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See Maggie Knowles’ column on page 5

Hard lessons in the restaurant industry See Natalie Ladd on page 4

Bar (code) hopping in downtown Portland as district taps an app

See the story in Business, page 8

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Jesse LaCasse, nephew to artist Pandora LaCasse, helps remove his aunt’s light sculptures at Longfellow Square Tuesday. The project for Portland Downtown District marks one of the city’s visible transitions from winter. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Taking down the Christmas decorations

An “unknown permeable odor” inside a Hall School special education classroom has forced relocation of several students while offi cials search for the odor, tearing out walls, carpeting and ceilings but failing to locate the source.

School offi cials say nobody was made sick in the

incident, but at least one parent disputes that state-ment and some tests results are said to be pending.

“We pulled out the interior and exterior walls, ceilings, shelves, roof, pulled the carpet,” said Bob Lehman, Public Buildings Director for the city. “Ini-tially, the smell had started to dissipate when we started working on the room. We did do some test-ing with Bio-Safe in Westbrook, but they didn’t fi nd

anything there.”The mystery began just before February vacation

week and the Portland School Department sent let-ters home to the parents of several students at the Hall School notifying them of the issue.

According to a parent, the letter said there was an “unknown permeable odor” in the classroom that

Authorities break up drug smuggling at county jail

Four people have been charged in connection with an organized drug-smuggling operation uncovered inside the Cumberland County Jail, authori-ties said yesterday.

Police have charged two jail inmates, Michael Harmon, 27, of Naples, and Daniel Bokuniewicz, 24, of Casco, with criminal conspiracy to traffi c Suboxone — a prescription drug used to treat opiate addiction.

Bokuniewicz’ sister, Stephanie Bokuniewicz, 27, of Brownfi eld, and his girlfriend, Morgan Miller, 20, of Casco, are accused of sending Subox-one to the two inmates housed at the Portland jail. Both were charged with furnishing Suboxone and traffi cking in prison contraband.

Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) and Cumberland County Sheriff ’s Offi ce issued summons for the alleged smuggling operation last

BY CASEY CONLEYTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Stench forces closure of Hall classroomBY BOB HIGGINSTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

see STENCH page 3

see SMUGGLING page 3

At the rate the housing committee is dealing with a proposed text amendment to allow hostels in Portland, Seren Huus might want to consider opening up an old

folks home instead.Huus, an aspiring hostel operator, was in

attendance yet again yesterday as the hous-ing committee fi nally voted to allow hostels as an approved use in B-1 and B-6 zones in the city, but then tabled the overall “text

amendment” that will be sent to the city council until an April 5 meeting.

City hostel decision delayed againBY MATT DODGETHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

RIGHT: “The bureaucracy is overwhelming,” Seren Huus says, as she tries to open a hostel. (FILE POHTO)

see HOSTEL page 7

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BENGHAZI, Libya — In a sign of mount-ing frustration among rebel leaders at Col-onel Muammar el-Qaddafi ’s diminished but unyielding grip on power, the revolu-tionary council here is debating whether to ask for Western airstrikes on some of the regime’s most important military assets under a United Nations banner, according to four people with knowledge of the coun-cil’s deliberations.

By invoking the United Nations, the council, made up lawyers, academics, judges and other prominent fi gures, is seeking to draw a distinction between the airstrikes and foreign intervention, which the rebels say they emphatically oppose.

“He destroyed the army. We have two or three planes,” said Abdel-Hafi dh Ghoga, the council’s spokesman, speaking of the rebels’ military disadvantage. He refused to comment on the council’s deliberations or any imminent announcement, but said: “If it is with the United Nations, it is not a foreign intervention.”

But that distinction is lost on many people, and any call for foreign military help carries great risks. The anti-govern-ment protesters in Libya, like their coun-terparts in Tunisia and Egypt, have drawn broad popular support — and great pride

— from their status as homegrown move-ments that toppled autocrats without out-side help. An intervention, even one with the imprimatur of the United Nations, could play into the hands of Colonel Qad-dafi , who has called the uprising a foreign plot by Western powers seeking to occupy Libya.

“If he falls with no intervention, I’d be happy,” said one senior council offi cial. “But if he’s going to commit a massacre, my priority is to save my people.”

There was no indication that the United Nations Security Council members would approve such a request, or that Libyans seeking to topple Colonel Qaddafi would welcome it. Russia has dismissed talk of a no-fl y zone to curb Colonel Qaddafi ’s still-active air force, and China has tra-ditionally voted against foreign interven-tion.

Even so, the discussions signaled a rebel movement both impatient with a military stalemate that has crippled the country, and out of good options. Those who support the airstrikes hope they might dislodge Colonel Qaddafi from crucial strongholds, including a fortifi ed compound in the capital, Tripoli. The council is only con-sidering strikes against the compound, Bab al-Aziziya and assets like radar sta-tions, according to the people briefed on the discussions, who requested anonym-

ity because no formal decision on the announcement has been made.

On Tuesday, Colonel Qaddafi ’s forces appeared to make little headway in a con-certed assault on rebels in several cities around the country and in a sustained attack early Tuesday morning in the west-ern city of Zawiyah.

With escalating hostilities bringing Libya closer to civil war, rebels appeared to hold the city after a night of fi ghting, fend-ing off tanks and artillery, special forces and regular army troops and, rebels said, fi ghter jets.

Rebel leaders in Libya said the latest attacks by Colonel Qaddafi ’s supporters smacked of desperation, and that the failed assault on Zawiyah, a city with important oil resources just 30 miles from the capital, raised questions about the ability of the government to muster a serious challenge to the rebels’ growing power.

At the same time, Colonel Qaddafi faced a growing international campaign to force him from power, as the United Nations General Assembly voted on Tues-day to suspend Libya’s membership on the Human Rights Council, following its bloody attacks on protesters. On Monday the Obama administration announced that it had seized $30 billion in Libyan assets and the European Union adopted an arms embargo and other sanctions.

New volunteer fi ghters loyal to the opposition movement attended their fi rst day of training at a base in Benghazi, in eastern Libya, on Tuesday. (Lynsey Addario for The New York Times)

Libyan rebels, under banner of United Nations, may ask West for airstrikes

BY KAREEM FAHIM AND DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

THE NEW YORK TIMES

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with foot in mouth

SAYWHAT...I’ve always been pretty old-fashioned.”

—Charlie Sheen

(NY Times) — Charlie Sheen has an addiction.

Mr. Sheen took a drug test on Saturday and allowed the results — negative — to be revealed on Monday on “Good Morning America” on ABC. He also assured the “Today” show on NBC that he had cured himself of substance abuse. “I closed my eyes and made it so with the power of my mind,” is how he put it.

But a urine sample and a blood test can’t trace what troubles Mr. Sheen at the moment: he is addicted to explaining himself on the air.

His dependence is not unique. Troubled politicians and celebrities often turn to television and radio to retune their images radically — it’s a One Step program to per-suade themselves of their own powers of persuasion. And self-delusion has no borders.

Mr. Sheen’s grandiose rants on the nation’s two leading morning talk shows — and via live stream on the gossip Web site TMZ — were more unmoored than most, but he showed all the usual symptoms of an insulated star with an unrea-soned belief in his own invul-nerability. Asked if he was bipolar, Mr. Sheen said he was “bi-winning.”

Like a lot of bad habits, Mr. Sheen’s addiction started out small, with a few rambling calls to radio shows, then escalated into full-blown interviews on network televi-sion and TMZ.

The camera was even more damaging than his words, and those were downright nutty.

“I am on a drug — it’s called Charlie Sheen,” he told ABC. “It’s not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off, and your children will weep over your exploded body,” he said, adding, “Too much?”

When the ABC reporter told him he seemed “erratic,” Mr. Sheen tried to explain. “You borrow my brain for fi ve seconds, you’d be like, ‘Dude, can’t handle it, unplug this bastard,’ ” he said, adding that his brain “fi res in a way that is — I don’t know, maybe not from this particu-lar terrestrial realm.”

Mr. Sheen denied charges of violence against women (“Consider the source”) and he railed against Alcohol-ics Anonymous, CBS and most of all his show’s execu-tive producer, Chuck Lorre, though this time he refrained from referring to Mr. Lorre as “Chaim,” as he did on a radio show and which was interpreted by many as an anti-Semitic slur. (It was after that last straw that CBS sus-pended the show.) Mr. Sheen didn’t exactly apologize for his remarks; he told ABC that he was sorry that Mr. Lorre couldn’t take a joke.

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week, shortly after jail offi cials discovered Suboxone inside envelopes mailed to the two prisoners.

“This is a case where jail staff encountered (the drug) and notifi ed the (MDEA) Cumberland County investigator and we put together a case on it,” said MDEA supervisor Kevin Cashman yesterday in a

phone interview.Suboxone is similar to Methadone, another con-

trolled substance that is prescribed to ween people from addictions to heroin or oxycodone. “It’s used as part of a treatment method, but unfortunately it’s abused as well,” Cashman said.

Suboxone, which until recently was available in pill or caplet form, is now available in paper-thin

strips that dissolve under the tongue. It was this form of the drug that was found at the jail.

Drug agents and law enforcement offi cials have started seeing the Suboxone strips on the street. Cashman said Portland Police have charged several people for possession of the drug in recent weeks.

Authorities say more arrests and are possible in the case.

SMUGGLING from page one

Paper-thin strips of the drug recovered at the jail, offi cials say

Thomas H. Ranaghan Sr., 91, a life long resident of Portland, died Febru-ary 28, 2011 peacefully at home after a long illness. Tom was born in Portland on October 18, 1919, the son of Charles and Marga-ret (Costello) Ranaghan. Tom attended Cathedral Grammer School and graduated from Cheverus High School in the 1938.

Tom was predeceased by his wife Margaret (McVicar) Ranaghan. He is survived by two sons Thomas H. Jr. and Dennis Ranaghan, a daughter Barbara and her hus-band Skip Norton. He is also sur-vived by his brothers Richard and Edward Ranaghan, a sister Katherine Munn, two grandchildren Samantha Ranaghan and Mindy Syphers, two great grandchildren Lauren and Mad-ison Syphers.

Tom grew up on Munjoy Hill and

his youth was fi lled with warm memories and life time friendships. He was an altar boy, newspaper delivery boy and an usher at the State Theatre.

