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See Curtis Robinson’s column on page 4

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D..J. Carr, a houseman at the Eastland Park Hotel, walks through the foyer Thursday. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Mitchell Stein, policy director at Consumers for Afford-able Health Care, an advocacy group for affordable health care, chats after a press conference promot-ing Maine’s Dirigo Health Agency, the state’s publicly funded insurance provider. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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see DIRIGO page 3

Health care advocates say Dirigo ‘open for business’

BY DAVID CARKHUFFTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Critic: It’s ‘irresponsible’ to promote program targeted in gov’s budget

Tonight Sarahann Coleman makes her Art Walk debut, but she knows you can’t just pop the cork on a good bottle of wine and expect the patrons to come fl ocking in.

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“People defi nitely come out for art but like to have a glass or wine here or there while they’re enjoying it, it’s defi nitely an incentive,” she said.

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Maine’s publicly funded health insur-ance plan, DirigoChoice, is open for enroll-ment despite phased cuts to its funding in Gov. Paul LePage’s $6.1 billion budget, a group of universal health care advocates said Thursday.

The group said discussion of state budget cuts, including the governor’s high-profi le

Unlike new hotels in Portland that carry a Hilton or Marriott or Hampton Inn brand, the Eastland Park on High Street is not part of any chain. But new owners of the 84-year-old hotel say that could change.

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Eastland hotel to join chain?BY CASEY CONLEY

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Bragdon

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proposals to cut Dirigo, have created confusion.

“We already have received calls on (a help) line by people who are confused about what’s going on,” said Mitchell Stein, policy director at Consumers for Affordable Health Care, an advocacy group for afford-able health care. “The con-fusion does stem from the budget proposals. Gov. LeP-age’s budget contains provi-sion to phase out the Dirigo assessment, the assessment on claims paid in the state that funds the agency and subsidies for health cover-age.”

The 2.14 percent assess-ment levied on state insur-ance carriers would fall to zero by 2014, based on the budget proposal now under review by legislators.

If the governor’s budget proposals pass, that “does not mean that DirigoChoice goes away anytime soon,” Stein said, but it would require the Dirigo Health Agency, the plan’s overseer, to make changes. Stein tried to ease public “confusion” over the fate of Dirigo-Choice, speaking along with support-ers of the insurance program at a press conference in Portland.

The Dirigo Health Agency “is open for business,” Stein said, noting that the organization enjoyed one of its busiest months in January and had over 580 businesses and nearly 15,000 Mainers enrolled as of January.

“The Dirigo Health Agency remains a viable option for insurance cover-age, despite proposed budget cuts to the agency by Governor Paul LePage,” Consumers for Affordable Health

Care stated in a press release.

A conservative think tank director called this message “irresponsible.”

“There’s not new money for new people to enroll in the program, there’s just enough money to take care of people that are already there,” said Tarren R. Bragdon, chief executive offi cer of the Maine Heritage Policy Center.

“I think that the governor’s budget transitions Dirigo in a responsible way by taking care of people who are cur-rently on the program but by eliminating the Dirigo tax that’s driving up costs on every Maine family,” said Bragdon, who worked for fi ve years as the Heritage Policy Center’s director of health reform initiatives and most recently served on the gover-nor’s transition team.

At issue is that 2.14 percent tax on health care costs that funds Dirigo. Bragdon said that fee is passed along to consumers who have private health insurance.

“DirigoChoice only looks affordable because the taxpayers are subsidizing it so much,” he said.

In the governor’s budget, the assessment would be phased out by 2014, when the federal health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, kicks in with state-based American Health Benefi t Exchanges and Small Business Health Options Program Exchanges. These exchanges, accord-ing to the law, would be administered by a government agency or non-profi t organization; and individuals

and small businesses with up to 100 employees could purchase qualifi ed coverage through them.

“The assessment is in place until the federal health exchanges come on board Jan. 1, 2014, so I think there’s an appropriate stepdown of the assessment,” Bragdon said.

Stein emphasized that the governor’s assessment cuts are only proposals, but con-ceded, “As the assessment is

lowered, there will be less funding for both the subsidies and to run the agency as a whole to administer the product.”

Still, Stein said Dirigo Health Agency remains an important source of coverage.

“Importantly, when we’re seeing double-digit rate increases from other carriers, DirigoChoice is holding its rates steady,” he said.

In Portland, 45 businesses and groups provide insurance through the Dirigo Health Agency, according to Consumers for Affordable Health Care.

Sharon Mullett, benefi ts administra-tor for People’s Regional Opportunity Program, a social services organiza-tion in Portland, promoted a part-time worker voucher program, offered by DirigoChoice through a federal grant. The program helps eligible uninsured, part-time and seasonal workers partic-ipate in their employer’s health insur-ance plan.

“Because of PROP’s mission, it is only natural for PROP to offer the voucher program to our seasonal and part-time employees until 2014 when the Afford-able Health Care Act starts,” she said during Thursday’s press conference.

The benefi t of the program greatly outweighs the fi nancial obligation, Mullett said.

Don Kniseley, executive director of Tedford Housing, a Brunswick-based provider of housing services to at-risk families, said Dirigo Health Agency was a godsend to the $1.2 million, 22-employee nonprofi t.

“Last November, we faced a 32 per-cent increase in our premium having been insured with one of the very few insurers in the state for three years,” Kniseley said. “We simply couldn’t handle a 32 percent increase, so we looked around, we approached Dirigo and found that we were able to attain essentially a comparable level of insur-ance, a few changes in deductibles and so forth, but not major. We were able to provide essentially the same coverage at no increase from what we had been paying. This was huge for us, it meant a $15,000 chunk of money for us.”

Single parents making $11 an hour, some doing “front-line work” in an emergency shelter, were among those who benefi ted, Kniseley said.

“What moving to Dirigo meant is some of our entry-level employees were able to attain signifi cant dis-counts both in their premium and their deductible in Dirigo,” he said.

