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The gallery will host a brown bag lunch with each of the three gubernatorial candidates—that’s right, a Paul LePage sighting on Exchange St.

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This month, the longstanding Exchange St. gallery Aucocisco will be closing its doors, ending a 15-year run as one of the most visible and engaged visual art venues in Portland.

After his “Summer Salon” group exhibition closes next week, Aucocisco founder Andy Verzosa, a Maine College of Art graduate (and current trustee), plans to move to Connecticut to live with his husband. In the meantime, his farewells to the city’s cultural life to which he contributed the last two decades have been bittersweet.

“I feel like I did really good work here, and have great relationships here,” says Verzosa, who originally founded the gallery in an upstairs studio in the State Theatre building on Congress St. in May of 2000, a time during which he recalls having very little money.

“I pretty much just hoped that anyone would show with me at the time, because I was just starting out.” Verzosa did a show with artist-friends like Todd Webb and Abby Shahn at the beginning. “Soon, artists started seeking me out.

Today Verzosa works with some of the most vibrant visual artists in the city, a roster that includes the ethereal painter Dozier Bell, the conceptualist sculptor Aaron T. Stephan, and the postmodernist painter/aerosol artist Tim Clorius.

“Some move on and some stay with you. In the first few years it was really,

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last week, Space Gallery announced the launch of the Kindling Fund, a regrant from the national Warhol Foundation that focuses on “artists-organized projects that have a strong public component,” allowing the leading maine cultural organization to offer support for projects by maine artists that don’t necessarily—in fact are discouraged to—fit within their gallery walls. according to Space executive director nat may, the Kindling Fund “opens up some local knowledge of what is going on who can be funded. rather than local artists all applying to a national fund, they apply to Space, and we put together a localized jury with localized knowledge.” the pilot program for the Kindling Fund was set in the bay area, where a nonprofit arts venue much like Space called Southern exposure began administering a direct transference of funds from to individual artists in 2007. Space’s would work much the same way, with a strong stated preference for artists wishing to work in atypical spaces or locations throughout maine. may says the statewide element was an important part of the puzzle. “this is a way for people to fund very inventive projects that take some risk,” he says, adding that for his own part, he’s interested in seeing works develop in communities outside the arts district, or portland in general. “there’s all kinds of place-based, sitespecific things that could work.” the Kindling Fund is a visual arts grant, but may indicates that the definitions are fairly loose. artists can apply for amounts between $1,500 and $5,000. Space expects to give out 15 of them in the first year, and can “adapt to needs” they might define in the second year of the two-year program. other cities participating in the Warhol regional regranting program include houston, chicago, Kansas city, San Francisco, miami, and portland, oregon.

For the portland arts and music gallery, which expanded three years ago to encompass a second exhibit room, it allows them flexibility to support artists in ways the specific dimensions of their converted warehouse space couldn’t allow.

“We see our role at Space is to support artists to do their work, and this grant really expands our mission, and the scope of how we view contemporary art.” the application deadline for the first year of Kindling Fund grants is in november, for projects which take place within the 2015 calendar year. interested in learning more?

Space will hold an infosession about the Kindling Fund at the gallery, 538 congress St., on September 24 at 6 pm. ^ _Nick Schroeder

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entering twilight A painting by Vivien Russe from her show with Mary Hart, on view at Aucocisco’s “Double Dozen” series in November. really hard. But the scale of Portland is just right that if you stick with it, you can grow—that’s my story.”

He says in the years since, he’s been the exclusive state representative for twenty or so artists in any given year. But he isn’t certain young gallerists today have the same opportunity.

“It’s different now. Congress has improved,” he says. “It’s so hot, I don’t think you could find a little space anymore.”

In 2000, Verzosa played a pivotal role in launching the First Friday Art Walk.

He remembers the Skinny beginning at the same time, and he collaborated with rock club’s founders to launch a simple, “idiotproof” idea to get more people out.

“I think their idea was to have more a beer tent,” he recalls. “I’m not a drinker, I didn’t want to have a keg party in my gallery. But I really didn’t want to have a bourgeois kind of thing, sipping wine and cheese either. I wanted local people who have probably never been in the gallery to have an experience, to have conversations. That’s the kind of spirit that I approached it in.”

A charismatic figure in the Portland cultural scene, Verzosa downplays the reality that he’s been one of the more outspoken, engaged gallerists in the city.

“I was born here. I know everybody,” he says. It was inevitable he’d get involved.

In the gallery’s final days, Verzosa has whipped up one hell of a closing ceremony, one that speaks to his influence as a prominent figure in Portland social life as well as an engaged political citizen. From September 6 through 12, the gallery will host a brown bag lunch with each of the state’s three gubernatorial candidates— that’s right, a Paul LePage sighting on Exchange St. Democratic candidate Mike Michaud is scheduled for noon on Saturday, September 6; Independent Eliot Cutler for noon Thursday, September 11; and LePage noon Friday, September 12, on the gallery’s final day. All plan to answer questions, and since Verzosa says camera crews will not be permitted, it may be the one opportunity Portlanders have to really get the candidates off-script.

“You can learn a lot from people’s body language; who’s around, that sort of thing,” he says. “I mean, it’s a small space—you have a question for our next governor? Here’s your shot.” ^

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One Cent’s Worth

politics + other mistakes Pimping and pandering And so, the excitement of the fall political campaigns begins.

Although, “excitement” might not be the right word to characterize events more precisely described as turgid with occasional interludes of venomous, petty, and inaccurate.

Sort of like golf—without the fresh air.

Oh wait, I forgot self-serving.

Still sounds like golf.

If my enhanced description of the run-up to the November election (admittedly, made up for the sole purpose of sucking you into reading this column) strays from the truth, I’m hardly alone in this abuse of the English language. A comparison with the rhetoric surrounding the average gubernatorial campaign leaves my modest meandering away from the realm of the factual looking like holy writ engraved on tablets.

Let’s start with the latest TV ad from the Republican Governors Association in support of Governor Paul LePage. The 60-second spot finishes with a flourish by claiming, “He’s unique, like Maine.”

According to my dictionary, “unique” means “existing as the only one; single; solitary in type or characteristics.” The word is frequently misused by boneheads who mean “unusual,” which LePage certainly is (unusual, not a bonehead). But his agenda is almost entirely derived from national conservative groups, who’ve drafted similar measures in many states. His speaking style, described in the ad as “Blunt, honest,” is comparable to comments one hears in bars toward the end of happy hour.

There’s also the matter of his being unique “like Maine.” If the governor and the state are alike in their uniqueness, then by definition neither is unique. And if the copywriters meant that LePage and Maine are unique in different ways, that

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wouldn’t necessarily indicate they’re good matches for each other. Michelangelo’s Pieta and North Korean architecture are both unique, but nobody has ever suggested putting one anywhere near the other.

The nonsense about Maine being unique isn’t unique to LePage’s supporters. This pandering to our sense of ourselves as special is a staple of political blather. Democrat Mike (Lots Of People Mistake Me For Libby Mitchell) Michaud has buckets of it in a video posted on his campaign website.

“Mainers are very hard-working,” Michaud claims, “very friendly, they care about their neighbors. Whether it’s a farmer in Aroostook County, a lobsterman on the coast, someone who’s punching a time clock in the mill, they’re willing to step up to the plate to help someone in need.”

Unless those folks are immigrants; welfare recipients; or members of racial, sexual or religious minorities—in which cases Mainers are as likely as Nebraskans, Californians, or Mississippians to tell those seeking alms to pound sand. We like being flattered about how morally superior we are, but when the real world intrudes, we rarely measure up to these delusions.

Independent Eliot Cutler is no less likely than LePage and Michaud to engage in the practice of overinflating our importance. On Cutler’s website, he states, “The latent power of the Maine brand is extraordinary; there are a few states that are mythic, and Maine is one of them.”

Others include Atlantis, Brigadoon, and Hell. Maine has more in common with some of those than others.

Strangely, this predilection for brown-nosing is less prevalent among candidates for federal offices. Some, such as Republican US Senator Susan Collins, Democratic US Representa-

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tive Chellie Pingree and Democratic 2nd Congressional District candidate Emily Cain, rarely resort to kissing voters’ posteriors. Others, such as GOP 2nd District nominee Bruce Poliquin, 1st District Republican hopeful Isaac Misiuk, and Democratic Senate candidate Shenna Bellows, can be seen as either refreshingly realistic or downright negative.

“Maine’s 2nd Congressional District is stuck in high unemployment and too many part-time jobs,” said Poliquin on his website. “An increasing number of our young families, many burdened with college debt, leave for better opportunities elsewhere. Those who remain are increasingly dependent on government programs to get by.”

According to his website, Misiuk “understands the crippling student debt and limited job prospects are hurting the American dream, which we are told to strive for as children.”

“A lack of Internet and cell phone access impedes economic growth in our rural communities,” Bellows complains on her site. “Small businesses comprise 60 percent of Maine’s jobs, but too often, it is difficult or impossible for small business owners to access the capital they need to start up.”

Poliquin and Misiuk accuse Democrats in Congress and the White House of being responsible for this mess, while Bellows puts it on the entrenched incumbent she’s opposing.

So their less-than-rosy assessments are really a reverse form of humoring their potential constituents by pretending that whatever’s wrong with Maine isn’t the fault of the swell people who live here.

It’s sort of like a golfer blaming the ball. ^

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workers, unions, politicians protest fairpoint’s ‘bad faith’ effort _by nick s chro e de r On Monday, hundreds of workers and supporters rallied in Portland to protest to the labor practices—or lack thereof—of FairPoint Communications.

It was the latest in a widening, summerlong standoff between the North Carolina-based company and the workers and unions in northern New England that comprise the majority of its workforce, and the latest chapters of what has been a contentious 7-year enterprise for the telecommunications giant.

After an annual Labor Day breakfast hosted by the Southern Maine Labor Council at the Maine Irish Heritage Center, protestors gathered in 85-degree weather along Longfellow Square and the Arts District, reaching an apex when they moved to outside the company’s office location on Forest Ave., where they picketed until early afternoon.

Wearing bright red shirts and holding signs reading FAIR DEAL AT FAIRPOINT, the mass of employees and supporters were led by the industry’s union representations—the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and Communications Workers of America (CWA)—who have been trying to reach a labor agreement with the company since the spring. Assessing from their end of the table, union leaders have been the most vocal critics alleging that the company is acting in a bad faith effort to reach a labor agreement with its roughly 1,900 organized workers in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, which comprise nearly two-thirds of its total number of workers.

The rally also featured appearances and statements of support from Democratic Senate candidate Shenna Bellows and Maine Representative Chellie Pingree, as well as one by AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre.

The coalition, many of whom have aligned with an opposition group called Fairness@Fairpoint, emerged after management for the telecom company rejected another attempt by union negotiators for a new collective bargaining agreement on August 27, which would have replace a contract that expired on August 2. While the rally did not signify a workers’ strike, union representatives authorized a strike

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“The types of cuts they’re looking for, the way they impact the ledger leads us to believe they’re putting (it up) for sale.”

SEEING RED workers and advocates march down congress st. Monday. in July, and maintained Monday that its possibility remains.

“I think they’re specifically targeting us,” said Don Trementozzi, President of CWA’s Local 1400, which represents the three states. “One of the biggest sticking points is that this company wants the ability to be able to contract any and all work to low-skilled, low-paid people from around and out of the country.”

From both sides’ perspective, that appears accurate. In a statement released August 27, the day FairPoint declared talks had reached an “impasse,” the company identified “labor costs” as a “key factor in competing to provide 21st century telecommunications and broadband services to its customers.” FairPoint declared later that day that it would no longer be open to negotiations, and would begin to “implement its final proposals,” a move the unions view as illegal.

With the six-year contract facing expiration last month, attempts to forge a new workers’ agreement began in April, with FairPoint officials proposing a new agreement which would, according FairPoint media contact Angelynne Beaudry, center

around its “four core values”: maintaining wage rates; offering the same benefit plan to union members as it does to management; freeze the existing defined pension plan; and eliminate retiree medical insurance for current employees.

“We met two dozen times,” she says.

“They said here are our proposals, (and) we were far apart.”

In a phone call with the Phoenix Tuesday, Beaudry played down the union rallies. “Companies have to keep up with the times,” she said. Our customers want faster speed to watch Netflix. We have to make sure we provide that technology to our customers.”

“Could we meet again?” she wonders.

“The unions know what we were seeking to do in regards to our core issues. We’ve always been up front about them.”

The hundreds of workers and union members seem to disagree, citing FairPoint’s insistence on their core values as a significant breach from the labor standards they’ve been held to the whole time.

“They want to do away with pensions and retiree healthcare, along with job security language,” said Peter McLaughlin, business manager of the of the IBEW Local 2327 in Augusta, over the phone.