After graduation from Cheverus High School, Tom joined the Naval Reserve and was called to active duty in 1940. His fi rst duty came aboard the USS West Point (AP23), a troop carrier. When the U.S. entered the war the West Point assisted in the evacuation of Singapore.

Tom was then transferred to the USS Saginaw Bay (CVE-82), an escort car-rier that was engaged in the Pacifi c. While on the Saginaw Bay, Tom was in charge of a gun crew and partici-pated in the invasions of Palau, Leyte Gulf, Lingyem Gulf, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The Saginaw Bay earned fi ve Battle Stars. Tom left the Navy after the war as a Boatswain’s Mate

First Class.After the war Tom returned to Port-

land and began work at Swift Com-pany on Commercial Street unloading beef from box cars. He later became a route salesman for Swift calling on accounts until his retirement. Tom always had a part-time job, and two he especially enjoyed were Diamonds Meat Market on Congress Street and Nat’s Variety in the West End.

Tom loved visits and spending time with his family. In the 1980s, Tom and son, Dennis, traveled to Ireland to visit relatives and the home of his mother in Galway and father in Belfast. He visited his son, Tom, in Hawaii three times, and with his daughter, Barbara, attended two Saginaw Bay Naval Reunions in St. Louis and South Carolina.

He was an avid sports fan and especially enjoyed watching the Red Sox, Patriots and Irish Golfers on the PGA Tour. He religiously followed Cheverus sports, but his favorite was McAuley basketball.

Despite his illness, Tom kept in touch

with family, friends, neighbors and shipmates. He displayed a tremendous amount of courage and humor. There is a 19th century naval saying that best describes Tom, “He comes from a tradi-tion of wood ships and iron men.”

The family would like to thank the many dedicated doctors and special thanks to the nurses at Mercy Hospital.

Visiting hours will be held on Friday, March 4, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Conroy-Tully Crawford Funeral Home, 172 State St., Portland. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday, March 5, at 9 a.m. at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, 673 Ste-vens Ave., Portland.

Prayers will be recited at the funeral home at 8:15 a.m. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery, South Portland. Online condolences may be expressed at www.ctcrawford.com.

Those who wish may make memo-rial contributions in Tom’s memory to: DAV, Dirigo Unit, Chapter 3, c/o Edward Tyler, 413 Broadway, South Portland, ME 04106.

Thomas Henry Ranaghan Sr., 91

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forced moving several students to another school.Portland has had air quality issues in the school

system before, most notably one that closed the Jack Elementary School in 2001. At that time, the mold known as stachybotrys chartarum had run ram-pant through Jack Elementary, fi nally requiring that the building be torn down.

Portland schools Superintendent James Morse said this week that the Hall School problem is not the same as the one that forced the closure of the Jack School. At Hall School, he explained, “... we tore out the walls, both interior and exterior, and didn’t fi nd any mold.

The smell, described as a musty aroma similar to one found in books stored in a basement for a long time, has apparently been diffi cult to track down.

Repeated calls to Bio-Safe, the company testing classroom materials, were not returned.

Lehman said that the classroom continues to be monitored.

“We’re waiting to see if the smell comes back,” he

said. “Initially, when we emptied the room we put everything in a sealed box truck, to see if the smell was something that was moved. It has diminished in the classroom, and there was no smell of anything in the material in the box truck”

Kelly Hasson, Hall School principal, said that the room “had not been used in almost two weeks. Kindergarten students were moved, but they were moved to another room in that wing. We do not plan to use the room in question until we get the results back of the testing that was done, until we locate the source.”

The school, built in 1958 as a temporary school, was upgraded in 1965. It is the second largest school in the city, and according to Morse and Hasson, the only “wooden, stick built” school in Portland’s inven-tory. It currently houses grades K-5, with approxi-mately 450 students in the school.

Superintendent Morse confi rmed that one staff member had raised concerns, but that “nobody had gotten sick.”

But a parent with a child attending Hall, speaking on condition of not being identifi ed by name, contra-

dicted the superintendent’s claim and said that both her child and at least one staff member had reported “fl u-like” symptoms.

Initially, school offi cials said, the students that were moved out last week were slated to be moved next September anyway, but the odor forced an ear-lier move.

Special Education students were moved to the newer Ocean Avenue School, or at least taken there on a “fi eld trip” the Friday before the district sent students home on February vacation.

Both school principal Hasson and building direc-tor Lehman denied that the kindergarten students were put at risk by putting them in an adjoining classroom. Though separated by a doorway between the two rooms, Lehman cited airfl ow pattern.

“There is positive air fl ow in that room, not coming from the room next door,” he said.

Lehman and Morse said they are still waiting on results of testing from Bio-Safe to determine what the cause was of the unknown aroma.

“We didn’t fi nd anything, and the smell seems to have dissipated,” said Lehman.

STENCH from page one

Principal says kindergarteners moved to another room

The Obama Administration has given approval for Portland Shellfi sh to resume partial production, allowing approximately 50 employees to go back to work, according to a press release from U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine.

The seafood processor, with two locations in Port-land, has been partially closed since early January while awaiting approval from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration of health and safety improve-ments that Portland Shellfi sh had made to their facilities last year, Pingree reported.

The company contacted Pingree to ask for help speeding up the FDA approval process and Pingree contacted Health and Human Services Commis-sioner Kathleen Sebelius urging her to make sure the review was conducted as quickly as possible.

“I really appreciate what Congresswoman Pingree and her offi ce did to help get us back up and run-ning. When we asked for help she was there and without that help it would have been pretty diffi cult to get through this process,” said Jeff Holden, owner of Portland Shellfi sh.

“Portland Shellfi sh is a big employer and an important part of the community and we are fi ght-

ing to make sure they stay that way,” Pingree said. “Our message to the FDA has been clear: food safety requirements have to be met but don’t place an unreasonable burden on this company.”

With FDA approval late last week, about 50 employees are back on the job and another 50 are expected to be brought back to work when the crab processing facility opens next week.

In her Jan. 28 letter to Sebelius, Pingree asked that Portland Shellfi sh “receive prompt, cooperative and reasonable treatment.” Pingree also explained the severe economic impact the closure of the com-pany would have, according to the press release.

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Portland Shellfi sh cleared to resume partial production

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Restaurant experience teaches hard lessons

see LADD page 8

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Historian thanks those who helped with War of 1812 headstone project

Editor,Thanks to the Portland Daily Sun for the thought-

ful article (“Dignity to a vet — 150 years later,” Sat-urday, Feb. 26) memorializing the story of Richard Hill, the Portland African-American serviceman whose grave in the Eastern Cemetery has been for-gotten for so long.

Two other names deserve mention to make the story complete. The pioneering work of Prof. Wil-liam B. Jordan Jr., of Westbrook College, revealed the records that obtained headstones for the Port-land African-American Revolutionary War veter-ans (also mentioned in your article) back in 1986. Prof. Jordan’s longtime advocacy for the preserva-tion and appreciation of our city cemeteries paved the way for volunteer groups like Portland’s Spirits Alive! who continue that good work to this day.

Likewise, historian Larry Glatz of Harrison and his hard work in dusty archives has brought to light the stories of many Maine men and women, includ-ing Richard Hill, who served their country in many ways in that long-ago war. His pioneering work should see print in time for the bicentennial of the War of 1812 in 2012.

Such contributions enrich our understanding of Maine’s history and heritage, and remind us all of the role we each play, every day, in the story of our state. Honor to them.

Herb AdamsFormer legislator, USM lecturerPortland

NatalieLadd–––––

What It’s Like

Like most restaurant folks who are still seeing active duty at least 15 years after getting out of col-lege on the fi ve-year-plus plan, I have gone down to a part-time schedule requiring me to get a “real job.”

I refer to it as a real job rather than my “day gig” because work-ing full-time days in the right res-taurant at the right time can be a very lucrative and interesting way to make a living. But these days, in addition to my restaurant job, I do the nine-to-happy hour thing and feel pretty damn lucky about it.

Up until this past Monday, my physical offi ce situation has been an urban employment dream come true. The mother ship was the historic Staple School House Building located at the intersec-tion of Spring and Center Street, kitty corner from Brian Boru, and within walking distance of almost everything.

We had the whole fl oor of the lower-level penthouse (aka day-lit basement) which boasted exposed brick, nooks and crannies for dis-play areas, and most importantly a reserved parking space. Prior to this most recent and very cool job opportunity, I worked two blocks away on Monument Square and before that, across from the post

offi ce on Portland Street.This city has been my work

and play ground since I had the good sense to move to Maine before Carly Ladd turned one. Now, under the guise of a smart business decision, we have joined forces with our sister company and moved to an industrial park in Scarborough.

Times being what they are, I am incredibly grateful to still have a job. Sure, the commute stinks, but the Maine turnpike is no Boston route 128 demolition derby and I am working with a few color-ful characters whereas before, I mostly fl ew solo. The old space was too expansive, expensive, and opulent for just the Big Guy and myself and I was professionally, personally, and philosophically at peace with the decision to move ... that is until it lunch time rolled around.

I am completely sure the lim-ited, chain-heavy restaurant

choices are adequate for the area. I should hit up Chicago Dogs, see what’s available at Lois’ Natu-ral Foods, check out the Cheese Iron, and generally be more open minded. The cold reality is I knew I was in trouble when I saw the little honor system snack box in the kitchen area.

Gone is my mid-morning stroll to Arabica or the Public Market

House. There will be no more two-for-one burger lunches on Wednesday at RiRa. The under-ten dollar (including tip) two-roll combo on the patio at Yosaku is mournfully a thing of the past.

Wednesday summer lunches consisting of fresh fruit while drinking in the colors, smells, and sights of the Farmer’s Market are a fl eeting memory (even with the Wednesday two-for-one deal, burgers at RiRa are always a special occasion due to consider-able objection from my thighs). I will miss my bff texting for a last minute lunch date when she is miraculously kid free. We always did the, “Where do you want to go?” thing back and forth, marveling at how many seriously excellent choices we have, regardless of our limited budgets. And yes, there’s a Hannaford in Scarborough with a nice prepared food selection,

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BobHerbert–––––

The New York Times

When I was a teenager, my friend and I would sneak into hotels to use the pool. Rather observant at that age, I would stare in shock at the cou-ples that lay around, in dead silence, reading books (gasp!).

“How can they not even be talking to each other?” my romantic mind would ask. I swore I would never be half of a couple like that. (I’m not.)

Then we would get kicked out by some over-eager pool manager and I am sure those silent couples were annoyed that we broke their fl eeting and (now I know) valuable moments of peace.