DIRIGO from page one

‘We simply couldn’t handle a 32 percent increase’

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Welcome to March, the month when virtually anyone with a trace of Irish blood gets to assert membership in what’s become a hyphen-nation.

The culturally “hyphened” American used to be relatively rare. Anglo-Americans worried if African-American was still in vogue and other ethnic groups mostly self-identifi ed with dash-ing style only when it was politi-cally important. And assimilation was a coveted goal.

Maine has many families that stopped speaking French as part of their United States experience. And there are folks, like Gov. Paul LePage, who recall that Franco-Americans were targeted for ethnic hatred on a regular basis.

Only recently, the Italian-American community was rocked by assimilation over-achieve-ment: nobody now living in New York City’s Little Italy area was born in Italy. It’s an example of our shifting society: only 60 years ago, half the population of Little Italy self-identifi ed as American citizens of Italian descent and about one in fi ve of the area’s

Irish are part of our hyphen-nation

10,000 residents had actually been born in Italy.

Now, only 5 percent of the area’s nearly 9,000 residents even call themselves Italian-American.

In Portland, where St. Patrick’s Day is always a well-celebrated event, we’ve seen large Irish pop-ulations move on. The Irish Heri-tage Center, the former Catholic Church at the corner of Gray and State streets, became a cultural monument in large part because of the out-migration of Irish fami-lies.

But assimilation seems to have lost a bit of its allure. Some of that is clearly geographic — many immigrants from Mexico expect to return home often, which was not the case for Italians in Little Italy a half-century ago.

But some of the anti-assimi-

lation is cultural. It seems that, amid our celebration of diversity, it’s become more attractive to identify with the homelands. Port-land is considering letting non-citizens vote in local elections, a clear sign that non-assimilation is just not the issue it was when French-speaking families dropped the native language.

As a bit of an Irish-American myself, and not just for the month, it’s worth noting that assimilation wasn’t a self-identity issue grow-ing up — I’m sure nobody would have had any idea what the heck it was.

We did fl irt for a while with the hyphenation of “Appalachian-American” when some areas started awarding money for “tra-ditionally under-served minori-ties” and we mountain folk felt quite under-served at the time.

And we did lay claim to Jack Dempsey, the famous boxer. He was my father’s cousin (I’m told) and stared out from grainy black-and-white family reunion photos. Thus I was likely the only eighth grader to know that Jack Dempsey

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Why not publish other

editorial cartoons in Sun?Editor,As I've written before, I appreciate and enjoy

your paper. I don't pick it up every day, but when I do it invariably has a Glenn McCoy political car-toon on your Opinions page [and if it's not his stuff then it's Lisa Benson's, who's maybe even farther to the right]. He's good, and he's usually funny, but a steady diet of him is tough to take unless one is a fellow Obama- and union-hater, as he [and she] seems to be.

Since you also regularly carry his brother Gary's non-political cartoons, which are almost always funny, I get the impression they're giving you some kind of package deal. In any event, I wish there were less of and more Tom Toles, or Pat Oliphant, or some other cartoonists who gives it to the what Republi-cans around the country are trying to do to women, to unions, to the environment, you name it.

Other than the right-wing cartoonists, you're paper is a valuable source of news, especially now that you can carry New York Times pieces; I was happy to see the great Bob Herbert's piece in today's paper.

James Douglas CowiePortland

Editor's note: The Portland Daily Sun runs edito-rial cartoons by conservative Glenn McCoy and by liberal Carlson, alternating them when possible, as well as local cartoons. An effort is made to provide balance.

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was in the fi rst event witnessed by more than a million human beings — a triumph for both early television and the extended Dempsey clan.

So it’s been an odd trip to re-dis-cover my hyphen. I’ve named a son “Finnegan” who would tell you he’s Irish, something I would not have considered at his age. The truth is that, like many American families, we can pick from an ancestral buffet that

includes equal parts English, Scottish and some French on my mom’s side. We like the Irish part, Finn and me.

And now fast approaches March 17, my second-favorite Irish milestone (Bloomsday is the fi rst), and I’ll be gettin’ my hyphen on early and often. But along with the good fun, it’s also a celebration of our hyphen-nation.

(Curtis Robinson is editor of The Portland Daily Sun. Contact him at curtis@portlanddailysun.me.)

ROBINSON from page 4

Folks fl irted with hyphenation of ‘Appalachian-American’

My guess is that there was not a single member of the United States Supreme Court who was not person-ally appalled that the Westboro Baptist Church would target the funeral of a soldier who died in battle so they could get publicity for their anti-gay views. It is hard to think of any good reason why the Snyder family, having lost their beloved (and, if it matters, not gay) son while serving his country in Iraq, should be exposed to such abuse. And it’s easy to understand why they would sue and seek the kind of damages that would ensure Westboro could not continue to abuse others.

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court held in an 8-1 decision that the Snyders could not recover for the emotional distress intentionally infl icted on them, even though no one doubts that it was or that it was done so intentionally. With only Justice Samuel Alito dissenting, the Court’s four liberals, all Democratic appoin-tees, joined the remaining four con-servatives, all Republican appointees, to hold that the First Amendment pro-tected the church from being called to answer for the pain it had caused.

“Speech is powerful,” Chief Justice John Roberts declared, writing for the majority. Here, two reasons demand its protection, the Court held. First, however inarticulately and crudely, the signs and taunts of the Westboro Church members went directly to issues of public importance, which “occupies the highest rung of the hier-archy of First Amendment values.” Second, the church members com-plied with all other laws applicable to the time, place and manner of public assembly. The church mem-bers “had the right to be where they were” — 1,000 feet from the site of the funeral.

The distress, then, “turned on the content and viewpoint of the message conveyed,” which is precisely what the First Amendment protects.

Of course, the First Amendment says

nothing about content restric-tions being the worst kind of regulation of speech. Nor does it say anything about speech on public policy issues occupying the “highest rung.” It doesn’t say anything about time, place and manner restric-tions, or how far protestors can be kept away, so long as the rules apply to everyone. All it says is that “free-dom of speech,” along with a free press and the right to assemble and peti-tion for grievances, shall be protected. That’s it.

