The portland daily sun, Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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An event merging environmental and commercial goals raised $1,800 for sustainability improvements last Saturday as the Public Market House hosted Portland’s fi rst-ever “Joycott.”

Organized by environmental advo-cacy social network Portland Green-drinks, the Joycott encouraged shoppers to patronize the seven busi-nesses working out of the Market House, which in turn donated 51 per-cent of the day’s profi ts to infrastruc-ture improvements aimed at making the building more environmentally sustainable.

“I think the success of the Joy-cott illustrates that consumers are increasingly interested in supporting businesses which align with their own values,” writes Greendrinks organizer Sean Sullivan in a press release.

Sullivan said the market will have an energy audit done to determine

where it should invest the $1,800.The Joycott was a marquee day

for the Public Market House as a whole, with business owners report-ing around $3,529 in profi ts — double what they make on an average day.

“I pretty much had my best day so far with more than double my average daily sales,” said Steve Miner, owner of Peanut Butter Jelly Time, a food vendor on the market’s second fl oor.

Miner said the event seemed to draw lot of new customers to the

second fl oor, which has been open a year and houses four vendors as well as day tables.

“Lots of people said they’ve been in the market downstairs but never been upstairs,” said Miner, who hopes to see similar events start to gain in popularity around town now that

Greendrinks have shown the model is a profi table one.

“From what I heard from organiz-ers, they’re even encouraging people to do them on their own,” he said.

The winner of the Joycott’s 51/49

The Public Market House (28 Monument Square) was the site of Saturday’s fi rst-ever Joycott. The seven businesses housed in the market reported doubling their average profi ts, raising $1,800 for environmental improve-ment, which will likely include overhauling the building’s HVAC system, which is taxed by new tenants and refrigerated display cases like the one shown here at K. Horton Specialty Foods. (MATT DODGE PHOTO)

Downtown Showdown dazzles during WinteRush

See photos on page 16

What we put on our body can be toxic, too

See Maggie Knowles on page 4

Recalling the city’s quirky Valentine’s Day traditions

See Natalie Ladd’s food column on page 4

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BY MATT DODGETHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A snowboarder launches off a jump at Payson Hill Terrain Park last weekend. From 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. this afternoon, skiers and snow-boarders from Mt. Abram, Shawnee Peak and Sunday River will visit the terrain park — one of the very fi rst urban terrain parks in the U.S., according to Ski Maine Association. For details, see the Events Calendar on page 13. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Payson powderOpposition to Peaks secession organizing

Peaks Island residents who want their community to remain part of municipal Portland have scheduled their fi rst public organizational meeting for Saturday, organizers said.

“We’re thinking that there’s not a lot of information now about this [secession] bill,” said Lisa Penalver, an island resident helping organize the meeting.

Penalver said that many of her neighbors “... want to know how they can counter the push for secession.” She said the secession opposition is planning a website launch “soon” and that a big part will be reviewing the history of the idea of leaving Portland.

“What’s bothering people the most right now is the process,” she said, adding that even people who might support the idea of secession are “very offended by the air of secrecy” and lack of communication about the issue.

Secession has been discussed by some Peaks resi-dents for years. But it was revived this year because secession supporters fi gure the Republican majority in Augusta is more supportive of the idea than Demo-crats were.

BY CURTIS ROBINSONTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Joycott doubles sales, greens Market House

see GREEN page 8

see PEAKS page 3

“I think the Joycott is proof that environmentalists and capital-

ists can work together to achieve mutually benefi cial goals, despite some of the rhetoric you hear to the contrary.” — Greendrinks

organizer Sean Sullivan

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Epitaphs for the Mubarak government all note that the mobilizing power of the Internet was one of the Egyptian opposi-tion’s most potent weapons. But quickly lost in the swirl of revolution was the gov-ernment’s ferocious counterattack, a dark achievement that many had thought impos-sible in the age of global connectedness. In a span of minutes just after midnight on Jan. 28, a technologically advanced, densely wired country with more than 20 million people online was essentially severed from the global Internet.

The blackout was lifted after just fi ve days, and it did not save President Hosni Mubarak. But it has mesmerized the world-wide technical community and raised con-

cerns that with unrest coursing through the Middle East, other autocratic govern-ments — many of them already known to interfere with and fi lter specifi c Web sites and e-mails — may also possess what is essentially a kill switch for the Internet.

Because the Internet’s legendary robust-ness and ability to route around blockages are part of its basic design, even the world’s most renowned network and telecommu-nications engineers have been perplexed that the Mubarak government succeeded in pulling the maneuver off.

But now, as Egyptian engineers begin to assess fragmentary evidence and their own knowledge of the Egyptian Internet’s construction, they are beginning to under-stand what, in effect, hit them. Interviews with many of those engineers, as well as an examination of data collected around

the world during the blackout, indicate that the government exploited a devastat-ing combination of vulnerabilities in the national infrastructure.

For all the Internet’s vaunted connectiv-ity, the Egyptian government commanded powerful instruments of control: it owns the pipelines that carry information across the country and out into the world.

Internet experts say similar arrange-ments are more common in authoritarian countries than is generally recognized. In Syria, for example, the Syrian Telecom-munications Establishment dominates the infrastructure, and the bulk of the international traffi c fl ows through a single pipeline to Cyprus. Jordan, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries have the same sort of dominant, state-controlled carrier.

LOS ANGELES — From Kirk Morgan’s perch, in a mansion at the top of Los Ange-les, he can see it all: The snow-covered mountains from the vast windows in one of the seven bathrooms. The Hollywood sign, eye level from the kitchen. And, from the master bedroom, a sweep of Los Angeles stretching from downtown to the Pacifi c Ocean.

But what he likes best, Mr. Morgan said, are the fevered tales he overhears from the Runyon Canyon Park hikers who pause at the house set amid its own 22 acres that he has guarded for nine months, as they try to unravel the mysteries suggested by this foreboding hillside mansion. For all its aspirations at grandeur, the 16-year-old house at 2450 Solar Drive remains unfi n-ished and vacant, pocked by boarded-up windows and gang graffi ti, a jumble of hanging wires and holes cut in the living room ceiling. A Winnebago is parked in the gated front yard.

There is no shortage of abandoned houses across the country, especially in Los Angeles, the victim of a recession and a collapsing housing market. But few have attained such neighborhood notori-ety in their decline as this pink wedding cake of a structure on a hill, all the more so after it went on the market, listed last week for a mere $15.2 million, acreage and all. The real estate agent calls it “the last big parcel in the Hollywood Hills,” potential catnip for either a deep-pock-eted mogul or a developer who wants to carve it into smaller sites to lure more real estate status seekers up from the fl ats.

The mansion, which has never been legally occupied, is the subject of gossip and rumor-trading, some of it outland-ish, but some, it turns out, quite true. It is feeding Los Angeles’s fascination with real

estate, sumptuous homes and a good plot — and all the better that it is a real estate whodunit.

“It has great views, but it is cursed,” David Tollefson, an airline attendant, said while hiking by the house as dusk fell, lighting up the hues of the scrub-covered hills and canyons of Hollywood that are its backyard. “It’s a haunted house. Or I’ve heard it’s an alien landing site. I’ve been asking everyone what this is, and no one wants to talk.”

Jason Victor, a hotel worker hiking with Mr. Tollefson, added, “Have you heard about this being an Indian burial ground?”

Kelly Ramel, an actress, said she had tried to get to the bottom of the tale of the house, but with little success. “I’ve checked online,” she said, “and it says it was fore-closed and someone was going to turn it into a rehab location place for drug addicts and alcoholics. Or something like that.”

Well, not quite.Many of the tales — like the murder that

supposedly took place on the pool table in the billiard room — are urban legend, said Mr. Morgan, 53, the house guard, who was wearing camoufl age shorts, a cap and no shirt as he opened the padlocked gate to allow a visitor inside.

“It just blows you away what you hear from these people,” he said. “Like it is owned by the Devil. I am a man of the Lord. There ain’t no Devil here. I salted this house and also had my Indian friends come over and burn sage.”

But many of the tales are accurate.Gangs, among them the notorious Arme-

nian Power, really did turn the place into a clubhouse, the police said. Gang tags are still visible on the walls. Teenagers commandeered the carpeted fi rst fl oor for weekend raves.

Yes, over the years, 2450 Solar Drive has served as a blue-chip crack house, accord-ing to the police: its fl oors were scattered with remnants of crack cocaine, crystal methamphetamine and marijuana.

An abandoned mansion near Runyon Canyon in Los Angeles. (Michal Czerwonka for The New York Times)

BY JAMES GLANZ AND JOHN MARKOFF

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Egypt leaders found ‘off’ switch for Internet

A handyman’s special with hot and cold running rumorsBY ADAM NAGOURNEY

THE NEW YORK TIMES

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SAYWHAT...To me death is not a fearful thing. It’s

living that’s cursed.”—Jim Jones

LOS ANGELES (NY Times) — There is no short-age of abandoned homes across the country, espe-cially in Los Angeles. But few have attained such neighborhood notoriety in their decline as the unfi n-ished 16-year-old pink wedding cake of a house at 2450 Solar Drive, all the more so after it went on the market, listed last week for a mere $15.2 million, includ-ing 22 acres of land.

The mansion, which has never been legally occu-pied, is the subject of gossip and rumor-trading, some of it outlandish, but some of it, it turns out, quite true. It is feeding Los Angeles’s fascination with real estate, sumptuous homes and a good plot — and all the better that it is a real estate whodunit.

“It has great views, but it is cursed,” David Tollefson, an airline attendant, said while hiking by the home as dusk fell, lighting up the hues of the scrub-covered hills and canyons of Holly-wood that are its backyard. “It’s a haunted house.”

Kelly Ramel, an actress, said she had tried to unravel the tale of the house, but with little success. “I’ve checked online and it says it was foreclosed and some-one was going to turn it into a rehab location place for drug addicts and alcoholics. Or something like that.”

Well, not quite. Many of the tales of this house — like the murder that suppos-edly took place on the pool table in the billiards room — are urban legend, said Mr. Morgan, 53.

But many of the tales are quite real. Gangs, among them the notorious Arme-nian Power, really did turn the house into a clubhouse, the police said. Gang tags are still visible on the walls. Teenagers commandeered the carpeted fi rst fl oor for weekend raves.

Yes, over the years, 2450 Solar Drive has served as a blue-chip crack house, according to the police: its fl oors were scattered with remnants of crack cocaine, crystal methamphetamine and marijuana. “And this is where the Satanic stuff hap-pened,” Mr. Morgan said as he led a visitor into a win-dowless room, pointing to a faded sketch on the wall. “You can see the image of a devil. And they had chicken feathers hanging on a wire.”

Ralph Sanchez, the senior lead offi cer for the Hollywood Hills division of the Los Ange-les Police Department, said the house was an anomaly for this part of Los Ange-les. “You would not believe it: from gang members to Satanic worshipers,” he said. “You name it. The doors were pried open, no matter how many times we nailed them shut.”

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Better than chicken soup?

(New York Times) Scientists still haven’t discovered a cure for the common cold, but researchers now say zinc may be the next best thing. A sweeping new review of the medical research on zinc shows that sniffi ng, sneezing, coughing and stuffy-headed cold sufferers fi nally have a better option than just tissue and chicken soup. When taken within 24 hours of the fi rst runny nose or sore throat, zinc loz-enges, tablets or syrups can cut colds short by an average of a day or more and sharply reduce the severity of symp-toms, according to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, a respected medical clear-inghouse. In some of the cited studies, the benefi ts of zinc were signifi cant. A March 2008 report in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, for example, found that zinc lozenges cut the duration of colds to four days from seven days, and reduced coughing to two days from fi ve. While the fi ndings are certain to send droves of miserable cold sufferers to the drugstore in search of zinc treatments, the study authors offered no guidance on what type of zinc product to buy. The authors declined to make recommendations about the optimal dose, formulation or duration of zinc use, saying that more work was needed before they could make recommendations. “Over all, it appears that zinc does have an effect in controlling the common cold,” said Dr. Meenu Singh, the review’s lead author and a professor in the depart-ment of pediatrics at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India. “But there still needs to be consensus about the dose.” Zinc experts say that many over-the-counter zinc products may not be as effective as those studied by researchers because commercial lozenges and syrups often are made with dif-ferent formulations of zinc and various fl avors and binders that can alter the effectiveness.