I bet most people when walking down the aisle never imagine they will be at dinner with absolutely noth-ing to say to their spouse. Or dread-ing 5 p.m. when they get home from the offi ce. Or fantasizing about being married to someone else. But that is more common that people like to admit.

A friend’s therapist told her, “In order to be clinically labeled a happy couple,’ you need be happy only 70 per-cent of the time.” Granted, 70 percent is a good push over half, but would you buy a car that left you stuck in the driveway 30 percent of the time?

The minister doesn’t slip a memo that reads, “BTW, marriage isn’t dating” once “I do’s” are said. Maybe they should. It seems couples get frustrated and depressed and even divorced over that decline of spar-

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kle that defi ned the reason for get-ting married in the fi rst place. They assume to be immune to the stress of work and kids and cleaning and all the stuff that piles up in lieu of fl ow-ers and love letters.

Yet people still aspire to be married, even though they are quite aware of the 50 percent divorce rate. So, there must be some secret that couples have that keeps them in love for the long haul.

It all boils down to (drum roll) The. Little. Things.

Move over weekend in Paris. Forget passionate kisses up against the dryer. Stop listening for serenades out the window. Couples that make it go the distance don’t need gaudy signs of love.

“One of the things my best fella does for me is mop the fl oor and helps me make the bed everyday,” says Mo T. “It’s not much, but it’s a couple of the little things he does to make my everyday nice.”

Susan D. agrees. “We have been married for seventeen years and it is the little things that we do for each

other. Food is really important to my husband, so I will wake up twenty minutes early to make his lunch. When he knows I have something big at work, he will send an encouraging text and come home with an iced tea.”

Amy E. and her hubby, married for 16 and a half years vowed when the kids were born that they would share in the exhaustion by getting up early together. “He starts my car in the morning and I make his coffee,” she says. “We are also very aware of each other’s hearts. We fi ght at times, but we never do or say anything that hurts the other. We are very conscious of each other’s hearts. I tell him if he leaves me I am going with him.”

Communication is always a vital aspect of making any relationship work. Matt H. sums it up, “Talking good. Not talking bad.”

And that includes little notes of appreciation, too. “It doesn’t happen often,” says Meg F. “But sometimes I will see a note on the fridge thanking me for being a great mom or making a yummy dinner. That makes me happy for a week.”

It is all so economically friendly! That kind of stuff is FREE. Listen up: I know you think we women expect diamonds at breakfast but seriously, leave a VM saying you miss us, take the kids for a long walk so we can take a bath, put your dishes in the sink. And ladies, wash your man’s car, make him a steak on a Tuesday, let him go

skiing with his buddies.Alisa Bowman’s new book, “Project

Happily Every After,” chronicles her last-ditch effort to save her marriage. She had started daydreaming about her very healthy husband’s funeral and fi gured she probably wasn’t the only one secretly choosing a slimming black dress and writing a hopefully sad-sounding eulogy.

One healing exercise she offers is to write down all the reasons you love your mate. Once you see the black and white proof of what a great person you married (remem-ber them?) then perhaps their habit of leaving the toothpaste open and oozing down the cabinets won’t seem so awful.

You can fall in love with your spouse again, even if it is for whole new rea-sons than you did the fi rst time. It comes down to remembering you are half of a whole and being thoughtful of your mate’s likes, wishes and behav-ior. It is a little output for a whole lot in return.

If you focus on the little things, you too can get your (70 percent) Happily Every After.

(This is dedicated to STB III who proved that just because one doesn’t share the same blood doesn’t make them any less family.)

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

Maggie Knowles

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Outdoor Voice

In Lewis Powell’s now-famous memo to Ameri-ca’s business community, which felt beleaguered in the political environ-ment of 1971, the future Supreme Court justice stressed the importance of organizing.

“Strength lies in orga-nization,” he wrote, “in careful long-range plan-ning and implementation, in consistency of action over an indefi nite period of years, in the scale of fi nancing avail-able only through joint effort, and in the political power available only through united action and national organizations.”

Powell’s memo points to the reason why there is such an effort now not just to extract concessions from public employee unions to help balance state budgets, but to actually crush those unions, to deprive them once and for all of the crucial and fundamental right to bargain collectively.

When you talk to the workers who are hurting most in this epic down-turn, they are overwhelmingly out there on their own. No one has their back. The corporate community and the politicians who do their bidding know better than anyone else that workers who are not organized are most often helpless. They have no leverage. They cannot demand raises

or health and retirement ben-efi ts or paid vacations or sick leave. They cannot negotiate shorter hours or better work-ing conditions. It’s the boss’s way or the highway.

It’s not just pocketbook issues but the dignity of Amer-ican workers that is at stake in the confrontations in Wiscon-sin, Ohio and elsewhere. These confrontations are about so much more than the right of public employees to bargain collectively, as important as

that is. This most recent assault on labor is part of an anti-worker move-ment that has been on the march for decades. Jobs have been shipped over-seas. Workers have been denied their rightful share of productivity gains. Wages have been depressed and ben-efi ts in many, many instances have disappeared.

It’s true that states are facing seri-ous fi scal problems, crises in some cases, but a much bigger threat to America as we’ve known it is the increasing inability of hard-working men and women to earn enough to maintain a middle class standard of living, even as the corporate sector is thriving. The economic lives of the poor and an ever-widening portion of the middle class have become mad-deningly insecure as the wealth of the society has been funneled, increasingly and unconscionably,

to those at the top.There was no net job creation during

the fi rst 10 years of the 21st century, and median incomes fell during that period, an abysmal record unmatched by any similar period in the modern post-World War II era.

I have long believed that virtually all workers should be organized, whether they were actually in a union or not. The man or woman who goes home after a long shift with barely enough to pay bills and nothing put away for an emergency, and who knows that he or she could be terminated at any moment for any reason, is subject to a permanent state of anxiety. There should be someone, some group or organization, to turn to for advice and support.

Unemployed workers who show up fully qualifi ed to apply for a job only to be told that the prospective employer will not even consider someone who is already out of work should not have to feel that there is absolutely no alter-native, that it is impossible to fi ght back. American workers should not be treated as if they don’t matter.

Working America is a pro-worker advocacy organization affi liated with the A.F.L.-C.I.O. that has signed up millions of nonunion members in an effort to increase the organized reach of workers. Much more organizing, on myriad fronts, is desperately needed.

Millions of Americans through-out the country are facing extreme

economic hardship. The Community Service Society in New York City does an annual survey of low-income residents. Twenty-seven percent of respondents to its most recent survey said they had lost a job; 26 percent had had their hours, wages or tips reduced; 23 percent said they had often skipped meals because they did not have enough money to buy food; and 26 percent said they had been unable to fi ll a needed prescription because of a lack of money or insur-ance.

One of the saddest things I’ve read in The New York Times recently was a comment by Richard Freeman, a Harvard economist, who said that he views the current hostility toward unions by members of the general public as a sign of the erosion of the aspirational nature that has for so long characterized Americans. “It shows a hopelessness,” he said. “It used to be, ‘You have something I don’t have; I’ll go to my employer to get it, too. Now I don’t see any chance of get-ting it. I don’t want to be the lowest one on the totem pole, so I don’t want you to have it either.’ ”

Lewis Powell’s advice to the corpo-rate community in 1971 is — though he certainly never intended it to be — the best advice I can think of for work-ers today who are fi ghting to hold off the tide of lower living standards. It is not a struggle that can possibly be won alone.

Unintended, but sound advice on labor

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Just four days after 9/11, James P. Stuckey, then a vice president of Forest City Ratner Companies, met with executives of Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield at Forest City’s headquarters in Brooklyn. Empire had been the fourth-largest tenant at the World Trade Center, and the shell-shocked executives were already thinking about new offi ces.

Mr. Stuckey promised them a building in 18 months, even though, he said, “they didn’t have any fl oor plans, they didn’t know who had sat next to who, or even where much of their staff was.”

“Based on a handshake, we started to pour the foundation,” at the MetroTech offi ce plaza in down-town Brooklyn, said Mr. Stuckey, who in 2009 was appointed a dean of the Schack Institute of Real Estate at New York University. Soon after he assumed the position, he said, he started to think how he could teach students the lessons he learned after 9/11.

The result was a course on postcatastrophe recon-struction, now in its second semester, where stu-dents devise building plans, work on environmental and social issues, and create fi nancing models for real-world projects.

The devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, provided an opportunity to put Mr. Stuck-ey’s theory into practice. Starting last fall, students at the Schack Institute began assisting on three development projects there.

“The magnitude of the catastrophe in Haiti is unimaginable,” Mr. Stuckey said. “In that one 30-second earthquake, more people died than in the whole area impacted by the tsunami in South-east Asia. Its grinding poverty, its proximity to the United States and the ability to get our feet on the ground quickly made it a perfect location for us to put our efforts to work.”

Postcatastrophe reconstruction — which Mr. Stuckey defi nes as the period following a disaster from Week 2 to Year 5 — is an emerging fi eld in development circles, and it gained momentum after the tsunami that shook Indonesia in 2004. While many organizations focus on disaster prepared-ness and the emergency humanitarian efforts that crop up immediately after the event, “there is a void that occurs in the interim period,” Mr. Stuckey said. “After the humanitarian aid ends, how do you tran-sition to the rebuilding stage?”

The fi rst project in Haiti is in Delmas 32, a neigh-borhood of one square kilometer in the country’s capital of Port-au-Prince where 120,000 people lived before the earthquake. In comparison, New York City has 27,000 people per square kilometer, said T. Luke Young, an urban planner and a consultant who is working on the project. Approximately 1,500 of 5,000 buildings collapsed in Delmas 32, which lacks plumbing and electricity, and an additional 2,000 were structurally damaged.

With the help of a $30 million grant from the World Bank, a redevelopment plan is under way, and New York University students have been helping ana-lyze the infrastructure, transportation needs, hous-ing and social patterns, and are thinking of ways to determine land ownership.

“N.Y.U. has been remarkably helpful,” Mr. Young said. One student, for example, has studied water management and treatment at Delmas 32 and is testing a model unit for capturing and treating rain-water, he said.

A second project is the Rebuilding Center in Port-au-Prince. Under the direction of Architecture for Humanity, the center provides work force training, education and other services, and connects Haitian professionals with nongovernmental organizations.