The rest has come from judges, especially Supreme Court justices, mostly in the last hundred years, who have gone way beyond divining the intent of the Founders to develop a whole body of law as to what the First Amendment does and does not pro-tect. The law has obviously changed over time, often (albeit not explicitly) to refl ect the various wars (the Red Scare, for instance) we have faced and the fear they engender.

But here’s the part that gets lost in the assumption — reinforced by the confi rmation processes of the past two decades and by close majorities in some big cases — that it’s all just politics: If it were all “politics,” West-boro would have lost and the soldier’s family would have won.

There is still such a thing as “law,” even if a new conservative Court could theoretically jettison it all. Yes, there are close cases. But there are many more that are not close because, as here, two centuries have yielded a “right” answer, even if it is judge-made.

(To fi nd out more about Susan Estrich and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and car-toonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.)

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Susan Estrich–––––

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If it were all “poli-tics,” Westboro would have lost and the soldier’s

family would have won.

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Terms of this latest sale were not disclosed. How-ever, one industry insider who was familiar with the sale price but didn’t want to be identifi ed by name, said it sold for “a pretty sizable amount.”

“I was kind of surprised. I sure hope they did their due-diligence,” this person said, referring to Rock-Bridge Capital.

RockBridge Capital, which is based in Columbus, Ohio, has invested more than $3 billion in hotels and other hospitality properties across the U.S., accord-ing to its website. The fi rms investors are mostly “endowments and institutional partners who want hospitality exposure,” Valente said, rather than indi-viduals.

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The pending sale of the Eastland was fi rst reported in the weekly Forecaster newspaper.

RockBridge was attracted both to the Eastland property itself and to the Portland market as a whole, with its “food culture, arts culture and tour-ism,” Valente said.

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company’s “vision” for an updated Eastland includes a comprehensive renovation in which “no area vis-ible to the guest would not be addressed.”

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in the Eastland back into hotel rooms. Some city councilors were upset to learn RockBridge skirted $2.5 million in potential fees from those conversions, the Forecaster reported.

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Despite recent amendments to the ordinance, councilors Kevin Donoghue and John Anton told the Forecaster they believed those fees still applied to the Eastland’s hotel room conversions.

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Valente would not comment on the question of converting apartments into hotel rooms.

It’s not clear if Valente was already counting those apartments as guest rooms when he said the East-land has 258 rooms. On its website, New Castle Hotels says the Eastland has 202 rooms.

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“Our approach, and our partners’ approach, is really on re-invest-ing in properties that are in attractive markets,” and with hotels that have “long-term staying power,” said Adam Valente, a senior vice president with RockBridge Capital, buyer of the Eastland Park Hotel in Portland. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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A photographer who shares her studio space in the State Theatre Building with sculpture/video/graphic design artists Seth Gass, Coleman said the space might take a little work to fi nd, but their prop-erty management company does its best to get Art Walkers to explore the hulking six-story building at the corner of Congress and High streets.

“They open up building a little later to encour-age people to come in, and a lot of other artists in the building open their studios as well, Stone Coast [Properties] are very good about advertising for us,” she said. “They will have a little write-up in the entryways and elevators and kind of a map to let people know whose studios are open and what they are exhibiting.”

Opening up her studio space for the First Friday Art Walk, Coleman hopes to use the event to exhibit some of her more fun, experimental work. “It’s not anything I would seriously exhibit in a gallery, it’s

more work I do for myself,” said the artist, who spe-cializes in portraiture.

Moving to Portland two years ago after leaving a photo advertising job in Minneapolis to concentrate more on her own photography, Coleman has worked out of the third-fl oor studio space at suite No. 310 for a while, but was always too busy around the fi rst of the month to mount a show for Art Walk.

Typically, Coleman’s does portraiture, “kind of the dynamics of relationships with people,” she explains. “I did a series on siblings and concentrated on how each group of siblings was different in their intimacy and their relationships,” she said.

Having studied photography at Columbia College in Chicago, Coleman said she plans to stick with por-traiture, but likes to use forums like the Art Walk to exhibit some different types of work.

Tonight at suite No. 310, Coleman will exhibit her series “Ladies and Gentlemen.” Featuring 12 images mounted on woodblocks, half the 6 x 6 inch prints feature satin fl owers in hushed tones, the other half, graphic, bold subjects with the sprockets of the fi lms showing along the top and bottom of the print.

“It has to do with my observations of viewing oth-er’s reactions to art. I saw patterns in what females and males where drawn to,” she said, explaining

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females were typically attracted to pieces with “a softer focus, muted colors,” and men going for things which were “a little more graphic, with bolder colors, sym-metrical.”

Coleman will asks those who pop into the studio to examine the images before read-ing her statement, to see if her theory about aesthetic attraction by gender really holds up. “It’s just interesting for me to see which ones they would be drawn to initially,” she said.

“Each set of images is unique in its execution. The Ladies being cap-tured digitally, and then manipulated in post production. The Gentle-men was an experiment with a medium format toy camera exposing a smaller format fi lm (hence the exposed sprockets),” writes Coleman in her artist’s statement.

Each set of images is unique in its execu-tion. The Ladies being,” writes Cole captured

digitally, and then manipulated in post production. The Gentle-men was an experiment with a medium format toy camera exposing a smaller format fi lm (hence the exposed sprockets).

The fun, experimen-tal nature of the proj-ect refl ects Coleman’s own ethos about art. “I generally like to make work that is approach-able so all walks will be affected even without an educated art back-ground,” she said.

“I think that’s some-thing artists tend to shy away from because

they’re always trying to do some-thing so differ-ent to prove this point and it can be a little bit pre-tentious. I have a lot of family and friends who don’t understand art at all, so I think it’s important to draw those people in,” she said.

Coleman’s stu-diomate Gass will be exhibiting his own work tonight as well. “He’s going to be selling some t-shirts he screen printed and posters as well, he’s kind of all

over the board,” Cole-man said.

