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Posted on July 22, 2012 by Kristen.
Due to my ever-expanding list of things undone and past due, I didn't get out to many shows last week. As each show-less day passed, I think I fell further and further down the rabbit hole of lethargy and despondency, which honestly does NOT make getting work done any easier. By the time Saturday rolled around, I had so little energy, I could barely move. I forced myself, however, to get downtown to Bloomfest LA and saw three amazing bands (NO, Grace Woodroofe, The Neighbourhood) and today, I'm feeling energetic, happy and productive again. It's amazing how that works… absolutely amazing.
Expect pictures from the event to come up on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/localmusicnation) soon, but seriously these are three groups you need to check out:
NO: http://nomusicfor.me/
Grace Woodroffe: http://gracewoodroofe.com.au/
The Neighbourhood: http://thenbhd.com/
Speaking of great music to check out, we have quite a few choice acts playing in LA this week. My pick of the week would have to go to Bethpage Black Sunday night at The Troubadour. Bethpage Black drummer, Steve Coy, needs to take a respite from drumming due to back issues, so this will be the band's last show for a bit. Don't miss out!
Here's the rest of my selections:
Monday: Lovers Drugs FREE at The Silverlake Lounge (9pm) (the band had to cancel)
ALSO: Alberta Cross FREE at Amoeba Records (7pm)
ALSO: Terraplane Sun FREE at The Satellite (11pm)
ALSO: Paul and the Kir at Molly Malone's (9pm)
ALSO: American Idol Live at Nokia Live (7pm)
ALSO: Songwriters in the Round at Room 5 (9pm)
Tuesday: Dead Feather Moon at The Hotel Cafe (11pm)
ALSO: Everest and Alberta Cross at The Troubadour (9:15, 10:15)
ALSO: Dave Green (of The Filthy Souls) at Hemingways (9:45)
ALSO: Parker Ainsworth and friends at WitZend (10pm)
Weds: Voxhaul Broadcast at The Troubadour (10:15)
ALSO: Holly Conlan at Room 5 (8pm)
ALSO: Emery at The Roxy (10pm)
ALSO: Act As If, Max and the Moon and The Dig FREE at Silverlake Lounge (9,10,11)
ALSO: Imagine Dragons, Walk The Moon, The Lumineers, The Joy Formidible at Paramount Studios (8pm)
Thursday: Daniel Bedingfield at The Mint (10:15)
ALSO: Jackie Greene FREE at The Santa Monica Pier (7pm)
ALSO: London Cries at The Viper Room (11pm)
ALSO: Marcus Very Ordinary at Bootleg Bar (9pm)
Friday: Madi Diaz, Cary Brothers, Harper Blynn, and Mind the Gap at The Hotel Cafe (8pm)
ALSO: mewithoutYou with Kevin Devine and Buried Beds at The Troubadour (8:30)
ALSO: Lady Danville FREE at California Plaza in Downtown LA (noon)
ALSO: New York Rifles at Amplyfi (9pm)
Saturday: A House for Lions at The Hotel Cafe (10pm)
ALSO: He's My Brother, She's My Sister and Red Circle Underground at The Roxy (8pm)
ALSO: Nick Waterhouse FREE at The Getty Center (7pm)
Sunday: Bethpage Black at The Troubadour (9:15)
ALSO: Fiona Apple at Hollywood Palladium (7pm)
July 30th: The Silent Comedy at The Satellite
August 3rd: Cory Chisel at The El Rey
August 4th: Band of Skulls at The Annberg Space for Photography
August 8th: Langhorne Slim & The Law at The Troubadour
August 10th and 11th: Jack White at Shrine Auditorium
August 13th: The Kills at The El Rey
August 13th: Birdy at The Roxy
August 14th: The Dunwells at The Hotel Cafe
August 16th-18th: SSMF
August 19th: fun. at The Wiltern
August 23rd: Civil Twilight and Morning Parade at The El Rey
August 24th: Truth & Salvage Co. at The Troubadour
August 25th: Charlotte Martin at The Hotel Cafe
October 2nd: Garbage at The Wiltern
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Speaking of choices, there are way too many difficult ones to be made in LA this week. I might need some help, especially for Monday night so please let me know if you're planning on any of these shows. Here are my options:
Monday: Milo Greene and Maniac FREE at The Satellite (9pm)
ALSO: It's a School Night at Bardot featuring Walk the Moon, Lady Danville, Liam Bailey, and Butterfly Boucher…FREE with RSVP http://www.itsaschoolnight.com/
ALSO: Nightmare and the Cat and Incan Abraham FREE at Bootleg (10:30, 11:30)
ALSO: Butterfly Boucher, Paris Carney, and Songwriters in the Round at Room 5 (7pm)
ALSO: Haim FREE at The Echo (8:30)
ALSO: Some Hear Explosions at The Viper Room (11:15)
ALSO: NO at Origami Vinyl (7pm)…Vinyl release party
Tuesday: We are The Ocean, Twin Atlantic, The Swellers, and You Me at Six at The Troubadour (7pm)
ALSO: Saint Motel at The Belasco Theater (9pm)
ALSO: Red Circle Underground and Audra Mae FREE at The Satellite (10pm)
ALSO: Beachwood Valentine Party featuring George Stanford, Truth & Salvage Co., and so many more at The Piano Bar (8pm)
ALSO: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour at The Echoplex (10pm)
Weds: The Other Side of Morning Record Release with Shawn Hook and Toy at The Roxy (8pm)
ALSO: Tyler Hilton at the Troubadour (9pm)
ALSO: Millow and Meiko at The Hotel Cafe (8,9)
Thursday: Erin McLaughlin, Harper Blynn, Keaton Simons at The Hotel Cafe (7,9,10)
ALSO: Queen Caveat at Andaz (8pm)
ALSO: Howlin' Rain at The Echo (10pm)
Friday: Daniel Ellsworth & The Great Lakes and Andy Clockwise at The Hotel Cafe (10,11)
ALSO: Abbot Kinney at On the Rox (10pm)
ALSO: Ryan Adams at The Hollywood Bowl
Saturday: Youngblood Hawke, Eastern Conference Champions, Finish Ticket, and Jesse Kivel at The Central (9pm)
ALSO: The Fling at Bootleg Bar (11pm)
ALSO: Mayday Parade at The El Rey (7pm)
Sunday: Foxy Shazam and The Darkness at The House of Blues Sunset (7:30)
Feb. 20th: Milo Greene at The Satellite
Feb. 22nd: Will Dailey and Mariah McManus at The Hotel Café
Feb. 22nd: Imagine Dragons at The Viper Room
Feb. 27th: Dead Sara at The Viper Room
March 5th: Scars on 45 at The Troubadour
March 5th-6th: Dan Wilson and Rachel Yamagata at The Hotel Cafe
March 8th: Crash Kings at The Troubadour
March 9th: Vanaprasta at The Bootleg Bar
March 9th: William Fitzsimmons at The Troubadour
March 10th: Nico Vega at The Roxy
March 13th-18th: SXSW (Austin, TX)
March 14th: The Pretty Reckless at The HOB Sunset
March 18th: Dia Frampton at The Troubadour
March 20th: Needtobreathe and Ben Rector at Club Nokia
March 20th: War on Drugs at Avalon
March 22nd: The Lumineers at The Hotel Café
March 23rd: Truth & Salvage Co. at The Troubadour
March 24th: Ani DiFranco at The Orpheum Theater
March 24th and 25th: Allen Stone at The Troubadour
March 31st: Tyrone Wells at The Roxy
April 1st: Charlotte Martin at The Bootleg Bar
April 11th: Mike Doughty at Bootleg Theater
April 12th: Joseph Arthur at The Largo
April 13th-15th AND 20th– 22nd: Coachella
April 25th: Ben Kweller at The El Rey
April 27th: Ingrid Michaelson at The Troubadour
May 8th: Snow Patrol at The Hollywood Palladium
June 13th and 14th: Phantom Planet at The Troubadour
Kristen's LA Concert Calendar 2/6-2/12
Well…that was certainly an eventful weekend. Friday night I had a very ominous feeling before going to the El Rey to join a friend for Adam Gontier (of Three Days Grace) and Martin Sexton. At the end of the evening, I ended up in fascinating company at my fave late night eatery and I thought my gut must have been waaay off. Three hours later, sleepless and in the ER with a friend, my earlier instincts were justified.
Saturday, I cancelled my plans to participate in Tyrone Well's music video shoot in Venice for sleep's sake. Then it was an evening at The Rainbow Room and The Hotel Cafe with great food, friends, and music (the three essentials of any successful evening).
Today I had to cut myself off from the world and lock myself in lab as I had entered the weekend woefully behind on an important deadline at work and that I have two big presentation to give in the next seven days. This week is going to be rough…thankfully there are a few choice shows to pull me through. Here are my options:
Monday: Youngblood Hawke, Lady Danville, Useless Keys FREE at The Satellite (9pm)
ALSO: Paris Carney and Songwriters in the Round at Room 5 featuring Kyler England, Sweet Talk Radio, Shane Alexander, and Joel Eckels (8,9)
Tuesday: Queen Caveat at Hemingways (11pm)
ALSO: The Elizabeth Kill at Skinny's Lounge in NOHO (9pm)
ALSO: Makepeace Brothers and friends Acoustic Nights at WitZend (9pm)
ALSO: Marcus Very Ordinary at The Central (8pm)
Weds: Millow, Marketa Irglova, Jake Newton and Garrison Starr at The Hotel Cafe (8, 9:30, 10:30)
ALSO: Roman Candle Wars and Red Circle Underground at Bootleg Bar (9,10)
ALSO: Aunt Martha and Meiko at Saint Rocke (8pm)
Thursday: Harper Blynn at The Hotel Cafe (9pm)
ALSO: Ben Kweller FREE at Amoeba (7pm)
ALSO: Kris Allen at The Mint (9pm)
ALSO: Oh Darling and Y Luv at The Satellite (9pm)
ALSO: Joss Stone at The Troubadour (8pm)
Friday: Teitur and Aunt Martha at Largo (8pm)
ALSO: Graham Colton and Abandoned Pools at The Viper Room (9,10)
ALSO: Javier Dunn, Parker Ainsworth, Rocco Deluca, and Juke Kartel at The Hotel Cafe (8pm)
ALSO: Dr. Dog at The Orpheum (9pm)
Saturday: White Denim at The Satellite (10pm)
ALSO: The Fray at The Troubadour (7pm)
ALSO: Ari Shine at The Mint (9:30)
ALSO: Judy Collins at Walt Disney Concert Hall (8pm)
Sunday: The Swell Season at McCabe's (8pm)
ALSO: Twin Atlantic and You Me at Six at Chain Reaction in Anaheim (7pm)
ALSO: Jonah Matranga at The Hotel Cafe (8:30)
Feb. 14th: Twin Atlantic and You Me at Six at The Troubadour
Feb. 17th: Ryan Adams at The Hollywood Bowl
Feb. 18th: Mayday Parade at The El Rey
Feb. 19th: The Darkness at House of Blues Sunset
March 22nd: The Lumineers at The Hotel Cafe
Kristen's LA Concert Calendar: 8/22-8-28
SSMF 2011 might be officially over, but pictures, recaps, new band love announcements, videos, etc. are all being processed so the experience will be extended for a good week or so. Today has been difficult because as much as I need to recover from the totally insanity of the last few days, there is still so much to be done! Tomorrow is a big day at work and a big night out on the town. And let's not forget that Sunset Junction is next weekend! I'm still not quite sure how it's all going to go down, but here is my general blueprint for the week:
Monday: Ben Rector at The Hotel Cafe (8pm)
ALSO: Scarlet Grey with The Dead & Departed and Dead Country at The Troubadour (8pm, SG at 9:45)…this will be the last local Scarlet Grey show for awhile, so if you're a fan, you'd best make it out
