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Protesters of Portland’s homeless policies (from left) Michee Jean, Jessamyn Angelastro and Marian Abu promote housing as a human right during a gathering outside the Portland Housing Authority on Forest Avenue Thursday afternoon. The three are social work students at University of Southern Maine. The protest was organized by USM students in a class on homelessness and a new chapter of the Social Welfare Action Alliance. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

USM students, new chapter of alliance protest city’s homeless policies — See the story on page 3

‘The City is a Classroom’ text refreshed for local studentsTeaching guide from Greater Portland Landmarks, partners — See page 9

Playoffs for Portland Pirates start at Syracuse on Saturday— After a year away, Portland’s hockey team to meet the Syracuse Crunch in a best-of-fi ve fi rst-round series. See page 18

At the intersection of housing and hotels

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–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– DIGEST––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Haute punk

SAYWHAT...Punk is not just the sound, the music.

Punk is a lifestyle.”— Billie Joe Armstrong

(NY Times) — Deep in the bowels of the Metro-politan Museum of Art, a gray-smocked assistant in the Costume Institute was carefully transporting a long box from a storage area. All around her were mannequins wearing head-to-toe perfected haute cou-ture: a laced-up Versace, a deconstructed Margiela. In a corner stood a male mannequin wearing a black bondage suit and artfully scuffed Doc Marten boots.

The assistant laid down the box, opening it to unfurl folds of acid-free archival tissue. Gently, she lifted up a few sheets, revealing her treasure: a dingy, ripped “Anarchy in the U.K.” Sex Pistols T-shirt, sized to fi t a child or an extremely hard-living rock star. There also was T-shirt after well-worn T-shirt, with punchy slogans and graphic images — many faded, with pit stains and rings around the col-lars. The assistant held up a scribbled black one. “We have to make sure we don’t remove that safety pin,” she said, reverentially.

On view starting May 9, the Costume Institute’s exhibition “Punk: Chaos to Couture” is, by design, a blend of high and low culture, anarchic street style metamorphosed into impossibly chic fashion. “We’re trying to highlight the more intellectual, artistic side of punk,” said Andrew Bolton, the curator of the exhibition. Organizers hope to draw a parallel between the populist, DIY punk aes-thetic and the individualized vision of rarefi ed designers.

But because very few people preserved their holey tops and fraying jeans — sweating and shredding through them was, of course, a badge of honor — the gar-ments on display are mostly from the couture side, pricey ensembles inspired by, or sometimes direct rip-offs of, outfi ts worn by the emerging counterculture in New York and London from 1974 to 1979. There are contempo-rary plastic-bag dresses by the British designer Gareth Pugh, and, in the show’s catalog, images of young women wearing garbage bags decades ago, along-side Chanel suits with meticulous holes that likely did not come from cigarette burns.

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MAKHACHKALA, Russia (NY Times) — The parents of the two brothers accused in the bomb attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260 near the fi nish line of the Boston Marathon insisted on Thursday that their sons were innocent and had no con-nection to radical Islam.

In an outpouring of anguish and anger at a news conference here in the capital of Dagestan, the brothers’ father, Anzor Tsarnaev, and mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, also made accusations of a conspiracy in which the American authorities murdered their older son, Tamerlan, after seiz-ing him.

Offi cials in the United States have said that Tamerlan was shot during a wild standoff with the police and was run over by a car driven by his younger brother as he escaped from the scene. The younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,

was captured and has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction. He is recovering in a Boston hospital and may face the death penalty if convicted. Offi cials have also released video showing the brothers near the site of the marathon bombing.

Despite this evidence, and after two days of questioning by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation here, Tsarnaeva said she would not accept that her sons were guilty.

“No I don’t — and I won’t,” she snapped at the news conference. “Never!”

During an emotional, nearly hourlong ques-tion-and-answer session, the parents addressed many of the questions that investigators and the American public have been asking in the anxious, unsettled days after the bombing, insisting their sons were not religious radicals or connected to any terrorist organization.

Parents: Boston bombing suspects are innocent

WASHINGTON (NY Times) — The White House said on Thursday that American intel-ligence agencies now believed, with “varying degrees of con-fi dence,” that the Syrian gov-ernment had used chemical weapons, but it said it needed conclusive proof before Presi-dent Obama would take action.

The disclosure, in letters to Congressional leaders, takes the administration a step closer to acknowledging that President Bashar al-Assad has crossed a red line established by Obama last summer, when he said the United States would take unspecifi ed action

against Syria if there was evi-dence that chemical weapons had been used in the civil war.

The White House empha-sized that, “given the stakes involved,” the United States still needed “credible and cor-roborated facts” before decid-ing on a course of action. The letter, signed by the president’s director of legislative affairs, Miguel E. Rodriguez, said the United States was pressing for a “comprehensive United Nations investigation that can credibly evaluate the evidence and establish what happened.”

Although the White House said it could not confi rm the

circumstances in which vic-tims were exposed to chemi-cal weapons, it said it believed that the chemical agent sarin had been used. “We do believe,” the letter said, “that any use of chemical weapons in Syria would very likely have origi-nated with the Assad regime.”

Britain, in a letter last month requesting a United Nations investigation, cited three episodes in which it sus-pected that chemical weapons had been used: in a village west of Aleppo and on the outskirts of Damascus, both on March 19, and in Homs on Dec. 24.

U.S. says it suspects Assad used chemical weapons

Texas Plant fell through regulatory cracksWEST, Texas (NY Times) — In

the moments after a fi re broke out at a fertilizer plant here last week, some of the volunteer fi re-fi ghters and other fi rst respond-ers who rushed to the scene appeared to have known that there were tons of dangerously combustible ammonium nitrate inside, but others did not.

Ammonium nitrate is the same chemical that Timothy McVeigh used in the Okla-homa City bombing in 1995. The nitrogen-rich chemical, a crystal-like substance that resembles coarse table salt, is popular with farmers as a fer-tilizer but in the wrong hands or in the wrong conditions it can turn explosive. Investiga-tors say that the ammonium nitrate stored at the plant appeared to have caused the subsequent explosion that killed 10 fi refi ghters and at least four civilians.

The uncertainty over who was aware of the chemical at the plant and who was not, both at the site and in Washington, illustrates the patchwork regula-tory world the plant operated in and the ways in which it slipped through bureaucratic cracks at the federal, state and local levels.

One week after the blast, inves-tigators were still not sure how much ammonium nitrate was stored there, whether it had been stored properly and which agen-cies had been informed about it — even though a host of fed-eral, state and local offi cials were responsible for regulating and monitoring the plant’s operations and products.

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USM students, alliance’s new chapter protest homeless policies

A crowd of students and activists gathered outside the Portland Housing Authority office at the corner of Forest Avenue and Baxter Boulevard Thursday to promote affordable hous-ing and express displeasure at the city’s stance toward hotel development.

The new Portland chapter of Social Welfare Action Alliance participated, supporting Port-land’s public spaces, including Congress Square, where devel-opers this week floated plans to build an events center on part of the public space.

Members of the alliance joined students from the Uni-versity of Southern Maine in a protest at the Portland Hous-ing Authority on 14 Baxter Boulevard.

Crystal White, a first-year master’s student in the USM social work department, said many partici-pants were students in A class on homelessness at USM, making the protest a culminating event.

“We’re kind of engrossing ourselves and learning more about what’s going on, on a local level, a state level and a national level, in terms of supporting housing options, getting more vouchers,” she said.

The protest did not target the Housing Authority but rather tried to raise awareness, White noted.

“We think it’s a great opportunity to get out there and support Portland Housing Authority,” she said.

In the social work department, bachelor’s degree and master’s level students studied the growth of homelessness and challenges with reducing the numbers of homeless, White said.

The protest included a swipe at the latest plan from RockBridge Capital, new developer of the his-toric Eastland Park Hotel, with a proposal to build an events center in part of Congress Square. Rock-bridge Capital’s plan calls for a 9,500-square-foot addition to the hotel, including a 5,000-square-foot event center, the developers told a city committee this week.

Thursday’s protest roped in the RockBridge Capi-tal issue because Congress Square is symbolic of

tension between hotel expansion and public space, White said.

“Part of what ties that in with homelessness is that Portland keeps supporting these new hotels coming in ... but affordable housing is not something that is on the priority (list),” White said.

David Wagner, profes-sor of social work and sociology at USM, joined the students and said he personally agrees that the city focuses too much on hotels and not enough on the homeless.

“We have something like 550 officially as home-less people, but that’s the tip of the iceberg as some-one who writes about homelessness, it’s prob-ably four times that. And

then as the lines at the Housing Authority about 10 days ago show, we have hundreds and thousands of more people who can’t afford the housing they have. They’re potentially at risk of homelessness as well,” he said.

Wagner said he witnesses students who can’t afford a place to live.

“We have students who are homeless, absolutely. And some of them are young and do live with others, but for various reasons others can’t and there are older students,” many forced to live out in East Deer-ing or Westbrook if they’re able to secure affordable housing, Wagner said.

By DaviD CarkhuffTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Rally falls at intersection of housing, hotels

WhiteThe new Portland chapter of Social Welfare Action Alliance and University of Southern Maine students join in a protest at the Portland Housing Authority Thursday. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– WORLD/NATION–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– DIGEST––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Haute punk

SAYWHAT...Punk is not just the sound, the music.

Punk is a lifestyle.”— Billie Joe Armstrong

(NY Times) — Deep in the bowels of the Metro-politan Museum of Art, a gray-smocked assistant in the Costume Institute was carefully transporting a long box from a storage area. All around her were mannequins wearing head-to-toe perfected haute cou-ture: a laced-up Versace, a deconstructed Margiela. In a corner stood a male mannequin wearing a black bondage suit and artfully scuffed Doc Marten boots.

The assistant laid down the box, opening it to unfurl folds of acid-free archival tissue. Gently, she lifted up a few sheets, revealing her treasure: a dingy, ripped “Anarchy in the U.K.” Sex Pistols T-shirt, sized to fi t a child or an extremely hard-living rock star. There also was T-shirt after well-worn T-shirt, with punchy slogans and graphic images — many faded, with pit stains and rings around the col-lars. The assistant held up a scribbled black one. “We have to make sure we don’t remove that safety pin,” she said, reverentially.

On view starting May 9, the Costume Institute’s exhibition “Punk: Chaos to Couture” is, by design, a blend of high and low culture, anarchic street style metamorphosed into impossibly chic fashion. “We’re trying to highlight the more intellectual, artistic side of punk,” said Andrew Bolton, the curator of the exhibition. Organizers hope to draw a parallel between the populist, DIY punk aes-thetic and the individualized vision of rarefi ed designers.

But because very few people preserved their holey tops and fraying jeans — sweating and shredding through them was, of course, a badge of honor — the gar-ments on display are mostly from the couture side, pricey ensembles inspired by, or sometimes direct rip-offs of, outfi ts worn by the emerging counterculture in New York and London from 1974 to 1979. There are contempo-rary plastic-bag dresses by the British designer Gareth Pugh, and, in the show’s catalog, images of young women wearing garbage bags decades ago, along-side Chanel suits with meticulous holes that likely did not come from cigarette burns.

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MAKHACHKALA, Russia (NY Times) — The parents of the two brothers accused in the bomb attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260 near the fi nish line of the Boston Marathon insisted on Thursday that their sons were innocent and had no con-nection to radical Islam.

In an outpouring of anguish and anger at a news conference here in the capital of Dagestan, the brothers’ father, Anzor Tsarnaev, and mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, also made accusations of a conspiracy in which the American authorities murdered their older son, Tamerlan, after seiz-ing him.

Offi cials in the United States have said that Tamerlan was shot during a wild standoff with the police and was run over by a car driven by his younger brother as he escaped from the scene. The younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,

was captured and has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction. He is recovering in a Boston hospital and may face the death penalty if convicted. Offi cials have also released video showing the brothers near the site of the marathon bombing.

Despite this evidence, and after two days of questioning by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation here, Tsarnaeva said she would not accept that her sons were guilty.

“No I don’t — and I won’t,” she snapped at the news conference. “Never!”

During an emotional, nearly hourlong ques-tion-and-answer session, the parents addressed many of the questions that investigators and the American public have been asking in the anxious, unsettled days after the bombing, insisting their sons were not religious radicals or connected to any terrorist organization.

Parents: Boston bombing suspects are innocent

WASHINGTON (NY Times) — The White House said on Thursday that American intel-ligence agencies now believed, with “varying degrees of con-fi dence,” that the Syrian gov-ernment had used chemical weapons, but it said it needed conclusive proof before Presi-dent Obama would take action.

The disclosure, in letters to Congressional leaders, takes the administration a step closer to acknowledging that President Bashar al-Assad has crossed a red line established by Obama last summer, when he said the United States would take unspecifi ed action

against Syria if there was evi-dence that chemical weapons had been used in the civil war.

