Portland 10/03/14 by The Phoenix

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ThE liTTlE ThiNGS How sexism shows up in the Maine music scene _by Olivia Gunn | p 8

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does sexism exist in the maine music scene? _By oliv ia gu nn ately started telling me how they would change it. Only males do that to me.” Liza performs solo as Lisa/Liza, playing a style that blends folk and more recently psychedelic themes. She describes her act (on her Facebook page) as “two shy people and a microphone.” At first I wasn’t quite sure how to respond to her. I thought, ‘Well, that’s life,’ just as quickly as I counted my own similar encounters of the week. “Do you think that’s just their way of hitting on you?” Liza stared at me blankly. “It might be a way to try and impress me, but it’s disrespectful and in that sense it is sexist.” I held my tongue in fear of another flippant remark. “I’m just trying to do my job and people assume I don’t know how to do it,” Liza explained. “Someone assumes you don’t know how to use the mic—little things like that, but it’s all of the time, at every show.” I watched as a seemingly timid young woman grew more and more expressive as she described her friends no longer wanting to play shows or collaborate in fear of having their confidence chipped away by unwarranted comments or

advances from guys. Liza has actually been denied admission to one of her own performances because the bouncer initially did not believe she was there to play. In a recent report, Cassie Whitt of Alternative Press describes a similar event when she covered sexism in the music industry. “One of the most headache-inducing experiences I’ve had is being straight-up blocked from getting onstage by security even though I was carrying equipment and had a laminate. I walked up to the bouncer and asked him, ‘Hey, how do I get on the stage?’ And he was like, ‘Why do you need to go there?’ I said, ‘To sing,‘ and he sill wouldn’t let me onstage until I was like, ‘Well we can wait here until no band starts playing because I’m not there.’ Then he finally let me on.” Lucky for us, instances like these haven’t kept Liza from playing. “I always hear, ‘you’re really brave for doing this,” fans say of her solo performances, “but I just want to encourage other females to do it too,” she says. Sexism or not, Liza will continue to play, and feels that “Portland is a small enough community that this is something that could be stopped.”

LOOKING FOR THE WORDS Folk singer Lisa/Liza’s experiences as a female musician can be all too common.

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Ever talk to someone face to face while a booger hangs freely from their nose? You try to maintain eye contact and stay focused on what they’re saying, because you know they have no idea. Meanwhile, you’re caught in the moral dilemma of whether or not to point out the little cliff hanger. You have? Great. Then you know how it feels for me to have to say, “guys, you’ve got a booger.” This past week I sat down with local singer/songwriter Liza Miller to talk about a problem she was having trouble putting her finger on. “I had a show on Friday and, I mean, it’s a little thing, but when I was done with the show a guy came up to me and said they really liked my music, but immedi-

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I soon found myself sitting with Adinah Barnett, former drummer of the Coalsack in Crux, talking sexism and music over a beer and cider at LFK as Springsteen shouted “Born in the U.S.A.” Adinah is a self-taught drummer and the only female member of her band. She’s found that most people are overly shocked by this, a lot of the time women. “If I tell men and women that I’m in a band, they ask if I sing. That’s already sexism. It’s not sexism as in, ‘I’m going to be mean to you,’ but it’s the kind of sexism that says we have to say male-nurse.” She went on to describe an argument she had with a man outside of Geno’s after a show by the Philadelphia rock band Stinking Lizaveta. The man was shocked how well the female drummer of the band played, saying, “She is probably the best female drummer I’ve ever seen.” More curious than anything, Adinah asked the man why he made the distinction. Why is she the best female drummer? Immediately on the defensive the man groaned, “Oh, we’re going to have one of those stupid feminist discussions now?” This attitude—pigeonholing any woman who questions as a “man-hater”—is what keeps many of these “isms” thriving. If we we’re not dealing with it immediately on personal levels, how are we to confront the bigger issues? Instead we’ve become a society of shrug-it-offs. “We make excuses for people because it’s uncomfortable being confrontational,” explained Adinah, “As Americans we’re taught not to be confrontational. We’re taught to be passive-aggressive, but that direct honesty is rude and especially for women.” Adinah feels that if sexism is to be stopped we need to deal with it when it comes up rather than look outside of ourselves for reassurance that it’s happening as women often do. If you feel it, it’s happening. Two weeks ago, the internet was abuzz with Emma Watson’s UN speech, during which she extended a formal invitation to all men in hopes that more will join the gender equality movement. In her 14-minute speech, Watson rejects the notion that feminism is the equivalent of manhating, a term all too often used to diminish what is truly being asked of today’s men and women. She invites all men to also take part in changing the expectations and stigmas weighing on both genders. Watson describes how her parents, school teachers, and mentors never once doubted her ability or future because of her sex. She considers them “inadvertent feminists,” and herself one of the few “lucky” women with this experience. This idea of an inadvertent feminist stuck with me as I continued my investigation into Liza’s concerns. I thought back to my original hypothesis that perhaps these men don’t even recognize their faults. Could one be an inadvertent sexist? Could I be an inadvertent sexist? The thought weighs on my mind during my next few interviews. Clara Junken’s roots are in music, and she’s never questioned whether being a girl would ever change that, or matter. Her father was an organist and her mother a trained opera singer, who bought Clara her first Fender. After studying acting at Emerson and a stint in New Orleans, Clara moved back to Maine. She released her first solo album, Out to See,

DRIVING FORCE drummer adinah Barnett with her former band coalsack in crux. this year and was the female power in her former band, Marion Grace. One would expect that being the only woman in an indie rock band could present some hurdles, but Clara has never considered them challenges she couldn’t have handled herself. “I don’t think it was because I’m a woman,” she wondered aloud. “I think it was not having the confidence in myself to produce the ideas that I really wanted to get down. I didn’t stand up for myself. I just was not confident.” Clara’s admission of a lack of confidence brings to mind Liza’s demeanor when describing the sexism she’s been dealing with. As Clara doubted her music ambitions, I imagine Liza has found herself doubting her own, but while Clara points the finger at herself, Liza knows her own doubts are triggered by the sexism she’s faced show after show. Much like Clara’s outlook, Kenya Hall has never allowed being a woman define her or her music career. Backed by an allmale band and usually performing to a dancing crowd, Kenya may not be as vulnerable as a solo artist like Liza, but nevertheless feels that her own instinct to “prove” will always keep her checked. “You have to prove yourself as much as any man, you have to prove yourself as much as anyone.” Though neither one is denying sexism exists or that it is indeed an issue, both women came to the same conclusion and Clara articulated it best. “You know that song, ‘It’s a Man’s World?’ Well, that was the ‘60s and a lot of people do still feel that way and, unfortunately, always will.” Clara said this as a matter of fact, not in defeat or resentment, but as if to say, “You’ve gotta move past it.” Move past it or you’ll stop moving. So let’s take it back to the “man’s world” of the 1960s when fresh-faced, Master’s graduate of San Francisco State

This attitude— pigeonholing any woman who questions as a “man-hater”— is what keeps many of these “isms” thriving.

College Julia Adams was looking for work. “When I first started out, there was definitely a bias against women in classical music,” she describes. “There was one position I applied for and I was told that the principal violist, he would not agree to play alongside a woman. This was back in the ‘60s, so that shut that door immediately.” Today Julia Adams is a founding member of the Portland String Quartet, which has been playing for over 40 years. As the only female member, she has always stood on equal footing and credits this to her other members, and that “chamber music is really based on equality.” Though times have certainly changed for the better, Ms. Adams warned, “We need to remember we’re not so far away from that.” While it is hard to fathom it today, I am coming to realize that there is a thin line between blatant sexism and the little things we hear and see each day. In a sense, the man who refused to play alongside Ms. Adams due to her sex and what he assumed were her capabilities is the extreme version of the young men who doubt Liza’s capabilities today. Our concern is that the continuance of these little things will ultimately parallel the extremes. So here it is in the simplest terms from Kate Sullivan-Jones, bassist for the English Muffins, “Think about what you say and would say to another man. Think, ‘would this sound ridiculous if I were to say it to a dude?’ If yes, then it will sound ridiculous if you say it to a woman.” Kate considers herself fairly new to the music scene, though she’s played with the punk band the Outfits and taken part in the 48 Hour Music Festival, an annual event that combines musicians in town who have never played together. I met Kate at Downtown Lounge where she was seated in the back. We made awkward eye contact for a good five minutes before I finally approached the table. Kate laughed at the moment and I knew immediately she would have a good tale or two. Playing in an all-girl punk band has had its advantages. For one, she is never alone on stage and were something to

occur or be said, Kate’s got two other bandmates at her side: drummer Althea Pajak and Natalie Oldham on guitar. But the punk rock exterior hasn’t completely warded off ungrounded comparisons and unwanted observations. “When my first band the Outfits started playing, we would get so many comparisons to female musicians that sounded nothing like us,” Kate explains. “We were compared to Bikini Kill just because we were an all-girl punk band…or compared to Joan Jett or Bonnie Raitt.” I can’t help but laugh as Kate, wideeyed and baffled, describes how a man at a sound-check couldn’t get over her “cute” amp. Again, we note the insignificance of it in the bigger picture, but there is something to be said when it stands out in her mind. “I feel that the perception is people complain about this too much, when actually people 100 percent do not,” she says. “For the most part, speaking out about this kind of stuff is really not fun and leaves you with people telling you’re wrong and overreacting…Nobody wants to talk about it in a way that’s going to implicate a specific person and that’s really hard in a town this small.” Having grown up in a small town, I know that all it takes for an unwanted topic to disappear are a few glares at church, a couple nudges from the boss, recalled invites to parties, and soon all lips are sealed. But if this sexism is something to be stopped, as Liza suggests, we have to be able to discuss it, point it out, and acknowledge that it does happen. We have to be able to start with the little things. I often hear women claiming they’ve never experienced sexism, but if they had they would know and say something. I’m sorry, but I just don’t buy that anymore. At 20 years old, just starting out as a journalist, I was offered a quote if I’d “go outside” with a man. I felt stupid, belittled, and gross. When I told the other women in my circle, I was given the same advice I originally thought to give Liza, “Oh, that’s so slimy, isn’t it? Well, that’s the way it is.” All I wanted in that moment was for someone to stand up for me. I wanted the women who had experienced it before to say something, call him out, help me. Instead I simply moved on a

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little wiser, but certainly a little smaller. It wasn’t until recently when I spoke with Lady Zen, a local jazz performance poet, that I was finally given the advice I was in search of at 20, advice I hope Liza and others can use. “Whether misogyny affects a person directly or is spoken indirectly, it is up to the individual to fight and yell and defend that this will not happen in my presence.” She described to me a time when she too felt her opinion was evaded by women, “I was not supported by many of my sisters. The situation was reasoned away as a simple mistake that I was taking too far. That came as a shock to me.” Lady Zen carries “a more masculine of center,” and feels this has often allowed