ALSO: Chappo FREE at The Satellite (10pm)
ALSO: Jenny O, Robert Francis, and The Constellations FREE at Bootleg (10,11,12)
ALSO: The Lexingtons FREE at Silverlake Lounge (12am)
ALSO: Songwriters in the Round at Room 5 featuring Kyler England, Joel Eckels, Stephen Wrabel, and John Schmidt (9pm)
Tuesday: Brett Hite FREE at the W Hotel (7:15pm)
ALSO: The Trews at The Viper Room (8pm)
ALSO: Chris Thile at The Largo (9pm)
ALSO: David and Devine at The Dragonfly in Santa Monica (8pm)
ALSO: Beachwood Rockers Night at Piano Bar: and evening of FREE great local music starting at 8pm
Weds: Anna Nalick and Meiko at The Hotel Cafe (10,11)
ALSO: Fiona Apple at The Largo (8pm)
ALSO: The Lookout Kids at The Viper Room (8:50)
Thursday: The Veronicas at The Viper Room (9pm)
ASO: Abbot Kinney FREE at The Hard Rock Cafe (10pm)
ALSO: Madi Diaz at The Hotel Cafe (9pm)
ALSO: Red Circle Underground at O'Briens in Santa Monica (9pm)
ALSO: 100 Monkeys at The El Rey (8pm)
Friday: Patrick Park at The Echo (8pm)
ALSO: Will Hutchinson at Room 5 (10pm)
Saturday: Sunset Junction featuring KD Lang, Chasing Kings, Milo Greene, Brian Wright, Cary Brothers, Butch Walker, Lovers Drugs and SO MUCH MORE (noon)…for the complete schedule go here: http://www.sunsetjunction.org/index.php/street-fair/performance-schedule
ALSO: Golden State, Brendan Hines, and Sunset Junction after party at the Hotel Cafe (10, 11pm)
ALSO: The Goo Goo Dolls at The Greek Theater (7pm)
Sunday: Sunset Junction featuring Hanson, Rooney, The Belle Brigade, Lady Danville, The Rescues, Honeyhoney, Jim Bianco, David and Devine, and SO MANY MORE (noon)…see above link for schedule
ALSO: Holly Miranda and Uh Huh Her at Bootleg Bar (9,10)
August 29th: Carbon Leaf at Saint Rocke
August 30th: Fiction Family at Bootleg Bar
September 1st: Fierce Creatures at The Hotel Cafe
September 3rd: FYF
September 8th Dead Sara at The Viper Room
September 9-10: San Diego Music Thing
September 16th: Lobster Fest with Andy Clockwise and more
September 17th: We Barbarians at The Satllite
September 22-24: Hotel Carolina (South Carolina)
September 22nd: Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights at The Viper Room
September 23rd: Inara George at Bootleg Bar
September 23rd/24th: Lee Dewyze at The Hotel Cafe
September 24th: The Script at Hollywood Palladium
September 24th and 25th: William Elliot Whitmore at Bootleg Theater
September 25th: The Lonely Forest at The Wiltern
September 28th: Puddle of Mudd at The Viper Room
October 11th: Rival Sons and Evanescence at Hollywood Palladium
October 14th: Butterfly Boucher at Bootleg Theater
October 22nd: The War on Drugs at The Satellite
November 12th: Feist at The WIltern
November 19th: Milo Greene, The Belle Brigade, and The Civil Wars at The Wiltern
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Kristen's LA Concert Calendar 7/25-7/31
What an awesome and exhausting week! Finished this two week crazy intense neuroimaging training program. Meet some truly amazing people from around the world and Friday night I was excited to take some of them out and show them a bit of my other life. We ventured to The Viper Room for Indian's CD Release show. Everyone fell in love with opening band, Maniac. Then Indians put on their trademark powerhouse of a set. I was happy to be able to finally take home some of their songs! We caught a bit of the craziness that is Har Mar Superstar and rounded out the night with some Little Red Radio dancing.
The whole evening made me wish people would visit me more often…
This week, things (hopefully) return to a more normal pace. Great shows every night. I'm especially looking forward to Langhorne Slim on Tuesday! Here's what else I have on my calendar:
Monday: Races FREE at The Bootleg Theater (10:30)
ALSO: Andy Clockwise FREE at The Satellite (11pm)
ALSO: The Mulhollands at The Viper Room (12:15)
ALSO: Battles FREE at Amoeba Records (6pm)
ALSO: Gavin DeGraw, Maroon 5, and Train at The Hollywood Bowl (7pm)
Tuesday: Langhorne Slim at The Echoplex (10pm)
ALSO: The Indigo Girls at The Troubadour (9pm)
ALSO: Halos at The Viper Room (8pm)
ALSO: Toy Bombs at The Central in Santa Monica (9pm)
ALSO: Beachwood Night FREE at Piano Bar (8-??)
Weds: Holly Conlan, So & So, Angel Taylor at The Hotel Cafe (8,9,10)…So & So record release show
ALSO: Meiko at Saint Rocke (9pm)
Thursday: A Perfect Circle at Gibson Auditorium (8:15)
ALSO: Ben Sollee at Bootleg Theater (10:30)
ALSO: The Co, Holly Winter, and Jen Hirsh at The Hotel Cafe (7,8,9)
ALSO: Kurt Vile and the Violators at The Troubadour (9:15)
ALSO: The Henry Clay People and Lady Danville FREE at The Hammer Museum (7pm)
ALSO: Kina Grannis at Largo at the Coronet (8:30)
ALSO: The Gin Blossoms at Brixton South Bay in Redondo Beach (8pm)
Friday: Fat City Reprise at On the Rox (10pm)
ALSO: Ludo at The Roxy (7pm)
ALSO: The Damnwells at The Mint (8:45)
ALSO: The Features at The Satellite (9pm)
ALSO: Kurt Vile at The Troubadour (10:15)
Saturday: 10,000 Maniacs at Pershing Square (8pm)…part of the outdoor summer concert series downtown
ALSO: Inverse at The Viper Room (10pm)
ALSO: Ernie Halter at The Hotel Cafe (8pm)
ALSO: LA Rising at the LA Coliseum featuring Rage Against the Machine, Muse, Lauryn Hill and Rise Against (3pm)
Sunday: Filter at The Key Club (9pm)
August 10th: Sia at The Wiltern
August 11th: Toy and Lifehouse at Ventura County Fair
August 11th: Ellie Goulding at The Wiltern
August 12-14th: Outside Lands in San Francisco
August 13th: Milk Carton Kids CD Release at McCabe's
August 13th: Nico Vega at Saint Rocke
August 16th: Mutemath at The Troubadour
August 18th: Nico Vega at The Roxy
August 18th and 25th: The Veronicas at The Viper Room
August 18th: TDIF at The Hotel Cafe
August 19th: Buckcherry at The Roxy
August 18-20th: SSMF
August 27-28th: Sunset Junction
Posted on May 1, 2011 by Kristen.
Yes, there is a lot I could be saying right now, but my brain is fried from working all weekend, so I'm just going to jump to the point of this email. Lots of great shows this week. I hope to see everyone at The Roxy on Saturday for The Silent Comedy. This is a huge show for one of my favorite bands. Come support!
Monday: Xavier Rudd and Honeyhoney at The El Rey (7pm)
ALSO: Joe Firstman and Taylor Locke and The Roughs FREE at Silverlake Lounge (10,11)
ALSO: Battles at The Echoplex (9pm)
ALSO: Lady Danville FREE at The Getty (6pm)…part of College Night at The Getty Center http://www.getty.edu/education/college/center_collegenight_2011.html
Tuesday: Alberta Cross and Maxim Ludwig and the Santa Fe Seven at The Satellite (9pm)
ALSO: Paris Carney at Room 5 (10pm)
ALSO: Red Circle Underground and The Mulhollands at Saint Rocke (8:30)
Weds: Tony Lucca and Justin Hopkins at The Hotel Cafe (9, 10)
ALSO: The Pipettes at The Satellite (10pm)
ALSO: Rhett Miller at Heritage Court at the Autry (8pm)
ALSO: Pint Shot Riot at The Mint (midnight)
ALSO: Chris Cornell at Ford Amphitheatre (7pm)
ALSO: James Blunt at The Wiltern (7pm)
Thursday: Amie Miriello at Molly Malone's (9pm)
ALSO: Apex Manor and The New Division at The Echo (9pm)
Friday: Fat City Reprise FREE at O'Brien's (10pm)
ALSO: Tristen and Ezra Furman & The Harpoons at The Satellite (9pm)
Saturday: The Silent Comedy at The Roxy (10pm)
ALSO: Fleet Foxes at The Hollywood Palladium (8pm)
ALSO: William Fitzsimmons and Satellite at The Hotel Cafe (8,10)
ALSO: Taylor Locke & The Roughs and The 88 at The Echo (6pm)
ALSO: Avi Buffalo FREE at The Getty (6pm)…part of Saturday's Off the 405http://www.getty.edu/museum/programs/performances/saturdays_405.html
Sunday: I'm sure something will present itself
May 9th: KT Tunstall at The El Rey
May 14th: The Other Side of Morning CD Release
May 15th: Eisley at The Troubadour
May 20th: Curtis Peoples at The Hotel Cafe
May 21st: Saint Motel at The Roxy
May 27th: The Script at Club Nokia
May 27th-29th: Sasquatch Music Festival (Washington)
June 2nd: Manchester Orchestra at The Music Box
June 7th: Death Cab for Cutie and The Lonely Forest at The El Rey
June 9-12: Bonnaroo (TN)
June 13th: Florence and The Machine at The Greek Theater
June 15th: Augustana at The House of Blues Sunset
June 29th: Brooke Fraser at The Music Box
July 26th: The Indigo Girls at The Troubadour
July 28th: A Perfect Circle at Gibson Auditorium
Back in LA after driving straight through the night from Austin. Forgive me if this email seems a bit incoherent or incomplete at any point. I'm slightly delirious from lack of sleep. I went straight to work after getting into town and have been going ever since. I don't really recall the last time I slept… The horrible thing is, I really want to go to Bardot tonight for It's A School Night. James Walsh from Starsailor is singing along with Teddy Thompson and a special surprise guest. And it's FREE with RSVP. I know I shouldn't but the pull is so strong.
Here's what else I'm gravitating towards this week:
Monday: see last week's email
Tuesday: War on Drugs at The Troubadour (9:15)…opening for Destroyer and unfortunately sold out
ALSO: King Creosote at The Hotel Cafe (7pm)
ALSO: Esben and The Witch at Bootleg Theater (11pm)
Weds: Little Red Radio and Semi Precious Weapons at On The Rox (EMPIRE party-FREE with RSVP to rsvp@semipreciousweapons.com)
ALSO: Liam Finn at The Autry (7pm)
ALSO: Watkins Family Hour at Largo (8:30)
Thursday: Hoots and Hellmouth at The Hotel Cafe (10pm)
Friday: John Elliot, Wakey Wakey, and The 88 at The Hotel Cafe (8,9,11)
Saturday: Aussie BBQ at The Echo featuring Maniac (12:30pm), Andy Clockwise (1pm), Dash & Will (6:30pm), etc. (noon-9pm)
ALSO: Lady Danville at The Troubadour (10:15)
ALSO: The PreZcotts at The Mint (5pm)
Sunday: Justin Hopkins and Wakey Wakey at Saint Rocke (7, 10)
ALSO: The Shakers at O'Briens (10pm)
March 28th: Chris Robinson Brotherhood at The Echoplex
March 30th: Imagine Dragons at The Viper Room
April 6th: Andy Clockwise and The Silent Comedy at The Troubadour
April 10th: Milk Carton Kids at The Hotel Cafe
April 11th: Chris Robinson Brotherhood at The Echoplex
April 15th: Scarlet Grey at The Roxy
April 16th: Matt Wertz and Ben Rector at The Troubadour
April 20th: Ellie Goulding at The Music Box
April 22nd: Purple Melon at The Roxy
April 25th: Airborne Toxic Event at The Satellite
April 25th: The Head & The Heart at The Troubadour
May 4th: The Pipettes at The Satellite
May 7th: The Silent Comedy at The Roxy
June 9-12: Bonnaroo!!!
September 22-24: Hotel Carolina