The White House empha-sized that, “given the stakes involved,” the United States still needed “credible and cor-roborated facts” before decid-ing on a course of action. The letter, signed by the president’s director of legislative affairs, Miguel E. Rodriguez, said the United States was pressing for a “comprehensive United Nations investigation that can credibly evaluate the evidence and establish what happened.”

Although the White House said it could not confi rm the

circumstances in which vic-tims were exposed to chemi-cal weapons, it said it believed that the chemical agent sarin had been used. “We do believe,” the letter said, “that any use of chemical weapons in Syria would very likely have origi-nated with the Assad regime.”

Britain, in a letter last month requesting a United Nations investigation, cited three episodes in which it sus-pected that chemical weapons had been used: in a village west of Aleppo and on the outskirts of Damascus, both on March 19, and in Homs on Dec. 24.

U.S. says it suspects Assad used chemical weapons

Texas Plant fell through regulatory cracksWEST, Texas (NY Times) — In

the moments after a fi re broke out at a fertilizer plant here last week, some of the volunteer fi re-fi ghters and other fi rst respond-ers who rushed to the scene appeared to have known that there were tons of dangerously combustible ammonium nitrate inside, but others did not.

Ammonium nitrate is the same chemical that Timothy McVeigh used in the Okla-homa City bombing in 1995. The nitrogen-rich chemical, a crystal-like substance that resembles coarse table salt, is popular with farmers as a fer-tilizer but in the wrong hands or in the wrong conditions it can turn explosive. Investiga-tors say that the ammonium nitrate stored at the plant appeared to have caused the subsequent explosion that killed 10 fi refi ghters and at least four civilians.

The uncertainty over who was aware of the chemical at the plant and who was not, both at the site and in Washington, illustrates the patchwork regula-tory world the plant operated in and the ways in which it slipped through bureaucratic cracks at the federal, state and local levels.

One week after the blast, inves-tigators were still not sure how much ammonium nitrate was stored there, whether it had been stored properly and which agen-cies had been informed about it — even though a host of fed-eral, state and local offi cials were responsible for regulating and monitoring the plant’s operations and products.

TODAY’SJOKE“My best friend got a truck. She didn’t want to be so trendy, so she got a UPS truck. You might laugh, but she can park it anywhere.”

— Wendy Liebman

TodayHigh: 55

Chance of rain: 10% Sunrise: 5:41 a.m.

TonightLow: 38

Chance of rain: 10% Sunset: 7:38 p.m.

TomorrowHigh: 59Low: 40

Sunrise: 5:39 a.m.Sunset: 7:39 p.m.

SundayHigh: 60Low: 42

THETIDESMORNING

High: 11:33 p.m.Low: 12:50 a.m.

EVENINGHigh: 5:54 p.m.Low: 6:06 p.m.

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The last time I spoke at length with my friend, the artist Viola Moriarty, was this past summer at an outdoor wine tasting in Vermont, where I also own a home. Referring to my years-long evasion, she smiled and wagged her finger at me as a school

A verse for Viola Moriarty

Telly Halkias–––––

From the Stacks

teacher might to an errant boy – one who was loved but needed to be put in his place.

“One day, Telly,” Viola said, “You’re going to let me paint your portrait.”

I never doubted her, but this past week, I was reminded that time is always working against us. While far from New Eng-land, in the warmer mid-Atlan-tic clime, I received notice that Viola had succumbed to her six-year battle with cancer.

In departing this life far too soon, Viola Rose Moriarty left a void in New England art that will be difficult to fill. Arriv-ing in Vermont 15 years ago with husband Jon Lev and daughters Anna and Phoebe, she taught school but then gradually left the formal profession and embarked on her painting career. However, she never stopped being teacher or student.

Viola was a self-trained Modern Expressionist, and her talent brought her considerable regional acclaim in a short time, to include winning the Peo-ple’s Choice category at the Plein Air Vermont 2011 competition.

Years ago, when the scourge of cancer invaded Vio-la’s body, she refused to let it take her spirit. Instead, she became a paradigm for fighters and survivors everywhere.

It was then I published my first reflection on her colliding worlds of cancer and creativity. The essay considered Viola’s impending battle as seen through the eyes of her painting, “Phoebe in Lime Green,” which hangs in my home to this day.

The image captured Viola’s daughter at age 16 following a traumatic illness which had left Phoebe hospitalized for several months in South America. It remains a brilliant work, but also a reminder of what Viola faced.

Given this memory, on the evening I learned of her death, I sifted through my files for every article I

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With newly minted U.S. Sena-tor Angus S. King Jr. making his maiden floor speech this past week, and getting a surprising amount of press doing so, it natu-rally raised once again the ques-tion that many national pundits always raise: What the heck’s up with Maine?

There was Sen. King quoting Honest Abe: “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present...” and stressing the later line “... we must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”

Disenthrall?Ya think?No doubt Sen. King reflected a mainstream view

when he boldly endorsed “... solutions that are practical and effective.” His view brought the typi-cal knee-jerk reaction from CiiG, the “coalition for impractical and ineffective government,” which noted that policies deemed not “effective” can hardly modify the noun “solution.”

They are wonky, those CiiG wonks.The challenge, from a national perspective, is that

many politically minded folks consider Maine a New England jurisdiction, no doubt because we root for Boston sports teams and ski down mountains on ice and/or slush. For those in fly-over America, it’s hard to realize that Maine is actually their fly-under cousin.

Politically, I’ve always told my western states friends that Maine politics looks and feels more like Colorado or even Nevada or New Mexico than Mas-

sachusetts. That begins with pop-ulation density; Massachusetts is the solidly East Coast dense, with around 850 residents per square mile, the third-most-densely pop-ulated state.

Maine comes in 38th, sand-wiched between western states Colorado and Oregon.

We also follow the urban-rural population patterns common

everywhere but pronounced in the West: dense, left-leaning metro areas surrounded by more politically conservative, and much less populated, rural areas.

Drive across the country lately? Kansas with trees.The analogies continue: Western states have

recent cowboy cultural influences that create a cer-tain independent streak; we have fishermen with a similar tolerance for being told what to do; they have conflict over land use and lumber and so do we.

Granted, the analogy is not perfect and we do have those East Coast educational meccas, but it does begin to explain why Maine can seem hard to track politically. We elect a GOP governor and both houses of the legislature, then kick the GOP out in mid-terms but then replace a popular GOP sena-tor with an independent who suddenly becomes an even-more-wild card for the senate.

We embrace some of the most liberal causes, passing medical marijuana and same-sex mar-riage, yet elect a Republican governor and move quickly to block the public from knowing who

“Gridlock is not the answer.,” U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, said in his “maiden” speech on the floor of the Senate this week. “The framers knew the government had to work. It may be slow and cumbersome, but ultimately it had to be functional. Madison recognized this, and so did the preamble: ‘to form a more perfect union.’ A more perfect union than that which had been formed by the Articles of Confederation.” (COURTESY PHOTO)


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We come to the point in the budgetary season where mem-bers of budget com-mittees have quite literally reached the “picking up rocks and looking under them for cash” stage, the couch seat-cushions already having been serially molested.

While the general public finds itself in the same predicament, eyes turn to the pile of returnables or other recy-clable trash. There is a hidden story in Portland’s trash, however.

Starting the end of this year, it might not cost as much as we think it does.

Looking at the annual report from EcoMaine, the trash to energy plant that Portland sends all of its blue bag stuff to is an interesting read, full of little tidbits of information that kind of gets lost in the shuffle of a daily paper, or a weekly columnist.

Last August, EcoMaine made its “last” debt payment for the facility, essentially turning all the incoming trash to be burned into a tidy profit-able pile of cash for the member com-munities involved.

Since all the member communities

support the opera-tions of the facility by way of municipal assessments, the board of directors, in a rare pique of Rea-ganesque “Trickle-Down” economic theory, decided it

was only fitting and proper to reduce Portland’s assessed fee by 13.5 per-cent.

The report states that since fiscal year 2011, the amount EcoMaine charges member communities has been reduced by 37 percent.

Portland is also in the top three com-munities for recycling, the unburn-able stuff being sold off to metal and plastic scrappers for additional bags of cash.

Then, there are the “tipping fees,” a cost per ton of material dumped. That will be going down 20 percent, from $88/ton to $70.50 a ton.

Yes, all this is leading somewhere. We just signed a new contract selling off the power produced at a slightly higher rate than the deal we had for the last year.

All this being added up brings me to an inevitable question. Why am I and the rest of Portland paying so much

for these damnable (unprintable) blue bags?

I had to do a long search, but remember the screeching, wailing and gnashing of teeth when the cost of the bags went from $4.75 per package (of small or large bags) to a crisp $10 bill?

That was in 2006. The price has not dropped since. At this very moment, I’m sure there is some sort of focus group studying the task of how to get us to ease up the price of those bags just a little bit higher next fall.

Let’s sum up that last couple of paragraphs. We paid more for the bags, to produce more energy, to pay off the debt quicker, to sell the energy at a higher cost. The member com-munities cut their amount sent in via assessment lower and lower (while raising your taxes for the service) while raising the price per bag cost.

Sounds like a nice racket.Toss in on top of that a tip from a

reliable source that the city is find-ing it difficult to manage to pay for trash collection, and has signed the city workers in that department to a contract of a year or less while explor-ing the possibility of hiring a private company to do trash collection.

A quick check with city director of

communications Nicole Clegg resulted in her denying that this was taking place, yet the rumors persist.

Some food for thought, before I take this column to the curb. The ash gen-erated as a result of all that burning is buried in an ash dump on site. Accord-ing to the report, “We have a land fill that, at some point, will need to be closed and monitored for many years. The board made the decision that the users of the land fill should be paying for that cost. The best guess for clos-ing is about 25 years out and the esti-mated cost, with today’s technology and environmental rules is about $22 million.”

“We have already used over 65 per-cent of the land fill capacity but thus far have only set aside $1.7 million for closing/post closing costs.”

In the parlance of the day, that’s a pretty big “DERP!”

With the budget that has been pre-sented, that could be fully funded in less than six years, and still have some wiggle room left over at the bottom of the bag to cost the cost of those bags.

But if nobody ever pays attention, I can guarantee that cost will go up.

(Bob Higgins is a regular contribu-tor to The Portland Daily Sun.)

Talking trash, part IIBob

Higgins–––––

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HALKIAS from page 4

In departing this life far too soon, Moriarty left a void in New England art

had written on Viola, her work, and family. What I found was something she had shared but I had for-gotten: art involves some element of irony and fate.

In this light, the timing of Viola’s parting didn’t escape me; she left this world during a period of inordinate strife. With terrorist bombings in Boston, flooding in the Midwest, a deadly plant explosion in West Texas, and a killer earthquake in China, I couldn’t recall a more trying week in recent history.

Yet perhaps no other time would have been as fitting. Viola’s genius, at least as I knew it from our many interviews on her life and art, was born of a passion for trying to sort through the world’s friction as well as its beauty. While outwardly witty and engaging, she didn’t sit at the easel just to put a smile on things, but also to search deeply for the source of our tears.

In doing so with vibrant directness, Viola con-cealed a shyness that gave her bravado the excla-mation point for which she was so well known. And while she will never compose my portrait on canvas, Viola already had painted it many times, in the reflection of Phoebe’s sapphire gaze, and in her own.

By dusk I had finished reading those past arti-cles, and went for a hike through the woods to pay homage to my friend. Given that I was far from New England’s April chills, I could stop to see nature give birth to springtime hues, as Viola

often did on her palette.It turns out I wasn’t alone.As I ended my trek, I came upon a lockbox solic-

iting donations for botanical stewardship. On top of the steel casing sat a small, plastic yellow egg, opened in half, containing a piece of paper.

In the waning light I unwrapped the parchment to find a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. It was an omen — what I believe in my heart of hearts to be Viola folding up her easel one last time, after paint-ing her final self-portrait in words:

I have hymns you haven’t heard.

There is an upward soaringin which I bend close.You can barely distinguish mefrom the things that kneel before me.

They are like sheep, they are grazing.I am the shepherd on the brow of the hill.When evening draws them homeI follow after, the dark bridge thudding,

and the vapor rising from their backshides my own homecoming.

(Telly Halkias is an award-winning freelance journalist From Portland’s West End. You may contact him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter at @TellyHalkias.)

“Phoebe in Lime Green,” oil on canvas, 2005, by Viola Moriarty, (1958-2013). (COURTESY IMAGE)


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Be sure to get that apostrophe in Mechanics’ Hall on there and in the right place, I was told by a member of the Maine Chari-table Mechanic Association. The founding members had it writ-ten in stone that way up over the front entryway, and they were people who were very intentional and precise about everything they did.

They were skilled tradesmen, at the time called “mechanics” — blacksmiths, carpenters, wheel-wrights, sail makers — people who knew the differ-ence between right and just right. And getting it just right in this instance meant making it abundantly clear that their grand new granite building in the center of town belonged to the mechanics of the city, not to some member of the capitalist class, the way all of the other prominent buildings in town did.