According to FairPoint, that appears to be true. The company will not budge from its “four core values”—and, as Beaudry’s explanations seem to imply, the union’s insistence for organized workers to receive benefits greater than “management” is greedy.

Yet arguably the most contentious issue for labor rights activists is the job security language.

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CALLING THEM OUT one of the biggest sticking points for unions is the ability for fairpoint to outsource work to cheaper labor from away.

“What FairPoint is trying to do is replace union workers with temporary outside labor,” said Shenna Bellows over a phone call. “That can really set back the development and expansion of our telecommunications networks across the state.”

Bellows, who was endorsed by the IBEW, said that the opportunity to walk and march with the workers was important to her.

To many who have been following FairPoint’s folly the last several years, it’s a common-sense bad idea that Maine’s largest utility company might want to contract full-time, middle-class jobs out of the state. But the fallout for the economy and the state’s communications network would indeed be huge. The capacity for unions in protecting the services of a public utility are particularly important, Bellows adds, because they’re dealing with a public good. If such a domain were to slip into the private sector, the decisions around its upkeep would be in the hands of a select few whose only motive is profit, a dynamic that many believe is exactly what the company moving toward.

“With the types of cuts they’re looking for,” said McLaughlin, “the way they impact the ledger leads us to believe that they’re putting up the books for sale.

Beaudry says the belief that the company is moving toward subcontracting workers’ jobs out of state (or the country) is overblown.

In both the old agreement and the new proposal, she says, “the company couldn’t and cannot lay someone off in favor of a subcontractor.” She says the language that is giving unions fits is there in case of emergency situations.

“When it snows in December, people still want their server. We have to make sure that’s up and running, and it may take a bigger crew than what we have.”

The gulf between the two perspectives is indicative of the frustration between both sides.

“It’s been a very strange negotiating session,” McLaughlin adds. “The savings we glean from the cuts they’re proposing will go straight to the hedge funds that own 50, 51 percent of the company.

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“We’ve tried to talk about savings that would go right back into the company and show immediate reinvestment. They’re bargaining in a way that essentially closes us out of all discussions. We don’t even know what ballpark we’re in. We’ve essentially been bargaining with ourselves.”

According to McLaughlin, the union’s proposals have incorporated increased amount of savings for the company over the last agreement, reaching as high $210 million last week. He adds that the company won’t the “costing tool” they’re using to evaluate the company’s finances, leaving union reps and workers skeptical about where the public utility company’s priorities lie—with Maine citizens or the bottom line.

According to Bellows, it’s important to note that the contracts proposed by the unions aren’t asking for wage increases.

“What they want is the security that jobs are not replaced with contract workers outside the state.” (McLaughlin notes that one of their proposals, which made over $200 million in concessions to the company, did ask for a “very modest” wage increase).

“I don’t think they really want to be a phone company,” says Trementozzi, who shares the understanding that a bulk of FairPoint’s company shares are owned by Wall Street hedge funds, including one board member with a share as large as 20 percent. “They’re making a living out of

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In January, the Phoenix reported that FairPoint was petitioning state regulators to assess an additional $5 monthly fee for each land- and cellphone line in Maine—even those who do not purchase service from FairPoint—as a tax that would total as much as $60 per phone line in a household. It would have amounted to a sum of $67 million statewide, assessed to the PUC and appropriated to FairPoint.

The move resulted in the proposal of a bill, “An Act to Clarify Telecommunications Regulation Reform” (LD 1479), which would prevent such a tax from being implemented.

That bill was passed by the legislature yet vetoed by Governor Paul LePage in April, though the legislature overrode the veto in May. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October of 2009, just 18 months after the acquisition, a move which validated criticisms that FairPoint was never in a sound financial position to make the deal in the first place, putting its workforce of several thousand in northern New England in prolonged precarious conditions of stifled benefits, stagnated wages, and frozen opportunities for raises.

After getting rid of more than $1.7 billion in debt, FairPoint emerged from bankruptcy in January of 2011.

STAYING VISIBLE fairpoint workers rally as a potential strike looms. (photo by investing (workers’) pension plans.”

For Bellows, the fight against FairPoint’s resource-stripping practices are part of a larger political problem facing the state and nation.

“What’s happening with the Fairpoint workers is part of a pattern that’s happening across the country,” says Bellows.

“Where policies promoted in Washington are benefiting the largest corporations and shareholders at the cost of our country’s workers.”

“FairPoint’s not negotiating in good faith with the workers will hurt telecommunications and workers in the state, while protecting shareholder profits. All of us, everyone who uses a cellphone in the state of Maine should be concerned about FairPoint’s refusal to negotiate with their workers.

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For Mainers, it’s yet another in a very long line of ethically questionable revenueenhancement tactics dating back to the company’s purchase of Verizon’s communications infrastructure in 2007, for a figure near $2.4 billion. As part of the process to get the sale approved by the Public Utilities Commission, FairPoint pledged in 2008 that it would add as many as 675 jobs, before revealing the following year that the

But the FairPoint that emerged was an altogether different beast, led by a majority of hedge fund managers who purchased the distressed debt, whose allegiance to workers in northern New England factors little when compared to their profit margins. For workers and union reps, the protracted difficulty in reaching an agreement indicate a larger corporate strategy to roll back worker protection and de-fuse union influence in a last-ditch attempt to make the company profitable—not as a sustainable business model that would provide its subscribers with service and provide decent jobs for hundreds of Mainers—but so that it might be sold once again.

At this point, that scenario would require a reversal of fortunes. The company’s social media outlets are littered with complaints of poor services and outages. In August, the company reported a $22.7 million net loss for the second quarter, following a greater than $32 million loss in the first term.

FairPoint, however, seems unbowed.

“What’s happening now is business as usual,” Beaudry says. “We have workers at work; we’re operating our business.”

“We just wish everyone a happy and safe Labor Day.”

Nick Schroeder can be reached at nschroeder@phx.com.

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f MOON hOOCh, at Port City Music Hall, in Portland on Sep 6. thursday 4 REMEMBERING MARTHA |

Hold up. Just a second here. Let’s all take a little time out of the day today to remember Martha, the last known living passenger pigeon in the world, who slipped away quietly in a Cincinnati zoo 100 years (and three days) ago.

Being an ‘endling’ (look it up, sad stuff) was likely a lonesome and terrifying life; the silver lining is that she ended up serving as a mascot for a number of conservancy efforts throughout the twentieth century. To find out more about the effects (and ongoing struggles) of these efforts, head over to the Maine Audubon Society for a talk entitled, “PAS-

SENGER PIGEONS, PLOVERS, & PUFFINS: A STORY OF EXTINCTION & SURVIVAL.” Maine is home to at least 10 endangered bird species currently, some of which are really pissing people off by nesting on valuable of waterfront property, so get educated, lest we make another Martha. Dirigo, you know? $5 for non-members, members get in free. 5:30 pm at 20 Gilsland Farm Rd., Falmouth.

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COORDINATING CONJUNCTION | Uniquely stirring without

feeling the need to break any real genre boundaries, Canadianvia-Sweden husband and wife rock duo ThUS OwLS make SPACE Gallery their home tonight.

They’re at their best when singer Erika Angell’s distinctive voice gets balanced upon a skeletal framework of instrumentation, but frequently move onto well-trodden indie-rock ground, cranking out steeledged crescendos. Mt. Desert Island’s COkE wEEd joins them, having dropped their folksy roots for a leaner and lovelier electric sound. S.S. CRETINS open the night with a fuzzy psych pastiche. $8-$10 at 8:30 pm. 538 Congress St. 207.828.5600.

STONE FANTASY | We’ll admit that we weren’t expecting to get that interested in a middle-grade adventure fantasy novel, but author G. A. MORGAN is either a master of the book teaser, or has a really fascinating series on her hands. The Fog of Forgetting is an adventure series about five kids (three boys and two girls) who become lost in a thick fog that transports them from the rocky Maine Coast to a heretofore unknown island rife with histo-

paintings, drawings, sculptures, and (most interestingly) video games. The works presented are both collaboratively and/or individually created. It’s a fascinating and multi-dimensional look at the artistic dynamics of a small collective (i.e., band) living in a very hilly town. The Search for “Tropical Moon” reception begins at 5, with a live acoustic set from 7-8 pm. 10 Mayo St., Portland 207.615.3609.

STAY SEATED | Photography (as your grandfather would tell you) used to be a thing that you had to sit for. Fitting then, that JACk MONTGOMERY uses the seated portrait as a springboard for his haunting exhibit, Afternoon Variations. Bleak or austere interiors coupled with the model’s simple, often expressionless poses hint at a world of gross isolation and stunted individualism. An economy of visual elements and the photographer’s expert eye create a collection that is both banal and tumultuously emotional.

Reception from 5-8 pm today.

Susan Maasch Fine Art Gallery, 4 City Center. 207.478.4087.

GRAB BAG | Despite the ongoing gentrification of the area, building construction, and the simple fact that artists aren’t the most sedentary creatures, local DIY art space ThE dOORYARd COLLECTIVE opens their doors from 5-8 pm this evening for open studio tours. Eleven artists working in sculpture, painting, print making, jewelry, fiberarts, multime-

dia installations and more. Plus, if you’re looking to buy from an up and coming new visionary, these guys probably have some of the more reasonable prices in town. Meet the artists (and marvel at the creative use of floor space) behind the blue door at 108 High St. SCREW IT | Maybe all this happy, celebratory talk about our goody-goody little art town is making you choleric. Maybe you feel like downing a scotch and laying into someone about the bitter truth that they’re a nobody, and that it’s okay because everyone is a nobody; we’re all just a bunch of knee-jerkingly polite little monkeys strapped to our iPhones and we’re all going to die someday. If the above is true (and you aren’t LEwIS BLACk already) maybe you should skip down to the Music Hall and have a grim little chuckle with the acerbic curmudgeon. Tickets are $61-$74 (try not to grumble) and show is at 8 pm. 131 Congress St., Portsmouth, NH. 603.436.2400.

saturday 6 LUNAR BOOZERS | Anything can get you in trouble with the cops these days, including being good at music. MOON hOOCh (great band name) got their start as a genuine NYC subway band

ry, conflict and cool maps. At the center of the many mysteries lie four stones of power and a Fifth Stone that (Tolkien, anyone?) “binds them all.” Infringement aside, if you are a kid, have kids, or are one of those charming people who consider themselves a kid at heart, get to Longfellow Books by 7 pm this fair eve to pick up a copy and get it signed.

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friday 5 PHANTOM PHRIDAY | Pro tip:

Don’t expect to find on-street parking downtown tonight. The First Friday Art Walk is pretty loaded this week, as summer draws to a close. If you do have a four-wheeled cyclist magnet, stash it over near Mayo Street Arts and check out one of the coolest shows tonight has to offer. Long time Portland indiedarlings PhANTOM BUFFALO (in this instance: Sean Newton, Jonathan Balzano-Brookes, Timothy Burns, and Philip Willey) have filled the interior with original Phantom Buffalo album art,

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f ThUS OwLS, at SPACE Gallery, in Portland on Sep 4. (you know, the kind that you don’t hate) before their danceparty loving following caused them to be banned from playing the Bedford Ave. station. After that, they were forced to support their busking habit by touring with They Might Be Giants, Lotus, and Galactic. As much as we want to give these guys crap from being from Williamsburg, being a hybrid-jazz band with two sax players and a drummer isn’t exactly the easy life; these guys have come far, and the music they make is pretty excellent. Get in on the excitement at 9 pm. Tickets $10-$12. Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St. 207.956.6000.

RELEASE ME PART 1 | The Empire has a long string of CD release shows this week (check listings for all of them) culminating with the maiden voyage (sonically speaking) of Watching in my Mind by former Dark Hollow Bottling Company frontman Greg Klein and his new band Gk ANd ThE RIGhT OF wAY. They’ve been kind enough to share the new release online and it seems that the good vibes abide with Greg and his new project (read Sam Pfeifle’s review on page 18).

This is good, country and folk tinged rock and roll. With GUNThER BROwN and softly rollicking MUddY RUCkUS. $8 at 9:30 pm.

575 Congress St. 207.879.8988.

RELEASE ME PART 2 | Farther afield, actress and jazz singer of note JENNIFER PORTER releases her new album Easy Living with a set at the Saco River Theatre.

Jennifer’s pulled in accolades from jazz enthusiasts around the country and will undoubtedly be dipping into her vast repertoire of jazz standards which she sings with a well-trained warmth, cradling each note as if it were a lover about to leave on a long, long voyage. 7:30 pm.$20 gets you a seat at 29 Salmon Falls Rd., Bar Mills. 207.929.6472.

sunday 7 STILL BURNING HIM | There’s

little question that SEAN MENChER has a good thing going over at the Local Sprouts Cooperative.

