1. DUN DUN, DUN DUN. DUN DUN, DUN DUN. DUN DUN DUN DUNNN DUNNN DUNNNN DUNNNNN! Recognize that? Of course you don't! But that's my crappy interpretation of the main theme from "Carmina Burana," the epic choral masterwork by Carl Orff. The Oratorio Society and the University Singers, under the direction of Professor Ludlow Hallman, will perform it this Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Memorial Gymnasium on the UMaine campus, accompanied by piano and a big percussion section. I highly, highly recommend going - you don't get a chance to see such an exhilirating piece performed around here very often.

2. Punk! Rock! Show! 5 p.m. on Friday at the Keith Anderson Community Center in Orono. Featuring Ellsworth's Union River Tragedy, Bangor-area hardcore stalwarts Clinic Bomb and USA Waste, and Burning Streets and 26 Beers, who are coming all the way from Massachusetts to play for us.

3. Alejandro Escovedo plays at the Strand Theatre in Rockland this weekend. He freakin' rules, and he just got signed to Bruce Springsteen's record label! And played with the Boss a few days ago, too! Show starts at 7:30 p.m. on Friday; tickets are $25 at sha-la.com [1]

4. Food AND Medicine's annual May Day celebration is set for 4-7 p.m. on Sunday, April 27 at the Worker Center on Ivers Street in Brewer. Come enjoy delicious organic, local food from the Cooks of the World group, music from the Worker's Chorus, and plenty of food for though from Maine Attorney General Stephen Rowe, Representative and Senate candidate Tom Allen, and representatives from the Saint John, New Brunswick Labor Council.

5. Most people know that they're screening "The Battleship Potemkin" this Saturday at the Bangor Opera House, featuring live piano accompaniment by nonagenarian and all-around wonderful guy Harry Weiss, but River City Cinema is also screening another movie Friday night! "Le Couperet" is set for 7:30 that night, and RCC's web site [2] had this to say about it: "Bruno Davert, an engineer worker in the papermaking industry, is a victim of the relocation of his company. He has been on the dole for almost two years, alternating between moments of self-awareness and depression, and confronting the humiliation of job interviews. One day he has a somewhat drastic idea: to treat the "labor market" like any other market—in other words to do everything possible to eliminate all competition." Sounds interesting! $5, 122 minutes, unrated.