The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, which still makes its home in Mechanics’ Hall, was founded in 1815 as a brotherhood of skilled workers who got together to support one another in a vari-ety of ways, and to increase public awareness of the quality and importance of the work they did. Their chief bad guys were the “old money” business and property owners in town who controlled the eco-nomic and political affairs of the day and scoffed at the mechanics’ aspirations, referring to them as “tag-rag and bob-tail pretenders to power,” who, without the capital or credit, or the prerequisite know-how, stood not a chance of rising above their natural station in life. That attitude on their part, of course, caused some serious internal growling on the part of more than a few blacksmiths and sail makers: their organization did not lack for a cause.

Mechanics’ Hall was built in the years 1857-58 entirely by members of the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association. The erection of the granite four-story Greek Revival building with ornamented façade in the center of town was seen by them as an opportunity to showcase their best work. As an indi-cation of the seriousness with which they took the whole affair, witness the images of the Greek math-ematician and engineer Archimedes, and of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and forge, that are depicted in the keystones of the windows on the facade of the building. Pretty heady stuff for a building that sits

today in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the Downtown Arts District.

One could go on about many different aspects of the history of the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association and of Mechanics’ Hall. There was the grand pro-cession of dozens of mechanics

carrying the respective banners of their trades down Congress Street, each one featuring vivid illustra-tions and catchy slogans. Some slogans were humor-ous, like the shoemakers’ slogan: “He who would not pay the shoemaker is not worth his sole.” And some were curious, like the coopers’ slogan: “Nothing but division ever squares the circles of our casks.” One could wonder long and hard as to the meaning of that, or just go on to talk about the numerous lec-tures and public debates held in the building over the years.

Neal Dow, the man from Portland who became known as the Father of Prohibition, ironed out the details of what was to become known as The Maine Law at a presentation in Mechanics’ Hall. Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his famous essay “On Morals” there as well. Portland’s dynamic publisher and businessman, John Neal, held “artistic exhibi-tions” in Mechanics’ Hall, where he showed the work of eminent artists like landscape painter Harrison Bird Brown and sculptor Paul Akers. The list of activities and events that took place in Mechanics’ Hall amounts to a virtual synopsis of Portland’s cul-tural and political history.

Somehow the aspect of the history of Mechan-ics’ Hall that intrigues me the most, though, has to do with the billeting of Civil War troops there. The federal government needed a place in town for new recruits to stay before being taken by rail to points south, and the membership offered the fourth floor of their building. Seems not to have changed up there since the time young recruits from Berwick and North Pownal, fresh off the farm, sat on the edges of their bunks excitedly chatting away about being in the big city of Portland and the great adven-ture yet to come. You can peer out over the city and down to the harbor through the small porthole style windows just like they must have. If you searched closely enough you might even find where a young

man carved his initials in the wall with a jackknife somewhere.

So what’s happening nowadays at Mechanics’ Hall that’s worth getting excited about? Well, to begin with, there’s an all-subject, 40,000-volume, nearly two-hundred-year-old lending library on the second floor. It’s open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thyrsday, from 10 to 3, and on the First Friday Art Walks from 5 to 8, when revolving art shows are featured. The

“For many years groups of various trades would march down Congress St. proudly carrying beautiful banners with slogans to promote their trades,” states the website for the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association (www.mainecharitablemechanicassocia-tion.com). “A free school for Mechanical and Architectural draw-ing was started in 1875 and continued for over 100 years until 1983.” (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

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(Curtis Robinson is the founding editor of The Portland Daily Sun.)Telly Halkias column is quite well

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library reeks with antiquity — it’s the eighth oldest “member library” in America — and is filled with fascinating memora-bilia and old books, but there’s also a wide selection of contempo-rary reading and a complete list of library services. Pat Larrabee, the head librarian, makes sure of that. She’s playing a central role in the current effort to revitalize the organization and, like Presi-dent Brad McCurtain and the members of the board of trustees, is very desirous of attracting new members. Twenty-five dollars a year gets you membership in the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association with full library priv-ileges. You also get to spend all your every waking hour obsess-

ing on the incredible potential of the place.

There’s a ballroom on the third floor that’s going unused. What a place for an artists’ ball, or maybe a ball where people come dressed as their favorite histori-cal character. Anyone who knows dance in Portland knows of the incomparable dancer Reggie Osborn. He’s on the board of trustees and had a dance studio in the third floor ballroom for about ten years. So he knows the ins and outs of it all and would be great to work with. Then there’s what could happen on the fourth floor, where the recruits stayed. There’s been a renewed interest in such things as boat-designing and dress-making by many people lately. Maybe such activities could happen up there

at some point? Skilled workman-ship is definitely what Mechan-ics’ Hall is all about, after all.

The mind whirls with it all. If you’d like to share any ideas or arrange a tour send Maine Charitable Mechanic Association historian Art Gaffar an email at: [email protected]. If you know where any old pictures of the building can be had you’ll be golden.

Art’s a stickler for detail, though, like the founding mem-bers were, so if you send him an email make sure to get that apostrophe on Mechanics’ Hall right.

(Cliff Gallant of Portland is a regular columnist for The Port-land Daily Sun. Email him at [email protected].)

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“Once we confirmed that it was not a friendly aircraft and it had entered Israeli airspace, F-16 aircraft inter-cepted it with air-to-air missiles,” said Capt. Eytan Buchman, a spokesman for the Israeli military.

Captain Buchman added that ques-tions like whether the drone was armed were being investigated.

Israeli analysts speculated that the drone was more likely to have been on a surveillance mission, possibly to photograph sites like Israel’s off-shore gas fields or its chemical stores in Haifa. They also noted that the small drone might not have had any opera-tional purpose at all beyond testing Israel’s response or trying to embar-rass the government.

Military officals said that the drone originated from a coastal area of Leb-anon.

Israeli suspicions immediately fell on Hezbollah, the militant Shiite orga-nization in Lebanon, which fought with Israel during a monthlong war in 2006, and which Israel regards as a terrorist organization.

The Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar television broadcaster in Lebanon reported the downing of the drone, citing the Israeli military. Later the organization sought to distance itself from any responsibility. “Hez-bollah denied that it has sent any drone towards the atmosphere of occupied Palestine,” the organiza-tion said, using its terminology for Israel, on the Web site of Al-Manar.

In October, after Israel shot down a drone that had flown 35 miles across its southern territory, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, boasted that his fighters had assem-bled and remotely flown the aircraft. He said it had been designed in Iran and assembled by Hezbollah experts in Lebanon. It was Hezbollah’s right to deploy drones, he asserted, noting that Israel’s military aircraft fre-quently violated Lebanese airspace, and vowed then that “it was not the

first time, and it will not be the last.”The latest incursion comes at a

delicate time as Israel warily moni-tors the civil war in Syria for fear that sophisticated weapons could be transferred from the Syrian army into Hezbollah’s hands and taken into Lebanon. Israel has declared that it would not tolerate such a development. In late January, Israeli warplanes struck a convoy of anti-aircraft weaponry outside Damas-cus that American officials said had been headed to the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-yahu, reacting to the shooting down of the drone, said in a statement: “I view with utmost gravity this attempt to violate our border. We will continue to do everything nec-essary to safeguard the security of Israel’s citizens.”

Mr. Netanyahu was informed of the incursion as he was being flown north in a helicopter. The helicopter landed for a short while as the inter-ception was under way, then resumed its flight north.

Jonathan Spyer, a senior research fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs Center at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzilya, Israel, said he believed the drone was Hezbollah’s and was “part of an ongo-ing process” in which the organization “likes to test out the capabilities” of the Israeli Defense Forces. Mr. Spyer also said he believed the downing of the drone “was not likely to trigger anything major” between the two ene-mies.

Mr. Spyer, who specializes in Leba-non and Syria, noted that Hezbollah had faced harsh criticism lately at home and in the Arab world for its role in supporting President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, and said the drone could be seen as a reassertion of its core mission: antagonizing Israel.

“To remind everybody that Hez-bollah actually is against Israel, to remind everybody that Hezbollah can tweak Israel’s nose, is not a bad day’s work from a Hezbollah P.R. point of view,” he said. “It’s a very calibrated move that is designed to make a point without bringing retribution from the I.D.F., which is the last thing Hezbol-lah wants right now.”

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Greater Portland Landmarks reintroduces Portland history book for local studentsGroup updates ‘The City is a Classroom’ text

Portland’s history is now going to be more acces-sible for the city’s third-grade students with the completion of an updated book.

Greater Portland Landmarks on Thursday released the newest edition of “The City Is a Classroom” — a workbook that’s available to third-grade classes in Portland and the area.

“It’s the only resource of its kind that deals with Portland history,” said Hilary Bassett, executive director of Greater Portland Landmarks.

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Jennifer Pollick, the project director, said the updated version of the workbook includes sev-eral new features, including specific lessons and activities dealing with nine historical landmarks, buildings and landscapes. She said the book was developed with the help of teachers so it meshes with the schools’ common core standards.

Lyseth third-grade teacher Marilyn Philbrook said her classes have studied Portland’s history and researched the city’s landmarks. She said she’s excited to have an additional tool that pres-ents information in a more accessible format for the students to use during their research.

Philbrook said the students will be able to use what they’ve learned about Portland to teach their family about the city’s history.

East End Community School third-grade teacher Lynne Medley said the workbook will help get students more interested in they city where they live, whether they’re from Maine or have recently moved to the state. The students will better learn about the city’s history because the material is more accessible, she said, and get them more involved with the community.

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East End Community School teacher Cindy

Rotolo said the book presents Portland’s history in a way that’s less abstract because they recognize the landmarks around them.

Bassett said the material for the updated book was gathered in concert with Portland’s History Collaborative and groups like the Abyssinian Restoration Project, the Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, the Friends of Evergreen Cemetery, the Maine Historical Society, the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum, the Tate House and Vic-toria Mansion.

“It was a joint effort,” Bassett said.For more about Greater Portland Landmarks,

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LEFT: Jennifer Pollick, the project director for “The City Is a Classroom,” showed off some of the new features of the Portland history books now available to area third-grade teachers. The new edition is the first update done to the history book in nearly a decade. (CRAIG LYONS PHOTOS)


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The Café Review held a publication party for its spring issue Wednesday at Mayo Street Arts Center. Founder and editor Steve Luttrell welcomed three Maine poets and two reviewers from the issue to read from their work.

Luttrell read from Donald Crane’s work since he could not attend. Crane is an octogenarian who lives three and a half hours away.

Lee Sharkey, who was the 2010 Maine Arts Com-mission’s Fellow in the Literary Arts and serves as coeditor of the Bleat Poetry Journal, read two poems from the new review, “Deposition” and “Art Thief,” both aimed at Gov. Paul LePage’s removal of the Maine Labor History Mural.

“I’m happy it’s been returned to public space,” she said when introducing the poems. She also read

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Richard Taylor read two poems from the spring issue dealing with young boys meeting old men, “Cold Knowing” and “Coming to Mr. Kirk.” Taylor was a member of the 1964 Olympic Nordic Team and for many years a coach with the National Team and at Gould Academy. He also read a motorcycle poem called “Harley in Love.”

David Stankiewicz, who teaches at Southern Maine Community College, invited people to his book launch at the Speckled Ax coffee shop on Con-gress Street Sunday night, April 28. He read “Plum Island Suite.”

Reviewers Christopher Robley and Jefferson Navicky each read a few of their poems. Robley read one which spoke of the alternative endings to Homer’s “Odyssey,” and Navicky read one called “30 minutes,” about trying to “pound out a poem in half an hour.”

Luttrell announced that the Café Review’s summer issue was going to be a tribute to Michael Macklin, the Portland poet long associated with the Review, who died last May.

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Marty McConnell, Tatyana S. Brown and Sean Patrick Mulroy will read on Friday, April 26, at 7 p.m. at Rising Tide Brewery, 103 Fox St. in Portland.

McConnell is the author of “Wine for a Shotgun,” released in October 2012 on EM Press. “Part of the vanguard of poets fusing and refusing the delinea-tions between literary and oral poetry, McConnell’s work blurs the lines between autobiography and personae to comment on and illuminate what it means to live and love outside the lines in early 21st century America,” according to a press release.

Brown is currently ranked fourth in the world of competitive performance poetry after participating in the 2011 Individual World Poetry Slam, according to the press release. She is also the founding Captain of The Lit Slam (www.thelitslam.com), a monthly live-audience curated literary journal, and a co-host of San Jose’s Oversocial Mofo Revue. She has toured

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Mulroy is a musician and songwriter (a.k.a. Sean Conlon) who found himself without a band mid-tour in 2004. After about a year and a half of playing Nin-tendo in his basement, he re-emerged briefly, only to find himself drawn to the basement of the Cantab Lounge for the weekly slam. The press release calls him “an intense listener and quick study, (who) burst onto the Cantab slam scene not long thereafter with his rockstar’s sense of showmanship and acerbic, Southern sense of humor.”