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her to push limits and expectations. Although she herself isn’t “oversexualized” the way other women in the industry often are, she refuses to turn a blind eye to those targeted. “I have faced situations, even here in Portland, where close female friends have been groped in public or someone has made unsolicited advances toward them. I have witnessed men using their power to seduce young women into unhealthy situations,” she wrote to me. “In this way, I feel lucky to be able to have the power and impact I have in this city.” So what can we make happen so that no one feels small or overlooked? We simply offer support. It’s not about taking a side or demonizing anyone. It’s simply taking note of someone’s feelings, background, and reality. One artist who finds that support among other musicians is Monique Barrett, who expresses nothing but positive energy. When I described the reasons for this story, Monique was visibly saddened,

but reassured me that it is possible to have a great career. “One of the things that I think is pretty cool in Portland is that I, as a woman musician, feel safe putting my music out there. I’ve felt nothing but embraced by the music scene.” Her advice to anyone having a bad experience? “We can prop each other up, and then you’re able to see that others are having a good experience. That’s an advantage of being part of the community, you see that it’s not happening to everybody.” Before leaving I thanked Monique for having an open conversation with me and she thanked me for not asking her about being a mother. “It was nice to just talk about this.” No one, male or female, should feel inferior when practicing their art or following their passion. Liza is meant to perform and she’ll keep playing no matter what. I can only hope her peers follow this example and the countless others out there. There is no lack of female musicians and performers to reach out to. There is no lack of support. During my search I was directed to many female performers, musicians, singer/ songwriters and before I knew it, I had a long list of women willing to talk with me. This winter we can look forward to Clara Junken’s project Women in Winter, a workshop for female musicians. “It’s about getting a small group of women together to write songs together…the hope is to reach out and try new ways (new ideas, switch up instrumentation, utilize different voices and stories) of expressing creatively through music.” The 2014 Portland Chamber Music Festival this past August consisted of 11 female performers and composers— compared to the 1960s when Julia Adams was refused a job position after college. Perhaps the sexism that does exist has gone unchallenged or unnoticed, but now that we’ve pointed out the booger, take this as your tissue. No, it is not black and white. Yes, the line is thin. But a little awareness goes a long way. In Emma Watson’s words, “This is your formal invitation…” When Liza first expressed her issue, I was wrong to diminish it. My first reaction should have been, “I’m really sorry that’s happening to you. Let’s try to fix it.” Here is my sincere apology and I hope through the words and encouragement of the other female musicians in Portland, you’ll never feel alone or belittled again. ^

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consumers. Featuring artwork for the Shadow, Doc Savage, the Lone Ranger and more. Reception 5 to 8 pm at the Lewis Art Gallery in the Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq. 207.871.1700. SMILES PER GALLON | Want your roommate to stop binge-watching Top Gear but don’t know how to ask? Point him in the direction of O’Maine Studios this evening, where “THE ART OF THE ENGINE” features a rather stunning collection of muscle cars from the 60’s and 70’s for drool-inducing perusal. Muse upon the fundamentals of design applied to the interior and exterior of these exceptional vehicles, or just stand there making vroom-vroom noises; it’s really up to you. 5-8 pm. 54 Danforth St. 207.899.1730.

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again, and you’re all like “Ugghhh. There’s too much cool stuff to do on a Thursday…” Hush your delicate selves for a moment to consider this: The ICA at MECA is putting on a dance show tonight, which is a) rare (or rarer than we’d like) and b) awesome. “RUFFNECK” is an evening of dancing, music, and visuals with an eye to the future (love, freedom, and acceptance over tolerance) and an ear pointed at the past (the event takes its name and inspiration from an early 90’s dance group) that’s all ages and totally free. Dynamic art punk outfit HI TIGER (front man Derek Jackson conceived and organized this event) leads the charge to brief utopia, with exquisite digital sloppies provided by 32FRENCH and LONZO. Radon Chong and Punk Sugar Burn Lab provide colors and shapes for the walls. Get to the ICA between 7 to 9 pm tonight for the deepest of dance. 522 Congress St. 207.879.5742. RED HOOK BREWING | Across the Fore, Mad Horse Theater pulls A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE out of the closet of classic American theater.

Though the play is more than half a century old, the themes seem ripped from any recent headlines. Eddie Carbone’s growing inappropriateness towards his niece, the struggle of undocumented immigrants trying to make a new life in America, and a dash of intriguingly handled homophobia make Arthur Miller’s intentional train wreck stageable after all these years.Besides, if his characters couldn’t figure those issues out, why should we have to? Tragedy teaches tough truths at 7:30 pm tonight. $15-$20. Show runs through Oct 19. 24 Mosher St., South Portland. 207.747.4148

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Friday returns. If you’re like us, you’ve already walked up and down Congress St. more times than you can count. You might feel a little adulterous leaving the arts district and rolling down to Bayside, but the culinary delights at the last Flea Bites of the season are worth the detour. Chef of many Rooms, Harding Lee Smith takes over the menu at the Good Shepherd Food Truck, SEAN

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| Harpists! When was the last time you saw a folk-pop show that centered around a harpist? Such things exist at Elements in Biddeford this afternoon. Though CREATRIx plays an instrument that makes them as rare as a

MENCHER AND HIS RHYTHM KINGS play a live set, and over thirty local vintage, antique, and handmade craft vendors display their wares. If you don’t fall in with the Harding Lee Smith camp (for culinary or other reasons) most of our fine cities burgeoning fleet of food trucks will be in attendance. Grab a cup of tabouleh, or a greasy/ delicious Italian meat-cone and recharge for a bit. Starts at 6:30 pm. Portland Flea-for-All, 125 Kennebec St. 207.482.9053. TO A PULP | A lot of respectable writers got their start writing for the early pulp magazines. H.P. Lovecraft, Tennessee Williams, Isaac Asimov, and Mark Twain all got their start cranking out swill for the little rough edged magazines with the cheap paper (hence, “pulp”), but less well known are the artists and illustrators (like N.C. Wyeth, no less) that created the attention-grabbing covers our retro-obsessed generation loves to spoof on. The Portland Public Library hosts travelling exhibit “THE PULPS,” showcasing these exquisitely rendered artifacts from a time where—quite unlike today—marketing executives used exploitative images to target a generation of economically deprived and sexually repressed

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BLUE-RIBBON TOUR | “The Northeast’s Biggest Punk Rock Party” crashes through Geno’s tonight in what could be the largest blending of local and out-of-state/ out-of-country punk acts to pass through Portland. The Pabst-sponsored “Upstart Fest” features the crisp, energetic and very Russian SVETLANAS topping a long list of punk perps like California’s LEFT ALONE, Philly street-punk legends THE VIRUS and Maine-based psychobilly trio THE MURDER WEAPON along with several others. We were suitably impressed with Svetlanas

when they came through last year—they’re worth any cover. Our advice? If at any point in your life you contemplated using Elmer’s Glue as a hair product, you shouldn’t deny yourself this show. Punks of all stripes unite at 8 pm. 625 Congress St. 207.221.2382. FATHACH MEANS GIANT | If the rumbling of a tipper on a bodhran sets your heart a-flutter then head on over to Blue for one fathach of a Celtic music fest. The Saltwater Celtic Festival—hosted by Tom and Mike from Boghat—consists of some world-class Celtic stylings from THE PRESS GANG, NICOLE RAbATA & bETHANY WAICKMAN, DARLIN’ COREY, ED PEARLMAN & WILL WOODSON, and JACK DEVERAUx & TOM ROTA. And if that lineup has you uncharacteristically excited, those who stay past midnight get to experience a performersonly open jam. Sip a pint and get wonderfully snug in Blue’s cozy interior, the event runs from 3:30 pm till 1 am, with concerts starting after 6. Get yourself over to 650A Congress St. 207.774.4111.

f JOHN SINCLAIR, at Bull Feeney’s, in Portland on Oct 7.

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f SUSAN CONLEY, at Portland Stage Company, in Portland on Oct 6. mermaid, to say their music hinges on novelty alone would be a disastrous understatement. With wide and mythic songwriting themes, sung in a personal and quietly elegant vernacular, Creatrix uses a raw emotional thread to tie the fantastic into the fleshy mess of our interpersonal world. Plus (glissandos aside) there’s some really unique harp playing going on here. You’d be sorry to miss this. Catch them at 1 pm. 265 Main St, Biddeford. 207.710.2011. LADY IN RESIDENCE | MJ’s Wine Bar has made a great choice in hosting Portland’s own LADY ZEN from 6 to 8 pm every Sunday this October. Zen will be offering up a discussion of her current work (read a bit more about that in “The Little Things,” this week’s feature article on page 8) as well as a seamless blend of poetry and music from the likes of Roberta Flack, Billy Holliday and Gil Scot Heron. Tonight she is joined by Boston poet and LGBTQIA organizer JHA D WILLIAMS. Jazz, poetry, wine and an inspired look into gender issues? You can’t find this kind of evening anywhere else. (Plus that $10 olive trio? Totally worth it.) 1 City Center. 207.653.6278.

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in CHina is soon going to be an easy way to distinguish vintage goods, as China keeps outsourcing more and more of its production to other countries. Professor Deborah Brautigam from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies talks about just what China is doing to the third-world now that they have climbed out of it. Called

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her talk begins at Bowdoin at 7:30 tonight. Moulton Union, Main Lounge at 3900 College Station, Brunswick. 207.725.3000.

tuEsday 7 MUSTELID MEDIATIOR | Ever thought of The Wind in the Willows as environmentalist propaganda? Well, it’s not. However, cultural capital is critical in generating public support for conservation efforts. Professor Karen Victoria Lykke Syse, PhD from the University of Oslo, has plenty of thoughts on this strategy. Her talk “SPOT

THE OTTER! OTTERS AS MEDIATORS IN bRITISH LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT” focuses

on animal appeal as a critical factor in species rehabilitation. It’s a topic that can certainly be applied locally (can anyone say CITY OF LITS | How many of us Piping Plover?) and will certainly are desperate to belong? Whether tell you how to use Kenneth Grait’s to a family, a country, or an hame’s classic children’s book as a organization, a lot of our internal conservationist brainwashing tool, struggle with identity boils down should clever river rats or motorist to pairing ourselves with a tribe of toads ever become endangered. like individuals. Such is the case Begins at 11:30 am in the St with the protagonist of Paris Was the Francis Room of the Ketchum LiPlace, a newish novel by Portland’s brary. University of New England, SUSAN CONLEY. And could there 11 Hills Beach Rd., Biddeford. be any city more worthy of a 207.602.2346. desire for belonging (not counting IT’S ALL GOOD | Local poetry Brooklyn)? Tonight Portland Stage collective Port Veritas proudly welcomes jazz-poet (and former Company’s Affiliated Artists read excerpts from Paris Was the Place, and MC5 manager) JOHN SINCLAIR to the Yeats Room at Bull Feeney’s. other works that helped inspire Yes, that John Sinclair, who after it as part of their Longfellow’s Shorts series. Lit fans that haven’t being sentenced with ten years been before should certainly check jail time for possessing two joints, this out, as it is like no other book had John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Allen Ginsburg, Bob Seeger and Stevie reading in town. Plus the author will be in attendance (and will talk Wonder join together for “The John Sinclair Freedom Rally” to sea bit afterwards), so you can still cure his subsequent release. Aside get those books signed. $5 suggested donation at 7 pm. Portland from being an amazing poet, and a pivotal figure in the counterculStage Company, 25A Forest Ave. ture movement of the 60’s, he is 207.774.0465.

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also awesome enough to hang out at Bull Feeney’s for an open mic (followed by a feature set of his poems). Why would you miss this? $7 cover. 7:30 pm at 375 Fore St. 207.773.7210.