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Wednesday, February 16, 2011— Page 3

When the state previously considered allowing a secession election for the island, the idea was voted down in a legislative committee along party lines. The city of Portland is considered very infl uential among Democrats.

The opposition is organizing as the pro-secession advocates have gained momentum. Since the fi rst of the year, they have found a lawmaker who has intro-duced legislation that would enable an election and received a state attorney general’s opinion that they do not have to repeat some of the previous efforts.

Secession advocates say that, if the state backs the current effort, an election could be held in November

with a Maine’s newest town launched next spring.This week, the Peaks Island Council, the elected

advisory board that has increased support for an inde-pendent island, released a detailed fi nancial study strongly supporting key arguments favoring secession arguments. For example, the study says Peaks resi-dents pay more than $2 million more in annual taxes than they receive in services and that city transporta-tion subsidies are much higher for mainlanders.

Penalver said secession opponents are aware that the study “is making its way around” but has not studied the document. She did note that some residents fear that people who are not experienced in municipal budgeting might be underestimating what it would cost to run a new town.

The Saturday “Peaks Alliance” meeting is from 2 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. at the MacVane Community Center’s community room.

A possible indication of how heated the secession issue can become might be contained in the email invitations to the gathering, which asks participants to “... be respectful of each other and to stick to facts and issues. All voices will be heard; the Alliance will adhere to a 2-minute time limit so everyone will get a chance to speak.”

Members of the Peaks Alliance organzing commit-tee are named in the invitation as Ed Daryani, Ellen Mahoney, Scott and Nancy Nash, Mavourneen and Otis Thompson, Lisa Penalver, Marine Penalver, Barbara Schllichtmann and Janin Blatt.

PEAKS from page one

Iran lawmakers want opposition leaders killedA day after the most signifi cant street

protests in Iran since the end of the 2009 uprising there, members of the Iranian Parliament called on Tuesday for the two most prominent opposition leaders to be prosecuted and sentenced to death for stirring unrest.

The call came as confrontations between government authorities and protesters inspired by the Tunisia and Egypt revolutions continued to unfold elsewhere in the region, with violent clashes in Bahrain and Yemen.

The protests in Tehran and other Iranian cities on Monday brought thou-sands onto the streets, defying an offi -cial prohibition and reviving memories of the mass protests that convulsed Iran after the disputed presidential election in 2009.

The demonstrations were ostensibly called to offer support for the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, but they soon turned into what opposition fi gures depicted as a renewal of the anti-gov-ernment sentiment that the authorities sought to quash last year.

Iran’s two man opposition leaders, Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Mussein Moussavi, were prevented from attend-ing the protests on Monday in Tehran.

Nonetheless, the offi cial IRNA news agency reported, 222 members of the 290-seat Parliament issued a statement on Tuesday saying they “are corrupts on earth and should be tried.”

The offense of being “corrupts on earth,” a catchall indictment of politi-cal dissent, carries the death sentence. It was not immediately clear whether the two men would be arrested. Both are under effective house arrest with their communications and movements restricted.

During a news conference in Wash-ington, President Obama said he sup-ported the courage of the Iranian demonstrators who were seeking a more representative government, and he criticized the Iranian government’s response to the rallies.

“I fi nd it ironic that you’ve got the Iranian regime pretending to celebrate what happened in Egypt, when in fact they have acted in direct contrast to what happened in Egypt by gunning down and beating people who were trying to express themselves peacefully in Iran,” he said.

Mr. Obama went on to say: “Real

change in these societies is not going to happen because of terrorism. It’s not going to happen because you go around killing innocents. It’s going to happen because people come together and apply moral force to a situation.”

Iranian Prosecutor General Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei said the judiciary will deal “fi rmly and swiftly” with those behind the riots, the state-controlled Press TV said.

The offi cial fury seemed to denote the authorities’ displeasure and embar-rassment at their opponents’ ability to muster a signifi cant display of defi ance.

A spokesman for Mr. Moussavi said the protests showed that the so-called Green Movement, formed to chal-lenge the disputed election in 2009, had scored a “great victory” and was “alive and well” despite a huge gov-ernment crackdown when the gov-ernment quashed dissent through the shooting of demonstrators, mass trials, torture, lengthy jail sentences and even executions of some of those taking part.

The authorities had refused to issue a permit for the demonstration but Amir Arjomand, the spokesman for Mr. Moussavi, said: “If the govern-ment had issued a permit and guar-anteed the safety of the people, there would certainly have been millions of people out in Tehran and other cities.”

The protests were not immediately reported on Iran’s state-controlled media on Monday, and a summary of headlines in the newspapers carried by IRNA on Tuesday made no refer-ence to them.

Initial reports said one person died in the clashes.

The dead man was offi cially identi-fi ed on Tuesday as Saane Zhaleh, a student at Tehran Art University. But the government and opposition dis-puted his loyalties, with the authori-ties saying he was shot by opponents of the regime while opposition accounts said he was beaten to death by plainclothes government forces who roamed the streets on Tuesday on motorcycles.

The ISNA student news agency in

Iran said two people had died but there was no immediate confi rmation of that.

In what seemed part of choreo-graphed effort to blame the two oppo-sition leaders for the unrest, Fars news agency said there had been protests among pro-government stu-dents against the two opposition fi g-ures, who have repeatedly denied their critics’ accusation that they are part of a Western plot to topple the Islamic revolutionary leadership.

Fars, a semioffi cial service linked to the powerful Revolutionary Guard Corps, said the demonstrations had been conducted by “hypocrites, mon-archists, hooligans and seditionists” whose leaders were puppets of Brit-ain and the United States. It ridi-culed them for not chanting slogans about Egypt, the nominal reason for the protests, and said an unspecifi ed number of people had been arrested.

The Parliament speaker, Ali Lari-jani, accused the United States and its allies of providing support to the opposition following uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

There were no reports of further unrest in Iran on Tuesday, but the region continued to feel the tremors from the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

In Bahrain, where a Sunni Muslim

elite rules a largely Shiite nation, police clashed on Tuesday with mourners following the cortege of a protester killed on Monday. As the police fi red tear gas in an attempt to block the funeral procession, a second demonstrator was killed by gunfi re, human rights organizations said.

In Yemen, several hundred demon-strators to march from the university district in the capital, Sana, but police wielding wooden batons prevented them from going far, witnesses said. Then a group of pro-regime demon-strators began hurling rocks at their adversaries.

The size of the protests in Iran was unclear. Witness accounts and news reports from inside the country sug-gested that perhaps 20,000 to 30,000 demonstrators in several cities defi ed strong warnings and took to the streets.

The unrest was an acute embar-rassment for Iranian leaders, who had sought to portray the toppling of two secular rulers, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, as a triumph of popular sup-port for Islam in the Arab world. They had refused permission to Iranian opposition groups seeking to march in solidarity with the Egyptians, and warned journalists and photogra-phers based in the country, with suc-cess, not to report on the protests.

The Iranian authorities have shown that they will not hesitate to crush demonstrations with deadly force. Other governments across the Middle East and the Persian Gulf also moved aggressively to stamp out protests on Monday.

“Real change in these societies is not going to happen because of terrorism. It’s not going to happen because you go around killing innocents. It’s going to happen because people come together and apply moral force to a situation.”

— President Obama

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Recalling the city’s quirky Valentine’s Day traditions

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What we put on our body can be

toxic, too

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Maggie Knowles

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Outdoor Voice

“Why, hello there! Welcome to the most expensive cosmetic counter in the mall. What are you hoping for today, a new look? Yes, well with those bags under your eyes I can see why. You have some splotches and lines we can cover right up. Hmmm, I am think-ing some fabulous Sodium Lauryl Sulfate around the eyes, a dash of glamorous Propyl Paranen on the lips and we can’t forget Spring’s hottest look: Imid-azolidinyl Urea made with genuine formaldehyde from France!”

Many of us get so caught up in what we put into our bodies we forget that being ignorant as to what we put onto our bodies can have equally detrimental effects. When choosing lotions and soap for our babies we scour the labels to ensure the ingre-dients are organic or at least pronounceable. Why should our adult skin get the chemi-cal laden crap? (Oh yeah, cause they promise we will never age. I guess formaldehyde will do that.)

Here is an idea of what is in commonly used cos-metics and health care products as well as healthier options—some you can make yourself and use the savings for new shoes!

First off, you should be aware that the majority of cosmetics are not subject to FDA approval before you slather it on. Would you chow down on pork that hadn’t been screened?

There is a comprehensive database sponsored by Skin Deep (www.cosmeticsdatabase.com) that reveals the toxic ingredients in more than 25,000 cosmetics. Makes for great late night reading.

Chances are that the pricy creams you slather on to keep your skin glowing like a 16-year old is nothing more than a chemical cocktail. In her quest for gorgeous skin, the average woman absorbs fi ve pounds of chemicals a year.

Portland-based intuitive aesthetician and Reiki master Amy Gerow knows that Mother Earth pro-vides us with all the beauty products we need. Amy grows and grinds organic herbs and fl owers to use in her skin care regimes. From her pots overfl ow-ing with basil, heirloom roses and angelica root

NatalieLadd–––––

What It’s Like

Valentine’s Day 2011 has come and gone, but of course many 8” x 11” signature red hearts still remain mysteriously taped about town.

Yes, our Valentine’s Day Bandit(s)? did an excellent job spreading the love this year via one of quirkiest and most endear-ing traditions of the season. And for area restaurants, it’s typically a banner night full of their own little quirks and traditions.

Over the years, I have seen knee bent engagement propos-als in the middle of the dining room, diamond rings placed atop a scoop of gelato, people making out (I mean really R-rated stuff) at the table with hands no where to be seen, men crying, women crying, other servers crying, cou-ples fi ghting (I’ll never forget the time a guy left his date at the table and drove home…to Mas-sachusetts), and divorce papers signed.

After recent weeks of less than cooperative weather, Cupid had the fortuitous business sense to arrive on a Monday. Many res-taurants that religiously view Monday as the culinary Sab-

bath opened with a special menu and competed as ferociously as Trader Joe’s and Hannaford’s did with fl ower bouquets; which were equally as sought after as a 7:30 reservation at a quiet corner table.

According to the restaurant grapevine, the night followed on the heels of an especially busy, tip-heavy weekend as once again the weather cooperated and many people wanted to order off a regular dinner menu as well as have an extra cocktail in a hope-fully less crowded environment for a pre-Valentine’s Day celebra-tion.

Monday holidays are fantastic when you can take the day off from work, but Monday night is still a school night, and for many the blatant PDA, exchanging of clichéd cards, and champagne toasts started as early as Thurs-

day evening.Because this column is called,

“What’s It Like” and because I was actually in the trenches, waiting tables on Valentine’s Day, I will share a few tidbits that took place where I currently hang my bistro apron a few shifts a week.

For obvious reasons, I’m not keen on the idea of promoting my restaurant employer by name (Hey, I’m a free agent just like every other server I know), but “Restaurant X” is a well known establishment, and a worthy example of the industry Valen-tine’s Day shenanigans that took place.