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Rhythmic Cypher — Saturday

The weekly avant garde open mic and poetry slam, Rhythmic Cypher, is hosting a benefit on Saturday, April 27, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Mayo Street Arts to raise funds for sending the first poetry slam team to represent them at the National Poetry Slam in Boston and Cambridge, Mass., this August. The benefit will feature music by the new up-and-com-ing folk band, Au Contraire, and the 20-piece folk/punk brass band, Speaker for the Dead, poetry per-formances by the 2013 Rhythmic Cypher NorthBeast Regional Slam Team and Women of the World Rep-resentative, Princess Jones. Also featured will be two top-ranked national poets, Marty McConnell, the 2012 National Underground Poetry Individual Competition (NUPIC) Champion, and Dominique Ashaheed, the 2012 National Poetry Slam Champion & 2012 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion.

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with partner nations in the

region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass

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Garcia/Released)

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Street to honor the return of spring after a long cold winter, organizers announced.

On Sunday, May 5, hundreds of mask-wearers, giant puppets and bands will

gather on Casco Street across from Maine Col-lege of Art at 11 a.m. to prepare for a noontime march to the Eastern Promenade, where there will be food and mul-ticultural music and dance performances. The theme this year is “All Peoples, All Creatures.”

“We’re hoping mem-bers of Portland’s many cultures and creeds will join together to celebrate the beautiful diversity of our com-munity,” said Marita Kennedy-Castro, this year’s parade coordina-tor. “Since 2004, under the sponsorship of the Museum of African Cul-ture, the parade has featured puppets and masks that represent the ram, or “ebune,” cel-ebrating the fertility of spring. This year masks will represent a diverse array of species and creatures as well.”

For more information, visit Ebune2013.com.

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LEFT: Leon Ross with Portland Public Services tidies up around blooming trees at Lobsterman’s Park Wednesday. The next few days should make Mainers feel like spring has finally arrived. Today’s forecast is for sunny conditions, with a high near 56 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. On Saturday, expect more of the same, as the forecast calls for mostly sunny conditions, with a high near 60.Then, on Sunday, the forecast predicts mostly sunny conditions, with a high near 65 degrees. Monday will be mostly sunny, again with a high near 65 degrees. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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HOROSCOPE By Holiday Mathis

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Some look at the scene and declare that there is little to be done about it. You’re more likely to roll up your sleeves in the spirit of determination than to throw up your hands in defeat. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Don’t worry about pleasing the audience or the critics. Even your best efforts may not win them over, and even if you do, the victory will be hollow unless you fi rst please yourself. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). It is easy to discount the learning you do when you are having fun. It feels so effortless that you hardly think to give yourself any credit. How-ever, don’t be too modest, or you’ll miss an opportunity. CANCER (June 22-July 22). There will be outside factors to challenge you and obstruct your path, so do not create extra impediments. Keep making the effort, and avoid making excuses. Stay strong and be ready. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The end is always the best place to start. Embrace the closing of a chapter, and stay alert to loose ends, unanswered questions and the like. The unre-solved bits will lead you into the next adven-ture. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). However nice it feels to be envied or thought of as “cool,” it’s nothing compared to the feeling of help-ing others, making the world better and giving your love where it’s needed. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). It will be tempting to volunteer, but this is not an opti-mal moment. Any extra hours you have would be best used recharging. You’ll perform better at life when you’re well rested. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your theory doesn’t need to be tested in order for you to know it’s correct. Don’t waste time trying to prove something to yourself or others. Trust that you know what you’re doing, and move forward. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You feel compelled to create. Although you may use your talents at work, your creativity is broader than a professional calling. Honor your creative spirit by indulging it beyond

what you’re paid to do. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Centu-ries ago, new shoes were a much bigger deal to acquire. Now it’s commonplace to update your “kicks,” but you still get a thrill from this effort -- or from any effort to help you walk the earth with grace and style. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Getting along with the other gender is easy once you stop expecting them to have the same strengths, manners and behaviors that your gender does. Embracing differences makes for smooth sailing. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you have to. You feel open to new possibili-ties. You’ll blow past the former limits that once described you. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 26). Your worries dissipate as your strength and fl ex-ibility of spirit develop. You are like a ninja in the fi ght. Whatever is thrown in your path or directed at you, trust that you can use it to your advantage. This month and next increase the love fl owing through your life. Financial luck is optimum in June and Octo-ber. Leo and Libra people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 6, 23, 41, 3 and 50.

Today’s Birthdays: Movie composer Francis Lai (“Love Story”) is 81. Actress-comedian Carol Burnett is 80. Rhythm-and-blues singer Maurice Williams is 75. Songwriter-musician Duane Eddy is 75. Singer Bobby Rydell is 71. Rock musician Gary Wright is 70. Rock musician Roger Taylor is 53. Actress Joan Chen is 52. Rock musician Chris Mars is 52. Actor-singer Michael Damian is 51. Actor Jet Li is 50. Rock musician Jimmy Stafford is 49. Actor-comedian Kevin James is 48. United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey is 47. Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste is 46. Country musician Michael Jeffers (Pinmon-key) is 41. Rock musician Jose Pasillas (Incu-bus) is 37. Actor Jason Earles is 36. Actor Leonard Earl Howze is 36. Actor Tom Welling is 36. Actress Jordana Brewster is 33. Actress Stana Katic is 33. Actress Marnette Patterson is 33. Actor Channing Tatum is 33.


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6 WCSHFashion Star “His and Hers” Designers make “his and hers” pieces.

Dateline NBC (N) (In Stereo) Å

Rock Center With Brian Williams (N) (In Stereo) Å

News Tonight Show With Jay Leno

7 WPFOKitchen Nightmares The Prohibition Grille in Everett, Wash. (N)

Touch “Accused” Martin tries to clear his name. (N) Å

News 13 on FOX (N) Dish Nation (N) Å

The Office “Drug Test-ing”

8 WMTWHappy End-ings (N)

Happy End-ings (N)

Shark Tank Homemade cupcakes in a jar. (N) (In Stereo) Å (DVS)

20/20 (In Stereo) Å WMTW News 8 at 11 (N)

Jimmy Kimmel Live Å

9 TWC TV Girls HS Lacrosse High School Lacrosse Freeport vs. York. (N) Paid Prog. Paid Prog.

10 MPBNWashing-ton Week

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Maine Watch

Inside Washing-ton Å

Live From Lincoln Center “Rodgers & Hammer-stein’s Carousel With the New York Philharmonic” Rob Fisher conducts “Carousel.” (N)

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Windows to the Wild Å

12 WPXTNikita “Self-Destruct” Birkhoff struggles with personal loss. (N) Å

Oh Sit! “Sean Kingston” Sean Kingston per-forms. Å

30 Rock (In Stereo) Å

30 Rock “Apollo, Apollo”

Friends (In Stereo) Å

TMZ (N) (In Stereo) Å

13 WGMEUndercover Boss Retro Fitness CEO Eric Casa-buri. (N) Å

Vegas “Past Lives” A murder suspect takes Mia hostage. (N) Å

Blue Bloods A disori-ented man is covered in blood. (N) Å

WGME News 13 at 11 (N)

Late Show With David Letterman

17 WPME Monk (In Stereo) Å Monk (In Stereo) Å Law Order: CI Our Homes Sunny

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28 CSNE NBA Basketball New York Knicks at Boston Celtics. (Live) Celtics Postgame Live SportsNet

30 ESPN NBA Basketball New York Knicks at Boston Celtics. (N) NBA Basketball: Spurs at Lakers

31 ESPN2 2013 NFL Draft From Radio City Music Hall in New York. (N) NBA Basketball

33 ION Cold Case Å Cold Case Drawings. Cold Case Confession. Flashpoint Å 34 DISN ANT Farm Jessie (N) Phineas Fish Dog Good Luck ANT Farm ANT Farm

35 TOON Cartoon Planet King of Hill King of Hill Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Fam. Guy Fam. Guy

36 NICK Turtles Turtles Full House Full House The Nanny The Nanny Friends Friends

37 MSNBC All In With Chris Hayes Rachel Maddow Show Lockup Lockup

38 CNN Anderson Cooper 360 Piers Morgan Live (N) Anderson Cooper Anthony Bourd.

40 CNBC Treasure Detectives The Car Chasers American Greed Mad Money

41 FNC The O’Reilly Factor (N) Hannity (N) Greta Van Susteren The O’Reilly Factor

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44 LIFE Hoarders Å Hoarders Å Hoarders Å Hoarders “June; Doug”

46 TLC Four Weddings (N) Say Yes Say Yes Gown Gown Say Yes Say Yes

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48 HGTV Spont. Flea Mar Flea Mar Flea Mar Hunters Hunters Flea Mar Flea Mar

49 TRAV Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures Dead Files Revisited The Dead Files Å 50 A&E Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage

52 BRAVO Housewives/Atl. Movie: ›› “Death at a Funeral” (2010) “Death at a Funeral”

55 HALL Movie: ››› “Dad’s Home” (2010, Drama) Å Frasier Frasier Frasier Frasier

56 SYFY WWE Friday Night SmackDown! (N) Å Defiance Paranormal

57 ANIM Swamp’d! Swamp’d! Tanked (N) (In Stereo) Tanked (In Stereo) Tanked (In Stereo)

58 HIST American Pickers Å American Pickers Å American Pickers Å American Pickers Å 60 BET Movie: ›› “National Security” Movie: ›› “Daddy’s Little Girls” (2007) Gabrielle Union.

61 COM Tosh.0 Tosh.0 Work. Tosh.0 Jeff Dunham: Minding Al Madrigal

62 FX Movie: ››‡ “The A-Team” (2010, Action) Liam Neeson. Movie: ›››‡ “The Fighter”

67 TVLND Gold Girls Gold Girls Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond King King

68 TBS Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Movie: ››‡ “Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself” There Yet?

76 SPIKE Movie: ›› “Gone in 60 Seconds” (1974) H.B. Halicki. Movie: “Lucky Number Slevin”

78 OXY Movie: ››› “Walk the Line” (2005, Biography) Movie

146 TCM Movie: ››› “The Great Lie” (1941) Å Movie: ››› “Kitty Foyle” (1940) Å (DVS)

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DAILY CROSSWORDBY WAYNE ROBERT WILLIAMS

Today is Friday, April 26, the 116th day of 2013. There are 249 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:On April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, the

assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was sur-rounded by federal troops near Port Royal, Va., and killed. (Just before dying, Booth looked at his hands and gasped, “Useless, useless.”)

On this date:In 1607, English colonists went ashore at

present-day Cape Henry, Va., on an expedition to establish the fi rst permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.

In 1785, American naturalist, hunter and artist John James Audubon was born in present-day Haiti.

In 1913, Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old worker at a Georgia pencil factory, was strangled; Leo Frank, the factory superintendent, was convicted of her murder and sentenced to death. (Frank’s death sentence was commuted, but he was lynched by an anti-Semitic mob in 1915.)

In 1923, Britain’s Prince Albert, Duke of York (the future King George VI), married Lady Eliza-beth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.

In 1933, Nazi Germany’s infamous secret police, the Gestapo, was created.

In 1937, German and Italian warplanes raided the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War; estimates of the number of people killed vary from the hundreds to the thousands.

In 1945, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain (an-REE’ fee-LEEP’ pay-TAN’), the head of France’s Vichy government during World War II, was arrested.

In 1952, the destroyer-minesweeper USS Hobson sank in the central Atlantic after colliding with the aircraft carrier USS Wasp with the loss of 176 crew members.

In 1968, the United States exploded beneath the Nevada desert a 1.3 megaton nuclear device called “Boxcar.”

In 1973, the Chicago Board Options Exchange held its fi rst day of trading.

In 1986, a major nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union).

In 1993, Conan O’Brien was named to suc-ceed David Letterman as host of NBC’s “Late Night” program.

Ten years ago: A Soyuz rocket carrying Ameri-can astronaut Edward Lu and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko blasted off for the international space station. Actor Charlton Heston, diagnosed with symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, made his last appearance as president of the National Rifl e Association during a convention in Orlando, Fla., where he briefl y thanked the membership.

Five years ago: Police in Austria arrested Josef Fritzl, freeing his daughter Elisabeth and her six surviving children, whom he had fathered while holding her captive in a cellar for 24 years. (Fritzl was later sentenced to life in a psychiatric ward.)

One year ago: Former Liberian President Charles Taylor became the fi rst head of state since World War II to be convicted by an inter-national war crimes court as he was found guilty of arming Sierra Leone rebels in exchange for “blood diamonds” mined by slave laborers and smuggled across the border.


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Body of missing Md. man found about 10 miles from care center

The body of a missing Maryland man, who family members thought could be headed for Maine, was found about 10 miles from where he wandered off in Largo, Md., earlier this month, the Maine Department of Public Safety reported.

Timothy Fowler’s body was found Sunday in the community of Bladensburg, and the medical examiner ruled he died from nat-ural causes, the agency reported.