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bASSNECTAR is back in town. Can you deny the wobble? Probably not at the decibel levels he’ll be kicking it out at. The last two days have been really talky and thinky, so why take your id out for a stroll? Funk it up to the underwater bass disco of KILL PARIS (we can totally jam on “Baby Come Back” because we’re that old) and sip champagne to the trap tricks of SON OF KICK. 8 pm at the State Theatre. Tickets $42.50-45. 609 Congress St. 207.956.6000. COLD COMMAND | Noisecore is tough as a genre; the constant urge to be faster (or slower) and louder than the next person means that oftentimes musicians end up competing themselves into a corner. Not so for TODAY IS THE DAY, who have weathered the aural storms of sonic annihilation for more than twenty years now. Like the massive sneering face of the statue from Ozymandias, frontman Steve Austin stands as a testament to the benefits of being a damn rock in a desert of loud music. Look on his works (at Sonny’s Tavern), ye mighty, and despair. With KYOTY and LORD MANTIS at 9 pm. 328 Central Ave., Dover. 603.343.4332.

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another week of earthly delights around the corner. Irish pop band PUGWASH plays with SPENCER ALbEE at Empire for $7 at 9:30. 575 Congress St. 207.879.8988. Meanwhile (She Doesn’t Like) Guthrie’s in Lewiston hosts a curiosityrousing themed story night called THE CORNER focusing on the topic of “fearlessness”—which is good, considering the panic we just felt realizing its October already. 7 pm at 115 Middle St., Lewiston. 207.376.3344.

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Critique the hand that feeds you

aaron T STephan playS wiTh The Space of The pMa by_Mar iah ber ger on The problem of the art museum and how it adapts with the progress of art has been an issue since before the Conceptualist movement, before Dada brought the weird and Situationists took to the streets. The aesthetic or material principles that once defined the quality of art continue to be rejected and picked apart today, as the necessity for hallowed halls or rectilinear frames is dismantled and reproached. These transgressions from the status quo have broke open the form, stretching the role of museums from silent study halls to carnival tents in order to be vessels for their expanding collections. Aaron T Stephan’s To Borrow, Cut, Copy, and Steal is an exhibit that pokes and prods at the space it’s in, taking part in Portland Museum of Art’s ongoing mission to make a balanced home for the classical and the contemporary. Humor is a useful tool to break the ice in a formal setting, and here, at the museum entrance, Stephan warms up the crowd with a quiet prank. A deluge of paint from the second story threatens each unaware entrant, visible only once inside. The frozen pour of cool latex coating in bismuth pink looks to ameliorate the potentially acerbic stodginess of a museum’s insides. It’s a gag on par with rubber vomit, something made to startle, laugh, raise suspicions, and gesture to denote that mischief is in play. The geometric bloom of “Off Mark,” created from a cluster of 30 square white columns each bent at an irregular angle, casts such a balanced texture and weight that at first pass it reads as pure formal composition. A second look reveals the columns to be a manipulated standard gallery pedestals. Their usual anonymity is animated; their refusal to stay flat cancels their utility as platforms, and gives them voice. Unlike Stephan’s earlier usages of these shapes, in which they seemed like injured or useless creatures, this mass seems a unionized protest for the recognition of the beauty of

Affiliate Artists read selections from acclaimed author Susan Conley's newest book, Paris Was the Place, and from works that have had an influence on her writing. Discussion and book signing will follow.

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museum fixtures, held fittingly in the center of the lobby. “An Awkward Meeting of Painting and Sculpture” achieves the same sentiment through simplicity of contrast. A too-beautiful sawhorse of richly varnished mahogany and bronze hardware serves as an armature for an oversized rubber paint stroke—as if a Roy Lichtenstein got the Claes Oldenburg treatment. The prim Doric cascade of “28 Columns” could be worked into the show’s theme of collapse of Western tradition, but the tidiness of the columns’ downward twist seem more like a formal Muybridge study of stop-motion than historical commentary. Likewise the six etchings of “Girl with a Pearl Earring—Tangled Process” show a development of an image moved past the mark of commodified iconographic mass production, settling on a tutorial on the process of printmaking. Stephan’s most thematically on-point, conceptually well executed, and intrinsically problematic work is his audio piece “Conversations,” three edited recordings compiled from calls he made to phone sex lines to talk with the operators specifically about art. The piece is accessible via the PMA’s cell phone tour program—reachable via any phone at any time—with each conversation existing at an extension number. Where “Conversations” succeeds is by dissolving the museum walls instead of fighting them, transporting the conversation away from how museums can stifle and toward how they can expand. Yet what trips up the work’s forward momentum is the complications of gender and class divisions made uncomfortably clear. The classic dynamic—male caller to female sex worker—is an obviously loaded one, maintaining the historic male gaze of the artist on the female muse. In the context of a show steeped in art world winks and nods, the tone of an artist creating work culling interests from people paid to respond favorably and reach quotas is sticky. The deep lines of “high art” understanding between caller and operator cut unnervingly deeper the more earnestly the women reveal their thoughts on art and their own artistic efforts, depicting their interests as provincial charm in a manner which veers close to exploitation or voyeuristic tourism. The demands on museums and galleries to be as fluid as the art scene itself are as impossible to satisfy as they are necessary. Exposing the tricky relationship of art to its environment fosters dialogues about art appreciation, site-specificity, accessibility, outsider art, elitism, and myriad other issues. To Borrow sets no new agenda for the field, but even where it falters, continues to push out the walls. ^

To Borrow, CuT, Copy, and STeal, installation by aaron t Stephan | through Feb 8, 2015 | at the portland Museum of art, 7 Congress Sq, portland | 207.775.6148

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neil simon’s brighton beach memoirs at psc _BY meg a n g rum B l ing While the house lights are still up before the start of Portland Stage Company’s Brighton Beach Memoirs, we watch the actors, near the open wings, stretch, adjust each other’s costumes, and cheer as Anita Stewart comes out to give the pre-show talk. Meta-theater and lyricism reign in director Samuel Buggeln’s take on the semi-autobiographABOuT FACeS neil simon’s brighton beach memoirs invokes the ical comedy by Neil nostalgic tension of tennessee Williams. Simon, a reflection on the hardship, work, and family struggles that he experienced each relative’s face isolated from the scene. growing up in the 1940’s Bronx. BugBuggeln deconstructs the scene even furgeln and set designer Brittany Vasta have ther—and more distractingly—by having re-imagined Simon’s comedic realism as a character look up and left, for example, poetic and subjective, and Vasta creates a to talk to someone who is actually down striking visual idiom of memory: Eugene and to their right. In a particularly sweet (Matt Mundy) and his family live in a lyrimemory-dream effect, characters “take” cally remembered “dream house.” imaginary nuts from a bowl by chiming This house holds the memories that the tongs against the glass. an older Eugene has about younger EuAs the object of Eugene’s tireless lust, gene—a horny fifteen-year-old would-be Knitel’s Nora is gracefully vivacious, like a writer—and his childhood household. He clear and fast-moving brook, while Landry lived with not only his overworked father gives her Laurie both nasal petulance Jack (Corey Gagne), no-nonsense mother and a hint of self-awareness. As Eugene’s Kate (Mary Jo Mecca), and charismatic idol, Pavlovski’s Stanley—long, limber, older brother Stanley (Marek Pavlovski), and loose-limbed in mustard suede and but also Kate’s widowed and asthmatic a fedora—has a convincing complexity sister Blanche (Abigail Killeen) and her and moral center. The fine Mecca is wryly two daughters: blonde, teenaged Nora good-hearted as Kate, playing in great (Julia Knitel) and younger, spoiled Laurie contrast to Killeen, who flutters and sighs (Elaine Landry, alternating with Dora in soft, high-colored blues as Blanche. Chaison-Lapine). The family’s quarters Gagne, with his rich voice, seems to often are close and conflicts rife—over a Broadplay stentorian and/or Shakespearean way audition, an unjust boss, a lifetime characters; it’s fun to see him in a more of sororal resentment—and Buggeln’s dycolloquial role, bringing a quieter authornamic and cohesive cast makes taut work ity to the tired, wise patriarch. And as the of the tensions barely contained in one young Eugene, Mundy is antic, frenetic, small house. everywhere at once, cartoonishly nimble. Vasta’s set design for this remembered Everything to him is crucial and immedihome takes on the unlikely adventure ate, whether Yankee stats, a cookie, or of visualizing Simon a la Tennessee WilNora’s breasts; his older self inhabits this liams, and what she comes up with is young self with a zinging distillation of gorgeous. Working with the stage’s handyouth’s energy. some brick back walls and lighting scafDo Buggeln and Vasta make a Glass Mefolding fully exposed, she piles rooms and nagerie out of Brighton Beach Memoirs? Well, furniture on top of each other, yet keeps not exactly. Simon wasn’t about making things airy and whimsical. The set boasts “art,” he doesn’t have the angst that Wilopen walls, impossible constructions, liams worked through, and despite some tall ladder-like structures rising from the charged moments, his script remains third floor, and few but potent objects—a devoted to his characteristic broad, bright clock, a model ship, a typewriter. Going comedy. But Buggeln’s and Vasta’s inupstairs, for young Eugene and everyone novations, in addition to lending Simon’s else, means scrambling up a dresser, a work beauty, complication, and distance, kitchen table, and a suitcase. also serve as a paean to theater’s enduring Other staging and blocking moves also role in the project of remembering. ^ serve to remind us of the play’s conceit. During a tense dinner, family members all Brighton Beach MeMoirs | Directed face the audience, perched variously not on by Samuel Buggeln; Produced by Portland just chairs but tabletops, a trunk, the back Stage Company, 25A Forest Ave, Portland | of a sofa. This device works to let us see Through October 9 | 207.774.0465 faces register nervousness, dread, or irritation as the conversation haltingly unfolds, Read more by Megan Grumbling at suggesting how Eugene might remember megangrumbling.com.

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For a band who’ve sold 35 million records, Heart seem unappreciated. The Wilson sisters are rock pioneers. How many classic album-rock bands featured female singers and guitarists? Maybe Fleetwood Mac can claim as much estrogen-fueled bravado. Their genre was basically 99 percent guys with silk robes and mustaches. But everyone had great feathered hair. Also unappreciated: Bert Sugarman’s Midnight Special, which captured a bunch of classic Heart live performances (clearly performed live, judging by the guitar work) now available on the YouTube. It’s hard to think such a program wouldn’t be a great venue for the Feather Lungs, a gal-fronted rock outfit that released their debut Arrival this month. Like Heart, singer Laura England Wood sorta came upon the long-historied rhythm section of Richard Fortin (drums) and Nick Perry (bass) with a mess of songs and

looking for a band. (This column would not be interested in whether the band suffers from the same dramatic romantic affairs, however.) As with those of Fortin’s Alias Grace (anyone who names a band after a Margaret Atwood novel gets a good bit of rope with me), these wind up as aggressive and nuanced songs, even if it’s in many ways Wood’s band. She wrote the lyrics and melodies and she’s never easy to miss from track to track, mixed right to the fore and with few instrumental breaks of any extended period. For my money, though, Perry is what makes the band particularly interesting. The best track (fittingly, for an extended reference here) is “Heartburn,” and Perry is the glue, climbing and diving low as Wood stokes the drama: “Sticks and stones are sharp / Her hands are all cut up / It doesn’t hold her up, it makes her feel alive / The tiny

WHOLE LOTTA HEART feather lungs play a versatile rock-pop that spans decades.