By all accounts, Restaurant X is a cozy, candle lit restaurant that looks like it belongs in Bos-ton’s North End. The portions are large and served piping hot, the place has a rock-solid regu-lar following, and is staffed with mature, seasoned wait profes-sionals.

At the same time, there is no computer system, the wine list (while much improved and no fault of the buyer) is geared toward the White Zinfandel

Would the Bard have survived the Web?

A R C H A E O L O -GISTS fi nished a remarkable dig last summer in East London. Among their fi nds were seven earthenware knobs, physical evidence of a near perfect 16th-cen-tury experiment into the link between com-merce and culture.

When William Shakespeare was growing up in rural Stratford-upon-Avon, carpenters at that East London site were

Scott Turow,

Paul Aiken and James

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The New York Times

see BARD page 5


LADD from page 4

Trading the roses with a fl orist who loved to dine out was a no-brainer

Lipsticks, toothpastes, creams should be examined for chemicalsKNOWLES from page 4

she extracts the precious oils from the leaves and blends them with oils, clays and honey for use on her clients. Unlike when people have adverse reac-tions to commercial products, she has never had a client break out from her custom made products.

How sexy do you feel when you pull out your hot red lipstick? Slowly licking your lips at your date across the candlelit table…now zoom into your mouth at the wax, lead and mercury swish-ing around in there. An average woman can ingest up to seven pounds of lipstick over a lifetime. That would be fi ne if lipsticks were made from carrots and truffl es, but …(shudder). Choose lipsticks made from hemp such as Desert Essence Organics or Human Nature vegan lip balm.

And if we are ingesting all that lipstick, think about how much toothpaste ends up in our system. The gums are able to quickly absorb chemicals—ranging from methylparaben to titanium diox-ide—into the bloodstream. Having sparkly white

teeth at the risk of cancer? Don’t think so. Look for toothpastes made from organic ingredients such as Tom’s of Maine and Jason Naturals. Or have your teenagers make a batch for the family: Combine 4 tsp baking soda with 1 tsp hydrogen peroxide. Add a drop of peppermint or orange oil (you can borrow from your perfume drawer—see below) and smooth in a blender.

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics recently exposed handfuls of popular perfumes that are not forthright with the ingredients in their prod-ucts. More than 60% of the undisclosed chemicals have never been tested for human safety. Many of them are known to trigger asthma and migraines and even cause sperm damage. Choose pure aro-matherapy oils that all health food stores carry. I mix drops (my current favorite is a combo of rose and cinnamon) into a blend of organic olive and soy oils. Right after showering, rub yourself down. You moisturize your skin as well as smell fabulous, sans toxins, for a fraction of the price.

My godmother told me in high school that she

was convinced that antiperspirants were caus-ing breast cancer. That scared me back then (even while I was tanning three times a week). Think about how closely you smear chemicals such as alu-minum (linked to Alzheimer’s) to your lymph nodes. Plus, when did not allowing your body to sweat out its own toxins seem like a good idea? If you are drink-ing lots of water and eating well, your sweat should not smell anyway. Lafes makes an organic deodorant spray that actually works—or you can (honestly!) rub whole lemons or oranges under your pits. Just don’t use them for zest in a cake later.

There are fabulous organic, mineral-based cos-metics that actually stay on your face and cover up the sags and bags. Websites such as rawnatu-ralbeauty.com and fresh-network.com are great resources.

Sadly, in today’s society, beauty isn’t free but the cost shouldn’t be our health.

(Maggie Knowles is a columnist for The Portland Daily Sun. Her column appears Wednesdays.)

crowd, and the open kitchen and dish area antics leave much to be desired. At last report, our Sous Chef was throwing meatballs at our new dishwasher.

Valentine’s Day at Restaurant X is akin to New Year’s Eve, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and all the other Hallmark driven events where people wait until the last possible moment (which is usually too late) to make a reservation. The two phone lines literally rang all day long, setting the pace for the near-foul mood our manager was in at the beginning of the evening.

Doing the seating plan for such a night is like a huge Rubik’s cube, made especially diffi cult by the fact that most reservations were for two people in a world of four-tops. We did see a rare double date (much more common over the weekend), and sadly had to turn away as many people as we were able to seat.

We served a “Special Menu” identical to New Year’s Eve, only this time we put little heart shaped stickers on the top and said, “Happy Valentine’s Day” upon greeting our diners.

We also ran out of potatoes at 7:30, only had one vegetarian offering on the menu (we did offer the full menu for such dietary preferences upon request), and did not have any veal in house (much to the

delight of the vegetarians, I’m sure). Most people ordered large, sharing appetizers and desserts and not fl inching at price points.

Tips were fair, but not really over the top and I made money on volume rather than hitting the big tippers who were out to impress their eye lash bat-ting dates. Such a guy sat in Ryann’s section and she walked with over $200 even after tipping out the bartender and hostess.

Overall, people were full, happy and pleased with their experience ... it went smoothly and without incident.

In the not-so-distant past, I worked at a place that was booked by the Chinese New Year for Val-entine’s Day. We served a “champagne” toast while greeting guests, a fi xed menu with limited popular choices, and a red rose for the lady when dropping the check. It made for a great package presenta-tion and was operationally friendly in terms of doing the math, but I always believed the bubbly interfered with the opportunity to sell bottles of wine.

However, trading the roses with a fl orist who loved to dine out was a no-brainer, and the grand fi nale of a chocolate dipped strawberry almost guar-anteed an amorous night ahead.

I may be a money-hungry server, but I’m a roman-tic at heart and the very best part of Valentine’s Day

is the mush.Most of it is a formulaic convention of like-holi-

days, but there’s nothing like helping people who are trying to lock and load their relationship over a bowl of expertly made chicken Marsala.

As far as my own Valentine’s Day? It got better when the manager started sampling her own fan-tastic drink creation (a gin based, blood red orange concoction or some such thing) and the kitchen decided to feed us after hours of non-stop marathon restaurant speed walking.

I received a beautiful necklace from my ex, a day without drama from my kids, and took an extra long walk with Bad Dog who was so good I may have to change her tag line. These things, and a sweet, post-work phone call from New Guy were gifts straight from Venus.

I also had a blast working with my creative con-sultants at Restaurant X, made a little extra money, and watched fi rst hand while other people dined, cooed, and did what it takes to make the world go ‘round.

Not exactly the impact of the over-achieving bandit papering the town, but a good night nonetheless.

(Natalie Ladd and her “What’s It Like” column take a weekly look at the culinary business in and around Portland.)

erecting the walls of what some consider the fi rst theater built in Europe since antiquity. Other play-houses soon rose around the city. Those who paid could enter and see the play; those who didn’t, couldn’t.

By the time Shakespeare turned to writing, these “cultural paywalls” were abundant in London: workers holding moneyboxes (bearing the distinc-tive knobs found by the archaeologists) stood at the entrances of a growing number of outdoor play-houses, collecting a penny for admission.

At day’s end, actors and theater owners smashed open the earthenware moneyboxes and divided the daily take. From those proceeds dramatists were paid to write new plays. For the fi rst time ever, it was possible to earn a living writing for the public.

Money changed everything. Almost overnight, a wave of brilliant dramatists emerged, including Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, Ben Jonson and Shakespeare. These talents and many comparable and lesser lights had found the opportunity, the con-ditions and the money to pursue their craft.

The stark fi ndings of this experiment? As with much else, literary talent often remains undevel-oped unless markets reward it.

At the height of the Enlightenment, the cultural paywall went virtual, when British authors gained the right to create legally protected markets for their works. In 1709, expressly to combat book piracy and “for the encouragement of learned men to compose and write useful books,” Britain enacted the world’s fi rst copyright law. Eighty years later, America’s founders expanded on this, giving Congress the authority to enact copyright laws “to promote the progress of science and useful arts.”

Copyright, now powerfully linking authors, the

printing press (and later technologies) and the market, would prove to be one of history’s great public policy successes. Books would attract invest-ment of authors’ labor and publishers’ capital on a colossal scale, and our libraries and bookstores would fi ll with works that educated and entertained a thriving nation. Our poets, playwrights, novel-ists, historians, biographers and musicians were all underwritten by copyright’s markets.

Yet today, these markets are unraveling. Piracy is a lucrative, innovative, global enterprise. Clusters of overseas servers can undermine much of the com-mercial basis for creative work around the world, offering users the speedy, secret transmission of stolen goods.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on Wednesday on “targeting Web sites dedi-cated to stealing American intellectual property,” and the White House has pledged to propose a new law to address rampant piracy within the year. But writers and other creative workers should still be worried.

BARD from page 4At day’s end, actors and theater owners smashed

open the earthenware moneyboxes and divided the daily take. From those proceeds dramatists were paid to write new plays. For the fi rst time ever, it

was possible to earn a living writing for the public.

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The rise of the Internet has led to a view among many users and Web companies that copyright is a relic, suited only to the needs of out-of-step corporate behemoths. Just consider the dedicated “fi le-sharers” — actually, traffi ckers in stolen music movies and, increas-ingly, books — who transmit and receive copyrighted material without the slightest guilt.

They are abetted by a hand-ful of law professors and other experts who have made careers of fashioning counterintuitive arguments holding that copy-right impedes creativity and progress. Their theory is that if we severely weaken copyright protections, innovation will truly fl ourish. It’s a seductive thought, but it ignores centuries of scien-tifi c and technological progress based on the principle that a cre-ative person should have some assurance of being rewarded for his innovative work.

Certainly there’s a place for free creative work online, but

that cannot be the end of it. A rich culture demands contribu-tions from authors and artists who devote thousands of hours to a work and a lifetime to their craft. Since the Enlightenment, Western societies have been lulled into a belief that progress is inevitable. It never has been. It’s the result of abiding by rules that were carefully constructed and practices that were begun by people living in the long shadow of the Dark Ages. We tamper with those rules at our peril.

Last July, a small audi-ence gathered at that London archaeological dig to hear two actors read from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the place of its debut, where theater’s most valuable walls once stood. While the foundations of the Theater (as it was known) remained, the walls themselves did not. When Shakespeare’s company lost its lease, the members dismantled the Theater’s timber frame and moved the walls to a new site across the Thames, naming their new playhouse the Globe. Shake-

speare’s paywall traveled with him.

The Globe would later burn down (a cannon fi red during a performance of “Henry VIII” touched off the blaze) and was quickly rebuilt. Its fi nal end came in the mid-17th century, at the outset of a bloody civil war, when authorities ordered the walls pulled down. The regime wasn’t motivated by ideals of open access or illusions of speed-ing progress. They simply wanted to silence the dramatists, who expressed a wide range of unset-tling thoughts to paying audi-ences within.

The experiment was over. Dramatists’ ties to commerce were severed, and the greatest explosion of playwriting talent the modern world has ever seen ended. Just like that.

(Scott Turow, a novelist, is the president of the Authors Guild. Paul Aiken is its executive direc-tor. James Shapiro, a member of the guild’s board, teaches Shake-speare at Columbia.)

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‘We tamper with those rules at our peril’

Tyler Cowen’s e-book, “The Great Stagnation,” has become the most debated nonfi ction book so far this year. Cowen’s core point is that up until sometime around 1974, the American economy was able to experience awe-some growth by harvesting low-hang-ing fruit. There was cheap land to be exploited. There was the tremendous increase in education levels during the postwar world. There were techno-logical revolutions occasioned by the spread of electricity, plastics and the car.

But that low-hanging fruit is exhausted, Cowen continues, and since 1974, the United States has experienced slower growth, slower increases in median income, slower job creation, slower productivity gains, slower life-expectancy improvements and slower rates of technological change.

Cowen’s data on these slowdowns are compel-ling and have withstood the scrutiny of the online

reviewers. He argues that our society, for the moment, has hit a technological pla-teau.