State Police originally reported the missing elderly man from Maryland with ties to Maine could be traveling north. Fowler, 69, walked away from an adult

day care center in Largo on April 8. Fowler grew up in Portland, had family in Maine and talked often about returning to the state, officials noted. Fowler suffered from Alzheimer’s, had no money, no driver’s license and owned no vehicles, but family members thought he may have found transportation to Maine, Maine State Police reported. Fowler was born and raised in Portland. At one time he worked at the Brunswick Naval Air Station and at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

Prescription Drug Take Back Initiative comes to Maine

Maine residents will have the opportunity once again to participate in the National Prescription Drug Take Back Initiative on Saturday, April 27. This event, sponsored by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and state and local agencies will enable resi-dents throughout the state to dispose of unwanted or expired prescriptions and/or over-the-counter

medications, safely and at no cost. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at various locations throughout Maine; details at www.dea.gov.

Local disposal sites include:• Biddeford: Public Works Recycling Center, 371

Hill Street.• Saco: Community Center, Franklin Street.• Old Orchard: New Police Station, 16 East Emer-

son Cummings Boulevard.• Lyman: Goodwin Mills Fire Station.• Kennebunk: Hannaford Supermarket, 65 Port-

land Road.• Kennebunkport: Police Station, Route 9 (across

from the American Legion).• Buxton: Rite-Aid Pharmacy, 226 Parker Farm

Road. • Buxton: Hannaford Supermarket & Pharmacy,

24 Portland Road.Also, on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the West-

brook Police Department will accept unwanted pre-scription drugs, according to a separate news release. The public can bring medications for disposal to the Westbrook Public Safety Building 570 Main St., Westbrook. A prescription drug take-back in Port-land will be available at the Rite Aid at 290 Con-gress St.; the University of New England campus at 716 Stevens Ave.; and Maine Medical Center at 22 Bramhall St.

Disposal is free and anonymous. Officials ask that personal identification information (name, address) be removed from labels. Prescription and over-the-counter pills, drops, ointments, et cetera will be accepted. However, no thermometers, batteries, durable medical equipment or intravenous solu-tions, injectables or syringes can be accepted.

Maine continues to rank first in the U.S. per capita for the largest state collection, the DEA reported. According to Michael W. Wardrop, Resident Agent of the DEA in Portland, the five most recent drug take-back events removed 13,980 pounds of medication from circulation in Maine, and more than 2 million pounds from the entire 50 states and U.S. territories.

City solicits comments about analysis of ‘fair housing choice’

Through Monday, April 29, the Housing and Com-munity Development Division of Portland is solic-iting public comment in response to a completed analysis and recommended actions regarding hous-ing availability, the city reported.

As a recipient of U.S. Housing and Urban Develop-ment federal funding entitlements, the city of Port-land is required to complete an analysis identifying impediments to fair housing choice in the city.

A printed copy of the report is available at the Hous-ing and Community Development Division Office located at Portland City Hall, 389 Congress St., Room 312. An electronic copy of the report can be found on the city’s website at http://www.ci.portland.me.us.

The city’s identified impediments to fair housing choice included “geographic concentrations of race and poverty in certain neighborhoods of the city; landlords in need of information regarding fair housing/accom-modations for persons with disabilities; and high cost of both rental and home ownership housing.”

The analysis recommended that the city “actively pursue regional partnerships that work to widen the public transportation network and provide housing opportunities for a diversity of people throughout the region,” as well as prioritizing mixed income hous-ing developments, promotion of affordable housing developments, setting up a city tenant-based rental assistance program, creating a partnership with the Cumberland County Community Development Office and local landlord associations to provide landlord awareness workshops, and setting up a housing liai-son system to resolve landlord/tenant issues.

By April 29, at 4:30 p.m., written comments can be submitted via e-mail to Mary Davis or by mail addressed to Mary Davis, City of Portland, Housing and Community Development Division, 389 Con-gress Street, Room 312, Portland, ME 04101. Com-ments can also be made by calling 874-8711.

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Pirates playoffs start at Syracuse on SaturdayThe Portland Pirates are back in the playoffs after

a year’s absence and will meet the Syracuse Crunch in a best-of-five first-round series.

The Pirates finished the regular season with 41 wins, 30 losses, three overtime losses and two shoot-

out losses adding to 87 points (teams receive two points for each victory and one point for an over-time or shootout loss), finishing in second place in their division. The three division winners and the next best five teams from each conference make the playoffs. The Pirates finished in sixth place in their conference, just one point behind fifth place.

Syracuse garnered 97 points (43 wins, 22 losses, six overtime losses and five shootout losses) to win their division and earn the No. 3 seed

The Pirates scored 230 goals this season while yielding 233. The Crunch had 247 goals with 201 scored against them.

Individually, first-year forward Chris Brown, age 22, had a team-high 29 goals and 18 assists in 68 games. Brown’s 29 goals were tops among rookies and eighth overall. Center Andy Miele, the small-est player on the roster at 5 feet, 9 inches and 180 lbs., he had 19 goals and a team-high 34 assists in 70 games. Defenseman David Rundblad, age 22, had nine goals and 30 assists in 50 games.

For Syracuse, Tyler Johnson led the American Hockey League with 37 goals in 62 games. Brett Connolly was third league wide with 31 goals in 71 games. Ondrej Palat led the Crunch with 39 assists in 56 games.

When Portland last made the playoffs in 2010-11 they were in the last year of their three year affili-ation with the Buffalo Sabers. Last season, the first year of a five-year deal with the Phoenix Coyotes, the Pirates finished third in their division with 81 points (36 wins, 31 losses, four overtime losses and five shootout losses) and in ninth place in the confer-ence, just two points out of the playoffs.

Phoenix’s prior AHL affiliate, San Antonio, made the playoffs last in 2007-08, but had been trending upwards in their last three seasons increasing from 78 to 84 to 87 points and moving up in the standings each year as well.

Time Warner Cable has announced that it will air Games 2 through 5 of the American Hockey League Eastern Conference Quarterfinal Series between the Portland Pirates and Syracuse Crunch. TWC-TV is found on channel 9 in Maine.

PIRATES-CRUNCH Playoff Schedule

GAME 1: 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Syracuse

GAME 2: 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Syracuse

GAME 3: 7 p.m. Thursday, May 2 at Portland

GAME 4: 7 p.m. Friday, May 3 at Portland (If nec-essary)

GAME 5: 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 5 at Syracuse (if necessary)

Portland Pirates rookie forward Chris Brown had a team-high 29 goals and 18 assists in 68 games. Brown’s 29 goals were tops among first year players and eighth among all Ameri-can Hockey League players. The 6-foot, 2-inch, 215 lb. Texas native, drafted No. 36 overall by the Pirates’ NHL affliate Phoe-nix Coyotes in 2009, played two years at the University of Michigan before turning pro. The 22-year-old right hander appeared in five games with the Coyotes this season, four of them in early April. (KEN LEVIN-SKY PHOTO)

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First Parish steeple restoration rescheduled for this weekend

A permitting snag delayed restoration of the steeple at First Parish Church of Portland, accord-ing to volunteers involved in repair of the historic building.

Originally scheduled for last Tuesday, restoration of the steeple to the top of the building most recently was planned for this Saturday, according to Stephen Jenks, president of the trustees of First Parish. Jenks indicated in an email to The Portland Daily Sun that the city failed to give the crane operator a necessary permit to proceed earlier in the week, so the job had to be rescheduled.

First part of the job is to remove a temporary structure that sat atop the steeple over the winter, Jenks noted. Southgate Steeplejacks of Barre, Vt. is the firm hired to restore the deteriorating steeple.

In the fall of 2011, pieces of the wooden belfry’s balustrade — a parapet or barrier near the base of the steeple — suddenly fell off, crashing to the walk-ways below. Last October, the steeple components were removed and transported to Southgate’s Ver-mont shop as part of the $225,000 steeple replace-ment job for the historic church.

Southgate’s crew of restoration experts scaled the distinctive church, located just up Congress Street from Portland City Hall, and removed the steeple, first in parts and then with a crane.

First Parish is using four sources of funds for the restoration: a campaign inside the church; a com-munity drive particularly among preservation advo-cates; applications for grants from foundations; and sale by the church of some of its “ancient assets,” such as paintings and antiquities.

According to a church history, First Parish first gathered as a congregation in 1674. The deteriorat-

ing steeple belfry on its church building is a national registered Historic Landmark “that has graced the top of Temple Street and served the people of the Greater Portland area for 188 years.”

Bill aimed at preventing suicide among youth signed into law

The Maine Senate on Thursday unanimously sup-ported the enactment of a measure aimed at pre-venting suicide among youth in Maine, according to a press release from the Maine Legislature Senate Majority Office.

LD 609, sponsored by Rep. Paul Gilbert, D-Jay, requires suicide prevention awareness for all school personnel and advanced training that includes pre-vention education for some employees.

“Awareness and training will and does save lives,” said Sen. Colleen Lachowicz, D-Waterville, who also works as a licensed social worker. “Too many of our communities have suffered the loss of suicide and it is too much for our communities to bear. Passing this measure is important to the families in our state.”

Suicide is the second leading cause of death of Mainers 24 and younger, according to the Maine Sui-cide Prevention Program, an initiative of several state agencies. Survey data from the state Center for Disease Control reveals that nearly 13 percent of high school seniors in Maine seriously consid-ered suicide, more than 9 percent planned their sui-cide and almost 8 percent attempted suicide.

“During the public hearing, we heard from many courageous parents and siblings who came forth to tell their story. As lawmakers we owe to them and all Maine families to do everything we can to bring awareness and prevention to this issue,” said Sen. Rebecca Millett, D-Cape Elizabeth. “I am proud of the work the legislature did on this issue. It was emotional. It was heartfelt and it is critically impor-tant.”

Governor Paul LePage signed LD 609, stating in a press release, “The devastating affect suicide has on Maine families and communities is real, and we must be willing to address the issue.”

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Jay Southgate removes pieces of the First Parish steeple by hand Sept. 25, 2012. Restoration of the historic steeple to replace a temporary structure atop the church is tentatively scheduled for this Saturday. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)


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Friday, April 26

USM ‘Thinking Matters’ conference 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. “Want to know the best way to collect solar energy? What about significant contributions to pho-tojournalism? Are you interested in protecting gray wolves? This small sample shows the wide variety of topics that Uni-versity of Southern Maine and Southern Maine Community College students researched during the past year and will present during USM’s annual ‘Thinking Matters’ conference on Friday, April 26. This year, many of the projects focused on ways to improve the lives of Mainers. Friday, on USM’s Portland campus, poster and mixed-media presentations will be held in the Sullivan Recreation and Fitness Complex from 8:30-11:30 a.m. Oral presentations will run from noon-4:30 p.m. in classrooms on the second floor of Payson Smith Hall. The event is free and open to the public, with free parking available in USM’s parking garage off Bedford Street. Since 2003, ‘Thinking Matters’ has fostered oppor-tunities for students to collaborate with their professors on research projects and allowed students to present their work in an academic conference setting. Now, students and faculty from Southern Maine Community College have joined the conference.” For more information, visit: http://usm.maine.edu/research/thinkingmatters.

CLYNK for Art School Competition in SoPo11 a.m. “More than 350 Maine students in grades K-12 entered the first-ever CLYNK for Art School Competition by creating artwork to inspire recycling. CLYNK, the Maine company that makes it easy to recycle and make a dif-ference, recently announced the six winners: Colby Frost from George E. Jack Elementary School in Standish; Kay-leigh Therriault from Mill Stream Elementary School in Nor-ridgewock; Maija Jacobs from Westbrook Middle School in Westbrook; Ellie McGee from Mount Desert Middle School in Mount Desert; Senna Bui from South Portland High School in South Portland; Emma Jordan from South Port-land High School in South Portland. Each student’s artwork will be displayed on a huge, mobile canvas — the side of one of five CLYNK trucks that pick up bottles and cans at CLYNK locations in Hannaford stores. Each winning entry was also awarded $250 to support school art programs. Visit www.clynk.com/art to view the students’ artwork online. CLYNK trucks are being unveiled at the winning art-ists’ schools over the next few weeks. On Thursday, April 25 at 9 a.m., all the students at George E. Jack Elemen-tary School in Standish will watch as Colby Frost’s winning piece is revealed. It will be a memorable birthday present for the fourth grader who will be turning ten that day. ... On Friday, April 26 at 11 a.m., South Portland High School will recognize its two winning student artists Emma Jordan and Senna Bui, both eleventh graders. With help from ecology teacher Tania Ferrante, South Portland H.S. students are active in environmental initiatives, including recycling, com-posting for the school garden, and zero waste awareness week.” To learn more, visit www.clynk.com/art.