Check out Cole-man and Gass’s studio tonight during First Friday Art Walk. 142 High St., Suite No. 310. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You are grateful to have had the opportunity to travel and study. This has expanded your perspective in wonderful ways. And when you share your experiences with others today, their perspective will grow, as well. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll focus on others and ask for their per-spective on an issue. Because you’re able to get outside of yourself, you’ll broaden your circle of infl uence and earn the trust and respect of your peers. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Every-thing you do for others today is a casual choice -- no pressure. You make it easy to be your friend. You don’t want or need anything from those around you, and that’s half the battle. CANCER (June 22-July 22). You refuse to lean on others, preferring to lift them up instead. If you fi nd that you cannot do this, then the next best thing is to lift up yourself. Your happiness will be contagious. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your good ideas bear repeating. If you’ve shared your ideas before but didn’t get much of a response, now is the time to men-tion them again. In some ways, the general public is still catching up with you. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It is not enough for you to add value to some-one’s life. You want to multiply the good fortune of those around you. You’ll fi nd a way to do this, too -- it has to do with spreading a positive message to a large number of people. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You have a talent for rising above petty concerns, and you’ll have a very good reason to use it. You’ll get outside yourself so that you can see things from another per-

son’s point of view. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Some-one has memorized a pitch and will deliver it with great skill. That doesn’t go over too well with you, though, as you prefer that people communicate from the heart. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Your generous heart makes it easy for you to be open and encouraging, even with your competitors. Perhaps you realize that your only real competition is yourself. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You sometimes give people more credit than they deserve. But you’d rather err on the side of generosity than fail to appreciate the ones who really contrib-ute. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You will be even more committed to enrich-ing the lives of others than you usually are. You will notice those in need. You won’t be able to help them all at once, but you will make a difference. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Though most people put on a good face, you’ll look deeper and realize that many are hurting. This will change the way you interact. Your manner of dealing with others is both careful and kind. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 4). You’ll develop the skills to conduct the relationship of your dreams. Continue to strive for stellar communication in all areas of life, and you’ll get increas-ingly comfortable asking for what you need. A roadblock to fi nancial good for-tune will be lifted in April. June brings an educational opportunity. You have a special connection with Cancer and Scorpio people. Your lucky numbers are: 10, 3, 22, 43 and 56.

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35 TOON Generator Star Wars King of Hill King of Hill Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Fam. Guy Fam. Guy

36 NICK Big Time Victorious My Wife My Wife Lopez Lopez The Nanny The Nanny

37 MSNBC The Last Word Rachel Maddow Show Life After Lockup Lockup: Raw

38 CNN Race and Rage Piers Morgan Tonight Anderson Cooper 360 Race and Rage

40 CNBC 60 Minutes on CNBC The Truth About Shop. Remington Under Fire Mad Money

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

43 TNT Movie: “Journey to the Center of the Earth” Movie: “Journey to the Center of the Earth”

44 LIFE Reba Å Reba Å Reba Å Reba Å Reba Å Reba Å How I Met How I Met

46 TLC Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Cupcake Cupcake Say Yes Say Yes

47 AMC The Walking Dead Å The Walking Dead The Walking Dead Walk:Dead

48 HGTV House Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters

49 TRAV Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures

50 A&E Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds Å

52 BRAVO Bethenny Ever After Movie: ›› “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” (2003) How Lose

55 HALL Touched by an Angel Touched by an Angel Touched by an Angel Gold Girls Gold Girls

56 SYFY WWE Friday Night SmackDown! (N) Å Merlin (N) Å Being Human

57 ANIM Fatal Attractions Fatal Attractions (N) Confessions: Hoarding Fatal Attractions

58 HIST Larry the Cable Guy Larry Larry Larry Larry Modern Marvels Å

60 BET The Game The Game Together Together Movie: ››‡ “The Longshots” (2008) Å

61 COM Comedy Tosh.0 Tosh.0 Tosh.0 Daniel Tosh: Serious Comedy Comedy

62 FX Movie: ›› “Meet Dave” (2008) Eddie Murphy. Movie: ›› “Meet Dave” (2008) Eddie Murphy.

67 TVLND Sanford Sanford Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Cleveland Roseanne

68 TBS Movie: ›› “The Bucket List” (2007) Movie: ›› “The Bucket List” (2007)

76 SPIKE Auction Auction Auction Auction Auction Three Sheets CSI

78 OXY Movie: ››‡ “Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins” (2008) “Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins”

146 TCM Movie: ›› “Clambake” (1967) Elvis Presley. Movie: ››‡ “Latin Lovers” (1953) Å

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Today is Friday, March 4, the 63rd day of 2011. There are 302 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlights in History:On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was

inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States. The U.S. Government Print-ing Offi ce began operation. The Confeder-ate States of America adopted as its fl ag the original version of the Stars and Bars (not to be confused with the more familiar Confed-erate Battle Flag).

On this date:In 1789, the Constitution of the United

States went into effect as the fi rst Federal Congress met in New York. (The lawmakers then adjourned for lack of a quorum.)

In 1791, Vermont became the 14th state.In 1811, the fi rst Bank of the United States

ceased operations as its charter expired.In 1858, Sen. James Henry Hammond of

South Carolina declared “Cotton is king” in a speech to the U.S. Senate.

In 1908, a fi re at Lake View School in Col-linwood, Ohio, claimed the lives of 172 chil-dren and three adults.

In 1930, Coolidge Dam in Arizona was dedicated by its namesake, former Presi-dent Calvin Coolidge.

In 1940, Kings Canyon National Park in California was established.

In 1960, an explosives-laden French freighter, La Coubre, exploded in Havana’s harbor, killing at least 75 people.

In 1977, some 1,500 people were killed in an earthquake that shook southern and eastern Europe.

In 1981, a jury in Salt Lake City convicted Joseph Paul Franklin, an avowed racist, of violating the civil rights of two black men who’d been shot to death.