The New York University students are working on bolstering the Rebuilding Center’s services by devising fi nancing structures, equity models and other ways to fi nance businesses in hopes the center “will become the Haitian economic development center in Port-au-Prince,” said Mr. Stuckey, who was the director of the New York City Public Develop-ment Corporation, now called the New York City Economic Development Corporation, under former Mayor Edward I. Koch.

The third project is a joint effort of the Schack Institute, Architecture for Humanity and Habitat for Humanity. Called the North Pole, it is the rede-velopment of roughly 16,000 acres just north of the capital.

Before the earthquake struck, some 10,000 to 12,000 squatters were on the land, but after the catastrophe and the announcement that the gov-ernment was redeveloping the area, people fl ocked to the site. There are now 50,000 squatters, said Elizabeth K. Blake, the senior vice president for government affairs, advocacy and general counsel at Habitat for Humanity International.

“If we don’t do something, don’t get some com-mercial developers involved, get infrastructure up and running, and have the land rights sorted out, there is going to be a slum there no matter what,” she said.

As an example of the practical effects of devel-opment and planning, a few weeks after the Haiti catastrophe, an earthquake of 8.8 magnitude hit Chile, lasting three minutes. Though it was much more severe and lasted far longer than the one in Haiti, the Chilean earthquake killed some 500 people compared with 316,000 in Haiti. Experts have attributed that difference in part to the supe-rior quality of construction in Chile.

A central issue at the North Pole, as well as in Delmas 32 and other redevelopment projects in the country, is land ownership. Only 5 percent of the land in Haiti has documentation proving proprietor-ship, Mr. Stuckey said. It has long been a pattern that when the government in Haiti changes hands — which has been often, given the country’s history

of political unrest — land is often forcibly redistrib-uted.

“We don’t want to build a shelter that will cost $5,000 for a family that doesn’t own the land,” Ms. Blake said. “We learned the hard way that after the shelter is built, someone else will say the land is theirs and throw the family off, and so the donor money will be spent on some other family and the family in need remains homeless.” About 40 percent of the world’s population is subject to forcible evic-tion from their homes because of a lack of documen-tation proving ownership, Ms. Blake said. In Haiti, that number is closer to 70 percent.

The work Mr. Stuckey and his students are under-taking is signifi cant, Ms. Blake said. “They have a very long résumé and enormous experience dealing with commercial developers and the private sector, and that is critical to get these projects moving,” she said.

To document the work in Haiti, Mr. Stuckey brought on board a fi lmmaker, Frederic King, who has made four trips to Haiti and is producing a one-hour educational documentary. Mr. Stuckey is also laying the groundwork for what he hopes will be a center for postcatastrophe reconstruction at Schack, joining two other centers at the institute, one that studies real estate investment trusts and one that looks at environmental issues. He said he was com-pleting a business plan for the center and had begun informal discussions with possible benefactors.

Mr. Stuckey said an ultimate goal was to create a reconstruction model that could be scaled up or down as needed, perhaps in the form of a fi eld manual “that would allow us to look at what is hap-pening from region to region throughout the world and create best practices so that next time there is a catastrophe, we can rebuild without having to start from scratch,” he said.

“When I fi rst came to Schack,” Mr. Stuckey said. “I could have taught my students how to build con-dominiums in New York City, but being a person in my industry means building for all of society, and crisis situations are where we can have the biggest sociological impact.”

Born of 9/11, an effort to rebuild shattered HaitiBY JULIE SATOW

THE NEW YORK TIMES

People seek safety in the aftermath of the severe earthquake on rue Capois in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010. (Tequila Minsky for The New York Times)

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The group cited a need for further discussion on whether to limit hostel capacity by numbers of rooms, or square footage of a building.

Huus, a well-traveled 20-something who has stayed in many hostels and similar accommodations across the country, approached city councilor Dave Marshall about sponsoring such a text amendment over six months ago and has yet to receive a decision from the city.

“The bureaucracy is overwhelming.

I’m just waiting for zoning because my next move largely depends on where I can build,” Huus said after February’s housing committee meeting, which was cancelled due to a snowstorm.

On Tuesday, the list of zones where Huus might locate a hostel grew by two and staved off another restriction as the housing committee voted not to remove the R-6 zone from the list of hostel-approved zones.

Capacity in the R-6 zone would be limited to 10 overnight guests, 20 if the owner received conditional per-mission.

Proposed by city councilor Kevin Donoghue, the removal of the R-6 zone from the list of zones in which as hostel could operate refl ects a basic expectation of those living in residential neigh-borhoods.

“It’s not the most compatible use

for a residential neighborhood,” said Donoghue. “I feel like there is the potential for confl ict, [because] I think it would come as a surprise that the place next door is allowed to sleep 20 people who will be different every night,” he said.

In lieu of including the R-6 zone, Donoghue suggested that aspiring hostel operators might look for prop-erties in the R-6 zone which could be converted to B-1 through a map amendment. “B-1s in the sea of R-6 where we’ve got established busi-nesses make good neighbor to residen-tial neighborhoods,” said Donoghue, who cited Munjoy Hill’s B-1 zone as an example.

The committee also voted to include

the city’s lone B-6 zone to the list of zones approved for hostel use. The small zone east of India Street, is “not qualitatively dif-ferent in anyway way,” from all the of “B” zones in which hostel would be allowed, in Dono-ghue’s assessment. “There nothing

inappropriate about that area, and I don’t think there is any reason for pro-hibition,” he said.

Now the committee must decide by what metric to restrict occupancy in any future Portland hostel. At Tues-day’s meeting, the committee decided do further research into measuring capacity by square footage or number of rooms in a residence.

“We thought it would be more pre-cise to measure hostels by the number of overnight guests,” as it’s “much less variable than the number of beds per room you might see,” said city planning division director Alex Jaegerman.

“In every other example we count by rooms, but in this case we’re counting by guests?” asked Marshall.

The front of India House Hostel in New Orleans, La., where Seren Huus stayed during her four-month “epic road trip” recently, is an example of an American hostel. Huus would like to create a hostel in Portland and is seeking city approval. (COURTESY PHOTO)

HOSTEL from page one

MarshallDonoghue

Hostel decision postponed amid capacity questions

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A tandoor is a cylindrical clay oven used in cook-ing and baking, particularly used in India and the Middle East. Tandoor Bakery, appropriately, spe-cializes in baking Iraqi breads. The business came to Portland via Iraq and Syria, according to Abbas Abbas, son of the bakery’s owner, Audai Naser. Abbas said the family immigrated to the United States from their homeland of Iraq. They lived in

Karbala but managed to immigrate, traveling through Syria, he said. Naser offered some other details. The family moved originally to Atlanta before fi nding a home in Maine on Nov. 18, 2008. The bakery operated out of the Public Market House at Monument Square. Then, in Septem-ber, Naser opened Tandoor Bakery at its cur-rent location on Forest Avenue. The traditional breads are festooned with meat or made plain so they can be turned into pizza. Samoon, a pocket bread, is made daily. Sweet breads are another specialty.

Audai Naser (left) and Hamzah Jasim stand near the ovens at Tandoor Bakery on Forest Avenue. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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Browsing downtown Portland shops? Well, there's an app for that.

The Portland Downtown District announced Monday – via its Facebook page, naturally – that a new, mobile version of the district's 522-member directory is now available to smartphone users through an appli-cation that puts the directory on your phone, using a technology familiar to check-out lines.

"We created a mobile version of the directory itself," said Sayre English, special events and PR manager for the Portland Down-town District. "With a smart phone, you can download an application that allows you to snap in the QR code ... it's kind of like a bar code at the grocery store."

The applica-tion translates the QR code into the actual district directory "and puts it right into the phone" for a shopper to access.

Sound complicated? Just think of scanning grocer-ies at a grocery store, only the code doesn't translate a price of a can of green beans. Instead, the QR code conveys the full content of the downtown district's directory, available at a click.

"Portland's Downtown Directory is going mobile!" the district's Facebook page announced. "You can now take the directory with you while you walk around town looking to fi nd the best burger, a jew-elry sale, wings and beer or that little black dress all on your cell! Scan the QR code and discover every-thing downtown Portland has to offer!"

Bar (code) hopping in downtown Portland

BY DAVID CARKHUFFTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

This QR Code translates into a copy of the Portland Downtown District direc-tory for smartphone users. (COURTESY IMAGE)

see CODE page 9

Application gives access to Portland Downtown directory on cell phones

“We have galleries and muse-ums in our directory, once we get that functionality of: ‘I’m looking for a museum that’s open on Friday,’ that informa-

tion will pop up.” — Sayre English, special events and

PR manager for the Portland Downtown District

but it’s no antipasto bar at Whole Foods, and fails in comparison to the offerings of the Salad Nazi at One City Center. Regardless of where I go from my new offi ce, I now have to drive instead of walk-ing the cobblestone and seeing the ocean literally seconds before heading back inside to work.

And what about all my sandwich and coffee cards that are a punch away from a freebie? I’m so close to a grilled veggie wrap at Fed-eral Spice and a PMT (prosciutto, fresh mozzarella and tomato) on a perfectly baked baguette at West End Deli. I’m even sitting on a stack of hold-over gift cards from the holidays to great places in town, and sadly realize they will soon become the property of my two daughters to enjoy on spring days when they will skip school with no chance of being bagged in town by their mother.

Adding insult to injury, Restau-rant Week is underway and it’s a

delight to see lunch deals added to the festivities. In strategically pouring over the all menus of the participating restaurants (both lunch and dinner); and plotting my dining-to-budgetary ratio, I had go-to check marks next to District and Sonny’s for lunch, and unless I can fi nagle meetings in town, this just isn’t going to happen either.

The reality is what I’ve known all along, regardless of where I am based, I need to brown bag it more than three times a week and eat at my desk. I need to shut the door to my offi ce and hook up Wii fi t to my computer, or stroll the industrial park and see who else is in my new neighborhood beside a window warehouse and Maine Indoor Karting. It’ll be way dif-ferent than brown bagging it to people watch in Tommy’s Park or hoofi ng down to the ferry termi-nal to eat my homemade Mexican chicken and avocado wrap, but it’ll be OK.

Change is healthy and a move

which will force me to explore new dining options, no matter how remote or seemingly uninterest-ing is a good thing. I already have Jess, my new barista and I’ll talk to enough Scarborough weekday warriors to get the scoop on where to go and when. There’s a Federal Spice Bistro on Route 1 which might just take my Swiss cheese punch card for that free wrap and maybe, just maybe, simul-cast horse racing at Scarborough Downs could be a fun happy hour option.