Maine Artists Collectivenoon to 4 p.m. “Although it sounds like a computer art show, members of the Maine Artists Collective (MAC) are opening their artistic windows to let fresh impressions in. This exhibit, which runs from April 26 to May 30, at Constel-lation Gallery, 511 Congress St., Portland, is a window of opportunity for artists to present new work or re-imagine their old work.” http://www.constellationart.com

Maine Medical Center drug take-back effort1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Maine Medical Centerwill again serve as a collection site for a federal program to collect and dispose of unwanted, unused, or expired prescriptions and over-the-counter drugs. The National Take Back Initiative, spon-sored by the Drug Enforcement Administration, provides an opportunity for people to turn in medications for safe disposal. Collection Times and Locations: Friday, April 26, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., South Parking Lot, Chadwick Street; Sat-urday, April 27, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., South Parking Lot, Chad-wick Street, Scarborough Campus, 100 Campus Drive. “The program is anonymous; no questions or requests for identification will be made. People may dispose of medi-cation in its original container, or by depositing it into an on-site disposal box. Accepted: All solid and liquid pharma-ceutical products. Not Accepted: Syringes/needles. Marc Minkler, Executive Director, Southern Maine EMS, [email protected], 741.2790.

Extension vegetable gardening course2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is scheduled to present a five-session vegetable gardening course this spring on Friday afternoons from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Falmouth. The first session is planned for Friday, April 26. The course is designed for serious gar-deners and those individuals new to the Maine climate. It will include classroom, hands-on activities, problem solv-ing, and field sessions. The course will address garden

planning, season extension, applied soil science, water issues, and the effective management of weeds, insects, wildlife and diseases. The fee to participate in the course is $50 per person and includes a handy reference notebook for gardeners. Partial scholarships are available to those for whom the fee is a hardship. For more information, or to request a disability accommodation, contact Extension at 781-6099 or 1-800-287-1471 (Maine only) or [email protected] or see the website http://umaine.edu/cumber-land/programs/vegetable-gardening-course/zb1

Happy Trails Big Bash5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Happy Trails Big Bash & Silent Auction to benefit Portland Trails at the Portland Club, 156 State St., Portland. Tickets are $35 ($25 for Portland Trails members), or 10 tickets for $250 for nonmembers (includes free member-ship) and $200 for members. “Portland Trails’ Happy Trails Big Bash & Silent Auction is a perennial favorite party to welcome in the warm days of spring and summer with live music, fun games, and great food. This year the bash will have a Cuban flavor, with the Salsa rhythms of traditional Cuban music group Primo Cubano, and hors d’oeuvres with a Cuban/Spanish flavor. The party starts off at 5:30 with music, M.C. Ethan Minton from WCLZ, hors d’oeuvres, and cash bar, at the Portland Club on State Street. When the auction closes at 8 guests will have a chance to shoot pool in the elegant Portland Club Billiards Room or participate in a Cake or Case Walk — a game where winners can win cakes or cases of beer!.”

Take Back the Night March and Rally6 p.m. to 9 p.m. “Ending sexual violence in Maine starts with recognizing that the entire Maine community has a respon-sibility in preventing it. The 32nd annual Take Back the Night March and Rally — which addresses community engagement about the issue — will take place on Friday, April 26 at 6 p.m. in Monument Square. The rain location will be the PPNNE 3rd floor gallery space at 443 Congress St. The theme for the eve-ning, “It Takes a Community: To Stop Rape, To Allow Rape, To Heal…What have YOU Done?” will set the tone for marchers as they walk from Monument Square, through the Old Port and back, accompanied by police escort. Upon return, sur-vivors of sexual violence and their loved ones will be invited to share their stories and experiences.” The event is free and open to people of all genders. For more information, please contact Angela Giordano, Prevention Educator at [email protected] or at 828.1035, ext. 108.

Autism awareness fundraising event in Sanford7 p.m. Autism awareness fundraising event in Sanford. San-ford Elks Lodge, 13 Elm St. Prizes include $350 saltwater fishing trip from Stone Coast Anglers; $300 one-night stay and breakfast at the Nonantum Resort; $300 Adirondack chair and footrest from Lowery’s Lawn and Patio; $170, two tickets to see Willie Nelson and Charlie Daniels Band. Over $3,200 in prizes, only $10 each, 30 chances to win in raffle. Purchase chance auction tickets from 2 p.m. to 9

p.m. Entertainment by DJ Dick Fredette; for more informa-tion, call Al at 324-8184.

USM Department of Theatre’s ‘Orlando’7:30 p.m. The University of Southern Maine Department of Theatre presents the Maine premiere of “Orlando” — adapted from the Virginia Woolf novel by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Assistant Professor of Theatre Meghan Brodie. “In the hands of playwright Sarah Ruhl, Virginia Woolf’s gender-bending satire becomes a lavish pageant of sex, style, and soul. Orlando, a man born during Shakespeare’s time, lives and loves through six centuries without aging and — fantastically — transforms into a woman along the way. This play is like a dream — strange, beautiful and not easily forgotten. Performances are in the Russell Hall audi-torium on the Gorham campus, April 19, 20, 25, 26 and 27 at 7:30 p.m. April 21, 24 and 28 at 5 p.m. and April 23 at 10 a.m. Ticket prices are as follows: Adult: $15, Student: $8, Senior: $11, USM Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $11 $5@five Show: April 24 at 5 p.m., all seats $5. For more informa-tion on show times and tickets call the USM Theatre Box Office at780.5151 or visit www.usm.maine.edu/theatre to purchase tickets online.”

Carolyn Gage plays at Acorn Studio Theatre7:30 p.m. “Warrior women are the subject of the two one-act plays by Carolyn Gage opening at the Acorn Studio Theatre this month. Acorn Productions, in collaboration with Cauldron & Labrys Women’s Productions, is producing ‘Little Sister’ and ‘Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist,’ open-ing on Friday, April 12 and running through Sunday, April 28. The Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:30, with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. The plays will be followed by a talk-back with the playwright and the actors after the Sunday performances. Tickets for the evening of one-acts are $15 ($12 For students and seniors) and may be purchased at the Acorn website at http://www.acorn-productions.org/. For more information, call 854-0065.”

‘Maiden’s Progeny’ by The Originals7:30 p.m. The Originals present “Maiden’s Progeny,” an afternoon with Mary Cassatt,1906.” Saco River Theatre, April 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday Matinee, April 21, 2:30 p.m. “Never descending into a lecture play, ‘Maiden’s Progeny’ is a shimmering, enchanting piece that explores rich ideas and emotions and a burgeoning friend-ship between two adversaries. Directed by Dana Packard, and featuring Linda Shary as Marie Ange, Cassatt’s servant and friend, and Elisabeth Hardcastle as Iris Wallace, who, along with her child, has become the model for Cassatt’s latest work.” Adm. $20 — Adults; $18 — Students and Srs. Thursday, April 25 is pay-what-you-can. Call early for reser-vations, 929-5412. Tickets available online at www.sacori-vertheatre.org

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The 12th annual Maine Playwrights Festival7:30 p.m. St. Lawrence Arts Center. The 12th annual Maine Playwrights Festival features two schedules of short plays, an evening of 2-minute plays and monologues, a staged reading of a full-length play, and the 24-Hour Portland Theater Project. April 25 to May 6. To Purchase Tickets online please visit http://www.acorn-productions.org/Playwrighttxs.html. Thursday, April 25, 7:30 p.m.: Want/Not by Cullen McGough (staged reading). Free of charge, $5 donation encouraged. Schedule A: Friday, April 26, 7:30 p.m.: Beating the Odds; Saturday, April 27, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.: Take Two. Sunday April 28, 5 p.m.: Beat-ing the Odds. Schedule B: Thursday, May 2, 7:30 p.m.: The Perils of Company; Friday, May 3, 7:30 p.m.: The Perils of Company; Saturday, May 4, 4 p.m.: The Perils of Company.Schedule A: Saturday, May 4, 8 p.m.: Beating the Odds; Sunday, May 5, 7 p.m.: 24-hour Portland The-ater Project. Tickets are $15/Adults; $12/Students and Seniors. $10 All Ages for 24-hour Theater Project. Festi-val Passes (valid for all four schedules): $45/Adults; $40/Students and Seniors. All Day Pass (valid Saturday, May 4 for both shows): $25/Adults; $20/Students and Seniors.” http://www.stlawrencearts.org

‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ 8 p.m. April 12 at 8 p.m. until April 27 at 8 p.m. Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland. www.lyricmu-sictheater.org. “A show for every true musical theater fan, ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ burst onto the Broadway scene in 2006. An homage to 1920’s jazz-age shows, the show begins when a die-hard musical-theater fan puts his favor-ite cast album on his record player and takes the audience along for the ride. The musical comes to life around him and tells the tale of a Broadway ingénue on the eve of her wed-ding. Will she make it to the altar amidst mistaken identity, a roller-skating groom, disguised gangsters, a ditsy chorus girl, and a tipsy, drowsy chaperone? This Tony award-winning rollicking, hilarious show is one you won’t want to miss.” http://www.lyricmusictheater.org

The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace8 p.m. The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace at Merrill Audi-torium. “Portland Ballet and the Choral Art Society col-laborate to bring this masterpiece to the stage, with live orchestra and world premiere choreography by Nell Ship-man. This collaboration follows in the footsteps of produc-tions Carmina Burana and Mozart’s Requiem.” Tickets are available through porttix.com

Saturday, April 27

Portland Farmer’s Market resumes7 a.m. to noon. Portland Farmer’s Market at Deering Oaks, Portland. “This is the weekend Farmers’ Market in Portland. The individual products available vary with the season but you’ll usually find a mix of fruits, vegetables, flowers, herbs and other plants, meat, eggs and some baked goods. The market is very popular and so it makes sense to get there early to get the best selections for that week. The Market also operates every Wednesday in Monument Square. For more information visit www.portlandmainefarmersmar-ket.org.” A winter market, held in the Maine Irish Heritage Center, recently wrapped up its season.

Feathers over Freeport8 a.m. “Feathers over Freeport. Bird Walk. Join us for a walk in the woods seeking out spring migrants and wood-land residents. All levels of expertise welcome. Bring your own binoculars. Walk lead by Derek and Jeannette Lovitch of Freeport Wild Bird Supply, Rich MacDonald of The Nat-ural History Center, and others. Meet at the group picnic shelter. 1-3 p.m. Hawk Watch Workshop. Find out what is so intriguing (and so much fun!) about hawk watching. Join us on the summit of Bradbury Mountain for an introduc-tion to this facet of bird watching as we cover the basics, such as why we’re all standing around on this particular hill and how we conduct our research. 4 p.m. — Live birds presentation — Birds of Prey Including an Eagle! by Hope Douglas of Wind Over Wings and featuring a Golden Eagle, American Kestrel.” Bradbury Mountain State Park, 528 Hal-lowell Road, Pownal. At Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park on Sunday, starting at 8 a.m. http://maine.gov/doc/parks/feathersoverfreeport.shtml

Lyseth School Bike Rodeo9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Two Portland public schools — Lyseth Elementary School and Lincoln Middle School — have received mini-grants to support walk and bike to school activities. The grants come from the federally funded Maine Safe Routes to School program just in time for May Bike & Walk to School Month. Lyseth will hold a Bike Rodeo on April 27 from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The event is sponsored by the Lyseth Parent Teacher Association, the Safe Routes

to School program and the Bicycle Coalition of Maine. Lyseth also will participate in Bike to School Day on May 8. The Lyseth PTA will provide matching funds to cover the cost of a bike rack for the school, with additional funds from the mini-grant. Lincoln will encourage students to walk and bike to school during the week of May 6. The Stevens Avenue school will have a banner in front of its building promoting bicycling and walking, and students will receive incentives for participating. The school also is considering ideas such as having students track their mileage on foot and bicycle. Two other Portland public schools — East End Community School and Reiche Community School — are piloting Walking School Bus programs this spring.”

Friends of Baxter State Park meeting9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friends of Baxter State Park will hold its annual meeting at the Viles Arboretum, 153 Hospital St. in Augusta. “The event features several significant activi-ties. Newly hired Executive Director Aaron Megquier will be publicly introduced for the first time. He begins work at Friends of Baxter State Park on May 1. Another highlight will be an illustrated presentation by David Little featuring images from his landmark book ‘Art of Katahdin,’ which is being published this month by Down East Books. Copies will be available for purchase at the meeting. The meeting will also include a report on the ‘State of the Park’ by Baxter State Park Director Jensen Bissell, awards and recogni-tions, and updates about the activities of Friends of Baxter State Park during the past and the coming year. Prior to the meeting, there will be a bird walk at 7:30 a.m. At 8:30 a.m. coffee and muffins will be available and art pertaining to Baxter State Park (BSP) and Katahdin will be on display. After lunch, participants may choose to go on a guided hike to the Kennebec Highlands. For more information: http://www.friendsofbaxter.org/programs/annualmeeting.php.”