One year ago: A Hollister, Calif., man with a history of severe psychiatric problems opened fi re at a Pentagon security check-point; John Patrick Bedell, 36, wounded two police offi cers before being killed by police.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Paula Prent-iss is 73. Movie director Adrian Lyne is 70. Singer Bobby Womack is 67. Rock musi-cian Chris Squire (Yes) is 63. Singer Shakin’ Stevens is 63. Author James Ellroy is 63. Texas Gov. Rick Perry is 61. Singer Chris Rea is 60. Actor Ronn Moss is 59. Actress Kay Lenz is 58. Musician Emilio Estefan is 58. Movie director Scott Hicks is 58. Actress Catherine O’Hara is 57. Actor Mykelti (MY’-kul-tee) Williamson is 54. Actress Patricia Heaton is 53. Actor Steven Weber is 50. Rock musician Jason Newsted is 48. Actress Stacy Edwards is 46. Rapper Grand Puba is 45. Rock musician Patrick Hannan (The Sundays) is 45. Rock singer Evan Dando (Lemonheads) is 44. Actress Patsy Kensit is 43. Gay rights activist Chaz Bono is 42. Actor Nick Stabile (stah-BEEL’) is 41. Rock musician Fergal Lawler (The Cranberries) is 40. Country singer Jason Sellers is 40. Jazz musician Jason Marsalis is 34.

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letters 14 Opera song 15 Acrylic fi ber 16 One from Bonn 17 Processors

for diminutive vessels?

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whiskey? 32 Track circuit 33 African fox 36 Frolic 37 Seed coats 39 NYC cultural

attraction 40 Dance elements 42 __ homo 43 Qom resident

45 Comics canine 46 HST’s lady 47 Hair preparation 48 Diminutive covers

for cameras? 51 Borrowed 53 Flat-topped fl ower

cluster 54 Pers. pension $ 57 Contagious

disease 59 Eye parts 61 Throw out, as light 63 Arkansas city

named for a bootie?

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67 Actress MacDowell

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DOWN 1 Packs (down) 2 Zodiac ram

3 Ancient Britons 4 F.D.R.’s mother 5 Personnel fi les 6 Regal inits. 7 Rope-a-dope poet 8 Moves to the beat 9 An insect between

molts 10 Supermodel Klum 11 Albee play about a

piece of fruit? 12 #6 on the dial 13 Writer Deighton 18 Ye __ Shoppe 22 Heavenly bear 25 Exactly right, old

chap 26 Funny 28 After-bath

powders 29 Basilica features 30 Gradually break

from a habit 31 Presumptuously

arrogant 33 Friend in Madrid 34 Philosopher

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distances 44 Muslim leader 49 Not out-of-

bounds 50 Slight 52 External

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Munich 61 Historic chapter 62 Broom’s cousin 64 Six-pt. plays 65 Connection

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Friday, March 4

The Incredible Breakfast Cook-off7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Twelve of Maine’s “Cham-pions of Breakfast” are invited to the Sea Dog Brew Pub to compete. They line up side-by-side and serve small plates. Guests of the event choose whose breakfast reigns supreme. Last year Good Table restaurant from Cape Elizabeth won top honors — their Creme Brulee French Toast lived up to its “Bring you to your knees delicious” description. They’ll be back to defend their title and so will a large group of competi-tors, each vying for the top prize. As a spe-cial treat for guest of the event Captain & Celeste — the WBLM morning show —will broadcast live from the Sea Dog Brew Pub. This Maine Restaurant Week event benefi ts Preble Street Resource Center. General admission is $15 per person or $27 per pair. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/153215

Riverton Community enrichment celebration1:40 p.m. to 2:40 p.m. Riverton Elementary School families and community members are invited to a sharing of learning from the school’s recent, six-week series of enrich-ment workshops. The event will be held on March 4 from in the media center and caf-eteria of the school, located at 1600 Forest Avenue, Portland. All Riverton staff and students partici-pated in the workshops. During the celebration, cluster groups will present dances, drama and other performances. Students, teachers, parents and guests will go on a “gallery walk” to see posters highlighting each cluster’s learning.

First Friday Art Walk: Cannonball Press5 p.m. Cannonball Press presents Burn the Lot: Splinter Heads, Nut Mobs & Ballyhoo, featuring a huge new pile of limited-edition $20 prints by the likes of Dusty Herbig, Angela Earley, Drew Iwaniw, Sarah Nicholls, Tyler Krasowski, and Donna Diamond. Also, Martin Mazorra and Mike Houston will premiere their new supersized woodcuts depicting the capitalist wasteland, as seen through the lens of a carnival for the ages. Mega carny prints on canvas; free, all ages.

‘Hardware’ photo display at The Green Hand bookstore5 p.m. to 9 p.m. This month the Green Hand is continuing to showcase photography with a series of black and white photos by Wayne Frederick. “Hardware” is a collection of humorous, serious, and mysterious prints of “guy stuff” that includes abstracts, still life, action shots, and plain old pictures. Suitable for viewing by all age groups. First Friday Art Walk opening at The Green Hand Bookshop, 661 Congress St. On display through the month of March. FMI: Contact Michelle Souliere at 450-6695 or michelle.souliere@gmail.com.

Arts, Artists, and Personalities in 1930s Maine at Maine Historical5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Maine Historical Society presents a new exhibit, Arts, Artists, and Personalities in 1930s Maine. Original photographs on display March 4 through May 3. The opening reception is free and open to the public and will be held on March 4 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Lecture Hall. This exhibit will be open to the public at no charge during the April First Friday Art Walk. While stories of hardship and suffering are not hard to fi nd in Depression-era Maine, a series of photographs taken to accompany newspaper articles during that era offer another view: the strength and vitality of the arts and artists and of other personalities in 1930s Maine. G. Herbert Whitney, an accomplished amateur photographer, captured these people and scenes while his wife, Emmie Bailey Whit-ney, interviewed the personalities for the Lewiston Journal Saturday Magazine. A number of the dozen people featured in this display are well-known artists or writers. The MHS Museum and Lecture Hall gallery are open Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free for MHS mem-bers, $8 for adults, $7 for seniors, students, and AAA mem-bers, and $2 for children, free for children under 6.

