Top 10 for Portland store Aug. 22-28 1. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, “Mirror Traffic” 2. Kanye West and Jay-Z, “Watch the Throne” 3. Game, “The R.E.D. Album” 4. “Deus Ex: Human Revolution” for X360 5. Mumford and Sons, “Sigh No More” 6. X360 Live 1600 points card 7. “The Priest” (DVD) 8. “Deus Ex: […]

NEW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY “FORKS OVER KNIVES,” documentary. Controversial, persuasive and probably life-saving, “Forks Over Knives” is loaded with heavily researched information about our health as regards our collective eating habits that the majority of us are probably not going to want to hear. Structured around a reverse “Super Size Me” situation, filmmaker Lee […]

The battle-tested writer should know better than to stuff so many obvious couplets into a song.

Catch Tricky Britches on Friday night outside One Longfellow Square for quality nostalgia and an authentic swell of joy.

Two shows for Labor Day weekend, and one for next week

On the premise that laughter is good for the body and the soul, a funny kind of yoga class convenes every other week in Falmouth.

You’re a local low/no-budget filmmaker. You’ve written your screenplay, you’ve found your actors, your crew. You’ve bought or borrowed (or borrowed to buy) your equipment. You work around other people’s schedules and grab snatches of filming on weekends, late nights, whenever you can. You scrounge locations, pay for everything out of pocket, and hold fast […]

OPENING FRIDAY “SHARK NIGHT 3D” (PG-13) Stars Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan and Alyssa Diaz. Directed by David R. Ellis. A lake-house retreat on the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for a group of vacationers when they are subjected to an improbable phenomenon: fresh-water shark attacks. Violence and terror, disturbing images, sexual references, partial nudity, […]