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Maine Eviction Process
Last Updated: August 24, 2022 by Elizabeth Souza
Steps of the eviction process in Maine:
Landlord serves notice to tenant.
Landlord files complaint with court (if unresolved).
Court holds hearing and issues judgment.
Writ of possession is issued.
Possession of property is returned to landlord.
Evicting a tenant in Maine can take around one to two months, depending on the reason for the eviction. If tenants file an appeal, the process can take longer.
Questions? To chat with a Maine eviction attorney, click here
Grounds for an Eviction in Maine
In Maine, a landlord cannot legally evict a tenant without cause. Legal grounds to evict include not paying rent on time, staying after the lease ends, violating lease terms, and illegal activity. Even so, proper notice must first be given before ending the tenancy.
Curable?
Nonpayment of Rent 7 Days Yes
End of / No Lease 30 Days No
Lease Violation 7 Days No
Illegal Activity 7 Days No
Eviction for Nonpayment of Rent
In Maine, a landlord can evict a tenant for not paying rent on time. To do so, they must first give 7 days'
notice to pay rent or vacate the premises. Unless the lease states otherwise, rent is considered late in Maine if it is not paid within 15 days
of the due date.
Once rent is considered late the landlord can move forward and file an eviction lawsuit.
Eviction for No Lease or End of Lease
In Maine, a landlord can evict a tenant without a lease or with a lease that has ended (known as a "holdover tenant" or "tenant at will"). To do so, they must first terminate the tenancy by giving proper notice to move out (30 days for tenants that pay month-to-month).
Once the tenancy ends, if the tenant remains on the property, the landlord can move forward and file an eviction lawsuit.
Eviction for Violation of Lease or Responsibilities
In Maine, a landlord can evict a tenant for violating the terms of their lease or not upholding their responsibilities under Maine landlord-tenant law. To do so, they must first terminate the tenancy by giving 7 days'
notice to move out. The tenant is not allowed to fix the issue and must vacate the rental unit.
Tenant responsibilities include:
Keeping the unit in a safe and habitable condition.
Keeping fixtures clean and sanitary.
Performing minor maintenance and repairs.
Not disturbing other tenants or neighbors.
Examples of lease violations include:
Violating a material health and safety code (i.e., letting trash pile up)
Having an unauthorized occupant live on the premises.
Causing a nuisance within the premises.
Causing substantial damage to the rental unit.
Committing a violation of the law.
Allowing the rental unit to become unfit for human habitation.
Evictions for Illegal Activity
In Maine, a landlord can evict a tenant for an illegal activity. To do so, they must first provide the tenant with a 7 days'
notice to vacate before the landlord can proceed with an eviction action. The tenant is not allowed to fix the issue and must vacate the rental unit.
Illegal activity includes:
Stalking.
Sexual assault.
Violence/threat of violence against another tenant/a tenant's guest/landlord/landlord's agent or employee.
Prostitution.
Any other violation of the law.
If the tenant remains on the property after the notice period expires, the landlord may proceed and file an eviction lawsuit.
Illegal Evictions in Maine
In Maine, any of the below is illegal. If found liable, the landlord could be required to pay the tenant court costs, reasonable attorneys' fees, plus $250 or actual damages sustained, whichever is greater.
"Self-Help" Evictions
No matter the situation, a landlord is not allowed to forcibly remove a tenant by:
Changing the locks.
Shutting off utilities.
Removing tenant belongings.
A tenant can only be legally removed with a court order obtained through the formal eviction process.
Retaliatory Evictions
It is illegal for a landlord to evict a tenant in response to exercising a legally protected right. These rights
Complaining about a repair issue to the landlord or landlord's agent.
Filing a complaint to a government authority regarding a violation of a building, housing, or sanitary code.
Joining a tenant's union or organization.
Pursuing a legal right to remedy habitability issues or radon testing.
Filing a Fair Housing complaint with the Maine Human Rights Commission.
Filing a complaint with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development regarding acts that are affecting the tenant's occupancy.
Informing the landlord that the tenant (or tenant's child) is a victim of sexual assault, domestic violence or stalking.
Communicating to the landlord of an act of sexual harassment or filed a complaint with a law enforcement agency, the Maine Human Rights Commission or a court of an act of sexual harassment by the landlord or landlord's agent against the tenant or tenant's family member.
Step 1: Landlord Serves Notice to Tenant
A landlord can begin the eviction process in Maine by serving the tenant with written notice. The notice must be delivered in person. The landlord must attempt to deliver the notice in person 3 times, if the landlord fails to make an in-person delivery, the landlord may proceed by leaving a copy of the notice at the rental unit and mailing a copy via first class mail.
It is important for a landlord to always maintain a copy of the signed and served notice as proof of proper service of notice.
7-Day Notice to Pay Rent or Quit
If a tenant is late on paying rent (full or partial) in Maine, the landlord can serve them a 7-Day Notice to Pay or Quit. This notice gives the tenant 7 calendar days to pay the entire remaining balance or vacate the premises.
30-Day Notice to Quit
For a tenant with no lease or a month-to-month lease in Maine, the landlord must serve them a 30-Day Notice to Quit to end the tenancy. This eviction notice allows the tenant 30 calendar days to move out.
For tenants that don't pay monthly, the amount of notice does not change.
7-Day Notice to Quit
In Maine, if a tenant commits an illegal activity or a lease violation, the landlord can serve them a 7-Day Notice to Quit. This eviction notice gives the tenant 7 calendar days to move out without the chance to fix the issue.
Step 2: Landlord Files Lawsuit with Court
As the next step in the eviction process, Maine landlords must file a complaint in the appropriate court.
The summons and complaint must be served on the tenant by the sheriff, deputy sheriff, or other person authorized by the court
at least seven days prior to the eviction hearing, through any one of the following methods:
Delivering a copy to the tenant personally.
Leaving a copy with someone who is of "suitable" age.
Delivering a copy to an agent authorized by appointment or by law.
7 days. The summons and complaint must be served on the tenant at least 7 days prior to the date of the eviction hearing.
Step 3: Court Holds Hearing & Issues Judgment
The eviction hearing must be held within 10 days
of the return date listed on the summons.
Tenants are not required to file a written answer with the court to attend the eviction hearing; however, if they want the hearing to be recorded, then they must file a written answer.
Recordings are typically required for appeals, so if the tenant thinks they may want to appeal, then it would be in their best interest to file a written answer to ensure that the hearing is recorded so a transcript of the proceedings can be provided to the appeals court.
If the judge rules in favor of the landlord, a writ of possession will be issued, and the eviction process will continue.
10 days. The eviction hearing must be held within 10 days of the return date listed on the summons.
Step 4: Writ of Possession Is Issued
The writ of possession is the tenant's final notice to leave the rental unit and gives the tenant the opportunity to remove their belongings before law enforcement returns to the property to forcibly remove them.
The writ will be issued 7 days
after the date the ruling in favor of the landlord is issued, and can only be given to the defendant by a sheriff or constable (not the landlord).
7 days. The writ of possession will be issued seven days after the ruling in favor of the landlord.
Step 5: Possession of Property is Returned
Tenants must move out of the rental unit within 48 hours
of receiving the writ of possession. If the tenant remains on the property, they are deemed as a trespasser and will be forcibly removed by the constable or sheriff. All personal property on the premises shall be considered as abandoned property.
A sheriff or constable must deliver the writ to the tenants. This cannot be done by the landlord.
48 hours. The tenant has 48 hours to move out after receiving the writ of possession.
Maine Eviction Process Timeline
In Maine, an eviction can be completed in 1 to 2 months but can take longer depending on the reason for eviction, whether the eviction is contested, which days courts are (or aren't) in session and other various possible delays.
Below are the parts of the Maine eviction process outside the control of landlords for cases that go uncontested.
Initial Notice Period 7-30 Calendar Days
Court Issuing Summons 7 Business Days
Court Serving Summons 7 Business Days
Court Ruling 10 Business Days
Court Serving Writ of Possession 7 Business Days
Final Notice Period 48 Hours
Flowchart of Maine Eviction Process
For additional questions about the eviction process in Maine, please refer to the official legislation, Maine Revised Statutes §6001-6017, §6028, and the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 4, for more information.
1 14 ME Rev Stat §6002 (2020)
1. the tenancy may be terminated upon 7 days' written notice in the event that the landlord can show…that: C. The tenant is 7 days or more in arrears in the payment of rent…
A payment of rent is late if it is not made within 15 days from the time the payment is due.
Tenancies at will must be terminated by either party by a minimum of 30 days' notice, except as provided in subsections 2 and 4, in writing for that purpose given to the other party…
1. …the tenancy may be terminated upon 7 days' written notice in the event that the landlord can show, by affirmative proof, that: A. The tenant…has caused substantial damage…that the tenant has not repaired… B. The tenant…has caused…the dwelling unit to become unfit for human habitation or has violated…the law regarding the tenancy…
1. the tenancy may be terminated upon 7 days' written notice in the event that the landlord can show…that: D. The tenant is a perpetrator of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking and the victim is also a tenant…E. The tenant…is the perpetrator of violence, a threat of violence or sexual assault against another tenant, a tenant's guest, the landlord or the landlord's employee or agent…
A. The tenant is entitled to recover actual damages or $250, whichever is greater.
B. The tenant is entitled to recover the aggregate amount of costs and expenses determined by the court to have been reasonably incurred on the tenant's behalf in connection with the prosecution or defense of such action, together with a reasonable amount for attorneys' fees.
A. Asserted the tenant's rights pursuant to section 6021 or section 6030-D;…
B. Complained as an individual, or if a complaint has been made in that individual's behalf, in good faith, of conditions affecting that individual's dwelling unit that may constitute a violation of a building, housing, sanitary or other code, ordinance, regulation or statute, presently or hereafter adopted, to a body charged with enforcement of that code, ordinance, regulation or statute, or such a body has filed a notice or complaint of such a violation…
8 ME Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 4 (2018)
(c)(2) By a sheriff or a deputy within the sheriff's county, or other person authorized by law, or by some person specially appointed by the court for that purpose. Special appointments to serve process shall be made freely when substantial savings in travel fees will result.
(d) (1) …by delivering a copy…to the individual personally or by leaving copies thereof at the individual's dwelling house or usual place of abode with some person of suitable age and discretion then residing therein or by delivering a copy…to an agent authorized by appointment or by law to receive service of process…
10 14 ME Rev Stat §6003 (2020)
The court shall schedule and hold the hearing as soon as practicable, but no later than 10 days after the return day except that the court may grant a continuance for good cause shown. Any defendant requesting a recorded hearing shall file a written answer enumerating all known defenses on or before the return day.
When the defendant is defaulted or fails to show sufficient cause, judgment must be rendered against the defendant by the District Court for possession of the premises. Seven calendar days after the judgment is entered, the court shall issue the writ of possession to remove the defendant. The writ may be served by a sheriff or a constable…
When a writ of possession has been served on the defendant by a constable or sheriff, and the defendant fails to remove himself or his possessions within 48 hours of service by the constable or sheriff, the defendant is deemed a trespasser without right and the defendant's goods and property are considered by law to be abandoned and subject to section 6013.
Can a landlord evict you immediately in Maine?
Can a landlord evict you immediately in Maine? No, a landlord cannot evict you immediately in Maine. Even in those instances where landlords are not required to provide written notice, they must still follow the legal eviction process and cannot remove a tenant without a court order. Read more »
Can you evict a tenant without a lease in Maine?
Can you evict a tenant without a lease in Maine? Yes, you can evict a tenant without a written lease in Maine, but they must be given at least 7 days' written notice for lease violations, failure to pay rent, and illegal activity. If you simply choose to end the tenancy, tenants must be given 30 days' notice. Read more »
How much does it cost to evict someone in Maine?
How much does it cost to evict someone in Maine? It costs $100 to file an eviction case in Maine; however, this fee does not include any fees that may be required to serve court documents on the tenant or to issue a writ of possession to remove the tenant. Read more »
Can you kick someone out of your house in Maine?
Can you kick someone out of your house in Maine? Yes, you can kick someone out of your house in Maine; however, you may be required to follow the legal eviction procedures to remove them, even if they have never paid rent and did not have permission to live in your home. Read more »
Can a landlord evict someone for no reason in Maine?
Can a landlord evict someone for no reason in Maine? Yes, a landlord can evict someone for no reason in Maine if there is no written lease, but the tenant must be given 30 days' written notice. If a written lease has expired, then the landlord does not need an additional reason to evict someone. Read more »
Eviction Process in Other States
Eviction Notice Forms
How to Fight an Eviction
Maine Squatter's Rights