He’s been hosting their Sunday brunch set over there for almost two and a half years, keeping it interesting by dragging in a whole host of Portland talent to freshen up the mix. Whether he’s playing jazz or picking out some Roots, he seems to always manage to solicit a smile. Have him with brunch at 11 am. 649 Congress St. 207.899.3529.

GET’S AWKWARD | While we

at the Phoenix have no official stance on the satirist, we can all agree BILL MAhER is capable of swinging from an intelligently, sensible argument right into some wildly face-palmable, off-the-cuff remark. If you enjoy the feeling of pumping your fist with enthusiasm whilst occasionally clenching your butt cheeks from shared embarrassment, this is the show for you.

The lively night begins at 8 pm in the Merrill Auditorium. Tickets run between $39.50-$79.50.

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monday 8 ENTERTAIN US | What can you do to liven up a slow Monday?

Karaoke, that’s what. Bribe your friends (with money or drink) into singing that song you want to hear, or just croak your way to the air guitar solo we all know you’ve been working on. dJ dON CORMAN has been holding karaoke court at the Old Port Tavern for what seems like ages, and we can’t remember (no really, we can’t) how many times we’ve gladly stumbled up to that stage hoping to sound like that lady from The Voice. Plus it’s free. 9 pm at 11 Moulton St., Portland. 207.774.0444.

BEFORE IT FALLS | As mentioned previously in our Wax Tablet, the Oak and the Ax (shining beacon of the Biddeford music scene) is closing its doors and looking to relocate to Portland, potentially sometime next year. But even with all that going on, they still seem intent on being one of the best places to go see music on a Monday night. Portland’s leading postrock-with-banjos band, BUTChER BOY, play music for the spaces between the hills with FLIES at 8 pm. 140 Main St., Ste 107 (down the back alley), Biddeford.

tuEsday 9 LITTLE LAMENTS | Blue shines

through with a bright selection of Brazilian tunes as ChORO LOUCO Maine’s only choro band revels in the energetic syncopations and subtle modulations of their extremely lively and danceable musical style. For the layman, (or the amateur metaphorist) this is bossa nova music played by hummingbirds on their third cup of robusto coffee.

For those who already know and love this music for all that it is,

SEPTEMBER 3 we hope that you make it out for what will certainly be the most equatorial way to ring in the end of summer. 8:30 pm; 650A Congress St. 207.774.4111.

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piqued a little when we hear of a good brass ensemble passing through the area (hey, we like a good party). When we heard that Austin-based funk band Brownout was going to be performing an entire set of Black Sabbath covers at the Press Room, a morbid curiosity developed.

“Funky Sabbath? Blasphemous!” we thought. But these guys are crazy, technical, and they know the songs inside and out. BROwN SABBATh (as they call themselves) are Black Sabbath in a way you have seldom heard them played and well, purists be damned, it’s catchy. Indulge in the irony of this heresy at 9 pm. $20. 77 Daniel St., Portsmouth 603.431.5186.

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WEdnEsday 10 WANDERING HERO | Some legends burn out, others fade away. Still, there’s a small group of them that just keep playing.

The hulking (6’5” tall) septuagenarian SLEEPY LABEEF has a biography that reads like a primer to the early years of rock and roll. He’s shared bills with Elvis Presley, George Jones, and Roy Orbison and has been a noted influence to Brian Setzer, Bruce Springsteen and the Beatles. The fact that he plays energetic, fastpaced rockabilly music is just another list of wonders that this man hides under his ten gallon hat and Presley-style shades. The “Human Jukebox” plays tonight at One Longfellow Square, $25 at 8 pm. 181 State St. 207.761.1757.

thursday 11 INTERREGNUM | With Hello

Newman leaving their four year run as Bull Feeney’s Thursday night band, the GORILLA FINGER dUB BANd is poised to take over the open spot on the thirstiest of days. Will their reign last as long? Will they do any sweet 90’s covers, or will they carve out a following of their own? Only time will tell. However, we are excited that things are shaking up a bit, and if you look real hard, you might just see us sippin’ a cold one at the back of the crowd, nodding our head to the backbeat. 9 pm. 375 Fore St. 207.773.7210.

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art THE PULL OF THE EARTH THE ARC OF BERNARD LANGLAIS AT COLBY’S MuSEuM OF ART _BY MAR IA H B E RG E RO N At the time of his death in 1977, it was unknown the true number of art works left behind by Maine native Bernard Langlais. Best known in his home state by his sixty-plus foot wooden Abenaki chief that reigns over Skowhegan, the true breadth of “Blackie” Langlais’s oeuvre would not be known until the passing of his wife, Helen, in 2010. Helen Friend Langlais devoted her life to the stewardship of her husband’s art estate, a weighty task which then came under the meticulous reconnaissance efforts of estate curator Hannah Blunt. Hundreds of previously unexhibited sculptures, wood reliefs, and works on paper were uncovered, expanding Langlais’s catalog exponentially and rewriting his historic legacy. The effect of years of Maine weather having taken their toll on the wood and paint, the colossal conservation project became endowed to a collaborative effort of the Kohler Foundation, the Georges River Land Trust of Rockland, and the Colby College Museum of Art. This led to the creation of the Langlais Art Trail, a program that distributes works to non-profits institutions around Maine and beyond. Colby held nearly 200 pieces, and, along with private collection pieces, has created the artist’s first retrospective exhibition currently on view.

Raised in the lumber community of Old Town, the son of a carpenter, Langlais grew up surrounded by the course material of wood that would later become his signature medium, though his early training as a painter would be the foundation for his understanding of compositional weight and balance. After serving as a painter for the Navy during World War II, he studied art at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. His talent and academic prowess gained him scholarships to both the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Brooklyn Museum Art School, where he studied under German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann. He then accepted a Fulbright Scholarship to Oslo to study the work of Edvard Munch. Upon return to the States, Langlais and Helen, newly married, located to New York City. They also purchased a summer cottage in sleepy Cushing, Maine. The dichotomy of these diametric places would offer Langlais both national recognition and fertile inspiration, in distinctly respective order.

While doing maintenance to his Cushing house, Langlais discovered joy in the handling and assembling of the wood planks of the walls, the physicality of nailing grain to grain. He realized that the distance created by the paintbrush from his hand to his art had grown too great; painting alone had become too intellectual. He began applying tight constructions of foraged wood-grain textures and ready-mades directly to his canvases. In the high ceilings of his New York loft, he puzzled together lumber scraps from Maine and elsewhere,

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DEEPLY INGRAINED A cross-section of Langlais’s paintings and wood works from 1955-1962 carving out beautifully rich reliefs and collages, like the humorous piece “To the Room of an Old Maid,” a nearly door-sized panel of darkly stained wood, scratched into with the initials and symbols of an old high school desk or dive bar bench.

Langlais reached his pinnacle of New York art scene fame with his participation in the watershed gallery exhibition New MediaNew Forms at the Martha Jackson Gallery in Manhattan in 1960, alongside Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, and Jim Dine. The exhibition was the landmark event of assemblage and installation for the American art world, and Langlais’s combination of a modernist’s background in composition with the mixed media of the new Expressionist wave was perfectly in tune with the cultural climate.

His work enjoyed recognition and acclaim

within a vital movement of contemporary art in the early 1960’s, but as the midcentury aesthetic turned toward the Dada-inspired Pop art industrial and cultural critiques, Langlais’s organic handwork fell out of New York fashion. Langlais and Helen left New York in 1966, transforming their summer home in Cushing to a permanent residence, a place rife with inspiration from the natural world, and where he would amass the lion’s share of his most notable works.

Pulling himself away from the art world’s shift toward the cynical edge of minimalism and the ironic iconography of popular art, Langlais found an authenticity of life on the Maine coast, as well as a lumber yard full of raw material. His subjects moved from the abstract to the figurative, concentrating almost exclusively on ani-

mal forms. He began erecting enormous creatures around his property—bears carved from chainsaws, full-sized elephants, an oversized Trojan horse. He worked directly with found wood, letting the original physicality of the pieces shape themselves into their reincarnated animal selves. These rough-hewn characters would grow in size and numbers, spilling over his property until his untimely death at age 56.

The first rooms of Colby’s exhibition read like a study of teacher influence on students—a star pupil showcasing his exacting versions of modernism’s high-contrast landscapes and faces (his own Self Portrait done in perfect Bechmann color blocks).

The influence of his Munch studies creates an era of swirled color and shadowy blurs of paint. These academic investigations of a young artist are nearly charming in their derivative nature, highlighting Langlais’s move toward wood reliefs and assemblages as an a-ha moment, an individual voice found. While New York eventually drove him out, it’s obvious from the severe change in visual language from emulator to innovator that his time in the city highlighted the draw of the natural world.

What first marks the entrance to this retrospective is his cool, monolithic NY works, full of sensual grains snapped tightly together in crisp rectangles of Expressionist themes. They fit in the glass and concrete setting of Colby’s sleek lobby design. It makes sense that this was the work chosen by co-curators Blunt and the museum director Sharon Corwin to encounter first—very Langlais, but very comfortably high art.

The last rooms, which correspond with the last years of his life, play with the casualness of his folk art menagerie, as if mounting a primitive backlash meant to scrub the art academia from his hands. His animals, hung individually at measured distances or clustered salon-style, look half ridiculous here; their faces, friendly and docile, teeter toward anthropomorphic children’s illustrations or cartoon kitsch.

The final rooms suffer close proximities to craft fair carvings of birds and cats and horses and a whole ark of pleasantly cohabitating fauna. Some are cast as the most pastoral of fixtures, the modest weathervane. The clean gallery walls miss a curatorial aesthetic of Langlais’s that cannot be blamed on a museum, where art preservation and presentation are necessarily pristine. His later works, so sweet in the silence of the museum halls, were born in a wild space, messy and overgrown. Many of his largest works are site-specifically outdoors, visible to the public and assailed by the elements. Luckily, the estate in Cushing has become the Langlais Preserve, a public nature park featuring his work in the environment it was created from and meant for, where Langlais went back to the land that continued to give back. ^

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Richard Estes’ Realism is organized by the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The museums thank the following donors for their generous support of the exhibition: Gabrielle Bekink and the Honorable Rudolf Bekink, Isabelle and Scott Black, Thelma and Melvin Lenkin, The Lunder Foundation —Peter and Paula Lunder, Debbie Frank Petersen, Walter and Lucille Rubin Foundation, Holly and Nick Ruffin, and John Wilmerding. Local corporate sponsor: Bank of America.

Local media sponsors: WCSH 6, Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, and Maine Public Broadcasting Network.

Richard Estes (United States, born 1932), Beaver Dam Pond, Acadia National Park (detail), 2009, oil on board, 12 1/2 x 30 inches.

Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Anonymous gift, 2104.2 © Richard Estes, courtesy Marlborough Gallery, New York.

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theater taking center stage AcoRN BoUNcEs fRoM wEstBRook to poRtLANd _BY MEGA N G RUM B L IN G “I’ve always loved hidden treasures,” says Michael Levine, founding artistic director of Acorn Productions, as he climbs the stairs to the third-floor ballroom of Mechanics Hall, a gem of a historic space concealed in plain sight right on Congress Street. The ballroom of this nearly two hundred year-old institution, the last grand functions of which took place in the 1930’s, is now slated for renovation, thanks to a collaboration between Acorn Productions, the nearly 20-year old theater group, and the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, the nearly 200-year old professional organization that began and maintains Mechanics Hall.

Acorn and the MCMA recently announced a plan to raise $25,000 for renovations to bring the 3000-square-foot ballroom of the hall (the first floor of which now houses the new Art Mart) up to code, making it available for flexible public performances with audiences up to 300.

Levine and MCMA board member Tom Blackburn say that they expect to open the ballroom’s doors to public performances— by both Acorn and other organizations seeking to rent performance space—by early winter. It’s a move that they hope will be a boon to the causes of both historic preservation and cultivating accessible performance space in a creative city in which, as Levine notes, “every performance space in town is usually being used.”

Founded in 1815, the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association was part of a global movement to start mechanic guilds that offered support, education, and lending libraries to a wide range of skilled trade practitioners of the day’s “mechanic

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arts,” which is to say, anyone who used tools—the original founders included shipwrights, bakers, hatters, tailors, saddlers, and other workers (and today anyone may become a member for a mere $25 a year).

The building at 519 Congress was completed in 1859, when it opened what is now the eighth oldest membership library in the country. Its ballroom was later redesigned

by John Calvin Stevens at the turn of the twentieth century, and the hall, was added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 1973. Today, the library is housed on the second floor, in what was the original, 33-foot ceilinged ballroom, and a secondfloor room serves as a rentable classroom and gallery space, which the MCMA opens for First Fridays.

But the third-floor ballroom is the jewel of the building, with high ceilings, smooth hardwood floors perfect for dancers, and twin balconies. MCMA board member Reggie Osborn says that between the 1860’s and the late 1930’s, the hall saw wide public attendance of ballroom dance classes, slideshow lectures, and orchestras, with public dancing every Saturday night through the ‘30s. The ballroom closed to the public in 1943, on account of code issues, and went unused until the 1950’s, when a series of photographers used it as a studio space.