Civil War Sesquicentennial Symposium9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Maine Historical Society announces in part-nership with Maine Humanities Council, Sesquicentennial Symposium. “Maine Historical Society and Maine Humani-ties Council are pleased to invite you to a public symposium marking the mid-point of the Civil War sesquicentennial at USM’s Hannaford Hall on Saturday, April 27. Hannaford Hall, University of Southern Maine, 88 Bedford St., Port-land. Join us for a full day of national and state-based speakers on the beginnings of the Civil War; its causes, constituencies, politics, and personalities; cultural aspects of the era; and why the War still matters to us 150 years later. Plenary speakers include Manisha Sinha, Professor of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, on Emancipation during the Civil War; and Patrick Rael, Associate Professor of History, Bowdoin College, on Maine in the Civil War.” Advance registration required. Cost: $35 general public; $20 students. http://mainehumanities.org/special-programs/civil-war/symposium.html

French story time in Cumberland10 a.m. French story time with Greely French Club, Prince Memorial Library, 266 Main St., Cumberland. FMI 829-2215

Walk MS: Portland 201310 a.m. Walk MS: Portland 2013. Portland Expo Center, 239 Park Ave., Portland. 9 a.m. check-in; 10 a.m. start. Route Length: 6 miles (1 mile option). Event Coordinator: Sue Tidd, [email protected]. Phone: 1-800-344-4867. Battling multiple sclerosis. “The primary goal of Walk MS is to raise funds to help people who have MS, and their families, through MS education, support, advocacy, ser-vices, and research. All walkers 12 years of age and older are asked to raise a minimum of $25. If you need help meeting your fundraising minimum prior to walk day, please contact the Chapter at [email protected] or 1-800-344-4867 opt 2.” National MS Society, Greater New Eng-land Chapter. http://walkmam.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR?pg=entry&fr_id=20316

Clean-up at Fort Knox10 a.m. to noon. “On Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. until noon, volunteers are needed to team up with the Friends of Fort Knox and the Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT) to help clean the Civil War era State Historic Site. The nation-wide effort — dubbed Park Day – is underwritten with a grant from The History Channel. ... In exchange for their hard work, volunteers receive t-shirts and have an opportu-nity to learn about the historic site they are helping to clean. Volunteers are needed to sweep, rake and ready Fort Knox for its opening on May 1. Helpers are asked to bring rakes, shovels, wheel barrels, leaf blowers, tarps and work gloves. Participants should plan on arriving at 10 a.m. and helping to noontime. For more information about Park Day at Fort Knox, please call 469-6553 or email [email protected].”

Healthy Kid’s Day at the YMCA10 a.m. to 1 p.m. “Come to the Greater Portland YMCA for swimming, games, kid-friendly classes and fun activities for the whole family. Join us, along with local organizations and mascots, for this free event!” http://www.facebook.com/YMCAofSouthernME

Prescription drug takeback, Westbrook10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “On April 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Westbrook Police Department will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. Bring your medications for disposal to the following location in Westbrook: Westbrook Public Safety Building 570 Main Street, Westbrook.”

Prescription drug take-back in Portland10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Prescription drug take-back in Portland at the following locations: Rite Aid at 290 Congress St., UNE Campus at 716 Stevens Ave., Maine Medical Center at 22 Bramhall St.

A Night Of Broadway And Beyond6 p.m. Life’s A Happy Song, A Night Of Broadway And Beyond. Enjoy favorites from ‘Annie,’ ‘Grease,’ ‘How to Succeed,’ ‘Les Miserables,’ ‘Seussical’ ... and many more. Free admission. Windham High School Performing Arts Center, 406 Gray Road, Windham. Presented by members and friends of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Maine Roller Derby doubleheader4 p.m. “First Ever Double Header Featuring a performance by The Pubcrawlers! The Port Authorities vs. Connecticut Sabotage and the Calamity Janes vs. The Yankee Brutals in one epic battle of women’s flat track roller derby.” At the Portland Expo. “Maine Roller Derby is the state’s first women’s flat track roller derby league, and is skater-owned and skater-operated. We represent women from across the spectrum and currently have a roster of over 30 hard-hitting, fast-skating athletes.” https://www.facebook.com/mainerollerderby/info

Pirates in Eastern Conference Quarterfinals7:30 p.m. “The Portland Pirates will start their road to the 2013 Calder Cup against the Syracuse Crunch in the East-ern Conference Quarterfinals. The Crunch and Pirates will play a best of five series, with Syracuse hosting games 1, 2 and 5 if necessary. The Pirates will host game 3, and a game 4 if necessary. Portland Pirates (6) vs. Syracuse Crunch (3) - Eastern Conference Quarterfinals Game 1 — Saturday, Apr. 27, 7:30 p.m. War Memorial at Oncenter; Game 2 — Sunday, April 28, 7:30 p.m., War Memorial at Oncenter; Game 3 — Thursday, May 2, 7 p.m., Cum-berland County Civic Center; Game 4 — Friday, May 3, 7 p.m., Cumberland County Civic Center (if necessary); Game 5 — Sunday, May 5, 7:30 p.m., War Memorial at Oncenter (if necessary). The Portland Pirates are the AHL Affiliate of the Phoenix Coyotes and are the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference. This is Portland’s first playoff appearance since the 2011 Calder Cup Playoffs, and the 15th in their 20-year history. Portland has won the Calder Cup once, in their inaugural season in 1993-94. Syracuse is the AHL Affiliate of the Tampa Bay Lightning and are the 2012-13 East Division Champions.” http://portland-pirates.com

USM Department of Theatre’s ‘Orlando’7:30 p.m. The University of Southern Maine Department of Theatre presents the Maine premiere of “Orlando” — adapted from the Virginia Woolf novel by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Assistant Professor of Theatre Meghan Brodie. “In the hands of playwright Sarah Ruhl, Virginia Woolf’s gender-bending satire becomes a lavish pageant of sex, style, and soul. Orlando, a man born during Shake-speare’s time, lives and loves through six centuries without aging and — fantastically — transforms into a woman along the way. This play is like a dream — strange, beautiful and not easily forgotten. Performances are in the Russell Hall auditorium on the Gorham campus, April 19, 20, 25, 26 and 27 at 7:30 p.m. April 21, 24 and 28 at 5 p.m. and April 23 at 10 a.m. Ticket prices are as follows: Adult: $15, Student: $8, Senior: $11, USM Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $11 $5@five Show: April 24 at 5 p.m., all seats $5. For more information on show times and tickets call the USM Theatre Box Office at780.5151 or visit www.usm.maine.edu/theatre to purchase tickets online.”

‘Maiden’s Progeny’ by The Originals7:30 p.m. The Originals present “Maiden’s Progeny,” an afternoon with Mary Cassatt,1906.” Saco River Theatre, April 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday Matinee, April 21, 2:30 p.m. “Never descending into a lecture play, ‘Maiden’s Progeny’ is a shimmering, enchanting piece that explores rich ideas and emotions and a burgeoning friend-ship between two adversaries. Directed by Dana Packard, and featuring Linda Shary as Marie Ange, Cassatt’s servant and friend, and Elisabeth Hardcastle as Iris Wallace, who, along with her child, has become the model for Cassatt’s latest work.” Adm. $20 — Adults; $18 — Students and Srs. Thursday, April 25 is pay-what-you-can. Call early for reser-vations, 929-5412. Tickets available online at www.sacori-vertheatre.org

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Carolyn Gage plays at Acorn Studio Theatre7:30 p.m. “Warrior women are the subject of the two one-act plays by Carolyn Gage opening at the Acorn Studio Theatre this month. Acorn Productions, in collaboration with Cauldron & Labrys Women’s Productions, is producing ‘Little Sister’ and ‘Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist,’ open-ing on Friday, April 12 and running through Sunday, April 28. The Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:30, with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. The plays will be followed by a talk-back with the playwright and the actors after the Sunday performances. Tickets for the evening of one-acts are $15 ($12 For students and seniors) and may be purchased at the Acorn website at http://www.acorn-productions.org/. For more information, call 854-0065.”

‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ 8 p.m. April 12 at 8 p.m. until April 27 at 8 p.m. Lyric Music Theater, 176 Sawyer St., South Portland. www.lyricmu-sictheater.org. “A show for every true musical theater fan, ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ burst onto the Broadway scene in 2006. An homage to 1920’s jazz-age shows, the show begins when a die-hard musical-theater fan puts his favor-ite cast album on his record player and takes the audience along for the ride. The musical comes to life around him and tells the tale of a Broadway ingénue on the eve of her wed-ding. Will she make it to the altar amidst mistaken identity, a roller-skating groom, disguised gangsters, a ditsy chorus girl, and a tipsy, drowsy chaperone? This Tony award-winning rollicking, hilarious show is one you won’t want to miss.” http://www.lyricmusictheater.org

Sunday, April 28

Third annual Into the Mud Challenge8:30 a.m. Registration and Check-in opens for third annual Into the Mud Challenge. “On Sunday, April 28, the University of Southern Maine Sport Management Program will host the third annual Into the Mud Challenge at Gorham Middle School. The Into the Mud Challenge gives the general public the opportunity to participate in one of the most unique race settings in Maine. The event features 2.5/miles of mud pits to traverse and a series of challenging obstacles to conquer with an emphasis on getting muddy and having a great time. This event draws hundreds of participants from across the region of all ages and abilities and continues to grow each year. For 2013, nearly 700 enthusiasts have already signed up for the race.” For race information, registration, or general questions please visit www.intothemudchallenge.com or contact [email protected]

The Great Maine Bike Swap10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Great Maine Bike Swap is returning to University of Southern Maine’s Sullivan Gym. The swap offers a way for people to buy affordable, used bicycles and/or to sell bicycles that they no longer need. “Hundreds of bicycles of all types will be for sale, including mountain bikes, road bikes, classic cruisers, kids’ bikes and hybrids. A large test riding area will allow shoppers to try out bicy-cles and advisors will be on hand to help with pricing and bike fit. Admission is $3, with free admission for students at UMaine, the University of Southern Maine (USM), the University of New England and Southern Maine Community College as well as children 12 or younger. New this year is an updated online bike registration system that will make it easier to sell a bike. Sellers will be able to register their bikes online before the Swaps through a simple online form that will save time and cut down on drop-off lines. Those selling bicycles should register the bikes online at bike-maine.org/swap and then drop them off at the USM Sullivan Gym between 6 and 8 p.m. on Saturday April 27. To inquire about the potential for an earlier drop-off, please call the Bicycle Coalition at 623-4511. A 15 percent commission on bike sales will support the coalition’s work to improve bicycling in Maine. The event is produced by the Bicycle Coalition of Maine in partnership with USM’s Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies.”

The Path of the Spiritual Nomad10:30 a.m. The Chaplaincy Institute of Maine Interfaith Service. Sunday, April 28, at 10:30 a.m. “‘Not ready. Not set. Go.’ A Homage to Spontaneity and The Path of The Spiritual Nomad. Our leaders in worship will be ChIME stu-dents Gia Collins and Oggie Williams. All are welcome! This worship service will be held at the Portland New Church, 302 Stevens Ave. in Portland. For more information, please contact ChIME by email or visit our website. FMI: contact [email protected] or call 347-6740.”

Hope Douglas of Wind Over Wings in Freeport1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Feathers over Freeport, April 27 and 28, “a birdwatching weekend for all ages!” ”Live Birds presen-tation, the Extraordinary Lives of Owls! by Hope Douglas of Wind Over Wings and featuring a Great Horned Owl,

Eastern Screech-Owl, Saw-whet Owl, and a Common Raven. The amazing adaptations of owls, including their remarkable hearing, sight, and ability to fly silently, will be discussed. You’ll also learn how to spot an owl in the wild. Held at the picnic shelter. Sponsored by Royal River Con-servation Trust.” Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park, Freeport. http://maine.gov/doc/parks/feathersoverfreeport.shtml

Carolyn Gage plays at Acorn Studio Theatre2 p.m. “Warrior women are the subject of the two one-act plays by Carolyn Gage opening at the Acorn Studio Theatre this month. Acorn Productions, in collaboration with Caul-dron & Labrys Women’s Productions, is producing ‘Little Sister’ and ‘Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist,’ opening on Friday, April 12 and running through Sunday, April 28. The Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:30, with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. The plays will be followed by a talk-back with the playwright and the actors after the Sunday performances. Tickets for the evening of one-acts are $15 ($12 For students and seniors) and may be purchased at the Acorn website at http://www.acorn-productions.org/. For more information, call 854-0065.”

Mostly Puppets Festival at Mayo Street Arts2 p.m. “The Mostly Puppets Festival is a series of puppet shows and and other performances happening at Mayo Street Arts in Portland throughout March and April. The series will highlight local and international touring puppe-teers and troupes. Many of the performers and troupes are recent Jim Henson Foundation awardees, while others are local performers and artists who are involved in the Port-land puppet scene and take part in the annual puppet slam at MSA, King Friday’s Dungeon. This, however, is a family friendly series, and in addition to puppets shows will include clowning, juggling, mime, live music, and more. More infor-mation on the performances can be found at www.mayo-streetarts.org. All shows take place on Sundays at 2 p.m., with doors at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 for adults, $4 for chil-dren.” Performance Schedule: 4/28 — Paper Bull Puppets “Wishes.” Tickets and more info at www.mayostreetarts.org

Cheverus High School College Fair5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. “Keegan Gymnasium, 267 Ocean Ave., Portland. College fair, 105 colleges will be at the event. The event is free and open to the public.”