On the bright side, I’ll quickly learn who my true friends are now that my parking spot in town is history and I only wish I could say I’ll no longer take Monday through Friday lunch time in Portland, and all it has to offer (from either side of the bar) for granted. I honestly never did.

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

LADD from page 4

Out-of-town commute great, until lunchtime

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The code will be printed on the print directories for people to scan and on window clings at busi-nesses, the Facebook page post reported.

"This is the fi rst step then we can add in more functionalities ... if you are walking down the street looking for something specifi c like ... 50-cent wings, it will tell you the closest locations from where you are that serve 50-cent wings. Stay tuned!"

English explained that this technology has the potential to make shopping easier through more than listings.

"We have galleries and museums in our directory, once we get that functionality of: 'I'm looking for a museum that's open on Friday,' that information will pop up," she said.

The mobile directory is free for members and free to download and use, English said. Since it's a web-based program, it's easy to update, so vendors can post notices about sales or other information. The print directory only gets published once a year, so the application also allows businesses to add their names to the directory midyear before a new print version hits the streets, she said.

"All of our members can either just have their information listed or they can put in coupons and deals and things like that," English said.

Members can pay an introductory monthly fee of $79 per month to post "mini-websites" or pages

called showcase elements, she said."We wanted to get with the trends and become

more tech-savvy in general, and this is one of the trends that's up and coming," English said, explain-ing the move.

The district is making other upgrades, part of a "new technology avenue we're going down," she said.

For details about the application or the district, visit http://directory.portlandmaine.com.

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Dead Man’s Clothes, Marie StellaThe Apohadion, 107 Hanover St.

8 p.m. tonight, all ages, $2 suggested donation

Tonight local indie act Dead Man’s Clothes will host a going-away party at The Apohadion before setting out on tour though Boston, New York and Philadelphia with plans to hit up Austin, Texas in time for mid-March music fes-tival South by Southwest (SXSW).

Joined by locals Marie Stella and Boston acts Grass is Green and Dirty Dishes (dis-tinct from the scantily-clad local ladies bur-lesque troupe), Dead Man’s Clothes, voted best new act of 2010 by the Portland Phoenix, promises to put on a show that will keep Port-land talking until band returns from the great, warm yonder.

Dead Man’s Clothes and Marie Stella cel-ebrate the release of their new singles, “From the Water” and “En Fluxx” respectively, while Dirty Dishes and Grass is Green will offer a taste of the Boston music scene at the Bayside D.I.Y. venue.

“It’s exciting because we just put out a single last Thursday, so we’ll be giving away a bunch of CD-Rs and screenprinting a bunch of stick-ers,” said Dead Man’s Clothes frontman Don Dumont, taking a break from his inky screen-printing endeavors to talk with The Daily Sun on Tuesday afternoon.

“Most of my time this week has been spent trying to make presents for people, we built a screenprinting apparatus in our apartment,” said Dumont.

The Texas trip will be the fi rst time at SXSW for all the members of Dead Man’s Clothes. The annual event is a sort of decentralized music festi-val with offi cial sponsored parties and shows run by websites, blogs and record labels and unoffi cial showcases turning the city of Austin into a hotbed of emerging artists.

But it can be a tough festival to break into accord-ing to Dumont. As of Tuesday, the band had yet to offi cially book any shows and said they are largely

counting on networking their way onto stage.“As of right now, we don't have anything lined up,”

said Dumont. “I’ve been talking to people who throw unoffi cial parties since December, and there has really been this back and forth game of whether or not they can confi rm,” he said.

After talking with SXSW old-salt Bryan Bruch-man (Marie Stella) and other muscians living in or around Austin, Dumont said he’s got high hopes

that Dead Man’s Clothes will get a chance to make their SXSX debut during the trip.

“They said despite not having anything booked, you show up, talk to everyone you can, and there’s good chance you can fi nd [a place to play],” said Dumont. “We’re kind of going out on a limb, but it will be fun.”

Dumont understands the realities of a far-fl ung traveling band hoping to make waves in the heart of Texas, but said the networking opportunities afforded by the critical mass of musicians attending the festival is undeni-able.

“The amount of exposure you’ll get is prob-ably going to be pretty limited when it’s your fi rst time down there, you’re from far away and your promotion is limited,” said Dumont. “But the big benefi t is meeting other bands going on tours, doing festivals and things like that. That’s what made us able to do this tour,” saying such connections with other bands, “helped us to set up shows in cities where venues don't want to talk to us.”

In anticipation of Wednesday’s show, Bruch-man reports that Marie Stella is “still work-ing out kinks in a couple newer jams,” and “in the middle of working on recordings for the next digital single,” which he said the band hopes to release in time for Record Store Day on April 16.

A new full-length is still a ways-off for Marie Stella, who released “Trust” last spring. “It'll be at least another six months before we really get down to the nitty gritty with it,” said Bruchman, “we’re still working up more songs, so maybe a Spring 2012 release, but [it’s] all very uncertain,” he said.

The band will make tracks for Bruchman’s old haunt of Brooklyn, N.Y. this weekend,

playing a session on Internet radio show/video pod-cast Serious Business on BreakThruRadio and a Mardi Gras party.

Bruchman will also travel to SXSW this month, covering the music festival for Space Gallery and his local music blog, Hillytown.com. Check Hillytown and follow Bruchman at @hillytown for updates from the Texas nexus of music festivals.

BY MATT DODGETHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Going-away party for band bound for SXSW

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You really don’t feel that you have to beat anyone else in order to win at life. Since you don’t have any worries about being inferior or superior to anyone, you treat everyone as an equal and are accepted by all you meet. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll observe others without feeling the need to judge them. It’s not because you’re trying to be a saint, but because you realize that non-judgment allows you to see and know more about the way things really are. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). It will feel as though you can communicate with the elements. The ancient Egyp-tians believed everything was alive, including the rocks and the rivers. You’ll relate to the world as though this is true today. CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll meet a potential friend. This one is a true kindred spirit and requires you to be nothing other than who you are. You won’t need to promote yourself or put on any kind of affectation. You’re per-fect “as-is.” LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There is little room for compromise in some of your relationships, and this causes stress for you today. Luckily, you have a heavenly place in your own mind where you can go when you need relief and relaxation. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Changes are on the way. Go with what feels right. There is an idea unfolding in your life that will, once completely unfurled, transform your environment and your schedule. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You have an eye for the immaterial. You see beyond the solid form of things and people you encounter. You experience

the energy fi rsthand and make your decisions based on that alone. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’ll be able to feel the force of goodness at work in your life. It’s comforting to real-ize that this is something that’s bigger than you -- bigger than any individual on the planet. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’re headed for an awe-inspiring encounter. You don’t have to go out of your way to fi nd it, either. All you have to do is shift your perspective. Every-thing around you is miraculous if you choose to see it that way. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Your experiences will shape you. Who-ever you are at the start of the day, you’ll be someone different at the end of the day. The changes will be subtle yet undeniable. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ll be offered a gift that will test your grace. You can resist the gift because it makes you feel fl ustered and unworthy. Or you can simply smile and accept it. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). There is much to appreciate around you. You’ve seen it before, but you’ll notice it in a new way today. Dare to be excited. Enthusiasm is the nectar of the gods. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 2). Your talents will be recognized and cel-ebrated. The next 10 weeks will boost your social status -- one relationship will be particularly fulfi lling. You’ll travel in style in May. You’ll be in a position to help loved ones in June. July features increased self-discipline. Wedding bells ring in September. You share a spe-cial connection with Gemini and Libra people. Your lucky numbers are: 16, 33, 2, 15 and 46.

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WEDNESDAY PRIME TIME MARCH 2, 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 Best friends play for $1 million. (In Stereo) Å

Minute to Win It “Show Us the Blueprint” (N) (In Stereo) Å

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

News Tonight Show With Jay Leno

7 WPFOAmerican Idol “Top 12 Girls Perform” The semifinalists perform. (In Stereo Live) Å

Traffic Light (N) Å

News 13 on FOX (N) Frasier “The Friend”

According to Jim Å

8 WMTWThe Middle “The Math Class” (N)

Better With You (N) Å

Modern Family (N) Å

Mr. Sun-shine (N) Å

Off the Map “It’s a Leaf” Three brothers are trapped in a mine.

News 8 WMTW at 11PM (N)

Nightline (N) Å

10 MPBNAmerican Masters “Carole King and James Taylor” Musicians play the Troubadour. (N) Å

Great Performances “Harry Connick Jr. in Concert on Broadway” Stan-dards, show tunes and jazz. (N)

Charlie Rose (N) (In Stereo) Å

11 WENHAntiques Roadshow “Des Moines” Des Moines, Iowa, city plan.

American Experience Fire at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. (In Stereo)

In Performance at the White House “The Mo-town Sound” (N) Å

The President’s Pho-tographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office

12 WPXTAmerica’s Next Top Model A photo shoot with live bees. (N) Å

Shedding for the Wed-ding A contestant faces Jennifer’s wrath. (N)

Entourage “Fore!” Å

TMZ (N) (In Stereo) Å

Extra (N) (In Stereo) Å

Punk’d (In Stereo) Å

13 WGMESurvivor: Redemption Island One tribe consid-ers taking a risk. (N)

Criminal Minds “Valhal-la” Prentiss is suspicious of a nemesis. (N)

Criminal Minds: Sus-pect Behavior “See No Evil” (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 Sons Sons Sons Sons Desert Car Kings (N) Sons Sons

25 FAM “Legally Blonde” Movie: ››‡ “Cheaper by the Dozen” (2003) The 700 Club Å

26 USA NCIS Murdered model. NCIS “Boxed In” Å NCIS “Deception” Fairly Legal Å

27 NESN EPL Soccer Mixed Martial Arts (N) Daily Dennis Daily Daily

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

30 ESPN College Basketball College Basketball Clemson at Duke. (Live) SportsCenter Å

31 ESPN2 College Basketball College Basketball Texas A&M at Kansas. (Live) College Basketball

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

34 DISN “Tinker Bell and the Lost” Suite/Deck Fish Fish Good Luck Good Luck

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 Lopez Lopez The Nanny The Nanny

37 MSNBC The Last Word 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 Marijuana USA Cigarette Wars (N) Cigarette Wars Mad Money