Now, the funds raised by the AcornMCMA partnership will largely go toward two stages of bringing the room up to safety code for its public assembly license, including electrical upgrades and improvements to doors and fire alarms. Levine says they will also remove a secondary wall in the ballroom to square it off, and open it up into a wide-open space that will be ideal for

increase your art rate the 1859 building sits in the heart of the arts district.

myriad uses and configurations. Returning the ballroom to wide public use will be the next phase of a series of the building’s transformations and reinventions that characterize so many downtown buildings of a certain age.

Reinventions—along with the vicissitudes of city buildings and performance venues—have likewise been often in the several iterations of Acorn Productions over the years. After its inaugural production in 1995, under the auspices of the Oak Street Theatre, and gaining non-profit status in 1998, Acorn spent the 2000-01 season in collaboration with the Friends of the St.

could dovetail with Acorn’s existing annual Maine Playwrights Festival. Another angle to the collaboration that excites Levine is how Naked Shakespeare’s language-focused productions, which try to help audiences better understand the Bard’s words, will be a compelling fit for the space: “Being in a historic building and using historic language—that’s a great synergy.”

And he looks forward particularly to the opportunities the ballroom offers for nontraditional theatrical uses: with its luxury of wide-open space, the room would lend itself well to installations and immersion theater. For example, Levine suggests,

Acorn plans to use the Mechanics Hall ballroom for performances, private acting workshops, and Naked Shakespeare productions.

Lawrence, to renovate the parish hall. For the next several years, Acorn staged events of Naked Shakespeare, the ensemble that delivers no-trappings, language-focused performances from the Bard’s canon, at a wide range of traditional and nontraditional Portland venues, including wine bars, pubs, and the Portland Museum of Art, as well as at the St. Lawrence Arts Center. In 2006, Acorn moved to Westbrook for what would become an eight-year residency at the Dana Warp Mill, and created Acorn Studios, rehearsal and performance spaces available low-rent to the area community of performing artists.

Acorn plans to use the Mechanics Hall ballroom for performances once the public assembly license has been granted, fulfilling a long-held ensemble goal of delivering First Friday Naked Shakespeare performances in a regular downtown venue each month (in the meantime, the ensemble will perform October 16 and 18 in the PMA).

While renovations are underway, Acorn will use the ballroom space to offer private acting workshops as early as September 22 (actors who are interested in attending may contact Levine for details). Workshops will be focused on performing Shakespeare with a focus on working with the Bard’s “heightened language,” as Levine explains, and will include methodologies from dramatists Shakespeare and Company, Kristin Linklater, John Barton, Cicely Berry, and the Viewpoints school.

Down the road, Levine is interested in further possibilities for Acorn to offer workshops and training; one idea is a playwrights’ workshop with a focus on script development, an endeavor that

each month an audience might walk in to a completely different set-up, from period Shakespeare to a 1920’s cocktail party, and he relishes the prospect of encouraging theatergoers to rethink what they expect from theater, and to do more blurring of the lines between audience and actor. “It’s about educating audiences as much as actors,” Levine says. “People show up in a big room like this and say, ‘Where’s the stage?’

Well, you don’t need a stage.”

Levine says he also plans to leave Naked Shakespeare’s programming open for what new ideas existing and new ensemble members might like to try, stressing that anything audiences or actors thought they knew about Naked Shakespeare might well be blown out of the water. “Any good organization needs to constantly reinvent itself,” he says.

As both Acorn and the MCMA approach big anniversaries next year—20 for Acorn, 200 for MCMA – both organizations are eager to continue adapting and transforming themselves. The MCMA has other improvements to the building underway: Blackburn explains that grants from the city will allow the organization to renovate its exterior façade, and a state grant will help restore the street-front windows.

And Levine looks to the future of the whole Portland performance community, saying he considers himself the “Johnny Appleseed of the theater community,” who likes to gather and plant seeds and then watch them grow. “I suspect that if we do our job and get this space opened up for the public,” he says, “we won’t even be able to imagine what will be happening here three years from now.” ^

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As a string band, Dark Hollow Bottling Company were an awfully good rock band. In the same alternativeroots mode of Uncle Tupelo, bringing an edge to the twang, they had grit under their fingernails and never indulged in that false nostalgia of old-time rural life.

When they asked, “Isn’t that why we dream?,” it was fair to wonder whether they’d just ceased dreaming altogether.

Much of that spirit continues in Dark Hollow singer Greg Klein’s new project, GK and the Right of Way, if with a more traditional rock instrumentation: guitar, bass, drums, keyboards. No more banjos or mandos or any of that stringband feel on the 10-song Watching in My Mind.

If anything, they’re more in the vein of the Boneheads or the Blend, countrified rock with an acoustic guitar usually at the front. There’s something very Maine about them, even if they’re not actually referencing place names and shouting it from the rooftops.

And Klein’s not done mining contemporary America for moody ruminations on helplessness and the weary feeling that each year is supposed to be better than the last, but isn’t.

“Freedom Rock” certainly hits close to the bone for aging Gen X-ers who watched TV like it was oxygen and eyed their aginghippy parents more than a little askance even as they found themselves eventually digging the same music and weed. With John Clavette bleeding organ all over the place and Drew Wyman putting in a bass

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F passed down over decades of practice in dark, deafening rooms, only a select few these days can still speak the ancient physical language of slamdancing, known in some parlance as mosh, circle pitting, or thrash. those who can still decipher this art tend to be young, able-bodied, and, as history’s shown, overwhelmingly male.

You might call it exclusionary, but hey, at least you don’t have to be wealthy. it’s a ritual that’ll certainly be practiced later this month at the otherwise-proper port city music hall, when longstanding maine hardcore band CRUEL HAND put out their album the Negatives in a release party with Worcester hardcore gurus bane (on their last leg of their 20+ year run). cruel hand have more or less carried the maine hardcore scene since their inception in 2006, no small feat con-

OUT Of THE SHADOWS bandleader Greg Klein steps out from the Dark Hollow. bounce like Cheryl Crow leaving Las Vegas, Klein sketches out the path toward middle age: “He signed her chest / It said, ‘Wishing you all the best’ / But so many wishes have come and gone since.”

Klein’s characters are real like those in a Russell Banks novel, not caricatures of the working poor, but normal people who are simply flawed (sometimes fatally so).

He does indulge in sentiment, though.

“Little Man” is a syrupy sweet letter to his son—“You’re too young to fill with rage”— reflected in ‘60s pop and an air of peeking in someone’s window. Similarly, “Vegetarian in Meatland” might be full of well-constructed narrative verses and a hook like “Satisfaction,” but there’s a silliness to it

Hollow record, it’s as though the grit has been replaced by that smile you put on when you don’t have any choice but to grin and bear it. The string section that infuses “Change” is classic whistling past the graveyard, the high you had on the night Obama was elected brought down into a crushing acceptance: “You can’t change all the salt in the sea,” and “my dad said, ‘Son, it’s always been that way’.”

There’s a touch of industrial wash, Chris Wilkes’s drums mixed way to the back, like you’re seeing through a thin veneer.

Even a song like “Don’t Say Goodbye,” that seems to travel in Klein’s melancholy, Dylan-esque stock in trade, employs a bunch of all-stops, like pokes in the ribs so that you hold your breath a bit and don’t get too drawn in by Clavette’s pretty piano in the finish. “Watching in My Mind” has a huge chorus, really grabs you by the collar, but it’s a waltzing rhythm and the big cymbal hits and big guitar chords feel like contemporary country until they’re overtaken by a Phish rave-up.

All of which is to say the record isn’t exactly what you might have expected, and that’s probably a good thing. If you’re a fan of Klein’s reedy and insistent voice, and clear feel for a well-turned phrase, you won’t be disappointed. But you might be a tad surprised. ^

that feels like an in-joke with his daughter (however, high marks all around for rhyming “slaughter” and “daughter” and not having it be particularly macabre).

Sometimes, the arrangement and instrumentation just don’t seem to fit that material. “33” opens oddly, with a thin beat that’s just about the sound that opens Men Without Hats’ “Pop Goes the World,” and is more upbeat than you’re expecting for a nostalgic ode to vinyl. “Six Feet Under,” with a jarring nine-note traincrash of expectancy, hopes that “the bottom for you isn’t six feet under” in an extremely sunshiney way.

Maybe that’s the point? Engineered by Todd Hutchisen, just like the last Dark

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dreamy, glow-in-thedark Back to Soft, has been packaged with 2011’s Volume One, their first, for use in your Volvo wagon or half-kicked-in boombox. You know this label (outta rochester, new hampshire) because they’ve released wax versions of albums by brenda, Foam castles, and metal Feathers in recent years. as regards the Weed, they hit up portland once more this thursday the fourth, playing with S.S. CRETINS and montreal’s thus owls. Visit cokeweed.com.

F We missed the chance to pump it up in last week’s tablet, but in solidarity with this issue’s

labor struggle feature, it’s worth giving a nod to the rock festival/political soiree that happened in brewer this past monday. the labor day celebration, titled “raising Wages rocks,” was one of those rare events merging rock ‘n’ roll moments with an awareness of the labors of those in all sectors who make them possible. thrown by the eastern maine labor council, the party featured music by portland funk band SLYCHI and bangor culturalist DJ BABY BOK CHOY. plenty of political heft too, with presentations by the left-ticket candidates emily cain, mike michaud, and Shenna bellows. ^

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sidering most of the scene plays out in VFW halls and basements rather than established clubs. of course their burly, down-tuned, midtempo hardcore can tend toward the comically hypermasculine sometimes, but the band have made a life for themselves out of more than just riffs and barks, touring the country countless times while providing a voice for the outsider and a vote for refusal. the Negatives is the band’s first for old-world independent punk label hopeless records; maybe it’ll do for them what it did for taking back Sunday. Visit cruelhand.com.

F really tickled to see TEENARENA RECORDS breathing some life into the simple world this month, issuing two albums by bar harbor psychrockers COKE WEED onto one double-cassette package. the band’s most recent album, the

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CLUBS GREATER PORTLAND THURSDAY 4

51 WHARF | Portland | DJ Jay-C | 9 pm ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland |

Ron Cody & Friends ASYLUM | Portland | downstairs: “Retro Night,” with DJ King Alberto | 10 pm BASSLINES | Portland | “College Night” with DJ Trill1 | $0-$10 BLUE | Portland | Crying Wolf Duo | 7 pm | “Trading Songs” with Max Conover + Matt Wheeler | 9 pm BULL FEENEY’S | Portland | Gorilla Finger Dub Band | 9 pm THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | Portland | Katherine Frederick | 8 pm | Michael Beling Trio | 8 pm EMPIRE | Portland | Scott Girouard + An Overnight Low | 10 pm | $5 FROG AND TURTLE | Westbrook | Dave & Jeff LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | Tom Gizzi MADDEN’S PUB & GRILL | Falmouth | karaoke with Lil’ Musicman | 7:30 pm MAMA’S CROWBAR | Portland | bluegrass night & open mic MJ’S WINE BAR | Portland | Oirteht + Jesse Feinberg | 8 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | karaoke with DJ Mike Mahoney ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | Portland | Jazz Workshop | 7 pm | $8 PEARL | Portland | Maine Electronic Entertainment DJs | 9 pm PIZZA TIME SPORTS & SPIRITS | Scarborough | open mic | 9 pm PORTHOLE RESTAURANT | Portland | Lyle Divinsky | 6 pm PORTLAND EAGLES | Portland | karaoke with Jeff Rockwell | 6 pm

SEA DOG BREWING/SOUTH PORTLAND | South Portland | karaoke | 10 pm SONNY’S | Portland | Corey Gagne &

Pete Dugas | 10 pm SPACE GALLERY | Portland | Thus Owls + Coke Weed + S.S. Cretins | 8:30 pm | $8-$10 SPRING POINT TAVERN | South Portland | acoustic open mic STYXX | Portland | DJ Tubbz | 7 pm