But his evidence can also be used to tell a related story. It could be that the nature of technological change isn’t causing the slow-down but a shift in values. It could be that in an industrial economy people develop a materialist mind-set and believe that improving their income is the same thing as improving their quality of life. But in an affl uent information-driven world, people embrace the postmaterialist mind-set. They realize they can improve their quality of life without actually producing more wealth.

For example, imagine a man we’ll call Sam, who was born in 1900 and died in 1974. Sam entered a world of iceboxes, horse-drawn buggies and, commonly, outhouses. He died in a world of air-conditioning, Chevy Camaros and Moon landings. His life was defi ned by dramatic material changes, and Sam worked feverishly hard to build a com-pany that sold brake systems. Sam wasn’t the most refi ned person, but he understood that if he wanted to create a secure life for his family he had to create wealth.

Sam’s grandson, Jared, was born in 1978. Jared wasn’t really drawn to the brake-systems busi-ness, which was withering in America. He works at a company that organizes conferences. He brings together fascinating speakers for lifelong learning. He writes a blog on modern art and takes his family on vacations that are more daring and exciting than any Sam experienced.

Jared lives a much more intellectually diverse life than Sam. He loves Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia and his iPhone apps. But many of these things are produced outside the conventional monetized econ-omy. Most of the products are produced by people working for free. They cost nothing to consume.

They don’t even create many jobs. As Cowen notes in his book, the automobile industry pro-duced millions of jobs, but Facebook employs about 2,000, Twitter 300 and eBay about 17,000. It takes only 14,000 employees to make and sell iPods, but that device also eliminates jobs for those people

who make and distribute CDs, potentially leading to net job losses.

In other words, as Cowen makes clear, many of this era’s technological breakthroughs produce enormous happiness gains, but surprisingly little additional economic activity.

Jared’s other priorities also produce high qual-ity-of-life gains without huge material and pro-ductivity improvements. He practically defi nes himself by what university he went to. Universi-ties now have nicer dorms, gyms and dining facili-ties. These improvements have not led to huge increases in educational output.

Jared is very health conscious and part of a gen-eration that has spent much more on health care. This may help Jared lead a vibrant life in retire-ment. But these investments have had surpris-ingly little effect on productivity or even longevity.

For Sam, income and living standards were syn-onymous. But for Jared, wealth and living stan-dards have diverged. He is more interested in the latter than the former. This means that Jared has some rich and meaningful experiences, but it has also led to problems. Every few months, new gizmos come out. Jared feels his life is getting better. Because he doesn’t fully grasp the increas-ingly important distinction between wealth and standard of living, he has the impression that he is also getting richer. As a result, he lives beyond his means. As Cowen notes, many of our recent diffi culties stem from the fact that many Ameri-cans think they are richer than they are.

Jared is also providing much less opportunity for those down the income scale than his grand-father did. Sam was more hardhearted, yet his feverish materialism created more jobs.

Jared worries about that. He also worries that the Chinese and others have a material drive that he and his cohort lacks. But he’s not changing. For the past few decades, Americans have devoted more of their energies to postmaterial arenas and less and less, for better and worse, to the sheer production of wealth.

During these years, commencement speakers have urged students to seek meaning and not money. Many people, it turns out, were listening.

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Members of the city council’s fi nance committee have asked city staff to develop business plans for city-owned venues like Merrill Auditorium, Ocean Gateway terminal, Portland Ice Arena and Riverside Municipal Golf Course, The Forecaster is reporting.

The Forecaster, a weekly paper based in Falmouth, says the ice arena and municipal golf course lose money most years. Those shortfalls must be fi lled with money from the general fund.

Finance committee chair John Anton told the paper this week that his committee wants staff to review operations and fi nancial histories for city-owned venues. That information could then be used in the creation of a business plan.

Anton told the paper the internal review, which likely won’t be fi nished until summer, could also determine if fresh capital investment is needed.

Meanwhile, Anton tells the paper his committee won’t review a recent proposal from Bath-based Harris Golf to run operations at Riverside Golf Course, effectively killing the measure for now.

The fi nance committee will meet again in March.

Maine man admits to growing marijuana in N.E. national forest

A 38-year-old man from Oxford has admitted in federal court to growing marijuana in the White Mountain National Forest, according to the Associ-ated Press.

Todd Clukey, who remains free pending a sentenc-ing hearing, pleaded guilty this week to cultivat-ing marijuana in an unincorporated part of Oxford County between May and September 2010, AP reported. He could face up to fi ve years in jail and fi nes of up to $500,000.

Clukey also told authorities he grew pot in the national forest in 2008 and 2009 as well, AP says.

Police: Jewelry store computers hackedDay’s Jewelers says its computer system has been

hacked and that an undermined number of credit and debit card numbers have been compromised, according to the Associated Press.

AP reports that the Maine State Police Com-

puter Crimes Unit is investigating the case, which is believed to involve hackers outside the company. Day’s Jewelers, which is based in Waterville, has stores six stores in Maine and New Hampshire, has hired a computer forensics company to learn more about the breach and its cause, AP reported.

While it’s still not clear how many Day’s custom-ers were affected, the Maine Credit Union League says 1,000 of its members who bought items at the stores in November and December have reported fraudulent transactions, according to AP.

Schools offering retirement incentivesFacing a potential $6 million revenue shortfall

and possible teacher layoffs, the city’s school system is sweetening its offer to teachers nearing retire-ment age, The Forecaster is reporting.

Under a deal tentatively approved by the school board, teachers 60 years old and above with at least 10 years experience in the district could be eligible for early retirement incentives that could be worth up to $20,000, the paper reported. However, the board could rescind the offer if not enough teachers sign up, according to the Forecaster, a weekly based in Falmouth.

Portland Schools has used fi nancial incentives in each of the last four years to induce some of its lon-gest-tenured — and highest earning — teachers to call it a career. Apparently, those efforts have barely made a dent: Superintendent James Morse told the Forecaster that upwards of 200 district employees would qualify under the current proposal.

According to the Forecaster, employees deemed eligible for the incentives would receive a lump sum payment worth at least $10,000 or up to $20,000 spread over the next four years.

Layoffs to education staff and teachers could be reduced or eliminated depending on how many teachers decide to retire, the paper said.

Applications for the early retirement program are due my Feb. 28.

Layoffs averted at Bath Iron WorksThe U.S. Navy Secretary has pledged to give Bath

Iron Works an advance on future shipbuilding con-tracts, averting layoffs at the Maine facility in the near term.

U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree said in a statement that Navy Secretary Ray Mabus pledged to provide suffi -

cient funds to ensure nobody at the shipbuilder will lose their job.

“I told Secretary Mabus that we don’t want to lose industrial capacity—we don’t want to see workers laid off at Bath Iron Works,” Pingree said in the news release. “He completely agrees and said the Navy would provide advance funding to avoid lay-offs at least through April while the fi nal details of the DDG-1000 contracts are hammered out.”

Prior to the Navy’s announcement of advance fund-ing, some workers at the Bath facility would have been laid off within two weeks. BIW is building the fi rst ship in the Navy’s DDG-1000 line, and is negotiating with the government to build two more. The news release

says this funding is an advance for work to be done on those two future ships.

“The Secretary was very clear about layoffs,” Pingree said. “He assured me that no one was going to get laid off at BIW in the short term because of a lack of funding from the Navy.

Pingree wrote to Mabus last week asking for additional funding for BIW and also urging the Navy to speed up the process of several contracts for the two new ships in the DDG-1000 line planned for construction at BIW, the release said.

“I’ve been urging the Navy to sign on the dotted line and fi nal-ize contracts for the next two DDG-1000s to be built at Bath, but while we are waiting it’s essential the Navy frees up the money necessary to avoid layoffs and avoid delays in construction,” Pingree said. In a letter to Navy Secretary Mabus on Friday, Pin-gree said “the production work-ers responsible for building these Navy ships build the best ships in the world; we must do everything in our power to avoid disruption to this workforce, especially in this economy.”

In addition to releasing the funding, Pingree has asked Mabus to report on when he expects the fi nal contracts to be signed.

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Greendrinks asked a number of local businesses to submit bids of what per-centage of sales they could pour back into environmental improvements in searching for the Joycott’s fi rst host.

The Public Market House won over organizers with their pledge to rein-vest 51 percent of the day’s sales into environmental improvements. “With the Public market House we were really lucky to fi nd an enthusiastic partner who is already so aligned with our mission. They’ve exceeded my every expectation — every single

owner met with us and talked about how excited they are,” said Sullivan.

Kris Horton, owner of K. Horton Specialty Foods and president of the Public Market House, said they’ll use the funds primarily to revamp the building’s HVAC system, for air condi-tioning, heating and ventilation.

While Greendrinks currently has no plans for another Joycott, they hope the idea will drive other businesses to use the concept to pursue environ-mental improvements.

“I think the Joycott is proof that environmentalists and capitalists can work together to achieve mutu-ally benefi cial goals, despite some of the rhetoric you hear to the contrary,” said Greendrinks organizer Sean Sul-livan. “With a little innovation, we don’t have to choose between the two,” he said.

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New York court offi cials outlined procedures Tues-day aimed at assuring that all homeowners facing foreclosure were represented by a lawyer, a shift that could give tens of thousands of families a better chance to save their homes.

Criminal defendants are guaranteed a lawyer but New York will be the fi rst state to try and extend that pledge to foreclosures, which are civil matters. There are about 80,000 active foreclosure cases in New York courts. In more than half the cases, only the banks have lawyers.

“It’s such an uneven playing fi eld,” the state’s chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, said. “Banks wind up with the property and the homeowner winds up over the cliff, on the street. It doesn’t serve anyone’s interest, including the banks’.”

A lawyer for every defendant will also serve the courts’ interests, the judge said, by making proceed-ings more effi cient.

Under the procedures, which will be put in place in Queens and Orange counties in the next few weeks and across the state by the end of the year, any hom-eowner in foreclosure who does not have a lawyer will be supplied one by legal aid groups or other pro bono groups. Legal aid groups are expected to have foreclosure offi ces in the courts to handle the infl ux.

In the wake of revelations last fall that several major banks had used improper methods to speed foreclosures, the courts are increasingly becoming a central battleground for people seeking to save their homes. Simply responding to a foreclosure notice in

court, homeowners have learned, can sharply delay the proceedings.

That is a change from when the foreclosure crisis began. A few years ago, most foreclosed owners in New York and everywhere else did not show up at court proceedings and simply abandoned their homes. It was a “paper process,” the New York court system concluded in a recent report, with lenders inevitably the winners.

New York now mandates settlement meetings overseen by a judge and attended by the lender, a sort of court inside the court. Homeowners are participating in large numbers but most of those without lawyers have little idea how to defend themselves. The cases are also overwhelming the courts. In several counties, half of the civil cases in Supreme Court are foreclosures.

Legal aid groups will fi nd the task of representing all foreclosure defendants easier if the state legisla-ture agrees to Judge Lippman’s request for a $100 million increase in legal services programs spread over the next four years. Current funding for legal services in New York is about $200 million a year drawn from a variety of public and private sources.

New York, which is one of the 23 states where foreclosures must be overseen by a judge, has been more aggressive than most in trying to reshape the fl ood of housing cases. Lawyers pursuing foreclosure in New York are personally liable for the accuracy of the documents they represent. It is a requirement that some lawyers fi nd onerous but has been cred-ited with dramatically slowing the pace of foreclo-sures in the state.

Legal aid organizations in the 23 states say that they do not have enough money or lawyers to help everyone who needs assistance. New Mexico and Connecticut have started classes to help train people to represent themselves. Legal aid groups in other states are forced to choose among families, helping some but not others.

New York’s action “will shift the debate,” said Donald Saunders, director of the Civil Division of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. “Everything Judge Lippman is saying will be looked at closely elsewhere.”