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Scott Girouard is hard to miss, locally, whether playing in Clashes or little cover projects like Never Been to Kingston and Never Been to Nashville. Heck, I own two of his handbuilt, reclaimed-wood tables. But he’s never before released any of his own material, so the four-song wisp of a self-titled EP he put out recently carries some curiosity factor. Just like his furniture, it’s a spare and stripped-down affair, him and an acoustic guitar, and perhaps even less adorned than you might have expected. Girouard is reserved through the first three songs, singer-songwriter fare, with a good mic on the guitar so that it rings out and just a touch of reverb on his vocals. He can sing, with vibrato here and there to add body, and generally staying just below a tenor. And, in keeping with a self-deprecating style he’s cultivated, things are pretty down in the mouth. “Everybody says that they’re your friend,” he sings in the opening “Bluebird,” “How come they don’t stay till the very end?” “Searching for a Light” is also pretty dire (“I’m on the road to nowhere / And it’s a steep and climbing hill”), but there’s hope: “You’ll never see the future, if you always look behind.” There are hints of Gregory Alan Isakov and Jason Molina and Girouard is an accomplished guitarist, which comes to light in the finishing instrumental, “Scenic Heights,” where he rides the bottom string for a drone and picks out harmonics like a contemporary John Fahey. The whole thing’s over in about 13 minutes, like a brief glance at home life through parted curtains as you pass down the street. But you’re neighbors, so it isn’t embarrassing. ^

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F While it’s far above the heights of what we normally cover, this week’s announcement that STATE THEATRE will partner with Forefront partners, the builders behind thompson’s point, to make a new outdoor concert venue, well that’s certainly the news of the week. Since they reopened the 1,700-seat concert venue in 2010, we’ve seen the network build down—acquiring port city music hall and mingling now and then with the goings-on at the empire stage. and we’ve seen them build up—booking the civic center for the occasional tom petty or Skrillex throwdown. this time they’re building out. the

deaths help her to survive.” Wood is pretty brassy all over the seven songs here, but she’s best when measured, as she is when climbing to falsetto in that verse. The bridge shows the band’s prog leanings, going straight rockpop, but only for about 15 seconds. Guitarists David Young and Peter Herman are remarkable for being unpredictable. Without ever delivering a true solo, they manage to do a fair bit of noodling. On “Dull Blade” and elsewhere it can sometimes seem like they’re playing two different songs in two different channels, whether indie rock pings in the chorus or full southern rock in the open, but with a tinge of metal. It’s like Twisted Roots doing Alabama Shakes songs, maybe. Fortin is pounding the cymbals in the finish, and he keeps it up in “Daydream,” which is downright glam rock, not all that far from the new Hessian album. As with songs like “Sea Spell” and the title track, Wood can ride metaphor pretty hard, sometimes laying it on pretty thick. But she can also be starkly direct: “I feel so alive.” The latter has something of a Manchester sound, opening with a solitary kick drum and single electric guitar to support the vocals, then really riding the bass for melody after repeating triple snares. You certainly can’t say they lack ambition, but I think they’d be especially good live. Sorry to have missed them as part of that Empire anniversary show last week. Where’s Burt Sugarman when you need him? ^

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proposed outdoor concert venue should seat roughly 5,000, and the group aim to link it up to portland trails for easier accessibility. is it an answer to the maine State pier shows being handled all the way from bangor? Who will be the first local band to play this stage? What sort of caliber bands are we talking about here—U2? We can’t answer these questions now, but we’ll learn a few of them as soon as summer 2015, when the venture plans to host its first shows. While we’re at it, might as well bang a little drum for Grime Studios, the long-tenured, working-class music facility whose crowdfunding campaign to

build a new rehearsal holy complex (formerly on Shadow thompson’s point) has a mere two weeks left to hit its $10,000 goal. F Found our way toward a lovely little slice of something from HOLY SHADOW, a bracingly emotional and realist young folk punk band outta portland. We were first turned onto them by a heartfelt thank you letter written to the band by a fan in the inaugural issue of River Court, a one-page newsprint of deep portland subculture (think providence’s fantastic Mothers News) that

we have high, high hopes for. Seek it out to read yourselves, but parts of our week were spent connecting the dots between the raw acoustic punk energy of Recorded in the Goucher Woods and the letter’s prose, which congratulates the band on telling off some bros who misbehaved at the show, “practicing revenge without hurting anyone,” and thus “hold(ing) it down for the future of punk rock in portland, maine.” We’re just thrilled to hear people using “punk” to describe ethics instead of distortion, and we’re happy to take their word for it and keep listening. ^

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MONDAY 6

PRESS ROOM | Portsmouth | Ken Ormes | 8 pm | $1

STONE CHURCH | Newmarket | Wild Eagles Blues band | 7 pm

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

TUESDAY 7

FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | Dover |

Tim Theriault | 9 pm

THE RED DOOR | Portsmouth | Comma + Sleeping In + Onslo

session with Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki | 6 pm | Dead Winter Carpenters | 9:30 pm | $8-$10

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tive + Roots, Rhythm, & Dub | 9:30 pm

COMEDY THURSDAY 2

”HEADLINERS COMEDY CLUB” WITH ROB STEEN | 7 pm | Portsmouth Gas

Light, 64 Market St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.430.8582 MATT KONA + AIMEE POULIN | 8 pm | Guthrie’s, 115 Middle St, Lewiston | 207.376.3344

FRIDAY 3

DR. DIRTY JOHN VALBY | 9 pm | Iron Tails Saloon, 559 Rte 109, Acton | $15 | 207.850.1142

”SECOND CITY 55TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR,” SKETCH COMEDY SHOW | 8

pm | Music Hall, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $26-$32 | 603.436.2400 or www.themusichall.org/tickets/ index.asp

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SATURDAY 4

SONNY’S TAVERN | Dover | Soggy Po’ Boys | 9 pm

WEDNESDAY 8

BLUE MERMAID | Portsmouth | open mic

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DOVER BRICK HOUSE | Dover |

James Gilmore | 8 pm

PUBLIC HOUSE AND PROHIBITION MUSIC ROOM | rochester | karaoke

”HOW MEN THINK (OR DO THEY?),” WITH PAUL LANDWEHR + JAY GROVE + JOSH DAY + STEVE SCARFO + TONY MOSCHETTO | 6:30 pm | Portsmouth Gas Light, 64 Market St, Portsmouth, NH | 603.430.8582

JORDAN HANDREN-SEAVEY + JOE TIMMINS + WILL GREEN + TRAVIS CURRAN + AHARON WILLOWSHEBERT + JAMES SPIZUOCO | 8 pm

| Asylum, 121 Center St, Portland | 207.772.8274 BOB MARLEY | 8 pm | University of Maine - Orono, Collins Center for the Arts, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono | $23-$28 | 207.581.1755

SUNDAY 5

OPEN MIC | 9 pm | Mama’s Crow-

bar, 189 Congress St, Portland | 207.773.9230 RON WHITE | 7 pm | Music Hall, 131 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH | $70-$83 | 603.436.2400

WEDNESDAY 8

”COMEDY NIGHT,” WITH JAY GROVE | Jay Grove | 9 pm | Cara Irish Pub & Restaurant, 11 Fourth St, Dover, NH | 603.343.4390

”PORTLAND COMEDY SHOWCASE” PERFORMERS TBA | 8 pm | Bull

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METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE | 7:30 pm | Bates College, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St, Lewiston | 207.786.6135

FRIDAY 3

METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE: “BROWNSTONE” | 6:30 & 7:30 pm |

Victoria Mansion, 109 Danforth St, Portland | 207.772.4841 or victoriamansion.org

SUNDAY 5

STRAFFORD WIND SYMPHONY |

7 pm | Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St, Rochester, NH | $12 | 603.335.1992

POPULAR THURSDAY 2

CHERUB + GHOST BEACH + GIBBZ | 9 pm | Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St, Portland | $18-20 | 207.899.4990 or portcitymusichall. com

”RUFFNECK,” WITH HI TIGER + 32FRENCH + DJ LONZO | with visu-

als by Radon Chong + Punk Sugar Burn Lab | 7 pm | ICA at MECA, 522 Congress St, Portland | 207.879.5742

FRIDAY 3

”COUNTRY NIGHT” WITH DJ TED RAZZ | 7:30 pm | Rockingham Ballroom, 22 Ash Swamp Rd, Newmarket, NH | $10 | 603.659.4410

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Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Rd, Brownfield | $35 | 207.935.7292 GERALD CLAYTON TRIO | 7:30 pm | Bates College, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St, Lewiston | 207.786.6135 RED SKY MARY + WATTS | 8 pm | Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St, Rochester, NH | $12 | 603.335.1992

RUSTIC OVERTONES + KENYA HALL BAND + SHAKES | 8 pm |

Hallowell City Hall, 1 Winthrop St, Hallowell | $15 | 207.623.4021 or hallowell.govoffice.com

PAT WATERS: “THE SIGNATORIES 1916: AN EVENING IN STORY & SONG” | 8 pm | Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St, Portland | $15-18 | 207.780.0118 or maineirish. com

SATURDAY 4

AMERANOUCHE | 7 pm |

First Parish Federated Church, 150 Main St, South Berwick | 207.384.4091 JOHN FUNKHOUSER TRIO | 7:30 pm | The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St, Kittery | $12-15 | 207.439.0114 ROB CARLTON + BUDAKA | 8 pm | Bridge Street Tavern, 18 Bridge St, Augusta | 207.623.8561

TUESDAY 7

PAT THE BUNNY + CESCHI + CREATRIX + TURNY LES | 7 pm | Woodfords Club, 179 Woodford St, Portland | $5-10 donation | 207.772.4893

WEDNESDAY 8

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SON OF KICK | 8 pm | State Theatre, 609 Congress St, Portland | $42.50-45 | 207.956.6000 or statetheatreportland.com

THURSDAY 9

DADS + SNEEZE + CHARLES | 7 pm | University of New Hampshire, Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH | $5 | 603.862.2600 or unhmub.com MARIAN CALL | 7 pm | Casablanca Comics, 151 Middle St, Portland | by donation | 207.780.1676

DANCE PARTICIPATORY FRIDAY 3

”GREEK DANCE PARTY,” WITH CAROL CORONIS BAND | 7:30 pm

SATURDAY 4

BALLROOM DANCE NIGHT | 7:30 pm | Rockingham Ballroom, 22 Ash Swamp Rd, Newmarket, NH | $14 | 603.659.4410

PERFORMANCE FRIDAY 3

”BURLESQUE SHOW” | medical benefit | 6 pm | Chaps Saloon, 1301 Long Plains Rd, Buxton |

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COLLECTIVE MOTION: “A FLIGHT OF DANCE & DRINK” | 5 pm | One Longfellow Square, 181 State St, Portland | 207.761.1757

EVENTS SUNDAY 5

”LGBTQ STORY SHARING EVENT” WITH SEAN DORSEY | 5 pm | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland | 207.828.5600 or space538.org

THURSDAY 9

”VOTER GUIDE LAUNCH PARTY” | with Voter Education Brigade | 7 pm | Zero Station, 222 Anderson St, Portland | 207.347.7000

FAIRS & FESTIVALS THURSDAY 2

FRYEBURG FAIR | with food vendors, demonstrations, speakers, harness racing, flower shows, tractor pulls, ox pulls, sheep dog competitions, pig scrambles, baked goods competitions, live entertainment and more | Thurs-Sat 7 pm | Fryeburg Fairgrounds, Ballard Rd, Fryeburg | $10

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POETRY & PROSE

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THURSDAY 2

DAVID BLAIR | reads his poetry | 5 pm | University of New Hampshire, Memorial Union Building, 83 Main St, Durham, NH | 603.862.2600 or unhmub.com

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Friday & Saturday Nights The Two Kings 10/3 Barry Arvin Young 10/4 George Williams Band 10/10 & 10/11