FRIDAY 5

51 WHARF | Portland | DJ Revolve |

9 pm

ACOUSTIC ARTISANS | Portland | Muddy Marsh Ramblers | 8 pm ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland | Breakwater Blues Band ASYLUM | Portland | downstairs: “Plague,” goth/industrial night with Gothic Maine DJs | 9 pm | $2-5 BAYSIDE BOWL | Portland | Purse + Cushing + Capture the Sun | 8 pm BLUE | Portland | Big Fancy | 6 pm | Okbari | 8 pm | Evan King Group | 10 pm BRIAN BORU | Portland | Sam Shain & the Scolded Dogs | 9:30 pm BUBBA’S SULKY LOUNGE | Portland | ‘80s Night,” with DJ Jon | 9 pm | $5 BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/PORTLAND | Portland | “acoustic night,” performers TBA | 4 pm THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | Portland | Travis James Humphrey | 5 pm | Waiters | 8 pm EMPIRE | Portland | Lord Earth + Don Damiani + Psychologist | 9:30 pm | $6 FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | “Love,” house & techno with Jamie O’Sullivan | 9 pm FROG AND TURTLE | Westbrook | Black Cat Road GINZA TOWN | Portland | karaoke LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | Tommy & the Rats MAYO STREET ARTS | Portland | Phantom Buffalo | 6 pm MJ’S WINE BAR | Portland | DJ Dusty 7 | 10 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | DJ Mike Mahoney

with DJ Bob Libby | 9 pm SEASONS GRILLE | Portland | DJ Chuck Igo | 5 pm SKYBOX BAR AND GRILL | Westbrook | DJ Kerry | 9 pm | $5 ZACKERY’S | Portland | Night Rockers | 8:30 pm | $5

SATURDAY 6

51 WHARF | Portland | DJ Jay-C | 9 pm ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland | ProfTones

ASYLUM | Portland | upstairs: DJ

Houseshoes + God.Damn.Chan. + Ock Cousteau + Don Damiani + El Shupacabra | 9 pm | $8-10 BAYSIDE BOWL | Portland | Outsiders | 8 pm BLUE | Portland | Steve Wark Jazz Ensemble | 6 pm | Gary Wittner Trio | 8 pm BRIAN BORU | Portland | Under the Covers | 9:30 pm BUBBA’S SULKY LOUNGE | Portland | DJ Jon | 9 pm THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | Portland | Matt Meyer & the Gumption Junction | 8 pm EMPIRE | Portland | Greg Klein | 9:30 pm | $8 FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | Swarmlord + Dead By Now + Big Meat Hammer | 9:30 pm GINZA TOWN | Portland | karaoke LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | Caroline Cotter | 11 am MJ’S WINE BAR | Portland | DJ Dusty7 | 10 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | DJ Tubbs ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | Portland | Cold Engines | 9 pm | $8 PROFENNO’S | Westbrook | DJ Jim Fahey | 9 pm SEASONS GRILLE | Portland | karaoke with Long Island Larry | 8:30 pm STYXX | Portland | DJ Chris O + DJ Ross

SUNDAY 7

ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland | Owen Conforte

BIG EASY | Portland | “Roots Rock Reg-

gae Sundays,” with Stream | 9 pm | $5 BRIAN BORU | Portland | Irish Session | 3 pm FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | “TRAP NITE” with DJ Don Damiani + MC Pensivv | 9 pm GATHER | Yarmouth | “Bluegrass Brunch,” with Ron & Wendy Cody + Lincoln Meyers | 10 am LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | Sean Mencher & Friends | 11 am MAMA’S CROWBAR | Portland | blues jam with Lex Jones | 4 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | karaoke with DJ Mike Mahoney ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | Portland | Jazz Workshop | 10 am | $8 PROFENNO’S | Westbrook | open mic | 6 pm SKYBOX BAR AND GRILL | Westbrook | open jam | 2 pm STYXX | Portland | karaoke with Cherry Lemonade

MONDAY 8

ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland | Ian Fitzgerald

OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | kara-

oke with DJ Don Corman OTTO | Portland | “Bluegrass Night,” with Joe Walsh & Friends | 8 pm RI RA/PORTLAND | Portland | open mic with EvGuy | 8 pm

TUESDAY 9

ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland | Rhonda Dale

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ARMORY LOUNGE | Portland | Lounge Project | 6:30 pm BLUE | Portland | Choro Louco | 8:30 pm BULL FEENEY’S | Portland | open mic with Jake McCurdy | 9 pm FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | “Open Decks Night,” with Kid Ray | 9 pm

LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE |

Portland | open mic with Flash Allen

| 7 pm

MAMA’S CROWBAR | Portland | “Piano Night” with Jimmy Dority | 8 pm MEG PERRY CENTER | Portland | open mic | 7 pm | acoustic jam session | 9 pm OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | karaoke with DJ Mike Mahoney OTTO | Portland | Chicken Wire | 8 pm THE THIRSTY PIG | Portland | open mic

WEDNESDAY 10

ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland | Custom House Gang ASYLUM | Portland | upstairs: “Rap Night,” with Shupe & Ill By Instinct + Eyenine + God.Damn.Chan. + DJ KTF | 9 pm | $0-3 BIG EASY | Portland | blues jam BLUE | Portland | Jeremiah McClane + Ruthie Dornfeld + Owen Marshall | 7:30 pm | Irish Seisún | 9 pm BULL FEENEY’S | Portland | Squid Jiggers | 8 pm THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | Portland | open mic with Young at Heart | 7 pm EASY DAY | South Portland | Don Campbell | 6 pm EMPIRE | Portland | “Clash of the Titans: Green Day vs. Blink 182” live cover acts | 10:30 pm | $6 FROG AND TURTLE | Westbrook | open blues jam with Pete Witham MAMA’S CROWBAR | Portland | “Local Lady Singer Songwriters,” performers TBA OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | DJ Marc Beatham ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | Portland | Sleepy LaBeef | 8 pm | $25 PROFENNO’S | Westbrook | karaoke with Lil’ Musicman | 9 pm

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THURSDAY 11

51 WHARF | Portland | DJ Jay-C | 9 pm ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | Portland |

Heather Pierson ASYLUM | Portland | “Retro Night,” with DJ King Alberto | 10 pm BASSLINES | Portland | “College Night” with DJ Trill1 | $0-$10 BLUE | Portland | Cumberland Crossing | 7 pm BRIAN BORU | Portland | Chronic Funk | 9:30 pm BULL FEENEY’S | Portland | Gorilla Finger Dub Band | 9 pm | Hello Newman | 9:30 pm THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | Portland | 13 Scotland Road | 8 pm EMPIRE | Portland | Matt Andersen + Conor Garvey | 9:30 pm | $8 FLASK LOUNGE | Portland | Matt Townsend & the Wonder of the World + Wind-Up Man + Northwood FROG AND TURTLE | Westbrook | Tony Boffa LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE | Portland | Pretty Girls Sing Soprano | 7 pm MADDEN’S PUB & GRILL | Falmouth | karaoke with Lil’ Musicman | 7:30 pm MAMA’S CROWBAR | Portland | bluegrass night & open mic OLD PORT TAVERN | Portland | karaoke with DJ Mike Mahoney PEARL | Portland | Maine Electronic Entertainment DJs | 9 pm PIZZA TIME SPORTS & SPIRITS | Scarborough | open mic | 9 pm PORTHOLE RESTAURANT | Portland | Lyle Divinsky | 6 pm PORTLAND EAGLES | Portland | karaoke with Jeff Rockwell | 6 pm

SEA DOG BREWING/SOUTH PORTLAND | South Portland | karaoke | 10 pm

SONNY’S | Portland | Corey Gagne &

Pete Dugas | 10 pm

SPRING POINT TAVERN | South Portland | acoustic open mic

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MAINE THURSDAY 4

302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN | Fryeburg | open mic | 8:30 pm

BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | Dover Foxcroft | karaoke | 9 pm

BEBE’S BURRITOS | Biddeford | open

mic with Bill Howard BENTLEY’S SALOON | Kennebunkport | DJ Roger Grenier | 8 pm BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK | Brunswick | karaoke | 8:30 pm THE CAGE | Lewiston | open blues jam | 7 pm CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN | Buckfield | open mic | 7 pm CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Biddeford | karaoke with DJ Caleb Biggers | 9 pm CLUB TEXAS | Auburn | DJ B-Set | 9:30 pm THE DRAFT HOUSE | South Paris | open mic | 8 pm EASY STREET LOUNGE | Hallowell | “Summer Solo Series,” with Sa Rah | 9 pm GFB SCOTTISH PUB | Old Orchard Beach | open mic with Uncle Curtis & Miss Nancy | 7 pm HIGHLANDS COFFEE HOUSE | Thomaston | open mic | 6 pm IRISH TWINS PUB | Lewiston | karaoke | 8 pm LOMPOC CAFE | Bar Harbor | open mic MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | karaoke | 9 pm MAXWELL’S PUB | Ogunquit | karaoke | 9 pm OLD GOAT | Richmond | open mic | 8 pm RAILROAD DINER | Lisbon Falls | open mic | 8 pm SEA DOG BREWING/BANGOR | Bangor | karaoke | 9 pm SKIP’S LOUNGE | Buxton | open mic | 7 pm SUDS PUB | Bethel | Denny Breau | 9 pm TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | Gray | open mic | 8 pm TORCHES GRILL HOUSE | Kennebunk | open mic | 7 pm TRAIN’S TAVERN | Lebanon | karaoke with DJ Dick Fredette | 7 pm YORK HARBOR INN | York Harbor | open mic | 7 pm

| Wells | karaoke Annie | 8 pm HOOLIGAN’S IRISH PUB | Old Orchard Beach | Scott Damgaard | 9 pm THE KENNEBEC WHARF | Hallowell | Happy Hour Band | 5:30 pm MAINE STREET | Ogunquit | DJ Aga | 9 pm MAXWELL’S PUB | Ogunquit | karaoke | 9 pm MCSEAGULL’S | Boothbay Harbor | Dave Gagne Band MINE OYSTER | Boothbay Harbor | Thunder Bay MYRTLE STREET TAVERN | Rockland | karaoke | 9 pm NARAL’S EXPERIENCE ARABIA | Auburn | VJ Pulse | 10 pm PADDY MURPHY’S | Bangor | karaoke SHOOTERS SPORTS PUB | Mechanic Falls | karaoke with DJ Will SPLITTERS | Augusta | karaoke SUNSET DECK | Old Orchard Beach | Joeyoke | 9 pm TUCKER’S PUB | Norway | open mic | 7 pm

SATURDAY 6

FUSION | Lewiston | DJ Kool V | 9 pm HOOLIGAN’S IRISH PUB | Old Orchard

Beach | Scott Damgaard | 9 pm MAXWELL’S PUB | Ogunquit | karaoke | 9 pm

MCSEAGULL’S | Boothbay Harbor | Dave Gagne Band

MINE OYSTER | Boothbay Harbor |

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NARAL’S EXPERIENCE ARABIA | Auburn | VJ Pulse | 10 pm

THE OAK AND THE AX | Biddeford |

(New England) Patriots + id m theftable + Sediment Club + Mothergirl + Power Masters | 8 pm | $8 PIER PATIO PUB | Old Orchard Beach | Bailout Band | 9 pm SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM | Topsham | karaoke with DJ Stormin’ Norman | 10 pm SKIP’S LOUNGE | Buxton | DJ Yadi SUNSET DECK | Old Orchard Beach | Joeyoke | 9 pm UNION HOUSE PUB & PIZZA | Biddeford | kids karaoke | 1 pm

SUNDAY 7

302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN | Fryeburg | Tom Rebmann | 11 am

ANNIE’S IRISH PUB | Ogunquit | Irish session | 5 pm

BLOOMFIELD’S CAFE AND BAR |

FRIDAY 5

Skowhegan | open mic jam | 5 pm BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | Bath |

karaoke | 8 pm

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mic | 7 pm

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Bid-

AMERICAN LEGION POST 56 | York | ANNIE’S IRISH PUB | Ogunquit | open BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | Bath | karaoke with DJ Joe | 8:30 pm

Irish-American sing-along | 5 pm CatchaVibe

deford | karaoke with DJ Don Corman | 9:30 pm

HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | Bangor | karaoke with Suzy Q | 6 pm

THE KENNEBEC WHARF | Hallowell

| open mic with Christine Poulson | 5 pm LAST CALL | Old Orchard Beach | open mic | 8 pm RAVEN’S ROOST | Brunswick | open mic | 3 pm SOUTHSIDE TAVERN | Skowhegan | open mic jam | 9 pm TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | Gray | Black Cat Road | 4 pm | open mic blues jam | 4 pm UNION HOUSE PUB & PIZZA | Biddeford | open mic with Bill Howard | 2 pm

MONDAY 8

BLACK BEAR CAFE | Naples | Irish

seisun with Junior Stevens | 7 pm BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH | Bath | Irish session | 7 pm FOG BAR & CAFE | Rockland | open mic INN ON THE BLUES | York Beach | karaoke | 9 pm KERRYMEN PUB | Saco | open mic | 7:30 pm MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | open mic with Mike Rodrigue | 9 pm THE OAK AND THE AX | Biddeford | Butcher Boy + Flies | 8 pm PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | Lewiston | open mic with Mike Krapovicky | 6:30 pm

TUESDAY 9

AMERICAN LEGION POST 56 | York | open mic | 6 pm BELL THE CAT | Belfast | open mic | 6 pm BENCH BAR AND GRILL | Gardiner | open mic | 6 pm BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK | Brunswick | Irish session | 7 pm