Mr. Saunders added, however, that fi scal realities could trump other considerations.

Nationwide, 2.2 million households are in fore-closure, with another 2.1 million at least 90 days past due, according to LPS Applied Analytics. In the wake of the banks’ revelations about their sloppy procedures, the average number of days delinquent for a foreclosed property rose to 507 days in Decem-ber, its fi rst time above 500.

In New York, the two initial counties will serve as a model for the statewide program. Hudson Valley Legal Services will work with the court in Orange County to provide representation, while the Legal Aid Society, which assists families and individuals in New York City, will supply lawyers in Queens, a foreclosure hotbed.

According to court data, foreclosure fi lings in Queens have increased 217 percent since 2005 to 5,839 cases.

“There’s a huge demand,” said Steven Banks, the society’s attorney in chief.

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Sales of iPad publications had been limited, with a few excep-tions, to single copies.

But reaction from many publishers was tepid, at best. Though Apple has agreed to share some data about subscrib-ers with magazines — provided that subscribers consent — pub-lishing companies have been pushing for full access to infor-mation about who is buying their content.

“This is an important step, but it really needs to go further,” said Nina Link, chief executive of the Association of Magazine Media. “If we’re going to be bypassed, and it goes straight to Apple and we can’t get this data, that’s a problem. I defi nitely think it’s one more step that creates somewhat of a bar-rier.”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). It feels like you’re working harder than other people around you, but there’s a good reason for it. You see more opportunity in the current situation than do others. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You notice that you have the power to con-trol and direct others, and you don’t take this responsibility lightly. Dwell on the end result you are trying to achieve, and go toward it. The others will follow. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll be busy making plans, and sometimes it seems like that’s the part that is the most fun. But try not to get so involved in the future that you forget to smile during today’s action. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Your connection to certain family mem-bers is bittersweet. Take heart in the knowledge that yours is not the only imperfect family. Family dynamics are complicated across the board. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). In the past, you’ve sometimes frittered your fi nances away. Now you’ll make an effort to save the money you get because you realize that you really could do something big with it in the future. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You will achieve prominence in a certain com-munity. This could be a social club, a party affi liation or an online community. However it shows up, enjoy the atten-tion. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’ll hear yourself saying words that are different from what you really want to project. Stop yourself from this kind of duplicity. Get your message straight, and align yourself behind it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your private opinion of yourself is far more critical than anyone else’s could ever be. Lighten up. Be nice to yourself. You’ve done a good job in many respects. Pat yourself on the back. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You use the power of attraction to gain a following. You’ll apply your imagina-tion to the task of creating a magical experience through which you can lead others. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You know what is expected of you, but you expect even more of yourself. Even if others praise your efforts, you will not be happy unless you deliver to your standards. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). People may not acknowledge you to the degree they should. But if you look at their actions with keen insight, you will notice that they are acknowledging you through their attention. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). When someone crosses your mind, you’ll reach out. This builds your bond with this person and also builds your con-nection to the moment. Bonus: As you act on your instincts, they get stronger. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 16). You believe in a better life for all, not just for you. Because you’re willing to work for this reality, you create it. You’ll be embraced in new arenas in March. Friends introduce you to a fi nancial opportunity in April. You’ll help your family in May. June and July bring home projects and spectacular leisure activi-ties. Virgo and Libra people will honor you. Your lucky numbers are: 6, 22, 15, 49 and 31.

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one’s eyes 13 Shortly 14 Correct text 15 Ne’er-do-well 16 Classic board

game 17 Cowardice 18 Dad’s brother 19 Desire for

possessions 22 Certain vote 23 Embroidered

decorative hole 24 __ discussion;

seminar 26 Inquires 29 Sunday paper

supplement 32 Firm & crunchy 36 Basketball player’s

aim 38 Tiny particle 39 Sword handle

40 “The __”; Fran Drescher series

41 Appear 42 Ms. Fitzgerald 43 “Step __!”; “Hurry

up!” 44 Sloppy 45 __ shame; be

brazen 47 Ending musical

passage 49 Luster; shine 51 Overwhelm 56 Mai __; cocktail 58 Having bad effects 61 Receded 63 Invisible

emanation 64 Nurse’s helper 65 Dig deeply 66 Custard treat 67 Winter toy 68 Spirited horse 69 __ off; repel 70 Egg layer

DOWN 1 Dental fi lling

replacement 2 Mailman’s beat 3 Assume a reverent

posture 4 Is appropriate 5 Thought 6 Old radio knob 7 Undress 8 Radcliffe grad 9 Otto __ Bismarck 10 Increases in

intensity 11 Depend 12 Birch or beech 13 Highest point 20 “As ye sow, so

shall ye __” 21 Maudlin 25 Wipe away 27 Genghis or Kublai 28 __ boom; noise of

the sound barrier breaking

30 __ well; excels 31 TV show award

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32 Emeril, for one 33 Irritate 34 Not readable 35 Delay 37 Aware of the

shenanigans of 40 Rope loop 44 Horse’s hair 46 Gave silent assent 48 Insist

50 Personnel 52 Grind the teeth 53 Useful 54 __ with; toting 55 Escaped 56 Koppel et al. 57 Aid in crime 59 Bylaw 60 Tehran’s nation 62 Actress Arden

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WEDNESDAY PRIME TIME FEBRUARY 16, 2011 Dial 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 5 CTN 5 Main Social Justice Portland Water District Meeting Community Bulletin Board

6 WCSHMinute to Win It Two women compete for the top prize. (N) Å

Minute to Win It Two women compete against two men. (N)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Pursuit” (N) (In Stereo) Å

News Tonight Show With Jay Leno

7 WPFOAmerican Idol “Hollywood Round, Part 2” Auditions continue in Hollywood. (N) (In Stereo) Å

News 13 on FOX (N) Frasier (In Stereo) Å

According to Jim Å

8 WMTWThe Middle (N) Å

Better With You (N) Å

Modern Family (N) Å

Mr. Sun-shine (N) Å

Off the Map Otis must confront his personal demons. (N) Å

News 8 WMTW at 11PM (N)

Nightline (N) Å

10 MPBNSecrets of the Dead A U.S. bomber crew is rescued. Å (DVS)

NOVA “Crash of Flight 447” The 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447.

Nova scienceNOW Ori-gin of the very first living thing. (N) Å

Charlie Rose (N) (In Stereo) Å

11 WENHAntiques Roadshow “Des Moines” A 14-karat gold vest and fob.

American Experience “Reagan: An American Crusade” Ronald Reagan’s rise to president. (In Stereo) (Part 2 of 2) Å (DVS)

Blue Realm (In Stereo)

12 WPXTNikita Stopping a dan-gerous weapon delivery. (In Stereo) Å

The Vampire Diaries “Crying Wolf” Damon tries to talk to Elijah.

Entourage “Tree Trip-pers”

TMZ (N) (In Stereo) Å

Extra (N) (In Stereo) Å

Punk’d (In Stereo) Å

13 WGMESurvivor: Redemption Island Contestants arrive in Nicaragua. (N)

Criminal Minds “Today I Do” The team investi-gates disappearances.

Criminal Minds: Sus-pect Behavior “Two of a Kind” (N) Å

WGME News 13 at 11:00

Late Show With David Letterman

17 WPME Burn Notice Å Burn Notice Å Curb Earl Star Trek: Next

24 DISC Gold Rush: Alaska Sons Sons Desert Car Kings (N) Gold Rush: Alaska

25 FAM Movie: ›› “The Game Plan” (2007, Comedy) Funniest Home Videos The 700 Club Å

26 USA NCIS “Mind Games” NCIS “Silver War” NCIS “Switch” Å Fairly Legal Å

27 NESN Corner TBA Red Sox Live Daily Dennis Daily Daily

28 CSNE NBA Basketball: Nets at Celtics Celtics SportsNet Sports Pregame

30 ESPN College Basketball NBA Basketball Denver Nuggets at Milwaukee Bucks. (Live) SportsCtr

31 ESPN2 College Basketball College Basketball Oklahoma State at Texas. College Basketball

33 ION Without a Trace Å Without a Trace Å Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds Å

34 DISN Good Luck Suite/Deck Good Luck Good Luck Phineas Phineas Wizards Wizards

35 TOON Dude Destroy King of Hill King of Hill Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Fam. Guy Fam. Guy

36 NICK My Wife My Wife Chris Chris George Lopez The Nanny The Nanny

37 MSNBC MSNBC Live (N) Rachel Maddow Show The Ed Show (N) The Last Word

38 CNN Parker Spitzer (N) Piers Morgan Tonight Anderson Cooper 360 (N) Å

40 CNBC American Greed American Greed American Greed (N) Mad Money

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

43 TNT Bones Fragments. Bones (In Stereo) Å Bones (In Stereo) Å Southland “Sideways”

44 LIFE Reba Å Reba Å Marijuana: A Chronic History Å How I Met How I Met

46 TLC Addiction Addiction Addiction Addiction Toddlers & Tiaras (N) Addiction Addiction

47 AMC Movie: ›››‡ “The Shawshank Redemption” (1994) Tim Robbins. “Shawshank R.”

48 HGTV Property Property House First Place Hunters Holmes Inspection Vanilla

49 TRAV Man, Food Man, Food Carnivore Man, Food Man, Food Man, Food Man v. Food “Miami”

50 A&E Dog Dog Dog the Bounty Hunter Storage Storage Storage Storage

52 BRAVO Top Chef Å Top Chef Å Top Chef “Lock Down” Approval Top Chef

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

56 SYFY Ghost Hunters Å Ghost Hunters Inter. Face Off (N) Ghost Hunters Inter.

57 ANIM I Shouldn’t Be Alive I Shouldn’t Be Alive I Shouldn’t Be Alive I Shouldn’t Be Alive

58 HIST Brad Meltzer’s Dec. The President’s Book of Secrets Å Sec.- Dollar Bill

60 BET Movie: ›› “American Violet” (2008) Nicole Beharie. Å The Game The Mo’Nique Show

61 COM Chappelle Chappelle South Park South Park South Park Tosh.0 Daily Show Colbert

62 FX Movie: ››› “Iron Man” (2008, Action) Justified (N) Justified

67 TVLND Sanford Sanford Raymond Raymond Cleveland Retired at Cleveland Retired at

68 TBS Browns Browns Payne Payne There Yet? There Yet? Conan (N)

76 SPIKE Ways Die Ways Die Ways Die Ways Die Ways Die 3 Sheets MANswers MANswers

78 OXY “Definitely, Maybe” Movie: ›› “Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous” Snapped

146 TCM Movie: ›››‡ “My Favorite Year” (1982) Å Movie: ›››› “Lawrence of Arabia” (1962)

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Today is Wednesday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 2011. There are 318 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:On Feb. 16, 1968, the nation’s fi rst 911

emergency telephone system was inaugu-rated, in Haleyville, Ala.

On this date:In 1804, Lt. Stephen Decatur led a suc-

cessful raid into Tripoli Harbor to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia, which had fallen into the hands of pirates.

In 1862, during the Civil War, some 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered at Fort Donelson, Tenn. (Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s victory earned him the nickname “Unconditional Surrender Grant.”)

In 1868, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized in New York City.

In 1923, the burial chamber of King Tut-ankhamen’s recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt by English archaeologist Howard Carter.

In 1945, American troops landed on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines during World War II.

In 1959, Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba a month and a-half after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista.

In 1960, the nuclear-powered radar picket submarine USS Triton departed New London, Conn. on the fi rst submerged cir-cumnavigation by a vessel.

In 1961, the United States launched the Explorer 9 satellite.

In 1977, Janani Luwum, the Anglican archbishop of Uganda, and two other men were killed in what Ugandan authorities said was an automobile accident.