Lambs among Wolves oil paintings5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Meghan Howland: Lambs among Wolves. Oil paintings. Opening show at Mayo Street Arts. (First Friday) http://mayostreetarts.org/

William Hessian solo show at the Meg Perry Center5 p.m. to 8 p.m. For First Friday Art Walk, Minnesota artist William Hessian will display his art at the Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St. Free kitty stickers. “Basically I will be put-ting up over 200 works of art, from miniature works to larger paintings,” Hessian wrote on his blog. “New paintings done

on glass, where you must look through one painting to see the rest of the painting. I am also going to have an unan-nounced hidden treasure hunt in the gallery. That is all I will be saying about the treasure until someone fi nds it, or the art show ends (at the end of March).” http://www.blogger.com/profi le/12091165616820244881

Freeze Out Hunger 20115:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Freeze Out Hunger 2011 at the Ocean Gateway Terminal Building. “Enjoy bidding on live and silent auction Items; enjoy delicious appetizers pre-pared by Kitchen Chicks of Kennebunk; cash bar with spirits donated by Whiterock Distilleries, Inc. and Gritty’s; meet the Portland Pirates as they join the fi ght to Freeze Out Hunger; dance the night away with the nine piece band Retrospecticus. Tickets are $45 until March 3. Then they will be $55. Junior League of Maine, “a nonprofi t organization of women committed to promoting volunteer-ism, developing the potential of women, and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.” www.jlpmaine.org

Exhibit and Awards of the National Arts Program6:30 p.m. City of Portland, Portland Public Schools and Portland Public Library employees and their families will showcase their artwork on the walls of City Hall as a part of the fi fth annual Exhibit and Awards of the National Arts Program. Nearly 100 employees and family members are expected to participate. Members of the public are invited to visit City Hall to view the art on display March 4 through March 17, Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The National Arts Program is designed to give artists at all levels of skill an opportunity to exhibit their work in a professional manner and compete for cash prizes, the city reported in a press release. Sponsored by the National Arts Program Foundation in support and cooperation with the City of Portland, the exhibit is judged by professional artists and visual art professionals. Winners in the amateur, intermediate, professional and youth categories will be announced Friday, March 4 at the artist’s reception at 6:30 p.m. www.ci.portland.me.us/

‘Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune’6:30 p.m. Film screenings. Friday, March 4, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, March 5, 2 p.m.; Sunday, March 6, 2 p.m. NR. “There’s no place in this world where I’ll belong, when I’m gone, And I won’t know the right from the wrong, when I’m gone, And you won’t fi nd me singin’ on this song, when I’m gone. So I guess I’ll have to do it while I’m here.” — “As our country continues to embroil itself in foreign wars and once again pins its hopes on a new leader’s promise for change, this feature-length documentary is a timely tribute to an unlikely American hero. Phil Ochs, a folk singing legend, who many called “the emotional heart of his generation,” loved his country and he pur-sued its honor, in song and action, with a ferocity that had no regard for consequences. Wielding only a battered guitar, a clear voice, and a quiver of razor sharp songs, he tirelessly fought the ‘good fi ght’ for peace and justice throughout his short life. He took his own life in 1976 at the age of 35.” Movies at the Museum, Portland Museum of Art. http://portlandmuseum.org

Casco Bay Lines Inter-Island Cruise6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Departs Portland at 6 p.m. and returns to Portland at 10 p.m. Heavy appetizers provided by the Inn on Peaks Island; music provided by 43N -70W. Cash bar on board. Tickets $25 per person, avail-able at the CBL ticket window. For more information call Caity at 774-7871, x105.

Irish Night with the Maine Red Claws7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Portland Expo. Second annual Irish Night and help support the Maine Irish Heritage Center. “Wear green to show your Irish Pride as we celebrate Maine’s Irish community. A portion of the special fundraising tickets will go to sup-port the Irish American Club of Maine and the Maine Irish Heritage Center. Festivities include: Halftime performance by the Stillson School of Irish Dance. Pre-Game Parade of Flags from Ireland and Bagpipes from Clad-dagh Mhor Pipe Band. Special fundraiser tickets will be $10 and $15. Please help sup-port the MIHC!” For more information con-tact Kay Martin at 878-3724 or Pat McBride at irishhc@maine.rr.com

‘Exhibit This’ at Deering High7 p.m. Deering High School Drama presents “Exhibit This,” a one-act comedy by Luigi Jannuzzi about the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on March 4 and 5 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 in advance or $7 at the door. Call 874-8260 during school hours for reserva-

tions. Visit www.deeringdrama.org.

‘The Cleansed: Season One’7 p.m. to 9 p.m. As part of First Friday Art Walk, Coffee by Design will be hosting Audio Producer Fred Greenhalgh at their India Street Cofeehouse, 67 India St., Portland. Greenhalgh, who was the recipient of a 2010 CBD Rebel Blend arts grant, will be sharing audio samples and talk-ing about his new work, “The Cleansed: Season One.” The pilot of “The Cleansed,” which aired on Halloween, 2010 on both WKIT in Bangor and WMPG in Portland, follows the stories of a group of civilians and soldiers who are caught in the middle of civil upheaval caused by a disastrous shortage of fossil fuels. The show has been called a “huge achievement” by BBC Radio 4 producer John Dryden. Irish playwright Roger Gregg says the work is at “the forefront of the contemporary American [radio drama] scene.” More information and free down-loads of the pilot episode of “The Cleansed” are available at: http://thecleansed.com. The Cleansed is a co-pro-duction of FinalRune Productions and WMPG, commu-nity radio of from the University of Southern Maine.