CAPTAIN & PATTY’S RESTAURANT | Kittery Point | open mic | 7 pm DOWN UNDER CLUB | Bangor | kara-

oke | 7:30 pm

EASY STREET LOUNGE | Hallowell | karaoke with Sue Deane | 8 pm EBENEZER’S BREWPUB | Brunswick | open mic | 7 pm FIRE HOUSE GRILLE | Auburn | open mic | 9 pm INN ON THE BLUES | York Beach | Green Lion Crew | 9:30 pm IRISH TWINS PUB | Lewiston | open mic | 7 pm JONATHAN’S | Ogunquit | John Mayall | 8 pm | $49 MAIN TAVERN | Bangor | open mic | 9 pm MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | Dave Mello | 6 pm | open blues jam | 9 pm PADDY MURPHY’S | Bangor | Irish session & open mic RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | Saco | open mic SHENANIGANS | Augusta | open mic SHOOTERS SPORTS PUB | Mechanic Falls | open mic | 7 pm SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville | karaoke with Bryant

TRAIN’S TAVERN | Lebanon | open mic | 7 pm

WEDNESDAY 10

27 PUB & GRILL | Wiscasset | open mic BENTLEY’S SALOON | Kennebunkport | open mic | 7 pm

THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE GRILLE | Old Orchard Beach | open mic | 7 pm

CHARLAMAGNE’S | Augusta | open mic COLE FARMS | Gray | open mic FATBOY’S SALOON | Biddeford | acoustic open mic with Paul Conner | 8 pm

FEILE IRISH RESTAURANT AND PUB | Wells | Irish session | 6 pm FUSION | Lewiston | open mic & kara-

oke | 9 pm

READFIELD EMPORIUM | Readfield | open mic | 6 pm

SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM | Top-

sham | open mic | 9:30 pm SEA40 | Lewiston | open mic with Nick Racioppi | 7 pm

SILVER STREET TAVERN | Waterville | open mic

TRAIN’S TAVERN | Lebanon | Tommy Letloose | 4 pm

UNION HOUSE PUB & PIZZA | Biddeford | open mic | 6 pm

THURSDAY 11

302 SMOKEHOUSE & TAVERN | Fryeburg | open mic | 8:30 pm

BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | Dover Foxcroft | karaoke | 9 pm

BEBE’S BURRITOS | Biddeford | open mic with Bill Howard

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK |

Brunswick | karaoke | 8:30 pm THE CAGE | Lewiston | open blues jam | 7 pm

CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN | Buckfield |

open mic | 7 pm

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | Biddeford | karaoke with DJ Caleb Biggers | 9 pm

CLUB TEXAS | Auburn | DJ B-Set | 9:30 pm

THE DRAFT HOUSE | South Paris | open mic | 8 pm

GFB SCOTTISH PUB | Old Orchard Beach

| open mic with Uncle Curtis & Miss Nancy | 7 pm HIGHLANDS COFFEE HOUSE | Thomaston | open mic | 6 pm IRISH TWINS PUB | Lewiston | karaoke | 8 pm LOMPOC CAFE | Bar Harbor | open mic MAINELY BREWS | Waterville | karaoke | 9 pm MAXWELL’S PUB | Ogunquit | karaoke | 9 pm OLD GOAT | Richmond | open mic | 8 pm RAILROAD DINER | Lisbon Falls | open mic | 8 pm SEA DOG BREWING/BANGOR | Bangor | karaoke | 9 pm SKIP’S LOUNGE | Buxton | open mic | 7 pm SUDS PUB | Bethel | Denny Breau | 9 pm TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | Gray | open mic | 8 pm

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CLUB TEXAS | 207.784.7785 | 150

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THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE |

ACOUSTIC ARTISANS |

DOVER BRICK HOUSE |

Wharf St, Portland

207.671.6029 | 594 Congress St, Portland ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | 207.874.2639 | 94 Commercial St, Portland ARMORY LOUNGE | 207.774.4200 | Portland Regency Hotel, 20 Milk St, Portland ASYLUM | 207.772.8274 | 121 Center St, Portland BASSLINES | 207.699.4263 | Binga’s Stadium, 23 Brown St, Portland BAYSIDE BOWL | 207.791.2695 | 58 Alder St, Portland BEBE’S BURRITOS | 207.283.4222 | 140 Main St, Biddeford BENTLEY’S SALOON | 207.985.8966 | 1601 Portland Rd, Rte 1, Kennebunkport BLUE | 207.774.4111 | 650A Congress St, Portland BLUE MERMAID | 603.427.2583 | 409 The Hill, Portsmouth, NH BRAY’S BREWPUB | 207.693.6806 | Rte 302 and Rte 35, Naples BRIAN BORU | 207.780.1506 | 57 Center St, Portland

THE BRUNSWICK OCEANSIDE GRILLE | 207.934.2171 | 39 West Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach BUBBA’S SULKY LOUNGE | 207.828.0549 | 92 Portland St, Portland

BUCK’S NAKED BBQ/PORTLAND | | 50 Wharf St, Portland BULL FEENEY’S | 207.773.7210 | 375 Fore St, Portland

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH |

207.443.6776 | 98 Center St, Bath

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK | 207.729.9400 | 16 Station

Ave, Brunswick

CHOP SHOP PUB | 603.760.7706 | 920 Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH

Center St, Auburn

207.772.5483 | 128 Free St, Portland

603.749.3838 | 2 Orchard St, Dover, NH EASY DAY | 207.200.2226 | 725 Broadway, South Portland EASY STREET LOUNGE | 207.622.3360 | 7 Front St, Hallowell EBENEZER’S BREWPUB | 207.373.1840 | 112 Pleasant St, Brunswick EMPIRE | 207.879.8988 | 575 Congress St, Portland FEDERAL JACK’S | 207.967.4322 | 8 Western Ave, Kennebunk FLASK LOUNGE | 207.772.3122 | 117 Spring St, Portland FOG BAR & CAFE | 207.593.9371 | 328 Main St, Rockland FROG AND TURTLE | 207.591.4185 | 3 Bridge St, Westbrook FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | 603.617.3633 | 1 Washington St, Dover, NH GATHER | 207.847.3250 | 189 Main St, Yarmouth GENO’S ROCK CLUB | 207.221.2382 | 625 Congress St, Portland GFB SCOTTISH PUB | 207.934.8432 | 32 Old Orchard St, Old Orchard Beach THE GIN MILL | 207.620.9200 | 302 Water St, Augusta GINZA TOWN | 207.878.9993 | 1053 Forest Ave, Portland THE GREEN ROOM | 207.490.5798 | 898 Main St, Sanford GRITTY MCDUFF’S | 207.772.2739 | 396 Fore St, Portland GRITTY MCDUFF’S/AUBURN | 207.782.7228 | 68 Main St, Auburn GUTHRIE’S | 207.376.3344 | 115 Middle St, Lewiston HOOLIGAN’S IRISH PUB | 207.934.4063 | 2 Old Orchard Rd, Old Orchard Beach INN ON THE BLUES | 207.351.3221 | 7 Ocean Ave, York Beach

IRISH TWINS PUB | 207.376.3088 |

743 Main St, Lewiston JONATHAN’S | 207.646.4777 | 92 Bourne Ln, Ogunquit KELLEY’S ROW | 603.750.7081 | 421 Central Ave, Dover, NH THE KENNEBEC WHARF | 207.622.9290 | 1 Wharf St, Hallowell KERRYMEN PUB | 207.282.7425 | 512 Main St, Saco KJ’S SPORTS BAR | 603.659.2329 | North Main St, Newmarket, NH LAST CALL | 207.934.9082 | 4 1st St, Old Orchard Beach LFK | 207.899.3277 | 188A State St, Portland THE LIBERAL CUP | 207.623.2739 | 115 Water St, Hallowell LILAC CITY GRILLE | 603.332.3984 | 45 N Main St, Rochester, NH LINDBERGH’S LANDING | 207.934.3595 | End of Pier, Old Orchard Beach LITTLE TAP HOUSE | 207.518.9283 | 106 High St, Portland LOCAL 188 | 207.761.7909 | 685 Congress St, Portland

LOCAL SPROUTS COOPERATIVE

| 207.899.3529 | 649 Congress St, Portland MADDEN’S PUB & GRILL | 207.899.4988 | 65 Gray Rd, Falmouth MAIN TAVERN | 207.947.7012 | 152 Main St, Bangor MAINE STREET | 207.646.5101 | 195 Maine St, Ogunquit MAINELY BREWS | 207.873.2457 | 1 Post Office Sq, Waterville MAMA’S CROWBAR | 207.773.9230 | 189 Congress St, Portland MATHEW’S PUB | 207.253.1812 | 133 Free St, Portland MAXWELL’S PUB | 207.646.2345 | 243 Main St, Ogunquit MAYO STREET ARTS | 207.615.3609 | 10 Mayo St, Portland MCSEAGULL’S | 207.633.5900 | Gulf Dock, Boothbay Harbor MEG PERRY CENTER | 207.619.4206 | 36 Market St, Portland

.

MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | 207.642.3363 | 35 Blake Rd, Standish MESA VERDE | 207.774.6089 | 618 Congress St, Portland MILLIE’S TAVERN | 603.967.4777 | 17 L St, Hampton, NH MINE OYSTER | 207.633.6616 | 16 Wharf St, Pier 1, Boothbay Harbor MJ’S WINE BAR | 207.653.6278 | 1 City Center, Portland MONTSWEAG ROADHOUSE | 207.443.6563 | Rte 1, Woolwich MOOSE ALLEY | 207.864.9955 | 2809 Main St, Rangeley MR. GOODBAR | 207.934.9100 | 8B West Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach MYRTLE STREET TAVERN | 207.596.6250 | 12 Myrtle St, Rockland NARAL’S EXPERIENCE ARABIA | 207.344.3201 | 34 Court St, Auburn NOCTURNEM DRAFT HAUS | 207.907.4380 | 56 Main St, Bangor THE OAK AND THE AX | | 140 Main St, Ste 107-Back Alley, Biddeford THE OAR HOUSE | 603.436.4025 | 55 Ceres St, Portsmouth, NH OASIS | 207.370.9048 | 42 Wharf St, Portland OLD PORT TAVERN | 207.774.0444 | 11 Moulton St, Portland THE OLDE MILL TAVERN | 207.583.9077 | 56 Main St, Harrison ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE | 207.761.1757 | 181 State St, Portland ORCHARD STREET CHOP SHOP

| 603.749.0006 | 1 Orchard St, Dover, NH OTTO | 207.773.7099 | 574-6 Congress St, Portland PADDY MURPHY’S | 207.945.6800 | 26 Main St, Bangor PEARL | 207.653.8486 | 444 Fore St, Portland PEDRO O’HARA’S/LEWISTON | 207.783.6200 | 134 Main St, Lewiston PEDRO’S | 207.967.5544 | 181 Port Rd, Kennebunk PENOBSCOT POUR HOUSE | 207.941.8805 | 14 Larkin St, Bangor

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PIER PATIO PUB | 207.934.3595 | 2 Old Orchard St, Old Orchard Beach PORTHOLE RESTAURANT | 207.773.4653 | 20 Custom House Wharf, Portland PORTLAND EAGLES | 207.773.9448 | 184 Saint John St, Portland PORTLAND LOBSTER CO | 207.775.2112 | 180 Commercial St, Portland PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | 603.430.8582 | 64 Market St, Portsmouth, NH PRESS ROOM | 603.431.5186 | 77 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH PROFENNO’S | 207.856.0011 | 934 Main St, Westbrook THE RED DOOR | 603.373.6827 | 107 State St, Portsmouth, NH RI RA/PORTLAND | 207.761.4446 | 72 Commercial St, Portland RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | 603.319.1680 | 22 Market St, Portsmouth, NH RUDI’S | 603.430.7834 | 20 High St, Portsmouth, NH RUN OF THE MILL BREWPUB | 207.571.9648 | 100 Main St, Saco Island, Saco SALVAGE BBQ & SMOKEHOUSE | | 919 Congress St, Portland SEA DOG BREWING/SOUTH PORTLAND | 207.871.7000 | 125

Western Ave, South Portland

SEA DOG BREWING/TOPSHAM |

207.725.0162 | 1 Maine St, Great Mill Island, Topsham SEA40 | 207.795.6888 | 40 East Ave, Lewiston SEASONS GRILLE | 207.775.6538 | 155 Riverside St, Portland SILVER HOUSE TAVERN | 207.772.9885 | 123 Commercial St, Portland SILVER STREET TAVERN | 207.680.2163 | 2 Silver St, Waterville SKIP’S LOUNGE | 207.929.9985 | 299 Narragansett Trail, Buxton SKYBOX BAR AND GRILL | 207.854.9012 | 212 Brown St, Westbrook