In 1998, a China Airlines Airbus A300-600R trying to land in fog near Taipei, Taiwan, crashed, killing all 196 people on board.

One year ago: Offi cials reported the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (BEHR’-uh-dahr), the Afghan Taliban’s No. 2 commander, by a joint CIA and Pakistani team. President Barack Obama announced more than $8 billion in new federal loan guarantees to build two nuclear reactors in Georgia.

Today’s Birthdays: Singer Patty Andrews is 93. Kim Jong Il, the president of North Korea, is 69. Actor Jeremy Bulloch is 65. Actor William Katt is 60. Rhythm-and-blues singer James Ingram is 59. Actor LeVar Burton is 54. Actor-rapper Ice-T is 53. Actress Lisa Loring is 53. International Tennis Hall of Famer John McEnroe is 52. Rock musician Andy Taylor is 50. Rock musician Dave Lombardo (Slayer) is 46. Rock musician Taylor Hawkins (Foofi ght-ers) is 39. Olympic gold medal runner Cathy Freeman is 38. Singer Sam Salter is 36. Rapper Lupe Fiasco is 29. Actor Mike Wein-berg is 18.

ACROSS 1 Nocturnal raptors 5 Lowly laborers 10 Stuff 14 Bow part 15 Teheran resident 16 Columbus location 17 Start of a Shelagh

Delaney quote 20 Genufl ection joints 21 Atlas image 22 Upright walkers 25 Ultimate busybody 29 Part 2 of quote 32 Ship letters 33 Penetrates 34 Prune text 35 Low-spirited 37 Second part of a

bray 38 Fix beginning? 39 Chocolate or

micro follower 41 Tropical hardwood

tree 43 Soldering metal 46 Part 3 of quote

49 Indulgent 50 Finished second 51 Metal container 52 Encrusted 54 End of quote 61 __ la vie 62 Nova Scotia or

Cornwall town 63 Expand 64 Favored ones 65 “Full House” star

Bob 66 Pot sweetener

DOWN 1 Advanced in years 2 Pursue

romantically 3 Myrna of “The

Thin Man” 4 Oral 5 Adds to the heap 6 Toledo’s lake 7 Grown acorns 8 Wind dir. 9 Gene of Kiss 10 Anthology

collector 11 Pi follower 12 Jordan’s nickname 13 Cohort of Shemp

and Curly 18 Not artifi cially

colored 19 James Dean

movie, “__ of Eden”

22 A/C meas. 23 Christian letters 24 Ardent love 25 Country of fjords 26 Like very clear

memories 27 Travel on snow 28 Holiday in Vietnam 30 Former U.N.

leader 31 Distributed hands 36 Peachlike fruits 38 TV host Jane 39 950 40 First part of a bray 41 Easter hats 42 Crest of hair

44 Eisenhower 45 Beatty or Buntline 47 Cherished 48 Largest lake in

Europe 52 Drink in one gulp 53 Interlaken’s river 54 Women’s Lib

opponent, perhaps

55 Extra-wide shoe width

56 Colo. clock setting

57 Sing-along syllable

58 Vase with a foot 59 E-mail period 60 Be in debt to

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Wednesday, Feb. 16

Maine Distracted Driving Summit8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Offi cer Rocco Navarro of the South Portland Police Department will moderate a panel discussion with teen drivers at the Maine Distracted Driving Summit, taking place at the Ocean Gate-way marine terminal. Navarro suffered serious injuries when a pickup truck crashed into his cruiser while he was parked behind a stranded motorist on the Casco Bay Bridge last fall. Police say the driver who hit the parked cruiser, David Zografos of South Portland, was talk-ing on his cell phone. Zogra-fos, who was uninjured, was charged with failing to maintain control of a motor vehicle. The National Highway Traffi c Safety Administration estimates that at least 25 percent of police-reported crashes involve some form of driver inattention. http://capwiz.com/aaanne/issues/alert/?alertid=14923871

Payson Hill Terrain Park exhibition1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Skiers and snowboarders from Mt. Abram, Shawnee Peak and Sunday River will visit Portland’s Payson Hill Terrain Park this afternoon. From Jan. 5 through Feb. 16, Wednesdays were designated “Wednesdays in the Park” to celebrate the Payson Hill Terrain Park and take advan-tage of early release day in the Portland School System. Portland Recreation and Public Works spread snow on the hill in early January opening up this popular winter hill to skiing, snowboarding, and sliding. Ample snowfall and cold temperatures has the park in great shape for the school vacation week. This Wednesday’s event celebrates the success of the Park and promotes the fact that there will be skiing, snowboarding and sliding for several more weeks this winter. According to Greg Sweetser, Executive Director of the Ski Maine Association, “this partnership with the city has been a natural match and promotes the great outdoor resources right here in Portland.“ During the six-week period, ski areas have sent their ski and snowboard staff to Portland to provide tips to kids in the park. The ski areas also worked with the City staff to set up the elements, shovel snow, and shape the ramps to the rails. In addition to skiers and riders from Maine ski areas, this Wednesday will feature music, and free hot chocolate at the top of the hill. Outside TV will be fi lming the event and highlighting Portland as the host city to one of the very fi rst Urban Ter-rain Parks in the United States.

‘I Question America’ at USM5 p.m. “I Question America,” a Broadway styled, one-woman play honoring the life of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, will be presented this month as part of Uni-versity of Southern Maine’s celebration of African-Ameri-can History Month. The event, featuring actress and author E.P. McKnight, will take place in USM’s Hannaford Lecture Hall, Portland. A question-and-answer session and a book signing will follow the performance. It is free and open to the public. “‘I Question America’ tells the life story of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, who grew up in Missis-sippi, working in the cotton fi elds. In her one-woman per-formance, McKnight chronicles Hamer’s journey through childhood, youth and adulthood. The play is a testament to Hamer’s ability to overcome seemingly insurmount-able obstacles and make a difference in the world. Hamer struggled for many years, protesting and speaking against racism and for equal rights, eventually speaking in front of Congress. Many times she was jailed and savagely beaten because of her outspoken support. In 1968, after years of fi ghting, Hamer received a standing ovation when she was seated at the Chicago Democratic Convention and elected Democratic National Committeewoman. Hamer’s efforts during the Civil Rights Movement assisted in getting the Voting Rights Act, Equal Employment Laws and Federal Housing Act passed. ... McKnight is a graduate of Fordham University. Today she works as a poet, actress and writer. ... This event was made possible with fi nancial support from Prudential Financial, South Portland, USM Women and Gender Studies and USM President Council on Diversity.” For more information, contact the USM Offi ce of Multicul-tural Affairs at 780-4006.

PROPEL after-hours networking event5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Join PROPEL for an after-hours net-working event at the Salt Exchange. Light appetizers will be served and a cash bar with drink specials will be available. If you would like to stay for dinner following the event you are welcome to a 15 percent off discount. The Salt Exchange, 245 Commercial St., Portland.

Ocean Avenue Elementary School open house6 p.m. to 8 p.m. City Councilor Cheryl Leeman (District 4) and Portland Superintendent James C. Morse, Sr. invite members of the community to an open house at the city’s newest school, Ocean Avenue Elementary School. The open house will give the public the opportunity to preview the school before its offi cial opening, meet with school offi cials and see fi rst hand what this state-of-the-art facility has to offer Portland’s youth and families. “We have all been eagerly anticipating the offi cial opening of the Ocean Avenue Elementary School and it is exciting that the day is almost upon us,” stated City Councilor Cheryl Leeman. “Please join us for a tour of this impres-sive facility and a chat with school offi cials on how the Ocean Avenue school is going to improve our neighbor-hood.” Ocean Avenue Elementary School is located at 150 Ocean Ave.

Insurance and investing seminar6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The Institute for Financial Literacy has launched a new interactive personal fi nance seminar series. Taught by certifi ed educators and open to the gen-eral public, the seminars are designed to promote fi nancial education in Maine. In this session, you will learn how insur-ance and investing can help you reach your fi nancial goals quicker and easier than imagined. All seminars are being held at the Institute’s new campus conveniently located near the Maine Mall at 260 Western Avenue in South Port-land. Cost is $50 per adult/$75 couple. Attendance is lim-ited and advance registration is required. To register, please call 221-3601 or email help@fi nanciallit.org. www.fi nancial-lit.org

Doug Varone and Dancers7:30 p.m. Prized for dexterity, musicality and performance instincts, Doug Varone and Dancers is recognized as one of America’s leading dance companies. Presented in col-laboration with Bates Dance Festival, this performance is brought to Portland by Portland Ovations. The evening opens with the company’s triumphant work, Lux, and con-cludes with Chapters from a Broken Novel, a new work co-commissioned by Ovations along with Bates Dance Festival. Merrill Auditorium; $38, $34, $30, students: $10. portlandovations.org

‘The Real Mcgonagall’8 p.m. Through Feb. 27. “On the eve of his return voyage to Scotland, Sir William Topaz McGonagall recites his out-rageously bad poetry at a saloon in New York. Is he a fool? A joke? Or is the joke on any of us who has ever secretly yearned for artistic self-expression but not dared go public? A hilarious account of the true life-story of the world’s worst poet and his dubious (but loveable) place in history.” Port-land Stage. www.portlandstage.org/Event-43.html

Thursday, Feb. 17

WENA Community Breakfast7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. West End Neighborhood Association Community Breakfast at Reiche Community Center. http://www.wenamaine.org/

Wisdom At Work Seriesnoon to 1 p.m. Portland Public Library is hosting a four-part series on work each Thursday in February in Rines Audito-rium. The series is sponsored by Heart At Work Career Coun-seling and Amy Wood, Success Strategist. The third in the series is titled “Five Real-World Strate-gies To Find A Meaningful Job” presented by Melissa Suey, of Red Sky Leadership. The public is invited to this free series. Heart At Work Career Counsel-ing, Outplacement Services & Second Half of Life Planning, 25 Middle St. 775-6400.

‘On the March’ talk on Freedom Riders at Bates4:30 p.m. In observance of Black History Month and the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Free-

dom Riders protest, a historian from Ohio’s Miami Univer-sity reviews the history, impacts and continuing relevance of this galvanizing episode in the civil rights movement in the Benjamin Mays Center at Bates College, 95 Russell St., Lewiston. Sponsored by the Offi ce of Intercultural Educa-tion at Bates, Nishani Frazier’s talk, titled “On the March,” is open to the public at no cost. “Frazier, assistant professor of history at Miami, is an authority on the African Ameri-can experience. She will examine the story of the Freedom Riders, their importance to American history and their cur-rent relevance in the face of efforts to retreat politically, culturally and socially from the advances of the civil rights movement. Beginning in May 1961, the Freedom Rides were an effort to shatter segregationist resistance to laws mandating equal access to public facilities for all people. Involving up to 450 civil rights activists over fi ve months, the Riders made repeated trips into the South on the Greyhound and Trailways bus lines, forging ahead despite the savage vio-lence, at the hands of law enforcement offi cers and the Ku Klux Klan among others, that awaited them. This chapter in the civil rights movement heightened national attention to the cause, brought in many new activists and compelled the fed-eral government to begin enforcing its equal access legisla-tion.” For more information, please call 786-8376.

Music tips on YouTube and beyond6 p.m. The Portland Music Foundation continues its “Music as a Profession” series of educational seminars in 2011 with an event that explores how to make a great video to accom-pany your music and what to do with it after you’ve made it. Panelists for this seminar include Universal Republic artist Spose, fi lmmakers [dog] and [pony] and award-winning songwriter and musician Adam Flaherty. The seminar takes place at the Portland Public Library’s Rines Auditorium, is located in the bottom level of the newly renovated library. Doors are at 5:30 p.m. The PMF “Music as a Profession” series is free for PMF members. Annual membership cost $20 and includes nine educational seminars plus a number of discounts with area businesses. All members of a band can join for $40 per year. Membership is available at the door on Feb. 17 or at www.portlandmusicfoundation.org.