‘In the Shelter of Each Other: A Social Action Shabbat’7:30 p.m. The Social Action Committee of Congregation Bet Ha’am presents “In the Shelter of Each Other,” a spe-cial Social Action Shabbat service focusing on the needs of Maine families who are struggling fi nancially, on March 4 at the synagogue, located at 81 Westbrook St., South Port-land. The service is open to the community. It will include special prayers, songs and a brief talk by Christine Hast-edt, co-founder and public policy director of Maine Equal Justice. After the service, representatives from several non-profi t programs serving low-income Mainers will provide information about how volunteers can get involved. Every-one attending the March 4 service is requested to bring canned goods to donate to a local food pantry. A list of needed items is posted on the Social Action Committee’s blog: http://www.bhsocialaction.blogspot.com/

Master Hypnotist at Fryeburg Academy7:30 p.m. Dan Candell, Master Hypnotist and mind reader is appearing at Fryeburg Academy’s Laura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center to hypnotize and read the minds of any volunteer brave enough to participate. All tickets are $10 per person. Proceeds will go to the graduating class of 2013. 935.9232

‘The Shadow Box’8 p.m. “The Shadow Box,” a Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play that is a “must experience” event! Star-ring nine of Portland’s fi nest actors and directed by Vin-cent Knue, this production will have you talking long after the fi nal bow. Now playing at the Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St. in Portland. All seats are $15. For reservations and more information call the box offi ce at 773-0333.

George Hamm at the Comedy Connection8:30 p.m. Portland’s own George Hamm with Tony Mos-chetto. Tickets $16. Portland Comedy Connection, 16 Custom House Wharf. Also Saturday. Reservations: 774-5554. $7.50. Schedule and information: www.mainecomedy.com. Box office open Thurs.-Sat., noon to 10 p.m.

Abraham Bogdanove photographed painting Manana Island from Monhegan Island. The Maine Histori-cal Society features this image in its Arts, Artists, and Personalities in 1930s Maine exhibit. (COURTESY IMAGE)

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Matty Boutwell talks with Catherine McAuley High School Coach Amy Vachon on the wireless mic. (Photo courtesy of Jason Gendron)

Jeff Schools (right) and Matty Boutwell of Maine Sports Network chat before a game at the Maine High School Basketball Tournament. All 32 Western Maine Class A and B boys and girls games are on radio on either AM1310 News Talk WLOB, 95.5 WLOB or 96.3 The Big Jab. Today’s Class B State Championship Games are on 95.5FM News Talk WLOB; Saturday’s Class A Championship Games will be aired on 96.3 The Big Jab. Bangor will play Cheverus on Saturday night in Augusta. (Photo courtesy of Jason Gendron)

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High school hoops hit the airwavesTalk about wall-to-wall high school basketball:

this weekend, gold balls will be handed out in the state tournament championship games and you can listen to the action on local radio for a change.

The Class B title games can be heard live on Friday night from the Cumberland County Civic Center on 95.5 FM WLOB. At 7 p.m., the Leavitt girls will take on Nokomis. Then at 9 p.m. it will be the Cape Elizabeth boys playing Camden Hills.

Still not enough hoops for you? Well, on Saturday you go up your dial a bit and hear the Class A games

from the Augusta Civic Center on 96.3 FM "The Big Jab." At 4 p.m. McAuley will battle Hamden Acad-emy in the girls fi nal. Then at 7 p.m. the undefeated Cheverus boys will play Bangor for the title.

Just in case you haven't been listening, these aren't the only tournament games that have been on the radio.

Over the last two weeks, the Maine Sports Net-work has basically been putting on a "basketball marathon." They have broadcast 32 high school playoff basketball games. Nobody knows if it's a record, but no doubt it's the most high school bas-ketball that has been on the airwaves in years.

"It has been crazy," said announcer and network creator Jeff Schools. "Early on in the tournament at one point, we were on the air from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. a couple of days. You have to love high school basketball to do that, and we do."

Jeff Schools is not alone on the air.His business partner Marry Boutwell, Tom Nolette

of mbr.com, a local sports writer and a couple of local television sportscasters have been helping out with the games. But it is still a whole lot of producing and a whole lot of talking.

"I have had lots of help," said School. "But I still have had to do most of the games. My voice has been hanging in there. I have been taking plenty of

vitamin C drops and drinking lots of tea with lemon and honey."

It has apparently helped, because going into this weekend's state fi nals, School still has his voice.

"I sit back and still can't believe what we are doing," said Schools.

The Maine Sports Network wouldn't have been able to pull off this marathon without plenty of help and not just from the extra announcers. Atlantic Radio had to fi nd time on three different frequencies and there had to be sponsors to pay for that time and all of the other expenses.

"Advertising has been a little rough because our network is still new," said School. "But sponsors like Captain Eli's Soda, Mister Sparky and Maine Hoops Basketball Club really came through for us."

Despite the sponsors, Maine Sports Network says it will be lucky to break even during this year's tournament. School has a vision for the future, though, and he thinks down the road, broadcasting all of these games will be a money maker one day.

In the meantime, for everyone involved it has been fun and challenging. Doing 32 tournament games you will always have speed bumps.

A few times, the games have gone off the air for a bit because of a technical glitch and there have been a few blowouts. "Back in the Class B girls quarter-fi nals we had a game that ended up 55-14," said School. "It was tough to keep it interesting, but we still had fun. That was a bad game, but we still had a great broadcast. We had to be very creative. All of the announcers get along with each other, and we know a lot about high school basketball to keep even a rout interesting."

Schools claims feedback from the public, players and coaches has been very positive. So positive that one day the Maine Sports Network would like to broadcast all the games in the state.

That would be Class C and D and all the games in the East as well.

"We don't just want to do games in the Portland area," said Schools. "We are looking for something big. That's why we called ourselves the Maine Sports Network."

For more information you can log onto maines-portsnetwork.com

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL GAMES

Friday on 95.5 WLOBGirls Class B

Leavitt vs Nokomis 7 p.m.Boys Class B

Cape Elizabeth vs Camden Hills 9 p.m.

Saturday on 96.3 Big JabGirls Class A

McAuley vs Hampden Academy 4 p.m.Boys Class A

Cheverus vs Bangor 7 p.m.