SOLO BISTRO | 207.443.3378 | 128 Front St, Bath

SONNY’S | 207.772.7774 | 83 Exchange St, Portland

SONNY’S TAVERN | 603.343.4332 | 328

Central Ave, Dover, NH SOUTHSIDE TAVERN | 207.474.6073 | 1 Waterville Rd, Skowhegan SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland SPIRE 29 | 207.222.2068 | 29 School St, Gorham SPRING HILL TAVERN | 603.431.5222 | Dolphin Striker, 15 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH SPRING POINT TAVERN | 207.733.2245 | 175 Pickett St, South Portland STONE CHURCH | 603.659.6321 | 5 Granite St, Newmarket, NH STYXX | 207.828.0822 | 3 Spring St, Portland SUDS PUB | 207.824.6558 | Sudbury Inn Main St, Bethel SUNSET DECK | 207.934.3532 | the Pier, Old Orchard Beach TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | 207.657.7973 | 61 Portland Rd, Gray

THATCHER’S PUB/SOUTH PORTLAND | 207.253.1808 | 35 Foden Rd, South Portland

THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE/ PORTSMOUTH | 603.427.8645 | 21

Congress St, Portsmouth, NH THE THIRSTY PIG | 207.773.2469 | 37 Exchange St, Portland TIME OUT PUB | 207.593.9336 | 275 Main St, Rockland TOWNHOUSE PUB | 207.284.7411 | 5 Storer St, Saco UNION HOUSE PUB & PIZZA | 207.590.4825 | North Dam Mill, 2 Main St, 18-230, Biddeford WALLY’S PUB | 603.926.6954 | 144 Ashworth Ave, Hampton, NH WATER DOG TAVERN | 207.354.5079 | 1 Starr St, Thomaston YORK HARBOR INN | 207.363.5119 | 480 York St, York Harbor ZACKERY’S | 207.774.5601 | Fireside Inn & Suites, 81 Riverside St, Portland

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FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover | Tim

SUNDAY 7

GARY’S RESTAURANT & SPORTS LOUNGE | Rochester | karaoke | 7 pm MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | karaoke

for Fri

Theriault | 9 pm

Listings

with Chris Michaels

PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Ports-

Continued from p 20 TORCHES GRILL HOUSE | Kennebunk | TRAIN’S TAVERN | Lebanon | karaoke

with DJ Dick Fredette | 7 pm YORK HARBOR INN | York Harbor | open mic | 7 pm

with Larry Garland | 6 pm | Brownout! presents “BROWN SABBATH” | 9 pm | $20 SONNY’S TAVERN | Dover | Soggy Po’ Boys | 9 pm STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | bluegrass jam | 9 pm

NEW HAMPSHIRE

WEDNESDAY 10

open mic | 7 pm

THURSDAY 4

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT |

Dover | bluegrass jam with Steve Roy | 9 pm DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | A Minor Revolution + Eyenine | 9 pm

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79 Commercial Street, Portland | 828-2337

Cigars

223 Commercial Street, Portland | 772-9463

mic | 8 pm

PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Tom

Great Bay Sailor | 7 pm WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | DJ Kelley | 9 pm

FRIDAY 5

THURSDAY 11

mouth | karaoke

Dover | bluegrass jam with Steve Roy

KJ’S SPORTS BAR | Newmarket | karaoke | 9 pm

MILLIE’S TAVERN | Hampton | karaoke

with Chris Michaels THE OAR HOUSE | Portsmouth | Bob Arens | 7 pm PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Portsmouth | deck: Small Soldiers | 7 pm | grill: Keith Henderson | 8:30 pm | pub: Chris Lester | 10 pm PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Dan Blakeslee | 9:30 pm | $10 STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Turkuaz | 9:30 pm | $12

SATURDAY 6

DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

mouth | karaoke

PUBLIC HOUSE AND PROHIBITION MUSIC ROOM | Rochester | karaoke RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth |

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT | | 9 pm

PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Ports-

mouth | deck:Tim Theriault Duo | 7:30 pm

PUBLIC HOUSE AND PROHIBITION MUSIC ROOM | Rochester | karaoke STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Irish

session with Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki | 6 pm

COMEDY THURSDAY 4

RYAN CHANI + JESSE BICKFORD + AHARON HEBERT | 8 pm | Guthrie’s,

DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Rustic Overtones + Soule Monde | 8 pm | $12 THE OAR HOUSE | Portsmouth | Don Severance | 7 pm PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Portsmouth | deck: Kevin Burt | 2 pm | deck: Conniption Fits | 7 pm | grill: Brad Bosse | 8:30 pm | club: DJ Koko-P | 9 pm | pub: Max Sullivan | 10 pm PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Dub Apocalypse | 9 pm | $7 SEA KETCH | Hampton | Ray Zerkle + Steve Tolley STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Linda Pouliot | 7 pm | $10 | Daemon Chili + Rhythm Ship | 10 pm | $7

ing for Fri

SUNDAY 7

SUNDAY 7

Dover | Irish session with Carol Coronis

ing for Fri

DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

rium, 20 Myrtle St, Portland | $39.5079.50 | 207.842.0800 OPEN MIC | 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230

mouth | karaoke

Premium

mouth | open mic | 8 pm HARLOW’S PUB | Peterborough | open

STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Irish session with Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki | 6 pm | Spiritual Rez | 10 pm | $10-$12

Steve Tolley

& Ramona Connelly | 5 pm

wine selection

mic

DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

Yoder | 9 pm

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT |

Largest

BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth | open

PUBLIC HOUSE AND PROHIBITION MUSIC ROOM | Rochester | karaoke SEA KETCH | Hampton | Ray Zerkle +

DANIEL STREET TAVERN | Ports-

af t

mouth | deck: Pat Foley | 7:30 pm PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | jazz jam

DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover | Jim Dozet Trio | 10 am | karaoke with DJ Erich Kruger | 9 pm PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Portsmouth | deck: Doug Mitchell | 2 pm THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Green Lion Crew | 8 pm RI RA/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | Irish session | 5 pm | Oran Mor | 7 pm SEA KETCH | Hampton | Ray Zerkle + Leo & Company STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | open mic with Dave Ogden | 7 pm WALLY’S PUB | Hampton | karaoke | 9 pm

MONDAY 8

115 Middle St, Lewiston | 207.376.3344

FRIDAY 5

LEWIS BLACK | 8 pm | Music Hall, 131

Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $61-74 | 603.436.2400 or www.themusichall. org/tickets/index.asp DARWIN’S WAITING ROOM | improv comedy | Fri-Sat 8 pm; Sun 7 pm | Players’ Ring, 105 Marcy St, Portsmouth, NH | $15, $12 seniors/students | 603.436.8123 or www.playersring.org

SATURDAY 6

DARWIN’S WAITING ROOM | See list-

ORCHARD STREET CHOP SHOP | Do-

ver | open mic with Dave Ogden | 8 pm PORTSMOUTH GAS LIGHT | Portsmouth | deck: Chad Verbeck | 7:30 pm PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Ray DeMarco | 8 pm | $10

SPRING HILL TAVERN | Portsmouth |

Old School | 9 pm STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Wild Eagles Blues band | 7 pm

THIRSTY MOOSE TAPHOUSE/PORTSMOUTH | Portsmouth | open mic | 8 pm

TUESDAY 9

BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth |

“Honky Tonk Night,” with Seldom Playwrights

POPULAR THURSDAY 4

BOMBINO | 7:30 pm | Strand The-

atre, 345 Main St, Rockland | $25 | 207.594.0070

FUTURE ISLANDS + OPERATORS + DJ DISCO PHANTOM | 9 pm | Port City

Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $15-18 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall.com ROD PICOTT | 7 pm | St Lawrence Arts & Community Center, 76 Congress St, Portland | $12 | 207.775.5568 or stlawrencearts.org

FRIDAY 5

BIG DADDY WEAVE | 7 pm | Seaside Pavilion, 8 Sixth St, Old Orchard Beach | $14-$19 | 888.718.4253 M. WARD + JENNIFER CASTLE | 9 pm | Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $22-25 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall.com

SATURDAY 6

5 WHEEL DRIVE | 8 pm | Happy Acres Hall, 3704 Bennoch Rd, Alton

BEATLES FOR SALE | 7:30 pm | Lin-

coln Theater, 2 Theater St, Damariscotta | $5-$15 | 207.563.3424 MOON HOOCH | 9 pm | Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $10-12 | 207.956.6000 or portcitymusichall. com M. WARD | 8 pm | Music Hall, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $35 | 603.436.2400 or themusichall.org/ tickets/index.asp JENNIFER PORTER | 7:30 pm | Saco River Theatre, 29 Salmon Falls Rd, Bar Mills | $20 | 207.929.6472 NEW RELM | 7 pm | Home on the Grange, 2766 Lee Rd, Lee | $15 | 207.738.4696 or homegrange.com SQUEEZEBOX STOMPERS | 7:30 pm | Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St, Bath | 207.442.8455 or chocolatechurcharts.org SYNAPTIC CLEFT | 7:30 pm | Village Coffee House/New Gloucester Congregational Church, 19 Gloucester Hill Rd, New Gloucester | $10 | 207.926.3260

SUNDAY 7

”HENRYFEST” WITH TIM O’BRIEN + DON ROY & FRIENDS + JOE WALSH + BRITTANY HAAS & OWEN MARSHALL + SLY-CHI + JERKS OF GRASS + FLIGHT 317 | noon-6 pm | Skyline

Farm, 95 the Lane, Yarmouth | $20; $40 families | 207.846.9559 STOLEN MOJO | 7 pm | Casablanca Cruises, Portland Harbor Tour, 18 Custom House Wharf, Portland | $15 | 207.831.1324

DARWIN’S WAITING ROOM | See list-

TUESDAY 9

BILL MAHER | 8 pm | Merrill Audito-

| 9 pm | Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $15-18 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall. com

NEW MASTERSOUNDS + TAUK

WEDNESDAY 10

WEDNESDAY 10

ASTRONAUTALIS + ENDLESS JAGS + SARAH JAFFE + TRANSIT | 9 pm

taurant, 11 Fourth St, Dover, NH | 603.343.4390 OPEN MIC | 6 pm | Union House Pub & Pizza, North Dam Mill, 2 Main St, 18230, Biddeford | 207.590.4825

THURSDAY 11

”COMEDY SHOW,” WITH JAY GROVE, ET AL. | 9 pm | Cara Irish Pub & Res-

”PORTLAND COMEDY SHOWCASE” PERFORMERS TBA | 8 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | 207.773.7210

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT | Dover | karaoke | 8 pm

”AUTUMN PROGRAM: WOLF, BRAHMS, DVORAK” | See listing

CONCERTS CLASSICAL

| Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $13-15 | 207.956.6000 or portcitymusichall.com

BLACKBERRY SMOKE | 8 pm | Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH | $27 | 603.929.4100 BONEHEADS + HOLY MACKERELS

| 7 pm | Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | 207.633.6855

RUBBLEBUCKET + BODY LANGUAGE | 8 pm | Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $15-18 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall. com

FRIDAY 5

”AUTUMN PROGRAM: WOLF, BRAHMS, DVORAK” | Fri 7 pm; Sun 4

DANCE

pm | Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Rte 15, Blue Hill | call for tickets | 207.374.2203 or kneisel.org

PARTICIPATORY

SATURDAY 6

FRIDAY 5

pm | Old Harpswell Meeting House, 929 Harpswell Neck Rd, Harpswell | $25 | 207.529.4555

6:30 pm | People Plus/Brunswick, 35 Union St, Brunswick | $8, $5 seniors/ students | 207.700.7577

DAPONTE STRING QUARTET | 7:30

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE |

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TUESDAY 9

LINE DANCING | 6:30 pm | Mem-

ory Lane Music Hall, 35 Blake Rd, Standish | 207.642.3363 | www.memorylanemusichall.com

PERFORMANCE THURSDAY 4

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: VAREKAI |

ThursFri 7:30 pm; Sat 4 & 7:30 pm; Sun 1:30 & 5 pm | Cross Insurance Arena, 48 Free St, 1st Floor, Portland | $37-138 | 207.775.3458 | www.theciviccenter.com

FRIDAY 5

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: VAREKAI | See

listing for Thurs

FOOD SATURDAY 6

PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET | 7

am | Deering Oaks Park, Park Ave and Deering Ave, Portland

WEDNESDAY 10

PORTLAND FARMERS’ MARKET | 7

am | Monument Square, Congress St, Portland | 207.774.9979

POETRY & PROSE

SATURDAY 6

THURSDAY 4

listing for Thurs

SUNDAY 7

of Forgetting | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks.com

listing for Thurs

FRIDAY 5

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: VAREKAI | See

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: VAREKAI | See

EVENTS FRIDAY 5

”DIRTY DANCING: CELEBRATE COMPOST” | Guerrilla Downtown

performance & activity with Blue Moon Tribe + Garbage to Garden + Rosemont Market | 6 pm | Rosemont Market, 5 Commercial St, Portland | 207.699.4560

