Tedeschi Trucks at State / New season for Choral Art Society / Bunker bash to benefit farmers market / Margaret Cho for mature audiences / Corinthians cover The Rolling Stones / Free museums Saturday / Share in wine, cheese and bread / Tour Wedding Cake House for hunger aid

Anthrax is one of four bands that ushered in modern metal in the 1980s, with Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth.

Its 69 taps feature mostly craft beers from the Northeast and 15 Maine microbreweries.

The Kennebec River Brewery in The Forks is a great place to stop in one of the most wonderful, if a bit remote, places in Maine. I dropped into the brewery earlier this month on the first day of a five-day fishing trip and met brewer Mike McConnell as he was brewing Whitewater Wheat, one […]

Top 10 for Portland store Sept. 17-23: 1. “Borderlands 2” for X360 2. Grizzly Bear, “Shields” 3. “Cabin in the Woods” (DVD) 4. Kanye West, “Kanye West Presents G.O.O.D. Music’s ‘Cruel Summer’ “ 5. Bob Dylan, “Tempest” 6. “Borderland 2” for PS3 7. Band of Horses, “Mirage Rock” 8. The Killers, “Battle Born” 9. Ben Folds […]

New on the shelf: ‘The Avengers’ / ‘American Horror Story’ 1st season / ‘The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1’ / ‘Portlandia’ 2nd season

This year, there’s a little bit of Maine involved.