BY JEFF PETERSONSPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Matty Boutwell talks to WCSH 6’s Lee Goldberg at halftime of a game at the Cumberland County Civic Center. (Photo courtesy of Earl Adams)

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Mark O’Connor Quartet: An Evening of Strings 8 p.m. Mark O’Connor Quartet at Merrill Auditorium. “Fierce fi ddler. Virtuosic violinist. Masterful composer. Fearless improviser. Generous collaborator. From blue-grass to country to jazz to Americana infl ected classical, O’Connor’s playing and compositions defy categoriza-tion. O’Connor is known for his work with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, Matt Haimovitz and Rosanne Cash to name a few. His Fanfare for the Volunteer was recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra; he’s been com-missioned by Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. The program for the Mark O’Connor Quartet performance at Merrill Auditorium includes O’Connor’s recent String Quartet No. 3 Old-Time, as well as selections from his acclaimed Appalachia Waltz and Appalachian Journey.” http://portlandovations.org

Friday, March 11

Bright Eyes and The Mynabirds at The State Theatre8 p.m. Since 2006 the once revolving cast of Bright Eyes players has settled around permanent members Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, with additional musicians joining them in the studio and on tour. Fully realized and bursting with charisma, The People’s Key is an assured and accomplished album, artfully arranged and fi lled with the engaging and mesmeric songwrit-ing for which Oberst is renowned. Recorded in Omaha, Nebraska, at the band’s own ARC Studios, The People’s Key was produced by Mike Mogis and engineered by Mogis and Andy LeMaster. Before Georgie James, Laura Burhenn (half of the former DC duo) had spent her early years crafting music on her own. So when Georgie James split, she went back to what she knew. In the spring of 2009, Laura gathered her favorite books, records, and people around her and wrote what would become the fi rst album from her new band, The Mynabirds. $25, all ages.

Tuesday, March 15

The Saw Doctors with AM Taxi7 p.m. The Saw Doctors are a folk-rock band from Tuam, County Galway in Ireland. Members of the group include Leo Moran (guitar), Davy Carton (vocals), Derek Murray (keyboards), former Waterboy Anthony Thistlethwaite (saxophone and bass), and Fran Breen (drums). The band’s fi rst big break came when they were asked to play the opening act for The Waterboys UK tour in 1988. Soon after, their second single entitled “I Useta Lover” became the biggest selling single in Irish history, spending nine weeks at the top of that country’s charts and prompting a scolding from the Catholic Church because of a lyric in the song that describes a boy as being more interested in his beloved’s backside than the mass he is attending. The band is often compared to Bruce Springsteen, echoing his frequent use of local atmosphere, haunts and characters and for his electrifying live performances. $22 advance, $25 day-of show, $40 VIP, 21 plus.

Saturday, March 19

Soulive with Karl Denson at the State8 p.m. Soulive with special guest Karl Denson at the State Theatre. “Not many bands can say they’ve recorded with Chaka Khan, Dave Matthews, Talib Kweli and John Scofi eld. Nor can many bands open for The Rolling Stones on one tour and have Stevie Wonder sit in with them on the next tour. The musical relationships Soulive has developed, from the aforementioned artists to Derek Trucks, Susan Tedes-chi, Robert Randolph, Joshua Redman, Kenny Garrett, Fred Wesley, The Roots, Ivan Neville and so many others, speak volumes about both how versatile these talented musicians are. Jazz, hip-hop, rock, soul, funk, R & B, Blues – musically, there is not much the band hasn’t done. ... Karl Denson has led a storied career as a multi-faceted recording and perform-ing artist who fi rst came to prominence as a member of Lenny Kravitz’ band debuting on his fi rst release, Let Love Rule, and staying on for the next fi ve years.” http://www.statetheatre-portland.com/event/26983/

Thursday, April 7

Kenny Chesney show sells out7:30 p.m. With Special Guest Uncle Kracker. All tickets for the Kenny Chesney show at the Cumberland County Civic Center have sold-out, the Civic Center board reported. It

will be the third sell-out appearance at the Civic Center by one of country music’s biggest stars and the fi rst appear-ance since 2004.

Friday, April 29

John Prine, presented by the State Theatre,performing at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium8 p.m. John Prine plays at Merrill Auditorium, presented by the State Theatre. Some four decades since his remarkable debut, John Prine has stayed at the top of his game, both as a performer and songwriter. Recently honored at the Library of Congress by US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, he’s been ele-vated from the annals of songwriters into the realm of bonafi de American treasures. Long considered a “songwriter’s song-writer,” John Prine is a rare talent who writes the songs other songwriters would sell their souls for. Evidence of this is the long list of songwriters who have recorded gems from his extensive catalog, including Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, the Everly Brothers, John Denver, Kris Kristofferson, Carly Simon, Ben Harper, Joan Baez, and many others. Tickets available in person at the PortTix Box Offi ce at Merrill Auditorium, charge by phone at 842-0800 and online at www.porttix.com

Sunday, May 1

Avenged Sevenfold7 p.m. Avenged Sevenfold with Three Days Grace and Sev-endust at the Cumberland County Civic Center. Avenged Sevenfold’s “Welcome To The Family” Tour is on sale today. “The Nightmare After Christmas” Tour sold out and left many fans wanting more. Tickets: $39.75.

Saturday, May 21

David Crosby & Graham Nash at the State8 p.m. “As a duo, longtime creative partners David Crosby and Graham Nash bring out the best in each other, their distinct yet complementary styles balancing an equation that delivers a seamless and inspiring musical whole. Two-thirds and one-half, respectively, of Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, these Rock and Roll Hall of Famers are legendary for their airtight and crystal-clear vocal harmonies, as sublime when delivered by simply these two together as they are from the larger confi gurations. It is a sound that’s one of the true touchstones of the rock ‘n’ roll era. Having toured as the occasional duo for four decades, Crosby and Nash will be backed by a band consisting of James Raymond playing keyboards, guitarist Dean Parks, bassist Kevin McCormick and Steve DiStanislao on drums. The plan calls for Crosby and Stills to switch between acous-tic and electric instruments as they play their classic tunes as well as a few new songs.” State Theatre.

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