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Selena Gomez' mother advised her not to work with Woody Allen
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Selena Gomez's mother, Mandy Teefey, has finally opened up about the musician's controversial decision to work with Woody Allen, who has been accused of sexual misconduct
Selena Gomez's mother, Mandy Teefey, has finally opened up about the musician's controversial decision to work with Woody Allen, who has been accused of sexual misconduct. The 'Same old Love' hit-maker's mom Mandy said she tried to convince her daughter it would not be good to work with the filmmaker on 'A Rainy Day in New York' but it fell 'on deaf ears'.
Writing a comment on Instagram, Mandy noted, 'No one can make Selena do anything she doesn't want to. I had a long talk with her about not working with him and it didn't click. There is no fall person here. No one controls her. She makes all her own decisions. No matter how hard you try to advise. It falls on deaf ears.' The statement arrives about a month after Gomez and Teefy made headlines for a reported fallout over the star's relationship with Justin Bieber.
She said, 'Selena can live her life however she wants as long as she is happy, safe and healthy. She is 25 years old and knows what is at stake with her health. I do not control her the way it has been portrayed. Selena is an adult and can make her own choices.' To get over their differences, Selena and mother Mandy have reportedly decided not to talk about her new relationship.
Meanwhile, the hit musician cast mates Rebecca Hall and Timothee Chalamet announced in Instagram posts in the last week that they regretted their decision to work with the director and that they'll donate their salaries from the film to support efforts against sexual assault.
Jennifer Lopez wore a sweatshirt with Barbra Streisand's face and she loves it
Raul Castillo boards Guy Ritchie's 'Cash Truck'
Priyanka Chopra Jonas featured as 'Inspiring Women' in entertainment category