New Gloucester Historical Society7 p.m. The meeting of the New Gloucester Historical Soci-ety has been moved to the New Gloucester Community Building (Old Fire Barn), directly behind the Town Hall on Route 231. The meeting time is still 7 p.m.

‘A Disciplined Guide to Investment Success’7 p.m. Investments Program “Buy, Hold, Sell: A Disciplined Guide to Investment Success,” at the Peaks Island Branch Library. Author Benjamin Sprague will speak about his book, Buy, Hold, Sell: a Disciplined Guide to Investment Success, in the Community Room. The book provides an invest-ment framework to consider, following a diffi cult 10 years of stock market fl uctuations. It is for people who are confused or apprehensive about the stock market, but still want some growth from their money. Sponsored by the Friends of the Peaks Island Library. http://www.portlandlibrary.com/loca-tions/peaks.htm#Events%20&%20Programs

Payson Park has been transformed into a sleddding and snowboarding park. Here, a snowboarder launches off a jump near the park’s rail. Skiers and snowboarders from Mt. Abram, Shawnee Peak and Sunday River will visit Portland’s Payson Hill Terrain Park this afternoon from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)


‘Black Daughter of Maine, American Woman of the World’ at Maine Historical Society7 p.m. In Partnership with the Maine Women Writers Collection, the Maine Historical Society will present, “Black Daughter of Maine, American Woman of the World: The Storied Lives and Times of Pauline Eliza-beth Hopkins,” by Lois A. Brown, Elizabeth Small Pro-fessor of English, Mt. Holyoke College. “Join us to learn about the life, literature, and career of Maine-born writer Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930). Born into an educated free black family in Portland, Pauline Hop-kins was a pioneering playwright, journalist, novelist, feminist, and public intellectual, best known for her 1900 novel, ‘Contending Forces: A Romance of Negro Life North and South.’ Brown’s recent biography traces Hopkins’ early life, her family’s connections to eighteenth-century New England and the African slave trade, and her literary career, including a public feud with Booker T. Washington that ultimately led to her professional demise as a journalist. www.mainehistory.org

Thom Pain (based on nothing) by Will Eno7:30 p.m. Thom Pain (based on nothing) by Will Eno. Feb. 10-20. Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sunday nights at 7 p.m. at Lucid Stage. Starring James Hoban; directed by Adam Gutgsell. “Will Eno is a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation ... To sum up the more or less indescribable: Thom Pain is at bottom a surreal meditation on the empty promises life makes, the way experience never lives up to the weird and awesome fact of being. But it is also, in its odd, bewitching beauty, an affi rmation of life’s worth.” — Charles Isherwood, New York Times. Ticket prices are $12 for adults and $10 for students/seniors. Purchase tickets online at www.LucidStage.com or by calling 899-3993.


Friday, Feb. 18

‘Waste Land’ at the PMA6:30 p.m. Portland Museum of Art Movies at the Museum series features “Waste Land” on Friday, Feb. 18, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 19, 2 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 20, 2 p.m. NR. “Filmed over nearly three years, Waste Land follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s larg-est garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the out-skirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of ‘catadores’—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to ‘paint’ the cata-dores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker (Devil’s Playground, Blindsight, Countdown to Zero) has great access to the entire process and, in the end, offers stirring evidence of the transforma-tive power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit. In English and Portuguese with English subtitles.

Contra Dance in Bar Harbor7:30 p.m. Contra Dance with Big Moose Contra Dance Band and caller Chrissy Fowler in College of the Atlantic’s Gates Center, 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor. Lessons at 7:30 p.m., dance begins at 8 p.m. $6. Children free. www.coa.edu or 288-5015.

‘Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love’8 p.m. “Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love” an adult comedy about love, sex and relationships. February 11-27, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. All seats $15. Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St. Box Offi ce 773-0333, oldportplayhouse.com.


Harrison Stebbins at the Comedy Connection8:30 p.m. Harrison Stebbins with Josh Grondelman and Ryan Waning. Tickets $15. Portland Comedy Connection, 16 Custom House Wharf. Also Saturday. Reservations: 774-5554. $7.50. Schedule and information: www.maine-comedy.com. Box offi ce open Thurs.-Sat., noon to 10 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 19

Presumpscot River Preserve walk8:45 a.m. to 10 a.m. Portland Trails is excited to announce a 2011 Winter Walk series. This free series, made possible by a grant from Healthy Portland, is for adults and families with children who are making an effort to get more exercise, but are stymied when it comes to winter recreation. Partici-pants are reminded to wear warm clothing, hats and gloves and bring snowshoes if there is adequate snow on the ground. Portland Trails has snow shoes available (free for members, $5/non-members) which can be reserved ahead of time. Please register for any walk by emailing [email protected] or calling 775-2411. For more information or to check cancellations due to the weather go to www.trails.org. Join Trail Foreman Charlie Baldwin on the Presumpscot River Trail. The trail parallels the Presumpscot River and is the site of a spectacular waterfall. Meet at the Overset Road Trailhead: Take Allen Ave east and turn left onto Summit Street. After Oat Nuts Park take a right on Curtis Road. Follow Curtis Road to Overset Road. Turn right on Overset Road and park at dead end. Trailhead is on the right.

Introduction to Genealogy9:30 a.m. to noon. Workshop: Introduction to Genealogy (for beginners) by presenter Kathy Amoroso, director of digital projects, Maine Historical Society. “Join us to learn the basics of family history research. Find out how to begin, who to talk to, what records are available, and where you will fi nd them. Learn how to organize your fi les and keep track of your fi ndings. This lecture does not cover Internet research but covers the basics of good research processes and skills. For beginners or intermediates looking for a refresher class. “The MHS Research Library not be open the day of this program. Registration required. Fee: MHS Members: $25; Non-Members: $35. To register, please call 774-1822.

Insurance and investing seminar10 a.m. to noon. The Institute for Financial Literacy has launched a new interactive personal fi nance seminar series. Taught by certifi ed educators and open to the general public, the seminars are designed to promote fi nancial education in Maine. In this session, you will learn how insurance and investing can help you reach your fi nancial goals quicker and easier than imagined. All seminars are being held at the Institute’s new campus conveniently located near the Maine Mall at 260 West-ern Avenue in South Portland. Cost is $50 per adult/$75 couple. Attendance is limited and advance registration is required. To register, please call 221-3601 or email help@fi nanciallit.org. www.fi nanciallit.org

Maine’s Immigrant Youth dialoguenoon to 4 p.m. Living With Peace, a local non-governmen-tal organization dedicated to immigrant integration, is host-ing a Dialogue on the topic of Maine’s Immigrant Youth: Our Untapped Talent Pool. The Dialogue is free and open to the public. The Dialogue is co-sponsored by Atlantic Global Aid and the East Bayside Neighborhood Association. Regis-trants may have a nutritious breakfast from 11:15 a.m. to noon. At noon the Dialogue opens with speakers address-ing the topic of Ensuring a Secure Future for our Youth. Speakers have been invited from the educational commu-nity, the nonprofi t community, and the local student body. The afternoon will be spent in round table discussions on pre-selected topics. Dialogue closing remarks begin at 3:30 p.m. Music and dancing continue until 8 p.m. Root Cellar (lower level), 94 Washington Ave. For more informa-tion, contact Christina Feller at 773-4336, Roger Ruganzu at 699-8956, Abdifatah Ahmed at (617) 953-8717

Portraits in the Permanent Collection at PMA1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Gallery Talk, Portraits in the Permanent Collection by Sy Epstein at the Portland Museum of Art. Join docents for casual and informative discussions of works in the museum. Free with museum admission or to members.

Lucid Stage announces: The Two Storytellers2 p.m. Lucid Stage at 29 Baxter Boulevard presents this rare collaboration between two of Maine’s excellent, ver-satile and internationally acclaimed performers: Antonio Rocha, storyteller-movement artist, and Michael Parent, storyteller-singer. Two family matinees are fi lled with story, mime and song. Saturday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 20, at 2 p.m. $10 for adults; $5 for children; $20 for “family” of four. For tickets, call Lucid Stage at 899-3993, or pur-chase online at www.LucidStage.com

‘Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love’2 p.m. and 8 p.m. “Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love” an adult comedy about love, sex and relationships. February 11-27, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. All seats $15. Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St. Box Offi ce 773-0333, oldportplayhouse.com.


Romantic songs at Anthony’s Dinner Theater7 p.m. Kelly Caufi eld performs romantic songs at Anthony’s Dinner Theater. Free rose to every lady all month. $39.95 per person. Feb. 12, 19 and 26. Call for Reservations. 221-2267. www.anthonysdinnertheater.com

Metropolitan Holy Ghost Society7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Metropolitan Holy Ghost Society will be holding Saturday Evening Services at “The Rock Church” at 7 Braeburn Ave., South Portland. “This will be our new location and an ongoing event until further notice.” www.MHGS.org

1940s Night at the State Theatre7 p.m. “Casablanca” with the Portland Jazz Orchestra. This event is all ages. “The State Theatre brings ‘Casablanca’ back to the silver screen for a night of great romance! Per-fect for that Valentine’s Day gift, hint hint. Set during World War II, and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca is the classic story of love and sacrifi ce. The fi lm begins at 7 p.m. and the passion and drama continues after the screening, with the Portland Jazz Orchestra per-forming the big band standards of the 1940s.” www.state-theatreportland.com

48 Hour Music Festival9 p.m. The third annual 48 Hour Music Festival is here! Thirty artists from different Portland bands of all genres will be randomly shuffl ed into six supergroups, announced on Thursday afternoon. From there, each band has exactly 48 hours to construct and practice a 25-minute set of mate-rial, culminating in this 9 p.m. Saturday performance. This entirely new pool of local talent, featuring members of Huak, the Rattlesnakes, Covered in Bees, Planets Around the Sun, Falls of Rauros, The Travelling Trees, Antiseptic, Conifer, Sunset Hearts, Marie Stella, I Barbarian, Space vs. Speed, Corpse Pose, Shabti, Baltic Sea, The Mallett Broth-ers Band (and more!), will be tested by a need for teamwork and a couple of sleepless nights. “Each year, the 48 Hour Music Fest has proven to be one of the most exciting and creative nights of the year and a sold-out show so folks are encouraged to buy tickets in advance! Sponsored by D.L. Geary Brewing Co.” SPACE Gallery. Doors at 8:30 p.m., starts at 9: p.m., $10, 18 plus.

Sunday, Feb. 20

‘Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love’2 p.m. “Crazy Lil’ Thing Called Love” an adult comedy about love, sex and relationships. February 11-27, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. All seats $15. Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St. Box Offi ce 773-0333, oldportplayhouse.com.

Kids, Kartoons & Kotzschmar2 p.m. Rob Richards, named 2005 “Organist of the Year” by the American Theatre Organ Society, will appear at Mer-rill Auditorium to play on the Kotzschmar Organ. Presented by Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ. It’s Rob’s 30th year of concerts and the Society’s 50th anniversary. His com-bination of technical facility, showmanship and personality has won him fans around the world. Currently, Richards is the House Organist at Disney’s historic El Capitan theatre in Hollywood. Pops concert. Adults: $17, children 12 & under are free but need a ticket. Call 842-0800. Discounted tick-ets not available online. www.foko.org

20/20 Charity Wine Tasting3 p.m. to 5 p.m. 20/20 Charity Wine Tasting; 20 exciting South American wines for $20 and all the proceeds go to Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts; helping artists fi nd legal representation when they need it. “Portland has a really strong arts community; it’s one of the things that makes this city great. Sometimes though artists aren’t that expert on copy right law and what not. They get into trouble and that’s where VLA comes in to lend a helping hand. Come taste exciting blends from Chile, Malbec and Torrontes from Argentina, and even a Tannat from Uruguay.” The East Ender 47 Middle St., Portland. Crush Distributors, Devenish Wines and National Distributors Presents.