”PROSE, POETRY & ALL THINGS MADE OF WORDS” | readings | 6:30

”LONGFELLOW SHORTS: AN EVENING WITH SUSAN CONLEY” |

actors read passages from Paris Was the Place | 7 pm | Portland Stage Company, 25A Forest Ave, Portland | $0-$5 | 207.774.0465 or portlandstage.com

SPOKEN WORD & POETRY OPEN MIC | 9 pm | Mama’s Crowbar, 189

TUESDAY 7

JOHN SINCLAIR | reads his poetry | 7:30 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | $7 | 207.773.7210 OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM | with Port Veritas | 7 pm | Bull Feeney’s, 375 Fore St, Portland | $2.50-3 | 207.773.7210

TALKS THURSDAY 2

”THE MIMA MOUND MYSTERY— SOLVED?” | with Emmanuel “Man-

ny” Gabet | 4 pm | Bowdoin College, Druckenmiller Hall, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3567

”SCOTLAND’S VOTE: A REFERENDUM FOR INDEPENDENCE” | with

Donnie Jack & Owen Trailor | 5:30 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Glickman Library, 7th Floor, 314 Forest Ave, Portland | 207.780.4269

FRIDAY 3

”DYNAMICAL MODELS OF LOCOMOTION” | with John Gukenheimer | 12:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Searles Science Building, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3567

”UNDERSTANDING WATER’S DEPENDENCE ON ENERGY FOR ADAPTIVE WATER & ENERGY MANAGEMENT” | with Weiwei Mo | 3 pm |

University of New Hampshire, James Hall, Durham, NH | 603.862.1234

SATURDAY 4

”GENERATION CLIMATE CONVERGENCE: STRENGTHENING

THE NORTHEAST YOUTH CLIMATE MOVEMENT” | with keynote address

by Sherri Mitchell at 7:30 pm | SatSun noon | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Talbot Lecture Hall, Portland | 207.780.4141

SUNDAY 5

”GENERATION CLIMATE CONVERGENCE: STRENGTHENING THE NORTHEAST YOUTH CLIMATE MOVEMENT” | See listing for Sat

MONDAY 6

ARTIST LECTURE WITH HENRIK DRESCHER | 6 pm | Portland Public

Library, 5 Monument Sq, Portland | 207.871.1700

”CHINA IN AFRICA: THINK AGAIN” | with Debora Brautigam | 7:30 pm | Bowdoin College, Moulton Union, 3900 College Station, Brunswick | 207.725.3000

TUESDAY 7

”FALL OF THE WALL: OPENING LECTURE” | with Nancy Lukens | 7

pm | University of New Hampshire, Murkland Hall, 105 Main St, Durham, NH | 603.862.1234

”LL BEAN COLLOQUIUM - THE STRUGGLE FOR TAX REFORM IN MAINE: WHAT NEXT?” | with Dick

Woodbury | 4:45 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Glickman Library, 7th Floor, 314 Forest Ave, Portland | 207.780.4269

”SPOT THE OTTER! OTTERS AS MEDIATORS IN BRITISH LITERATURE, CULTURE, & THE ENVIRONMENT” | 11:30 am | University of

New England - Biddeford, St Francis Room, Ketchum Library, 11 Hills Beach Rd, Biddeford | 207.602.2346

”WHY I GO TO THE OLYMPICS: RACE, NATION & OTHER SPORT MATTERS” | with Amy Bass | 7 pm |

Bates College, Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Rd, Lewiston | 207.786.8376

WEDNESDAY 8

”GALLERY CONVERSATIONS: DRAWING A LINE FROM TUTTLE TO GOLTZIUS” | with Carrie Scanga

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”SHIFTING ALLIANCES: IRAQ TEACHIN -- ISIS IN IRAQ & SYRIA” | 11:30

am | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Woodbury Campus Center, Portland | 207.780.5008

THURSDAY 9

”MAINE GUBERNATORIAL FORUM ON ECONOMIC SECURITY FOR WOMEN & THEIR FAMILIES” | with

Eliot Cutler & Mike Michaud | 7 pm | University of Southern Maine - Portland, Hannaford Hall, 88 Bedford St, Portland | 207.780.4270

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SANCTUARY TATTOO & ART GALLERY | 207.828.8866 | 31 Forest Ave,

Portland | sanctuarytattoo.com | TuesSat 11 am-7 pm | Oct 3-4: “Explicit Form,” mixed media works by Max Leon + Rachelle Leon + Erin Leon | reception Oct 3 5-8 pm

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Tues-Wed + Fri-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Thurs 10 am-8:30 pm; Sun 1-5 pm | Free admission | Through Oct 19: “Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective” | Through Dec 31: “Hendrick Goltzius: Mythology & Truth,” paintings, drawings, & engravings | Through Jan 4: Alison de Vere: “Psyche and Eros,” animated film | Through March 8: “Weaving the Myth of Psyche: Baroque Tapestries from the Wadsworth Atheneum” | Ongoing: “American Artists at Work, 1840-1950” + “Contemporary Masters, 1950 to the Present” + “Lovers & Saints: Art of the Italian Renaissance” COLBY COLLEGE | 207.859.5600 |

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

Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm | Free admission | Through 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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| 207.283.3861 | 371 Main St, Saco | sacomuseum.org | Tues-Thurs noon-4 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 | Wyeth Center, Union St, rockland | Mon-Tues 10 am-5 pm; Wed 10 am-8 pm; Thurs-Sun 10 am-5 pm | 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 FRYEBURG ACADEMY | 207.935.9232 |

Pace Galleries of Art, 18 Bradley St, Fryeburg | fryeburgacademy.org | Mon-Fri 9 am-1 pm; by appointment | Through Oct 31: “The Kienbusch Legacy: A Family of Artists” group exhibition | opening reception Sep 13, 1-3 pm

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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - PORTLAND | 207.780.5008 | Area Gallery, Woodbury Campus Center, Bedford St, Portland | Mon-Fri 7 am-10 pm | Through Dec 10: “Diatribes,” fourchannel video by Joseph Farbrook & Sama Alshaibi

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Corporate Dr, Portsmouth, NH | call for

hours | Through Nov 15: “Elizabeth Patterson: Life & Color,” colored pencil drawings HUSSON UNIVERSITY | 207.992.4925 | robert e. White Gallery, 1 College Circle, Bangor | Through Oct 30: “Cold Stream Reflections (Altered Imagery),” mixed media works by Patricia Pasteur 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 _Rorschach” + “Fair Use: An Architectural Timeline,” installations 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 | Oct 2: “Ruffneck,” visual art & music by Hi Tiger + 32french + DJ Lonzo + Radon Chong + Punk Sugar Burn Lab | 7-9 pm | reception Oct 3 5-8 pm MAINE COLLEGE OF ART | 207.775.3052 | Porteous Building, 522 Congress St, Portland | meca.edu | MonFri 8 am-8 pm; Sat-Sun 12 pm-5 pm | Through Oct 3: “Sea Hag!”, window installation by Christopher Patch | Oct 3-25: “Reap & Sow: The Work of Maine Art Educators,” mixed media | reception Oct 3 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 OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF ART | 207.646.4909 | 543 Shore rd, Ogunquit | ogunquitmuseum.org | Mon-Sat 10:30 am- 5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm | Through Oct 31: “A Modernist Menagerie: Works

from the Permanent Collection,” sculptures, paintings, & works on paper + “Amy Stacey Curtis: Drawings” + “Andrew Wyeth: The Linda L. Bean Collection” + “Henry Strater: Arizona Winters, 1933-1938,” paintings + “Tradition & Excellence: The OMAA Permanent Collection” PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY | 603.777.3461 | Lamont Gallery, Frederick

r Mayer Art Center, Tan Ln, exeter, NH | exeter.edu/art/visit_Lamont.html

| Mon 1-5 pm; Tues-Sat 9 am-5 pm | Free admission | Through Oct 18: “Self Made,” prints by Tara Misenheimer + portraits by Cybèle Mendes + mixed media works by Lauren Kalman + Caleb Cole | reception Sep 26 5-8 pm PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | 207.775.6148 | 7 Congress Square, Portland | portlandmuseum.org | Tues-Thurs + Sat-Sun 10 am-5 pm; Fri 10 am-9 pm | Admission $12; $10 students/seniors; $6 youth 13-17; free for youth 12 & under and for all Fri 5-9 pm | Through Jan 4: “Treasures of British Art, 1400-2000: The Berger Collection” | Through Feb 8: “Aaron T. Stephan: To Borrow, Cut, Copy, & Steal,” sculptural installation

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UNIVERSITY OF MAINE MUSEUM OF ART | 207.561.3350 | Norumbega

Hall, 40 Harlow St, Bangor | umma. umaine.edu | Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm |

Free admission | Oct 3-Jan 31: “Out of Nowhere: Paintings by John Gallagher, 1996-2014” | Oct 3-Jan 31: “Staring at the Sun with a Penny in my Pocket,” paintings by Matt Phillips + “Tales from the Turnpike,” oil-onpanel paintings by Suzanne Laura Kammin + “The Little Fools,” photography & installation by Roz Leibowitz | Ongoing: “Selections from the Permanent Collection”

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND - PORTLAND | 207.221.4499 | Art Gallery, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland | une. edu/artgallery | Wed 1-4 pm; Thurs

1-7 pm; Fri-Sun 1-4 pm | Oct 9-Jan 11: “Coyote Connections: A Group Exhibition,” mixed media | Through Oct 31: “Annual Sculpture Garden Invitational” | Through Nov 30: “(Re) Building Memory: A Trajectory of the Black Atlantic” mixed media by Paula Gerstenblatt

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MUSEUM OF ART | 603.862.3712 |

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| 207.621.3243 | Danforth Gallery, Jewett Hall, 46 University Dr, Augusta | MonThurs 8:30 am-7 pm; Fri 8:30 am-5 pm | Through Oct 3: “CUBA: Cultural Understanding Between the Arts,” mixed media student exhibition

| unh.edu/moa | Mon-Wed 10 am-4 pm; Thurs 10 am-8 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | Free admission | Through Oct 19: “GraphiCornucopia,” mixed media group exhibition + Jon Imber: “Human Interest,” paintings

246 Main St, Farmington | Tues-Sun noon-4 pm | Oct 4-Nov 18: “About Then/About Now,” mixed media anniversary exhibition | Through Oct 19: “Throwing Things at the Sky

USM Campus, Gorham | usm.maine. edu/~gallery | Tues-Fri 11 am-4 pm;

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE - FARMINGTON | 207.778.7072 | Art Gallery,

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE - GORHAM | 207.780.5008 | Art Gallery, Sat-Sun 1-5 pm | Through Dec 10: “Opposing Gestures” mixed media by Joseph Farbrook + Sama Alshaibi

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DISCOVER PORTSMOUTH CENTER | 603.436.8420 | 10 Middle St, Portsmouth, NH | portsmouthhistory.org | 10 am-5 pm | Through Oct 3: “Bold & Brash: The Art of John Haley Bellamy,” wood carvings MAINE STATE MUSEUM | 207.287.2301 | 83 State House Stn, Augusta | mainestatemuseum.org | Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-4 pm | Admission $2, $1 for seniors and children ages 6-18, under 6 free | Through April 30: “Maine Voices from the Civil War” | Ongoing: 12,000-plus years of Maine’s history, in homes, nature, shops, mills, ships, & factories PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM | 207.548.0334 | 40 east Main St, Searsport | penobscotmarinemuseum.org | call for hours | Through Oct 19: “Fish, Wind, & Tide: Art & Technology of Maine’s Resources” | Ongoing: “Keeping Warm Exhibition” + “Regional Watercraft” + “Gone Fishing” + “Souvenirs for the Orient” + “Rowboats for Rusticators” + “History, Economy, & Recreation of the Penobscot Region” + “Hall of Ship Models” + “Folk Art of the Penobscot” + “Sea Captains of Searsport” + “Scrimshaw” PORTSMOUTH ATHENAEUM | 603.431.2538 | 9 Market Sq, Portsmouth, NH | Tues, Thurs, & Sat 1-4 pm | Through Nov 26: “Norma Bernstein Smith: Talented Artist, Adventuresome Spirit,” paintings