SATURDAY 6

”EXPERIENCERS SPEAK” UFO AND ALIEN ABDUCTION CONFERENCE | a

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”FLEA BITES” | 6:30 pm | Portland Flea-for-All, 125 Kennebec St, Portland | 207.482.9053

G. A. MORGAN | reads from The Fog

NICOLE D’ENTREMONT | reads from A Generation of Leaves | 7 pm | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 or longfellowbooks.com

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ELIZABETH PEAVY | discusses memoir writing | 2 pm | Louis T. Graves Public Library, 18 Maine St, Kennebunk | 207.967.2778 ”RHYTHMIC CYPHER,” POETRY SLAM & OPEN MIC | 7 pm | b.good, 15 Exchange St, Portland | 207.619.4206

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

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JACK GIESEKING | reads from People,

Place, and Space Reader | 4:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Massachusetts Hall, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

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paintings by Amy Murphey | reception 5-8 pm ART SPACE GALLERY | 207.594.8784 | 342 Main St, Rockland | artspacemaine. com | Fri-Sat 11 am-4 pm | Sept 5-30: works by Barbara Fischer Eldred + Pamela Hetherly + Lydia Kaeyer + Hannah Nelsbach | reception Sep 5 5-8 pm AUCOCISCO GALLERIES | 207.594.8784 | 89 Exchange St, Portland | aucocisco.com | Thurs-Sat 11 am-5 pm | Through Sep 12: “Summer Salon,” mixed media group exhibition | reception Sep 5 5-8 pm | closing reception Sep 6 5-7 pm with performances by Tom Ryan + Cormac Shirer Brown + Martin Steingesser + Richard Blanco BLACK CAT COFFEE | 207.956.6686 | 463 Stevens St, Portland | call for hours | Sept 5: “Common Threads,” works by Lori Harley + Shelley Snodgrass | reception 5-8 pm

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Ave, Rockport | artsmaine.org | Through Sept 20: Betsy Eby: “Painting With Fire” + Ron Leax: “Collage” + Tom Burkhardt: “Recent Work” CONSTELLATION ART GALLERY | 207.409.6617 | 511 Congress St, Portland | constellationgallery.webs.com | MonThurs noon-4 pm; Fri noon-4 pm & 6-8 pm; Sat 2-8 pm | Sept 5: “2 Each” mixed media group exhibition | reception 5-8 pm

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| 6 Court St, Ellsworth | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through Sept 14: paintings by Philip Frey + John Heliker + Ed Nadeau + Paul Hannan DAUNIS FINE JEWELRY | 207.773.6011 | 616 Congress St, Portland | daunis.com | Mon-Fri 10 am-4:30 pm; by appointment | Sept 5: “Autumnal Equilibrium” works by Tina-Marie Poulin | reception 5-8 pm DOCK FORE | 207.772.8619 | 336 Fore St, Portland | Mon-Tues 3-9 pm; WedThurs 3-10 pm; Fri 2 pm-1 am; Sat noon-1 am; Sun 2-8 pm | Sept 5: “Wonders of Childhood” illustrations by Liisa Lang | reception 5-8 pm THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | 207.772.5483 | 128 Free St, Portland | thedogfishbarandgrille.com | Mon-Sat 11:30 am-12:30 am; Sun noon-8 pm | Sept 5: “Paintings of Color in Oil and Pastel” works by Erinn McCusker | reception 5-8 pm THE DOORYARD COLLECTIVE | 108 High St, Portland | Sept 5: open studio | reception 5-8 pm DOWLING WALSH GALLERY | 207.596.0084 | 357 Main St, Rockland | dowlingwalsh.com | call for hours | Sept 5-30: works by Eric Green + Sarah McRae Morton | reception Sep 5 5-8 pm EDWARD T. POLLACK FINE ARTS | 617.610.7173 | 25 Forest Ave, Portland | Wed-Sat 11 am-6 pm | Through Sept 30: “American Prints, Drawings, & Photographs of the 20th Century: Realism & Modernism” ELIZABETH MOSS GALLERIES | 207.781.2620 | 251 Rte 1, Falmouth | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm | Through Sept 20: “Of Women by Women,” mixed media paintings by Lesia Sochor + Veronica Cross ENGINE | 207.229.3560 | 265 Main St, Biddeford | feedtheengine.org | Tues-Fri 1-6 pm; Sat 11 am-4 pm | Through Sept 20: “The Diptych Project II,” group encaustic exhibition FINN TEACH MINI-GALLERY | 207.266.2954 | 645 Congress St, Portland | First Fri 5:30-7:30 pm | Sept 5: “Maine Coast Paintings” works in oil by Finn Teach | reception 5-8 pm

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| 207.772.1902 | 253 Congress St, Portland | Sept 5: works in encaustic by Kimberly Curry | reception 5-8 pm KITTERY ART ASSOCIATION | 207.967.0049 | 8 Coleman Ave, Kittery | kitteryartassociation.org | Sat noon-6 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Through Sept 21: “Ekphrasis: Poetry & Art,” mixed media group exhibition LANDING GALLERY | 207.594.4544 | 8 Elm St, Rockland | landingart.com | Tues-Sat 11 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Through Sept 7: “By-Gone Boats,” clay sculptures by David Riley Peterson | Through Sept 7: “Maine’s Light,” paintings by Bjorn Runquist | Through Sept 28: “Color Vision,” acrylic paintings by Irma Cerese |

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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”

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

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Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Dr, Waterville | colby.edu/museum | TuesSat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Free admission | Through Jan 4: “Bernard Langlais,” paintings | Through June 7: “Alex Katz: Selections,” mixed media | Through July 15: “Highlights from the Permanent Collection,” mixed media | Ongoing: “Process & Place: Exploring the Design Evolution of the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion” + “Alex Katz Collection”

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pm; Fri noon-8 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun noon-4 pm | Through Nov 9: “At Home in the Victorian Era,” historical exhibit of furnishings, textiles, & bric-a-brac 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 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 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 Oct 12: “Project _,” architectural installation by Ana Miljacki + Lee Moreau + “The Wrong Kind of Bars: Paintings from the Maine State Prison” | Through March 31, 2016: “We Are What We Hide,” long-running exhibit in- & outside gallery walls MAINE COLLEGE OF ART | 207.775.3052 | 522 Congress St, Portland | meca.edu | Mon-Fri 8 am-8 pm; Sat-Sun 12 pm-5 pm | Sept 5: “CREATE III: The Third Annual Continuing Studies Exhibition” mixed media group exhibit | reception 5-8 pm MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM | 207.329.9854 | 267 Congress St, Portland | treeoflifemuseum.org | MonFri 10 am-2 pm | Through Oct 31: “Genesis:Exodus” works by George Wardlaw | reception Sep 5, 5-8 pm OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF ART | 207.646.4909 | 543 Shore Rd, Ogunquit | ogunquitmuseum.org | MonSat 10:30 am- 5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm | Through Oct 31: “A Modernist Menagerie: Works from the Permanent Collection,” sculptures, paintings,

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a little whine Munjoy’s new lolita revives a classic narrative _By Bria n duFF Smaller is better. Wasn’t that the point of Nabokov’s novel? It’s hard to recall, since I read it so long ago and the words were so big. I think that was one of the takeaways. Smaller is better is something the new Munjoy Hill restaurant Lolita also conveys in several ways.

Some other lessons of Lolita are that something simpler and less challenging can be lovely, and that some cheap wine could really loosen things up. I am talking about the restaurant.

Lolita is the new venture from Stella and Guy Hernandez of Bar Lola. The new space is smaller and cozier—warm with old wood and red shelving, but distinguished by striking industrial-meets-old world lighting, a zinc bar, and the flicker of flames from the wood grill in back. Seating is along a row of tables across from a bar, and three tables out front. You get a familiar warm greeting from Stella, who (along with Stephanie at Schulte and Herr) is the best front of the house proprietor in Portland—you feel in good hands with hello.

Even the plates are smaller at Lolita— in one way at least. The menu’s division into small, medium, and large plates is familiar from Bar Lola days. But the new menu has a section of “toasts, pots, and snacks” with smaller plates still. These

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little dishes do perfectly what that place Spread hoped to do—combine great bread with a variety of creamy takes on strong and interesting flavors. At three for $10, this is a great part of the menu.

A warm little ramekin of spiced sardine was remarkably creamy and fluffy—perhaps thanks to ample olive oil. The restrained kick of spice let you taste the fish.

Burrata cheese was creamy and fresh—decadent but brightened up by lemon zest and spice. Salt cod offered a bit more texture and chew, both enhanced by bits of chorizo. The local mushrooms were appealingly musky, funky, and chewy.

The rest of the menu resembles Bar Lola in tripartite form, but with dishes generally less intricate and complex—heartier and with more subtle surprises. Among the ($9) small plates, the bone marrow is closest cousin to the spreads. Its simple pale, quivering, creamy richness spread over toast is like an especially decadent sort of butter. Rapini is cooked briefly to let the bitter flavor predominate over the salt of anchovies and heat of chili.

The medium dishes are the most intriguing on the page, and they deliver on it. In one dish, black trumpets brought out the earthy side of mackerel filet. Lentils, served with just pickled beets, could not have been

more perfectly tender or expertly seasoned.

Torchino pasta enlivens a simple creamy tomato sauce with the spice and texture of crumbled nduja sausage and the pop of “TOASTS, POTS, & SnACkS” Bar lola’s small plate menu covers the bases. fresh peas.

Large plates— might imitate that other little-lady-named there are three—don’t intrigue like the restaurant in offering some affordable others, though the hangar steak with salsa but appealing wines. Maybe it is wrong to verde is quite good. The inclusion of a huge long for the cheap wine of younger days, $90 steak for sharing simply comments on when Nabokovian prose dazzled, and even the appeal of all the smaller variety on offer.

Ada seemed worth the slog. Is it another If the large plates push you toward the form of longing for the unchallenging and smaller, the wine list pushes you toward simple over the difficult and complex? cocktails—since very few bottles are under Perhaps. Oh, I remembered: Lolita is about $50 and none under $35 (glasses run $11that guy Quilty and the obviousness of the ish and up). For a “vinoteca” with enough monstrosity of other monsters. Everything neighborhoody appeal to be a regular looks simple from afar and is more complex haunt, that is a tough ask. There may be for those in the thick. That is probably the many great $60-$100 bottles on the list, case for putting together a wine list too. ^ but how many patrons will find out? We milked our one bottle slowly because our meal involved a good bit of waiting. $$ LOLITA | 90 Congress St, Portland | Lolita’s metallic outdoor tables resemble Tues-Sun 11 am-11 pm | Visa/MC/Amex/Disc | the ones Petite Jacqueline has inside. Lolita 207.775.5652

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through tight spaces. But the banal dialogue and poor performances zap the tension, and the surreal scares quickly lose steam.

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_drew Hunt

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to have been written in the ‘60s sound like contemporary soft rock, and Ray Liotta, as the preacher, delivers a sermon about the Six-Day War that comes out of nowhere. With Ashley Judd and Seth Green; Dustin Marcellino directed a script by Howard Klausner.

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xx fRAnk 95 minUteS | frontier cafe Despite the contemporary setting, this offbeat British comedy was inspired by the career of ‘80s avant-pop musician Chris Sievey, who performed wearing a giant papier-mâché

head and calling himself Frank Sidebottom. Director Lenny Abramson and screenwriters Jon Ronson and Peter Straughan couldn’t be more determined in their courtship of cult status: their title character (Michael Fassbender), hiding beneath his ovoid mask 24/7, calls to mind every loony-bird rocker from Roky Erickson to Daniel Johnston, and the players in his backup band (among them Maggie Gyllenhaal) are comically icy krautrock archetypes. Playing Nick Carraway to this geek Gatsby is a talentless songwriter (Domnhall Gleeson) who joins the band on keys, posts video from its secret recording sessions to YouTube, and lands it a star-making gig at South by Southwest. The movie’s hipness quotient far outweighs its comedic value, though there’s no limit to the amusement of seeing someone bump around blindly in an oversize head.

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_ by syMbo line Da i “Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, / out of the mocking-bird’s throat, the musical shuttle, / Out of the ninth-month midnight, / Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond / where the child leaving his bed wander’d alone, bareheaded, barefoot…” _walt whitman, “out of the Cradle.”

This week’s full moon may be melancholy for some, as we are programmed to think “summer” disappears at Labor Day. However, it’s an excellent time for “bringing in the sheaves,” in terms of work that got delayed or derailed in August (when everyone goes away).

Love stories, particularly involving Scorpio, Libra, Cancer, Pisces, and Gemini folks, are very welcome—write me at sally@moonsigns.net or find “Sally Cragin Astrology” on Facebook. I have an idea for book #3.

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