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

43 TNT Bones (In Stereo) Å Bones (In Stereo) Å Bones (In Stereo) Å Southland Å

44 LIFE American Justice Å Gangsta Girls Å Serial Killer How I Met How I Met

46 TLC Hoarding: Buried Alive Hoarding: Buried Alive Hoarding: Buried Alive Hoarding: Buried Alive

47 AMC Movie: ››› “Tombstone” (1993, Western) Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer. Å “Quick-Dead”

48 HGTV House Property House First Place Hunters Holmes Inspection Income

49 TRAV Man, Food Man, Food Carnivore Man, Food Bacon Paradise Å Man, Food Carnivore

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

52 BRAVO Bethenny Ever After Top Chef Å Top Chef (N) Å 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 (N) Face Off (N) Ghost Hunters Å

57 ANIM River Monsters River Monsters I’m Alive (N) (In Stereo) River Monsters

58 HIST Ancient Aliens Å Underwater Universe Deadly ocean zones. Å UFO Hunters Å

60 BET Movie: ››› “The Great Debaters” (2007) Denzel Washington. Å The Mo’Nique Show

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

62 FX Movie: ››› “The Incredible Hulk” (2008) Justified (N) Justified

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

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

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78 OXY Movie: ››› “Interview With the Vampire” Å Movie: ›› “The Amityville Horror” (2005) Å

146 TCM Movie: ›››› “East of Eden” (1955) Å Movie: ›››› “Around the World in 80 Days”

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Today is Wednesday, March 2, the 61st day of 2011. There are 304 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlights in History:On March 2, 1861, the state of Texas,

having seceded from the Union, was admit-ted to the Confederacy. The Territory of Nevada came into existence under an act signed by President James Buchanan.

On this date:In 1793, the fi rst president of the Repub-

lic of Texas, Sam Houston, was born near Lexington, Va.

In 1836, the Republic of Texas formally declared its independence from Mexico.

In 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presi-dential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.

In 1899, Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state was established.

In 1917, Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship as President Woodrow Wilson signed the Jones-Shafroth Act.

In 1943, the World War II Battle of the Bis-marck Sea began; U.S. and Australian war-planes were able to infl ict heavy damage on a Japanese convoy.

In 1977, the U.S. House of Representa-tives adopted a strict code of ethics.

In 1989, representatives from the 12 Euro-pean Community nations agreed to ban all production of CFC’s (chlorofl uorocarbons) by the end of the 20th century.

In 1990, more than 6,000 drivers went on strike against Greyhound Lines Inc. (The company, later declaring an impasse in negotiations, fi red the strikers.)

One year ago: Authorities in San Diego County found the body of 17-year-old Chel-sea King, who’d been missing since Feb. 25, 2010. (John Albert Gardner III later pleaded guilty to raping and murdering King and another victim, 14-year-old Amber Dubois; he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.)

Today’s Birthdays: Actor John Cullum is 81. Author Tom Wolfe is 81. Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is 80. Actress Barbara Luna is 72. Actor Jon Finch is 70. Author John Irving is 69. Singer Lou Reed is 69. Actress Cassie Yates is 60. Actress Laraine Newman is 59. Former Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., is 58. Interior Sec-retary Ken Salazar is 56. Singer Jay Osmond is 56. Pop musician John Cowsill (The Cow-sills) is 55. Tennis player Kevin Curren is 53. Country singer Larry Stewart (Restless Heart) is 52. Rock singer Jon Bon Jovi is 49. Blues singer-musician Alvin Youngblood Hart is 48. Actor Daniel Craig is 43. Rock musician Casey (Jimmie’s Chicken Shack) is 35. Rock singer Chris Martin (Coldplay) is 34. Actress Heather McComb is 34. Actress Bryce Dallas Howard is 30. NFL quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is 29.

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Read Across America Day9 a.m. City and school offi cials, professional athletes, reporters, business people and other guests will read children’s books aloud to students in the Portland Public Schools in honor of Read Across America Day. East End Community School, Howard C. Reiche Community School and Fred P. Hall Elementary School are among those participating. Organized by the National Education Association, this annual celebration of reading takes place on the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Nine members of the Portland Pirates professional hockey team will visit Reiche School, 166 Brackett Street, at 1 p.m. The players are: Tim Conboy, Mark Parrish, Colin Stuart, Igor Gongalsky, Derek Whitmore, Luke Adam, Brian Roloff, David Leggio and Jacob Lagace. For more information, please contact Principal Paul Yarnevich at 874-8175. Six Pirates will visit East End Community School, 195 North Street, at 1:15 p.m. The players are: Matt Ellis, Jhonas Enroth, Travis Turnbull, T.J. Brennan, Corey Tropp and Dennis McCauley. For more information, please contact Principal Marcia Gendron at 874-8228. Guest readers at Hall Elementary School, 23 Orono Road, include: 9 a.m. — Kelley Bouchard, Portland Press Herald; Crusher. 9:10 a.m. — Tricia Duchesneau, Bangor Savings Bank (Hall School’s business partner). 9:15 a.m. — Sarah Long, WGME 13; Portland Fire Chief Fred Lamontagne; Lee Goldberg, WCSH6 9:30 a.m. — Portland Superintendent James C. Morse Sr. 10 a.m. — Portland Mayor Nick Mavadones; Erin Ovalle, WMTW 1 p.m. — Anne McNamara, Channel 13. For more information and a complete list of readers at Hall, please contact Tina Mikkelsen, community coordinator, at 874-8205.

Portland Police Year-End Crime Report10 a.m. to noon. The Portland Police Department will give a presentation of the department’s Year-End Crime Report and fi ve-year strategic plan to the public. Wishcamper Center, Room 33; University of Southern Maine, 34 Bedford St. For more information or to RSVP to the presentation, call 874-8601.

Money Management 1016:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. “The Institute for Finan-cial 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 improve fi nancial literacy in Maine. In this session, you will learn everything you always wanted to know about suc-cessful money management and more including: bud-geting, net worth, fi nancial planning and goal setting. 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

Brain science author at the librarynoon to 1 p.m. Hannah Holmes, author of “Quirk: Brain Sci-ence Makes Sense Of Your Peculiar Personality,”will give a lecture at thePortland Public Library, Rines Auditorium. Free lecture and book signing for her new book, as part of the library’s ongoing Brown Bag Lecture Series. “Have you ever wondered why a cloudy day affects you so deeply, but the person in the next offi ce over doesn’t seem to notice? Why you love nothing more than a big, crowded party, but your husband prefers to stand in the corner checking his watch? Or why you wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night, wondering if you remembered to unplug the toaster? The answers lay, of course, in your personality. But what exactly is a personality? What purpose does it serve? And how did we each end up with a different one?” In her new book, “Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Pecu-liar Personality” (Random House), Holmes turns to modern brain science for answers.

‘Making Music & Making Violins’7 p.m. The Portland Music Foundation and Portland Ova-tions continue their partnership with a co-presentation of renowned fi ddler and violinist Mark O’Connor and renowned fi ddle-maker Jonathan Cooper. Both artists will be speaking about and demonstrating what makes a beau-tiful-sounding violin and why it matters. The event will be held at Rines Auditorium in the Portland Public Library. The event is free and open to the public. An extension of the PMF’s “Music as a Profession” series and Portland Ova-tions’ “Ovations Offstage” series, “Making Music & Making

Violins” promises to be interesting and entertaining whether you’re a musician, music fan or simply appreciate artisan-ship in all its forms. One of the great performers of our time, O’Connor has his own method for teaching the instrument and Cooper is the man he trusts to make his instrument.

Mayor Nicholas Mavodones for Teen After Hours7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Portland Mayor Nicholas Mavodones will meet with teenagers at the Portland Public Library’s Teen Library at their Teen After Hours. This is a chance for teens to talk to the mayor about what’s happening in the city, learn about the process of city government and talk to the city’s leader candidly about what’s important to them. There are no adults or children at the Teen After Hours, which means teens lead the discussion and get to ask all the questions. To commemorate the event the mayor will proclaim Wednes-day, March 2, 2011 as Portland Teen Library Day. Teen After Hours is a collaborative program between the Portland Police Department and the Portland Public Library. On the fi rst Wednesday of each month from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. the library is open late for teens only where they are welcome to hang out, play video games, watch a movie, use the computers, and peruse the stacks of teen oriented books in the Teen Section. For more information about Teen After Hours contact Justin Hoenke,Teen Librarian at 871-1700, ext. 772.

Thursday, March 3

Dress for Success Southern Maine7:30 a.m. to noon. Dress for Success Southern Maine is hosting its fourth annual Professional Development “Suc-cess Starts With You” seminar at Hannaford Hall, Abromson Community Education Center at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. The theme of the conference is: “Less is More: Let Go, Cut Back, and Slow Down To Accomplish Your Goals More Quickly” and proceeds will benefi t Dress for Success Southern Maine. Featured speakers include Ann Marie Connor, Assistant Vice President of Client Ser-vices, UNUM, presenting: “Shortcuts to Success at Work”; Kristin Guibord, MBA, fi nancial professional from BDMP Wealth Management, presenting: “Reduce Money Stress and feel More Prosperous”; and Amy Wood, Psy.D., psy-chologist specializing in personal and professional coach-

ing and training, presenting: “The Lowdown On Living Well.” For more information and to reg-ister, go to www.dressforsuccess.org/southern-maine or call 780-1686.

Discussion of painting ‘Untitled’by Bernard Langlais at the PMA11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. A group meets monthly to study and discuss one piece in the Portland Museum of Art’s collection. “Say what you think, and learn from new friends-it may change the way you see. This month the group will focus on the painting ‘Untitled’ by Bernard Langlais. Conversation is led by a member of the Museum’s Education staff and continues over lunch in the Café (bring your own or pur-chase in the Café).” www.portlandmuseum.org/

Crook, Hennesy, Rounds, Lehmann in concert 12:15 p.m. Quartet for fl ute, guitar, viola and cello by Franz Schubert. Keith Crook has taught classical guitar at the University of Maine and/or the University of Southern Maine for the past 25 years. Lisa Hennessy is principal fl utist with the Portland Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Landmarks Orchestra. Kimberly Lehmann,, received her Bachelor of Music in violin performance from the University of Minnesota and her Master of Music in violin performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music. William Rounds has been a member of the Portland Symphony Orchestra since 1988, as well as being an active soloist and chamber musician in the Boston area. First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 425 Congress St. Concerts are free and open to the public. For information call the Portland Conservatory of Music at 775-3356.