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Hon. Desley Scott's questions to Hon. Tracy Davis ...
Members of forced adoptions working group announced
Meeting 13th July 2013
Hon. Desley Scott's questions to Hon. Tracy Davis on behalf of ALAS
Mrs SCOTT: Minister, following the Queensland apology to forced adoption mothers in November 2012, ALAS wrote to you requesting you address unfinished business for these women. Minister, can you tell the committee what issues ALAS raised with you? I seek leave to table a copy of the letter from ALAS which outlines the issues. That may assist in refreshing your memory. Minister, what progress, if any, has been made on addressing the issues outlined in the letter?
Ms DAVIS: Could I just ask for the reference to the SDS? Sorry, I missed that in the question.
Mrs SCOTT: SDS page 7, sorry.
CHAIR: I am seeking the leave of the committee for the letter to be tabled. Leave is granted.
Ms DAVIS: I thank the member for the question. It was a really historic day, the day the apology was delivered to those men and women who were challenged with those issues around forced adoption. I had the very great opportunity to meet many of those stakeholders, as I know you did, prior to the apology that was delivered by the Premier. It was a great privilege to be able to speak to that motion in the House.
Having understood from my conversations with these very brave women about the challenges that they had faced over a lifetime in not having had the opportunity to raise their child because they had not been provided with the options that are afforded to parents now if they are in fact considering adoption, I think I would ask that the member understand that I have had some private meetings, as have my staff, with ALAS. We are still working our way through those things. We know that there are a number of issues that they have raised that are of importance to them. We will continue to have dialogue with ALAS. They know that my office door is open for those conversations. We very much hope that we can work in a very collegial way to get some results that they are comfortable with.
Mrs SCOTT: So, Minister, you would foresee that you can actually bring some or all of these issues to finality for them?
Ms DAVIS: As I said, we are working through those. This is not an appropriate forum to identify those but, as I have said, the ladies particularly from ALAS know that the door is open. I know that there have been some conversations recently with my staff about some of those issues and what we might be able to achieve. So that is quite encouraging. 24 Jul 2013 Estimates—Community Services, Child Safety and Disability Services (Proof) 87
Recently I wrote to the Speaker about a permanent memorial. I know that is of very great interest to those affected by the practices of past forced adoptions. If I could just ask that those conversations continue, these are issues very close to the hearts of these ladies and it is appropriate that they are dealt with in a very compassionate manner.
Queensland Parliament Hansard 24/7/2013
A new panel of 12 experts will provide key advice to Government on services and projects to improve support for people who have been affected by forced adoption practices.
Minister for Community Services Julie Collins today announced the membership of the Forced Adoptions Implementation Working Group.
"We want to deliver the best possible support for those impacted by forced adoption practices and have selected 12 outstanding Australians for the working group," Ms Collins said.
"Each member has considerable expertise and experience in this area and many have personal experience of adoption practices, either as mothers, fathers or adoptees.
"The Implementation Working Group, to be chaired by Professor Nahum Mushin, will help us deliver on our commitment to provide support for Australians impacted by forced adoption practices."
The establishment of the Forced Adoptions Implementation Working Group follows the National Apology for Forced Adoptions on 21 March 2013 and an expression of interest process announced by the Australian Government on 16 May 2013.
The Government's response to the recommendations of the Senate Inquiry Report into Former Forced Adoption Policies and Practices formed part of the national apology and included the establishment of a working group for mothers, fathers, adult adoptees and others who have been affected to provide advice to Government.
The Government has also invested $11.5 million over the next four years in a number of related initiatives:
$5 million to improve access to specialist support services, peer and professional counselling and support records tracing for those affected by forced adoptions
$5 million to immediately increase access to psychological services and develop guidelines and training materials to increase awareness of the issues relating to forced adoptions among health professionals
$1.5 million to develop a website and exhibition by the National Archives of Australia to record the experiences of those affected by forced adoption and increase awareness and understanding of these experiences in the community.
For more information, email forcedadoptions@fahcisa.gov.au.
A full list of members and their credentials are below:
Angela Barra, Queensland adoptee and member of Origins Supporting People Separated by Adoption and Post Adoption Support Queensland.
Sue Boyce, Senator for QLD, was a member of the Forced Adoptions Apology Reference Group.
Elizabeth Brew, NSW mother actively involved in the NSW apology and Commonwealth Senate Inquiry, was also a member of the Forced Adoptions Apology Reference Group
Christine Cole, NSW mother, coordinator of the Apology Alliance, was a member of the Forced Adoptions Apology Reference Group.
Gary Coles, Victorian Father, member of the Victorian Adoption Network for Information and Self Help, was a member of the Forced Adoptions Apology Reference Group.
Thomas Graham, ACT adoptee, editor of the Australian Journal of Adoption, a free online resource, also runs an ACT-based support group.
Leigh Hubbard, Victorian adoptee, chairperson of the Victorian Adoption Network for Information and Self Help, was a member of the Forced Adoption Apology Reference Group.
Sue MacDonald, Western Australian mother with extensive experience working alongside other forced adoption stakeholders.
Claire Moore, Senator for QLD, was a member of the Forced Adoptions Apology Reference Group.
Kathryn Rendell, Queensland mother, member of the National Council for Single Mothers and Their Children, was a member of the Forced Adoptions Apology Reference Group.
Evelyn Robinson, South Australian mother who provides training to professions through Post Adoption Support Services.
Rachel Siewert, Senator for WA, was a member
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Recommended Empiric Antibiotic Therapy for Cardiac Infections is a topic covered in the Pocket ICU Management.
"Recommended Empiric Antibiotic Therapy for Cardiac Infections." Pocket ICU Management, PocketMedicine.com, Inc, 2010. Anesthesia Central, anesth.unboundmedicine.com/anesthesia/view/Pocket-ICU-Management/534196/all/Recommended_Empiric_Antibiotic_Therapy_for_Cardiac_Infections.
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There's a weird resurgence of Marilyn Monroe as of late. I'm surprised she's become popular again. Other things that are surprising to me? The many layers of her character. At any rate, today's her birthday.
She is one of my idols. Because, well, I'm kind of a bombshell. 🙂 The quote has been my mantra for a long time. I just love her. Thank you for posting it.