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Wednesday, Feb. 16

Waranimal / The Proselyte / Falls of Rauros8 p.m. Make your own show description! Pick any of the following three words and prepare for a night of headba-gning good times at the Urban Farm Fermentory. Dark, hard, fast, brutal, metal, rock, party, party rock, mosh-able, elbowy, bruistastic. $3, 21 plus.

Thursday, Feb. 14

Conspirator / The Cyborg Trio at Port City8 p.m. Conspirator featuring Marc Brownstein and Aron Magner from The Disco Biscuits, Chris Michetti from RAQ and Darren Shearer from The New Deal. $17 advanced, $22 day of show, $35 VIP, 21 plus. www.portcitymusi-chall.com/calendar

Friday, Feb. 18

High Tiger w/ Matiss Duhon and Jacob Augustine 8 p.m. Hi Tiger was formed in summer 2010. The fi ve piece band’s musical infl uences range from the urgent soul of Nina Simone to the pathos of Joy Division. Hi Tiger’s lyrics address issues around domestic violence,

HIV and AIDS, sex work, and the politics of pleasure…and universal themes of desire, isolation, community and self acceptance. The band is on the interweb at www.hitigermusic.com. Jacob Augustine is a rare treat. If you haven’t heard him sing, you really, really should. Matiss Duhon is an amazing local juggler, sure to juggle things your mama would say are dangerous — not to be missed! $10, all ages. Mayo Street Arts. http://mayostreetarts.org/calendar-2/calendar/

John Prine Turns 40: A Tribute to his 1971 Debut Album8 p.m. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the release of John Prine’s 1971 debut album, as potently relevant now as it was then. It seems “Sam Stone” will have to be infi nitely re-written. Though it may be one of the most powerful tunes on the album there are topics other than war eloquently explored – legalization of marijuana, environmental issues, farming and local agriculture, isolationism, aging…you name it. It’s timeless material. Matt Newberg leads a troupe of top caliber local talent, including Steve Jones, Gregg Hoover, Jeff Glidden, Stuart MacDonald, Mason Thayer, Sean Finn, Jeff Trippe, Steve Deptula, Dylan Newberg and Laura Piela to perform the album song for song, with an encore of other Prine classics. Following the presentation of the album, cel-ebrated Maine poet Gary Lawless will read original work along with veterans Terry Grasse and Rip Tyoe. Additionally, there will be a silent auction of autographed Prine merchan-dise with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the Maine Cancer Society. $10 advance, $12 day of show, 18 plus. SPACE Gallery. www.space538.org

Trey Anastasio Band at The State Theatre8 p.m. Trey Anastasio has announced a 2011 winter tour that will hit the road starting February 18th at the his-toric State Theatre in Portland. Along the way Trey will make stops in Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver and more. The lineup will once again feature Natalie Cressman (trombone and vocals), Jennifer Hartswick (trumpet and vocals), Russ Lawton (drums), Tony Markellis (bass and vocals), Ray Paczkowski (keyboards) and Russell Rem-ington (tenor saxophone and fl ute). $39.50, all ages.

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 elevated from the annals of songwriters into the realm of bonafi de American treasures. Long considered a “songwrit-er’s songwriter,” 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. Buy tickets in person at PortTix, the Box Offi ce at Merrill Auditorium, at 842-0800 and online at www.PortTix.com

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Monday, Feb. 21

Presidents Day schedulesThe Department of Public Services Solid Waste crews will not collect trash or recycling on Presidents Day. Residents who normally receive collection services on Monday will have their trash and recycling collected the Saturday before, Feb. 19. Residents of Peaks Island, Great Diamond Island, and Cliff Island will have their recycling and trash collection the following day, Tuesday, Feb. 22. All items should be out by 6:30 a.m. to ensure collection. If residents have further questions about their trash/recycling collection, they can contact the Recycling Hotline at 756-8189. The Riverside Recycling Facility will be closed on Presidents Day as well, and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Postal Service observes Presidents’ Day as a holiday. All post offi ces will be closed. There will be no regular mail delivery, except for Express Mail. At www.usps.com, postal customers can look up a ZIP Code and fi nd addressing information.

Tuesday, Feb. 22

February Vacation: Family Days in the Museum11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, Feb. 22 through Feb. 24, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. All children must be accompanied by an adult. “Brighten your family’s February with an art-making excursion at the PMA. Collaborate with art students from Maine College of Art and share their creative process. Kids of all ages will receive a special guide with clues to art activities in the galleries. Be part of the creative process at work, taste a special kid’s treat from the Café, and create your own collection of art.” Portland Museum of Art, www.portlandmuseum.org

‘From Plate to Car: Turning Food Waste into Energy’ at COA4 p.m. “While no elephant actually lives in Bar Harbor, each year the town produces the equivalent waste of 220 ele-phants, according to a group of College of the Atlantic stu-dents. But rather than deploring this waste, these students hope to harness it, turning it into fuel. The students will dis-cuss their plans in a talk called ‘From Plate to Car: Turning Food Waste into Energy’ in the college’s McCormick Lecture Hall. The talk is part of the college’s weekly Human Ecology Forum. When lawns are mowed, weeds pulled, leaves raked, and branches clipped, the waste is transported away from the home, sometimes even off the island. The same is true for the large amount of waste from Bar Harbor’s restaurants, hotels, and inns. It is this waste that the COA student group is hoping to turn into fuel that can be used in any gasoline-burning car with little or no modifi cation of the engine. Using bacterial fermentation, the students are planning to convert this biomass waste into a liquid fuel known as butanol. The students — Nicholas Harris, Lisa Bjerke, Matthew McElwee and Cayla Moore — have been studying the possibilities in various COA classes. They believe that butanol made from

biomass waste could be a viable gasoline alternative, and are working to launch their own enterprise, Gourmet Buta-nol.” For the Human Ecology Forum, McCormick Lecture Hall, 105 Eden St., Bar Harbor, [email protected], 801-5717, or 288-5015. Free. www.coa.edu.

DownEast Pride Alliance ‘Business After Hours’ 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. DEPA’s “Business After Hours” Net-working Event is at Nosh, 551 Congress St. “Delicious appe-tizers, cash bar & media table will be provided. Nosh serves classic NY-style deli sandwiches with a new twist with meats that are butchered, brined & roasted ‘in house’ and served on locally baked bread. See you at NOSH for cocktails and con-versation! The DownEast Pride Alliance is a GLBTQ business networking group in Southern Maine meeting monthly at local establishments for ‘Business After Hours’ events that provide a safe forum for, and help strengthen, the local gay & gay-friendly business community. FMI: www.depabusiness.com

Maine Historical Society Book Group7 p.m. MHS Book Group: What Pretending Reveals About the Past. Penobscot Expedition. Collier’s Victory in Penob-scot Bay, 1779. “With the new year upon us, we are near-ing the start of our latest book group at MHS. This year’s theme: American historical fi ction.” Titles include: “The Fort,” Bernard Cornwell’s new novel featuring Peleg Wadsworth and the Penobscot Expedition; “The Big Sky,” A.B. Guthrie’s classic of the West; “As the Earth Turns. “Gladys Hasty Carroll’s upbeat portrait of Maine during the Depression; and “Let the Great World Spin,” Colum McCann’s recent novel about New York City in the 1970s.

The group will meet Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in the MHS lecture hall: Feb. 22, March 22, April 26 and May 24.

Wednesday, Feb. 23

Family Finances Seminar6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The Institute for Financial Literacy has launched a new interactive personal fi nance seminar series. “Taught by certifi ed educators and open to the gen-eral public, the seminars are designed to improve fi nan-cial literacy in Maine. In this session, you will learn how to manage your family fi nances like a business and teach your children important fi nancial literacy skills.” All seminars are being held at the Institute’s new campus conveniently located near the Maine Mall at 260 Western Ave. in South Portland. Cost is $50 per adult/$75 couple. Attendance is limited and advance registration is required. To register, please call 221-3601 or email help@fi nanciallit.org. www.fi nanciallit.org

Peace Rally for Darfur7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center of Maine) will hold a Peace Rally for Darfur at The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St., Port-land. Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center of Maine) presents a rally for peace. This event is free and open to the public; however, donations will be accepted for Fur Cultural Revival. Speakers will include El-Fadel Arbab, as well as local activists and members of the Sudanese refugee communities. There will be a showing of the short documentary fi lm, “Tents of Hope.” Sudanese snacks and refreshments will be served.

Thursday, Feb. 24

Wisdom At Work Seriesnoon to 1 p.m. Portland Public Library is hosting a four-part series on work each Thursday in February in Rines Audi-torium. The series is sponsored by Heart At Work Career Counseling and Amy Wood, Success Strategist. The last presentation in the series is titled “Your Job Doesn’t Have To Be Perfect For Life To Be Good” presented by Creighton Taylor of Thrive! Life Coaching. 25 Middle St. 775-6400.

Dan Bern and Common Rotation8 p.m. Dan Bern and Common Rotation have continued to work on various projects together. Projects include record-ings for Jonathan Demme’s Off-Broadway production of Beth Henley’s “Family Week,” an album of new Dan Bern material, Dan Bern Live in LA, and the upcoming release of Dan Bern’s greatest hits recorded live in New York. Dan Bern is best known for his prolifi c songwriting and electric live persona. Bern focused much energy on motion pic-tures — he used his talents and sharp wit to compose over a dozen songs for the Jake Kasdan/Judd Apatow music biopic-spoof “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” and wrote the title song for Jonathan Demme’s documentary, “Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains.” One Longfellow Square. www.onelongfellowsquare.com

Nishani Frazier is a doctoral student in the history department at Columbia University. She will speak about the Freedom Riders, at Bates College in Lewiston, on Thursday, Feb. 17. (COURTESY PHOTO)


The Downtown Showdown, presented by Maine ski resorts Sugarloaf and Sunday River, hit Monument Square Friday evening kicking of WinteRush 2011. The open rail jam drew dozens of skiers and snow-boarders, who took to the two story scaffolding, throwing out their best tricks for hundreds gathered below. For a full gallery of photos from the rail jam, visit portlanddailysun.me. (MATT DODGE PHOTOS)

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Lobstermen ski, ride free at SaddlebackToday and March 1, Saddleback is offering free

skiing and riding to members of the Maine Lobster-men’s Association.

“These two days of free skiing for the lobstermen are all part of Saddleback’s commitment to making skiing and riding accessible to Mainers,” said Chris Farmer, Saddleback’s general manager.

Skiers must bring proof of membership in the Maine Lobstermen’s Association when visiting the

ski and snowboard resort in Rangeley. For details, visit www.saddlebackmaine.com.

Illusionist to perform at Sunday RiverSunday River in Newry announced that illusion-

ist Jason Bishop will perform on Tuesday, Feb.22 at 7 p.m. during the Presidents Day week. “From his breathtaking Double Levitation to his cutting edge Op-Art and Plasma illusions, Jason Bishop features stunning and original state-of-the-art magic,” the ski

area reported. “Each show features award winning sleight of hand, exclusive grand illusions and close-up magic projected onto a huge movie screen. No other touring illusionist showcases such a diverse array of talents. Additionally, the show is delivered with a totally modern energy and an outstanding rock and pop soundtrack.” The event will take place in the Grand Summit Resort Hotel Grand Ballroom at 7 p.m. Advance tickets for shows are available at the Sunday River Welcome Center, Grand Resort Hotels, Snow Cap Inn, or by calling (800) 543-2SKI.

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The portland daily sun, Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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