Monday, April 29

‘Common Loon Conservation and Behavior in Maine’6 p.m. “The inaugural presentation of the University of Southern Maine’s Environmental Science honor society, Kappa Alpha Omicron, will feature Jim Paruk, director for the Center for Loon Conservation, discussing “Common Loon Conservation and Behavior in Maine.” The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 29 in USM’s Wishcamper Center, Port-land. Paruk, is an adjunct professor of biology at USM where he supervises graduate students involved in loon research. He has been studying loons throughout North and Central America for nearly two decades. Paruk has taught college courses in ornithology, zoology, ecology, and animal behavior. USM’s chapter of Kappa Alpha Omicron

is the first and only chapter of this student honor society in northern New England. The chapter will be hosting the guest speaker series with talks centered on important envi-ronmental topics in Maine. For more information, contact Travis Wagner of the USM Department of Environmental Science at 228-8450 or [email protected].”

Tuesday, April 30

Friends of Libby Library Book Shed10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Old Orchard Beach, Friends of Libby Library Book Shed, 24 Staples St. opens April 30. Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday hours 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Parking available in Libby Library lot and on Staples Street. FMI: Friends of Libby Library 934-4351. Stan Quinlan, FOLL Publicity Chair, 937-2626

Benefit Night at Flatbread Pizza5 p.m. to 9 p.m. “Every Tuesday Night is Benefit Night at Flatbread, 72 Commercial St. Join us from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. For every pizza sold $3.50 will be donated to Portland Com-munity Health Center.”

DownEast Pride Alliance ‘Business After Hours’5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. The DownEast Pride Alliance “Busi-ness After Hours” Networking Event at Buffalo Wild Wings, 85 Western Ave., Portland “Join us this month for business networking for GLBT & gay-friendly business professionals.Free. Cash bar, lite food & media table provided for shar-ing business cards. Sponsored by Proactive Resources, Norman, Hanson & DeTroy, Liz Winfeld of RBC Wealth Management and Diane Newman of State Farm. FMI www.depabusiness.com.”

Latin American Film Festival6 p.m. Marcil 323, Biddeford Campus, University of New England. “‘Four Days in September’ In 1968, the democrati-cally elected government of Brazil was toppled by a military dictatorship backed by the USA. The junta ruled through terror and intimidation, torturing political enemies, control-ling the press, and severely curtailing freedoms. A group of young Marxist radicals plotted to kidnap American ambassa-dor Charles Elbrick. Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Film. Based on a true story. Food served. Admission: Free and open to the public.” Contact: [email protected], 602-2579.

‘Portland, Maine Chef’s Table’ author6:30 p.m. Margaret Hathaway will discuss her latest book, “Portland, Maine Chef’s Table: Extraordinary Recipes from Casco Bay” at Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth. FMI: 781-2351. Event is free and open to the public; seating is limited.

‘Wittenberg’ by David Davalos7:30 p.m. April 30 – May 19. “Trouble brews in the hallowed halls of Wittenberg University as professors Martin Luther and Doctor Faustus duel for the allegiance of their pupil — Prince Hamlet” April 30 to May 3, at 7:30 p.m.; May 4 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.; May 5 at 2 p.m.; May 8-10 at 7:30 p.m.; May 11 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.; May 12 at 2 p.m.; May 14-17 at 7:30 p.m.; also May 16 at 2 p.m.; May 18 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.; May 19 at 2 p.m. Portland Stage. ttp://www.portlandstage.org

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Wednesday, May 1

William Barry at PPL noon. “Maine: The Wilder Half of New England” with Wil-liam Barry. “Portland Public Library‘s Brown Bag Lecture series features bi-weekly reading and question-and-answer sessions with authors from around the nation as well as those who hail from right here in Maine. Held in the Rines Auditorium from noon-1 p.m. with a book signing held afterward. Compli-mentary coffee is generously provided by Coffee By Design and cookies are donated by Whole Foods Market. Longfel-low Books provides books for sale to be signed by the author. Please see a complete listing at www.portlandlibrary.com.”

Poet Laureate Bruce Spang on Peaks6 p.m. Gem Gallery presents an evening of poetry at Jones Landing on Peaks Island, May 1, 6 p.m. Open Mic! Bring Your Poem! Feature: Portland Poet Laureate, Bruce Spang; guest poets: yourselves. Detail contact: Jesse at [email protected]

‘Wittenberg’ by David Davalos7:30 p.m. April 30 – May 19. “Trouble brews in the hallowed halls of Wittenberg University as professors Martin Luther and Doctor Faustus duel for the allegiance of their pupil – Prince Hamlet. From tennis and beer to soliloquies over skulls, Davalos’ imaginative comedy of 16th century col-lege life mixes slapstick and wordplay with a philosophical exploration of reason versus faith, played out in a zany spin on classic characters – real and imaginary!” April 30 to May 3, at 7:30 p.m.; May 4 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.; May 5 at 2 p.m.; May 8-10 at 7:30 p.m.; May 11 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.; May 12 at 2 p.m.; May 14-17 at 7:30 p.m.; also May 16 at 2 p.m.; May 18 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.; May 19 at 2 p.m. Portland Stage. ttp://www.portlandstage.org

Thursday, May 2

Meet the Author. George Daughan6:30 p.m. New series at Prince Memorial Library, 266 Main St., Cumberland: Meet the Author. George Daughan, 1812 Navy, Refreshments will be served. FMI 829-2215

Friday, May 3

Cheverus Drama Society production7 p.m. “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” at Cheverus High School 267 Ocean Ave., Portland. Friday, May 3 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, May 4 at 7 p.m.; Sunday, May 5 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $8 and $ 6 for students and seniors

‘Wittenberg’ by David Davalos7:30 p.m. April 30 – May 19. “Trouble brews in the hallowed halls of Wittenberg University as professors Martin Luther and Doctor Faustus duel for the allegiance of their pupil – Prince Hamlet. From tennis and beer to soliloquies over skulls, Davalos’ imaginative comedy of 16th century col-lege life mixes slapstick and wordplay with a philosophi-cal exploration of reason versus faith, played out in a zany spin on classic characters – real and imaginary!” April 30 to May 3, at 7:30 p.m.; May 4 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.; May 5 at 2 p.m.; May 8-10 at 7:30 p.m.; May 11 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.; May 12 at 2 p.m.; May 14-17 at 7:30 p.m.; also May 16 at 2 p.m.; May 18 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.; May 19 at 2 p.m. Portland

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Friday, April 26

Sly-Chi at Big Easy, 55 Market St., Portland, 9 p.m.www.bigeasyportland.com

The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace at Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland $19-$59; 8 p.m.https://tickets.porttix.com

The Howlin’ Brothers at One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland, $10 adv/$15 door; 8 p.m.www.onelongfellowsquare.com

Downtown Sound with J.Hjort & Marcus Caine at Flask, 117 Spring St., Portlandhttp://flasklounge.com

Saturday, April 27

The Mallett Brothers Band at ASYLUM, 121 Center St., Portland. $12; Doors at 8 p.m.www.portlandasylum.com/concerts

The Blues Prophets at Big Easy, 55 Market St., Portland, Doors at 7 p.m.www.bigeasyportland.com

Portland Symphony Orchestra’s Totally Awesome ‘80’s! at Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland 7:30 p.m.https://tickets.porttix.com

Rosa Noreen’s fifth annual Springtime Spectacular Vari-ety Show at One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Port-land, $15 adv/ $18 door; 8 p.m.www.onelongfellowsquare.com

Generationals at the SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, $10 adv/$12 day of show; Doors at 8:30 p.m.www.space538.org

Sunday, April 28

Spring for 317! A Benefit for the 317 Main Scholarship Fund at One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland, $25; 4 p.m.www.onelongfellowsquare.com

Monday, April 29

The Players’ Ball at Big Easy, 55 Market St., Portland, $3

spectators; 9 p.m.www.bigeasyportland.com

Manamana at Flask, 117 Spring St., Portlandhttp://flasklounge.com

Tuesday, April 30

Cover to Cover: Dray Senior covers Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt at Big Easy, 55 Market St., Portland, $5; 9 p.m.www.bigeasyportland.com

Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIssac at St. Lawrence Arts, 76 Congress St., Portland, $15; 7 p.m.www.stlawrencearts.org

MGMT with Kuroma at the State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland. $17.50 adv/$20 day of show; 7 p.m.www.statetheatreportland.com

Wednesday, May 1

Rap Night at Big Easy, 55 Market St., Portland, $3; 9 p.m.www.bigeasyportland.com

Gramatik at Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St., Portland. $20/$40; 7 p.m.www.portcitymusichall.com

Thursday, May 2

A Band Beyond Description at Big Easy, 55 Market St., Portland, 9 p.m.www.bigeasyportland.com

Rebelution at the State The-atre, 609 Congress St., Portland. $17.50 adv/$20 day of show; 7:30 p.m.www.statetheatreportland.com

Friday, May 3

Worried Well & The Box Tiger at Big Easy, 55 Market St., Portland, 9 p.m.www.bigeasyportland.com

Maia Sharp at One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland, $15 adv/$20 door; 8 p.m.www.onelongfellowsquare.com

Arum Rae at Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St., Port-land. $10/$20; 8 p.m.www.portcitymusichall.com

Saturday, May 4

Jimmy & The Soulcats with Lay Z Gait at Big Easy, 55 Market St., Portland, 7 p.m.www.bigeasyportland.com

Keller Williams at Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St., Portland. $20/$36; 7 p.m.www.portcitymusichall.com

Clutch with The Sword, Lion-ize, Never Got Caught at the State Theatre, 609 Congress St., Portland. $20 adv/$25 day of show; 7 p.m.www.statetheatreportland.com

Sunday, May 5

Spacehog with Spencer Albee at Big Easy, 55 Market St., Portland, $10 adv/$12 day of show; 9 p.m.www.bigeasyportland.com

Tuesday, May 7

Sheesham and Lotus at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 7 p.m., Part of Celtic Roots Series. http://www.stlawrencearts.org

Friday, April 26

Movies at the Museum, Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square

Barbara (PG-13) 6:30 p.m.

Nickelodeon Cinema, 1 Temple St., PortlandPain & Gain (R) 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:15Oblivion (PG-13) 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:3042 (PG-13) 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40The Company You Keep (R) 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45The Place Beyond the Pines (R) 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30The Sapphires (PG-13) 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50

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Barbara (PG-13) 2 p.m.


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Barbara (PG-13) 2 p.m.


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ABOVE: Spacehog and Spencer Albee will play the Big Easy on Sunday, May 5. Known for their 1995 break-out album, “Resident Alien,” and the single, “In the Meantime,” Spacehog found their alignment once again, to create their new album, “As It Is On Earth.” (COURTESY IMAGE)

LEFT: Portland’s own Spencer Albee. (Photo courtesy of Brent Legere)


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NEW 2013 Suzuki NEW 2013 Suzuki Gr. Vitara Prem 4x4 Gr. Vitara Prem 4x4

#W7144 $25,019

NOW... $ 20,489 * $ 20,489 * $ 20,489 *

NEW 2012 Suzuki NEW 2012 Suzuki Equator Crew Cab 4x4 Equator Crew Cab 4x4 #W6214 $29,824 NOW... $ 23,994 * $ 23,994 * $ 23,994 *

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$ 5,800

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$ 4,500

75 month bank financing to qualified buyers w/20% cash or trade equity down payment, all prices incl ude dock fee, excludes taxes and fees. 2012 2.49% apr. 2011 2.69 % apr. 2010 2.99% apr. 2008 3.49 % apr.

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2010 New VW Beetle Convertible Final Edition #P9891: Fully loaded automatic, Only 27k miles, 5 cyl.

$ 18,489 $216.46/mo. $ 18,489

2012 Fiat 500 # P9874: Automatic, 4 cyl., Power Options, Great commuter car!

$ 13,489 $152.52/mo. $ 13,489

2008 Chrysler Sebring Convertible # P9890: Power options, V-6 Automatic, Only 41k miles.

$ 14,989 $178.19/mo. $ 14,989

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$ 4,500

2011 Chevrolet Aveo LT #P9872: 4 cyl. Automatic, AC, Stero CD w/ MP3, tilt wheel, bal. of factory warranty

$ 11,989 $144.72/mo. $ 11,989

2010 Toyota Prius 1 Hybrid #P9901: Auto, AC, power options, alloy wheels, keyless entry

$ 15,489 $187.04/mo. $ 15,489

2012 Ford Focus SEL #P9882: 2L. 4 cyl., auto., AC, Power options, alloy wheels, power moon roof, balance of factory warranty

$ 16,498 $195.72/mo. $ 16,498

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