Another year, another early season matchup between the Duke Blue Devils and the Northwestern Wildcats. Entering the final year of a four-year series between the two Power Five private schools, Northwestern holds a 2-1 advantage.
Last year, the Wildcats endured a beatdown at the hands of the Blue Devils, losing 41-17 in Durham, North Carolina. Duke went on to compile a 4-0 record before dropping six straight and finishing the season 7-6 after a bowl win, and they project to have a similar year. Northwestern hopes to avenge their loss that kept them from being the first Wildcats team in history to reach 11 wins.
2012 ACC Head Coach of the Year David Cutcliffe will return for year 11 with the Blue Devils, sporting a 59-67 career record. In spite of this less-than-stellar record, Cutcliffe has been a sign of stability for the Duke faithful after the team sported to a 4-42 record from 2004 to 2007.
Despite Cutcliffe's reputation as an offensive guru and QB-whisperer, having coached both Peyton and Eli Manning in his career, the Duke offense was lackluster in 2017; the Blue Devils ranked 88th in the nation in total offense, while Northwestern clocked in at 55th in the nation.
Redshirt junior quarterback and team captain Daniel Jones will return for his third season at the helm of the offense. Jones earned himself national recognition as one of only three quarterbacks last season to have over 2,500 passing yards and 500 rushing yards, along with Clemson's Kelly Bryant and Michigan State's Brian Lewerke. Look for him to do some damage to a Northwestern secondary that graduated two stars at safety, Kyle Queiro and Godwin Igwebuike. Jones has his number one receiving option returning as well, senior TJ Rahming, who racked up 795 receiving yards in 2017.
The Blue Devils did not have a 1,000+ yard rusher in 2017. Instead, they had two 700+ yard rushers, Shaun Wilson and Brittain Brown, in addition to QB Daniel Jones who rushed for 518 yards. Wilson has since graduated and signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, so look for Brown to make an impact on the ground this year as the clear starting running back. In the nine games that Brown carried the ball 10 or more times, Duke held a 7-2 record, but during their four-game losing streak beginning in October, Brown never had more than seven rushing attempts. Duke is only returning two starters on the offensive line, so expect them to struggle at the beginning of the season with getting their offensive machine up-and-running.
Northwestern lost several key starters from their 34th-ranked defense last year. Look for junior corner Montre Hartage to step up in the absence of secondary stalwarts Queiro and Igwebuike. Big Ten Freshman Defensive Player of the Year Paddy Fisher will also be leading the defense from the linebacker position. It will be a tall task to stop Daniel Jones and the Duke offense, but if the Wildcats can slow down the run game and keep the pressure on Jones, expect him to struggle. In the four games where Jones had more than 40 passing attempts last season, he threw seven interceptions.
Quarterback Clayton Thorson will hopefully make his return from a torn ACL in time for the season, which would open up both the Wildcats' passing and running games against a stout Duke defense that ranked 21st in the nation in total offense allowed and intercepted 15 passes. If Thorson is not able to play week two, expect Head Coach Pat Fitzgerald to roll out a more conservative offensive game plan similar to what he did in the Music City Bowl, when Justin Jackson and Jeremy Larkin took on a heavier workload after Thorson left the game with an injury.
Duke linebacker Joe Giles-Harris will anchor one of the best linebacker corps in the ACC. Giles-Harris was ranked as the No. 3 outside linebacker in the nation by Sports Illustrated going into this season.
Meanwhile, SI rated fellow defensive standout cornerback Mark Gilbert as the No. 7 cornerback in the nation. Thorson has proven somewhat turnover-prone at times (12 interceptions last year), and Gilbert tallied 6 picks by himself, so if Thorson is playing, expect him to avoid throwing at Gilbert.
On the bright side for Northwestern's offense, Duke's defensive coordinator since 2010, Jim Knowles, was hired to be the new defensive coordinator for Oklahoma State. It's hard to say what kind of defense will be seen from Duke's new internally-promoted co-defensive coordinators, Ben Albert and Matt Guerrieri, but in all likelihood it won't be quite as good as the Blue Devils stalwart defense of last season.
Many Northwestern fans expected the Wildcats to easily roll over the notoriously mediocre Blue Devil football team for the third year straight last season, but that couldn't have been further from the truth. The Northwestern Wildcats need to finish this four year series strong with a win to show that they are truly capable of taking the next step and perhaps earning a trip to the Big Ten championship game.