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St, Yarmouth 51 WHARF | 207.774.1151 | 51 Wharf St, Portland ACOUSTIC ARTISANS | 207.671.6029 | 594 Congress St, Portland ALISSON’S RESTAURANT | 207.967.4841 | 5 Dock Sq, Kennebunkport AMERICAN LEGION POST 56 | 207.363.0376 | 9 Hannaford Dr, York ANDY’S OLD PORT PUB | 207.874.2639 | 94 Commercial St, Portland ANNIE’S IRISH PUB | 207.251.4335 | 369 Main St, Ogunquit 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 BEAR’S DEN TAVERN | 207.564.8733 | 73 North St, Dover Foxcroft BEBE’S BURRITOS | 207.283.4222 | 140 Main St, Biddeford BENCH BAR AND GRILL | 207.582.4277 | 418 Water St, Gardiner BENTLEY’S SALOON | 207.985.8966 | 1601 Portland Rd, Rte 1, Kennebunkport BIG EASY | 207.894.0633 | 55 Market St, Portland BLACK BEAR CAFE | 207.693.4770 | 215 Roosevelt Trail, Naples

BLOOMFIELD’S CAFE AND BAR

| 207.474.8844 | 40 Water St, Skowhegan BLUE | 207.774.4111 | 650A Congress St, Portland BLUE MERMAID | 603.427.2583 | 409 The Hill, Portsmouth, NH BLUE MOON LOUNGE | 207.858.5849 | 24 Court St, Skowhegan BRAY’S BREWPUB | 207.693.6806 | Rte 302 and Rte 35, Naples BRIAN BORU | 207.780.1506 | 57 Center St, Portland BRITISH BEER COMPANY | 603.501.0515 | 2 Portwalk Place, Portsmouth, NH

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

BUMPA’S BAR & GRILLE |

207.725.2963 | 276 Bath Rd, Brunswick

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BATH |

207.443.6776 | 98 Center St, Bath

BYRNES IRISH PUB/BRUNSWICK | 207.729.9400 | 16 Station

Ave, Brunswick THE CAGE | 207.783.0668 | 97 Ash St, Lewiston CAMPFIRE GRILLE | 207.803.2255 | 656 North High St, Bridgton

CAPTAIN & PATTY’S RESTAURANT | 207.439.3655 | 90 Pepperrell Rd, Kittery Point

CAPTAIN BLY’S TAVERN |

207.336.2126 | 371 Turner St, Buckfield

CARA IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT | 603.343.4390 | 11 Fourth St, Dover, NH

CARMEN VERANDAH |

207.288.2766 | 119 Main St, Bar Harbor CENTRAL WAVE | 603.742.9283 | 368 Central Ave, Dover, NH

CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR | 207.282.7900 | 15 Thornton St, Biddeford CHAPS SALOON | 207.347.1101 | 1301 Long Plains Rd, Buxton CHARLAMAGNE’S | 207.242.2711 | 228 Water St, Augusta CHOP SHOP PUB | 603.760.7706 | 920 Lafayette Rd, Seabrook, NH CLUB TEXAS | 207.784.7785 | 150 Center St, Auburn COLE FARMS | 207.657.4714 | 64 Lewiston Rd, Gray CREMA COFFEE COMPANY | | 9 Commercial St, Portland DANIEL STREET TAVERN | 603.430.1011 | 111 Daniel St, Portsmouth, NH THE DEPOT PUB | 207.588.0081 | 14 Maine St, Gardiner DOBRA TEA | 207.370.1890 | 151 Middle St, Portland THE DOGFISH BAR AND GRILLE | 207.772.5483 | 128 Free St, Portland DOLPHIN STRIKER | 603.431.5222 | 15 Bow St, Portsmouth, NH DOVER BRICK HOUSE | 603.749.3838 | 2 Orchard St, Dover, NH DOWN UNDER CLUB | 207.992.2550 | Seasons Grille & Sports Lounge, 427 Main St, Bangor 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 ELEMENTS: BOOKS COFFEE BEER

| 207.710.2011 | 265 Main St, Biddeford EMPIRE | 207.879.8988 | 575 Congress St, Portland FAST BREAKS | 207.782.3305 | 1465 Lisbon St, Lewiston FATBOY’S SALOON | 207.766.8862 | 65 Main St, Biddeford FEDERAL JACK’S | 207.967.4322 | 8 Western Ave, Kennebunk

FEILE IRISH RESTAURANT AND PUB | 207.251.4065 | 1619 Post Rd,

Wells

FIRE HOUSE GRILLE | 207.376.4959 | 47 Broad St, Auburn

FLASK LOUNGE | 207.772.3122 | 117

Spring St, Portland

FROG AND TURTLE | 207.591.4185 | 3 Bridge St, Westbrook FRONTIER CAFE | 207.725.5222 | Fort Andross, 14 Maine St, Brunswick FURY’S PUBLICK HOUSE | 603.617.3633 | 1 Washington St, Dover, NH FUSION | 207.330.3775 | 490 Pleasant St, Lewiston 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 HARLOW’S PUB | 603.924.6365 | 3 School St, Peterborough, NH HIGHER GROUNDS COFFEEHOUSE AND TAVERN |

207.621.1234 | 119 Water St, Hallowell HIGHLANDS COFFEE HOUSE | 207.354.4162 | 189 Main St, Thomaston HOLLYWOOD SLOTS | 877.779.7771 | 500 Main St, Bangor THE HOLY GRAIL | 603.679.9559 | 64 Main St, Epping, NH IRISH TWINS PUB | 207.376.3088 | 743 Main St, Lewiston IRON TAILS SALOON | 207.850.1142 | 559 Rte 109, Acton

JIMMY THE GREEK’S/OLD ORCHARD BEACH | 207.934.7499 | 215 Saco Ave, Old Orchard Beach

JONATHAN’S | 207.646.4777 | 92

Bourne Ln, Ogunquit

THE KAVE | 207.469.6473 | 177 Silver

Lake Rd, Bucksport 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 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 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 LOMPOC CAFE | 207.288.9392 | 36 Rodick St, Bar Harbor 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 MEMORY LANE MUSIC HALL | 207.642.3363 | 35 Blake Rd, Standish

MILLBROOK TAVERN & GRILLE

| 207.824.2175 | Bethel Inn, On the Common, Bethel MILLIE’S TAVERN | 603.967.4777 | 17 L St, Hampton, NH MINE OYSTER | 207.633.6616 | 16 Wharf St, Pier 1, Boothbay Harbor MIXERS | 207.375.4188 | 136 Sabattus Rd, Sabattus 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 NEWAGEN SEASIDE INN | 207.633.2544 | 60 Newagen County Rd, Southport 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 GOAT | 207.737.4628 | 33 Main St, Richmond OLD PORT TAVERN | 207.774.0444 | 11 Moulton St, Portland 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 PORTLAND EAGLES | 207.773.9448 | 184 Saint John 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

PUBLIC HOUSE AND PROHIBITION MUSIC ROOM | 603.948.1082 | 45 N

Main St, Rochester, NH THE RACK | 207.237.2211 | 5016 Access Rd, Carabassett RAVEN’S ROOST | 207.406.2359 | 103 Pleasant St, Brunswick READFIELD EMPORIUM | 207.685.7348 | 1146 Main St, Readfield 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 ROCK HARBOR | 207.593.7488 | 416 Main St, Rockland ROOSTER’S | 207.622.2625 | 110 Community Dr, Augusta 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 SARGE’S TAILGATE GRILLE | 207.284.1299 | 63 Storer St, Saco SEA DOG BREWING/BANGOR | 207.947.8009 | 26 Front St, Bangor

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 SEA KETCH | 603.926.0324 | 127 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH 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 SPACE GALLERY | 207.828.5600 | 538 Congress St, Portland SPIRE 29 | 207.222.2068 | 29 School St, Gorham SPLITTERS | 207.621.1710 | 2246 N Belfast Ave, Augusta 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 TAILGATE BAR & GRILL | 207.657.7973 | 61 Portland Rd, Gray TANTRUM | 207.404.4300 | 193 Broad St, Bangor 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 TORCHES GRILL HOUSE | 207.467.3288 | 102 York St, Kennebunk TOWNHOUSE PUB | 207.284.7411 | 5 Storer St, Saco TRAIN’S TAVERN | 207.457.6032 | 249 Carl Broggi Hwy, Lebanon TUCKER’S PUB | 207.739.2200 | 290 Main St, Norway 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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start digging here suB-level maps turns out to Be a gold mine _By B ria n duff Because music is now basically free (thanks to torrents, Pandoras, Spotifies, etc.), the only way for musicians to make money is through constant touring and related merchandise sales. Or they can appear as a judge on The Voice. Food, on the other hand, will still cost ya, and is getting less free all the time as Governor LePage puts diabolical new restrictions on our Supplemental Nutrition Benefit Cards. But nonetheless food culture imitates the worst trends in pop-music—with the chef-as-celebrity, style and spectacle over substance, and even the meal as merchandise—an “experience” to own and show off, usually in the form of a post on some website or other. So you might expect the worst from a new Old Port grilled-cheese and wine/beer spot run by two music industry folks—one of Lady Gaga’s handlers and a Mumford and Sons merchandise guy, no less. But instead, their Maps Café, tucked away in a downstairs space on Market St., is the rarest of things in today’s Portland food scene: a genuine pleasant surprise. There was no Kickstarter, no big PR push, no pop-up tieins, no menu or remodel plans leaked to Portland Food Map. Owners Vikki and Kyle went low-key. The Munjoy Hill News broke the Gaga connection. Nice scoop, MHN.

