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Porthole owner Oliver Keithly has permanently closed the adjacent Comedy Club, but tells the Portland Press Herald "negotiations are underway on the future" of the shuttered restaurant, which is awaiting renovation to correct health code violations. His landlord, Kenneth MacGowan, refutes that, saying "Keithly will be out by the end of the month." [PPH]