‘Knit Or Not Nights’ at Spindleworks5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. Spindleworks Art Center and musician Hope Hoffman will be hosting monthly “Knit Or Not Nights” at Spindleworks Art Center in Brunswick. The public is invited to attend the next free evening event at Spindleworks, 7 Lincoln St. in Brunswick. Live traditional music will be performed by Hope Hoffman and Jeff Trippe, playing Irish tunes on fi ddle and guitar. Guests are invited to listen along, bring knitting projects for a knitting circle, and see new work created by artists in the Spindleworks studios and store. Parking is

available on Lincoln Street and in the lot located behind the Spindleworks building. For more information, contact Alyce Ornella at 725-8820 and see listings on www.spindleworks.org and www.hopehoffman.org.

UMF gallery features artist Jean M. Sanders5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The University of Maine at Farmington Art Gallery is pleased to present a unique collection of pho-togravure and carbon prints by artist Jean M. Sanders as its next exhibit. Free and open to the public, the show runs from March 3-27, with a gala opening reception. This installation is largely based on Sanders’ new photographic suite “Ivan the Boneless,” richly detailed images document-ing the life of her dog, Ivan. These works employ antique photographic techniques that impart a strange, dream-like quality to the images. Movement and energy seem to be frozen in time while the animals appear to be suspended in a glowing atmosphere that shifts from beauty to menace—from the familiar to the uncanny—in the blink of an eye. Sanders’ images revel in the mystery and strangeness of animals, while simultaneously embracing the emotional depth of their daily experience. For more information, or to make special arrangements, please call 778-7002, or email Elizabeth Olbert, director of the UMF Art Gallery, at [email protected].

An Evening at Osher Map Library postponed6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Maine Historical Society and Osher Map Library present: An Evening at Osher Map Library: Celebrating Printed Maps of Maine. This event has been postponed. Check www.mainehistory.org for updates.

‘The Shadow Box’ pay what you can preview6:30 p.m. “The Shadow Box,” a Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play that is a “must experience” event! Pay what you can preview at 7 p.m. Starring 10 of Portland’s fi nest actors and directed by Vincent Knue, this production will have you talking long after the fi nal bow. Now Playing at the Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple Street in Portland through March 20. Doors open tonight at 6:30 p.m. “fi rst come, fi rst seated.” For more information call the box offi ce at 773-0333.

“William S. Burroughs: A Man Within” — a fi lm about the iconic author — will be screened at SPACE Gallery at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 9. (COURTESY IMAGE)

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Rabelais and Grace Present: Dinner, book signing7 p.m. Gabrielle Hamilton, award-winning chef/owner of Prune restaurant in NYC and renowned chef’s chef, is coming to Portland to celebrate the launch of her fi rst book “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef.” “Rabelais and Grace restaurant are pleased to present this evening of great food and fantas-tic writing. The evening will include a roast lamb dinner inspired by ‘Blood, Bones & Butter,’ with wine. Hamilton will give a short reading and sign copies of her book, which will be included in the price of the dinner.” At Grace Restaurant. www.mainerestaurantweek.com

Friday, March 4

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

First Friday Art Walk: Cannonball Press at SPACE5 p.m. Cannonball Press presents Burn the Lot: Splinter Heads, Nut Mobs & Ballyhoo, featuring a huge new pile of limited-edition $20 prints by the likes of Dusty Herbig, Angela Earley, Drew Iwaniw, Sarah Nicholls, Tyler Kra-sowski, and Donna Diamond. Also, Martin Mazorra and Mike Houston will premiere their new supersized woodcuts depicting the capitalist wasteland, as seen through the lens of a carnival for the ages. Mega carny prints on canvas; free, all ages.

‘Hardware’ photo display at The Green Hand5 p.m. to 9 p.m. This month the Green Hand is continuing to showcase photography with a series of black and white photos by Wayne Frederick. “Hardware” is a collection of humorous, serious, and mysterious prints of “guy stuff” that includes abstracts, still life, action shots, and plain old pictures. Suitable for viewing by all age groups. First Friday Art Walk opening at The Green Hand Bookshop, 661 Congress St. On display through the month of March. FMI: Contact Michelle Souliere at 450-6695 or [email protected].

Arts, Artists, and Personalities in 1930s Maine5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Maine Historical Society presents a new exhibit, Arts, Artists, and Personalities in 1930s Maine. Original photographs on display March 4 through May 3. The opening reception is free and open to the public and will be held on March 4 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Lecture Hall. This exhibit will be open to the public at no charge during the April First Friday Art Walk. While stories of hardship and suffering are not hard to fi nd in Depression-era Maine, a series of photographs taken to accompany newspaper articles during that era offer another view: the strength and vitality of the arts and artists and of other personalities in 1930s Maine. G. Herbert Whitney, an accomplished amateur photographer, captured these people and scenes while his wife, Emmie Bailey Whit-ney, interviewed the personalities for the Lewiston Journal Saturday Magazine. A number of the dozen people featured in this display are well-known artists or writers. The MHS Museum and Lecture Hall gallery are open Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free for MHS mem-bers, $8 for adults, $7 for seniors, students, and AAA mem-bers, and $2 for children, free for children under 6.

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

‘Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune’6:30 p.m. Film screenings. Friday, March 4, 6:30 p.m.;

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

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

Irish Night with the Maine Red Claws7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Portland Expo. Second annual Irish Night and help support the Maine Irish Heritage Center. “Wear green to show your Irish Pride as we celebrate Maine’s Irish community. A portion of the special fund-raising tickets will go to support the Irish American Club of Maine and the Maine Irish Heritage Center. Festivities include: Halftime performance by the Stillson School of Irish Dance. Pre-Game Parade of Flags from Ireland and Bagpipes from Claddagh Mhor Pipe Band. Special fund-raiser tickets will be $10 and $15. Please help support the MIHC!” For more information contact Kay Martin at 878-3724 or Pat McBride at [email protected]

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

‘The Cleansed: Season One’7 p.m. to 9 p.m. As part of First Friday Art Walk, Coffee by Design will be hosting Audio Producer Fred Greenhalgh at their India Street Cofeehouse, 67 India St., Portland. Greenhalgh, who was the recipient of a 2010 CBD Rebel Blend arts grant, will be sharing audio samples and talk-ing about his new work, “The Cleansed: Season One.” The pilot of “The Cleansed,” which aired on Halloween, 2010 on both WKIT in Bangor and WMPG in Portland,

follows the stories of a group of civilians and soldiers who are caught in the middle of civil upheaval caused by a disastrous shortage of fossil fuels. The show has been called a “huge achievement” by BBC Radio 4 producer John Dryden. Irish playwright Roger Gregg says the work is at “the forefront of the contemporary American [radio drama] scene.” More information and free down-loads of the pilot episode of “The Cleansed” are available at: http://thecleansed.com. The Cleansed is a co-pro-duction of FinalRune Productions and WMPG, commu-nity radio of from the University of Southern Maine.

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

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

‘The Shadow Box’8 p.m. “The Shadow Box,” a Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play that is a “must experience” event! Starring 10 of Portland’s fi nest actors and directed by Vincent Knue, this production will have you talking long after the fi nal bow. Now playing at the Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St. in Portland through March 20 with shows on Fridays and Sat-urdays at 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. All seats are $15. For reservations and more information call the box offi ce at 773-0333.

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

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At 8 p.m. Friday, March 4, the Class B State Boys’ Basketball Championships are scheduled at the Cumberland County Civic Center. Cape Elizabeth and Camden Hills are slated to face off. (COURTESY IMAGE)

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Saturday, March 5

Riverton Trolley Park 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 Port-land, is for adults and families with children who are making an effort to get more exer-cise, but are stymied when it comes to winter recreation. Participants are reminded to wear warm clothing, hats and gloves and bring snow-shoes if there is adequate snow on the ground. Port-land 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 can-cellations due to the weather go to www.trails.org. Michelle Boisvert, Portland Trails GIS intern and volunteer will lead a walk through the site of this former park which once welcomed throngs of people from the city who paid fi ve cents to take the trolley from Portland. Few remnants of this historic site remain, but it makes for a beautiful winter walk. Meet at Corsetti’s (just over the town line in Westbrook), 125 Bridgton Road.

New Gloucester History Barn9 a.m. to noon. The next New Gloucester History Barn Open House will be held. In addition to the permanent dis-play of antique vehicles and historic town photos, the spe-cial Open House feature this month will be a display of old town reports. The barn is located behind the Town Hall on Route 231. The barn is owned and operated by the New Gloucester Historical Society — the Open House is free and open to the public.

‘Civil War Heroes and Heroines’10 a.m. “Civil War Heroes and Heroines Buried in Evergreen Cemetery,” at Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St. Spirits Alive, the advocacy group for Portland’s Eastern Cemetery, will offer a three-lecture series of presentations around the theme, “Death and Survival in the Civil War.” Supported in part with funding from the Maine Humanities Council, admission is free, but donations are suggested. The theme of the lecture series was chosen in support of the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War (2011-2015). These lectures will offer insight into this country’s greatest national crisis in relation to death and dying. It is estimated that up to 700,000 people, or 2 percent of the population died in the War Between the States. One of the fi rst Maine regiments to be mustered in, The Forest City Regiment included 1,046 men from southern and central Maine, and left Portland in July 1861. After three years, this fi ghting regiment mustered out only 193 — the rest were killed in action, died from disease, were wounded, deserted, or transferred to other regiments. Visit the Fifth Maine Regiment’s website for more: http://www.fi fthmaine-museum.org. Free, donations suggested.

Money Management 10110 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 improve fi nancial lit-eracy in Maine. In this session, you will learn everything you always wanted to know about successful money manage-ment and more including: budgeting, net worth, fi nancial planning and goal setting. All seminars are being held at the Institute’s new campus conveniently located near the Maine Mall at 260 Western 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

Winter birding on Casco Bay10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. On the Mail Boat Cruise with Casco Bay Lines at 10 a.m. sharp. The Casco Bay Lines Mail Boat Cruise will leave Portland carrying avid bird watch-ers and their guides. Bob Bittenbender, a board member of Oceanside Conservation Trust and his wife Margi Huber will lead their group in a scavenger hunt of sorts to fi nd and identify the intrepid birds wintering in Casco Bay. Bit-tenbender and Huber are a husband and wife team who have led birding and nature trips to such diverse places

as Kenya; Tanzania; Mexico to see the wintering monarch butterfl ies; Italy to learn about culture, food and natural places; Newfoundland to see colonies of Atlantic puffi ns; and Churchhill, Manitoba, Canada, to watch polar bears. Bob and Margi are both graduates of The National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). For many years Margi planned trips for Maine Audubon. Bob is the assistant property man-ager for Maine Audubon, based in Falmouth at the Gilsland Farm Sanctuary where he is involved in a major invasive plant removal program. As the boat cruises around Casco Bay, hot soup and snacks will be served. Bob and Margi will point out the preserved lands of the islands and dis-cuss the natural and cultural history of the islands and their inhabitants. Participants will learn about the individual birds and general bird identifi cation practices. The tickets are $15 for members of OCT and $20 for non-members. To register for the event, please call 699-2989 or email [email protected].