FShort Takes xxxx THe DiSAPPeARAnCe OF eLeAnOR RigBY 122 minUtes | railroad sQUare cinema No one really knows what happens inside a marriage except the spouses—and sometimes not even they do, because even the closest couples keep secrets from one another. Novelist Evan S. Connell came closer than most to a rounded portrait when he wrote the classic Mrs. Bridge (1959) and Mr. Bridge (1969), whose stories sometimes overlapped but whose perspectives were strictly limited; following his lead, writer-director Ned Benson made his feature debut in 2013 with two versions of The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, one subtitled Her and the other Him. I haven’t seen either of those movies, but this combination of the two, subtitled Them, is so maturely written, richly characterized, and

So these aren’t foodie/craft-cocktail hypesters, and they aren’t too hipster either, despite the music gigs (though Kyle did hustle about on a recent evening in some tight red pants). The décor, heavy on maps and globes, flirts with kitschy to eventually charm. Dark wainscoting and slate-gray inlaid tile emphasize the cozy quality of the downstairs space. There is an eclectic mix of seating—from little tables, to vinyl rocking chairs, with a two-seat leather bar in the corner to supplement the main bar—but it all fits together into a warm and casual atmosphere. Vikki and Kyle seem warm and laid back as well. A focus on grilled cheese sandwiches might sound like a gimmick, like Lady Gaga’s new duets album with Tony Bennett. But the sandwiches, at least, are a great idea in practice—a way to send something both interesting and satisfying out of what must be a miniscule kitchen. The sandwiches come on thick slices of Portuguese bread—which gets dense and chewy enough in grilling to stand up to the melted cheese. This style of bread is a touch sweet—often made with honey—and the sandwiches play up that quality even as the grill’s sear fights it. The English sandwich, made with aged cheddar and provolone, was sweetened

hot StuFF Within locate an attractive interior and scrumptious grilled cheese at maps. by a roasted garlic jam and sharpened by some red onion. The cheese had a soft oozy quality. Another sandwich, the Blue, combined its namesake cheese with mozzarella, which gave the melted result a more clingy-gooey nature. Diced red onion and a Maine blueberry chutney combined for a subtler sweetness and a somehow mustardy flavor. The sandwiches have a great look with their grilled browns and tans, and a satisfying heft. They make for great food to go with drinks, and the bar serves a nice selection of beers on tap—in two sizes and reasonably priced. The mild bitter of a pint of Bissell Brothers Substance Ale went well with the sweetness of the sandwiches. Wines are by the glass and mostly $7. Maps also offers a real British tea service (Vikki’s a Brit), served on a little tray with a hard cookie. The English tea is an earthy and classical, with a hint of licorice

among the herbs. The green jasmine tea brews fast and takes on strong bitter and vegetal flavors. There is a rotating selection of house-made cakes and pies. The other day offered a dense and moist carrot cake, with a cream cheese frosting that stayed light and creamy. Neither cake nor frosting were too sweet. Music is indeed free at Maps, thanks to a glowing old jukebox set to play without a dime. But customers would be wise to let the music pros (even Gaga/Mumford pros) spin their own selection from the vinyl behind the bar. They play an eclectic selection to an eclectic crowd of word-ofmouthers and stumble-inners—each discovering the most pleasant surprise to hit Portland’s food scene in a while. ^

Maps Café | 64A Market St, Portland | Mon & Wed-Fri 4 pm-midnight; Sat 2 pm-midnight; Sun 2-9 pm | Visa/MC/Amex | 207.272.9263

movie reviews in brief

flawlessly acted that I can’t wait until they’re made available. Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy star as a New England couple who have separated in the wake of a family tragedy; the fine supporting cast includes William Hurt, Isabelle Huppert, Ciarán Hinds, Viola Davis, Bill Hader, and Jess Weixler.

_J.r. Jones

xxW gOne giRL 149 minUtes | clarKs pond cinemaGic + saco cinemaGic + westbrooK cinemaGic + aUbUrn flaGship Gillian Flynn’s twist-laden mystery novel gets a somber, respectful screen treatment from David Fincher (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network), which has the unfortunate effect of diminishing the book’s diabolical fun and heightening its dull misan-

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby

formances from Carrie Coon as the husband’s loyal sister and Kim Dickens as the shrewd police detective investigating the case. Flynn wrote the script; with Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, and Patrick Fugit.

_J.r. Jones

thropy. In small-town Missouri, a local man (Ben Affleck) becomes a murder suspect after his cool-blond New Yorker wife (Rosamund Pike) goes missing; the usual media circus follows, but appearances are deceiving. Even at two and a half hours the movie is terminally overplotted, and the two leads both sink under the weight of their selfish, spiteful characters. But there are strong supporting per-

xxx THe SKeLeTOn TwinS 93 minUtes | nicKelodeon + westbrooK cinemaGic + railroad sQUare cinema SNL veterans Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader play fraternal twins scarred by their father’s suicide years earlier and each contemplating the same exit route; after the gay brother is

narrowly rescued from a bloody bath in Los Angeles, his sister invites him to convalesce with her and her new husband in New York. Like most comic actors doing straight drama, Wiig and Hader acquit themselves admirably, though their most persuasive scenes are those that show the siblings goofing around together like overgrown kids; neither actor can summon up the nihilistic despair that drives someone to take his own life. Most of the story transpires between those two extremes, showing how the characters’ shared emotional damage has deformed their respective love relationships. Writing and directing his second feature, Craig Johnson demonstrates a knowing sense of how consciously, and helplessly, some people destroy themselves. With Luke Wilson, Ty Burrell, and Joanna Gleason.

_J.r. Jones

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Unless otherwise noted, all film listings this week are for Friday, October 3 through Thursday, October 9. Times can and do change without notice, so do call the theater before heading out. For up-to-date filmschedule information, check the Portland Phoenix Web site at thePhoenix.com.

movie Th e a Te r lisT ing s

dinner + movie Portland CInEMaGIC Grand

333 Clarks Pond Parkway, South Portland | 207.772.6023

annaBEllE | 11:45 am, 2:10, 4:30, 7, 9:30

tHE BoXtrollS | 11:40 am, 2:10,

4:40, 7:10, 9:30 GonE GIrl | 12:30, 3:45, 7:20 tHE MaZE rUnnEr | 11:30 am, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30

a WalK aMonG tHE toMBStonES | 7:20, 9:50 tHIS IS WHErE I lEaVE YoU | 11:45am, 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40

nICKElodEon CInEMaS 1 Temple St, Portland | 207.772.4022

tHIS IS WHErE I lEaVE YoU | 1:10, 3:50, 6;50, 9:20

PMa MoVIES

7 Congress Square, Portland | 207.775.6148

Fort MCCoY | Fri: 7 | Sat-Sun: 2

WEStBrooK CInEMaGIC

183 County Rd, Westbrook | 207.774.3456

annaBEllE | 11:50 am, 2:10, 4:30, 7, 9:40

tHE BoXtrollS | noon, 2:15, 4:30,

7, 9:20

dolPHIn talE 2 | 11:50 am, 2:15,

tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES | 12:30, 3:20 tHIS IS WHErE I lEaVE YoU | 11:50 am, 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50

a WalK aMonG tHE toMBStonES | 12:15, 3:20, 7, 9:40

MaInE alaMo tHEatrE 85 Main St, Bucksport | 207.469.0924

tHE noVEMBEr Man | Fri-Sat: 7:30 | Sun: 2

aUBUrn FlaGSHIP 10 746 Center St, Auburn | 207.786.8605

annaBEllE | 1:30, 4:35, 7:25, 9:45 tHE BoXtrollS | noon, 2:15, 4:30, 6:55, 9:10

dolPHIn talE 2 | 12:40, 3:40 tHE droP | 7:20, 9:50 tHE EQUalIZEr | 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50

GonE GIrl | 12:20, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45 GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY | 12:10, 3:20, 6:40, 9:15

IF I StaY | 1:10, 7:05 lEFt BEHInd | 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:35 tHE MaZE rUnnEr | 12:20, 1:10, 3:50, 7:00, 9:30

tHIS IS WHErE I lEaVE YoU | 1:30, 4:10, 7:15, 9:35

a WalK aMonG tHE toMBStonES | 12:20, 3:40, 6:55, 9:30

BrIdGton tWIn drIVE-In tHEatrE 383 Portland Rd, Bridgton | 207.647.8666

dolPHIn talE 2 + tHE MaZE rUnnEr | 7 tHE EQUalIZEr + no Good dEEd |7

ColonIal tHEatrE

163 High St, Belfast | 207.338.1930 Call for shows & times.

EVEnInGStar CInEMa

Tontine Mall, 149 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.729.5486

loVE IS StranGE | Fri-Sat: 1:30,

3:45, 6, 8:15 | Sun-Thu: 1:30, 3:45, 6

FrontIEr CInEMa 14 Maine St, Brunswick | 207.725.5222

ManHattan SHort FIlM FEStIVal | Fri-Sun: 2, 5, 8 tHE trIP to ItalY | Tue: 2 | Wed: 2, 5 | Thu: 2, 5, 8

HarBor tHEatrE

185 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor | 207.633.0438

“BUStEr KEaton at tHE HarBor tHEatrE” | Fri-Sun: 7 tHE trIP to ItalY | Wed-Thu: 7

lEWISton FlaGSHIP 10 855 Lisbon St, Lewiston | 207.777.5010

annaBEllE | 2:05, 4:40, 7:45 tHE BoXtrollS | 1:30, 4:25, 7:10

Annabelle

dolPHIn talE 2 | 1:15, 3:40, 7 GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY | 1,

tHE dISaPPEaranCE oF ElEanor rIGBY | Fri-Sat: 2:30, 7, 9:30 |

3:50, 6:55

Sun-Thu: 2:30, 7

lInColn tHEatEr

loVE IS StranGE | Fri: 5 | Sat-Sun: 12:30, 5 | Mon-Thu: 5

rEEl PIZZa CInEraMa

2 Theater St, Damariscotta | 207.563.3424

33 Kennebec Place, Bar Harbor | 207.288.3828 Call for shows & times.

Wed-Thu: 7

rEGal BrUnSWICK 10

tHE trIP to ItalY | Fri: 7 | Sat: 2 |

tHE MaGIC lantErn

9 Depot St, Bridgton | 207.647.5065

GonE GIrl | 4, 7:30 tHE MaZE rUnnEr | 4:15, 7

narroW GaUGE CInEMaS 15 Front St, Farmington | 207.778.4877 Call for shows & times.

nordICa tHEatrE

1 Freeport Village Station, Suite 125, Freeport | 207.865.9000 Call for shows & times.

oXFord FlaGSHIP 7 1570 Main Street, Oxford | 207.743.2219 Call for shows & times.

raIlroad SQUarE CInEMa 17 Railroad Sq, Waterville | 207.873.6526

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

SaCo CInEMaGIC & IMaX

783 Portland Rd, Rte 1, Saco | 207.282.6234

annaBEllE | noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50

tHE BoXtrollS | 12:30, 3:20, 7,

9:40

dolPHIn talE 2 | 12:20, 3, 7, 9:30 tHE droP | 12:10, 2:40, 7, 9:30 tHE EQUalIZEr: tHE IMaX EXPErIEnCE | 12:30, 3:30, 7, 9:50 GUardIanS oF tHE GalaXY | 12:30, 3:30, 8

lEt’S BE CoPS | 12:10, 3:20, 7:30, 9:50

tHE MaZE rUnnEr | noon, 12:20, 3,

3:30, 6:45, 7, 9:20

tEEnaGE MUtant nInJa tUrtlES | 3:20, 6:50 tHIS IS WHErE I lEaVE YoU | 11:50 am, 2:20, 4:45, 7, 9:30

a WalK aMonG tHE toMBStonES | 7:30, 10

SaCo drIVE-In tHEatEr

tHoMaSton FlaGSHIP 10

9 Moody Dr, Thomaston | 207.594.2100 Call for shows & times.

969 Portland Rd, Saco | 207.284.1016 Call for shows & times.

SMIttY’S CInEMaBIddEFord

nEW HaMPSHIrE

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

tHE MUSIC Hall

SMIttY’S CInEMaSanFord

BoYHood | Wed-Thu: 7 MY old ladY | Fri: 7 | Sat: 7 | Tue-

1364 Main St, Sanford | 207.490.0000 Call for shows & times.

SMIttY’S CInEMaWIndHaM

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

SPotlIGHt CInEMaS

6 Stillwater Ave, Orono | 207.827.7411 Call for shows & times.

StonInGton oPEra HoUSE

Main St, Stonington | 207.367.2788 Call for shows & times.

