A p r i l 2 0 1 8 1 5 Get a taste for adventure with the Yeo brothers’ epic bike packing journey along the Arizona 750 Trail. Bill Yeo will introduce his inspiring documentary film, whisking you away on a journey over passes, across deserts, and along breathtaking trails to the Grand Canyon. Best of all? The film is free to watch at L.L. Bean in Freeport, April 26. Through the Window Wallace Stevens’s concept of “The incessant conjunc- tion between things as they are and things imagined,” is caught on canvas at John Moore’s first solo Maine exhibition “Resonance.” The Belfast artist’s paintings and drawings span industrial Pennsylvanian to urbanized locations along mid-coast Maine. Let your own imagination wander with him. Through June 17 at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. On Your Bike Take your lunch break outside on May 3. Port- land Downtown and Portland Buy Local celebrate Downtown Worker Appreciation Day by offering Portland’s busy workers with gift bags and refreshments in Monument Square, Tommy’s Park, and the Portland Museum of Art. RockabillySoul Experience the thrills and glam- our of figure skating at the Cross Insurance Arena on April 15. Olympic skaters, fresh from the Winter Games in South Korea, will demonstrate their pirouet- ting prowess in Stars on Ice. The line-up includes Meryl Davis & Charlie White, 2014 medallist Ashley Wagner, and Nathan Chen, the first skater to land five different quadruple jumps in a single competition. Tickets are $25. Blades of Glory ‘ME’Time courtesy photos; detail from “Six o’clock mill town” courtesy CMCA and the artist Prep your air guitar, JD McPherson will light up Port City Music Hall on April 16. The Oklahoma-born musician is touring with his latest album, Undivided Heart and Soul, recorded at the legendary RCA Studio B studio in Nashville that has host- ed the likes of Elvis and Dolly Parton. “At first, we felt we needed to do a big, or- chestral production. The creative process was a nightmare. I wanted to crawl into a hole. After a while, the louder, more ragged, more distorted the sound natu- rally became, the better everything felt. It was like The Shining, where the hotel makes Jack Nicholson write crazy stuff!” McPherson already dreaming of his second visit to the Forest City. “I ate the best lobster roll of my life at Eventide last time. We went round the corner and discovered [Californian rock band] Los Lobos eating lobster rolls, too.” Talk about serendipitous Maine. In the spirit of “The way life should be,” what is McPherson’s life mantra? “Take time to think about your choices instead of being driven by instinct. And give yourself the gift of free time.” No arguments here.