Portland Public Library partners with Portland Ovations to present a Knuffl e Bunny family event 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The Portland Public Library in conjunction with Portland Ovations will be offering a family event based on the upcoming performance of “Knuffl e Bunny: A Cautionary Musical” at Merrill Auditorium. This event is at the Portland Public Library. The event, for chil-dren and families, will include a story time, art project and a chance to win tickets to see a performance of “Knuffl e Bunny” at Merrill Auditorium. Children are encouraged to bring their own Knuffl e Bunny to the story time. “Knuffl e Bunny: A Cautionary Tale,” is performed by the Kennedy Center Theater and is based on the award-winning chil-dren’s story by Mo Willems. Following the storyline about things going terribly wrong at a Laundromat, the perfor-mance features dancing laundry, songs and an adventur-ous plot. The musical is geared for ages 4 and up. For more information about this special event at the Portland Public Library, call 871-1700, ext. 707.

‘The Shadow Box’2 p.m. and 8 p.m. “The Shadow Box,” a Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play that is a “must experience” event! Starring 10 of Portland’s fi nest actors and directed by Vin-cent Knue, this production will have you talking long after the fi nal bow. Now playing at the Old Port Playhouse, 19 Temple St. in Portland through March 20 with shows on Fri-days and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. All seats are $15. For reservations and more informa-tion call the box offi ce at 773-0333.

Breezemeere Boys in New Gloucester7:30 p.m. Village Coffee House, New Gloucester Congrega-tional Church. Tickets at the door. Directions: 19 Gloucester Hill Road, at the intersection of Church and Gloucester Hill Roads in Lower Village of New Gloucester. For more infor-mation, contact Julie Fralich 926-3161 or the church offi ce 926-3260. See also www.villagecoffeehouse.org; or www.creativenewgloucester.org

Annual Mardi Gras Ball6 p.m. to midnight. The sights and sounds, tastes and fun of New Orleans will be experienced at the Annual Mardi Gras Ball, a true Big Easy-style fête that will have revelers dancing to live music of Robert Sylvain & the Cajun Aces, in Portland’s only Grand Ballroom at the Eastland Park Hotel.

Chef Marc Bell will create a multi-course meal with authen-tic Louisiana cuisine, and each partygoer will receive Mardi Gras beads, throws, and a chance to win several valuable door prizes. Dessert will be provided with dinner, so a King Cake will be presented to a lucky guest to keep their party going till Fat Tuesday! Master of Ceremonies for this year’s gala is Jeff Peterson, WGME 13 and FOX 23 anchor, Port-land Daily Sun sports writer and former New Orleans resi-dent. Peterson’s personal knowledge and experience on the parade fl oats is sure to add some unexpected Bourbon Street fl air and surprises to the night. “With Maine’s rich French heritage having many of the original families from the area leaving Acadia to create Acadiana in Louisiana, it’s time for Portland to join our New Orleans cousins in welcoming everyone to winter’s most boisterous celebra-tion, and bring the French Quarter home!” Floor seating is $40, select balcony seating is offered for $50. Tickets are available at all Bull Moose Music locations, and online through MardiGrasPortland.com. Proceeds support Port-land’s Cathedral School, a nonprofi t helping support the education of underprivileged children and their families in the community.

Cheverus High championship boys’basketball game at the Augusta Civic Center7 p.m. Cheverus High will compete in the Class A Boys State Championship Game at the Augusta Civic Center. Tickets will be on sale at Cheverus, sold in the Loyola Hall Switchboard and Cheverus’ Main Offi ce on Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. All tickets are general admission for the Augusta Civic Center. Adults tickets are $7 and student tickets are $4. Ticket sales are cash only (no checks or credit cards ) and all sales are fi nal. There is a 10-ticket limit. Tickets will also be on sale at the Augusta Civic Center one hour prior to each of the Championship Games. The boys and girls state champion-ship games are separate admissions.

‘Acappellooza 11’ benefi t for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine6 p.m. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine will host its fourth one-of-a-kind multigenerational a cappella musi-cal concert at University of Southern Maine’s Hannaford Hall (in the Abromson Center on the Portland Campus). “Acappellooza 11” is an annual event, created by the late Terri Hatt, who was a Big Sister with the organization. The 2011 program will feature seven singing groups from Maine and New Hampshire who have again volunteered to help the local nonprofi t organization raise funds to support kids needing mentors in Southern Maine. The concert is spon-sored by Winxnet, UBS, and Mainebiz. It features a cap-pella groups volunteering from USM, Colby, Bates and Bowdoin Colleges, the University of New Hampshire, and the Portland area women’s quartet known as “Rally.” Tick-ets can be purchased by calling 773-KIDS, or at the door, or at Bull Moose Music locations, or at the door. The general admission price is $12.

A Tribute to Do-Wop at Anthony’s7 p.m. Back by popular demand, A Tribute to Do-Wop, star-ring the Juke Box Boys, at Anthony’s Dinner Theater. Cost of $39.95 includes live show and fi ve-course dinner. Beer and wine available. Free parking. Also March 13 and 26. Anthony’s at www.anthonysdinnertheater.com.

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Cheverus High will appear in the Class A Boys State Championship Game at the Augusta Civic Center Saturday, March 5 at 7 p.m. (COURTESY IMAGE)

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$ 1 49 LB

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Margherita Stick

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Thursday, March 3

Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk at Port City8 p.m. Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk is a group of musi-cologists that transcend age and styles in a free-fl owing approach to their art. The band features an unusual line-up that includes two bassists. Dumpstaphunk weaves a vocal and musical tapestry from key members of Dave Matthews & Friends, Trey Anastasio, Jewel and the Neville Brothers’ musical families. The band’s music incorporates drops of Sly and the Family Stone and Meters-esque jams as well as other diverse infl uences into a spicy musical gumbo. Ivan fi rst joined his father (Aaron Neville) and uncles in the legendary New Orleans band, the Neville Brothers, in his mid-teens, then moved on to become a pivotal member of Keith Richards & The X-Pensive Winos, The Spin Doctors, and Bonnie Raitt’s band. Port City Music Hall. $12 advance, $15 day of show, $25 VIP, 21 plus.

Astronautilus with Sims, Sandbag8:30 p.m. Once described as what Tom Waits joining the MC battle circuit would sound like, Astronautalis is back to sweat, shout and freestyle all over our stage, all the while seducing the crowd with his unique brand of southern-indie-artsy-electro-historical-fi ction-folk-crunk. Astronauta-lis is taking a live band on tour this round. The band features Portland’s own Oscar Romero (Gully) and Derek Gierhan (Haru Bangs) thanks to their meeting for the fi rst time play-ing at the SPACE Halloween Party last year. SPACE Gallery. $10, 18 plus. http://www.space538.org/events.php

Friday, March 4

Mark O’Connor Quartet: An Evening of Strings 8 p.m. Mark O’Connor Quartet at Merrill Auditorium. “Fierce fi ddler. Virtuosic violinist. Masterful composer. Fear-less improviser. Generous collaborator. From bluegrass to country to jazz to Americana infl ected classical, O’Connor’s playing and compositions defy categorization. O’Connor is known for his work with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, Matt Haimovitz and Rosanne Cash to name a few. His Fanfare for the Volunteer was recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra; he’s been commissioned by Acad-emy of St. Martin in the Fields.” http://portlandovations.org

Friday, March 11

Bright Eyes and The Mynabirds at The State Theatre8 p.m. Since 2006 the once revolving cast of Bright Eyes players has settled around permanent members Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, with additional musi-cians joining them in the studio and on tour. Fully realized and bursting with charisma, The People’s Key is an assured and accomplished album, artfully arranged and fi lled with the engaging and mesmeric songwriting for which Oberst is

renowned. Recorded in Omaha, Neb. at the band’s own ARC Studios, The People’s Key was produced by Mike Mogis and engineered by Mogis and Andy LeMaster. $25, all ages.

Tuesday, March 15

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

Saturday, March 19

Soulive with Karl Denson at the State8 p.m. Soulive with special guest Karl Denson at the State Theatre. “Not many bands can say they’ve recorded with Chaka Khan, Dave Matthews, Talib Kweli and John Scofi eld. Nor can many bands open for The Rolling Stones on one tour and have Stevie Wonder sit in with them on the next tour. The musical relationships Soulive has developed, from the aforementioned artists to Derek Trucks, Susan Tedes-chi, Robert Randolph, Joshua Redman, Kenny Garrett, Fred Wesley, The Roots, Ivan Neville and so many others, speak volumes about both how versatile these talented musicians are.” http://www.statetheatreportland.com

Thursday, April 7

Kenny Chesney show sells out7:30 p.m. With Special Guest Uncle Kracker. All tickets for the Kenny Chesney show at the Cumberland County Civic Center have sold-out, the Civic Center board reported. It will be the third sell-out appearance at the Civic Center by one of country music’s biggest stars and the fi rst appear-ance since 2004.

Friday, April 29

John Prine, presented by the State Theatre,performing at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium8 p.m. John Prine plays at Merrill Auditorium, presented by the State Theatre. Some four decades since his remarkable

debut, John Prine has stayed at the top of his game, both as a performer and songwriter. He was recently honored at the Library of Congress by U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. Long considered a “songwriter’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, includ-ing Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, the Everly Brothers, John Denver, Kris Kristofferson, Carly Simon, Ben Harper, Joan Baez, and many others. Tickets available in person at the PortTix Box Offi ce at Merrill Auditorium, charge by phone at 842-0800 and online at www.porttix.com

Sunday, May 1

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

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Avenged Sevenfold will play the Civic Center on Sunday, May 1. The band’s new album “Nightmare” is available now at iTunes. (COURTESY PHOTO)