When a surf guitarist meets a hot-as-molten-lava flutist, the results are volcanic!
Susan Surftone teams up with filmmaker Rolla Selback to release new lesbian-themed music video for "Out Of My Dreams"
Surf-guitarist/singer/songwriter, Susan Surftone released today the new music video for her song "Out of my Dreams".
Susan SurfTone to release her new album "Making Waves Again"
Surf guitarists/singer/songwriter, Susan SurfTone is releasing her brand new EP "Making Waves Again" on April 18.
Susan Surftone slated to release her brand new single "A Mess Of Blues" on December 22, 2016 via CD Baby.
Susan Surftone has just announced the release of a brand new single "Up Down and All Around". The track is set to drop on October 4 via CD Baby: http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/SusanSurfTone (link goes live on the fourth).
Former FBI Agent & Out Veteran Musician Susan Surftone Releases Brand New Single "Blue Moon of Kentucky"
Former FBI agent turned singer/songwriter, Susan Surftone is back with her first digital dose of riptide-ready rock and roll for 2016.


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Q: Get string message from catch error in do/try/catch with Swift I have 2 classes, 1 is where view controller of form and the other is custom class to validate all forms in my app.
In the enum of the list of possible errors I have these:
enum ValidateErrors: ErrorType{

case Empty(desc: String)
case WrongFormat(desc: String)

}

and inside the validate method from the same class I have these:
guard email.characters.count > 0 else { throw ValidateErrors.Empty(desc:"Empty email.") }

When I do the do/try/catch in the view controller, I need to show an error message with "Empty email." but it show: Empty("Empty email.")
These is the code from the view controller where I make the do/try/catch
  do{

        try ValidateData.validateEmail(emailTextView.text!)
        print("Campo Valido")

    }catch let error{
        print(error)
    }

A: I found a solution here:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/error
And in Swift 4 try this for your example:
enum ValidateErrors: Error
{
    case Empty(desc: String)
    case WrongFormat(desc: String)
}

do
{
    try ValidateData.validateEmail(emailTextView.text!)
    print("Campo Valido")
}
catch ValidateErrors.Empty(desc: let error)
{
    print(error)
}

A: You might try print(error.desc)

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Since this book should be available now in hardcover, this will be the last snippet.
The agent's eyes met Rayno's again, and the archbishop's respect for the other man inched up another notch. Obviously, Seablanket had his own suspicions about who'd actually been behind Hektor's assassination. Equally obviously, he had no intention of ever voicing those suspicions aloud. Yet he was also smart enough to know what Rayno was truly interested in discovering.
"I wouldn't actually put it precisely that way, Your Eminence." Seablanket pursed his lips slightly, eyes narrowed in thought as he searched for exactly the words he wanted.
"And do you believe there is some danger of King Zhames making such a decision?" Rayno's eyes had narrowed, and Seablanket shrugged.
Rayno nodded slowly. That was an excellent point, and the fact that Seablanket had made it was another indication of the man's intelligence and general capability. And his suggestion that Zhames might not be the most reliable of guardians . . . that might be distressingly well taken, given what had already happened with certain other rulers (Prince Nahrmahn of Emerald came rather forcibly to mind) who'd found themselves in Cayleb of Charis' path. Still . . . .
"I'm certain he wouldn't, Your Eminence," Seablanket agreed, yet there was something about his tone, a slight edge of . . . something. Rayno cocked his head, frowning, and then his own eyes widened. Could the Corisandian be suggesting –?
Rayno's eyes narrowed again, this time with more than a little surprise. Seablanket hadn't been chosen for his present assignment solely because he was a Corisandian who could be placed in Yu-Shai in time to be hired as Coris' valet. He'd handled more than one politically sensitive mission for the Inquisition over the years, but the archbishop hadn't expected him to be quite so willing to bring up that particular point.
"And do you believe Coris' 'first and primary loyalty' is to Mother Church?" the adjutant general asked softly.
"I believe the Earl's first and primary loyalty was to Prince Hektor," Seablanket replied with the air of a man choosing his words very carefully. "I'm not prepared to speculate on how much of that loyalty might have been owed to his own ambition and the power he enjoyed as one of Prince Hektor's closest advisers, but I believe it was genuine. Prince Hektor is dead now, however, Your Eminence, and the Earl's lands in Corisande have been seized by Cayleb and Sharleyan. He's a man accustomed to wielding power, and that's been taken away from him with the fall of Corisande and his own exile. He's not foolish enough to believe Cayleb or Sharleyan would ever trust anyone who was as close to Hektor as he was, so even if he were tempted to try to reach some sort of an arrangement with them — and I don't believe for a moment that he is — he'd know the effort was probably pointless, at best. At worst, Cayleb might happily agree to give him whatever he asked for . . . until, at the least, he could get the Earl within reach.
Rayno considered Seablanket's words for several seconds. He'd been a bit concerned himself, from time to time, about the possibility of Coris' seeking some arrangement with Cayleb. After all, the earl was in a position to deliver Prince Daivyn to Charis, and Cayleb — and Sharleyan, damn her soul — had to be aware of how valuable a counter Daivyn had become. On the other hand, any attempt to hand the youthful prince over to Charis would be fraught with difficulty and danger, and Coris couldn't possibly be unaware of what Mother Church would do to him if he made such an attempt and failed.
Yet Rayno hadn't fully considered the other two points Seablanket had just raised. It truly was unlikely Cayleb, and especially Sharleyan, would ever repose an ounce of trust in the Earl of Coris. For one thing, Sharleyan was never going to forget that Coris had been Hektor's spymaster when her father was killed — that it was Coris who'd actually arranged to hire the mercenary "pirates" responsible for King Sailys' death. And, even leaving that consideration aside, there was Seablanket's assessment of Coris' estimate of who was ultimately going to win this war. Unless something happened to catastrophically shift the balance of power between the two sides, Charis couldn't possibly win against Mother Church. It was conceivable, little though Rayno liked to admit it, that an independent Charis might survive Mother Church's ire, but nothing short of divine intervention could create circumstances under which Charis could actually defeat the Church and its effectively limitless resources. From everything he'd ever seen or heard about the Earl of Coris, the man was certainly smart enough to have reached the conclusions Seablanket had just ascribed to him. And a man who'd lost everything he'd spent his life building had to be thinking in terms of restoring at least a little of what had been taken from him.
It's certainly worth bearing in mind, the archbishop told himself. All my reports on Coris suggest Seablanket's right when he says the Earl is far smarter than Zhames. Which means he's a lot less likely to be tempted to do something outstandingly stupid. Leaving him right where he is as Daivyn's guardian could be the smartest thing we could do. Always assuming Seablanket's reading of his character is reliable.
He thought about it for a few more moments, then gave a mental shrug. Trynair and Clyntahn would undoubtedly be forming their own opinions about Coris and his reliability over the next few five-days. They'd probably rely more on their own judgment than on any outside advice, but it would be a good idea for Rayno to have his own recommendation ready if it should be asked for.
He put that consideration aside, tucking it into a mental pigeonhole for future contemplation, and returned his attention to Seablanket.
He met Rayno's gaze yet again, and this time the archbishop found himself unable to totally restrain an unwilling smile. He was definitely going to have to find future employment for Seablanket, he thought. The man was even more perceptive and (even more valuable in an agent) willing to share those perceptions than Rayno had expected.
Wyllym Rayno sat back in his chair, listening attentively. He might well have to cancel his next appointment after all, he thought. Given the acuity of Seablanket's insight into the inner workings of the Corisandian court in exile in Talkyra, it might be very much worthwhile to get the man's impressions of the cities and provinces through which he and Coris had passed on their way to the Temple. Rayno had plenty of reports from inquisitors and intendants throughout all of the mainland realms, but Seablanket clearly had a sharp and discerning eye, and Coris' rank had been high enough to get Seablanket inside the highest circles of the lands through which they had traveled. True, he was only the earl's valet, but any spymaster knew servants made the very best spies. They saw and heard everything, yet their betters tended to think of them as part of the landscape, little more than animate furniture. All of which meant Seablanket's perspective on the reports from Rayno's agents in place could be extremely valuable.
I really have to keep an eye on this one, the archbishop told himself, listening to Seablanket's report. Spies who can actually think are too rare — and valuable — to waste on routine duties.
Rhobair Duchairn sat back, rubbing his forehead wearily. Another half-hour, he thought, and they could finally break for lunch. He was looking forward to it, and not just because he'd skimped on breakfast that morning. His head throbbed, the congestion in his ears was worse than ever (the clerk who was currently speaking sounded as if he were in a barrel underwater), and he dearly wanted a little time in privacy to consider his unexpected encounter with Hauwerd Wylsynn.
Not that he expected to feel a great deal of comfort after he'd done the considering, he thought.
For just an instant, not a single muscle moved, and then he forced himself to relax, one nerve at a time. He hoped no one had noticed his reaction. And, when he thought about it, there was no reason anyone should have, really. But that didn't prevent him them feeling as if he had somehow, in that instant, pasted an enormous archer's target onto his own back.
Or, perhaps, had someone else paste it there.
His fingertips explored the small but thick envelope which had somehow come to be nestled under his handkerchief. It hadn't been there when he left his suite this morning, and he knew he hadn't put it there since. In fact, he could think of only one person who'd been close enough to find the opportunity to slide anything unobtrusively into his pocket.
And just at this moment, he couldn't think of a single gift that person could have given him that wouldn't be at least potentially more deadly than its own weight in cyanide.
Odd, a corner of his brain thought. For someone who was so hungry a few seconds ago, I seem to have lost my appetite remarkably quickly.
hehehehe… this is going to be interesting… and, according to Amazon, my copy is due for delivery tomorrow afternoon.
I wonder who will tell Coris that the Church had been responsible for Hecktor's murder. Personally, I can't wait for the miracle that'll challenge the church. Maybe it'll be a typhoon like the ones that destroyed the Spanish Armada or the one that sunk the Mongol invasion fleet of Japan. So far, Charis has been fighting a naval and ground war similar to Japan during WOrld War II. Quick expansion using superior naval warfare combined with a crippling of the major navies present to challenge her. The only real difference is that two out of the three assimilated lands have somewhat willinginly joined Charis. The question now remains whether Corisande will be Charis's China and whether the Charisian navy will loose too many sailors through attrition. Ships can be rebuilt but experienced personnel cannot be trained quickly enough. Maybe Merlin could set up a comprehensive strategy in which he baits the Armada when its finally lauched into a vulnerable postion with a storm hitting it (using modern forecast tech). Then follows up with a fleet action resulting in the detruction of the armada.
REceived the book from Amazon, and Just finished it.
It did not advance the plot as much as I would have liked, but it had some good action and intrigue.
As a snippet reader from Australia, I wish the snippets could continue. It will be ages before AMF is released out here. Oh well, at least I've got the MOH snippets still.
Good for you. I won't get mine till may.
Does anyone know any LEGAL ways for someone living in Europe to buy the ebook version?
The Tor website doesn't have an ebook version.
Fictionwise does not have it. They now don't have any part of the series. I know I saw at least one of the earlier parts there before, though I wasn't allowed to buy it.
I downloaded and installed Kindle for PC, but Amamzon refuses to sell the book to me.
Books-on-board, where I bought the third book in the series, refuses to even show me the book when I log in.
Diesel has the book and it's really expensive, but when I try to pay for it they say I can't buy it. I've tried paying through Paypal, too, but it still doesn't work.
I even tried Audible, though audiobooks give me a headache when I have to listen for more than three hours. But, they don't have it yet. And according to Amazon the Audible version comes in July.
A Google search shows illegal torrents. I don't have any filesharing programs installed, partly because it's more-or-less illegal and partly because of the possible virus risks. But if I can't get a legal ebook and if the hardcover version does not turn up this week… It's damned tempting.
The book won't come out in the UK until 3 May 2010. At least 3-4 more snippets please.
@4 Amazon.co.uk might not have it until the 3rd May, but Amazon.de have it (in English!) available already.
@6 Amazon.de tells me that they have no clue when they will be able to deliver my copy of the book.
Which is a sad, sad thing.
And, i, of course am hopping for some more sippets, too.
This hurts. The book has not made the stores here yet, and is not expected this week.
It's been fun gang! See you next round.
Maggie, stop by snerkers after you read the book.
@10 Cool. See you there Peter!
Book arrived last night. Am on Page 373 and enjoying it.
So what is the next book to be snippeted? Threshold is already in snippets on thefifithimperium, so how about The Eastern Front?
Amazon got the book to me Tuesday, kudos to them! How about this for a plot line? Clyntahn, being the thourougly decent fellow that he is, tries to seduce Irys. Irys, having figured out Clyntahn's role in her father's murder, does a double orthidectomy on him.
Got it, read it – cool battle scenes, interesting politics. It looks to my eyes like the Gof4 has dug themselves a deadly deep hole, but Weber may have other plans, and Charis is still vulnerable to the sheer size of the mainland population. Something really needs to start happening on the mainland, especially Siddarmark, to break up the monolithic Church bloc. I hope we'll see some sign of that in the next book – this one certainly trailed some lovely herrings axross our paths, and I don't think all of them are red.
#19, I like your idea, but what exactly is an "orthidectomy"?
@15 – Where is "Snerkers"? I googled it but didn't find a site that seemed to match.
Baen's Bar at the Baen.com site. Login and look for the Snerkers Website. David, Eric and all the Baen authors have places to discuss their books.
Isn't that surgery an 'orchidectomy'? Seablanket seems to be pushing for something, maybe to get closer to Daivyn and Irys. Still think he has a hidden agenda; possibly he is a secret Charis agent. Or perhaps it is just Weber being evenhanded, giving more depth to the opposition.
Summertime, IMO he isn't an agent of Charis or anybody else (beside the Safehold Church).
However, while it can be David Weber being 'evenhanded' about supporters/servants of the Safehold Church, I think DW is building up to having Seablanket changing loyalties from his current employers to Coris.
It's up at Audible! Yes!!!
Cost two credits, but that's okay. Now I will be listening to it all weekend, or until my ears get overloaded and my head explodes or something.
to (25) york york (naval parlance for yaarc (you are absolutely right, commander). I should have checked the dictionary before making my comment. I thought I was quoting a character in H. Beam Piper's Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen correctly.
@4 Ian, I placed my order through Dymocks a while ago, Their scheduled release date is the 1st of May, so Friday the 30th if I'm lucky, Monday the 3rd if I am not. Being a hardcover SF book there probably won't be too many floating around on shelves in Australia, you will probably need to order it.
@11: Amazon.de is going to deliver my order tomorrow.
if anyone is still looking here, my copy arrived this morning in NZ….looking forward to getting straight into it.
Can anyone explain the purpose of the numbers after the ship names at the head of each chapter? I have the audiobook version and can't figure out what they are or refer to.
Mike, the number after the ship names is how many guns/cannons the ship carries.
During the Age of Sail, warships were 'rated' by the number of cannon they carried.
I figured it was either that or some metric of the ships size. Thanks Drak.