Strand tHEatrE 345 Main St, Rockland | 207.594.0070

MaGIC In tHE MoonlIGHt | Fri: 5:30 | Sat: 3, 5:30, 8 | Sun: 3, 5:30 | Mon: 7 | Tue: 1 | Thu: 7

roCKland SHortS: an IntErnatIonal SHort FIlM SErIES | Fri: 8

28 Chestnut St, Portsmouth | 603.436.9900

Thu: 7

rEGal FoX rUn StadIUM 15

45 Gosling Rd, Portsmouth | 603.431.6116 Call for shows & times.

FIlM SPECIalS SPaCE GallErY

538 Congress St, Portland | 207.828.5600

raHSaan roland KIrK: tHE CaSE oF tHE tHrEE SIdEd drEaM | Tue: 7:30

UnIVErSItY oF SoUtHErn MaInE Portland

96 Falmouth St, Portland| damnationland.com

“daMnatIonland rEtroSPECtIVE SCrEEnInGS” | Tue: 7:30

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Dear Mr. SchroeDer, I am writing in response to Mr. Diamon’s “Bear With Me” commentary, published in your newspaper a few weeks back (see the August 29 issue). In my opinion, not only are Mr. Diamon’s bear tales and jokes not funny, his “facts” are wildly biased and inaccurate—speaking of the “ignorance” which he accused his readers of having. If it is true that the Humane Society has spent nearly $900,000 to promote the bear-hunting ban, I believe it is money well spent. In our culture, we exploit animals such as the black bear for our own purposes, all while we pretend to revere them. We live in an American “culture of greed” where we pretend to revere our native animals, yet exploit them for our own gain, as seen in our sports teams’ names, advertising logos, automobile names, etc. It is pervasive. This is true of the Maine black bear, as evidenced, by example, by our adoption of a collegiate sports team named after them. Then we go out and massacre them through cruel trapping, baiting, and hounding practices, and call it “tradition” and “hunting.” Those of us who want to protect Maine black bears and help decrease their suffering at human hands have no other agenda, contrary to Mr. Diamon’s claim. Legitimate hunters truly revere their bounty, using and honoring every part of the animal they harvest. One only has to look to Native Americans to know this. Today’s “sports and trophy hunters” care nothing about this. They are not interested in treating other species humanely or with respect. They are in it for themselves and could care less about bears’ (or hounds’) suffering, or for their welfare. Trapping is inherently painful and inhumane. Hounding not only places dogs at risk of harm, but often these same dogs are later dumped at the state’s animal shelters when their hunter-owners have no more use for them—or they are simply shot and killed. Baiting lures hungry, unsuspecting black bears to cruel traps where they are later shot at close range after they have suffered extraordinary pain from having been left to bleed to death in these vice-grip traps for up to 23 hours. Not only do hunters encroach on the bars’ natural habitat when entering their domain, but we all affect them negatively through urban and suburban sprawl. Then we place up to 7 million pounds of human junk food to bait them, and when they go for it, we blame them for our own habituating them into “our neighborhoods”—and kill them mercilessly for “threatening us.” Maybe we need to stop using terms like “vicious” and “nuisance” when referring to black bears, and apply those terms more accurately—to ourselves. Humans love to demonize other species whom we perceive to pose a danger to us, when in truth we usually present a much greater threat to them. Statistics from other states which have already banned trapping, baiting, and hounding of bears show that it is myth-propaganda that states’ economies suffer when laws are enacted to protect

wildlife from harmful practices perpetuated by humans on them. In fact, the most recent states to ban the heinous trine of “hunting” practices (Colorado in 1992, Oregon in 1994, and Washington in 1996) show that their sales of bear hunting licenses and permits have actually increased significantly, according to a 2004 report compiled by the Maine Environmental Policy Institute. One can also presume that the boost in ancillary spending (lodging, food sales, transportation, equipment and guide services) also increased as a result. The Boston Globe has stated that in Maine, “the financial benefit to the guiding industry is more than $4 million annually.” Maine is the last state in the nation to still allow the barbaric, archaic triad of so-called “hunting” practices. Recent ads on TV for the “Vote No on 1” side of the campaign on the upcoming referendum place unfounded fear onto viewers who don’t know any better than to believe the “biologistexperts” who work for the pro-killing Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Ms. Vashon, Ms. Camuso, and Mr. Cross warn of the dire economic consequences of banning baiting, hounding, and trapping of Maine black bears, and warn the audience of unprecedented attacks on humans in the future. One has to wonder what their hidden agenda is. Could it be that they benefit monetarily from maintaining the status quo? Perhaps they are lazy “sports hunters” who like to kill things without working for it, and who leave their stale donuts out en masse to lure hungry bears? It is well documented by legitimate biologists that black bears are shy and reclusive, and that chance encounters between bears and humans are rare. Wikipedia, which has kept records of attacks by black bears on humans dating back to the 1830s, states that in that period there has been only one incidence in Maine of a bear attack on a human: one. The claims of the No on 1 fear-mongers are illogical ones designed to put unjustified fear into the hearts and minds of average citizens. Yet these same people claim that those of us who want to protect black bears are running an “emotional” campaign. If witnessing and wanting to correct injustice toward other species is “emotional,” then so be it. I…urge all Maine citizens to vote “YES” on Question 1 in November.

Sincerely, Jim Ferris Portland, ME

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_by syMbo line Da i I stood out in the open cold / To see the essence of the eclipse / Which was its perfect darkness / I stood in the cold on the porch / And could not think of anything so perfect / As a man’s hope of light in the face of darkness _richard eberhart, “the eclipse”

Alas, we will not be able to see our eclipse, but this is a small and perfect poem. The full moon in Aries opposes the sun in Libra, and all relationships may come to a full stop for reassessment, particularly for Capricorn, Cancer, Aries and Libra who usually don’t like surprises, but could be cool with ensues. More on Facebook—visit Sally Cragin Astrology. We can all get a little more done during the full moon.

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toon time

Across 1 “let’s go,” to dora 6 it can make a date 10 Show segments 14 rewrite 15 carmen or cartman 16 “We’ve got trouble!” 17 terrible dictionary definition of fortified wine? 19 ipod model 20 tater tots maker 21 time out for timothy leary 23 take back 25 empty ___ syndrome 26 instrument for hawaiians and hipsters 29 paper format? 32 Shaggy’s voice 36 Without company 37 Kenny loggins’s “danger ___” 38 “ewwww!” 39 hero’s pursuit 40 ninth Greek letter 41 plumlike fruit 42 One of holder’s predecessors 1

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called off california’s big ___ major inconveniences pad prik khing’s cuisine Queen of hip hop Spiny anteaters put under Speaker of cooperstown be a hasty actor? nutmeg-flavored drinks Killing time center of activity needing a massage mad libs category Sporty Jaguar 6

Down 1 contrail’s makeup 2 “i ___ mi amor” (color me badd #1 hit) 3 paddock parents 4 adrian tomine comic “___ nerve” 5 bowl location 6 mpG component 7 Vegas Strip casino 8 clarence’s role on “the mod Squad” 9 north america’s highest mountain 10 Family tree branches 11 #1 hits like “all about that balsa” and “Shake it Oak”? 12 “the bluest eye” author morrison 13 pick up a few things 18 cold and clammy 22 dennis’s sister, in “always Sunny” 24 Washington-area airport 27 Supposedly crazy birds 28 Join the club 30 Start the pot 31 in need of jumper cables 32 x, in a love letter 33 “because freedom can’t protect itself” org. 34 Fashionable school for hybrid outerwear? 35 potato feature 37 popular wine, for short 39 Farmer’s storage 43 co-star of bea, betty, and rue 45 Suckered 46 right there on the map 48 ___ fit (tantrum) 50 Word said with a head slap 51 iggy azalea hit 52 accepted without question 53 “Siddhartha” novelist hermann 54 active volcano in Sicily 55 comfy shoe 56 brad’s role in “inglourious basterds” 57 colleague of Scotty and Spock 61 Stimpy’s counterpart 7

thursday october 2

Waxing moon in capricorn, moon void-of-course 12:18 pm until 4 am Friday when it moves into aquarius. VOc moons in capricorn tell us to look beneath the hood, and pull a few wires “just to see what happens.” a day to arrive at a logical conclusion by taking a few swoops and dashes. Super-focused: capricorn, taurus, Virgo, Scorpio, Sagittarius, aquarius, and pisces. Slightly bedazzled: leo, Gemini, libra, cancer, and aries. 11

Friday october 3

Waxing moon in aquarius. today and tomorrow are excellent for hearing (or spreading) wild ideas, rumors, and new plans. Strange affections are also a theme, as the moon, Venus, and mars are completely at odds with one another. Sagittarius, aquarius, pisces, aries, Gemini, libra, capricorn, and Virgo will be eager for novel experiences. taurus, leo, and Scorpio may resist being “rushed.” 12

saturday october 4

Waxing moon in aquarius, moon void-of-course 2:32 pm until 5:24 am Sunday. do tasks that aren’t repetitious, or that have some novelty (e.g., if you work out, now’s the time to exercise all the muscles). Fantasy is attractive to Sagittarius, aquarius, pisces, aries, Gemini, libra, capricorn, and Virgo. taurus, leo, and Scorpio could do things their own way, and then wonder what YOUr problem is! 13

sunday october 5

Waxing moon in pisces. today and tomorrow are useful for stockpiling supplies related to secrets, parties, and unexpected good times. artists flourish during this lunar phase and Virgo, Gemini, libra, leo, and Sagittarius could be extra-sensitive, particularly when it comes to reading into a situation. however, capricorn, aquarius, pisces, aries, taurus, cancer, and Scorpio have “x-ray vision” when it comes to understanding problems that baffle others. 14

Monday october 6

Waxing moon in pisces, moon void-of-course 3:38 pm until 6:07 am, tuesday. Super day for musicians, photographers, psychological insights, or identifying with prisoners. the onrushing full moon presages a very exciting and social week, but tonight could be sentimental, and even a bit soggy for Virgo, Gemini, Sagittarius, cancer. better to take a hint from capricorn, aquarius, pisces, aries, taurus, leo, libra, and Scorpio and pursue artistic or sensual activities. 15

tuesday october 7

Waxing moon in aries, total lunar eclipse (alas not visible on the east coast of north america). eclipses traditional portend a fall from power or grace, so look around and see if folks who have been full of hubris are getting a comeuppance. pisces, Scorpio, taurus, Virgo, capricorn, and cancer are often the observers, while libra, leo, Sagittarius, aries, aquarius, and Gemini are the ones drawing attention to themselves! 16

Wednesday october 8 1

Full moon in aries, the hunter’s moon, also my birthday! You know the drill—full moon frenzy takes many forms and the phrase “what did you mean by that?” could spring to the lips of cancer, capricorn, and libra, who could feel irritable, especially if they have to say “i’m fine,” more than twice to inquiries. aquarius, pisces, aries, taurus, Gemini, Sagittarius, Virgo, leo, and Scorpio: be social, and do projects you can finish quickly. 17

Moon Keys

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

From the Yale University Art Gallery,

E D W I N A U S T I N A B B E Y ’S

Shakespeare OCT O B E R 4, 2014—JANUARY 4, 2015 The exhibition is sponsored in part by Paul Cavalli & Jack McKenney and The Goose River Exchange.

Edwin Austin Abbey, Malvolio in the dungeon - Act III, Scene IV, Twelfth Night, 1891, Gouache, Composition board, 21 ⅛ x 14 ⅜ in. Yale University Art Gallery, Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Collection, 1937.1053

Farnsworth Art Museum 16 Museum Street, Rockland, ME 04841 207-596-6457 • farnsworthmuseum.org