquarius, capricorn, pisces, and taurus: be the lamb and be cute and silent. 2

Monday July 28

Waxing moon in leo, moon void-of-course until 11:37 pm when it moves into Virgo. the lion roars—yet no one listens. an all-day Voc moon compromises plans and makes hard-charging moods dissipate. Some stürm und drang for taurus, Scorpio, aquarius, capricorn, and pisces. charming people could completely flummox leo, Sagittarius, aries, Gemini, cancer, Virgo, and libra. 3

tuesday July 29

Waxing moon in Virgo. if you passed on spring cleaning, get out the sprays and gloves today. Virgo moons can make prompt even slovenly folks to sweep and polish. it’s also an excellent day to get a new perspective on health. (yes, the conventional practitioners are golfing, so this means research!) indulge curiosity if you’re cancer, leo, Virgo, libra, Scorpio, taurus, or capricorn. try not to inhale the solvents if you’re pisces, Gemini, Sagittarius, aries, and aquarius. 4

Wednesday July 30

Waxing moon in Virgo. in my heart, i know that a two-day period of Virgo moon is useful, since i can do the stuff that is otherwise so-o-o boring. look for opportunities to micromanage and nitpick—ha! Fooled you. But isn’t that what you want to do? probably so, for pisces, Gemini, Sagittarius, aries, and aquarius. For Virgo, libra, Scorpio, taurus, capricorn, leo, and cancer: be precise, but not pissy. 5

Moon Keys

This horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. Simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac. | When the moon is in your sun sign, you are beginning a new 28-day emotional cycle, and you can expect increased insight and emotionality. When the moon moves into the sun sign opposite yours (see below), expect to have difficulties dealing with the opposite sex, family, or authority figures; social or romantic activities will not be at their best. | When the moon is in Aries, it opposes Libra, and vice versa. Other oppositions are Taurus/Scorpio, Gemini/Sagittarius, Cancer/ Capricorn, Leo/Aquarius, and Virgo/Pisces. The moon stays in each sign approximately two and a half days. | As the moon moves between signs, it will sometimes become “void of course,” making no major angles to planets. Consider this a null time and try to avoid making or implementing decisions if you can. But it’s great for brainstorming. | For Symboline Dai’s sun-sign horoscopes and advice column, visit our Web site at thePhoenix.com. Symboline Dai can be reached at sally@moonsigns.net.