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Berkshire Innovation Center board members, construction workers and elected representatives were in attendance at a "topping off" ceremony at the construction site held to symbolize the installation of the building's final steel beam. Attendees signed the beam before it was hoisted into place. The placement of an evergreen tree on the beam is part of an ancient construction tradition and will remain in place until all of the construction is complete.


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The Burin Heritage Tourism Association consists of a Heritage House Museum, also known as the Reddy House, and a museum in the Bank of Nova Scotia building. On the premises we also have a Craft Shop for local goods, and By the Rock Cafe with traditional Newfoundland cuisine, and an Oldest Colony Trust Building which is used for our Wednesday night entertainment & events.
Experience the rich culture and history of a seafaring people, nestled in the hills overlooking the ocean, the scenery is spectacular.
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The Burin Heritage Tourism Association has a craft shop on the first floor of the Bank of Nova Scotia Museum, and the Bank Vault, the second floor has a Mariners room and the Tilde Wave Display, war room, and school room, third floor has a typewriter room, Tool Room and sports room.
Reddy Heritage House once one by the Reddy Family has a outport kitchen, parlor, dining room, sewing room bedrooms and the Cottage Hospital Exhibit.
The Oldest Colony Trust Building was once a cold storage facility, Exhibit are the art work of Burin during 19th century, also a board walk and the place where the Burin Heritage Tourism Association holds its Wednesday Night Entertainment.
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The one-hundred-and-thirty titles in the Robert D. Denham's Collection include books, broadsides and keepsakes produced by the Gauntlet Press, the private press established by Canadian poet Richard Outram and Canadian artist Barbara Howard. The Collection also holds trade editions of Outram's work as well as works by Richard Outram and Barbara Howard that do not bear the mark of the Gauntlet Press. Many of the items in the Collection are presentation copies, inscribed by Outram for Professor Robert D. Denham and his wife. The Collection also contains Gauntlet Press and other titles that were originally Barbara Howards's personal copies, several of which bear an inscription in Richard Outram's hand.
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Peat has worked for the NSW Government on research for natural resource management (NRM) policy, with the Adaptation Research Network for Marine Biodiversity and Resources (University of Tasmania) on adaptation in fisheries, and with the CSIRO Coastal Collaboration Cluster (University of Tasmania) on improving the linkages between science and decision-making in coastal zone management. He has also worked as a consultant.
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Braided narratives, Stephen Harris
Posted on June 1, 2007 by NZ Books
Different Kinds of Pleasure
Elizabeth Smither
Penguin, $28.00,
My Name Was Judas
C K Stead
Harvill Secker, $28.00,
Elizabeth Smither is adept at sounding the depths of the seemingly incidental moment or quotidian encounter. Laura Bening, one of an ensemble of characters in her new novel, Different Kinds of Pleasure, is contentedly (though not smugly) married, provincially middle-class, thoughtful, dutiful and reserved. While her curiosity in life is sated through one of the pleasures of the title – reading, she finds herself unexpectedly on the threshold of a nascent friendship with her daughter's dance teacher, Romy Lambard, a woman who, with studied theatricality, cultivates her own enigma as "foreign" artist and self-reliant solitary woman.
There are no epiphanic awakenings for these characters, though the changes that shape and guide their interlocking lives are no less significant for that. Rather, Smither commands her fictional world through a curious impersonality and sparseness of tone. Indeed, it is through her nuanced detachment that Smither will give pleasure to those readers who take delight in subtlety and literary restraint over florid dramatics.
Best known as an accomplished poet (with 15 books of poetry to her credit), Smither has also published three previous novels and several collections of short stories. Different Kinds of Pleasure combines elements of each of these genres. Most obviously a novel in its range and scope, its four sections ("Dance", "Latin", "Cricket" and "Reading") display the tight focus and constrained dramatic sense of the short story, while the cross-hatching of imagery and metaphor shows the poet's sensitivity to the suggestive weighting of language. That her fiction is "poetic" would in fact be the obvious laudatory adjective to use. And the observation finds its complement in the perceptions of Polly, Laura Bening's daughter, who, teaching Latin to schoolgirls, admires the language for its "concision" and "masterfully compressed" phraseology.
Smither's own polished concision corresponds to the measured detachment she exercises over her characters. This proves to be less a matter of studied or condescending omniscience than a means of dispassionately tracing the choreography of relationships in all their often-faltering movements and permutations. The metaphor is announced by the first section: dance is the guiding conceit in this narrative, although as the novel unfolds, dance conflates with "drama" and in turn is fused with the orchestrations of the "game" (hence the "Cricket" section). Ultimately, Smither is "playing out" the ancient classical notion of theatrum mundi – the idea that we are all actors on the stages of our lives.
Early on in the story, we encounter Polly Bening and Daniel Mapplethorpe as leading students at the Romy Lambard School of Music. The two are the link connecting two families whose generational progress forms the narrative basis of the novel. Lambard's ballet studio is the literal and metaphorical stage on which the adolescents enact the struggles and flexings of their emerging selves as they contend with the rigorous formalities and exertions of dance as an art form. The communal hub for the small group of mothers in the unnamed provincial town, the studio also becomes the scene of the tensions and entanglements that occur in any human community. The lives of the Benings and Mapplethorpes play out across the globe. Polly struggles with a series of frustrating love affairs and, ultimately, an unsatisfactory marriage in Melbourne. Daniel ascends to the heights of balletic stardom yet is weighted with both his father's rejection and (perhaps consequently) his inability to immerse himself fully in a relationship (gay or straight). Parents become grandparents. Life inevitably gives way to death just as love fades and blooms unpredictably.
Smither's literary province is the quiet yet consistent pulse and flow of human experience: the perpetual tensions between modest needs for intimacy, comfort and acceptance, and the contradictory yearnings for novelty and enlivening mystery. The "pleasures" of the title are, then, neither exotic or outré, nor are they pure or abstract; they are instead the complex movements entailed in everyday life, the surrenders and retreats, blunders and small private triumphs characterising everyday life.
For some readers, Smither's stylistic restraint may be alienating or a dramatised endorsement of a stoical (or distinctly New Zealand) attitude to life. Certainly, the characters never appear to be overwhelmed by their experiences, however painful and disruptive. Yet, equally, such dispassionate remove allows Smither to play out the Chekhovian theme announced by Laura the avid reader: that "human beings are essentially alone but that bonds and affection are the centre of a family". The allusion points to Smither's own rewarding achievement, for she shows that, with grace and composure, less is very often more.
C K Stead situates his latest novel, My Name Was Judas, in a lineage of modern political and "counter-versions" of the Jesus narrative. Such sceptical renditions of the story – for instance, Nico Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ, Mihail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Robert Callois' Pontius Pilate, Jose Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Norman Mailer's The Gospel According to the Son – reflect the fact that the story is interpretively unstable, particularly as concerns Judas' character, his putative motives and the exact nature of his relationship with Jesus. It remains to be seen how controversial (and aesthetically convincing) British novelist Jeffrey Archer's The Gospel According to Judas proves to be. And it remains to be seen what scholars deduce from the recently recovered Gospel of Judas (c300 AD), which purportedly casts new light on the pivotal question of Judas' motives and alleged guilt.
David Lyle Jeffrey's A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature provides a comprehensive list of literary and dramatic treatments of Judas – from medieval stereotypes to more sympathetic 19th and 20th century versions – although oddly there is no mention of Sholom Asch's long and sophisticated The Nazarene (1954), in which Judas' "lost" (and incomplete) gospel is unveiled and in which he emerges as a confrontingly complex "modern" character, a tormented seeker afflicted with withering doubt – "hung between heaven and hell", as Asch's narrator describes him.
Yet for all the sceptical and critical retellings, the essential story retains its moral meaning and dubious influence. If the Synoptic Gospels are sometimes inconsistent, the depiction of Judas' "selling out" Jesus is nonetheless cemented as the pivotal dramatic element in the Passion of Christ. Few fail to learn that the name Judas is synonymous with the heinous acts of betrayal and avarice. (In Dante's Inferno, Judas is "the soul that suffers most".) Given this background, questions arise. Is Stead simply telling another story or issuing a challenge to the injustice of historical stereotyping? Does he wish to foment further theological debate around the question of Judas' guilt and free will? Is he aiming, however indirectly, to confront the presumed moral authority of Judeo-Christian Western values?
Since Stead characterises Judas as a sceptic, a self-proclaimed "rational man", one clear implication of this novel is to champion the Enlightenment spirit of discovery over servile subordination to religious dogma. A Hellenised septuagenarian living in Lebanon, Judas (now Idas of Sidon) has long put the old world of his former self – his life with Jesus and his Jewish culture – behind him. He is carefully positioned as autobiographical narrator of his own history. First seen gazing out to the western horizon – the very edges of the known world – he is on the threshold of beholding the "new world", under the tutelage of his brother-in-law, the ardent empiricist Theseus. If less than certain of Theseus' proto-scientific explanation of the physics of the earth's form, Judas, true to his scepticism, is open-minded. His narrative, it is implied, is to be an illuminatingly "true" account of the "greatest story" – the life and death of Jesus Christ – a subversive revision that throws the Judeo-Christian world off its axis and potentially reorders the mythological cosmos.
An only child from a higher class, Judas is always the outsider. Jesus, we quickly learn, is resolutely more human than divine, at least during the long lead-up to the final days. Quick-witted and given to bouts of fury in his younger days, he is also depicted as a natural actor and charismatic orator with a gift for animated improvisation. Other leading "characters" in the Jesus narrative are similarly humanised, most notably Mother Mary, who is variously "spooky", "weird" and "strange", and a "prig". Jesus' family life is portrayed "realistically". Equally, the dynamics of his other "family" – the disciples – are described frankly, with Jesus himself depicted as manipulative and controlling. Judas presents Jesus as a self-serving mythmaker: the nativity story is another "tale" whose credibility Judas equates with the stories of his own alleged treachery.
Stead can introduce complexity while avoiding tricksy metafictive ploys simply through foregrounding the fact that the telling and age-old retelling of stories form the historical ground of what we think we know about the ancient and the sacred – whether these stories are called histories, myths or biblical parables. As Judas tells his version, it becomes clear that stories beget stories, a fact complemented by Stead's incorporation of a range of other voices in the narrative – from the use of Judas' own poetry at the close of each chapter (creating a chorus-like effect) to the ventriloquistic inclusion of accounts of events by others (such as his son, Antigonus, who at one point brings news of the siege of Jerusalem under Titus).
Storytelling itself becomes the main act, so to speak, a point constantly underlined by our awareness that this is Judas' story. And one of Stead's achievements is to have his narrator speak with a lean, modern yet demotic eloquence. In this way, Stead meets one of the challenges facing the historical novelist: how to negotiate the perilous terrain between anachronism and affectation in the attempt to achieve authenticity and verisimilitude. For we are willing to listen to this Judas; in having him speak with a considered tone, dignified cadence, and measured rhythm, Stead creates a character whose narration draws the reader along effortlessly. And if this Judas (inevitably) lacks the corroborative weight of historical fact, nevertheless, as the memoirist, we listen to him because he is speaking to us. We are, then, readily drawn into a story that, in challenging accepted versions of the Jesus narrative, throws up questions concerning the nature and meaning of betrayal, loyalty, faith, belief and the very concept of truth.
Of course, for all the telling of tales, Stead's cleverly braided narrative moves inexorably towards the climax of the Crucifixion, and, inseparably, the explanation of Judas' own part in the passion play. Readers will have to assess the credibility of Judas' version of events for themselves, and certainly Stead's novel is worth reading for those interested in alternative ways of reading such sacred stories. However, my final impression is that Stead's success in My Name Was Judas is a mixed one. The idea of a sceptical re-viewing of sacred narratives is undoubtedly appealing – especially at a time of renewed and worrying fundamentalism – yet Stead's Judas is a character overly constrained in his even-tempered intellectual disposition, advancing age and world-weariness. Had Stead brought out more of the "devil" in Judas – the very word used in relation to him towards the end of the story – the novel might have attained its full promise.
Stephen Harris teaches in the School of English, Communication and Theatre, University of New England (NSW); his Gore Vidal's Historical Novels and the Shaping of the American Political Consciousness appeared in 2006.
Tagged with: C K Stead, Elizabeth Smither, Harvill Secker, Issue 78, Penguin, Stephen Harris, Winter 2007


...discovering your old history project from elementary school.
What? Didn't you ever make a pyramid out of sugar cubes? I guess I made mine on too small of a scale. But this guy... this guy did it right! (Or so "they" say).
Okay, on to a couple more masterpieces from the sculpture garden.
Hey, what do you think this is?
I thought it was a pizza cutter.
I know, you are kicking yourself right now. You SO would've missed that Double Jeopardy question! Anyone with half a brain can see that it's a typewriter eraser. Duh!
Maybe we really aren't smarter than a 5th grader?
And lastly but not leastly, we came across THIS.
Do you look at this and see art?
What if it was making some sort of profound statement?
Maybe this clue will help.
It's okay if you still don't get it.
Because neither do I. I just think this is CUHREEEEEEPY!
At least of Day 1. I wonder what we're going to find tomorrow!